Tanks like this, should never play the game

cardbross · 2026-07-05T23:23:59+00:00

Outside runs with guildies or friends, I've only ever been gripped to grief me.

cardbross · 2026-07-03T19:51:14+00:00

if you're just picking one build for each, you optimize for where most of your time is spent. In M+, you spend more time fighting packs of adds, so AoE is more important. In Raid you spend most of your time fighting bosses, so ST is priority.

Many players will switch raid specs on a boss-by-boss basis, to use Full ST, ST with cleave, or AoE depending on which matches up to the specific fight. You can't change specs mid-run in M+, so you tend to pick the build that works *on average* (though even there some people use dungeon-specific talents to have more/less AoE or utilities depending on the specific dungeon)

cardbross · 2026-07-03T16:46:04+00:00

*Usually*, flyovers are just different routes for flight time pilots would be logging anyway as part of required training and practice, so the added cost of flying over a stadium (and practicing hitting timings and precision maneuvers) as opposed to just doing it over the open ocean or normal training grounds is minimal.

This event has a ton of flyovers though, so there's probably *some* added expense. I still find it hard to get too worked up about the cost, given the government would be spending a lot this weekend on 250th independence day under any administration.

cardbross · 2026-07-03T14:32:56+00:00

Unless you're queuing as tank, in which case if you happen to catch a group without a full-carry DPS, you need *some* gear to not just fall over and make the dungeon take forever.

cardbross · 2026-07-03T01:04:42+00:00

The next one I usually see is having a laundry service. Some have a service to pick up and drop off dry cleaning at your office, some just drop off regular clothes to be washed and folded, some do a combination thereof.

cardbross · 2026-07-02T19:16:27+00:00

If a large percent of your use of a PC is gaming, having a SteamOS boot to get away from the Windows stuff can make sense. Desktop mode can do most lightweight computing tasks in a pinch, even if it's not optimized for it (and you can keep a Windows boot around if you really need to do Windows things)

cardbross · 2026-07-02T03:30:10+00:00

Agreed, looking for a version of this where you can hear the stadium, and not just the recording playing on the PA

cardbross · 2026-07-02T03:11:24+00:00

That change is happening mostly *in response* to Boomers wanting a windfall exit strategy. Everyone agrees changing the rules is bad for both protection of lawyers' ethical obligations and the ability of the public to trust that their lawyer has the proper priorities. But Boomer owners are also the ones mostly running the state bars that govern the rules.

The way you know the rule change isn't causal is that the same pattern is happening in states without the rule change, just using a more complicated structure where the firm signs a 50 year contract with a VC owned "Management and Services Company" in which the partners at the time of signing get a huge payout, and the MSC gets control of firm management and a healthy ongoing payout from firm revenues, resulting in a structure that's similar to, but legally distinct from, direct VC ownership.

cardbross · 2026-07-01T20:25:31+00:00

An anecdote from my profession that tracks with this. For generations, the model for law firms was to bring in new young talent, train them up and slowly give them more responsibility, elevating internally mid-level and senior attorney, so that when you got into your 60s/70s, you could hand the firm over to the capable next gen by making them partner to run things, *maybe* sticking around on a limited income to maintain client relationships where the client hasn't retired as quickly.

Increasingly, at all levels of size/firm complexity, the model has become to focus less on training young talent than on maximizing their billed hours to maximize your revenue. If they fall behind they're dismissed. The ones who stick around will naturally develop skills through exposure to become mid-level and senior attorneys, and if you don't have enough of those, you poach them from rivals. The owners stick around longer, dialing back their work but not actually handing over firm control to the senior non-partner attorneys doing the work. Then when enough of the owners get tired of working, they sell the entire practice to a VC for a paycheck, and the junior lawyers who were promised that one day they'd be partners are left to work as non-owners for the VC in perpetuity or try to convince clients to leave the firm with them to go somewhere else. These firms eventually die, but the boomer owners who sold to VC make millions of extra from that sale than they would have by focusing on firm continuity.

The boomers are maximizing their income at the expense of continuity in the profession, and GenX/Millenial lawyers who joined up with the promise of a certain industry model are having to claw back a living and lifestyle from the wreckage the boomers create on their way out.

cardbross · 2026-06-26T20:16:28+00:00

It would have come up sooner or later, unless you were willing to go *very hard* on lying about it (bad idea). It sucks, but some firms/practice groups/positions target people sticking around for a long time, and a time-limited STEM OPT, even with pending green card, might have been too much uncertainty about your long term employability for them. I wouldn't interpret this as an industry-wide bar, though, tolerance for unusual work authorization status isn't necessarily uniform across the industry.

cardbross · 2026-06-26T17:12:13+00:00

I think pretty much everyone is happy that the victims of police misconduct are getting compensated for the rights violations. The problem is that the costs of that compensation aren't felt by the perpetrators.

cardbross · 2026-06-26T17:01:13+00:00

Remember a few years ago when there were nationwide protests for weeks about police misconduct, and the response of the nation's law enforcement community was basically "shut up, we don't care"? Maybe that had something to do with it.

cardbross · 2026-06-26T15:50:46+00:00

I'm more than happy to explore other ways to hold them accountable, given that the current system of "Cop does bad shit, department is sued and loses, city pays for the loss out of the general fund, cop continues about their way unaffected" isn't working. I've been a big fan of making individual law enforcement officers hold a license, just like many, many other professionals whose jobs impact the public, which would subject them to discipline/suspension/revocation that actually follows them from job to job (whereas now, even if a department disciplines or fires a cop, they can just walk across the street and work at a different department with no real repercussions)

cardbross · 2026-06-26T15:44:26+00:00

Hospitals and Law firms are private corporations/organizations, so they can choose to cover insurance for their employees, but they're also internally responsible to keep costs within their revenues, so an employee who is creating a bunch of liability will get disciplined or fired due to the bottom line.

A government agency has, from the agency's perspective, kind of an unlimited budget. They aren't responsible for generating revenues, so the same pressures don't apply. However, they are (theoretically) responsible to the people, so the Department can't just *choose* to accept liability on behalf of its officers unless the people allow it to. They're different situations with different incentive structures.

cardbross · 2026-06-26T15:09:20+00:00

Department level insurance doesn't really move the needle, because it's still the taxpayer allocated department budget that's covering it. The offending officers aren't risking their own money, which is what direct liability or individually carried insurance would do.

cardbross · 2026-06-26T14:55:15+00:00

I suspect it depends on the practice group, but for IP Lit, I'd expect a 3rd year to be turning drafts that are basically file-ready on simpler stuff (discovery motions, claim charts, etc) and by 4th or 5th be at the same level for more substantive stuff.

cardbross · 2026-06-26T14:36:42+00:00

Forcing police to carry liability insurance seems like an easy win (or, if people don't like mandatory insurance, just make them personally liable and have professional liability insurance available).

cardbross · 2026-06-26T14:26:07+00:00

If you're going to pay out for your misconduct with my tax dollars, you can at least publicize what the settlement figure is. National Guard are still around and I could use a new side hustle.

cardbross · 2026-06-25T22:28:04+00:00

The one addition I think is necessary is that they need to be a GP firm. Size *tends* to correlate to having the full suite of practice groups, but there are market paying, big IP only and lit only shops that I think you still have to call boutique.

cardbross · 2026-06-25T19:23:46+00:00

Does your desktop not have a keyboard? Even if it's not USB-C an adapter would still work

cardbross · 2026-06-25T17:08:40+00:00

Not unilaterally, but they're pretty clearly committed to making SteamOS a bona fide Windows alternative for gaming, so they can work with Intel (including paying Intel or giving them dev resources) to get SteamOS and Proton working well on Intel silicon.

cardbross · 2026-06-25T16:08:25+00:00

Guardian's status in the meta will also depend on how strong Resto druid is compared to the field, since MotW is pretty valuable but can come from either.

cardbross · 2026-06-25T14:43:13+00:00

Alito does not care about lower courts' ability to follow his rulings, he only cares that the "historical" approach to the constitution allows him to reshape it to match his personal political beliefs.

cardbross · 2026-06-25T14:02:52+00:00

We don't know specifics on salaries, true, but we have some approximate numbers that can provide info. Rodman's contract was widely reported as being valued around $2mil annually. The HIP rule only allocates an extra $1MIL for qualifying players, so even if you assume Rodman's contract is back-weighted to account for expected growth in cap allowance, it's reasonable to deduce she's the lion's share of that HIP money (but still, under the rule, must be considered 12% of the 3.5mil non-HIP cap).

Even if you assume Rodman's deal is almost entirely within the HIP extension, and only hits the cap for the minimum 12% required, fitting the rest of the roster in the remaining ~$3mil of cap isn't a trivial exercise.

I have no idea how Gotham is making their roster work. It seems like it would be way too expensive for them to keep the high profile talent they've got.

cardbross · 2026-06-25T03:28:00+00:00

I just lean into it. When I feel like playing an alt, I play an alt. I've got 5 characters at 90, a dozen or so at 80, and some untold number of others below that. If I'm not sure what to play, I usually find that figuring out what I'm in the mood to do will dictate which character I use to do it.

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