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  • I don’t know what other games you play, but they all seem to have similar principles underlying their netcode. Think of a game like rocket league (casual mode), or fromsoftware game like elden ring, or a counterstrike game, or an MMO. You’re running it locally, on your computer, but in order for people to seamlessly drop in to an ongoing match in rocket league, or to invade/help in elden ring means there is a server side. You can join the exile’s group and jump to the area they’re in for path of exile, no extra work required on the client side. I don’t think you can even play ‘offline’ like you can in rocket league or elden ring. The counterstrike and MMO is probably the closest example, because when you login to path of exile, you are definitely logging into a server. It’s why you can see all the people in town.






  • Roald Dahl’s stories were nightmare fuel if they were written by anyone else, because his style just made it seem so goofy. Just think of fantastic mr. fox: the entire countryside is destroyed as a titan of the industrial age brutally hunts down pitiful animals trying to scrape by. The witches? Literal torture porn as children are changed into mice and put through all manners of hell.

    Even his semi-autobiography was about how children tortured each other in boarding schools. I remember his tales of having to warm up a toilet for the older boy in charge of him, and how they were all whipped/caned by the older students.



  • It’s an online game where your position is important. Dodging to the wrong area can get you killed. It also uses both your computer and the server to manage things, to avoid cheating. In the original, there used to be massive problems with desyncs, where your computer thinks you’re in one area, the server thinks you’re somewhere else, and so the instructions sent from one to the other caused headaches with aiming and especially avoiding attacks. Most of the competitive players probably still have a macro bound to type /desync. If you have a bad connection, the desync is almost unavoidable. This will get you killed fast.