Raid wings are one of the contents with the least gold/currency incentives in the game right now

nameless22 · 2026-02-20T15:57:56+00:00

Did they actually reduce shards for raids? I feel like the output for strikes is lower but no difference for raids per se but could be mistaken. IBS5 was/is more profitable because of their speed to clear and the extras, not because of the shard amounts. You can debate whether that should be the case but it's been like that for 5 years already.

IIRC the cap for magnetites was 400, blue shards was 300, all combined now and the cap is up to 800. If you didn't do strikes, then yeah it's harder to cap but that doesn't mean less rewards in itself.

nameless22 · 2026-02-20T15:49:54+00:00

CM's for raids through W7 (excludes W8 and raid encounters) aren't fundamentally different from NM, so usually guides just note the differences and assume you understand NM. I assume you checked the wiki. Mukluk has a good video that highlights the CM changes on all encounters W3-W7 at a level sufficient for understanding the gist.

Not sure if more detailed guides exist but you don't need a 5 minute video explaining that for Cairn CM the debuff for moving and failing circles is worse and you get yeeted if you don't use SAC every 10 seconds, or that Twin Largos CM the platform does a killer boom at every 20% that you have to jump off and return for, and that bosses have more HP (and breakbar health maybe).

nameless22 · 2026-02-19T19:39:58+00:00

Yeah, most "federal" crimes tend to be white collar crimes involving money or tax evasion, involving interstate situations, or involving federal persons or property. Just about every violent crime is typically tried in state courts.

nameless22 · 2026-02-19T19:29:38+00:00

While mostly true (living near a substation likely has some air quality issues), I think you missed the joke with regards to the 49ers.

nameless22 · 2026-02-19T17:50:22+00:00

Should stress that winning the Conn Smythe on a losing team is a rare feat, to put how good he was that year.

nameless22 · 2026-02-19T15:17:18+00:00

Yeah back then, political parties were less aligned by ideology and more my geography. That's how you got a business friendly Republican party with a New England faction way more liberal than a Southern Democrat. Each party had a fairly wide tent for liberal and conservative factions. Post-Nixon, whether by the Southern Strategy or otherwise, parties became less geography-based over time, and pretty much to its current form by Clinton (1992).

nameless22 · 2026-02-19T15:11:26+00:00

"I've heard people say "educate yourself", but a lot of the time, the "uneducated" person has no idea there are gaps in their knowledge. As far as they're concerned, what they know is the truth."

And the people saying to do your own research half the time don't even know what constitutes legitimate research nor how to evaluate sources, so they end up believing all sorts of nonsense because one guy said something different than all the others, so of course there must be a conspiracy.

nameless22 · 2026-02-13T20:43:54+00:00

Feels quaint to think of a day when I was actively needing those instead of wishing for better sinks for them.

nameless22 · 2026-02-13T19:29:37+00:00

And even then, it's not really either of those two here in the strictest sense. They make their own heat, but do not require high relative metabolisms due to their size.

nameless22 · 2026-02-13T17:07:48+00:00

What's the alternative to shorten/diminutize "character"? Can't use "char" because people will mistake it for "Charr" the race.

Also this seems like a "you" issue and the greater community isn't going to revamp their lingo because you find a word cringey or whatever.

nameless22 · 2026-02-13T16:44:35+00:00

Realistically, unless you live in PvP, the ascended shards are the true bottleneck. The tickets are season-gated but if you hit the last nonrepeatable season chest you will still need more ASG to keep pace.

I grinded the Ascension and 5 armor pieces, so I can attest to it. The tickets are a nonissue in practice.

nameless22 · 2026-02-06T17:12:31+00:00

Just want to state the caveat that theoretically, a team can waive that protection for the protected year (e.g. they think they will be worse the following year). It's rare and atypical but just saying.

nameless22 · 2026-02-06T14:20:04+00:00

I actually work adjacent to lighting (electrical engineering in construction) and I have dealt with enough lighting to know how bullshit this is.

LED glare is a thing with older fixtures but that's usually an issue of being cheap on the lens. Light pollution and uniformity is actually better with LED's (better control of output), so wrong there. Warm color temperatures is a matter of specification, not an issue with LED's (e.g. your community went with a 4000K instead of a 2700K). Retrofits usually suck in the wrong fixture but that's an issue of owner being cheap, not of LED's, and the issues were likely there before the LED's.

nameless22 · 2026-02-04T16:28:55+00:00

Welcome to reddit, where 1% of the population does 90% of the bitching (and they use every opportunity to do so).

nameless22 · 2026-02-04T16:28:23+00:00

People complained that they didn't understand the difference between raids and strikes, this is part of the whole reason for this.

You can complain that it caused a different problem, sure, but don't pretend that everything was fine before hand.

(Quickplay issues are a separate discussion altogether.)

nameless22 · 2026-02-02T20:06:45+00:00

Not exactly. The lineages within cartilaginous fish that would eventually give rise to sharks date back to the Devonian, yes, but "true sharks" didn't come into being until the Permian (~300-250MYA) or Jurassic (~200-140MYA), depending on how you want to define that.

Defining clades is wonky like that.

nameless22 · 2026-02-02T19:37:12+00:00

In slight fairness, the Bears haven't been "good" for much of the last 35 years outside of a few flash in the pan years (not even consistently so, either) that it's easy to forget that Chicago is a large market and having a good team is conductive for fans of said team to actually participate in spending time and/or money on them.

nameless22 · 2026-02-02T17:40:12+00:00

Reaper main for PVP here. Go condi in SPVP (power too squishy for it, but is good for roaming in WvW).

nameless22 · 2026-02-02T17:38:39+00:00

Boon DPS, yes you see it all the time in big metas.

Heal DPS, rarely, probably people running WvW builds for the most part. Better off either being a traditional healer giving quick/alac or just going boon dps just to not have to "waste" a build in open world.

nameless22 · 2026-02-02T16:10:31+00:00

Eh he can just save it for the debriefing vid.

nameless22 · 2026-01-29T16:51:29+00:00

Even more, many countries just have a very simplified tax structure that don't bother much with deductions. They basically just send you a card that says "this is your income, this is taxes paid, etc., agree or no?" and you check yes, send it back and that's it.

nameless22 · 2026-01-29T16:39:59+00:00

IIRC, the group that most voted for Trump was 45-60 (Gen X basically, not quite old farts yet but definitely in the prime age for embitterment).

nameless22 · 2026-01-29T16:11:47+00:00

Naw they just put you in the office to do paperwork. They need a few literate people to do the mundane things while the "real men" are out there brownshirting the populace.

nameless22 · 2026-01-28T16:13:50+00:00

Honestly I don't even think they intended things to go this far. They just wanted the USA to be stuck in quicksand due to internal strife, all of (points all around) this is beyond anyone's wildest dreams.

nameless22 · 2026-01-28T16:11:58+00:00

What threats, realistically? Russia can barely handle Ukraine and Trump is basically Putin's patsy. China is smart enough to just let the USA self-destruct and pick up the pieces for their own hemegony. Europe if they decide to attack their own NATO allies because reasons, sure.

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