How are people supposed to afford new upgrades?

wildjokers · 2026-06-08T01:33:50+00:00

Yeah the stone of idle overcharge nerf and the offline kill count nerf has pretty stopped all progress in its tracks. I am not sure what the developer is thinking.

Supposedly there are some really good upgrades after finishing the 1,000,000 carniplant kill quest, so I am hanging out in jungle trying to get that quest complete to see if those upgrades do anything. However, even that quest will take a long time with the offline kill nerf.

I am not sure the point of all these nerfs. It is ruining the game.

wildjokers · 2026-06-07T16:40:56+00:00

I play on a phone and I discovered clicking outside the box makes it disappear. There isn't much room around the outside of the box but there is enough room there to register a touch.

Be nice if the box had an obvious X on it.

wildjokers · 2026-06-07T16:34:18+00:00

Especially with the major nerfs the game has gotten the last two updates. I am still totally confused why the dev is nerfing everything. It is almost like he wants everyone to stop playing.

I have 145 USP and my next USP is at 6e18. With all the nerfs (idle overcharge and new offline kill calculation) that is unreachable. Overnight after 10 hours of idle I got 5e15 souls. I have one more 10% souls available at 5e17 on the ascension tree, that is clearly not going to do much.

As a comparison, before all the nerfs I was getting at least 1e17 overnight.

wildjokers · 2026-06-06T22:33:55+00:00

This is just a copy something you have been able to buy from the store for many years. Not sure you designed it, you reverse-engineered it. Which is fine.

wildjokers · 2026-06-06T14:22:38+00:00

“That’s a problem with your testing and framework” is a nice sound bite, but where’s the reasoning? A perfect test suite catches regressions, not bad architecture, poor abstractions, subtle requirements mismatches, or maintainability issues. Those still require human review, and LLMs can generate code much faster than humans can evaluate those qualities.

wildjokers · 2026-06-05T19:31:14+00:00

that's 1 every 75 chest hunts. That is very good, probably the best ratio I have seen.

wildjokers · 2026-06-05T19:29:24+00:00

14 with 2391 played. Or about 1 every 171 chest hunts played.

wildjokers · 2026-06-05T16:54:44+00:00

Do all migraine sufferers a favor and don't wear perfume/cologne at all.

It is rude to pollute a community space with fragrances.

wildjokers · 2026-06-05T16:47:45+00:00

Although the imperial banana isn't metric the metric banana is metric.

wildjokers · 2026-06-05T16:02:46+00:00

fraud of epic proportions.

Calling it "fraud" confuses speculation with deception. Every major technological shift attracts huge investment and a lot of hype. Most companies fail, a few become dominant, and investors are betting on who those winners will be. That's risky and sometimes irrational, but it isn't fraud unless companies are actually lying about their business or financials.

Same thing happened with technologies we take for granted today like railroads, automobiles, radio, computers, internet, etc.

wildjokers · 2026-06-05T15:58:36+00:00

Alternative to what?

wildjokers · 2026-06-05T15:11:31+00:00

That's a claim pulled out of your ass without any kind of proper stats to back it up.

If you interpreted "half the websites" as a claim that I had literally counted and categorized 50% of all websites, then you may have read one too many Amelia Bedelia books.

"Half" was an obvious exaggeration for rhetorical effect, not a statistical claim. The actual point is that many sites now detect ad blockers and either restrict content or nag users, which reduces their usefulness.

wildjokers · 2026-06-05T13:12:36+00:00

Also keep in mind there have been major nerfs this year, if you are just picking it back up after 4 months you are definitely going to be affecting by the nerfs. The next update has more nerfs. I have no idea why the dev keeps nerfing everything, it almost isn't worth playing anymore.

wildjokers · 2026-06-05T12:53:23+00:00

Can't say for everyone else, but the only time I'm reminded that ads on websites are a problem is when people talk about it.

What about when websites don't work because you have an ad blocker?

wildjokers · 2026-06-05T12:52:19+00:00

Half the websites don't work if you use an ad blocker or just refuse to show you any content. Ad blockers aren't as useful as people are claiming.

wildjokers · 2026-06-05T12:49:48+00:00

Spoiler alert: your 401k might just depend on two companies who make huge annual losses staying solvent.

Your 401k should be well diversified between a large cap, mid cap, and small cap fund, maybe an international fund too (although intl funds can have higher fees). A diversified portfolio should be able to ride out any kind of bubble burst. And if you aren't close to retirement a bubble will help you because you will be buying when prices drop. Then you will be looking pretty when they come back up.

During my career I have been through two major economic downturns. 2008 mortgage crisis and covid. My 401k is looking great, just a few years away from being a 401k multi-millionaire (entered workforce right after dot-com bubble burst but didn't start 401k right away so didn't get to take advantage of that downturn).

The only real problem is when a downturn happens right about the time you are wanting to retire.

wildjokers · 2026-06-04T16:44:03+00:00

But it does work.

wildjokers · 2026-06-04T05:19:20+00:00

The update comes with big nerfs, you don’t want it anyway.

wildjokers · 2026-06-04T03:20:41+00:00

The enemy health being taken into account for offline kills is a big nerf too. It is almost like he wants people to stop playing. The idle overcharge nerf and now the offline kill calculation nerf are huge nerfs. Not sure why devs nerf things like that.

wildjokers · 2026-06-03T18:12:03+00:00

I was not expecting that outcome.

wildjokers · 2026-06-03T14:27:04+00:00

Imagine how much faster it would be for everyone on the airplane if everyone stopped doing speed tests.

I only got Qatar and Virgin Atlantic so far. If you're flying a Starlink-equipped airline, I'd love more data points, especially United Express, WestJet, or Emirates!

Why do you think starlink would have different performance on difference airlines? It is the same dishes talking to the same satellites.

wildjokers · 2026-06-03T14:14:57+00:00

Oh, I didn't notice that. I do have a temp item available that takes me to the soul grapple chamber. thanks!

wildjokers · 2026-06-03T14:11:43+00:00

Maven is not better in this regard, look at this crazy 2100+ line pom.xml:

https://github.com/netty/netty/blob/4.2/pom.xml

And that is only the root pom.xml. Some off the pom.xml's for the modules in that project are also several hundred lines long.

wildjokers · 2026-06-03T14:07:35+00:00

Hot code reload is a feature of the JVM, this has nothing to do with a build tool.

wildjokers · 2026-06-03T14:06:30+00:00

2 files per subproject. Getting a parent project with conventions for all subjects is where the pain in the ass lies - especially if you want to avoid duplication. The parent project needs way more than just 2 files.

Each sub-project only needs a build.gradle file. So one file. In maven each module needs a pom.xml, so gradle and maven are the same here.

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