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Re: Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horror game

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Post by Joe8Bit »

lucb1e wrote: post #5

Hmm, `system_reset` is an available command. Is that a good idea if people just spam it randomly? Because they will... Perhaps detecting when the machine is powered off and automatically turning it on is more effective.

> Every ten seconds, the most popular keystroke in Twitch chat will be entered into an Arch Linux virtual machine

Seems it's keystroke by keystroke, not command by command.

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Post by jbott »

ingenter wrote: post #8
jbott wrote: post #2

Hey guys, author here. Feel free to ask any questions, and I'll try my best to answer them!

Not a question, but some suggestions: - Make sure you're streaming in low-delay mode. I've seen some people stream with 8 second delay, but I don't know how they do it. - Count `Ctrl-C` and similar combinations as a single keystroke - Save states God bless the poor VM.

Yup! Low delay is awesome. We are getting about a 10 second delay. Save states aren't in quite yet, but that's our next goal.

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Post by jbott »

bru wrote: post #6
jbott wrote: post #2

Hey guys, author here. Feel free to ask any questions, and I'll try my best to answer them!

How will you handle special key combinations such as Ctrl+C to interrupt what's running? It looks like it will be the second-generation democracy mode. That looks a bit too easy: in theory we would simply have to follow the install guide line-by-line and it would work.

It works by keypress, which should increase the challenge level (I hope). Combinations like ctrl-c will be one keypress.

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Post by luma »

Svenstaro wrote: post #3

How will you react on people doing illegal stuff such as trying to setup up a spam server or downloading illegal things?

That would only work in the event that a majority of users coordinate their efforts to deploy such a thing. Seems like it'd be easier for them to setup a VPS.

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Post by jbott »

Svenstaro wrote: post #3

How will you react on people doing illegal stuff such as trying to setup up a spam server or downloading illegal things?

I have no idea. I don't think the crowd will have enough coordination to do something like that (which is basically what we are banking on currently), but if it does, we will probably have to step in manually.
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