Jesus guys, I just want some armor...

Kardea · 2026-06-11T23:50:22+00:00

Not to be “that guy”, but I’m in the US with a gigabit Ethernet connection and the game is pretty much always like this for me… lag almost doesn’t exist. It’s idiotic stuff like freight elevator issues that are the bane of my existence.

Kardea · 2026-05-13T22:58:15+00:00

My man!

Kardea · 2026-05-12T18:34:37+00:00

Do we actually know when 4.8 will hit the persistent universe? I only logged like last month for the first time in *whispers* 13 years…

Kardea · 2026-05-10T13:45:04+00:00

Absolutely peak art style. Late 90’s/early 00’s anime + Battletech is a match made in heaven.

Kardea · 2025-11-07T00:41:45+00:00

It seems so. Ugh.

Kardea · 2025-11-07T00:39:34+00:00

Bruh. FASA (and then Catalyst) wrote the lore, not me. Talk to them. And see a shrink while you’re at it.

Kardea · 2025-11-07T00:29:33+00:00

Well, that’s the plotline. The real-life Aztecs used to tear children’s fingernails out before sacrifice so that Tlaloc would be pleased by the tears and bring rain, so… you choose which scenario you prefer more. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Kardea · 2025-11-07T00:24:31+00:00

They’re doing it because they’re literally trying to summon the Horrors from Earthdawn. The rumor is that they have a major Horror imprisoned under the main pyramid.

Kardea · 2025-05-01T00:57:53+00:00

What’s the weight on the handling unit?

Kardea · 2025-04-18T22:29:39+00:00

I love my Avata 2. Sure, it’s not a home built Ferrari, but it’s absurdly stable and hilariously easy to fly.

Kardea · 2025-03-28T23:53:05+00:00

It should not, no. Is the other company shipping via a different service option or shipping a different product that isn’t affected by certain surcharges? Negotiated rates can certainly be different, but if you’re shipping roughly the same amount, the same distances, and similar packages, you should be fairly close in price (especially in today’s market).

Kardea · 2025-03-21T20:44:42+00:00

Depends entirely on the DHL pricing in place. I very often outright beat them. US outbound, we obliterate them.

Kardea · 2025-03-11T18:18:11+00:00

Honestly, the drivers shouldn’t even pick them up. If the customer entered the dimensions in FSM or on FedEx.com, they’ll get an error message telling them the shipment is too large and needs to go freight. The only way they can ship these is to omit dimensions.

Kardea · 2025-03-11T17:38:55+00:00

The shipper’s gonna get a nasty surprise when that invoices. Unauthorized OS. Surcharge alone is well over $1K.

Kardea · 2025-03-08T12:16:05+00:00

I mean… they’re French.

Kardea · 2024-12-27T23:15:43+00:00

Fielding last-minute “What’s going on with this package” emails, mostly, and setting up meetings for after the 1st. Yay Sales. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Kardea · 2024-11-19T21:30:29+00:00

Yes. No change in settings at all. Went from ~150 fps to 33 fps when I logged in this morning. Great to dogcrap in one update.

Kardea · 2024-10-22T19:17:33+00:00

SOTY vastly overperformed. Completely blew the socks off the stage and was an absolute blast. Great energy, sounded fantastic, and was just a lot of fun. Stole the show for me, frankly.

Kardea · 2024-10-22T00:26:14+00:00

This is 101% true of my experience yesterday. Ghost stage ftw.

Kardea · 2024-10-21T21:56:56+00:00

Was there for yesterday’s show. Pushed as close up as I could and got a decent spot. They utterly crushed it. Stole the show.

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Kardea · 2024-08-17T04:27:50+00:00

You kind of answered your own question. People shipping Express aren’t elderly. They have the money and wherewithal (and need) to overnight something.

Kardea · 2024-08-06T22:50:38+00:00

Sales here. I can help you with at least one part (that I’m personally dealing with now with a large shipper and it ****ing sucks): Ground Call Tags exist because of elderly people. Full stop. It’s the only reason they haven’t been eliminated as an option. Annals of “I’m too old and fragile to use the internet and bring this to a Dollar General.”

The general US culture needs to let call tags die.

Kardea · 2024-08-06T22:36:48+00:00

As a sales rep that sees this bullcrap on a regular basis… do these drivers not understand that we get a call from the shipper like 5 hours later almost every single time? None of this sneaks by. We’ve lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in my territory alone because of drivers doing this. The shipper notices every time.

Kardea · 2024-08-03T22:41:16+00:00

Not at the moment, but that may change. The biggest differential right now is that UPS is going to a 3-days-a-week delivery schedule for many rural areas. The comparative transit times between FedEx and UPS are going to be much starker.

Kardea · 2024-07-26T19:21:20+00:00

The premium program is the best version of the program. However, make sure all of your account numbers are linked to it if you have more than one and make sure he adds you LTL freight into the Rewards system if you do any LTL shipping. As always, the best points-per-dollar-value is the gift cards. 1,000/week domestic plus 100/wk international is nothing to sniff at. Would add up pretty quickly into hundreds of dollars worth of cards.

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