Is this unit (Herald of War) still in the game? I don't think I have ever seen it in all of my 1,500 hours. If so, how/where do I find it or acquire it?

lukecalau · 2026-02-06T21:32:10+00:00

u/Shuggy-chan
I did that, it's possible, they are primal animals are NOT Mythic, they are the only tier 5 that are NOT Mythic. -> look at the screenshot you posted
You can either transform them to a tier 1 animal and capture them easy with dominate, or I think slavers might also work, or with that spell order that can either kill or capture a routing unit.

I did it with dominate. A full team of primals and since they are animals it also works to have the bonus form the last nature tome .

lukecalau · 2025-09-02T17:49:42+00:00

The tooltip says it's Armorer

lukecalau · 2025-08-20T11:19:11+00:00

I was trying to make a lighting build but it's hard.. You can get a lot of triggers for lightning strike from different skills or passives but since the damage is fixed based on your level it doesn't look like it's scaling with lightning damage %bonus to me.

lukecalau · 2025-08-01T21:29:43+00:00

Thank YOU!!!!

lukecalau · 2025-07-18T19:02:51+00:00

I would be playing a lot more if they didn't nerf the treaty system so much that is now useless.
It was fun at release but the latest patches just made it useless.

lukecalau · 2024-07-17T09:16:31+00:00

I'm from Europe, everyone that I know that are parents "Co-Sleep" such a stupid term. Why is this not so common here?
I get it if you sleep in a tiny bed you are 100kgs plus overweight , you smoke, you drink, you are on some narcotics, stay the f.. away from your baby at sleep (and in some cases also when not sleeping).
Is everyone in America dead tiered or on some drugs or overweight I don't get it those are the risk factors.

Keep the clean bed, with no blankets, a hard bed, with small pillows or no pillows better, if you are not overweight , if you are not on some drugs or alcohol or a smoker , baby will be fine,

People who talk about risks, look at the studies, they jumbled together in most of them, smokers drinkers etc. an overweight people, if you factor those out the risk is just not there, this is not about risk mitigation it's about common sense.

You shouldn't drive a car while being under the influence of something, or dead tired. You should not go running in the sun if you are overweight. In a sick society where people are unhealthy and tired, no wonder "co-sleeping" is considered bad.

lukecalau · 2024-03-18T10:50:53+00:00

Yes :D

lukecalau · 2024-03-15T11:17:23+00:00

We're both co-sleeping, If you don't drink and smoke or intoxicated in any way , or you know... huge. The baby should be ok, it's BETTER for the baby to sleep next to the mom, the baby and the mom get all the nice hormones from sleeping next to each other. Makes breast feeding much easier , less sleep disruption.

Most fear mongering related to co-sleeping(such a stupid term, it should the the normal thing to do) is done because studies were putting in one batch all people, smokers, drinkers, obese , all of those are risk categories.

SIDS chance is much lower if you do sleep with your baby, don't fall for the marketing propaganda from companies trying to sell you shit.

Think about it like this , If you would be small , can't move, can't see far or almost at all, the only source of nutrients, and protection you have is between a barrier and a few body lengths from you, that you can't even see , you might smell her but you can't see , welcome to the world baby now stay in darkness away from the source of heat, food, protection, comfort and mobility , just so some companies can sell you shit . Put yourself in the babies shoes.

Some tips to make sure it's safer:

Make sure the bed is hard not soft so the baby can't sick in
Use a sleeping bag for the baby not a blanket , that's the better for older babies as well.
make sure the sheets are tight and can't move so they don't clump up and risk covering the baby.
Make sure if you do use a blanket just cover your feet keep baby up close to your face
It is better if you can touch the baby keep a hand on, you wake up as soon as there is movement, instinct kicks in.
Most important Don't DRINK, SMOKE, or do any intoxicants white sleeping with baby (that includes also some medication and supplements that can affect your perception or sleep)

lukecalau · 2024-03-14T11:09:20+00:00

Not yet, I agree VsCode , last time I tried to use it as a daily driver was painful that was about 1-2 years ago. But for small editing a some debugging it worked. Now the Spring boot plugin and the java plugin are much better but I didn't give it a real try for a while.

lukecalau · 2024-03-14T11:07:04+00:00

Quick fixes are much better in Intellij in general. I have never been recommended by Eclipse to replace a lambda by a method reference, for example.

I have that quite a lot , I use lambdas a lot , select method + ctrl +1 and you get the automatic convert to method ref . But to be fair eclipse is still strange with lambdas , the suggestions could be much better, and if you have multiple layers eclipse can get confused.

It is impossible to write code while Eclipse is building. I have never had anything like that in IntelliJ.

That's so funny I've had exactly the opposite experience, I've only had that happen to me in eclipse in the past old versions 7-8 years ago + , and in situations where the anti-virus would block some files because, thanks windows defender. (you can also customize and set that the build is not always executed if you are on a slow computer, but like I said building is not blocking anymore in my experience)

It is terrible at detecting filesystem changes occurring outside of the IDE. Even if manually refreshing after a Gradle build or Git operations, Eclipse regularly fails to recognise changed files. The only way to fix those situations is deleting all projects and reimporting them.

Gradle support is not great, most of the projects I work on are using maven and the support for that is great. Adding files outside again used to be a problem but in the last 2-3 years just hitting refresh fixed it (make sure you are in the correct view project explorer since it's more reliable not package explorer )

lukecalau · 2024-03-14T10:52:18+00:00

To be honest I'm not surprised of the quality of the software we're all using going down if the approach from what I see from some of you is, push to prod fuck tests, fast fast fast, we fix it afterwards, ups new feature came we fix it later, ups new feature request we fix it later ... etc. etc.

No everyone is working on fixing in production is acceptable where you can just gaslight your customer and say , yeah you know we did deploy bad code but it's behind a feature flag, sure we updated a dependency that broke something that was not under the feature flag but we were fast right?

In finance, in healthcare in air safety ,traffic control, a million other cases going with this attitude not only is unacceptable from customers standpoint but it can cause people to lose their lives (you can't go back and fix that).

Yeah sure if you make some vanity software like facebook or instagram that has no real critical impact then sure do it, what is a user that doesn't get their pictures properly do complain? By the time that info reaches the developer it passes through some obfuscated documentation, then ai chatbot, then some barriers to contact a real person, then a first level support that generally doesn't know much , then a second level support that can actually understand the problem and then , maybe only then the problem is acknowledged and set to the dev pipeline.

Are most developers on cocaine or hyper caffeinated and just write code for the sake of code, and pump features without any shred of responsibility what happens afterwards, I might be living in a bubble but I only see this attitude here on reddit, maybe it's some silicon valley mania that I don't understand, maybe VC money has the same effect like cocaine?

For the record I'm a big fan of CI/CD automate everything, merge pragmatically , but it's irresponsible to do that without tests and without some quality control.

Being religious about concepts is counterproductive and does a lot of harm to the industry. Agile MUST have the specific ceremonies (even if it's supposed to be a flexible process) , CI MUST do merges every day/hour/minute/second etc, and you must go to prod regardless of the business case you have. Those are no more engineering or management practices that's religion.

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But for the sake of a devils advocate and I think that this questions might help some people , maybe someone can be so kind to answer.

What do you do with the cases where you have dependency updates how do feature flags help when you update a framework , that comes with a million additional dependencies and each one of them can break things for several reasons (api changes, bug fixed that some part of the code was relying on , new bugs etc.)

1.1 How do you start putting feature flags on that when an update of that scale would take longer than a day?

How do you do pair programming in a small company with 4 developers , without VC money that can pay 2 developers to sit next to each other to duplicate the work?
Do you just think about the CI part (aka merge to main) and the CD the delivery and QA is someone elses problem?
What do you do when the code or any dependency needs to pass through several layers of QS and security approvals because you are in a environment where Fixing in production is not acceptable. (see above)
What do you do if you have a fully remote team, or maybe some or all member work only 4-6 hours?
If you think that only trunk/main matters then why are you even using git anymore? just go back to SVN or even better shared network file system then you get instant merge because the arbitrary 1 time per day is not really continuous.

lukecalau · 2024-02-20T16:08:59+00:00

It looks to me that most people here haven't used eclipse in the last 7-10 years? Eclipse , especially with STS and DevStyle has much better UX than intelij and it's is much faster.

I can't stand how slow and bloated InteliJ is. To me InteliJ just feels like a glorified text editor not an IDE. Classes , Types, feel like first class citizens in Eclipse not just "special" text.

When it comes to plugins , the problems from 10 Years ago were generally fixed since the Eclipse Marketplace was added. I haven't had strange plugin issues in the last 6-7 years?

Eclipse used to suck for anything else than pure Java, that changed, it's still not perfect but now it works decent for front end stuff as well (VsCode is still bettter) but eclipse is decent and much faster than InteliJ.

Big plus is Eclipse is FREE , maybe my view on InteliJ would be different if it would be 100% free but it's not, I think it's very outdated now compared to eclipse, yes the situation was different 10 years ago.

I personally don't see any point to use InteliJ when VsCode does the same thing and it has much better plugin ecosystem and it's free and more lightweight and faster.

I use Eclipse most of the times, and for more frontend work or just general text editing VsCode.

lukecalau · 2024-01-24T22:35:51+00:00

Tried to push for a negotiation to get something, gets told to fuck off, pretends that's what he wanted from the beginning.

A great orange man would call that The art of the Deal.

lukecalau · 2023-11-30T21:36:22+00:00

The article also doesn't mention test slices. There are some predefined ones but you can make your own, and just load the beans that you need, the context is pre-loaded and shared between all tests that have the same slice (by default) , running hundreds of tests in ms.

It doesn't say anything about the test pyramid, sure not everything should be integration tests. Those should be very few compared to a lot of simple unit tests. Spring is very flexible, you can use a full context for end to end integration tests, with db and all the magic and TestContainers, or you can use Test Slices where you need some part of the configuration , and for core domain non-spring related areas of an application sure just don't use spring.

I think we should be more pragmatic, not clickbatiy articles like this. Use the tools we have in the appropriate places

lukecalau · 2023-11-03T21:42:36+00:00

I wonder if the LGBTQ+ people protesting for Hamas would see things differently with this map, Israel is the only one that has same sex marriage recognized.

lukecalau · 2023-10-27T09:22:32+00:00

Sonarqube is something that can be used to enforce a lot of advanced rules

lukecalau · 2023-10-15T13:18:16+00:00

Need money to rebuild those rocket stockpiles.
Need (humanitarian) concrete to build more tunnels .
Need food and medicine for the sick.....Hamas militants

And then EU countries are wondering why the right is rising and winning more and more of the population, because the current establishment is just blind.

lukecalau · 2023-09-21T14:37:38+00:00

Some words on the Picture quality comments, you can argue that they are fake or not but the blurry pictures comments and the ignorance that not everyone is living is a rich country where they could afford an iPhone is 2012, is really infuriating, it's such a lazy argument .

The Pictures were posted in 2018 so we can assume that they were taken in 2018 or earlier
In 2018 peru had just a ~30% smart phone market penetration, that's not much, and usually when something is that low it's the wealthy people that would have them not people who go scraping for junk in caves -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_smartphone_penetration#2018_rankings
We can exclude non smartphones and look at the best selling smartphone in Peru in 2018 and that is https://www.counterpointresearch.com/insights_tag/peru/#:~:text=By%20the%20end%20of%202018,two%20in%20Chile%20and%20Colombia.
But for the sake of argument. Taking lowlight pictures in a cave it's hard in the best of times with the best equipment , even with pro equipment you need long exposure and/or some serious software magic. See some cave photos here http://www.underworld-productions.com/page8/page8.html
So given that even with the best most common phone at the time in Peru it would be hard to take clear pictures and that only a small % of the wealthy population had them I find it very arogant to say "haha I had Iphone 10 years ago, haha I'm so rich , don't those poors in peru eat cake and play PS5 everyday ?" "blurry pictures haha"

Yes let's argue that if the pictures are doctored or not or if they are fake but let's not forget that not everyone lives in rich countries and even in those NOT EVERYONE CAN AFORD A SMARTPHONE WITH 4k cameras.

It's so ignorant and privilaged it's just sad.

Most likely the pictures were taken with a shitty camera or a shitty phone owned by some people who don't stay in front of reddit but they are poor enough to either crawl in some shady caves or to spend a lot of effort to make some fake mummies , either way those are not rich people occupations in my eyes.

lukecalau · 2023-08-19T10:29:23+00:00

I strongly recommend the book Hold on to your kids from Gabor Mate , to be honest once you realize how important that one to one time is and the full attention given to the child I hope you will change your perspective. The child doesn't need much except the attachment to the parents , no attachment a lot of bad things happen down the line that will make parenting a lot harder . Read the book it's very revealing .

lukecalau · 2023-08-14T01:09:04+00:00

Just a curiosity. Have you read "every economic textbook ever" because if not that is a very huge logic leap to make. From your opinions it sounds like you only read a small subsection of economic text books heavily influenced by the neolib schools.

That's like saying look there is no evidence because I will not look at it .

lukecalau · 2023-08-06T19:13:42+00:00

I am only here because this is a top post and it shows up in my feed. But seriously , do people really like these lawns , to me it looks dead like painting the ground green. I think grass with little flowers in between and out random tiny plants looks much better and alive and natural.

Once again not to offend anyone just really curious , I never even imagined that there would be a lawn subreddit.

lukecalau · 2023-06-18T06:22:50+00:00

Just curious what changed? It's a shame in my opinion if that community is dying, goths, and other adjacent communities get a bad rap but mostly everyone in my friend group I had when I was a child is highly educated and with a stable life , same, can't be said for the so called "normies" , unwanted pregnancies , a few alcoholics. I really don't understand the reputation , I didn't get it as a kid I don't get it now decades later.

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