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Why do War Thunder players leak classified information? [video]

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Re: Why do War Thunder players leak classified information? [video]

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Post by CrimsonCape »

snapcaster wrote: post #89
preisschild wrote: post #75

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They also hava big bias towards Russian vehicles. They take wildly inaccurate propaganda numbers and implement them, but nerf the numbers on US vehicles where they exist plenty of actual data from the manufacturer itself in many cases. See for example 2S38 vs HSTVL & RDF/LT

I don't know the game, but wouldn't this make sense as a game balancing aspect? In real life some vehicles might be "strictly better" than others but doesn't make for very interesting gameplay

If I were to characterize your statement, you would agree that J.R.R. Tolkien should have written the hobbits as massive muscular warriors who can stand against the Uruk-hai as equally competent fighters. The Uruk-hai were "strictly better" weren't they?

Re: Why do War Thunder players leak classified information? [video]

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Post by zardo »

CrimsonCape wrote: post #91
snapcaster wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know the game, but wouldn't this make sense as a game balancing aspect? In real life some vehicles might be "strictly better" than others but doesn't make for very interesting gameplay

If I were to characterize your statement, you would agree that J.R.R. Tolkien should have written the hobbits as massive muscular warriors who can stand against the Uruk-hai as equally competent fighters. The Uruk-hai were "strictly better" weren't they?

You're going to have to do something to buff the hobbits or everyone is going to want to play as Uruk-hai.

Re: Why do War Thunder players leak classified information? [video]

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Post by Tarq0n »

snapcaster wrote: post #89
preisschild wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They also hava big bias towards Russian vehicles. They take wildly inaccurate propaganda numbers and implement them, but nerf the numbers on US vehicles where they exist plenty of actual data from the manufacturer itself in many cases. See for example 2S38 vs HSTVL & RDF/LT

I don't know the game, but wouldn't this make sense as a game balancing aspect? In real life some vehicles might be "strictly better" than others but doesn't make for very interesting gameplay

Apparently the game divides the various vehicles into tiers based on their performance. Within a match, only vehicles from a certain "band" of performance may be played, meaning either those vehicles are similar in power or have playerbases that manages a similar output.

Re: Why do War Thunder players leak classified information? [video]

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Post by preisschild »

Philadelphia wrote: post #86
preisschild wrote: post #75

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They also hava big bias towards Russian vehicles. They take wildly inaccurate propaganda numbers and implement them, but nerf the numbers on US vehicles where they exist plenty of actual data from the manufacturer itself in many cases. See for example 2S38 vs HSTVL & RDF/LT

So these people are sending classified specs on American military vehicles to people who just happen to have a bias toward Russian vehicles?

Most of it is more or less easily already leaked information that someone found on the internet and posted it on the WT bug tracker.

Re: Why do War Thunder players leak classified information? [video]

#95

Post by preisschild »

snapcaster wrote: post #89
preisschild wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They also hava big bias towards Russian vehicles. They take wildly inaccurate propaganda numbers and implement them, but nerf the numbers on US vehicles where they exist plenty of actual data from the manufacturer itself in many cases. See for example 2S38 vs HSTVL & RDF/LT

I don't know the game, but wouldn't this make sense as a game balancing aspect? In real life some vehicles might be "strictly better" than others but doesn't make for very interesting gameplay

Matches are so made that you will only fight vehicles with a similar strength. Each vehicle has its own rating and a a slight (dis)advantage is tolerated to more easily find a match.

Problem is, nerfed vehicles like the HSTV-L have a higher rating than OP stuff like the 2S38, even though the HSTV-L is worse than it actually should be IRL.

The higher BR a vehicle has the more capable vehicles it has to fight.

Re: Why do War Thunder players leak classified information? [video]

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Post by jamesy0ung »

bredren wrote: post #55
jamesy0ung wrote: post #20

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I quite like to grab the transcript from youtube and ask chatgpt to give me the key points.

What is your workflow for this? I recently described a manual workflow that includes extracting comments and combining them with the transcript using a system prompt. I’m curious how others are approaching this. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42901077

YouTube generates a transcript that’s on the sidebar (above the recommended videos). It is kind of broken text though, so I copy and paste the block into Gemini (it’s free and has a huge context) and ask it to read it and generate the points for me

Re: Why do War Thunder players leak classified information? [video]

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Post by z3t4 »

carlosjobim wrote: post #79
z3t4 wrote: post #76

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It's not just uploading a video... you are right about there's a loot of high quality videos, those take more work then writing a blog post though, several hours of video is cut down to minutes of content. But the platform takes most of the ad money, almost all professional Youtubers have sponsors. I still argue that you would be better off publishing content on your own website, but one problem is people now a day d…

For the YouTuber who is merely talking into the camera, it is mostly just a matter of uploading a video. How would he be better off making a website and publishing the content there? It would be difficult to find an audience and almost impossible to get paid. I agree that it would make more sense for this content to be a textual article, but until better monetization opportunities and easier publishing becomes availa…

If you go back in time around year 2000-2005 there where a lot of people making good money writing text articles on the web. You could earn much more then you do now on Youtube. You could earn $10 if just one person clicked an ad on your website. Now it still costs $10 to get a click from an advertiser, but little of that money goes to content creators, the platforms take most of it. You could almost make a living with only a few thousand followers. I think Google gave up on Google ads because of the click farmers faking clicks on ads. Google ads was a middleman between advertisers and content creator/publishers. Now you can still make money on your blog but you need to be big enough so that you can talk with companies directly asking if they want to sponsor your site/channel.

Re: Why do War Thunder players leak classified information? [video]

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Post by yllautcaj »

xsmasher wrote: post #90
reverendsteveii wrote: post #85

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I've been a dedicated geek and a firm believer that there's always an xkcd for every situation for quite a while but I don't think I'm at a place where I'm referring to comics by their number. Being said, I could imagine a comic about just this particular topic with cueball doing something that could be considered a reference then quietly giggling to himself while muttering "219" or w/e is the number of the appropria…

A man goes to prison and the first night while he's laying in bed contemplating his situation, he hears someone yell out, "44!" Followed by laughter from the other prisoners. He thought that was pretty odd, then he heard someone else yell out, "72!" Followed by even more laughter. "What's going on?" he asked his cellmate. "Well, we've all heard every joke so many times, we've given them each a number to make it easie…

I've always liked the version where the new guy says "103", and the prisoners go wild with laughter, slapping their knees and howling.

He asks "which one did I tell?"

His cellmate wipes a tear from his eye and says "none of us have heard that one before!"

Re: Why do War Thunder players leak classified information? [video]

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Post by reverendsteveii »

fragmede wrote: post #88
reverendsteveii wrote: post #85

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I've been a dedicated geek and a firm believer that there's always an xkcd for every situation for quite a while but I don't think I'm at a place where I'm referring to comics by their number. Being said, I could imagine a comic about just this particular topic with cueball doing something that could be considered a reference then quietly giggling to himself while muttering "219" or w/e is the number of the appropria…

> I don't think I'm at a place where I'm referring to comics by their number. not with that attitude! 927 comes up often enough, and it's memorable because 3^2*100 + 3^3 , or Yoda's age - 900 + the 27 club of musicians who killed themselves so start there...

>it's memorable because 3^2*100 + 3^3 , or Yoda's age - 900 + the 27 club of musicians who killed themselves so start there...

992

Re: Why do War Thunder players leak classified information? [video]

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Post by fragmede »

reverendsteveii wrote: post #99
fragmede wrote: post #88

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> I don't think I'm at a place where I'm referring to comics by their number. not with that attitude! 927 comes up often enough, and it's memorable because 3^2*100 + 3^3 , or Yoda's age - 900 + the 27 club of musicians who killed themselves so start there...

>it's memorable because 3^2*100 + 3^3 , or Yoda's age - 900 + the 27 club of musicians who killed themselves so start there... 992

exactly!
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