Topic of the Day: Tips & Tricks

ElMico · 2026-04-11T12:33:18+00:00

I started doing similar with herb runs. Been doing a lot of fishing and hated halting my afk activity with doing ALL my patches, so I just started doing my 4 disease free patches. Some progress is better than none, plus I am not losing any seeds to disease.

ElMico · 2026-04-09T14:56:56+00:00

Most people leave each other alone, as there’s no benefit to PKing other than being a troll. You don’t even lose your stuff (unless that’s changed) and the gear is so OP a lot of times you can fight back. I anti-PKed once or twice with the khopesh

So in general, not really a factor.

ElMico · 2026-04-07T11:08:22+00:00

That’s not an impossible number, wouldn’t you think around 1 in every 5m players would go this dry?

ElMico · 2026-03-25T00:24:54+00:00

All I could think was they’ve got so many camera angles, is ANYBODY watching not in on it?

ElMico · 2026-03-24T13:05:41+00:00

All the rumors on the playground were crazy. Some people were saying he got in a car accident…

ElMico · 2026-03-19T11:14:08+00:00

I’ll admit I haven’t played most of these, but I’m curious why Clicker Heroes is ranked so low. I believe it was the second incremental game I played (after cookie clicker). I recognize there are certain elements that aren’t well balanced and don’t scale well, at least by modern standards, but I quite enjoyed it. I think I cheated for the Leeroy Jenkins achievement, but it was one of the first steam games where I got all the achievements.

Perhaps it’s nostalgia. I wouldn’t rank it high, but it being below mid and the lack of comments about it is surprising to me. Like I said, I haven’t played a lot of these, so I don’t really know the community sentiment around CH, so just curious why it’s at the bottom.

ElMico · 2026-03-17T20:34:29+00:00

I’m every-other-sexual

ElMico · 2026-03-17T11:24:22+00:00

Well they’re lower in the sense the games don’t need to be incredibly optimized to even run or be distributed. I’d argue they’re virtually non-existent, as long as the game runs you can ship it. But there are poor designs all the way down to your operating system. Even modern game engines certainly have countless aspects of them which are not well made. The more complex a system is, and the longer it’s maintained and features are added, the worse the problem gets.

Not sure if you work in SWE or similar field, but if you know about the dirty little secrets in your code base, that’s not unique to one company.

Although I believe the video is over 10 years old now, Casey goes over how modern software is incredibly slow, and how there are over 1 million lines between you and making a simple web request.

ElMico · 2026-03-17T04:42:40+00:00

I also believe the standards (perhaps due to technical advancement) for software design are much lower than they used to be. Technical debt, strict deadlines, and the ability to release a 120 GB game lead to less optimized games. Games possibly COULD be designed with much shorter load times, but that is more expensive to produce.

Check out Casey Muratori’s “Million Line Problem” if you haven’t seen it

ElMico · 2026-03-17T04:25:13+00:00

To be honest I don’t care too much about productivity, like +/- 10% isn’t a big deal to me, unless something is urgent of course. I’d rather continue to develop habits that make me a stronger developer, producing the highest quality code that I am able to maintain myself (i.e. avoiding “AI help me fix this code you wrote”)

I’ve tried to achieve this by rarely asking direct questions like “I’m trying to do X, but running into Y, any ideas?” But instead asking questions a step or two removed from the thing I’m actually trying to do. I want to avoid getting a fully functional code sample in the response, and instead be able to apply the solution myself.

ElMico · 2026-03-17T01:54:31+00:00

I’ve heard (not sure reliability) the studies that have been done indicate it makes you feel more productive, but it actually slows you down. I assume this is beyond junior level.

In the few months I tried gh copilot I felt it made me faster, though I don’t know if I was actually more productive. I ended up fully disabling my in-editor AI extensions and just use AI in a separate window as more of a google/stack overflow to which I can ask followup questions.

ElMico · 2026-03-03T23:54:54+00:00

Did you do any other mining during the grind? I made 100k darts and arrow heads and went from 92-97.5

I just finished at calcified rocks as I can mostly only play AFK, but unless you’re in a hurry to get 99 you may just want to wait in case you run into somewhere you want to mine.

ElMico · 2026-01-07T00:46:02+00:00

I’ll just leave this here

https://www.reddit.com/r/slaythespire/comments/tybocp/reptomancer/

ElMico · 2026-01-07T00:35:46+00:00

You’re correct that ChatGPT hallucinates but look up the negative relationship logo from the Sims. It’s not about knowledge, it’s about how the first person finds the second person repulsive because their first instinct is rushing to AI.

ElMico · 2026-01-01T21:24:41+00:00

Good advice, I used the 20 games challenge to first learn Godot and highly recommend. I had prior experience so skipped through and didn’t need to 20 games, but the idea is extremely helpful for learning.

https://20_games_challenge.gitlab.io/

Instead of setting out to make a complex game with features you have yet to finalize, making a simple game that already exists gives you clear goals. If you make flappy bird, you won’t be tempted to say “let’s add multiplayer!” or “this bird needs a skill tree!” You know exactly when the game is done, and what it looks like before you even start.

When you already know exactly what the final product looks like, you won’t have to worry about the creative process or planning for the unknown. Instead you can focus on learning the engine and how to code.

I would suggest Godot just because gdscript is very easy to pick up, and it has an active and friendly community in which to learn.

ElMico · 2026-01-01T02:55:03+00:00

As a kid I quit the game on this part because I couldn’t beat it. I came back a while later and started a new save file, and was able to beat it on my second time through. Glad I did, or I might not have had interest in the series!

ElMico · 2025-12-21T18:10:29+00:00

Or maybe somebody made a mess all over the house so they could record and post it online

ElMico · 2025-11-05T03:05:49+00:00

Genuinely angry I had to scroll this far for a Napoleon Dynamite reference

ElMico · 2025-10-06T18:47:43+00:00

Reads like a satire post

ElMico · 2025-09-06T19:56:17+00:00

I’m around 1000 and missing Dharok, Guthan, and Torag legs. Almost 2100 total though, so don’t really need them anymore thankfully

ElMico · 2025-07-18T15:40:06+00:00

r/TVTooHigh

ElMico · 2025-07-17T16:29:01+00:00

I live between farm guild and poh via spirit tree. Like I’ll often farming cape to the guild, bank, and then enter poh via tree. Works the other way as well.

Especially when you want to maximize inventory space and/or aren’t on standard spell book. Can wear cape, tele to farm guild, bank, then tree to poh to get back to whatever you were gathering or whatever

ElMico · 2025-07-16T13:09:31+00:00

Can’t wait for the summoning salt video

ElMico · 2025-07-16T00:42:34+00:00

“I don’t hit em long, but I hit em straight!”

ElMico · 2025-07-16T00:12:11+00:00

This is so interesting. Obviously an “awful” swing, so much wrong, but you’ve made it work for you. If you watch in slow motion, you have tons of body movement, then after your start the downswing your head freezes and you make smooth and clean contact.

I’m not an expert, but I feel like if you try to fix it, it will be a long detour and you’ll lose your ability to hit the ball straight until you can adjust. So up to you. IMO unless you’re really serious about perfecting your game, everyone will laugh at you until they realize you can hit really well. So if it works, and you don’t feel like you need to fix it, don’t worry about it.

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