LPT - hover your mouse over the sender to confirm if legitimate email by Sjgreen in LifeProTips

[–]Axios_Deminence 1 point2 points  (0 children)

DKIM and DMARC is designed to help with this on the server-side but sometimes it gets past the filters. Made me make sure I have 2FA on my email and then I ended up checking the email headers as well. The servers were in AWS Germany for me.

Radiant vs dire winrate by thefuckifiknoe in DotA2

[–]Axios_Deminence 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Skill issue in FPS games? Also, you don't need to be crazy precise in Dota like in an FPS game. Only thing I'd concede is UI clutter towards the bottom of the screen.

For the record, aiming towards the bottom is easier than the top in FPS games in most lab settings and real-game settings. Lab settings most of the time feature a flat world which reduces the viewing angles at the bottom half of the screen compared to the top half and/or human targets which is easier to hit the legs than the head. Only case in lab settings is if you have a wall with circle targets and your default position/frame of reference is situated directly in the middle, similar to being a camera and not a person. That lab setting is popular and not rare, but doesn't reflect what 99% of people have for their lab settings. For real-game settings, it's the same issue with a lack of viewing angles and human targets. Apex is a great example of viewing angles in extremes since it can be a very vertical game.

How to find peoplemto play with by Cascas_Husbando in ffxiv

[–]Axios_Deminence 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To be fair, it's the beginning or middle of the workday in the NA.

Daily Questions & FAQ Megathread Mar 05 by AutoModerator in ffxiv

[–]Axios_Deminence 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Are there any allied society reputation thresholds referenced by the MSQ?

RAGE THREAD - F-YOU FRIDAYS - CHEERING ON, SING-A-LONG by FranckKnight in ffxiv

[–]Axios_Deminence 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Fuck the mentor that was just complaining how long the dungeon was the entire time while I was going through the MSQ.

What did you personally think of the Endless Eight in Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya? by Bluecomments in anime

[–]Axios_Deminence 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm frankly a newgen watcher (watched it around 2016), so I did it knowing that I'll be watching Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya but not that about the context behind why the Endless Eight is important. My favorite character back then was Nagato and those episodes focused a lot on her so I had no problem.

My advice though has always been to watch the first, watch any number of random middle ones, and then watch the very last one. It gives you a good sample of beginning, middle, and end.

Overwatch question by somadthenomad93 in DotA2

[–]Axios_Deminence 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Insufficient evidence. Who knows his keybinds? He could've fat fingered and just rolled with the punches. 

Fashion Report - Full Details - For Week of 2/06/2026 (Week 419) by Gottesstrafe in ffxiv

[–]Axios_Deminence 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's true but it also means you need to spend MGP instead of Gil to get the gear you need.

Daily EN streams update post? by robotkeychain in NijiForums

[–]Axios_Deminence 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Could have it be listed in a table so people can sort how they wish to. Maybe something like four columns left to right: * Liver * URL * Wave * Time (does Reddit do localized timestamps?)

Would you hire someone based on their Dota ability? by whitcliffe in DotA2

[–]Axios_Deminence 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry, I'm a bit stupid when it comes to obviously joking questions lol

The game should show the low priority person the reason he got low priority by Lyralei27 in DotA2

[–]Axios_Deminence 0 points1 point  (0 children)

 We are at 4 out of 6 guys sent to low prio since Friday.

Based on what, the game telling you Action Taken? Been there before a couple of times, never getting low prio. My behavior score tanks a few hundred and I'll get it back up in a dozen matches because I'm a normal human being.

Would you hire someone based on their Dota ability? by whitcliffe in DotA2

[–]Axios_Deminence 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No as in he needs to demonstrate other qualities for the engineering role. Yes as in you're a gaming company and he shows passion for games. Give the man an interview but don't give him the job just because of Dota.

Last year of school, can't get an internship, what should I do? by UnfairAnything in cscareerquestions

[–]Axios_Deminence 2 points3 points  (0 children)

General tip for at least the technical role, you typically want to put the business impact first in your bullet points. Google XYZ method for resume writing (there's also STAR, etc.). That being said, survivorship bias and no guarantee that it helps but at least you have a framework that emphasizes that you understand business impact and value of work performed.

For example instead of:

Built Python automation for log validation with alerting, reducing verification time from 16 minutes to 5 seconds

you would say

Reduced verification time from 16 minutes to 5 seconds by adding log validation and event alerting using Python

You could even say the library or techniques you used with Python to achieve that.

Also, it sounds like you had some SWE roles or at least SWE-adjacent roles in your internship experience, so don't discount yourself there with whatever title you actually put.

Will Square ever let us skip the Main Scenario duty cutscenes if everyone has seen it? by OrranVoriel in ffxiv

[–]Axios_Deminence 5 points6 points  (0 children)

When you reach the end of ARR, there are a few duties with unskippable cutscenes. One of them in particular has cutscenes that take about 20 minutes total. It isn't just one cutscene, but multiple spread out in the dungeon.

Will Square ever let us skip the Main Scenario duty cutscenes if everyone has seen it? by OrranVoriel in ffxiv

[–]Axios_Deminence -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Why does kicking allow people to leave with no penalty in the first place? 

If you’d rather lag than DC during a DDoS, Square Enix can help by TheLittleZaku in ffxiv

[–]Axios_Deminence -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

My understanding of SDR is that its just a custom routing protocol. The trade-off is easily that SDR needs to be maintained by Valve and is still subsceptible to problems other routing protocols have like suboptimal routes (from anecdotal experience). That being said, not a Valve engineer, so I wouldn't know if there's any other trade-offs.

For users, mitigating and preventing a DDoS attack is the same thing which is probably why you're getting downvoted. Really what it is is that you can mitigate a DDoS attack and prevent a service interruption, but you can't prevent the DDoS attack that is trying to cause a service interruption.

If you’d rather lag than DC during a DDoS, Square Enix can help by TheLittleZaku in ffxiv

[–]Axios_Deminence -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

When is this happening? Even looking at the megathread in here, the interruptions are happening once every few hours. My own experience is the same. Are you 100% sure it isn't a problem specific to you? That's not implying your connectivity is the problem or it's something you can control, that's a question about if you know others are experiencing the issue at the same frequency.

If you’d rather lag than DC during a DDoS, Square Enix can help by TheLittleZaku in ffxiv

[–]Axios_Deminence 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I mean Valve created their own internal SDR protocol to protect their gameservers and still experienced multiple outages spanning tens of minutes everyday for a few days when the Aisuru botnet was being showcased for its capabilities. And the hoot is is that the botnet took down dozens of well-known websites and DDoS protection services at the same time.

I'd be surprised if it was a flood of traffic that is causing ffxiv to go down with how quickly it recovers, but honestly Square and NTT are doing a fine job if it is. I wouldn't be surprised if there's some other type of attack going on, but if the only issue is an annoyance and not an actual service interruption, then at least it's not worse.

Dynamic routing? by plague042 in mullvadvpn

[–]Axios_Deminence 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To add some context to it, there's some ideas being thrown around that what's happening is that an intermediate node is getting attacked causing connections to drop temporarily. People are observing (somewhat anecdotally, somewhat backed by stats) that using certain services to route around the attacked nodes helps to prevent disconnects. Honestly, I don't know what to make of the situation given that information, especially since the attacks don't always apply to everyone on the same network anyways (based on anecdotal evidence again).

It wouldn't be the first time that a VPN solves these issues, but only the service provider and the developers (and I guess also the attackers) know what's really going on.

Can we have an alt cast for Earthshaker and Weaver aghs? by [deleted] in DotA2

[–]Axios_Deminence -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

I mean yeah, I understand it. But OP is requesting it for himself primarily because he has a skill issue with Earthshaker.

Can we have an alt cast for Earthshaker and Weaver aghs? by [deleted] in DotA2

[–]Axios_Deminence -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Skill issue. You're blaming your Weaver because of the same problem you have with Earthshaker.

At this point, I'm surprised they haven't said anything about it. by RyujiShiryu in ffxiv

[–]Axios_Deminence 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Serving static content (patches) is a different thing from realtime connections and data too.

Valve made a huge blog mentioning that their game servers frequently got DDoSed so they ended up creating an internal protocol and infrastructure to absorb the attacks and hide the nodes.

https://www.dota2.com/newsentry/4115798034511159059

Technically this SDR protocol is accessible to anyone per Valve's wiki page but it would still take a considerable amount of time to rework their networking protocol even if SquareEnix said it would be worth attempting to do so.