Random Plays

So who is your favorite character in FFXI?

Im not sure if there is one in particular. I dont really feel emphatic with "deep" or "complex" characters, but I like funny guys.

For the ladies, maybe Lillisette is my favorite. For the guys, maybe Atoru Moru (or whatever the LB10 taru name). He eas decently funny overall.

In line with the chatGPT misconception of me (calling me a troll), here is a video about old cartoon villains, how they are portraited as "bad guys" when in reality they are more human than the "protagonists", making them very relatable characters

This is so like me…

This could be inserted in the AI thread, but I think maybe it doesnt fully about AI

Im not even sure what is this about, but I gonna need to rewatch later

seemed appropriate with recent topics

Saya no Uta gameplay.

I think it got most critics because Saya is supposed to be a loli, but aside this particular case, that I dont even think is correct given Saya is a monster we never see in game, the story is solid imo.

Its a horror suspense story that got my intention.

Only thing I really complain is how the gruesome parts were left to players imagination. We never see Saya real body, and other body horrors arent exposed in game.

The video says you can buy a version with the sex scenes being explict, but I dont know why you would do that.

But if you do, tell me so i can call Tom

Video discussing about Rust and why use it.

I personally am not sold on the "rewrite with Rust and had major gains on performance and security".

Im not sold on those claims because rewriting generally result in better code regardless of technology, if you are learning with your past mistakes, so you can separate the gains from new knowledge and the gains from the technology per se. So I dont really trust giving all credits to Rust alone.

But what sold be is the line that "borrow checker" allows you to write things maybe you never cared but should.

I will give it a go

OMFG this is definitively the greatest video of all time:

Dog cleaning ASMR!!!!

Im always late to the party, but I suppose I shouldnt be the only one?

IDK about this new thing pulled out by Youtube. I do feel more and more people must be aware of content being appropriate to younger people.

But on the other side, I do think it is ***you using children as an excuse to reduce the potential of a content that is aimed for adults. There is something weird when only content suitable for children is worth the full payment.

I only know the tip of the iceberg anyway. The fact is, Youtube is a kinda of boss that can pull rules as they feel like, and everyone is impacted.

Funny dog being tricked

Seriously this short is amassing million of view, Im 100% it is because of the thumbnail

Now it is the bill, you AdBlockers: you are hurting community!

Watch the damn ad!

But now this is interesting: Youtube not considering views from videos viewers are blocking ads seems only reasonable from a company PoV.

But the content creators can do nothing against that: they cant prevent people from using adblock.

If this is true, maybe in the future they will invest more in membership comtent, what will hurt everyone in return, in a sad vicious cycle.

Dark times

Watch the ad, the adman says.

No.

nothing drives me away from a service faster than unskippable advertising. stopped owning/watching TV almost 20 years ago for what little good it did.

Personally I pay YT Premium so I do have ads.

My only worry is if content creators starts adding more and more content in their membership plan.

While the membership itself isnt big of a deal, it is pretty much not viable having membership for multiple channels without any commotment of content production from youtubers. Also, I favor diversity and not a single one channel.

Honestly Im not 100% believing this is the problem. I do think the major issue here is the "AI filtering" everyone is dosucssing lately.

In the future, either they release a better adblocker that also adds to the views, or Youtube endorse their own controls to annul adblock (so that adblockers also evolve in the usual cat and rat battle).

The worst is dropping the consequences of this battle in the content creators, that really have little to do for protection, and everything to lose

You're paying for free service supported by ads just to still have ads lol

That's like paying for a subscription to Netflix only to still see ads on shows on Netflix.

This list of shocking endings is pretty well done, I really felt anxious many of those movies (in particular the first one).

But watchout, because there are many gore and spoliers situations

The story of databases.

Its amazing seeing how clever people solves a challenge, just to a new one to appear, in an endless cycle of cat vs mouse, technologies vs ambition

Follow the cult of the dog

Iceberg tailor made for Ms Chatty

The elk story actually renewed my hope in humanity.

The idea that predators while feels like strong and domnating.

In a long run, as long as the good can persevere the hardships.

They will be the last one standing.

The predators will fall earlier. Simly because their way of life is just not sustaintable.

Dog goodness

a bit long, and all the references are about WOW, but very easy to apply to FFXI.

TBF I thought kinda hard to follow those guys point.

Because at first it feels like their point was something like: "community evolved so much and you dont even try catching up".

Then they starts dumping many and many things like mods, gameplays, communities, the guy who dont equip footgear, etc.

In the end, I just felt like they are just smartass idiots trying to justify being prejudiced toward others they judge as suckers.

If I would write a video about online community in a MMROPG, I would focus on the psychological and human instincts to explain why some fraction of playerbase act in a particular way, why they act in another way.

could have been presented differently and definitely condensed some, but the main point was that players ultimately decide the one "right" way to play and discard almost everything else as inferior or incorrect, and everything related to the game not inside the game itself reflects and reinforces this (forums, guides, videos, addons). this happens to the extent that when someone new comes along who doesn't have all the collective knowledge or follow the common strategies, they are doing it wrong and actively hurting others.

that's not to say the existing knowledge and best strategies are bad, they aren't. but people are still genuinely surprised to this day when you use something other than the dnc Aminon setup and almost guaranteed not to want to try a run with any other setup unless it is with their close static.

The "right" way to play the game isn't decided by players, it's decided by game designers and math.

there is always a more "optimized" way to play any stat based game. Stats and game mechanics are just numbers interacting with each others. So there are always going be one particular choice of actions that produces bigger number than other actions. Choosing the actions that potentially leads to the highest number achievable is called optimization.

And in MMO genre particularly, dev will try to create the hardest content that requires optimized strategy to beat so they can keep players busy and not quit after they beat everything. And that hardest content's number requirement is often very high.

For example, if the highest possible DPS achievable using the best in game choice is 100, then dev will design the hardest content by requiring 97 or 98 DPS to beat. Which means any other action choice that couldn't reach this number will be seen as inferior.

This is because the content design rewards stats optimization, by giving players unique rewards or accomplishments when they accomplished optimized choice.

And then of course this creates "social hierarchy" within the community that there are people who can play optimally and get rewards, and people who can't.

Ultimately the reason why these even happen is because game design rewards optimized gameplay by giving optimized players rewards. Game design is all about using rewards to guide player actions, so if you receive rewards by optimizing stats, then optimizing stats will be seen as "the right way" because rewards is given.


Even single player games are like that too. If you go to any single player game forum, people really only talk about 2 things: story/lore related stuff/fan art, or strategy to beat the game. Really what else can you talk about for a game?

In MMO forums people gravitate towards talking about strategy more because if the MMO is out for decades, people will run out of other topics. So what's left to talk about is really just strategy to beat hard content since it's often the only part that still keep people engaged after decades.