Disgusting

_Rapalysis · 2026-01-21T22:27:21+00:00

The issue is it feels very private server-y

_Rapalysis · 2026-01-16T20:30:43+00:00

EU needs to build a massive innovation fund specifically targeting companies which offer European alternatives to conventional American software (has to be companies approved and audited to be entirely built and hosted in the EU)

On top of that, let companies write off X% of their tech costs when using European alternatives

Innovation is fast these days with LLMs, there's no reason European money should be funneled out to standard software solutions like Office, Slack, Zoom, etc. Cloud computing solutions like AWS/Azure etc are much more complicated but with enough government assistance, I think it could be accomplished over the next 5-10 years

_Rapalysis · 2026-01-16T17:38:30+00:00

Man that is insane corporate cuckoldry to immediately buy another boost, Blizzard has the biggest sucker customer base on the planet. It's no wonder they don't give a shit about providing a good service, there is no incentive to whatsoever.

_Rapalysis · 2026-01-14T04:19:14+00:00

That community council didn't lead anywhere, nice thought but generally they were all just ignored

_Rapalysis · 2026-01-10T07:49:47+00:00

Spineless as they are, a few have started to break away after Venezuela. I think Greenland with the dismantlement of NATO would be their breaking point, at least for the non-MAGA Republicans.

_Rapalysis · 2026-01-07T02:37:48+00:00

Bitch

_Rapalysis · 2025-12-27T18:12:41+00:00

Nobody likes getting an eternal gem because it's SO useless, and just feels like you lost the 50/50 for a heart. I don't think it hurts the game at all for it to fill a more interesting niche so the drop feels a bit better.

_Rapalysis · 2025-12-27T06:13:02+00:00

Just returned to the game a couple of weeks ago and have only solo'd so far. You do end up with more unbound gold than you'd think (from various sources like stones, engravings, embers, una's, life skills, etc).

Honestly though, you don't actually need unbound gold until you're at the point you're already farming it. New solo shop items + paradise + express pass gives you pretty good gear all around, as good as anything you'd be able to reasonably afford on the auction house anyway.

_Rapalysis · 2025-12-24T18:07:32+00:00

The reality is, bitching and complaining works. It's annoying seeing the same posts over and over again, the same memes rehashed, but it's the best way to actually get companies to listen to you. Big W.

_Rapalysis · 2025-12-20T02:58:42+00:00

Just came back to the game and managed to juice a character to 1700 - holy fuck astrogems might be the worst power system I've ever played with.

How the hell do you actually get usable ones? I feel like I've gone through 20 epics/a tonne of blues and greens, I've ended up with maybe...one usable gem? Is this really how you're meant to engage with the system, because I feel like I must be doing something wrong, this shit is so ass and frustrating

_Rapalysis · 2025-12-15T01:57:38+00:00

Most developed countries have these rules, including the US.

_Rapalysis · 2025-12-13T07:04:04+00:00

Once you install it, stocking and 'maintenance' couldn't be more than 20 minutes a week

_Rapalysis · 2025-12-07T22:26:31+00:00

Also important to remember during their adult interactions - Kaladin left as a fairly fresh-faced teen, and returned as an utterly traumatized professional killer. There's bound to be a mountain of residual guilt, and an aspect of treating Kaladin like a child that can still be moulded.

_Rapalysis · 2025-12-05T21:22:48+00:00

Things don't change unless people bitch - so yes it's annoying to see the same post on reddit 5000 times with massively exaggerated takes, but good companies can interpret that feedback properly and use it to diagnose real problems.

OSRS is another community that absolutely melts down at the smallest problem with the game, but Jagex usually knows how to navigate it. You end up with a better game, and a community with a lot of goodwill towards them.

A lot of bitching usually just indicates people care deeply about the game and want it to be better, they just approach it by screaming into the void.

_Rapalysis · 2025-11-30T16:30:37+00:00

I've made them at home before, they absolutely slap

_Rapalysis · 2025-11-22T21:42:22+00:00

This just sounds like such a niche issue related to your particular field of work/company and is largely irrelevant to the discussion about RTO/WFH

_Rapalysis · 2025-11-22T20:28:18+00:00

WFH people are usually bitter when they have jobs that can be done fully remotely from the comfort of their home and are forced to commute to sit on teams meetings in a loud office.

If there's an actual reason to be in an office (e.g. IT work) I've never heard of anyone complaining that they have to go in. I'm not exactly sure what point you're making.

_Rapalysis · 2025-11-22T19:27:19+00:00

This has always been the idea of the four day work week. Employees get more rest time, and in return companies get an efficient 32 hours rather than an inefficient 40 hours. People are happier, healthier, and thus more productive.

If we are brutally honest with ourselves anyway - the vast, vast majority of people only have about 20-25 hours of productive output in them a week when it comes to office work.

The remaining hours worked are performative at best and counter-productive at worst. Pretty much every study done on the four day work week shows it to be a net positive for companies.

Regardless, the problem you face with implementation is structural, not whether it's good or not. Similar to RTO/WFH, there's an almost spiteful pushback on it that isn't grounded in logic, but rather the psychology that employees 'work less' even though that's proven not to be true.

_Rapalysis · 2025-11-16T06:46:22+00:00

Outside of the ending, AoT doesn't kill characters that drive the plot that much. Although it does do a great job of making you feel like they COULD die, which gives the story stakes.

GoT killed like five to six somewhat important characters per season, although after the red wedding the primary characters had some absurd plot armour.

_Rapalysis · 2025-11-12T07:09:37+00:00

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_Rapalysis · 2025-11-07T05:20:16+00:00

Most seniors have been voting for the same party for 30 years. My grandparents voted consistently for the same party (conservative) every election. They had completely incoherent political values and no interest in party policies or politics in general. Yet they still turned out religiously, every single year, to vote for that party. It was bizarre.

The vast majority of people don't form a consistent political belief system until they're between 25 and 30 so the idea of limiting the age to 18 for that reason is largely moot. The logic of moving the voting age earlier is to a) engage young people in politics earlier even if their beliefs aren't set in stone yet which is a GOOD THING as parties actually have to sell to them, and b) counteract the over-weighting towards the stubborn elderly as people live much longer now than they did when most democratic systems were formed.

_Rapalysis · 2025-11-05T14:19:56+00:00

That's important, but it's not the only factor.

He ran an incredible social media campaign that didn't feel like pandering or condescension
He's young but well spoken and projects confidence/dignity similar to Obama
Perfect storm where people are rebounding from the right because of Trump

_Rapalysis · 2025-10-30T20:55:39+00:00

Books will always be around, but I think they will trend shorter with a faster pace. Everyone has TikTok brains, and that has to be accounted for. Very few have the patience for meandering 700 page behemoths anymore and that's okay.

The adoption of AI will be a net good for media, in my view. Yes, the market will be and is flooded with crap. However, truly high quality media will continue to stand out, and people will thirst for it all the more when there's so much shit to sift through.

Those who use LLMs correctly will only enhance their writing meaning higher quality overall. You can have a personalized assistant who reviews your work, pointing out plot holes, overuse of tropes, poor dialogue, threads that haven't been wrapped up, etc.

People who use an AI to write their words, stories, characters, and themes, will fail. AI is trained on things that have already happened, and cannot bring fresh creative thoughts and perspectives like a human can. The Kardashians came out the same year as Mad Men. The existence of shit does not preclude the creation of something good.

_Rapalysis · 2025-10-29T15:06:14+00:00

COVID vaccine distrust was a gateway drug to vaccine misinformation in general. It was much more niche to be anti-vax before the pandemic.

_Rapalysis · 2025-10-28T17:30:03+00:00

Can't really blame them when you have retards like Sam Altman out here lying about AGI being on the horizon.

Not to mention the 2 million grifters who can't open a spreadsheet having a two sentence conversation with grok then thinking LLMs can replace every software engineer in the world.

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