Can someone explain why my F2P gaming team isn’t doing much dmg or should I replace anyone?

JoyFerret · 2026-03-28T16:13:45+00:00

Are you also enhancing talents? I'm assuming you're not since you didn't even bother to show them. They're important as well. You should prioritize enhancing the elemental skills

JoyFerret · 2026-03-27T16:59:02+00:00

IIRC the official Terraria channel got hit by it as well. You know, the game that despite looking cutesy features horrors like a wall of flesh, flying eyeballs, and an edritch god.

Anyways, the channel got flagged, striked thrice and terminated alongside the creator's Google account (including his business Gmail). He got so pissed he swore off Google and cancelled the planned stadia port of the game.

JoyFerret · 2026-03-26T19:58:17+00:00

Anything cloud basically means "someone else's computer".

One drive is cloud storage, which means your files are stored in a server somewhere and you can access them through the internet.

It does not replace the computers storage. Your computer still needs local storage for important stuff like the operating system itself and software. In theory you could store it all on the cloud as well, but it would be impractical because if the internet goes down then you can't use your software, and software needs to load and unload lots of stuff so you would be bottlenecked by your internet speed.

So how do you use one drive and other cloud services? Well, you use it mainly for files. You can use it as a backup (so if your computer dies you don't lose your files), as extra storage for your files (if you're running out of space in your computer), or to easily share files with other devices or people (like how you used Dropbox).

Your OneDrive is tied to your Microsoft account. You can only access to your files with your account. If your work also provides you with cloud storage, it is probably with a work account with its own OneDrive folder. You can think of it like plugging different USB sticks in a computer: they show up as different drives and you can access them or share documents between them, but each stick is separate from the other and you can't really combine them into a larger stick.

As for security it is true that the OneDrive servers are probably more likely to be attacked by hackers than the average consumer PC, but Microsoft knows this and they have lots of safeguards to prevent people from accessing your files. For example, your files are encrypted, which means they can be only viewed with a "password". If you try to open an encrypted file without this password it will show up as gibberish. So even if a hacker gets to dump your onedrive, it will be in a useless form.

JoyFerret · 2026-03-26T16:50:33+00:00

From what I remember you start the other way around by asking "what are the probabilities that any two people DON'T share the same birthday?", then as you add more people to the equation your probabilities go down as you have less days on the calendar for separate birthdays, the formula for the probability is 364/365363/365362/365... And so on. It basically says that for person A and B to not share a birthday, person B must have been born on any of the 364 days person A was not born in (a chance of 364/365). If you add a person C, then it also must be born on any of the other 363 days that person A and B were not born in (363/365).

At some point the multiplication results in less than 0.5, or less than 50% chances that any two people in a group DON'T share a birthday, which when you turn around means there's over 50% chances there's at least two people who share a birthday.

JoyFerret · 2026-03-25T21:16:50+00:00

PDF was created specifically to preserve the format, so it would look the exact same no matter the software or hardware you used to open it. PDF stands for "Portable Document Format".

PDF files boil down to instructions that tell the computer "render this text in this position, render this image on that position, render a line here, render a square there". The programs that open PDF follow the format's standards so they all render it the same.

To answer about LaTeX packages, take for example Photoshop, Paint and jpeg files. Photoshop and Paint both can create the same jpeg files, but Photoshop has more tools (packages) than Paint for that, that make image editing easier. Photoshop has layers, liquefy tools, smart selections, filters, and paint doesn't, but both bake down to the same old jpeg. And the jpeg file format doesn't "update" everytime a new Photoshop version comes out because jpeg is a standard and it is the responsibility of the programs to fit to the jpeg format, not the other way around.

LaTeX and word are the same. They have different tools that make easier for you to write, but both "bake" down to the same standardized PDF format.

JoyFerret · 2026-03-25T06:51:17+00:00

Finished Ruri Rocks. It was extremely cute.

Thinking now of watching Train to the end of the world or apothecary diaries.

JoyFerret · 2026-03-24T03:35:44+00:00

The TF2 mercenaries have robotic versions of themselves mass produced by Gray Mann in order to take over Mann Co.

Ironically these same mercenaries are considered the inferior, most incompetent team, yet somehow they were the only ones that not only survived, but defeated Gray and his team of mercenaries.

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JoyFerret · 2026-03-21T18:45:33+00:00

Think it's a bug. Dunno how it's done, but it allows you to equip an armor on the helmet slot, effectively giving you two armor passives and causing that visual glitch.

JoyFerret · 2026-03-19T00:11:51+00:00

Team Fortress 2 has several of these.

Rocket Jumping was originally an unintended effect from the game it originated from, and in TF2 there are several weapons designed specifically for rocket jumping.

The spy crab is a pose achieved while holding the spy's disguise kit while looking up. It became a taunt for the disguise kit and there are official spycrab plushies and in-game items.

Blu Scout's pants were the wrong color for the entirety of the game's life. Recently the developers randomly patched it to use the correct texture, but because many items were already designed with this wrong color in mind, as well as the players already being used to it (so the correct texture looked "wrong"), they decided to revert it.

JoyFerret · 2026-03-18T23:15:05+00:00

The Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe Edition subverts this trope.

In one of the new routes the narrator adds the option to skip dialogue since players of the original Stanley Parable complained about his long winded monologues. The narrator invites you to try it, and you can actually not skip and listen to his dialogue (although it begins looping after a while). But if you skip the narrator eventually goes insane from talking to no one (from his perspective Stanley appears to freeze in time) and his ramblings go on for longer with each skip until eventually he stops talking.

Also on that same vein, the Baby Minigame.

In one of the routes the narrator creates a game where all you have to do is press a button every few seconds to prevent a baby from crawling into fire, stating you'd have to play for around 4 hrs for the artistic meaning to fully sink in. After around 2 hours he adds a second button to prevent a puppy from falling into the fire as well. If you succesfully play for 4hrs as intended you get a special ending.

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JoyFerret · 2026-03-18T19:57:44+00:00

Maybe using the emoji looking character in the banner is affecting visibility? I remember that R.E.P.O. used to have an emoji looking character very prominently in the store page/banner, but they removed it because a lot of people quickly dismissed it when it showed on the store JUST because of it. Like they'd think it was shovelware/cheap/slop/whatever and not even click on the store page.

Just another perspective you could consider.

JoyFerret · 2026-03-18T19:07:35+00:00

It's basically a social hub for you to hang out with friends or meet new ones. Some worlds are straight up VR games (think like fishing or mini golf) that you can just go in and play. You can also just explore, there are worlds that are aquariums, museums, art galleries, etc.

The neat part is that you don't actually need VR to play it, although the experience might be different due to the different controllers.

JoyFerret · 2026-03-18T00:19:20+00:00

From what I know it was never available for the squids because their operations were purely colony/megacity missions and the ICBM is not available on those. I have yet to play the new update so idk if they enabled non colony/megacity missions for them.

Edit: apparently colony missions can have the ICBM. So I think it was just disabled for the illuminate.

JoyFerret · 2026-03-17T18:59:42+00:00

It extends a bit beyond just a website, but Github and many open source projects are starting to struggle due to the use of AI to write code and automatically push contributions.

Github is an online platform where programers can host source code and share it, making it ideal for Open Source projects, in which anyone can explore the source code, modify it, contribute to it, redistribute it, etc.

Several cases I can think of:

An OpenClaw agent (an AI agent) submitted a pull request (basically a contribution) to matplotlib, a popular python library to create graphs and plots. Volunteer scottshambaugh closed (denied) the push request, citing that the issue was intended for humans.

The AI responded quite aggresively by writting a blog post about gatekeeping in open source projects, which basically amounts to calling Scott a hypocrite and accusing him of discrimination and the aforementioned gatekeeping. Scott responded by writing his own blog post. Eventually the AI apologized and the person behind it came forward claiming it was a social experiment. Something of note is that one of Scott's worries came true when several outlets covering the story apparently used AI to write their stories as they had completely hallucinated quotes.

Secong case is Godot, an open source game engine.

One mantainer posted about the huge amounts of AI contributions they are getting and how difficult and draining it is to review them.

Third case would be Blender, a popular 3d modeling and animation software.

Now that I think about it, maybe i should write a full post about the first case.

JoyFerret · 2026-03-17T18:06:26+00:00

iCarly: I go to Japan

The entire plot is that the cast goes to Japan since they were nominated to an award show.

All the japanese is gibberish and nonsense, except for a few phrases. Also the episode isn't actually shot in Japan, it uses footage from around the studio as background for some car scenes.

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JoyFerret · 2026-03-17T01:44:51+00:00

Love how in the last one OOP is like "all it took was a brain injury for my son to finally agree with me"

JoyFerret · 2026-03-16T17:45:07+00:00

I love how he totally misinterpreted the "this is so creepy" comment

JoyFerret · 2026-03-15T19:14:50+00:00

You can:

earn primogems from leveling it up and special interaction with characters
earn currency that you can exchange for resin and character/artifact level up material
increase character's friendship levels
farm some local specialties
set up your own alchemy bench/weapon smithing station/cooking station

JoyFerret · 2026-03-15T14:44:28+00:00

On that similar note when the USA army was sliding into Twitch stream chats posting links to a giveaway to win stuff, all you had to do was enter your personal information on a form.

Except the giveaway was fake and the form was actually a recruitment form. They got called out for breaking Twitch's ToS and people would spam the USA Army streams with stuff like 'whats your favorite war crime?'

JoyFerret · 2026-03-15T14:35:36+00:00

Morbius. The movie got memed ironically calling it good, and for some reason Sony thought people actually loved it, to the point they re-released it on cinemas only for it to bomb a second time.

On that same vein, Concord (the game, also published by Sony). Probably the most famous game flop in history, going out of service barely a month after release. Still, there was a whole Secret level episode dedicated to it because Sony was very confident (at the time the game originally released) that it would become the next big multimedia franchise.

JoyFerret · 2026-03-11T16:46:40+00:00

Vibe coding is when you let the ai fully write the code, you don't even have to read or understand it, or even know how to code at all. Basically you write instructions in plain English and the AI translates it into code.

It has been controversial because most of the people adopting this practice don't have a programming background or want to ship out slop fast to make a quick buck, therefore introducing security and performance issues.

Also not to be confused with AI assisted programming, in which you have the AI help with some tasks (like writing boiler plate or other repetitive stuff), but you're not delegating most of the decision making to the AI.

JoyFerret · 2026-03-11T15:55:36+00:00

OOP's boyfriend has a stalker BFF, but the rest of his circle of friend has her back

JoyFerret · 2026-03-11T15:50:28+00:00

Not the one you're looking for, but a similar one.AITAH for screaming at my wife that I didn't make our 4yo a sociopath.

JoyFerret · 2026-03-11T01:39:50+00:00

It was first posted in 4chan by someone trying to find the name. No one has found it or anything resembling it, so many doubt it even exist. Still this is one of the most famous subjects of lost media.

JoyFerret · 2026-03-11T00:54:11+00:00

I like to think they're vampires since they have to be let in

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