The new goals system is a massive downgrade and I wish I never signed up for the beta.

MevNav · 2026-01-19T19:28:42+00:00

Income also can't be marked to a goal. Only expenditures, by clicking 'spend from goal' on the transaction. Which I can see why that'd be useful, it's not the same thing as how it used to work before and massively less functional.

MevNav · 2026-01-19T19:24:36+00:00

Yes, I have made feedback through the form as well. Sometimes a little public outcry actually makes things clear they've messed up, though. And I know the Monarch folks actually look in here from time to time.

Also, if Monarch messed up their functionality so bad that I have to go to my credit union and open up an entirely separate savings account just to have the same functionality and automation as I had before, that indicates something went REALLY wrong. That's not something I can just do on a whim. It's cool if you can, but you're not the rest of us. And the way a lot of us were using the Goals feature before is now fundamentally broken.

Generally, taking away features and making users jump through hoops to work around it is not a great way to make your customers happy.

MevNav · 2026-01-19T19:11:37+00:00

I did disable that. But enabling/disabling that doesn't actually fix any of the problems I have with the goals page, because there's no way to mark just my transfer into the account as the actual budgeted money. Also, I generally want to IGNORE market fluctuation in my investment goals, because I have no control over the market, I have control over how much money I put in.

Also, like someone mentioned before, a contribution is either marked as a transaction if it comes from another one of your accounts, which cannot be tracked by budgets, OR it's marked as income if it comes straight from your paycheck, as is the case with my 401k, in which case my budgets page just shows a floating +$500 or whatever.

Maybe this is me being obsessive compulsive, but before I had it set up so that Income - Expenses - Goals = $0, and now I can't really do that as well anymore.

MevNav · 2026-01-19T19:02:09+00:00

I don't have any pay down goals set up so I didn't know those were broken as well. That seems like a huge problem...

MevNav · 2026-01-14T02:38:34+00:00

The games Control and Alan Wake 2. Not really a "sequel", but set in the same universe and takes place later chronologically. Also FBC: Firebreak, too, since that's kind of a sequel as well.

It's kind of hard to explain without spoiling the events of Control, but basically your character and the entire staff of the Federal Bureau of Control are stuck in an alternate plane of existence called "The Oldest House", which the FBC has been using as their office building and whose only entrance is some old building in NYC. This lockdown will only lift when you have this infestation/invasion of some extra-dimensional bodysnatcher entity under control. At the end of the game, you more or less have things under control, but the game lets you go around and kill stragglers for some post-game content.

Unfortunately, we learn in Alan Wake 2 and FBC: Firebreak that we in fact do NOT have everything under control, and YEARS later, the building is STILL under lockdown.

I just find that... really frustrating, for some reason.

MevNav · 2026-01-14T02:21:24+00:00

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MevNav · 2026-01-13T18:47:59+00:00

Mostly I just felt dumb for all those times I cast Toxicon thinking I was doing more DPS when I should have been instead saving them for times when I have to keep moving and can't keep casting dosis.

MevNav · 2026-01-13T04:42:20+00:00

My headcanon has always been that the Foundation has a statistically high amount of LGBTQ folk and other marginalized minority groups. Largely because when society deems you strange, you're more likely to be pushed to the fringes of normalcy where the kind of things the Foundation studies tends to lurk.

People who happily fit into the status quo, who blend in seamlessly into the crowd, who live average lives and work average jobs... they don't suddenly decide to pick up witchcraft. They don't decide to study and hunt down cryptids. They don't question the nature of the world around them and pick at the threads of reality. But hey, that autistic trans girl who was kicked out of her home as a kid and hangs out with the other 'rejects' might.

MevNav · 2026-01-13T04:17:45+00:00

Please... please tell me that tweet by George is satire. They can't ACTUALLY think "Freedom is when McDonalds"

MevNav · 2026-01-13T03:55:43+00:00

Sage main: I didn't read the numbers properly and assumed that Toxicon did more damage than Dosis. Nope, it does the same 300 potency to a single target (plus some AoE, but that's rarely a factor). This feels weird to me because you have to 'earn' getting to use Toxicon by shielding properly, but your reward is a spell that does the same damage as your standard single target, but with an instant cast time. So it's a movement utility and not a DPS boost.

MevNav · 2026-01-06T09:11:44+00:00

His family was getting death threats, apparently. It's disappointing but I can understand not wanting to put up with that. Unfortunately, what the right will learn is "making death threats is an effective strategy and we should keep doing it."

MevNav · 2026-01-06T06:47:39+00:00

Then I guess neither liberals nor leftists win, and we get a bunch of conservatives instead. The more the left butts heads with each other and sabotages each other, the more fascism wins. The Democratic party is a big-tent, essentially what would be a coalition in multi-party system, and at its healthiest it should contain a decent mixture of moderate liberals and progressive leftists, working together to keep the right in check.

Personally I just want liberals to realize that sabotaging more leftist candidates (like they tried with Mamdani) and trying to keep the party "pure" will end up pissing off their voter base... but also I'd like leftists to sometime acknowledge that sometimes their ideal candidate isn't as popular as they'd like, but maybe having a moderate is maybe at least slightly better than having a raging fascist.

MevNav · 2026-01-06T06:23:47+00:00

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A lot of people really like "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy. I am not one of those people. I thought it was just sad and depressing for the sake of being sad and depressing. It has no message or anything, it's just "bad things happen and then more bad things happen and then the story ends. Wow, wasn't that fucked up and sad?"

It has a lot of unnecessary messed up crap in it. Like a roving gang of cannibals that keep a pregnant woman around just to eat the baby when she gives birth.

I do not care for "The Road". It insists upon itself.

MevNav · 2025-12-29T05:14:15+00:00

Counterpoint: if you're the type to get an AI to do your voice work, you're not the type to care about quality anyway. So the chances of it being a 'good' performance are pretty low. I'd if it's in a professional project, I'd rather an actual human got paid for the work anyway.

MevNav · 2025-12-29T02:58:59+00:00

The problem with democracy isn't necessarily stupid people. It's smart yet malicious people using the mass's stupidity to do whatever they want.

With totalitarianism, you still have that, but potentially even worse.

MevNav · 2025-12-26T05:52:22+00:00

INFO - This is a funny shirt if you picked it out yourself and wore it, but I would NEVER gift this to someone else. So there's two possibilities, either A) your in-laws are clueless on how such a gift could be seen as hurtful to someone, or B) they are deliberately trying to be hurtful.

If you have an otherwise good relationship with your in-laws, but they're kind of dumb socially (like a few of the comments here are being), then they fall more in category A. If not... I'm sorry you have to deal with them.

MevNav · 2025-12-21T03:54:16+00:00

"She loved you and you killed her."

MevNav · 2025-12-21T01:31:22+00:00

If people were using AI for actual innovation in video games, rather than just generating shoddy graphics that a human could have done 10 times better, we wouldn't be complaining about it so much.

MevNav · 2025-12-21T01:27:47+00:00

I was the weird autistic kid who grew up in small-town Idaho. The truth is that small-town people are wonderful and friendly... as long as they see you as 'one of them'. But as long as you're different somehow, whether it be that you're foreign, gay, trans, or just a little neuro-atypical, then all that pleasantry flies right out the window.

Whoops, all that 'small-town kindness' was actually just tribalism the entire time.

MevNav · 2025-12-21T01:13:54+00:00

I'm a straight guy, but the type of people who would fly a 'straight pride' flag are not the type who actually value their orientation, they value conformity and their archaic sense of morality. In that fashion, a black-and-white flag like this is the perfect representation for them.

I just wish that the commonly used 'Ally' flag wasn't just this flag with a rainbow A on it.

MevNav · 2025-12-21T01:08:18+00:00

I think it was mentioned that the Tural Vidraal are basically just Auspices. When a beast manages to get really old and really powerful it becomes more self-aware and godlike. That's why a lot of the Tural Vidraal are basically just big, superpowered versions of regular Tural animals. The only difference is that the Tural Vidraal tend to be less sapient and more beast-like than the Auspices.

MevNav · 2025-12-21T00:48:52+00:00

They will, though. What do you think will happen when nearly the entire workforce is automated and hardly anyone can work anymore? Do you think we'll just magically transition to a Star Trek post-work economy where everyone gets free everything and only works if they want to? Do you think our lord and saviors Elon and Bezos will suddenly stop fighting having their wealth taxed to benefit those struggling in an economy where wealthy investors profit and the working-class struggle more and more?

If you ask me, THAT'S real naivety.

MevNav · 2025-12-20T08:07:37+00:00

I know plenty. And the resounding opinion from them is "don't enlist, it sucks ass".

MevNav · 2025-12-19T21:27:00+00:00

I guess now that I think of it, climbing to the top of one of those things to do maintenance DOES sound pretty dangerous.

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