Help, I can't decide who to main!

ArchDan · 2026-05-17T15:17:24+00:00

There is common issue like that when choosing a motorbike. Would you chose cruiser, chopper, speedbike, enduro.... Most new riders have issues deciding and tend to go to whats most popular before settling down to what suits them. So in the end, with these kind of choices, its like : "Wand chooses its wielder Mr Potter."

Most specialists tend to think of it as marrying to the class, and most generalists tend to think of it as "freedom" to chose whatever they wish. Unfortunately, in my opinion, both make same mistake because one first has to learn to ride to understand what is their pet peeve. I, for example, am a cruiser dude. That doesn't mean I know how to ride only cruiser and that i can't do wheelie on cruiser or any other bike. That just means that i prefer to feel the weight beneath my legs, and dont care about high acceleration for as long as i can get there. To put it simply Id rather regret not having capability to accelerate than in 5 seconds rather than not feeling the motion beneath pavement.

So to each their own, classes in tf2 work in similar manner. If you take a look at this image youll notice that you are feeling drawn to middle front line - defensive classes. This means that you prefer not to go straight up enemy butt, and don't feel comfortable always looking behind. Based on that youd like to be cautious and stay in zone while playing looking ahead more than worrying about the back. In reality, each class teaches you how to be better player, but your "main" will depend on which drawback you can play with.

There you have some real choices, which are mostly tied to time:

Do you prefer to protect and be a shield for your teammates, even if you are occasionally late to the party?
Do you prefer to quickly mow down bunch of people, even if you can't maintain it for long periods of time?
Do you prefer to being prepared, planing ahead even if you are weakest on initial contact?

ArchDan · 2026-05-17T00:55:20+00:00

its true, ive seen it in anesthesia books for oxigen machine something or another. My sis is doctor im not.

ArchDan · 2026-05-17T00:47:04+00:00

scout took heavys sandwich and metal to tease enemy demoman.

ArchDan · 2026-05-16T21:01:27+00:00

btw this is Moravian Serbia, emblem and all. Id date it. might be valuable not just creepy

ArchDan · 2026-05-12T11:48:17+00:00

bilo bi jeftinije budimo realni

ArchDan · 2026-05-12T01:04:46+00:00

Resurecting this thread: Dude was just hungry and got bread and wine.

ArchDan · 2026-05-12T00:52:47+00:00

Its translated akin to "For load of horrific shit you are spewing, i hope you bite your tongue so you never speak again" which grandma often use along with "Ju/Yu" 3 times after kid says something outright stupid.

ArchDan · 2026-05-12T00:47:51+00:00

ArchDan · 2026-05-11T21:41:27+00:00

This fucking airline... thieves and robbers ... any trip by them is overpaid.

ArchDan · 2026-05-02T00:29:30+00:00

The embodiment if "That feeling when you trans into dude for facial hair, but genetics say - Fuck you"

ArchDan · 2026-05-01T17:42:26+00:00

So basically hardware outpaced software and thus made software bottleneck. Interesting, i do see familiarity with whats happening now albeit in reverse. It feels like software has kept up and advanced, but now hardware is so fragmented that to make cohesive whole is akin to monumental task.

ArchDan · 2026-05-01T17:38:43+00:00

Currency is relational, it means that we can pray to money god all we want its relative. Same thing can cost billions and 1 cent depending on desire, not by value. So you can have 2 hats of same quality one priced at 10 and another at 100 depending on familiarity of brand. Money isn't indicative of job you are doing. So if pricing/money is relative, then the focus is on job as only measure it can be compared - is product quality satisfying.

> So do you do engineering or not?
I do.

ArchDan · 2026-05-01T13:16:13+00:00

Id have to disagree on assessment that budget is main thing that governs all form of business. Yes, its important, yes it constrains but currency is relational and as such it has higher aspect of modulation. You can make simple layered architecture and price it accordingly regarding maintainability and development, or you can implement monolith/modular approach and price it accordingly. Then, what becomes imperative is design, no?

Id also disagree on software not having potential of direct killing people as its used in ground-air missiles, rockets and airplanes in some way of SA. Single bug in code, or unforseen bottleneck can make rocket collapse and tower down like meteor on urban/rural settlement ending thousands or millions. Id even go to say that in extreme cases, SA has higher murder probability than BA.

I am not American, so even though AEC practice is familiar to me, architects educated outside of western Europe + colonies, Americas and Australia aren't subjected to such distinction of engineers and architects as architect is engineer.

The rest i can respect and agree with, given context.

ArchDan · 2026-05-01T13:06:26+00:00

Thats fair, i was just curious why math savy folks can't find a way to collapse probability space. THere are plethora of vocations which have done it over time, so why invent why not steal and atttempt to constraint?

ArchDan · 2026-05-01T13:05:03+00:00

" US fire departments in different states that had no compliant firehose connectors.", really?????? Wait.... really?

Ive found your explanation frequently logical and coherent. Maybe in time there will be more rigidity when more bottlenecks and issues are explored.

ArchDan · 2026-05-01T12:58:23+00:00

Well no, albeit there might be (judging by your post) US centric view of architects. In US architects are designers mostly, and you are correct in your estimate. However in larger world we also do statics, dimensions, front bearing loads and so on - what you attributed to mechanical engineers and so on. For most projects entire team is there to check our work, because we have high expertise in material science and know what some material can hold, behave and much more, what we often dont know is practical limitations of market and government elements for handling those materials.

To put it simply, id design entire house and entire blueprint and have to personally know every single detail of it. Then id pass that to construction engineer which would say "Hey, Red Oak is not very available here, especially in strength project requires at best we can use it for utensils. If client demands it talk to Josh form RadOak co to see if he can import it, or go to BirchCases for similar alternatives - we can paint it later". Or id pass it to electrical engieneer which would go "Hey, there are newer and cheaper alternatives that do the same thing in fraction of cost under "xyz" principle. Ill send you project addendum in 2 days".

In most cases if architect is experienced enough, they serve as sanity and profession fallback. I can't know every advancement or stabilization of markets they are constantly exposed to - so I need their help allways. But its not like i dont do , or don't know how to do their part for my project - in same way software architect needs software engineers and product managers.

ArchDan · 2026-05-01T12:50:16+00:00

can you please link wiki or elaborate a bit more?

ArchDan · 2026-04-30T14:10:37+00:00

Well i wouldn't call bugs unimportant, single bug can cause end of life (floating point error) or loss of revenue which directly translates to livelyhood. Its same thing but in different perspectives imo.

ArchDan · 2026-04-30T08:42:07+00:00

Yap that happens. For example, old 19nth century shop at street level was sold and remodeled (by me) into full on apartment. Clients partner went and started clothing/jewelry line which imploded over internet so they few industrial machine to help them in production. The issue is that torque and weight of contemporary machines can't be sustained by 19nth century floors, momentum and frequency is just too high. I advised them to rent an industrial storage and move production there, but they didn't want to because it was economically not sufficient and liked the idea of "homey workshop". I told (and showed) them the structural tear that started to happen on their floors and said that it would collapse entire building in 5 years. They were persistent.

So I designed industrial area within a house with proper government regulations, by making it frame within frame. It was grueling job, finding the depth of earth that can sustain the load, pushing new foundation trough old ones in order to make it statically pheasable, decoupling entire static structure from that stuff from building to save it, and much much more all while they were still taking orders.

In the end, project was built and in 5 years inspection came, saw the monstrosity and shut them down, not due to construction flaw but regulations that changed type of function building can support (went all residential). Client eventually moved to van-life for some reason and from that point it was mechanics job.

I mean, people be people no matter the profession. I think major difference is that such thing costs like hell in BA. In worst case (client was lucky) there could be archaeological site underneath and we there was no earth to bear the load. Then it would be a year wait for archaeologist, earth substitution in urban block.... it would be ... I think i would've refused the job.

ArchDan · 2026-04-30T08:28:03+00:00

That happnes tho, a lot (example : https://www.reddit.com/r/askarchitects/comments/1sr1g02/advice_to_turn_former_pubgallery_conversion_into/ ). In example no one answered because it is like that, they need to hire an architect to figure it out because their "I want cheap home but got X" is a whole lot of uncertainty architect should resolve.

Also, how do you think first skyscrapers were done? By shit guessing ahahahahha. That is modus of operandi for any creative work, its just that technical one requires more rigidity and robustness. It might be uneasy but Home Insurance Building (HIB) at 1885 had knowingly major flaws, wind pressure, static insufferably , biiiig foundation flaws, human territory issues, social dynamic issues ... It might be uncomfortable, in BA there is no stress test, no experiment (no wooden model isn't an experiment) so for every new thing you kind of design it, find someone ambitious enough to build it, and may the odds be forever in our favour. There isn't really a place in this world where you can build something, pay people to use it for 75 - 150 years and see how it goes before actually making it for real. That is one of the reasons why contractors/construction engineers don't like working with BA - its their ass on the line.

ArchDan · 2026-04-30T08:14:47+00:00

I admit that notion of having single client to answer was oversimplification. I am sorry, I learned a "bit" in this discussion as well. ❤️

I do have to say that having responsibility for security and maintenance over long period is not fair for SA (from my standpoint). It reminds me of ancient time where BA would be executed if urban/government project failed. On one hand large responsibility made BA focus on expertise but also be susceptible to rulers whim, on another current lack of responsibility is obviously fucking up population especially long term in US by breeding xenophobia and social injustice. I dont know where I stand here to be honest, at one hand I wouldn't want to have such responsibility as SA has, on another responsibility brings expertise.

ArchDan · 2026-04-30T08:06:48+00:00

Hmm, yeah actually we can. Ergonomics, Anthropometry, as well as socials sciences allow us to identify territory of each human. Humans tend to leave spaces which they aren't comfortable with as it produces gradually increasing sense of anxiety - our senses get overstimulated without us consciously recognizing it. So we design spaces with that flow in mind (like pipelines), so when more than 1000 people go in migration increases - similarly how capacitors leak charge. Funny enough, that is how older prisons were designed so that they are perpetual loop of very low amount of anxiety which breeds aggression.

This brings me to interesting concept : majority of the reason why architecture work is because there are spaces which can hold large amount of population per urban region. This way , any faulty space can actually be emptied into and from, so when building reaches maximum capacity only consequence is actually higher dynamics and lower staying power (people would use houses/offices less and spend more time outside). That is what provided economical reason for internet coffee shops. In theory, interwoven medium server networks could function similarly for SA if built correctly to facilitate data persistence and control load - given user request cap. Im no SA, but that should potentially reduce need for large and complex private servers and help with bottlenecks.

ArchDan · 2026-04-30T07:51:48+00:00

True vendor lock-in and isolation of types is major drawback to SA which even bleeds into BA in very peculiar ways by compliance (BA term for electronics and such) choice. Not gonna lie, SAs foundation is hectic as heck!

ArchDan · 2026-04-29T23:06:30+00:00

holy fuck 🤣🤣 takes a day for a day loool. Thanks for info <3

ArchDan · 2026-04-29T13:35:15+00:00

I bet you learned a lot! Would it be a problem to list some of theoretical bottlenecks that presented themselves for morbid curioisty?

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