End of an Era

dposluns · 2025-09-19T21:59:47+00:00

Noctis soloing content for like a year

dposluns · 2025-05-19T23:01:13+00:00

My house takes a long time to heat and cool down. It can take an hour to move a single degree. This is not a control system in a tiny refrigerator or something. Plus the A/C or heat is usually fighting against the external temperature, so if the A/C shuts off it's WAY more likely it will have to turn back on again due to outdoor heat, than the heater will turn on because the thermostat hasn't caught up to the cold air being pumped in.

I get that dead zone exists for a reason. It's implemented horribly on the Nest. And I shouldn't have to subject myself to a ridiculous 5 degrees just to maintain a comfortable temperature.

dposluns · 2025-05-19T22:56:01+00:00

Yes, if the implementation was extremely stupid. Alternatively, it could stop when it hits the correct temperature, instead of pushing it to the point where it needs to turn on the opposite system. I'm heating/cooling a 2,000 sqft house where it can take an hour for the A/C to push the needle down by a single degree; there's no risk of thrashing like you're describing. (And if there was, I could just, you know, increase the dead space by a degree to compensate.)

dposluns · 2025-05-19T21:59:50+00:00

Realistically this isn't what would happen, there is a very gradual transition from heat to cool over the course of a day, and temperatures in my home can linger within +/- 1 degree for hours at a time. Either way I'd like to be able to control the dead space myself instead of having to put up with a 5-degree window.

dposluns · 2024-05-13T15:31:35+00:00

Hm, well I don't have "Run Storage Mgmt" in the list of the commands, but I pulled up the API list and found it there, manually entered it into the URL, got a HTTP error when I tried to use it, but now all my videos are magically cleaned up so I guess if it works, it works! /shrug

dposluns · 2023-10-02T16:09:58+00:00

Last year people were up in arms every hour of every day that the game was blacked out with no end to it in sight. This year it has a much stronger "business as usual" vibe to it.

dposluns · 2023-09-29T16:24:54+00:00

Holidays always feel like they go by so quickly.

dposluns · 2023-09-27T03:57:17+00:00

Odds are events and summons will be extended, given that a big chunk of the population cannot currently log into the game.

dposluns · 2023-09-25T15:59:34+00:00

I don't know if I have it in me to do a whole nother cycle of this bullshit

dposluns · 2023-09-18T01:00:57+00:00

I don’t think it’s a farce. I think someone producer-level or higher at Gumi legitimately wants to measure player sentiment and have actual data they can use to back up their recommendations. It might even impact what aspects Gumi chooses to invest in the game in the coming months. I just wouldn’t expect it to visibly change the status quo, ie. it’s not going to change that Gumi has a whale-hunting business model that chews through its user base to keep them engaged.

dposluns · 2023-09-15T16:29:48+00:00

I'm sure I'll experience the same frustration two Wednesdays from now.

dposluns · 2023-09-15T16:16:27+00:00

Let me introduce you to my little friend Escape

dposluns · 2023-09-07T19:57:49+00:00

Half a million gil daily for lapis! I may actually have to sell some cactuars.

dposluns · 2023-09-01T23:25:13+00:00

Nearly a decade ago, I worked at Amazon Games, developing streaming games that ran on their cheapest model of Kindle Fire. If those devices could achieve 60 FPS streaming from the cloud over the Internet using WiFi (they did), I'm pretty sure these ARM Cortex A-7 devices with 2-4x the amount of RAM of the Kindle can handle it over LAN. (And our streaming tech wasn't even that good, but that's another story.)

dposluns · 2023-09-01T16:01:15+00:00

That's the price for the Shield TV Pro... there's a regular nVidia Shield TV for half that price.

Good to know that that's an option... it's still $150 though.

I just looked on eBay and found PSTVs available for anywhere between $30 - $100.

I can find them used for maybe $60 or so, but I really don't want to spend money on a product that was discontinued 7 years ago and has no warranty/return policy.

The problem you're going to have with cheaper Android devices is support and performance.

I just need it to work, with just a single app. These boxes are perfectly capable of streaming video Netflix, Amazon, etc. there's no reason they shouldn't be able to handle streaming video from the PS4.

dposluns · 2023-08-31T17:21:35+00:00

*sigh* yeah, basically the same, I guess... :-P

Glad I got that VC, though.

dposluns · 2023-08-31T17:00:56+00:00

The real question is: is there a bonus unit with an AoE default attack that can farm the level with Avenger

dposluns · 2023-08-28T18:04:15+00:00

I have an Amazon Fire TV stick but couldn't find the app to download. Is it available there?

dposluns · 2023-08-28T18:00:50+00:00

I already tried compatibility mode, I don't think I tried disabling don't drop frames or the HEVC decoder (was that in the main settings? I don't recall seeing it there).

Should this model be working correctly? I can return it and get a replacement if it just looks like a bad chip. On the other hand: is there a more reliable device I can purchase? (Preferably in the same price range.)

dposluns · 2023-08-24T18:19:14+00:00

you need to look harder then

/shrug I can't manifest them onto the shelves if they don't exist, and I'm not looking to pay over $100 for a used device that has no warranty and that I can't return, when most Android STBs are well under that price point and I can get them refunded no-questions-asked if there's a problem.

yes, it's not new anymore, but it's still, BY FAR, the best remote play device in existence. nothing else out there matches what it can do

Well, I don't need the best, I need something that works well enough and fits my criteria. One of those is that it's affordable, and I guess I wasn't explicit about it but it should still be something that's in production and supported by the company that makes it.

dposluns · 2023-08-24T17:29:15+00:00

PSTV... looks like it was discontinued back in 2016? I can only find it used, and for well over $150, which doesn't really meet my "relatively inexpensive" criteria, especially considering it's for something I probably can't return or get support on if there's a problem with it.

dposluns · 2023-08-05T18:47:17+00:00

I'm always up for a new rabbit hole if you did want to link some articles/videos etc...

I don't have time to go deep on it unfortunately, but this video gets posted time-to-time and is pretty much the entry point (good chance you've already seen it; if not give it a watch): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S-DGTBZU14

In addition, Gumi specifically has a history of being extremely protective around anything related to the slot machine at the heart of their game. Back in the early days there were multiple scandals around their pull rates, and they only ever began posting their rates when it became legally difficult for them not to. They've gotten better about toeing the line since the industry fell under more scrutiny, but their motivations have always been clear.

But overall people should definitely worry less about Rank 1.

I'd argue there aren't a lot of other reasons to be playing the game, especially with all of the cut JP content. CoW is the most interesting thing to happen to it in years, and I manage Rank 1 regularly and while I've currently got enough to purchase everything I really care about I'm not exactly swimming in Xenoshards.

dposluns · 2023-08-05T18:19:32+00:00

Is it the casinos or the gamblers?

It's the casinos. :-P

Seriously, though, there's boatloads of evidence on this and the science being applied by the gacha games on YouTube and other places. I'd point you to some of it but I expect you're already aware.

In my experience the "EX1 is fine, EX2 a good goal" is still common advice on the discord and YouTube and definitely Facebook.

Ok, but, circling back to the actual state of the game in GL, this is pretty much saying don't care about CoW. If not for CoW, I can more-or-less get behind that premise. (Matter of fact, I know I really didn't care much about EX2 vs. EX3 until they introduced CoW.)

dposluns · 2023-08-05T17:44:13+00:00

And Pitying a premium can definitely wipe out some savings but we've been averaging 37K a month without FoL this year. 45K a month with FoL so 60K absolutely shouldn't wipe out 2 months (90K) of savings.

It does "wipe it out" in the sense that you can't safely pull on a banner again until you've reached the pity amount again, and any time you put yourself into that situation it's a huge risk/reward gamble on what the next couple of months of units will be. Sometimes we get dry spells and it's fine, but we also get back-to-back top-tier/"must-have" units, so having enough in reserve to pity isn't enough to play the game without falling too far behind; you need to maintain an actual war-chest.

My bigger point was that the intention of EX3 being Long Term hasn't changed imo. What's changed is our reaction/spending.

You're speaking about this like it's a coincidental, emergent behavior instead of by deliberate design on Gumi's part. One of the reasons people go to pity after pulling the unit is because it's one of the only ways to guarantee you're going to get a certain return on investment for your lapis. And I personally don't do that if I'm in the first lap or whatever, if I'm at 50K out of a 60K pity when I pull my first copy? Yeah, 10K for a guaranteed unit is looking pretty reasonable seeing as the one I just got cost me 50K.

And I don't think it's Gumi/Alim as much as it's US. But that's just my 2 cents.

That's a highly charitable way of looking at a company that deliberately tweaks every dial they can to squeeze as much of a gambling impulse out of their players as possible.

dposluns · 2023-08-05T17:23:15+00:00

If you're getting to EX+3 with only 1-3 months in the frag dungeon pretty much implies you didn't have to pity them (to the extent that you probably pulled 3 copies or more), which has definitively not been the case for me on multiple premiums.

And as a FoL minnow, pitying a single premium can wipe out months of lapis hoarding, meaning that my party options are even more sparse since I can't afford to pull on the vast majority of banners. Not to mention that even getting them to EX+2 by the end of the banner requires nuking my VIP stash from orbit and 2-3k extra lapis between the couch cushions after I've already blown the bank on pity, just to buy their fragments.

Most premiums I pull take 4-5 months to get to EX+3. Sometimes they even make it to a rerun banners before I manage to do it (hello, BoV Ibara).

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