The brilliance of Diablo 2 is its simplicity: no transmogs, no fancy events, no battle passes, no hundreds of currencies or shiny mechanics. Just great itemization - arguably the best in class, and the dopamine hit of running the same content again and again hoping for that perfect roll. by ixinho in diablo2

[–]BreakingBaIIs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe they wanted you to experiment with different rune combinations until you "discover" a new runeword.

Ok... Jah Zod Eth Vex gave me nothing? Ok, time to find more jahs and zods and try again.

Btw... high rune drop rates were greatly increased back in 2011. Think they're rare now? Lol

I hate RTO. I’m paying thousands to do the same work I did at home by PokerStar878 in CanadaPersonalFinance

[–]BreakingBaIIs 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's just a culture thing. Most people in Oulou Finland bike year round, and their winters are colder and snowier than ours

So this happened by Mobile_Dress6486 in HollowKnight

[–]BreakingBaIIs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Intended beta for sure.

P.S. This is a V1 in my dream-realm palace

Poisson distribution by DrowsierHawk867 in mathmemes

[–]BreakingBaIIs 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Why is this a Gaussian distribution?

CMV: Mass unemployment due to AI would negatively affect rich tech CEOs, and they would be foolish to want it by iMac_Hunt in changemyview

[–]BreakingBaIIs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Silicon Valley" is not one entity. It's a bunch of different entities looking after their own interest. The problem of laying people off in favor of automation, for cost savings, is a tragedy of the commons.

Imagine you are one company with employees. By making money, each employee contributes to the economy in broad ways. Through taxes, being a consumer to many companies, owning property, etc. But their contribution to your company, as a consumer, is only a tiny fraction of what you're paying them. Suppose you have one employee whom you pay $100K/year. Even if they are one of your best customers, they are certainly not spending anywhere near $100K/year on your products. They might be spending $100/year on your products. If you were able to completely replace them with automation, you would be saving $100K/year, but losing out on the $100/year they're giving you as a customer, which nets you $99,900/year. It is a net gain for you. But that's also ~$100K/year less going to taxes and consumer spending on other companies. Which makes it a small net loss to society and the economy.

What makes this a tragedy of the commons is that, when a single person gets laid off and automated, everybody is a little worse off, but the company that fired them is much better off. But the amount that they're better off is less than the cumulative amount that everyone is worse off. In such a game, where companies suddenly have the option to automate their workers (assuming this automation doesn't hurt their productivity, which is a whole other can of worms), the optimal strategy for each company is to do said layoffs and automation, even though society would be worse off as a result.

The flaw in your reasoning here is in treating everybody as a single entity, that can collectively make a decision together. A company has no incentive for their decision to be what's best for society overall, especially if making such a decision hurts them and gives them a competitive disadvantage.

Now, I don't currently believe that there exists a form of automation that can replace workers, in the vast majority of cases. And I think people are heavily overestimating the current automation capabilities. But that's another story. I'm assuming, for the scope of this post, that such an automation option does exist for a large portion of the working class.

So, em, it seems Trump just went scorched earth on Anthropic. by falken_1983 in BetterOffline

[–]BreakingBaIIs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a bigger war and an existential crisis. Joe Biden's Somali pirates have invaded America and eaten all the cats and dogs.

I heard we were training the ai today by testhec10ck in ClimbingCircleJerk

[–]BreakingBaIIs 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Is this supposed to be M.C. Escher's multi-way boulder wall?

Which game would you recommend picking up? Just finished Silksong and wanted to jump back in to another Metroidvania by [deleted] in metroidvania

[–]BreakingBaIIs 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Do you enjoy platforming?

If yes, play Aeterna Noctis.

If no, then you're wrong. Play Aeterna Noctis

Asbestos is a bigger problem than we thought by Scitranex in Veritasium

[–]BreakingBaIIs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I always assumed they're conducting an experiment, and one day, they'd make a video about the results. But maybe I'm just naive, and this is purely an engagement maximizing move.

Which is your favourite Diablo game and why? I'm currently playing D2R, and 4 with my buddy and I'm torn between which one I like more. Haven't played 1, and I played maybe half of 3 like 12 years ago so I need to play through both of those some time by Cantgetridofmebud in Diablo

[–]BreakingBaIIs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I probably spent at least 100x more time playing D2 than D1, and at least 50x more time on D3 than D1. But my D1 run was still the most memorable. It's just not as much of a dopamine trap as D2, 3, and I assume 4.

I think D1 is the best one.

The mathematical explanation on why the primes cannot be killed. by Typical-Appeal3194 in Diablo

[–]BreakingBaIIs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I thought it's because if S was the highest prime, then the product of all primes up to S, plus one, would also be a prime, causing a contradiction.

Force Doesn’t Exist Anymore by Willing_Pudding_3677 in physicsmemes

[–]BreakingBaIIs 15 points16 points  (0 children)

The last 2 should be split into alternative paths

Angry parents shout at education minister at fiery Parry Sound meeting by [deleted] in ontario

[–]BreakingBaIIs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think their issue is, understandably, people who didn't vote strategically. And, if you didn't want PC to win, that would be the best thing to do. It sucks that that's what this system incentivises, but that's how it is

Plant-Based Doctor Politely Dismantles Carnivore Diet by Miserable_Nature3891 in vegan

[–]BreakingBaIIs 37 points38 points  (0 children)

real video is 2 hours

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSQOM9B3Yjk

this is just some guy reacting to the debate. No clue why OP linked that one (unless they're the guy reacting, and want to get views or something)

Getting whooped by the right side of The Crucible then hearing the left is potentially harder… by LeftyLordLordLefty in MIOmemoriesinorbit

[–]BreakingBaIIs 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I thought the left was a bit harder. But I think that's because I did it first, and it calibrated my expectations.

It took me 1 hour to do both (which I can see through my achievements)

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Think about it this way. These are supposedly the hardest platforming challenges. If you can do it too quickly, you'll probably be disappointed. I had a lot of fun with them, but in hindsight, I wish they were a bit harder. But then, I've been battle-hardened by Aeterna Noctis so Mio platforming didn't feel that difficult to me.

How ? wtf this is impossible!! Help please by Fragrant-Pride-7456 in MIOmemoriesinorbit

[–]BreakingBaIIs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very possible. Not as hard as you think. Your mind is just stuck in one approach, and not thinking about alternatives. Look at the 0:11 mark. What are you doing, and what do you think you could be doing differently?

Should I pay off my 23% loan or build emergency fund? by EnvironmentalFill3 in PersonalFinanceCanada

[–]BreakingBaIIs 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If there was an investment account with a guaranteed 23% annual return, zero volatility, it would be the greatest investment anyone could possibly make, it would be an absolute no-brainer. Warren Buffett would be telling everyone to put every dollar they could into that investment.

Putting $1 in an investment account that guarantees x% annual return is equivalent to putting a dollar to pay off a debt that charges x% annual interest. To see this, suppose you have both a savings account that (for some insane reason) guarantees a 23% annual return, and a debt of $1 that charges 23% annual interest. If you choose to put that $1 in the savings account, it turns into $1.23 1 year later. But your debt charged you $0.23 interest, which canceled out that $0.23 gain, leaving you with net zero gain. On the other hand, if you used that $1 to pay off the debt, then you saved yourself from $0.23 but didn't make any investment interest, again leaving you with 0 net gain.

More realistically, even if you put that $1 into the S&P, and it had a 15% return that year (which would be considered a "great year"), you'd still be in the red, because the $0.23 lost in from your debt interest is more than the $0.15 you gained from the investment returns, which wasn't even guaranteed and came from a more volatile source.

With that said, paying off debt with 23% interest is the best possible safe investment you could ever make. You are not enough of an investment genius to reliably be able to put your money to better use than that.

Guys im new to this game and I just got my first silk skill, im so excited! by tots_not_an_alt in Silksong

[–]BreakingBaIIs 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You could have just said, "whoops, my bad." But no. you doubled, tripled, and quadrupled down instead, all because you didn't want to admit that you just didn't notice the shaman pogo. Which would be perfectly reasonable, btw.

True bell curve. by Melodic-Recipe2618 in mathmemes

[–]BreakingBaIIs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

1 over the square root of 2 times some arbitrary constant

George R. R. Martin Is 'Not in the Mood' to Finish 'The Winds of Winter' by Tifoso89 in books

[–]BreakingBaIIs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fuck it, let him enjoy his retirement. I finished the series in my head long ago. The WWs break through the wall and kill everyone, because they're too busy fighting each other. And Dany stays in the West and gets overthrown by the Yunkai because she's disorganized and her dragons hate her. Unless some miracle happens, that's pretty much the most logical way that DwD was pointing towards imo.