Posts by FMPONE

  • Gabe Newell: Reflections of a Video Game Maker

    Quote from Wail

    I think that's a bit of a naive view. Every single day there are tons and tons of, "Look what my girlfriend made," or "Look what I saw on my way to work today" posts. Oftentimes these headlines are untrue but these items are upvoted because their content is interesting or humorous, even though the post is in some respects false. The vast majority of these untrue things on a site like Reddit are not challenged and exposed as untrue because their truth or falsehood is tangential to the supposed entertainment value they possess. It'd be like going to "Damn You Autocorrect" and trying to discern real autocorrects versus humorous staged ones.

    As another example I went to Reddit and pulled off a headline: "Today I learned about the Officious Website of [An ex-President] which include tips on how to prevent masturbation and what causes these 'impure activities' such as rock and roll music and idealism" The link here is to a political humor site not the official website of that president. However, no one stepped forward in the comments to say, "This is untrue." Stepping in and correcting something that is untrue takes additional effort and means someone has to care enough to spend their time doing that. That person isn't a given. Many places on Reddit drive out "conscientious objector" types, such as /r/Atheism or /r/Politics, because their hivemind mentality is too strong. Echo chambers are a problem everywhere, but the anonymity and the explicit up-down mechanisms of Reddit amplify it even further.

    And even whether someone actually corrected this or not is largely irrelevant because finding out the truth in a sea of unreliable sources of information is hard work and human minds are lazy. Almost everyone probably knows the mythical factoid of "Human beings only use 10% of their brains," but that's not even close to true. However it's doubtful anyone knows offhand of any factual debunkings of this myth. Even reading falsehoods that are later corrected impacts your thinking, and not necessarily towards believing the truth. This sort of thing is lazy and deceptive but extremely common, and it's widely used in advertising and politics because human beings are wired to believe things we hear more than we are to disbelieve them (See Thinking, Fast & Slow for more in depth on this one).

    There is a big difference between "I told a bunch of people some silly piece of made up trivia" and "XYZ lied to us about [important issue]"

    Everything you said about collective falsehoods is true, but if they're collective falsehoods you don't care about, that's not really going to the nature of what Gabe was speaking. At least not in my opinion. The nature of reddit is that people congregate in areas they're most passionate about, so it's less and less likely to be able to con those people, and if you can't con them, you risk that their knowledge spreads and becomes the mainstream opinion.

    Anyways, I think he's fundamentally right. It's harder to con people now than it was in the past, because we have more access to information. Obviously this means less important shit gets cloudier, and there is a lot of low level bullshit, but if something a dedicated subset of people are interested in, it becomes clearer in the sense that you can go to those experts and get a more credible answer or they themselves might take action to inform others.

  • What have you watched recently?

    Quote from Erratic

    holy shit i hate everyone in this show so far

    thats pretty much the point I guess but how long can it go like this

    haha, that's a good point. the characters are really hatable. Spacey's character comes around, but honestly I'm really liking the show. It's like west wing but way sexier and way more cynical

    edit: I'm 5 episodes in, this show is the real deal. it's great

  • Playstation 4

    Quote from Thurnip

    there's a leaked techdemo already....

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    holy FUCKING SHIT

  • WIP in WIP, post your level screenshots!

    Think more analytically about your lights. Light should light up doorways, and provide illumination for the room. Nothing else. Lights for design or aesthetic reasons have to be incredibly well placed and can only happen once the other stuff is taken care of.

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    in this shot for instance, notice how none of the lights in and of themselves appear to have any real effect in lighting the room. it's almost as if you're suggesting that the total of the lights is what is lighting the room. That's very disorienting for players. Light up doorways, and have the props which are providing the light be believeable for the amount of light created. Same thing for the rest of the room, have lights which are believably illuminating the entire playable area.

  • So how does one continue..? [CS:GO]

    Floors are probably one of the simplest aspects of using hammer. I would recommend getting a good amount of experience and practice with displacements in some practice maps, and then study the official maps of Day of Defeat: Source, because that's probably where displacements were used most effectively. The key thing with displacements is just to have a series of brushes about the same size in a patchwork or quilt sort of pattern, very simple, then just get a rough idea of the topography of the displacements you wish to create.

  • MapCore CS:GO Playtesting 2.0

    Didn't get a chance to play 747 really.

    Favela

    Pros:

    -Graphics are astounding, polished, really works well

    -Atmosphere is humongous, it really feel like its a real place at times!

    Cons:

    -I only spawned T side in the time I played, but it was pretty dull TBQH. Not enough personality in that spawn

    -Routes feel pretty matter of fact. Here's one way, here's another, here's another. Some feeling of flanking through the middle T lane would be nice

    -Needs better bombsite guidance with spray decals, it was hard to know where I was in name terms

    -As a new player, I wasn't precisely sure where to expect the upcoming wave. I know this is more of a vague concern, but more red and/or yellow near areas where players can expect a big fight would be welcome

  • Zelda: Wind Waker HD

    Quote from Evert

    All this zelda love makes me want to re-play OOT :s

    I felt completely empty upon killing Ganon and felt there's no use playing games anymore as it was perfect

    that was actually one of teh coolest boss battles I can remember.

    DEATH TENNIS

  • Splinter Cell: Blacklist

    Quote from Dark

    Who wants a mutha fuckin plane?

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    that is awesome lol