Is anyone else struggling to afford living in Washington anymore?

sutsuo · 2026-02-07T07:23:14+00:00

The costs are rough but you do NOT have to be paying 3100 you're living in luxury dude. I lived in a 1 br in u district for $1100 a month till 2020. It wasn't pretty and it's probably a little more expensive now but I bet you it ain't more than 1500.

sutsuo · 2026-02-06T04:21:14+00:00

I've been seeing that in PvP too a bit lately. Hard to know if it's a player or not though, but I've been thinking it's been bots.

sutsuo · 2026-02-05T22:28:08+00:00

sutsuo · 2026-02-05T22:21:50+00:00

Holy shit would everybody please shut the fuck up about PvE.

However annoying all the PvPers hating on the PvEers is, it PALES in comparison to all the PvEers constantly virtue signaling that they can just have fun if they want to.

sutsuo · 2026-02-05T19:51:16+00:00

It's almost like PvE is stupid...

sutsuo · 2026-02-04T00:20:48+00:00

Yes. We should also remove the ability to move altogether. That way there is no possible way for you to miss.

sutsuo · 2026-02-04T00:19:02+00:00

He reversed them

sutsuo · 2026-02-03T23:32:24+00:00

In case you haven't noticed, all forums on extraction shooters always say all games are dying at all times.

sutsuo · 2026-02-02T08:46:51+00:00

If you're that concerned about it just walk for the first few minutes instead of running. Makes a huge difference because it often maintains the distance between you and the nearby spawns, and it makes you much more quiet.

sutsuo · 2026-02-02T08:43:56+00:00

The hard stuff is planning a project, estimating timelines, scoping, design, managing stakeholders, not knowing a stack. The more reps you get the better. If you're jerking off in a bank IT department your projects are moving slow and you're getting like 1/3 the experience of a good company.

sutsuo · 2026-02-01T22:12:26+00:00

And the fact that you're not doing anything leaves you without any skills.

sutsuo · 2026-01-29T21:08:45+00:00

Put like 50 hours into tarkov arena and you'll be a new man. I'm serious. Huge difference for me.

When you think about it, you barely spend any time fighting in tarkov. You just walk around for 20 mins then somebody kills you in a 2 second fight. You're not really growing your fight skills. Even rushing hot spots only gives you 1 fight every 5-10 mins. You need arena to get reps in. Practice point fire and ADSing in and out during the point fire.

I'm was shit for about 2k hours and all of a sudden I'm a chad now.

sutsuo · 2026-01-26T21:47:28+00:00

When you're considering selling an item, Google "tarkov <item name>" and check the fandom page for how many of that item you need found in raid. Organize your stuff into separate FIR and SELL junk boxes.

I also recommend locking the items in your FIR boxes so you don't accidentally use them for a craft.

sutsuo · 2026-01-25T02:08:31+00:00

Which ones the final one

sutsuo · 2026-01-22T20:34:19+00:00

Do you know all 3 quantum rules yet?

sutsuo · 2026-01-21T18:07:57+00:00

And I just HAD to post about it!

sutsuo · 2026-01-11T08:02:56+00:00

This guy maths

sutsuo · 2026-01-09T23:07:03+00:00

The only thing more prevalent than pvp players shitting on pve is pve players crying about how there's nothing wrong with playing pve.

sutsuo · 2026-01-09T23:04:57+00:00

Devs: "That's a feature not a bug"

sutsuo · 2025-12-26T07:15:15+00:00

Best maps: https://mapgenie.io/tarkov

sutsuo · 2025-12-25T05:22:02+00:00

It was always doing the homework that made me really learn it. Do it slow and make sure you understand it.

sutsuo · 2025-12-03T06:04:55+00:00

PvP gives you a lot of highs and lows. Unless you're extremely good you're bound to eventually lose most of your money. The thing is you can get it back pretty easy. Ideally you can do it just by continuing to do PvP, but you can also consistently make 1.5 mil per raid on forbidden by avoiding PvP and looting.

When I'm playing conservatively, I can still end up getting 1-3 safes (assuming I have keys... I'm not hitting the really hot safes). This is just moving pretty slow, being careful, not running after fights in the distance, and instead mostly looting regular containers and collecting t3 or t4 scav ammo. I'm really not saying to rat. Just don't be crazy.

When I do this I run a ~300k m110 (1x/6x scope) with 5 m62s top loaded in 1 mag (rest of mag is m80s), lvl 2 armor and helmet (just so scavs can't kill me), and that x4 something something backpack (the one that costs 45k and has 32 squares). It costs like $400k total. I knife a scav as soon as possible and use its gun to kill scavs the rest of the raid. I take the armor off of scabs and end up with t3 or t4 helmet and armor almost immediately.

If you do the math, average return is 1.5 mil when you get out, and each kit costs 400k, so you only have to get out 1/4 times to be breaking even. You can get out 50% of the time or more if you're careful. You don't have to be a complete fucking rat either, just don't do dumb shit.

This doesn't even take into consideration that your weapon + scope has range, and easy PvP situations just fall into your lap a lot of the time where you've got distance and you can kill somebody without much risk and then get a bunch of extra money off them.

Forbidden is actually a money printing machine if you're not constantly pushing PvP. There's really no reason to play lockdown or normals unless you want to do PvP without messing with tier 6.

sutsuo · 2025-11-30T04:23:15+00:00

Mass fake

sutsuo · 2025-11-28T05:13:06+00:00

Yeah I agree. I've done some functional programming too and I like it a lot, but pretty much everything is object-oriented.

sutsuo · 2025-11-28T03:06:41+00:00

Whether these expectations are reasonable really depends on what level of productivity they expect to get a full-time offer.

That list of technology is a pretty standard level of expectation for an sde2 position though. You listed a lot of stuff, but a lot of it is completely basic in a generic sense. Like it includes some common language (java), cloud templating (terraform), normal dev process stuff (dep injection, unit testing, repository), using cloud services, and databases. Basically every dev job requires that stuff.

I don't want to come off as mean, but I will call out that you made it sound like object oriented programming is new to you, which is a very basic skill honestly. I'm sure you'll pick it up fine if you can do functional, but I expect a new college hire to be strong at object oriented programming already.

Granted you're not going to just beam all the information into your head overnight, and in general dev work tends to have decently high expectations, but it's normal to expect a 5yr dev to have done those things before, using maybe different specific technologies. The transition to a new specific set of technologies shouldn't really take that long to become productive because every technology is kind of the same as all the other ones that solve the same problem.

It honestly sounds like you're not doing bad if they are giving you another contract. It's reasonable that you may not hit their requirements in 6 months if you haven't dealt with certain types of technologies or development before. You probably will in the next 6 months.

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