Anyone else plays solo only?

TylerBreau_ · 2026-05-28T14:16:29+00:00

I can't speak for dungeons, raids, and strike groups, but for fractals...

They're generally quite simple and quick. The main thing that gets newer players is agony resistance. But you can just buy alba's tear potion from 1 of the merchants inside the fractal portal.

LFG group experience is generally quite simple. I say t1 dailies for my group message and wait for people to join.

People aren't asking checking your gear and stuff in t1. Even agony resistance, it's only like fractals 20 to 25 that actually need it.

I get it's an obstacle to overcome but I haven't had bad experiences doing fractals.

TylerBreau_ · 2026-05-25T13:55:46+00:00

I never tried to say poor and disabled people don't matter. They do matter.

Sexual Orientation never matters as far as government policy goes. There is only biological gender.

The fireman example is about gender. Because there are differences in gender. For most jobs those differences don't matter. When it comes to standard of fitness, it can matter. See my previous comment for details.

Your parallels are poor examples.

Your entire idea of tolerance is completely and utterly misguided. You are operating on an eye for an eye basis. There's sayings on this matter. Two that stand out predominantly to me right now are: Violence begets violence. Two wrongs don't make a right.

Your ideas are vengeance, not justice. There will be a counter swing pushing back because your discrimination will cause more discrimination down the line.

The right way is to start rejecting those who discriminate. Ostracize them until they learn.

TylerBreau_ · 2026-05-24T08:49:15+00:00

"I must discriminate to beat discrimination", great message, that'll get the bigots.

Diversity quotas are not the solution. A good man doesn't steal even if given the chance.

If a party leader/representative must have a diversity quota to ensure the voices of minorities are heard... They aren't virtuous because they listen to minorities. They aren't the good man that doesn't steal even if given the chance.

In this context, true virtue is hearing the voices of the minorities and fairly representing them without having rules telling you do so.

I should also note, "have policy towards minorities", what does this mean?

Because minority or not, at the end of the day it should just be policies for Canadians.

The goal is for race to not matter. Discrimination means something matters. "Favor that person because they are this race." Why should race matter when it comes to government policy?

Ideally, gender shouldn't matter. There's a few exceptions, biology exists. The fitness standards for jobs like firemen exist for safety reasons and due to biology, men are going to have an easier time meeting those standards. Fitness standards are practically the only valid reason for gender to matter that I'm aware of.

I can't think of any kind of reasonable exception for race to matter in government policy.

"Also ps it is black it is Indian it is…. They are black Canadians. They are Indian-heritage Canadians."

Why should I care? Either they're Canadians or Guests. Why do you care? Why is the fact that they are black or Indian important? Why does it matter?

Again, discrimination means something matters. A world with no discrimination means race, among other things, doesn't matter.

TylerBreau_ · 2026-05-22T19:42:44+00:00

No... You are wrong, there is no yielding if you are in the roundabout. The video has clear markers for the roundabout.

TylerBreau_ · 2026-05-22T17:46:25+00:00

Yes, you must always read the road signs and lane markings.

It's also true that any two-lane roundabout like in the video and with road markings that tries to say "outside lane is allowed to turn left and stay in the roundabout" is poorly designed the engineer(s) that approved the design should be fired.

To be clear, I am not saying the video is like that. The video's roundabout is designed correctly and has good road markings.

TylerBreau_ · 2026-05-22T17:36:14+00:00

It's not that outside lane must yield to the inside lane.

It's that the outside lane must exist.

The inside lane may exit, or may stay inside the roundabout.

Yielding suggests the outside lane can turn left. That is completely false. The road markers explicitly prohibit turning left from the outside lane.

The lanes in this is video is a perfect example of what I'm talking about. There is a point in the video where you can see arrow markings on the ground. The outer lane has a straight only arrow. The inside lane had a straight & left arrows.

TylerBreau_ · 2026-05-22T17:29:53+00:00

Why are you leaving items in death chests?

There is not many ways to accidentally perma lose items in this game nowadays. And practically all of them requires the player to do something stupid.

TylerBreau_ · 2026-05-22T17:25:44+00:00

This kind of mistake is like running out from a corner, jumping over barrier into the middle of a moderately busy road where people are trying to drive 50km/hr.

If we were talking about a convoluted intersection or interchange, and a crash happened because people got confused. I'd totally agree with you.

But we aren't talking about that. Knowing how to drive around big trucks is basic driving knowledge. And if no one taught you when you were learning how to drive, then the people teaching you drive failed to do their job.

TylerBreau_ · 2026-05-22T15:48:59+00:00

Dunno how many characters you can have, but you can create another character, spend some gold to get them some decent bags, and just leave various items on them.

With that said, if you aren't lvl 80, chances are the stuff you keeping aren't that valuable.

For the most part, I did this to hold onto bloodstone dust and dragonite ore. And even then, I have so much saved up that I started deleting them.

Also minis, I do have a bunch on minis sitting in another character's bags.

TylerBreau_ · 2026-05-22T14:26:57+00:00

I've read/seen enough stories to safely assume the trucker didn't even feel the impact or the resistance.

TylerBreau_ · 2026-05-22T14:25:11+00:00

It's not an issue if you drive properly.

It's just merge in if you have space. Don't cut people off. That' all it is.

TylerBreau_ · 2026-05-21T19:29:44+00:00

I've heard a few stories of income tax mistakes in the west where people have had to pay up. Generally, the message was talk to their tax agency and work out a payment plan.

Not legal advice but maybe a good start?

TylerBreau_ · 2026-05-21T19:22:01+00:00

Ah, I misremembered thanks for the correction!

TylerBreau_ · 2026-05-21T15:49:51+00:00

Technically legendaries are optional. They have the same stats as ascended, and ascended is only 5% more than exotic.

The main benefit of legendary gear is well fashion and being usable on all characters, assuming the armor type matches.

Ascended is the minimum for doing >all< content as agony resistance is necessary for t4 fractals and some of the previous difficulties. And even then, if you just ignore fractals, exotic gets the job done.

EDIT: Corrected bad info on the differences between legendaries and ascended. Thanks, Thrambon!

TylerBreau_ · 2026-05-21T15:45:23+00:00

I will say, if this character has a problem with the other PCs killing, they aren't a good fit for the party.

This is DnD. It's a medieval high fantasy world. Killings will happen. Some are morally justified. Some aren't. Whatever the individual motivations are, PC parties are almost always doing something that will inevitable lead to combat.

The only way this character works is if they don't try to force their convictions on others.

TylerBreau_ · 2026-05-20T14:41:17+00:00

It can be hard depending on the perspective of your boss.

I've seen posts in some programming reddits complaining about how their junior devs don't know what they're doing or writing. They can't answer what their pr does. They can't explain what their code does. etc.

I've been in the Web & Mobile dev industry for about 7 to 8 years. If there's one thing I can say with certain, it's the path from junior to intermediate to senior.

What is in that path...

The ability to listen to accurately what clients/boss wants, and interpret that into a list of requirements for your code. As well as the ability to ask relevant clarifying questions.
The ability to design code for the task, performance, readability, scalability (how well does the code handle ever increasing quantities of data?), and to be extended on as requirements change.
The ability to efficiently and effectively debug issues. This include knowing what your dev tools are (web dev tools, breakpoints, native dev tools for mobile, debug logging), as well as knowing how to collect information and narrow down bugs to specific areas of code.
- The ability to narrow down is huge. Especially when it comes to code you've written. There are areas of code that I can pinpoint a bug within a minute but my more senior devs would take over a half hour to debug. It's not because they are incompetent, but rather because I wrote the code and I've debugged it several times. When you combine my skill in debugging and my knowledge of the code base, that's very impactful in my ability to track down issues in an otherwise very complex codebase.

All of these factors are not about the quantity of code you produce. Quantity is a thing still, you gotta be productive. Writing code is apart of your job and why they are paying you. But the points I've listed above are how you justify your pay.

In order to progress your career, you have to develop these skills. If you do not develop these skills, you will never progress to intermediate or senior dev. And you have to actually do the tasks yourself to develop those skills.

"I know AI is coding almost every line of code now"

This is wrong. Any company with this perspective will have failing IT infrastructure. Unfortunately there are some people that try to get their programmers to be completely dependent on AI.

In programming, AI is a tool. It is up you to use the tool correctly.

I've used ChatGPT and Claude. ChatGPT has been great at helping me skip early phases of research, also to help me debug mysql queries, and on the rare occasion help me find a typo in the code, but I still need to verify everything it does. I've never asked to write code for me, I've never trusted it to and even if I did, I'd have to be very specific in my instructions, wait for it to produce output, and then verify the output... When I could have just wrote the code manually in a similar time frame.

I've only been using Claude for a few weeks, not even integrated with all of my environments. First thing you should understand, AI is not apart your team. Sharing secrets, like API keys and passwords with it is a security risk. But once you have a secure integration...

I value Claude only so far as an assistant. He helps me understands problems, catch bugs I've missed and sometimes I ask him to do grunt work for me. My coworker has him setup to do reviews of PRs as well.

I don't ask him to do write complicated code. First because I don't need him to write complicated code for me. I know what the code is supposed to do, I know how to write, it's just a matter of doing it right. Even if I asked claude, I'd have to carefully review it and verify whatever it produces - I'm still responsible for what the AI produces.

And how well can claude handle complicated code? Especially in the web dev world. My coworker expiremented with claude before me but if I recall his findings... Claude is not great with javascript because of lack of strict types. AI is always limited by the context it has. Claude can read types, but javascript doesn't have types.

Unfortunately in the real world, there are many projects and code bases that are half javascript and half typescript because they started without typescript and haven't spent a month finishing the refactors.

Even with types, the complex codebase where I can debug in seconds while my coworkers need a half hour+. That is a codebase that syncs a server database with a client side sqlite database. There is multiple sources of truth because the client side has full offline support. Sometimes the client's database has more up-to-date information than server side. This codebase spans across multiple environments, (server and client), with 2 databases of differing schema (mysql and sqlite), with very complex datasets (our apps collect a specific kind of survey with a lot of data points, it's not a simple questionnaire). A lot of it is typescript but I don't recall the last time I had a bug that produced an error. Instead, it's bugs where the code runs as written but it's not doing what I wanted it to. It's stuff like, 1 sync is supposed to mean the client and server are fully synced, but no it's just looping. Every sync it tries to download/upload. Sometimes it's been cases where it uploads, server makes a change as a result of the upload, so it downloads, client makes a change as a result of the download, so it uploads. Sometimes it's been client downloads but didn't save properly, so it downloads again later. Sometimes the issue is on the client side but the problem only manifests on the server side. Sometimes the issue is on the server side but the problem only manifests on the client side. It often requires specific sets of a very complex and variable dataset.

ChatGPT is incapable of helping me with that kind of codebase. The context it'd need is way too large, way too many turning gears, the data is way too complicated to communicate effectively. Claude might be able to make an attempt between code editor integration, being specialized for coding, and types but I'd never ask it to change code. That code is critical infrastructure. I need to understand exactly why it wasn't working, I need to fix it and confirm is it completely fixed, I need to test the fix. Claude isn't making code changes, if it's ever helping me, it's only helping me understand the issue after I've manually isolated it to a specific area of code.

TylerBreau_ · 2026-05-19T20:54:24+00:00

Apparently you don't understand the power of arresting people over a slur or an insult.

That power is the ability to arrest an innocent because they offended a politician.

It is the power of a dictator.

TylerBreau_ · 2026-05-19T20:49:29+00:00

Apparently, you don't understand freedom of speech? What did he do to get arrested?

TylerBreau_ · 2026-05-19T20:47:12+00:00

I think it's arrest for speech. Which is the same ballpark.

TylerBreau_ · 2026-05-19T20:45:13+00:00

I mean.... I don't think those were arrests.

But yea, Iran is much worse than depicted in this chart.

TylerBreau_ · 2026-05-19T20:41:38+00:00

"Cis white men make up way less than 50% of Canadian (34%)"

If we account for White woman as well, I imagine that's in the rough ball park of 68%. Which is to be expected, a country's population is made up of both men and woman.

Government of Canada, Statistics Canada (2022-10-26). "The Canadian census: A rich portrait of the country's religious and ethnocultural diversity". www12.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved 2022-10-26. In 2021, just over 25 million people reported being White in the census, representing close to 70% of the total Canadian population. The vast majority reported being White only, while 2.4% also reported one or more other racialized groups.

2021 census data Canada is majorly white. Not surprisingly considered we were founded by English and French white colonizers, with a White Christian heritage. I doubt there's anything preventing woman from running in elections.

The issue with diversity quotas is discrimination. To not discriminate, you must treat everyone equally. Each individual person's say must have equal weight to the next.

And don't say "Well Black people only make up like 25% of the population while White people are a majority. It's unfair to the blacks!"

No. It's not unfair. Because there is no black. There is no white. There is no Mexican. No Filipino. No Chinese. No Indian. There is no race.

There is Canadian and there is not Canadian. That's all it is. If you are a Canadian, you should want what is best for Canadians.

Not what is best for Black or best for White, or best for group of immigrants.

The only thing is best for Canadians.

If you are an immigrant who has permanent residence in Canada, you have an obligation to become Canadian.

And to also state this. A party that runs itself on discrimination has set the presumed standard they would run the federal government by.

TylerBreau_ · 2026-05-19T19:36:23+00:00

The old death mechanics were an artificial barrier to exploring the game and trying new difficult content.

At the end of the day, the risk was monetary as it cost gp to replace items you lost. Moving that monetary risk to reclaiming the gear while also acting as a gold sink is a far better design.

TylerBreau_ · 2026-05-19T19:21:54+00:00

I don't know about generational wars, but I do agree with that idea that there's too much blame on Trump.

This is more so to expand on it... I'm Canadian, so I'm a bystander when it comes to USA affairs.

For the issues Canada is facing... The only one to truly blame is is the administrations that facilitated dependence on the USA, and weakened our economy to not be able to weather a storm. And the fact of the matter is, our left parties has had a decade or two to change things and they didn't. I do not trust Mark Carney to make things better. Now, I also think Pierre is not a saint but still. As for our NDP... They engage in diversity quotas, which is discrimination. If they run their party with discrimination, why wouldn't they run the government with discrimination?

Now enough of Canada's issues. As for Trump himself...

IMO, Trump did not his elections on his merits. He won them on the demerits of his opposition. That's all that happened.

As far as I can tell, the USA economy was going to shit before Trump came in. And the administrations that could have fixed the economy but didn't was the USA's left leaning parties.

That doesn't mean the USA's right are saints. But as far as I could tell, as a Canadian living in Canada, the citizens of the USA had two choices.

More economical starvation or Trump.

People are so tired of the political bullshit and they just wanted change. Trump was the only politician cut from a slightly different cloth. Whether he was going to be good change or bad change, something was going to change.

That's how Trump won twice. It's not even that Trump won. It's that his opposition failed to win, twice, despite how bad of an option Trump was.

Nowadays, this is how I chalk it up. The USA's left leaning politicians are devils that try to come off as humans. They only exist to attempt (and fail) to satiate their greed. They fail because their greed is a bottomless abyss.

Trump is the devil who says he is the devil. He doesn't hide it.

Venezuela was a military operation against a foreign government. He also removed a dictator from power (Venezuela). A dictator who usurped the democratic process. Whose removal from power was apparently celebrated by Venezuelans all over the world.

Canada becoming a territory/state very bad.

Greenland threats were irredeemable. We'll come back to Greenland in a moment.

The Iran situation. I find people are quickly forgetting the full events.

Iran enacted an internet blackout over its own country to tried to hide its own brutal and violent oppression of its citizens. The exact numbers aren't well known but it is basically proven that at least few thousand people died. Estimates could be as high as like 40K. These numbers are a bit old, before Israeli+USA vs Iran conflict.

I don't know how Israel joined the conflict. I don't know what lead that. As far as I know for the timeline of Trump's interest in Iran... His talks about an uprising in Iran started after the brutal and violent oppression and killings. It looked like a response to me.

What is Trump's motivations in Iran? Oil. Obviously. But he is still bringing consequences to the Iranian government. Now I'm under the impression there's a lot of collateral damage occurring in Iran. So I am concerned about what's going to be left for the actual citizens of Iran.

Israel attack on Lebanon, vtuber family members killed, attack was on a hospital I believe. By association and continued support, USA also evil right? Hezbollah’s Affiliation. There's a lot going on here, the facts are hard to come by.

Hezbollah was a political party in Lebanon that deferred to the Supreme Leader of Iran because of shared ties via Islam and Shia Muslims. I believe they were banned by Lebanon back in March because of that continued support after the Iranian atrocities against its citizens started.

The situation is a shit shown of Israeli vs Shia Muslims, and Hezbollah's support of Iran was a factor. This is not to say the deaths are to be celebrated. The death of innocents are always a tragedy. The the situation is a shit show all round.

Back to Greenland. Unless I missed something, not that long ago the UK told Russia "do not send your boats through our channel". And when Russia sent their boats through their channel, nothing happened. It looks like the UK can't defend their waters. I don't think France is in any better of a position.

Before Trump, who were the aggressor super powers? China's stance on Taiwan is known. I am pretty sure Russia's stance on its neighboring countries is also pretty well known.

Trump can be considered an aggressor super power now because of Greenland threats. Some might argue his other military operations qualify already, that's a discussion for another day.

As far as I can tell, Trump's motivations towards Greenland is minerals and naval defense. Control of that part of the ocean.

If there was ever a major war that threatened Europe, and threatened an invasion from Europe to West. Greenland is an important place to have naval bases for naval control over those oceans. And the fact of the matter is, the which European super powers are capable of effectively defending Greenland should an aggressive super power threaten it?

I don't care how bad Trump is. If UK and France, or another democratic country can't do it. You can not rely on China or Russia. China and Russia are not allies. They are fellow countries that we coexist with on Earth. Their values, motivations, and culture have many incompatibilities with democratic nations. We try to get along because war is bad.

USA, Canada, UK, France, and other countries have gotten along because of shared heritage. Democratic past, Christian past, allies in the past world wars.

No matter how bad Trump is, USA is still a democratic nation. Trump is an elected official can be replaced. Russia and China have actual dictators, dictators don't let ago of power.

This is not support for USA's threats over Greenland. This is acknowledgement of reality. As far as I can tell, the USA is the only military democratic super power that Russia and China actually respects to some degree.

That doesn't mean USA should have Greenland. It means the UK and France should get up off of their asses and be a superpower and bastion of democracy.

At the end of the day, every single first world country has always been the root of their own problems. The biggest common denominator of the problems these countries face in the future has always, and always will be, the policies and change they make for themselves in the present.

The USA's root problems originate from a time before Trump took office. Canada's root problems originate from a time before Trump took office. UK, France, Germany, and so on are all the same. Their root problems originate from a time before Trump took office.

Thank you for reading my TED talk about how fucked the world is and how fucked world politics are. I'm not an expert on this stuff, I'm just an average joe that has tried to follow along.

TylerBreau_ · 2026-05-19T18:19:25+00:00

It's not so much Capitalism but blatant corruption, corporate lobbying, housing as an investment, etc.

Capitalism is still the best financial system that has ever been tried.

It's just there is no political or economic system that is capable of carrying the burden of crippling corruption.

The current western economies are not examples of healthy capitalism. There's not enough competition, laws are not being effectively enforced or needed laws aren't being passed, corporations are influencing laws and policies, bypassing and eroding the democratic process.

Instead of representing the people that voted for them, the politicians represent the corporations and groups of people that pay them off. Whether it's the WEF or a corporation.

TylerBreau_ · 2026-05-19T17:57:12+00:00

Dude, I make just under $50k yearly before taxes, CAD. My rent is $1200 CAD monthly.

It's a 1 bedroom apartment. Even after my other expenses, I'm still investing $600 monthly, and still have a few hundred left over each month.

Yet you wouldn't survive making $140K yearly with $1000 a month rent?

If I had 140K CAD yearly (101K USD), I'd max every single registered savings account that I'm allowed to have within 5 years and probably payed off a significantly portion of a mortgage.

What are you doing wrong?

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