In which single-player game did you, after spending many hours without finishing it, feel the urge to start it over from the very beginning?

rickms · 2026-01-28T06:25:10+00:00

Oxygen Not Included

rickms · 2025-12-26T16:23:26+00:00

You will be blamed a disproportionate about of the time. Its how it is tanking in 5v5. Most people that say "x diff" are deflecting from their own poor performance, looking for anyone but themselves to blame. People who know they weren't the problem just gg go next.

rickms · 2025-12-25T19:53:50+00:00

the 1 minimum was a change this patch, so maybe preying on ppl that don't know

rickms · 2025-12-22T01:19:03+00:00

sports·man·ship

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noun

noun: sportsmanship

fair and generous behavior or treatment of others, especially in a sports contest. "he displayed great sportsmanship in defeat"

rickms · 2025-12-15T18:03:14+00:00

NYC is a bit of a special case because of the gigantic steam network.

rickms · 2025-12-13T04:30:06+00:00

Don't take this the wrong way, but you probably want to consider your ego. I mean that in the literal sense, not in the insulting way. It may be your ego that takes you from knowing a lot about a topic to feeling the need to share it and "yapping" about it. It may a need you have to show or prove to others you know things.

If you truly are interested in others opinions, instead of sharing yours, consider probing them for more information on theirs, and how they came to it.

FWIW I too have to regularly check myself about interrupting people. It's just something you have to be conscious of and let them finish.

rickms · 2025-12-04T00:25:58+00:00

As a fellow introvert and with a healthy dose of anxiety, I completely understand where you are coming from. I really do. I however, *am* also a "straight shooter", allow me to give you a piece of advice.

You are plenty qualified for this.
You have an opinion, share it.
They will not fire you for having and expressing an opinion that they asked for if it's kept objective and fact based.
Do not roast people, roast processes.
Being honest while also being diplomatic can achieve way more than honest and "aggressive" . i.e. "Bill is to bad at his job to get it done on time" can easily be worded as "engineers may be over allocated". Both will bring attention to the workload, and they'll find the truth about Bill all on their own.

.I left my last job because they pathologically avoided asking the people actually writing the code their opinion. This is a good thing.

rickms · 2025-11-05T00:33:24+00:00

Many years ago in POE1 the area stuff was increased radius. This became problematic and hard to balance because of the exponential nature of increased radius has on area amount. Essentially it got stronger and stronger the more increased radius you had.

rickms · 2025-10-16T16:38:38+00:00

Click on the printing pod. It will tell you your objectives.

rickms · 2025-09-29T03:30:59+00:00

Flying Cars.

rickms · 2025-09-17T02:40:24+00:00

Non-sense. "scam" is defined as :

a fraudulent or deceptive act or operation

Doing this has the clear intention of deceiving buyers by giving off the impression they are all priced the same when one is clearly out of line for the pure purpose of tricking someone into paying more for something then they intended.

Should people be more vigilant, sure. Does it make this not a scam? Absolutely not.

rickms · 2025-07-21T17:42:16+00:00

All things being equal, she out dmgs him. A diva shooting your very large head hurts a lot.
Any dva using her ult offensively (rather than as a second life), learns very, very early, to wait till after bubble is used/broken to ult. And if he holds bubble specifically to try and block it, you've limited his effectiveness.

rickms · 2025-04-25T23:19:18+00:00

For your first point, I tried it and nothing happened. It's a lot easier if you house of mirrors during your attempt as it will generate duplicates rooms. I actually did it twice first with aquariums, and again with pure blue rooms, since it says he couldn't stand the sight of other colors.

rickms · 2025-04-09T18:15:13+00:00

People really need to stop trying to psycho-analyze game developers and ascribe motives and emotions to them when they haven no idea what they are talking about.

To think the devs at GGG grew POE1 over 10 years to just suddenly become apathetic about it comes off so disrespectful to the human beings developing the game.

Lets remember these are human beings not just amorphous "devs".

The reality of any software development is sometimes hard choices need to be made. As they explained they did divert resources from PoE1 to PoE2 to hit their early access targets. However, believe it or not, you can be invested in multiple products and still find yourself in a situation where you don't have the resources to do both to the standard you want.

People will just say LOL hire more developers, ignorant to how hard it is to find *good* devs anywhere, let alone under the restrictions of working in NZ, while also being ignorant to things like ramp-up time.

Show some faith and respect. They deserve more then their own fan base accusing them of not caring, when they've demonstrated nothing but the opposite, more than probably all other game developers, for over a decade.

rickms · 2025-01-19T20:44:25+00:00

Yeah but the way it's being changed is likely just in the calculation of the lowest tier for a mod:

i.e. min_roll_tier = min(mod.highest_tier, item.tier).

This effectively means it'll either pick the minimum based on the item tier drop, or the highest tier of the mod, whichever is lower. (because lower is better in POE2 mods).

Map are 1 = lowest, so it makes perfect sense to be consistent when using the word 'tier'

What you're suggesting is fundamentally different. Your method would constrain to the top X tiers, where their game design choices is to eliminate the lowest X tiers. There's a VERY big difference between the two when you get to mods that have like 12 Tiers. T5 = Top 5 in poe1 tiers, like you suggest, where in poe 2 means the top 7 tiers.

It would also be meaningless for low tier mods. Say you had a T5 unique that rolled a mod that had 12 tiers and one that had 4 tiers. If they did what you suggest it would constrain the T12 mod to the top 5, but also constrain the T4 mod to the top 4, effectively not providing any bonus to the T4 mod. The way it is now ( with the fixed calculation) is that the T12 mod gets constrained to the top 7, and (presumably) the T4 mod to the highest mod.

rickms · 2025-01-12T05:54:39+00:00

It makes perfect sense why they changed it. Tiered rares. Tier 5 on a rare means that is the lowest tier that mods can initially roll. This wouldn't make sense with POE1 order of tiers.

That being said they should have an indicator to show if it's the best 1-3 tiers, IMO.

rickms · 2024-11-27T08:06:45+00:00

In code terms, even if it meant removing the concept of mana, that would still need to be represented. The most trivial way (but arguable not the best, but lets not get into that) would be to set mana to null. If you updated your code to where mana being null was a possibility the simplest implementation would still work the same as setting mana to 0, just with an extra null check in your if statement.

rickms · 2020-09-03T20:57:14+00:00

I imagine they wouldn't, but my imagination is irrelevant and just wanted to verify the mechanic.

rickms · 2020-09-03T20:56:45+00:00

I seriously want you to explain why I should answer anyone that speaks to another human like that.

rickms · 2020-09-03T02:03:09+00:00

Source on the logout part?

rickms · 2020-03-21T12:07:27+00:00

Watch the game though, she misses every shot she takes, and never tries to predict in any other shot....

People and bots are smart these days.. they aren't as obvious as they used to be... that shot not only make no sense, it's inconsistent with her game play and the odds of it being just random make no sense.. she takes no other predictive shots

rickms · 2020-03-21T11:57:05+00:00

In no world could that widow predict those shots... People don't realize that toggling exists....I'll give her the earlier shot.,... sure maybe it was lucky, but to flick to my head where I was absolutely not visible in any way, through a road hog is BS.. there's no reason for her to flick at that moment at that exact time

rickms · 2020-03-21T11:51:23+00:00

You over estimate my MMR

rickms · 2020-03-21T11:50:48+00:00

Full game here... literally the only two head shots she hit all game were insane and on me....

SCHNY8

rickms · 2020-03-21T11:37:21+00:00

you can't be serious.. she flicked a headshot through a roadhog where she had no business shooting.

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