Chris Goes GhostofGoes

Q. Bungie says that there will be no more host migrations, ever, in Destiny 2. Is that right?

A. Yes, it's true that that's what they've said. I'm not sure that I believe it, however. I certainly believe that what Bungie said will be true for PvP matches and for raids. For both of these cases, the console-hosted Physics Hosts of D1 did not always prove reliable-enough for a seamless experience.

On the other hand, the console-hosted Physics Hosts, in my experience, worked flawlessly in almost all other situations. Why fix something that's not broken? While at the same time spinning up expensive servers for no good reason?

Consider too the situation where you are playing the story campaign by yourself in an instanced Bubble. You don't need a remote Physics Host for this. Clearly, the entire game (except for the Mission Host) can run on your console. Why spin up a Physics Host in the cloud for solo play?

So let's assume for the moment, that when playing missions solo, there is no Physics Host,

How Networking Works in Destiny 1 and How It Will Differ in Destiny 2 (According to Bungie, Redux)

Additional articles in this series:

Destiny Networking Primer: Why are things like kill "trading" and being killed by someone who is already dead so common in Destiny PvP?
Destiny Networking Primer: Kill "trading" also happens in PvE!
Destiny Networking Primer: Why does Destiny 1 do P2P mesh networking?

Big ol' list of third-party Python 3 argparse alternatives

Bold+italics means the lib is probably worth checking out above the rest. joffrey is my own.

argparse wrappers

Download HumbleBundle books

This is a quick Python script I wrote to download HumbleBundle books in batch. I bought the amazing Machine Learning by O'Reilly bundle. There were 15 books to download, with 3 different file formats per book. So I scratched a quick script to download all of them in batch.

(Final Result: books downloaded)

	from sys import*
	o=ord
	g=lambda s:print(''.join(map(lambda c:((c,chr(o(c)+65248))[o(c)<127],"　")[c==" "],s)))
	if len(argv)>1:g(' '.join(argv[1:]))
	else:
	while 1:g(input())

	#!/usr/bin/env python3
	# -- coding: utf-8 --


	"""Unittest with DocTests."""


	import doctest
	import unittest

	import logging

	import discord
	from discord import app_commands
	from discord.ext import commands


	LOGGER: logging.Logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

	Information from https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/naming-a-file :

	Use any character in the current code page for a name, including Unicode
	characters and characters in the extended character set (128–255), except
	for the following:

	- The following reserved characters:

	< (less than)
	> (greater than)

	import discord
	from discord.ext import commands

	import sys, traceback

	"""This is a multi file example showcasing many features of the command extension and the use of cogs.
	These are examples only and are not intended to be used as a fully functioning bot. Rather they should give you a basic
	understanding and platform for creating your own bot.

	These examples make use of Python 3.6.2 and the rewrite version on the lib.

	"""
	Please understand Music bots are complex, and that even this basic example can be daunting to a beginner.

	For this reason it's highly advised you familiarize yourself with discord.py, python and asyncio, BEFORE
	you attempt to write a music bot.

	This example makes use of: Python 3.6

	For a more basic voice example please read:
	https://github.com/Rapptz/discord.py/blob/rewrite/examples/basic_voice.py