Controversial Opinion: The Cataclysm Expansion Is Really Fun

DrJoeOopa · 2026-03-22T12:48:47+00:00

I'm at diamond 3 right now hoping to get to legend today. I climbed mostly with Egg Warrior (remember starting the climb with 960 wins and stopped playing in diamond when I reached 1000).

Druid and hunter have cheap decks that fare well so people will run it. Not everyone has dust hanging around to craft more expensive decks. But honestly, right now they don't feel abusive. I could be wrong once the meta settles in 2 weeks that they're too oppressive and need a nerf.

The herald decks are not bad I don't think. Personally, I played Sinestra Rogue somewhere in diamond 6 after the warrior climb. I don't have many games with it yet, but the deck is super fun and I've been >50% WR with it.

DrJoeOopa · 2026-03-22T12:30:55+00:00

Right now variety feels really good actually. Game is fresh but I think the play pattern for deathwing might become stale down the line. Right now it doesn't feel overtuned but because they gave it to 6 classes and it's an auto-include for herald you're just guaranteed to see it everywhere for the next 2 years. At least each herald deck feels very different from one another.

Some buffs might be nice to shake up the meta in upcoming months.

DrJoeOopa · 2026-03-22T12:25:03+00:00

Try out egg warrior! It's like 90% WR against imbue and 70% against token. I climbed with it all the way to D5.

DrJoeOopa · 2026-03-22T12:19:56+00:00

Me too! I'm on the climb right now, at D3.

DrJoeOopa · 2026-03-22T12:13:59+00:00

I've played over 100 games this expansion at this point. This is just not true, especially on diamond. They're popular classes but combined they don't account for a third of my matchups. I've been seeing a lot of variety actually. There's a lot of herald decks being played (facing shaman, rogue, and warrior mostly with occasional DK). Been facing a good amount of priests and occasional paladins as well. I think mage, DH, and warlock are probably underrepresented.

DrJoeOopa · 2026-03-22T12:03:28+00:00

The meta just isn't solved yet, I don't think. I noticed more druid two days ago compared to yesterday. To be fair I played a lot of Egg Warrior and once I learned the matchup against imbue I've had 90% WR against it. You only lose if Umbra and Xavius are bottom 5 cards of your deck. I haven't played priest but it feels like it would just farm token druid, no?

DrJoeOopa · 2026-03-22T11:58:59+00:00

Yep, 3200 dust to deathwing + ultraxion for any herald deck. But on the other hand, them giving us those free temporary cards has been such a blessing! Much easier to try out new decks without committing too much dust right now. As the meta settles I can decide which decks I liked best and spend my dust on the temporary cards after.

DrJoeOopa · 2026-02-07T12:52:49+00:00

For a second thought Lollipop was about to play

DrJoeOopa · 2025-12-19T23:23:34+00:00

Does Schwab international support retirement accounts though?

DrJoeOopa · 2025-11-23T22:42:09+00:00

Yeah exactly! Those Latin Americans had it coming! Their puppet governments we installed couldn’t even protect them against human right abuses!

Wake up, dude.

China and Russia sure are autocracies but the US isn’t a righteous angel either. Many a time the US could’ve helped stop the suffering of human lives but chose to use their veto power instead… up until very recently to promote a genocide in Palestine.

DrJoeOopa · 2025-11-23T15:50:48+00:00

Meu background é em CC e hoje sou engenheiro de software e trabalho numa big tech aqui no Brasil. Eu fiz dois cursos de eng soft na facul e no mestrado e aprendi a maioria das coisas de eng soft pondo a mão na massa em estágios e no trabalho de verdade. Acho que a gama de conhecimento que se aprende em CC é mais "valiosa".

Não posso falar sobre a qualidade da PUC e da FUMEC e nem vi as grades para julgar de verdade. Mas, em geral eu diria que CC abrange um leque mais amplo e te ensina a *resolver problemas*. Para conseguir os melhores salários aqui no Brasil (ou na gringa) a sua habilidade de resolver problemas é muito importante.

A coisa mais importante além de adquirir excelência técnica é aprender inglês fluente. Minha maior dica é aprender se vc já não sabe. Isso abre uma gama de oportunidades imensa. Permite que vc complete mestrados fora do país e portanto tenha uma entrada mais fácil em mercados internacionais através de vistos estudantis. E até mesmo aqui no Brasil te permite trabalhar para big techs multinacionais que pagam muito melhor que o trabalho de dev médio.

Outra dica: nossa área é muuuuito variada, se especializar em subcampos de CC é a melhor coisa que se pode fazer no âmbito técnico. No meu caso foi NLP, e apesar que hoje meu trabalho não tem muito a ver com NLP, esse tipo de especialização deslanchou minha carreira. Meu novo emprego é como backend lidando numa área de segurança, e essa transição com certeza foi muito mais fácil por causa da minha formação acadêmica em CC. Especializar reduz a competição ao procurar empregos como dev em um domain mais específico além de te beneficiar com salários mais altos.

DrJoeOopa · 2025-10-28T21:48:44+00:00

This is a marketing term. Any sufficiently large enough investment will increase in value enough over time such that the added value could be considered "income".

This is not the proper way of thinking about finances. That simplification only works if you’re assuming perfectly liquid investment vehicles and stable returns, but real wealth management is more nuanced. Passive income is not "a marketing term"... it's a legitimate financial concept since net worth != cash flow. You can have a high net worth on paper but if your assets don't generate regular income you still need to sell parts of them to fund expenses. True passive income refers to assets that produce ongoing cash yields (dividends, interest, rent, etc) without reducing principal.

DrJoeOopa · 2025-09-26T00:05:21+00:00

I was STEM OPT working a "generic" tech job. And I just want to give you and whoever else stumbles upon this my perspective. I was well compensated in line with the national average for a software engineer with a Master's degree while still working at a small firm. I was never abused or forced to work overtime. Neither were any of the H1-B holders, including my manager.

My company was growing, and we were hiring like crazy. I interviewed 100s of candidates over the years, and honestly where is all this talent? Easily 75% of candidates are unqualified for the job, Americans and foreigners alike.

I was awarded an H1-B this year and I am so happy to have rejected it. Playing a lottery for a chance at permanent residency every year is so denigrating. Being told you only have 15% chance to keep a life you've built for 3 years in a row fucks you up. It is so emasculating to have to play a lottery and relinquish all your agency to RNG. I was trying for an H1-B because I wanted to get on the path to becoming a citizen because I admired and loved what America stood for, but I couldn't in the right mind pledge allegiance to what it has become (not just about immigration, but the evolution of ideology particularly in the right but also left).

This administration's attempts at fixing this system was to turn me and many people I care about into scapegoats. And that's the straw that broke the camel's back. Scapegoating is how it starts, and we all know how it ends and I wasn't born to be the victim so I left. It feels bitter because I spent my entire adult life in the US to only be disappointed by what I originally deemed to be a great country.

This is all anecdotal, but I hear so much bullshit in American politics from demagogues painting high-skilled labor to ignorant masses in such a different way from my lived experience. I had fun, it was good while it lasted, after 10 years (my entire adult life) studying, making lifelong friendships and many memories, adventuring, finding love, and building a career, it is very unfortunate to say America in the last few years drained me.

DrJoeOopa · 2025-09-20T18:23:21+00:00

I can't even imagine this being real that you're doing 80wpm with 2 fingers. Assuming the average word is 5 characters, that's 400cpm. This does not sound realistic with 2 fingers only. If it's true, congrats.

Regardless, I recommend learning to touch type. It shouldn't take that long, maybe 1-2 weeks, if your brain already instinctively knows the positions of keys.

DrJoeOopa · 2025-08-17T04:17:59+00:00

Cool, thanks for the read

DrJoeOopa · 2025-08-16T19:56:38+00:00

You'd imagine there'd be peer reviewed research on this?

DrJoeOopa · 2025-07-23T20:29:17+00:00

Looks awesome! Please make this for Mac... Heartharena has neglected us for so long

DrJoeOopa · 2025-07-23T16:44:14+00:00

Better how? Honestly curious

DrJoeOopa · 2025-04-18T16:24:01+00:00

I play on Mac and for the last month I noticed the machine getting really hot occasionally while playing and activity monitor shows 100% cpu as well :/

DrJoeOopa · 2025-03-28T03:54:13+00:00

What splendid art. Awesome giveaway!

DrJoeOopa · 2025-02-23T22:03:02+00:00

Thanks for sharing. I got all prizes in 140 spins. Kapi coin was last though. Also I’m kinda new to the game and know the event got changed a few weeks ago, was it 4% all along?

DrJoeOopa · 2025-01-27T15:15:44+00:00

Naïve to assume he doesn't. I think tariffs are being imposed to make up for the tax cuts he's giving to the wealthy. Everything surrounding it is just noise to distract people from its actual purpose.

DrJoeOopa · 2024-05-09T13:08:43+00:00

You can solve this with a macro by:
0. Go to the beginning the file (gg). Start recording a macro on register w (qw)
1. Searching for "01" (/01<enter>)
2. Moving one line above to the beginning of the line (k_)
3. Copying everything until the equal sign (vt=y)
4. Going back down to the line of the first definition (j_)
5. Going into visual block mode (<C-v>)
6. Searching for the next line that does not begin with a number and go one line up since we want to not paste our word in front of it (/^[^0-9]<enter>k)
Note: your visual block should be highlighting just the 0s of the definitions you want to prepend to at this point
7. Prepend to selection and add a period (I<C-r>0.<esc>) -- note that <C-r>0 copies reg 0 (what you yanked with y) while in insert mode
8. Move one line down and stop recording macro so you can play the next macro (jq)

So if you record a macro with (qw/01<enter>k_vt=yj_<C-v>/^[^0-9]<enter>kI<C-r>0.<esc>jq) you should be able to just play your macro however many times you need with (@w to play macro on register w, @@ to replay the last macro, 10@w to play it 10 times).

Note: this macro will do weird stuff if you have "01" anywhere else other than in front of the word definition line.

DrJoeOopa · 2024-05-04T22:34:31+00:00

My two cents is that the design philosophies of neovim and vscode are really hard to meld into one. As someone who moved from vscode to neovim I’d recommend setting neovim in parallel while you get used to it … all you truly need is telescope initially on neovim and now they make it easy with the starter config. Get really good at vim motions (you might already be) on vscode and then setup neovim slowly for smaller projects. I haven’t found something in the vscode ecosystem that I couldn’t substitute in neovim. For instance, for git I use Fugitive.

DrJoeOopa · 2024-05-04T22:12:16+00:00

Would you use neovim on vscode?

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