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  1. Comment on Thoughts on Diablo 4? in ~games

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    Also an ARPG player since D2 here, also with thousands of hours in PoE. I don't like the endgame. I've gotten 3 characters to 50+ (2 of them in WT4), and it's just kinda... lame? Itemization is...

    Also an ARPG player since D2 here, also with thousands of hours in PoE.

    I don't like the endgame. I've gotten 3 characters to 50+ (2 of them in WT4), and it's just kinda... lame? Itemization is boring, upgrades are boring (everything is just +% more damage), and you build is just done by the mid 50s. It also feels like the game forces so much tedium between killing monsters.

    I dunno, I'll probably come back to check out season 1, but I've largely lost interest. It did however remind me that I've got a couple hundred divines lying around in Crucible league, so I've been playing on PoB for the past couple days trying to make something dumb work.

  2. Comment on Sheever's story in ~games

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    I think it's really fucking cool that Valve did this. Sheever is one of the oldest members of the Dota 2 community, and if anyone deserves a segment like this, it's her.

    I think it's really fucking cool that Valve did this. Sheever is one of the oldest members of the Dota 2 community, and if anyone deserves a segment like this, it's her.

    2 votes

  4. Comment on Tilders, would you describe yourselves as an extrovert or an introvert? in ~talk

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    I’d say I’m an extroverted introvert. I love talking and meeting new people, and I’d say I’m pretty social and charismatic. It just tires me out like a motherfucker. As an example, I was recently...

    I’d say I’m an extroverted introvert. I love talking and meeting new people, and I’d say I’m pretty social and charismatic. It just tires me out like a motherfucker.

    As an example, I was recently at a 4 day convention. Day 1 and 2, I went to every party and met actually dozens of people. Day 3, I hung out with a crowd I’d already met and went back to the same party as day 2. Day 4, was fucking exhausted of meeting new people, so I just chilled with some closer people for drinks.

    17 votes

  5. Comment on Should tech companies everywhere take a militant stand re: piracy? in ~tech

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    This is pretty spot on to how I feel. I used to pirate games regularly, but Steam changed that. Convenience was worth the price for me. I’m waiting for the same thing for movies now. Give me the...

    This is pretty spot on to how I feel.

    I used to pirate games regularly, but Steam changed that. Convenience was worth the price for me.

    I’m waiting for the same thing for movies now. Give me the option to download movies in 4K, non-DRM formats that I can add to my Plex server, and I’ll gladly pay for them. Until then, I keep flying the black flag.

    17 votes

  6. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~comp

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    What's the incentive to use this if I'm already proficient in git? No sarcasm or anything in the question. I learned git by using the command line, and I never felt the need for a 'real' UI. What...

    What's the incentive to use this if I'm already proficient in git?

    No sarcasm or anything in the question. I learned git by using the command line, and I never felt the need for a 'real' UI. What can this offer that just using git commands doesn't?

    3 votes

  7. Comment on So, what have we all been playing? in ~games

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    Just got into Realm Royale. Really enjoying the game right now, it's a BR game with reduced RNG that incentivizes fighting early, because crafting your best weapon requires killing players. But,...

    Just got into Realm Royale.

    Really enjoying the game right now, it's a BR game with reduced RNG that incentivizes fighting early, because crafting your best weapon requires killing players.

    But, in classic Hi-Rez fashion, they're fucking it up next patch by increasing RNG and removing said player trophies, thus removing incentive to fight early.

    3 votes

  8. Comment on Bucovina - Carari in Suflet (2015) in ~music

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    Not sure how many metal fans there are here. This is one of my favourite bands. Great vocals, catchy melodies, and their lyrics are fantastic (though, unfortunately, in Romanian :P)

    Not sure how many metal fans there are here. This is one of my favourite bands. Great vocals, catchy melodies, and their lyrics are fantastic (though, unfortunately, in Romanian :P)

  10. Comment on Reading Series: The Phoenix Project in ~comp

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    I'm curious, are you in the industry or not? Everyone I know who's read it works somewhere in software

    I'm curious, are you in the industry or not? Everyone I know who's read it works somewhere in software

    1 vote

  11. Comment on Reading Series: The Phoenix Project in ~comp

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    Oh man, I read this book many years back when I started my first internship in a devops position. It sounds silly to say about a fictional novel, but it really helped open my eyes to the...

    Oh man, I read this book many years back when I started my first internship in a devops position. It sounds silly to say about a fictional novel, but it really helped open my eyes to the importance of infrastructure.

    2 votes

  12. Comment on What do you guys think about Sacha Baron Cohen's "Who Is America?" in ~tv

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    He's the director a gun lobbying group. The context is that he was advocating that children aged 4 and older should be taught to use guns to protect their peers from school shootings (dubbed...

    He's the director a gun lobbying group. The context is that he was advocating that children aged 4 and older should be taught to use guns to protect their peers from school shootings (dubbed "Kinderguardians), and he was tricked into reading some made-up scientific mumbojumbo full of terms like that.

    6 votes

  13. Comment on What do you guys think about Sacha Baron Cohen's "Who Is America?" in ~tv

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    I find it hilarious. I really don't think there's any groudbreaking social commentary or anything going on, it's just some well done satire, like Borat and Bruno. When he asked Cheney to sign the...

    I find it hilarious. I really don't think there's any groudbreaking social commentary or anything going on, it's just some well done satire, like Borat and Bruno. When he asked Cheney to sign the waterboarding kit, I was in tears.

    Most surprising is how civil some people can be. I fully expected him to be able to trick people into doing stupid shit. I didn't expect so many people to remain so calm and civil while he acted so outrageous (eg: art gallery lady, republican+rapper, republican family at dinner)

    15 votes

  14. Comment on How's your attention span? in ~talk

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    Depends on the topic/work. If I get really into a programming project that I enjoy and am interested in, it might get to the point where I skip out on meals without realizing to power through a...

    Depends on the topic/work. If I get really into a programming project that I enjoy and am interested in, it might get to the point where I skip out on meals without realizing to power through a multihour programming session.

    If I need to fix the same fucking team's jenkins for the fourth time this month, my eyes are glazing over and I'm spending just as much time browsing Reddit as I am debugging.

    2 votes

  15. Comment on Let's talk about recent good experience in ~talk

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    Thanks bro :). You sometimes don't realize what you've got till you lose it, but I'm hoping I come out a better person from all this. Plus, she was against tattoos, and I've been thinking about...

    Thanks bro :). You sometimes don't realize what you've got till you lose it, but I'm hoping I come out a better person from all this.

    Plus, she was against tattoos, and I've been thinking about getting a piece like this since before I met her. So that's one positive :D

    1 vote

  16. Comment on Let's talk about recent good experience in ~talk

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    Summer started pretty shittily. I broke up with someone I loved, and have been dealing with that. It's been a difficult two months being alone for the first time in almost 3 years. But hey, things...

    Summer started pretty shittily. I broke up with someone I loved, and have been dealing with that. It's been a difficult two months being alone for the first time in almost 3 years.

    But hey, things are looking up. Got a raise coming up after my next paycheck, and I just got my first tattoo by one of the best artists in my city, and it looks fucking sick

    1 vote

  17. Comment on Just got my first tattoo in ~creative

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    It’s Narsil, the broken sword that was first used to defeat Sauron, and the White Tree of Gondor

    It’s Narsil, the broken sword that was first used to defeat Sauron, and the White Tree of Gondor

    4 votes

  18. Comment on Just got my first tattoo in ~creative

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    Done by Alex K'eh at Saving Grace Tattoos. Pretty happy with this.

    Done by Alex K'eh at Saving Grace Tattoos. Pretty happy with this.

    2 votes

  20. Comment on Linux.Pictures | gnu/linux related pictures (wallpaper, posters, playing card, etc.) in ~creative

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    Oh hey, I love this dude's art. I've got a shirt with this design on it. It passes as some abstract reference to most people, so I don't look like a total nerd wearing it.

    Oh hey, I love this dude's art.

    I've got a shirt with this design on it. It passes as some abstract reference to most people, so I don't look like a total nerd wearing it.

    4 votes