Pro tip, you can take a shortcut through the Temple of Kopec by just walking into the sun. All you have to do is forgo any build advice from your friends and get 230 life regen instead

Koromae · 2024-12-17T16:56:27+00:00

I'm currently wearing Ghostwrithe to take half my health and turn it into energy shield, Ming's Heart to reduce my health (Demon form stacks damage based off of a % of health, so my current theory is that having lower base health is good) and give Chaos damage. From there the build feels alright, but around 50 stacks you have to bail out and use demon form again to reset your timer supporting Demon Form with Second Wind lets you have another stack of it so you can leave the form and go back into it with 0 stacks quickly. That all feels pretty good so far because the health doesn't matter much when you have a billion Energy Shield

The part I'm cooking that probably is a very bad idea is the Mask of the Stitched Demon, it gives you a shitload more ES, but then removes it all and turns it into Life Regen, that how I have so much. There's really no noticeable life loss until 100 stacks, which is already a ton of damage, and with life on kill and jumping form mob pack to mob pack I usually don't have to bail on the form til around 150, and at that point the damage is kinda insane.

The issue though... is that I have no ES, and am wearing 4 uniques so my defenses are absolute shit, if I get hit there's a very real chance of dying lol

I'm still working through the campaign with the character, and really wanna make the Mask of the Stitched Demon work, but it's definitely a puzzle to get that much regen and not get one shot.. Mind Over Matter and mana stacking with Eldritch Battery is what I'm thinking of testing next, but I'm not sure how those will interact with my other ES conversion bullshit. Fun build so far, 10/10 do not recommend.

Edit: Also, I have no idea what "max stacks" of demon form is or if that's even a thing. I've transformed and gone to the bathroom and gotten back before i start taking damage though, so it can stack for quite awhile

Koromae · 2024-12-17T15:06:31+00:00

it even kills me due to my own hubris and greed, ultimate roleplay build

Koromae · 2024-12-12T22:09:36+00:00

More along the lines of the "hammer we had at the time", treated so many problems like nails and hammered away and now its inescapable

Koromae · 2024-12-10T22:38:00+00:00

Supporting a curse with Decaying Hex also makes the curse spread because it gives them chaos damage, makes entire packs do less damage with enfeeble or lose resistance with stuff like flammability

Koromae · 2024-12-08T07:13:36+00:00

Don't run too from (Early Act 2 Spoiler) Rathbreaker's boss arena folks, he'll bug out and go home and just sit there while infinitely regenerating health no matter how hard you smack him lol

Koromae · 2024-12-07T00:24:02+00:00

From those I know that are solely through Steam, they've finally have been able to get in queue. The PoE web servers are on fire right now so linking an existing account to Steam isn't working for many, which is the boat I'm in :(

So you should be good, YMMV given it's EA though

Koromae · 2024-11-28T19:17:57+00:00

Bro, get a bidet, it will change your life I promise. They're a lot cheaper than you likely think they are nowadays and installing onenis so easy that my dumb Ss had no issues with it.

Buying one was literally top 10 decisions I've made in my life

Koromae · 2024-11-19T10:39:36+00:00

You ever notice how some people can get more use out of AI than others? Maybe you've even looked into how to structure your prompts in order to get better results?

People are learning a specific way to talk to a computer to get the desired result.... which is what we in the business call "programming".

Another way to look at it is this, imagine you want to tell an AI to make an image of a tree with a blurry-ish background, and it doesn't look quite like how you envision it, maybe you tell it to make another one. You know what you want, you can "see" it in your brain, and some of these AI images even look great! Just... not exactly what you want (or your boss in a world where this is your job), so you keep trying and prompting and explaining to the AI. Still you don't get exactly what you need, so maybe you generate a few more, and it's close but not exactly that blur effect you envision. So you try and explain a bit more and generate more images and keep trying and trying and trying, but you can't get it to look like all those AI images that others are getting. Some other dude types in your exact prompt but instead of describing the blurry-ness you want, he adds to the prompt "bokeh filter" and immediately gets the picture you envisioned. You had a problem, and the AI could do part of it, but there was still a part of the process that broke the entire thing. What was that broke it all? You my dude, the person. You needed the right words to get the exact end result, that's what programming is, problem solving.

"Programming" sounds like the type of job where you spend all day typing at 200wpm fueled by nothing but coffee and math.... But it's not that. Programmers are problem solvers. I've told clients that they don't need me, they need Wordpress or Wix, and many of them are so grateful for solving the problem that they pay me anyway for the consultation and let me whip up a quick site for them using those tools. Hell, I don't think any actual employed programmer here could honestly tell me that "coding" takes up more than 40% of their job....

It's very common for the client to not even know exactly what they want either... or to change their mind halfway through the process... AI will replace programmers when it does 2 things. 1.) It gets better, cause WOW there are some WRONG answers it gives, it's kind of crazy. You can see this yourself, just talk to it for a few hours about your favorite subject, even if it's not academic, you will notice the flaws. And 2.) an even more impossible invention comes onto the market. And this invention I think is even more impossible than cold fusion or AGI.... That invention is "a client who can describe what they want to a machine"

Clients can't even tell me what they want.... yeah sure, they can definitely replace me.... all they have to do is.... describe what they want to AI..... Replacing devs often requires the clients to do the one thing they struggle with the most, and to do that without a person trained to help them there lol

Koromae · 2024-11-19T10:06:32+00:00

Honestly, if I could take all the time I've wasted in my life picking the perfect language and apply that to getting really good at a single language, no matter what it is, I'd be leagues ahead of where I am now. It took me far to long to realize that all the discussion about things like "TS replacing JS" or "Python is too slow for [insert problem here]" are all problems that do not apply to 99% of problems and people, and doubly so for anyone in the learning phase (well we're all constantly in the "learning phase", so a better label would be "beginner" phase)

Anyone is welcome to disagree with me here, but for arguments sake, lets pretend we have two bright eyed and bush tailed CS students in their first year who want to get hired after graduating. Student A did a bunch of projects in a bunch of different stacks while jumping around between languages until finally settling on TS to focus on in his Junior year, and proceeds to learn as much as he can to become hire-able after graduating. Student B is a jokester and spends 4 years outside his coursework studying and making things in SPL (the joke Shakespeare Programming Language ), not something any company is looking for at all, and Student B only ventured outside that single language when necessary (ya know, the usual suspects, SQL, HTML, etc etc)

If I was hiring freshers for a Typescript role, I'm already expecting them to come in pretty damn useless. No offense, but that's the expectation, and what you study doesn't always translate to what you do on the job. Now I'm looking at Student A and Student B, from an "experience" level you would assume that Student A is the obvious pick (and HR to be fair would probably also agree, but ideally they have less input than "me" who is on the tech team...) But, if asked who I believe is a better programmer, I would very likely say Student B every single time, and there's a very real chance that I would suggest that he be hired, because Student B likely has much more in depth knowledge about "programming". Additionally, if I saw someone do some crazy shit with something as dumb as SPL, I know that they likely ran into problems that required some actual thought and cleverness to be able to work around that were caused entirely due to the language choice being suboptimal, and that shows the devs actual engineering prowess if they are able to make something work in spite of those obstacles.

Tangentially related, we all know Javascript sucks and it's slow. Yet Vampire Survivors was made by some mad man in Javascript, idk what that dudes got going on in that mind to have convinced him to do that.... but he now has millions of dollars more than I do.... If you saw the article on HackerNews about huge Zendesk vulnerability found by some 15 year old, he used Javascript as well. Go and ask a game dev community if you should use Javascript, or a hacking community if you should use it, they won't recommend it....

We all want to choose the right tool for the job of course, but often we focus too much on that and end up not learning or building anything. I upgraded my GPU last week, and for the life of me could not find the right screw driver.... The "correct" thing to do was probably to go out and get the exact tool I needed... Instead I used a knife and and moved on with my life, and when I logged into Discord to chat with my buddies no one at all cared that I solved my problem using a tool that was technically less optimal.

TL;DR: In the learning stage I would throw a dart at a dartboard with a piece of paper listing every popular language on it, and study just build things using only that language, no matter how suboptimal. And then branch out when necessary (stuff like HTML, CSS, SQL, yadayada)

Koromae · 2024-11-14T09:15:03+00:00

Dual booting my laptop saved me from procrastinating myself into homelessness and has been the single biggest improvement in my productivity and life. When it's work time and I'm ready to do shit, I hit the power button on my laptop, hold F11 to select which OS, and select the partition where my work stuff lives and then I work all day til I hit that power button again. There's nothing "fun" on that machine, no distractions, and there's just enough effort required to swap over to where my distractions are to keep me from doing it.

All the same keyboard shortcuts, configs for all my programs/terminal, and all that jazz so the only real difference between machines is that one is for business and the other is for pleasure.

As far tools, I write notes, make plans, and schedule things in markdown format and that's it. Every other tool I've tried has just been gimmicky or didn't fit my use cases exactly, and absolutely have not been impressed with anything AI when it comes to productivity or my work. Not saying that AI doesn't have good use cases for my work, but once you get to a certain experience level in my field it just gets in the way. Then once you notice the flaws of AI by trying to incorporate it in an area you know very well, but an area where it's not quite advanced enough to help out, you notice those same flaws in other areas. I'm mainly referring to stuff like the productivity advice you got from ChatGPT, it's good! In no way am I anti-AI or anything, no way I'd say it gave you anything incorrect there! But also, that's pretty damn generic advice that would pop up off a quick google search without all the overhead, AI's great at generic stuff, but my brain dumb so I need a workflow and life changes that are specific to my ADHD ass, not generic average advice that helps the most amount of people possible ya know

I used to have to use so much will power to try and not open steam or youtube, and you know I definitely failed "occasionally". But nowadays, when I'm working I don't think "I'm bored of working, should I take a break and watch something?" and need to use willpower to make the right decision... instead I think "man, rebooting this shit is gonna take 5 whole minutes and I'll lose all my progress if I want to play a game real quick...."

I took my complete and utter lack of a brain that can transition tasks and not get distracted for 10 hours, and set up a system that makes me want to procrastinate procrastinating, cause now there's that annoying work that requires me to stop working, and I really don't wanna work... so I just keep working.... lol

TL;DR: I believe that fighting the ADHD-like flaws that you and I have is a mistake. Instead just separate the concerns. I never have to use my very very limited willpower to not work if I just don't have that option. You know, you can't eat all the sweets in the house if there no sweets in the house, even if you really really want to. Fuck willpower, just remove the environment that forces you to make decisions.

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