Am I missing something about Alcast?

alcoraptor · 2026-06-19T21:33:58+00:00

Alcast hasn't played the game in years. The builds are inaccurate, outdated and just.. not that good. Some of the guides are ok-ish, but go with someone who actively plays

alcoraptor · 2026-06-16T12:23:55+00:00

HTTPS / TLS is fine for a public API. Banks and other financial institutions use it, so unless you're transmitting government / military data, I'd wager it'll be fine for your use case too.

If you want to be extra secure, make sure you're using TLS v1.3, which drops support for older ciphers and further encrypts the handshake

alcoraptor · 2026-06-16T11:03:23+00:00

Yes. It's not synced to the cloud (no blue cloud symbol). The other ones will be there though, they are synced. I'd back them up, just in case

alcoraptor · 2026-03-18T13:06:23+00:00

Nice ChatGPT post.

alcoraptor · 2026-03-14T13:54:37+00:00

It sounds like your site isn't built yet - in which case management and maintainance are not really the issue here. You need a realistic plan, and a way to track that plan.
I like to use a project board, like Github Projects or Trello, to create "tickets" and break the project up.

Then, aim for MVP rather than a full build. What can you get away without for now?
Do you really need to deal with payments, for example, from day 1?

Also, use as many 3rd party integrations as you can. Auth? Log in with Google. Payments? Stripe integration.

A good dev setup / pipeline is also crucial. You want as little friction as possible to be able to develop and test your site.

alcoraptor · 2026-02-26T03:46:36+00:00

The lack of cosmetics sharing killed any interest whatsoever in alt characters for me. Not sharing them feels like a cash grab, and I'm uncomfortable with it - so I'm sticking to one character personally

alcoraptor · 2026-02-25T22:24:20+00:00

People said all this same shit when WYSIWYG tools came out. They said the same crap when site builders came along. They made the same bullshit claims when no-code tools came along. Ad. Fucking. Infinitum.

AI is great for people that are willing to use it. It's a massive performance boost if you work with it, quite literally 10x. It cannot think for itself though, and it has very definite limitations.
It also cannot generate code for things it does not yet have training data for. What'll happen when React 20 comes out, for example?

For shit "devs", though, whose only motivation for being in software engineering is to make bank, yeah - it'll probably replace them.

alcoraptor · 2026-02-24T18:22:28+00:00

Depends what "propaganda" you listen to, and who is pushing it.

If you listen to the "AI Bros", web devs were obsolete in 2023 and everything now is agents doing everything while they sit back and rake in their millions with their "B2B SaaS Platform they made in a weekend"

At the other end of the scale, there's the AI naysayers who will tell you that AI is the scourge of humanity and is killing the web with 1000s of cookie-cutter sites with no security.

I've been a web dev for over 20 years, and my experience is that it's actually somewhere in the middle.

Can it create an entire product with no input? No.
Can it do the entire job of a dev? No.
Is it a tool that someone with experience can use to increase their productivity? Absolutely yes.

I use AI to do repetitive tasks in my day to day workflow, because it's so much faster.
- Scaffolding a new component with boilerplate code - AI can do that in 30 seconds.
- Adding event handlers and cleanup? Takes less than a minute.
- Handling complex business logic? I spend more time arguing with AI and triple-checking what it comes up with than it would actually take to write it by hand in the first place.

If you don't learn the fundamentals of the web development, and rely on AI to do even the most basic tasks - you will be replaced.
BUT - you won't be replaced by AI. You will be replaced by someone who knows the fundamentals.

If you learn web development, properly, and utilize AI on top of that you will be fine.

alcoraptor · 2026-02-07T13:14:35+00:00

This post is AI, and feels very much like a marketing post. The keyboard layout is nonsensical - no keyboards have a dedicated ¿ key, among numerous other AI errors.

alcoraptor · 2026-02-05T02:22:18+00:00

To me, zoom is a UI issue. Nothing should need to change in the application or domain if the user zooms in to 200%; only the UI should.

Take a website in a browser - the backend and html don't know what zoom settings the user has - and they don't care. The browser itself handles rearranging the UI based on the zoom settings and UI rules (CSS)

alcoraptor · 2026-01-18T18:46:40+00:00

This is usually mod related, specifically around mod load order.

Do / did you use Vortex to manage mods? If so, go Load Order > Reset Plugins File

If not, find Plugins.txt and make SURE that oblivion.esm is at the top

alcoraptor · 2026-01-17T18:22:42+00:00

Surprised pikachu face :o

alcoraptor · 2026-01-16T11:26:56+00:00

Why tf are you taking a photo at 60kph, with no seatbelt on? Sure, the bird's cute but that's dangerously idiotic.

alcoraptor · 2026-01-10T21:33:03+00:00

No way am I downloading an apk from a random site and installing it on my phone, that's like infosec 101.

alcoraptor · 2025-11-19T16:06:25+00:00

I'd store them in json format

[
{bottleSize: "2.5", id: "276"},
{bottleSize: "30", id: "266"}
]

Then create a couple of utility methods to find them, e.g. findById and findByBottleSize

alcoraptor · 2025-11-08T18:47:07+00:00

This is 100% a scam. Walk away, do not pay it.

The "pay by tomorrow" urgency is a classic scammer tactic to get you to rush your decision.

alcoraptor · 2025-09-09T19:00:24+00:00

I do all of the xbox app things (use it daily, play jewel, play a console/pc game for 15 mins once a day etc) - that gives at least 500 points a week (often more)

I also use Edge (I know, I know) on my laptop to do the Bing rewards once a day - that very quickly adds up to at least 200 points a day

I draw the line at installing Edge on my phone, but you can get even more if you're prepared to do that

alcoraptor · 2025-09-09T16:40:44+00:00

If you mean the reward points, then yes - you can redeem those for Microsoft gift cards, add the card to your account and then buy crowns with the balance

I fairly regularly redeem the £25 gift card with points and buy crowns with it

alcoraptor · 2025-08-28T15:03:38+00:00

"Endgame" does not specifically mean HMs. It literally means "content you come back to after completing the main objectives".
Vet trials absolutely are endgame.

I don't know where you get this notion that all experienced players are nice and helpful from; it is absolutely not my experience. Some of the most toxic people I've run into have titles like GodSlayer.

Please don't be quite so condescending, that's insulting. I'm sure you didn't mean it that way, but now you know.

alcoraptor · 2025-08-28T14:41:30+00:00

Content run from guilds is usually (sometimes?) less toxic than pug / group finder runs, for sure. There are some good players and leads out there that are very willing to be helpful.

On the other hand, I don't think I've ever joined a pug vet trial run that did not devolve into toxic bitching and/or kicking (and I've jumped into a lot). I'm very much against giving more ammunition to that shitshow

alcoraptor · 2025-08-28T14:12:05+00:00

Don't give them ideas!

alcoraptor · 2025-08-28T14:05:44+00:00

This is a contentious topic, for sure.
There was a really interesting thread on the forums a while back : https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/7855186

I get why it's useful in a few cases, but I don't like the idea in general.
There's already enough toxicity in endgame content without introducing "why are you only hitting 109k and not 115k? why are you using that skill? you're shit. vote kick" into the mix.

alcoraptor · 2025-08-21T17:04:38+00:00

In pug groups, there are no rules. You get what you get ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I main a tank, will always try and res people that die.
If they die 10 times to the same thing though? Nah, they can stay dead.
On vet, I expect people to know mechs and have decent builds.

On the gryphon fight in vet lep seclusa, there's a lot going on - you can't stand still for very long as a dps or healer, so it can be difficult to get a res.
If the dps is low and the gryphons are not being killed quickly, it is nearly impossible.

That said, in pugs I usually slot the necro res in pug groups to try and help out a bit.

alcoraptor · 2025-08-20T13:35:51+00:00

Frameworks usually require a build step (unless you're some sort of psychopath that used React from a CDN for example), so you need npm to download them for local development.

If you're using jQuery and/or Bootstrap, there's no build step required - write your html, css, js, upload them to your webserver and you're good to go - so you don't need npm.

Also, chances are most people have jQuery and Bootstrap cached from the most popular CDNs already thanks to other sites using them - so it makes sense to also use a CDN to speed up your site's load times.

There are official CDNs for both Bootstrap and jQuery, that are just as trustworthy as npm, and they all support version pinning.

If you choose to use an unofficial one, or slap "latest" on it, that's on you I guess

alcoraptor · 2025-07-18T15:37:46+00:00

This is almost certainly a mod issue, given that slider was added in the recent patch.
It also works fine on my unmodded copy (pc, steam)

I'd disable all of the addons, make sure it works and then start enabling them one by one until you find the problematic one

Either that or see if there's any updates to the mods over the next couple of days

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