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These mini expacs really aren't doing it
  • https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Guild_Wars_2:_Janthir_Wilds#Additional_releases

    There's a raid/convergence and a legendary spear releasing in November. Another map in Q1, and at some point (TBA) a legendary back, another raid/convergence, and another map. So maybe something to start working on in a few months (spear) and sometime another project (back), though that TBA seems like it's getting close to the next expac release.

  • These mini expacs really aren't doing it

    So to preface/disclaim, I love the new zones. JL is a gorgeous zone with great music and reminds me strongly of Grizzly Hills from WotLK back in the day (still one of my favorites there), and JS has serious Diablo vibes, which I absolutely adore. The encounters are interesting, and at least the first of the antagonists was interesting. There's a lot to like here.

    That makes it worse, then, to say I am done with them after just a few hours. Story quests done, map complete, got my Falling Star, did the meta. Could always grind more mastery XP, but I've got the ones that mattered to me.

    With the old "full" expacs, you had elite specs and hero points that pulled you back to those zones on alts, some- eg guano, frogs, shroom, chak- that were actually fun challenges to tackle. I've been back to HoT / PoF / EoD a dozen times and more over the years.

    It just really seems a shame, then, to spend all of this time on awesome art and music and encounters for it to be rendered pointless so quickly. There will be a legendary back at some point in the cycle that will be interesting for a bit of poking like the living world legendaries, but even that's just a 1-off.

    At least in SotO there was the prospect of obsidian armor to give it some legs, but unless interior decorating is your thing, this one really just doesn't have a shelf life. I finished up, looked around, and immediately went back to working on stuff elsewhere in the game.

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    how do people feel about spears?
  • I've tried a few of them and they seem a mixed bag. Mostly talking from a WvW perspective here.

    Rev's is stupid strong, like 53k on the dummy and going to get severely beaten by the nerf bat strong. The kit is a bit awkward though- the AoE of the 5 is really a bit too small to be usable in any situation where there's lag, though, so blob fights are right out. It could be an OK replacement for M/A in a pure condi build, but I think you'll still wind up mostly on SB anyway. For a cele build it will have trouble displacing either the range and area denial of SB or the mobility of GS.

    Ranger's is a really fun, slippery kit with a lot of snares, and all the stealth is very silly with Relic of the Unseen Invasion (600 range AoE superspeed for 2s on stealth). Downside is that the damage just isn't there for it to be a threat.

    Warrior's is solid, great upgrade from rifle for a ranged kit. Still some issues with lag and it's all projectiles so it ain't it for blobs, but I could see it seeing some use in a roaming kit. Tough to give up the sustain of staff or the mobility of GS, though.

    Necro is really just sword with a different coat of paint and more to manage. I like the idea of it as a ganking / engage-and-burst option, but I've had the 2 dodged enough times now to be grouchy about having that much of the damage bound up in a single ability. I could see it being useful to land the 4, precast either the 5 or CttB, then port on and swap to shroud to finish the burst.

  • Seriously, where do I go?
  • Portland or Seattle would for those criteria well as long as you don't mind rain. Both very progressive cities, weather is generally mild (rarely above 85, rarely below 30, usually less than 2 weeks a year with snow).

  • Republicans / conservatives are winning the immigration and values game. Am I misguided? (read post)
  • The demographics you describe in 1 and 2 are de facto an incredibly small minority compared to other, more typical forms of immigration. Just think about what percentage of the population is wealthy enough to emigrate, let alone engage in borderline sex trafficking.

    As for #3, yes, we have a party who is currently succeeding in pitching populism and proto-fascism dressed up in culture war nonsense. The job of progressives is to address those same economic concerns in a manner that actually works rather than the trickle down myth from the right that has so thoroughly gutted the middle class.

  • Legal experts: "Shameful" Supreme Court put US one vote away from "the end of democracy"
  • Just saying, if 45's acts are deemed political activity protected from prescription, 46 is still in office and is handed carte blanche to engage in all manner of unseemly counterfuckery. At the extreme, I believe Seal Team Six was mentioned, but I'm sure Biden could find lots of fun and creative ways to abuse unfettered executive power.

  • "relationship" with kids mom
  • There's no reason this has to be binary. You don't have to choose between her being a makeovers and mimosas pal and being an enemy or a stranger. There's a lot of space between those poles, and there's no reason that you have to choose a static point on that continuum and stick with it forever.

    Right now, you're hurting and reestablishing boundaries and your sense of self. If she's the friend she says she wants to be, she will respect that and give you space. After you've had some time to heal, maybe you can be more friendly, but for now she should accept your need to insulate a bit.

    For me, the primary, immediate goals would be to a) heal and b) avoid making things worse for the kids.

  • consider the implications for a post scarcity future
  • Yes, but if baseline generation goes up there are fewer peak demand events that exceed available baseline capacity so fewer revenue generating opportunities for peaker plants. But I agree the real answer is less overbuild and more storage- unfortunate given today's Tesla news.

  • consider the implications for a post scarcity future
  • This.

    For those not in the industry, the drivers for this are green tags and production tax credits (more common in wind).

    Green tags are basically attaboys for funding the generation of renewable electricity, and are tradable.

    Production tax credits are a $/MWH tax incentive for generating renewable power, and are, again, tradable.

    In both cases, then, there are incentives for renewable projects to keep producing power even when the wholesale power price at the point of interconnection is negative, as there are generation incentives that still make it better than idling.

    From an environmentalist perspective, this is fantastic, as virtually all of this renewable generation represents offset coal and gas peaker plant generation.

  • Do you daily drive Wayland, if so since when, if not when will you?
  • Niche, I know, but I'm waiting on full functionality in Input Leap (Barrier fork which was a Synergy 1.x fork). Right now it sounds like it's 90% of the way there but lacks clipboard sharing. I'm running Wayland on my desktop, but this soft kvm is pretty fundamental to my workflow on my laptop.

  • Bazzite as an alternative to SteamOS?
  • Do you know if they every fixed the issues with M&K controls on games in Desktop mode? There are a few games I play a lot that just don't work well with a controller for me, so this was a killer for my use case.

  • Texas Governor Greg Abbott declares that Texas law supercedes Federal authority and hints at secession
  • Most of us on the left here would like nothing better than to be rid of most red states. On the whole, they take more federal tax dollars to prop up than they contribute, and their backwards ass attitudes hold the rest of the country back.

    HOWEVER...

    1. Most progressive voters would rather not abandon all of the disempowered minority groups in those states to their fate.

    2. A "national divorce" as described by the space lasers lady would be incredibly messy and potentially devolve into a war and further violent and messy balkanization of the country.

    3. Finally, having an impoverished, highly inequitable theocracy for a neighbor sounds like a massive headache.

  • The Absurdity of the Return-to-Office Movement
  • Living downtown typically means a lot more walking, biking, and public transit, precisely because you're there in the middle of everything. When you've got everything from grocery stores, pubs, cafes, parks, cultural attractions, etc all within walking distance, your need to drive anywhere becomes occasional at most.

  • Help with laptop buying decision
  • I had a first gen Framework 13 and definitely felt the sleep drain issues mentioned elsewhere here, which was why I sold mine. That said, as I understand it that was fixed in later hardware revs and possibly on gen1 by way of a BIOS patch.

    The machine otherwise was pretty great. Very thin and light, great display quality, and generally felt very stable and good quality. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend them.

    That said, there's a caveat- you'll be paying a significant premium for a Framework relative to other equivalent options. It's a great machine, but it's not twice as good as a used Thinkpad for your use case. If your budget is such that you can pay that premium to support open hardware and a company trying to do something new and different to cut down on planned obsolescence and it's associated waste, by all means go for it. If not, though, you could get a used machine, donate some of what you saved to the EFF or FSF or your environmental npo of choice and still feel pretty good about the transaction.

  • Taking in the best moments while you can
  • I am a parent, and... that's not how this works.

    Your kid doesn't hear "I need a few minutes to deal with my human feelings," they hear "daddy is mad and doesn't want to play with me." They don't have the emotional intelligence yet to understand that you're a person, not just the mythic figure of parent that they see.

    This is why the trope of daddy taking a minute alone on the toilet is A Thing.

    On the upside, you'd be surprised how often you can destress precisely by being a kid with your kid, playing Legos and cuddling. Being a dad is hard, but it's awesome.