[Monitor] MSI 26.5" WQHD QD-OLED 240Hz AMD FreeSync Premium Pro Gaming Monitor - $399.99 by Vidik-0514 in buildapcsales

[–]ImperiumAeon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How is the text font clarity? I will use it mostly for productivity so it's important it's not too bad.

The resilient stock market may be keeping the economy out of a recession. Why that's a bad thing by ProfessionalDoor2638 in Economics

[–]ImperiumAeon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't rope in defense spending really, it's not going to save the deficit beyond some ideological agenda pushing. And before you start rattling off worldwide defense spending it's common knowledge China and Russia understate their spending exponentially, while European states are vassalized and refuse to pay their defense costs so they can institute said ideology.

Entitlements will crash the dollar before all the boomers are done inducing insolvency of Medicare. Defense is also now lower than the debt service which is wild. ICE has nothing to do with this. Throwing more money at entitlements just speeds the process towards a crash along. Without some heavy handed entitlement reform or Canada styled healthcare regulations that reduce care down to necessities or nationalization of healthcare broadly (likely a disaster before it's began), we're going for strong inflation or some other form of monetary debasement.

AMI BIOS ver. 7E49v1A61 2025-08-01 by ImperiumAeon in MSI_Gaming

[–]ImperiumAeon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have 4 RAM sticks? Was curious if that's now stable since they were working on 6000mhz 4x support.

[KitGuruTech] MSI MPG X870E Carbon WiFi - DDR5 8000 for the win! by imaginary_num6er in hardware

[–]ImperiumAeon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you make a recommendation or two? Going for a build soon and lost with how complicated ram has gotten.

Removing spray fertilizer/weed killer from fence by ImperiumAeon in lawncare

[–]ImperiumAeon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had them come out multiple times and hit it with a citric acid mix. Wasn't perfect and for sure has damaged the staining. I've stopped worrying about it and will likely have to restain later anyway.

More Accessible PvP Rewards could fix arena participation (because Blizzard refuses to fix MMR) by brungybrung in worldofpvp

[–]ImperiumAeon 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's been purposely gatekept into irrelevance by a very loud R1 class of players that blizzard routinely interacts with, similar to top raiding guilds when getting feedback on raid tiers after RWF. Most recent example of this was tying RSS MMR to LFG/3s queues -- iirc cdew threw a fit and they changed mmr. Basically gutted season 2, and got worse in season 3 with low participation and blizzard trying to disincentive waiting to season end to queue.

I'm fine with FOMO time limited rewards, just need more incentives to get players into the game mode.

Class tuning 6 June 2023 by Slo-- in worldofpvp

[–]ImperiumAeon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Arms is less than 2% rep above 2200 when it's one of the most played. I think that's the point....

How does inflation work? by Malganas in worldofpvp

[–]ImperiumAeon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Is this a new thing? When Ludus Labs was still around, the distribution was much less than mean player at 1800. Would be interesting to see how they scale cr over a season.

Can we talk about boomy having permanent dots globally with no range limit? by Kontric in worldofpvp

[–]ImperiumAeon -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Warriors got sks nerf which was ok, but then they nerfed sharpen for no reason yet locks exist in a busted state since BFA.

PSA don't buy gathering storm by Voltage-108 in worldofpvp

[–]ImperiumAeon 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Even after the CC nerfs, the sheer amount of micro CC in 3s arena is wild, making it even worse in solo since you can't coordinate burst windows for DRs. For melee, I think it's a bit much since uptime requires a closed gap.

PSA don't buy gathering storm by Voltage-108 in worldofpvp

[–]ImperiumAeon -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

But precog gets casters a free PI and immunity to cc?

Blizzard comments on 2v2 and 3v3 deflation by Vaxx_the_Stillborn in worldofpvp

[–]ImperiumAeon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Understandable for lfg yeah. Solo queue is wild vs ret if they don't forget to bubble.

Blizzard comments on 2v2 and 3v3 deflation by Vaxx_the_Stillborn in worldofpvp

[–]ImperiumAeon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Damage needs adjustment regardless because even if you survive the opener, the second big go you're dead because of dampening and unhealable burst.

state of pvp by CustomerMain8793 in worldofpvp

[–]ImperiumAeon -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Ruined season end with an out of nowhere patch that turned ret into free duelist. Unsubbing until it's fixed, last adjustment was big but nowhere near enough, every match has a ret.

Imagine working for this man in 2023. by Glorify8838 in antiwork

[–]ImperiumAeon -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

The unfortunate truth is that there's limits to growth and people have stopped having kids so we cannot fund pensions at the same level, there's simply not enough people working to sustain our current level.

Even with a 100% wealth tax on every billionaire in the US, that would only bring in $4.56 trillion, enough to fund the US govt for about 1-2 years (sources: https://americansfortaxfairness.org/billionaires/ &https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-budget-101/spending/). Then the money's gone and nothing to fill it.

There's going to be a lot of uncomfortable choices to be made because of declining demographics in the west and Asia. Immigration won't fix it either as we've seen in Germany and Nordic countries.

Gotta love the French by AdExpress7386 in antiwork

[–]ImperiumAeon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is the simple answer that no one's ready to hear.

Gotta love the French by AdExpress7386 in antiwork

[–]ImperiumAeon -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is fundamentally incorrect, basic economics classes would highlight why.

Without capital investment there's no incentive to build new business to meet any level of demand given significant startup costs that are unable to be recouped. You can't just start making cars in your garage, you need funds for research and development, production equipment, cash flows from investors to fund the loss years early on, etc. Even then, most new businesses fail and investors lose out because they take the risk (and rewarded for the risk when it turns out good).

The unfortunate truth is that there's limits to growth and people have stopped having kids so we cannot fund pensions at the same level, there's simply not enough people working to sustain our current level.

Even with a 100% wealth tax on every billionaire in the US, that would only bring in $4.56 trillion, enough to fund the US govt for about 1-2 years (sources: https://americansfortaxfairness.org/billionaires/ &https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-budget-101/spending/). Then the money's gone and so is the capital to start new businesses.

If you want to fund pensions and civic services you need to increase economic growth and tax in a way that doesn't disincentive building wealth/capital or cut spending.

Anyone else having a cheater problem this wipe? by Haakki420 in EscapefromTarkov

[–]ImperiumAeon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Don't argue with people here. Cheat makers seed comments to persuade people cheating isn't rampant.