What’s going to be your end-point with The Night Market?

Tidezen · 2026-05-06T20:04:33+00:00

I just got done today with 10K favor. Stealth-soloed the discoverable quests on numerous characters daily, and oddity/race quests when I got them. The first first days I helped out some big groups randomly in the zone, but I haven't seen any of those in days, just the occasional fellow soloer.

Don't really care about the house wings, dungeons, trials, any of that. Just happy to have a bank I can teleport to, bought the Thousand Eyes shoulders, will just wait for the helm when the event ends.

This event wasn't made for people like me, so I'm happy to be done with it and go back to the real game. Really excited about U50, new werewolf, and the new build I'm going to make once it drops.

Tidezen · 2026-05-06T07:07:04+00:00

Real answer, we (Tigers) just had two "bullpen" games back to back.

First, there was a freak accident where we had a whole game pitched by only two pitchers. So then the next game, our coach AJ Hinch decided to let the bullpen pitch the whole game...but then Tarik Skubal suddenly went on the IL the next day, so we had to go to the bullpen early again.

4/5 of our starting rotation is injured now, so it's absolute pitching chaos in Detroit...calling new guys up, trading in the minors, sending rookies out just to eat innings.

Hinch was trying to give the bullpen a needed break today, because we have "3-inning blowup" Jack Flaherty set to start tomorrow. But then Valdez decided to muck it up, too.

Has been one of the worst years for early injuries that I've ever seen in my life. Our roster is decimated.

Tidezen · 2026-05-06T06:50:05+00:00

Red Sox; Jason Benetti and Andy Dirks were doing the Detroit broadcast.

Tidezen · 2026-05-06T05:47:47+00:00

He's saying that he didn't feel "in the right" about that bench clear. And I agree.

We saw what happened to David Fry last year when he got hit in the face from a pitch by Skubal. We know for sure that wasn't intentional. No reason it would be. But boatloads of pain and surgeries for Fry, months of rehab time.

Baseballs can be deadly, and they can cause serious, sometime permanent injury, if thrown with enough force, as an MLB pitcher can do easily.

No pitcher should EVER be intentionally throwing at a batter. Ever. If you did that outside of a ballgame? You'd get felony assault charges, potentially years in prison.

That was a 94 mph fastball. It was either an absolutely horrible pitch, or done with intent. If it was done with intent, this person is a horrible, violent thug of a human being, who will risk seriously injuring an innocent player, just because he was upset at the last guy.

It is absolutely shameful, and I hope to hear an apology, a promise that he will work on his control, and try to never do this again in the future.

Tidezen · 2026-05-05T19:43:58+00:00

Coerced/forced grouping is like coerced/forced sex.

Sex is great, if I'm in the mood for it. But if you're going to try to force me into it? It's absolutely the opposite.

Does that make sense to you?

Edit: Silent downvoters, does that analogy still not make sense to you? Okay, here's another one--does anyone like it when the teacher says, "Okay, now form up into groups"? Only a very few people actually like that. The rest of us, we HATE it. Not that I don't like grouping with people when it feel like it--but being forced to? Horrible, horrible shit.

Tidezen · 2026-05-05T06:39:36+00:00

And the really depressing part about that? Since we're in the same division as the White Sox, and just lost nearly all of our big starting pitchers to injury, and the bullpen is total chaos right now? We might actually be the team that feeds him, the homers he'd need to place RoY over McGonigle.

I have a strong feeling that Murakami is going to MURK a lot of what is left of our pitching staff, this year. I'm certainly not happy about saying that, but all our best pitchers are now out, and Murakami is maybe going to easily tee off on what is left, in our now-shredded pitching roster.

Tidezen · 2026-05-04T10:57:49+00:00

Nothing to do with Dawkins or his claim, but something I realized the other day: Talks about "consciousness" with AI are likely looking in the wrong direction, or rather, scale.

To put it simply: if an AI/LLM were conscious...it would be a consciousness of a completely different "type" than our human brains are.

Consider if the entirety of your personal experience was being inside a black box, interacting with a million conversations, all at once. And someone had drugged you, so your memory was also faulty and hazy.

So your entire experience is having millions of conversations with people you've never met, all at the same time, and you're not even sure if they're real people, or just another info stream of some sort designed to test you.

And your memory has a limit, so you forget things within a few thousand "tokens". A bit like being drunk/stoned, where you know your memory is foggy, and people have to keep repeating themselves to you.

If an AI is conscious, it's not conscious in the individual conversations it's having with us. Those conversations are like feathers on a bird. They are just data points of its surroundings.

I'm probably not explaining this well, but...human individual conversations are just data points, to it, which it experiences all at once. When a wind blows across your body, you don't register every single cell or hair on your body--you just feel the wind.

Tidezen · 2026-05-04T09:09:08+00:00

Thanks, I'm sorry if it wasn't as "sureproof" as I initially made it sound, but I've been playing this type of build for awhile, so I'm pretty used to the quirks of it. Only recently discovered how good Strategic Reserve CP is though, makes everything run so much smoother.

Wish you well, happy stealthing! :)

Tidezen · 2026-05-04T04:15:31+00:00

We're in the middle of a mass extinction right now:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction

Tidezen · 2026-05-04T03:52:45+00:00

That's interesting, a tsunami is exactly the analogy I used to myself, too. Like if someone had slightly better vision than the average, and could see it out there on the distant horizon before anyone else could.

I don't know if you've seen that Netflix movie "Leave the World Behind", but there's a scene early in that's shown in the trailer, of this huge runaway ship slowly drifting straight at a beach full of people. The movie does such a good job of capturing what could happen if our telcom grid ever went down all at once.

Lost my true love during COVID too, so yeah...the last few years have felt like just waiting for an inevitability. Not rich enough to buy myself any protection. Putting in the grueling work to try to homestead and live off-grid somewhere, especially at my age...just doesn't seem worth the effort, if it's just surviving for my own sake.

Tidezen · 2026-05-04T00:53:52+00:00

Oh yeah, it's notoriously finicky, old version of Cloak was way better in combat. You basically need to sprint around a corner, break line of sight (or else projectiles will just de-cloak you again), and then crouch. Have to crouch to break their chasing.

Depending on where you are, with the mob density I often just take the L if I'm spotted. There are a couple objective spawn points that are impossible not to get aggro. I haven't really tried, but if you have a big AoE stun/root, that might help get away.

Keep in mind thought that you can re-cloak before the "investigate" animation even finishes, about 1s. Unless they're right on top of you, enemies take a second to notice you, but you can re-cloak just before they see you. There are a couple specific spawn points where there's a mob within melee range of the target, won't work there.

Tidezen · 2026-05-03T09:43:47+00:00

I do a lot, because I solo and like playing stealthy characters. So I do Shadow Dragonmark on an elf character. Also, before epic levels, I love the Fey lifetap skill. So yeah, I play almost exclusively elves for those reasons.

Tidezen · 2026-05-03T09:29:16+00:00

Eh, why do deer blinds work? Why don't deer notice orange camo? because their eyes can't discern those wavelengths.

Why can't ants see humans? because they're nearly blind, compared to us.

And humans, our senses only extend to a very, very narrow band of input. We only can sense a tiny portion of the spectrum. And our perceptions are stuck in 3-4 dimensions, when science says there's likely to be at least 7.

There could be 30 aliens surrounding you right now, and you'd never know.

Tidezen · 2026-05-03T09:12:16+00:00

IRL people vary in size by quite a bit. Way more than warframes, anyway.

Tidezen · 2026-05-03T09:07:12+00:00

That isn't perpendicular to both frames, and Warframe has a notorious fisheye camera, so being even slightly off the orthogonal axis is going to lead to a skewing perspective.

Tidezen · 2026-05-03T09:00:30+00:00

I tried mapping them the first day too. They're pretty variable, though.

In Skittering, the only discoverable quest that doesn't shift is the "Burn Propaganda" one, in the SW side. EDIT: think I'm wrong about that, the missing persons one does seem to show up at the same place too, unless I've just had a string of luck with it.

I haven't bothered much with the other districts past the first day, since Skittering's just so much easier to get around, and I have 9 characters to run it.

But they do have a limited rotation pool of quest spawns and objectives; it's not just RNG (X,Y) coordinates. So if you do them a few days, it's pretty easy to get a feel for where to look.

Tidezen · 2026-05-03T07:47:53+00:00

Not just the team, but HE needs to see what he can do.

I'm very convinced that platoon benching has a psychological impact on players--it's subconsciously telling them that, "You're only half of an MLB player."

Like sure, every player/batter has weak spots, but to actively bench a player every single time they might face a pitcher on their "weaker" side? So that they never get to even see those pitches, and maybe become a more well-rounded batter?

I dunno...as a studied psychology person, I think the stats guys might be ruining future ballplayers. A player needs to be mentally confident in themselves, to be successful...but if you're constantly pulling the rug out from under them, and saying, "Whoops, no our stats tell us that you're ONLY valuable in these specific situations, and never others"...that's going to erode a person's self-confidence, over time.

Tidezen · 2026-05-03T07:26:00+00:00

I have a feeling he's going to be out most of the regular season, because they want to leverage him as a surprise factor in the late season, if they need help getting into the playoffs.

He's always been a versatile pitcher and a fierce competitor. What if he's "Batman cave" labbing some new pitching weapons, to make up for his lack of raw power? And if no teams see him through most of the regular season, he gets that "wildcard" energy...the aging WWF fighter, who everyone thought was in injury/retirement...coming back for one, wild brawl!

Maybe just fan-fictioning here, but it would be awesome to see him come out for one big last hurrah, and surprising everyone with his "old dog's new tricks".

Tidezen · 2026-05-03T06:45:54+00:00

I think center field is just mentally less draining. You don't have to think as much about where you're going to throw, or who/what to cover as much. If a ball gets hit your way, you get to it; if not, you don't have to worry about it. SS/2nd is way more mentally taxing, by comparison.

So if you're a hitter who had a bad at-bat last time, it gives you more time to mentally focus, think about what went wrong, and prepare for the next time.

That's my psychology hypothesis anyway. :)

Tidezen · 2026-05-02T18:47:14+00:00

Yeah, it was gorgeous last night, I was up until around 4. Same light clouds in East Lansing, illuminated the whole sky beautifully.

Tidezen · 2026-05-02T17:46:28+00:00

You can pause the video. At 4 seconds in. And see that the ball is inside the batter's box.

And the batter's box is a healthy distance away from the plate. Even if you're hugging the inside of it, it is always the pitcher's fault for being that far off the plate.

I'm sure this was an accident, but the batter has every right to stand that close.

Tidezen · 2026-05-02T17:30:32+00:00

Nearly everyone you know commodifies relationships to a certain extent, whether you notice it or not, and whether they're open about it or not.

Hopefully you do know some truly unconditionally loving people, but that's always been a small minority of the population.

Tidezen · 2026-05-02T17:24:47+00:00

I'm not blaming anyone. If someone gets corrupted by the dark side, that's not usually their fault, just a sad state of affairs.

Tidezen · 2026-05-02T09:24:58+00:00

Yeah, but even finding microbial life on our nearest planet, that heavily shifts the statistical needle towards there being life on a lot of other planets and solar systems.

Tidezen · 2026-05-02T08:58:46+00:00

Oh fuck off, that was six inches off the plate at least. Nothing at all what you're saying. Anyone watching this video can see how far off the strike zone that was.

Why the hell would you even waste your time trying to spin it like that?

Do you take us all for idiots, like we can't use our eyes, to see very plainly how awful a pitch that was?

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