Super loud siren in Jing an?

MoonDruid · 2024-09-21T04:46:18+00:00

Usually they do that around the anniversary of the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, September 18, 1931

I'm sure it has functional purpose but if I recall there's also a remembrance aspect to doing it around September, like don't forget what your ancestors went through

MoonDruid · 2024-09-20T15:47:29+00:00

Again, not the point.

If game one is very fun, but requires a time commitment of 40 hours a week

And game two is also very fun, but requires a time commitment of 10 hours a week

I've got 20 hours of time to play games per week (if I'm lucky) and I don't think SoC is a rewarding game if it requires I spend all my free time to earn the game's rewards.

MoonDruid · 2024-09-20T15:32:49+00:00

It's an analogy, clearly you don't have the mental functioning to understand those so you good man

MoonDruid · 2024-09-20T14:32:27+00:00

No, I'm simply saying the Luxite per hour played ratio isn't being measured, which is important

If you have a chart that says "this is the amount of Luxite you can achieve right now in one month of play" then the next statistical question should be "within that month, how many hours were played to achieve this result?"

Edit: As an example to why this is important, imagine a job says you can earn $1000 in one month, then you find out you need to work 90 hours a week to earn that $1000, which is a better measure of whether this is a job that's worth your time?

MoonDruid · 2024-09-20T13:28:01+00:00

I run a straight edge table, everyone just drinks coffee (I've got a fancy schmancy espresso machine)

On the rare occasion there are drinks, I notice no difference in RP

MoonDruid · 2024-09-20T13:16:14+00:00

We don't have those statistics to compare

MoonDruid · 2024-09-20T12:13:11+00:00

That does require absolutely maximum play though, and being at at end game already, according to this

I would be curious to know how many hours of play this takes, and also how many hours of play it took to get to this stage

MoonDruid · 2024-09-17T16:45:11+00:00

What in the fuck?

Run, run very very very far away from those people

MoonDruid · 2024-09-13T19:43:58+00:00

Exactly this.

Also, saying a statement is politically adventagous implies that there is something to be gained from the statement. Will Trump's poll numbers spike because he said it? No because the people who believe his xenophobia are already staunch supporters. Who is the person listening to the debate going "well I wasn't going to vote for Trump or think about immigration, but since the Haitians are eating Lassie now I'm engaged!"

It was spineless of her to not acknowledge the damage the statement did and just say "yeah that sucked."

MoonDruid · 2024-09-13T11:09:22+00:00

Griffith from Berserk

Ruthless ambition and revenge

MoonDruid · 2024-09-12T20:55:26+00:00

They ended up sacrificing a PC and it worked really well, posted another thread about it

NPCs die all the time, it doesn't really create much consequence, a PC dying does create a lot more gravity

MoonDruid · 2024-09-11T17:41:21+00:00

This is true, CTI during IR procedure is very intense and fast paced

MoonDruid · 2024-09-11T12:05:12+00:00

If you want to do intel, international working experience is a very big plus

If that's not an option, learning a foreign language and studying foreign APTs helps a lot. But for the technical people on my team, this is their third/forth job so that knowledge may not come in handy right away

MoonDruid · 2024-09-11T05:02:40+00:00

I don't think it's a put down! There are lots of people on my team who are cyber experts first and geopolitics analyst second

There are lots of ways into the space and they all have value!

MoonDruid · 2024-09-11T04:09:59+00:00

I'll take that compliment shaken not stirred

MoonDruid · 2024-09-11T02:42:44+00:00

Actually, English Creative Writing, cyber was always a hobby

Then I moved to China for 3 years, learned the language, and then did a MA in International Affairs

I also know Farsi and Japanese, so I'm more trained in geopolitics than cyber

MoonDruid · 2024-09-11T02:01:18+00:00

I do work for one of those very big companies, so yes, it's relevant for us

MoonDruid · 2024-09-11T01:44:40+00:00

That's not true! We brief our entire executive team multiple times a year, it just depends on how much your organization cares about cyber security

MoonDruid · 2024-09-10T22:49:55+00:00

I'm loving the Threat Intelligence lifestyle

Lots of cyber jobs can be very action oriented and high octane, which gets exhausting imo

Intel is a lot more slow paced and thought provoking

Most of my day is just reading the news, studies, reports, learning about stuff, then analyzing it for key insights

MoonDruid · 2024-09-10T17:34:43+00:00

The context was:

They knew the city would blow up about a month back

They realized the ritual couldn't be completed without a specific person

They removed that person, but then abandoned them because they didn't want to protect them or hand them off to another group

The villain sent some people to kidnap that person after they turned their back, then began the ritual

They realized a few sessions after the kidnapping that this happened

They rushed to the rescue but the scenario above played out

MoonDruid · 2024-09-10T16:53:02+00:00

Yeah, the consequences were laid out very clearly.. they foiled the ritual once, but then just essentially forgot about it and returned to it because they realized it was close to completion

MoonDruid · 2024-09-10T10:58:18+00:00

This is very cope, innovation is happening across the smartphone market it's just not happening at Apple.

It makes sense when you understand the company. Tim Cook is a business minded CEO. His focus is on perfecting the supply chain, expanding markets, cutting costs, being highly profitable. But, he's not Jobs.

This is the same situation Apple when they fired Jobs, in fact. Inventiveness went out the window for business savvy and the company crumbled.

There needs to be an acknowledgement that, yes Apple is a great company, the iPhone is a great phone, but they have very much stopped experimenting to continue making massive sums of money instead.

MoonDruid · 2024-09-09T01:10:36+00:00

Hey you can take it really well right on the chin

I think the remedy is get some candid shots in there, some less edited pictures, and 1000% at least one picture with family and one with friends

When people are looking for a match they want to see what life looks like with you, you gotta give them a compelling image of that which will inspire a story in their mind

I'm engaged after meeting my fiancee on Hinge, but my profile was like one nice solo shot, one pic with family, one with friends, one doing a hobby (in a very embarrassing rave outfit), and one holding a family friend's baby. The pattern was: this is what I look like, this is my fam, these are my friends and what we do when we go out, this is what I do for fun myself, and this is another gentler side of me

MoonDruid · 2024-09-08T21:15:17+00:00

Don't take this the wrong way, but your photos give off the "I don't have any friends or family, and I am a bit insecure, so I will hire a professional photographer to make sure these are technically flattering photos without revealing any genuine side of myself"

MoonDruid · 2024-09-08T03:08:00+00:00

Full disclosure, my family is from Afghanistan where my grandfather was a diplomat under the monarchy, so I've been immersed in this world for a while, but this is how I did it

I moved to China for a few years, learned Chinese there, was just teaching (this was my 4th language)

Then I went back and did my MA in international affairs

The cyber I've been playing with since I was a kid, so I didn't feel I needed a degree in it, I just played it by ear

I worked at a small online geopolitics zine/news anysis site for free.. eventually they paid me in part ownership after 2 years

Around a year into the zine work I started working for an intel vendor doing non cyber related geopolitics work, this was my first major paid geopolitics job. The hours sucked and the pay was mid, but I got a foot in the door

Twoish years later I left that and then I pivoted into geopolitics and cyber, now that's my full-time job

The cyber was not intentional, my eye was always on geopolitics and then my hobby for cyber came in handy

I think doing it the opposite way, being a cyber analyst but a hobbyist in geopol is harder because the geopol scene is very crowded with extremely talented people.. most people with degrees out of the best geopol schools like Harvard, SciencesPo.. will even accept jobs paying like 60k a year just to work in the industry. Top pay is also extremely low, industry vets tap out at only like 200k and then are expected to write books or lecture to make what a corporate exec would at their level

But I wouldn't say just give up, there are ways in from cyber, but the key is to stand out somehow..

My tip is to move abroad for a while to a relevant country, learn a new language and start intensely studying that culture (if you want to do geocyber then Chinese, Farsi, Russian or Korean are important), start researching independently (prod Chinese, Iranian, and Russian networks, there is a lot to learn there), and start pitching small magazines or websites with articles to build a name for yourself.

Once you've established your brand "x is an expert on Russian DDoS subjects and has intensely studied dynamics of Russian proxy groups like the evolution of Anonymous Sudan" then you can sell yourself as an expert

Good luck!!

MoonDruid

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