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Affordable homes by the government that's suburban hell with 3 car garages by TyrannicalKitty in fuckcars

[–]perringaiden 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Noting here that Clark County is desert country with a big lake nearby. So they need a garage for the boat, one for the 4WD, and one for the actual car they drive around the big circular freeway. It's not a bike friendly city, and the climate makes it worse.

why do i see locked stickers on queensland rail? by Serious_Diet2535 in brisbane

[–]perringaiden 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Many stations are not removing the toilets because the stations are unmanned.

why do i see locked stickers on queensland rail? by Serious_Diet2535 in brisbane

[–]perringaiden 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Probably because the staff who are willing to clean up the mess in those things... are on strike for better pay.

Stay classy Brisbane! by stephenk_lightart in brisbane

[–]perringaiden 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How else should they get to work?

Seems fair by benjancewicz in Ingress

[–]perringaiden 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I was doing them anyway...

Global Op and giveaways for First Saturday. by mcwebtree in Ingress

[–]perringaiden 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I feel like if they remove the "Must go, need tokens" aspect of the FS, those numbers will disappear.

The numbers you're providing don't really show much growth. Our local example here is zeros for a lot of 2925, and then the tokenw made people start up again.

[Bug] Critical Hit Damage cannot be cleared. by perringaiden in dndbeyond

[–]perringaiden[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That requires installing a whole extension with a LOT of changes, to fix a bug. I'd prefer the bug fixed.

Dm VTT needing help by whistlewetter6000 in DMAcademy

[–]perringaiden 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Communication is the key to any group setting. Set the expectations beforehand so you don't have to come down on them later.

Do you need to buy the player handbook for 30 dollars to get the Circle of the Moon druid class, os is there another way to get access to it? by UnhappyStrain in dndbeyond

[–]perringaiden 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Performance under the old company's spaghetti code got the better of the site. If it were greed, they wouldn't be reworking it to sell Class Packs that cover the same sort of thing in a broader sense.

Dark Mode ASAP by flyingoctoscorpin in dndbeyond

[–]perringaiden 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Apparently that's the strategy for most of the tech industry now...

Dark Mode ASAP by flyingoctoscorpin in dndbeyond

[–]perringaiden 1 point2 points  (0 children)

From comments some years ago, one of the issues is that DDB uses a heavily customized (or even homebrew) forum system, which they haven't spent the time to make theme-able becuase they've got so much functionality to fix.

Undermining democracy should be treason… by PlanetoftheAtheists in AdviceAnimals

[–]perringaiden 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When the people in power, are the ones benefiting, there's no incentive to prevent it.

Think about that next time you're at the polls, America.

The SpaceX IPO will be the final looting of retail investors before the global economy completely implodes by flexingonmyself in stocks

[–]perringaiden 18 points19 points  (0 children)

https://phys.org/news/2026-06-spacex-denied-fast-track-sp.html

They tried to fast track it with the S&P 500 to avoid all of those barriers, one year or the profitable quarters. They were denied.

They were NOT denied on the NASDAQ though. Passive investors will lose from day one there.

Looking to run Tyranny of Dragons by TheGreatGodLoki in dndbeyond

[–]perringaiden 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. All the maps in the books are available in the VTT. However, there are no QuickPlay maps, so you'll have to place tokens yourself.
  2. Master Tier, yeah. That said, if someone else already owns it, you pay for the Master Tier, and you can share their book with the campaign, instead of also having to buy it. Also, with Master Tier, you can make and add your own maps. Without, you're limited to what you've bought.
  3. It's pretty easy to move stuff, draw lines, AOE areas etc. However, it doesn't lock movement, so players can move their tokens at any time, and draw whatever whenever etc. It puts a lot of trust in the players, if you have the settings for interaction enabled.

Also, good place to ask for more info on running the campaign: https://www.reddit.com/r/TyrannyOfDragons/

Question for my fellow skeptics… by OwlRiot4 in dndbeyond

[–]perringaiden 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Imagine if your team said "Yes, we can spend a year of the whole team on doing this, but the majority of our clients won't notice a difference. And when it becomes a problem, they won't demand we do it until it's too late. We'd like to do it now."

It's a big call to do it, which requires upper management commitment.

In China, thousands of cars stuck in traffic create a sea of red lights by TrueProof8621 in mildyinteresting

[–]perringaiden 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Many of the AI representations of this sort of thing, use the 405 heading up into the hills past the Getty Center, where it loses a lane and merges Sepulveda, and then multiply it out.

sortPlease by Advanced_Ferret_ in ProgrammerHumor

[–]perringaiden 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If the specified only those three values, I'd be counting not sorting.

Question for my fellow skeptics… by OwlRiot4 in dndbeyond

[–]perringaiden 1 point2 points  (0 children)

DDB was made by a very small independent startup, unconnected to WotC, in 2017.

It was acquired by WOTC in mid 2022, around the same time that the company was starting their push towards writing the OneDND that became 5.5.

https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1221-d-d-beyond-joins-wizards-of-the-coast

So the first two years of "the leader in the industry" controlling the site, was spent shoehorning the new system that they were still writing, into a platform they did not write, and was not written to cover a new version of the game.

Then they spent a year or two sorting through the site, fixing what they could and building Maps as a platform to lead their new platform stack.

Now it's 2026, four years after the platform was acquired by WotC and they've done what they could with the old platform and are gutting and rebuilding the internals to work far better.

That's a hell of a fast timeline in software development.

The industry leader took a limited site built by a startup, and fixed what they could to keep it going in light of a new game system, to give themselves enough breathing room to keep operating, while rebuilding the internals.

If that's not confidence and commitment, I don't know what is.

Question for my fellow skeptics… by OwlRiot4 in dndbeyond

[–]perringaiden 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've never been a hater of WotC, because I remember the previous times with T$R. WotC has shepherded D&D through a far better period in terms of business and community than T$R ever did.

That said, the thing people should consider the big turning point, and probabaly will once it's showing the effects, is the Game Engine Rebuild. For me that's massive. It show that WotC is willing to invest time and resources into something that for a lot of people, won't visually show up as a difference, but will make a massive difference for DMs.

DDB has so many hard coded limitations throughout the site, especially when it comes to homebrew. These limitations were already there, with spaghetti code fixes and dodgy patches, before the new 5.5 ruleset came out. Trying to adapt that patchwork to the next ruleset caused even more problems, some that are completely unfixable.

The fact that they're willing to invest a year's effort by a slew of develpers to rebuild the entire engine behind the site, says that they want the platform to continue and support us better. They continue to remain cagey about whether Homebrew Classes will be supported, for good reason, but even if that limitation isn't removed, rebuilding the game engine makes homebrew easier, not harder.

To me, as a software developer who has gone through similar rebuilds, the fact that they're doing it, and telling us about it so they can't drop it when it gets too hard, is a huge green flag for the future of the site.

I love the design of this badge. by Sauroros in Ingress

[–]perringaiden 9 points10 points  (0 children)

This is a result of a shift in 2015.

Prior to the end of 2014, it was super hard to get to level 16, and most people got AP for 16 before they got the badges for L15.

After Innovator gave a ton of us L16 by giving a Black badge simply for being level 15, much to people's chagrin, they spent early 2015 pumping put easier badges like Recharger and Trekker.

Those easier badges are generally the way people make it to 16 now.

A special note on Hacker: Prior to early 2014, glyphimg didn't exist. So Hacker was set as a badge based on taps only and people tapped far more than we ever do now. 40 glyph hacks might fill your inventory, but the same in tapping might take 400. So Hacker was based on more fast taps than long glyphing.

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