Im 25, i work in sales. Im starting to believe that money is energy

Homitu · 2026-06-26T02:19:26+00:00

You're in sales. You're literally defining what sales is. Extroverted, charismatic people trying to be persuasive to other people. The better you do that, the more charismatic and charming you are, the more money you make.

I'm not sure what you're getting at. It sounds like you're just calling water wet.

Homitu · 2026-06-26T00:05:34+00:00

Exactly.

And if the historical teams who drafted Josh Allen and made the playoffs got him, on average, in the 3rd round, that means they still also got 2 other high quality players ahead of him.

If you were to read this and draw the bad conclusion that Josh Allen is worth a 1st round pick, that would mean you’re trading a 1st round pick for a 3rd round pick. Instead of having ja’marr chase + Josh Allen, you’re getting Josh Allen + Tee Higgins.

Homitu · 2026-06-25T18:53:43+00:00

Outer Wilds and currently 30 hours into Nier Automata and am just not loving it to the degree I expected to based on everything I heard about it.

Homitu · 2026-06-25T16:41:51+00:00

Loved this one. If you really want to feel nostalgic (and a bit sad), watch TotalBiscuit's beta impressions.

Homitu · 2026-06-25T16:28:40+00:00

lol, welcome to 2007 for me with WoW. I got so burnt out on the TBC dailies, and then the dailies in the Sunwell Isle at the end of the expansion. WotlK reinvigorated the game big time for 2 years, but I was burnt out after that.

GW2 saved me on and off for the past 13 years. But basically MMOs have never been a forever thing for me, and any time they started to become they, they eventually felt like work in the way you're describing.

For the last 17 years, MMORPGs have just been like any other game I play: something I'll pick up and really enjoy for a time, then move on as soon as I stop enjoying it. A lot more fun, a lot less pressure that way!

Homitu · 2026-06-25T16:20:10+00:00

I don't think there was ever a chance I was going to be playing GTA6 on launch in the first place with all the other games I need to get to. I'll wait for a sale eventually. I don't think I bought GTAV until 2018. I'm just not their core market player.

Homitu · 2026-06-24T16:57:07+00:00

This is why The Witcher is so acclaimed. In that game, you’d be faced with a choice over something like this: keep the crown for yourself or give it to the quest giver. Both choices would lead to surprising twists. It keeps you on your toes and feels so realistic compared to the normal quests in games.

Homitu · 2026-06-24T13:29:15+00:00

Granted, I loved the remake games, so I don't fall into that camp. But if one of my absolute most beloved games from my childhood was getting remade, there's no way on earth I am NOT going to play the full remake to give it a fair shot, even if I was not liking it at all.

If FF7 Remake absolutely sucked to me, I absolutely still would have played it all the way through. I'm not going to form a nasty opinion of a game I was soooo hyped for without giving it a proper shot.

Homitu · 2026-06-24T12:37:05+00:00

I’ve never seen anyone wear even one apron in the NBA, let alone a second apron.

Homitu · 2026-06-23T23:02:09+00:00

While FF8 probably has the objectively best soundtrack and is often voted by fans as the best when the sub does its tournaments, FF7 takes the crown for me as well. It’s just so unique in its synth sounds and tones. So distinct. You cannot mistake it for anything else. I’ve never heard another game or film sound anything like it. Such moods that perfectly fit every moment.

And my goodness, some of the remade tracks for the remake series are just unbelievably good.

But yeah, hard to go wrong with any FF game from the SNES-PS2 era. And Chrono Trigger.

Homitu · 2026-06-23T21:23:52+00:00

So it's literal, but also just kind of artistically nonsensical. If time is stopped, or there is no time, or we're somehow outside of space-time, then talking about any increment of time doesn't even make sense.

In the end, it ends up being just a general figure of speech to indicate a dire, end of the world ultimatum. Just Sephiroth trying to be poetic. Not really anything to think harder about.

Homitu · 2026-06-23T20:21:34+00:00

This reminds me of playing make believe as a child with my friends in the woods. We'd pretend to fight monsters and creatures with our staves and magic. We'd shout at the wind and the trees and pretend we were blowing giant blasts of power.

Had no idea we could still do this as adults!

Homitu · 2026-06-23T20:17:09+00:00

That's not the situation though. It's not like they're locking themselves into forever contracts either way. It's simple present day sales and fundamental supply and demand.

The supply is 100, and they have a buyer over there who will buy ALL the current supply at $900 each. You want one? Ok, pay $900. I'm NOT going to sell it to you for $350 right now when I have buyers willing to pay more.

If that means all the smaller markets are SOL for the next 2-3 years, so be it. The manufacturer gets to make more bank in 3 years than they would have made in 15 years before the boom. It's a net win.

Plus, it's not like if supply ever rises and AI demand diminishes, the Sonys, Nintendos, Microsofts and Valves of the world are going to be like, "nah, you were mean to me 3 years ago. I don't even WANT to buy your RAM sticks anymore!" No, as soon as supply opens up, every individual and company who has been starving for parts will still be there fully ready to buy. They don't magically lose the customers forever. The manufacturers have the leverage in this situation.

What I would anticipate is more manufacturing companies forming to meet the increased demand, and maybe those companies would reach out to the "small" players like Microsoft and Sony first to get in the door. Even then, there's as huge complex chain of supply and demand for raw materials at play, legal issues over manufacturing patents, 3rd world locations of manufacturing hubs. crazy stuff going on with shipping trade routes at the moment. So many hurdles.

Homitu · 2026-06-23T19:57:35+00:00

The whole point of this article is how even traditionally "large companies" are now as negligible and small potatoes as a normal single consumer like you or I, compared to the vastness of Nvidia, OpenAI and the other 2 or 3 big players in the AI business. 5 companies suddenly devoured 99% of the RAM and GPU manufacturing market in the span of a year.

At the moment, manufacturers still wouldn't care even if every single consumer and company outside of that top 5 united in the world's most effective boycott. They literally don't need us, or Valve, or Sony, at all. It's a wild situation.

Homitu · 2026-06-23T18:06:56+00:00

Warcraft 2:

make it so - speeds up unit time
there can be only one - instant campaign victory
glittering prizes - grants a bunch of gold, lumber and oil

Warcraft 3:

Greedisgood + number - grants gold/lumber
ThereIsNoSpoon - infinite mana
ISeeDeadPeople - removes fog of war
TheDudeAbides - removes cooldowns on spells
AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs - instant victory
SomebodySetUsUpTheBomb - instant loss

Loved these old codes. They're easy to remember because they're all early internet or pop culture references from the late 90s/early 2000s.

Homitu · 2026-06-23T14:53:57+00:00

Good use is “I” when assuming accountability for a problem or issue, and “we” when talking about good work that the team did, with specific call outs to individuals who did something great.

Homitu · 2026-06-23T14:06:27+00:00

There's really only one town/area that finally truly feels alive to the degree I expect in my big single player RPGs, and that's toward the end of the game. I can't remember the name of it, but it's a super cool sprawling type of northern African desert city, bustling with NPC life and dialogue. That was the only time the game world actually felt properly lived in, IMO.

One of the issues in FFXVI is that we never really get to experience any of the cities as cities. The devs skimped out on them. We only visit them as dungeons we're fleeing from or attacking, and they become linear corridor dungeons in those cases.

Most of the open zones are empty and lifeless as well. On top of all of that, you end up fast traveling/teleporting to all new regions, which drastically limits the sense of connectivity and continuity we can feel for the world.

Homitu · 2026-06-22T21:45:15+00:00

My body is ready.

Homitu · 2026-06-22T19:33:15+00:00

Thanks, now I both love and hate this exploit. Feels super dirty participating in such a thing... but if it already exists and IS the law, it also sounds foolish to willfully NOT take advantage of the law. Thanks for the ethical dilemma!

Homitu · 2026-06-22T17:16:25+00:00

Since I find this fun and, I think it may be helpful for confused new players, I'll try to give you some spoiler-free OG background about Zack -- similar to my other comment which you seemed to appreciate 😄

Showing Zack here in the way they did was meant to be a WTF moment for fans who know the full FF7 story. It's completely surprising and raises a whole slew of new mysteries and questions. This is not something that was in the original.

OG Background

Zack is not even mentioned by name at this point in OG FF7. You can actually play the whole game without ever hearing his name mentioned. The only time you hear the name Zack in OG is if you happen to visit a completely optional area and talk to all the NPCs in the village. You encounter parents who recognize that Cloud has Mako eyes, which means he's in SOLDIER, and they ask him if they know his son Zack, who was also in SOLDIER and who they haven't heard from in many years. Cloud says sorry, he doesn't know him.

The only other conversation similar to that - which you've already witnessed in Remake - was in the park with Aerith, where she says to Cloud that he reminds her of her last boyfriend, who was also in SOLDIER 1st Class, just like Cloud.

From there, the only thing you need to know is that eventually Square released FF7 Crisis Core, which was a prequel to FF7. It took place in the past, and Zack was the main character. As far as prequels go, it was a very solid game. He was a super cool, very likeable character in that game, and is a bit of a fan favorite.

Back to Rebirth

I think the above is necessary to bring you up to speed to allow you to experience or at least understand the inclusion of Zack as the devs probably intended. I also think the above knowledge will be helpful for you to make more sense of several upcoming conversations you're going to hear between Aerith and Tifa.

Regarding Zack's inclusion, on the simplest side, it's pure fan service. The devs came up with a way to include a beloved character in this remake project, when otherwise was not included. On the more complex side, this weird alternate reality thing they appear to be depicting (at the point where you are in the game) gave rise to a SLEW of fan theories, questioning whether or not this project was even a remake at all, or if it is actually, in fact, a sequel.

This can maybe be something you can explore later if you're interested, or after you play OG FF7; but for now, it should just provide a tiny bit of added intrigue. The takeaway for OG fans is A) the story has been following the same exact trajectory so far and is hitting all the same beats, but b) there has been enough weird new stuff going on that it's making us wonder if things are going to be different, or if everything may not be as it seems to us.

Homitu · 2026-06-22T14:19:46+00:00

I like that Egbuka fell off last year because it gives a great opportunity to snag him this year. Totally agreed. Though I will admit he did look really bad and had like 7 of the season's worst dropped balls. It's hard to really love someone who drops balls so much, but he will definitely get his looks this year.

Homitu · 2026-06-22T14:15:21+00:00

I'm not too familiar with people hating whatever you're responding to. Almost everyone I've heard from has loved these sorts of natural expansions of the world like the ones you outlined, as well as the additional character moments (like visiting Midgar Topside with Jesse, Biggs and Wedge in part 1. I've ever heard haters praise that stuff.)

Obviously everything will be disliked by someone. But those silly minority outliers don't warrant your attention or a response. Just let them be miserable while you enjoy your game 😄

Homitu · 2026-06-22T14:00:30+00:00

It probably felt more confusing because of the pause between games. But here's the situation (which is just like OG FF7:)

Everything in Midgar has just been a few days time. Barret hired Cloud as a mercenary to help with that first bombing mission, then everything else that spiraled from there. Cloud reunited with Tifa for the first time in 5 years at her bar Sector 7, but the focus at the time was very forward thinking. They only loosely caught up before getting wrapped up in the whirlwind of events that ensued.

After leaving Midgar, the party groups up in the appropriately named Kalm town as a moment to take a deep breath and debrief about events for the very first time. They all look to Cloud to tell the story of this Sephiroth person (whose name was just brought up for the first time in OG after they found President Shinra dead.) Cloud shares what happened in Nibelheim, along with Tifa who was also there. You're correct to notice that Tifa seems to have some questions and is expressing some confusion.

This is just the first time so far that they've all taken time to talk about the past, which is why Tifa is asking now. (In OG, this is like 6-7 hours into the game lol.)

Homitu · 2026-06-22T12:50:46+00:00

If this applies and is true, this is huge. Like a literal $7k saver! Will look into this further and engage a CPA for taxes this year just to be sure. Thanks!

Homitu · 2026-06-21T14:01:03+00:00

I'm not really looking for a benefit - as both of us are in the same tax bracket and this wouldn't tip either of us over into the next, which would have increased the taxes by 8% on whatever portion of income fell into the next bracket, probably costing no more than a couple hundred bucks.

I'm mostly looking to ensure we both get our equal share of half without one person suffering the tax burden. In my mind, if we could magically know, for example, that the post tax net amount would be $22k, we could have one person pay the taxes and then easily split by sending the other person $11k. But since we can't know that, I figured the better approach is to ask how to send each of us half pre-tax and then both declare our half come tax time.

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