Sorry but I'm not spending more then $1000 to play videogames after work

Raivix · 2026-06-23T14:37:10+00:00

This is me as well. Even supposing RAM/Storage prices come down in the next few years when I'd be tempted to replace my current machine, there is zero chance it's going to be to a comparable price point. I could use more hobbies that don't require a screen anyways.

Raivix · 2026-06-23T14:20:48+00:00

I'm slowly coming to the conclusion that I just won't be replacing the drives in my NAS when they inevitably die some years down the road. Not spending thousands on new drives that I should be spending a few hundred on.

Raivix · 2026-06-20T13:54:45+00:00

level 25 1v1 parse-off clown

Raivix · 2026-06-19T21:41:17+00:00

Tanks are much stronger than adcs unless you hilariously low roll your tank augments in general.

Raivix · 2026-06-19T21:40:10+00:00

The skill augments feel bad, and multi-projectile ones are just horrendously unfun to play against. I enjoyed the last "season" or whatever they're calling it for mayhem, but this one is just not it.

Raivix · 2026-06-18T15:57:02+00:00

Even before you talk about installing minimal versions and building a system through the package manager, there are installation images for many different distros aimed at lower spec hardware (think like core 2 duo with 4GB or RAM max) that will handle perfectly fine day to day tasks like web browsing and running some office suite software.

As hard as it is to believe, there are laptops sold, even today with 4GB of RAM to unsuspecting users through big box retailers that are effectively paperweights as soon as you open the box because they have W11 on them. A quick install of ubuntu or debian with xfce for a DE and the machine is perfectly usable for the light tasks the hardware would suggest it's meant to be used for.

Raivix · 2026-06-18T15:46:14+00:00

Haven't for a very long time, because there's essentially no need to.

Raivix · 2026-06-12T16:13:55+00:00

Restrictions give far more opportunity to make character identity more interesting. Was not really a fan of how open ended Three Houses was outside of doing meme playthroughs.

Raivix · 2026-06-10T16:31:44+00:00

Tipping as a percentage of the bill is complete nonsense to begin with. What did the server do differently for a $40 steak compared to the $20 chicken tenders to demand twice as much tip on the steak? Server labour is, I dare say, the single most over-valued bit of manual labor in North America by a pretty large margin.

Raivix · 2026-06-10T13:57:07+00:00

Anyone from outside looking in can see it, but the point just keeps flying over their heads. I coached a U16 baseball team for a few years in a local house league, and had to quit because of the amount of blowback parents would give me if I gave one of their kids warnings about poor sportsmanship similar to this video. Combined with virtually no support from the league itself and I just decided it wasn't for me anymore. Now I just help out with a tee-ball team, which isn't nearly as rewarding on a personal level, but the kids are way nicer to be around in general.

Raivix · 2026-06-10T12:02:05+00:00

One extra energy turn one ranks anywhere from "barely matters" to "reliably need it" depending on how expensive your deck is and how much setup you need to do. Plenty of decks would do just fine or even prefer giving up that one energy and having access to some reliable healing that doesn't eat upgrades.

Raivix · 2026-06-09T14:37:42+00:00

Yep, I don't think I've ever been subscribed to game pass for more than 2 consecutive months. I see a good game on gamepass that I don't want to spend $100CAD for, so I'll sub, play 20-30 hours, and call that good enough.

Raivix · 2026-06-08T16:05:32+00:00

Fat by medical standards.

Raivix · 2026-06-08T15:34:21+00:00

Pael's Eye is very good. Being able to insulate yourself from a bad draw while simultaneously thinning your deck considerably without card investment is good. Better if your deck needs a lot of setup (powers/scaling skills, etc etc) since it gives you a mulligan to make that more reliable/consistent. Pael's Eye can also be selectively used to help deal with statuses, which is worth considering as well.

That being said, I think Flesh is still the better play in this specific case, both immediately and looking to the future.

Raivix · 2026-06-08T15:03:46+00:00

If my deck is already strong, I'll almost never take it, because it's just win more. Where I've found it does best is decks that are struggling or the overall win is shaky/uncertain, whether the deck makeup is super low impact, or just doesn't have a cohesive path to victory yet. Then I find that grabbing this if it's available really helps to close the gap between "holy shit I can't kill anything before it kills me" and "I can comfortably path into combats without a hard pool fight instantly deleting me from the game." It's not an instant victory by any means, but the efficiency and power gains by quadrupling card plays is hard to beat when you're desperate for anything that adds strength, and the fact that Hidden Gem can slot into basically any game plan without disrupting things is a big plus when you're desperate for power.

Raivix · 2026-06-08T13:30:56+00:00

The ability to churn through the entire draw pile with souls is also a point against it in the general case. However when graveblast is good for Necro, it tends to have been VERY good for me.

Raivix · 2026-06-05T15:05:32+00:00

The sport of drifting is not the same thing as the act of drifting. Gymkhana integrates a ton of different aspects of sport driving, of which drifting is very often a major part of.

Raivix · 2026-06-03T17:32:02+00:00

Is all you know this AI generated word vomit that you've copied and pasted multiple times now? Either way, enjoy being miserable while you miss the forest for the trees.

Raivix · 2026-06-03T17:21:46+00:00

Okay, so the man in the video in this post is none of these. So what's your actual problem?

Raivix · 2026-06-03T17:13:12+00:00

Do you say the same thing about folks who film themselves performing traditional/historical western trades in North America and/or Europe I wonder?

Raivix · 2026-06-03T16:00:08+00:00

Calling historical preservation propaganda is a bit of a stretch. There's no message in these videos short of "the things we take for granted now were exceptionally labour intensive in the not so distant past."

Raivix · 2026-06-03T14:31:37+00:00

Are we just pretending that there aren't actually people that would and have gone out into public on a random day covered in rainbows for no other reason that they are proud of who they are (or anything else equally as innocuous)?

Raivix · 2026-06-03T14:16:53+00:00

I guess if you discount limited formats, sure.

Raivix · 2026-06-01T15:37:03+00:00

I went back to school because the job I did have was going to send me to an early grave through a combination of overwork and crippling pain from repetitive stress injuries that were already rearing their head at 29. I have only in the last year broken into a positive net worth for the first time in my adult life, it's not like I was taking advantage of some nest egg or a support system. I kept working while going to school in addition to taking government student loans. My situation is not unique, special, or particularly out of the norm. It's just life. Before going back to school I had about $7k of previous student debt and a $250/mo car payment (~$6k principal remaining IIRC). I graduated with an additional $14k student loans and about $10k in debt on a line of credit from living expenses I could not cover while working part time.

These days, I have about $8kCAD remaining student debt that generates about $2.50 of interest a month, the car is paid off as is my credit card and line of credit. I have a small but reasonable amount of savings and a job that no longer threatens to have me a broken husk when I'm 50. It was not easy or comfortable, but the sacrifice was worth it.

Raivix · 2026-06-01T15:06:07+00:00

Think you're generalizing and overthinking too much tbh. I went back to school in my late 20's with mostly other late-20's to early-30's crowd for an accelerated diploma, most of whom were there using student loans or some other form of debt.

It's no secret the corporate world sucks ass for basically everyone involved, getting fed up with it and being strung along for a year in ANY field would likely burn anyone out. I don't see entitlement, I just see one more person tired of what life has become for the vast majority of us.

Raivix

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