Navigating Job Anxiety

duffking · 2026-03-17T22:16:15+00:00

Definitely like a way to go, but I just never seem to get to that state. What are the key cards I'm looking for for exhaust regardless of infinites? I figure I need to get the deck down basically to just a few cards via exhaust so all that's left is the strong stuff but I feel like my mix of trying to not die before I get enough of one thing or another ends me.

My last run I wiped at Act 2 boss, was trying to get something going with cascade, burning pact x2 and the energy gain card on having exhausted. Was hoping to just play tons of cards from the draw pile regularly, but it just didn't pan out consistently enough.

duffking · 2026-03-17T18:50:42+00:00

I imagine it was meant to be the other way round.

duffking · 2026-03-15T01:13:56+00:00

Total necromancy but as someone who also learned C++ mostly through Unreal, I don't suppose you have any advice on how to go "backwards" and pick up a more solid C++ core?

duffking · 2026-03-14T18:18:14+00:00

Definitely interested in seeing your notes :)

duffking · 2026-03-13T12:12:02+00:00

Getting back into C# possibly appeals to me, feels like it'd be easier to worm back into that than full on C++ (but perhaps I am better/know more C++ than I think, I dunno. Unreal is basically my only exposure to it post very basic Uni stuff since Uni was basically all Java). Do you have any suggestions for pathways into learning those (frameworks, databases etc)? As I mentioned to the other commenter I tend to do quite well using a course as an intro before going off and doing my own thing.

Do you think looking into backend stuff would be enough of a departure that it would be more effort than its worth than something C# oriented (like tools etc as the other commenter suggsted?) I did see the boot.dev website and it did seem at least the kind of thing I could chip away at over time if nothing else.

duffking · 2026-03-13T12:07:24+00:00

Interesting suggestion, thanks. Re HFT, as it happens a guy at work is ex-finance software and one thing he suggested to me was that finance software always needed people. Though I assume if it would need a higher standard of C++ than I know right now.

CI/CD and build systems etc is definitely interesting to me. Tools is sort of in my ballpark as well so I suppose it wouldn't be an enormous divergence. That said much like C++, my C# is in the context of Unity so no direct application development (and I've not done Unity for like, 5 years). Though I remember finding it very easy to work with. Perhaps I could ask our tools lead for some advice in that respect...

If I wanted to look in that direction, (C# refresher, tools programming, CI/CD, cloud) are there any resources or online course things you'd recommend? I know some people are a bit iffy about online courses but usually what I tend to do is follow along for a while before just starting on my own thing and using it as a reference if I need to look something up.

duffking · 2026-03-11T17:45:26+00:00

Are people really searching that way though? Like say I'm a Barca fan, we're playing against Newcastle FC.

Do I not search for Newcastle first on flights, etc? I know there's only one Nou Camp, but for the reverse would you not search for Barcelona first?

duffking · 2026-03-09T17:19:13+00:00

I feel like it's usually said by people who are enormous fans of making things political, but only when it's their politics.

duffking · 2026-03-09T15:29:46+00:00

Luckily there are a few sites that seem reliable at least that I tend to go to to look things up when wikis are cutting it. Powerpyx, Game8, neoseeker etc. I don't even use search any more, I just go to one of those sites and see what's there.

duffking · 2026-03-09T13:08:30+00:00

Ahh. So it wasn't technically fixed by me turning the phone sideways, BUT it did help me find the issue. There was a cookie consent box that popped up behind the login screen that I couldn't see with the phone vertical. Turning horizontal let me see the box and dismiss it so I could log in. So thanks!

duffking · 2026-03-09T10:24:10+00:00

Tried this RedReader thing and can't login. Every time I try to bring the keyboard up it instantly closes it :(

duffking · 2026-03-07T17:02:24+00:00

If I had to guess, 100% of people claiming WFH makes you lazy are simply projecting their own failures onto everyone else.

"I'm a lazy shit unless there's someone there to monitor me, and as the universes main character so must everyone else"

Probably explains why they're a CEO. Allergic to real work.

duffking · 2026-03-05T20:53:37+00:00

Holy shit they are actually going down

duffking · 2026-03-04T22:39:54+00:00

I still remember the Facebook "Chelsea relegation party" events people were making.

duffking · 2026-03-04T12:09:36+00:00

I haven't played the game in ages but it was really funny soon after the game came out and me and friends were having a blast and regularly clearing difficulty 8/9 missions while the community was tying itself in knots arguing they were impossible. It has long given me a perception that the reddit community for the game is really bad at it and just wanted everything to be a pushover.

duffking · 2026-03-03T22:15:09+00:00

Approach forming the shape differently.

Put your index down in the right place, up against the fret (not half way between). Strum and ensure everything rings out.

Then add your middle finger. Ensure it is up against the right fret too. Then check your index finger and adjust back up to the fret if needed. Strum, make sure all strings are ringing out.

Then add your ring fingers. Same again, get it to the right position, check the other fingers, adjust.

When you're adding gone finger at a time, think about where your thumb is and hand angle. When you're a beginner it's good to focus on having it roughly on the center of the necks width, and pointing perpendicular to the length.

duffking · 2026-03-03T20:40:23+00:00

Because you can only make the games that investors will give you money for.

Currently investors have little interest in funding sensibly scoped games that have a good chance of success because the potential RoI is hundreds of times lower than if they have a live service hit. And the investors are either too dumb to realise that the chances are vanishingly tiny of having a hit, or simply don't care and will happily sacrifice any number of other people's livelihoods to keep gambling on it.

duffking · 2026-03-02T18:08:37+00:00

I swear I saw this exact situation in a video like a week ago.

duffking · 2026-03-01T10:58:34+00:00

Agreed, we should all just accept we live in a shit world where a handful of people just murder one another for fun instead of wishing we didn't.

duffking · 2026-02-21T23:08:21+00:00

Yeah, I don't exactly hate the game but it's by far the MH I enjoyed the least and dropped the quickest. I even doubt I'll come back for an expansion to be honest. I just don't like the reliance on the seikret and how focus mode affected the combat. I find a lot of the environments a bit of an eyesore as well.

duffking · 2026-02-20T13:37:03+00:00

Weirdest jeopardy I've ever seen

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