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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform just an alternate spelling of sweaty balls,
that also happens
to be an edible product.
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu,
the game is playable from
the website, SaaS business model (software as a service), so what was your meaning?
mircea_popescu: the
two are amusingly related : work -> schweddyballs ->
tide.
mircea_popescu: Pierre_Rochard: kakobrekla: so everyone should pay off
their mortgage / student loans / credit cards / car loans before buying bitcoins? Seems a little extreme and just poor balance sheet management imho <<< i can see it. bitcoin is still not for
the poor.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes.
this is
the point of flesh,
to make
thoughts painful.
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, back in
the day
the only method were printing cd's and selling
them in shops, so yeah, publisher was needed; now it's internet era, digital downloads, websites, app stores
DreadKnight: indie game devs don't usually go for publishers;
they rather make crowd funding campaigns
to avoid strings attached
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: getting weekly emails from people
to allow
them
to use artwork / assets in
their games and I'm pretty much underground atm
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
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
mircea_popescu: so what's your role in all
this ? you draw
the artwork ? you code
the game ?
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: you're not being accused. you've just been convicted.
that's all.
mircea_popescu: it won't work if i have
to kill you all, and i won't have
to kil you all.
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: the Address page is intended
to be for end-users
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
mircea_popescu: can i calculate
the bitcoin address
that'd correspond
to any arbitrary private address i choose ?
mircea_popescu: private keys have nothing
to do with
the public keys
they're paired with ?
Luke-Jr: [22:23:26] <mircea_popescu> added
the entire misconceptions
thing… <-- because it is needed
Luke-Jr: [22:23:06] <mircea_popescu>
took out
the private key discussion entirely, <-- because it has nothing
to do with addresses
DreadKnight: which everybody has access
to, but which won't be have a ladder / prized / money involved at all
mircea_popescu: so now, you'll have
to sell risk whether you want
to or not. learn
to live with it.
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, even if it's free open source,
there are business strategies
to it
mircea_popescu: to make money selling content you need huge economies of scale, because content is so expensive
to make.
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight looky here : in business, one's always selling something. games are business. as such,
they can either sell content or risk.
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
mircea_popescu: this log is fucking epic. guy
that's got himself blacklisted by derping at me can't spell funding and is looking for $500.
DreadKnight: even if you pick only
the units with best stats,
they can be countered, so
there's no point in exploiting
the game; your opponent will most likely be able
to make
the same units, so no point in
that
DreadKnight: I'm making something
that's all about skill, not luck
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.
DreadKnight: I'm not looking
to make yet another poker or dice game,
there are plenty of btc online casinos
DreadKnight: in chess you get basically an infinite of possibilities, no
two games are
the same; and Ancient Beast is way more complex
than chess, but looks less boring
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight if
there's no randomness involved people won't be likely
to play for btc.
DreadKnight: so you'll always want
to counter your enemy units with ones
that you
think are best for
the job
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.
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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: Misconceptions (on
the bitcoin.it wiki) : Addresses are not wallets nor accounts, and do not carry balances.
They only receive funds, and you do not send "from" an address at any
time.
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.
mircea_popescu: fuckwits on
the internet
tho, just use words like
their mommy made
them
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
BingoBoingo: No idea, but Facebook seems like an appalingly stupid sort of
tool for
this kind of derp
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: wait,
this wouldn't be
the same guy i was lulzing at last month ?
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: pigeons: vitalik sells lots of snake oil besides etherum: emulated quantum computer
that runs faster
than its von neuman host; proof of stake; "trustless" distributed fiat (schellingcoin); << he's like andreas v2.0
then ?
cyranodeB: where do you have
that information from BingoBoino?
mircea_popescu: pankkake: why would all scammers be dumb? << it's a self-selecting activity. smart people find better
things
to do.
BingoBoingo: cyranodeB: Just
the usual "Banned Bitcoin" again or some shit
mircea_popescu: pankkake: natalie portman is a jew? I always knew something was off with her << only on
the mother's side.
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mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo but
then again you drink, so how'd you know.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu> wait... bb had a GIRLFRIEND ? << I don't
think I've had any
that would be in Lithuania atm
mircea_popescu: BigBitz: Bitcoin markets don't revolve around news. <<< bitcoin is here
to make
the news, not
to follow
the news.
pigeons: coinbase cancellation as in mircea_popescu cancelled his DERP? or coinbase cancellation as in
the same old
thing where
they cancel people's order cause coinbase
pankkake: I've had a fiat
transactions cancelled for less - but
that payment processor was
trash for almost everything so
pigeons: no i just dont want
to look at it