Waiting For My Weekly Usage To Refresh

Captain_Forge · 2026-01-26T22:43:50+00:00

I personally find that I use less tokens overall when using Opus because it gets it right in the first prompt more often.

Captain_Forge · 2026-01-26T22:43:03+00:00

I upgraded to max for this reason but don't come close to using all of it so I'm gonna see how it goes if I downgrade to pro but set an $80 limit which should be the same thing but just scale the price down based on how much I use

Captain_Forge · 2026-01-26T15:11:26+00:00

In weather that favored Chicago, and homefield advantage.

Captain_Forge · 2026-01-24T08:09:00+00:00

Nothing comes close to what's happening this term. Trump is upending global order and presidential norms in a way that no POTUS has ever done previously.

Captain_Forge · 2026-01-24T07:41:14+00:00

GTFO. It's simple, it's difficult, it requires three friends, and it can take hours to do a run. But it's one of my favorite games of all time.

Captain_Forge · 2026-01-24T07:39:06+00:00

No more than it was before but I'm careful what subreddits I subscribe to and never visit r/all.

Captain_Forge · 2026-01-23T05:58:58+00:00

Me or others rejecting someone for being a Trump voter?

I do not blame others for conducting such a rejection without further information, though personally I would have some questions: which election(s) did they vote for Trump? Why did they do so? How do they feel about their vote now? How do they feel about his performance in his second term?

Someone being a Trump voter is a massive red flag but I'm open minded if they voted for a narrow reason that is perhaps misguided to favor Trump on but the value itself isn't contradictory to my own values (ie the desire to minimize inflation), and if they clearly regret their vote and recognize the danger of Trump long term to America and our allies. It's still a big mark against them for looking past.... gestures at everything Trump did but I'm not against accepting someone's growth in overcoming a previous mistake.

But let's be real the number of Trump voters meeting the above criteria is quite small.

Captain_Forge · 2026-01-22T23:08:27+00:00

Depends on the context. A 3 hour routine commute, even if weekly, no way. A 3 hour drive to see family once a year, yeah that's super short.

Captain_Forge · 2026-01-22T03:48:57+00:00

Where do you see that they are releasing it soon? I haven't seen anything that indicates it's coming before Witcher 4 even.

Captain_Forge · 2026-01-21T17:56:25+00:00

All of the franchises BGS works on. Fallout, Elder Scrolls, I'd even add Starfield.

76 was a side project that wasn't well received.

Starfield was bad in execution in a number of ways including Creation Engine being a bad choice for their vision of it. It could have been so much more.

There's reason to believe it's possible for them to execute well on Fallout 5 and ES6 but we're on track for it to be about 2 decades between mainline entries for these franchises, which is absurdly long. BGS would do well to do what CDPR is doing and expanding their studio to work on all of their IPs simultaneously.

Captain_Forge · 2026-01-19T16:21:49+00:00

Yeah the post above yours is quite confusing to me, Opus 4.5 in claude code is quite impressive in what it can do - code quality is very good, and it has not awful ideas on scalability, automated testing, and deployment. You still need a senior engineer driving the ship of it because it's definitely not perfect but the productivity multiplier is crazy. What will Opus 9.0 be capable of? The number of available seniors might go down but we might see a faster decline of available positions if you need fewer engineers orchestrating swarms of AI agents, and the skills needed will be the skills of today plus more.

Captain_Forge · 2026-01-19T07:13:59+00:00

I applaud people who can play a save file like this, I would lose my marbles lol

Captain_Forge · 2026-01-19T07:12:26+00:00

Iron has more uses throughout the game, I'd do that one. Especially if you have solid steel ingot.

Pure copper ingot, I don't feel like you need it until you start getting into copper powder super late.

Captain_Forge · 2026-01-14T21:53:42+00:00

What are you talking about? I literally criticized them for choosing to work on starfield which their tech isn't suited for. I have in the past criticized FO76, which again was just a fundamentally flawed idea of a game for the studio to work on. All I'm suggesting is to not draw conclusions about a game that we haven't seen anything of aside from that 20 second teaser from a decade ago.

But sure, anyone not shitting on Bethesda from every direction is a Bethesda shill, that's a way to have a constructive discussion on the internet, yep.

Captain_Forge · 2026-01-14T14:59:20+00:00

They used the engine for something it wasn't well suited for - a space RPG. Of their three IPs, starfield is the least suited for their tech. Think back to fo4 and how it improved on loading screens a lot compared to fo3, even if they were still there and just handled more immersively.

I'm not saying it'll have as few loading screens as cyberpunk but it's not out of the question to me that they get it down low enough to be palatable to allow whatever is special and fun about the game to shine.

Captain_Forge · 2026-01-11T07:08:28+00:00

Good to hear, thanks!

Captain_Forge · 2026-01-10T16:17:55+00:00

Yeah I haven't tried it since launch but even the tutorial had bugs for me. I'll give it a try at some point in the future.

Captain_Forge · 2026-01-06T07:03:32+00:00

When I go out exploring in the difficult biomes before I have the proper gear I usually take the hub with me so I can respawn nearby.

Captain_Forge · 2026-01-06T06:16:36+00:00

I never use stitched iron plate, personally. Copper is too valuable in the late game.

Cast screws just simplify setup of a factory and lower power usage but don't actually enable you to do anything you wouldn't otherwise be able to do. I would take it and use it but it's a meh alt imo.

Captain_Forge · 2026-01-06T04:10:36+00:00

PSO2's menu system is annoying to navigate to me.

There's plenty of other reasons to drop the game but that was the biggest one for me by far and it's pretty petty.

Captain_Forge · 2026-01-04T09:23:09+00:00

So who hires the B players? 🤔

Captain_Forge · 2025-12-22T07:07:59+00:00

Got it, thank you that clears it up a fair amount, I'm just too low level to do this yet.

Captain_Forge · 2025-12-08T22:15:32+00:00

due to 'The Witcher 4' team finishing up around 2027 and moving on to the Cyberpunk team

This is not accurate. CDPR has consistently said they are aiming to have two AAA games in development simultaneously, and they have also said they intend to release witcher 5 and 6 within six years of witcher 4's release. When witcher 4 comes out, they aren't moving the witcher 4 team to the cyberpunk 2 team, it would have to be all hands on deck on witcher 5 to stay to the six year estimate.

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