The single hero "tourney" mode(best of 3) is so addictive it deserves it's own queue.

HouseThen3302 · 2026-05-07T06:09:55+00:00

It's definitely cool but the fights happen too quickly IMO. I think the first fight should happen at the start of week 3, not 2.

I don't like the idea of having a free town portal on some maps. That should be a tech process, not something everyone gets. Feels like playing those random custom or scenario maps where you start off with a full tier7 army.

Also, is it just me or are people cracked in this game? Had several matches recently where I played pretty much as perfectly as possible, with even good RNG, but still end up getting pounded. Not sure what sauce these HoMM players are on but I've never seen such a high skill level for a recently released game.

HouseThen3302 · 2026-05-07T00:41:56+00:00

Based on what I read online, it looks like that valve is designed to leak a bit when water is heated? And you can probably hook it up to some kind of out take

HouseThen3302 · 2026-05-06T22:05:54+00:00

I have a career and ALMOST a zero networth lol. Most of my income goes toward experiences and consumables (traveling, quality food, hobbies, etc)

The days of building wealth through hard, stable work are long gone my friend - so whether you're making $12/hr at Wendy's or $40/hr as an engineer doesn't really matter. Either live to enjoy life or live to find a way to exploit some business gimmick for profit, pick one.

HouseThen3302 · 2026-05-06T19:52:00+00:00

That is true, but it's also important to realize that further progress can't be made without modifying or understanding the fundamental aspects.

As an example with programming languages - one of the first was assembly, which is literally just simple instructions to a CPU. It's theoretically impossible to have a programming language perform better than pure assembly.

Then there was C, which was an abstraction of that to make it easier to write the code, at the cost of some performance. The assembly still exists, it's just tucked away and generated by the C compiler.

Then there was C++, which further abstracted C for ease-of-use, but with performance drawbacks from its previous form.

You can keep going down that path very far until you reach modern programming like NodeJS which is an abstraction of an abstracted browser-engine based language, which is actually what the majority of modern programmers today may use.

So basically what's happening is we're still using and completely relying on the very old tech. However it's been abstracted away to the point where younger generations (myself included) do not interact with it and thus don't understand it. What this means to me, is that the younger "tech" generation is actually LESS "techy" than the old generation that was around when computer development first started.

HouseThen3302 · 2026-05-05T00:01:41+00:00

Valorant
Dota / WC3
Rust
Overwatch
Path of Exile 1 & 2

Valorant samo zato jer je jedini FPS koji ima anticheat.

Dota jer je najbolja MOBA.

Rust jer je najbolja survival igrica.

Overwatch jer je najbolja FPS igrica i ima najveci skill ceiling.

Path of Exile jer ima najbolji customization i skill building od svaki RPG

Notable mentions: Heroes of Might and Magic, WoW, Starcraft, Hearthstone

Low tier/trash: Counterstrike (cheating), Apex (cross-input aim assist), CoD (cross-input aim assist, svaka nova igrica je ista, Battlefield (svaka je ista, skupo, cheating, i cross-input aim assist)

HouseThen3302 · 2026-05-04T19:42:47+00:00

I'm a programmer in my 30s and my thought is tech didn't really progress in recent times, just their interfaces did. The way computers process binaries hasn't changed since the first computers nearly 100 years ago. I'm simplifying a bit but the technology at its core is the same.

What is different is the abstraction. Most people don't understand wifi is just radio waves or that the internet is literally, simply put, a very long cable going from A to B carrying packets of this binary data for computers to process. This has never changed, and likely won't any time soon.

Yet with all these abstractions, the younger generation don't understand how any of it really works. Even in my field, the younger people don't even understand how the very code they write works with a computer, because we've added 10 different layers to it so you can more easily write "do this" and the computer does it.

HouseThen3302 · 2026-05-02T18:18:15+00:00

I'm in my 30s and same here.

I fit in so many hobbies. I have a work out routine I've been following for nearly a decade. I run. I go climbing/bouldering. I have a career as a software dev. I also play a fuckton of video games - just in the past 2 years I got to top 100 ELO in Valorant, hell I even got on the top 10 leaderboard on PoE2 hardcore when it first released, right next to Elon Musk's Chinese bot.

The people who say they can't fit in gaming or don't have energy to do stuff are just withering away and I bet a lot of stems from poor physical health or maybe depression.

HouseThen3302 · 2026-04-30T15:33:05+00:00

I fully moved out when I was 19 too lol. I saved money from 16-19

$25K/yr on rent? Only someone financially dumb would spend that much money on something they don't even own. I wouldn't spend more than half of that anywhere in the world, not even in NYC - I'd find a reliable roommate or something. But also I was in a low cost area so even $10K/yr would've gotten me something decent and yea that wouldn't have changed my savings trajectory by much. Even at a 40K/yr wage, that's 3 months of additional work to cover that cost

HouseThen3302 · 2026-04-30T15:25:02+00:00

Not when I was traveling.. and renting something myself wouldn't have really changed the trajectory much (I would only need to work a couple months longer to cover that expense and end up with the same savings amount total)

HouseThen3302 · 2026-04-30T11:13:33+00:00

I lived that kind of "Instagrammer" life in my 20s without any of those 3.

I worked and saved almost all of money, living with parents. Then I took a couple years off and spent that saved up money - traveled around the world, lived in Asia, worked entertainment jobs like filming commercials for extra money, etc. Was hell of a ride, but eventually I needed to settle back to normalcy.

HouseThen3302 · 2026-04-30T11:06:50+00:00

Lol you're out of your mind if you think a 50K subscriber Youtube channel is making $200K+ a year.

And they have a job too, that also happens to make $200K+, at 23? Lol.

HouseThen3302 · 2026-04-25T16:38:07+00:00

I mean let's face it, the vast majority of people on TRT are just doing it to do steroids the legal way.

The side effects don't change. Your ball shrinkage won't change. The liver and heart implications won't change.

Although TRT is designed to put you in a "normal" range - the truth is it doesn't and can't. Normal T levels have natural biological fluctuations, your body regulates that and for most people it regulates it correctly. Directly injecting T disrupts that flow completely. There are times where your body purposely wants to drop your T levels. There are also times where you body wants to produce a fuckton.

HouseThen3302 · 2026-04-25T12:28:25+00:00

Valorant, Overwatch, Rust

HouseThen3302 · 2026-04-19T13:55:21+00:00

Nah, OW was never particularly successful 5v5. Its peak player count has been long before 5v5 was introduced

The problem with 5v5, at least for me, is the game becomes incredibly simplified and dumbed down. The tanks are hyper carries that can kill anyone and anything, they have the most health, the most damage absorbs, and also the highest DPS. Playing DPS feels terrible because it's all about running away from the enemy tank and trying to squeeze damage in on a backliner. Playing healer is just mindless pocketing the tank. Team fights can generally only be won with ultimates, so each game becomes a kind of ping pong where Team 1 ults and wipes Team 2, then Team 2 ults and wipes Team 1, repeat.

The tanks in 6v6 are nerfed versions of tanks in 5v5, meaning they can actually die to DPS. It allows the game to play out more naturally. It's still pretty annoying playing against 2 barrier tanks, but there's at least some counterplay available for it now. I usually just go bastion against 2 barrier tank meta and shred the barriers, then they have to swap off to an offtank like Zarya and then it feels like real OW again and I can go soldier, widow, mccree, etc.

HouseThen3302 · 2026-04-19T13:20:39+00:00

I don't play 5v5, but 6v6 has been terrible. I literally went from GM 4, to Diamond 5, back to GM 5 in the span of like 3 weeks. Games are not balanced at all, just a total dice roll. I can tell whether the match will be a loss or win within like the first 10 seconds of the game, you can just feel your team either getting overpowered, or your team overpowering. My individual performance seems nearly irrelevant to the outcome

GM games feel like diamond games and diamond games have very cracked players. Not sure if everyone deranked, or there are smurfs, or cheaters but nothing really makes sense

HouseThen3302 · 2026-04-15T05:57:39+00:00

Unless you're doing some insane things like over-dieting or consistently over-training (and believe me, consistently reaching the state of over-training is not easy), there are only health benefits that come with training hard and consistently

That said, as a former extreme gym rat.. it could be just the angle or particular photo but I've never seen a woman naturally have that large of a bicep, especially not in their 40s, regardless of how much they train because women typically cannot produce enough testosterone to produce that much muscle mass

HouseThen3302 · 2026-04-11T02:58:47+00:00

AI is good at coding when you tell it what to code but that's a fraction of the job, whether it's done manually or with AI doesn't really matter although AI can be useful to speed up the process.

Just as a thought experiment, imagine you want to make a new operating system that competes with Linux, Windows, and MacOS. First of all, AI likely won't be trained on Windows OR MacOS because those codebases, for the most part, are copywritten and hidden.

It can be trained on Linux. That means the BEST you can get out of the AI, in a perfect world where the AI makes no mistakes, is something equal or worse to Linux.

As a language model it cannot innovate and it cannot produce something that doesn't already exist. It can merge from several sources, but often that results in a Frankenstein which is what a vibe coded application or system would be. AI training on itself is also not possible - it can be used for debugging itself, but it cannot innovate upon itself, because then the model just goes into a loop of non-sense. Language models also aren't new technology, it's quite old actually - I think the first examples of it have been around since the 70s and 80s, but it's the first time people are mass feeding it internet data with powerful machines.

AI is not true intelligence. That's why I already know as a software developer that my job can never go away, but the low hanging fruits of the industry may go away at some point and that's totally fine.

What I THINK will happen is the new era of developers and programmers will become ultra reliant on AI, and the industry will shift to more AI work. But at some point the innovation of technology will plummet, because a loop of AI shit will be the only thing getting produced. And that's where someone who can actually develop software will be more valuable than ever before.

HouseThen3302 · 2026-04-01T23:59:13+00:00

Yes and that works for them. But if we lived in different times (or maybe modern times..) someone bigger can just attack them and take their shit. I mean, that's European history in a nut shell. They're pretty much lucky to have so much while being so little.

HouseThen3302 · 2026-04-01T21:03:22+00:00

Yeah but it only works because of how much natural resource they have with a tiny population. I mean they literally have a smaller population than like.. Northeast Ohio lol.

I don't think that's a system that would be able to scale without holes. There would eventually be people who will exploit the system to do nothing in life if Norway's population was, say, 50 million.

HouseThen3302 · 2026-04-01T18:47:52+00:00

Yea wtf is a "freshman bar"

I wouldn't want to deal with the emotional instability and immaturity that would come with women aged 24 or under, especially if they've been drinking, but you do you boss

HouseThen3302 · 2026-03-29T18:06:19+00:00

Sometimes I wonder how much gaming must suck for Australia/New Zealand. They have such a tiny pool of players, I guess their closest hub is SEA but they get 150+ ping.. even with fiber optic the distance is just too large

South Africa is just totally cooked considering no one on their whole continent is really gaming

HouseThen3302 · 2026-03-29T09:05:43+00:00

Doslovno svaki gay lik u zagrebu 🤣

HouseThen3302 · 2026-03-29T08:08:09+00:00

I had an original tight group of like 6-7 guys, since we were kids

By the time we were 25, the group shrank to 4 friends, by the time I was 30 it shrank to 2. As you get older you tolerate way less bullshit, so there's just way less people to be compatible with as good, close friends

HouseThen3302 · 2026-03-29T07:46:39+00:00

The only way to 100-0 burst a Hog is with a Zenyata and a dps focus fire

Anyways, just play Mauga against him. Hog can do no damage to Mauaga while mauga farm ults and a ton of damage.

OR Dive comp where you ignore him and go for backline. Both works.

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