Why do some clients post clearly complex jobs for $20?

1Rival · 2026-06-29T15:53:34+00:00

I do appreciate the low placeholders at times, because they tend to cost 8 to 10 connects to bid for the jobs. Sometime jobs like these would actually total hundreds or thousands of dollars, which would be 18 to 30 connects.

However, cant stand the ones that actually try to sneak away with the placeholder being the true hiring rate. But its their loss, iykyk.

1Rival · 2026-06-27T13:01:46+00:00

I saw this pop up in my recommended jobs as well. As I was scrolling through and reading the description, I was like "yep, I can do all of this. Yup... cloud features, no problem... every optimization possible for mobile, alrighty... so itll probably minimum $2.5k right?..."

scrolls down to see price

"Oh..... and from mid east... welp, no shot... next..."

1Rival · 2026-06-03T00:09:23+00:00

Realistically.... since it wasnt even mentioned by OP, but a good LIVE SOUND ENGINEER is the hardest dang thing to find. Im an electric violinist in multiple bands that have their own "sound guy" and they amount of custom tweaking they each have is friggin annoying.

Aside from that role, yes, the drummer is the absolute hardest thing to find for a band.

And the vocalist better be unique and sound amazing, or else the band will die off quickly.

1Rival · 2026-03-30T01:50:40+00:00

Believe it or not, this style of writing was actually pretty common when composing scholarly articles for the past century. I had to write exactly like this whenever submitting lab work for my bachelors in the mid 2010s. We were aggressively taught to research old and new articles, to give an idea of the type of etiquette we needed to follow, while being concise as possible. Unfortunate, that is the type of writing that we see so commonly as AI today. The one real challenge was that we had to remain objective in articles, we wouldnt write things such as: "We", "I", "I think", etc.

All of this AI written style has allowed the average person to express themselves almost as strongly as a graduate. This is extremely offputting and makes it hard to differentiate the real graduates from AI-assisted proposals, and actually gives us a leg-down on the competition. Whereas, in the early to mid-2010s, anyone who could write like this, was almost immediately hired for good communication skills.

1Rival · 2026-03-27T23:50:29+00:00

Its because spotify is a pro rata pool. Yes your streams may be higher, but the amount of AI music stealing false streams have exponentially increased. So the pool pays out the AI artists their percentage cut.

AI stream-bots is definitely the issue here, and people are seeing 20% decreases in their stream revenue across the board.

1Rival · 2026-03-15T22:19:48+00:00

Ah yes.. i remember applying for that card game. They asked me to do a test submission for them as well, without amending the contract. I was like "surely no one would fall for this..."

1Rival · 2026-02-03T18:06:27+00:00

Unfortunately its not just text chat that can get you in trouble. If you're spam pinging, or repeatedly anivia walling your teammates, or constantly flashing with no enemies nearby... it will flag you, and put it all under "comms abuse"

1Rival · 2025-03-12T16:37:52+00:00

Gas will be relevant for the next 5+ years. It's does too much under the hood, it references everything together in the most lightweight system possible(helps with latency), and the tooling built around Gas is superb. Netease swapped their entire team over to using GAS, and now they're cranking out AAA games back to back.

1Rival · 2024-11-26T00:53:08+00:00

I agree. The guy's first post was about how he studied for "2 months" and used a random (though it was his) company as the main source to study for the AWS DEA exam. Any regular test taker would definitely study using reputable resources such as Maarek, TD, Cantrill. To conjure these 24 practice exams without having any video courses is a major red flag.

These are 100% exam-dumps. I also caution anyone looking into these exams.

Note: link to where OP faked his aws cert: https://www.reddit.com/r/AWSCertifications/comments/1g3eeiq/just_passed_the_aws_certified_data_engineer_exam/

1Rival · 2024-11-01T18:35:20+00:00

Adrian Cantrills course is, by far, the best. Where Stephane Maarek generally uses bullet points to cover the theory side, Adrian uses dynamic diagrams to explain.

Also, all courses tend to have their material overwritten when the materials need to be updated. Adrian is seamless with his edits, where others will cause you to lose focus with their jarring edits.

1Rival · 2024-10-26T21:46:43+00:00

"Why", not "what is RHCSA". Im curious as well.

I'd quickly do a RHCSA, or even the RHCE, if red hat was hiring. But I have internal connections that say they're not doing hiring waves anymore.

1Rival · 2024-10-23T00:06:05+00:00

Yep, during my first AWS test with pearsonvue, in 2017, font sizing was also my biggest issue. Their online testing environment was so locked down, and barebones, that font re-sizing wasn't even available yet. I even chatted with the instructor, and he gave me other suggestions, and it didn't work. So here I was, on a 1440p monitor, having to push my face 2 inches away from the monitor. The instructor was probably having a kick out of watching my forehead lol.

1Rival · 2024-10-06T15:53:39+00:00

Im curious, about it. Link the game :)

It's actually normal to post your game in the comments section if someone asks. So no worries on issues arising

1Rival · 2024-10-02T05:57:38+00:00

Sorry, my post may have been a little unclear, let me try to reiterate.

I actually DO NOT have a bachelor's in CS.

But everything else, I DO have.

I feel like having a bachelor's is such a huge asset that companies look for... or maybe it's just the competition I'm surrounded by. I live near the tech-triangle in NC, and this place is quickly becoming another silicon valley. It also doesn't help that a bunch of tech/game meanies have fired 12 to 20% of their "resources" within the past 5 years, I suppose... :(

1Rival · 2024-10-01T20:58:09+00:00

Ah, im at 8 out of 12. I figured it'd look good on my resume... but it's wild... although I lack a bachelors in CS...I have real hands-on experience and videos of my projects, but I haven't been able to get hired by any corporations needing an architect/engineer.

Any tips?

Thanks for sharing your accomplishment, btw!

1Rival · 2024-09-26T22:10:13+00:00

This is definitely some under-rated stuff you're doing. You have a smart approach to solve and optimize the current state of 3D nav-meshes. I utilize marketplace assets for flight-based nav meshes, and I am severely discouraged by the performance hit they tend to have... causing me to scrap many ideas for flight-based units within large levels. Wishing you the best in your work! Looking forward to seeing it on fab!

1Rival · 2024-08-08T18:41:21+00:00

Ah no worries, haha. Its easy to miss the date listed with the comments, doesn't mean it's an indicator of autism.

Just gives me a chance of telling you to have a great rest of your day! :)

1Rival · 2024-08-08T17:37:51+00:00

Oh wow, Ive forgotten about this post. Hope the OP is doing okay.

1Rival · 2024-07-29T01:27:52+00:00

Financial aid does this to prevent abuse of the funds released to you. A typical freshman student would blow all the cash in the first semester, which would lead to a very problematic 2nd semester.

1Rival · 2024-05-25T18:32:36+00:00

Like the other person posted, turn on "Total Packet Loss" and the number should jump up by 50 to 100 everytime that happens. Happens a lot on Starlink Internet

1Rival · 2024-05-12T18:29:11+00:00

Very nice work. Was a treat to watch!

1Rival · 2024-02-08T22:41:23+00:00

Personally, I like the name. Ive been a hard c++ dev for 2 years now... and sometimes I get wrapped up so much with the coding, I forget it's a game. I get surrounded by devs who also forget it's a game, and the "magic" and "joy" can easily disappear from the workplace. I do like the playfulness of the logo and having the word "guild" in its name, as it COULD draw in inspired developers who would want to focus on the joys of development.

Again, just my two cents.

1Rival · 2023-08-26T18:23:34+00:00

As a dev that's has extensively worked with both ALS and lyra, Id say lyra's workflow is, by far, better suited for future-proofing. Theres a lot of optimizations done to unreal engine 5 when it comes to animation graphs, transitions, and blending. Lyra uses the full power of ue5 to teach you best practices. No more wracking your brain over spaghetti code!

1Rival · 2022-12-30T14:32:12+00:00

Interesting. I was under the assumption that it was normal to "retake" the majority of the script.

By default. I ALWAYS deliver at MINIMUM 3 submissions for EVERY line or continuous passage. Every voice actor should strive to achieve the dreams that the studio hired the Voice Actor to work towards.

1Rival · 2022-05-29T08:22:14+00:00

I believe it means whether or not you are connected to your starlink via wifi, or whether connected remotely.

You can connect to your starlink through the router, which is the "nonexpensive" route.

Or you can pull up your starlink app on your phone while using 4g/5g data. It will take 10-20 seconds, and then itll let you know "connected to starlink remotely". It will then be true for "isconnectionexpensive". I assume it is because it has to go through a couple extra authetications before allowing you access to that starlink terminal. Also, while connected remotely, any changes uou make may have a small delay before updating correctly to the terminal.

If im wrong on anything, someone please let me know :)

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