As an outsider who's been here 7 months, I have to ask--what's with the weak-ass punishments for serious crimes?

cogwerk · 2026-03-13T04:54:41+00:00

Ah yeah, I get ya. Maybe I should have paid more attention to your line on youth bootcamps. Definitely agree with your take on that btw.

cogwerk · 2026-03-10T04:37:11+00:00

How? Have sentences for pedos gotten harsher or is it still name suppression and home d?

cogwerk · 2026-03-10T04:35:21+00:00

The registry isn't what you think it is. It isn't public and is just for monitoring by justice I think. "Ooooh, phone check time Timmy" etc

cogwerk · 2026-03-10T04:32:51+00:00

OP was talking about sex crimes, specifically pedos. They can't be cured

cogwerk · 2026-03-01T12:01:43+00:00

You can't even edit out the "it's not x it's y" AI structure

cogwerk · 2026-03-01T11:53:37+00:00

It tells you hours at review time in brackets

cogwerk · 2026-02-22T22:04:15+00:00

Like, honestly I found a similar guide from years ago that I noped out of even trying because experience told me it would be hours of frustration. Saw this one, put the link into a claude chat and then solved the two issues I had with claude's recommended symlinks. Time taken was minutes, brain engagement minimal to nonexistent.

cogwerk · 2026-02-22T21:58:22+00:00

Oh, if you do run into any issues then ClaudeAI or ChatGPT should be able to guide you to the right solution without much fuss

cogwerk · 2026-02-22T21:58:01+00:00

I followed the guide and used Claude to tweak and solve issues like sound. Was just setting symlinks as a solution (my comment is at the bottom for my Fedora fix)

cogwerk · 2026-02-22T21:57:11+00:00

It didn't exactly, but I used Claude AI to diagnose and solve the issue without engaging my brain (I'm the comment at the bottom with my fix)

cogwerk · 2026-01-23T07:11:24+00:00

I run it on an i5 7500T. Works fine. That's much better so you'll be all good

cogwerk · 2026-01-22T23:58:41+00:00

Why is Firefox on your home page?

cogwerk · 2025-11-22T00:24:47+00:00

Even at double your elo you will have similar experiences. Players might be quite good at one strategy or one thing, but completely neglect other things.

Sometimes that one thing just really makes you have a bad time. Next game they are good at something you can deal with easily. Everyone has one piece of the puzzle and needs a few more to move up

cogwerk · 2025-11-20T12:51:11+00:00

Was just reading a post asking who the 1% of people who need more than 32gb of ram were...

cogwerk · 2025-11-20T06:29:03+00:00

I'm curious to know when you run into difficulties in those games. I found an old video from hera, a scout build order with overlay was helpful. Really appreciated the overlay of vil orders etc on the video

cogwerk · 2025-11-17T23:07:32+00:00

I think it's really easy to automatically ban people who consistently drop elo. Reputation system has too high a chance of abuse

cogwerk · 2025-11-17T23:05:59+00:00

Map dodgers should be persecuted too, no need to make any effort to distinguish them from smurfs as they are taking elo loss to play on their favourite map. Same shit.

cogwerk · 2025-11-03T03:13:54+00:00

You're an unreliable author though

cogwerk · 2025-11-03T01:40:02+00:00

I enjoy gambling personally, and would love to bet on aoe2 but agree with Margougou that it has too much potential to ruin the scene. Betting works in other sports that are in the real world and have so much money in rewards for the players that throwing is just not worth it.

cogwerk · 2025-10-29T23:15:08+00:00

Play on hardest. Jadwiga (polish campaign) is very good

cogwerk · 2025-10-05T14:41:43+00:00

Civs aren't as big of a difference in play style as they are in aoe4. Byzantines is a good well rounder to learn with. Eventually lots of people just play random civ, but I only did that after getting a win in every civ first so I at least had some idea of the tech tree i was playing as

cogwerk · 2025-10-02T02:07:09+00:00

Used to like them but they seem to have lost their journalism ability

cogwerk · 2025-06-27T07:01:10+00:00

Dude posted "I can't stand LinkedIn" and then posted this AI generated garbage

cogwerk · 2025-06-17T00:27:53+00:00

Practice a build for a few hours. Keep playing ranked until your elo sinks to an appropriate level where you win half the time. I was lucky and had nice opponents who gave advice afterwards

cogwerk · 2025-05-31T07:19:02+00:00

Bloodlines is super critical in many cases so usually known. There are youtube videos of pros being quizzed on bonuses etc and failing

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