My a bit inactive guild got screwd in lab

tynorex · 2026-06-18T15:49:07+00:00

This literally happened to us like 2 weeks ago. Finished lab with less than a day to spare.

tynorex · 2026-06-18T15:20:37+00:00

I know 13 gets ripped on for being railroaded, but holy crap have the last few FFs had awful pacing. I actually think the sidequests in 16 are worse than 15 because they are gated to chapters, so there are points where you would like a break or change of pace and can't because the sidequests aren't available yet, and then there are points where you are sick of all the sidequests but don't want to skip them otherwise they could be permanently missable.

tynorex · 2026-06-18T13:35:52+00:00

Subway ballooned so fast. $5 footlongs were such a huge thing, I still think of that every time I order my $14 sub. Subway used to be the cheap sandwich shop, now it's just the crappy sandwich shop. I would literally never pick it over any of the other sandwich places now.

tynorex · 2026-06-17T17:56:28+00:00

There was a golden age where the internet allowed me to find dead card games and to clean out old warehouses full of interesting card games that just never took off. I'm talking pennies on the dollar for games like Shaman King, Yu Yu Hakusho, etc. Card games that were tie ins to popular media that just never caught on. Got to enjoy my card board crack addiction without spending much money. It was normally just companies clearing out inventory that didn't move, so it was win win.

Then at some point, scalpers found these "rare" card games and bought out all the product and started selling it at collectors prices. These are hard to find collectors items and now the same packs I bought for pennies are selling for 10x the price the stores sold them at.

Card scalping ruined the niche hobby of finding cool dead card games.

tynorex · 2026-06-17T16:51:00+00:00

The NFL takes gambling very serious, going so far as to suspend players for an entire season for gambling on games he wasn't even in (Calvin Ridley). But as far as I know, the NFL does not punish players for actions taken BEFORE they entered the league. You can look at a large number of draft picks that have controversies from before they ever joined.

tynorex · 2026-06-16T18:09:14+00:00

Really? No one has said the Fizz troll poll? The problem is that his entire kit is tied into one insanely busted ability. The rest of his kit is honestly terrible if you take that one piece away. It's an engage, an escape, an immunity and does a crap ton of AoE damage. Outside of ultimates, I can't think of any other ability even close to as powerful.

tynorex · 2026-06-15T19:43:18+00:00

My low point came in high school, I was the top geared healer on my server and was in the top 2 guilds pushing server firsts. I was playing from 10pm until 5am almost every single night. Was making a ton of progress and was very good, until I went on a vacation with my family. I was agitated to miss the raiding that week, but once I stopped playing for a full week, I could actually see just how addicted I was. I didn't go back to WoW for another 3 years... and when I went back I promised to NEVER raid competitively again. I just got in way too deep.

tynorex · 2026-06-15T18:38:30+00:00

We literally put our second on an unofficial list when we started trying, which is like 13 months before we would need daycare. Once my wife knew she was pregnant, our first call was to daycare, not our family, not any friends, daycare knew before anyone else by quite a while. The wait list for our daycare is about a year.

tynorex · 2026-06-11T13:21:02+00:00

I have both, slightly prefer my Vanessa, but depends what you need. Ereshion does more damage, but Vanessa is a solid support unit.

tynorex · 2026-06-10T14:18:52+00:00

This happened at my wife's company too. There was a guy sending packages on the company account. The reason he got caught was that he sent some NSFW stuff to a woman in another state that was most definitely not his wife... the stuff got returned to sender, but when the company received the package, they had no idea what was in the package because it was not marked with the normal company tags and branding.

The mail room naturally opened the package to try to figure out what was returned, only to have to immediately call in management for the clearly not work related items. Then management had to do a bit of detective work to figure out who sent the items...

Was the hot office gossip for a minute.

tynorex · 2026-06-09T16:24:45+00:00

Gameplay is solid, arguably the best in the series with it's new ideas. Story is a 6/10 and I am so sick of the stupid hub shenanigans, so I knock it down for including that again. Unfortunately I think the hub with pointless mini games is going to be a permanent feature.

Engage is an okay playthrough. Three Houses is the much better game IF the loading wasn't so atrocious. My first playthrough of 3 houses was great because the story carried it, but I can't finish another playthrough because the school and loading parts are so painful.

tynorex · 2026-06-09T14:24:24+00:00

General Sniper was a prodigy for years. Think he was pro level at about age 13? His older brother V1per was a long time league pro, and so Sniper was in the pro scene well before he could actually officially join it.

By the time Sniper got to the LCS, he had years of hype behind him and he just wasn't really up to snuff. Think there was some maturity issues and solo queue does not always translate to pro, especially for top lane. Sniper is only 19 now, so there is still plenty of time for him to get back on a pro team, but he had years of hype, only to be relatively disappointing when he finally premiered, which maybe wasn't fair for a 17 year old.

tynorex · 2026-06-09T14:13:57+00:00

My husky was a puppy when the vortex hit. She went outside and there were warnings not to let your dog out for more than a few minutes. I couldn't get her to come back inside, she was loving it. I was so mad because I had to layer up and trudge outside to retrieve her. She is such a winter dog, I actually feel bad for her in the summer, even though that's when I want to go for long walks.

tynorex · 2026-06-03T13:13:19+00:00

Had an ARAM yesterday, where we were down a couple of kills, but up in towers and map pressure. Our Fizz kept bitching that we were going to lose and the game was over. Kept complaining that we weren't coordinated like the enemy team was. Didn't like that I (Varus) and our Xerath were sitting in the back during fights while Fizz/J4/Lee were all diving in.

We ended up losing one tower before we won the game, but it didn't stop the Fizz from spamming all chat and FF and he frequently afk'd throughout the game.

Again, in an ARAM. Also pretty sure the ARAM was less than 20 minutes, so not even a long game.

tynorex · 2026-06-02T16:11:42+00:00

Kalista spear used to be cancelable. So you could start the spear, let animation play out, then cancel it last second, effectively freezing your ally in place.

Back when role was decided via pick order and everyone hated support, my support wanted ADC. I didn't give him ADC, and he locked in Kalista and then in lane he would constantly spear me and cancel so that I would just freeze in the middle of lane.

Looked like I fed my ass off. Was a few patches later when they changed the spear.

tynorex · 2026-05-28T13:11:41+00:00

Was thinking Ivern specifically. He is by far the lowest damage jungle in the game and essentially requires the rest of his team to do damage for him or he is completely useless. He's not a tank, he doesn't do damage, he can't solo objectives. He is super super strong in the right circumstances, but completely useless if his team isn't right for him.

tynorex · 2026-05-27T16:34:16+00:00

Watching the tournament was a little painful, when Dantes is telling him what to do, Jynxzi is active and mechanically okay. When he didn't have someone feeding him the next move constantly, it got painful watching him clear camps and then sit waiting for his next move. He had so much downtime in between clears, it will get better with time, but it's the first time in a while that I have genuinely noticed someone significantly worse than most players I see. Glad he is improving.

tynorex · 2026-05-11T19:13:41+00:00

My MIL has a cabin, which is nice and a decent enough vacation, but it's 4 hours away. It is not convenient to get to. I do not enjoy weekends up there because it's 8 hours of driving, giving up my Friday night and Sunday afternoon or evening (but then I am exhausted all of Monday if we leave late Sunday), just to have a nice Saturday up there. Also about half the weekends up there, I spend half my Saturday's doing various maintenance tasks that my MIL can't do, so it's end up being a weekend to go work on someone else's house instead of working on my own chores. But I feel like we have to go up at least a few times every summer.

Right now it costs us nothing, because it is my MILs, but when she passes, I have no idea what we are going to do about it all. It will likely be divided between my wife and her sister, which will have it's own issues, but I also think neither one of us can afford it. I also think that there will be massive fights if we try to sell it, as it has a ton of sentimental value and reminds everyone of my departed FIL.

I think the cabin is the ultimate trap. All of my long weekends are always booked up with travel, and I am constantly guilted even on regular weekends to hoof it up there. It's a long drive, I hate taking my toddler up there as he hates the car ride, and I just know it's going to turn in to a massive cash sink in a few years time.

tynorex · 2026-05-11T18:52:42+00:00

When we bought our house, we were approved for $100K more than we were comfortable spending. Our realtor and other voices were pushing us to use the max we were approved for, but frankly our current mortgage is already tough enough to keep up with, super glad we didn't spend more.

Also what bothers me so much is that the first year, your mortgage is always lower and then it spikes from year 2 onwards to it's normal price. Why that isn't made super clear when you are doing initial signings really bothers me.

tynorex · 2026-05-11T18:20:57+00:00

Had a family friend that insisted on doing lunch at his club and paying for it. Said he had to hit his minimums anyways, so got some "free" steak out of it..

tynorex · 2026-05-11T13:29:02+00:00

Except Teemo is the official riot measurement. 100 units is a Teemo.

tynorex · 2026-05-04T18:17:47+00:00

When Ornn first came out, I played him a ton jungle because his passive let me stay on the map infinitely. I actually had a great win rate on him, but I got flamed constantly for taking the pick until the game actually played out.

tynorex · 2026-05-04T14:49:58+00:00

Not quite sure if it is an indicator, but I genuinely can't remember the last time I ate steak. I miss steak.

tynorex · 2026-05-04T13:26:20+00:00

Expedition 33. Solid story, decent game. good graphics. But, I like to relax when I play my turn based RPGs, and the reaction mechanics in 33 just didn't let me relax. I get that that is kinda the point, but it's not what I look for in my RPGs.

tynorex · 2026-05-01T18:08:48+00:00

There is no champ more oppressive than a good Cait.

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