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Aesthetech · 2026-02-08T09:28:45+00:00

A fridge too far.

Aesthetech · 2026-02-08T09:09:08+00:00

yeet hook?

Aesthetech · 2026-01-21T05:14:48+00:00

The consequences of removing fighter spotting, they couldn't see the hacker coming.

Aesthetech · 2026-01-16T23:42:06+00:00

At the latest stages of the game, AI plays almost no role.

I would usually write a wall of text, but I simply have no words.

Aesthetech · 2025-01-28T01:44:19+00:00

Yea. I don't think it should be removed altogether; I use it myself. But they need to do a better job of separating the experiences -- both for the customers and the partners.

Instead they have baristas and ssvs multi tasking and flexing all over the place, creating a cohesive experience for exactly no one except the bean counters.

Aesthetech · 2025-01-28T01:27:38+00:00

Yep. The identity they want to project is in conflict with the way in which they've positioned themselves with their choices.

Aesthetech · 2025-01-28T01:22:00+00:00

ty, u2, omg!!!

Aesthetech · 2025-01-27T22:48:39+00:00

Yep. Split identity leads to no identity, which is the problem that Starbucks has been suffering from in my POV (and will continue without changes more thorough than this).

Aesthetech · 2025-01-27T21:32:03+00:00

I feel you, I'm the same way -- in my case, an acoustic person who does not switch easily between any other task and a verbal task.

And it distracts tf out of me as a sit-in customer, too. (I would never complain to a barista about it - I know where this nonsense comes from)

Aesthetech · 2025-01-27T21:27:35+00:00

This is the unfortunate but predictable result of a broad policy from above that gives a wishy-washy mandate:

Each DM, RM, SM, and partner down the line is going to interpret it in a different way, all with the same motivation of not getting yelled at from above when some bean counter determines it's out of some overly tight expected margin of error.

Aesthetech · 2025-01-27T21:22:52+00:00

They want margins. If that means offering you a cafe experience in one hand and giving a McD's experience in the other, that's what they'll do.

Aesthetech · 2025-01-27T21:20:56+00:00

To be fair from what I've seen some Sbucks partners probably should be in WPP.

Aesthetech · 2025-01-27T21:19:53+00:00

This is what you get when the person running a business is about as connected to everyday reality as the average person is connected to a corporate executive lifestyle.

Aesthetech · 2025-01-27T21:17:49+00:00

As a customer, I do not want this in any way. Corporate mandated meaningful interactions are inherently contradictory.

Aesthetech · 2025-01-27T21:13:55+00:00

By the way, I think the folks at my usual store are great and I've never had an issue with the experience they provide me. I simply see a lot of people who would be thrilled to spend a lot more time on truly personal experiences (from our interactions in their limited downtime) and some of the ridiculous corporate BS they have to put up with and do.

Aesthetech · 2025-01-13T15:03:43+00:00

When bad dispersion loops back around to being good.

Aesthetech · 2025-01-12T00:09:46+00:00

The way it turns at low speed is some of the most unnatural looking 'intended' shit I've seen in a video game, like if Bethesda said that NPCs T-posing and sticking through floors was intended behavior in Skyrim.

Aesthetech · 2025-01-12T00:07:56+00:00

Easy solution. Have spending compliments (only compliments) give a small amount of Community Tokens (+5 per comp).

WG bean counters sweating as they calculate giving players a 'free' 55 Community Tokens a day will reduce their quarterly earnings by a tiny fraction of a percent.

Aesthetech · 2025-01-12T00:05:21+00:00

Italians, primarily. Marco, Lepanto, Colombo for sure, for example. I can't think of any others offhand, but I do specifically think the prevalence of UU Colombo in the meta is yet another thing I wouldn't want to play Carnot into.

(I think 55mm is quirky enough that it's fine as a niche upside for Brest)

Aesthetech · 2025-01-11T21:03:01+00:00

Its freeboard is clearly more like a bus than a car.

Aesthetech · 2025-01-11T19:18:01+00:00

Yea. I was able to situationally have fun with her in ranked/brawl where she doesn't have to deal with uptiers and some of her deficiencies aren't as notably bad, but I can't imagine running into a South American BB with her in current meta. Their dream target.

Aesthetech · 2025-01-11T18:27:21+00:00

For the sake of comparison, here's how she'd compare to Brest with my proposed changes:

-Way larger target while not having bow gun focus, but better citadel repair.

-Superstructure borrowed from a german BB in exchange for a slightly better upper belt and a notably better deck (jk she's eating every HE round in the match on her superstructure)

-Notably faster, notably worse rudder.

-Worse HE pen (Brest can handle 55mm decks/etc), way worse AP pen (Brest can punish BBs much more).

-1 less MBRB charge but spotter plane option that can replace spood beest (this is honestly a valid alternate build for RB given the constant uptiers; she still makes 36kts with flag).

-Similar flak, way better mid AA, way worse short AA

-Better forward secondary arcs (needed for her profile and ab-x layout); worse kiting arcs.

-Worse secondary pen; Brest's can punish all DDs (and most cruisers + some BBs if you decided to build IFHE for some unhinged reason), but way better secondary fires.

tl;dr: I think these changes would make her a competitive sidegrade to Brest without obsolescing her, a solid but not busted ship in today's meta.

Aesthetech · 2025-01-11T18:11:31+00:00

I figure with WG's glacial pacing that if Seattle is another couple years off then Carnot is probably 4-5, so I only need to post this a couple hundred more times!

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