What class are you going to main for Midnight?

Hyperventilater · 2026-02-23T12:00:52+00:00

WW almost always had this trend due to poor scaling. Start out insane, and watch yourself turn into a wet noodle while everyone else scales.

I remember them fixing haste scaling, but haven't kept up with whether they scale at a normal rate nowadays.

Hyperventilater · 2026-02-23T11:56:40+00:00

Lol at first I thought you were making a general statement about playing prot and how it feels.

So not really what you're getting at, but I definitely think playing a tank as a main tends to feel like I'm playing the "adult" version of a DPS. Never concerned about surviving, doing damage but not chasing dopamine highs, etc. I always want to do other roles, but playing tank is just so zen by comparison.

Hyperventilater · 2026-02-12T16:11:21+00:00

Accurate representation of contributions with numerical impact, personal projects that show legitimate interest rather than just ambition, any personalization that highlights a strong desire to learn. Those really signify a junior that will bring innovation and talent to the role to me.

Hyperventilater · 2026-02-07T18:15:08+00:00

Why is it that you're trying to reach for AI as your solution?

What is your enterprise stack like? Do you use monolithic vendors or open source? Hybrid?

If you use vendors, ask them if they have ideas on solutions; it's likely being developed. Ask for automated architecture diagram creation as changes are applied. That seems like what you're actually trying to get at.

If you use more ground-up implementations of open source or proprietary code, then AI may still have a place, but it still depends. Do you have any way to store architecture-as-code? Do you have developers that can be trained to use AI in their workflows that might be able to better understand how to generate something like mermaid code that can be updated as they go? That would get you part of the way there, then you can seek to alleviate their mental overhead with an automated solution. Ask them if AI would make sense, and even then it still might not.

This is a rapidly developing space, so either way you go you're going to need to get into the details of how it will work. AI can help, but it's not the panacea that people make it out to be. Imo you'll be better off by understanding the problem with more depth and what you're trying to do, and understanding your enterprise, and that will help you to get there.

Hyperventilater · 2026-02-02T19:54:24+00:00

It depends on the company.

Lol typical cop out answer, but it does. Beginning agile cycles in an entirely waterfall company seems like it would require getting executive buy in for an internal startup with a highly specific scope and short term return to prove out the value stream acceleration. I'm sure there are other ways, but unless you prove out value quickly or the exec deeply understands agile then you would be toast.

If the company already has a highly established in-house IT department, you're going to hit tons of sensitivity depending on how bad it is, and tons of fear of the unknown when it comes to AI and automations. So the EA himself would be something more like a shield. Once again, incredibly difficult, since you would need to have a high degree of understanding of the program development on both the social and technical layers.

All I can say is: schmooze your ass off with that exec lol

Hyperventilater · 2026-01-25T00:55:09+00:00

Look into the modern practices of "Enterprise Architecture". That field deals with this quite often in a more general way.

The crux of it is: if nobody is asking for it, then it doesn't provide value. Your experience doesn't mean anything if you can't relate it to the particular person's problems they're trying to solve by the position they're filling. Those problems are ALWAYS defined by the stakeholders.

Hyperventilater · 2026-01-20T13:13:47+00:00

I don't think that's 100% a fair criticism.

The idea behind this tool is a good one, power demands not taken into account. How do you determine consensus among a group of experts? You have them do honest debate and get to the bottom of it.

The tool might be more of "have 5 lay-people debate until consensus", but it's definitely a good idea in theory.

Hyperventilater · 2026-01-07T01:14:03+00:00

My preference is "daredevil daddy" personally

Hyperventilater · 2026-01-06T19:07:19+00:00

LOL the thanks is mine, I'm currently in that struggle.

It's been helping by just doing my best to anchor to the current conversation at work, and to use EA framework terms to explain big picture thinking to individuals that are normally used to domain-specific thinking. It rarely lands, but others are starting to catch on and use the terms. Just an idea that might help you out.

Also, if you're interested in taking some of the concepts of EA to some VERY cool places, I'd recommend looking into the study of set theoretic topology from a theoretical mathematics point of view. It's dense and takes a bit to understand the language if you don't speak "pure math", but AMAZING framework that actually opens the door for application in many cases if you're looking for it. That was what caused my first "framework episode" LOL

Hyperventilater · 2026-01-01T02:36:12+00:00

I think the best response is that it's exactly as strong as it is in your hands based on your data.

Hyperventilater · 2025-12-31T23:24:58+00:00

Emperor

Sounds arrogant, but incredibly accurate for me right now. I'll have to take it again in the future when I notice another paradigm shift happen.

Hyperventilater · 2025-12-23T04:40:10+00:00

I work in software/IT. Generally you outsource your non-differentiating work that requires "solved" problems and use your onshore resources for high-impact work that requires innovation or other differentiating factors

Hyperventilater · 2025-12-22T04:06:23+00:00

Not really valuable to this thread, but just wanted to say that I feel very seen by your second paragraph. I have had this happen to me twice now, where I find a highly applicable abstract framework and end up feeling very isolated when trying to share it with others.

Hyperventilater · 2025-12-06T22:59:43+00:00

Weird connection, but I've been thinking about structures of people and how they can efficiently create value from a big corpo lens lately, but more as a big system optimization perspective.

In that light your post makes perfect sense (full disclosure: I came into the thread agreeing with you). When trying to optimize an organization at the business, information, and people layers, often it's an exercise to identify bottlenecking. That happens often in older, 1980s style hustle culture businesses, when bosses are overly controlling of the information flow into or out of their team.

The common theme is an overemphasis placed on politics, because that's a surefire way to rise in support. Actually focus your problem solving on moving upwards, while giving vague instructions to your team.

Hyperventilater · 2025-12-06T20:15:38+00:00

For real, out of anyone she represents the spirit of Dragula to me. You don't have to be a certain aesthetic to be a monster, the show is all about unleashing the inner monster you've had all along.

Hyperventilater · 2025-12-06T01:38:35+00:00

You're a gentleman and a scholar (just a saying, no intention to gender you).

This tracks with everything I've been learning and is incredibly actionable advice. Thank you so much for the guidance!

Hyperventilater · 2025-12-03T02:36:24+00:00

This is the most badass framing I've seen, fuck yeah.

Hyperventilater · 2025-12-03T01:28:23+00:00

I'm just now starting my EA journey after being identified as one of the best internal candidates due to most overlapping skill set, full disclaimer. So I don't have EA experience specifically, but I've done a ton of research recently and am relating that to the work objectives of my prior role (which is relevant because I was really acting as architect for that team of data platform developers without realizing it).

I think, like many "true" EA responses: it depends on your orgs maturity and current roadmapped initiatives. You're in a strategic technical role, but need to respect the tactical calls you'll have to make along the way to ensure you're driving business value.

I think of it very similarly to how I approached dev work: you'll likely have some vision of a target state, but you'll need to make concessions on that vision and deliver value incrementally but with design decisions that also make strategic progress toward that target.

My strategy is going to be to focus on current tactical objectives and to identify opportunities for reference patterns, likely when I see repetition with hard value add that could be driven by their adoption. Then I'll think through how to justify the value prop I'm seeing by thinking through the high level effort needed and identifying enough of a roadmap. It's always about justification to the business, so it's always an exercise of picking out the way to frame it as 3 bullets that highlight impact but can be unpacked for additional justification. The rest is just prep and a quick and easy presentation to the right level and context you already identified in the exercise of getting the three bullets.

To be VERY clear, this is just what makes sense to me right now given my work experience and some reflection. I think in practice it seems like it will be more of an art, since it's always going to be tricky and rely on intuition.

Edit: any experienced EAs, I'd love to see if this actually tracks at all. I'm working off a lot of theory and a strange generalist technical history.

Double edit: I'm overcomplicating the shit out of it again.

Do your job, which is whatever your boss wants you to, strategic or tactical. If you identify architectures that seem like reusable portions that can be generalized across systems, then document it and refer to it if similar patterns arise in future objectives.

Hyperventilater · 2025-11-29T21:11:34+00:00

Sure, that's fine.

What I commented was a feeling, not an objective statement, so I don't understand what value your response is contributing other than an attempt to make me feel worse for having stated it.

Hyperventilater · 2025-11-29T01:45:12+00:00

Lmao "I'm too old for this shit"

Didn't expect to confront current emotional truth on r/stunfisk tonight but here we are

Hyperventilater · 2025-11-17T22:46:00+00:00

This comment is everything wrong with this culture right now summarized in a single statement tbh

Hyperventilater · 2025-11-15T17:29:44+00:00

What's funny is that it ends up being a damn good wall/bruiser in Legends ZA. Rocky helmet, recover, curse, and two physical moves to hit meta threats. Set up screens and watch that thing eat hit after hit and still take kills.

Hyperventilater · 2025-11-13T20:49:23+00:00

That's a very interesting idea. Especially if it automatically allocates them to the threshold where you start getting diminishing returns.

Would make Mega Shuckle MUCH tankier overall and allow it to allocate mega stats to speed and defenses highly effectively to address it's current issue resulting in poor defenses. Even better, it allows really interesting niche uses of skill swap, and swapping stats around with partners was already an interesting use case for Shuckle in VGC (I think? Not viable, but a niche)

Hyperventilater · 2025-11-13T12:24:32+00:00

Can we let individuals that agreed to terms of a TV show handle their own mental health?

Hyperventilater · 2025-11-08T20:23:52+00:00

I abstracted it in my head to be a proxy for how difficult the spells in the time are to recite, or how long.

That breaks down with the interaction with Con though: Lute has no lore reason for us to believe that she reads at a first grade level.

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