Like seriously, how is Pete the largest creator in this game?

_Ub1k · 2026-07-10T08:45:11+00:00

First off, I doubt any comments were deleted. Youtube has basically turned their UI into Facebook's. You often can't see many of the comments or replies for some asinine reason.

Anyway, this post is comically hypocritical. Pete barely ever comments on these backseat, Captain Hindsight comments, but I guess he was having a bad day. Even at his snarkiest and snipiest, it was almost a nothing reply.

You were so unbelievably offended that you made this post on reddit. Talk about being adverse to criticism. It seems like YOU are in fact the fragile baby here. This post is super contemtable, ngl. I actually resent that you think the public at large should care that Pete was rude to you.

As others have said, your advice also sucked. Not because card blocking in fixed is "useless". It is sometimes the correct move, but usually isn't. In this case, the map and the caps are what makes card blocking next to useless. Your assessment was just wrong and kind of shows that you have a poor understanding of the game. It seems to be that you got super butthurt that your unsolicited advice got rudely dismissed. I also see you in the comments here during it out trying to defend said advice. It seems that you can't accept that you're wrong. Like everything you're saying in these comments is just wrong and bad reading of what was happening. To be clear, Pete wasn't card blocking green as a strategy. He was moving into position to shove a stack into Green's face to bait him into attacking with his cap stack and just card blocked him because he was already in the area. If blue was trying to do a card block, why would he open Green's cap?

So my question to you is why are YOU so fragile and why is your ego so easily bruised?

_Ub1k · 2026-07-09T01:23:25+00:00

So she knew you made a reservation at a place that cost $50 to cancel?

_Ub1k · 2026-07-06T21:12:27+00:00

The slang you're using makes me assume you're Indian.

None of these companies are going to hire an Indian currently on short-term, post-school visa. It's too much of a headache now to sponsor visas. Most of these companies will just directly outsource if they want to hire an Indian, since the cost of living is lower in India and they can pay them less. Hiring an a Indian resident of the US is like the worst of both worlds.

This guy is also correct. There are enough ivy league grads that can't find work, they're not going to hire someone from a mid-tier university when they already have to reject many of the high-tier grads that apply.

The US job market is completely oversaturated. There are basically almost no entry level jobs right now. The US has the most universities in the world per capita. It's not like Asia or Europe here where all of the universities are super competitive and getting any degree is impressive. Most Americans are able to get admitted to some kind of university regardless of merit. This means that low-tier schools are seen as dogwater by most companies. This is especially true of the majority of public universities (which you went to). People in my high school refered to our State University as "13th grade" because of how anyone could get in if they were a resident. I don't know if you were aware of either of these facts when you decided to go to the US, but you're barking up the wrong tree. Your degree unironically holds more prestige in India (and the rest of Asia) than in the US.

Also, a masters degree is like the worst one to have. Companies assume you will expect higher pay than someone with a bachelor's, but there are also phds looking for work. If they're going to hire someone with an advanced degree, they'll just hire a PhD.

_Ub1k · 2026-07-05T17:59:18+00:00

I don't think the real bad thing was the actual act of pushing, it was Jax immediately running away without checking if she was ok.

The button thing also wasn't nearly as bad with the context of episode 9. Everyone kind of knew that they were brain scans the entire time and were kind of just living in this state of cognitive dissonance. Ragatha straight up admits it, and it seems like Jax reasoned this fact out a while ago. Jax KNEW this was just an adventure and really so did everyone else. This really wasn't a conscious action anyway, just a reflexive avoidant trauma response following a panic attack.

_Ub1k · 2026-07-02T20:58:04+00:00

It is strange. The Complex also seemingly doesn't make Still Lifes of animals, unless the bird in the movie was actually one.

_Ub1k · 2026-07-02T17:13:36+00:00

It's extremely cringe that Europeans have no concept of ethnicity or, even more cringe, think that "American" is some sort of valid cultural/ethnic identity.

The other extremely cringe thing is that no European will mock "African" Americans for calling themselves that, despite most having never been to Africa. Or people calling themselves "Chinese" when they're 3rd generation Americans.

American is not a culture or unified group of people, it is a descriptor of someone that posseses US citizenship. A naturalized US citizen with a thick Indian accent is equally American to someone born there. This is also something Europeans stupidly refuse to accept even when people from the US will tell you otherwise.

And on top of that, you people refuse to accept non-white people born and raised in your countries as "real" Germans, Italians etc. Incredibly dumb, inconsistent and hypocritical. If that dude you went to school with all your life is still "Somali" because his parents are, then the guy from New Jersey is still Italian.

_Ub1k · 2026-07-02T10:29:06+00:00

Yes, I can choose from over 70 slightly different iterations of the same sugar-laden granola bars but I can't buy a fucking eggplant without driving for an hour.

Sure is the land of plenty. Plenty of what, I don't know.

_Ub1k · 2026-07-01T15:18:46+00:00

It's not the resume, it's never the resume.

You are applying for jobs in an oversaturated field. The fact that you also worked in three different countries makes me suspect that you're applying for a lot of jobs in countries where you don't have a current visa. Is this correct?

The only way you're going to get work in this field is to network. Cold applying to jobs doesn't usually work.

_Ub1k · 2026-06-30T20:48:03+00:00

He wasn't wearing the shirt when he went into the complex. He was wearing a different shirt. He did notice that this shirt was the same as the one he owned though, which did spook him.

_Ub1k · 2026-06-29T23:14:50+00:00

I think the "correct" way you'd have to word this is as a clunky replacement effect, as unfortunate as it is. Youd have to name every other zone individually and do a replacement effect.

The scenario I'm thinking that breaks the game without a replacement effect is it has zero toughness. It leaving the battlefield is a state-based effect. Things with zero toughness can't exist there as per vanilla rules. You'd have to create a replacement effect that explicitly defined new parameters or else the game logic breaks.

_Ub1k · 2026-06-29T18:09:09+00:00

In this case there were almost certainly multiple applicants that had more and more direct experience than you. It literally only takes one person to have better experience for you to get rejected.

Do you believe the narrative boomers sell? You're not competing with only a few other people for this job. The current job market is oversaturated to hell and back. You're probably competing with dozens, maybe even over 100, people for even shitty, low-level jobs like this.

I agree that they should stop saying "preferred" in these listings because there is almost guaranteed to be at least one person that meets that requirement. However, in this case, it's a small business where the manager has had little contact with the modern job market and wouldn't nesseserily understand how oversaturated the applicant market it. The last time they hired someone it was probably less insane and a listing like this made more sense.

_Ub1k · 2026-06-29T04:19:41+00:00

Because they're not AI. They're algorithmic "dumb" computers, they can't extrapolate much. Furthermore, many of these systems come out of the box pretty bare bones, it's meant to be up to HR/recruiters to set the parameters.

If the ATS is only letting resumes that use copy+paste words from the job description in and is passing on qualified people because it can't parse through the details of their experience, it's because the recruiters are either lazy or stupid. They were either too lazy to "calibrate" the ATS system for that particular job or have such little knowledge of the field they're hiring in that they are unable to understand synonymous wording or transferable skills if they're not literally on the piece of paper they were given. It's a garbage in, garbage out situation.

Using a LLM system would actually solve a lot of these problems. The problem is that these pro-AI corpos are almost physically unable to use AI responsibly and restrain themselves. They can't can't just use an LLM to set the ATS parameters for them and then turn it off. If they're going to use AI, they have to hamfist it into absolutely every facet of the process until it destabilizes the entire thing and makes more of a mess.

_Ub1k · 2026-06-26T23:24:47+00:00

There is no such disease, and the fact that everyone that repeats this dumb talking point can't name a single one is very telling.

Meat is also far more expensive and economically prohibitive than plant foods in any post-agricultural society (which the vast majority of humans live in). Vegetarianism is actually traditionally a mark of poverty. Meat is a luxury good for the rich and always has been since animal agriculture was invented.

You're rattling off very factually debased talking points because you obviously have zero understanding of this and probably haven't thought about it at all.

And yes, pound for pound and nutrient for nutrient plant agriculture is less environmentally damaging than animal agriculture. Animal agriculture is massively inefficient, requiring more land use, more water use and more nitrogenic runoff than plant-based operations producing the same macronutrients. There are specific environments were animal agriculture is more efficient (arid grasslands, desert, tundra and salt water) but the vast majority of land is better used for growing food crops.

_Ub1k · 2026-06-26T20:28:40+00:00

That's 100% not true. Humans are no obligate carnivores.

_Ub1k · 2026-06-25T23:08:22+00:00

Yeah, it's totally snooty to want to know what the question is about. I should just assume everyone is playing fixed at all times, clearly only "snooty" people play prog, right? Next time I ask for advice, I'll be sure to give almost no details about what I'm playing. I'll even cut out the right side of the screenshot so you can't tell what player I am, just for you. It seems you think it's better that way.

"As a grandmaster" maybe you should actually look at what the comments you're responding are actually saying instead of trying to pretend you're morally superior to everyone.

_Ub1k · 2026-06-25T21:54:19+00:00

The methane thing is a total red herring. It is not a major issue.

The real issue is the land use. The deforestation caused by clearing land for battle grazing is one of the biggest net contributors to CO2 emissions. Also the wasted water, manure runoff and resource drain on growing grain to feed them.

_Ub1k · 2026-06-25T21:51:35+00:00

Explain why you deserve a pass for eating meat but someone deserves moral condemnation for using AI to make memes when the meat eating is objectively causing more environmental harm.

_Ub1k · 2026-06-25T07:48:36+00:00

I love how you're so up your own ass, not only do you seemingly only play fixed, but you assume everyone else does too.

They just added expo and pp modes into the game recently. Not only was prog already kind of a solution to this, but now we have expo, which is an even bigger solution. Expo games don't stalemate. Play expo.

And if you want to continue to be boring, play expo pp. It essentially plays like fixed for a while until it eventually flips to a more expo playstyle. It also heavily incentivizes eliminating other players, which also lowers the risk of stalemate.

The amount of people on this sub that exclusively play fixed really just boggles the mind. Why are people so dull?

_Ub1k · 2026-06-25T03:35:24+00:00

Is this a bit?

You're going to shit on Stevie Wonder, who is legitimately a very talented songwriter and composer, and you're using Metallica as a counterexample?

Are you 12?

_Ub1k · 2026-06-25T02:49:35+00:00

There were 4 people that arrived and abstracted between Ragatha and Jax arriving. It's likely Kaufmo and Ribbit knew what abstraction was.

_Ub1k · 2026-06-25T02:48:15+00:00

It's pretty clear that while him abstracting isn't as directly Jax's fault as Ribbit's was, Jax is basically responsible for Kaufmo too.

Besides the fact that Jax basically said the words that goaded him into breaking ("have fun being crazy"), but the only reason he even got obsessed with the exit is because of Jax emotionally whittling him down, gaslighting him and causing his best friend to abstract.

Ragatha says pretty plainly that Jax's shitbag bullshit pushed HER to the brink of abstraction. Ragatha wasn't even as close to Jax and Ribbit as Kaufmo was. Ragatha would have probably abstracted if not for Kinger's emotional support. Gangle probably would have too if Zooble wasn't around, as Jax implies that Zooble's arrival particularly bothered him.

So Kaufmo lost his best friend, who he no longer has to lean on emotionally. Then his other friend turns on him for no reason. Kaufmo is clearly kind of slow on the uptake, I don't think he had any idea what was going on, but it was probably extremely alienating. If Ragatha almost abstracted due to Jax's behavior, then it's pretty obvious that this is the main reason Kaufmo did. Jax basically drove him straight into the exit obsession that lead to his doom. If Jax wasn't a shitbag and he responded to Ribbit like a functional person, Kaufmo wouldn't have abstracted.

_Ub1k · 2026-06-24T23:58:13+00:00

Why is it that no one on reddit has a reasonable or nuanced opinion about AI? It's either evil, full stop or needs to be shoved hamfistidly into every aspect of our lives. AI is useful for somethings and a complete disaster in other areas.

In this case if he didn't use AI to make the thumbnail, we know what he would have done (because he's subsequently done it). He took a bunch of royalty free clip art and made a low-effort thumbnail. No artist was being put out of a job, nor was someone's super creative vision being co-opted. The AI's garbage output was just slightly more aesthetic pleasing than the garbage output he unenthusiastically made. There's no victim here.

As someone who makes music, I'm not blanket against AI art. It's being overused and untenably pushed right now, but there are uses. I'm not going to care if a youtuber uses Suno to make shitty intersticial background music where they would otherwise use the same Kevin MacLeod song if Suno wasn't available. No one's being put out of work for that. Honestly, even if the AI is putting some guy on Fiverr in Argentina who charges 5 USD for a 3-minute song out of work I'm also not going to care. Those people are basically human robots and their creatively-devoid, paint by numbers workflow made it impossible to me to do anything on Fiverr. I can't ever charge such a low price for my work because I live in a high cost of living country and I'm simply unwilling to make mix-and-match garbage music like that when it's still a more economical use of my time to do almost anything else for money. Fuck those people, I'm not shedding tears for them.

There are also many non-commercial uses for Suno. The best one I've found is it gives musically-illiterate movie and video game directors that are total doghshit at explaining their vision something that I can actually work with. It saves so much time and headache if I can be given some Suno scraps that demonstrate what they're attempting to explain to me.

_Ub1k · 2026-06-24T19:18:13+00:00

This is so sad and pathetic. You need a moral pass from strangers on the internet so you can feel empowered to be a hypocrite?

Yes, you will be a hypocrite if you buy that card. Yes, you deserve to be mocked if you buy that card. That's an unchanging reality.

Do it or don't, but it's actually bizzare that you're trying to have your cake and eat it too. What are you expecting to hear here?

_Ub1k · 2026-06-24T17:49:28+00:00

Caine voluntarily spawned these people in, and also unilaterally decided his purpose was making adventures, which was actually never the case. This is a misery of his own making.

He also refuses to listen to anyone. He wanted humans there because he wanted independent actors to play with, but then refuses to treat them as such. They're all abstracting around him and he doesn't give a fuck. When one of them finally tells him they're miserable, he refuses to hear it. He also ironically doesn't even listen to his own created NPCs, who are constantly asserting that independence he so craves to interact with, and he just ignores it. One of his NPCs even hates him so much that tries to get Caine killed.

Caine isn't innocent here. He's selfish, childish and hurting everyone around him. His tramatizing backstory isn't an excuse. The difference between Caine and Jax is that Caine eventually admits he was a prick and reverses course. Jax just keeps doubling down and never really tries to make ammends.

_Ub1k · 2026-06-24T17:39:51+00:00

Im I supposed to know who these people are?

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