• 1 Post
  • 55 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: June 21st, 2023

help-circle

  • Bad Pathfinding:

    • Allies: aren’t getting stuck anywhere near as often at my base compared to what they were doing near launch. I haven’t noticed it recently, but they likely still get stuck depending on how complicated your base gets. Beyond that, any pathfinding is fairly basic, they’re not smart about it.
    • Enemies: I’ve seen them navigate through trees and up simple mountain trails when they’re running away from me. And if you attack them, and hide up on a nearby cliffside they usually just get stuck at the cliffside below you trying to walk into the wall.

    Dumb/Static enemy behaviour:
    Yeah this is still very basic. They usually stay in the same place unless they are running away, chasing you, switching targets, or using an ability that forces them to move. It’s trivial to just hide behind a tree or a boulder and attack them until their health is low enough to catch. They won’t actively try to adjust their angle of attack to compensate for objects between you and them.

    Character clipping issues:
    The only player structure I still have clipping issues with is one structure meant for increasing your storage/showing off pals at your base. Even then I only saw one player get stuck in it once recently. But he was probably jumping around on top of it for that to happen. It’s rare to see issues at the level we saw at launch.

    Really weird physics issues:
    The one I can remember off the top of my head was where an attack could launch a character up into the stratosphere and then they would fall and instantly die when they finally hit the ground. I haven’t seen anything like that in months.


  • I think that’s a fair question given how it initially launched.

    I’m no longer falling through the map. I can’t remember the last time that happened (except for the early days of the game).

    I’ve only seen other players joining my world getting stuck inside of rocks when they initially spawn in, but you can just get out by spawning a pal that you can mount right next to the rock that you’re stuck in. Edit: Note: This bug is rare and doesn’t happen often anymore.



  • Man, the toys invented around that time are the best… But that’s probably all you’re really paying attention to at that point.

    And for kids now? Well they have things like Skibidi Toilet to keep them occupied.

    But for a more serious answer I think that’s when they’re in their most creative mindset and everything is new to them and they’re learning how things work.

    Obviously the exact age at which someone starts to take an interest in tech is going to be different from person to person. For me, I was a fan of reading popular science magazines at a younger age as well as manuals on all of the different setting/functions/features of operating systems…






  • Kitboga has used AI (STT, LLMs, and TTS) to waste the time of Scammers.

    There are AI tools being used to develop new cures which will benefit everyone.

    There are AI tools being used to help discover new planets.

    I use DLSS for gaming.

    I run a lot of my own local AI models for various reasons. Whisper - for Audio Transcriptions/Translations.

    Different Diffusion Models (SD or Flux) - for some quick visuals to recap a D&D session.

    Tesseract OCR - to scan an image and extract any text that it can find (makes it easy to pull out text from any image and make it searchable).

    Local LLMs (Llama, Mixtral) for brainstorming ideas, reformatting text, etc. It’s great for getting started with certain subjects/topics, as long as I verify everything that it says.

    For fun I’ll probably setup GLaDOS like what was done here: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1csnexs/local_glados_now_running_on_windows_11_rtx_2060/





  • I’ve found that buying used is fine if the car is still under the manufacturers original warranty. Better yet if it has the premium/extended warranty package.

    That’s basically the only warranty that you would care about (and actually want to extend), most other warranties have so many exclusions that they’re not worth it. And definitely ignore anyone calling you telling you that they’ve “been trying to reach you about your cars extended warranty.”