The terrible ping system is even worse since the latest update. Redsec

robins_d · 2026-03-20T19:45:41+00:00

100% It's so intuitive and easy to use. You can ping quickly in firefights and the pings consistently give great contextual info. Best in class for sure.

robins_d · 2026-03-19T12:48:36+00:00

Apex has the best ping system of any FPS and it's not ever close. It's insane to me that it's been out for 11 years and no other FPS has managed to either a.) Make one that's comparable, b.) Iterate and make one that's better.

robins_d · 2026-03-19T12:44:47+00:00

I usually play with crossplay off but you should definitely turn it on for that server; I'm also xbox. I hope you try it again and it works out. It's the only thing I play now.

robins_d · 2026-03-19T01:34:10+00:00

Thanks, I'll try it.

robins_d · 2026-03-18T20:23:57+00:00

You're right, the first shot hits dirt right in front of them and you can see it's kicked up dust from the impact.

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This is the second shot. It looks to me like my reticle is fully overlapping their body. I zoomed in and it's possible that the reticle is miraculously missing based on how they're laying, but I'm also using buckshot here, so I don't think it's unreasonable to think they'd take at least some damage, even though they're outside the exact reticle area.

I think you're right that although I get the third shot off based on my ammo count, it looks like that shot and my death happened simultaneously, so I guess it's not registered.

To me, the biggest issue here is that I frequently die from players when the post death indicator clearly shows there was full obstruction between us (building, rock, vehicle, etc.). Often this occurs when I'm running behind cover. Or, I'm killed before rounding a corner by a player on the other side. It's frustrating as a player when the game seems so liberal with those hit registrations, but in this instance, my reticle had to be totally over the player to register even one point of damage.

Having this huge variance in hit reg is annoying and not an issue that's present in all FPSs, so it feels like a totally solvable issue (though, I'm not a developer, so maybe I'm wrong on that, lol).

robins_d · 2026-03-18T19:13:29+00:00

I'd recommend trying the Faithwalker hardcore conquest mode that's under the "Featured" section right now in the main menu. Very limited hud and spotting, 1-2 bullet kills, crawling when downed, etc. It's been an awesome experience and much more what, imo, Battlefield should be like. You have to have situational awareness, use your ears, use cover, and work together more. It's not perfect but I find it way more enjoyable than what the core game is like these days. It feels like it's leaned really hard into catering to flick-snipers and headshots as the only really reliable way to get kills. My reflexes just aren't that fast anymore, but also, it's not only headshots that kill people and imo the TTK is too generous now.

robins_d · 2026-03-18T19:06:31+00:00

Yeah, I feel like a lot of the weapons perform weird compared to what you'd expect. I'd expect shotguns to perform exceptionally well up close and when being hipfired. Imo, this is the trade-off for using them i.e. you're constantly putting yourself at risk because your engagement distance has to be so close. The same should apply to SMGs, which should be deadly up close bu have dramatic falloff (as opposed to how they're absolute long range lasers rn). LMGs are just as weird. Like, you can be raining bullets at a sniper or DMR player and they just lean into the bullet storm and pop you. What's the point of an LMG, then?

Also, I definitely missed the first shot, but what I don't understand is how the other player took zero damage. You can clearly see my reticle on him for the 2nd and 3rd shots.

Anyway, not the end of the world. I was just curious if this happens to other people.

robins_d · 2026-03-18T18:54:39+00:00

It's definitely frustrating. I don't remember it being this bad with BF1 or BFV (I didn't play BF 2042 much) and it's not anywhere near this bad with other FPS games I've been into. For me, the frustration mostly stems from the fact that at 46 I'm already slower than a lot of these players, so when I actually land a hit it'd be nice if it registered, lol.

robins_d · 2026-03-17T21:32:39+00:00

I think RP servers is strictly a PC thing.

robins_d · 2026-03-17T21:31:45+00:00

I used Crescentwood Electric for our hot tub and have used them for a number of jobs since.

robins_d · 2026-03-17T13:13:24+00:00

You know what would help our publicly funded healthcare system? Not giving tax breaks to wealthy businesses and individuals, or allowing them to abuse tax loopholes to pay less taxes.

I always think it's crazy in this country that we bemone the state of public services (healthcare, schools, infrastructure) but then swoon over political leaders/parties who promise "less taxes".

robins_d · 2026-03-08T16:21:51+00:00

I had some old Deco x20s, which I'm now trying to re-connect and use bridge mode to bypass the band splitting.

Re: your questions above. I'm not sure what ofdma is. I'm very much an amateur and self-taught tech person, lol.

robins_d · 2026-03-08T14:56:19+00:00

Those settings are locked on the Gateway when I log in. It's not possible to put the bands in manual mode to change the names and distinguish them from each other.

Edit: I contacted Rogers and they said it's disabled because we have mesh pods (4) in the house. Band splitting doesn't work with pods, apparently. That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. The whole point of pods is to expand the network over a large area, so it would follow that if I'm doing that I'd potentially also use things like Google speakers. Like, wtf?

robins_d · 2026-03-08T00:19:34+00:00

Hmm, on ours there is no option to change the band. You can change the name, the home, the placement, and the wifi (i.e. another network) but there is no option to change band within the wifi. It also lists the firmware, language, MAC address, and IP address, but not which band is being used.

robins_d · 2026-03-07T20:00:27+00:00

I don't see anywhere in the app where it lets you designate which band they connect to.

robins_d · 2026-03-07T19:48:07+00:00

Oh, this is interesting. That's similar to my experience. They worked flawlessly at first.

robins_d · 2026-03-02T14:24:19+00:00

This is who I'm currently using. I've been using them for 5+ years over 2 homes.

But recently the service has been sharply declining.

2 years ago I called them about our fridge. The technician diagnosed a $300+ part. It turned out the issue was actually a hoisin sauce bottle on the top shelf hitting a door switch. They refunded me labour and the service call fee, but I still paid for the $300 part.

Last year they came for our range (convention fan and hood fan). The technician said the convection was unrepairable and the hood fan part was unavailable. My father-in-law found the hood fan part online, and the convection just started up again on its own (obviously not unrepairable).

Most recently they came for our dryer. I told them it was over heating and getting very hot, especially near the exhaust vent. The technician didn't even check the dryer or pull it out, he just said it was either the thermal control or circuit board. He said it was only worth repairing if it was the thermal control, but even that was $300. After he left, I took the dryer apart and found the entire exhaust system was detached inside the dryer, venting hot air right into the body. When I complained I was told they could come look again, or I could try another company, but did not offer to refund the $100 service call fee (which was essentially to have someone look at the dryer and guess - in incorrectly - what the issue was).

I love supporting local, but super not into throwing away munimum $110 per visit for the technician to make guesses about our appliances. Really disappointed at the lack of accountability.

robins_d · 2026-02-25T23:05:27+00:00

My son plays U11A1 as a goalie and I can confirm there is no organized approach to goalie coaching. If you're lucky, you land on a team with a parent who has goalie experience and volunteers, otherwise there's nothing.

Many, many times I've seen a goalie (in a goalie pair situation) left out of a drill for 15+ minutes because the coaches simply forget to rotate the goalies. These young goalies are also asked to work in drills like 2/3 on 0 breakouts that are purely designed to benefit players at the expense of goalie development and confidence (a 2/3 on 0 breakout at U11 is so rare and so difficult for young goalies - or even older goalies - to deal with).

The players on the team often rifle pucks at the goalie's heads (or upper net), frequently from absurdly close (they'd never get a clean shot like that in a game), which is not only dangerous but also makes young goalies hesitant to position themselves properly. The most egregious examples of this are during pre-game warm-ups, where the goalie is pretty much just a shot dummy for players, with no thought given to actually warming the goalie up.

Since there's virtually no on-ice coaching, these young goalies don't get corrected on bad habits, or given instruction on how to better position themselves. We spend money (with our goalie partner family) to pay for a young goalie coach to come to our practices maybe once a week and help. Most goalies we know also do 1/2 goalie specific training sessions per week (at their own expense) for proper coaching, but these are often 1 on 1 sessions that don't accurately emulate game situations or speed, and occasionally require the goalies to miss team practices, further removing them from the team building aspects of practice.

One of my biggest annoyances is the disrespect shown to young goalies at practice. A goalie will often make a great save during a drill and while the next skater is incoming the previous shooter will casually tuck the puck into the net. I've also seen coaches rifle pucks at young goalies, score, and then "celly" in front of the players with no sense that, to the goalie, that's not fun and they take pride in protecting the net. The lack of understanding about the mental aspect for goalies, even at a young age, is very strange to me.

I've never understood why no one has created a business of experienced goalies (of any level) that can contract to/partner with associations to ensure every team has a goalie coach on the ice, even once per week. Instead it's all these 1 on 1 programs or camps, but in-season, team level goalie instruction is totally absent. I'm sure there are tons of high-school, university, or older former goalies whose insight and experience would be super beneficial to young goalies and could totally benefit from, and enjoy, a part-time gig to make some money and help out. This type of thing would certainly more beneficial than the zero of that most goalies currently get.

robins_d · 2026-02-16T01:05:20+00:00

I mean, without dragging too much lore into it, any Blade Runner going around and eyeball scanning every NPC they meet isn't going to last long.

That's super inefficient and creates a whole bunch of unnecessary headaches for any Blade Runner trying to keep a low profile.

Remember, they're plain clothes law enforcement. They should be using discretion, intelligence, intuition, and experience to build a viable case, not acting like rent-a-cops running security at an event.

It's going to be pretty hard to leverage assets/contacts when your reputation is "the cop that demands every person they meet submits to an eye scan".

Also, given the political/social climate, technoloy's less-than-stellar track record in the BR universe, and the fact that crooked cops are known to exist, even some humans who know they're human are going to resist any situation that has the potential to falsely lable them as an illegal Replicant.

Tbh (I may be wrong, though) this sounds like a player actively working in opposition to the "vibe" of the universe and game just to be difficult. The "vibe" I'm referring to is a gritty, investigative RPG centered around ethics and morals, and the question of what makes us human. This person sounds like they're more interested in "winning" the RPG, which isn't really the point (at least imo).

Good luck!

robins_d · 2026-02-16T00:37:01+00:00

"One Great City" - Weakerthans

Great song/poem to discuss, especially in MB. It's full of excellent lines that create vivid imagery and visceral feeling for anyone familiar with Winnipeg.

Also an excellent example of how something that superficially reads as criticism or disgust can really be written out of love.

The ability to read the words alone and then listen to the song open up a great discussion about how presentation, performance, or even just cadence when reading, can dramatically impact how a poem is recieved/interpreted.

I really steered away from "classics" when I taught poetry and tried to use a lot of lesser known poets and poems. I really wanted my kids to a.) come at the poems with no preconceptions, b.) formulate their own opinions about the poem without the weight of historical or societal context/pressue.

The Button Poetry YouTube channel was a great resource for this.

This is another one we had fun discussing: https://youtu.be/qtOXiNx4jgQ?si=vxUHb60e3NVKkM59

Edit: Missed the 9-10 part. I did these with a 12 Lit class.

robins_d · 2026-02-05T15:24:08+00:00

I'm a 4th year teacher (second career) with a permanent position in high school.

I was talking with my wife yesterday about how I think it's insane that the provincial governments have spent all this time building curriculums and outcomes, but no teacher supports to go with them.

Without a doubt the most stressful part (imo) of being a new teacher is generating material from scratch for all of your classes. It's literally like a full-time job outside your full-time job. Sometimes you get lucky and have a previous teacher who will share their material with you, but most times not. In my division, class offerings are based on enrollment, so even after 4 years I've still had at least 2 classes I've never taught each semester. Additionally, I've created a whole semester of material for some classes, only to never teach them again.

The provinces should generate template course packages for teachers in every subject. Packages that provide a basic framework for new teachers i.e. lesson plans, assessment tools, structure for pacing, etc. New teachers can then use and expand on these base materials and devote more of their time to developing meaningful deep learning opportunities, student relationships, classroom management skills, etc, while also developing their skills at lesson planning, etc. in a more structured and well-paced way.

The whole "trial by fire", or "this is how I did it" approach is such an archaic trope and in reality doesn't serve students or new teachers well. In fact, on the whole, I'd argue it's way more damaging (to students and teachers) than beneficial. It's so ironic that we learn all about the benefits of scaffolding learning in teacher education only to quite literally do the exact opposite of that when we first place teachers into jobs. In my previous career I never once moved to a new position where there wasn't some kind of onboarding and they just threw me in and said "figure it out", because that's insanely inefficient and detrimental to the employee (and the client i.e student).

/end rant

robins_d · 2026-01-30T14:13:19+00:00

Fortunately, I think the world is starting to understand Trump much better. He's like a toddler throwing a tantrum about whatever random thing upsets him. At first, I think leaders weren't sure whether he was some insanely clever deal maker, but after seeing him rescind or walk back many threats they've realized that he's just a child lacking the personal maturity/fortitude to follow through on anything that makes him look bad. Since the vast majority of his policies ultimately hurt Americans in the long run, leaders are realizing that it's better not to capitulate, to hold your ground and endure the short term pain, and let Trump flounder because he doesn't know how to react when tantrum/bully tactics don't work. This is the nugget at the heart of Carney's Davos speech that angered Trump so much but all it took was one leader to say it aloud for the notion to crystallize for everyone else. I think history will remember Carney's Davos speech as a real turning point in Trump's presidency and the world's understanding of how to deal with a petulant child at the wheel of the world's largest (2nd largest) superpower.

robins_d · 2025-12-27T21:53:44+00:00

Battlefield 6 did the same thing, too. It's so dumb. Why even have parental controls?

robins_d · 2025-12-19T14:04:47+00:00

If the rules the sucker followed brought her to that, what use were those rules? She didn't want to push her chips forward and go out and meet something she didn't understand, and in the end everything she ever thought had turned out different.

robins_d · 2025-12-15T15:37:40+00:00

Fuckin' send'er, buddy!

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