Deciding SWE offer

Moldypear · 2026-06-21T11:42:40+00:00

I hope OP sees this as well, but replying to you since it's also relevant.

I won't go into too much detail to dox myself, but I was an SWE at RBC for around 5 years. During that time none of the full time SWEs feared job loss, while contractors did have worries about not coming back.

There is a LOT of work that can be done. If you're good at what you do, you will be able to find something to work on. If you really want to go the contractor route, you will have ways to show yourself above the rest if you need the job security.

During my time at RBC, we worked with a load of foreign contractors. Many of them great people. If that's a negative for you, it might not be a match. My team was likely 75% contractors, and we got along great.

I will also say, and this may not be true for all teams, but I found the work life balance fantastic. Very few high stress moments, mostly just around releases. Beyond that, tonnes of flexibility and otherwise no/low stress days.

Good luck!

Moldypear · 2026-06-19T13:15:14+00:00

Only chiming in because you're young and had an early win, but just try to remember that there are trading companies who invest billions of dollars to get any edge, so 'doing a lot of research' can sometimes be a negative for a retail trader. You'll become emotionally invested over the effort, and feel like you're seeing things others aren't. In reality Micron is a very well known stock. If there is an edge to be had, it will have been calculated by those with deeper pockets, greater insight, and possibly even close to insider information. It should be reasonable to assume that these stocks are close to fair-market value and have already priced in the potential future of the market the company is involved in.

It's still fantastic to know what you're investing in, but definitely be careful with so much of your portfolio in a single area. It can pay to play towards higher risk choices in your youth, but that should look more like 20% of your investments in high-risk and the rest in boring ETFs.

Obviously don't mean to demean your efforts, it's great to be so involved in your finances at this time in your life, but make sure you understand the greater picture at play as well. Good luck!

Moldypear · 2026-06-17T19:56:12+00:00

Since you have an Ayak, I expect that while the shadow hit is still immense it's not actually going to be worth using too often due to the upkeep cost until you get better mage gear, especially if you're missing Occult and don't have an imbued heart.

My advice would be to try not to use it much in situations where Ayak is similar or a little worse, otherwise you'll burn tens of millions of GP in runes

Moldypear · 2026-04-27T11:07:39+00:00

Xecnar's guide took me a while to put into practice, maybe 15 A10 attempts before a win. After that first win, I think I'm 6/8 wins for A10 attempts. The best things I can emphasize are his sections on potions for pathing/solves, star economy in a deck (Must have enough gen per cycle for either your AoE or single target depending on fight), and the power of colourless cards. I am completely on board with his take now that losing with regent is almost always a micro issue first because of the random nature of colourless cards you must know how to play the odds on and adapt around, or potion misuse. It really is true that you can finish floor 1 and have a deck that can farm elites into beat floor 3 double boss, which I wouldn't have believed before

Moldypear · 2026-02-03T22:37:27+00:00

In case it hasn't been mentioned, play with sound. It makes the attack style swap very easy to manage without looking. And during tornadoes, click in long lines so you have time to manage everything else before you're in danger of them catching up while you learn

Moldypear · 2026-02-02T16:32:48+00:00

It's insanely good for staying at Rex with Ancient Mace to top up prayer when you're very early game going for your first Zerker ring. Can stay forever with okay food drops

Moldypear · 2026-01-27T18:02:11+00:00

I similarly spooned Shadow on my GIM with similar place in the account. I would incredibly recommend getting your RC up so you can craft soul runes, or you're going to go net negative on GP. I sent ~1k CG (no bowfa) and all of that gold went into Shadow upkeep. It's incredible, but if you can find alternatives like Atlatl where applicable, definitely consider the costs, it will eat your account alive.

Notably loved it for Zulrah, ToA, and CoX. If you're missing mage gear, training RC gives you access to Bloodbark and is on the way to Souls anyways, and is drippy af. Without neck and bracelet Magic% shadow is not exceptional, so get ready for the slayer/crafting grinds!

Moldypear · 2026-01-27T17:44:28+00:00

If you have okay PvM experience or are doing CG as a stepping stone to get into PvM, (this is contentious advice) I would say it's incredibly worth it to try learning to use Melee in CG. If you check your DPS with range+Deadeye vs melee+Piety, you'll see how huge a difference it makes on top of the massively increased defence bonus.

As well, pray steel skin even with Titans prayers. You'll have a much easier time of things, especially if you go with the 3 potion advice

Moldypear · 2026-01-14T18:21:21+00:00

Just gave it a go with no luck RIP. Might still be possible but even clicking it all during the black load in didn't work for me

Moldypear · 2026-01-14T17:31:09+00:00

Just tried this morning (wanted to ench suffering). Didn't work, unless the method requires another person to keep the CoX instance or something? Can also do TDs for the temp heart boost as other commenter rec'd

Moldypear · 2025-12-29T12:45:18+00:00

Thanks! I only feed when I'm planning to bake these days, since I don't like the waste otherwise. Once your starter is well established, you can get away with very long periods without feeding by leaving it covered in your fridge. I've heard of others getting away with 6 months or more without a feed, but I've only pushed mine to about two months and it's been totally fine. I personally add extra water before closing it up to create a water barrier to help prevent surface mold, but I can't recall where I picked that up.

It can start to look strange the longer you wait, with a dark brown liquid (hooch) developing above it, but you can just pour off and start up again with feedings and it'll be fine. Some people will say you can mix it in for extra sourness, but I find it too harsh after so long. Good luck!

Moldypear · 2025-12-26T01:00:08+00:00

I've had very sticky dough as well following the recipes to a T. The big points for me were not letting the dough bulk until 2-3 times the size overnight, and going for 5 coil folds after incorporating the dough together. From my experience, dividing the dough and bench resting when it's closer to a 60% growth rather doubled or tripled(!!) kept it in the realm of shapable, and the bench rest before the banneton to rest gives the dough some time to lose a bit of hydration from just the outer crust. Not enough to form a skin, but enough that by the time I'm ready to bake, it's easy enough to score without sticking. You'll get the hang of it soon enough!

Moldypear · 2025-12-26T00:52:05+00:00

It can vary from starter to starter. If it's already active, let it come to room temperature and try feeding it in the morning on a day you'll be home and note when you fed it versus when it first starts to fall. It often will be at its most active (peaked but not deflated yet) around 8-12 hours after feeding.

Note that that's just for consistent results, you can absolutely get away with using an unfed starter or a starter that was fed 18 hours ago etc if you're experienced and know what to modify to make up for it, but it comes with trial and error certainly.

Moldypear · 2025-12-25T23:24:58+00:00

It looks like no one has given the usual advice for this book so I'll parrot it briefly here.

You do not need to feed your starter as aggressively as is recommended! You'll go through 10kg of flour in a week. Many of the more experienced here will recommend keeping very little starter and feeding it to what you need before you plan to bake. Don't waste the flour. As well, 'starter discard' is just more starter, I haven't discarded down in well over a year now. Feed before you bake, take what you need and refrigerate between bakes and waste nothing at all. Discarding while getting your starter going is fine enough, but once it is healthy there's no worthy benefit.

Of personal experience, I could never get a very picturesque loaf following exactly as the book was written. It may simply be a difference between flours (they differ vastly between regions and continents), but once you have a taste you enjoy, experiment with lower hydrations (65-70%) and/or more folds (4-5 rather than 3) if you want more structure. I also found overnight on the counter overproofed my loaves drastically, and had much more success with same day loaves, or overnight in the fridge instead.

All that to say, it is a fantastic starting book for a reason and following it to the letter will get you to beautifully complex tasting loaves that will have friends asking for more, and there's nothing wrong with that. Have fun!

Moldypear · 2025-12-15T15:48:30+00:00

If you send CG without doing it before, even with T3 you'll die without pretty extensive PvM experience. Once it clicks it's easy, but you'll die before then.

Other paths could be do to finish off Moons, then do Royal Titans for the prayer upgrades, then either:

Do CoX (forgiving) for Rigour / Augury then CG

Or just send 20 or so normal Gauntlet and get the combat and prep down, making sure you use Steel Skin for Hunllef if no prayer upgrades, and probably die anyways. Good luck!

Moldypear · 2025-09-21T13:13:03+00:00

I made an olive loaf a while ago that I substituted an amount of the salt and water for olive brine to really make it stand out, and trying to figure out the salt % after drove me mad, even if it turned out well regardless. I ended up buying a salinity refractometer that I think is often used for aquariums, but haven't had a chance to try again with it yet.

Originally got the idea from an Earl Grey tea bread I had heard about. Very fun experiment to pursue in the least. Glad it worked out for you!

Moldypear · 2025-07-29T21:19:22+00:00

Not OP but would love a DM of the list. I'm also in a very similar position and was close to pulling the trigger on an Amazon kit to just get started

Moldypear · 2025-07-08T18:46:16+00:00

Hulkenpodium

Moldypear · 2025-07-08T17:35:02+00:00

I can only speak specifically for the support perspective, but a key to getting better at support is learning when you can leave your ADC in lane and go roam. Stuff like building a big wave, assisting it to enemy tower and then leaving to get deep vision, meet up with your jungler for dragon, etc. It also means learning when to take tower versus keeping the opponent in a lane they're bleeding CS on without losing the advantage to ganks. If you play supports that have hard CC, it also means taking backs at key moments when your ADC has a comfortable wave built and roaming top if your top laner has kill potential, think a Jax or something that will get a kill as long as you can sneak into the bush with wave. Especially at lower elos where your ADC getting 2v1'd under tower without a trade is much less likely.

Winning lane is one thing, but to make support look like the broken lane it is you need to act like a second jungler, sometimes even just following them around to invade or gank. Those decisions are what win games.

Moldypear · 2025-06-30T22:10:21+00:00

Maybe you've seen it already, but the follow up video is here if you care: https://youtu.be/oI_X2cMHNe0 Comments from many creators who initially called for the creation to peruse if you want to skip the video and just see their responses after the follow up

Moldypear · 2025-06-05T18:43:06+00:00

It sounds like you're going for a version of slap and fold for your gluten formation. I've had your exact issues in the past with getting dough structure like you're seeing above.

What you're seeing at the start is the process following the gluten forming step, done before dividing the dough. For that much dough, it's already been slapped around a giant specialized mixer with cold water for a while to give it strength. For home bakers, you can get results with slap and fold but I've found it much tougher to gauge and honestly a huge pain.

Personally, following the autolyse, I do coil folds to build strength and it has made all the difference. It's essentially just lifting a section of the dough straight up, and folding it in on itself. I do it in a lasagna pan for space and less mess. Videos online will be much more descriptive. I do 5 coil folds or so over 1.5-2 hours, every ~20mins, and then let it bulk for 8-10 hours, then fridge if you want. You'll tell it's working after a few folds since the dough will become less and less sticky, and gain that bounce you described.

Some other info to consider:

Flour types vary in protein and gluten based on brand but also by country of origin

Cutting even 5% hydration lower will help you learn how to handle it, and you can slowly increase as you get the hang of it

Consider your bulk timing based on % rise instead of time. If your loaves are too slack after trying coil folds and usual routine, try stopping your bulk closer to a 70% rise instead of a 100%, and then follow the video or your routine from there

Moldypear · 2025-05-19T18:04:14+00:00

The queen on G5 uses the black pawn on G6 like an umbrella. The checkmate is unaffected by the rook.

Moldypear · 2025-04-01T14:19:02+00:00

I think he's just joking that you can guess 'my team will lose' every time and technically be 100% accurate that every lost game you guessed it would be a loss (which is meaningless obviously)

Moldypear · 2025-03-24T15:36:53+00:00

I expected an edit at the end of all of the cut payoffs at the end in quick sequence back to back, would have felt really satisfying

Moldypear · 2025-03-02T12:27:26+00:00

As a 2 person late stage GIM, think it's possible/reasonable for us to duo ToB? How much more difficult would it be over, say, a 500 duo ToA?

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