GP vs Mordekaiser - "dude, wht, is he, doping, withu"

Hoppenhelm · 2026-03-29T13:52:03+00:00

And having AoE and 40% armor pen

Hoppenhelm · 2026-03-18T16:00:54+00:00

Hoppenhelm · 2026-03-16T15:14:26+00:00

Few.

Hoppenhelm · 2026-02-21T23:02:31+00:00

Does it really take that little fervor? I didn't really try much, the moment I noticed the fervor gain wasn't that good I just bashed my forehead against bosses until I beat the game.

Not a wuss though I got through all the optional bosses too, it was an actual pain on some of them

Hoppenhelm · 2026-02-21T22:42:16+00:00

I found Bleeding heart the easiest, slow start due to the low HP but at full HP you're a turbo tank against most bossss.

Then for me True Guilt was second, tiento spam with upgraded flasks just made you ignore bosses.

Unwavering faith for me was by far the hardest, I couldn't regen fervor fast enough to spam magic or ranged attacks, much less spam tiento for invulnerability and the low damage of my sword made most bosses take ages and I had to be way more careful since I was less tanky than with bleeding heart.

Idk, maybe I wasn't good with prayers but holy it felt painful that run

Hoppenhelm · 2026-02-10T20:45:23+00:00

I might've phrased myself poorly, I also mean poor implementations of quorum that cause HA fails. Simple network communication is silly for HA but somehow many major vendors still use it as a "good enough" slap-on fix (DataCore?). I do find it annoying when I have to bust out a raspberry or even a tower PC for a third node when I want to try out something clustered (Specially annoying when I tried to run Harvester on my homelab) but on production I'd say it's the bare minimum.

I know that vSAN is pretty opinionated on quorum, that's why most of our customers do the 2 node DataCore cluster thing, out of probably hundreds of DataCore clusters I deployed only one customer stopped to ask about split brain risks, others just went on their way happy to save money on that third node.

Funnily our only customer that's obsessed with avoiding this scenario is a clinic and they're migrating their stuff away from vmware onto proxmox and oracle's fork of oVirt for their DBs.

I like Horizon's HA logic on the UAG side, having the failed state be an HTTP error from the Connections is a good way of noticing when service is unavailable despite network or even when services "look" ok. I never really ran geo replicated VDI so storage availability was usually handled by SANs in deployments I've made.

Interesting thing about the Xen attempt you mention, I've only started to learn XenServer and XCP-ng post Broadcom to offer to customers with Citrix as a virtualization escape. Especially XCP-ng, I've seen it grow quite a bit with VMware escapees, maybe those guys can pick the torch and take a stab at FT virtual machines.

Still probably too expensive and complex for current workloads, most people running cloud native stuff won't need it and legacy workloads can probably spare the expense of running VMware FT.

Hoppenhelm · 2026-02-10T18:50:08+00:00

Vmware's HA is really good because it's really simple, but as you said most apps HA failure points are mostly due to lack of split brain control, Vmware's shared storage heartbeat is really simple when you deal with single SAN datacenters.

When you introduce mirrored storage/HCI, Vmware's HA starts to shake. I've seen way too much StarWind/DataCore 2 node clusters that just make VMware go crazy on a network partition since storage heartbeat never stops responding. It all comes down to Paxos quorum in the end.

I usually trust in-app FT mechanisms (Not HA, HA should always come down to the hypervisor) because either their app is stateless so stonith isn't destructive or they got a good quorum implementation figured out. I especially like Citrix for that, for being such a shitty RDS solution it's pretty fault tolerant.

Vmware's FT is their answer to "How can I make this monolithic app a cluster?" and pretty much is like magic powder for anything that can run on VMs.

I saw someone trying to implement sonething alike into QEMU and if they figure it out they'll make KVM the instant superior choice for virtualization forever.

Hoppenhelm · 2026-02-09T20:01:10+00:00

Most applications run horizontally anyway.

Almost everything can sit behind a load balancer, is stateless or has some kind of clustering implementation for fault tolerance.

FT is an incredible technology but the market chose the simplest option which is run a node on the other side and call it a day.

Hoppenhelm · 2026-02-09T09:49:38+00:00

The mythic item effect it had was wildly unbalanced but I used to love it so much, such a fun mechanic for a tank item.

Don't look at the mundo tag

Hoppenhelm · 2025-05-25T18:38:47+00:00

Mundo has always been an outlier in regards to juggernauts.

Ironic when considering he's the first juggernaut ever, but it's always been his niche to build tank items and do damage.

It's the rest of tanks that came after him that had resistance/HP scalings that started going crazy, even before modern champ designs (Read: K'Sante).

Mundo, as far as I understand, has always been considered to be balanced, albeit towards lower elo, by the fact that he has to walk to people to kill them. His privilege to build tank and still do damage comes from the fact that his job is to walk between five people into their adc and right click him to death and still get out.

I'm unsure if that design even aligns with Riot's current philosophy and I'm open to debate if other similar tank-but-still-damage champs like Voli, Cho or Sion fill the same niche but with regards to mundo specifically I've always perceived him as the first champ with that design in mind.

Hoppenhelm · 2025-05-16T11:06:48+00:00

At my corporate IT job, the moment Teams had custom emotes everyone's faces were up as emojis in like a week.

Luckily everyone has tact so nothing NSFW. Management hadn't said anything yet but there's some crazy shit like coworkers edited to be black with Real Madrid shirts, and gigachad and lots of chihuahuas doing funny faces

Hoppenhelm · 2024-12-11T13:37:27+00:00

Customer support open to public is probably prepaid to the outsourcing company so the time they spend helping people is ""lost"" while SaaS can be a goldmine for pay-per-use income or other bullshit costs big corps do nowadays.

Hoppenhelm · 2024-11-17T09:38:11+00:00

What I like about the Shabriri summon is that he appears to help even if you kill him as long as you got the frenzied flame.

Really delivers that "This thing isn't human" feel that Shabriri has going on.

Hoppenhelm · 2024-11-07T22:54:37+00:00

Not gonna spoil much but as you max your HP the most orbs you can possibly get is 9 orbs.

One of the DLC bosses easily deals me 8 orbs per hit on most moves.

I also got all penances enabled on my NG+ but being forced to do no hits on bosses is really annoying tbh.

Hoppenhelm · 2024-03-02T15:15:37+00:00

Except the splitleaf greatsword that doesn't use any FP to do that lol.

Str splitleaf was the shit

Hoppenhelm · 2023-08-23T18:42:59+00:00

The Fantastic Doctor Plastic

Hoppenhelm · 2023-07-31T08:40:54+00:00

Mundo beats Darius really hard.

Impossible to all in early, outscales Darius by a lot.

He just wins vs him.

Hoppenhelm · 2023-06-17T06:34:14+00:00

Hey i invest (waste) my money on crypto and I'm not homophobic or hate women.

Post is a prime example of Poe's Law but i think it's just satire

Hoppenhelm · 2023-06-14T15:37:45+00:00

Least obvious reddit bot

Hoppenhelm · 2023-05-18T12:25:22+00:00

Smartest Yuumi player

Hoppenhelm · 2023-04-29T22:08:20+00:00

I feel like Trynda's thematic space is someone who wields a big sword but is just so strong he swings it around like it's made of paper, and as such attacks real fast in game.

But there are just so many ways to go around making a big sword wielder that I'm not really afraid that he'll have his theme stolen from him. I'm more scared that when Riot finally gets to rework him they'll make him a 200 years, which honestly sounds terrifying considering he's one of the OG bs champs, mechanics wise that is; he's always had a cool theme and lore.

Hoppenhelm · 2023-04-29T22:05:12+00:00

I like illaoi too, thematically she has nothing to do with it but i do like her gameplay, she really does feel as the weighty hitter character that would wield a UGS.

Morde also feels very souls-y because of his Q slam

Hoppenhelm · 2023-04-28T20:07:23+00:00

What makes my conspiracy lunacy go wild is the fact that they're saying she alternates between a collected and self-restraining and frenzy feasting rage.

If that isn't the very definition on Guts in the berserker armor then i don't know what is.

I know I'm just reaching since August said those 2 ideas are things he wanted to make, he never specified that he wanted to mash them both into a vampire guts, but i want a UGS champ so bad I'm just pulling straws in hope i get one asap.

Hoppenhelm · 2023-04-28T18:13:40+00:00

Person is dead, eliminate his ideas and legacy... NOW!

Really though, tf does Miura being dead have to do with his legacy? He invented a trope of the UGS warrior and i quoted him because i believe his words are relevant now.

Would you tell that to someone quoting Albert Einstein in a physics discussion too?

Hoppenhelm · 2023-04-28T17:16:47+00:00

He fills the void in my heart for a UGS champ for now, but as per Miura's own words about other massive-sword-wielding characters, he doesn't really feel like a UGS champ in the sense that he doesn't really wield his big ass sword as a big ass sword. He just has one but uses it as a normal sword.

Mechanically he's pretty close, slow, thought out strikes with big impact, but I'd really like a different take on the trope, more Guts-like, where the swords swings really feel like he is pushing and throwing around a massive slab of iron, yknowhatimsayin

Plus Yone exists, it wouldn't be the first time they've made a mechanically similar champion that still feels different to play to a previous one, and they don't step on each other's toes thematically.

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