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DreadKnight: I don't really need
a publisher, need
a bit of funding / sponsorship to speed things up and get some help with coding
DreadKnight: I'm proficient with organic low poly modeling though, but that will be noticeable
a bit later, when animations will get in the game, sample www.AncientBeast.com/viewer
mircea_popescu: so like
a pm basically, mostly covering for game design
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, I'm
a jack of all trades, designed the project, I manage the thing, make abilities, made the website, look for contributors, code, sketch, test it with fans, whatever it needs to be done; I'm working with quite
a bit of people, constantly looking for fresh blood, that's the beauty of being open source
DreadKnight: t of the Ancient Beast units will become popular thanks to their license / attribution and usage, so it's all like
a virus, to spread as much as possible
DreadKnight: ve certain stats for limited amounts of time, food will be rather cheap, but it can make the difference between life and death, victory and loss; besides, there will be tournaments, playing for digital currency (where
a % will be taken as fee); each month the ladder will start fresh, winners from previous month being added to
a hall of fame; there will also be merchandise in the shop (tshirts, miniatures, plushies, and so on), mos
DreadKnight: there will be
a mode for subscribers that will have
a monthly ladder, top players receiving prizes; each match and victory will be logged; in this mode, your units will die and you'll have to purchase card packs with random units inside, so you won't have access to every single unit in the game unless you pay, also each victory will take
a toll, as you'll have casualties most likely; you'll also be able to feed your units to impro
mircea_popescu: eh spare me the derpage. you and the rest of the usg plants are trying to push forward
a certain political aggenda.
Luke-Jr: *version 1 addresses* are *implemented* using ECDSA keypairs inside wallets; but that's
a technical detail, and there is
a separate page for technical details
DreadKnight: which everybody has access to, but which won't be have
a ladder / prized / money involved at all
mircea_popescu: this is why wow was
a gold mine and rift spent 10mn for ~3mn in returns
mircea_popescu: the sad irony of all this being that we've been actually looking for
a competent sysadmin to run stuff for years.
DreadKnight:
a lot of people play moba (dota/dota2/league of legends/heroes of newerth/etc), played moba for about years and pretty much avoided all the issues that type of game has when it comes to Ancient Beast itself
BingoBoingo: Yeah
a game without randomness leads to high level play being dominated by dickstabbers, people who instead of playing in an enjoyable way will pull out their dick knives and stab their dick for an 0.01% advantage.
mircea_popescu: there's
a reason poker championships give out multi milion prizes
DreadKnight: in chess you don't have randomness; the random part is that unlike chess, you pick your units (tools) as you go by, so from hundreds of units, you'll only put like 5 or so into play in
a match
mircea_popescu: it leaves nothing up to chance and randomnes << this is
a problem.
DreadKnight: prototype was funded thanks to
a few bitcoins I sold at
a decent enough time so that I could afford paying
a part time coder for
a few months, but now I'm broke and I'm not
a very good coder; so I could use some support to get things going
DreadKnight: r, one of those ever green games basically; it leaves nothing up to chance and randomness, yet no two games will be the same; it can be played 1vs1 or 2vs2 on pretty much any device with pretty much any input method; so want to make "the chess of the future",
a way for people to battle for fun or digital currency, very accessible, playable even without account or paying anything; I'm
a bit stuck on the coding part atm, the current
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, Alright :-) making free open source game project, turn based strategy game playable from the browser; it's kinda like the reverse of Super Smash Bros Brawl, as it features
a lot of original characters that will be featured in
a lot of other games; the project is inspired by Heroes of Might and Magic 3's combat system, but improved, combined with Trading Card Games; it's fun, easy to get into, but it's hard to maste
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight next is, well, tell me
a little about what you're planning with this game, how's it going etc.
dignork: pigeons, I looked at dogeparty, it's
a fork of counterparty, minus double-spending protection provided by btc network
mircea_popescu: how the fuck do you send bitcoin, pray tell, if not by signing with the private key associated with
a public key that's an address that has
a balance ?
mircea_popescu: mike_c: i'm probably the only idiot in here, but in case there is one other: "3 indicates
a "pay-to-script-hash" address that contains
a hash (one way fingerprint) of
a script that can be used for multiple things including address obfuscation and multi-signature requirements." << tl;dr : 3addresses are an unnecessary and crufty thing some idiots pretend they've added to bitcoin.
dignork: BingoBoingo: there was an article, about facebook aggresively crawling site which you post
a link to, it can be used to ddos
mircea_popescu: it's stupid-easy to protect from :
a) ban facebook. b) don't allow ambiguous reference to expensive resources.
assbot: Using Facebook Notes to DDoS any website |
A Programmer's Blog
mircea_popescu: "The attack vector is using Facebook notes to flood our site using
a known exploit on Facebook and we’ve reached out to friends at Facebook’s Cyber Security team who have determined the IP address of the original person hitting the attack vector and are working with law enforcement actively to track this user down."
mircea_popescu: "
A few nights ago an attacker sent
a message via our contact form demanding we send .5 BTC to protect ourselves from
a DDOS attack."
mircea_popescu: pigeons: wow really they are already trying to damage control the 1% of the press they get that isn't positive? and from
a bitcoinpete (no offense lol) blog post? << the 1% happens to be what matters in this field.
BingoBoingo: cyranodeB: Just read someone derping about it
a few hours ago. Don't care enough to look into it because this shit just happens.
mircea_popescu: pankkake: why would all scammers be dumb? << it's
a self-selecting activity. smart people find better things to do.
mircea_popescu: pankkake: natalie portman is
a jew? I always knew something was off with her << only on the mother's side.
cyranodeB: sorry if i annoy anyone with
a repeated question.. but does anybody have an idea why bitcoin is crashing???
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu> wait... bb had
a GIRLFRIEND ? << I don't think I've had any that would be in Lithuania atm
pankkake: I've had
a fiat transactions cancelled for less - but that payment processor was trash for almost everything so
mike_c: the world wide web is
a pile of undocumented bullshit.
mircea_popescu: yeah, bisulphites can be
a good cause. all sorts of crap they put in wine, sparkling or not, can be it.
BingoBoingo: I've never had
a problem with champagne, now "champagne" as in the generic bubbly stuff from places that shouldn't be attempting such
a thing...
mircea_popescu: trixisowned: when in reality they just added their address to the list of miners, and take
a percentage of each block as if they were actually hashing << this is pretty major, actually.
mircea_popescu: it reads to me like alfred p. doolittle confronted with
a restaurant after
a lifetime of mcdonalds explaining how them hamburgers were at least nourishing.
DreadKnight: I might have got the passphrase wrong, tried
a few times and didn't get
a field anymore to write in
pankkake: I don't know why I never noticed the URL did not change… could have saved me
a step
mircea_popescu: at this rate you'll have to write things on your tits
a la indiancandy girl.
DreadKnight: oh, I ignored gribble
a while ago, was poking me daily on private
mircea_popescu: the login process is that you make
a claim as to who you are, gribble encodes
a string to that public key
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, I'm
a bit noobish; running gpg in
a terminal... and it's like gpg: Go ahead and type your message ... then I paste F6A23D326FDF1035 in? xD
mircea_popescu: Rassah: Any of you guys ever go to conferences? ^
a bunch of people went to all sorts of them.
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, website doesn't provide any info about what this is exactly; I did one or more transactions on bitcoin-otc thingy
a while ago if that helps
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight anyway, get your gpg registered in the wot as
a first step. we'll work something out.
HeySteve: where to mine
a block, you basically had to pay or wait
a few hours / days
HeySteve: nope mircea_popescu, they released
a DK mobile game
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, is that
a license type? trying to make sense of it :D
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, open source game I'm doing, will eventually allow people to battle for bitcoin,
a mix of Heroes of Might and Magic 3 and trading card games, lots of units, each with unique abilities
mircea_popescu: well there have been like 500 remakes, i recall playing
a pretty good one back in 2007ish.
HeySteve: I learnt today of some guy in Romania making
a Heroes of Might & Magic style browser game
mircea_popescu: i suspect this is deliberate. if people wanted interactive they wouldn't do online porn, they'd get
a gf.
rithm: looks like
a reocurring 34.99 if I've ever seen anything like that
rithm: epoch.com is definitely
a porn cancellation
rithm: i was like
a decade-long psyBNC user
HeySteve: not using
a bouncer, ADSL just gets dicey occasionally
mircea_popescu: people can want to minimize delays if they're trying to log
a chan, but here the logs are published anyway.
rithm: by bouncer has some long retry delays and
a list of every freenode server
mircea_popescu: as
a rule of thumb, i would say it's
a great idea that if one's using
a bouncer, that one sets the bouncer up so if it fails three times in five minutes it stops trying and shoots the owner an email or something. join/part spam is definitely annoying in all channels, even if most won't do anything about it.
mircea_popescu: moreover, buterin in particular is very very guilty, because he knew what he should have done, and he's known it for
a long fucking time.
mircea_popescu: Rassah: p.s. I'm not saying their etherium deal is
a good one. I don't think investing in ether can in any way give
a better return than investing in bitcoin... I don't think vitalik is much of
a finance guy, either, so I'm not sure if this "ipo" ca be blamed on him << what the fuck sense does this make ? some guy that's not
a finance guy involving himself in finance things is stupid by any conceivable definition of th
mircea_popescu: there's
a whole discussion of the statement of these views as put forward by franco's republic
a week or two ago in the logs.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell midnightmagic i dun see
a problem in principle either, but i was trying to examine this "salt is hard to mine" theory. anyway.
mutate_: I'm fairly keen on being in the queue for one of the first alien blowjobs, before the novelty wears off and they start marrying humans and making them unhappy. Unfortunately I can't by any magic Ether cards because maths and computers got you fairly badly bullied at school and so I simply use
a computer to have my bank details stolen from and know nothing whatsoever about Linux. What can I do?
benkay: <BingoBoingo> HANDSofSTEEL: If you really want to go long on ethereum, mircea_popescu wants to go short. I'd advise reading up on ethereum criticism before doing anything rash though. // it's magically also
a bet that nothing'll be around in 9/12 mos.
mike_c: adrrr_: you are bringing up
a sore subject. we try not to discuss his tendency to talk in 3rd person.
gribble: moiety was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 1 day, 10 hours, 15 minutes, and 30 seconds ago: <moiety> hi naphex, wb, hope you had
a great holiday :]
gribble: Error: "mike_c" is not
a valid command.
ThickAsThieves: “I promise you even before this speech is over I’ll be attacked as
a hater or
a bigot or someone who is anti-gay,” Rubio said. “This intolerance in the name of tolerance is hypocrisy. Support for the definition of marriage as one man and one woman is not anti-gay, it is pro-traditional marriage.”
fluffypony: "It's
a shame because you make great points, but you express them in
a manner that is all over the place bordering on incoherent. Not to mention, you unintentionally come off as
a bully calling people fascists, etc, and criticizing people in such vitriolic ways just because their views don't match your own perfectly. To be honest, I agree with you, but I can't imagine you're doing anything but preaching to your own choir by expressing your
fats_cd03:
a cursory search didn't reveal anything
fats_cd03: anyone know where i can find
a pdf of the 67-77 BRK letters?