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Heading to bed.

Was sunny and unpleasant. (in other words, what the majority of people call a 'perfect day')

Again.

Star Trek Online. Tribble server is very fun, but very lonely.

Not saying they're doing this but the bullet could be a particle projected along the line of the raycast. Only way to really check that would be to do the timescale thing and check if damage is being applied even when the bullet is still on it's way to the player.

I've checked numerous times... It does not damage until the projectile hits.

Hitscan only wins out over physical projectiles in a highly specific, low framerate scenario where a bullet going too fast will update it's position in large gaps and risk skipping over the player completely. That can be avoided by drawing a line between it's current position and last frame position but if you're in a low framerate that's probably stupid because that's further system intensive. But even in that scenario the bullet would have to be going fast enough that you may as WELL be using hitscan. In the end it's all about how much effort the coder wants to put into it really.

The way HL2 does its (non-crossbow) projectiles is a kind of hybrid projectile/hitscan. It uses mathematics to determine the distance the bullet has traveled along the hitscan path, and unless you're in the path when the projectile is supposed to hit, it doesn't do any damage. It also renders a projectile, and updates its position based on the mathematics.

So the series IS a reference to Moon, I thought so when watching the first episode but I guess this one confirms it.

I promise it's actually just a coincidence.

But at least tell us your opinion of the movie!

Getting ready for bed.

Could just be Walmart... We get more of those prompts for no apparent reason than there are items scanned here.

Was sunny and unpleasant. (in other words, what the majority of people call a 'perfect day')

I hope you remember the training videos!

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+1

OT: Kinda pissed that someone has removed a lot of edits I made on the CombineOverWiki since I have no idea why.

Could be a troll... Happens to every Wiki.

Feeling strange...

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SnoopaVision for Freeman's Mind?

You can even see that video in SnoopaVision...

Eating ribs...

A really good take on AI, and the 'Singularity'... I highly recommend watching it.

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I have several personal boycotts going... One is against the majority of the big name Hollywood studios. (one of the many reasons I am a Pirate)

Horrible game/software companies I also boycott. (like I did with Microsoft as soon as they 'released' W10 without removing the keylogger they said wasn't going to be in the release version) Good ones, I find ways to fund. I refuse to purchase products advertised online, if the advertisement is intrusive.

Personal boycotts do a LOT when you look at it from a business perspective. They cause a significantly bad reputation, and spread in an uncontrollable fashion. (word of mouth)

Star Trek Online.

These enemies have hitscan weapons, so you can't dodge their bullets.

I'll take you on when it comes to this... Take an unmodded game, and use console commands to put the timescale to 10% of normal, and you'll see all those bullets traveling, and you'll be able to dodge most of them.

HL2 did extremely well in their representation of the firearms, the bullets move at least semi-realistically. (every bullet is a projectile, and they move very fast) The ONLY hitscan weapons in the game are lasers, everything else is a projectile. (despite several 'sources' saying otherwise)

Why did you ignore the H.E.V and health dispensers in Freeman's mind?

He already covered this for the most part... He treated the HEV suit like it was bulletproof, so it didn't need the power from the HEV chargers. This also effectively removed the need for the health stations because his only injury throughout the entire series was a bullet grazing his ear.

Yeah, they disappeared for me from only Accursed Farms, they're working again now though.

Excellent episode!

"We need more Ross!' the fans said; "Here you go..." Ross responded.

Matrix.

8.5/10

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I fought it long enough that it went away...

OT: Installing Blender, and mentally preparing myself for learning to model without any tutorials. (I hate tutorials for these kind of things, all I want is an easy to read reference)

Orange.

Pretty much. There's no way of knowing what an AI will do in the wild, so they are focussing only on the worst-case scenarios.

Star Trek Online.

Season 11.5 is coming on April 12th, and fixes a LOT of the major problems this game has.