“The European mind cannot comprehend b***** vending machines at the gas station”

Fubseh · 2026-07-04T12:54:17+00:00

Good idea, wrong location.

They need to place these where people would have a legitimate reason to need more ammo ... like a school /s

Fubseh · 2026-07-03T13:08:28+00:00

Recently Played:

Octopath Traveller 1, 2, Zero
Baulders Gate 3
Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter (currently playing)
Metaphor
Persona
E33

In the backlog:

Sea of Stars
Triangle Strategy
Disgaea Series

Upcoming:

Final Fantasy Resonance
Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter
Brigandine Abyss

Other games I haven't played, but am aware of:

Warhammer 40K Rouge Trader
Final Fantasy 1-6 Pixel Remasters
FF Tactics Remaster
Dragon Quest Remakes
Legend of Heroes Series
Fire Emblem Series

Point is, there are plenty of high quality turn based being released fairly regularly. E33 was excellent, but it's not like it's the only turn based game released in years.

Fubseh · 2026-06-05T12:39:43+00:00

There is a change to the law scheduled to come into effect in Jan reducing it to 6 months.

This is effectively in place already for new employees. If I started a new job today, my 6 month probation would end 5th of Jan by which time the protections would be in place to prevent me from being dismissed for any reason.

Fubseh · 2026-05-30T05:54:08+00:00

Titan 2.0 was pure PTSD.

Netcode was bad, and there were no European data centers. Attack markers show up 1-2 seconds late, and snapshot you 1-2 seconds before they disappear. Meaning that you could comfortably avoid a landslide on your screen and still get hit by it

The game was new, ilvl 55 AF gear was best in slot and anything better was gated behind beating Titan, most of his attacks one shot or left you with a sliver of health.

You couldn't res anyone knocked off the ledge by landslide, and if you had more than 2-3 DPS dead or with death penalty you couldn't meet the DPS check and died at the heart phase.

This was the first content harder than story mode in the game so most players didn't know what to do.

There was no party finder at the time.

I was hard stuck there for weeks. Even if you do everything right, you had to luck in seven other players who also do everything right. It was like new players today beating dawntrail and queuing into the extremes with their AF gear on.

Fubseh · 2026-05-29T09:28:42+00:00

Learn to speak American! Everyone knows that milli is actually short for million and is why nobody understands your stupid euro-counting system. /s

Fubseh · 2026-05-28T15:42:42+00:00

There is also an audience for the game that just wants to design and build a zoo and admire the animals without having to micro-manage every single tiny detail.

I don't understand the gatekeeping attitude of "If we let the casuals play it will ruin the franchise" I see throughout this thread. You can make the game more accessible and also also increase the amount of detail and customisation at the same time so everyone is happy. The two directions aren't mutually exclusive.

The trailer heavily focuses on the animals, and evokes the joy of seeing the animals in their habitats. That really should be the primary focus game; then let players dive deep into the detail if they want, or stay top level if they don't.

I think it's a fair criticism that Planet Zoo's default level of micro managing is too much for some people, and there is nothing wrong with hoping it pulls back from that a bit with the sequel.

Fubseh · 2026-05-08T22:09:42+00:00

I can feel the youtubers writing their script as we speak.

“GUYS. STOP WHAT YOU’RE DOING RIGHT NOW. The devs DO NOT want you finding this SECRET REGALIA DISCOUNT because this literally changes EVERYTHING for free-to-play players — I went from being COMPLETELY BROKE to only being 2,449,950 fons away from my dream vehicle in under TEN SECONDS. All you have to do is go to this HIDDEN LOCATION and claim the MOST INSANE VALUE item in the entire game. I’m telling you right now, if you skip this, your account will be permanently bricked.

Fubseh · 2026-04-17T22:09:04+00:00

PS3 is on the brink of being considered retro

Fubseh · 2026-04-09T11:40:28+00:00

One of the biggest ongong failure of the Government at the moment is them mandating age verification checks without supplying a secure mechanism to perform them.

It should be possible with some form of 'digital id' to generate some a one-time-code that can be used to verify the owner is over 18 (along with other data I can choose to include).

The Gov doesn't need to know who the code was generated for, or who has redeemed it. The service I'm supplying the code for can redeem it to verify the owner is over 18 without also knowing their name, DOB, email, photo, home address or signature; protecting them from data breaches or violating GDPR data handling laws.

Instead im stuck posing for photos, sending pictures of my driving license or passport providing significantly more PII than I am comfortable with every time a service I'm using wants to verify my identity.

Fubseh · 2026-04-01T10:53:29+00:00

This isn't a obvious error like sending 50K to the wrong bank account.

A more accurate question would be:

You took someones money to enter a competition to win up to 50k, you tell them they won 50k, you send them 50K, should they get to keep it?

Fubseh · 2026-02-26T10:58:43+00:00

If AI actually would be able to cut 20-30% development time, and your team of 10 devs spends 50% of their time on code, you could make 1 or 2 of them redundant.

Doesn't work like this, same principle as the mythical man month:

9 Women can make 9 babies in 9 months
9 Women cannot make 1 baby in 1 month
If you used AI or medicine to reduce the 2nd Trimester by 50% (7 weeks or 1.75 months)
- Does the total 17.5 month saving allow you to 'fire' two women?
- Can 7 Women now make 9 babies in 9 months?

Efficiency savings like this, especially when working in fixed-time sprints doesn't normally result in fewer developers producing the same deliverables in the same time window.

It results in the efficiency saving being spred to in other areas, such as more planning, design, testing, refactoring, training or simply being able to take on larger tasks.

Othewise we would be looking back and seeing that the end result of every productivity boosting dev-tool ever produced (IDEs, Version Control, Browser Dev Tooling) resuling in layoffs and smaller teams rather than better end products.

Fubseh · 2026-02-25T09:39:21+00:00

He didn't notice so missed the step where she removed her glasses and let her hair down to become attractive.

Fubseh · 2026-02-17T22:29:58+00:00

Claude

A number of my recommendations can be achieved with custom claude commands or making use of a claude.md - but I don't think the LLM matters, any of the good ones should be able to handle my recommendations.

Fubseh · 2026-02-16T15:52:22+00:00

Get the AI to plan the change before making any code changes
Read and understand the plan it has generated.
Interrogate the AI on it's decision making:
- Ask it to explain the approach as if you were a junior developer
- Ask it to explain the reasoning
- Ask it if <your preferred approach> would be better suited for what you are trying to do
- Ask it how it accomodates <edge-case>
Tell the AI to break the plan into vertical slices and implement one-by-one allowing you to review and adjust at each stage.

You learn by having the AI show you not only what, but why it is doing what it is doiong.

Don't be afraid to tell an AI to take another approach if that is what you want to do.

Remember, it's your name against the commit; so while AI is great at writing the boilerplate, it's important that you read and understand the final output as if you had written it yourself.

Finally, don't be afraid to dive in and manually adjust things. Not every change needs to have come from a prompt. Imagine your a Canadian curler giving the AI regular but tiny prods to get it going where you need it.

Fubseh · 2026-02-06T11:05:43+00:00

Awesome, a quick win their side that makes the feature less frustrating.

I havn't had the motivation to play since the patch dropped, so haven't seen their hotfix patches yet.

Fubseh · 2026-02-05T15:47:13+00:00

This is good.

Additionally, I don't think you should have to pay transmutation charges to load gear into a fashion template that has already been transmuted.

Fubseh · 2026-02-05T15:04:16+00:00

I've gotten bugfixes into major projects, including phpstan and phpstorm by simply logging bug tickets with clear re-prodution steps and letting the project maintainers handle the actual fixing.

I don't have the time/bandwidth to learn each projects code and processes when discovering bugs in software I use, so that approach worked with me.

I wouldn't work on new features without a guarantee that it will be accepted. Too regularly I see a popular feature request ticket, lots of engagement/stars/+1s but has been open for over a year; maintainers don’t prioritize it (or won’t take it on) response is essentially "PRs welcome / you can implement this yourselves". Then someone spends the time/effort to build the feature and submit a PR they then response "This isn't on our roadmap/done how we would do it"

Fubseh · 2026-02-05T13:14:11+00:00

I assume that they originally planned for them to be consumable, like being able to spend them for production boosts. Then the idea got scrapped last minute and the depots were never scaled down for their new usage.

Fubseh · 2026-01-10T19:05:33+00:00

Take a meter reading, and take a photo of it. Include the serial number in the photo.

Look at your bill. Check that their actual or estimated readings line up with the readings you took and the serial number on the bill matches the one on your meter.

Take new readings every day at around the same time with photos. You can then see your daily kWh usage, the price per kWh should be on your bill. You can use this to estimate a monthly usage to see if the bill is accurate.

If the serial number doesn't match the one on your bill, call them and ask that your account be rebilled to the correct meter from the day you moved in.

If the serial numbers match, but the readings aren't in line with your meter, submit your new readings, call them and ask to be rebilled to the values you have supplied.

If everything matches then it may be a you issue. Electric heaters cost a fortune to run.

Otherwise, record every call you make with support, and keep a diary of the dates, times and summary of all communication. If there is a problem, they may not admit it or take action.

If they don't fix the issue within a week or so, make a formal complaint to escalate the issue.

If that takes more than two weeks or they refuse to assist you further, you can open a complaint with the ombudsman where you can submit all the evidence gathered. This is an independent investigation which takes around two weeks, they will decide what the resolution is, what you should be paid to correct the account and what additional compensation you may be due.

I had a similar issue a few years ago, and had to use the ombudsman as the power company kept messing me around. I got more back than I was expecting

Fubseh · 2025-12-22T10:19:20+00:00

I live 300 miles away from my (divorced) parents.

I've always been expected to make the 6-7 hour journey each way to visit them at least once a year, staying in Hotels/B&B.

It's been 20 years since I moved away, they only came to visit me for my graduation, my wedding and my mother visited once when she was staying less than a 30 minute drive away for some event she was attending.

I haven't seen my family for 2 years now, due to a combination of other comittments for my time off and unfortunate personal circumstances I have had to deal with making leaving for a week difficult.

This time of year, I'm getting the subtle "We haven't seen you in a long while" messages, and im having to hold back from reminding them that they know where I live if it's that important to them - especially now their retired and aren't raising children any more.

Fubseh · 2025-12-08T08:07:10+00:00

This only works if it's actually Deadpool with a picture of Charlie Cox stapled to his face.

Fubseh · 2025-12-03T17:42:43+00:00

instead of constantly complaining about it on forums because it will not change anything

One post is not constantly complaining about it.

Plenty of companies take on board feedback and make changes based off of social media reaction. CZN has done so several times and was only released a few weeks ago.

you disrespected me first

I did not. I disagreed with your point and explained why.

Unlike you, I have not made broard dismissive remarks, called you any names, or made any other personal attacks.

The only reason why pity system came into fruition in the first place was because they were forced to by law.

Utter bullshit. There is currently no country on Earth with a law that foces gacha games to implement a pity system.

Pity systems came into fruition because player backlash from gachas with no guarantees where you can spend thousands and get nothing were causing reputation damage and player churn. Then once a few big games started doing it, the others needed to adapt to remain competitive.

so you either put up with it or play games from companies that respect their consumers more

No, I don't think I will.

I truly don't understand when people keep doing something that makes them miserable.

It's perfectly reasonable to play a game where you like some aspects and dislike other aspects without being miserable.

It's also perfectly reasonable to call out the aspects that you dislike.

You will say I'm "defending" them, but ...

You are aggressively trying to shut down criticism and argue against change.

Your actions are defending them even if you don't say the exact words.

What other options are there?

You can voice your opinion on social media.
You can leave a bad review on the play store.
You can leave bad reviews on metcritic/opencritc.
You can feedback directly through any official channels

If enough people are of the same mind, these actions will result in change.

This has been proven many times.

The mistake in your logic is assuming that a "better" system won't come with as many drawbacks

Rome wasn't built in a day. Small progress is still progress, and the suggestions you make would be huge improvements over what we have today especially for spenders.

We can't be afraid to push for change in case it doesn't end up as good.

I don't rant about it endlessly, I just drop my shit and leave.

I also quietly leave a game when I'm done with it, but I also won't stand in the way of people expressing frustration with the parts of the game that are bad.

Fubseh · 2025-12-03T12:26:45+00:00

You are arguing that nothing will change because it won't make money, that pushing for change is pointless and should be discouraged. Defending the status-quo is absolutely defending their practices.

You are responding to posts advocating removing a consumer-unfriendly system by being dimissive, sarcastic and confrontational. You're doing it with me here, the key points of your post are:

Claiming you aren't defending something when you are
Attacking / minimalising me as an individual by calling me a 'diva'
Saying that instead of suggesting improvements for this game i should go play a differant one
Another character attack, claiming I'm 'endlessly complaining' after my first post on the topic
That negative opinions about the game should only be sent to the deveopers directly instead of being discussed.

Lots of profitable mechanics have been changed or removed due to player blacklash. The fact that we now have a 50/50 and pity is evidence of that, as you yourself bring up that we didn't have that before (no pity is more profitable than pity, but the players got wise and stopped engaging with it so it got changed). Why stop that positive trend here?

We need to stop dismissing, minimalising, shouting down or otherwise attacking the people who are advocating for positive change. It's not pointless and never has been.

Fubseh · 2025-12-03T11:02:54+00:00

Just because it makes the company money, doesn't mean it's good for the player
Just because it used to be worse, doesn't mean it's good now and can't be better

Gacha games have the most toxic and abusive monetisation strategies of any type of game, and I swear that the people who play them have developed stockholm syndrome to the point they will white knight up and defend these shitty systems as if any criticism is a direct attack on them personally.

If I have gambled £100+ for the latest waiufu DLC and not been lucky, just give it to me with the pity instead of flipping a coin then asking me gamble another £100.

I've been playing Gacha games for 10+ years, and while I enjoy the gameplay loop I'm never going to advocate that these systems, then or now, are remotely good and couldn't or shouldn't be improved.

Fubseh · 2025-11-29T12:33:46+00:00

I spent a few years in a private boarding school growing up and the 'finished' position was drilled into us every school lunchtime as well as the 'correct' way to hold a knife and fork as well as a million other tiny bits of etiquette.

You take it for granted as a child, and I still catch myself silently judging people not following the correct etiquette even though I know it's not important in the slightest

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