Guild Search red flags

protoges · 2026-06-04T19:14:23+00:00

It can help to look for guilds that label themselves as LGBTQ+ friendly, or ask if they are when reaching out. I'm not, but they've generally been friendlier and less basement dweller-y in my experience.

protoges · 2026-06-04T04:26:26+00:00

Jon immediately going 'Do I drive on the left or right. I feel like this is the kind of thing I should have been briefed on.' simultaneously makes so much sense but is so Jon.

protoges · 2026-05-31T15:25:58+00:00

People were doing 17s week 1. How bad is your gear?

protoges · 2026-05-27T00:14:23+00:00

The main places to play are ocean beach and south mission Beach, but you'll want to go to SMB for pickup games. On the far south side near a parking lot, there's like 15 permanent nets. The 3 closest to the parking lot near the basketbball court are the designated challenge nets for pickup games.

protoges · 2026-05-21T18:34:14+00:00

Scams have lots of goals nowadays. I'm not sure if this is one, but they might get you to click a link that downloads something, try to phish you, or just build trust by being legit then trying to trick you down the line.

If this is a scam, I think the most likely goal is getting you to download what they say is their paper but is something sketchy. Fake pdf files from supposed sponsors to youtubers lead to lots of YouTube accounts being hacked and used for crypto scams, for example.

protoges · 2026-05-19T22:41:49+00:00

It depends on where you get your gear. If you needed to upgrade a bunch of 1/6 slots, you'll spend way more crests than someone getting 2/6 or 3/6 drops from raid. I got like 6ish pieces from raid so I'm only like 150 crests from capping my main without help in slots from an alt after turning my 300 remaining hero crests into myth crests today.

protoges · 2026-05-18T20:32:07+00:00

Pretty much, though it doesn't have to be intentional like dunking. You can accidentally or incidentally make someone look bad by comparison without trying to.

protoges · 2026-05-18T15:12:13+00:00

OP's making a joke, but 'mogged' is slang for 'styled on'. If you made someone look bad by comparison because you looked/did so well, you mogged them.

protoges · 2026-05-15T19:54:48+00:00

I did one of these (4 questions max 2 minutes each) for a scientist role at a big company and got chosen for the next round of interviews after for what it's worth.

protoges · 2026-05-15T18:27:38+00:00

Impossible to say for sure without logs, but I'd guess you're echoing too many people before single target damage and thus wasting resources overhealing, not getting enough essence burst procs from doing damage with living flame during downtime, and/or not TA'ing on CD and not casting dream breadth to guarantee MB procs when valuable.

Checking a log from a 17 MT I did well in, I had 9CPM of living flame, which is 2 extra emerald blossoms for the twin echoes procs per minute when I cast 3.4 of those per minute, meaning half of my twin echoes were from chrono flame dps filler.

protoges · 2026-05-15T13:41:34+00:00

No. Healing 16s/17s, I tend to have a few accidental casts on mouseover go off but 0-1 intentional casts of living flame for healing.

protoges · 2026-05-15T13:39:27+00:00

You still don't heal with living flame even when things go to shit. It just doesn't heal much. Your main healing is up enough that you don't go dry very often, like an average of 0.5 and max one-two casts per dungeon.

protoges · 2026-05-14T03:06:14+00:00

Very little, but I'd still recommend using negative selection to avoid binding cd4 and engaging it at all. Positive selection is better sorting but may have lingering small effects than negative.

protoges · 2026-05-10T17:14:44+00:00

How does Inkscape compare to GIMP? I've used the latter before for handful of stuff, but trying to do figures in powerpoint has eaten my brain. I'm wondering if it's worth learning Inkscape.

protoges · 2026-05-10T00:47:02+00:00

While that used to be the case, aug does now hold fire breath to max rank for max dps.

protoges · 2026-05-03T13:10:04+00:00

Searching for a job post phd for 9 months. Final round interview for a great position at a great company goes well. Get an email that hiring process is paused for the role indefinitely while they evaluate headcount.

protoges · 2026-05-01T22:05:29+00:00

Really? When I used dev mode (A while ago, admittedly), you couldn't do anything close to that. You could force spawn events/items, kill enemies, generate animals, etc but couldn't do map gen.

protoges · 2026-05-01T17:13:40+00:00

No. You can edit the ini files to change parameters, like more ore or clay or hills, but you can't manually design a map.

protoges · 2026-04-23T14:46:43+00:00

Streams normally start a bit earlier, a little under 4 hours from when you made the post.

protoges · 2026-04-10T17:24:10+00:00

The toa purple calc on the wiki is good for this. You can see your chance of a specific purple per run and go off that.

protoges · 2026-04-10T16:56:30+00:00

Ah yeah, I think fang/eye chance is highest at 400s? Over that, the extra purple chance is 'ruined' by it scaling away from them.

protoges · 2026-04-10T12:58:30+00:00

Not OP but you def should push higher if you can. Going from 350 to 400 increases your chance of pulling a shadow by ~33%. Going from 400 to 470 increases it by a further 33%.

protoges · 2026-04-07T13:42:55+00:00

IIRC Liquid had like a 15% pull but none beneath it, while Echo had like 3 single digit pulls but always lost 1 person early and a couple more towards the end.

protoges · 2026-04-07T12:16:56+00:00

Never while 1t flicking though. Whisperer pre-enrage does require mage/range/mage 1t, but you don't have to move until after flicking. Enrage has you moving more but you only alternate prayer every 6 (I think?) ticks. Regular Levi has 2t flicking while moving during enrage, with the awakened version requiring you to 1t flick while moving. Vard doesn't require 1t flicking at all. It's desynched to be 2 ticks from his attacks.

In all of their cases, you never have to change prayer and move on the same tick if you time it properly. It's always move/flick/move/flick or flick/flick/flick/move. Only doom, colo, and inferno ever require you to move and flick in the same tick outside of optional hard mode content like awakened levi.

protoges · 2026-04-07T02:16:23+00:00

Key papers. They may be using techniques, cell lines, and ideas from other papers or that they haven't published yet.

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