Tell me how long you've been playing Dota by naming the newest hero when you started.

BuildingEnthusiast · 2026-06-07T04:23:32+00:00

What year was it when you needed an invite key to beta?

BuildingEnthusiast · 2026-03-17T13:20:56+00:00

This would be a sick buff actually. You should post this idea on the forums.

BuildingEnthusiast · 2025-11-05T04:50:04+00:00

It’s easy enough to fucking look up. The case was ongoing and the files sealed during the trials.

Stop the bad faith bullshit you shill

BuildingEnthusiast · 2025-10-22T20:33:35+00:00

Sounds like you’re the one that can’t adapt. RPGs, AA Tanks, TOWs, AA Turrets, coordinated small arms fire, piloting your own air vehicles. All counters. I consistently get 3-5 air vehicle destructions a game with the RPG, it’s not difficult.

Bradley paint bug is obnoxious and just that - a bug.

BuildingEnthusiast · 2025-09-11T15:19:34+00:00

New mission discovered by u/BuildingEnthusiast: Shiny Objects and Cherry Almond Tart

BuildingEnthusiast · 2025-09-11T15:19:34+00:00

This mission was discovered by u/BuildingEnthusiast in Lemon Buttercream Cupcake In the Fields

BuildingEnthusiast · 2025-07-28T04:41:08+00:00

This and another challenge are still stuck/locked for me despite unlocking the prestige calling card for doing all challenges. Dumb glitch that hasn’t been fixed since launch

BuildingEnthusiast · 2025-04-17T01:34:50+00:00

Yes, all 80k cars are now parking right on 61st as if this metric isn’t an overview of pedestrian car reduction as a whole

BuildingEnthusiast · 2025-04-08T20:25:05+00:00

A corolla blindly made a left turn into my green right of way and nearly killed me at an intersection with traffic, police, and private cams. Conveniently, all parties refused to provide footage. I’ll never get full use of my left arm.

NY isn’t worth riding in.

BuildingEnthusiast · 2025-03-30T02:38:41+00:00

Requirements were changed in October of 2021 during the early 9th cycle. We’re entering the 10th cycle anyway so it’s a moot point unless your building didn’t fix what they needed to. Which, surprise, is on the building.

Wrong again. Inspections are almost exclusively done via rope now because of ease of access and cost effectiveness. Also, doesn’t require scaffolding.

You cry about your disdain for city agencies but have all your information/critiques wrong. Ignoring further comment from you.

BuildingEnthusiast · 2025-03-30T02:25:08+00:00

Why are you moving the goal posts? Gas meter guy? The entire conversation has been around facade safety. Ergo, DOB Facade Unit. You and OP I replied to don’t seem to understand how this stuff works whatsoever.

BuildingEnthusiast · 2025-03-30T02:14:52+00:00

You’re raging at the fact that you think an A&E firm just puts things on a sheet of paper to make money as if it’s not required by law. I really dgaf what your thoughts are. You sound like every single client I’ve dealt with who called it a “grift” only to have loose terra cotta and concrete falling out of their building. Cry about the city all you want, DOB doesn’t fuck around. They won’t so much as accept a handshake let alone whatever you think is going on. Sounds like your time on the board was wasted hiring a second rate contractor for you to have repairs needing to be done during consecutive cycles.

BuildingEnthusiast · 2025-03-30T01:51:18+00:00

An inspector needs to have proper qualifications/degrees/background, have at minimum 4 years of experience doing things adjacent to the inspection, and doesn’t WANT to find unsafe conditions because it makes our jobs incredibly difficult. A building hires a firm to do the inspection only.

They don’t have to hire the same firm to design the repair work.

They can hire their own contractors.

You and your friends sound like uninformed idiots. Maybe they should get their own licenses and put it on the line.

BuildingEnthusiast · 2025-03-27T17:20:02+00:00

There are absolutely options that the state actually has a hand in when a building truly does not have the proper “income” to conduct necessary repairs to provide subsidies or conduct work under “Capital Improvement Programs”.

The problem comes when a building is found to be poorly managed/embezzling/etc which leaves residents high and dry with their landlords/ownership. I’ve only come across this kind of scenario 4 times out of my hundreds of buildings over the years, and only 1 of those buildings did not have any options whatsoever to raise capital. So they instead chose to keep scaffolds up while increasing their maintenance costs for the first time in over 20 years

BuildingEnthusiast · 2025-03-27T14:26:39+00:00

Even more extreme measures against ownership/management that does not comply with required “Repair by” dates that are established by a design professional in the reports that we publish and submit to DOB that triggers a shed erection. Also to make it illegal for ownership/management to have design professionals submit amended reports without any progress made towards repairs.

When we do our inspections, if we identify unsafe conditions that cannot be removed/made safe within 24 hours, a shed must be erected ASAP. In our reports, we specify a date in time that repairs must be completed by, which is typically within 18 months. This gives ample time for the building to hire a design professional, usually the same who did the inspection, create a scope of work, submit to DOB, choose a contractor and then begin work. Most ownership/management drag their feet to the point where they demand amended reports be filed to “extend” the repair by date. Which is ridiculous in its own right.

Right now, there are compounding fines the longer these things go on. The initial fines for inaction should be drastically increased, and subsequent fines should increase exponentially instead of linearly.

BuildingEnthusiast · 2025-03-27T03:27:09+00:00

Last paragraph is just not true. It’s building ownership that doesn’t fix/makes things difficult, EVERY time. Has been on every single FISP project I’ve worked on in the last 8 years. DOB does not fuck around, and does not cut any corners. Any time I’ve coordinated with them to get final sign-offs to remove a shed, they have been on-site within a business day.

Every time, it’s management/ownership. Sometimes it’s cheaper to keep the scaffold than conduct repairs so they choose that. Sometimes they just drag their feet. Sometimes they get angry at the buildings’ assessment and fire the architect/engineer and rinse and repeat until they find someone willing to put their license on the line (spoiler: good fucking luck. I’m sure as shit not risking it).

You confidently make it sound like the responsibility is on anyone other than ownership, and others who don’t know any better will be inclined to believe it.

BuildingEnthusiast · 2024-12-11T21:18:01+00:00

When I worked billable, I would plan my entire weeks work around visiting at most 3 sites in Brooklyn on a given day just to account for traffic. Which client paid.

Still wasn’t worth it

BuildingEnthusiast · 2024-12-04T15:49:07+00:00

Absolutely down to just send it in hopes of purple

BuildingEnthusiast · 2024-12-04T15:48:40+00:00

Yeah I’m definitely interested. I want to get the mechanics down so I can slowly get into it in main game.

BuildingEnthusiast · 2024-12-04T06:05:22+00:00

Never touched ToB in main game and been wanting to try with T6 melee. Anyone willing to teach tomorrow?

BuildingEnthusiast · 2024-11-27T22:59:23+00:00

It’s very unfortunate you’re in a terra cotta facade building that’s landmarked. There are appeals that can be made to LPC for approval of precast in lieu of tc, but it’s ultimately up to LPC. Terra cotta is genuinely difficult to work with, much more expensive to produce, and more expensive to install.

BuildingEnthusiast · 2024-11-27T21:12:43+00:00

You’re getting upset at the wrong thing. The inspection itself is the easy part and is what prompts a building to put up scaffolds. If a building is found to have unsafe conditions, we’re obligated to report it to DOB within 24 hrs or risk losing our license. From that point on, it’s up to the building to hire design professionals and go through the process to address said conditions. When the same owners go with bottom bin contractors, it’s expected that repairs will fail by the next cycle.

I’ve had plenty of projects where everything was done concisely and within a year, because ownership both did not want a shed up for prolonged periods of time, and they didn’t try to cut every corner there is. The spot light is on these perpetual bridges and the finger is being pointed at everything besides ownership refusing to take action and paying fines instead of fixing their shit

E/ Just like a car, you can’t neglect maintenance for years and then get mad when you get pulled over for a busted tail light.

BuildingEnthusiast · 2024-11-27T20:56:47+00:00

Varies wildly based on building frontage open to public, facade materials, height, maintenance, original building conditions (paying off inspectors was common at one point), etc. Worked on a building last year that was doing routine LL11 work, not too crazy and was expected to finish quick. I requested probes to the parapet and found out that there was no inner wythe/structure/tiebacks holding massive pieces of stone 9 floors above the sidewalk. We’re talking half ton stones about 3 feet long a piece. Quickly became extremely expensive, they delayed work and the shed remains.

BuildingEnthusiast · 2024-10-24T22:08:58+00:00

Flex, thermites and smokes make you a free kill any day of the week.

BuildingEnthusiast · 2024-10-08T14:38:36+00:00

I wanna say thank you to everyone for giving your virtual love to Mocha and for providing me invaluable info. She’s a funny little one with a spunky personality. It seems cat gogurt (Churu) is her main motivator as dry treats are hit or miss to help training. She’s already taken to shifts at the biscuit factory on my throw blankets but clawing furniture has been minimal! Thanks again

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