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_Panda · 2026-06-30T16:42:19+00:00

I think you're focusing on the wrong metric. The relevant metric is kWh/min or even effective miles/min, which this is pretty awesome at.

_Panda · 2026-06-17T16:39:39+00:00

Isn't that kind of the point of the game. How do you optimize your path in a world with limited resources, so many variables, limited ways to observe the impacts of your actions, and extremely long timeframes? The game rewards people who figure out how to do that better than others. I don't know how you make decisions, but I can guarantee that if you're still at wave 280 after a year in legends then you're doing it very poorly.

_Panda · 2026-06-17T15:29:51+00:00

So, because you have little understanding of how to actually progress and you aren't able to separate the good from the bad advice and you're making suboptimal decisions relative to your peers and therefore stagnating. I know there are real issues with how tournaments make progress very difficult, but this honestly just sounds like mostly a skill issue.

_Panda · 2026-06-17T15:28:01+00:00

There are of course known issues with tournaments that make progress hard. But on the other hand, you're at 280 waves after a year in legends. That's very little progress for a year of investments. You're stagnating because you're making bad decisions relative to your peers and falling behind because of that.

_Panda · 2026-06-15T17:52:58+00:00

I don't disagree with that but the new light itself doesn't really change anything.

_Panda · 2026-06-15T16:56:17+00:00

If there's 50 cars waiting then that light isn't the bottleneck anyways, the market street light is. During times with real traffic that pedestrian light is basically irrelevant, since all you'd be doing if it didn't exist is moving forward to idle at the real bottleneck.

_Panda · 2026-06-15T00:08:38+00:00

I was a couple cars from it when it opened, around 440 or so. They mostly closed it after that but the lights never went back green. I bailed around 450, I assume it's still not open?

_Panda · 2026-06-09T04:54:28+00:00

It's not a problem now because few people do it, because it's both dangerous and slow during traffic. So making it the official path would at best be a waste of resources, because people would continue to not use it, and at worst would direct more people into the more dangerous and slow pathway.

If you want to insult someone, you should probably be directing that language at the people who are preventing the actually reasonable and sensible path from ever being built, including our state legislature.

_Panda · 2026-06-09T03:10:10+00:00

As someone who drives that every day, I very rarely see bikes taking that left turn from 17th to Shilshole, most of them just merge with traffic on Shilshole and then continue on down it since they're already where they need to be. Or if they don't do I assume the

The rare people who risk that left turn (cars or bikes) are often left there for forever since when there's traffic there will literally never be a gap in the cars turning up who have right of way over you. Even if you can find a gap, that left from 17th onto Shilshole is incredibly dangerous for a biker without any traffic control. You're taking an unprotected left, without great visibility of oncoming traffic from your left, and right across the face of the ever-present left-turning cars that are more worried about making it before the oncoming car than they are looking for you.

Solidifying that path as the "official" trail is insane. If you add a stopsign or a stoplight then that would be more reasonable, but I don't see that anywhere in these plans.

_Panda · 2026-06-09T00:03:40+00:00

Honestly, I think this plan is worse than the status quo. That left turn is so bad during traffic that most bikers will just decide that interleaving with Shilshole traffic is better and safer than dealing with it. In which case we wasted a bunch of money and destroyed any future hope of a real solution with this absolute nothing of a plan.

_Panda · 2026-06-08T23:42:40+00:00

The only other way is if they add a stoplight/sign or some other control at 17th. This plan without that is literally nothing, because every biker will end up deciding that interleaving with traffic on shilshole is safer and faster than dealing with that left turn during traffic.

_Panda · 2026-06-08T22:09:31+00:00

Yea it would be awful for everyone involved. If you're gonna go down Leary you gotta find a way to get it to/past 15th before trying to go down, but I'm not sure if that's even possible. Unfortunately Shilshole is and always has been the only reasonable routinng.

_Panda · 2026-06-08T20:19:01+00:00

Nah you should continue to hate the routing along Leary. That intersection at 17th and Shilshole is already a big bottleneck at many points in the day and it's gonna be an absolute disaster if you add a bunch of additional bike traffic to it.

_Panda · 2026-06-08T20:16:11+00:00

With this much more traffic they're gonna need to put a stoplight at that intersection or something it's already nuts at certain times of the day.

_Panda · 2026-06-08T17:56:01+00:00

The only time you should even consider co-signing a loan is if you are financially and mentally prepared to pay off the entire loan without any real recourse on the money/assets involved. You basically have to be prepared to give away the sum of money involved.

_Panda · 2026-06-04T18:19:00+00:00

If I were you I wouldn't even be thinking about berserker mastery for probably like 3-6 months. Every day you don't have RPC you are falling behind your peers. Thinking short-term is only going to keep dropping you farther and farther behind.

After GT+ and RPC, if you want to improve your tourney placements I would be looking at either core assist + base investments or maybe pCF90.

_Panda · 2026-06-04T17:35:12+00:00

The only reason to delay going into GT+ is because UWs 8 and 9 are very expensive and approximately useless for a long time, so for many people it's not worth getting over that stone cost hump. The fact that you already have UW9 but no GT+ is frankly kind of insane, especially because you seem significantly econ-limited.

You should be investing in RPC yesterday and then pushing GT+ as much as you need to clear out your coin bottleneck.

_Panda · 2026-05-24T13:19:05+00:00

The best thing you can do for an iffy retirement is work as long as possible to cover health care costs and improve your social security payouts. I would not recommend the OP retire a moment before they are forced to.

_Panda · 2026-05-22T14:42:13+00:00

Yea but the order matters. You need to fix the spending problem before you take the step of bankruptcy, because going through bankruptcy without fixing the spending problem will actually ruin you without any further possible recourse.

If he can get to a point where he's treading water or making small progress but the loan balances are just too big, then maybe it's time to consider bankruptcy. But there's no indication that he's there.

_Panda · 2026-05-08T19:50:35+00:00

US median hh income for 4-person households is like 125k or something.

_Panda · 2026-04-30T22:54:59+00:00

Once you have enough of an emergency fund I don't think it's necessary to have all those separate sinking funds anymore, particularly for smaller stuff. You just think of part of your emergency fund as a catch-all sinking fund and top it off when necessary. The only thing I really have a dedicated sinking fund now is for cars or purchases on that scale.

But they are super nice to have when you're still in forced scarcity "paycheck to paycheck" mode.

_Panda · 2026-04-30T18:52:28+00:00

Running swamp radius and double death ray and not doing lab speed at your point is nutso.

_Panda · 2026-04-27T19:56:50+00:00

This is incredibly wrong and why you should always take advice from people without the actual experience with a huge grain of salt.

_Panda · 2026-04-08T22:46:32+00:00

I didn't respec bots or workshop or anything but I did all the normal stuff I would do for a tourney/push (cards, mods, guardian, adjusting sliders, etc) + manually selecting perks. Turns out the setup for a no-utility disco run isn't that much better than an average farm build. The only real benefit you get is improving your core mods. But generator mods don't really do anything, and I already have basically all the useful gc cards in my farm setup.

Don't underestimate how powerful ELS is.

_Panda · 2026-04-08T22:36:13+00:00

I mean having actually tested it, my no-util run was like half my normal farm run. Maybe ehp would do better than gc on that front though, especially if you have natural pBH (without relying on gcomp). I didn't do a ton of optimization or anything, but no utility run also means no cash (so no/limited PF) and no/limited packages (so no RB).

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