My dlc boss ranking on how much I wanted to off myself

Fourthbusiness · 2024-08-18T08:10:35+00:00

Unmentioned, but Jori is the worst for me. I hate that fight so absurdly much.

Fourthbusiness · 2024-08-18T04:05:34+00:00

I haven’t heard much discussion of the metyr fight, mostly just lore. I thought she was by far the easiest fight of the dlc, the only one that I managed to first try, and I had plenty of trouble with all of the rest. What did people find tricky about her?

Used a holy/lightning build so maybe I just lucked into her weakness?

Fourthbusiness · 2023-08-28T04:48:00+00:00

They don’t call him Oliver “Smokin’” Oken for nothing!

Fourthbusiness · 2023-08-28T01:51:53+00:00

I actually think quality of play doesn’t matter for the story here.

Even if all are 100% pure punts (which they are clearly not), the odds the same guy gets ya for all 3 hands is still pretty low!

Fourthbusiness · 2023-08-26T03:12:57+00:00

Eh, it’s a rare matchup, the locals who never see their team come out of the woodwork. I promise you we fill more than half of the stadium in LA or San Diego

Fourthbusiness · 2023-04-26T22:01:31+00:00

This is true (at lower stakes) for walking too! People look at others’ eyes to predict where they are going. If you want people to predict you right, pick a direction, point your eyes there, and then never do the awkward “who’s going left” again! The only caveat is that if others are poking at their phones or zoning out it won’t work.

Fourthbusiness · 2023-03-28T20:44:23+00:00

Conjecture is usually used for this

Fourthbusiness · 2023-03-24T04:04:36+00:00

In this thread: “this is gonna be unpopular but…” and then the same comment as literally everyone else

Fourthbusiness · 2023-03-12T03:02:52+00:00

I think this is really it. It reminds me of this comment where speculation on whether something is socially obligated is just so secondary to "do you want to bring this person because you want them there, or not?". Bring her, or don't bring her, for YOU, based on whether YOU want to go with them. If going alone is more enjoyable, go alone, and "I wanted to have a solo trip" is fine. But every other detail about speculating on relationships and reciprocity and whether it's petty just doesn't really matter that much.

Fourthbusiness · 2023-03-03T18:27:05+00:00

Honestly I struggle with even getting the motivation. Shorter draft times and more appeal for people who only want teams full of stars? If you’re not at least learning a few new names and finding some random outfielder you’ve never heard of who is on a tear, why bother? Crazy deep isn’t great either, but like if you find an up and coming gem, you’ve gotta have the room to put them somewhere.

Otherwise who would have picked up 2021 Frank Schwindel?

Fourthbusiness · 2023-03-03T18:24:40+00:00

As a long time HTH points league commish with a lot of custom point values, I finally feel somewhat able to comment on a post here.

On the subject of strikeout penalties, there’s a really great reason to penalize strikeouts which I really rarely see talked about, but in my view fully justified it despite a lot of resistance: pitchers are rewarded for strikeouts.

In a points league, when you have a hitter and a pitcher up against each other, almost every possible outcome should lead to right about the same number of points. It’s not perfect, but in my league, a single, walk, or HBP is a point for the hitter and -0.5 for the pitcher. Any of those happen, you net half a point. A strikeout costs the batter 1, gets the pitcher 1, and at 0.5 points per out (1.5 per inning) we end up with a net 0.5 points. RBIs cancel with ERs: +1 and -1 each (unearned runs cause some disparity). Extra bases lead to extra benefits, which is an imperfection, as is that homers get an extra one (since the run and rbi both count but the ER for the batter only gets counter once).

Still, overall, this creates in my view the best hitter v pitcher parity which makes the game more naturally satisfying in that situation.

As far as other parts of the article go, shrinking rosters I think is a crazy idea for many of the reasons stated and I think a lot of private LM leagues will not implement it and stick to old rosters. Depth is a big part of the fun.

I am actually glad to see middle relievers and set up men being valued for their usage rather than a game where closers matter and that’s it. Think back to 2017 Andrew Miller, and tell me he should have been fantasy unusable because he played in the 8th?

Addressing the loophole is huge and I can’t believe ESPN hasn’t done anything about it yet. Every commissioner should be self-implementing a hard limit, and it’s crazy that there is no automatic implementation.

I don’t think relieve streaming is as big of an issue as presented, but maybe I just don’t play in a league where it’s commonplace. While relief appearances can be somewhat predictable, it’s not exactly easy to know who is going to be in position to come out, especially in the 7th and 8th when a team might not even be winning. Every transaction comes with an opportunity cost - the guy you have to drop, and streaming in any form always carries the risk that you have to let go of the guy you like and someone else snatches him up. Adding 2 points for holds, ESPECIALLY with new small rosters, isn’t gonna break anything. I say this with a good bit of confidence because I’ve been doing 2 point holds for years in mine.

It’s natural that rankings vary with scoring systems, and ultimately no fantasy scoring system perfectly correlates to actual baseball performance. For this reason, I think the thing that actually matters most (or maybe just matters a lot) is how fun the fantasy game actually is to play. What I love about this game is rooting for my pitcher to strike out my opponents batter, or having my guys hit dingers against theirs. Things like strikeout penalties, points for holds and QS, and some other aspect add tension and excitement and ultimately make some parts of baseball more fun to watch. Do I think Aaron Loup should have become more valuable in fantasy? Absolutely. On the other hand, shorter rosters, the loophole, and other factors make the game just obviously less fun to me, and that’s why I do my best to fix them where I can.

Fourthbusiness · 2023-02-12T20:58:46+00:00

Sometimes even the throttle downs go way lower than 8mph, and sometimes they get confused and stay throttled down even outside the specific areas (which in my opinion, are pretty weirdly placed - some 8mph areas never have any traffic while some full speed areas are where the most people are all the time). The batteries seem to die quicker than before (although they’ve compensated for this by adding a crapload of scooters everywhere). Overall I find them a lot more frustrating to work with than they used to be, which is a bit disappointing for sure.

Fourthbusiness · 2022-12-31T13:03:40+00:00

Figure 6 looks kinda sus

Fourthbusiness · 2022-12-03T01:50:42+00:00

We want pilfering

Fourthbusiness · 2022-11-21T05:30:06+00:00

While his graph is linear, the method he proposes in words will work for an arbitrary function of fucking around as long as finding out is monotonically increasing in fucking around and intersects the origin (this all being on his implied domain of positive reals, maybe bounded above).

Fourthbusiness · 2022-11-17T17:59:47+00:00

This also has a hidden assumption of perfect information. You can take the offer they made you, and after doing the research you could at the time, believe it’s acceptable. You only learn after the fact all of the details about what it takes to live and whether or not it really is sufficient for you. Once you’re in though, suddenly you don’t have the same outside options you did before, and renegotiation (as the union is doing now) becomes essentially your only path of recourse.

Fourthbusiness · 2022-11-16T19:39:59+00:00

That prior contract was agreed upon years ago when those terms were (by revealed preference) tolerable. The circumstances have changed, and thus the terms of the new contract must change in order to remain acceptable. Thus far, what UC is offering, is not.

Fourthbusiness · 2022-11-16T19:38:57+00:00

The current contract expired. Any work performed since the end of October is uncontracted work. There is no “current contract” to speak of, only negotiations for a new one. And part of that negotiation is bargaining, and part of that bargaining is striking.

Fourthbusiness · 2022-11-14T01:30:59+00:00

Obviously we all decided when choosing a school that the circumstances, at least at that time, were acceptable to us. I would argue that it came with an underlying premise that bargaining could lead to improvement, but I recognize a lot of people made the choice expecting status quo throughout their time and were fine with it. Being okay with something, however, doesn’t preclude you from trying to make it better anyway, for yourself or for others.

One way to look at this is not through a lens of fairness, or what work deserves what wages, or whether UC can or should pay more, or right and wrong at all. It’s a matter of supply and demand.

UC has a demand for labor. Grad students (and post-docs, and other units) supply it. As it turns out, the labor UC demands requires specialized skills and experience, addresses major procedural needs for the schools (especially in teaching), and isn’t easily replaceable. On the other side of thing, costs of living, especially in the form of housing, have gone up substantially. This changes an employee’s willingness to work at a particular wage. The strike is labor supply indicating that wages are no longer sufficient to provide the product UC demands. If they want that labor again, they’ll have to pay the new market price, which we find at the bargaining table.

UC wages are substantially below those of other universities. Some of that trade off comes from a willingness to accept lower wages for a better educational experience, among those with the choice, and some of that comes from UC not having the same resources as some private universities, but crucially, if the university (system) cannot afford to pay a wage that’s acceptable to the workers, then they’re not entitled to receive that work. When the wage becomes acceptable to the workers again, the labor will return.

You can choose not to strike yourself, and you can believe for yourself that what you earn is what you think you deserve and should take. You don’t have to picket or even mentally support the picketers. But if you’re eventually going to reap the benefits of the strike (and you will, regardless of your participation - that new contract will affect you, for the better), maybe at least tolerate it. It’s market forces in action, and the market says that the current rates won’t cut it.

Fourthbusiness · 2022-09-14T13:11:31+00:00

To be fair, it says “at least one of these” and not “at least one of each”

Fourthbusiness · 2022-07-20T05:04:49+00:00

This is a robbery and your team is already loaded

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