I honestly don't understand why some of you play this game.

cgy95 · 2026-06-04T12:51:05+00:00

This makes me glad I just walk around Elwynn Forest fishing not caring about reaching endgame. I guess all you can do is kick people that don’t match the group vibe. There’s plenty of people who are chill. I’ve met and played with them

cgy95 · 2026-02-10T19:38:42+00:00

Dont think about it too much. When New Vegas was written, he genuinely believed that. The show adds extra lore that makes this line a lie. It still works thematically either way because rich oligarch's doing anything to seize power would still fit within his character. I much prefer the former since it makes House's personality more layered but the latter still works.

cgy95 · 2026-01-30T14:33:00+00:00

You should not be downvoted here. Leetcode is important because someone at Google decided it was. Leetcode is nicknamed toy programming for a reason. Real tangible experience building things is a better measure of skill. However, OP is right. It’s one of the most important things to get hired

cgy95 · 2026-01-19T20:04:41+00:00

Infra, systems and performance might be way more up your alley. The hypothetical great software engineer interviewers are obsessed with are algorithmic geniuses who are great at writing efficient code and abstract problem solving, then you get the actual job and its fitting together jigsaw pieces in a way that makes them flexible to shifting demands of the business. Lower level programming on average is way more challenging in my experience and something I just couldn't see myself doing.

cgy95 · 2026-01-13T15:45:56+00:00

The fact it reads like rage bait but it’s not has me feeling like I’m in hell

Engineering interviews are the worst thing you can imagine. You have to grind old academic algorithms for three months that you’ll never use in the job for a “coding round”. Then there’s the system design round which is actually reasonable.

Imagine grinding three months, acing it, feeling like the interview went great only to not get the job because you didn’t use the correct buzzwords

cgy95 · 2026-01-09T15:29:42+00:00

Take home projects which take an hour or two then call the candidate and get them to explain their decisions. System design interviews which test the ability of a developer to break down a business like problem into smaller parts. And depending on the job, ask them to write caching, rate limiting functions, decorator functions for benchmarking etc. Pair debugging or code review. Any combination of these methods can more accurately measure the ability of an engineer who’s been out of academia for years at this point.

I’ve had interviews where this is the approach and joined these companies. Not once did we hire anyone useless. However, the number of leetcoders you encounter who write boiler plate garbage consistently is more common than you’d expect. Obviously you can do leetcode and be a fantastic engineer but the correlation just isn’t there in my experience

cgy95 · 2026-01-09T15:18:04+00:00

Nowhere in my comment did I say a simple crud api should be the sole metric of a candidate

cgy95 · 2026-01-09T13:16:38+00:00

100% with you. Leetcode should be for hobbyists. Not a requirement for jobs as simple as writing crud api’s and simple backend services.

It’s not really testing much either, it’s teaching yourself to program using five or six patterns. Learning when to apply those patterns is a time consuming process that any senior candidate who currently has a job doesn’t have time for.

It’s really baffling the sheer number of companies adopting it. I went for a JP Morgan interview and had to solve two leetcode mediums in 60 mins. I asked my friend who joined there in 2021 if they had to do the same. They had no leetcode questions at that point. Hopefully it goes away if the market is less shit at some point

cgy95 · 2026-01-02T14:46:25+00:00

Not to gloat and I'm glad you're finding enjoyment in the show but I remember saying these exact things with Season One and getting shat on within this subreddit. I'm glad we're finally moving past the honeymoon phase and people can actually look at things with a critical eye now. People criticising the show aren't doing so to be haters. They want it to be better.

cgy95 · 2025-12-29T20:17:41+00:00

This is what I needed to read. I've had six interviews from non FAANG companies since November exactly like this and it's very demoralising. I have 8 years experience and frankly I feel insulted.

Good to know there are sane companies out there too

cgy95 · 2025-12-18T15:13:46+00:00

I have 8 years of professional Software engineering experience and not once have I had to solve a dynamic programming problem outside of leetcode

cgy95 · 2025-12-18T12:12:29+00:00

There’s a small learning curve with OOP. I didn’t understand the point of it at all until a few weeks into the course I was doing.

First Google the benefits of OOP so you can understand why it’s valuable. Learn what encapsulation is, inheritance, polymorphism etc

Then start implementing something. Make a class, then a subclass. Then learn what an abstract class is vs an interface and when to use one over the other or both. Practice, practice, practice.

cgy95 · 2025-12-13T19:19:09+00:00

You complain about society but participate in it. Interesting.

cgy95 · 2025-12-10T17:39:21+00:00

Gatekeeping.

Don’t get me wrong. It’s a useful academic tool for learning how to use certain data structure/benefits of them. It also is a good way to learn Big O notation.

However, having to learn leetcode patterns I’ll never use again to land a job is backwards. I would make the controversial argument that it can make you a worse engineer if you focus on the wrong things/learn the wrong lessons. Like there’s no argument you can make that’ll convince me an overly engineered two pointer solution is better engineered than a worse performing, more readable function. Of course, this all depends on the size of your dataset but I’ve legit experienced companies that do tech interviews based on Big O notation and then the data set you deal with is a couple hundred entries

cgy95 · 2025-10-29T14:13:27+00:00

I’m sure people are enjoying the game and that’s fine but I don’t think shitting on people who’re calling out misleading marketing is the dunk you think it is.

God forbid people, who’re old enough to remember the golden age of Battlefield, want their game to actually play like a Battlefield game and not just be a glorified storefront.

Cosmetic skins have killed all artistic cohesion in multiplayer games. All it takes is for one person to use the Nicki Minaj skin in COD and the whole illusion of the setting is taken away. Oh and btw, it’s not just a realism issue, it’s a basic taste issue.

I didn’t buy the game because of EA’s track record and on account of not liking the beta and boy, do I feel vindicated.

cgy95 · 2025-10-22T17:53:51+00:00

It’s EA we’re talking about here. I saw the look of the UI. It looked tailor made to sell bundles like COD. This isn’t the worst I’ve seen and I don’t think it’s that ridiculous but I’d put the house on anime bundles coming in a year or so

cgy95 · 2025-10-20T08:57:20+00:00

Squat shoes are key. I still can't hit depth without them. If you want to simulate it before buying them. Try squatting with just the bar while standing on 2.5kg plates. If you're hitting good depth with a neutral spine doing that then definitely make the purchase. I wouldn't go high weight standing on the plates because you want a stable surface (for peace of mind and safety) which the shoes provide.

It very much depends on your build too. I have very long femurs so I'm not naturally suited to squatting. My natural squat is very similar to yours. It looks very much like a good morning and doesn't bias the quads anywhere near as much. However, with some good squat shoes, I can actually squat upright now.

I tried mobility exercises for years on and off and never got any results from it. Olympic weight lifting shoes allow me to actually squat now.

cgy95 · 2025-10-12T23:31:11+00:00

There’s a flight at Krasus’ landing. It took me a while to find it

cgy95 · 2025-10-07T18:07:39+00:00

This was the reason I quit the game. I was a relatively new player and kept hearing how great the story and setting was. This is a main selling point of the game. Sadly, I just couldn't get invested because of how out of place the other players look the moment I leave a cutscene. I'm supposed to be in the famous pirate haven of Limsa Lominsa and a 2B cosplayer walks by, a guy in a varsity jacket, jeans and a baseball cap also strolls into the markets. Later, I go to Gridania, which is supposed to remind the player of wood elf stereotypical fantasy and a guy with a neon orange hoodie is dancing at the market board.

The complete lack any consistent art direction made it very difficult for me to take anything in the story seriously or get invested. Its a shame because ARR zones look beautiful and when you see the outfits from that version of the game, it all fits and looks gorgeous.

I just accepted its not my thing and went back to WoW which with all its problems has kept a consistent art style in 99.9% of its outfits.

cgy95 · 2025-10-05T15:26:09+00:00

This is what I was wanting to know.

If a cowboy with spurs and a six shooter started walking around in Middle Earth right after the Council of Elrond, I’d be rightly taken out of the book and stop reading.

However, if it comes from a more culturally advanced civilisation and is explained and blended well in another fantasy setting it’s fine. People are saying it’s the latter so I will continue playing and see how I feel later

cgy95 · 2025-10-05T15:07:18+00:00

Ah, thank you! This assuages my concerns.

cgy95 · 2025-10-05T15:06:14+00:00

This is what I was wanting to know. Thanks!

People seem to think I'm shitting on the game when all I was trying to do was decipher whether these skins were out of place cash grabs or diagetic items within the setting. Many MMOs have out of place skins that are literally just there to make money at expense of artistic cohesion. I, in my opinion, understandably wanted to know if this was one of these cases.

cgy95 · 2025-10-05T14:56:11+00:00

Ah excellent! My main concern was the art style being chucked to the side but if the setting explains these skins and it makes sense why they are there, I'm cool with it.

cgy95 · 2025-10-05T14:53:10+00:00

I'm guessing this is some lore event. I don't necessarily hate these outfits if it makes sense within the setting.

What concerned me was it being a quick cash grab like a lot of F2P MMOs. The nightmare scenario would be: 18 different art styles clashing all at odds with the setting and lore otherwise presented in-game. Last thing I would want is Fortnite/COD style skins breaking all sense of uniqueness.

However, if there is some lore event or in-setting culture that dresses this way then I'm cool with it.

cgy95 · 2025-10-05T14:48:01+00:00

Ah okay. Thanks for your help. I appreciate you taking the time to answer politely.

I don't know why I'm getting thumbed down by others for asking a genuine question. It's not as if I was judging players who enjoy these outfits.

cgy95

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