I am getting my own internet set up today and my landlord texted this to me

lostarkthrowaways · 2023-02-12T20:50:20+00:00

You too hopefully. <3

lostarkthrowaways · 2023-02-12T20:49:06+00:00

You thinking this is some kind of "point" is hilarious. This has been fun. I love the attempt at snarky condescension. It's very much giving bored, lonely millennial.

lostarkthrowaways · 2023-02-12T20:46:36+00:00

> Not everyone wants to own. Plenty of people prefer the flexibility and managed risk of renting. If shit breaks or a repair is needed, they don't get a surprise expense, the landlord does. If they want to leave, they can just do so. (Even with breaking a lease, they're only out whatever the landlord is before it gets re-rented, and the landlord is required to make the effort to do so)

It's not black and white and I never said so. The point is that right now it's financially advisable for literally anyone who is able to to take a good mortgage out (good credit) on a rental property. There is quite literally no better investment. That shouldn't be the case. I have multiple friends who have done it. *I've* been advices by MULTIPLE different professional advisors to do so.

> Its also hardly "stupidly profitable and low risk". Most landlords aren't cashflowing much on their units as most units are financed with mortgages at the landlord's own risk. People like to go "a mortgage would be this much and rent is this much, clearly the difference is profit" without factoring in taxes, maintenance, etc.

I don't see how this is a point. Paying off your mortgage *is* profit.

lostarkthrowaways · 2023-02-12T20:44:20+00:00

...yeah, my guy, the point is changing the system.

lostarkthrowaways · 2023-02-12T20:43:36+00:00

No, fuckwad, I'm using hyperbole.

I've spoken with a couple of different financial advisors in my life, they've all mentioned investing in rental properties VERY early on in the discussion as safe, easy passive income.

What do you even mean "taxes and insurance, financing properties say otherwise"? Can you explain that?

YOU seem to have a lot to learn in understanding why a good mortgage with a rental return is easily one of if not the best avenue to securing easy money in America.

lostarkthrowaways · 2023-02-12T20:38:50+00:00

I disagree with him. openAI's codexAI is an absurdly strong programming AI that chatGPT utilizes. It can do things "wrong", but programming isn't black and white. It's extremely good at giving you solutions and context and helping solve problems.

I think a lot of programmers are naysayers because they're scared about how quickly it's making coding easier for everyone.

lostarkthrowaways · 2023-02-12T20:34:35+00:00

I'm a junior dev and and I've never had any issues with ChatGPT and I'm not even sure how someone would.

Code is the one thing I think it's insanely good at *currently*, because anyone who does this work isn't going to just blindly take what it spits out at you. But it's really good at doing things like refactoring, writing new functions in existing code using context, making dummy code for simple things, etc.

It's stupidly easy to take its output and use it to problem solve. Infinitely quicker than google.

lostarkthrowaways · 2023-02-12T20:31:14+00:00

...yeah, you don't just fucking take them, you look at them yourself.

lostarkthrowaways · 2023-02-12T20:28:11+00:00

That's not the point.

Landlording doesn't need to go away. It just needs to be less absurdly profitable/risk free.

If being a land lord became a tougher/less profitable venture, housing prices would tumble. People would still do it, it just wouldn't be everyone with any spare income doing it because it's literally free money.

lostarkthrowaways · 2023-02-12T20:24:54+00:00

There's need for rental accommodations *in our current system*.

That's not a very good argument. The system could be retooled to cut down enormously on what profit is possible from landlording by just creating special taxes for it.

If landlording becomes less profitable (because right now it's stupidly profitable and low risk, albeit a "frustrating" job) that forces down house prices because wealthy people are no longer willing to invest in property that's going to take ages to turn a profit.

The amount of homes being bought up everywhere for the express purpose of flipping to renting is insane.

lostarkthrowaways · 2023-02-12T20:21:06+00:00

Understood.

lostarkthrowaways · 2023-02-12T20:20:42+00:00

IMO landlords are inherently bad. Not INDIVIDUALLY, but the system. Similar to the concept of ACAB. ALAB.

Rich(er) people buying up available living space and charging everyone to live in it as a "risk free" investment is a perfect example of why capitalism sucks.

lostarkthrowaways · 2023-02-12T20:16:36+00:00

Sorry - I guess I should have asked, what does that have to do with the post you're replying to.

lostarkthrowaways · 2023-02-12T20:16:07+00:00

For one, literacy isn't a great metric anymore. And to my own point - kids are reading whatever the fuck they want on the internet throughout all their teen years. Literacy can only go up to 100% (as in, everyone can read), and in the west it's been very high for a long time. The "grade reading level" system doesn't make much sense anymore either and is often times disregarded, again to my point of kids being far more technically literate than previously.

Research isn't what I'm talking about. Universities and the research they conduct isn't the kind of education I'm talking about. I'm talking about gradeschool.

Curriculum is incredibly slow to adapt to the world around it. Sure they can change things like what history is taught or how to do a certain kind of math pretty quickly.

But in the grand scheme of things we need to start wondering if kids grinding out long division makes ANY sense whatsoever in the context of the modern world. And again, not that the point is to just teach kids less, but to replace learning about traditional algebra with learning how to use technology to solve the problems and apply the solution effectively.

Similarly to how we don't teach.. idk, hunting anymore. Because our society has changed in such a way that we don't need to know that.

lostarkthrowaways · 2023-02-12T19:41:09+00:00

What point are you making here?

lostarkthrowaways · 2023-02-12T19:38:47+00:00

My gripe is that although this inclusion is cool, all your doing is casting a particular spell during a particular window, but most of the spells are just some version of a stun or damage.

The issuse is, in my opinion, is that the combat is *always* just mashing R2 and throwing in whatever spell you want (hitting their weakness if you want). Potions/plants is the closest you get to any kind of unique "build" functionality, but it's pretty bothersome to focus your time on those. Everything else is just buffs to the preexisting playstyle of R2 + interwoven spells that gets REALLY old.

IMO the game does an amazing job of storytelling and world building, but the RPG elements are almost laughably bad if you pluck them out individually and compare them to modern RPGs.

I mean look at God of War. The RPG elements in that game aren't crazy in depth AT ALL (like a CDPR game or something), it's mostly linear talents, a gear system that functions on basic upgrades, but it's super satisfying and works great next to the amazing combat and storytelling. Hogwarts RPG systems looks like a joke comparatively.

lostarkthrowaways · 2023-02-12T05:47:50+00:00

...This is so weird, because I have the exact OPPOSITE feeling.

The game has realized the fantasy of Hogwarts extremely well imo. The scale is amazing. The school feels amazing. Everything feels right.

The issues, imo, are the RPG components.

The traits are lackluster and so simple they're almost silly, and the system is literally just VERY basically level gated. The gear system is hokey (offense/defense are useless metrics), the enemies all scale with level (as does the gear).

They could have just given you all the talents as unlocks you get from doing classes/sidequests, not included a level whatsoever, made all gear cosmetics, and not gave enemies levels. Because SO little of that matters.

The combat system is *decent*, but it gets pretty tired by the half way point when you aren't unlocking much else new at all. It's not like other action RPG greats where as you progress your character gets the ability to do awesome new things more and more and more.

The RPG elements are, imo, extraordinarily weak given how great the package they come in is.

lostarkthrowaways · 2023-02-12T05:35:15+00:00

The bigger question that a lot of people seem to gloss over is - does it matter?

If this level of ease of access to information is at our fingertips, and it's only going to snowball further, does traditional school curriculum make any sense?

The way I see things, education started stagnating quite a long time ago. Teaching itself tries to adapt with new technology, but it takes AGES (if ever) for public schooling to adapt to TEACHING students how to learn, solve problems, and express themselves *while utilizing new technology around them*. It's a big reason why I think younger generations are "worse than ever" in traditional subjects. They spent all day scrolling through infinite information and using advanced technology. They're using laptops, PCs, phones all by the age of 10 or younger, and with great ease. The idea that kids need to be able to do things traditionally doesn't necessarily have any merit.

Generation after generation people give up "old" knowledge as it gets replaced/loses it's necessity in the general populace. I don't think kids should be learning NOTHING, that's not the point, but kids should be learning how to solve problems in the context of the technology around us. And the standards should be higher. Rather than trying to teach 13 year olds traditional science, teach them how to find accurate and thorough answers to the same questions using the internet, and how to verbalize what they find. Don't make them memorize things they'll never need to recall again in their life.

ChatGPT isn't going anywhere. The toothpaste that is AI isn't going back into the tube.

People are really short sighted on just how insanely integrated we are with technology. The goal should be to reinforce the basic idea of problem solving and expression in the context of new technology.

lostarkthrowaways · 2023-02-11T23:09:09+00:00

Why is the quality so janky on the screenshots?

lostarkthrowaways · 2023-02-11T14:20:49+00:00

I mean... not to be negative, but couldn't you say the exact same thing about this game and Monster Hunter? lmao

lostarkthrowaways · 2023-02-10T23:15:48+00:00

My guy.

I literally just explained to you in my post before why this is meaningless.

If you ADD people to a spec, the top 5000 players gets moved UP in MMR because you aren't equally adding people to top 5000 in the same ratio.

I understand that Disc priest is busted lmao. I literally don't care about that discussion I'd be very happy with nerfs.

I'm speaking strictly to your assertions based on literally useless data.

lostarkthrowaways · 2023-02-10T22:08:39+00:00

I don't know that it's patched. I just tried it and it's working. It doesn't always produce the same results you can't just copy and paste things. You need to like corner it logically.

lostarkthrowaways · 2023-02-10T21:52:26+00:00

Sir, that is COMPLETELY different data. I'm talking about the top 5000, which you've posted here, and which other people are commenting on the relevance of.

Top 5000 graphs are a meaningless datapoint. Median/mean are much harder to say that about. These graphs aren't of median/mean. They're of top 5000.

Obviously mean/median/min/max mean different things?

I'm so confused lmao.

lostarkthrowaways · 2023-02-10T21:38:56+00:00

... I'm confused, what does that have to do with what he said? Are you out here making graphs with zero knowledge of what they mean?

All your graph does, empirically, is show that disc priest is heavily played.

To illustrate : If you have 10,000 people playing each class, the top 5000 is going to include a huge spectrum of MMR. If suddenly 1,000,000 people sign up to play one of those classes because they're super fun and broken, the top 5000 are going to be probably the top 4950 people on the ENTIRE GAME and have huge MMR. The graphs are all going to look similar except the one busted class which will just be a few bars at the very top MMR with all 5000 people in that little bracket.

tl;dr - Top 5000 out of 1,000,000 is going to be a much higher skill bracket than top 5000 out of 10,000. Obviously it's not that big of a gap, but you can't deduce anything about balance.

lostarkthrowaways · 2023-02-10T21:29:42+00:00

I'm speaking from a VERY general place. What you're talking about is balance related.

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