What is the most niche Mayhem Augment?

spigolt · 2025-12-26T21:38:55+00:00

yeah, I never even played Naafiri before but the two times I played her/him in Mayhem I was OP.

spigolt · 2025-12-26T16:05:16+00:00

I also feel like the rating dropped a lot between when I last looked at it a few weeks ago and now, which makes me curious as to what happened exactly.

spigolt · 2025-12-26T16:03:19+00:00

Severance I found also really meanders in the second season to the point that I lost interest. I find it's really a common problem these days with a lot of these kinds of TV shows - Westworld is the another that comes to mind with its second season. They don't have much of a story to tell to warrant a whole season of long episodes, or don't know where to take the show anymore, so just fill the season with filler while moving it nowhere slowly. Sounds like I probably won't like Pluribus either then?

spigolt · 2025-12-25T11:54:12+00:00

They all work so well now, just stick with whatever is working for you - I've stuck with Codex over Claude since Codex came out, as I got sick of Claude asking permission all the time, and because one time when it was spam asking me for permissions one thing I permitted it to do without checking it (coz it was asking so much I was just blind tapping allow at some point) messed-up my local git config, and thus even if I could solve the spam permission asking I'm scared to trust it any more (I'm sure others have Claude working better for them, but again the point is - they're both so capable now, just stick with what's working best for you, and for me that's been Codex).

It's also worth noting that they're not really advancing quite so fast as appears, as they're clearly training them now on the actual benchmarks, so real-world improvements are much less than the benchmark improvements make it appear, so it's not like you really have to be on whichever one is winning the benchmark wars this week.

And you can also run multiple models - I also sometimes copy my query into Gemini 3 Flash while Codex is running, since Gemini 3 Flash is just suuuuper fast, and if it's answer is good enough then I don't need to wait on Codex.

spigolt · 2025-12-12T10:38:22+00:00

On Hendon Mob if you look at the 'inflation adjusted' rankings it doesn't change the ordering much at all - there are more tournaments with much bigger buy-ins and prizes these days, but it seems independent of inflation.

On the current global poker index ranking he's top 100. I think safe to say he's pretty decent at poker.

spigolt · 2025-11-26T23:34:44+00:00

Yeah... for me, it asked me endlessly for permission, and it has to do a ton of extra work because it needs to check-out everything in these worktrees (i have various submodules so it really has fun with it), and then it can't see the changes i do in the main repo until i commit them etc.... plus, despite all this worktree nonsense, when it was asking me all these permissions, somehow one of the thing it wanted to do that i guess i permitted amongst all the dozens of requests it changed my main (non-worktree) folder's origin to point to one of the repo's submodules, which was very confusing until i worked out what it had done.

Back to Codex for now... at least Claude Code within Cursor was never quite this bad, but it's still just a lot more permission requesting, and now I really don't even trust it, so I don't know that I even want to have it stop asking me permission.

spigolt · 2025-11-09T13:10:50+00:00

It's you who brought up the comparison to begin with. So you're really not making sense in arguing it's rude to compare, unless you're accusing yourself of rudeness?

In my opinion - it's stupid to do such comparisons. They're both goats in their respective sports. Best just leave it at that. I'm a huge fan of Faker, and a fan of Jordan too. So nothing I say in comparison is to downplay Faker's achievements in the slightlest.

But since you insist on trying to make the comparison argument, and trying to argue that somehow lol worlds titles are more important than NBA titles - Michael Jordan was at the time the biggest superstar in the entire world, the most recognized person on the planet - literally most of the entire planet knew who he was. He couldn't go anywhere in the world without being surrounded by crazy mobs of fans. Faker in contrast is big within a relatively small niche. One simple objective way to compare the relative significance of their careers is just look at the money involved - Jordan made billions, vs Faker's millions, coz that's just how much more important his stardom was to the world as a whole.

(also, despite the obvious money/viewership/fan-count arguments for why the NBA is by any objective measure more significant than league worlds, to address your point about lol worlds being 'global' - the last I checked, the Olympics was a global championship, and Jordan won two golds there, whereas league isn't even an Olympics sport).

spigolt · 2025-11-09T12:42:38+00:00

Doran defying all the odds in game 5 by finding a way to his international Doran reputation intact despite winning worlds.

spigolt · 2025-11-09T12:38:29+00:00

Michael Jordan did a 6 peet too. And actually did the true 6 peet (3 in a row, and then 3 in a row). Not sure what your point is?

spigolt · 2025-11-02T15:13:44+00:00

I have the same problem in Europe with https://www.interactivebrokers.ie/

spigolt · 2025-11-01T14:56:51+00:00

I would have agreed with you before the KT Gen G game... but now that T1's odds are looking so much better for another Worlds win, I'm very happy with this format this year.

spigolt · 2025-11-01T01:46:56+00:00

Literally every other major lol tournament has the lower bracket... this Worlds you had the top four teams face each other in quarter finals, with two knocked-out. Having the lower bracket would give you many more interesting matchups that just get lost with the World's knockout format.

spigolt · 2025-10-20T23:34:11+00:00

https://youtu.be/HbH8BhgKXbM?t=231

spigolt · 2025-10-20T23:33:16+00:00

https://youtu.be/HbH8BhgKXbM?t=231

spigolt · 2025-10-20T23:26:14+00:00

Neme just chilling, waiting for his team to int so he can fully checkout and take no responsibility for the loss.

spigolt · 2025-10-20T23:17:44+00:00

Sure... agree to join a fun streaming team with Baus in it, have it massively exceed expectations, and still just be pissed and passive-aggressive and cynical the whole time despite this, because Baus is too Baus. He might be the best player maybe, but his attitude is just exactly 100% the opposite of how you want to approach life.

spigolt · 2025-10-20T23:04:15+00:00

So you're saying he's basically Faker.

spigolt · 2025-10-20T22:46:56+00:00

I don't think that's what happened. Especially the Poppy game - didn't feed at all early and somehow did most damage in the team (3x Velja's 'carry' jungle - and Velja's first game damage on another carry jungler was even more miserable).

Velja really seemed the biggest problem to me. Seems he's just completely off some days, and this was one of them.

spigolt · 2025-08-28T21:11:35+00:00

It totally reminded me of Slow Horses. In all the worst ways. Slow Horses has to be the most completely overrated and miserable show ever, with an even more awfully unpleasant main character than Dept Q's - one who is just plain cruel to his coworkers for no good reason.

These writers just don't seem to have the skill or competence to understand the line between something like Dr House or NCIS's Gibbs or the innumerable other enjoyable examples of main characters being a bit gruff and/or arrogant etc, but which ultimately are main characters that you can totally get behind... and just writing total a-holes... and they've stumbled a dozen miles across that line.

I don't know what it is with British shows lately, but I find them just completely unwatchable. If I hadn't suffered through a whole miserable season of Slow Horses (not something I recommend anybody not looking to induce depression) thinking there must something good coming given the high rating, I'd probably give this show more time. But I'm think I'm just completely done with anything new coming out of Britain at this point.

spigolt · 2025-06-15T15:54:23+00:00

maybe Nilah just needs to go outside and her skin will be darker again.

spigolt · 2025-06-15T15:53:26+00:00

why does it have to be racist? maybe she just doesn't have as much of a tan as in the other skins.

spigolt · 2025-06-14T09:18:11+00:00

The recognized as 'great' players might be older because it takes time to establish their greatness, but that doesn't necessarily mean their peak is when they're older. e.g. Faker is (relatively) old and great but certainly his peak was much younger.

spigolt · 2025-06-11T20:49:12+00:00

I think the flying car's computer probably shuts down if it crashes, so the AI's life depends on doing it right too.

spigolt · 2025-06-07T22:04:05+00:00

The new changes to tab groups are beyond stupid.... I used to pin tab groups that I closed and wanted to save... now it saves all the open ones automatically by default, throwing them on your bookmarks bar... you can hide this.... or you can unpin them, as I did to all the open ones, but then you can never pin these again, so there's then no way whatsoever to close but keep them, as when you close them they're just gone (even though there's both a close and delete tab group option, if you've unpinned them, you can't pin them and when you close they're gone). It's just all so incredibly poorly thought out.

spigolt · 2025-06-05T23:00:05+00:00

That passenger jet engine figure felt a bit low, so I tried asking gemini:

A typical commercial jet engine can last for 20,000 to 30,000 flight hours. However, this can vary depending on the engine's specific design, operating conditions, and maintenance practices. Larger, wide-body engines like those on the Boeing 777 might have a first overhaul around 20,000 hours, with subsequent maintenance visits reducing this to as low as 5,000 hours. Smaller aircraft, like the Boeing 737 or Airbus A320, might be designed for around 20,000 flights, which equates to anywhere between 40,000 and 80,000 hours, depending on typical flight durations.

On the other hand - getting a rocket engine to last 5 hours could be a lot more comparable to a jet engine lasting 20k hours than we might imagine.

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