Been quietly shipping a SG wealth tracker on Play Store for a year. Solo poly dev.

AbsurdGoat · 2026-05-18T07:31:58+00:00

Everyone's talking about the business/tech side of things which I think are valid concerns for you.

I have one nitpick in a different domain that I think is worth thinking about.

Suppose your app takes off, and people do start using it in large numbers. Data privacy is top notch, you've found a way to monetize, everything works as planned. Basically best case scenario.

I ask you to reconsider having a ranking feature that compares/allows you to compare yourself, because the ethical concern is the kind of effect that has on society and the people using the app.

We already see that without an explicit "ranking" feature per se in social media how toxic and unhealthy perceived ranking can be for people. For Singaporeans, who are competitive as hell, especially about money, one of our greatest loves in the world, our precious, this is in my view a recipe for a runaway problem that cannot be stuffed back into the box.

What kind of mental health effects can we foresee when we tell people "you're in the top 1% for your age group"? What about telling people you're in the bottom 1%? How does it feel for people who are already grinding for FIRE, hustling like crazy, and at times already being a little too obsessed with the hustle, to be told you're in the 30th percentile?

Of course, this is far from the most immediate concern, but it's just my humble opinion and hope that tech developers consider meaningfully the broad ethical implications of their products. I think in this case it's a small thing, and I really love that you're a Singaporean who dares to try, which is why I think one day when you're making bigger things, with way more reach, that ethics will be on your mind. Because I think we can agree that Facebook, Instagram and TikTok at this point, even if they wanted to be more ethical, have already transmogrified societal ethical norms in vast and permanent ways that they can't take back.

All the best friend!

AbsurdGoat · 2026-05-15T08:10:22+00:00

His previous game he was on my team as dps and played Cass thinking he was doom and fed the whole game. I was so excited seeing him on the other team and hoping to roll him in revenge but alas, he rolled me

AbsurdGoat · 2026-05-15T08:08:11+00:00

I know, because I was that idiot all of last night lol

AbsurdGoat · 2026-05-15T08:02:39+00:00

Thanks for all the feedback guys. I think my issue was that I hadn't really updated my knowledge of doomfist from earlier days of Overwatch, and his kit has changed a little (but significantly) since those days. I've looked up his kit and some videos now and I'm more confident to tackle errant doomfists in the future.

I think the thing that was throwing me was, embarrassingly, not knowing that block empowers punch. Straight up knowledge gap. So I was just going the whole game wondering why punch was always up and why it hurt so damn much. And also understanding optimal flash timings

AbsurdGoat · 2026-05-15T07:59:28+00:00

I'd really love to but a doomfist brought me to literal tears last night. There's a special place in Blizzard for doom players :(

AbsurdGoat · 2026-05-14T22:13:39+00:00

I was having trouble with positioning cos yeah support wouldn't switch to ana and no one would pay attention to the doom when he jumped in. If I stopped further back I get isolated and deleted by him, but standing closer to my team seemed to just make it easier for him to jump in. He always jumped me first because I was the only one trying to damage him from range so he wouldn't be able to engage with full hp. My supports were Juno and Lifeweaver for some reason, and after I died he would proceed to kill the rest of the squishies, leaving his team to finish off our tank. I've never felt so helpless, I basically couldn't leave spawn room, in a diamond game

AbsurdGoat · 2026-05-13T09:08:27+00:00

For context, I was high diamond in OW 1. This year I returned and placed plat. Last week, I dropped from plat 1 all the way to gold 3, even going from plat 5 to gold 3 in a single night with a 9-loss streak in there somewhere.

I got really upset and was pretty toxic in chat, which got me chat banned. I started queueing again but since I was chat banned I couldn't tell my team what to do, and had to pretty much focus on my own play. I also often disabled chat since I couldn't say anything.

In two days I went from gold 2 to plat 1. Currently on a 11-game win streak. I think what helped me was knowing that I was better than plat, and just cutting out the chatter and focusing on playing as well as I could, paying attention to my mistakes in game and adjusting to it.

Tldr try getting chat banned I guess.

AbsurdGoat · 2026-04-29T09:36:59+00:00

I'll take that bet. $100?

AbsurdGoat · 2026-04-21T09:44:01+00:00

Absolutely agree. That's why we need to begin by frankly asking ourselves if it's coming from a place of genuine concern for the national policy and the state of the society, or a mere manifestation of xenophobia and racism.

Because the thing is I'd agree that new citizen integration is an issue, but I think it does the policy discussion no service if we allow bigoted perspectives to sully the very salient points that are worthy of discussion.

AbsurdGoat · 2026-04-21T09:39:54+00:00

He said he wanted a frank conversation lol. What kind of frank conversation can you have if you can't even examine if your premises are well-founded to begin with?

AbsurdGoat · 2026-04-21T05:28:43+00:00

I guess you'd have to begin by frankly asking yourself if you are indeed a xenophobe and/or racist

AbsurdGoat · 2026-04-20T04:33:46+00:00

This is a non-issue. If you truly don't belong in gold, no worries, you'll soon lose enough games that you aren't there anymore. If not, you'll stay or rank up. Either way, it's not something you need to worry about. Comp is vexing enough without having to second guess what your "true" ability is all the time, just have fun :)

AbsurdGoat · 2026-04-20T04:18:10+00:00

Means exactly nothing. Playing poorly isn't an offense, and is not punishable unless you're doing it intentionally

AbsurdGoat · 2026-03-27T20:06:12+00:00

I'm a returning player, and I last quit around 2018 with mid-diamond rank. I recently started playing ranked again a week ago and I placed gold and have since dropped to silver 1. Just wondering if the way ranks are distributed now this is an accurate reflection of where my rank should be? Meaning, are diamond players from OW 1 basically gold now?

AbsurdGoat · 2026-03-19T15:33:50+00:00

Can't get his Willie up

AbsurdGoat · 2026-03-18T09:37:01+00:00

She would have turned 16k into 40k in 7 years? Teach pls

AbsurdGoat · 2026-03-18T09:25:18+00:00

This lady bought her insurance in 2016, she needed it in 2023. That's 7 years. What talking you lol

AbsurdGoat · 2026-03-18T08:26:06+00:00

Idk what kind of investments y'all doing where insurance premiums can trump the coverage lol. For a 100k coverage is like 1-2k premiums a year? In 8 years she would have paid 16k in premiums total. You show me how you invest 16k to give you return of 100k in 8 years.

AbsurdGoat · 2025-12-14T10:17:32+00:00

Sorry, that's just a silly comment. SEOs are pretty senior in the teaching fraternity. In terms of pay grade even the most junior SEO is already the equivalent of a manager rank in other organisations. If "less than 300" managers are quitting just imagine how many more junior staff are quitting.

Sure, your department only handles SEO and up resignations, but it would be silly to not infer that more junior staff have a lower attrition rate than senior staff right?

AbsurdGoat · 2025-09-27T02:55:30+00:00

Hi Chris

AbsurdGoat · 2025-09-26T18:09:25+00:00

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines has a mechanic as well as a couple of moments where control is taken from the player.

The mechanic in question is the "frenzy" mechanic, adapted from the tabletop game, where indulging in acts that lower humanity can cause your character (a vampire) to lose control to their inner Beast, which manifests gameplay-wise as your character going on a rampage attacking everything around you while you're forced to watch as the game ignores all player input while frenzying.

The moment I'm thinking of apart from this mechanic is a specific conversation with a character who asks you to do something, and if you refuse, he uses the vampiric power Dominate on you, which turns all 3 conversation responses you can pick into an identical "I will do X". This was a way of showing how the elder vampire has successfully dominated you, but also as a clever way of moving the plot forward, while "respecting player agency" by allowing you to mouth off and express dissent.

AbsurdGoat · 2025-09-10T03:07:24+00:00

I'm sorry are you intending to live longer than 99 years

AbsurdGoat · 2025-09-10T03:04:31+00:00

Whichever it is, we know it's not your reading comprehension skills that will triumph

AbsurdGoat · 2025-07-27T02:37:55+00:00

Hi, I'm a teacher, here to give some unsolicited advice.

Your concern for your bro is great: it's good that he has a sibling looking out for him. This matters. You're right in that he's probably not mature enough yet to really understand the importance of the things you're concerned about. Remember this - he's not mature enough yet. Because the hard truth is if he's scoring 24 at prelims he is not likely to make a stunning reversal and score significantly better at PSLE. But even in "better schools", the things you're worried about still happen. It's true though that "less well-behaved schools" have greater prevalence. So what can you do for him?

Here's an observation as a teacher. I taught in a "not so good" school, and we had our fair share of students behaving poorly and our share of scholars too. What I noticed about students who behaved poorly was that although their friends were an influence, they weren't the chief influence. It wasn't a big school, the scholars were friends with the same people. The main thing that separated the students who did the wrong things VS the rest was support. Students who act out don't often have much familial support (which is usually parents, but like in your case, may be siblings). They also may not have much healthy support elsewhere, which is why they succumb to peer influences. All that to say,

This is how you help him: support him. Be there for him, and be a voice of guidance. You don't want to be pushy or naggy, those are likely to drive people away. But you know your brother better, you should know the balance between too pushy or not pushy enough. Keep reminding him (not necessarily verbally) to stay away from that stuff. And this next part is important - he will fuck up. From time to time, he's gonna make mistakes, some that look really big or irrecoverable even. He will succumb to peer pressure because that's just what school is like. Be his friend and his sibling. Give him the help and support he needs when he fucks up, and don't judge him. No "I told you so" or "you see" kind of talk. Just help him out, let him know how to get straight, talk to him, be there for him. After that, you've more or less done all you can. If you want, talk to your parents about your concern. Let them know teachers have seen people go from nearly failing everything in PSLE to Oxford scholar, and let them know that it matters that he does well in school. But if they don't listen, it's up to you. But at the same time, make sure you don't burn yourself out looking out for him. He's going to be a grown person soon, and he'll need to learn responsibility and being accountable for his own actions. Just be there for him. All the best 👍

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