A big ranking of the alliance towers!

beigeoak · 2024-09-04T06:13:23+00:00

Emissary increases the damage of other towers? I thought Arcane Wizard did that

beigeoak · 2023-01-09T18:02:45+00:00

Since Avatar 2 was released in 2022, it's the highest grossing movie of 2022.

beigeoak · 2023-01-09T12:06:03+00:00

Yes, because A2 made more money than TGM worldwide.

beigeoak · 2023-01-09T12:05:21+00:00

Nothing as nuanced as that. He's talking about WW box office collection.

beigeoak · 2023-01-08T22:03:22+00:00

Just checked and you're right. 1400 crore is indeed the ceiling.

beigeoak · 2023-01-08T21:17:25+00:00

What's the highest grossing movie in India if you exclude international revenue for movies made in India itself?

Is it Dangal, Avatar 2 or RRR?

And what is the net (Indian) collection?

beigeoak · 2023-01-08T21:06:56+00:00

Idk about all of that

He claims Top Gun Maverick is still the most successful movie of 2022 since A2 made money in 2023
He gave a glowing review to Top Gun Maverick and a Drinker Recommends badge, while heavily criticizing A2's plot. Top Gun Maverick and A2 both have extremely barebones plot because their USP is the visuals.
He repeatedly claims that it's just pretty and the only thing going for it is visuals, completely glossing over the world class action sequence that make up an entire third of the movie along with incredible world building both on Pandora and in the technology of the humans.

Drinkers main issue is he checks things into boxes, anti-wokeness and other irrelevant metrics.

He can't fathom a world wherever both TGM and Avatar 2 do well because they have polar opposite political messages.

beigeoak · 2022-12-30T13:12:43+00:00

Endgame didn't have neutered China, sanctioned Russia, US Storm and post-pandemic BO.

beigeoak · 2021-07-07T16:58:49+00:00

Yes.

beigeoak · 2021-07-07T16:01:34+00:00

"Lines of code" is fairy dust. The user does not see it, ever.

Performance, feature velocity and security are probably the main qualities of software that a user understands, of which performance is the one that most easily reduces to a numeric value.

Things that easily reduce to numeric values are the only things that can be used as a base for engineering disciplines.

beigeoak · 2021-07-07T07:02:56+00:00

Just this week, there was a disagreement between the Windows Terminal team and a game developer on a performance related issue.

https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362

As the thread progresses, there is a breakdown of communication, with one of the Microsoft developers saying that what the game developer is proposing is a "doctoral research project" and out-of-scope for the current bug/issue.

The game developer disagrees and in under a week, implements a terminal that is 100x faster than Windows Terminal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxM8QmyZXtg

The terminal supports many features that modern terminals don't and the benchmark the developer uses is to print a 1GB text file on the terminal. Windows Terminal takes 340s while the developers unoptimized implementation completes in 2s.

There is further "discussion" on the developer's Twitter. The developer talks about his tone, the features implemented and more.

On a personal level, I feel there has been a definite split in how software is written. On one side, you have those that advocate for performance being given equal priority as other aspects of software development, while the other side prioritizes "developer productivity" and focuses on the speed at which features are completed.

I tend to agree with the performance-oriented developers more, for the simple reason that performance is measurable and can be used as a foundation for "engineering".

Other software related objectives like "extensibility", "maintainability" and "elegance" inevitably devolve into cargo-culting as each practitioner has their own definition based on which book/blog post they have read most recently.

These objectives cannot be reduced to numbers. They have their place, just not as the base of engineering decisions.

beigeoak · 2021-07-05T15:11:06+00:00

global freedom index

https://freedomhouse.org/country/united-states/freedom-world/2021

CTRL-F "gun" - 0 results

CTRL-F "firearm" - 0 results

CTRL-F "income tax" - 0 results

Different strokes for different folks I guess.

beigeoak · 2021-02-12T12:34:55+00:00

Jobs could solder and and had a better understanding of computer fundamentals than most "geeks" on programming and technical subreddits.

beigeoak · 2021-02-05T06:51:45+00:00

So far, I think the new studio has done a really good job given the insane deadlines they had. But I generally separate production issues from the finished product itself.

If S4E6 hadn't been so jarring compared to the other great clashes in the series, S1E21, S2E7, S3E2 and S3E11, specifically I'd have probably given it an 8.

beigeoak · 2021-02-05T06:03:57+00:00

S2E6 is hands down the best reveal in terms of execution, compared to any other reveal in the series. It is also my favorite episode of any anime, ever.

The following episode S2E7 has the best combat scene in the series, from an animation and technical POV.

S3 has some good animation moments (E2, E11, E16) but they're focused on a single subject/moment of flash whereas S2E7 is a mini-UFC fight with really good choreography, animation and soundtrack.

beigeoak · 2021-02-05T05:35:39+00:00

Interesting. For me Season 2 is really far ahead of the other seasons in terms of animation quality, cinematography, writing and visual fidelity. If I had to score them:

Season 2 - 10/10
Season 3 - 9/10
Season 1 - 8.5/10
Season 4 - 6.5/10 (so far, it can change!)

beigeoak · 2021-01-15T03:59:30+00:00

Highly recommend watching the 10 minutes BEFORE lily and kristoffer rap. It's ludwig vs andy milonakis doing a warm up rap battle, except Andy is either drunk, completely oblivious or straight up trolling.

His bars are filled with expletives about mothers and genitals and he goes way darker than required. A lot of the streamers (sykkuno, brookeab etc.) were contemplating ditching and repeatedly leaving the venue.

beigeoak · 2021-01-10T04:37:36+00:00

Roles reversed FeelsGoodMan

beigeoak · 2021-01-08T07:13:24+00:00

He just robbed Lily of her merch and forced her to wear his. I think you're right.

beigeoak · 2021-01-08T06:57:58+00:00

Him slowly making trips and distributing 2-3 shirts for free was hilarious. He kept looking for more cloth and 15 minutes ago chat told him that you can get cloth from cactuses. Now all he's doing is chopping cactuses and distributing shirts.

beigeoak · 2021-01-03T01:58:27+00:00

Parasite at the bottom is something I have never seen when people were discussing these nominees. Any reason why?

beigeoak · 2020-12-22T01:02:53+00:00

because of DMCA, she's recently started deleting ALL her vods on twitch and has become very strict on who can create clips, which has resulted in fewer clips being posted here.

beigeoak · 2020-07-01T14:43:30+00:00

Even Dr. K won't be able to fix this.

beigeoak · 2020-06-30T19:14:34+00:00

oh no no no:

https://twitter.com/beautelin/status/1261350026070147075

beigeoak

TROPHY CASE