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Cake day: July 30th, 2023

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  • So strictly speaking I don’t know yet if we are struggling for damage output because that fight has more body checks (5+) than DPS checks. The times I’ve gotten to the end, the previous body check has been so scuffed people have 1 or 2 levels of exhaustion due to deaths which really puts a sinker on the damage output. Finding groups at (insert whatever random time I pick up party finder and decide my evening shall be raiding) was largely my challenge. This is also my first tier running raids on-content.

    Week 1 I only put one day forwards, so it counts and doesn’t at the same time for me. But I did get past baits

    What I ran into mostly in 3-6 was picking the wrong time (Monday night on Crystal) to try to find groups. There was a notable vacuum of parties advertising at my prog point - it felt like (mild exaggeration) everyone was fresh, enrage, or a reclear.

    So to make sure I still got practice in, I’d take an instance that was a fresh prog and help them - but we’d time out / disband right as we got to the mechanic I was on. As a result, I got really good at phase 1 with minimal “forward” progress.

    Pulling stuff earlier in the week, even on Crystal there was a bit more variety if I looked closer to the beginning of reset, and last two weeks (week 7-8 if I counted right), I got clones > mouser 2 > and these past three days I saw raining cats and enrage.

    So, other notes

    • for one, the more mechs I can get through, the more PFs are available. This problem will be its own nature solve itself.
    • I know I could visit Aether or Primal, but as small as Crystal 's raiding scene is if we all collectively decide it’s dead than it WILL die and I’m determined to do my part to prevent that from happening
    • my FC has also been probing their way into on-content EX and savage, so with that I’ve also gotten more confident at leading/teaching, and starting next tier I plan to be part of the solution and actively put up a PF if I don’t see one rather than passively participating. I’m not going to sit and bemoan on social media a lower traffic datacenter without trying to fix this myself. There is a limit to how well that will work, because if I’m too late at night, too many PFs may “vampire” each other for members if there’s not quite enough people online. That’s something I have part of a feel of now, and I’ll get better with practice.
    • “just join a static”: something I have considered, but I need to make sure I don’t over promise my energy. Sometimes I’ll just run one instance, other times I’ll be at it for 6h enough that one of the other FC officers logs out, domes something else, logs back in later and sees where I am to say “wait you’re STILL raiding??” Statics, by nature, have a fixed schedule and it would be quite rude to them to just not have energy available at their time. Scheduling 8 people is and always will be the hardest part of any raid.

    EDIT: I counted horribly wrong I’ll fix it later.








  • This is true of a even some public universities in the US. I can’t remember if it was a rule where I was, but definitely most freshman did just live in dorms.

    Lot of folks brought their own desktops to set up, and we were allowed Ethernet switches to hook up multiple devices - had to be wired. Wireless had two options, WPA# 802.1X or unencrypted captive portal guest. If your device didn’t support that, it had to be wired by policy.

    And they weren’t wrong, I did a radio scan and they had the full sized enterprise access points about as good as they could (with a few low signal exceptions, and the air waves were still overloaded with too many people. The building uplink was perfectly fine, it was just overcrowded wireless.



  • I’m an American android user and I’m confused too. At least in my area, contactless is pretty ubiquitous now. (I accept adoption is slower, but it’s getting there)

    Sure Apple Pay seemed to come to a lot of terminals first, but NFC Google wallet or whatever it is the phone does automatically I’ve only seen fail at certain terminals. In that rare case, usually someone behind me with Apple Pay often also fails, so I’d be more likely to attribute it to a system glitch rather than lack of support.




  • As a former League player i felt kind of like that back then - a lot of people were just not nice people. I think some of that comes down to how certain PVP players are motivated insofar as personal agency - they want to be the high carry, they want to be why things won the way they did.

    I saw that too in Overwatch 2 when that first came out with the rebalance to 5v5: suddenly everything was about personal agency and Blizzard decided that the game balance should favor that over strong teamwork (IMHO).

    For me, that’s why I got out of those two games and only play when I have nearly a full team of preexisting friends. I was always more focused on trying to get the team to the finish as a whole (maybe that comes from ending up as a support main).

    Ended up finding my vibe in FF14 PvE, where everyone tends to work together better. That’s not to say there aren’t bad apples and problem children in a game that has minimal anticheat, but on average I feel like I see it a lot less - and fewer people who swear you out for just learning something new, where the general populace will often take time out of their own schedule just to help people along or explain something tough.

    Sportsmanship isn’t dead, it may just not be where you’re looking.


  • Yup. My background is computer science transitioned to IT Infra.

    My sister sent me a screenshot of a Spotify one-liner error, white text on black background, captioned “they wrote a lazy error”. I immediately recognized that the actual problem was the load balancer in the front end trying and failing to connect to the backend/middleware in the first error, then in the second it recognized a failed health check and reporting that no back ends were available. Root cause is probably networking issue or actual server crash.

    I also have a bonus that in high school I had watched a ton of videos on VFX/SFX and knew a rough way around After Effects and compositing (before I jumped into CS I had considered this as a career path), so now when I watch TV and movies I can also see some of the “layers” they use to compile the on screen effect.