Divinity: Original Sin has a tourist mode, and many games have mods that let you enable 'god mode' (can't die) or other tweaks/cheats to allow exploration.
Overwatch however is an online player vs player game. I haven't played it but I suspect you could explore it offline without cheating, or online by ignoring the mayhem around you.
The people cheating will be motivated by different reasons, although some of them boil down to 'Player is a twat'.
Some people legitimately have disabilities that prevent them competing effectively and seek aids to bring them to 'normal' levels. Don't ask me how they calibrate that normality.
Some games (not sure about Overwatch) let you unlock in-game features through play. An example here is World of Tanks where you need several weeks of online playtime to unlock the full content in the game. There are a lot of people that use cheats in that game (enough that I gave up playing it) to play the game for them, letting them avoid the drudgery of playing just to unlock content. Any game with substantial 'grind' will have people trying to automate that, whether through putting a heavy weight onto a single key on the keyboard, using macros, using cheat software or even paying someone else to play the game for them (not uncommon on World of Warcraft a while back).
It's easy enough to design a game and game ecosystem to suit most gamers' needs, but that just wont help with the twats out there. Sadly those twats are most visible where the cheating impacts other players: online player vs player games. It's been an issue for years and nobody's found a good answer yet.
Worse, they took raiding from '40 people but 25-30 good enough and well enough equipped people will do' to '25 people, must all be fully equipped, must all coordinate perfectly, and one individual making one false move costs everybody a full hour'
It stopped being gaming and became a punitive choreographed dance. I stopped playing.
Hmm. If you've never been accused of cheating on an online game, let me provide you with the reason: You're not good enough.
I was accused of cheating online in 1992 and many times since, in different games, in different formats of games. People have stopped playing on specific servers because my friends and I were just too good for them.
Nah, it's not self preservation, it's the car. If I die, I'm dead, shrug. If I wreck the car there's a ton of insurance paperwork, I've got to sort out a rental replacement, I need to search for a new car, there're delays, there's hassle, it's expensive.
If course, if the driver is busy writing a text message or browsing the net (or drunk, or asleep) then he may not even notice a cargo ship.
In the UK, being an island nation, we've honed our cargo ship detection capabilities and spot them on the roads even when we're drunk, texting or turned to talk to the kids in the back.
This explains the absence of large container and freight vessel related injuries on the UK roads.
The problem is that in this one specific instance, having a human in control could not have been worse than the autopilot.
So where's the balance.
My preference is that I'm in control, or I can trust the autopilot sufficiently that I can go to sleep. It might not be safer, but at least then it's my fault.
Until 'go to sleep' becomes a viable option I'd prefer that the human retains full control and the car merely uses its intelligence to better inform and guide the driver.
I live outside of London. We have a different way of life here. It's being damaged by the urbanisation of our landscape, the changes to our culture, the loss of career opportunities.
If I want a job I can get one tomorrow in London. I have to wait weeks in other parts of the UK. The terrible London-centricity of the economy is a massive factor in the Leave vote, a massive factor in the Scottish demands for independence, and hides the impact of immigration on the people and communities outside of the city.
Just because you don't see it, doesn't mean it isn't happening.
As for the coalition Government and its support for the NHS, you're talking utter fucking bullshit. The NHS budget has been rising year-on-year, and in real terms is higher than in 2010. http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/pr... if you want a reference.
So more and more money, yet you feel services have been devastated? Maybe money isn't the issue after all. Maybe it's the fucking demand.
But you go ahead and blame foreigners. It'll make you feel better, despite being an idiotic, xenophobic misdiagnosis of the problem.
Lets put this in plain simple small words: Fuck off and die.
I wasn't born in Great Britain, I've lived in mainland Europe, I've lived elsewhere and I work in a multinational company collaborating and socialising with people from every part of the globe. I may or may not be xenophobic but you have no way to judge that and I'm fed up with cunts like you pulling out the racism or xenophobia line instead of addressing the core underlying issues.
So fuck you, and don't expect further replies. You're not worth my time.
Yes, although it also drew attention to the immigration impact on wages which you were challenging elsewhere.
My point was that even someone that supported Remain, that has access to the full set of information captured by the Home Office, that was trying to promote the benefits of immigration, nonetheless highlighted that immigration has an impact on housing.
Or just revert to basic common sense. Three million immigrants aren't living under motorway flyovers; they must have a home somewhere.
Yes, the Government is also propping up house prices, against the interests of most citizens.
However, consider a quote from a politician that supported 'Remain':
"More than one third of all new housing demand in Britain is caused by immigration. And there is evidence that without the demand caused by mass immigration, house prices could be ten per cent lower over a twenty year period."
Clearly you and I have different interpretations of 'full'.
There is a housing shortage. Public services are under strain. There are concerns over the electricity supply and water supply. Roads are congested.
You may not call that 'full' but I do.
Maybe you live in Scotland, where population density is delightfully low. I live in England where it's higher than I'd like, where solitude is hard to find, where you're seldom out of sight of urban settings.
Migration absolutely does fucking exacerbate this.
The UK has internationally recognised lands and assets. If Scotland wants to leave the union, they can ask nicely for some of them. They can have them - but they can have the debt associated with them too.
I don't think you have a very good grasp of how the law works in this area.
No, I merely have the ability to rip apart your pathetic arguments that continue to come out of your imagination. No more. Reply if you want but I wont even read it.
You miserable fool, people in the IT industry are far more painfully aware of how it's being transformed (and how that's damaging the long term future of their national economies) than anybody outside of the industry except for the people reaping the short term rewards for damaging it.
Someone challenged your assertions on salary changes and you dismissed their data as being too old. Now you're telling me that their data isn't too old, so please address their original point instead.
Hmm. Admittedly of the nine languages I've used to write production systems only 3-4 were used to build software that involved payments, contractual or other highly sensitive data.
Writing mostly secure systems is trivial. That most programmers are not challenged or helped to achieve even that is an industry failure, not a difficulty burden.
Fully securing systems is indeed hard, but the number of buffer overflows and SQL injection vulnerabilities still being created suggest that the basic fundamentals just aren't happening. They're trivial.
I don't support pre-emptive punishment, so I can't support sentencing based on probabilities.
This is especially true where the justice system is inherently sexist, itself causing at least some of the gender disparity in offending and re-offending rates.
Use the probabilities to guide and direct resources aimed at prevention, not to punish in advance. A 70% chance of recidivism means 30% of people would be unfairly punished. I can't support that.
You're talking about one of the ludicrous claims the Scottish 'yes' campaign made, that had no basis in reality.
My link didn't mention Scotland because it's pretty fucking obvious that Scotland is part of the UK.
Your link is completely missing. As always you're arguing on the flawed logic you're making up, rather than bringing facts and reason into the equation.
I think it's because the justice/prison system are heavily involved in misusing or misunderstanding technology.
Slashdot readers are interested in technology generally, and also on balance tend towards preferring actual justice (rather than 'social' justice) so want to know about abuses of the system.
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Divinity: Original Sin has a tourist mode, and many games have mods that let you enable 'god mode' (can't die) or other tweaks/cheats to allow exploration.
Overwatch however is an online player vs player game. I haven't played it but I suspect you could explore it offline without cheating, or online by ignoring the mayhem around you.
The people cheating will be motivated by different reasons, although some of them boil down to 'Player is a twat'.
Some people legitimately have disabilities that prevent them competing effectively and seek aids to bring them to 'normal' levels. Don't ask me how they calibrate that normality.
Some games (not sure about Overwatch) let you unlock in-game features through play. An example here is World of Tanks where you need several weeks of online playtime to unlock the full content in the game. There are a lot of people that use cheats in that game (enough that I gave up playing it) to play the game for them, letting them avoid the drudgery of playing just to unlock content. Any game with substantial 'grind' will have people trying to automate that, whether through putting a heavy weight onto a single key on the keyboard, using macros, using cheat software or even paying someone else to play the game for them (not uncommon on World of Warcraft a while back).
It's easy enough to design a game and game ecosystem to suit most gamers' needs, but that just wont help with the twats out there. Sadly those twats are most visible where the cheating impacts other players: online player vs player games. It's been an issue for years and nobody's found a good answer yet.
I cheat all the time in video games. Why, just a few minutes ago I reloaded my saved game so that I could retry the fight I lost.
Cheating is perfectly acceptable, in context.
Worse, they took raiding from '40 people but 25-30 good enough and well enough equipped people will do' to '25 people, must all be fully equipped, must all coordinate perfectly, and one individual making one false move costs everybody a full hour'
It stopped being gaming and became a punitive choreographed dance. I stopped playing.
Hmm. If you've never been accused of cheating on an online game, let me provide you with the reason: You're not good enough.
I was accused of cheating online in 1992 and many times since, in different games, in different formats of games. People have stopped playing on specific servers because my friends and I were just too good for them.
Cheating isn't needed.
The article may or may not be a hit piece, but the regulator will determine whether the current Tesla software is safe enough for public roads.
I don't think it is, but I'm not the regulator.
Nah, it's not self preservation, it's the car. If I die, I'm dead, shrug. If I wreck the car there's a ton of insurance paperwork, I've got to sort out a rental replacement, I need to search for a new car, there're delays, there's hassle, it's expensive.
Easier to just avoid having an accident.
If course, if the driver is busy writing a text message or browsing the net (or drunk, or asleep) then he may not even notice a cargo ship.
In the UK, being an island nation, we've honed our cargo ship detection capabilities and spot them on the roads even when we're drunk, texting or turned to talk to the kids in the back.
This explains the absence of large container and freight vessel related injuries on the UK roads.
The problem is that in this one specific instance, having a human in control could not have been worse than the autopilot.
So where's the balance.
My preference is that I'm in control, or I can trust the autopilot sufficiently that I can go to sleep. It might not be safer, but at least then it's my fault.
Until 'go to sleep' becomes a viable option I'd prefer that the human retains full control and the car merely uses its intelligence to better inform and guide the driver.
2-3 hours? Shit, must be a big house.
As for hobbies, I've had to give up doing some of the things I enjoy because there just isn't enough time.
You call me a dipshit, while ignoring nearly 300 years of cameras being used before photographs existed.
I pity you and your self-imposed ignorance.
A pinhole camera projects an image onto a plane.
Whether you put a sheet of film onto that plan or not is totally fucking irrelevant.
You appear to be using a personalised and custom definition of the word 'Camera'. I hope this works out well for you.
So you're saying a pinhole camera isn't a camera? This is just a pinhole camera.
I live outside of London. We have a different way of life here. It's being damaged by the urbanisation of our landscape, the changes to our culture, the loss of career opportunities.
If I want a job I can get one tomorrow in London. I have to wait weeks in other parts of the UK. The terrible London-centricity of the economy is a massive factor in the Leave vote, a massive factor in the Scottish demands for independence, and hides the impact of immigration on the people and communities outside of the city.
Just because you don't see it, doesn't mean it isn't happening.
As for the coalition Government and its support for the NHS, you're talking utter fucking bullshit. The NHS budget has been rising year-on-year, and in real terms is higher than in 2010.
http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/pr... if you want a reference.
So more and more money, yet you feel services have been devastated? Maybe money isn't the issue after all. Maybe it's the fucking demand.
But you go ahead and blame foreigners. It'll make you feel better, despite being an idiotic, xenophobic misdiagnosis of the problem.
Lets put this in plain simple small words: Fuck off and die.
I wasn't born in Great Britain, I've lived in mainland Europe, I've lived elsewhere and I work in a multinational company collaborating and socialising with people from every part of the globe. I may or may not be xenophobic but you have no way to judge that and I'm fed up with cunts like you pulling out the racism or xenophobia line instead of addressing the core underlying issues.
So fuck you, and don't expect further replies. You're not worth my time.
Yes, although it also drew attention to the immigration impact on wages which you were challenging elsewhere.
My point was that even someone that supported Remain, that has access to the full set of information captured by the Home Office, that was trying to promote the benefits of immigration, nonetheless highlighted that immigration has an impact on housing.
Or just revert to basic common sense. Three million immigrants aren't living under motorway flyovers; they must have a home somewhere.
Yes, the Government is also propping up house prices, against the interests of most citizens.
However, consider a quote from a politician that supported 'Remain':
"More than one third of all new housing demand in Britain is caused by immigration. And there is evidence that without the demand caused by mass immigration, house prices could be ten per cent lower over a twenty year period."
-- https://fullfact.org/economy/a...
Oops, that's the Home Secretary, not the Daily Mail. Oh well.
Clearly you and I have different interpretations of 'full'.
There is a housing shortage. Public services are under strain. There are concerns over the electricity supply and water supply. Roads are congested.
You may not call that 'full' but I do.
Maybe you live in Scotland, where population density is delightfully low. I live in England where it's higher than I'd like, where solitude is hard to find, where you're seldom out of sight of urban settings.
Migration absolutely does fucking exacerbate this.
Strange, I don't see Scotland here:
http://www.un.org/en/member-st...
Or here:
http://www.state.gov/s/inr/rls...
The UK has internationally recognised lands and assets. If Scotland wants to leave the union, they can ask nicely for some of them. They can have them - but they can have the debt associated with them too.
I don't think you have a very good grasp of how the law works in this area.
No, I merely have the ability to rip apart your pathetic arguments that continue to come out of your imagination. No more. Reply if you want but I wont even read it.
You miserable fool, people in the IT industry are far more painfully aware of how it's being transformed (and how that's damaging the long term future of their national economies) than anybody outside of the industry except for the people reaping the short term rewards for damaging it.
Someone challenged your assertions on salary changes and you dismissed their data as being too old. Now you're telling me that their data isn't too old, so please address their original point instead.
Hmm. Admittedly of the nine languages I've used to write production systems only 3-4 were used to build software that involved payments, contractual or other highly sensitive data.
Writing mostly secure systems is trivial. That most programmers are not challenged or helped to achieve even that is an industry failure, not a difficulty burden.
Fully securing systems is indeed hard, but the number of buffer overflows and SQL injection vulnerabilities still being created suggest that the basic fundamentals just aren't happening. They're trivial.
Not all of them..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-3...
I still haven't however seen evidence that racism was a factor for most Leave voters.
Well, fuck it. Cite the law that proclaims an independent Scotland gets to keep Edinburgh.
Cite the law that proclaims an independent Scotland gets to keep the islands nearby.
Cite the law that proclaims an independent Scotland has any assets whatsoever?
Scotland wants assets from the UK? It gets liabilities to go with them. I don't need a law for that.
I don't support pre-emptive punishment, so I can't support sentencing based on probabilities.
This is especially true where the justice system is inherently sexist, itself causing at least some of the gender disparity in offending and re-offending rates.
Use the probabilities to guide and direct resources aimed at prevention, not to punish in advance. A 70% chance of recidivism means 30% of people would be unfairly punished. I can't support that.
You're talking about one of the ludicrous claims the Scottish 'yes' campaign made, that had no basis in reality.
My link didn't mention Scotland because it's pretty fucking obvious that Scotland is part of the UK.
Your link is completely missing. As always you're arguing on the flawed logic you're making up, rather than bringing facts and reason into the equation.
I think it's because the justice/prison system are heavily involved in misusing or misunderstanding technology.
Slashdot readers are interested in technology generally, and also on balance tend towards preferring actual justice (rather than 'social' justice) so want to know about abuses of the system.