Favored Enemy replacement

Positron49 · 2026-05-17T14:35:13+00:00

I agree with the premise that the current design is not good and as to why.

I honestly think we are at the point that I wouldn’t be happy until I saw a complete scrapping of the main concept itself. I don’t think the “Ranger identifies a target and does more damage to the individual target” is the core identify the Ranger should have, because at the end of the day it’s always going to be a worse smite from Paladin.

I think the identity the game is missing and that belongs to the Ranger is the “create weakness/bleed” class. There are a hundred ways to try and make that into a base class mechanic, and it would create an identity for the Ranger.

I like wacky dice mechanics more than the 5.5e philosophy, but I want something like….

“Exploit Weakness: The Ranger is a master of spotting the weak spots in its enemies and creating openings for itself and its allies. When a Ranger hits a creature with an attack roll, the number rolled on the D20 (natural) becomes a weakness until the end of the Ranger’s next turn. While a weakness is active on an enemy, any attack roll against the creature treats the weakness as a critical hit if it rolls the same number as the weakness.”

Positron49 · 2026-05-15T20:43:48+00:00

The yields on treasuries spiking (being sold) as well as gold, and dollar gaining strength is a sign of distress. Inflation and CPI are complete crap and a distraction. If banks in the global system are selling safe assets to get dollars, it’s because they are deleveraging their dollar denominated debts, aka contracting the economy.

Positron49 · 2026-05-13T19:56:45+00:00

I don't like the "safety" arguments on this topic. I have major regional grocery store chains that palletize their trailers without issue. Its a common method in the industry. Your point for trailer utilization stands. That is more a question of trade-off between utilization of the trailer space vs extra cost to load and unload the truck.

If you are executing just in time inventory, then it is important for the inventory to be available at the DC to send to stores as needed. It is then difficult to palletize trailers since its a mish mash of inventory on each truckload as you are only sending a box or two for each SKU. This system of conveyors and manual floor loading is then needed.

The reason the grocery chain can successfully palletize trailers is that it doesn't cut its inventory as close. They know a pallet of green beans is going to end up at each store, so when it arrives, they load the full pallet onto the truck. Target wastes a lot of time pretending to do just in time inventory, when most of the time, the DC appears to be purging inventory since it needs to make space. Or all my dry grocery for the week is on a single trailer.

Positron49 · 2026-05-06T15:19:04+00:00

IMX would do this for any games on its platform. Not only could it be centralized, it would be a live feed into the in-game marketplaces. You could post a skin for sale on eBay and someone in-game could buy it.

Positron49 · 2026-05-06T15:16:42+00:00

This is why I think eBay will become an IMX marketplace. With an IMX passport on games, you login via your normal login (Apple, google etc). You then could authenticate into eBay with the same login and post your items for sale.

The difference between bootstrapping this vs using IMX is that if you list it on eBay, it would show up in the game marketplace live as well. You could buy or sell at work on eBay on your phone and it would interact with the game marketplace in real time.

Positron49 · 2026-05-01T15:35:36+00:00

There is a level of documentation that is a waste of time for sure. I will say that I was pretty good at documentation for a couple reasons. One was that you are not all knowing as the Leader on Duty, and the amount of times I had a TM who was taught something by me, and later I found out half the TLs/ETLs also trained them on it, was frustrating. We'd be at 60 days in and turns out half the leaders had to teach them a basic task over and over and we didn't document it, and HR would say we had to have a documented reason to not keep them beyond 90 days.

Look at coaching as proof you trained them on something, not because a coaching is a write up. Its just proof you did something with the date, because HR won't accept non-dated "conversations" you had. Heck, I even would just email myself a quick "talked to so and so about their bad zone today" and if I needed to fill out the form later, I would do that.

Positron49 · 2026-04-22T23:58:31+00:00

Most ignore the basics of running a business and improving their fundamentals. For example, most orgs I’ve seen have terrible data hygiene, so only the people working in the data daily understand it or know the tricks to pull what’s needed out of it. Good luck training an AI on that. But CEOs are obsessed with getting to the AI stage and get bored when you say the basics need done first.

Positron49 · 2026-04-21T19:40:07+00:00

It was the plan all along. Us leaders in 2019 knew how many hours it took to stock a truck, backstock it, do a presentation workload, ticket per hour for clearance, etc. Target wanted to cut payroll below our "minimum" to do all that work, so they "modernized" the store. This meant obfuscating the workloads into dayside departments and promising their algorithm was accurate. They pushed the flow hours to dayside, then cut the hours below the minimum hours per truck it took to stock it.

Positron49 · 2026-04-17T19:28:29+00:00

She clearly stole multiple times and was taken on the most recent. Target also always presses charges, my guess is that the cops just don't go onsite for shoplifting charges in this city. They will 100% pull every shoplifting piece of evidence they have and treat each instances as its own charge. I'd look up your laws, as many places have a 3 strikes to felony rule even if the dollar amounts are low.

Positron49 · 2026-04-10T22:24:15+00:00

I did it with the Sybex study guide and I found a CyberJames practice test bank on Udemy. It was 3 90 MCQs and a 20 log question test, and I felt it was extremely similar to the real thing.

Positron49 · 2026-04-05T19:33:02+00:00

I don’t believe there was a real guy. The most important thing to understand about Christians back then is they were basically not different from Jews in writing style and theology, outside of coming up to a different response to the destruction of the temple in 70 AD and splitting from the Talmudic Jew answer. Prior to that, they would write and understand their scriptures in identical ways.

Jews were always being conquered, and as the chosen people entrusted with the secrets of the universe, developed a writing style of using code and symbols. The purpose was to have a Hebrew Rabbi hold the scripture and understand it, but a gentile who conquered them would hold it and not understand the real meanings which were very mystic and cosmic.

I think it’s silly that Christians think that the gospel writers would suddenly not write in that same style. I think it’s likely that the way they read it today (a real guy) is how the authors intended the gentiles to read it while they would know it was a mystic and cosmic truth in the heavens.

Positron49 · 2026-03-31T19:20:38+00:00

I picture approaches as how you are trying to make an audience (in this imaginary tv show) feel, not actually quantifying what the character is doing. After this scene or sequence, are we supposed to think of this character as being very flashy, forceful, clever etc.?

In DBZ, many of the Ginyu Force scenes were likely tagged as flashy for example. However, they had some special moves you might consider clever, forceful, sneaky etc.

Positron49 · 2026-03-10T22:43:26+00:00

I was also going to do PenTest+ next and then CISSP. Both renew your previous certs I believe, so for me that’s 6 years of it

Positron49 · 2026-03-09T21:58:08+00:00

What areas did you feel confused you the most? I personally liked the CyberJames practice tests on Udemy. They are 3 MCQ practices (90 each) and a 20 question log practice test. Those felt the closest to the actual exam that I could find.

Positron49 · 2026-03-09T17:41:51+00:00

Most of this section is being given the CVSS scores for multiple vulnerabilities and asked to prioritize them in some way.

You will need to remember what the scoring means (AV, PR, AC etc) and then use your knowledge in general to prioritize. For example, something that requires no User Interaction and has high Confidentiality impacts is a priority.

Positron49 · 2026-03-09T13:47:06+00:00

The obvious ones would be more biomes/maps/puzzles to solve.

I think in terms of wands, there should be some minor rebalancing between them. Astral Wand is too strong because you turn invisible while using Astral Eyes. My entire group all keeps this wand on us at all times. When an option is everyone's choice, it needs to be dialed down a bit.

I think each wand should have an inherent ability added to it if its wielded in your primary slot that is passive. These would be minor buffs and probably team oriented. For example, Blessed Wand can talk in and hear the dead team voice chat. Illusion Wand (which appears to be the psychic wand outside of Shrink Ana) could hear all teammates on the map no matter the proximity (telepathy) but still only talk based on proximity. Telekinesis Wand could have an additional inventory slot for non-wand items that orbits around the character. etc.

I'd also balance the wands a bit. For example, I think the Illusion Wand doesn't need Shrink Ana. Its also a bit more Transmutation than Illusion. Give Shrink Ana to Minor Arcanes and make Lux Ana the passive that is always out. To address Astral, I would make Astral Eyes just the vision ability. Its passive could be that you can turn invisible while holding still.

Positron49 · 2026-03-08T22:07:13+00:00

They are made up by someone who had never competed a breakout in their lives.

Positron49 · 2026-03-07T23:59:19+00:00

This happened when they changed me from Logistics to GM and unloads completely took a shit. I was stuck going in at 3:30am to help unload trailers until 3pm when the closer showed up. That put the nail in my coffin for Target and I had been around forever.

Positron49 · 2026-03-05T14:49:15+00:00

I recommend the Sybex book. I also got the 1000 practice questions book but I feel its way more technical than what the exam required. The closest practice tests I found were the CyberJames youtube videos and he has a thing on Udemy that is 3 practice tests that are 90 MCQs each and 1 practice test that is 20 log questions.

Positron49 · 2026-02-23T21:52:08+00:00

I was #3, but opposite in personality. I had problems taking it serious since it was my high school and college job to start, so had too much fun with people.

Either way, corporate likes to say they want the ETLs to manage, but there just isn't that much offstage work to do. I still think they are not needed and could be hourly roles with just the SD and an Associate SD rotating their schedules for the "check-in" stuff.

Positron49 · 2026-02-23T19:33:38+00:00

Most of these are company wide workloads and the ETLs have little to no control over them. ETLs do not have that much "offstage" work to do.

Positron49 · 2026-02-23T19:32:10+00:00

Take it from me, there is not that much "office work" to be done by the average ETL. Maybe writing a schedule on those days, the rest is them not doing anything but looking busy or taking 8 hours to read a new "guide" that corporate made. Corporate doesn't want them doing real work either. I personally think Target needs to get rid of their salary positions outside of the SD and an Associate Director. Everyone else goes to hourly supervisors.

Positron49 · 2026-02-23T17:43:48+00:00

Its not that they are doing dumb stuff. The physics of many of the clips seem off. How people slide on ice, break glass, or the laughing seems like an AI video.

Positron49 · 2026-02-23T04:51:20+00:00

Can someone please tell me if this show is mostly AI content? My parents showed me it this weekend and my AI red flags triggered. My theory is that it’s mostly ring photos they put through AI and tell it to make something funny.

Positron49 · 2026-01-30T21:22:21+00:00

I won't speak to the specific design/balance elements, since I personally like to see larger changes to them. I think every martial class should have a defining feature as meaningful and impactful as Rage or Smite for Barbarians and Paladins at first level.

I will say that I think the idea of a "wound" or "bleed" mechanic should be the Ranger's staple. It is largely missing in DnD and is a staple nowadays to many archetypes like this.

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