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Keeshhound posted:Right that's the easy way. But "mining" a Bitcoin is just adding transactions to a bitcoin's block chain, right?
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Sindai posted:No, it's doing a bunch of math. That's why people buy hundreds of graphics cards, design specialized hardware, or hide mining software in trojans to do it. Math that humans could do. My point isn't that it would be effective, just that it's an amusing meta idea.
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Technically speaking, enough humans performing basic operations can do anything a digital computer can do. They're just much slower.
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Keeshhound posted:Right that's the easy way. But "mining" a Bitcoin is just adding transactions to a bitcoin's block chain, right? So technically there's no reason a human couldn't do that instead of using a gpu; it'd just be way slower. Okay, I think I understand where you're coming from. There's no reason why a combined human effort couldn't produce a cryptocoin, given infinite lifespan. Gamifying it would be very difficult, I don't think the individual calculations required could be reduced into simple problems that anyone could solve. I'm not a mathematician though, maybe puyo puyo tetris already does this.
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The SHA256 hashing algorithm (which bitcoin uses) is mostly relatively simple operations like performing "AND" or "OR" on individual bits. It's just that it does a whole bunch of them in a complicated order. If your gamified group of human participants perform less than a million operations per second, you're gonna be waiting a pretty long time.
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What if you made those math problems into DX11 render calls and released a crazy psychedelic "screen saver" that's actually just visualizing the math and mining coins off poor chumps that go AFK?
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Dark_Swordmaster posted:What if you made those math problems into DX11 render calls and released a crazy psychedelic "screen saver" that's actually just visualizing the math and mining coins off poor chumps that go AFK? GPUs are so outclassed for *coin mining at this point they'd do basically nothing.
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ThisIsNoZaku posted:GPUs are so outclassed for *coin mining at this point they'd do basically nothing. Is this true? I thought bitcoin mining was the cause of video cards currently being overpriced.
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Davethulhu posted:Is this true? I thought bitcoin mining was the cause of video cards currently being overpriced. Short version: on any name coins "worth" money, it's a waste of time. But there are a thousand and change (and growing) dipshit forks of it all trying to be a hot new thing and idiots with cards keep trying to find the next hot ticket before difficulty gets too steep.
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Davethulhu posted:Is this true? I thought bitcoin mining was the cause of video cards currently being overpriced. Now the name of the game is specialty hardware designed entirely to mine bitcoins.
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ThisIsNoZaku posted:Now the name of the game is specialty hardware designed entirely to mine bitcoins. Right, I remember Butterfly labs from years ago, which is why the video card thing now confused me. END ME SCOOB posted:Short version: on any name coins "worth" money, it's a waste of time. But there are a thousand and change (and growing) dipshit forks of it all trying to be a hot new thing and idiots with cards keep trying to find the next hot ticket before difficulty gets too steep. This makes sense, in that it's even stupider that I imagined.
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Davethulhu posted:This makes sense, in that it's even stupider that I imagined. The primary reason I keep up on BitCoin news is so I can laugh at the complete idiots that think they're going to be billionaires any day now because they have a rack of GPUs mining them all day in their parents' basement. Cryptocurrency is just stupid top to bottom, really.
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Keeshhound posted:Right that's the easy way. But "mining" a Bitcoin is just adding transactions to a bitcoin's block chain, right? So technically there's no reason a human couldn't do that instead of using a gpu; it'd just be way slower. This already exists, it's literally just capitalism 
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Davethulhu posted:This makes sense, in that it's even stupider that I imagined. The most concise and accurate description of bitcoin i have ever seen.
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Dollal Simulator 2018quote:The authentic Dollal Simulator 2018    
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Concgrats on creating a worse way of getting rid of your money than cryptocurrency I guess.
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are the other two chapters of Bendy and the Ink Machine worth buying? the demo kinda fuckin ruled but if they're all around 20min it seems like a ripoff
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Solid advice for any game like that: Try it out, but avoid the fandom like hell.
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My nephew is loving obsessed with bendy and the ink machine. edit- he's 9.
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I know that making fun of Bronies is just beating a dead horse at this point but Them's Fightin' Herds is a hell of a thing just for how many legitimate people are involved in what is obviously a fan game for another IP: the character designs are by the woman who actually created the show, it's being published by the Humble Bundle, and other fighting games are even letting them use their IP for unlockables.  
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It's apparently actually really good. Like, there's a lot of FGC people who are excited as gently caress for Them's Fightin' Herds and aren't bronies at all, that's where most of their non-crazy-weirdo support has come from.
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Guy Mann posted:I know that making fun of Bronies is just beating a dead horse at this point but Them's Fightin' Herds is a hell of a thing just for how many legitimate people are involved in what is obviously a fan game for another IP: the character designs are by the woman who actually created the show, it's being published by the Humble Bundle, and other fighting games are even letting them use their IP for unlockables. I'm just surprised something legitimately cool looking came from a Brony fan project.
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Intoluene posted:I'm just surprised something legitimately cool looking came from a Brony fan project. It's spent significantly more time as an original IP than as a brony fan project. The Hasbro C&D that caused the change came in 2013.
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Guy Mann posted:I know that making fun of Bronies is just beating a dead horse at this point but Them's Fightin' Herds is a hell of a thing just for how many legitimate people are involved in what is obviously a fan game for another IP: the character designs are by the woman who actually created the show, it's being published by the Humble Bundle, and other fighting games are even letting them use their IP for unlockables. it's a legit fighting game production I personally don't really care much for its systems having actually played it but it doesn't really belong in this thread.
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Imagine spending half a decade making a not my little pony game. Jeez. I mean half a decade of effort is what separates this from the other material in the septic tank that this thread fishes for but still.
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Hemingway To Go! posted:Imagine spending half a decade making a not my little pony game. Jeez. Horrible game making seem divided into two camps: the asset flippers who poo poo out a zero effort game over a weekend, and the fetishists who spend 60 hours a week for five years, painstakingly making sure the cutie mark is in exactly the right spot.
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Gynovore posted:Horrible game making seem divided into two camps: the asset flippers who poo poo out a zero effort game over a weekend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb3xzXyNh8I
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Edit: Welp, already posted, never mind. Enjoy a picture of Hunt The Freeman's incredibly Original Character Do Not Steal protagonist instead:
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Perestroika posted:Edit: Welp, already posted, never mind. Enjoy a picture of Hunt The Freeman's incredibly Original Character Do Not Steal protagonist instead: Scar pattern suggests he stuck his head repeatedly into the same machine from several different angles.
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*incredibly gravelly voice* heh...swooping season
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Here's a partial playthrough (including cutscenes) by a guy involved with the development. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZoYXeHBBes
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A playthrough video opening with "Alright, let's check this poo poo show right up, oh my god" sounds about right.
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Tag yourself, I'm the lag/stutter on the menu screen composed only of a head, a single lightsource and a flat textureless background.
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I'm the untextured, primitive-shapes-only robots with pumpkin heads and no death animations
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I'm the vast empty maps devoid of gameplay, detail, direction and meaning, made in an engine designed for corridor shooters. No wait, I'm the entire L4D2 asset library.
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I'm the FPS character that controls like he's on roller skates.
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Perestroika posted:Edit: Welp, already posted, never mind. Enjoy a picture of Hunt The Freeman's incredibly Original Character Do Not Steal protagonist instead: OwlFancier posted:Scar pattern suggests he stuck his head repeatedly into the same machine from several different angles. I'm the blender mentioned above.
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