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If it launches, one of the major faces of that project has left. There's not a lot of trust @ Blizzard releasing good updates to games anymore.
given the graphics horsepower of many modern computers, I've been hoping for a "world of diablo" that focuses more on the gothic horror imagery and the backdrop of the much more exciting world that diablo is set in. Make it dark, atmospheric, and pack it with random dungeons, sorcery, and doom-style jump scares. Maybe as a bonus, put it in VR and innovate controls for attacking and spell casting.

I can dream, right?
External factors are involved in all aspects of life. Your experience of life depends on what you prioritize
Posting flamebait like this to HN will get you banned here. No more of this, please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Then what does the word 'systemic' even mean?
Similar shenanigans were rampant in Hollywood in early 20-th century. This lead to creation of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) trade union representing interests of movie actors. Might be the time for photographers to unionize as well?
I've been an off-and-on World of Warcraft player since the Burning Crusade days, and I honestly think that Blizzard is struggling to evolve the MMORPG genre into something suitable for the modern day.

There was a great article in Kotaku[1] that illustrated this quite nicely. Essentially, what made World of Warcraft successful when it launched can't really exist today, especially with our hyper-connected world. Blizzard has made many attempts to make World of Warcraft more modern, more accessible to newer players (and some have even worked!), but nothing they've done has been able to recapture people in the same manner as it did originally. I think this isn't so much Blizzard's fault as it's just a factor of our world now; there's so much competition for our attention that the "average" gamer doesn't really have the motivation to immerse themselves into the game world (nor can they really when there's so much research you end up doing while playing).

The last truly transformational gaming experience I had was with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild back in 2017. I suspect much of that experience was due to the fact that, in those crucial first few days, there wasn't really anything online about the game. (Sure, there were articles here and there, but nothing near the vast amounts of information about World of Warcraft that exist now). To a lesser extent, I think a lot of the experience I had was due to the single-player nature of the game.

I've said this for years, and I still stand by it: Blizzard should create single-player games set in the Warcraft universe in the vein of Skyrim. They've spent so much time and effort crafting these elaborate stories and worlds that I think the best way to really experience them now is with a single-player game. I could be convinced to accept a group-up mechanic for larger enemies (sort of in the vein of Monster Hunter), but a single-player narrative-driven game set in the Warcraft universe (with art done by the cinematics team) could be a blockbuster if done correctly.

However, there's no indication that Blizard cares about crafting that sort of experience anymore. They seem to be almost commpletely focused on multiplayer, microtransaction-based gaming, which is probably the way to be the most profitable these days I guess.

[1] https://kotaku.com/world-of-warcraft-classic-maybe-you-cant-...
There are browser extensions that bring back the "Discussions" filter that Google removed a few years ago. Unfortunately niche forums aren't really popular these days so you end up with older results.
Sorry. I'll end my comments in this thread.
Haha, Warzone is a great game with one of the worst UI/UX designs I've ever seen. As a player who got it 5 months ago or so, I fully disagree with your assessment. It has a horrible and confusing store, no pay-to-win aspects, and solid gameplay with some actual decent depth.

I am in no way condoning Activision, and I think their approach to Warzone maintenance has been pretty horrible (they are just turning a corner on that it seems), but Warzone is a good game without any gameplay-obtrusive MTX
Riot is developing a MMO based on Runeterra. It will be interesting to see how that pans out.
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> I can't say what's driving all the playerbase losses but:

"The Blizzard Way" doesn't work anymore.

Fortnite releases content monthly/quarterly. Massive updates with huge out-of-game tie-ins, changing worlds, in-game events, etc. Other games have changed to match/compete. CoD and Valorant both implement similar season-pass style systems.

Blizzard, on the other hand, insists on delaying/cancelling games, releasing "only when ready", continuing to lose touch with their playerbase, etc. They made it public that there would be no more Overwatch updates until Overwatch 2 (and also made it public that Overwatch 2 is actually a PvE expansion). There is no release date for OW2, so Overwatch players will be sitting with no new content for over a year.

It is very obvious why Blizzard is losing players and not really competing in 2021.
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I am both intrigued by the idea and a bit disappointed that it seems to be fictional. This is from "Seveneves" according to what I discovered on the web, right?
This is what I was trying to get at - using column vectors gives good cache locality and lets you use SIMD for "multiply all of these by this scalar" for each column, and then for "sum all of these" for the resulting rows. I'd imagine it could also let you optimize multiplications into things like bit-shifts with minimal overhead as well, though I have no idea if that's done in practice. Maybe only tangentially related, but I feel like this talk on Halide[0] is really illustrative of the general concepts.

As others have mentioned, for some operations it can also save you from loading whole columns that aren't relevant for your transformation. The compression point in the sibling comment is definitely also relevant, especially for serialization. A whole lot of reasons to use column vectors.

Using "column-major" here might've been terminology abuse; sorry for the confusion.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uiEyEKji0M
anti-nuclear environmentalist movement

This movement was heavily pushed along by the established fossil fuel power industry. It's much less "grass roots" than it appeared to be on a surface level.
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It should be noted that the pro-drug people also seem to get very offended at research that disagrees with them too.
Formal Methods is a big field, and there's lots of different pieces with varying usefulness. I'm working on a bigger intro right now, but a couple years back I wrote an overview on why people don't use it: https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/why-dont-people-use-formal-...

Right now, I'd say that it is still a specialized area of study, and most normal SWEs don't need huge swathes of it. Sure, it might help you think better about problems, but lots things do that, too, and some are even directly useful! But there are still useful parts, like specifying abstract distributed systems, where it saves more in preemptive bugfixing than it costs in time spent. Disclaimer, I make money off teaching it, so of course I'm biased ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Good, players like you leaving makes the game a better and safer place for everyone.

Players like you, and Blizzard's inaction to do something about it is why I left.

Players Overwatch with my girl friends has been the worst experience. Players any multiplayer game as a woman just seems to be toxic. I expected more from Blizzard here.
I thought every gene needed a pair of alleles?

I don't understand much about genetics, so please excuse my ignorance. But I remember making Punnett squares in school. Does your comment imply that some genes don't have Punnett squares and are only affected by one parent's DNA?

Would that mean that some genes are _only_ inherited from our mothers? I remember reading something about how some aspect of our blood is only passed down from our mothers; is it because they always give us an X and our fathers give us a Y? And then genes that are missing from Y always come from the X?

Can some genes only be passed from the Y? Since women don't have a Y chromosome how would that work?
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You say 'did you look at a map' but have you looked at a topographical map? I don't see much room that isn't either protected forests or the Appalachian mountains, in some cases it's both.
100%. That's what makes it so insidious, whether by design or happenstance...the burden of both payment and guilt are responsibility are placed on the customer. Tip poorly, or not at all, and the employee doesn't get paid. Makes it impossible to change.
You are spouting pure bigoted nonsense.

The military has been shifting to demographic and gender blinded promotion systems, like this for example: https://hbr.org/2020/11/reinventing-the-leader-selection-pro...

It is in no way the case that affirmative action is being used as an excuse to promote incompetent officers, let alone that this is somehow destroying the military. In fact the military historically has had the opposite problem. "Legacy" counts for far to much, particularly with the families at military academies, leading to a senior leadership structure that is very out of step with ordinary Americans, and fails to grapple the cross cultural international issues inherent to the US projecting military power globally.

Stop disparaging our military with your alt right fantasy nonsense. The rank and file certainly don't deserve it.
This is a complicated space to get right. Prostate cancer is the opposite: The government used to screen for it (PSA blood test) and so people would see their doctor at stage 1 or 2 cancer, when it can be easily tested. But the problem was that the positivity rate was about 45:1, and the test is too expensive at that scale. So now PSA tests are not routine. As a result, people are now coming in to their doctors with prostate cancer at stage 3 or 4. Might be the right choice for society, but the wrong choice for the individual.
A lot of it is chicken-and-egg problem. New nuclear plants are so rare that they each end up with being slightly different from one another, which adds to regulatory requirements.

If we started mass producing plants, there would be stronger push for uniformity in design and that would translate into significant cost savings. But no one is going to start mass producing plants because it's so difficult to get just one plant online.
I wish we could have a sort of hard reset and start over with hypertext where you could present decent looking site after learning a markup language in an afternoon (i.e. my childhood memories from the mid 90s)

I want a new web where every page isn’t an application designed to monetize syping on me and even simple folk can share information without much trouble.
"Trust me, you think you want it, but you don't" - Blizzard, about vanilla WoW, a year before releasing WoW Classic.
Hearthstone actually gets regular, huge updates now days. Far more than it did in the first few years. Just today they dropped a surprise update for Battlegrounds. It's clear there's a major, constant effort going into developing new expansions, new game modes, etc.

They've figured out a clever model of rotating out the old content to make room for more new stuff. No doubt Hearthstone is very profitable for Blizzard!

Starcraft 2 and HotS, on the other hand, have basically been abandoned. Even Overwatch seems to be stagnating somewhat.
What science are you referring to? The most I've heard about it is the Bayer lawsuit.

"A San Francisco jury initially awarded Johnson $289.2 million after finding the chemical glyphosate in Roundup caused his non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma" [1]

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/bayer-glyphosate-lawsuit/bay...
> may even serve an evolutionary goal that the stronger gets to pass their genetic lineup.

This explanation can be used to justify a lot of human behavior, including genocide.
It's anecdotal, but I know at least five or six people who stopped playing blizzard games, especially HS, after they punished a player and staff for expressing support for Hong Kong in a post tournament interview.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitzchung_controversy
> But it can't actually drive the car.

Hopefully. Remember this vulnerability:

https://www.csoonline.com/article/2951746/hackers-remotely-t...

The initial intrusion was through the infotainment system but from there they moved to the more critical systems.
Creating value for who? Every business creates value that someone is willing to pay for, otherswise it couldn't exist.
I can only speak from personal experience. I absolutely adored Overwatch at launch but about a year ago I uninstalled it and never looked back.

What finally killed it for me is the role-based queueing. It locked in the developer-proscribed 2/2/2 meta and made the game feel very static and uninteresting. Previously, if you saw a gap on your team you could switch to a completely different role to fill the void. Though even before role-based queuing there was a (very annoying) portion of the community that believed you had to be playing the high-end "meta" even when you're at the lowest ranks or playing casually and would complain endlessly if you did anything different.
Exactly. I can tell where I'm not wanted. Enjoy!

Edit: sorry I caught this before your edit to include popular buzzwords like "toxic". Good for you, I'm actually looking for games and experiences that are outside the realm of sanitized things my mother would like.

And I'm sorry about your girlfriend, it was likely my girlfriend giving her so much shit. She's a real sailor when she gets going. And mean too!
It's a great soundbite, but it loses a lot of context when distilled down.

Most of the infill west of I5 in the Seattle area will probably liquefy, but there's mountain ranges to the west of I5 that would take a hell of a quake to toast.
I'm a WoW classic player and the company is a lot different than it used to be. You can't talk to GMs in-game anymore and they refuse to fix loot problems filed by guild loot masters. It's like they did a cost/benefit analysis before one of their waves of layoffs and decided they'll just automate everything.

They did a cosmetic pet thing recently, tied to donations to Doctors Without Borders and I found myself hoping it would fail. Instead of a fun thing where the community would come together it felt like being asked to donate to a charity at the walmart register in order to boost the company's profile.

As far as I know war 3 reforged is still screwed up. They acted shamefully during the blitzchung thing and then tried to post some twee black lives matter stuff during the george floyd protests last year. The people who actually cared about the games have fled, most recently Jeff Kaplan.

They'll still keep making money to appease the blizzard/activision shareholders but the soul is gone. RIP old blizzard
I'm not sure why this is the case. They replicate. There might be an error in replication, no? Or is that just really hard? Is it that their existence is in a sweet spot, and nothing even marginally different would work the same way?
> Starcraft 2 is basically dead. WC3 remastered flopped

Paradoxically, I've noticed an uptick of new creative Starcraft 2 content on Youtube (similar to those "can you beat the game by doing [insert crazy premise here]" types of videos you see in the Mario community).

I think the two company direction things that were noticeable for me were that they decided to try to embrace two major cop-outs: milking cash shop (skins, voice packs) and trying to pull Disney-like re-runs of classics (SC and WC remastered). Many in the community are lamenting that e.g. the dev team behind Starcraft is essentially disbanded. It's like they fundamentally gave up being a game company, and decided to be a collectibles company instead.
I'll miss Jeff, but he's not the end all of why Overwatch is a fantastic game. Bear in mind "faces" are often just that... the "face" of a large group, who generally is comfortable being in front of the crowds and talking with everyone.
The real curiosity is why corporate media allows such speech to be broadcast as if it was in any way truthful. Let's all forget that the US Constitution was based in part on the Iroquois Confederacy [1].

Santorum is on CNN's payroll. Who or whatever is supporting Santorum isn't stupid, likely it supports some revenue/marketing scheme. All of this is fully funded.

[1] https://www.worldcat.org/title/indians-and-the-us-constituti...
You should try playing some older MMOs: EVE, Anarchy Online, Ultima Online, Runescape. All stuff fundamentally untouched by the WoW design - and they are much better for it IMO. When I've played these games, even 20 years on, I am completely stunned. Makes me realize how psychologically kneecapped we are by WoW.
Another vote for a power rack and barbell. I think people like machines because they're scared of getting hurt by falling weights but they make super nice safety straps now. You can train the squat and bench press to failure in almost complete safety now. Here's a picture of my basement setup, you can google instructions to build the platform.

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So is the solution to close our eyes and prevent these kinds of observations?
And Pacific Northwest Seismic Network blog

https://pnsn.org/blog/2020/01/27/getting-ready-for-the-next-...
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I'm unsure if the RTS genre is in a waning phase. AoE2 is still a top-20 game every day on Steam. Granted, it's a 20-year-old game. Maybe that shows new entrants can't make it; or maybe it shows there aren't enough good new entrants. StarCraft 2 is not as popular as it was, but would still be in the top 20 games if it were on Steam. We'll see if AoE4 gives the genre a kick. Initial reactions are somewhat lukewarm because of the art style, but the game play looks good.
Just the other day I added completion support for our cli build with cobra and it was <10m work.

So I’m not convinced this is still a hard thing to do. (The ui of fig does look slick though.)
Fundamentally, this is a story about power
The whole original vision for OWL was teams would travel around the world and play at esport arenas filled with people who bought the ticket. And then covid hit.
I used Bootstrap quite a while ago and the main issue I had with it was getting the JS based components to play nice with the virtual DOM.

So instead I used a fork like react-bootstrap, but it seemed to always lag behind a bit in terms of features/bugfixes, compared to the main project.

Is this still an issue, or is there a better approach?
There were times we enjoyed slaying dragons in a 40 player raid.
But yeah, time passes, you get older, and interests shift.
It was great!
"1970 - Guy Steele and Gerald Sussman create Scheme. Their work leads to a series of "Lambda the Ultimate" papers culminating in "Lambda the Ultimate Kitchen Utensil." This paper becomes the basis for a long running, but ultimately unsuccessful run of late night infomercials. Lambdas are relegated to relative obscurity until Java makes them popular by not having them."

OMG, brilliant
The GGP used the wrong term. What he describes is a system that is overridable, not decoupled.

You are right in that decoupled systems aren't good.
Sure, and it's always been a part of the industry. However, Blizzard used to be an exception - they were known for taking a long time and for doing tried-and-true game formulas, but for delivering extremely polished experiences, especially on the gameplay side. Basically, they were never the first to try out a game idea, but their game would always be what ended up defining that idea through sheer polish and mass market appeal (Warcraft II&III, Diablo II and WoW perhaps being the most enduring examples of how they defined a genre even while being far from the first).
Okay, so if someone conducts a scientific study that people from your demographic are less likely to pay back loans, and a bank uses that to deny you a loan to start your business. What are you going to do?

Are you going to accept that "science is science" and the people in your group are worse on average, so you as an individual shouldn't get to start a business? If you object are you just someone who "can't deal with the facts", and "putting your head in the sand" and denying the facts that the bank is probably right, someone from your background is going to fail anyway? Or will you just say, "Okay, science is science. The wiser have spoken, I will now give up on my dreams."
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I need to sit down and learn flex css property so I can replace bootstrap row and col with flex.
I have long been a big time contributor to the World of Warcraft scene. I've contributed to MaNGOS, I was a developer for a big server project - that I can't mention here :) -, a best friend of mine developed the most popular WoW addon of all time that I have contributed to, etc.

I really was torn about going back to play Classic WoW, but I chose not to, simply because I hate Activision/Blizzard. I refuse to support that company with a single dollar.

Their games being lifeless and greedy is bad enough, but as a company they are mean spirited, and will plant a boot in the face of anyone in their community just because they can.
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What's a GAA ball?
A funny experience with DMV:

I sent my payment via regular mail. 1 month later still don't have my registration renewal, so I start worrying. I call my bank to block the check, and go to DMV offices in person and make a payment using a credit card.

After a couple of weeks I receive 2 letters from DMV the same day. One saying I double paid, and hence they are now include a check with my payment back. And another one saying my original check has bounced and that now I will have to make the payment using cashier's check and pay an extra $20 for the bounced check.

I get a cashier check for the amount plus the $20 and make yet another payment.

A couple of weeks later I receive another letter from DMV with a check returning the $20 penalty.

So overall in the end we did balance things out, but took a while :D
Neither is an RTS. They're MOBAs.
They havent released anything major outside of a WOW expansion in that time period, so this is pretty unsurprising. When OW2 is released it will jump back up as long as they don't totally botch the launch.