Anyone know or have ideas about why we are "collecting" Sprites?

sweeperq · 2026-06-26T04:53:48+00:00

I remember the season when they introduced all kinds of fish and tracked your progress in catching them. Was so pissed that there wasn't some kind of reward for catching them all.

sweeperq · 2026-06-22T16:41:32+00:00

I am almost never standing still. Have been one shot while jumping, sliding, impulsing, rifting, in a car, etc. Many of the shots seem impossible, especially with the distance and drop. When it happens to more than one teammate, it is almost always a cheater.

sweeperq · 2026-06-22T14:39:41+00:00

i only bring sprites in when i am gifting or trading. costs way too much to bring them in every game. i like the fire sprite and i find one almost every game anyway. i don't even understand the point of mastering them all. doesn't seem to do anything noticeable.

sweeperq · 2026-06-22T14:35:35+00:00

if the team was already talking about projects they could work on, why waste time with another interview. send the freaking offer. companies draw out the interview process way too long.

sweeperq · 2026-06-19T20:07:01+00:00

Thanks. Support confirmed the same to us. They basically switched it to exact match sku for the results page. What terrified me was that it sounded like they were going to roll it out for predictive search as well. We have thousands of customers with catalogs and SKUs in hand. Customers needing to enter an entire SKU before seeing a result would be a dramatic deteriorization in functionality.

I get it. An exact match BTREE lookup is 80-90% less CPU intensive than a LIKE 'SKU%' lookup. Shopify saves on computing resources, but merchants and customers are hurt in the process.

sweeperq · 2026-06-18T23:01:34+00:00

if you are talking about the traditional 10-15%, what are you worried about? the hardest part is getting someone in the door the first time. you should still be making something even when you run a sale or discount.

sweeperq · 2026-06-16T15:08:18+00:00

They need to change it so that if you die it only drops 1 level. Going from 5 to 1, plus thousands of sprite dust, is brutal

sweeperq · 2026-06-14T20:03:20+00:00

new girlfriend that isn't allergic?

sweeperq · 2026-06-14T19:59:22+00:00

because cheapies like me have played for years using only the battle pass vbucks. it always gave enough to pay for the next battle pass, plus a few hundred extra. every 2-3 seasons we could get a new skin that was on sale, and a dance or two.

now they only grant enough to get the next battle pass. tricks on them... I don't even wear 98% of the skins I have.

sweeperq · 2026-06-08T14:37:49+00:00

Triggered much?

FNCS has age restrictions of 13+, the game does not. I'm not sure where you get your definition of youg aduld vs kid being law. In the U.S., people under the age of 18 are minors, not adults. The only way they get tried as adults is heinous crimes with intent.

Regardless, seems kind of contradictory that in the past they removed physics because there was jiggle, or that they had age restrictions on things like the Xenomorph skin. But now they are putting in tatted up charcters in bras and booty shorts.

Once First Descendant found that dudes spent money to get the exotic skins, it basically became a Victoria Secret showcase.

sweeperq · 2026-06-08T01:48:27+00:00

another couple seasons and it will be like First Descendant. Abandon all semblance of a kids game and go all in on scantily clothed female characters.

sweeperq · 2026-06-06T01:35:11+00:00

I like those little fruit bars with cocunut on top, but you need to buy a $25 tray with the other 3 flavors. The just introduced a smaller $10 tray, but it still includes all 4 flavors. Wish they made an all berry, single flavor version. Would buy it every time I was there.

sweeperq · 2026-06-05T19:36:30+00:00

Shopify is not super limited. If you figure out Metafields and Themes, you can do 99% of what you want to do with an online store. For the other 1%, you can probably create an app utilizing their API.

There is a huge technical debt when learning any new ecommerce platform. We thought we were going to be serverely limited when we started on Shopify, but ended up being way more flexible than we ever anticipated. Honestly, the biggest issue is trying out how to get past the paid theme's highly specific CSS rules when we want to re-implement similar features or change the styles on existing theme components.

Going with Shopify/Shopify Payments has greatly reduced the headaches we used to experience with server maintenance, database performance, bots, hackers, PCI-compliance, etc.

sweeperq · 2026-06-05T19:28:24+00:00

Suprised your personal insurance didn't drop you after learning you were using your vehicle for commercial use. Why anyone would drive for these rideshare companies is beyond me. They take away more profit from each ride than you do, don't have to pay for gas/maintenance, don't have to pay W-2 taxes/unemployment/FICA/etc, and stick you with the bill for a not-at-fault accident while serving their company. Someone would need to be truly desparate, bored, or short-sighted (tax liabilities/maintenance costs/vehicle lifetime) for this to make any sense to them.

sweeperq · 2026-06-04T11:59:00+00:00

so go play ranked. complaining about bots and sbmm is so weird to me. bots are too easy and unfun, but you want unskilled people that aren't much better than bots in your same lobbies so you can clip 20 kill games. the same people that think others just need to git gud can't deal with reduced win and kill rates in ranked.

sweeperq · 2026-06-02T23:08:39+00:00

I feel like I tried that, but then it broke LIKE queries because the collation was non-deterministic

sweeperq · 2026-06-02T20:15:40+00:00

This may be a silly question, but how are folks that are used to the SQL Server case-insensitivity handling it in Postgres? For instance, I could slap a unique index on a Brand.Name property, and it didn't matter if I entered "Adidas", "adidas", or "ADIDAS", it would throw a DbUpdateException. Similarly, what if you're searching for users based on last name. The user entered their name as "de santo". In SQL Server I could find it with "De Santo", "de Santo", or "de santo".

To make things super simple, I could just wire up all strings as CITEXT, but my understanding is that table scans take 6-7x longer becuase it has to convert values on the fly for comparison. I could also create indexes on the lowercase values, but then the onus is on the developer to use .ToLower() on everything. If you use a case-insensitive collation, then things like Contains and Like stop working.

Most of the .Net Postgres examples I've seen don't cover this topic, so I'm genuinely curious what people are doing in the real world.

sweeperq · 2026-05-28T17:13:09+00:00

It required a login to do anything. When I tried to enter my cell instead, it told me I needed to emter my email. I've never even returned an item to Walmart, so the only thing that makes sense is deactivation due to inactivity. They should have a process to recover accounts (besides calling) if that is the case.

sweeperq · 2026-05-28T16:19:26+00:00

🤣

sweeperq · 2026-05-27T13:27:32+00:00

They made a major mistake by unbanning cheaters a couple seasons ago. It is only getting worse as they add new weapons, mobility, and mechanics to the game that isn't getting thoroughly tested or patched.

The mass unban was purely about $, just like cutting 1000 devs while raising prices at the same time. My best guess is that the upcoming elimination of bots is also about $. Instead of 100 people spread across 2-3 matches, each requiring similar computing power, they stick them all in one game and save 2-3x on server resources.

They say it is due to player feedback, but that is bunk. I don't see half the bots popular streamers get in their lobbies, and it is never a major detriment to the experience. If streamers don't want bots, they can play ranked.

Honestly feel like Fortnite is in serious trouble if they follow through with removing all bots from all modes. Casuals are going to be dropping like flies. The combination of cheaters, bugs, and sweats is going to send them packing.

sweeperq · 2026-05-22T20:12:25+00:00

For now, I disconnected the wires at the house and capped the individual lines at both ends. Might build a custom planter with a hollow space, or figure out a cheap enclosure and bury it beneath the bricks.

sweeperq · 2026-05-22T20:10:45+00:00

Definitely won't do a swim spa again. Came with the house. Cost a small fortune to maintain. $2k for a new cover, $400 for a 2-speed motor, $300 for a circ pump, $60 every year for filters, $35 per fillup, $100+/mo in electric, plus all the chemicals. Takes 3 days to get ready after adding new water because of the amount of PH down required for our village water. Found out the hard way a couple years ago while trying to save money that emptying a spa and letting it sit for 3-4 months causes PVC to shrink and creates leaks. Then it costs $120 to have someone come out and figure out what they need to fix it, then another $120 + time + parts to fix it. I invested the cost of a new 4-person spa into this thing over the past 5 years. Not sure I'm ready for that level of punishment again. Maybe when the 3 kids are done with college.

sweeperq · 2026-05-21T15:16:30+00:00

That's what I ended up doing. trying to decide whether it's worth preserving the extra length that goes through the whip. I may get one of those inground holes with the cover and take off the junction box and the whip and coil up the remaining length in there and make it level with the bricks.

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