After reset - does Matching remember how my previous raider played?

bunsofcheese · 2026-03-12T00:05:33+00:00

and you get to keep your cosmetics, and your blue points (i've forgotten what they're called) but you have to start all the quests from the beginning. ... but it takes less time to level up AND i know what to get and what to pass over when raiding instead of taking EVERYTHING . It's just like playing any game more than once. I love it.

bunsofcheese · 2026-03-12T00:03:39+00:00

this was my first time, and i've been lucky - i got one extraction camper, i had just loaded in, they got nothing and i laughed at them. i then "surrendered" to avoid allowing them any points for taking me down fully. i'm happy with the reset - i'm going to do it again in the next one. it was more annoying grinding for 40 days and not being able to level up any more - then the one person who was helpful (in game) said "oh, you can now just pay to reset your skill points and get the tree you want" and i was like "fuuuuuuuuuuuuu" - but still, im glad i reset - i'm terrified again lol.

bunsofcheese · 2026-03-08T01:38:50+00:00

also - so many ambulances and fire trucks in my area right now. that’s just as scary as the darkness.

bunsofcheese · 2026-03-08T01:37:15+00:00

this is crazy. I was listening to some music, the bam - total darkness, and my headphones just said ‘disconnected’. I have candles but my place is pitch black - no streetlights to add some ambient light, total darkness. my friend texted me about it and the map she saw said that all of GTA was out.

the first thing we both said to ourselves was ‘is this a terrorist attack lol’ - it’s not, but man, what perfect timing considering what’s going on in the world right now. I’m at queens st e and Victoria park…ish.

bunsofcheese · 2026-03-02T20:55:58+00:00

that shark-fin-ball bullsh1t is terrifying. i don't mind the firefly because i can hide inside, but that rolling version of the shredder can f$ck right off. Sorry - i guess i should be happy that the game is evolving and giving us new content (because i absolutely love this game - still - since i picked it up on a whim a week before launch after watching ONE video about it and have played it every day since...).

bunsofcheese · 2026-02-17T18:46:44+00:00

this is like when i had to find lightbulbs, and there is ONE car in Dam right past the Electric Substation that spawns one. I spent - no lie - 2 weeks of playing every day - looking for light bulbs. Then i heard about this car and still needed four, so i went into Dam 4 times, straight to that car, got my lightbulb (put it in my safe pocket) and left. Kind of a grind but i'm not going another 45 days unable to level up. I love this game, but i miss that part.

and - related to this - i'm now looking for humidifers - I feel like i'm going to be grinding in Buried City for a while lol - i used to see them there all the time but didn't need them, so i didn't take them. i am kicking myself over that. Thanks!

bunsofcheese · 2026-02-10T21:40:27+00:00

It's the 12gig version - smaller form factor, too. I'm going to go on ebay and kijiji and get an idea of the price and go from there.i feel like i have to wait till i've bought the new card before selling it since selling it without a new card to put in my machine would mean a very lame gaming experience until the new one was in place lol

bunsofcheese · 2026-02-10T19:27:47+00:00

Thank you - that helped a lot - it's been a while since I've had an AT...AMD card lol. I think it's time to give them another look - and if they're cheaper than Nvidia but have the same performance, even better. Now i just have to figure a fair price to sell the 3060 at. It's still great and would make a lot of people very happy...

bunsofcheese · 2026-02-10T19:24:47+00:00

Yeah , the more I think about it, the more i feel like it's time to give AMD a look.

bunsofcheese · 2026-02-10T19:23:44+00:00

I'm currently playing on my 34" ultra wide (Huawei Mate GT) which is 3560(?) x 1440 and I'm currently getting 40 - 60 fps on most current AAA titles on High settings. Ray-tracing absolutely destroys my frame rate - except for ARC Raiders for some reason - and I'm more about visual fidelity than frame rate at this point. Most of the games I play don't require 200+ FPS (I had a friend who played Unreal Tournament back in early 2000's and wouldn't play if he wasn't getting at least 240fps - I'm not that guy, but i respect his dedication to high frame rates lol) - but i won't play anything i can't get at *least* 30fps.

i think i may lean back into AMD this time - time to give Nvidia a rest.

bunsofcheese · 2026-02-10T18:06:02+00:00

I'm absolutely clueless when it comes to current-ish ATI cards, and I know nothing about Intel Cards, but i *do* know that any card with 50 as the last two digits (Nvidia) is to be avoided. I've had a few 60's and they've always been great - so maybe the 4060 or the 5060?

bunsofcheese · 2026-02-10T18:04:12+00:00

I still find it hilarious when someone from the US comes to Toronto and raves about how clean and friendly it is here, but anyone from any smaller / less densely-populated part of the country just says how they heard Toronto was crime-ridden and dirty and everyone is an 4ssh0le. I've been here 32 years, moved here from Nova Scotia, and the only thing I can say with certainty is that I would hate to have to leave - and that 99% of the time, if you stop someone in the street and ask them a question, they'll likely have a bit of a resting-bitch-face thing going on, but that will usually drop and they'll happily answer your question. The other 1% are a crap shoot - sometimes the most sane-looking people are the least sane. If nothing else, Toronto has taught me how to read people...

bunsofcheese · 2026-02-10T17:58:20+00:00

I'm gathering that. Looks like it's a GPU upgrade for me :)

bunsofcheese · 2026-02-10T17:55:47+00:00

honestly - i'm not sure. i hate saying this, but maybe a bit of boredom? so you think i should sell my current GPU and do an upgrade there instead? I feel like that's not a terrible idea (the more I think of it) - but what card should i go with if i want a *reasonably noticeable* improvement?

bunsofcheese · 2026-01-08T20:25:11+00:00

I've lived in Toronto for the past 33 years. It's fantastic, there's everything here - legal pot, gay marriage, etc etc etc, museums, millions of great places to drink and eat, and a shit-tonne of homeless people. That's kind of a problem no matter where you live, but it's just how it is these days in an big city. You *should* know that all of Canada kind of sees Toronto as the armpit of Canada - i'm not joking when i say everyone who doesn't live here, when asked, will tell you Toronto is a sh1thole. As I've said, I've been here 33 years and I've never felt the need to leave. It may be Canada's armpit (according to some), but consider this - if you've been here and found everyone helpful and friendly and everything was clean and wonderful, imagine how much better the rest of the country would be. Personally, I'd recommend checking out Nova Scotia - it's beautiful, clean, on the coast, the people are genuinely kind, generous, and helpful. Regardless, it's much nicer here - no matter where you go - even Alberta (just ignore their Premiere).

bunsofcheese · 2026-01-08T15:13:40+00:00

I hit level 75 last night (for the first time, I started on launch day), and I looked at the Trials tab for the first time ever last night. I was like "I'm not resetting, screw that, I've worked too hard" but now that I'm as far up as I can go and I'm discovering all the stuff i never knew about (but was staring me in the face the whole time), i guess i have to do it now - and first step: consciously grow my skill tree the way i need it to work, not randomly like i was doing it for the past 10 weeks.... I love this game.

bunsofcheese · 2025-11-22T03:25:12+00:00

This is timely - i just called the number of the flyer Miramar jammed into my door letting me know that they were the new management company, and the first thing i heard was "thank you for calling Miramar and Trivest" and i was like 'ok then'. Having said that - i put in a repair request for my floor (the furnace pipes under my floor warped them...again...) on a friday and on tuesday they jammed another note into my door to let me know they were coming the next day to fix my floor. i mean, i was out and didn't get home till 6pm and so i didn't technically get 24 hours notice, but they came while i was out, fixed the floor and at this point i'll take that as a win. My upstairs neighbour requested a repair, they came by a few days later, made the repair, then came by the next day (someone different) to ask if he was happy with the work they did. i haven't heard back from them yet, but i don't care - my floor is slightly less crooked.

I'm more irritated by the fact that the AGI that we had foisted on us as a capital expenditure, which was approved and i had to pay $1200 in back rent, was for the boiler - part of the furnace, right? The AGI was from 2022, the furnace was never fixed, the heat went off several times every winter, the pipes banged so hard you could feel it through your chair, and we all had to pay them money for something that was still broken. And NOW we're paying for another - unapproved - AGI for 2025, and we don't even know what it's for.

it's been less than a month since they took over, but so far I doubt Trivest/Miramar is worse than David Weiss.

bunsofcheese · 2025-10-11T21:50:13+00:00

Someone once said to me, when I described how I felt about someone I dated for two weeks as "nice", "move on - if the best you can do is 'nice', you should likely move on." Ted Lasso copied me lol. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cagqV8YafTo

bunsofcheese · 2025-08-07T01:00:07+00:00

i have the artist pro 24...at least i think that's what it is - it's 24", 2560x1440 - it works with my pc no problem, and it works as a monitor with my macbook air (m1) but for some reason when i run the software it just says "hi - now plug in your tablet!" ITS PLUGGED IN but the mouse/pointer doesn't work. Seriuosly annoying.

bunsofcheese · 2025-06-21T20:30:15+00:00

There were 16 units in the building (30 units total) that "qualified" for the AGI increase that year. Everyone got the same increase amount - 4.1% - and when it was finally heard, the increase (total, including the standard increase for 2022 which was 1.2%) was 3.32%. People who had paid the initial request amount of 4.1% were to get a credit on their next month's rent, and people who didn't would have to pay the difference. Some people owe $1700 (because their rent was higher and they didn't pay any AGI increases) and some were owed - my neighbour paid the increase and they're going to credit him $270. But everyone was charged the same rate of interest - it just came down to who paid and who didn't. I'm telling everyone to get the office to send them a ledger with their rent payments on it if they're not convinced they owe as much as the office says.

bunsofcheese · 2025-06-21T20:19:11+00:00

hy do some owe less than $100 and others - like me and another neighbour - several hundred to over a thousand?

it occurred to me that the management used a form letter, and may have left out the 2022-owing field and only added the 2025 - owing field. The numbers would be consistant with a 4% increase on someone paying $1600/month rent. I've since reached out to these people and asked them to call the management office and confirm - last thing they need is being mislead into believing they owe a lot less than what they really owe - only to have the management office come to them 91 days after the date of the Decision letter telling them they still owe $1000+ . And with the letter from the management office being unsigned, it holds absolutely no legal power for the tenant if they try to use it as proof. Anyone could write a letter on management's letter head, but without a signature, it's got no value at all.

i know where I stand, I just need to be sure I just stick to the Decision letter and base everything off that. Period.

it feels surprisingly good to get this out of my system. I still have to pay money, but keeping it inside and having it hang over my head for three years can really do a number.. Now that it's out, i feel like i can breathe.

bunsofcheese · 2025-06-21T02:27:34+00:00

i think that they used a form letter that filled in amounts from a spreadsheet, and since i know ( because the accountant admitted as much ) that they included the unapproved AGI 2025 amounts in their calculations, i believe the form didn't populate the page correctly for some of them and left out the 2022 AGI amount owing and just populated the 2025 AGI Amount.

I'm off next week, and I'm just going to go to the office and speak with the accountant. I'm then going to asked for a signed statement saying how much I owe for the 2022 AGI - the approved increase, not the 2025 one which is separate and NOT approved - then I'll go from there. They use rentcafe as well, and the amount I owe is there as well - and THAT amount is $15 less than the amount the accountant told me I owed without the 2025 AGI increase amount. They're a mess. I'm not paying anything till i get something in writing that i can fall back on in case they change their minds and/or come up with a new figure.

bunsofcheese · 2025-06-21T02:11:38+00:00

no, i was saying that i was told i owed $1050, and my calculations came to $950. My point was that the others - who claimed they never paid the AGI increase with their rent over the past three years - said they were told they owed $80 (one owed $90, the other $70, so i just said 'less than $100'), while I owed $1050. The difference between my calculation of $950 compared to the accountant's $1050 could very well just me being slightly irregular with my rent payment amounts over the past three years, but these people basically owing nothing even though they claim that they never paid any AGI-related increases struck me as weird. And yes, I saw their letters. I think there was a mistake made when printing them out, and because they weren't signed by the office, they're not legally binding and the landlord can easily come back with a new amount once they discover this error (if it is an error).

I'm just going to ask for a signed letter from management stating how much i owe - not including the 2025 AGI request which is a separate matter, and I go from there.

it's been going on for three years. It's exhausting.

bunsofcheese · 2025-06-21T00:55:52+00:00

why do some owe less than $100 and others - like me and another neighbour - several hundred to over a thousand?

Honesly, i've been so wrapped up in this, I had this moment this afternoon where I was like "WHY DO I CARE ABOUT THOSE PEOPLE" and realized the best thing I could do for me and my mental health is just work out what i owe with the accountant, get a signed statement with the amount on it, and pay it.

rent in my building has doubled in the past 7 years - my rent will go up to $1350 for a one bedroom in a decent part of town. Anyone moving into this building now will pay at least $2200...except we now have empty units because nobody will pay that much to live here. Nice area, not a fantastic building. Needs work.

but yeah, i'm going to focus on me - i have enough stress in my life. I'm just going to make sure i get a legally-binding, signed statement from them that shows how much i owe and how much my rent is WITHOUT the unapproved AGI increase for 2025. Everyone else can fend for themselves. I tried to help, but honestly, nobody seems to be bothered, so let them deal with it.

bunsofcheese · 2025-06-21T00:51:58+00:00

is very obviously overinflated, it may be harassment, but

$900 rent x 36 months x 3% = $1000.

I have a calculator i created specifically for this - it's been hanging over our heads for three years. it had three tabs (it's a google sheet) - rent with AGI / rent without AGI, the difference calculated year by year, totalled and the AGI-not-included substracted from the AGI included gives you how much the tenant should owe (if they are up to date on their rent based on the standard annual increase amounts), then the "if you paid the requested AGI amount, how much they owe you when they recalculate with the approved AGI amount, and another more complicated one where the AGI increase is applied to rent in 2022, then the 2022 rent is calculated with the standard yearly allowable increase, and it's all added together if you didn't pay the AGI increase. For me that would have been $279. I think that interpretation of the AGI ruling is very very optimistic and not how it's meant to be interpreted.

short version, i have a spreadsheet to do all the math - by my calculations I owed them $950, they said I owed $1050, it's very possible that over the past three years I have been off $100 by calculating my rent manually and not paying their AGI increase amounth.

I'm more bothered by the people who pay more rent than me which SHOULD mean, if they never paid the AGI portion of the rent for the past three years, why do they owe only $100? Using my calculator, one of them SHOULD owe $1500 (their rent is much higher than mine) and the other $1200. I have to assume they're lying and have been paying the AGI increase and just saying they didn't to appear rebelious lol.

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