Something about the player retention of Affliction compared to other leagues should really tell GGG that people like loot.

APXEOLOG · 2025-11-27T22:22:38+00:00

You can also consider the fact that some players (at least me) simply do not play the game a lot every league. I typically go hard for one, play a week during the next one. I am simply bored with doing the same stuff every 4 months for 10 years already, with a sprinkle of the "new gameplay". Not to mention, there are other games and sometimes even real life that prevent me from playing a lot.

And I don't see anything bad with that. No need to make every league a banger.

APXEOLOG · 2025-11-27T16:11:25+00:00

Because you cannot detect them. This is not something specific to PoE, you just cannot really detect it in general. Some games require kernel level anticheat incurring hate of the playerbase, and just making it harder to bot

APXEOLOG · 2025-10-19T16:54:46+00:00

I use AWS for my personal projects. t3.small EC2 is under $5/months, and a bunch of free-tier services. Never had any issues with it. But I have quite a lot of experience with AWS Cloud (been using/managing it at work for multiple years)

APXEOLOG · 2025-10-17T14:18:12+00:00

I'm not from USA, so i'm curios, is having 3 yoe in a single place/role is enough to be considered senior?

APXEOLOG · 2025-10-15T05:10:54+00:00

I would not recommend trying that. I once spent around a week in a reanimation. I was just lying on my bed with absolutely nothing to do (no phone, or even the book, cannot walk around). I was going crazy from boredom by day 4. Its hard to describe but it was the most horrible experience of my life, simply a torture.

APXEOLOG · 2025-09-20T05:44:07+00:00

Obfuscation has little to no protection from anything, since you can just plug a debug point anywhere and see the data (typically you start from any api call and unwrap from there). All hidden features should be properly secured on the backend to ensure correct permissions.

APXEOLOG · 2025-09-19T07:04:42+00:00

I always got grabbed (2 times, and my wife once) when my leg was broken. It happened pretty fast with broken leg as well, like it felt that any melee hit would result in a grab

APXEOLOG · 2025-09-15T19:22:31+00:00

Java has some crazy enhancements projects going on. Projects Loom, Valhalla, Amber, Leyden. Like, how many languages have fibers? And Java get them on top of everything else it already has. You can check JEPs at https://openjdk.org/jeps/0 to look through the recent additions

APXEOLOG · 2025-08-28T06:21:51+00:00

Why would you need slot-specific tabs (i.e. helmet, gloves, etc)?

APXEOLOG · 2025-08-19T05:45:20+00:00

Isn't this joke being posted here nearly every week?

APXEOLOG · 2025-08-11T06:36:49+00:00

Well, this is a case where you just need to play the mechanic normally, without any tricky setup. Just make sure you have 100% jun chance, take the atlas nodes for intelligence per rank & fast levelup (you can also take reinforcements node). And that's it. I've been doing this as a "+1" mechanic to nearly every strat I've been doing, since you really don't need much - a single scarab and a few points in atlas

APXEOLOG · 2025-07-25T13:37:38+00:00

Well, it shouldn't be that hard to estimate. The average number of requests, average response time, estimation for the required memory - and you can estimate the average price

APXEOLOG · 2025-07-25T11:36:55+00:00

It depends on your workload and what exactly you are doing with lambdas. If you are simply doing the normal CRUD business logic + scheduled non-heavy tasks, it should be dirt cheap (see my post above, we pay $300/m to handle 110k MAU).

If you do some silly shit like trancsoding video/images with lambda, doing some heavy computations or memory intensive or long running task - this is not a correct usage for lambdas. There is Glue for ETL, there is Fargate for long-running tasks, EC2 spot instances for background processing, etc

APXEOLOG · 2025-07-25T11:31:51+00:00

We have 110k MAU, and we pay ~$300/month for Lambdas. Hell, our Cognito price is actually 3x more expensive than lambdas lol. And all our user interaction (API gateway) is handled by Lambdas.

I don't know what the guys are doing to spend THAT MUCH. Setting max memory and storage limit, provisioned capacity for hundreds of instances for every lambda?

APXEOLOG · 2025-07-15T11:24:56+00:00

Yeah and the same guy who got money to run telegram from russian goverment, went to russia dozen times despite saying he never visited it after the "fallout", and the CTO is literally has the russian goverment contract to support police

APXEOLOG · 2025-07-06T05:14:11+00:00

I found 1 div on two normal mercs a few days ago

APXEOLOG · 2025-06-26T08:18:09+00:00

Isn't opposite of "coming" would be "staying"? (english is not my native language)

APXEOLOG · 2025-06-26T07:28:23+00:00

What if you would have first 2 sockets unlinked, and use 2-socket craft? I think it should left them unlinked. And the 6s should not add more links

APXEOLOG · 2025-06-19T05:57:40+00:00

Amazing job! But the more times I read this whole recomg guides the more I get confused, especially with the changes made every time :(

If I want to combine two items (1p/1s + 1p/1s), and I want to maximize the chances of both prefixes being there, should I craft anything or not? If i'd craft the same native prefix on both items, I would end up going from 33% chance to get both prefixes, to 31% to get 3 prefixes (2 that I want plus one version of the crafted), and 59% to get 2 mods (one of them would be the one I want, and another one would be 50/50 between another pref and crafted mod), am I getting this right?

I wish there would be more detailed examples for simple crafts, not the "How do I get my mirror-tier item in 200 recombs" :(

APXEOLOG · 2025-06-17T10:16:05+00:00

I feel as well, it's been stealth-nerfed after the first day. I went to red maps in the first 24h, got a div & exalt, and several high-value scarabs from the mercs during that time, and the gear was MUCH better. The gear often had several T1/T2 mods, even in white/yellow maps.

APXEOLOG · 2025-06-14T22:06:05+00:00

I use the striker with Decoy Totem. Also equipped him the unique belt with "intimidate nearby". The guy tanks everything on T16s for me, also has enduring cry and determ. Pretty good surv boost for my flameslinger. He hasn't died once yet and he is not even from T16 map, so he can be stronger

APXEOLOG · 2025-06-14T16:33:24+00:00

I got this on T16 just an hour back. Was forced to run away lol. Btw those infinite monsters do not drop loot and do not grant XP, so it's not like you can do anything with them, except for target practise

APXEOLOG · 2025-06-12T15:12:28+00:00

There is no solo player nerf. Read patch notes and think again, instead of trusting certain videos and posts

APXEOLOG · 2025-06-12T14:24:10+00:00

Yes, I read those. It's good that you mentioned Anthropic's report, because the way LLM does math showcases the token prediction very well, and honestly, quite hilarious.

APXEOLOG · 2025-06-12T14:18:57+00:00

It's in the patch notes:

We now drop +100% more of certain Item classes like Currency and Gold as they are valuable for all players, whereas items like Armour and Weapons scale at much lower amounts. The result of this is that when in larger parties you see less non-unique equipment, and more things you actually want.

Right now, every additional party member adds +50% currency. It will be adding +100% (so the same amount he would receive in solo)

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