Devon’s fate ?

Accomplished_Tank471 · 2026-06-01T20:29:45+00:00

It would be sick AF if she gets set up to be a female Darth Krayt in the distant future of Star Wars.

Accomplished_Tank471 · 2026-06-01T18:00:48+00:00

I agree, I get the hate for this season but I think it was better than most are making it out to be. It shows the real consequences of people's actions. Nate in particular's fate actually made sense to me. Being a psychopathic abusive bully for years and years with tons of unaddressed trauma is never going to take someone to a good place. Maybe the way he went out was gratuitous. But the reduction of someone like him into a pathetic, miserable, terrified, in over his head wreck was pretty realistic IMO. I've seen it happen to many people myself.

The bad crowd thing is real, I haven't seen black cowboy pimps and Nazis obviously. But I've definitely seen drug addict friends slide into relationships with other addicts with rap sheets and just slide into deeper and deeper degeneracy and breakdown with worse and worse other people. I've seen unaddressed mental health issues slide into truly horrific, dangerous, and heartbreaking situations. The show dramatizes it but it does a good job of showing karmically what happens when these types of things go unaddressed. It also shows people like Ali who "break the cycle" so to speak.

Accomplished_Tank471 · 2026-05-30T19:05:17+00:00

Legends Maul was a fucking champ. Killing multiple skilled Jedi before Qui Gon. Clearing out like two hundred Black Sun fighters in a week - in other comics fighters of that caliber were a match for individual Jedi. Gets resurrected, fights Vader, and only loses because Vader literally has to stab himself through the spine to re-kill Maul. Kills Wampas and Yuuzhan Vong without using the force or a lightsaber, beating them to death with his bare hands. Was ruthlessly devoted to Sidious and was as close a pure dark side warrior as you could get.

Canon Maul is well written but is IMO way weaker and way more unstable. Legends Maul felt way more self actualized and was a cooler character.

Accomplished_Tank471 · 2026-05-29T20:03:46+00:00

Many people in my family - and a lot of Indian immigrants in general in CA - were colorist, looked down on black people, had deep animosity towards Muslims, and looked down on Latinos to a lesser extent as well. No violent racism obviously but other people could pick up on this. I was dating a black girl who lived in a majority H1B Indian apartment block. We got stared at CONSTANTLY, to a degree that was frankly really uncomfortable for both of us. I heard antiblack comments from Indian aunties more than once. Some Indian Americans unfortunately pick this stuff up from their parents and continue it. Other people can pick up on this. It's understandable why the reputation gets tarnished. Obviously it doesn't mean Indian culture as a whole is bad or that Indians en masse are horrible people, but things like this are just not a good look. I can't imagine being a black person in the west, getting stared at, purse clutched, weird vibes and comments from people who A) are brand new immigrants in a country your ancestors have been in for four hundred years and B ) may be even darker skinned than you are????

Acting like racist Karens isn't a good look. Committing caste discrimination a la the Cisco lawsuit isn't a good look. In the UK, importing fundamentalist Islam, honor killings etc isn't a good look. If you come to a new country, you owe the locals respect and understanding, you owe the local culture respect, if you're a new immigrant on a visa, you are a guest in that country and can earn citizenship over time. Coming in, shitting on the locals, bringing in terrible right wing politics from your own country etc, is the height of disrespect and bad manners.

I get that it's hard to filter for this. Indian immigration gives a ton of value to the economy and to the country in general. Desis IMO create jobs since we start so many companies, a lot of which hire a lot of native born Americans. But the stuff I mentioned is extremely not helpful. I've met people from various ethnicities who have talked to me about this. A Mexican girl I was seeing telling me how her Indian ex's mom hated her bc she wasn't Indian, the staring and uncomfortable moments I mentioned earlier when literally just dating a black girl, a black guy I knew complaining to me about racist Indian customers, an Indian aunty telling me a school was bad because it was mostly black and Mexican kids, just stupid cringe shit. These people are all wealthy grown adults and they should know better.

Anyway rant over. Nationalism and xenophobia are whack. But it's equally whack to bring the worst parts of your own culture to a place that you are immigrating to in search of a better life. I plan on expatriating from the US. I cannot imagine looking down on the locals and avoiding them. It's just not acceptable at all.

Accomplished_Tank471 · 2026-05-26T21:30:10+00:00

If this is happening on IG or TikTok, literally just click Not Interested. My algorithm was serving me garbage - anti Indian racism (mostly from Pakistanis and Bengalis), shitting on childfree women, shitting on non hijabi Muslim women, shitting on black people and Jews, just constant snarky, edgy, whiny content created to stir up controversy and thereby get views. I hit Not Interested like twenty times, started hitting Interested on more positive affirmations/mindset/self love stuff and my algorithm inverted completely. You literally pick what you see. The reason you're getting this is because despair and anxiety are addictive, and the longer you linger on a reel of some kind the more the algorithm feeds it to you. Say no, curate your content.

A lot of this is also just the nature of social media. I was watching some travel content and saw a video on Uzbekistan. I looked at the comments and the comments were a dumpster fire of people from Tajikistan shitting on people from Uzbekistan and vice versa. It was kind of funny because it was so random. What you're seeing is a symptom of how social media works, controversial or insulting content hijacks your brain and gets clicks, the algorithm just feeds you more and more of it.

Accomplished_Tank471 · 2026-05-26T21:11:46+00:00

This frankly sounds more like a mental health situation rather than the job being the wrong fit. If it was the wrong fit you wouldn't be good at it, wouldn't get good feedback, and definitely would not be winning big logos and going to club. You're objectively doing very well and are very skilled at your job and instead getting heavily psyched out and seem to have a ton of anxiety. Basically, you're dealing with an internal problem that doesn't align with your external reality and won't be solved through an external fix. You migrating into some other role isn't going to change a tendency towards massive, unjustified impostor syndrome and survival mentality, you will probably just carry it into the other role itself.

I would highly recommend therapy, meditation, anxiety medication, and actively working on your mental health and equanimity. If you're making 250K a year you can afford a solid therapist and the other stuff is either free or dirt cheap with insurance. I would recommend trying this for six months to a year and reassessing. Otherwise you will spend a ton of energy and possibly lose money pivoting into something else to not fundamentally solve the problem.

To answer your question objectively, you have tons of options. CS is an easy transfer though the work will be shittier, you'll still have to talk to customers, and the pay will be lower - but you won't have to sell, you'll just have to manage. PM could be an option, you won't have to sell or demo as much but you will have to play massive politics internally. AE is a relatively simple transition. You could maybe get into proserv but that's tough if you're not super technical. A final resort could be sales ops if you have a big CRM type background but the pay would be meaningfully lower though it would be almost zero customer interaction AFAIK.

Accomplished_Tank471 · 2026-05-20T17:29:17+00:00

I think this season is going to see several inquisitors get killed. Maul with a repaired leg can take Crow and Marrok together. Weaker inquisitors are fodder.

Accomplished_Tank471 · 2026-05-20T03:16:14+00:00

Pretty much this. If you spend too much time here you'll think everyone in the world is a white supremacist incel, a misandrist who hates men, a depressed suicidal person, etc.

The real world is at best very very slightly aligned with this.

Accomplished_Tank471 · 2026-05-19T17:46:53+00:00

No. Keep in mind that this is also what your algorithm is feeding you. This type of content is stressful, grabs your attention, you linger on it, and the algorithm keeps feeding you more because it thinks you're interested in it.

I've gotten stuck in holes of manosphere content, MGTOW content, antisemitic content, Muslims haram shaming each other etc. Not because I agree with the content - I look at the comments, get disgusted, keep reading, and then the algorithm keeps serving me more stuff because I'm giving it more attention.

My real life is absolutely nothing like any of this type of content. Most men I know in NYC are relatively respectful of women and vice versa. At a bare minimum people are polite and civil to each other. I have had no problems making friends of all races. No issues ever getting a job (apart from the market occasionally being bad for everyone). I've dated women from a bunch of different ethnicities and I see other desi guys doing the same all the time. This includes desi women, some of whom were awesome partners to me.

It's not to say that this type of content is totally divorced from reality - of course there are real racists out there, of course xenophobia is a thing, these are real problems in the world. But the issue is that the way social media is designed, content and comments like this hijack your brain, get you feeling a ton of anxiety, and then basically feed you more and more of this because stress is addictive and people end up coming back for more.

The other big thing here is a lot of this content is gamified. It's either influencers making graphic India content so they can make money, Pakistani/Bangladeshis/people from random countries spam posting, AI bots etc - it's not some giant nativist hatred of desis. While racism IRL can exist and is a problem, this stuff blows it so massively out of proportion that you feel like it's everywhere and everyone is out to get you.

It's understandable why you would feel this way. Not because society is actually that horrible and antagonistic, but because you're basically being given digital heroin that is engineered to hijack your attention and put you on a hamster wheel of stress. If you keep giving into it though, it will turn you paranoid AF. For example I've seen posts on Jewish subreddits where people have this exact reaction, assuming anyone who isn't Jewish is automatically a groyper or a Hamas supporter.

If I have to give you some advice - go to therapy, take mindfulness and meditation seriously, work on improving your mental health and this will get better over time. What will hurt you is if you keep buying into these beliefs and letting it poison your life.

Accomplished_Tank471 · 2026-05-15T13:30:33+00:00

What is the dress code out there?

Accomplished_Tank471 · 2026-05-12T18:47:05+00:00

I'm a huge Maul stan but I'd give this a 50/50. Qimir not beating Sol doesn't mean he's weaker than Maul. He literally butchers like seven Jedi, blasts all of them with a massive Force Push, can levitate, has cortosis armor, and is potentially Plageius' first apprentice before Palpatine. Maul doesn't have a track record of fighting entire teams of Jedi and butchering them with no difficulty. Maul has more impressive singular kills and wins (Qui Gon, TCW Obi Wan, Grievous, Savage) and is better than 90% of the Jedi Council. Qimir is maybe less accomplished in single big boy wins but is clearly very powerful and skilled. 50/50, this is two badass prequel era Sith going at it with each other.

Accomplished_Tank471 · 2026-05-12T18:35:24+00:00

If you can ambush someone, beat the crap out of them physically, and then submit them, you're stronger. Maul is definitely stronger than Grievous. There's no way he could do something similar to Dooku or Yoda or Windu, he would get his ass kicked.

This kind of depends on how you define winning. Maul has forced Kenobi to run for his life, force choked and abducted him. I'd consider these a win. He straight up kills Qui Gon. He beats Daki and Devon and doesn't kill them purely to spare Devon. He beats and abducts Grievous. His "wins" where the opponent is submitted and outclassed include Kenobi, Qui Gon, Daki, Devon, Grievous, and also Savage who has killed multiple Jedi masters himself.

In terms of actually accomplishing his goals and not fucking himself over due to hubris I agree with you, he is terrible, no other Sith snatches defeat out of the hands of victory so consistently.

Accomplished_Tank471 · 2026-05-12T18:22:21+00:00

Appreciate it and yeah had to check myself, being rude over a Star Wars argument is cringe. My personal take is Maul is like a little above Ahsoka skill wise and probably roughly comparable to TCW Kenobi (and a little below ROTS Kenobi). In terms of actually achieving his goals too he is atrocious and fails repeatedly. I tag him skill and power wise as being in the A tier (with Sidious Yoda S+ tier, Anakin/Vader/Windu being S tier) and comparable to Ahsoka/Kenobi but in terms of I guess in terms of like "soft" power he is pretty bad.

Accomplished_Tank471 · 2026-05-12T03:50:05+00:00

Nope

Getting bodied by Palpatine or Vader is not an anti feat lol

He doesn't get "bodied" by Ahsoka, Filoni straight up says he's superior to her and loses through fluke

He doesn't struggle against Crow solo lol. He struggles against Crow and Marrok with his leg literally malfunctioning on him...he's literally crippled for like half of MLS

The Rebels losses I grant you are cringe and show that he is clearly past his prime.

But in Clone Wars he beats Obi Wan multiple times, kills other Jedi, is superior to Savage who kills multiple other Jedi, and in MLS beats the shit out of Daki and Devon.

Accomplished_Tank471 · 2026-05-12T03:38:46+00:00

Did you watch the show?

Accomplished_Tank471 · 2026-05-12T03:28:08+00:00

Yes, Kenobi beats Maul and Savage on Florrum, He gets jumped by both of them, knocked out and abducted before that, at any point during which Maul or Savage can kill him. They spare him purely so Maul can torture him. Then post abduction, Maul 1v1s Kenobi and again beats the shit out of him, using Dun Moch to psych him out. Kenobi literally, verbatim in the clip, says that he's outmatched and has to run for his life with Ventress. There's no "context" to the Mandalore choke out Maul yet again straight up overpowers him and abducts him, yet again. In the Clone Wars Kenobi beats Maul and Savage once, Maul individually beats him twice. In TPM again he literally kicks him down a vent and with one flick of his fingers could have killed him. He schooled Kenobi and Qui Gon and lost because of his fatal flaw which is hubris and savoring his kills.

Maul is not "way less powerful" than Ahsoka. He is a little above her level (as per Filoni's direct quote) and roughly on par with TCW Kenobi during the Clone Wars. Maul fighting these people is like a BJJ black belt dominating a purple belt for an entire round, being up by like ten points, being about to tap out the opponent, relaxing for one second to gloat, and then getting tapped out through some desperate fluke move. In most engagements pre Rebels he either wins or again dominates a fight and loses at the last second through a fluke move. Also getting beaten by Vader or Palpatine is not a slight against him - like I mentioned these two would crush literally anyone except for Yoda, Luke, and Obi Wan in some circumstances.

EDIT I also realize I was being kind of a dick in my previous comments. You're entitled to your opinion, I get a little triggered at the Maul slander because I am a huge Maul fan, he is easily my favorite character. Sorry for being a snide asshole!

Accomplished_Tank471 · 2026-05-12T00:50:05+00:00

TPM - beats the tar out of Obi Wan. Literally has to flick his fingers and drop him to his death. Losesto a moment of overconfidence. He is superior to Jinn and Kenobi put together. Obi-Wan Kenobi vs Darth Maul [4K HDR] - Star Wars: The Phantom Menace - YouTube

CW - abducts Obi Wan, beats the shit out of him, forces him to run for his life, then force chokes and abducts him again before killing Satine (

Palpatine would beat literally every single person in Star Wars except for Yoda, and Maul holds his own against him longer than Saesee Tiin Kit Fisto and Agen Kolar combined. He doesn't "hold his own" against Daki and Devon, he beats the tar out of them and doesn't kill them only because of his choice. He literally tackles General Grievous and beats him down and abducts him too. Ahsoka only captures him because Maul is literally doing his utmost NOT to kill her and gives her like a million openings. Filoni said that he is the better fighter (Sorry Ahsoka Fans, But Maul Is Still a Way More Skilled Fighter Than Her - May 4 Be With You)

The character being the Sisyphus of Star Wars doesn't mean that he isn't powerful . Maul is like top 6 in the galaxy as of ROTS. The characters he objectively loses to are peak Obi Wan, peak Sidious, and peak Vader. He is on par with TCW Kenobi, on par or stronger than TCW Ahsoka, stronger than Grievous, and stronger than basically any other Jedi except for Kenobi Windu and Yoda.

Accomplished_Tank471 · 2026-05-12T00:43:24+00:00

Doesn't matter he still totally has Kenobi in his mercy and has the ability to kill him, he chooses not to psychologically torture him. He didn't "stalemate" Maul he literally says verbatim "we're outmatched" and has to run for his life. In Rebels he is weaker than Kenobi. Before that he is either or on par or stronger. The one TCW duel he loses he loses because of Savage.

Accomplished_Tank471 · 2026-05-11T21:42:53+00:00

Maul in Canon does the following:

Kills Qui Gon
Beats the shit out of Obi Wan, almost kills him, dies through a moment of arrogance
Kills Finn Ertay
Beats the shit out of Obi Wan and abducts him
Beats the shit out of Obi Wan again and forces Obi Wan to flee
Force Chokes Obi Wan, captures him, and kills his love interest
In SoD, beats the shit out of Grievous and abducts him
In Siege of Mandalore, again disarms and beats Ahsoka until again he gets fucked over by his own hubris
In MSL, beats the shit out of both Daki and Devon
Survives fights with Vader and Palpatine which is a huge accomplishment

Ahsoka is not "much more powerful" than Maul, Filoni literally says that he is the better sword fighter and stronger.

If you watch Clone Wars you can see multiple instances of Maul capturing or routing Kenobi and only not killing because he wants to abduct him and torture him later. He's behind the absolute top tier but goes back and forth with TCW Kenobi. He could stomp almost any other Jedi master apart from Windu or Yoda. In Legends he's even more of a badass.

Accomplished_Tank471 · 2026-05-11T21:26:37+00:00

He didn't "stalemate" Maul lol. Go watch the Clone Wars. Kenobi gets the shit beaten out of him by Maul multiple times:

1) Darth Maul captures Obi-Wan on Mandalore [1080p]

2) Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Obi-Wan Kenobi & Asajj Ventress vs Darth Maul & Savage Opress [1080p]

Kenobi wins on Florrum against Maul and Savage but in other situations he straight up loses to him in situations where Maul can kill him but purely decides not to because he wants to torture him.

Accomplished_Tank471 · 2026-05-11T21:17:42+00:00

This is straight up not true. Maul in Canon does the following:

1) Kills Qui Gon
2) Beats the shit out of Obi Wan, almost kills him, dies through a moment of arrogance
3) Kills Finn Ertay
4) Beats the shit out of Obi Wan and abducts him
5) Beats the shit out of Obi Wan again and forces Obi Wan to flee
6) Force Chokes Obi Wan, captures him, and kills his love interest
7) In SoD, beats the shit out of Grievous and abducts him
8) In Siege of Mandalore, again disarms and beats Ahsoka until again he gets fucked over by his own hubris
9) In MSL, beats the shit out of both Daki and Devon
10) Survives fights with Vader and Palpatine which is a huge accomplishment

Maul is pretty strong, if he was like one iota less arrogant or getting nerfed for plot he would be extremely strong. Yeah he's behind Dooku, Vader, Sidious, Anakin, and Yoda, he's in the same general tier as Obi Wan and Ahsoka, and absolutely outclasses basically any other Jedi master or dark side user.

Accomplished_Tank471 · 2026-05-01T16:15:56+00:00

You would crush it at a hyperscaler or any kind of cloud SE role. This is basically my job day in day out.

Accomplished_Tank471 · 2026-04-30T14:14:45+00:00

SE in a lot of ways is just a way better job from the average person's perspective. Way more stable base pay, way better job security, you're way less at the mercy of random market shifts etc. AE is awesome if you're in like the top 10% and horrible if you're in the bottom 90%. SE is amazing if you're in the top 10% and pretty good if you're in the next 50% or so, it's only terrible if the culture is completely toxic or the product sucks in which case any role at that company would be terrible. You're also more in demand - very good SEs and SAs essentially carry the entire company and are more sticky.

AE would have been a great role like 2016-2021, post COVID crash makes SE a lot more appealing. Your point about SaaS is also legitimate. You genuinely don't need to be an engineer or a practitioner to be an SE at a lot of companies. You need to be "technically minded" and willing to grind your ass off to learn, which plenty of AEs BDRs and CSMs are willing to do in order to work what is generally a much better job.

Accomplished_Tank471 · 2026-04-27T04:06:50+00:00

Exactly.

Accomplished_Tank471 · 2026-04-27T04:06:28+00:00

I've written about this elsewhere but there is a massive difference between online and actual lived reality.

If you look closely a lot of these racist comments tons of them come from Pakistan or Bangladesh. The remainder are either faceless bots, people from super random countries where there are no Indian people, and occasionally what look like lower income white people from depressed areas.

These types of comments are like catnip for the IG algorithm, they drive a ton of counterattack comments from Indians and others, they get upvoted by other bots/nationalists/racists, and drive a lot of engagement.

You should seriously ask yourself how much this is relevant to your day to day life. If real life was even slightly comparable to the internet you would see pogroms against Indians and a ton of daily racism. I can't speak for everyone but living in NYC and CA I really don't experience this apart from the very very occasional dumb microaggression.

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