While Fires of Invention should’ve been banned, banning Agent of Treachery is missing the forest for the trees. The big issue in standard is Teferi followed by all the ways to cheat Mana with no drawback (Growth Spiral, Wilderness Reclamation, Uro, Nissa, etc.).

WotC should have taken a look at their own internal testing from more than a decade ago that showed Companion was a terrible mechanic.

Yeah, the lack of Cowboy Bebop makes this list quite suspect. The show has held up and I can usually sell people with the line “Did you like Firefly? Firefly basically stole its entire concept from Cowboy Bebop.”

Let’s be real: Harassment over voice chat is not going to stop barring massive shifts in the gaming community, or the ability to moderate voice chat in near real time using machine learning is possible. We should all be working on the community aspect in particular.

Realistically the solution, beyond the community changing, is for machine learning based chat moderation for both text and voice chat. It's not feasible right now but it's getting closer everyday.

What evidence do I have that Tesla has solved the problem? The fact that their real time visual recognition systems works pretty damn well in their cars and gives level two self driving capability (yes, they have other sensors but the heavy lift is on the visual side).

If you’re going to start out the gate with ad-hominem attacks, make sure you know who you’re talking to. I have plenty of experience in this area, having worked at Amazon on a team whose core focus was machine learning. My current day job has me working with AWS EMR, Glue, and Sagemaker utilizing Spark, Pandas, etc.…

You are wrong, modern computer vision with like Tesla cars, Amazon GO, etc. are near instantaneous. Also, see the YouTube video I linked below from last year.

This was last year:

The people Riot is targeting with this move are the ones that pay $100-$200/month for cheats. They absolutely have the money for a secondary computer.

And it’s already obsolete. There’s proof of concept aimbots that use computer vision, which can be run on a completely separate computer and then feed the input back in via the mouse and keyboard to help you aim. All you need is a way of sending the video to that separate computer.

It could be done wirelessly. Realistically it’s less of a problem for web tournaments due to the amount of scrutiny that players receive.

Beyond all the security concerns, soon enough this kind of anti cheat will be useless for games in the FPS genre. We’re not quite there yet, but with advances in visual computing you can have another PC analyze the screen and then cheat by having that PC give assistance by altering keyboard and mouse inputs. There is…

Meanwhile the "sequel" Persona 5 Scramble is already out in Japan :(

Had this been a regular purchase it wouldn’t have made money.

To be fair, we complain about the notes but then the alternative is to have a side book with all the details, which is worse.

I’m curious as to what happened there because it got delayed the day it was supposed to launch.

My understanding is that you don’t get Kasumi until near the very end? :(

You’d think it’d be easy for them to convert the store to something like Subways in sketchy parts of town. Set up a barrier, have a “menu” of games, person pays through a hole, game gets shoved through a drop box. Yeah still some points of contact but reduces it immensely.

Any mention of raytracing? My understanding is that Sony and MS were waiting for AMDs implementation of it.