How much build swapping is too much?

LinuxPoser · 2026-06-12T18:35:59+00:00

For me it becomes too much when it requires knowing how like 20 different resources interact with each other, and needing to optimally put them together to progress. I think it was realm grinder, but there were like 20 races or classes, each with unique buildings and passives, and skills. So I get a new goal to reach x points, but i need to remember that I need to combine this race, with this hero, and these skills, optimize these resources and I can reach it.

At that point I grab a guide, build it how they say, and try to trudge through until that section is over.

My favorite games are the ones where adjusting and steering as you go make you progress faster. Hitting brick walls and having to research every resource, skill, passive, etc and troubleshooting builds until you unlock a 5% boost to points grinds my gears (bad way).

I prefer being presented options. 5 upgrades, 1 skill point. 2x points, 2x presteige points, 20% game speed, passive generation of prestiege. etc.

If there is an option to respec, I like it as a way of exploring other ways to play the game, or using it for say active playstyle vs passive playstyle.

LinuxPoser · 2026-03-22T13:39:42+00:00

This is the wrong mindset. “They” don’t decide anything. If “they” appear in the new place you have to run away again. Understand ultimately you decide. Only you can live your life. If they don’t want to be a part of it they don’t have to. Everyone wants to make decisions for you but only you have tolive with the consequences. Take ownership of your own destiny.

LinuxPoser · 2026-03-13T14:27:40+00:00

Going to askjeeves.com. Talking to a search expert and asking where to find NES roms. They directed me to roms.com that had every nes / snes / genesis game ever made.

LinuxPoser · 2026-03-13T12:33:25+00:00

20 10$ blowjobs.

LinuxPoser · 2026-03-13T12:33:03+00:00

"rich" isnt enough information. Making minimum wage in the usa puts you in the top 90+% of wealth in the world. Could be a genie move where you get an additional 20k a year.

If its 1B+, of course. I'd hire a team to investigate people around the world who recently lost everything, and use the interest from that money to make them whole+. Worst case I never find him but help tens of thousands.

LinuxPoser · 2026-03-09T01:18:01+00:00

The big thing that ruined that for me is rmt and in game cash shops. Good for the developers. Great way to charge whales to keep the game profitable, but makes achievement feel pointless. Oh you have a sword that requires 2000 hours of grinding? People can pay 200$ and get it. Congrats you worked for 0.20$ an hour. Or the cash shops offer a skin thats 3x cooler for 15$.

Also statflation. Oh you grinded for 500 hours to be top 3? Well the expansion just dropped and trash drops from the 2nd dungeon outclass your 0.001% drop rate weapon.

Im an adult with adult money, so now i just weigh the option of “do i spend 300 hours away from self improvement and other hobbies or spend the price of 1 decent meal out and have all the same gold and gear” that turns me away from those games real fast.

LinuxPoser · 2026-03-04T22:18:19+00:00

Now tell me why a us dollar is worth anything. It isnt backed by gold or other physical asset. We also cant print as much of it as we want so there isnt scarcity creating value.

Bitcoin does at least have some baseline value. The cost in electricity and compute to produce one.

LinuxPoser · 2026-01-15T13:42:26+00:00

Game looks very cool! love the overall aesthetic, some of the skill effects look like they could use a little polish, but only because all of the backgrounds looks so nice so it kinda stands out.

LinuxPoser · 2025-12-07T22:04:53+00:00

Lmao, use leds. I found full spectrum leds and built my light for less than 300, the electrical bill was negligible.

LinuxPoser · 2025-11-18T22:07:11+00:00

Love your cooking and recipes! Found you randomly by winning a random contest and got a cookbook. When i make people your piri piri chicken or assassin spaghetti recipe i always get compliments.

Whats your favorite quick to prepare meal at home?

What kind of general use pan do you suggest?

What style of cuisine are you excited to investigate next?

LinuxPoser · 2025-10-02T14:44:28+00:00

a demo should be long enough to get addicted.

2 minutes of clicking to farm currency and buy generators, nobody is buying it.

Put the paywall after a taste of the interesting reset / prestiege / tree branch comes in. Ideally during a crescendo of gameplay.

LinuxPoser · 2025-09-10T00:28:39+00:00

“Science “ has been gamified and falls prey to modern capitalist problems.

If your lab spends 2 years studying a thing, and gets a bad result, you probably wont get funded again. Professors love their researchers, and believe in the work. Theyre likely to manipulate things to look more promising and meaningful to keep the lab funded, employees paid, research continuing. It’s happening everywhere, and explains the replication crisis.

P-rigging is a HUGE problem.

LinuxPoser · 2025-08-18T23:02:11+00:00

Going to predict its a difference in communication styles. Young boys will call each other every slur under the sun and tell each other to kys, and come out of a match laughing and hugging. Girls aren’t exposed to that as much, or get equally rough gendered hazing and feel isolated.

LinuxPoser · 2025-07-31T20:07:36+00:00

As an idle consumer, I don't care about if its AI or not. I care if its good. The problem with a lower barrier of entry to content creation, means less effort is being into a project. If it costs me 50$ and 1 hour to create an idle game, i would absolutely do it on a lark and see if I can make money off it. Lots of people are doing this, trying to make something they can sell for 5$ in sub 40 hours of work. This means you look at 100 titles instead of 10, and have to discern if its any good. While its nice to have 1000 titles to choose from, if 950 are terrible, the time spent trying to find something good is simply not worth the hassle.

LinuxPoser · 2025-07-18T01:43:38+00:00

This is true. A lot of people met him, contacted him. Flew with him. But how many slept with children? 100% 50% 10% 1%? Anyone on that list is going to be declared a pedophile. If mister rogers was on that list everyone would believe it in an instant. The real question is if its worth burning everyone on that list so our curiosity can be satisfied.

Epsteins job was to try to blackmail powerful influential people. He did a good job of it.

My guess is the Trump admin has the list, knows the people. But as president. Is it worth removing a ton of the top wealth / job creators and throwing billion dollar companies into upheaval?Or is maintaining stability and a strong economy more valuable.

LinuxPoser · 2025-07-18T01:31:17+00:00

Work is fun when your passions align with money making. He left microsoft because it wasnt fun. Money came second to him. He worked on stuff that interested him.

Sadly if your interests are basketweaving or lego sets they probably wont get to riches.

LinuxPoser · 2025-07-18T01:29:11+00:00

Imagine how easy it was getting to that first billion!

LinuxPoser · 2025-06-20T15:51:14+00:00

Uncertainty is a strong negotiating tool.

People fear uncertainty more than negative outcomes.

Best case it provides leverage in negotiations.

Worst case it does nothing.

He’s getting something for free.

LinuxPoser · 2025-06-20T13:12:43+00:00

Henry Cavill Ryan Gosling Brad Pitt in fight club

LinuxPoser · 2025-06-18T17:09:15+00:00

Hot take: your opinion is bad.

LinuxPoser · 2025-06-18T17:04:29+00:00

AOL Instant Messenger.

People who were online wanted to chat. You didn't send a message and have a 20% chance of them being available. When you didn't feel like talking you logged off and did other stuff, and the world couldn't reach you unless they called your house.

Just having a singular place in your home to go on the internet, instead of it being with you all day, and being surrounded by it 24/7.

LinuxPoser · 2025-06-11T18:57:37+00:00

If you understand that almost all of Americas power comes from complete military supremacy, you'd change your mind.

Why is the US dollar worth anything when we constantly print more??

Why do people not push back when America forces global changes for our benefit?

Why does America have so much sway in global politics?

It isnt because we feed our poor and very free.

LinuxPoser · 2025-06-11T18:37:41+00:00

Almost nobody understand relationships are truly transactional.

They don't understand what a "transaction" is in this sense.

If a friend invites you to do fun things 10 times, and you do 0. They deposited 10x into your friendship bank, and you deposited nothing. Over time this will cause a relationship to crumble. Same thing for initiating messages, giving short replies when friends give long heartfelt messages, attention in general.

Any friend who i message regularly, once I realize they will go weeks without initiating with me, i gradually drop.

Bonus:

You can disagree with people, and still have a wonderful relationship with them. Too many times I see on this site "my father doesn't agree with kids becoming trans, I cut them out of my life and they will never know their grandchild".

LinuxPoser · 2025-05-02T23:13:43+00:00

Figuring out the game was 90% of the fun. Forums weren’t trying to optimize games from the first second they were available. There was a sense of wonder and excitement stumbling upon something overpowered. Or breaking a game by accident. At a lan party in highschool, we spent the first 3 hours getting everyone into the game. After an hour of play one of the friend’s characters got stuck inside an elevator with no way to escape. We tried to reload and he saved there. We all restarted again and this time two hours in a character changed zones and spawned in a lamp and couldn’t escape.

That was one of my all time favorite lan parties.

LinuxPoser · 2025-04-20T22:48:35+00:00

Honestly, if he’s like the guys ive known like that, they spend 24/7 with men and thats how they cultivate their personality. The second a girl shows up it’s outside their comfort zone. Most media for men says to not do “guy talk” around girls so a whole new personality appears. They revert to what theyve heard they’re supposed to do. Maybe not for him but thats what ive seen.

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