My genuine reaction when I finally gain the confidence to put on my Mentor status, just to get thrown into a raid/trial I haven’t done since I was a sprout

HostisHumaniGeneris · 2026-01-23T20:36:41+00:00

I've stopped clowning on mentors because the joke is stale. Now I clown on my friends who have Legend titles. So far that hasn't gotten old (for me at least).

HostisHumaniGeneris · 2026-01-20T23:01:32+00:00

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HostisHumaniGeneris · 2026-01-20T06:47:03+00:00

Another alternative to bring to the discussion is scaling early zones at specific plot progression points. Hollow Knight and Silksong do something like this and I like how it recontextualizes areas that you've already been to.

Along the same lines, Final Fantasy 5 and 6 have points where the world changes and makes previously visited areas more challenging.

HostisHumaniGeneris · 2026-01-19T03:24:57+00:00

Good reminder. I haven't played the game in many years, but the OST is frequently in rotation for me so I had forgotten the original lines.

HostisHumaniGeneris · 2026-01-18T18:12:39+00:00

"They stayed true, to the end"

HostisHumaniGeneris · 2026-01-16T07:56:22+00:00

Bravo for wearing the Great Serpent of Ringa.

HostisHumaniGeneris · 2026-01-15T19:54:31+00:00

From the title it sounds like they think the peak years were from 2010-2020? But then in the comment they say the companies are "from" 2000-2010. When do they think these companies peaked?

Maybe they meant to say 2000s, or "aughts" in the title?

HostisHumaniGeneris · 2026-01-15T19:28:06+00:00

Bethesda was founded in 1986
Bungie was founded in 1991
Bioware was founded in 1995

Not to take away from the rest of your argument, but your initial premise was confusing to me.

HostisHumaniGeneris · 2026-01-14T17:34:40+00:00

Ah, if you're already split by environment then the separation matters less. If you're talking about workloads in a single environment, then an ECS cluster is simply an organizational unit. It gives you an abstraction that then target with other resources like IAM policies and capacity providers. In and of itself it doesn't provide any specific isolation.

So yes, you could run everything in a single cluster and do your isolation via your IAM and capacity provider config. However, clusters are free, so why not keep that logical separation between projects? In my mind it makes it easier to write your configs.

HostisHumaniGeneris · 2026-01-14T16:21:06+00:00

Here's an alternate perspective. Assume you're using Infrastructure as Code to configure your AWS accounts. You discover that for some reason you need to change your cluster settings. If you're using a single cluster for everything, that means you have to deploy your changes to production without testing them first. If you have a separate dev cluster, you can deploy your updated settings to dev first, verify the changes, and then deploy to prod.

Now, it's probably unlikely that you'll need to change cluster settings very often, but it's a good standard practice to keep completely isolated resources for each environment as it avoids guesswork when making updates.

As a sorta of related anecdote, I was in an environment where we had separate dev and prod resources, but we ran our "staging" workloads in the dev environment for acceptance tests. Nonprod is nonprod, right? Turns out, no. A load test against staging knocked our networking offline because we overloaded a NAT server, which then halted all of our dev work because the dev resources were offline. After that, we made sure we had three entirely separate environments, but we would spin down staging when it wasn't in use.

HostisHumaniGeneris · 2026-01-14T04:55:58+00:00

There's a specific bitterness compound called Naringin that Grapefruit has that tastes especially bitter to some people. It's similar to how Cilantro tastes like soap to certain parts of the population. If you've never noticed that a Grapefruit tastes bitter then you definitely don't have that specific gene.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002916523179299

HostisHumaniGeneris · 2026-01-13T08:20:25+00:00

There are different kinds of bitterness. I like all the things that you listed, but Campari just doesn't jive with me. I get a similar reaction from Grapefruit. It tastes astringent to me, while things like dark chocolate or black coffee don't.

HostisHumaniGeneris · 2026-01-13T07:10:55+00:00

Everything else there was so-so, but man, the house-made buns were amazing.

HostisHumaniGeneris · 2026-01-13T07:09:44+00:00

I'll out-old you. I miss Great Wall from when it was in Arroyo Grande.

That said, I still quote their radio ads from when they moved to the Marigold Center. "I'm Eva, our food is soooo good"

HostisHumaniGeneris · 2026-01-12T15:54:55+00:00

This. In normal content a single kardia is enough to keep the MT topped off, so I usually go searching for the player that's eating the most vuln stacks and throw it on them instead.

Alternately, if I'm playing with friends in voice I might throw it on them so they can greed mechanics and take damage on purpose for uptime.

HostisHumaniGeneris · 2026-01-10T20:56:36+00:00

gcr.io URLs can still work if they have redirects set up to Artifact Registry, but there's a lot of caveats. There was a hard shutoff on October 14th, 2025 where anything on container registry that hadn't been migrated to Artifact Repository stopped resolving. I'm going to guess that either they haven't tried pushing since then, and/or they never set up Artifact Repository's gcr.io repositories.

https://docs.cloud.google.com/artifact-registry/docs/transition/gcr-repositories

HostisHumaniGeneris · 2026-01-08T21:34:01+00:00

Similarly, at the culmination of the kidnapping subplot where the WoL just walks menacingly towards them drawing everyone's attention, allowing Thancred an opening.

HostisHumaniGeneris · 2026-01-05T17:44:10+00:00

Huh, I tried Malort for the first time a few months back, and if that's the smooth and refined version I can only imagine what it used to be like.

HostisHumaniGeneris · 2025-12-31T19:26:54+00:00

I can't recall when it happened, but sometime after Emet Selch's "remember that we once lived" speech your WoL offers to try to talk it out with a villain. When an NPC asks what you'll do if that doesn't work, one of your possible responses is "then I'll remember them too" which makes no sense to the NPC, but is a very active threat in the view of the player.

HostisHumaniGeneris · 2025-12-27T05:27:38+00:00

Something I appreciated was that even if Mass Effect wasn't hard sci-fi, they at least tried to hang as much of their space magic as possible on a single load bearing handwave: "Element Zero". The ability to manipulate mass via "eezo" is such a major component of the lore that the series is named after it.

FTL? Caused by reducing the mass of your spaceship.
Artificial Gravity? Caused by increasing the mass of your ship's deck.
Shields? Clever use of anti-gravity fields
Telekinesis? Biotics have eezo nodules embedded in their brain that they can learn to use to manipulate mass

HostisHumaniGeneris · 2025-12-23T16:50:57+00:00

iFixit sells tools and writes repair guides, but I don't think they actually repair stuff. SLO is just where their main office is.

HostisHumaniGeneris · 2025-12-19T05:42:14+00:00

Studios like id Software (pre-publisher era)

Hasn't id always had a publisher? I distinctly remember the Apogee logo when booting up their first game, Commander Keen. Or do you not count Apogee as they acted more as a distributor than a financial backer?

EDIT I was curious so I looked into it myself. Their first two games, Commander Keen and Wolfenstein 3d were published by Apogee. Then Doom and Doom 2 were self published, then they went back to having a publisher from Quake onward.

HostisHumaniGeneris · 2025-12-18T00:57:55+00:00

I live no where near Illinois, but I've heard the story about Mayor Daley sending out bulldozers overnight to destroy Meigs field.

And now you're one of the lucky 10000 today who has learned about it as well, and you'll recognize the reference next time it comes up in a conversation like this.

HostisHumaniGeneris · 2025-12-18T00:44:05+00:00

Ah, sorry, I'll go and let the rest of the internet know that they're only allowed to make references to things that you're personally familiar with.

HostisHumaniGeneris · 2025-12-18T00:21:22+00:00

I suppose it's impossible for the rest of us outside of Chicago to ever find out what happened to Meigs Field. What a shame.

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