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AgentMatrixAI commented on Counter-Strike's player economy is in a freefall   polygon.com/counter-strik... · Posted by u/perihelions
brachkow · 2 months ago
1) My childhood which coincided with peak of unregulated lootbox-skin markets (around 2013-2015). And I and my CS-playing peers had a happy childhood because of… skins gambling.

Most of us were able to earn money to buy a pizza or some additional snack betting on teams, or trading keys. Some exceptionaly lucky or with natural born trading skills were earning serious money — from quater to multiple salaries of an adult.

Maybe because casino-tourism in Belarus made people here slightly less prone to gambling, or maybe parents were not used to gift their children micro-transactions — e-sports betting, gambling and trading was financed mostly via in-game drops, returns from these bets and trades, and of course, sometimes, pocket money (which, on average were like 3$ per week).

That said, in modern times where micro-transactions are so common that you are ok with giving your kid V-bucks as birthday gift, I want say that anti child gambling narrative is a good thing.

2) At that time, and afaik it is true even today — you could use skins as a virtual currency to pay for a real things. It was proto-cryptocurrency/NFT in terms of being KYC and AML free.

This is really big market. There are aritcles on NYT about real life terrorists buying real guns for skins.

But without US-centric sensationalism, I beleive you can still pay for VPN or ChatGPT in very sanctioned Russia in CS skins. This can be also done with crypto (and mostly done now), but crypto has learning curve and you already playing CS.

AgentMatrixAI · 2 months ago
Reading this makes me sad at how different my generation was compared to the new ones.

I remember when Counterstrike 1.3 came out and everybody at my school were talking about it and playing it. We would line up at computer labs before lunch started, pay a toonie and entire room would crackle with in-game radio comms, AK47 and HE going off with a room full of people side by side excitedly shouting for an hour until lunch was over.

When classes finished we would head back to the lab again and we would play endless round of de_dust 1 & 2, de_rats, fy_iceworld and the occasional as_oilrig and the rush of being the VIP and experiencing my first headshot.

Sometimes the admin running the labs would add fun mods like no gravity and weird stuff....

It was such a memorable and social fun time and it runs in complete contrast to the everything-gambling culture that has taken foothold....

AgentMatrixAI commented on Mesh2Motion – Open-source web application to animate 3D models   mesh2motion.org/... · Posted by u/Splizard
d0100 · 2 months ago
As a dev trying to create 3D games on my spare time, I actually am (I'm also eager to use stableprojector once I upgrade my 10yo pc)

It's really hard having to be a 3D modeler, animator, art director, developer and having good enough taste to know you're never going to have the time to build what you find acceptable

AgentMatrixAI · 2 months ago
First time making something 3D and code wise, codex has been very useful, even creating a in-game 3D editor as well as netcode

The trickiest part is really using 3D and it comes with lot of extra scoping you normally take for granted: animation, uv texture, rigging for humanoids, making sure stuff doesn't clip through etc.

Still learning Blender but its very slow. I haven't tried the MCP for it yet but I want to get proficient at it to be able to produce psx graphic models and textures...

AgentMatrixAI commented on Mesh2Motion – Open-source web application to animate 3D models   mesh2motion.org/... · Posted by u/Splizard
AgentMatrixAI · 2 months ago
amazing timing! been needing something like this since Blender has been tough.

I've been working on a cybercafe simulator with Three.js and codex and animation is hard to get right

https://x.com/AgentifySH/status/1981761490274464068

AgentMatrixAI commented on Zero-day flaws in authentication, identity, authorization in HashiCorp Vault   cyata.ai/blog/cracking-th... · Posted by u/nihsy
AgentMatrixAI · 4 months ago
Anybody else just wrapping SOPS in a rest api call and using that? Feel like that is just as good from my experience. While I think Vault is useful for large companies, I just need something to encrypt and decrypt and not rely on pgycrypto
AgentMatrixAI commented on GPT-5   openai.com/gpt-5/... · Posted by u/rd
AgentMatrixAI · 4 months ago
I'm not really convinced, the benchmark blunder was really strange but the demos were quite underwhelming, and it appears this was reflected by a huge market correction in the betting markets as to who will have the best AI by end of the year.

What excites me now is that Gemini 3.0 or some answer from Google is coming soon and that will be the one I will actually end up using. It seems like the last mover in the LLM race is more advantageous.

AgentMatrixAI commented on Proxmox Donates €10k to the Perl and Raku Foundation   perl.com/article/proxmox-... · Posted by u/oalders
pphysch · 5 months ago
To be fair, Proxmox is essentially a UX wrapper around QEMU/KVM, which is free software and the true kernel of value. If you are going the MCP route I wonder if a direct QEMU or libvirt MCP server would be much more powerful and precise.
AgentMatrixAI · 5 months ago
While you could do that, proxmox offers lot of value with its UI which I need to default to time to time. With just an API key I generate from proxmox I have a wide range of capability that I can hook up an MCP server to.

The funny thing is with Cursor I can just generate a new capability, like the clone and template actions were created after asking Sonnet 4.

AgentMatrixAI commented on Cerebras launches Qwen3-235B, achieving 1.5k tokens per second   cerebras.ai/press-release... · Posted by u/mihau
doctoboggan · 5 months ago
Has anyone with a lot of experience with Claude Code and sonnet-4 tried Claude Code with Qwen3-Coder? The fast times enabled here by Cerebras are enticing, but I wouldn't trade a speedup for a worse quality model.
AgentMatrixAI · 5 months ago
haven't tried Qwen but used these "near instant token" like groq and another one that uses diffusion model to generate code via LLaMA and the results weren't satisfactory.

now if something like Gemini 2.5 pro or Sonnet 4 even can run on Cerebras generating tens of thousands of code in a few seconds, that could really make a difference.

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