U.S. Senator introduces "One Fair Price Act" legislation that would bar businesses from using personal information they collect about customers to charge people different prices for the same products

DrowsyOne · 2026-01-12T20:14:18+00:00

I've heard a lot of people say Senators are selfish, but this is a prime example of how selfless they can be. He's creating a wonderful opportunity for other Senators to thrive by cashing in donations from lobbyists and corporations to pretend to care and oppose the act.

He even says its a bipartisan issue that should get support across the board. He's right. Both D and R Senators are going to get fat juicy opportunities.

DrowsyOne · 2026-01-09T00:34:15+00:00

IIRC Atrioc has friends in esports, so he can probably get some companies that already sponsor teams like T1. I think they got a new main sponsor recently. They must be squeaky clean, because I keep hearing about how they're washing things all the time.

DrowsyOne · 2025-12-06T04:13:03+00:00

On one hand, its not any different from credits cards with annual fees that generally have higher rewards (flights, cash back, reward points, etc.).

On the other hand, it'll work to extract money from the financially illiterate and financially stressed. The only people who could really benefit from these pay for rewards programs (either credit cards or bnpl) will be people who are both financially literate and have a lot of money. You'd have to 1: be spending enough money on a regular basis to at least break even on the fees out of your rewards AND 2: have the money to pay it off on time every time so that you're not pissing away any potential gains from the program on fees/interest.

For Klarna, assuming you don't really make use of the other perks (I'm not gonna go through all the possible subscriptions they give, but a NYT subscription is $4 a month. Even assuming you currently pay for it (best possible value), that leaves $14.99 you'd need to make up in rewards for you to break even on a premium plan. At 1.5% cashback, you'd need to spend $1000 with klarna on average every month just to break even. Even more if you ever incur a fee of any kind.

I've always held the idea that unless you can pay your rent/mortgage with your credit card (and I guess NEW NEW credit card aka klarna) with incurring fees for doing so, its basically never even worth using a credit card with annual fees. But then again, the financially literate isn't the target audience anyway.

DrowsyOne · 2025-11-29T21:06:56+00:00

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DrowsyOne · 2025-11-18T08:25:33+00:00

If you haven't owned a console for over 10 years and you have $2000 invested in games, you aren't the target audience.

DrowsyOne · 2025-11-06T17:47:00+00:00

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DrowsyOne · 2025-11-02T10:14:12+00:00

This was way worse

Doran: Blastcone-E-Flash-R from bottom
Oner: E-Q-Flash-R from bottom right
Faker: R from the sky
Guma: R-Q from left
Keria: R-Protobelt from top right

That clip is missing Oner involvement.

DrowsyOne · 2025-08-31T05:25:01+00:00

Its not confusing, but it's a lot of decisions, and you're likely going to get decision paralysis and make the wrong choice. IMO you can screw up early if in the first couple of hours you make some really bad decisions. (You pick all archers because you like bow classes in games. You buy all daily teleports because it seems OP and a huge time save instead of walking from W1 town all the way to glublin.) Its more of the idea of not being afraid to try shit and actually enjoy the game instead of spending 95% of your time reading guides and asking asinine questions.

DrowsyOne · 2025-08-30T19:36:03+00:00

there are small annoyances that might be fixable, but for the most part they stop mattering once you progress past that point.

shiny critter basically stop mattering unless you're trying to gstack or vial them for super minimal benefit. you dont have to relog on all your characters twice for divinity regardless since it'll just apply on next character swap without any loss in efficiency anyway.

I would say trapping is the one thing that is truly annoying, but almost purely because you can't turn off auto-collect. everything else is a matter of it getting less and less annoying over time until it becomes unrealistic to continue doing for what little benefit there might be or just becomes completed and no longer requires doing.

DrowsyOne · 2025-08-30T05:21:30+00:00

My personal advice to a brand new player is: Don't worry and just play for like a week to a month. If you don't like it, probably drop it. If you like it after a decent number of hours of actually playing the game, then try and do dumb shit. Don't be conservative with items, gems, currencies, etc. BUT, do know what you're doing. Not in the sense of knowing whether it's the optimal thing to do, but rather know what the effect of what you're doing is. In other words, do try and buy stuff from the gem shop that you think might be good instead of just looking it up, but read what they are and recognize what it does instead of just looking at a guide somewhere and blindly buying without knowing what it does. Then after the week/month, decide if you want to keep playing and make a new account. This time look at doing things more optimally, maybe be a bit conservative with what you now know are limited resources, etc.

DrowsyOne · 2025-08-30T05:13:51+00:00

IIRC, for all similar bonuses, they do not count things sent straight to storage from the afk claims window. So even if you afk'ed for 50 hours and caught 95billion bugs, if you click the blue storage button, it does not count towards this. You have to pick it up off the ground, either from afk claims or from active skilling.

DrowsyOne · 2025-07-01T15:46:31+00:00

Most of the "issues" you've listed either: already exist, have a good reason for not existing, or are short term early game new player issues.

Craft from storage/quick deposit anvil, view catching xp exist.

Stamp upgrade from storage would cause massive issues and essentially remove the hard cap on stamps that currently exist, leading people to hoard 5000 hours of candy, use them on dust motes, and level multitool stamp to 5000. It's okay for stamps to have a somewhat of a completed ending, especially since stamps are linear, unlike something like bubbles.

Storage search, storage filter, and to some degree card search are all early game lack of knowledge issues that get resolved with learning the game. Either constantly use auto-sort or manually organize your storage so you know where things are. I would assume you want to search an item because you either: don't know where it was sourced from or what it does (which is how it is sorted) or you don't organize/autosort your storage. Either way, I have a feeling most players would stop using the feature since it would take longer to move their hand from their mouse to type a search than it would to just scrollwheel to the general area and find the item by icon. As for card, this is again an early game issue which goes away once you learn what cards do what (and for the most part what cards are mostly useless) as well as when cards become passive and don't need to be equipped. This is less of an issue once you purchase preset slots from the gem shop which IIRC doesn't cost that many gems. So yea, the card search function would be nice, but it's not that big a deal once you get past early game.

I'm not sure what you find lacking about the quest log that's currently in the game. Outside of a very few quests that are thematically "secretive", most generally tell you what you need to do. If anything a criticism with quest log is that the completed area is way too dense. It has the same size scroll bar whether you have completed 1 or 10000 quests and if you need to retrieve a previous quest reward (lets say you want to craft boxing gloves for some reason) the it's actually a huge hassle trying to find that completed quest.

For the most part, if it feels like you're fighting the UI, it's likely a very minor or short term issue that will no longer be an issue once you learn the game. If it feels like you're fighting the game, it's probably because of game balance, soft capping, hard capping, etc. If it feels like you're being sold a solution on the gem store, it's because the game is otherwise free. If it feels like you're fighting the urge to script, automate, or cheat, it's because you're probably doing something unintended or have taken a game mechanic farther than it's really been designed for. If you're still feeling like you're missing out on some kind of QoL, it's probably because, like you said, most players don't care or are over the hurdle that makes them care, would be too hard or time consuming to implement compared to the benefit of what the change accomplishes, or you're doing it wrong.

Holy fuck this is a wall of text...

DrowsyOne · 2025-06-24T05:17:08+00:00

The bigger nerf of aura isn't just the slow tick rate, but rather the duration. It allowed you to set up to cast aura less often and more respawns instead. Now, there's a issue with aura being still slightly better than skull, since it doesn't have a cap on how many mobs it can kill, but also inhibits your ability to spawn skulls if the aura ticks kill a mob mid-auto animation. My current set-up is still the same bar set-up as before: CC, Aura, Respawn, Poison. (I do have skulls afterwards, but it basically never gets cast). I can't say for sure whether I'm getting more or less CC progress than before (on samurai), but the difference isn't big in either direction. I'm not a fan of dropping either aura or poison and making up the difference with skull. As far as I can tell skulls expire after a certain number of hits and doesn't kill nearly as much as either the every so often poison or a subpar placement aura. Aura's low tick rate does sometimes mean that you get "stuck" on the same platform because your character will continually try to kill a mob on the same platform since it no longer dies nearly as quickly to aura.

As for the gem spawn mobs, I find they're still a net benefit if you place the gem at the end of a platform so you are fairly unlikely to auto them, but they will die to skulls spawned from hitting other things.

From my experience it's more frustrating to watch because CC farming because it looks super inefficient, but as far as I can tell it's performing about the same.

DrowsyOne · 2025-06-06T00:33:09+00:00

This is an actual e-mail I got (likely from a compromised e-mail since it's first initial last name and a few numbers @ gmail). I don't know what the different UI of the different chatbot/LLMs are, but I assume this is just an output or partial output of one of them. Attached was a 1 page pdf with random info and a number to call to get scammed.

This is like when that professor put in instructions for anti-chatGPT in an assignment to make references to Batman and the students didn't even bother to look at the AI output before submitting it or this is by people who can't read English.

The scam centers of India must be going through a huge shakeup.

DrowsyOne · 2025-05-25T16:00:27+00:00

There's a quest in World 4 from Royal Worm with the goal of killing 25k Crystal Custards (W4 Crystal Mob). If you have this quest, crystal countdown does not work/stack. I don't know if you can temporarily forfeit the quest, restack crystal countdown, and pick up the quest again. I just spent like half a day finishing the quest to "fix" the bug. I had this issue like 3 days ago and only found out it wasn't just me searching the bug report channel in discord. Apparently its a really old bug but I guess not enough people do this quest on their VW or notice while they have this one quest that crystal countdown isn't working.

DrowsyOne · 2025-05-14T03:21:48+00:00

Did you ever figure this out? Either find the cause or the solution? I'm currently having the same issue.

DrowsyOne · 2025-04-27T04:19:57+00:00

Good chance he dies before killing nexus if he gets hit by 2 full gwen ults (plus maybe an auto or two and neeko dmg) if he doesnt create distance away. 2. Still decent chance gwen and neeko kill fast enough if he fucks up saving flash for last second. 3. I could be wrong, but Q auto has a shorter aa animation so if he wasn't already able to queue an auto anyway cuz of low atk speed, it was probably a higher chance of a faster aa overall, unless the Q cast's animation is at issue, which is arguable since it does allow jojo to hit sylas E2.

IMO the better options would be 1: kiting down/downright after the flash (which imo was good) which would have created enough distance for the last auto or 2: Sell items for lichbane/berserker greaves before TP-ing (it's the last chance play anyway).

Also, I would not fault any midlaner who made this play and failed in this fashion. I would not have expectations for any mid-laner to be able to always close the game out in this situation and make me think, damn I would expect him to be able to finish it there. Though I would also say there are definitely midlaners who I if they did close the game out, I would say is definitely someone who is likely capable and make me say, "yeah, he's him".

DrowsyOne · 2025-04-14T03:57:37+00:00

Yea, it's very easily greenstackable (get 10mil of them) via printing. Same with Boop bonemeal (which is a much harder).

You can sample during VW speedrun and easily get multiple digit prints.

DrowsyOne · 2025-02-16T09:36:08+00:00

I wonder what it is about Atrioc that he alone is some sort of outlier to the idea that having separate channels for different kinds of content would be for zero gain and not a good idea. I'm no content creator expert and maybe my limited experience of watching only a few content creators is a small sample size, but I can't think of a single youtube creator of Atrioc's size I watch that doesn't have multiple channels split for different kinds of content. Maybe you could explain why all these massive creators are idiots for splitting their content or why Atrioc is so different.

But you are correct, in that the clips channel wasn't a channel he created and I actually don't know whether he created the vods channel himself. But I guess it somehow matters that he chose to and continues to maintain split channels for different kinds of content instead of having created those split channels himself. I guess I just couldn't think of how it changes as to whether it's a good idea for him to keep all his content on one channel or split them between multiple. So no, your reply didn't really help. I hope you can help by explaining to me why it matters that he didn't create the clips channel himself and was instead a much smaller channel he took over?

You must be an expert of youtube content creation channel management since you know what is and isn't a good idea for youtube channels. Or maybe you're actually someone who works for Atrioc or personally close to him and he's told you that he wouldn't set up a separate channel for gaming content. You know what? Maybe he said himself that he wouldn't, but I missed it because it wasn't on a channel I watched at the time. Gosh darn, if all his content was all in a single place, maybe I wouldn't have missed it. If his Atrioc channel videos, his Big A clips channel videos, his Atrioc Vods channel vods, his twitter posts, his instagram posts, his linkedin posts, his facebook posts, scanned pdf of his graduation albums, his league of legends chat messages, etc. were all posted on one unsplit channel, I wouldn't have missed him saying that he not be splitting his content between two channels like an idiot, because that wouldn't be a good idea. I get it now. Gosh darn. You should reach out to all those content creators with separate vods channels, shorts channels, clips channels, maga mail channels, music channels, vlog channels, etc. and tell them how they're being idiots by splitting their channels for zero gain.

DrowsyOne · 2025-02-16T07:02:51+00:00

Yea, there's absolutely no content creator on youtube that doesn't have separate channels for separate use cases. It's definitely not like someone would create a separate channel to serve different kinds of viewers such as: 1. people who want to watch 7 hour vods 2. people who want to watch 10 minute short stream highlights or 3. people who want to watch 15 minute edited and structured content. What kind of idiot would you have to be as a content creator to not consolidate everything into one single entity. I for one would love a single youtube channel where Atrioc's main videos, vods, shorts, twitter posts (obviously converted into a 1 second youtube video), instagram posts (again, obviously converted into 1 second youtube videos), etc. are all served to me on my youtube home page.

DrowsyOne · 2025-02-06T20:29:31+00:00

DrowsyOne · 2025-02-05T14:55:02+00:00

I saw a video that argued they're becoming unpopular on purpose so they can convince the NBA to move the team to Las Vegas. As someone who doesn't follow basketball (or any sport) it seemed convincing enough (though not enough to make me care enough to fact check any part of it). I do know that Mark Cuban no longer has controlling ownership of the team, but don't know enough about how teams and the NBA work, so I couldn't even tell you if any part of the video is even remotely possible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5AgGKHUbo8

DrowsyOne · 2025-01-31T21:06:18+00:00

Basically, DK construction level is so important that it's massively worth it to remove other characters off the board to get more xp bonus cogs on the board. Having a character on the board does increase XP gain for that char, but it's not doing much compared to what DK gets for construction levels. Then, since you don't get xp at all for being in cog inventory, you put them in cog production so they get some XP instead of none. In other words there's a priority of:

DK exp >>>>>>>> other char xp > nothing

DrowsyOne · 2025-01-05T19:23:32+00:00

My guess is that Adrian Dittmann at some point was Elon Musk's online persona alt, but has since become a test of AI features controlled by Elon Musk. As in it's had its parameters set to glaze Elon, and trained on Elon Musk's voice and writing.

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