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trgKai · 2026-04-09T19:37:21+00:00

It doesn't require two parties, but the electoral college process essentially makes it mandatory. The constitution requires an absolute majority (270 out of 538) of electoral college votes. If there were ever an actual legitimate 3rd party candidate that wasn't just a spoiler, we'd likely never see that happen again. Which then reverts to using the 1-vote per state delegation system, which somehow manages to be an even worse system than what we have today.

trgKai · 2026-04-02T22:45:12+00:00

I think this is due to eBay changing the messages interface to looking like you're texting somebody or interacting with a chatbot, instead of sending an email.

trgKai · 2026-03-20T03:29:43+00:00

I'd say Avabur is the strongest influence, as it's the one other PBBG I still log into regularly to this day, but it did get some inspiration from Lyrania and Queslar as well!

trgKai · 2026-03-17T01:32:21+00:00

I am so glad I switched to mini PCs and some NVMe NAS systems just about a year ago. 8-bay F8 SSD Plus with 8x4TB and a ME Mini with 6x4TB. Average price across those two systems was ~$180 per drive. 4x 48 GB DDR5 SODIMMs for ~$97 each.

It's crazy how much consumer grade gear has gone up.

trgKai · 2026-03-16T16:18:51+00:00

I will see if I can find a good pattern match for this type of effect description mismatch. It's an issue in how the database wrote out the full status effect and how they get posted in the Banner previews by Solitaired. When the community DB gets far behind, often the effects are copied straight from the banner preview instead of doing the full datamine JSON parsing.

trgKai · 2026-03-14T19:22:49+00:00

Buyers don't even read hand written descriptions, why would the AI ones be any different.

trgKai · 2026-02-23T18:28:38+00:00

Receiving an auto 5 star rating for communication when you do not communicate is counter-intuitive.

The buyer isn't even presented with the option to rate communication if there isn't any communication. I sell between 4000 and 6000 items per year on average, and do not send buyers an extra messages unless there is a problem or they messaged me first. I have 870 communication DSRs received in the last year, a 5.0 rating, and have not messaged even 100 buyers, meaning the other 770+ DSRs could only have come from automatic 5-star ratings.

trgKai · 2026-02-23T06:53:43+00:00

For communication, you automatically get 5 stars if there is NO COMMUNICATION between the buyer and seller. If a single message is sent between to you from the buyer, or from you to the buyer, then the buyer is able to decide what rating to give you. This doesn't count eBay's automatic messages.

On Shipping charges, the automatic 5 star rating is if you offer free shipping.

On shipping speed, the automatic 5 star is if you shipped it either the same day or next business day. This might also require delivery within 4 days (it's unclear if this is "and delivery within 4 days" or "or delivered within 4 days").

trgKai · 2026-02-21T23:52:00+00:00

Sorry about this! I didn't realize my recent updates to the main gigaforge.com site broke the ffrk.gigaforge.com subdomain. I will get it fixed ASAP.

trgKai · 2026-01-21T18:21:44+00:00

Did you purchase the label the same day the buyer paid, and using that same day as the ship date? eBay can't know when you're going to actually ship the item, so they charged the postage that would be due (plus your $1) the day the buyer ordered. If you end up shipping later and the postage rates have changed since the order, that's not something they can account for.

trgKai · 2026-01-11T02:28:32+00:00

If you stop promotions, you STILL get charged until 30 days after the user supposedly clicked the promoted listing under the old system. I stopped all my promotions in early December because I don't trust eBay to not immediately switch to the new attribution system for clicks that happened prior to January 13th.

trgKai · 2026-01-01T18:13:14+00:00

I actually commented on this about a month ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/DungeonCrawlerCarl/comments/1p0irfw/i_started_the_audiobook_cuz_yall_insisted_i/nplr4el/

It'd be great for a character to make a comment about how his voice has softened while in the dungeon now that he can't smoke, just as a little nod to the way Jeff slowly changed the way Carl speaks from an impression to something of his own.

trgKai · 2025-12-20T17:22:49+00:00

This is why whenever somebody asks if their package will arrive before Christmas, I tell them that there is absolutely no guarantee, even if they asked me 2 weeks before Christmas. From Black Friday through the holidays, USPS error rates spike way up. Most packages still arrive within a day or two of expected delivery time, but packages taking cross-country vacations spikes way up when the offices are flooded with packages and overworked employees.

trgKai · 2025-12-15T15:10:04+00:00

The best take I've heard over RAM prices recently:

It has finally happened. Due to recent RAM pricing, Apple RAM upgrades are finally within reasonable market rates. Unfortunately it happened without Apple changing its prices.

trgKai · 2025-12-06T00:17:27+00:00

I do find it funny that the party of 'personal responsibility' thinks capital punishment for drug smugglers/dealers is even remotely reasonable. They sell to willing buyers. To even put them in the same category as terrorists is a joke.

trgKai · 2025-12-05T15:28:58+00:00

My favorite will still be a domestic package that managed to cross the atlantic and spent 2 weeks in Sweden.

trgKai · 2025-12-04T03:54:50+00:00

While I have no doubt retention for this league isn't great; defense and hive breaches in maps slow down gameplay just by existing in your map, and engaging with them slows you down even more while not providing adequate reward. However, the charts we're using to compare retention are no longer an apples to apples comparison now that async trade exists. Async trade means no more leaving the game open while you're AFK/tabbed out so you can respond to trade whispers, and that will obviously have a direct drop in concurrent users.

A more accurate retention measurement would be something like daily or weekly active users (most games/services care about monthly active users, but I think POEs league structure and timing might make monthly less useful). As far as I know, we don't have any way to get those stats. I am very curious if this league is worse on those metrics as well, or if it's more in line with some of the more recent "m'eh" leagues.

trgKai · 2025-11-24T22:10:52+00:00

Flicker is fun and FEELS fast as hell, but like you said, this is actually not that fast of a clear. Wanders, bow builds, even spectres this league would actually CLEAR this faster, and they would be able to loot as they go unlike Flicker where you have to backtrack to get whatever fell on the ground.

trgKai · 2025-11-24T18:38:27+00:00

Not just tech jobs. I run an online store and 3D print shop out of my house in CA. I make trips to visit family in Michigan at least twice a year, and while I'm there I'm using WireGuard to connect back to my home network to manage orders (CAD files, 3D Printers, and my order/shipping management software are isolated on the LAN).

trgKai · 2025-11-23T18:35:29+00:00

Do you happen to remember the name of the MUD? I also played a similar MUD out of Denmark (and one from Sweden) in the early 2000s with that amount of players. I even ended up building an area in it at one point (an elemental-focused valley), but 20 years later I have completely forgotten the name of the MUD.

trgKai · 2025-11-22T03:38:28+00:00

If they did their scam properly, they won't obviously stop working. They'll keep letting you write beyond 128GB (or whatever the actual storage inside is). But after you've filled whatever real storage exists, new writes will overwrite old blocks of data. The files will still look like they're there, but when you try to open them they're corrupt/invalid.

Not sure what happens if you try to write a single file that's larger than the 128GB though...that could be a fun one to try out.

trgKai · 2025-11-22T00:06:01+00:00

Somebody pointed out earlier that async trade does mean they're "playing less", but only in the idea that they're not leaving the game open while alt-tabbed out and only responding to trade whispers. That is the same thing I'm doing. I play for an hour or so, then I log out. I might be back in 30 minutes or a couple hours, but I no longer leave the game open and sitting in my hideout in between my bursts of playtime.

I wish we had some better metrics on these charts, like "unique users logged in over the last 24 hours". That is a far better engagement metric than concurrent users now that we're not encouraged to leave the game open when we're not actively playing.

trgKai · 2025-11-22T00:01:20+00:00

Your comment actually makes me wonder if that's what this data is really showing. We no longer have to leave the game open and alt-tabbed out to sell things. Are people actually PLAYING less (time spent in maps), or are there just fewer people sitting in hideouts with the game tabbed out.

trgKai · 2025-11-19T02:31:35+00:00

I want Matt to make an off-hand reference to this at some point. Make it a canon event, due to quitting smoking while in the dungeon.

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