This is just another aspect of the failure to foster a positive society. The rich who are balls deep in AI don't give a fuck about what happens at a societal level. They want numbers to go up and the result is dumb people in charge of things they shouldn't be in charge of.
No, game companies are simply unwilling to pay for the talent and man hours that it takes to police their games for cheaters. Even when they are scanning your memory and filesystem they don't catch people running the latest rented cheat software.
Cheating is a social problem, not a technical issue. Just give the community dedicated server possibility (remember how back in the days games used to ship with dedicated server binaries?) and the community can police for free! Wow!
Yes, I would also prefer that servers were community run as in the hl2 days.
I would still argue that there are technical issues leading to some amount of cheating. In extraction shooters like Hunt Showdown, Escape From Tarkov and a few others, people can run pcie devices that rip player location and other information from the machines memory in order to inject it into an overlay with a 2nd computer, and they do go to these lengths to cheat, giving them a huge advantage. It wouldn't be possible to rip that info from memory for these "ESP cheats" if the server didn't needlessly transmit position information for players that aren't actually visible. IMO this is a technical failure. There are other steps that could be taken as well, which just aren't because they're hard.
Yes, because players want to spend time moderating other players instead of playing the game. Sounds fun!
Community servers literally invented anti-cheat. All current big name anti-cheats started as anti-cheats for community servers. And admins would choose to use them. Game developers would see that and integrate it. Quake 3 Arena even added Punkbuster in a patch.
Modern community servers like FiveM for GTAV, or Face-It and ESEA for CS2 have more anti-cheats, not less.
It could be a side effect of China pursuing more markets, having more industry, and not financializing/profit-optimizing everything. Their economy isn't universally better but in a broad sense they seem more focused on tangible material results, less on rent-seeking.
It's actually very easy for skilled people to deliver good products when they aren't just tasked with sucking off shareholders. Public trade of companies makes them worse every time.
That rebranding of DEI is hilariously childish in an entertaining way, while deepening my loathing for the people behind it. I respect the choice to refuse those terms. Even organizations that aren't heavily focused on/invested in outreach and inclusion should refuse to accept those terms.
US education covers that much pretty well. Just not so much the geography of specific countries that belong to south america, europe, asia, and africa.
This doesn't directly answer your questions, but I can share one example where our sensitivity to phase information becomes apparent: when you play the sound of a pair of hands clapping. It's a great test case for hearing when a set of speakers has phase alignment problems, which is underappreciated as a metric for speaker systems. (It's rare even for experts to put a lot of effort into uniform phase response when designing speakers. It's one of the hardest things to manage. Frequency response, harmonic distortion levels, dispersion and even aesthetics usually take priority.)
Likewise, if you mess with the phase alignment of different frequencies in a hand clap sample and play it through an otherwise phase-coherent source like ear buds or headphones, the misalignment is really obvious.
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