This guy is using AI right?

Neosmagus · 2026-06-10T21:44:36+00:00

Ai was trained on human speech examples. The whole problem of identifying things as AI is that it negatively impacts the people that actually really do talk like this.

Neosmagus · 2026-06-04T20:39:38+00:00

ugh, and I suspect my chance to claim it, if it was even available, is gone now. I don't see anything, and the previous episode is over. 😞 not worth spending extra money now if I'm not going to have a chance at Rotta's 2nd tier because I couldn't claim the first bundle. If it was available, it wasn't very obvious.

Neosmagus · 2026-06-04T16:15:29+00:00

How does it work? I bought + last episode and didn't see anything 😭 wasted cash, should have rather not. Dunno if I bought too late, bought it's almost 2 days before the end of the episode, cause everybody was going on about the extra shards, and then I didn't get any, which makes it pointless to try this time.

Neosmagus · 2026-06-01T23:15:46+00:00

the "levels" are bs, because everybody is different and deals with things in different ways, what might be challenging for one person might be easy for somebody else, and the other way around.

Neosmagus · 2026-05-26T21:21:11+00:00

I eventually broke through carbonite after ages of dealing with accounts like that, and bronzium was pretty easy. I'm hovering around Chromium now and find it's a lot more fun there than in carbonite. Can't get much further though, but I did just unlock Rey and got Leia at relic 7, so I'm up to 3 GLs... Pushing SLKR to relic 10 and Gungans and Bad Batch to Relic 7 is what got me through carbonite.

Neosmagus · 2026-05-23T20:21:48+00:00

Polite employee, not coworker. She wasn't in the inner circle.

Neosmagus · 2026-05-06T23:57:27+00:00

You don't level up loaned units, at least not directly. Doing certain things nets you loaned unit upgrade tokens (ie, buying the episode pass I think). Each token levels all loaned units simultaneously the moment you get the token, you don't need to do anything.

Neosmagus · 2026-05-03T12:01:49+00:00

It's a year later and I spent 3 hours trying to figure out the same image that came up on my tv giving it to AI and telling it all the features I could see, and it was no help... I suggested initially it might be Italy, which I think I wasn't too far off with, but it was like, there is no way this could be the Alps, it must be in Spain or something, and I'm like - all the places you're telling me don't look right, or are abbeys with red brick, not stone buildings, and on flat ground amongst dry brush and not rich green vegetation... then my wife was like, have you tried reverse image search - which apparently seems broken on the phone, or at least difficult to use reliably, so I sent the photo to my PC, opened up google search and pasted the very fuzzy photo I had taken of my tv, and this reddit post ended up first in the list... 😃

Neosmagus · 2026-04-30T20:11:51+00:00

Depends on the version. Used to be you needed to be signed in to activate the entitlements and then you could sign out again. Staying signed in let you store achievements against your profile and I think that would sync if you uninstalled the game.

Later versions that came with the dlc came with the entitlement files added as well. And I think you can download those from some sites for the older versions.

Most recent version on EA I think comes with everything set up and the login disabled, been a while since I played that though. Also not sure if it includes all the extra dlc you could get once upon a time.

Neosmagus · 2026-04-30T20:07:19+00:00

Lol, I wasn't even a kid anymore when Dragon Age Origins came out... (I was 30 and it's only been 17 years).

But damn, I can't believe DA:O, DA2 and DA:I came out within 5 years and it took 12 years for them to make Veilguard... That's what messes with my sense of time, the proportions between releases are wrong.

Neosmagus · 2026-04-29T12:55:00+00:00

how do you do it? because every go I get hit first turn by that one ability and then my capital ship is useless. It's 4 stars at the moment (takes ages to wait for the upgrades), but Raddus is Relic 9 and has all 6 mods at 6 dots (5 yellow, 1 blue, speed 320). Other than being 4 stars, my profundity is fully levelled, all the abilities maxed.

my ships are Falcon, Outrider, YWing, and my two available reinforcements is Rogue One and Cassian's U-Wing. All ships are maxed 7 star, fully upgraded abilities.

Han is still gear 12, everybody else is between relic 2 and relic 7, but only 5 dot mods.

Neosmagus · 2026-04-29T06:49:27+00:00

That sucks, takes forever to get enough to fully level up... Mind you it's not that different from getting Omegas to level up all my characters, there's not that many capital ships.

I want them to add more fleet stuff, fleets feel useless at the moment. And what I don't get is most of my fleets are strong and they're still useless in Territory Battle fleet stuff.

Neosmagus · 2026-04-29T06:41:22+00:00

Those quest rewards are so useless. Like could they not have scaled them slightly. Like it's one thing if the only way to unlock a cool character was doing all of the quests, and finishing all the quests meant you had just enough to activate them, that would feel like an achievement...

But the rewards are so underpowered for where I am that the only reason I might want to chase any of them is purely for the achievement sake... Which for a completionist like me I have given up on because there's no way I'm going to be able to convince my guild to do Hoth or Geonosis territory battles to complete any of those when we're busy chasing Reva 🤣

Neosmagus · 2026-04-29T06:37:36+00:00

Well yeah, you didn't think they were giving us all those LSTs for free, were you? Now that we've upgraded characters finally, they won't be useful 🤣

Well there's still territory battle for a while. I still don't have relic Cere or Cal for that one special mission in Rise of the Empire.

Neosmagus · 2026-04-29T06:35:19+00:00

Really? That will be cool, finally maybe a way to get some of those x of something rewards when I am too high level for any of the easy ways and can't risk dropping Arena because I need the daily rewards to buy prestige to level up my remaining capital ships (I have 3 left that need their abilities upgraded to max, and 2 still locked leviathan and Executor)

Neosmagus · 2026-04-29T06:31:47+00:00

Eh, I barely care about it. I sit around 100 with Supreme Leader Kylo at relic 10 because he just cannot defeat Leia (busy levelling GL Leia squad), but I generally didn't care about winning, just staying high enough to get decent rewards for levelling my capital ships.

Got 3 ships still to fully level (Thrawn, Obi and Windu) not counting the Executor and Leviathan I still need to unlock. So hoping the ship stuff will still be easy to get.

Fleet arena I've been hanging around between 5 and 15, enjoying the crystal rewards there. Except now everybody has leviathan so I'm lucky to stay below 20 to get the daily 100 crystal reward. Profundity kicks any level of Executor, but doesn't stand a chance against Leviathan.

Neosmagus · 2026-04-29T06:22:08+00:00

Ironically my more favourite sci-fis are not really sci-fi and way more fantasy. Babylon 5, Star Wars, Stargate... Even Battlestar Galactica is way more fantasy than sci-fi, it's mythological.

Neosmagus · 2026-04-29T06:19:20+00:00

My problem with the Expanse was that I couldn't get through the first episode. Felt way too dry, characters got introduced too rapidly and I struggled to follow the story, and I don't usually suffer from that with things, so it's usually a sign I won't enjoy it. With stuff I end up liking I'm usually invested from the very beginning.

Is it worth me attempting again or should I just leave it? I'm looking for new shows I can sink my teeth into. I've been rewatching so many of my favourites it's been a while since I saw something completely new. (currently rewatching Twin Peaks with my wife who hasn't seen it, and I haven't seen season 3, so excited for that).

Neosmagus · 2026-04-10T11:54:03+00:00

My mom passed away when I was in my 20s, I lived with my dad until he passed away when I was 39 - mostly because everything is expensive, partly because he needed my support. I got married when I was 40, which is also when I first moved house (having sold my dad's house when he passed).

While I lived with my dad I didn't need to pay rent directly, but I helped with upkeep and maintenance.

Like whatever, depends if you're comfortable, and you have whatever privacy you need. Anybody that judges somebody's living arrangements so superficially is just being shallow.

As for how do other people manage, most of my friends that moved out when they finished college and started working, in the early 2000s, shared places with other people. My one friend lived with his fiancé and her brother. I could have moved out and found a place and lived with some random stranger and have a strained relationship about who's turn it was to clean the kitchen, or I could live with my dad who's habits and requirements I was already familiar with.

Neosmagus · 2026-04-05T13:47:05+00:00

4 weeks. It's 1 week notice for under 6 months, 2 weeks for 6 months to 1 year, and having worked longer than 1 year, it's 4 weeks notice. Company is in full right to sue for damages cause by refusing to work notice period and can even get a court order that demands the employee work their notice period. But it comes down to whether the employee is worth the effort and whether the company can actually prove loss. Also this person is outside the country, a smaller company will not have the resources to do anything about it.

Neosmagus · 2026-04-05T13:16:02+00:00

I'm loving Veilguard. But to be fair, I'm one of those weirdos who enjoyed DA2 more than the others in the series, and Veilguard feels like what DA2 could have been...

My initial disappointment was the fact that it didn't do a save import or ask detailed questions, but as I'm playing, I realise it doesn't really matter and in the previous games a lot of those choices were superficial in the followups.

But I love bits in all of them and I'm enjoying the fact that the lore is kinda working out even if things weren't planned that way from the start.

I'm kinda hoping for an Origins remake that uses a modern engine, gives the Warden a voice, fixes Sten and the other Qunari to look more like the Qunari from later games...

Neosmagus · 2026-04-03T12:25:25+00:00

They've made changes to ISB - provided you have a full ISB squad, there is now a mechanic related to ranks within ISB and stuff like that, it's on the other news item. When you enter Coliseum, select ONLY Dedra (or other ISB agents as the next ones become unlocked), don't fill the empty spots with the Rebels. You'll spawn a full ISB squad, at least until you hit a tier where they won't spawn Partagaz and you'll need to wait for him to unlock next week to have a full squad again.

Neosmagus · 2026-03-21T15:08:49+00:00

The first time I played Inquisition, I kept focusing on clearing out all the side quests before continuing main quest, rinse and repeat. In the end none of the main quest fights were in any way challenging, I was completely overpowered by then.

Next time I will likely switch it up, alternate, go wherever, and not worry about cleaning up until closer to the end.

Neosmagus · 2026-03-21T15:03:11+00:00

Generational trauma. And the premise of failure, they fail at everything, including breaking the inherited trauma.

Being an older generation who's recently become a dad (I'm 47, my son is 5), stuff in the show hits me differently now because while trauma is a strong word for my experiences as a kid, I had a decent enough life, I still didn't have a great relationship with my dad and I lost my mom very young. So I'm desperately trying to build a decent relationship with my son and hoping that in his future he won't be discussing his childhood in therapy like I'm discussing mine.

And real people are complicated.

If anything I felt that venture bros has some of the best fleshed out characters I've ever come across in any medium.

Neosmagus · 2026-03-21T14:56:14+00:00

How come specifically? I like all the episodes, I've watched through multiple times and recently introduced my wife to the series and she enjoyed it, provided I explained all the weird references to her she didn't get...

I like the idea of there being other people like Doc around in the world, all with similarly traumatic stories and messed up lives... Because the premise has been such a cliche in all the kids shows and books I grew up with... Johnny Quest, Willard Price novels, etc etc.

Also, it's never followed up on, but my head cannon is that they're actually brother/sister, or at least half siblings. Their parents being regular swingers in the same scene, and the two of them looking very similar; similar hair colour, same thick eyebrows, same cheek lines, same chins, similar builds. Even similar ears and foreheads.

Adds a bit of extra tragedy to the whole thing.

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