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The arbitrary precision may cause your bignums to balloon out of control in memory/cpu usage after repeated multiplication, unless you can prove that it will not. For example:
double x = 1;
while (true){
x *= Math.exp((Math.random()*2 - 1) / 1000);
}
Would work perfectly fine with floats and x will remain about 1, but with BigDecimal it will grind to a halt.
It’s like… I keep imagining what if I were a Manchurian Candidate CEO and tried to destroy the entire value of my company as surely as possible before being found out, what decisions would I make? And I must say, what spez and musk are doing keeps surprising me at every turn, because even in my imagination I have not come up with schemes as effective as theirs.
Currently the key provisioning system is really only meant for developers, key requests have to be manually approved by reddit admins. You couldn’t have millions of users jump in to request their own keys. This uncertainty is why the 3pa devs considered and discarded the option of letting users provide their own keys, choosing to shut down their apps entirely. Making the system official and automated via Reddit Premium would have solved that.
All the 3pa’s shut down business the moment the actual API prices were announced. This wasn’t a protest move, the prices were simply 20 times higher than what they were promised and impossible to work into their business model. Reddit couldn’t have overcharged and continued as normal - it was a deliberate move to kill off 3pa while pretending they are not. Reddit COULD have charged this API price to users directly via Reddit Premium, but failed to do so.
I remember playing deathmatch in games like Unreal Tournament, with their mad non-stop pace of action. Even settings like instagib with 0-second respawn were incredible loads of fun! I see Battle Royale as a kind of rejection of that kind of gameplay, an evolution in response to it. Battle Royale raises the stakes.
This is what critics of BR don’t seem to understand - all that running around for 15 minutes, collecting weapons, not seeing anyone, that’s not wasting time - that’s your buy in. You are investing your time, and then putting it at risk for that extra thrill. It’s no different than people who play blackjack for money - sure, they could just play against the computer if they really enjoyed that style gameplay, but putting money on the line is what makes it more fun for them. That’s how many games work nowadays, except that instead of money you are risking your time. The same mechanism that makes OP anxious, makes those people exhilarated. And being the last man standing is enjoyable too to a great extent precisely due to the knowledge that with your sheer skill you have just spoiled the time of a hundred other people.
Even the waiting two minutes in the lobby is itself in some sense a punishment for dying, an incentive to play better, and an entry fee for the next match.
Now I agree that not everyone enjoys gambling with their time (I don’t for one). Some people really do enjoy just the gunplay and the twitch reaction gameplay. And if you do, it’s annoying that every game that keeps coming out is pushing BR elements and wasting your time. Just don’t play them! Vote with your wallet and find the action deathmatch game your deserve. At worst, all the old games are still accessible!
Am I the only one for whom "open"subtitles.org hasn’t worked in years? I literally cannot find the download button, like in those okboomer memes. Never used the API. Switched to subscene.com and haven’t had problems since.