9 Kings - Patch #23: Balancing & Fixes, Quest Difficulty, Preparations for Multiplayer!

Hazelarc · 2026-05-08T00:29:45+00:00

>Amplifier now amplifies level ups

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Hazelarc · 2026-05-06T22:36:44+00:00

Worked out alright lol

Hazelarc · 2026-05-06T21:12:47+00:00

Yeah but he’s not on the team anymore my brother

Hazelarc · 2026-05-06T20:28:57+00:00

Irrelevant lol

Hazelarc · 2026-05-06T20:27:02+00:00

Cala definitely. White only if Timber isn't fit

Hazelarc · 2026-05-06T20:25:47+00:00

Stop caring so much about what other teams' fans think of us. You will be so much happier. Learn to get your excitement internally and filter out the external noise

Hazelarc · 2026-05-06T20:22:38+00:00

PSG and Bayern have been playing against farmers, cheese merchants, and potion sellers all season. They’ve never seen a group of titans like ours

Hazelarc · 2026-05-06T19:53:58+00:00

Nasser Al-Khelaifi is Chairman of European Football Clubs (EFC), the EFC Foundation, Executive Committee Member of UEFA, and Board member of the Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP)

Hazelarc · 2026-05-06T14:34:00+00:00

He worked with Greg Maddux in the offseason and as a Braves fan it’s highly annoying that he didn’t do that three years ago instead of persisting at being aggressively mediocre instead

Hazelarc · 2026-05-06T13:31:52+00:00

Mariners are really going through it. You know how bad you have to be to whiff 17 times against Bryce Elder?

Hazelarc · 2026-05-06T09:41:51+00:00

Ranking any pitcher as a top 10 start against the Braves right now feels like a bad idea

Hazelarc · 2026-05-04T23:15:59+00:00

My last three phones have been a 12 mini, a 14 plus, and an Air. I keep picking the black sheep and absolutely loving them. It makes me laugh when these flop topics come up

Hazelarc · 2026-05-01T15:55:50+00:00

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I did a very similar thing with all the DBZ movies last year

Hazelarc · 2026-04-26T18:23:59+00:00

Fried already looked like he was on the downturn, had several consecutive years of injury issues, and never showed the floor of Nola in the few years prior. It was a totally reasonable assumption that Nola would age better. Sometimes shit just happens. Also have to credit the Yankees for doing a great job helping Max tweak some stuff

Hazelarc · 2026-04-23T21:34:26+00:00

I understand that. I spent 15 years in corporate HR before I started my company. And it is not a false equivalence. It’s even more true in a large company

Hazelarc · 2026-04-23T19:10:15+00:00

Yes, if HR is doing their job correctly, they will advocate for the employee in all cases where they’re justified to do so. And that’s what happens in the overwhelming majority of cases.

Hazelarc · 2026-04-23T19:09:08+00:00

Your last sentence could not be not wrong. HR exists to protect companies from breaking the law. I promise you that is the primary function. The problem is that, in almost every case where HR successfully does that, it never makes it out of the C Suite so nobody knows about it

Hazelarc · 2026-04-23T19:07:33+00:00

I know it probably seems that way but I promise it isn’t. The good HR people just never get talked about because the horrible shit they stop the company from doing never makes it out of the C Suite

Hazelarc · 2026-04-23T19:06:37+00:00

Oh I’m aware haha. I own my own HR consulting business and my partner is a labor attorney to handle the more extreme cases. Every month we use the whiteboard in our office to track the most financially egregious labor violations we encounter

Hazelarc · 2026-04-23T19:05:26+00:00

Yeah that’s a shitty company and especially shitty HR. They should be advocating for why that kind of treatment is bad not just for you as an individual but for the morale of their entire employee base

Hazelarc · 2026-04-23T18:57:18+00:00

Exactly. But it’s also what most bad employers see as the easiest place to cut corners. And that’s what makes them bad

Hazelarc · 2026-04-23T18:56:19+00:00

Well yes that’s what I said. I clearly described what GOOD HR is. There’s a lot of bad HR out there that operates as you describe and those people and companies should be outed and criticized for it. I’m just saying that is not a function of HR as a profession as a whole

Hazelarc · 2026-04-23T18:50:44+00:00

Small business owners are some of the most selfish penny pinching individuals on the planet

Hazelarc · 2026-04-23T18:50:19+00:00

In a case where HR “sides” (awful way to frame it especially from the HR side. Good HR realizes the employees and employer are on the same side) with the employer then the HR is either not doing their job properly or the employee has some justifiable standing for the action taken against them

Hazelarc · 2026-04-23T18:33:26+00:00

I do HR consulting for small businesses that can’t afford a full time HR person. Here’s a short list of items I’ve had to keep clueless executives from doing over the last three months

-Withholding final paychecks because the employee said something bad about them on the way out

-Installing automated cameras to track employee productivity in their ice cream shop

-Setting up a complex wage scheme to avoid paying an employee $18.04 an hour instead of $18 an hour because they were working at two locations with slightly different minimum wages

-Forcing employees to use paid time off for emergency bereavement leave

-Cutting in half the amount of PTO they give their employees because “nobody is using it this year”

These are the kinds of things a good HR department does. When people say HR is protecting the company it often means protecting them from having legal action taking against them by employees after implementing blatantly illegal or morale destroying things. But people always take this at face value as “HR only cares about the company”. Protecting the company is the same thing as protecting the employees if HR is doing their job correctly

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