netstack
Texas is freedom land
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netstack
Texas is freedom land
3d ago
Quoth Betteridge…
I’d like to see real data rather than relying on (years-old) reports from a notoriously punishing game.
I can’t say I understand the conflation of academic and game cheating, either. The dynamic is—or should be?—completely different.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
2d ago
That sounds either kickass or pornographic. I could believe both.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6d ago
I don’t know who that is, I don’t recall modding him, and I can’t find your quote.
But that is beside the point. Whether or not a comment is inflammatory, when you reply, you have to follow the rules by explaining what you mean. A single word “what?” is insufficient. It strictly drags the conversation down further.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
2d ago
specific niche
This weekend, I stumbled into a crossover post 1) between my favorite world-war-punk logistics MMO and 2) Steel Panzer. That wasn’t the weird part. Apparently the mod author had commissioned unit art from a Twitter artist with the following bio:
I may be drawing furries, femboys, NSFW, and guns. I realize some of you may not be comfortable with one of these.
I suspect—but I can never be sure—that the guns are supposed to be the dealbreaker. Twitter is a foreign country.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
2d ago
If I were writing to a public forum, asking for advice about my lurid love affair, I’d take any opsec I could get.
I should probably do more here.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
2d ago
Hmm. It might be possible to get trendlines for something like CS2. But then, I understand valve has a long history of detection vs ban waves. It’d be very hard to measure.
Perhaps survey companies that sell cheats to try and keep skin in the game? I seem to remember seeing a retrospective from, like WoW gold farmers or something. You might be able to measure revenue vs. player base for a common game.
Intuitively, I doubt that video game cheating is worse today than it was in the mid-2000s era of PC CoD hackers and the like. Or the golden age of Minecraft servers, maybe.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6d ago
It was a neat article. I do think you’ve kind of missed the point. The twin studies are aren’t “wrong.” They replicate, their math works. But they don’t line up with these other studies which are supposed to measure the same thing. That could mean they’re wrong, or it could mean they aren’t actually measuring that thing.
materialism / genetic determinism
For example, these are not the same. Materialism supports models with irreducible randomness. We do not control enough of the inputs to be sure of every output. For the hard sciences, we’ve gotten reasonably certain in our models, but for genetics, there’s still plenty unexplained. The error bars are large.
beyond the mechanistic model
Into what? How could accepting dualism possibly improve this model?
Congratulations! You’ve advanced from lazy, uncharitable snarling at your enemies to. Uh. Marginally higher-effort snarling at the same people.
It doesn’t look like you are arguing to understand anything. It looks more like you’re picking fights. This is an immense pain in the ass and against various rules.
One week ban.
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