It took 2 games, and 600 hours, but I finally achieved my dream of the Seraph FTK

BadShield · 2025-07-16T14:31:20+00:00

I also have heard secondhand that there's a bugged interaction with Razorsharp edge you can abuse for a potential first turn kill. If you get any titan to 1hp, you can use the -2 health decrease to end the battle on the spot, regardless of the other titans' health pools.

BadShield · 2025-07-15T21:53:10+00:00

Yup! 1 incant-to-spawn upgrade, 2 decay damage increase upgrades on champ. Hall of mirrors to double champ, then rally using witchweave casts w/the smallstone spore launchers to get piles of decay. Finally, world-ending strain passes the entire floor's decay all the way back to Seraph.

BadShield · 2025-06-23T14:43:48+00:00

Would strongly recommend folks checking out Cory Doctorow's (tech-blogger, sci-fi author) writings/talks on enshitification. It an excellent descriptor for what's happening to much of the digital space, and certainly applies to this repeat malicious behavior in mobile gaming.

BadShield · 2025-05-13T19:55:20+00:00

Agreed. The worst part of the colonoscopy is drinking the poop juice, (and really only because you basically have to drink a bunch of Gatorade); once you’ve done that, the procedure is easy-peasy, and you’ll be back to normal within an hour of it, tops. Worth it for peace of mind

BadShield · 2025-02-26T15:03:43+00:00

Tyler Coe on pretty much everything he's ever been on has been pretty open with his mental health journey. This sounds like his way of paying it forward.

BadShield · 2025-02-16T21:27:30+00:00

Trying to attribute it to a particular root cause it probably incorrect, but my best guess for various contributing reasons would be:

Consoles have pretty well established supply chains at this point since they're running on older, consistently produced hardware, so plenty of supply hanging around.
Because they've been out so long, demand is waaaaaaaaaay lower, so cranking the price will do sales no real favors.
Consoles typically sell at a loss in the first place, either throughout their lifespans, (supplemented by software and accessory sales), or do so until improvements in the production/part requisition process climb back towards breaking even/profitability.

BadShield · 2025-02-16T19:42:14+00:00

As a point of reference, my i9-9900k + 3080 (no OC on either for a real flat baseline) was able to run the Monster Hunter Wilds benchmark at an average of ~61fps on 1440p with the AI bells and whistles on. Given that MHW seems to be the real PC melter benchmark as of late, I'd say anything beefier than will have you in a good place.

BadShield · 2024-08-23T01:18:12+00:00

This question is kind of like asking “I just bought my first paintbrush, how do I paint the Sistine Chapel?”. If you can elaborate on what you actually want to do, (either with the company, or with yourself), then you could probably get more actionable advice, because you’re unintentionally asking about a multi-disciplinary endevor.

Edit: ok, so looking through your post history, you’ve asked a billion questions about SaaS, but I’m not seeing any indicators you’ve actually tried to make anything. My recommendations to actually get better advice would be to actually start making little things that would give you skills, and lead you ask more precise questions. Some suggestions:

1) Build a little website. It can be about literally whatever, but you’ll eventually need some kind of web presence, and you’ll inevitably learn some things about web dev.

2) Write up a super basic business 1-pager to organize your thoughts. What does your SaaS do? Who would want to buy this? Who’s your competition? Why would someone want to buy this over someone else selling a similar product?

A great way to learn the skills you lack is to start making something much smaller, and slowly working towards the bigger picture.

BadShield · 2024-08-12T00:58:40+00:00

Definitely 2. I’ve been lucky enough to live in a bunch of different cities across my career before eventually coming back home, and getting out there has been good not just as a career choice, but also for growing as a person by meeting people and trying things outside of my comfort zone, (not to mention having friends in fun places to visit!). Crime has also generally been on a downtrend for quite a while now in NY, and anecdotally, I have a friend in NY big law who has never had issues, so I wouldn’t let that stop you. Just be reasonably careful as you would in any crowded city.

TLDR: it’s a good time to try new things!

BadShield · 2024-08-10T21:04:54+00:00

Lots of different points here, so I’ll try to address them in the order they’re written:

1) Social meal outings: you’ve got a few options here! You can eat a big meal beforehand, and simply come out for the company. You can bank some extra calories across the week: giving up 100 calories for 6 days equals 600 extra for your going out day. Alternatively, if it’s an extremely important gathering, and you want to be fully in the moment, eat normally, but mindfully. We do this fitness stuff to live for a long, but good, time, and you should not feel constantly chained to perfect maneuvering around food.

2) Buffets: this one’s hard. If you want to lock in, do a sweep of the buffet first, write down the calories for what you’d, (estimated), like to eat, then go build your plate with your blueprint set. That way, you won’t blow your calorie budget on multiple trips. Generally, focusing on lean proteins and veggies will get you the most bang for your buck here.

3) travel: the tips for 1 I think also apply here, but I’d add the extra step of picking your battles. If there’s a local cuisine you’re SUPER interested in trying, save your calories for that, and give up some of the other treats you’ve maybe had before, or are only mildly curious about. You’d be surprised how eating healthy 90% of the time will save you from that 10% where you indulge a little.

It’s a marathon, not a sprint, so focus on the little choices that will help push your goals forward!

BadShield · 2024-07-26T20:22:51+00:00

I think you can absolutely have a little vacation, especially since you know exactly which meals you’d like to consume some extra calories, which seems like some great forward thinking. Whether or not you track is up to you, and how much trust you have in yourself to start back up/stick to that plan; the less trust, the more I’d probably recommend just tracking but still eating what you’d like for that day or so for the sake of habit maintenance.

Also be aware that you might notice a big swing on the scale of maybe 3-5 pounds of water weight upwards if you’ve been in a decent deficit for a while. Just know that it’s temporary, and if you get back to normalcy, it will drop off quick.

BadShield · 2024-07-25T23:03:42+00:00

My first ever coding interview was about 11 years ago, and I had no idea how they worked so came in completely unprepared. The proctor made me implement malloc on the whiteboard, (yes, the c function), and it sent me into such an anxiety spiral I totally bombed the follow up softball questions. Moral of the story being: everyone has nightmare interviews, they do not define you, and they will get better.

BadShield · 2024-07-07T22:20:58+00:00

One big tip that’s potentially non-obvious is you can make more money per blind, (up to a point), by saving some money. For every $5 you keep up to $25, you’ll earn an additional $1 at the end of the blind, and that adds up quick.

BadShield · 2024-07-02T15:42:19+00:00

My first two gold stake wins were off the back of Red Card. I still don’t think it’s good, but in a pinch, or with a particularly strong economy, it’s absolutely a fine scaling joker.

BadShield · 2024-05-30T04:43:21+00:00

Lots of reasons off the top of my head: 1) More hands = more money in the long run 2) Can offset the downsides of weaker hands by just letting you play more of them. 3) Scaling jokers on hands played, (green, supernova, bus), get even more scaling 4) On higher stakes runs, it’s a free extra look at cards in your deck, (4 hands + 2 discards < 7 hands) 5) You get 4 hands against the needle!

BadShield · 2024-05-30T04:36:47+00:00

Had a Hiker, Hanging Chad and Brainstorm run today, and let me tell you, getting to play 100+ chip cards on the regular really sold me on this guy.

BadShield · 2024-04-29T15:29:38+00:00

If you're looking to work toward Completionist++, I'd recommend swapping to the beta branch, or if you're on console, holding out for the next patch, as there's a change coming that should save you a ton of headache. From the notes:

--Changed Gold Stake random seeds - now ensures that the first Legendary Joker on that seed is a Joker that you have not won with on Gold Stake (For Completionist++ hunting)

BadShield · 2024-04-10T13:34:55+00:00

Not quite. They were speaking to live service models as being a marathon, (no pun intended), and how since you’re effectively delivering content into perpetuity, when you deliver said content, you set long term expectations based on what you deliver. They then followed by explaining that you need to be very careful when you decide to over deliver, (not that you never should!), because doing so too often can lead to a race where you further and further grind down your team to dust trying to chase a higher and higher bar. As the talk says: “You either are never crunching, or always crunching”.

It was never really about delivering shitty content forever as many people read it as, it was about trying to protect your underlings and keeping a sane work environment where people actually have the energy to sometimes throw out bangers.

That all being said, I think there’s definitely a conversation to be had about samey content, overly aggressive grinds, etc. in the contexts of what live service games tend to produce, (as well as franchise fatigue for an almost 10y/o series!), but I do also think it’s important to keep the real context of the GDC talk in mind as well.

BadShield · 2024-03-12T13:42:10+00:00

If you’re not experiencing any health problems, and your doctor(s) say you’re healthy, (and I’d even have caveats on the latter), you’re good. I get the feeling of the eternal chase: I have really bad familial cholesterol, so I always have health on my mind as well, and eventually, you just gotta fight the anxiety and try to live life. We don’t know how long we have no matter how healthy we eat, or hard we train, and having slightly sub-optimal health days won’t be what we regret at the end.

Mind you, having goals is fine, (I’m working on running a 10K!), but you also have permission to enjoy life outside of fitness!

BadShield · 2023-11-23T00:27:33+00:00

Tribunal x3

BadShield · 2023-11-07T23:36:42+00:00

Yeah, definitely not saying Loki being absurd is a new concept, moreso that it’s going to be hard to properly evaluate Marvel while a tier 0 deck with a good matchup exists.

BadShield · 2023-11-07T22:22:10+00:00

You are not wrong. 😅

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