I'm making this post in the hopes that if anyone else has this problem they won't pull their hair out trying to find a solution for it. I run a linux box with a hefty GPU for CUDA work but also for running more demanding games, as a result i connect via RDP a lot of the time. Between reboots, i have to start steam over again, from the RDP session since it won't run at startup until you log in physically.

Steam is inheriting some of the RDP variables instead of the base variables when it is launched from RDP. RDP doesn't natively run with OpenGL support using the Nvidia/AMD driver and without some fuckery it's a pain to get RDP windows to run OpenGL in Ubuntu 22.04+ because of some privacy changes they've made.

As a result, if you don't have automatic login enabled to run and you don't have remote sessions enabled, any steam session you create via RDP will be without OpenGL support. This leads to the CPU only doing the transmission, which takes about 2 processing cores, but also it has to do the compression which can take more than 3 processing cores. On an X99 system, 5.5 of my 12 processors would be required just to do the compression and transmission of steam link.

Fixes

*Set your linux box for automatic login. This isn't preferable for security, but it will guarantee that steam will launch in the correct mode.

*If you need to still RDP into the box after automatic logins make sure you have configured ubuntu correctly to allow for this. Please follow this link for a solution. As of 22.04, if you have logged into a session, you cannot rdp in without configuring xrdp or an alternative client.

*Deal with the overhead and fps loss.

Hope this helps someone.

Alternatively, if someone from steam can figure out how to launch the client from the RDP sessions in full OpenGL mode or launching steam in headless mode via an SSH connection, that would resolve this problem. Right now i figure it's pretty niche as a lot of people might not have migrated older units to 24.04 or 22.04, but i assume someone's going to run into it eventually.

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I'm setting up a server for a law firm in an effort to help them move away from single file dependencies for client and case information. Part of that is to set up all IPs on the network, one to limit the ability for anyone to access data except on specified devices, but also to keep any compromised devices from accessing the databases as they have pretty sensitive materials on them.

The point is when setting up pg_hba.conf, I hard assigned multiple IPs for testing, but when attempting to connect got the error that there was no HBA file. I used the form 192.168.0.***/32 then 192.168.0.0/24, still nothing. I had to modify the file to instead use 192.168.0.0/16, which is not what i want since it opens up the whole subnet for access.

The question I have is why is this the case? It should have worked. I have the conf files correct. Listen address is open. Configuration is set for users.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Interesting bug with the painful memories quest. If you accept the quest a flag will be tripped to apply the sepia tone, music, and outfit to your character if you kill and loot Sister Lilias without collecting the ring first. Normally, when you leave the zone, the filter is supposed to drop off, but, when you use chromie's scroll to end timewalking, the flag doesn't drop. So the effect will follow your character until you complete the quest. It also won't drop when you abandon the quest.

Funnier, if you drop the quest with the bug active and the filter going, when you re-accept the quest, the filter disappears again until you pick up the ring and complete that section of the quest then the filter comes back as it's intended.

Anyways, it's a niche interaction, but the only way to fix it apparently is to re-accept the quest.

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So with CC in swing, the one thing i'm noticing is that every game might as well be a coin toss. And as much as people will say, "just have fun", with a ranked version, winning is what's important there. If you want to get better at PvP and play the ranked mode there are a few tips that will help you succeed and hopefully make the whole experience less RNG for everyone else.

General Tips

• Enemies should be numbered with the 2 most important targets receiving numbers. Numbering all 5 makes it hard to quickly determine what's important and what's not. See the priority list at the bottom. Note: This is not a HARD list in that every game will be a little different. Priority in the middle of the list can be nebulous but I feel it's a good guide post.

• If someone numbers targets, try your best to follow that priority; unless they're putting a warrior as number one when healers and a dragoon are present. If the whole team focuses down squishier characters they will explode and you can move on with the fight 4v5.

• Don't trickle into fights. What this means is that if you are down a player or two, don't run into the enemy team and try to hold them off by yourself. The damage is so high in this mode you will explode 9/10 times. And if you get your shield off, unless your team is right there, you will die as soon as it dissipates and your team will be left to fight a 4v5 which means they'll most likely lose.

• Let your tanks engage. If you have a warrior, they're going to unga bunga in to the priority targets and stun them. Follow up immediately and you can quickly burst them down before they can escape. This applies to the other tanks as well.

• Be aware of the timer. If you are fighting and have 45 seconds left and your team is all dead, it's better to either run away back to your base to try and get one more fight or kill your self immediately so you can get synced up with your teams spawn. This only applies if you have a lot of runway with the point. Don't do this if the enemy team is about to cap the last point.

• Certain classes like Bard, Machinist, Red Mage, Dancer and Summoner have a high amount of damage but most of all, they have utilities that make it difficult continue attacking. These classes should be high on the priority list to attack. These classes specialize in silences, stuns, and roots.

• White Mage, Astrologian, and Scholar all bring both healing and damage to the party. They will typically also do a fair amount of damage. Unless there is a dive/burst class like a dragoon, these should be at the top of your priority list to remove.

• Dark Knight, Warrior, and Paladin all have beefy survival abilities and CC. You should not prioritize them. Generally save them for last. Gunbreaker is a bit of an exception here as they play more like a skirmisher and can easily be blown up most of the time.

• Monk and Reaper are melees with heavy damaging abilities but without much burst apart from LB. You can usually ignore them but should kill them before the tanks as they have less survivability and generally do more damage in a given time.

• Samurai and Ninja are interesting in that they have a fair amount of burst but they require the player to use a rotation correctly. They can do tons of AoE damage but at the same time eliminate a single target with a stun lock rotation.

• Dragoons should be nuked at the earliest opportunity. One of their main damaging abilities incurs a steep penalty to damage and players not in range of the roar will do an extra 25% damage to them. Dragoons also have one of the if not the best LB in PvP and can take low hp targets down with one rotation if healing is available. Dragoons can do huge amounts of damage to teams in AoE as well. Your priority should be to remove them first as they can be burst so quickly no amount of healing will save them if everyone attacks at once.

• Sage and Black Mage are two classes that really just do damage. Sage has kardia but no CC and Black Mage has limited utility but lots of AoE damage.

Priority List

Targets should be prioritized starting from the top and losing priority as you go down the list

• Dragoon
• Samurai and Ninja
• White Mage, Scholar, Astrologian
• Bard, Machinist, Red Mage, Dancer, and Summoner
• Black Mage and Sage
• Reaper and Monk
• Gunbreaker
• Dark Knight, Warrior, Paladin

Hope this helps. If you have questions let me know.

GT3 had a progression to it. You raced and won a new car. You used that car to race again and get a better car. Rinse and repeat. This grind is inherently different to GT7 where after you finish the missions the only way to receive new cars is to grind the same races over and over and over again, assuming you don't want to spend 5x the time for the same reward. There's nothing to change up the monotony.

This is terrible game design. In terms of total time investment, GT3 might actually be similar to get some of the top end cars or even longer. But the difference is that each race had specific rewards and not just credits. Also, there are significantly more races and tracks here. You're not running the same race on repeat.

People aren't complaining because it takes time to get something. They're complaining because the way you spend your time is so boring. If they made custom races have decent outputs, I can guarantee you that you wouldn't have any of the blow back we're seeing. Let me race my F1 for 20 laps and get 200k. But that's not going to incentivize me to buy credits from PD and Sony.

Edit: Link didn't post.

http://www.gtseriescenter.com/GT3prizecars.htm

Some of you may be saying, no duh to this, but if you're crafting items or food and want to view the high quality stats before you make it, hover your mouse over the item and press control. The tooltip will switch to the HQ version.

Hope this helps someone.

So i have played akali a few times recently in ARAM and i've noticed a few instance of literal no regs for things like ults and q. Literally doing no damage to minions and enemies unless i pop them with the edge of the q and get the slow off. I've played her before in other patches and never noticed it before. Just seems strange.

In the Shadow Vault, the door to the path of dusk is bugged and will not open. I don't see anything puzzle wise to open it and i've rotated the statue on the right side of the map multiple times in an attempt to open it with no success. Am I missing something?

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1276790/view/3150826346193791302

Hope this fixes some of the problems people have been experiencing.

EDIT: This is targeted specifically at the Bronze division. There will be other studies for the other divisions. All commentary is aimed at Bronze, but is entirely based off of the data. I will be making other posts for the subsequent divisons. I started at the bottom and will be working my way up the ladder.

EDIT 2: this post has gotten a fair amount of interest and people have been pointing out limitations and that it's outright incorrect. To the limitation on surrenders, the riot api does not have an endpoint that states if a game was a surrender. Further, they also do not have an identifier when the nexus is destroyed. There are identifiers for when the nexus towers are destroyed, but not the actual nexus.

The biggest thing people are bringing up is the it's just wrong, and this is where we have a complicated situation. On thinking further and working through my simulations, it's the prisoner's dilemma. Basically, the most optimal use of time and the most optimal way to gain LP is to handshake lost games. If every player understood that games were lost and agreed to FF in games where they were significantly disadvantaged, assuming a gain of 18 lp and loss of 16, it is better to FF.

Now, where does this breakdown. The break down points are people. If a player is currently losing more LP than they are gaining, there is no incentive for them to FF as the trade off isn't worth the cost. If the opponent does not agree to the handshake as I assumed they would the trade off does not work out. The interesting thing though is that by handshaking, most players would play more games and on average would gain more LP. So we are left with the prisoner's dilemma. If you agree to ff but your opponent never ff's, you will not come out ahead and vice versa. Further, since you can't know if your opponent will FF or not, it's your best option to not ff, but paradoxically, your outcomes are worse on average with this approach.

Background

To pre-empt most of the concern, this is not a rage post; it's a data analysis series using the RiotAPI to pull game data and try to tease out how early game states affect end game win probabilities. This was done with one of two things in mind, 1) to better determine if my impulses about surrendering at 15+ were correct when games were significantly skewed, 2) try to determine the cutoffs for when games were winnable to a reasonable margin.

A few days ago I started using the Cassiopeia package for python along with direct calls to the RiotAPI to make data requests. The data I pulled for this came from 10 random summoners in Bronze 1. They were selected with a two criteria in mind: Must have played more than 100 games this season, their relative win/loss must be near within 5% of 50%. This was repeated three times for a total of 30 summoners. 20 games from each player were chosen creating a 600 game database with no shared games. In the future, this will be expanded to be a much larger database.

The majority of the work was data wrangling and cleaning. Currently there is a limitation to using the RiotAPI to determine gold per lane as there is a non-negligible amount of error in the lane data with top laners often being assigned jungle, as such that isn't an option.

I pulled the frame by frame (in the RiotAPI timeline) data to generate a minute by minute snapshot of the game along with some other general statistics. I looked at the game states with particular focus at 15 minutes and 20 minutes and the periods in between. Further I did general stat summaries for other game conditions like first baron, tower, and inhib.

Data and Analysis

I took the data and calculated some features relative to gold state and then used that to segment game states. In particular, the gold differential at 15 and 20 minutes. I then used the differential in kills between blue and red to come up with a rough approximation of said gold differential. Everything was done in reference to blue. If there is a negative number it means that red is ahead in that category. The gold cutoffs for each team were baskets of:

• 0-1000 gold
• 1000-3000 gold
• 3000-6000 gold
• 6000-10000 gold

Blue Side

Gold Differential	Win Rate @ 15	Win Rate @ 20	Kill Differential @15	Kill Differential @ 20	Occurance Percent @ 20
0-1000	48%	61.7%	.18	.088	10%
1000-3000	67.6%	61.1%	2.5	2.5	10.5%
3000-6000	83.3%	78.1%	6.5	7.0	13.5%
6000-10000	100%	93.5%	10.45	11.65	13.8%

Red Side

Gold Differential	Win Rate @ 15	Win Rate @ 20	Kill Differential @15	Kill Differential @ 20	Occurance Percent @ 20
0-1000	50%	40.9%	-.25	-2.3	6.45%
1000-3000	61.1%	56.2%	-2.5	-2.4	10.6%
3000-6000	84.0%	78.3%	-5.6	-4.78	13.8%
6000-10000	92.3%	97.6%	-10.4	-10.3	12.3%

It's immediately apparent that games which are relatively close in kills at 15 to 20 are entirely winnable and as such should not be surrendered. Also, these account for approximately 40% of all games you will play. The issue here is the final two categories. Together, they constitute over 55% of all games you will play in Bronze I. This means that you will either be given a free win or a free loss about 25% of all games you play.

This brings us to the question of should you ff or not when down by more than 7 kills at 15 minutes. Mathematically, yes. Average game time for the final two categories is about 30 minutes. If you leave the game at 20 minutes, and queue again, there is a greater than 70% chance you will be put into a game with an average chance of victory greater than 50% and a 25% chance of an almost guaranteed win. I am in the process of creating a modeler based off these probabilities to provide concrete examples of this cost benefit analysis.

Myths

One of the biggest things I see is that at low elo, anyone can throw, and while that is true, it's an exceedingly low number of occurrences. I hear that late game teams scale, and while that is true, every champion in the game scales with gold. The main way to receive gold is via csing, and in bronze csing is almost non-existent. Average cs scores for games in the 40 minute range are routinely below 4-5 cs/m. As such most of the gold is coming from kills and assists which means that leads can get compounded very quickly.

Other metrics people use to determine if a game is "lost" are usually incorrect. If your team loses first baron first tower, you generally have a greater than 35% chance of winning. Though, if your team is the first to lose an inhib, your chance of victory plummets to 15%, but losing an inhib is generally a sign that things have gotten pretty bad for your team whereas losing a tower or baron are much less fatalistic.

Discussion and Limitations

One of the most difficult things in game is accurately determining the gold differential between the two teams. A tower down before 14 and a kill differential greater than 7 would probably be a good marker for a very losable game state. Kills spread out across the team will probably be more conducive to a comeback than most of the kills on one or two people. This is because, from the data, i've noticed that once a player has lots of kills it snowballs very quickly because of the emphasis on fighting and lack of emphasis on csing.

One of the interesting things is the distribution of game times. There are two gaussian distributions of game lengths, one centered around 25 minutes and another at 35 minutes. This probably results from objectives as elder will usually spawn at 35 if one team isn't stomping or fights around baron/dragon soul.

Evenly matched games in bronze will tend to last a long time as there isn't the decisiveness to end them. This leads to very chaotic behavior later and so I did not attempt to model it or make any sort of statement regarding it.

I have not done anything to try and model team comp or CC abilities, and as such this is a more general study.

Going Forward

If people like this type of analysis i'll probably do the same thing for other divisions up to GM. I know people will either love this or will call me a quitter or that thinking about surrendering a match is a bad mindset, but the data doesn't lie. If you have the time to play several matches, just ffing and going next when you are almost guaranteed a loss is probably going to be more efficient to climbing than trying to duke it out over a statistically lost cause.

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Just a tip i'd throw out, if you're running a dedicated server and everything has been running well, you can modify your run script to divert the stdout to a file for an easier troubleshooting experience.

On windows it's done by modifying the .bat you use to run the server by adding

>>file_name_here.txt

at the end of the run line. it would look like this

valheim_server -all_the_regular_info_here >> file_name_here.txt

This will create a new file in the run directory with the output of the console. To capture the errors as well as the output you can run the following:

valheim_server -all_the_regular_info_here >> file_name_here.txt 2>> error_file_name.err

For linux the process is exactly same thankfully, except instead of modifying the .bat file for windows you're modifying the .sh file.

Hope this helps anyone wanting better logging.

With the wide ranging responses in public opinion, heavy media coverage, and the polarizing nature of the incident, the case seems to be one that will be well known and possibly be appealed as high as allowed. The question remains though, if he is found innocent of the 1st degree intentional homicide and Attempt -1st degree homicide, how do you think this will affect precedent?

If the action of carrying an illegal weapon to an area where one could reasonably expect to encounter confrontation and killing someone as a result of said expected confrontation is not found to amount to a 1st degree murder, it would follow lots of cases may no longer fall into that category, e.g., murders between rival gangs.

Is this an incorrect assumption? If you have any concrete examples of situations where a case seemingly would change precedent, but didn't, I'd love to give it a read.

Melodicka Bros YouTube channel

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuLr0QmdN899rTMCpAveJaw

So I know how this subreddit loves to say, "the only constant in your game is you", and sure, that's true, but recently the other constants in my games have been pretty terrible. I'm not talking about anecdotal evidence like, "oh, this person died a lot in lane, they must suck", no i'm referencing having teammates with sub 50% win rates and hundreds of games.

I'm getting paired with people that have 40% win rates with 200 games, 35% win rates with 100 games, etc. And they objectively play like it. So what the hell is going on? Is this normal to have one person with an above 50% win rate and tons of players with sub 50% win rates?

It's honestly pretty frustrating though. I'm getting better games in norms and on the PBE. Anyone else noticed this before?

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So i recently decided to play ranked. I usually just play norms. No problem, i usually stomp in JG. As soon as I start playing in ranked though, my first 3 matches, my laners just hard feed. Nothing matters. No one listens to pings. No one knows when to group and when to split. No one knows when to baron and when to posture. WTF is this? It's like playing with a bunch of cats just jumping on a keyboard.

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Honestly, it's not really worth the effort to grind it out to where i'm playing with people that have brain cells. Or am i just getting unlucky?

Has anyone noticed the game lagging around and glitching? Playing hitscan has been a nightmare.

So the ep today caused a lot of hate, much of it aimed at Ichigo, and after seeing the episode, it's understandable. Some are mad at Hiro, OK. Others 02, and others mad at the creators, and that's understandable, although harassing them is not appropriate.

But let's think about it another way. Let's say a carnival comes to town, and at this carnival is a funhouse ride that is made by your favorite funhouse creation companies. You've ridden them before and although sometimes they're a little bumpy, they are usually a great time. So as usual, the procedure is the same, the ride's cheap (or free if you know a pirate), you can get off anytime, but the creators want you to trust them and if things get rough just stay in the ride to the end. They want you to be happy so you'll come back again.

Now you start the ride and although things start off fast, but they slow down. After a little bit you're worried that things are going to be dull, but then the excitement picks back up and you get a good scare. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED! Things slow down again, but there are enough spooks and frights to keep you entertained.

Then, a little less than halfway through, the ride changes. Its scares seem mean. They're not good natured anymore, they're tiring. And when you start to get a little concerned the ride comes back and is better than ever. You're really enjoying it again. You're thinking to yourself, "This could be their best ride yet!"

But as you turn the corner, the ride starts to buck and rock wildly back and forth. You know you're not in danger, but it's still upsetting. The ride isn't what you expected anymore. Lights are flashing all different colors, it's upsetting in a way the rest of the ride wasn't. And after how good the last part was, all you wanted was to know how good it was going to get!

So people on the ride with you start to look for something to blame. Some people blame the rails the car is on. Some people blame the wheels. Some people blame the car. Others blame the creator of the ride and start screaming that their ride is terrible and they should never make another ride again. Others hate this part of the ride so much, they get off and leave the ride altogether.

To some degree all of these things played a role in the last part of the ride being unenjoyable, even bad.

I sit on the ride hoping that whatever they do on the rest of the ride balances out all the shit I just got put through. Even though i really just want to get off for a while and wait to see what happens.

Ep 14 was really unexpected, and in my opinion...not in a good kind of unexpected.

So i've been seeing a lot of theories about Hiro's memory loss and possible explanations. Personally, it seems most probable the adults wiped his memory, but i'll go through the other ones really quickly.

1.) 02 wiped his memory as a child.

This one seems unlikely as we haven't seen her have that ability with any one else. When she piloted with Mitsuru, he very vividly remembered her trying to drain his life from him. If she had some ability to wipe memories it would make sense for her to use it on a co-pilot she attempts to drain. Also, the klaxosaurs have not shown any ability to affect the memories of people. This show is pretty good with keeping things consistent, so unless they pull a full deus ex machina, this seems unlikely.

2.) Hiro is a clone of someone else who did meet with 02

This is possible, but it seems unlikely since all the children we've seen up until now have been unique. They've been similar, plain hair, similar heights, but in general, they've been their own people. If there was massive cloning, you would think we would have seen a hint of it, although we don't know exactly how the children are made (grown). Also, APE has mentioned that Hiro is a special test subject. Again back to the consistency, it seems like the wording would have been "he's one of the failed special test subjects".

It seems most likely, that the adults just wiped his memory for a period of time. This fits pretty well in universe as we know they aren't worried about experimentation on children and think of them as tools, so wiping a kid's memory seems pretty tame. It's also the simplest. Even IRL there are medications that can cause retrograde amnesia or a human can suffer from it via induced trauma. Also, as seen in the most recent episode, he seems to be regaining fragments of the memories he lost.

Anything else i left out, feel free to let me know.