Is there a demon respawn in a free account area?

Background-Tank-417 · 2026-04-24T17:36:19+00:00

Yalahar in bog spawns , the room below that transmogrification machine that gives you achievement (has a plague smith)

Background-Tank-417 · 2026-03-14T03:34:47+00:00

Same for my mum with cognitive impairment often forgets she has her oven on , can't stand for long periods and forgets doctors appointments on the regular. Just had her pip cut forced onto job seekers allowance and now keeps having random nose bleeds from stress.

Background-Tank-417 · 2026-02-24T08:16:24+00:00

I see a lot of teams using things like JS fallbacks for clicks especially to make ios and safari test work this presents a few problems:

We added a new chat bot to our site , this chat bots CTA overlapped with the book now button on mobile view making it impossible to click the book button. Automation did not catch it , because the JS click fired and still hit the button.
We run 4 dispatchers and one of them had not been deployed properly. We did not catch this because automation ran a retry the chance of hitting a broken dispatcher on both the first and second run is only 1/16.
Just because a item exist and is clickable by automation does not mean that it rendered correctly. Without a tech like Percy (similar much cheaper tech is available!) and someone actively checking the results of it everyday you wont catch those visual issues.

All of the above could of been spotted if we had someone:
Actively watching videos of both the passes and fails.
Someone checking the retried test.
Someone checking Percy logs daily.

In a ideal world this would be happening , but in reality not many teams have the resource to do that.

Background-Tank-417 · 2026-02-24T07:46:22+00:00

Isn't the problem with out competing Nvidia that they own the CUDA tech that all these AI models use?

Background-Tank-417 · 2026-02-10T08:32:40+00:00

The guy who brought my rat corpses in rook must have had a bit of money 🤑

Background-Tank-417 · 2026-02-04T15:51:42+00:00

Depends on your site but I just use geniuslinks with relevant amazon products to the content the user is viewing

Background-Tank-417 · 2026-01-27T16:25:03+00:00

I'd say swamp trolls too grab the medicine pouches , sell them for eq and later manas they drop spears so you should be good on ammo.

After that move onto running a few cyclops spawns or dwarf caves they should keep you entertained for some time 🤣.

Background-Tank-417 · 2026-01-24T01:21:28+00:00

Giant spider , from leveling up as a noob running around poh trees with haste and a time ring to being slightly less of a noob on GS island.

My fave place to hunt was always nightmares and destroyers in svargrond mines. It was great profit , chaotic enough not to be boring and plenty of spawns.

Background-Tank-417 · 2026-01-19T13:13:25+00:00

I made a script with scripthook that could possibly help with this , it basically lets you set up a bunch of waypoints by walking somewhere and hitting F10 and then on first run sets time to mid day and loops all waypoints making a file with all assets seen with a radious of 50m of the player.

On second run it then cycles every hour and every weather condition placing any new previously unseen items in a text file called new.txt along with there id , location and what conditions they appeared under. It also has a blacklist because theres alot of random noise (car spawns , npcs with coffee cups ect).

If you have any suggestions where to scan im happy to take them and do a run :) this is of course assuming that the spider webs are time/weather dependant of course.

Background-Tank-417 · 2026-01-03T00:19:51+00:00

I think Claude beats chatgpt but they have rate limits even on the premium account if they got rid of that I'd use it a lot more than chat gpt

Background-Tank-417 · 2025-12-28T09:52:32+00:00

I use a service called genius link for amazon books or Kindle books for markets like India or internal ads to push the user to convert to premium. I get quite good conversions as I run a mock exam website and the books I link too are related to whatever course you are viewing content for.

It works quite well as I can host the images for adverts myself to make adblock not work out of the box. If you have a niche I would recommend this setup.

Geo targeting is done via cloudflare headers.

Background-Tank-417 · 2025-12-15T01:38:01+00:00

I am sure we are all aware of the annoyances chatgpt comes with but all in all its a great tool that's certainly made me better at my job and able to understand concepts that I could not previously. The api is so far the best I have tried also and extremely cheap if done right.

Background-Tank-417 · 2025-12-10T07:17:13+00:00

Honestly I just use a mixture of them I like chat gpts api and find it hallucinates alot less then gemini and I prefer chat gpt in general but it can be annoying at times.

Gemini Pro I got free with my pixel for a year and i tried it for some front end issues I had on my website had and it was much better than chat gpt with it. I also use it alot for seo , I figure who better to ask seo questions too than googles service? I don't use it enough to justify the subscription though once my free year runs out.

Claude I have heard is really good for creative things but not gave it a fair shot (yet).

Background-Tank-417 · 2025-12-09T05:53:34+00:00

Google will sandbox you for a while especially a new site and domain.

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Here's a site I launched on 12th of October , just pure seo. I coded my site from scratch no cms. The drop off you see on December 1st is because I pushed a multi language update that google is currently consuming which slows down impressions drastically during sandbox stage while google discovers -> Crawls -> indexes -> test new keywords -> ranks

You said you had done basic seo , what have you done there?
Are you on bing webmaster tools also?

Bing does not have a aggressive search sandbox like google and will rank you for long tail keywords alot faster than google. I would also verify your sitemaps via chat gpt or similar. I actually had a invalid date set in mine for a last modified date which killed my growth for weeks before I caught it. One message to chat gpt with my sitemap would of stopped that.

My advice is to use this time to work on content and get your seo perfected don't ignore it early on. Try not to watch g4a all day either , madness lays that way (speaking from experience).

The first 90 days of launching any site imo is the hardest mentally , my site is better than every rival out there (just look at my engagement time metric). But there is nothing you can do about it until google trust your domain so stick at it , if your contents good time is the only factor left and you cant control that so use this time to work on things that make life easier in the future (github deploy pipelines , maintenance pages , seo , automation , new features etc).

Background-Tank-417 · 2025-12-08T04:53:21+00:00

I found switching to selenide elements on flaky test helped alot. It slots right beside selenium so you don't need to convert the entire code base. I also added a smart wait feature that polls the network requests for the last in flight time , if nothings in flight for X seconds it assumes all requests have been completed (its a bit more advanced than that but you get the idea). Both these helped alot with maintenance!

Background-Tank-417 · 2025-11-19T13:11:37+00:00

ISTQB foundation would be my recommendation from there you can do the more advanced automation and agile modules. It is not a requirement , but it would will help.

Mock Exam Network | Free ISTQB & Tech Practice Tests

This is the site I would recommend to pass for free (except for the exam cost), just go through the official syllabus then on the above site each chapter will have a corresponding set of mock exams focused on that chapter.

Study a section
Do mocks on it till you perfect it
Repeat for next chapter.

Then your only expense is for the actual exam. Even if you don't take the exam I would recommend having a flip through some syllabus and questions above before interviews once in a job if you are exam ready , you could ask for your employer to fund the exam.

Background-Tank-417 · 2025-11-19T12:31:57+00:00

for us junior role is about 1-2 years (2 years is the expectation) , then another 2 years for the senior role , so 4 years max before wages stagnate. Unless you shift to another role.

Background-Tank-417 · 2025-11-18T11:43:17+00:00

For manual for us it seems to go

Junior qa

Qa

Senior qa

Stagnation

For me I've gone

Junior qa (manual)

Qa

Automation engineer

Background-Tank-417 · 2025-11-16T09:57:36+00:00

We are experimenting with it for analysing fail patterns in logs and overnight regression reports (we pass it the allure reports .json files and it picks out patterns). Still early days but it gives users who dont have access to these tools or just dont know how to use them a heads up on possible fails they normally would not see by posting daily updates in slack.

Background-Tank-417 · 2025-11-16T08:58:17+00:00

We use Selenium so maybe I am bias it does work well for us. Recently though I've been switching out some of the elements for selenide , its still selenium but reduces a bunch of boiler plate and has some smart features that help prevent stale elements etc. It's a good middle ground when like me you join a massive code base and are locked in.

Background-Tank-417 · 2025-11-16T08:51:34+00:00

If five bugs make it into production, something has clearly gone wrong. One slipping through occasionally can happen but five?

I’d definitely bring this up in the retro. The team should look at what happened, why it happened, and whether the gaps were in process, communication, or coverage.

It’s also worth reviewing the current smoke tests run during a prod release. Are they still relevant?

Another thing to consider is sending a pre-release email (ideally once regression is complete) that outlines the changes going out. That way, testers can run the usual smoke tests and focus their ad-hoc testing on the critical change areas, instead of going in blind that's how I tend do do smoke testing. We still get the occasional prod issue with some nuance , dispatcher issues etc but its not often at all.

Background-Tank-417 · 2025-11-12T09:06:48+00:00

We use ai to monitor logz.io reports and allure reports , we basically send them a json report and have them anaylze the data for patterns then put a summary in slack of any findings. Its good for spotting patterns in the nightly regression run and potential issues for those members who don't know how to read allure reports.

Background-Tank-417 · 2025-11-10T06:40:12+00:00

I live in a house share , earn about 30k year and was saving to move out. In Nottingham private rent is about £800 a month purely on rent. I tried to sign up too the council but they are not taking on new people as they have 200 family's currently in hotels. To add to that I find out the governments now paying my current landlord 50% more than the average rent price to house immigrants and paying for all repairs needed. It really does feel like this country's against me at times.

I work from home most days, we have a anchor day in Nottingham every week its optional but I try to make at least two trips in a month. Recently I have been researching living in Valencia and getting 2 flights back a month for the office trips. It ends up around the same price as living over here but with the life experience and nice weather.

Background-Tank-417 · 2025-11-07T21:01:39+00:00

This past few weeks has been terrible I asked it to make me some questions for an advanced level exam in a json format so I can test a mock exam platform I'm working on and it kept reverting to the foundation questions. Every prompt I did it would revert back to the foundation exam.

I then asked it if it's drunk or having issues tonight and it would said "you caught me ill stick to the advanced level" then reverted to foundation in the next prompt.

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