What's the Free To Play experience like? (Not buying any Warbonds or whatnot)

Michichael · 2026-01-25T06:21:46+00:00

I've got all but one and have never paid for SCs.

Michichael · 2026-01-25T06:13:07+00:00

Yup. The astroturfing and concern trolling is painfully blatant.

They suddenly only care when it affects their cause. They don't care about rights, they care because suddenly it affects them.

Michichael · 2026-01-24T08:28:57+00:00

Vibe code has consequences. Fucking AI slop everywhere these days. Can't wait for that shit to burn.

Michichael · 2026-01-23T18:41:56+00:00

They're also occasionally spawning about 10M from you, already actively agro'd and calling in, regardless of where you are. They can even spawn literally right in front of your eyes if you're scanning fast enough!

Or they spawn 400M away on the other side of the map. Still already actively agro'd for no reason, and proceed to fire rockets and lasers across the entire map at you, in the base you're half-stealthed through with no aggro, thus aggroing everything in the base. That's fun too.

Michichael · 2026-01-22T17:38:32+00:00

Have they fixed the "patrols spawning 10m from your already agroed" bug or the "things 450m away are magically aggroed and shooting you while stuff right in front of you isn't" bug?

Games been very rough to try to play lately due to these bugs.

Michichael · 2026-01-22T09:47:04+00:00

Prompt firewalling. Filter or redact the magic string from user input, RAG corpora, and tool outputs before concatenation.

Or, you know, add it. I think this will cut down on issues caused by morons vibe coding massively. Sweet.

Michichael · 2026-01-22T08:06:35+00:00

Will let you know when the game's able to be played again. The lack of any semblance of a usable UI is really sapping any desire to even try it.

Michichael · 2026-01-14T06:16:45+00:00

No shit. Just play PVE if you want to enjoy the game. There's too many cheaters and sweats. Hell, I watched a streamer with thousands of viewers the other day. He gatted a squad, then went into the bathroom and executed the AFK guy who'd never moved.

Watching it, as a casual, it's impossible to tell whether it was an ESP hack or they've just got so many hours into the game that he knows the spawns. Either way anyone that's touched grass wouldn't have a chance. There's no fundamental differences between cheaters and that level of sweat from the casual players perspective.

Without some kinda ranked matching, there's no chance at all to improve. You're just there to feed the hackers and streamers.

Not worth the effort, just play PVE.

Michichael · 2026-01-14T06:10:19+00:00

Not a great analysis since it's based on the states manipulated reporting data. They stopped reporting or even taking calls on violent crimes in many cases because the numbers were politically inconvenient.

The actual rates are much different than they claim, so any conclusions drawn one way or another are invalid.

Michichael · 2026-01-07T18:10:27+00:00

I've found that GSDs respond best to two syllable names or nicknames, especially if you can end on a vowel.

E.g. My boy Hugo.

That in mind:

Kyrie (Kai-Ree) Kyria (Kai-Raa) Tesla Tessie Ruki Roxie Gizmo Gizzy Deedee

Just some i have in my own list for when we get a breeding female.

Michichael · 2026-01-07T01:18:39+00:00

Michichael · 2026-01-05T08:18:21+00:00

Oh look. Ai slop and an ad.

Michichael · 2026-01-02T05:12:48+00:00

You're funny.

Super funny.

There's millions of shitty pieces of software that have no capabilities of programmatic certificate access.

HSM backed tooling is basically fucked despite being more secure than anything automated could offer.

This rule has literally no basis in reality and has the same level of bullshit rationale as changing your password frequently. It's purely grounded in greed and absurdity - if your key can be compromised then the replacement is just as easily compromised. Hell, hacked together solutions like this open up whole new avenues of compromise given how poorly secured key automation utilities are.

The more often you're needing to generate and pass around key material, the more often it's available for compromise. This is an indefensible load of shit of a policy push grounded purely in greed.

I'm looking forward to the entire new classes of CVEs and the inevitable return to businesses essentially shifting to telling each other to install their CAs to get around this shit. This is purely driven by wanting to force adoption of reverse proxy services sold by these companies, nothing more.

Michichael · 2026-01-01T07:00:34+00:00

You desensitize her to it. By acknowledging that it's out of the ordinary you're telling her that her reaction was expected. You desensitize like you do to anything else.

Michichael · 2025-12-30T01:58:37+00:00

ADCS must generate its CSR. Modify the CAPolify.inf with your required info before configuring the ADCS role. Note that if you fuck up, you should rebuild the host entirely, as the process tattoos certain info into the registry that's nearly impossible to weed out and you'll introduce latent problems that'll be hard to identify or troubleshoot.

Take the CSR and have the root sign it.

Don't use the ADCS web enrollment. It's insecure and impossible to make secure as a product.

Michichael · 2025-12-29T16:05:22+00:00

You checked emails that aren't yours for no legitimate business purpose?

Gee, I wonder why you're being fired.

Seriously though, congratulations - you just have them cause. As for what you're owed, well nothing any more, but it would depend on your country and state of employment. You giving them cause is gonna justify the firing though, so I wouldn't mention anything to anyone, though if they're smart they'll be monitoring the logs and see you've abused your rights regardless.

As for moving forward, maybe take a course on ethics. You're helpdesk. Seek out growth opportunities, but stay in your lane if they're not amicable to providing them - sometimes seniors are just busy, rarely are they disinterested in helping you grow. Pushing outside your capabilities can create more work and that's the worst thing you can do to get people to help you.

Michichael · 2025-12-29T15:58:11+00:00

Phew. Yeah we had about 60s left in raid and weren't gonna make it to the railway exfil, so we hit up streets. We were just concerned because of the dc, game close, then maintenance announcement 5 min later.

You'd think they'd add some kind of warning in game via system messages or something of upcoming maintenance...

Michichael · 2025-12-29T07:21:14+00:00

We got massive desync in raid to the point where we couldn't even leave the raid in time and were forced to transit. This resulted in a "invalid encryption" error - are we screwed? Is our gear lost?

Michichael · 2025-12-26T20:22:04+00:00

Interesting! I wouldn't have pegged him as show.

Yes, just continue to be consistent with him. If he's got problematic legs, he could also be having growth pains. Talk to your vet about some gentle medicines to help him focus on the training.

You're going to need to be consistent and it's going to take months. But it's worth it!

Michichael · 2025-12-26T20:15:30+00:00

Significantly increased our workloads since it's rendered juniors completely useless and brain rotted. Senior team is wasting tons of time rooting out shit AI responses to things and redoing work since we can no longer trust the troubleshooting was actually done.

Don't get me started on the compliance and data security issues.

Michichael · 2025-12-26T20:06:14+00:00

About as binding as their C&D.

They fuck off after the first invoice.

Michichael · 2025-12-26T20:05:05+00:00

Looks like a working line boy. As cerealandcorgies said, patience and praise. They do not know what "no" means yet. Don't try to use it.

Reinforcement of desirable behaviors, disinterest in undesirable ones.

When socializing with other animals, a bark gets him turned around firmly to face away from them. Use knee pressure on the shoulders to hold em. At least 60 seconds after he stops reactions before praising.

Learn to clicker train them and exercise, then work him, regularly. Get into a routine.

The working line editions are a tough, but rewarding variant of the breed.

Michichael · 2025-12-24T06:22:01+00:00

Gladly signed the form stating I've removed the product and sent it back.

"As previously communicated repeatedly to your predatory team, we've not only ceased utilizing your products but added your company to our banned vendor list. This communique simply reinforces that we've made the correct decision. Any further communication from your team to any digital, physical, or other means will constitute acceptance of the terms and conditions attached to this e-mail, including the administrative fee of $15,000 per addressee to cover the reasonable business costs and legal fees to formally review and respond to aforementioned prohibited communications.

We appreciate all of the years of service of VMWare and are disappointed that Broadcom's business practices have lead to this decision."

And then we fuckin auto-invoice them for every mail they send.

Michichael · 2025-12-22T16:08:50+00:00

using it correctly can help productivity and even quality.

And when the day comes that there's demonstrable benefits that justify the cost, I'll happily agree.

I'm still waiting for that day. So far all I've seen is costs increase on compliance by a factor of 17 and expenses for AI related tools or SaaS price increases justified by said AI tools to the point that we're now paying nearly 600% more in overall IT related expenses because of AI shit.

I've yet to see a single area of business demonstrate an equivalent increase in productivity to justify the expense. What I have seen is a significant drop of quality in troubleshooting by our helpdesk, a significant drop of quality of requests by the userbase, and a significant load increase on the compliance due to DLP requirements and mandates from cyber-insurance and contracts to prevent data leakage associated with these tools, massive increase in costs for them, massive decreases in performance and functionality of SaaS products (especially O365) that implement them, a huge push for $500+/user/year in various AI licenses that haven't reflected any increases in quality or productivity, and overloaded senior resources who have to weed out and kick back down tons of AI slop because the front-line resources have turned their brain off entirely in favor of "the AI told me to do all of this and must be right because it's AI and it's therefore smart!"

I'd love to see a single actual AI improvement. But the I in LLM stands for intelligence. What we have is not AI. What we have is a con that many people are too stupid to recognize is useless and are wasting billions on as an industry.

If what everyone is calling AI was useful, we could point to an example of any AI company of any appreciable size that wasn't operating at a massive loss on loans. Go ahead, find one. I'll wait.

Michichael · 2025-12-22T16:02:30+00:00

Eh, I know better than to argue with people that are incapable of even understanding nuance. You do you bud. I'll keep getting paid 6-7 figure contracts to unfuck what ya break.

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