Do such efforts bring value to gaming or are they more of an academic exercise?
I'll go with neither as well. They are an interesting sidestepping of how most games "should be played" that often discovers interesting new glitches, bugs and exploits. Using a TAS to execute arbitrary code is interesting, having that transformed into a possibility for human players (SNES Code Injection -- Flappy Bird in SMW, by SethBling) is amazing beyond belief.
There are no easy bucks to be made. If it was easy, it’d already be done.
Legally. There's plenty of easy bucks to be made if you lack morals, ethics and doesn't care about the law. Scammers and religious figures come to mind.
The biggest hurdle is getting a phone that you even can install a custom ROM or different OS. 'mericans and yuropeans can get their pixels, pinephones and similars easily, other places cannot.
I just need friends that can come home and play whatever with me :(
Gotta love how the faux host, Brian Kilmeade, is already implying that 'murica being built off the backs of slaves and stolen land is "new history" instead of factual history
If only they sold stuff that the people talking about it could afford in the first place, maybe that'd boost their sales.
the team’s solution is to render set-top devices useless through a software update controlled by them, rather than the manufacturer or whichever entity typically handles that.
ISPs in Brazil already hijack DNS requests for the purpose of blocking access to pirate sites. Typically, that involves an internet user attempting to access ‘Blocked Site A’ in their browser, and ISPs’ DNS servers directing the user to a blocking page instead. Assuming that a set-top box tries to access a particular domain name to receive an update, those requests can also be diverted to a different server.
Solution: never update the device.
Meanwhile, the victorious six-person team picked up a cash prize of R$7,000 for taking first place; that’s around US$1,200 or US$200 each after the split.
Wow. Just wow. I sure hope they get something more out of that, because 1200 dollars for fucking up who knows how many shitty chinese android boxes is worse than doing it for free. From a related article from TF:
Cybersecurity companies charge millions of dollars to solve problems smaller than this.
Neocities is already a modern geocities, so there's that
I love how the new logo could be literally done in less than a minute on fucking microsoft office. They didn't even bother with a cool looking font, just generic curvy shit
It's not "stupid" if you think that you'd need several terabytes of free space to have the whole world available offline for your game (total land area is roughly 149,4 million square kilometers - assuming 1GB per 100km², you'd need 1,495 terabytes of storage). Of course, M$ knows they could've allowed a super lower-res version of the tiles to be installed locally (like 1MB per 100km², though that'd still require 1.5tb of storage), but why if they can force everyone to be always online?
I'm thinking about making a character entirely out of Polygon2D nodes without textures. One thing I haven't figured out how to do is make each polygon cast a "permanent" shadow on top of the ones that are Z levels below it.
Below is an image of what I want to do, but using shaders/lights. I've only managed to do this by making extra polygons to fill in as the shadows.
How exactly do I have to set up a light source to achieve this effect? Using a DirectionalLight2D or a PointLight2D just brightens the polygons and I can't figure how to use a LightOccluder2D, or even if this is the correct way to get this result
(The polygons are green due to the DirectionalLight being green) - The occlusion simply applies the shadow on anything that is Z levels below it.
Time sure does fly, huh
I thought the initial litter was 15? I vaguely recall the human dude going "EIGHT!?" when the counting began