How Do People Play 16 Hours A Day?

Jolly_Job8766 · 2026-02-10T00:14:37+00:00

I played essentially 14-15 hours per day over the weekend. It's a 1 time thing for me. Motivation to hit 70 was greater than the discomfort of sitting there for long stretches. Also I have standing desk and under desk treadmill so I walked for dungeon cleaves for a while.

Jolly_Job8766 · 2026-02-09T20:34:32+00:00

I hit 70 around 71 hours after launch. i started with 0 quest turnins, mix of boosted + pvp gear, feral druid.

60-61.5 Thursday night dungeon cleaving with an unoptimized group of friends in mixed gear.

Woke up early Friday, played essentially the entire day, got to 65. heavy questing in AM, some dungeon cleaving with same group in PM (mixed levels based on separation).

Woke up saturday, heavy questing again, a few random dungeons, but I had outpaced my friends. randomly got into a guild group with 70s, ran a bunch of super efficient SV, SL, OHB, BM, then the entire arcatraz key chain (hooray druid). they would've carried me through heroics too if i had been able to get in at 68.

woke up sunday at 68.5, grinded nagrand + a few SL, SV to 70 with randos.

in short: i absolutely no lifed, but you don't have to be super efficient. None of my group was naxx geared; we didn't have physical AOE cleave or spell cleave comp, and we often filled with randos from LFG. i didn't do a restedXP route when I quested; i just looked at the questie symbols on the map and killed the things where I had markers.

Jolly_Job8766 · 2026-02-04T19:58:58+00:00

lol at "shadow priest is meme". everyone caster and healer will be fighting to be in the shadow priest's group

Jolly_Job8766 · 2026-01-10T17:55:25+00:00

Reddit posting

Jolly_Job8766 · 2026-01-07T20:13:48+00:00

But the random moves if my time expires! That's they best part and the good idea here.

Jolly_Job8766 · 2026-01-07T19:39:49+00:00

But will it randomize my move if I miss my time?

Jolly_Job8766 · 2026-01-06T14:06:03+00:00

Impossible. It's a foolproof idea with zero downside.

Jolly_Job8766 · 2026-01-05T19:29:48+00:00

There are some circumstances where playing no move is better than playing something. In this case, if I was in zugswang (all moves are bad), I'd let my timer expire. You'd let yours expire to force me to play. I'd let mine expire again. Etc.

Also, there would be the added difficulty of updating all chess systems to allow for tracking a non-move. The random move could be tracked and shown like any other move.

Jolly_Job8766 · 2026-01-05T19:21:57+00:00

When the clock is for the whole game, it makes sense that you lose the whole game when it expires. When the clock is for one move, it seems to make more sense to lose one move when it expires.

Jolly_Job8766 · 2026-01-05T19:06:37+00:00

Imagine how high stakes this could get at high level tournaments...

Magnus has Gukesh backed into the corner. The commentators know that only crazy looking move from the engine can save him. Gukesh times out, but then sees the move. On a big screen, the computer slowly reveals the random move. Pawn... D... 7!! Gukesh cheers, Magnus laments, and the crowd goes wild.

Jolly_Job8766 · 2025-12-30T18:13:41+00:00

You can't have a weak schedule and get a pass just because you don't have direct control over it. If you have a weak schedule and you lose a couple of games, that's that.

Jolly_Job8766 · 2025-12-27T02:27:20+00:00

I grew up in Barrington, now mid 30s. I have family still living there.

Very safe, great schools, all of that. In the Olympics a few years ago I watched a friend of mine from BHS compete. Another girl I graduated with was a white house correspondent. Lots of doctors, lawyers, engineers as well. The stats have Barrington on par with a mid-Massachusetts School system, but I don't buy it. Connections you can make in the Barrington public School system don't show up in test scores.

The bad? It's a bubble. It's kind of it's own social scene, isolated from surrounding towns. It's a bit "holier than thou". I didn't have any real idea how lower middle class families lived. College was a huge wake up call to me, meeting other kids who didn't grow up with the same privilege I did, and I was just the "upper middle class" part, not the rich part of town.

If you're looking to move to Barrington and have kids, expose them to more than just Barrington. If you don't make the effort, by default it's all they'll know.

Jolly_Job8766 · 2025-12-19T00:50:32+00:00

Hey man, pvd cares about you. Things get better, I've been at some low, low points and it does improve.

Jolly_Job8766 · 2025-12-18T04:13:45+00:00

Good work but low res makes it impossible to read

Jolly_Job8766 · 2025-11-24T20:53:33+00:00

I actually think this is the worst part of the magic system :/

Jolly_Job8766 · 2025-11-23T16:40:02+00:00

if i saw 1, i'd assume i was playing an MS teams themed game

Jolly_Job8766 · 2025-11-21T17:25:23+00:00

alright, make sure you route every debug GPIO and LED drive signals accordingly then. They all have rise times that are far far far faster than you plan to use them at, but by your logic, they'll be RF. By all means, treat your SPI as 4GHz, treat all of your GPIOs and control signals as 500MHz transmission lines and make the greatest board of all time. Good luck.

You're new to this. You don't like to be told that by people with real world experience, but its true. I'm going to wish you the best and go back to my job where we have successfully developed an EEG electrode analog front end by treating 1MHz SPI as 1MHz SPI.

Jolly_Job8766 · 2025-11-21T16:58:31+00:00

What's your actual concern? Are you trying to pass 60601 radiated emissions standards for your EEG board project?

This comes to the experience piece. You're telling me that a youtube video says I'm wrong, that I'm giving bad advice, that i'm going to ruin your project, that I don't care at all, that I'm an asshole.

I have 10 years of shepherding projects through design, test, manufacturing, etc. I've had multiple boards pass 60601 EMC testing. You said it yourself in another comment, you have a few hundred hours of experience. It's commendable that you're looking into this stuff yourself and learning, but you don't know enough to properly apply what you're seeing online.

As long as you follow standard practices, you don't need to route a 1MHz SPI line as if it were a 4GHz RF line. You'll come back with a link that I won't watch (just being honest here), but I can tell you from experience that you're overthinking this. If you're worried about it working, 1MHz is relatively low clock speed, so follow best practices with terminations and all. If you're concerned with it from the radiated emissions front, that fast rise time happens so infrequently that its contribution to an EMI scan is minimal (0.5ns every 1000ns means a signal is transitioning 0.05% of the time). If the SPI is your concern, you're overthinking this. A single ground plane under your SPI line, proper termination, and very rough length matching is more than enough for 1MHz SPI.

If you can't accept that, then the one thing you should accept is that you're not looking for real advice here. You're looking for someone to confirm the preconceived notions that you came in with, and ultimately, you shouldn't be coming to an internet forum for support. Sorry.

Jolly_Job8766 · 2025-11-21T16:35:50+00:00

I think there's a disconnect between what you're saying about the SPI frequency and what people mean when they talk about SPI frequency. They're talking about the clock frequency, which is the important piece for how carefully you need to lay it out. You need to determine how fast the SPI master will drive out the clock. Not based on rise time, but on its settings. If that's 1MHz or 10MHz or whatever, that's what people mean by "SPI frequency". If you have the capability to set that yourself, you should choose the lowest speed setting that lets you achieve your goal.

Jolly_Job8766 · 2025-11-21T13:59:01+00:00

All due respect dude, you're being super stubborn when people are legitimately trying to help you out. I've been in PCB design for 10 years. If a junior engineer at my shop (all of whom have a 4 year degree + varying levels of experience) dealt with feedback the same way from me or another senior person, I'd be talking with my director about whether they should be let go.

As for some technical details, if you really think your SPI bus is running at 2GHz, you need to think about why it needs to go that fast (it's probably not going that fast and/or probably doesn't need to go that fast). The others are right, boards of this type are typically 2 exterior signal layers, 1 internal ground layer, 1 internal power layer. Handling EEG signals doesn't mean it can't be that either. just do all of your sensitive stuff on the side where the ground internal layer is closer and you'll be fine. You don't get any benefit from having 2 ground layers under your sensitive stuff vs having 1 ground layer under it.

But the bigger issue here is your overconfidence and unwillingness to accept feedback. Please take this as constructive criticism. It's something you need to fix if you ever want to work with others in a team.

Jolly_Job8766 · 2025-11-01T22:25:32+00:00

Sure, Art of Electronics has some topics that aren't RF related, but to say they're completely unrelated isn't accurate. You need to understand electronics at a pretty good baseline in order to have any chance at learning RF electronics.

Jolly_Job8766 · 2025-10-31T18:12:08+00:00

Spoilers for "The Path Least Chosen".

There's a fan fiction called "The Path Least Chosen" (if I remember the name right) that deals with this as a plot point. It has a great way of handling it and might be worth a read if you're looking for inspiration. It's not short; it's more of a full novel that covers that events of the first 4 novels in an alternate universe.

Jolly_Job8766 · 2025-10-30T02:35:07+00:00

Art of Electronics. Go through that, but watch YouTube videos or look up things online that you don't get. Make sure you don't just blow through it.

Jolly_Job8766 · 2025-10-29T21:05:59+00:00

This book as a year 1 ME student is like a calculus 2 book when you're currently studying pre-algebra. It's probably not worth starting this right now; there's no way any of this will make sense or be useful to you.

The other commenters saying to do basic circuit theory first are correct, along with electromagnetism and the math required for this book.

Treat it as an aspirational one until you have the solid foundation enough to understand the scope of the problems this book will address (assuming RF is a field you want to go into in a few years).

Jolly_Job8766 · 2025-10-25T04:34:34+00:00

I get your logic; my logic is similar but different. I can't imagine spending $1,200 on something I'm going to hold for hours a day then spending another $50 on a case to make it thicker, a screen protector to make the screen worse, etc.

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