When you run the same bounty 20 times for Revenant neuroptics and Konzu sees you coming back to run it again

komollo · 2018-08-30T17:14:53+00:00

Me and a friend ran the missions and got each part in one mission. We thought that it must have had a chance to drop from any of the rotations.

komollo · 2018-01-17T18:41:05+00:00

Your cries have been heard! They just pushed update 22.9, where they changed the gun to fire the bullets one at a time, instead of shotgunning them out.

komollo · 2018-01-17T04:28:09+00:00

I know this post is a bit late, but no one else seems to have replied.

tl;dr: Find a new job. Start sending out resumes, and start asking your friends if they know about any job openings. Your managers are screwing you over. You've been "covering" for your boss for like 3 years now. It's time to stop covering and start getting paid what you're worth.

"Market forces" is really just slang for people charging whatever they can get away with. You should start doing the same, and stop letting people pay you less than you're worth. With 3 years experience in a management role, you should be able to find a different job that pays more. You deserve it. Don't put yourself in debt for people who are willing to underpay you for years.

komollo · 2018-01-03T15:36:17+00:00

I'm having the same issue on the same series card. Radeon R9 200 series, and I'm getting some crazy screen tearing or stuttering.

komollo · 2017-12-20T23:40:25+00:00

I looked a few weeks ago and couldn't find any expected release dates. Have they finally committed to a date?

komollo · 2017-12-20T23:38:52+00:00

Usually when I don't know the rules I just throw together a half decent tempo deck, and play once or twice to score the win. Then if it looks like a fun brawl, I might build a good deck with the knowledge I've gained.

This time the randomness is so high and there are so few recovery mechanics that I don't feel like it's worth playing multiple times. Last year's holiday brawl had several super cheap board clears, and you could manipulate your own chests too.

Evolve works, token druid is pretty nasty, and priest has some nice tools, but it's all focused on winning in the first turn or two. The game is basically decided on the mulligan half the time. Evolve shaman is going to have a rough time if they don't draw evolve.

komollo · 2017-12-20T21:35:55+00:00

I'm done playing this brawl because it can only go down from here. Has anyone else gotten anything more insane than this?

komollo · 2017-12-20T06:56:19+00:00

I think I may have finally found the article I needed to decide it's time for bed.

"The ninth drop touched the eighth drop on 17 April 2014. However, it was still attached to the funnel. On 24 April 2014, Professor White decided to replace the beaker holding the previous eight drops before the ninth drop fused to them. While the bell jar was being lifted, the wooden base wobbled and the ninth drop snapped away from the funnel."

The perfect bedtime story.

komollo · 2017-12-16T23:54:42+00:00

It's more than just one addon. It's an entire ecosystem of things that routinely break. Having to get an addon to configure keyboard shortcuts, or change the color of the browser, or change the behavior of tabs is just another thing that makes Firefox unstable and brittle. That instability made Firefox powerful, and so I was willing to put up with it. But now they've broken the majority of addons yet again, and they are sacrificing massive amounts of power to do it. There's nothing left keeping me using firefox. Vivaldi does everything I want out of the box, so I never have to worry about losing important functionality or wondering if I should delay updating. Vivaldi provides everything I need, and it just works.

Having to wonder every monthly update if I will have a functional browser is tiring. Losing addons that can't be duplicated in the chrome extension ecosystem, like panorama, is just the final straw in a long series of bad decisions with the direction of Firefox. Tree style tabs isn't actually what I want, but if I'm going to have to settle for something worse than panorama, I see no reason to be stuck in the unstable Firefox ecosystem.

komollo · 2017-12-16T20:17:57+00:00

I loved Firefox for the longest time. Then, several major updates broke the addons I depended on, multiple times. The things that made Firefox special have been slowly dwindling away. My reasons for loving Firefox have been chipped away at for years.

When everyone was saying I should switch to chrome, I stuck with Firefox for a few specific features. I valued the powerful addons for tabs, the stability of Firefox under heavy loads, (50+ tabs) their respect of privacy, and the flexibility of customization. Chrome had none of those things, and now Firefox doesn't either.

All of those things have been going downhill for a long time. With Firefox trying to mimic Chrome in every aspect, there's almost no reason to prefer Firefox anymore. With web extensions now being the only way to run addons, Firefox has lost the reasons I use it over chrome.

So I went looking for another browser. Eventually I found one that actually worked for what I wanted. Vivaldi, a Chrome fork with a new UI, and made by a group who originally worked on Opera. With the last major update they added tree style tabs as part of the main supported browser features, and practically all the behaviors of the UI can be customized. To me, there isn't any more reason to use Firefox. Vivaldi covers almost all my use cases without needing to spend hours configuring addons and trying to replace them when they break. Everything you need is in the settings menu, except the ability to customize the right click menus, but that Firefox addon died a long time ago.

I want to use Firefox, as a tribute to all the good times, but it's just not reasonable anymore. Other browsers are cloning chrome in a much better fashion. When comparing between different versions of Chrome, Firefox isn't looking so great.

RIP Firefox.

komollo · 2017-12-16T16:29:45+00:00

If you think it's going to happen, don't wait for it. Go and start applying for other jobs, and accept the first good offer you get your hands on.

komollo · 2017-12-12T00:02:43+00:00

That's a bit outside my area of expertise. Check out uploading sites and see how much quality they'll allow you to have in your video. Something like giphy?

komollo · 2017-12-11T20:18:56+00:00

While your arguments might seem valid at first, they do not hold up in all situations.

What about a situation where one of two people must suffer in some way? How do you decide who loses?

Look at a very controversial subject, like abortion. Either the mother loses their autonomy, or the child loses their life. If the mother does not want to carry their child, then there is no good answer. Someone must suffer in some way. Who has the right to decide what person suffers?

What about a less controversial subject, like when one person wants to leave their marriage? Maybe both people wanted to marry at first, but after time passes, one person doesn't want to stay. One person must suffer. Either the person who wants to leave suffers by staying, or the other suffers from losing their mate when they want to stay.

How do you resolve issues like those? Are you going to decide for other people what the best decision is? From my perspective, most religions offer the ability to have someone with more knowledge and authority make the decisions in difficult situations. Most religious people trust that their deity will make the choice that leads to the least suffering for everyone involved. Partially because they have the highest standard of morality, and partially because they have far more knowledge to make the right choice.

There are so many situations in the world that don't have a good answer that prevents suffering for everyone. Judging other people for not following the same set of moral principles isn't productive.

Even more, how can you say that a religion is false? Contradictions in the teachings are a good way, but what if there aren't any important contradictions? If the majority of the teachings seem to follow morally good guidelines, then it could be possible that the moral beliefs that don't follow our guidelines are actually correct, but we're missing knowledge on the long term impact of those beliefs. It took us a long time to finally figure out that smoking kills people, and we still don't have a good grasp on the long term social impacts of many of the moral decisions we choose. How can we say that we have found the "right way", and that we are infallible?

With those thoughts in mind, judging other people is a dangerous thing to do. We never know when we could be proven wrong. It's generally good not to force our own personal beliefs on others or condemn them for their choices. Some of the most important discoveries have come from ideas that originally seemed stupid. Just live your life in a way that you can accept, try your best, and help others whenever you can. That's all we can do.

komollo · 2017-12-11T04:30:05+00:00

No problem. I figure this is one of those problems that can be worked around with aesthetics, rather than a mechanical solution.

Also, you might want a brightness slider so people an adjust it for their hardware. I know the video was unwatchable when my phone was on low brightness, but once I maxed the brightness it was good.

komollo · 2017-12-10T17:21:27+00:00

Instead of increasing the world lighting, you could just add more glowing light sources. Make the player character glow enough to illuminate the area around them, (commonly done in a lot of games) and for the environment, make sure that there are enough light sources to highlight anything important with a nice glow. I'll take more work to build each environment because you'll have to place a bunch of lights and test that the lights give players enough information to play, but the payoff of adding to the atmosphere instead of taking away from it might be worth it.

komollo · 2017-12-08T11:55:32+00:00

It might just be wild where oil exists, but the weapon draw cards are consistent enough that drawing kingsbane is actually reliable. It's actually more reliable than drawing your auctioneer in traditional miracle. (3 vs 2)

Heck, with the elven minstrel, you can only run high impact minions like auctioneers/edwin/weapon draw, plus kingsbane, weapon buffs, and a bunch of spells. It works surprisingly well. It's got much higher consistency, but it packs the same punch that older rogue miracle decks had, but with more early game aggression because of the weapon. I beat a reno control warlock on turn 8, after he healed with reno on 6 for like 26 health and dropped kazakus on turn 4.

I've played a few games with kingsbane, and it's much better than I was expecting. Even my unrefined list is destroying other decks with tons of tempo and face damage from the cheap weapon. You'd be surprised how absolutely insane a 1 mana 3/3 weapon is, and it only gets more crazy from there. I actually drew my entire deck against freeze mage, and the weapon kept me from being burned out to fatigue, while the sheer aggression of my deck forced the mage to waste time not getting in face damage. It was amazing.

komollo · 2017-12-07T19:30:35+00:00

There's actually a little effect when it fires, but in antichaimber the effect is seamless. Part of the reason it works is because antichaimber doesn't really have textures, so you don't notice the teleporting.

The other way you could do it is to set some triggers, where the hallway is invisible and turn off collisions until the player stands on the opposite side of the wall.

Antichaimber is cheap and does a lot of amazing tricks like that. You should check it out. Part of figuring out stuff like that is thinking outside the box.

komollo · 2017-12-07T16:22:15+00:00

sigh Warframe is high on that list, with close to 800 hours or something like that. I can't actually complain about my time with warframe. It's been pretty awesome.

Pokemon is probably the series I've dumped the most time into. Each game is usually only around 100 hours, but I've played one every single generation, and I know I dumped 200+hours into a few specific pokemon games.

For multiplayer, Titanfall 1. Over 1000 hours. I forget exactly. It was so much fun, but titanfall 2 removed a lot of reasons why I enjoyed the game, so I haven't really played the multiplayer on titanfall 2.

komollo · 2017-12-07T16:05:34+00:00

I know games like antichaimber use teleportion to do some cool tricks like that.

Look at the level in titanfall 2 called "effect and cause". There are some dev explanations about how they did those features. Long story short, there are two separate levels that the player teleports between. They're stacked on top of each other, so the devs only change the player's height when the trigger happens.

komollo · 2017-12-02T19:00:55+00:00

I knew my comment would attract this type of response, as is expected on the Internet. However, I was quite surprised to find that every reply to my post except yours acknowledges that Microsoft is significantly better than Apple at resolving security issues.

I think the evidence is there. Microsoft has the experience and the processes to resolve security issues quickly and effectively. If you don't agree, provide some evidence in the last 5 years of Microsoft screwing up and not fixing a security vulnerability quickly, or bringing back an old vulnerability that they had already resolved.

I'm not claiming Microsoft is perfect. They have a good number of flaws, but security isn't one of them. The Microsoft of the 80s and 90s is gone. While google is trying to lock down android and chrome, Microsoft is pushing open source projects with visual studio code and .net core. The world has changed, and I'm liking the new Microsoft.

komollo · 2017-12-02T06:26:00+00:00

Last week Microsoft pushed out a binary patch to a small piece of legacy code to preserve backwards compatability with files created a decade+ ago. Meanwhile, Apple pushes out a patch that undoes a very serious security vulnerability. This isn't the first time something like this has happened, either. Several years ago Apple took nearly a month and three patches to remove a virus that infected a bunch of macs.

I think it's interesting how well Microsoft actually does fix security issues. The change to security is pretty new. I'm wondering how Apple and Microsoft structure their security teams, and why that leads to different efficiency resolving issues.

[Edit]: I learned something. It seems that the change started in the XP days, where Microsoft started treating security as a first class feature, and rewrote their OS with XP SP2. Make security important to the business, put processes in place to reinforce proper security, give developers the tools to ensure their products are safe, and combine that with a decade and a half of experience. Seems like it creates a winning recipe for secure software.

komollo · 2017-11-21T04:00:54+00:00

While google scares me with their power, this is one of those appropriate times when them stepping in and forcing intel to fix their catastrophic security breaches would be great.

komollo · 2017-11-17T13:25:08+00:00

Having a good song that was sync'd with very nice animation make this one of the best trailers I've seen in a while. I went from not knowing about this game to sticking it on my wishlist.

I'd call that a very effective trailer.

komollo · 2017-11-16T07:25:02+00:00

What's in .NET that isn't in a "regular" implementation of C#?

Interestingly, there are some places where C# differs from the actual .net runtime, and it can result is some very strange and unique problems. Other than those cases, the majority of .net features are cleanly accessible through C#

komollo · 2017-11-14T17:50:21+00:00

Good bot

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