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cynic_··on Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room
CS requires more skill considering just mechanical and movement skills... let alone everything else ;)

Competitive Quake is to CS, like bowling is to basketball btw

cynic_··on Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room
Would they? Gun game has been an official game mode is CS for a long time, 2 of the maps follow the same layout fy_iceworld. COD had/has it as well.

I've even stumbled upon fy_pool_day recreation in Roblox.

Almost anything your nostalgia can think of is available "current" games like Fortnite and Roblox.

cynic_··on Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room
These things still exists in CS (though not as popular in US but that's a reflection of CS losing popularity there)

People right now are having the same community experiences in custom server, or with official Valve, or third party like FaceIt... From crazy custom mods to try hard competitive games.

From time to time I stumble on some community servers when looking for a better DM warm-up server. Players and admin talking to each other like they were regulars, admin flying around in a batman skin killing a camper with lightning bolt, all the usual admin/community tools and more... also all the laughing, banter, playing songs and crap on the mic...

Would you have tried to join in? Let's just face it we've abandoned and stopped seeking it as we got older.

cynic_··on When will virtual reality take off? The $100 bet
Now compared to 1995, gaming in general seems a lot closer to the VR experience you describe. Local multiplayer is uncommon, shared gaming spaces like arcades and LANs are gone and people are playing games on their own devices alone.

I'm as isolated playing Counter-Strike on my PC as when I am on the Oculus Quest.

cynic_··on Google Open-Sources Cardboard
Carmack's Eulogy For The Gear VR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfd2lNRjqH4
cynic_··on CDC says stop vaping as mystery lung condition spreads
The cases are in the US and related THC containing liquids. So it makes no sense blaming foreign liquids.
cynic_··on A critical step to reduce climate change
If we always waited for the technical progress to give something cheaper and better, we'd still be using leaded gasoline and CFCs everywhere.
cynic_··on Oculus Quest Review
> My biggest issue with Oculus Quest is its weight and fit.

They should move more stuff off the front of the headset, it would help relieve the pressure on the face and make it more balanced. Like in this mod from Palmer Luckey where he removed the battery and attaches a bigger one to the strap https://palmerluckey.com/oculus-goblack-how-to-make-your-ocu...

cynic_··on Bay Area cities are cracking down on free food at tech companies
If you stop eating at a certain period every day, you'll stop feeling hungry.
cynic_··on The Life and Death of the Touch Bar: Revisiting the MacBook Pro
I've played some of the popular DS games on a smartphone with a minuscule second screen and I barely touched it. Most of its uses felt forced
cynic_··on Soylent Closes $50M Series B Round Led by GV
Marathon runners eat during the race
cynic_··on AMD Zen and Ryzen 7 Review: A Deep Dive
Looking at most benchmarks hyperthreading model is equal or better on Ryzen. Ryzen 1800x and 6900k have almost the exact single threaded score on Cinebench. But 1800x beats 6900k on Cinebench and Handbrake
cynic_··on Soylent 2.0
Ensure has a much higher glycemic index. And its lower fat and dietary fiber doesn't give much satiety(I think as intended). Most diet shakes are still in the "fat is bad" mindset, and almost all the calories come from simple carbohydrates.
cynic_··on Firefox nightlies for Linux are now using Gtk+3
"It's as if everyone Apple fanboy who was rejected by Apple's UX department is now making GTK themes."

Or most of them probably just gave up making GTK themes.

https://github.com/QtCurve/qtcurve-gtk3 https://igurublog.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/gnome-et-al-rotti...

cynic_··on Telegram Hits 2B Messages Sent Daily
What's wrong with Telegram?
cynic_··on Lockheed Martin’s Claims on Fusion Energy Meet with Skepticism
They are going public and not giving any specifics, because they want someone else to foot the bill.

They probably didn't make much progress in the last couple of years, and costs and risks are still to high.

cynic_··on Drop Dropbox
No, but I would boycott a doctor that mutilates girls genitals.
cynic_··on My Eclipse experience with Java 8 was so bad, I switched to NetBeans
I also like Eclipse and I'm using it right now with Java 8(Kepler with patch, no problems installing).

I've tried every Java 8 feature in Eclipse and they all worked very well.

cynic_··on Fluke owns trademark on multimeters with "contrasting yellow border"
http://www.pce-instruments.com/english/slot/2/artimg/large/f...
cynic_··on Fluke owns trademark on multimeters with "contrasting yellow border"
To a moron in a hurry every silver sedan looks exactly the same.
cynic_··on Fluke owns trademark on multimeters with "contrasting yellow border"
Maybe if they went red or blue, some other company would come after them. The issue is trademarking a very generic color/look. How many manufactures can exist without "Your red looks too much like mine, I'm suing you"
cynic_··on Show HN: Linux activity recorder
Even without privilege escalation a feel like this is a big security risk. I can't imagine having dozens of servers bound to a web service, with a user interface accessible from anywhere with a simple login and password. and from that interface you can add any number of arbitrary command.

I've created the account, copy the command, pasted in a terminal but I just couldn't hit enter... and that is in my home computer. I downloaded the link and the target manually, just checkout the content.