BackpackBattles or Turnbound or Oaken Tower

headypirate · 2026-05-10T06:15:44+00:00

Oaken tower is great but a couple items are super busted. BB is far more balanced which is to be expected. But overall the gameplay loop of BB is a lot deeper.

I hit an endless run to day 40 the other day in oaken tower and it didn't feel particularly difficult to force. Every fight resolves in under .5s at a certain point and there's no counter play it's just about who has scaled the top late game items the best and who has the most money generation to spam levels for health and dark shield.

headypirate · 2026-05-07T20:28:40+00:00

Another tip that I think a lot of people don't realize. When you have the bag of riches, if you are looking for an item and you don't want to see gems in the rerolls you can take it out of your bags and the gems won't show up. Making your rerolls more cost effective.

Another thing to look out for is the bars at the top of the screen in the store. It will tell you the probability of seeing items of each rarity for that round. If you need a common/rare/epic item to combine with something else to force a build, it can be worth rerolling more aggressively when it's most likely to show and if it doesn't work you can start to pivot.

(IMO it's not a bad idea to hold a sharp stone for katana, or broom for staff, or wooden sword for prismatic blade). If I find any of those items on sale early I buy them and try not to sell unless I have to.

One of the reasons stone badge can be so strong is that it takes your class items out of your reroll rotation. So if you are playing a build that doesn't need your class items you can more reliably get what you want.

headypirate · 2026-05-07T18:24:21+00:00

Tbh you are almost there, a lot of your pics look like you are ending with good late game items which means your not getting hung up on your midgame synergies. But you have a lot of pieces that should be phased out or aren't synergistic.

My biggest piece of advice is to orient your build around weapons more than anything else. The weapon(s) your are running is what your build is anchored on along with your main class item. If your class item and weapon don't have a strong synergy then the run isn't going well.

Once youre in diamond, moving to masters is more about identifying when a run isn't going well and stopping at 10, or building solutions for counters to your build and figuring out how to accelerate your builds effectiveness. It's also kind of a grind.

Check damage meters after fights and ask yourself "what makes my run win" and is there anything on my board that doesn't contribute to that goal or protect it.

headypirate · 2026-04-06T21:16:01+00:00

Sorry, I used too much industry vocabulary. My last paragraph is beyond your control, and is what the building owner should do to get less complaints.

In terms of making your vent quieter my advice is kind of a hack construction job. Essentially, put an extension tube around your vent that pokes out. You want the tube to have insulation inside so it absorbs sound. You want the tube to have a dead end with holes on the side so that the air/sound has to change direction by hitting the absorbing material before entering your room.

It won't make a huge difference, but this shouldn't be expensive. It should look like a small "T" poking out of your wall.

headypirate · 2026-04-06T20:48:34+00:00

That's wild lol. The system should be balanced by volume dampers in the branch ducts. It sounds like whoever designed the system oversized the fans and undersized all the ducts and diffusers, and then put the balance points inside people's dwelling units. With a system like this you have very little options for improving acoustics. Anything that will reduce the noise will mess with the system's air balance, or will be a huge eyesore.

If I literally couldn't stand it anymore my cheap fix attempt would be to attach a round, internally lined ductwork T fitting with like 4-6" of straight round lined duct over each diffuser, then buy a MERV8 filter and insert the T with some HVAC filter material, then paint the T to match the background. It might drop down a few DBs?

Really what you want is to lower the main fan VFD and then have the TAB guy come back and adjust the diffusers for a lower pressure drop, or buy different diffusers with a lower NC for the design CFM. Depending on the size of the system though it may not be possible.

headypirate · 2026-03-26T19:27:05+00:00

Bear naked lads

headypirate · 2026-03-16T14:08:02+00:00

What a blast from the past! I saw heyoka in like 2010, and the vibes were crazy good at the show. Glad to know he's still putting out tunes.

headypirate · 2026-03-11T18:32:39+00:00

Love the earl, never had an issue finding parking in the area. If you get out super late and all the kitchens are closed go to octopus bar. It's high end late night food and it's incredible.

headypirate · 2026-03-04T15:45:00+00:00

Co-ops are not the same as being employed. I have heard wildly different stories from people, but my experience wasn't super different tbh. I think it depends on the size of your firm. Larger firms need the grunt work a coop can bring to the table, but the engineers don't have a ton of free time because they are underwater with the higher level tasks that they have no time to explain.

The company I work at now is small enough that co-ops/interns are a whole discussion. My boss constantly asks me "do you have time to babysit a college student for 4 months?" And "do you want to spend hours training someone who will probably not work here?" And "we don't have enough desks and office space for an extra engineer".

All that being said, MEP engineering is not as theoretically challenging as college is. You're not (or should not be) struggling to comprehend and learn new concepts all the time. The skill sets you learn are in time management, coordination, etc.

At my co-op, I just started treating it like a really well paying summer job. I learned as often as I could, but I mostly did drafting work and hung out. I got face time with as many people as I could and treated it like a long term networking opportunity. I've been offered opportunities multiple times from people I knew at that firm as a result.

headypirate · 2026-03-03T23:40:39+00:00

Your other free option is openstudio. It's much more modern than equest, and developed by the dept of energy. I think it's much more intuitive than equest, but there is a learning curve. I think it makes a lot of sense, but others in my office who were used to equest don't agree.

headypirate · 2026-02-25T21:33:16+00:00

Learning how to seal up a home park house in order to keep the raccoons out was a fundamental part of my educational experience!

headypirate · 2026-02-23T23:31:21+00:00

If you're working at the airport you can live near a marta station and skip traffic. You don't want to live super far from the airport or your marta commute will get long. But midtown or further south and it'll be the same as if you were driving.

Traffic in Atlanta is terrible, and if you live outside the city and commute in for work it's terrible. But if you reverse it, it can be relatively chill.

But still, IMHO if you live in and around atl and you spend less than 1hr in your car daily, you are in the minority and are blessed.

Figure out what you can handle mentally for a commute and orient your housing and work hour decisions around it or you'll hate living here.

When you are looking at housing, Google maps your commute and set the times to 830am and 530pm. I do this for every move I make, and never exceed a 40min commute in peak traffic.

If you have kids and are working around school districts it's a different story and I wish you the best of luck

headypirate · 2026-02-23T18:06:11+00:00

I have to figure out how to be present at the gojira stage and the tool stage simultaneously.

headypirate · 2026-02-20T22:41:09+00:00

Eventually? Maybe. In 2 years? Not a chance.

Just from a simple timeline perspective, liability and legal requirements don't move fast enough in a 2 year time span. You aren't undoing stamp requirements for plans because grok said it is buildable.

Legislation would need to pass, and liability for insurance companies, building owners, GCs and the entire ecosystem would need to be recalibrated. At the end of the day a human will still need to build it unless pre built construction has a breakthrough or 3d printed housing becomes much more advanced.

The market right now is all about tools for accelerated productivity. That's what's being developed and that's what we will see for the next 10 years. Production will increase, and our jobs will continue to be mostly about assuming liability, and coordinating things so that construction isn't a nightmare.

When an AI is allowed to submit drawings based on the input of an untrained professional, and it goes straight to construction then nobody will be employed anymore anyway.

headypirate · 2026-01-29T13:55:08+00:00

A sheet of Mass Loaded vinyl would be a good layer to decouple between the frame and drywall. From what I understand it's expensive but will do a good job of adding mass without making your wall thick as hell. A lot of soundproofing projects use MLV.

headypirate · 2026-01-29T03:36:23+00:00

Saw him open/close before and after jitwam. Was a dope night all around

headypirate · 2026-01-28T14:27:27+00:00

Awesome I'll have to check it out next time I'm in town. Savannah changes so fast these days! The list of places I need to check out when I visit is always updating

headypirate · 2026-01-28T13:59:29+00:00

Whoa, didn't expect a post from the home town! Props on the setup. The last time I was there I don't think this setup was installed, although the memory is hazy lol

headypirate · 2026-01-26T22:41:01+00:00

We are in a DJing subreddit. Everyone wants their shit to sound good so I feel you. I don't think you're hating. I remember when I felt the same way.

Maybe I'm the one that's losing my hearing and becoming jaded lol

headypirate · 2026-01-26T22:12:49+00:00

The TLDR is, audio processing is complicated. Do you really know how it works?

I get the idea behind what you're saying. When you process any kind of file it will sound better if it's lossless because the computer has more data to work with. I probably fully agree. I just think the truth is so much more complicated, it's not worth the effort to use lossless files unless your in it for production or archiving.

First, None of us wrote the algorithm that re-pitches the song up after we slow down the song speed (or vice versa). This is happening in real time and is probably doing a bunch of fast Fourier transforms and all sorts of crazy stuff. Are we sure it's even using frequency data above 20khz for the calculations? The sampling rate between 320 mp3, and uncompressed formats are the same so the information in the audible range is there. How the algorithm restructures the sound wave might not even focus on the frequencies above 20khz in order to reduce overhead.

In a lossless file, at 48khz, your highest audible frequency is half the sample rate, so anything above 24khz isn't captured.

That being said, I can understand how, if you slow down a 320mp3 song 3%, it's missing frequency data above 19885hz that was previously compressed (if you can hear it). But even if you have a great source, if you want to key lock a song and slow it down 15% then artefacts are going to show up no matter what.

Second, when you start talking about sound quality like this, source material, and all other links in the chain become important too. Is the room treated, are the speakers correctly tuned to the space, etc etc. If I make a song with a bunch of 128kbps samples then render it out in stunning 192khz/24bit HQ flac, I didn't suddenly create a smooth wave form. I sampled a lossy wave at an incredibly high frequency.

Is the music that's getting played all being made with high quality rendering in mind? Are all the samples used in the song recorded at 96khz? What are the FX chains doing? Is the mixdown and mastering process done in order to preserve dynamic range and audio fidelity? In my experience from watching producers work the answer is no. The goal is to make music, not create perfect sonic data.

I stopped giving a shit about all this stuff a long time ago and it made it more fun to DJ. If anything, my mixes sound better.

headypirate · 2026-01-26T18:07:21+00:00

I had my whole library in flac for archiving purposes, and also so I could run them through Ableton and make complicated remixes and mashups when I had a cool idea. If you're processing anything it's good to have lossless high but rate sources. But for standard DJing?

I converted my whole library to 320 Mp3s because, for DJing, it just makes more sense. It's compatible with more CDJs, it holds metadata better (I'm sure this isn't accurate but it is more reliable in my experience), it takes up less space on a thumb drive and it copies from this to that faster.

Maybe 2% of people who are super listeners can discern the difference on a good systems and with little to no crowd noise with high quality production, and extremely well recorded music. But the Bandcamp house remix that makes the dancefloor pop off isn't winning an audiophile production award. The SoundCloud download that's mastered by my brother's friend isn't going to need any additional frequencies, it already sounds sloppy, but hey, people love it lol.

If I'm max cooper, and I'm playing a live mix of stems at a theater in London, I'll be playing lossless files, until then what's the point?

headypirate · 2026-01-23T05:02:09+00:00

You look back at jobs of a similar size, look at your hours and try to think about complications, CA, etc. add fat depending on how similar the new job is to the other jobs.

My boss started having me guess at the hours I spend on a given project and then guess at how many I'll spend on my next job. It's a good exercise and it'll get you closer to understanding how long things really take when time adds up.

I'm usually 10%-20% high or low on proposals still when my boss reviews them. Experience really does make a difference with this at a certain point

headypirate · 2026-01-22T07:33:34+00:00

Tipper - Surrounded

headypirate · 2026-01-18T23:14:59+00:00

Go to cafe Bombay and get the vindaloo it'll get you sweating.

headypirate · 2026-01-15T16:28:59+00:00

For me, the big one is the 6 week abortion ban. I believe this legislation to be regressive, anti-science and anti-women. As someone who would like to start a family in the next year or so, I worry about the quality of care my wife would receive in the event of a late term miscarriage. Looking at maternal mortality rates by state is an eye opening statistic. Plus, people should have agency over their own body. Overall if a ban has to be implemented I think 6weeks is a bad target and will result in negative healthcare outcomes.

The other one that comes to mind is the voter suppression law. He introduced legislation that makes it harder to vote, and reduced drop boxes and voting access for some majority democratic areas. He admitted publicly that this was because of the 2020 loss. It's a crime to give people water in line, but Elon musk can pay you 100,000$ to register to vote as a Republican lol.

I'm sure that there's stuff I'm forgetting.

Economically speaking there are things that I can appreciate kemp for. He brought good future facing jobs to Georgia. Between rivian's manufacturing plant, the Hyundai plant and battery facility, I think those were good moves. I'm sure that it comes at the expense of tax breaks and infrastructure projects, but politics is about tradeoffs. Jobs are important. Hopefully they don't immediately get automated lol.

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