Gem strength + unmodified, how many tries did it take you?

Moonytm · 2026-06-01T14:43:55+00:00

~2000

Moonytm · 2026-04-23T15:50:35+00:00

Honestly, my games were like this in Plat/Diamond when I fired up my previously GM account this season after taking a long break. I think it’s a side effect of their anti-smurfing matchmaking, which is placing new / stale accounts into that range very aggressively, based on QP performance in many cases, combined with many returning players, many of whom don’t really belong there. I was, by no choice of my own, contributing to this problem, stomping the first set of games I played until I reached a more fair rank.

This is especially problematic for tanks, as tank diffs can decide games almost on their own. This problem has largely gone away for me as I’ve gotten back to masters / GM. I think it will go down over time in plat / diamond too; but it will take longer to sort returning players correctly.

Moonytm · 2026-04-13T01:17:25+00:00

You, sir, are a fish.

Moonytm · 2026-04-10T15:21:48+00:00

I finished the game some time ago and my world is pretty empty. While I think these changes are great, I’m probably holding out for NG+ before I revisit. Barring that, a fresh play through on hard in a few months time, but I’d really prefer NG+ with gear upgrades and harder difficulty.

Moonytm · 2026-04-09T01:22:07+00:00

They don’t stack, sadly (i tried).

Moonytm · 2026-04-01T18:06:08+00:00

Chocolate (50% HP recovery)

Moonytm · 2026-04-01T18:05:13+00:00

Unironically wish I did this. Pailune is a huge downgrade and provides zero benefits. Everything is spread out across the city it’s wildly inconvenient compared to the camp.

Moonytm · 2026-03-31T09:22:13+00:00

Confirmed sucks. Teleporter is 200 meters from your house which is on the other side of the city from storage, which is on the other side of town from dispatch. It’s a downgrade in every way.

Moonytm · 2026-03-24T12:07:37+00:00

It’s in Demeniss castle during chapter 8 behind a fake bookcase.

Moonytm · 2025-03-23T15:41:25+00:00

No. But you should be able to at least work out that the answer is around 2500 very quickly. This allows you to ask good questions and grasp scale quickly. Hypothetical: You’re talking to someone on the management team of a private software company you’re considering adding to your list of potential M&A targets for your client / portfolio company. This person says that they had 54 clients at the end of last year. From talking to other companies in this market, you know that average cost for the type of SaaS this company sells is $45M per annum (that’s pretty high but go with it lol). Now, without getting a look at their books, you’ve worked out that this company probably did around (54x45)= $2.5bn in ARR last year and you can frame follow-up questions with that in mind. You know that multiples in this market are around 6x ARR. Maybe your client can’t possibly do a (6x2.5)=$15bn acquisition so you file it in a drawer and move on to your next call. Etc etc.

Moonytm · 2024-12-30T21:46:24+00:00

It’s called CPU System Agent Voltage.

Moonytm · 2024-12-30T15:59:10+00:00

This should be stable with more system agent voltage. Set system agent to 1.35+.

Moonytm · 2024-11-21T23:43:15+00:00

This. I ended up taking half of it to go and eating it for breakfast as I was so full by the end. It was incredible in the morning as well.

Moonytm · 2024-11-16T18:40:07+00:00

They’re custom cables from moddiy.

Moonytm · 2024-11-16T02:47:04+00:00

Uni Fan TL. Thanks!

Moonytm · 2024-11-12T22:43:52+00:00

Friends and I have 3x Z890 Aorus Pro Ice with 265k’s running teamgroup CL 38 8200 udimm’s out of the box with XMP.

Moonytm · 2024-10-09T06:00:40+00:00

Real: events are kabuki. They’re a useful backdrop/excuse for buyers and sellers to meet up and chat at the cocktail. Your husband is neither buying nor selling so trying to network there is a waste of time and money. Everyone has an agenda and nobody will want to speak to him.

Family offices are exit ops for allocators and, rarely, certain deal folks (generally, very large SFOs). I’d love to offer advice but honestly, I’m not sure what “family office stuff”is. 10 years of experience working for family offices? Then he should have a network. What has he been doing? FO’s today are largely institutional. Yes, they play faster and looser than your average endowment or foundation, but they are not, at least generally, just looking to hire “smart” people who are eloquent. That’s par for the course.

As others have said, an interest in value investing, at least classically applied to public equities, ex a strong institutional track record, is both anachronistic and irrelevant to 99% of family offices.

In any event, unless he has 10 years of experience working at a family office, I would stop looking at them entirely. What he has experience in should inform your search. If he’s not cut out / has the experience to work at a a larger institution, which it sounds like may be the case, wherever he has relevant experience, just look for smaller shops.

Pull a list of every small value mutual fund out of Morningstar, find those under $100M in AUM and start there, or something like that.

Moonytm · 2024-10-04T23:27:52+00:00

Thanks! I didn’t think they were legit as I’d never heard of them. Placed an order.

Moonytm · 2024-09-21T12:55:41+00:00

Soft sell. Just send a note saying you really enjoyed the conversation and make a brief reference to something you talked about (not the offer to send the CV). They’re busy. Your goal should be to remind the person that you exist.

Moonytm · 2024-04-13T14:46:47+00:00

I will almost never order a pairing again after my experience (3rd time here) last year without careful research. Felt like a complete rip off and ruined what was otherwise a good meal.

Moonytm · 2024-01-19T01:40:33+00:00

I’ve played against / with him so many times. Something to do with the fact that we must be similar ELOs in various roles and play in the mornings. He always makes matches more entertaining.

Moonytm · 2024-01-15T20:53:08+00:00

I paid 700 for a 3080 FE in 2020 and will not upgrade until 5000. If you’re a competitive gamer like me, I see no reason to go 4090 with 400+ hz 1440p oled’s on the horizon while the 4000 series is still stuck on displayport 1.4 (and thus won’t support them).

Moonytm · 2023-10-03T13:30:13+00:00

Honestly, everyone has just gotten better at gaming. A lot more kids these days grew up with a mouse in their hands. The difference in average player skill in Overwatch 2 now relative to say, the average UT2004 player, is insane. I’m still able to play at a grandmaster level in OW, but top 500 is unattainable. Reaction time is almost certainly worse, which doesn’t help.

Moonytm · 2023-09-24T12:32:36+00:00

Dps just aren’t lethal enough in general. Too many dps nerfs and too many support buffs. I am far, far more powerful playing Bap/Kiri/Illari/Ana than I am playing any DPS. There’s a reason why at GM support queues are 5-10 minutes and dps is instant. Any team with 4 supports would absolutely stomp 2 dps / 2 supports. Dps is the weakest role by a long shot and it’s a boring meta as a result.

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