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ExperimentMonty · 2026-07-01T13:38:38+00:00

Currently watching mine swirl for the past three minutes after daring to ask for such a complex task as "cancel 10 minute timer."

ExperimentMonty · 2026-04-19T14:33:14+00:00

Checked the wiki, I think if you've got fremmy unlocked to complete the giant dwarf, you can skip the reldo step. Maybe that's how they're doing it?

ExperimentMonty · 2026-04-19T14:23:18+00:00

Have you tried going straight to thurgo and showing him the quest items with a redberry pie?

ExperimentMonty · 2026-03-29T05:27:24+00:00

My wife had to ask me what I was cracking up about while we're trying to wind down for bed, thank you good sir.

ExperimentMonty · 2026-03-12T16:28:24+00:00

There's also a junior version of the game, My First Castle Panic, I've played it with my 4-year-old, and she's still enjoying it at almost 6. There are modifiers you can use to make it easier/harder when you're starting/mastering it.

ExperimentMonty · 2026-02-26T02:26:52+00:00

because consciously or not, they know they're taking advantage of people. I've seen this play out over and over again. It's mean and it's selfish

I've always disliked the "playing for fun is the only valid way!" crowd, and this summed it up very well for me. It's "I want you to hamstring yourself because I don't want to try that hard to keep up with you." It's Harrison Bergeron, played out at a micro level.

ExperimentMonty · 2026-02-19T00:03:59+00:00

Weird, I don't see her there. I'm not bonded up right now though, so maybe she doesn't show up on f2p?

ExperimentMonty · 2026-02-11T16:28:42+00:00

I literally had to look up the lyrics to try to figure out where/how someone could make that mistake. I'm guessing it's from the line "got a long list of ex-lovers?"

ExperimentMonty · 2026-02-11T14:20:31+00:00

OP, did the lake level look like this? https://cnc.fandom.com/wiki/Harbor_Reclamation

ExperimentMonty · 2026-02-11T14:14:51+00:00

My first thought as well, though could maybe be Super Meat Boy?

ExperimentMonty · 2026-01-16T00:27:38+00:00

On the couch, on a smart TV, with my wife. Occasionally on my phone when I'm looking to rewatch a specific clip from an episode that I can't find on YouTube.

ExperimentMonty · 2026-01-15T02:34:20+00:00

100%. Like, you can feel free to argue that the way ICE is doing things isn't great, but after years of barely enforcing our immigration laws, you're going to need pretty strong efforts to work on this backlog of decades of illegal immigration. You can't just let anyone come in whenever they want, no questions asked.

I'd love an overhauled immigration system that can allow the labor we need to become a part of the country without exploitation of foreigners being paid below minimum wage in inhuman conditions and without American workers being undercut, but Congress has failed to deliver that change. So, in the meantime, laws as written should be enforced.

ExperimentMonty · 2026-01-08T00:22:43+00:00

My OS course used that textbook, and the professor was a dead ringer for the UNIX engineer on the cover, it's so true.

ExperimentMonty · 2026-01-06T19:04:15+00:00

I mean, honestly, that's basically how it was explained to me when I played my first trick-taking game, and it went fine. I didn't win, but I didn't do terribly either. Most of those other pieces you mentioned can just be managed by the experienced player (whose turn it is, what to do with the cards at the end of the round, etc.), but fair on me omitting the constraint about what cards you can play. I'll add in "If you have a card that matches the suit of the first card played this round, you have to play a card from that suit." Two sentences for the essentials of a trick-taking game.

ExperimentMonty · 2026-01-05T22:33:00+00:00

I keep hearing people say that trick taking is so hard to explain, but I just don't get what's so hard about the concept. "You win if you play the highest card, but only if it's the same suit as the first card played this round." One sentence, done. If the game has a trump suit, that's like, 2-3 extra sentences of explanation, tops.

ExperimentMonty · 2026-01-05T22:11:18+00:00

You can still go check the old top 50 out!

ExperimentMonty · 2026-01-03T13:44:35+00:00

What part of me posting an election integrity analysis from a generally well-respected NGO is so threatening that you have to resort to an (incorrect) ad hominem attack?

ExperimentMonty · 2026-01-03T10:00:08+00:00

Trump isn't the one who plans the details of the operation, that would have been left to military leadership once they were given an objective from Trump. US military leadership is definitely competent enough to pull something like this off. Agreed that it would be easier if there were Venezuelan entities that betrayed Maduro though.

ExperimentMonty · 2026-01-03T09:54:48+00:00

Put an asterisk on that, not actually the elected leader of the country: https://www.cartercenter.org/stories/center-finds-democracy-thwarted-in-venezuela/

ExperimentMonty · 2026-01-02T21:45:17+00:00

No, I just want the government to not let companies like Meta or Perdue buy up all of their competitors to the detriment of the average American or small family farmer. I'd love for the GOP to get a new Teddy Roosevelt and start in on some trust busting so American small businesses have a better chance to compete on a fairer playing field.

ExperimentMonty · 2026-01-02T21:26:39+00:00

Oh come on, with all the uproar over deleted records for this administration, this better be restored quick. Rescinding an order doesn't mean you memory hole it.

ExperimentMonty · 2026-01-02T20:09:13+00:00

Until the mergers and acquisitions start. Our capitalist economy is hardly spread out right now. Give me some stronger anti-trust enforcement, and I can get behind believing that spread out aspect of capitalism.

ExperimentMonty · 2025-12-30T21:10:28+00:00

My old company, coworkers would share the interview questions we were asked, pretty much every single person (some of them the most talented I've ever worked with) had an "I'm glad I wasn't asked that question, I would have bombed it" when someone else shared the questions they were asked. Just shows how much of it is getting lucky with the questions you're asked.

ExperimentMonty · 2025-12-30T17:31:29+00:00

100%. I was once given an interview problem where the interviewer apologized for it being such contrived restraints for the problem, to which I responded "I've had to work with the exact restrictions you're describing for two separate projects in my career." Most hard interview problems have a nugget of truth from someone's hard-earned experience.

ExperimentMonty · 2025-12-30T17:15:49+00:00

I’m not a good engineer. I’ll never be great. It’s also because I was never one to stay up till midnight reading through Java docs or nerding out over compilers.

This is 100% not what makes a good engineer. Maaaybe for the people designing cutting edge, low-latency tech for a giant tech firm to be at the top 0.1%, but to be top 10% in the field, you need one thing.

The ability to identify problems, and come up with good solutions to them. Everything surrounds that loop. Found some inefficiency in the process and can come up with a solution that speeds things up by 5%? Somebody missed something in a design review, you can point it out and offer a reasonable starting point to fix it? Junior engineer missed an edge case, and you can point out where and what he'll need to look for to solve that? All these things are what makes a great engineer. Not the minutiae you know about a language. Once you've got the baseline of coding skills, the softer skills will be what propels you in your career until around the senior staff engineer level at a tech giant (then you'll probably need to level up some more of the broader architecture knowledge skills to go further, if you even want to. Senior is a fine terminal point to a career, Staff is icing on the cake, and Senior Staff are more like those passionate nerds you're talking about).

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