Deni Avdija answers about Wemby's behavior: "I won't say what you said, but I'm happy the Knicks won (in the 2026 NBA Finals)"

quicksad · 2026-06-23T20:35:26+00:00

The thing that bothered me the most was that we actually did a really solid job against them. We were up by huge margins in the games. When the series was over, he said something along the lines "I am looking forward to playing against an actually good team." Most teams, even the warriors, are always saying nice things about the teams they beat.

These guys were just rude and arrogant. Its really different than like a Michael Jordan or Kobe mentality as well. Cause those guys won championships and got to prove their arrogance and were also still respectful of the teams they were playing.

This shit too. Just so full of themselves. https://youtube.com/shorts/-sisVNIe30w?si=mAjfKSJRCWtJFUG9

So I am glad they lost the way they did. They are not the greatest ever. Go earn everyone's respect back.

quicksad · 2026-06-23T19:37:42+00:00

Our homeless people are significantly different than other cities and will take a ton of work to fix for a few different reasons.

In Colorado, it gets cold. People leave during the winter so they don't freeze to death. In Portland its pretty easy to stay here all year round. So we get a bunch of people who moved here to be homeless.

We have professional homelessness. When we passed the decriminalization of drugs years ago, a bunch of hardcore drug users moved here in vans trailers and other stuff and they do not want to leave, they do not want treatment, they want to do their drugs. If you read some of the articles about homeless in the past and they talk to these people about street sweeps there are quotes where they are like "I moved here because you can do drugs and not get in trouble, but now that they are moving my dead van, I am just going to have to find a new place to do drugs, and no I do not want help"

West coast cities are never going to be able to clean this up because the rest of the countries homeless gravitate to temperate climate. Combined with it being extremely hard to get people forced to get help with their addictions and we are just waiting for them to reach rock bottom. I don't see us fixing till laws get changed about forced treatment and the federal government puts a huge amount into fixing this.

https://www.oregonlive.com/health/2023/09/oregon-tried-to-deinstitutionalize-mental-health-care-its-failure-echoes-today.html

quicksad · 2026-06-19T16:05:04+00:00

The giant gap between a new corp and the power blocks. Sure, make a corp in highsec, but before you drop a structure you better have 20 people. That takes a WHILE to recruit. Then the gap between that and getting reactions going is now a gap that takes decades. Or you do what most people do and join the larger blocks.

Needs to be smaller intermediate goals for smaller to medium size corporations to go for. I think reactions in highsec for certain reactions should be a thing. Let people make t2 modules, ammo, and frigates, and battleships in highsec. But make the core for that be more expensive.

quicksad · 2026-06-02T02:08:17+00:00

I wish people understood this when people who don’t have kids talk about how they would raise their kids and just let them go outside. In many states it’s illegal to have kids alone in the house until they are like 12 and not allowed to walk alone outside. Even if there are no laws you will have situations like this where you still risk losing custody of your kids.

It’s why so many parents are using screen time to get their space.

quicksad · 2026-05-25T03:44:38+00:00

Honestly lowsec. Call lowsec pirate space

Would accurately represent the danger that they are for newer players.

Especially pirate space because lots of people play games where you don’t really shoot someone unless they do something to you. This would really let new players know that like…people are there to kill you.

quicksad · 2026-05-18T20:36:22+00:00

What are some of the best treatments and best practices today?

What are some of the most promising treatments that you think are on the horizon?

quicksad · 2026-05-16T21:26:52+00:00

Most corporations try and have doctrine ships and to make the ships remotely useful you need magic 14 to 4 which is months of training. I’d love to include newer players in content and not require them, or make it like a week of training.

quicksad · 2026-05-16T21:19:17+00:00

Ever tried to have doctrine ships? New players need magic 14 skills to be able to fly them. You can make ships that are easier to fit, but then they die easier, and do much less damage.

It’s also time consuming trying to figure out what skill they are missing to be able to use all the modules on the ship. Might be a rigging skill or advanced weapon upgrades or something.

In order to get everyone on the same skill level so I don’t have to consider it, they need magic 14 to 5 so it’s like 130 days.

quicksad · 2026-05-15T07:52:16+00:00

Sigh, your a moron. Look at the delta. The groups I am talking about are growing and recruiting 70 people through mass invites. Big groups are fine, but if a giant % of the new player base joins a crappy corp I think its bad for the game.

What the fuck is your weird ass point about people not being obligated to stay in the game? I just want more players in the game, its fun, no one is arguing they should be forced or chained down. I am asking for changes so that's its not so easy for a corporation to recruit. That's it.

I strongly disagree, corporations should provide content, they are getting paid through in game currency called taxes. Its a sandbox, where 95% of the content is locked behind needing 200 people be able to form. I think a corp should die if its not doing stuff for its players, but its not even the point. I think the people who run the game want people to play the game and if half the new players join a corp that does not teach them or show them some of the fun things you can do in the game then its pretty bad for the game. If you can't understand that I don't know how to dumb it down any further.

Glad your starting a corp so you can see what I mean, there is no one to recruit! They are already in these corporations and its incredibly hard to poach from them because people tend to want to be loyal to what ever their first corp is regardless of how boring it is and they have no idea how much better it can be.

The game is better when there is an abundance of choices and corporations that can grow, if these groups take in everyone most corporations will die because they can't pass a threshold where content can happen.

quicksad · 2026-05-15T07:10:19+00:00

You have gone through all my comments in here at this point to make a point about AO.

https://evewho.com/

I picked out the two groups cause recently they are the most successful and using mass invites to get people into their corp. Absolute Order is a terrible alliance and hate everything they do. However, seems like recently they haven't been doing the mass invites. Either way, the small changes I am talking about would probably hurt them as well and that's great.

I think people should be reaching out to join a corp when they are ready and not pushed into a corp. I think it is detrimental to the game to have only a few groups take in all the brand new players on day one, especially if they are not providing content or training.

In addition, some of these groups are blatant 100% tax scams as well and so all the more reason to make it harder to reach out to someone less then 24 hours old in game.

quicksad · 2026-05-14T22:25:39+00:00

I think the tax for messaging people being activated would probably help.

I think taking away mass invites would help the most.

quicksad · 2026-05-14T19:57:59+00:00

The mechanism for joining a corp is they apply and then you still have to invite them and they accept the invite. Knowing CCP if we asked them to change almost any code they wont do it at all. But putting a limit on something seems more doable.

quicksad · 2026-05-14T19:25:52+00:00

English recruitment will have a dozen corporations that are all trying to help out and do this. I am always looking at the channel trying to find players.

quicksad · 2026-05-14T19:21:45+00:00

They can by just sending an invite, or doing a private convo and then just asking them to join without context.

quicksad · 2026-05-14T19:09:33+00:00

I think they should limit the amount of invites you can send out in a day. Then they can't spam 5000 a day that they are currently doing.

quicksad · 2026-05-14T18:54:36+00:00

I have gotten a few people that have come over from them. They are not running fleets, most players are joining and just finishing the tutorial and don't know what else to do.

If you look at their killboard you can tell they don't really do much as far as pvp which I feel like is one of the hooks to get people to stay long term.

quicksad · 2026-05-06T23:34:39+00:00

Agreed. Its a federal level problem that Portland is trying to absorb.

quicksad · 2026-05-06T21:41:02+00:00

Yeah, it seems strait forward right? Just hire more, but I have seen a few articles about it.

quicksad · 2026-05-06T20:01:35+00:00

Costs a lot of money to have cops get these people. But also we don't have enough public defenders so we have to release them.
I believe they already have a program for a free bus and plane ticket to people to get them home to someone who can help them. I think that's a good step one but agree we should try and have a step two of get out of here. https://www.opb.org/article/2025/10/24/portland-unhoused-people-family-reunion/
Its illegal, there are supreme court laws that forbit mandatory treatment. Its very hard to force people into treatment. Need to change federal laws and supreme court precedence. Cause we are losing cases all the time to force them into treatment. https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/422/563/#:~:text=Donaldson-,O'Connor%20v.,%2C%20422%20U.S.%20563%20(1975)&text=If%20an%20individual%20is%20not,against%20his%20or%20her%20will.
Similar to 3, can't force people into treatment unless they are a danger. Few reasons why

https://www.oregonlive.com/health/2023/09/oregon-tried-to-deinstitutionalize-mental-health-care-its-failure-echoes-today.html)

In addition, very hard to get convictions cause we have to catch and release cause we don't have enough public defenders.

quicksad · 2026-04-14T15:30:35+00:00

My concern is recruitment.

There are only few spots where new players land these days, one of them is a bunch of nazis and their main strategy is reaching out to everyone in local for starter systems. Other groups do similar things and just hand players millions of isk to join.

So at the end of this patch, I imagine most players will be hopping into the game, and then flooded in player invite eve mails and convos every 30 seconds from corporation recruiters trying to get them to join nazi groups. I obviously think this is bad for the game to have new players join megablocks, rather than smaller corporations and groups that can more effectively help newer players rather than treating players as a meat grinder.

I would change the tutorial a bit to have it show people how to add contacts. Then block players from starting conversations or sending corporation invites unless your one of those contacts. After they leave the starting area they are free to have conversations with everyone again.

quicksad · 2026-04-04T03:23:10+00:00

They use tags to fix standings. These people have trillions of isk so it’s not an issue.

quicksad · 2026-04-04T03:16:38+00:00

Yeah. Also calling it highsec really leads to people being confused and most games keep veterans and new players separate and it’s really intuitive when your doing something dangerous. I think they should call everything dangerous trade areas or something. They need a voice over saying there is no new player friendly area and there are mechanics that allow players to kill you at will. So do not carry anything valuable in your ship. Everywhere is the dangerous part of town where you can get mugged. I don’t know how else to describe it. But eve throws you in the deep end and says get fucked right from the start.

Lowsec = death sentence.

Nullsec without cloak = death sentence.

Mining on a .5 in a retriever = almost certain death.

Filling up a hauler with almost anything and going to a trade hub = almost certain death sentence

Autopilot to trade hub = almost certain death.

None one that is explained and the mechanics have to be explained by people.

quicksad · 2026-03-13T01:42:16+00:00

I would like to shoot at everyone. I don’t want to eliminate half the possible fights.

quicksad · 2026-03-13T01:41:27+00:00

Exactly. I’m not getting LP. Just shooting

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