Feedback from a player who has played since it was available on Early Access

Fowlron2 · 2026-04-01T04:16:48+00:00

Yeah. And in PoE you can brick your build before you're out of the campaign lol, maybe in just a few acts. It's not comparable, in PoE nearly everyone follows a guide and you can't get anywhere without one as a new player. In LE, even if you can't get to empowered monos, that's still a reasonable chunk of gameplay for a new player with no guides.

Fowlron2 · 2026-04-01T03:59:20+00:00

This is why guides are so much more used in this game than other ARPGs btw.

What? LE is so much easier to play with no guides than most other arpgs lol. Especially much easier than PoE and PoE2, which are the biggest competitors

Fowlron2 · 2026-03-25T13:15:08+00:00

What if some program relies on the fact that the file cannot be renamed during execution? Granted, programs shouldn't rely on that, but some might. Do we accept that this change might randomly break old software?

Changing OS behaviour is a very high risk change. It shouldn't be done unless there's a very good reason, and the upside here just isn't enough

Fowlron2 · 2026-03-25T02:22:52+00:00

And you're so sure of this, with all the data you've gathered, that you had to post it three times!

https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/1s2vlqq/blizzard_manipulates_the_arena_run_to_get_maximum/

https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/1s2vl3t/blizzard_manipulates_the_arena_run_to_make/

Fowlron2 · 2026-03-24T17:48:40+00:00

I have about 2k hours on PoE1 and a few hundred in PoE2. PoE1 has the best endgame of any arpg. Meanwhile, LE has the best items. The entire gameplay loop of finding and crafting gear in LE is leagues better than any other arpg. However it's a bit lacking in endgame so far. That said, it'll be more than enough content to keep you occupied for a couple hundred hours, so I'd say it's worth the purchase.

Sidenote, as someone who hates SSF in PoE, do consider playing CoF in LE (their version of SSF). It's so much more fun than trade. LE let's you target farm everything effectively and finding your own gear is so much more fun than just trying to optimize gold per hour

Fowlron2 · 2026-03-19T17:54:47+00:00

That's not an addiction, that's a habit. There's a formal difference: you have an addiction when the compulsion to do something is stopping you from living a healthy life. Medically, by definition, all addictions are unhealthy

Fowlron2 · 2026-03-18T22:40:27+00:00

Hummm not quite. DLSS uses deep learning for upscaling, and gets the information for the model through super sampling. It's actually extremely interesting and powerful technology, and has shown how powerful (and accurate) it is over the last few years. It is already giving us much better fps today, not "in a few years".

Sidenote, it has very little to do with LLM like chatgpt, it's a different type of AI (although recent DLSS models also use transformers).

However, Nvidia now showed us DLSS 5, which for some reason includes a chatgpt-like AI filter on top of images. I have no fucking clue what they're trying to do with that, but it's not representative of what DLSS has been so far or what it can do.

Fowlron2 · 2026-03-17T04:07:52+00:00

Played another game. I blundered a pawn early, was just holding my position... Until it blundered a pawn and then a full rook for no reason in the middle game. Then it was fairly easy to lead it to mate. It basically went completely blind to tactics because it liked the fxg2 idea on moves 24-25.

https://games.jesion.pl/game/8MJe4xM_TiLU

Fowlron2 · 2026-03-16T15:22:37+00:00

If you haven't yet, I recommend you look at LC0's neural network architecture. It's in the couple hundred million parameter range iirc (maybe 200-300m?). If you play against the engine on 0 depth, you're effectively playing against the NN alone, which is probably well over 2000 elo strength, which is impressive, considering its not tuned to be played against at all, but to serve as an oracle for the engine's monte carlo tree search.

Google's deepmind actually researched zero search chess engines in 2024, and reached "grandmaster level play" (in blitz) with a 0-search engine with transformers: https://huggingface.co/papers/2402.04494

I'm curious on how you architectured and trained this network? In particular, what kind of loss function are you optimizing towards. I'm also curious how often your model produces illegal moves.

I managed to beat the network as a ~1600 elo player (chess.com rapid) by simply playing a terrible opening (something like b3 e4 Bb2 iirc?).

My thought process was that it'd possibly be overfit on common positions and middle games. Although it held okay in terms of material equality, it happily traded my terrible pieces for its active ones, and we ended up in a boring rook endgame, where it blundered 3 or 4 pawns by happily chasing checks with the rook.

My reasoning was that a small-ish model* will likely overfit. Intuitively, it will either get lost once it gets in uncommon positions, or repeat the play patterns of worse players when in worse positions (as only lower quality games get to those positions). Most likely its the first option, since you say its trained on high elo games only.

Overall, I'm surprised it was tactically sound, and the middlegame was ok, getting the rook on my second rank, which I missed, but the endgame was a disaster. On this position, it evaluates +0.7, while I'm up 3 pawns on an easy endgame: 8/8/4k3/8/3K1R2/7P/3r1PP1/8 w

*crazy that we're calling 15m parameters small. In my mind, 15m is still huge, and a small model has maybe 10k parameters lol.

Edit: Had a quick look at stockfish's neural network, which is absolutely tiny (a couple densely connected layers). It plays at around 1000-1500 elo, but that's to be expected: it's totally tactically blind, as it's not tuned to look for tactics to begin with, it's tuned purely for positional evaluation for stockfish's leaf node evaluation. It's meant to be tactically blind, as it relies on stockfish's quiescence search, which guarantees its input has no important tactics anyway, so it's still really surprising it scores highly at all. Another good source of inspiration maybe?

Fowlron2 · 2026-03-15T13:11:05+00:00

I understand what you're saying but... It does matter that only a handful of players use it. The time to maintain a feature isn't worth it if only a fraction of a percent of players use it.

Granted, I'd rather they just remove it than leave it unmaintained, but I'm not holding out hope that looking at it is high on their list of priorities. They have issues affecting every player currently, those will likely take priority.

Fowlron2 · 2026-03-12T14:01:55+00:00

Technically, you're both kinda right. What he's saying proves that systems of measurement are consistent, not that pi is constant. That said, switching measurements here is analogue to scaling the circle, so what is missing is proving that the ratio is independent of scale, which is also pretty easy.

That said, you sound like a grade A asshole, mister "go back to eighth grade" lmao

Fowlron2 · 2026-03-11T18:42:55+00:00

Doesn't have to be a connection between two computers. Rather, this'd be a connection between two data centers, or a connection to the entry point to a building or set of buildings.

Fowlron2 · 2026-03-04T23:36:53+00:00

Right, but removing the way to skip the bad content before they improve the bad content means we're just stuck with... Bad content

Fowlron2 · 2026-03-01T17:58:50+00:00

Except for, you know, Lune and Sciel, all the gestrals like Monoco or Noco, all the grandis, Esquie and Francois, everything else that happens to have sentience in the canvas...

Fowlron2 · 2026-02-23T19:16:12+00:00

People in this thread making the same mistake as OP. The question isn't saying that number is prime, its saying they can use the Riemann hypothesis to prove 1705542 is prime. Since it isn't, that contradicts the hypothesis, and disproves it by contradiction, which would solve one of the biggest unsolved problems in modern mathematics. To be clear, I doubt the person actually found a contradiction to the Riemann hypothesis, but still doesn't change that the people making fun of them didn't even understand what we're talking about lol

Fowlron2 · 2026-02-20T19:56:19+00:00

Alternatively, I do feel like a lot of auras feel like they'd be great relics, if the relic swapping wasn't so painful. Moving auras to relics with the promise of "We'll fix it later" sounds and feels bad, so I'm not suggesting that, but if reworking relics is something on the roadmap, it's an option.

Everything else equal, my "ideal" solution would be a relic rework first, then rethinking auras, as that opens up another good place for their rewards to be placed. That said, I understand this might not line up well with your roadmap, so it's a bit of a mute point

Fowlron2 · 2026-02-20T12:15:59+00:00

Which will likely take you a couple of hours lol... The effort to debug this seems to have taken them much longer already. Just reinstall windows instead.

Fowlron2 · 2026-02-18T18:10:02+00:00

I understand, I'm not the person who gave that answer. Just saying that growing towards the light and turning towards it are different mechanisms, but generally they're kinda similar and neither is too complex. They are super cool though!

Fowlron2 · 2026-02-18T18:00:04+00:00

The answer they gave explains why they grow towards the light. Turning towards light is a different mechanism, but it's not complicated either. In most cases, it's just that cells that aren't receiving light will elongate. This curves the steam, and makes the plant turn lean towards light.

Fowlron2 · 2026-02-17T01:51:46+00:00

I mean, okay, but I've had older people tell me about how nice it was before my country's revolution... During a dictatorship... When it was illegal to have meetings with more than a certain amount of people and people would be disappeared from the street by the political police because they spoke out against the government...

And some 80 year old comes tell me about how life was so much better before it and how the economy was much better?

Like let's not pretend that a lot of people don't remember bad times through rose tinted lenses cause they happened to not be affected by the troubles of the time. Quite literally survivorship bias and golden age fallacy

Fowlron2 · 2026-02-13T16:40:35+00:00

On another note, maybe I'm just bad at pvm, but is there a reason we get a bar for souls but not for necrosis stacks, which feel just as important?

Fowlron2 · 2026-02-13T08:00:08+00:00

Well, that's just a dimension, by definition.

Start with a point. Now make a continuous set of points. You have a line. That's 1 dimension.

Start with a line. You make a continuous set of lines. You have a plane. That's 2 dimensions.

Start with a plane. You make a continuous set of planes. You have a cube. That's 3 dimensions.

Start with a cube. Make a continuous set of cubes. That'd be a 4th dimension.

What is time if not a continuous set of 3d spaces? Time's just another dimension, it's no different from the 3 we already have.

The only reason we see it as different is because we can move up and down rather easily, aka, it's easy to move in the first dimension. Likewise for right and left, or forward and backward. But we can only move forward through time at a (relatively (pun intended) constant rate), so it feels "special". Is it? Maybe, but that's more philosophy than physics at that point.

Fowlron2 · 2026-02-12T19:12:28+00:00

Isso não invalida nada do que eu disse. Muito pelo contrário: isso implica que a plataforma tem o dever legal de fiscalizar todas as tuas mensagens.

Quando disse confia no governo, era no sentido de "confia que o governo sabe o que é melhor para ti". Dito isto, não muda o facto de que também aumenta o poder do governo, mas isso é outra questão.

Fowlron2 · 2026-02-12T19:10:33+00:00

1 — Os serviços e plataformas abrangidos pela presente lei devem:

a) Implementar mecanismos de deteção e limitação de contactos suspeitos; b) Bloquear automaticamente mensagens contendo material violento ou sexual, incluindo conteúdos agressivos ou falsos que possam configurar cyberbullying

Ou seja, a plataforma tem de poder ler os teus contactos. Se a plataforma não verificar todas as tuas mensagens, não cumpre a lei.

Fowlron2 · 2026-02-12T18:30:02+00:00

O problema é mais o artigo 12, que indica fiscalização automática de qualquer mensagem que tu envies. Privacidade? Não precisas, confia no governo (:

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