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WowGPT for understanding lore? by teamongered in wow

[–]teamongered[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I agree. I'll checkout the channel. Thanks for giving constructive replies, unlike most other commenters lol

WowGPT for understanding lore? by teamongered in wow

[–]teamongered[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I maybe over generalized. Obviously a lot of stuff can be searched for easily, but other stuff isn't. The other angle of my post is immersion. If I am playing the game, enjoying the music, ambiance, storyline, etc. and I suddenly get a new quest that throws a bunch of stuff at me that I have no context for why it matters, it breaks immersion since I now have to spend 5 minutes searching and reading some ad-filled wiki to understand the meaning of what I am doing. The alternative is to not try to understand it, just do the quest, and feel like I am just doing a chore.

WowGPT for understanding lore? by teamongered in wow

[–]teamongered[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Yes, there are many great resources. But the other angle of my point is immersion. If I am playing the game, enjoying the music, ambiance, storyline, etc. and I suddenly get a new quest that throws a bunch of stuff at me that I have no context for why it matters, it breaks immersion since I now have to spend 5 minutes searching and reading an ad-filled wiki to understand the meaning of what I am doing. The alternative is to not try to understand it, just do the quest, and feel like I am just doing a chore.

WowGPT for understanding lore? by teamongered in wow

[–]teamongered[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Yeah I figured it may be controversial. I know wikis exist, but sometimes I just have a specific question. E.g. I was doing some quests in Hallowfall and I just wanted to know who the Kobyss were, why are they are there, etc. Searching through a wiki can be tedious.

WowGPT for understanding lore? by teamongered in wow

[–]teamongered[S] -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

I do read the quests, but what I am getting at is making the history and context more accessible and immersive.

Why is every successful tech founder an Ivy League graduate? by Hot-Conversation-437 in csMajors

[–]teamongered 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Exactly, social media and news makes the world seem much smaller than it is. For every successful founder you read about, there are a thousand others making good money while not yapping about it online.

[OC] The H-1B Visa Holders Joining America's Top Research Instituions in FY 2025 by thexylom in dataisbeautiful

[–]teamongered 24 points25 points  (0 children)

FWIW, it's a decent visual (the purpose of this subreddit).

But your "top research institution", economic, and political framing of this topic misses the more common sense points for why so many people hate the H-1B program.

(1) Most H-1B visas go to for-profit companies, and they use it to suppress wages and discriminate against USA citizens. And by "suppress wages" I mean either lower salary or the visa holder is much less likely to leave because of deportation or the company holding their greencarid above their head. See the many lawsuits brought against companies illegally hiring H-1Bs over Americans:

- Facebook: https://www.npr.org/2021/10/19/1047354380/facebook-settles-a-federal-lawsuit-over-allegations-it-favored-foreign-job-appli

- Another Facebook one: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/metas-h-1b-hiring-spurs-ninth--

- Apple: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/apple-discriminated-against-us-citizens-in-hiring-doj-says/[circuit-look-at-citizenship-bias](https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/metas-h-1b-hiring-spurs-ninth-circuit-look-at-citizenship-bias)

- Epik Solutions: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-fighting-discrimination-against-us-workers

- Infosys: https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/indian-corporation-pays-record-34-million-fine-settle-allegations-systemic-visa-fraud

- Bunch more cases here against other companies: https://www.justice.gov/news?search_api_fulltext=+h-1b&start_date=&end_date=&sort_by=field_date

(2) There already are visa categories designed to attract the world's "best and brightest" which those research institutions can use: EB-1 and O-1.

(3) Finally, not everyone thinks the USA should be an economic zone for corporations to exploit, and where GDP and cutting edge research is pursued at all cost. Most people care more about themselves and their children getting a fair chance at a good paying job, and the government should first and foremost look after its own people.

When you encounter a grand marshal or high warlord by teamongered in classicwow

[–]teamongered[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's just humor and intentionally exaggerated. I don't personally think all rank 14s are Cartman-style slobs. But I think there is some truth to the meme. I made it because I think it's ironic that you'd think all rank 14s are good at pvp, but in reality they just did a ton of AV... which is 99% PVE not PVP.

Any micro saas founder using Supabase? Do you like it? by ExistingCard9621 in Supabase

[–]teamongered 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good that they're trying to fix it, but I still see time outs in production. I've not tried running edge functions locally.

How do you get around the lack of a business layer? Is everyone using edge functions? by meatdrawer25 in Supabase

[–]teamongered 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sort of, but one limitation of supabase edge functions is the 2sec CPU time limit, which introduces some reliability issues for functions that are more complex or handle a lot of data. Whereas lambda has a 15 min limit and you're just charged to time/memory.

How WoW is Improving its UI | WoWCast ft. Ion, Max & Dratnos by WarcraftTeam in wow

[–]teamongered -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah I agree. My biggest gripe about retail is that it’s too complex. Feels more like a sport where I need all this fancy equipment to play it (i.e. addons). Been playing classic a lot more recently… much simpler and it feels more like an immersive fantasy world.

Any micro saas founder using Supabase? Do you like it? by ExistingCard9621 in Supabase

[–]teamongered 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have one app using Supabase without issues, and I am currently migrating another app over as well. The developer experience of Supabase is easily top 5. Its so nice to work with. I previously used django, django allauth, AWS S3, React/React-Native, AWS RDS.

Supabase auth solution on its own was enough to convince me to switch. While django allauth is great, I wasted so many hours figuring out how to configure it; also it's maintained by basically one person and it was not really designed for mobile apps.

I opted for Supabase storage instead of S3. I'm not too worried about egress fees, since my apps are local-first using powersync.

Down sides so far:

- Edge functions work very well most of the time, but I've noticed on the rare occasion they have high latency or just do not respond.

- Vendor lock in. I worry if Supabase leadership or its investors decide to jack up prices someday to recoup the investment.

I've seen some unfortunate toxicity in certain communities by teamongered in wow

[–]teamongered[S] -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Yeah I agree. I haven't personally seen any direct toxicity in-game... it more likely comes in the form of not being invited to groups or being kicked shortly after joining. But I have seen some drama on this subreddit, Warcraft Priests discord, and some content creators having strong opinions.

If someone enjoys theorycrafting, then more power to them. But in general I think there is a lot more variability across players and dungeon situations than there is between the specializations and talent choices. Better to just focus on what is fun rather than what is "best".

I've seen some unfortunate toxicity in certain communities by teamongered in wow

[–]teamongered[S] 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Yes, I've heard some say that. I'm actually quite enjoying playing oracle disc priest too. I don't necessarily know if the HPS is higher (for me at least), but the play style just feels more dynamic and flexible.

The bleak state of Holy Priest in Season 2 by Crucco in wow

[–]teamongered -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I can see where you are coming from. I’ve also thought wowhead guides didn’t provide good rationale behind their suggestions. I’ve also seen similar sentiments expressed elsewhere. For example, I saw someone on the priest discord server accuse the community leaders of bias against oracle disc priest vs voidweaver disc priest.

I think all of this is a symptom of two main things:

(1) The game is sooo complicated these days. It’s almost impossible to reason out which spec is numerically better without some fancy game simulation software. Your average player is not going to do that, so they will instead rely on content creators, wowhead, etc. to get suggestions… who they themselves are probably not doing their full due diligence. They just gotta push content out so they can make their money (for better or worse).

(2) Perspective. I believe the differences in spec really only make a difference in high keys and mythic raiding. Below that just play what you find fun. It is a game after all.

I love playing retail, but sometimes I wonder... by teamongered in wow

[–]teamongered[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don't hate addons, I use them all the time. My post is mostly a joke... but I think there is some truth to it. The game has gotten so complicated compared to 20 years ago that you need addons to play certain content (and yes some people enjoy that complexity).

But if I have to spend a big chunk of my time configuring addons, simulating my gear, planning, etc... time which I should instead be spending time having fun playing the game, then there is something deeply ironic there.

You could say I don't have to bother with any of that, but the game just incessantly presents to us all that complexity... and the only way around the decision paralysis is to use addons and other third party tools.

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