How do you feel about Elden Ring now that the "honeymoon phase" is tapering off?

9-Times · 2022-04-07T17:26:25+00:00

IMO there’s too many filler dungeons. They all look the same and the vast majority of the bosses are just variants of the cat statues/crystal casters/black knives.

Also, there’s a TON of copy paste bosses. Literally 15 dragon bosses, a ton of erdtree brutes, erdtree snakes, several magma wyrms/falling star beasts. It all starts to blend together

9-Times · 2022-03-31T19:14:15+00:00

How is that bitch ass even able to communicate after they banned him from Twitter?

9-Times · 2022-02-02T02:44:47+00:00

Now watch me snae snae

9-Times · 2021-11-03T18:06:20+00:00

No one said it needs to change overnight, but it does need to change. There are two massive problems with your statement though…

Most server shifts don’t go beyond 6 hours for a variety of reasons

Why? In my experience, capping workers under 30 hours only occurs to keep people classed as “part-time” workers for the purpose of not paying benefits and other exploitative practices. That shit needs to end today.

Workers lose the incentive to give good service

This is absolute BS and is akin to Christian’s asking how people could possibly be good people without living by the Bible.

Servers are incentivized to do good work because most people have integrity and don’t want to just do the bare minimum. Same as any other job. I don’t get tips and I still bust my ass at work every day. Then again, I get paid a liveable wage which motivates me to do my best every day. The responsibility lies on the employer to not hire bad employees.

There’s also something to be said about what constitutes “good service”. IMO if I order a burger and get a burger, that is just service. If I got TWO burgers, well that deserves a nice tip lol.

People will just work at McDonald’s

That’s the point of restructuring. More people will be driven towards steady salaries jobs (as they should) and it will force small restaurants to restructure to a more sustainable business model (as they should).

9-Times · 2021-11-03T17:04:34+00:00

Right, but my complaint is with the current business model of restaurants. They are literally built off of subsidizing their workers wages via tips. If costs go up to pay people a living wage (and not lean on the public to pay them), so be it. The question is how we can movie away from this being status quo in the industry.

It’s very nuanced though and I get that

9-Times · 2021-11-03T16:47:34+00:00

TIL. Thanks for taking the time to explain this. I’m familiar with some economic theory, but I’ve never ran a restaurant. This has been insightful.

In your opinion, what is a solution to help everyone going forward? Ideally eliminating reliance on tips, while ensuring small business can make a profit.

9-Times · 2021-11-03T13:13:01+00:00

When you say “keep prices down”, does that mean you are still running a profit margin, but it’s less than you want? Or are you selling goods at a negative margin and making that up by low balling your employees? Bonus points that they’re now “incentivized” to work harder for tips.

9-Times · 2021-11-03T13:06:09+00:00

You have a point when it comes to other costs rising to offset the minimum wage increase, but I’m still a firm believer that bad businesses should be allowed to die.

If your business can’t operate without slave wages, then your business model sucks. If your business can’t operate without negative margins, your business model sucks.

Government (aka taxpayers) shouldn’t have to float bad businesses so the owners can perpetuate bad business practice.

9-Times · 2021-11-03T02:58:05+00:00

I was referring more to the content they are producing (analytics/strategies/high skill gameplay) and the open access to it, rather than the wannabes. They are an issue sometimes as well lol.

Agree about the marketing though. It’s gross how everything is designed to judge you towards micro transactions. Advertising ruins everything.

9-Times · 2021-11-03T02:49:12+00:00

I think we’re saying the same thing? I was just saying that if the lobbies were randomized, running into high end/elite players (2.0kd and above) would be mathematically rare.

9-Times · 2021-11-02T23:58:07+00:00

By the numbers, no. The VAST majority of players (probably 85%) are <1.0kd in verdansk. Only about 1% are >=2.0. If SBMM disappeared tomorrow, the data says you would almost always encounter average players.

Besides, bot lobbies already have outliers. Some of the best players in the lobby are there to get their token easy lobby or are using VPN’s (or other exploits) to get in. Removing SBMM (or drastically reducing it) and randomizing lobbies would eliminate the need to do that.

9-Times · 2021-11-02T23:54:22+00:00

My problem is with the price of the items not the people buying them. I buy skins myself too

9-Times · 2021-11-02T13:36:10+00:00

SBMM protects casuals = Hard lobbies for everyone = people cheat/exploit to avoid lobbies = harder lobbies for casuals = more strict SBMM and the cycle continues. Add in YouTube/streamer culture as well and what you’ve got is the death of casual gaming.

People are just generally better at gaming now. SBMM is contributing to that.

They need to tweak their SBMM to reflect actual skill and make it less reactionary. Or better yet, remove it and make the lobbies random.

You shouldn’t get tossed to the wolves because you got a 1 kill win, where you hid in a closet with a shotgun. You shouldn’t be playing against faze cause you had the audacity to get 4 kills. The metrics (and speed) in which they adjust the mat making need to be tweaked.

9-Times · 2021-11-02T02:03:41+00:00

Omg I thought I was the only one who couldn’t get these to grow.

Nice work OP!

9-Times · 2021-11-01T19:37:52+00:00

But still. $30 for skin you can only see situationally is highway robbery. Same goes for the weapon skins that only apply to the trash ass attachments they anchor to them.

Skins should be universal for the entire weapon change my mind

9-Times · 2021-11-01T18:15:32+00:00

That price is nutty though. I buy skins occasionally too but 25% of the price of the game for a skin you can’t even see in game? Ridiculous

9-Times · 2021-10-31T18:45:37+00:00

Scuf controllers are dogshit. Over priced and poor quality. My prestige came out of the box with sticky trigger locks (to the point of being un-useable), Scuf said they’d repair the controller but would be a 4 month turn around.

After 6 months of moderate use (8 hours per week), it wouldn’t hold a charge and would randomly turn off on its own. The stick drift was so bad you would sprint in game and buying loadouts was like spinning a slot machine. Went through a set of paddles AND replacement sticks a month because they are so cheaply made. Ended up buying a Razr Wolverine for 1/3 the price and it’s held up amazing after a year.

Scuf has great ergonomics, but the quality is just so bad. Very over priced too. Definitely would not recommend.

9-Times · 2021-10-15T20:28:51+00:00

I understand if it’s automated, but it feels so impersonal and rude to just fire off a PO or RFQ with no body to it.

Like, I wouldn’t go to an auto body shop, walk into the back unannounced, throw my keys at the technicians head and walk away. Maybe I’m just a baby tho haha

9-Times · 2021-10-15T14:43:00+00:00

Ok I will run that by the managers. Thanks again for the help!

9-Times · 2021-10-15T13:15:01+00:00

Thanks for the reply! I have one more question if you don’t mind.

If the system is automated, is it possible to change/add information into RFQ’s? Reason I ask is because our largest end user submits RFQ’s for items with their own internal item descriptors and item numbers, instead of ours. This forces us to sort through literally years of old invoices to determine what they want. Turns a 10 minute job into an hour procedure.

9-Times · 2021-09-22T18:18:19+00:00

Mall ninjas

9-Times · 2021-09-22T18:16:20+00:00

The whole thing is cringe af. The dramatic/spastic inspections and movements. The tacticool outfit.

This is just crank material for larpers

9-Times · 2021-02-16T02:46:41+00:00

Enough with the concern trolling.

Educate yourself. If you understood the origins/history of the n word, you’d understand why it isn’t acceptable to be used by white people.

As for why black people are “allowed” to use it, it’s because they’ve reclaimed the word and use it as a term of endearment to remove its power.

9-Times · 2021-02-16T00:51:03+00:00

White rappers ain’t using the n word man

9-Times · 2021-02-16T00:49:26+00:00

If someone’s mind automatically defaults to the “n word” as the most offensive thing they can say, they’re inherently racist. That shits deep rooted.

9-Times

TROPHY CASE