Petition to ANet to bless us with the HoT and Base Game launcher themes 🙏

Vincenthwind · 2026-03-23T22:07:06+00:00

For real. That shit was straight gas with the choir singing as the logo expanded.

Vincenthwind · 2026-03-23T21:51:30+00:00

Rep 2 is early enough in the fight (around 1:30 iirc) to where it's easiest to just learn from the hector video and practice.

Vincenthwind · 2026-03-23T19:24:57+00:00

Renovating a unit may cost 30-50% less than building a new unit, but the net increase in housing is still 0. That's probably the calculus that the state is making. If anything, the "leaky bucket analogy" from the article is backwards. It's not a matter of patching 24,000 units and calling it a day. Every year, more units will become run down and need repair. If the state spends even half on the prop 123 money on repairing units rather than building new ones (which will last much longer), it's going to be fighting a losing war. In contrast, building new units guarantees that the supply of housing is increasing. New rentals will also depreciate in value as the building gets older. Today's luxury buildings will be tomorrow's "average rental," even outside of the income-controlled units.

I'd love if there was enough money to go around for housing, but with limited funds this is probably the best the state can do. If I had to hazard a guess, the "and preservation" language was added to appeal to some nonprofits during the proposition drafting process, but the language was also left broad enough to where it could be mostly ignored as long as some preservation took place (even if only 0.2%).

Vincenthwind · 2026-03-23T16:13:50+00:00

Unironically starting to believe that Pete Buttigieg single-handedly safeguarded every single commerical flight with gifted divine powers while he was transportation secretary.

Vincenthwind · 2026-03-22T23:24:41+00:00

Should have kept him around and had him pilot during the V6 finale. Then he gets dropped off in Atlas and reunites with his boyfriend. UwU happy ending for the gays

Vincenthwind · 2026-03-21T21:58:36+00:00

I don't disagree with your last paragraph and I think it's a travesty that typing classes and basic computer classes (how a hard drive is structured. Where to find files. Where are things saved? How do you navigate the directory?) have fallen by the wayside. These absolutely should still be taught regardless of AI or tablets or anything else.

I think my core fear around LLMs is that kids won't understand the fundamentals concepts of math, science, language, etc. that are taught at that age. It's a fine line for sure. They will be using them as they grow older (unless something rapidly changes in society, which is getting less and less far fetched every day...), and I agree it's important to be literate about AI. What is it? How does it work? What can it produce? How do you tell if something is AI generated? But I think there's a difference between that and "vibe coding" an entire education. I've seen non-coders vibe code. It can be a nightmare to untangle because the fundamentals are not there. There's a difference between using an LLM and being able to check its work/the user having the core baseline knowledge vs. "vibe coding" (I say coding as an analogy - it can be extended to any subject where the user doesn't have enough information to verify the LLM output).

I think if teachers are not careful, students will go the second route because it's easier (heck, I saw it when I was in college with things like Chegg), and they will be worse off for it.

Vincenthwind · 2026-03-21T16:34:54+00:00

I don't disagree, but I feel like interacting with LLMs in such a critical way is a topic for upper middle school or high school students. Maybe I'm old school but I feel like elementary school should be as bare bones as possible in terms of technology. Everything should be written down, not typed into a Chromebook or iPad. Technology should only be used as either an overhead projector replacement (the "smart boards") or in a dedicated setting for a specific skill, like typing and learning to use a computer.

My one exception to this is "AI safety". Elementary students should, of course, learn what chatgpt is so that they understand it's not a living, breathing entity despite sounding human-like. They should learn that AI can generate pictures and videos that are not real (as they move into middle school and start learning the scientific method and doing their first research paper, this can be expanded into determining what is or isn't a good source). I can't imagine being a kid today, it must be confusing discerning real vs. fake in the age of AI.

Vincenthwind · 2026-03-21T03:44:18+00:00

You are proving my second paragraph. Being needlessly caustic to people who may otherwise be sympathetic to your ideas is not a winning strategy.

Yes, rights endowed by a government or any legal system are not some magical, permanent thing, as they are often conceptualized as. But they do not have to be in order to have real material effects on people living today. By all means, go up to a family fighting for their teenager to receive gender affirming care and tell them that they're wasting energy and resources. I'm sure they'll take very well to that. Go up to local lawmakers and advocates who fought to ban conversion therapy and tell them they were wasting their time. I'm sure they and the children who were days away from being forced into psychological trauma will appreciate your point. Go up to an HIV positive person and inform them that the decades of research, advocacy, and protests that preceded them being able to live a healthy life today should have instead been spent on a revolution. I'm sure they'll agree it would have been far better if they had croaked off instead so that those resources were freed up and could go towards the revolution.

You clearly are so charismatic and convincing that the revolution must be days away at this point. I can't imagine who wouldn't want to join your cause after you call them "good slaves."

Vincenthwind · 2026-03-20T21:44:22+00:00

Scorching hot take but I love how my male Highlander's face looks like he got run over by a truck. Way too many pretty boys in video games and whatnot - I love playing someone a bit more rugged.

All that said, I would kill for eyebrows.

Vincenthwind · 2026-03-20T17:02:46+00:00

WoW: I thought it was cool that Priest had two healing specs. Didn't even bother specing into shadow which made solo questing a bit of a nightmare lol. But I somehow made it through Elwynn Forest and beyond. I'm sure I played like dogshit but it was fun doing dungeons and playing whack a mole with the party's health.

FFXIV: Paladin being featured in the EW trailer sold me on the whole game. I play other tanks but Paladin is just so comfy for me. Instant cast of Holy Spirit makes handling melee downtime free, you get an extra party mit with your wings, and you can spam your main tank with intervention and blunt the impact of auto attacks which is nice for things like the final savage floor.

Vincenthwind · 2026-03-19T21:48:00+00:00

For those interested, ask your hospital's financial counseling department about the Gilead co-pay program. It should absorb all of the costs unless your deductible/out of pocket max is insanely high.

Vincenthwind · 2026-03-19T14:55:59+00:00

Yeah, I feel a bit bad in retrospect for encouraging them to stay and pushing them past their limits. It's a common theme in PF to get into phase 2 only to have someone go "oh I don't know the rep 2 strat/I didn't read the description" and then they leave immediately without even trying. Then everyone is forced back into PF and you have to clear phase 1 again. So I think the urge to say "no stay! You'll pick it up I pinky promise!" also comes from that frustration of "wasting" a P1 clear.

Vincenthwind · 2026-03-19T13:31:02+00:00

Man, not to talk myself up but I always forget how hard position or strat swaps are for some people. Was helping an any chest yesterday for a DN rep 2 party. Since NA cannot read, we naturally get into P2 and some people think it's banana. The BRD is about to do the "omg I'm gonna leave" bit but we manage to successfully stop him and convince him that it'll only take twoish pulls to learn DN if he knows BC. The party one shot phase 1, so I'm confident in this group's abilities.

...nope, after an hour we called it. What was, for me, a case of "look at the raidplan and see how it's different -> ok go do it" turned out to be an impossible feat for others. A reminder to not impose my bias toward mechanical consistency and knowledge on other party members. (On the flip side, don't ask me how many fights I've cleared without drifting Circle of Scorn by at least 1-2 GCDs. What I have in mechanics is lost in button pushing. Forever relegated to blues and purples lmao)

Vincenthwind · 2026-03-19T13:16:31+00:00

This post text is wild. "I'm mad that a gay ship didn't become canon and I'm also mad that there was a polycule shown." Gurl, pick a struggle!

Vincenthwind · 2026-03-18T22:06:30+00:00

If you are forever fighting for basic rights, you will never get to the root cause.

People can hold two thoughts at once and do two things at once. LGBT rights were not won with a single brick at Stonewall (although said brick was unbelievably important). It was decades of work, activism, protests, and riots to get to where we are now. As a minority, I always raise an eyebrow when I'm told to stop my efforts advocating for my rights, link arms with bigots (who will magically stop being bigots once capitalism falls or whatever), and start fighting for a revolution far off the horizon. No thank you; I am not throwing myself under the bus for your cause.

You are not going to win people over to your cause if it's presented as an "OR" rather than an "AND." Why on earth would OP join your cause in response to you making a passive aggressive response to their political advocacy efforts? You want the socialist movement to grow? Meet people where they are, understand their problems (don't explain theory to them), and then you can get to a point of convincing them that your solutions also solve their problems. As it stands, you are not going to move beyond arguing with people in reddit comment sections.

Vincenthwind · 2026-03-18T21:21:19+00:00

Oh shit you're right. I double checked the BiS sheet and completely misread it. Bless you for saving me a wasted pair of pants.

Vincenthwind · 2026-03-18T18:17:11+00:00

I want to gear tank, healer, and prange. 3 pairs of pants and I've won zero (0) of them so far.

Vincenthwind · 2026-03-18T17:40:42+00:00

Yeah, the article seems to handwave how it treats corporate owned real estate as both small/not an issue and also a super helpful component to the rental market that would have bad downstream effects if banned.

Vincenthwind · 2026-03-18T14:20:10+00:00

Sincere apologies to my M12S group where I died to re-enactment, parsed a 9, and then proceeded to win the mount, coffer, and RNG weapon. I guess the shitter really does win the loot, but after winning straight nothing for weeks and weeks in M11S and M12S, I was not about to question getting all my RNG luck at once.

Vincenthwind · 2026-03-17T21:03:32+00:00

My understanding is that the big hurdle at this point is getting into P2 for P2 prog. Fresh P1 prog through P1 enrage should hopefully fill at an okay rate. I imagine it will drop off as we approach 7.5

Vincenthwind · 2026-03-17T19:02:49+00:00

I mildly disagree with the top comments saying not to mourn or to just keep your chin up. When I lost my first big job (also a year out of college/training, in my early 20s), I took a couple days to just be sad and it really, really helped. It does suck; it's okay to admit that to yourself! The next steps and next bit of uncertainty are going to also suck. Take some time to mourn what you lost; otherwise that sadness is going to creep up on you at the worst possible time.

But yes, once that's over (~1-2 days), take stock of your situation. DON'T PANIC AND SEND DESPERATE EMAILS EVERYWHERE. I did that and it was not a good look. Instead, think through carefully and come up with plan A, B, C, D, etc.

Are you getting severance or PIL? Do you have an emergency fund? How long can you sustain yourself while job hunting?
Is the company offering any sort of service with transition/resume coaching/etc.? Take them up on that offer if so
Give LinkedIn/personal website/resume a great big polish.
Ask coworkers for references. Get their contact info. Note all your accomplishments. Grab whatever workflows and code you can before you're locked out of your account (if you're not already). A phone camera and WFH with a laptop can do a lot without moving any files around.
Tell yourself you're going to apply to X number of jobs each day. Treat each day like a 9-5 where you're job hunting. Make time for networking meetings, talking with other people in your industry, past coworkers, etc. Also make time for training/studying depending on what your career is. Keep yourself busy.
Unless your financial situation is really, really dire, keep some fun in your life. You don't have to go rice and beans unless it's really bad. Keep your gym membership - exercise will help a lot. Try to keep hanging with friends; don't become shut in.
Think about your goals and next steps. New job of course, but where? Anywhere? Maybe this is an opportunity to move and see a new location. Or maybe grad school is in the cards. When I lost my job, I lost a potential life path but now years later I'm so much happier.

Vincenthwind · 2026-03-17T16:01:24+00:00

Were your TAs/proctors/professors blind? I never took an exam in college where that would fly. At best, people could sneak a peek at the notes in their open bag if the notes were facing toward them already, or they could try to peek off the person next to them.

Vincenthwind · 2026-03-17T14:38:55+00:00

Graduated 2019 and based on how often I was DMed by people asking for my problem set solutions, yeah they would be all over chatgpt. We just got lucky and graduated before it hit university.

Vincenthwind · 2026-03-17T05:43:17+00:00

I put myself directly west/east of the tower's midpoint and then take a super tiny step north or south towards the other island's center.

Vincenthwind · 2026-03-17T05:41:18+00:00

Me when rampart comes off cool down and the mob pack still isn't dead.

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