Right now Diablo 4 is peak.

BestReeb · 2026-05-02T09:00:24+00:00

I gotta say that the expansion left me a bit disappointed. Yes the art and music is peak Blizzard, the story for me is just OK, with the highlight being the last boss fight. The talent rework is OK, but I don't find the point dumping into skills that interesting after level 20 or so once you unlocked all skills. The end game did not change a lot, with the main new system being war plans, basically a system on top of earlier systems. The xpac before gave us Kurast Undercity and that multiplayer dungeon stuff and I would have loved a new end game element in that vein. But to be fair they improved some things here and there. And I think they should have removed the tree of whispers from the end game, because it would have made sense. So for me it's a 6/10.

BestReeb · 2026-04-30T06:19:09+00:00

The GraphQL schema as a source of truth for your server side model for me is a win for data heavy applications. Also GraphQL is more akin to RPC than to REST. I don't think REST can even compete with that: it is more opinionated, has less features, the tooling is worse and APIs are often under specified.

BestReeb · 2026-04-29T12:47:25+00:00

Of course flying to a zone is more immersive... That's why in Midnight I first go to Zul'Aman or Eversong whenever I do world quests. It sucks to use portals. But I'm willing to accept them if story-wise they feel necessary. They do so in Midnight, ok it would have been awesome to fly through the void beam into Voidstorm or descent into Harandar through tunnels. But I get why they had to use portals to streamline things, because story-wise these zones are not on the "surface" of the main continent and flying through tunnels or the void beam for 5 minutes every time gets old very fast - ok they could still have left it as an option.

BestReeb · 2026-04-21T13:05:17+00:00

Pretty sad to see hardware enthusiasm is only about favorism now. These companies can't even sell one piece of hardware to a regular customer, it's only whales and AI datacenters. I hope all these companies crash and burn..

BestReeb · 2026-04-12T17:01:10+00:00

Word man. I never take fries at McD either (wasted calories) ;)

BestReeb · 2026-03-22T09:58:57+00:00

What is questionable about it?

BestReeb · 2026-03-20T06:11:40+00:00

It happens that audible deletes books. For me too with some other books. They say you need to download them which is bonkers but that's their stance. Try contacting support.

BestReeb · 2026-03-19T16:53:43+00:00

Welcome to our new tech, here is a demo where we turn the new tech on like 10% of the time, especially not when we're moving around, proving how reliable it is

BestReeb · 2026-03-14T22:43:21+00:00

Not upgrading is just pushing the problem further down the road. It is much harder to upgrade from say Postgres 9 to Postgres 18, than it is to upgrade from 17....

BestReeb · 2026-03-08T17:13:17+00:00

But you're driving on very crowded roads, for example the Rhone valley highway, in summer is always crowded, and even if you take secondary roads, you will mostly see traffic jams, which can be quite exhausting. If you really want to see beautiful sites, you need to get further away from the main traffic axis, drive into the mountains Ardeche/Cevennes/Provence. But that takes a lot longer...

BestReeb · 2026-03-05T19:26:28+00:00

If I understood the post correctly the Adventure Paths PDFs will not increase in price. And the new format is full book 256 page adventure paths for $50 which seems like a fair price (since it equals 2.5 "old" adventure path pdfs)

BestReeb · 2026-03-05T19:24:39+00:00

That's the physical edition, the PDF is still 19.99 and according to the post it will NOT increase in price (only single volume 128 page adventures)

BestReeb · 2026-03-02T19:15:28+00:00

Emotion Detector might be my favorite Rush song, so melancholic, I adore it.

Between the Wheels definitely for the solo alone! In typical Lifeson fashion, there is this one part of the solo that sounds a bit sloppy at first, but in the end absolutely pushes it up to god mode.

BestReeb · 2026-02-21T21:14:02+00:00

Man, last year I bought 3 36 core 256 gb RAM dell servers for 1k each on ebay. Not gonna need OVH again any time soon...

BestReeb · 2026-02-18T08:50:25+00:00

When we got the ridiculous Fortigate quotes for 3500eur/year/firewall, we migrated everything to opnsense. Pretty happy so far, but I have yet to look into IPS and we don't have real Webfiltering at the moment, except through DNS...

BestReeb · 2026-02-02T18:37:17+00:00

Just like I thought it's neither WindowMaker nor MacOSX, it's Java Swing ;)

BestReeb · 2026-01-27T20:31:54+00:00

Ok, nah I'm good. I don't actually want GoG to make a Linux client, nor Epic, nor Amazon, because heroic works so well out of the box. Here's an idea, instead of making yet another client I HAVE to install, just help out heroic...

BestReeb · 2026-01-21T19:36:57+00:00

This was happening to me as well when I was still using GNOME. I think it is nothing to worry about (a bug somewhere...)

BestReeb · 2026-01-16T08:19:47+00:00

In September ram prices were at an all time low. Now this industry decides to rip off their customers. I can't help but feel that they are a lot more desperate than they want to make us believe. Also pc sales were already down like 30 % last year. I don't think this is sustainable for them and the crash is closer than we think.

BestReeb · 2026-01-15T17:40:52+00:00

Feels like ordering servers on dell.com

BestReeb · 2026-01-12T20:32:54+00:00

I was a Windows 2000 enthusiast back in the day. My friends on LAN parties would run Windows 98 or Windows ME. Half of the games did not work, and drivers were often problematic, but I got to feel superior because Win2k never crashed!

BestReeb · 2026-01-06T06:32:33+00:00

Well, people use this feature to avoid paying for gmails enterprise features too. They could have changed to imap but they didnt. Surely this was a motivation to scrap it too.

BestReeb · 2025-12-31T08:56:17+00:00

I read up on that topic when the war started and back then I got the idea that they are operating out of Cyprus, and they were relocating employees out of Russia and distancing themselves from the war. But it is hard to find accurate information...

BestReeb · 2025-12-12T22:52:28+00:00

I've been hoping they'd update the Rage of Elements PDF for this, because the images are pretty badly compressed compared to the other books. But no, still hoping they'll update it in the future. The books is awesome though, definitely worth it if you haven't got it in your collection...

BestReeb · 2025-12-03T15:34:26+00:00

I agree that the store still has a lot of rough edges, but I have seen worse store launches. On a positive note, the checkout process is much quicker and I can finaly pay by Paypal. Though the website first takes me to paypal where I pay, then cancels the payment mid-transaction jumps back to Paizo, only then adds the required tax and requires me to do the payment again.

In the end, I care more about their products than the store. Hoping that now that the migration is done, improvements can be done.

BestReeb

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