Recent content by Pinky's Brain

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    The New Overwatch Patch May Have Quietly Rendered Aimbots Useless

    Once they are using image recognition (rather than just getting enemy location from memory or net traffic) it's rather trivial to do the processing on a different computer/VM. Can't really distinguish between someone recording to a NAS or passing image data to his bot. When they have to rely...
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    The New Overwatch Patch May Have Quietly Rendered Aimbots Useless

    In the end you can't really prevent a dedicated cheater/programmer who doesn't distribute his cheats. Anyone smart enough to do so will make his aim assist work close enough to humanoid to avoid detection. Really good players, especially with high damage per shot weapons, already aim very...
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    Blizzard is Looking at Harsh Penalties for Overwatch Competitive Play Leavers

    How has it come to this that people make up so many excuses why the world has to shape itself around them? Mid game subs suck, they suck for the subber, they suck for the team requiring a sub, it even sucks for the opposing team ... it just fucking sucks. There is no way to accommodate you...
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    Blizzard is Looking at Harsh Penalties for Overwatch Competitive Play Leavers

    No, you shouldn't let it get to the point where you get banned. If you find yourself physically unable to live up to the social contract of the game, stop playing.
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    Blizzard is Looking at Harsh Penalties for Overwatch Competitive Play Leavers

    They'll come for you next with penalties. Also there is the penalty of self selecting yourself into a tier of players who will DC/throw, which happens a lot less at higher tiers. Not everyone gets the game he deserves, but some do deserve the misery they inflict on others reflected onto...
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    Blizzard is Looking at Harsh Penalties for Overwatch Competitive Play Leavers

    No one is putting a gun to his head and forcing him to play competitive overwatch. I for instance survive just fine not doing so. I believe no one has an intrinsic right to inflict his misery on the world just to create equality. Some people obviously disagree, but in this case they also...
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    CD Projekt Red Says Cyberpunk 2077 Files are Being Held for Ransom

    The penultimate worst that could happen is if they had the overall plot arc planned out at the start already. The worst that could happen is if they did a rewrite because of the leak. PS. double plus worst if they hire Mac Walters to do a rewrite.
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    Zero Punctuation: Injustice 2

    Normal humans can't fight supers? Did he forget about the pill and the exploding shoe?
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    Report: Mass Effect Put on Indefinite Hold

    An intentional choice by McCasey of course, which is why I agree with the poster who said that the ME3 ending was entirely on Bioware.
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    Report: Mass Effect Put on Indefinite Hold

    I have a very simple policy, if I liked the last game from a developer I'll preorder the next one. I cheated a bit with pre-ordering ME3, but at least the multiplayer saved it.
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    Zero Punctuation: Nier Automata

    All "serious" media do this. Plot arcs, closure and moral judgement are gauche. Though I agree it's annoying, too DEEP for me.
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    Report: PewDiePie YouTube Series Cancelled Due to Anti-Semitic Posts

    In a world where Israel as a nuclear weapon nation exists and where American Jews are almost completely assimilated in the most powerful nation in the world (the intermarriage rate has little precedent) pushing that button carries no more threat than saying "All I want for Christmass is white...
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    Report: PewDiePie YouTube Series Cancelled Due to Anti-Semitic Posts

    Mel seems to me to be a 100% legit racist and anti-semite, PewDiePie not so much. Unlike PewDiePie he makes money for Hollywood though, so it's not such a big deal. If the media, desperate to virtue signal to their predominantly jewish bosses, continue to bash PewDiePie they might meme it...