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wants one, but the running server never reads it.
## What is real and what is not
- **Real.** The game: WebGL2 written by hand, a fixed 64 Hz simulation, Source-style
  movement (ground friction, air acceleration, an 18-unit step, strafe jumping,
  and the **crouch-jump**: a jump peaks at 57 units, 7 short of the 64-unit
  crates both maps are full of, but duck in the air and the legs tuck up under
  a head that stays put, so the feet clear 75 and you land on top — jump
  without ducking and the crate is still in your way. The jump itself is no
  higher; standing back up in the air is refused while the legs have nowhere
  to go, the same way it is under a low ceiling. **The bots do not jump**, so
  a crate top is a place a bot will not follow you to: one sent after
  something up there, the bomb included, walks to the foot of the crate and
  waits),
  CS damage with range falloff, armour and hitgroups, a knife that pays for a flank
  — 55 in the chest, 180 in the back, where "the back" is CS's own test of standing
  within 61.65° of straight behind someone and armour stops the same share either
  way, so one stab from behind ends a full-health player with a vest on —
  deterministic spray patterns, a draw on every weapon — 0.4 s on the knife up
  to 1.25 s on the AWP, before which the trigger and the scope do nothing,
  which is what makes the three carry speeds a choice —
  a 1:55 round with a 40-second bomb, plant and defuse timers, kill rewards and
  loss bonuses. Cover is not all equal: a bullet goes **through a crate** if
  the round is strong enough for the thickness it meets. Crates are the only
  penetrable material — walls, floors, the site plates and metal stop
- **Real.**
  **The guns and penetration.** The game: WebGL2 written by hand, a fixed 64 Hz
  simulation, Source-style movement (ground friction, air acceleration, an
  18-unit step, strafe jumping, and the **crouch-jump**: a jump peaks at 57
  units, 7 short of the 64-unit crates both maps are full of, but duck in the
  air and the legs tuck up under a head that stays put, so the feet clear 75
  and you land on top — jump without ducking and the crate is still in your
  way. The jump itself is no higher; standing back up in the air is refused
  while the legs have nowhere to go, the same way it is under a low ceiling.
  **The bots do not jump**, so a crate top is a place a bot will not follow you
  to: one sent after something up there, the bomb included, walks to the foot
  of the crate and waits), CS damage with range falloff, armour and hitgroups,
  a knife that pays for a flank — 55 in the chest, 180 in the back, where "the
  back" is CS's own test of standing within 61.65° of straight behind someone
  and armour stops the same share either way, so one stab from behind ends a
  full-health player with a vest on — deterministic spray patterns, a draw on
  every weapon — 0.4 s on the knife up to 1.25 s on the AWP, before which the
  trigger and the scope do nothing, which is what makes the three carry speeds
  a choice — a 1:55 round with a 40-second bomb, plant and defuse timers, kill
  rewards and loss bonuses. Cover is not all equal: a bullet goes **through a
  crate** if the round is strong enough for the thickness it meets. Crates are
  the only penetrable material — walls, floors, the site plates and metal stop
  everything — and every crate on either map is 128 units across, so the AWP
  (230 units), AK-47 (175), M4A4 (165) and Desert Eagle (150) punch one
  face-on while the Glock (48), USP (55) and MP9 (60) manage nothing but a
@@ -76,52 +77,59 @@
wants one, but the running server never reads it.
  surely as a wall, and the far side of a punched crate is marked where the
  bullet went in as well as where it stopped. The bots do not know any of
  this: their sight is still blocked by a crate, so shooting one off a box
  they think is cover is yours to use. The economy has CS's loop: weapons drop. A player killed leaves
  the gun they were holding on the floor with whatever was left in the magazine
  — a knife never drops, and someone killed holding one leaves their primary —
  and it can be picked up. With no primary you take it by walking over it; with
  one already, <kbd>E</kbd> swaps, and the gun you were holding lands at your
  feet. There is no team rule: a CT who finds an AK-47 keeps it. The floor is
  swept at the start of the next round, and whatever you are carrying then comes
  back with a full magazine. There is one piece of utility: an **HE grenade**,
  $300 in the buy menu, one in a pocket at a time. <kbd>4</kbd> puts it in your
  hand and fire throws it — out of your eye, a little above where you are
  looking, carrying whatever speed you were already running at. It falls under
  the same 800 u/s² the rest of the game does, bounces off walls and crates
  keeping 45% of the speed it hit them with, and goes off **1.6 seconds** after
  it left your hand wherever it is by then. The blast is **98 damage at its
  centre, falling linearly to nothing at 350 units**, halved by armour (which
  takes half of what it stops), and it does nothing at all through a wall — the
  same sight line a bot sees you with, its centre to your eye. It cannot hurt
  your own side, and it can very much kill you. A grenade thrown is gone; one
  kept is still yours next round, the same rule the guns follow. The bots do not
  buy or throw one: their fight was learned in an arena that has no grenades in
  it, and they keep buying guns. Hit feedback runs both ways: a hit marker and a beep when you hit
  someone — four ticks around the crosshair, red for a headshot, and for the hit
  that **finished** them a heavier mark, held twice as long, closed into an X
  through the middle, so the fifth bullet does not look like the four before it;
  your own grenade confirms the same way, once for each enemy the blast caught;
  a round a **teammate** stops sparks on their body, marks a plus in your side's
  colour with no beep, and says "Blocked by <name>" once a burst — still no
  friendly fire —
  and when you are hit a view punch away from the shot, a wedge around
  the crosshair pointing at whoever fired, a vignette that reddens as your health
  falls and a pain sound. A hit also **tags**, for everyone the same way:
  each point of damage takes 1% of the victim's ground speed, never more
  than half of it however many land, and it runs back at the full 100% a
  second — 30 in the chest holds a runner to 175 u/s and is gone in 0.3 s —
  while a player in the air is not tagged at all, and a new round starts
  everyone untagged. A **fall** costs health the way CS's does: nothing
  landing under 580 u/s, then 0.0888 a point for every u/s past it, rounded to
  whole points, on the one tick the fall ends — armour is no help, the ledger
  and the round report put it down to *a fall*, a death to one reads as a fall
  in the kill feed and pays nobody, and you feel it as the same flinch,
  vignette and pain sound a hit gives, with no wedge because it came from
  straight below. The honest part: nothing on `de_forge` or `de_cinder` is
  tall enough to reach it. The highest floor anyone can stand on is a crate
  top at 128 units, which lands at about 452 u/s; a drop needs roughly 210
  units before it costs anything (320 costs 12). The rule is here so the
  simulation is whole, and so taller geometry gets it for free. The gun says what it is doing, too. Every shot lights
  they think is cover is yours to use.
  **The drop economy.** The economy has CS's loop: weapons drop. A player
  killed leaves the gun they were holding on the floor with whatever was left
  in the magazine — a knife never drops, and someone killed holding one leaves
  their primary — and it can be picked up. With no primary you take it by
  walking over it; with one already, <kbd>E</kbd> swaps, and the gun you were
  holding lands at your feet. There is no team rule: a CT who finds an AK-47
  keeps it. The floor is swept at the start of the next round, and whatever
  you are carrying then comes back with a full magazine.
  **Utility.** There is one piece of utility: an **HE grenade**, $300 in the
  buy menu, one in a pocket at a time. <kbd>4</kbd> puts it in your hand and
  fire throws it — out of your eye, a little above where you are looking,
  carrying whatever speed you were already running at. It falls under the
  same 800 u/s² the rest of the game does, bounces off walls and crates
  keeping 45% of the speed it hit them with, and goes off **1.6 seconds**
  after it left your hand wherever it is by then. The blast is **98 damage at
  its centre, falling linearly to nothing at 350 units**, halved by armour
  (which takes half of what it stops), and it does nothing at all through a
  wall — the same sight line a bot sees you with, its centre to your eye. It
  cannot hurt your own side, and it can very much kill you. A grenade thrown
  is gone; one kept is still yours next round, the same rule the guns follow.
  The bots do not buy or throw one: their fight was learned in an arena that
  has no grenades in it, and they keep buying guns.
  **Feedback.** Hit feedback runs both ways: a hit marker and a beep when you
  hit someone — four ticks around the crosshair, red for a headshot, and for
  the hit that **finished** them a heavier mark, held twice as long, closed
  into an X through the middle, so the fifth bullet does not look like the
  four before it; your own grenade confirms the same way, once for each enemy
  the blast caught; a round a **teammate** stops sparks on their body, marks a
  plus in your side's colour with no beep, and says "Blocked by <name>" once a
  burst — still no friendly fire — and when you are hit a view punch away from
  the shot, a wedge around the crosshair pointing at whoever fired, a vignette
  that reddens as your health falls and a pain sound. A hit also **tags**, for
  everyone the same way: each point of damage takes 1% of the victim's ground
  speed, never more than half of it however many land, and it runs back at
  the full 100% a second — 30 in the chest holds a runner to 175 u/s and is
  gone in 0.3 s — while a player in the air is not tagged at all, and a new
  round starts everyone untagged. A **fall** costs health the way CS's does:
  nothing landing under 580 u/s, then 0.0888 a point for every u/s past it,
  rounded to whole points, on the one tick the fall ends — armour is no help,
  the ledger and the round report put it down to *a fall*, a death to one
  reads as a fall in the kill feed and pays nobody, and you feel it as the
  same flinch, vignette and pain sound a hit gives, with no wedge because it
  came from straight below. The honest part: nothing on `de_forge` or
  `de_cinder` is tall enough to reach it. The highest floor anyone can stand
  on is a crate top at 128 units, which lands at about 452 u/s; a drop needs
  roughly 210 units before it costs anything (320 costs 12). The rule is here
  so the simulation is whole, and so taller geometry gets it for free.
  **Sound and bodies.** The gun says what it is doing, too. Every shot lights
  a **muzzle flash** — a star of additive light at the end of the barrel, sized
  by the weapon and gone in three frames — on the gun in your hands and on
  every other gun on the map, so a firefight across the site reads as people
@@ -139,39 +147,41 @@
wants one, but the running server never reads it.
  nothing. Both of those are animation and nothing else — the switch itself is
  still instantaneous, as it always was, so a gun still on its way up fires the
  moment the simulation says it may, and no bot, no `observe.ts` input and no
  rule of the round can tell the difference. Every world sound is panned around the listener's
  view and fades with distance — a shot or a footstep to your left plays from
  the left channel, to your right the right — and a running player who is not
  walking, ducking or airborne leaves footsteps this way too, so someone
  closing in from behind is something you hear before you see. **Legs swing on
  that same stride**: the ground a player has covered is the phase the other
  nine bodies are posed from, so an enemy crossing a doorway reads as someone
  running and a player at a dead stop is still. One stride of ground is one
  *step* — a cycle of legs is two of them, right foot then left — so the legs
  alternate at exactly the cadence you hear and the swing is widest at the
  footfall. It is one draw each, hinged in the vertex shader, and the
  simulation neither sets it nor reads it — a walker's legs move on a stride
  nobody hears. The gun rides the upper body, so a running player's muzzle
  flash comes off the end of the barrel their lean has moved rather than where
  the gun was modelled. The pose is a picture and nothing else: hitboxes are
  axis-aligned on a player's position and know nothing about it, so a sprinting
  enemy's swung foot is drawn further out than the box a bullet finds it in.
  The head is the exception, because the head is the shot worth taking — it is
  left out of the lean, so what you aim at and what you hit are the same box.
  A planted bomb
  beeps: about once a second right after the plant, quickening to a few a
  second — and rising in pitch — as the fuse runs out, so a CT can walk to the
  site by ear with no map open. The plant, the defuse, the detonation and a
  trigger pulled on an empty magazine each have their own sound too. Going off
  is the same blast rule the HE uses — falling linearly from full at the
  centre to nothing at **900 units**, halved by armour — with its own, much
  larger, centre damage: close enough in it kills through full kevlar, far
  enough out you end the round alive and hurt. A wall does nothing to stop
  it — the bomb ignores cover in CS, and this does too — and nobody is
  credited for the kill, the way blowing yourself up with your own grenade
  never is.
  A footstep only carries so far, but the bomb's beep and the blast that ends it
  carry across the whole map. The leaderboard is a real SQLite table under
  rule of the round can tell the difference. Every world sound is panned
  around the listener's view and fades with distance — a shot or a footstep to
  your left plays from the left channel, to your right the right — and a
  running player who is not walking, ducking or airborne leaves footsteps this
  way too, so someone closing in from behind is something you hear before you
  see. **Legs swing on that same stride**: the ground a player has covered is
  the phase the other nine bodies are posed from, so an enemy crossing a
  doorway reads as someone running and a player at a dead stop is still. One
  stride of ground is one *step* — a cycle of legs is two of them, right foot
  then left — so the legs alternate at exactly the cadence you hear and the
  swing is widest at the footfall. It is one draw each, hinged in the vertex
  shader, and the simulation neither sets it nor reads it — a walker's legs
  move on a stride nobody hears. The gun rides the upper body, so a running
  player's muzzle flash comes off the end of the barrel their lean has moved
  rather than where the gun was modelled. The pose is a picture and nothing
  else: hitboxes are axis-aligned on a player's position and know nothing
  about it, so a sprinting enemy's swung foot is drawn further out than the
  box a bullet finds it in. The head is the exception, because the head is the
  shot worth taking — it is left out of the lean, so what you aim at and what
  you hit are the same box.
  **The bomb.** A planted bomb beeps: about once a second right after the
  plant, quickening to a few a second — and rising in pitch — as the fuse runs
  out, so a CT can walk to the site by ear with no map open. The plant, the
  defuse, the detonation and a trigger pulled on an empty magazine each have
  their own sound too. Going off is the same blast rule the HE uses — falling
  linearly from full at the centre to nothing at **900 units**, halved by
  armour — with its own, much larger, centre damage: close enough in it kills
  through full kevlar, far enough out you end the round alive and hurt. A wall
  does nothing to stop it — the bomb ignores cover in CS, and this does too —
  and nobody is credited for the kill, the way blowing yourself up with your
  own grenade never is. A footstep only carries so far, but the bomb's beep
  and the blast that ends it carry across the whole map.
  **The leaderboard.** The leaderboard is a real SQLite table under
  `FORGE_APP_DATA`, also served as plain JSON from `GET /api/leaderboard` for
  the terminal or any other client — with a `guest` flag per row instead of the
  identity it comes from, because a guest's identity is the session cookie that
		@@ -43,28 +43,29 @@ wants one, but the running server never reads it.
43	43
44	44	## What is real and what is not
45	45
46		- Real. The game: WebGL2 written by hand, a fixed 64 Hz simulation, Source-style
47		movement (ground friction, air acceleration, an 18-unit step, strafe jumping,
48		and the crouch-jump: a jump peaks at 57 units, 7 short of the 64-unit
49		crates both maps are full of, but duck in the air and the legs tuck up under
50		a head that stays put, so the feet clear 75 and you land on top — jump
51		without ducking and the crate is still in your way. The jump itself is no
52		higher; standing back up in the air is refused while the legs have nowhere
53		to go, the same way it is under a low ceiling. The bots do not jump, so
54		a crate top is a place a bot will not follow you to: one sent after
55		something up there, the bomb included, walks to the foot of the crate and
56		waits),
57		CS damage with range falloff, armour and hitgroups, a knife that pays for a flank
58		— 55 in the chest, 180 in the back, where "the back" is CS's own test of standing
59		within 61.65° of straight behind someone and armour stops the same share either
60		way, so one stab from behind ends a full-health player with a vest on —
61		deterministic spray patterns, a draw on every weapon — 0.4 s on the knife up
62		to 1.25 s on the AWP, before which the trigger and the scope do nothing,
63		which is what makes the three carry speeds a choice —
64		a 1:55 round with a 40-second bomb, plant and defuse timers, kill rewards and
65		loss bonuses. Cover is not all equal: a bullet goes through a crate if
66		the round is strong enough for the thickness it meets. Crates are the only
67		penetrable material — walls, floors, the site plates and metal stop
	46	- Real.
	47
	48	The guns and penetration. The game: WebGL2 written by hand, a fixed 64 Hz
	49	simulation, Source-style movement (ground friction, air acceleration, an
	50	18-unit step, strafe jumping, and the crouch-jump: a jump peaks at 57
	51	units, 7 short of the 64-unit crates both maps are full of, but duck in the
	52	air and the legs tuck up under a head that stays put, so the feet clear 75
	53	and you land on top — jump without ducking and the crate is still in your
	54	way. The jump itself is no higher; standing back up in the air is refused
	55	while the legs have nowhere to go, the same way it is under a low ceiling.
	56	The bots do not jump, so a crate top is a place a bot will not follow you
	57	to: one sent after something up there, the bomb included, walks to the foot
	58	of the crate and waits), CS damage with range falloff, armour and hitgroups,
	59	a knife that pays for a flank — 55 in the chest, 180 in the back, where "the
	60	back" is CS's own test of standing within 61.65° of straight behind someone
	61	and armour stops the same share either way, so one stab from behind ends a
	62	full-health player with a vest on — deterministic spray patterns, a draw on
	63	every weapon — 0.4 s on the knife up to 1.25 s on the AWP, before which the
	64	trigger and the scope do nothing, which is what makes the three carry speeds
	65	a choice — a 1:55 round with a 40-second bomb, plant and defuse timers, kill
	66	rewards and loss bonuses. Cover is not all equal: a bullet goes **through a
	67	crate** if the round is strong enough for the thickness it meets. Crates are
	68	the only penetrable material — walls, floors, the site plates and metal stop
68	69	everything — and every crate on either map is 128 units across, so the AWP
69	70	(230 units), AK-47 (175), M4A4 (165) and Desert Eagle (150) punch one
70	71	face-on while the Glock (48), USP (55) and MP9 (60) manage nothing but a
		@@ -76,52 +77,59 @@ wants one, but the running server never reads it.
76	77	surely as a wall, and the far side of a punched crate is marked where the
77	78	bullet went in as well as where it stopped. The bots do not know any of
78	79	this: their sight is still blocked by a crate, so shooting one off a box
79		they think is cover is yours to use. The economy has CS's loop: weapons drop. A player killed leaves
80		the gun they were holding on the floor with whatever was left in the magazine
81		— a knife never drops, and someone killed holding one leaves their primary —
82		and it can be picked up. With no primary you take it by walking over it; with
83		one already, <kbd>E</kbd> swaps, and the gun you were holding lands at your
84		feet. There is no team rule: a CT who finds an AK-47 keeps it. The floor is
85		swept at the start of the next round, and whatever you are carrying then comes
86		back with a full magazine. There is one piece of utility: an HE grenade,
87		$300 in the buy menu, one in a pocket at a time. <kbd>4</kbd> puts it in your
88		hand and fire throws it — out of your eye, a little above where you are
89		looking, carrying whatever speed you were already running at. It falls under
90		the same 800 u/s² the rest of the game does, bounces off walls and crates
91		keeping 45% of the speed it hit them with, and goes off 1.6 seconds after
92		it left your hand wherever it is by then. The blast is **98 damage at its
93		centre, falling linearly to nothing at 350 units**, halved by armour (which
94		takes half of what it stops), and it does nothing at all through a wall — the
95		same sight line a bot sees you with, its centre to your eye. It cannot hurt
96		your own side, and it can very much kill you. A grenade thrown is gone; one
97		kept is still yours next round, the same rule the guns follow. The bots do not
98		buy or throw one: their fight was learned in an arena that has no grenades in
99		it, and they keep buying guns. Hit feedback runs both ways: a hit marker and a beep when you hit
100		someone — four ticks around the crosshair, red for a headshot, and for the hit
101		that finished them a heavier mark, held twice as long, closed into an X
102		through the middle, so the fifth bullet does not look like the four before it;
103		your own grenade confirms the same way, once for each enemy the blast caught;
104		a round a teammate stops sparks on their body, marks a plus in your side's
105		colour with no beep, and says "Blocked by <name>" once a burst — still no
106		friendly fire —
107		and when you are hit a view punch away from the shot, a wedge around
108		the crosshair pointing at whoever fired, a vignette that reddens as your health
109		falls and a pain sound. A hit also tags, for everyone the same way:
110		each point of damage takes 1% of the victim's ground speed, never more
111		than half of it however many land, and it runs back at the full 100% a
112		second — 30 in the chest holds a runner to 175 u/s and is gone in 0.3 s —
113		while a player in the air is not tagged at all, and a new round starts
114		everyone untagged. A fall costs health the way CS's does: nothing
115		landing under 580 u/s, then 0.0888 a point for every u/s past it, rounded to
116		whole points, on the one tick the fall ends — armour is no help, the ledger
117		and the round report put it down to a fall, a death to one reads as a fall
118		in the kill feed and pays nobody, and you feel it as the same flinch,
119		vignette and pain sound a hit gives, with no wedge because it came from
120		straight below. The honest part: nothing on `de_forge` or `de_cinder` is
121		tall enough to reach it. The highest floor anyone can stand on is a crate
122		top at 128 units, which lands at about 452 u/s; a drop needs roughly 210
123		units before it costs anything (320 costs 12). The rule is here so the
124		simulation is whole, and so taller geometry gets it for free. The gun says what it is doing, too. Every shot lights
	80	they think is cover is yours to use.
	81
	82	The drop economy. The economy has CS's loop: weapons drop. A player
	83	killed leaves the gun they were holding on the floor with whatever was left
	84	in the magazine — a knife never drops, and someone killed holding one leaves
	85	their primary — and it can be picked up. With no primary you take it by
	86	walking over it; with one already, <kbd>E</kbd> swaps, and the gun you were
	87	holding lands at your feet. There is no team rule: a CT who finds an AK-47
	88	keeps it. The floor is swept at the start of the next round, and whatever
	89	you are carrying then comes back with a full magazine.
	90
	91	Utility. There is one piece of utility: an HE grenade, $300 in the
	92	buy menu, one in a pocket at a time. <kbd>4</kbd> puts it in your hand and
	93	fire throws it — out of your eye, a little above where you are looking,
	94	carrying whatever speed you were already running at. It falls under the
	95	same 800 u/s² the rest of the game does, bounces off walls and crates
	96	keeping 45% of the speed it hit them with, and goes off 1.6 seconds
	97	after it left your hand wherever it is by then. The blast is **98 damage at
	98	its centre, falling linearly to nothing at 350 units**, halved by armour
	99	(which takes half of what it stops), and it does nothing at all through a
	100	wall — the same sight line a bot sees you with, its centre to your eye. It
	101	cannot hurt your own side, and it can very much kill you. A grenade thrown
	102	is gone; one kept is still yours next round, the same rule the guns follow.
	103	The bots do not buy or throw one: their fight was learned in an arena that
	104	has no grenades in it, and they keep buying guns.
	105
	106	Feedback. Hit feedback runs both ways: a hit marker and a beep when you
	107	hit someone — four ticks around the crosshair, red for a headshot, and for
	108	the hit that finished them a heavier mark, held twice as long, closed
	109	into an X through the middle, so the fifth bullet does not look like the
	110	four before it; your own grenade confirms the same way, once for each enemy
	111	the blast caught; a round a teammate stops sparks on their body, marks a
	112	plus in your side's colour with no beep, and says "Blocked by <name>" once a
	113	burst — still no friendly fire — and when you are hit a view punch away from
	114	the shot, a wedge around the crosshair pointing at whoever fired, a vignette
	115	that reddens as your health falls and a pain sound. A hit also tags, for
	116	everyone the same way: each point of damage takes 1% of the victim's ground
	117	speed, never more than half of it however many land, and it runs back at
	118	the full 100% a second — 30 in the chest holds a runner to 175 u/s and is
	119	gone in 0.3 s — while a player in the air is not tagged at all, and a new
	120	round starts everyone untagged. A fall costs health the way CS's does:
	121	nothing landing under 580 u/s, then 0.0888 a point for every u/s past it,
	122	rounded to whole points, on the one tick the fall ends — armour is no help,
	123	the ledger and the round report put it down to a fall, a death to one
	124	reads as a fall in the kill feed and pays nobody, and you feel it as the
	125	same flinch, vignette and pain sound a hit gives, with no wedge because it
	126	came from straight below. The honest part: nothing on `de_forge` or
	127	`de_cinder` is tall enough to reach it. The highest floor anyone can stand
	128	on is a crate top at 128 units, which lands at about 452 u/s; a drop needs
	129	roughly 210 units before it costs anything (320 costs 12). The rule is here
	130	so the simulation is whole, and so taller geometry gets it for free.
	131
	132	Sound and bodies. The gun says what it is doing, too. Every shot lights
125	133	a muzzle flash — a star of additive light at the end of the barrel, sized
126	134	by the weapon and gone in three frames — on the gun in your hands and on
127	135	every other gun on the map, so a firefight across the site reads as people
		@@ -139,39 +147,41 @@ wants one, but the running server never reads it.
139	147	nothing. Both of those are animation and nothing else — the switch itself is
140	148	still instantaneous, as it always was, so a gun still on its way up fires the
141	149	moment the simulation says it may, and no bot, no `observe.ts` input and no
142		rule of the round can tell the difference. Every world sound is panned around the listener's
143		view and fades with distance — a shot or a footstep to your left plays from
144		the left channel, to your right the right — and a running player who is not
145		walking, ducking or airborne leaves footsteps this way too, so someone
146		closing in from behind is something you hear before you see. **Legs swing on
147		that same stride**: the ground a player has covered is the phase the other
148		nine bodies are posed from, so an enemy crossing a doorway reads as someone
149		running and a player at a dead stop is still. One stride of ground is one
150		step — a cycle of legs is two of them, right foot then left — so the legs
151		alternate at exactly the cadence you hear and the swing is widest at the
152		footfall. It is one draw each, hinged in the vertex shader, and the
153		simulation neither sets it nor reads it — a walker's legs move on a stride
154		nobody hears. The gun rides the upper body, so a running player's muzzle
155		flash comes off the end of the barrel their lean has moved rather than where
156		the gun was modelled. The pose is a picture and nothing else: hitboxes are
157		axis-aligned on a player's position and know nothing about it, so a sprinting
158		enemy's swung foot is drawn further out than the box a bullet finds it in.
159		The head is the exception, because the head is the shot worth taking — it is
160		left out of the lean, so what you aim at and what you hit are the same box.
161		A planted bomb
162		beeps: about once a second right after the plant, quickening to a few a
163		second — and rising in pitch — as the fuse runs out, so a CT can walk to the
164		site by ear with no map open. The plant, the defuse, the detonation and a
165		trigger pulled on an empty magazine each have their own sound too. Going off
166		is the same blast rule the HE uses — falling linearly from full at the
167		centre to nothing at 900 units, halved by armour — with its own, much
168		larger, centre damage: close enough in it kills through full kevlar, far
169		enough out you end the round alive and hurt. A wall does nothing to stop
170		it — the bomb ignores cover in CS, and this does too — and nobody is
171		credited for the kill, the way blowing yourself up with your own grenade
172		never is.
173		A footstep only carries so far, but the bomb's beep and the blast that ends it
174		carry across the whole map. The leaderboard is a real SQLite table under
	150	rule of the round can tell the difference. Every world sound is panned
	151	around the listener's view and fades with distance — a shot or a footstep to
	152	your left plays from the left channel, to your right the right — and a
	153	running player who is not walking, ducking or airborne leaves footsteps this
	154	way too, so someone closing in from behind is something you hear before you
	155	see. Legs swing on that same stride: the ground a player has covered is
	156	the phase the other nine bodies are posed from, so an enemy crossing a
	157	doorway reads as someone running and a player at a dead stop is still. One
	158	stride of ground is one step — a cycle of legs is two of them, right foot
	159	then left — so the legs alternate at exactly the cadence you hear and the
	160	swing is widest at the footfall. It is one draw each, hinged in the vertex
	161	shader, and the simulation neither sets it nor reads it — a walker's legs
	162	move on a stride nobody hears. The gun rides the upper body, so a running
	163	player's muzzle flash comes off the end of the barrel their lean has moved
	164	rather than where the gun was modelled. The pose is a picture and nothing
	165	else: hitboxes are axis-aligned on a player's position and know nothing
	166	about it, so a sprinting enemy's swung foot is drawn further out than the
	167	box a bullet finds it in. The head is the exception, because the head is the
	168	shot worth taking — it is left out of the lean, so what you aim at and what
	169	you hit are the same box.
	170
	171	The bomb. A planted bomb beeps: about once a second right after the
	172	plant, quickening to a few a second — and rising in pitch — as the fuse runs
	173	out, so a CT can walk to the site by ear with no map open. The plant, the
	174	defuse, the detonation and a trigger pulled on an empty magazine each have
	175	their own sound too. Going off is the same blast rule the HE uses — falling
	176	linearly from full at the centre to nothing at 900 units, halved by
	177	armour — with its own, much larger, centre damage: close enough in it kills
	178	through full kevlar, far enough out you end the round alive and hurt. A wall
	179	does nothing to stop it — the bomb ignores cover in CS, and this does too —
	180	and nobody is credited for the kill, the way blowing yourself up with your
	181	own grenade never is. A footstep only carries so far, but the bomb's beep
	182	and the blast that ends it carry across the whole map.
	183
	184	The leaderboard. The leaderboard is a real SQLite table under
175	185	`FORGE_APP_DATA`, also served as plain JSON from `GET /api/leaderboard` for
176	186	the terminal or any other client — with a `guest` flag per row instead of the
177	187	identity it comes from, because a guest's identity is the session cookie that