Winter Bash 2020

Mithical

6:23 PM

WB always reminds me how annoying the repcap is... 400 rep blown today alone to the repcap :D

Strike that, almost 500.

merrybot

there's a chatroom for Winter Bash? dang

Mithical

usually is

it's where satan hangs out to buy the souls everyone's selling

merrybot

i'm not sure i'd like to be in a room with satan ... /s?he|they|it/ might have covid

(mhm, gender-neutral satan)

Adrian Mole

I think the feminine form of "Satan" is "Santana"?

Vickel

6:39 PM

@AdrianMole Carlos?

Adrian Mole

That's the fella.

merrybot

@AdrianMole hm, didn't know that

Adrian Mole

Every day's a school-day, huh?

merrybot

speaking of school days, i just had a 1-question semester exam

("just" = about half an hour ago)

Adrian Mole

Multiple choice?

zixuan

8:38 PM

Hello!

Mithical

\o

Glorfindel

o/

Rob

9:09 PM

Props:

Mithical

9:32 PM

@Yaakov does the Rep Hunter hat have to be 10 answers to different questions?

Catija

@Rob I am pretty sure that's not possible.

Rob

Not any more, deleted.

Yaakov Ellis

Vexillologist maintenance redux: So. Um. You know when I said before how I hat to reset Vexillologist because of the logic being wrong. So I messed up the boolean logic in the fix, and we're going to a (hopefully final) reset within the hour. Sorry about that y'all.

Mithical

:eyes:

Yaakov Ellis

@Mithical they do not have to be to different questions. But only counts if they are bit deleted or closed, and all of them have a positive score

@Rob not anymore

@Mithical I don't want to even calculate that one for myself

Mithical

9:40 PM

just checked again, it's 720 rep today lost to the cap for me

Rob

Some fine ridin' - poor Unicorn

8 hours ago, by Rob

@YaakovEllis That's vexing.

Yaakov Ellis

10:06 PM

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Q: Do you see a way to cheat at Hat Dash?

As some users have reported, some suspicious scores are beginning to crop up in hat dash. I have some heuristics and rules in place (more to come as well) to catch some of these automatically (or with a few manual steps from me). That said, I am interested in keeping things fun and honest for all...

Mithical

@YaakovEllis okay. so I'm assuming that's only going to get awarded after midnight, and so if it's not there when I wake up I'll consider it a bug :P

Spevacus

Saw that Q, instantly started trying to cheat. I imagine I might catch a ban for the way that I've currently got it running on my side (it's pretty blatant)

Gonna let the score get up to something super ridiculous and end it.

Yeah I put an instance of 50k and an instance of 100k onto the leaderboard. You can kindly kick those off if you'd like.

Rob

10:25 PM

@YaakovEllis More suspect scores, 1/4 million in a minute ...

Mithical

@Rob she's working on an answer I believe

Spevacus

Yeah I was going to answer but I saw that she's probably done the same thing I did so I'm refraining until I see what she writes. It's possible she did it in a different way.

Catija

10:55 PM

Just waiting for someone to wire up a arduino and a light sensor to trigger jumps like in a video I saw about the original game.

Rob

@YaakovEllis I can't see on my phone if the answer is correct, but here's one of many methods - a heuristic would be how fast can one travel, what's the maximum points for a successful jump; divided by the duration of play (which likely won't be a few hours) - numbers outside of that calculation are suspect.

Ollie

Ooooh, found a wonderful way to cheat @YaakovEllis. Will post in a literal 50 secs.

There you go @YaakovEllis: meta.stackexchange.com/a/358111/798831

Spevacus

Oh hey you did what I did too.

Ollie

@Spevacus Hoo, just found another.

Spevacus

I bet you can just make it not create obstacles as well.

Ollie

11:03 PM

Making it do that is too much like work. No, I found a better way.

@Spevacus Don't copy me!

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A: Do you see a way to cheat at Hat Dash?

Even faster way. Copy all the steps from my other cheat method, but this time, enter another command: Runner.instance_.setSpeed(10000). It cranks the Unicorn's speed way, way up. It will leap off the line real quick though, so you need to press the up arrow to get it rolling.

Yaakov Ellis

new code posted that may auto-block some of these. I'm going to bed. y'all behave yourselves. I'll get around to bounties next week where applicable.

Ollie

Uni is hacked

Ellis going to bed

I am excited.

I'll behave ;)

Rob

11:19 PM

^^ Thanks. Awoken by fire sensor in server room.

Catija

Hopefully there wasn't actually a fire...

Hi guys

Evening.

Hello

Hello!

11:27 PM

Ooh @Spevacus, just figured out another way.

You know my first post, it lets you keep going forever. That's fixed.

U11-Forward

Hey guys I should've got the Rep Hunter hat like 12 hours ago, how come I didn't get it?

I see Glorfindel has it

Does the Rep Hunter trigger at UTC 00:00?

Spevacus

It might. Worth waiting til then before you bring out the pitchforks ;D

ppwater

Maybe?

U11-Forward

Hello @YaakovEllis, How did you get the Movin' on Up hat?

Vickel

11:44 PM

@U11-Forward rep hunter for snails is always very slow :)

U11-Forward

@Vickel Haha lol

Mithical

@U11-Forward I don't have it either. I'm assuming a certain amount of time has to pass after all the answers to allow the votes settle

Vickel

@U11-Forward Rep Hunter: Post 10 answers on the same day. All answers must have a positive score, which means, in my understanding from UTC 00:00 to UTC 23:59. As UTC is the standard used for time rules on SE

U11-Forward

@Vickel Yup, I know, I answered 10 questions that got upvoted, in the same UTC day

Anyway came up with a meta question

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Q: Winter Bash Rep Hunter hat not delivering

I was checking my answers and I counted that I have ten answers with positive score, but I wonder why I am not getting the Rep Hunter hat? Isn't the trigger to have 10 answers all upvoted in one day? Here is the image I took 12 hours ago: As you can see there are exactly 10 answers that were upv...