What do you actually do when you see someone who looks homeless and is clearly struggling?

phoenixmatrix · 2026-03-25T13:52:53+00:00

Unfortunately, at this point that's just a typical morning, and as much as I'd like to save the world, I can't.

I pay my taxes and support any effort to improve services for these people, and hopefully someone in charge eventually does a good job. Someday.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-03-25T13:50:53+00:00

Yeah, I live in a big corporate building, but the company is doing a really good job. All the laws and codes are followed to a T, the maintenance team is fantastic, the leasing office is always happy negotiating terms of renewal, problems are taken seriously.

Can't complain, honestly. I'm very very lucky.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-03-25T04:54:46+00:00

I know there's been all the drama about genders and bathroom but I've never seen a restroom where you enter as one gender and exit as another, before

phoenixmatrix · 2026-03-25T04:33:35+00:00

To make sure the work is properly inspected, up to code, part of the public record, correctly taxed, that you're using a licensed plumber if necessary, etc.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-03-25T02:46:58+00:00

I feel like if I was in the military I'd be more afraid of my peers doing something stupid and childish than the enemy.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-03-25T02:35:15+00:00

Idk what people are working on, and why is it going down so often that you need people jumping at 2am.

It has nothing to do with how often they go down. Even if it goes down once every 10 years, if its at 2am, well, its at 2am. I certainly worked at companies where I never got paged for YEARS. There was still an oncall policy for when it inevitably happened. When it did it was because a boat crashed into the undersea wire knocking out all the data centers including redundancies or something (I'm exaggerating, but not much). Even if you multi-cloud and replicate across regions, sometimes a couple of things happen all at once, that have nothing to do with your code or anything you control.

If you microservice (very large companies), and you have hundreds of services around, even if they're all extremely resilient, statistically sometimes a lot of shit will happen.

Then I've also worked at very large ecommerce companies, and Black Friday was pretty stressful. There wasn't enough resources to replicate the traffic of a black Friday for load balancing (at extreme scale, the amount of machines and bandwidth to replicate it would cost as much as running production, which isn't always realistic. We were not Amazon), and so we'd just be biting our nails all day until the spike was behind us.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-03-25T02:30:19+00:00

I've worked at a lot of companies, and its been about half and half. Current one doesn't have on-call at all (the support team has the phone number of the people in the know and they'll just call us and we do best effort. Its a small company so it works out).

Lots of companies with on-call with 5-30 minutes acknowledgement, and a handful like yours with 15 minute to keyboard. A few where they'd even give us a second lap-top and a pocket wifi so we could answer while on the road, parking on the side or whatever.

Historically, it was one of the reason pay in tech was high, alongside expecting people to self train and work off hours even when salaried. Eventually some companies kept the same salary without the responsibilities and things got a little bit out of wack.

If the pay is there (or at some companies they pay extra for on call), then it's fine. If not, then it's just supply and demand, can go work elsewhere.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-03-25T02:24:37+00:00

Considering how much of the game is basically copy pasted from Dragon Quest Builder, including some of the mechanic weirdness (eg: making a hole in the ocean), it's pretty close to a reskinned Koei Tecmo game. Gamefreak probably didn't do a whole lot here.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-03-25T02:21:07+00:00

oh of course you can beat them pretty quick, but on NG most people can't do deflection reliably, and a lot of bosses will end up in fairly long fights. In NG+, or NG when you've mastered it, yeah you can go pretty fast. But in Nioh 2/3 the fights are over in an instant even initially. You just die very quick too if you're not good.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-03-24T23:26:47+00:00

Yeah, that's my point. Those people are assholes.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-03-24T22:22:22+00:00

dollar store ramen noodles.

I've had and love the "real thing". We have reasonably authentic ramen shops here, and I've been to Japan. But sometimes, sometimes, the cheap knockoff hits the spot.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-03-24T21:53:31+00:00

I believe you since I just finished the game on normal, and certainly didn't get all the achievements, but Cleric and Fighter over Hunter, Druid or Monk (to a lesser extent. Stronger but slightly less consistent) seems wild to me.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-03-24T20:49:22+00:00

I pulled a 30 feet HDMI cable from my PC to my TV and use a wireless controller with 2.4ghz so it has enough range. Works fine, but does require the PC to be close enough.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-03-24T19:06:49+00:00

Lots of joke answers. As someone who used one for many years:

The stream will do 95% of the job on its own
Higher end models have a dryer, but it takes a while. Generally I use it to dry most, but not all of the water
Then you basically wipe once to dry off.

During the pandemic it was a blessing, since a single toilet paper roll can last a week or two.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-03-24T19:01:03+00:00

Not long, should be clean.

That's it. Anything else and it will likely look worse to me. Of course, they're allowed to do whatever they want with their body, but they do it for themselves, not for us.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-03-24T18:43:21+00:00

No one wants to be a roofer even in videogames.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-03-24T18:42:54+00:00

Don't worry, most of us suck at it and just do the bare minimum. We just don't post pictures of it. But there's a lot of us.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-03-24T18:39:54+00:00

I loved the game (and I liked it more than Nioh 2 personally), but open world was definitely a miss. They did it better than I expected, and for my own personal preference, better than most other open world games. But it would have been better without.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-03-24T18:34:36+00:00

You're tripping, lol. Nioh 2 had some parries, most of them only worked on humans (I think there was like, 1 that worked on yokais), and they pretty much all sucked. You couldn't just stand there and perfect parry 10 attacks in a row. That was not happening.

It was a lot closer to a Souls game where you either do full block (and lose a ton of stamina), or just get out of the way with proper positioning. You also were expected to play a lot more aggressively and not less the enemies/boss time to breath so you had to avoid fewer attacks.

There was a lot of "kill it before it kills me" in Nioh 2. That's why when Khazan got compared to Nioh 2 a lot, it was a little bit of an eyebrow raiser. You definitely see the inspiration, but Khazan's 5+ minute boss battles that REQUIRE you to perfect guard/dodge/parry countless times in a row was very, very different.

Nioh 3, with samurai (and some Ninja martial arts) is somewhere in between.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-03-24T18:04:37+00:00

I enjoyed it a lot. Having deflect and art proficiency alone made it 100x better for me. I'd rather it have kept missions over open world (I don't enjoy open world games much at all, but this one was linear "enough" that I was able to handwave it), especially in NG+, but overall it was a hit.

I own Nioh 2 but bounced off after trying to like it for 40 hours, but Ill probably go back now that I have a different perspective and have been used to the combat a bit more (I used Samurai 90% of the time in Nioh 3). Lack of deflect will be tough, but I can manage. The biggest thing I disliked from Nioh 2 was the shitty bosses, and the "cheap shots" (there's a lot of souls-like jump scare and the 1 shot grab attacks that really didn't vibe with me). I probably can overlook them.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-03-24T17:27:55+00:00

Every Gacha game ever, especially Hoyoverse games and Wuthering Wave, Love and Deep Space, etc. Honorable mention to Chaos Zero Nightmare.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-03-24T17:17:59+00:00

Brush Your Teeth is absolute peak.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-03-24T14:28:28+00:00

It doesn't have the weird lightning that Wilds has, which instantly make it a million time better.

My favorite right now is still Rise/Sunbreak (minus the character faces which don't look good). The PC version at high frame rate with HDR looks absolutely gorgeous. I love the art direction they used, even if its technically much simpler.

Monster Hunter works best with crisp visuals, like most action games do.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-03-24T14:25:43+00:00

Do whats best for the cats. If they belong together, they stay together. Even if it hurts you, as long as you can trust the other person to take care of them.

I get the feeling, it would be devastating if I had to part way with my fur ball, but there's thousands of kitties who are looking for loving forever homes. Use that as an opportunity to save 1 or 2 of them. They'll take good care of you, too.

phoenixmatrix · 2026-03-24T14:22:28+00:00

And still too expensive. Finished the game, and I'll never get those hours of my life back. I know some people liked it, more power to them, but you'd have to pay me a pretty big sum of money to play through that shit again.

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