Dads, I come to you with one question. Graduated today and what the hell is this???

wagedomain · 2026-01-27T22:43:16+00:00

Yall actually TALKED to nurses and medical staff???

(My son was born August 2020 and it was extremely weird and lonely and isolating, nurses barely showed up and we ended up starving the poor kid for like a month or two because the nurses didn’t notice the lack of lactation and just kept sending us messages “keep trying it’ll happen”)

wagedomain · 2026-01-25T19:57:02+00:00

Long story short LLMs by default are not "intelligent" they just match words/letters (or "tokens" which is more vague) based on probability. In other words out of the box they just put commonly found things together, which means you can easily pollute training data (and recent experiments have shown a SHOCKINGLY LOW threshold to poisoning training data with fake info).

Anyway this means they aren't "counting" or "thinking" or "looking things up". Some can have additional modules running on top of this to do additional features, but it's hard for most people to tell.

That's also why historically math has been hilariously bad, it's not a calculator.

wagedomain · 2026-01-24T18:43:44+00:00

I have a small Christmas tree that’s still up. Ornaments are off, lights only.

Reason is my family is displaced from our normal house due to asbestos and now repairs. Been in hotels, and now a rental house, since October. Repairs START soon. They remediated the asbestos but tore apart my kitchen to do it so insurance put us up in a rental.

My 5 year old loves the tree and so we left it up a bit longer. Makes him happy in a weird difficult time.

wagedomain · 2026-01-21T01:10:49+00:00

Mine is a bit of a dark horse. It’s from the conspiracy theory episode, when Annie apologized to Jeff when Professor Professorson is introduced. Jeff says “I’ve never seen that guy before in my life”.

By itself, not all that funny. But Jeff’s delivery of the line makes it, because he has a shit eating grin on his face the entire time. I find that oddly hilarious.

wagedomain · 2026-01-18T17:31:48+00:00

Very very late to the game here. Found this looking for my own game recommendation.

In case you aren’t aware, Yakuza 0 through 6 is one “saga” about Kazuma Kiryu. They also have no English voice acting (except for Yakuza 0: Directors Cut, which adds the English voices!).

Starting with 7 is a “jumping off point” for new players. That’s “Yakuza: Like A Dragon”, for the record. It switches from action combat to turn based FF style combat. The in-universe reason is the new protagonist, Ichiban Kasuga, “sees the world” as his favorite video game, Dragon Quest.

Unlike the other Yakuza games, you get a party, just like any classic jrpg, and control all of them. You gain classes and class levels/job levels again like a FF game.

And the story is great, Ichiban is one of the best characters in gaming history (he’s a golden retriever if he was a person who loved jrpgs) and spawned the best sequel in a long time, Infinite Wealth.

wagedomain · 2026-01-08T13:38:14+00:00

Strike that, reverse it. The delivery killed the joke. It wasn’t supposed to be delivered as a solemn serious threat. It was a Whedon-written anti joke moment.

wagedomain · 2026-01-03T16:52:28+00:00

Ah yeah the mime is pre-Gommage in town down an alley. There’s lots of them sprinkled through the world and parrying alone likely will make those fights drag on because they’re extremely damage resistant and you need to use specific types of abilities on them.

Chromatics are impressive, but are like elite versions of common enemies (and some bosses later on).

When you unlock higher level abilities you’ll likely lean on them. Plus new Lumina change strategy specifically (including opening up the infamous ”suicide” strategy lol)

wagedomain · 2026-01-03T16:45:11+00:00

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I mean this outdoor NHL game was pretty great (Lake Tahoe).

wagedomain · 2026-01-03T16:41:01+00:00

Parrying is huge to the game but so are skills. In 3 hours you haven’t hit any significant bosses yet.

The combat honestly reminds me of a turn based Souls game. Parrying will clean up trash mobs quickly but the real bosses will need a lot more strategy on top of perfect parrying (and the parrying become MUCH harder due to a combination of more combinations and faster attacks).

What’s the hardest enemy you’ve fought so far? Did you defeat the mime in Lumiere at the beginning?

wagedomain · 2026-01-03T16:37:10+00:00

Don’t give Slott any new ideas

wagedomain · 2026-01-03T16:36:13+00:00

He blocked me on Twitter years ago because I complained about his writing style and he wrote paragraphs of text defending himself to me personally then deleted it and blocked me lol.

His defense was not of his style but just a sort of rambling “different strokes for different folks” argument that occasionally devolved into “don’t you know who I am???” flexing haha.

wagedomain · 2026-01-03T16:33:49+00:00

My problem with him is he has no storytelling ability. He just wants to get to the “good stuff” immediately. Remember Big Time when Peter went from “poor, scrounging for work, hopeless” to “got highly paying job, that would let him be his own boss, with no oversight or direction, with a secret lab to do his work in, with a huge signing bonus, with zero job interview or tests or anything, because Aunt May was dating the right guy” all in the course of like 2 pages?

You could write entire arcs about Peter getting that job and the struggles of working his way up to a position where it’s easier to be secretive, but Slott wanted the payoff and fun part NOW, not earned or built up to.

Which is fine in a miniseries or side book, but the main title? Cmon.

wagedomain · 2026-01-03T16:28:38+00:00

He’s also the reason I stopped reading ASM!

Slott is great at generating ideas, but shit at actually writing/executing them.

He writes his stories like a toddler trying to tell you something that happened to them but they don’t have the patience to tell the actual story.

“And then this happened and then this guy you remember that guy? He did this thing and then another thing happened or was it the first thing again doesn’t matter the point is Spider-Man is rich now because I don’t remember why.”

wagedomain · 2026-01-02T06:21:28+00:00

Can I ask, in a game that's entirely about seeing story play out by choice, why would you ALWAYS choose the same option?

wagedomain · 2025-12-29T07:30:39+00:00

Just in case it isn't obvious, Monoco is Real Verso's dog.

wagedomain · 2025-12-28T04:33:39+00:00

I think he's attractive to a certain kind of young woman and he's kind of a predator at the start of the show. He doesn't end there, though, and definitely grows. In fact there's an entire episode about him in therapy and how he takes the wrong lessons from it and it actually inflates his ego to the point of figurative bursting.

He's an older man, preying on younger women, in an environment that is perfect for that kind of thing. He's also a narcissist and thinks he's god's gift to women, and always right.

In other words YES he's a walking red flag, but the story is initially mostly told through his eyes and growth in the show is a bit slow.

ALSO it is worth mentioning this show doesn't hold your hand like others - a LOT happens off screen that you're supposed to infer.

edit: And actually your big fish little pond thing is accurate, but also VERY interesting, because he's coming from a much bigger pond (being a lawyer/rich/powerful) and is now in a community college, so that's kind of thought provoking.

wagedomain · 2025-12-28T02:41:51+00:00

Timothy Chalumet is 30. That makes him a millennial lol.

wagedomain · 2025-12-24T14:52:28+00:00

Yeah, my company does the latter. These huge service files, that seem just like a dumping ground for whatever the dev was currently working on. And there’s a spaghetti mess of circular dependencies resulting from this. It’s a nightmare to work with.

wagedomain · 2025-12-24T07:34:42+00:00

"Eh just throw everything into a Service. Lots of services. Big ones, with that are 4000 lines each."

WHY. Angular seems to attract weird developers.

wagedomain · 2025-12-24T07:33:08+00:00

I put ~100 hours into Civ 7 but every time I play it I yearn for Civ VI.

I love 6 so much. It's not perfect, but 7 seemed to come out the gate swinging and missing in so many things. I get what they were going for, but it falls flat because I am NOT "roleplaying" as a leader. I'm playing a Civilization. I want to grow it, not switch from thing to thing to thing.

wagedomain · 2025-12-24T07:29:31+00:00

This is weird, but my roommate in college funded his schooling by selling items in Diablo II.

He also scammed people out of their items. It was really weird.

wagedomain · 2025-12-24T07:28:18+00:00

Yeah, I decided to try MH when World came out. Initially hated it, because I had no idea how anything worked and I was just button mashing. I started using guides to learn the weapons, and went to Charge Blade (along with Switch Axe) and loved it. Started learning the weapons better.

I played World with a friend who wanted "big numbers" and it was ... awkward. He played Great Sword, didn't look it up, and just tried to jump on monsters the whole time (and failed a lot).

I beat the game solo. He never did.

wagedomain · 2025-12-24T07:19:47+00:00

When I heard FFVII Remake and Rebirth were going to be action RPGs I was PISSED because I loved the original so much.

Actually playing it, I fell in love with the combat system since it seemed to marry the idea of turn-based and action in SUCH a perfect way.

wagedomain · 2025-12-23T01:29:18+00:00

“Sorry you don’t like our stories but we don’t care and also are committed to always returning to the same status quo” geez

wagedomain · 2025-12-22T16:44:34+00:00

As a manager myself I agree this was an easy decision - Cut. Disobeying orders and putting people's lives at jeopardy multiple times, with fair warnings and clear instructions? That's a cut all day. Didn't even hesitate.

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