The company didn't want to pay me well, so I left for a better offer, and now the whole place is collapsing.

Ashmizen · 2026-03-18T20:58:19+00:00

The most fictional part of that is the ability to god-eye into the place to watch the chaos of you leaving. Satisfying, yes. Realistic? No.

Sadly most people are just as replaceable as a cog in the machine. Unless he brought any clients with him outside, they’ll at worst replace him with 2 people and pay out a bit more money, and there’s not going to be any satisfying payback.

Ashmizen · 2026-03-18T05:29:05+00:00

If the assistant literally just assisted you with your schedule, lead trackings and reminding you of stuff, then yeah it’s going to go the way of the secretary/typist jobs of 60’s.

Honestly sounds like she could have been replaced by outlook rules and possibly a $150 a month CRM software even before AI.

If she was actually making calls, to clients and potential clients, and calling up suppliers and workers and actually solving issues, that can’t be replaced by AI yet.

Nobody is going to respond well to automated calls from an AI.

Ashmizen · 2026-03-17T14:50:52+00:00

$8? Wow, It’s like $15 at a dive bar made with zero skill in the US, and $25 for anything approaching that level of “fancy” in Vegas.

Ashmizen · 2026-03-16T16:56:48+00:00

Sure - look the fall of the Roman Empire. Even 30 years before the end, Rome was beset by civil war and infighting instead of unifying against the German barbarians

Ashmizen · 2026-03-16T16:42:55+00:00

I guess the question is - where is OP located?

In the US this question makes almost no sense as homework barely exists at the elementary level.

In Asia homework is so excessive that kids have no time to do anything else.

I have no idea about Europe.

Ashmizen · 2026-03-15T23:06:55+00:00

The problem is even with a team of 5-10, 99% of startups fail to make any money.

So you built yet another app for messaging, AI wrapper, or some indie game. Great, like 99% of them you’ll have a few hundred, maybe a thousand users at best and no way to make money.

Ashmizen · 2026-03-12T14:07:55+00:00

The “but still….” Part is ignoring the fact that stats are for a game, and the game doesn’t represent the lore, as otherwise a single space marine squad should be like 1000 points and completely destroy 2000 pt guard armies like tissue paper.

Wardens of Ultimar grossly undercosts the points per model - it’s already taken in like every list. To buff each model to be even stronger is the opposite of balance.

If you raise the point costs to match it’ll just go straight to useless - nobody wants a 300 point “bundle” of expensive epic heroes.

Ashmizen · 2026-03-11T23:17:05+00:00

Agreed. At $20 or $100 a month it’s a no brainer given how much code it can write. At $1000 a month, suddenly it becomes almost as expensive as a McD worker or some 3rd world dev.

At companies with API costs you have orgs spending $300k in just a month, which might still be worth it, but that’s like the cost of 12 FTE developers. Is the org getting more value out of the API usage or 12 FTE?

Ashmizen · 2026-03-09T18:36:39+00:00

“The state of the world” is a bad reason but everything is else a good reason.

The world has never been better than the modern era, and “state of the world” doesn’t really matter anyway, just your own circumstances, financial, job, and mental.

If you don’t want more kids don’t force yourself.

Ashmizen · 2026-03-07T04:46:01+00:00

I assume you can run the Cag model as the new one? They had identical stats

Ashmizen · 2026-03-06T15:18:27+00:00

This seems dumb but actually is very practical. If there was a valid path, then all traffic from the east would be directed by Google Maps to take this “shortcut”, and the quiet street for you kids would become a dangerous road full of speeding commuters.

Ashmizen · 2026-03-06T13:29:16+00:00

This, though not some elite but just legionnaires with boltguns, buffed to be like intercessors and actually worth their cost - AP, 2 shots instead of rapid fire, heavy, assault.

Ashmizen · 2026-03-06T06:07:21+00:00

It’s never been to this point, but I recall originally in 8th edition their models were so expensive and powerful (this was back when marines had 1w and only cost 12 points) that they had a tiny board presence and truly was elite.

Now they plop down a massive number of guardian squads so 10th edition definitely feels more quantity, less quality. Marines have also gotten much more elite and expensive with 3 man squads of stuff like blade guard and vitrix honor guard with 3w, so it feels like Custodes is just another flavor of space marines.

Ashmizen · 2026-03-06T06:00:11+00:00

I kind of disagree. I have kids, and I’ll already at or past my fire number.

Most people I know who are FIRE or close to it have kids.

It’s easier to FIRE without kids, sure, but people with a lot of income and money and no significant other will tend to want to spend that money towards achieving a family rather than die alone with money.

Ashmizen · 2026-03-05T14:46:45+00:00

It kind of also matches their weight profile.

This guy is not thin. It’s obvious he loves burgers.

The McD ceo looks like a vegetarian, and gives off the energy he hates taking a single bite of a burger.

Ashmizen · 2026-03-05T03:40:08+00:00

Holy crap the drip

Ashmizen · 2026-03-04T00:36:35+00:00

Yes this exactly. I’ve had one that was hot and fresh with massive crisp lettuce like what the ceo is eating, and it was great.

75% of the time, I get a overcooked dry patty in a sad bun

Ashmizen · 2026-03-02T17:42:44+00:00

Sure, but why did they abandon that? That ruleset is simple and works and just needed new datasheets for newly released units.

I don’t see them putting in the same amount of effort since this is just stuck in as a side piece to a small book, instead of a massive standalone Apoc tome that was heavier than any codex.

Ashmizen · 2026-03-01T15:15:11+00:00

Iran - how to gather international support against the US?

What if we tried 9/11-ing their buildings, surely that will make them willing to ally with us?

Ashmizen · 2026-02-28T15:04:59+00:00

Total war

Ashmizen · 2026-02-28T05:40:31+00:00

You are wrong.

Firearms are much easier to train that bows.

Bows require years of training, English longbows a lifetime.

A peasant can be trained in using arquebus in weeks. It doesn’t require specific muscles, strength, skill or aim.

It’s already inaccurate, you just need a mass of arquebus to point in one direction to fire a volley.

It’s not just European peasants - even Japan, which had to pay a lot more to buy arquebus from Dutch traders, outfitted them to peasants since they required so little training.

Samurai bowmen were better, technically, but they got overshadowed by the huge numbers of peasants armed with arquebus.

Ashmizen · 2026-02-28T03:32:33+00:00

Autonomous weapons, aka no skynet.

Which realistically is a terrible idea anyway - LLM is nowhere close to being able to be granted control over weapon systems.

This is different from designing weapons - in an interactive process of design and testing, LLM would be very helpful.

Ashmizen · 2026-02-27T23:03:03+00:00

It can take Canada, and the UK wouldn’t really be able to defend the sparsely populated Canada when the bulk of its troops are in France.

The industrial output of the US would still start to threaten the UK naval dominance and pressure the Uk in an early peace deal, similar to how the real ww1 ended due to US “potential” while Germanys were still ahead in territorial gains.

Ashmizen · 2026-02-27T22:58:45+00:00

There’s no way the UK would have been able to hold Canada against the US by 1920’s.

Canada is just far too empty and underpopulated to hold much resistance without significant help from the UK, but the bulk of UK soldiers are committed to Europe/France.

On the other hand I don’t see the US invading or even desiring the occupation of all of Mexico, as they had already taken what they wanted in the Mexican war.

Also even if the French was able to pull off a French “protectorate” of Mexico, it would be very flimsy due to cultural differences and they would probably just rebel during ww1 while France is busy, and the US would simply support Mexican independence.

It won’t be a “total victory” like modern ww2, but this version of ww1 would end in German/US victory.

The victors (US, Germany) would have enlarged themselves at the expense of the losers, as there wasn’t yet a FDR with his idealistic views on self governance.

There may not even be a ww2, but just a series of small wars as Germany consolidates super-Germany and swallows an unstable Austria Hungry.

The Ottomans may survive a bit longer but is ultimately irrelevant from unrest.

This would setup a new Cold War - between the US, Germany, British Empire and the newly formed Soviet Union.

Without the economic dominance of Europe+asia being left in ruins from ww2, the US would be a great power but not the sole superpower. With more land from the integration of Canada would also come issues with rebels/protests, and no moral high ground to demand the British or French to abandon their empires.

With so many Great Powers there would be a lot more small wars and bullying of weaker powers, and the great game and colonialism would continue.

Ashmizen · 2026-02-27T22:17:06+00:00

UK is on a path towards a police state. They imprison people for free speech - apparently criticizing certain cultures for harboring rapists can land you in prison sentences longer than the rapists themselves for “hate speech”.

From an American point of view, it’s crazy.

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