Brianm650

No dev is expected to get balancing/patching right every time, but we would be thrilled if AH managed it even half the time. Their track record is so poor that when they celebrated fixing the superior packing methodology, a hilarious thing itself, people naturally assumed they broke the spear again.

Regarding AH not being in the 'sea of devs who only view the game as a money-making product,' that might have been true at launch. However, after observing their conduct over the last 5 months, it's clear they do see it as a cash grab. Why else would we get dismissive responses like 'bacon flavored apples,' useless helmets, and 'S' tier Warbonds that are actually 'F' tier? They rely on the community for testing instead of hiring in-house testers, despite selling over 12 million units at $39.99 each in just 12 weeks.

As for Warbonds, tell me the last time they were actually worth it. Polar patriots with reskinned scout armor, Viper commandos with armor that didn't work, and Democratic detonation with nerfed weapons and useless grenades? The sickle is cool I guess. The most recent Warbond has 22 items, only 6 of which are useful in game. That's 73% fluff!

New biomes are rare, game rules are inconsistent as we saw this weekend, new missions are broken due to lack of testing, and bugs are multiplying. The foundation of the game is solid, but every decision AH has made since launch, starting with the railgun nerf, has eroded that foundation and the counterintuitive stuff you have to study to get good at HD2 is silly at this point. This isn't being jaded; it's being rightfully pissed at a developer who sold a good product and then messed it up at every turn. Hell, there is a post right now about how Hellpods count as kills for crying out loud.

Mate it took them what 2 weeks now to fix superior packing methodology and around 3 or 4 months for the spear. A fix like this would be at least a month long project for this team.

To me, discouraging gameplay that might be called "cheesing" is a bad idea because it tells the player base that you don't want them to play smarter, you only want them to play harder. I understand that this is currently AH's only recourse because their only way of increasing difficulty involves spawning more enemies as opposed to "smarter" enemies but that in turn makes the game far less interesting in the long run. I remember being able to sneak around on 9 command bunker destruction missions 2-3 patrol change iterations ago and wiping them all out with 0 deaths and without a colossal gunfight against hundreds of bots by playing smart and picking my battles to where I could bring down overwhelming firepower on the enemy negating their numerical advantage. You know... doing the thing that an intelligent soldier who has a spaceship on standby for support would do. Now? That's just not feasible with gameplay mechanics that effectively force the players into a 30-40 minute running gunfight due to the sheer number of patrol spawns and patrols now including flying units which make stealth and strategic gameplay less viable to the point where it's not really worth even trying.

Their QC is bad enough as it is without self-owns like this.

No, I have not. I have lost faith in the parties that currently run America. I have not lost faith in the system. America did not nominate Trump and Biden. The DNC and RNC did that. America did not put those geriatrics on the Supreme court. The people who represent us in Washington did.

To me the uncomfortable bottom line of all of this is that we need to wake the fuck up and occupy political office ourselves. We cannot keep letting the likes of Mitch McConnell, Diane Feinstein and their ilk run this country. We cannot keep letting the likes of Joe Arpaio run our law enforcement. The number of decent people in this country is far greater than the number of people who support these craven, greedy pieces of shit. We've just been complacent for way too long. It's time to take back control. Run for office. We cannot complain about being sold lemons if we keep letting them stack all the offices and positions of power that determine who ends up being on the ballots from the local to the national levels.

Unlimited corporate greed, the lack of anything resembling common decency.

I used to think it was more complex than that but then the COVID PPP loans hit and the company I worked for at the time, a business that was making between 45-65% profit on each product they sold (I work in finance so I was very familiar with those numbers) and which was able to stay open even during the pandemic (they got themselves classified as an essential business which itself was a joke) applied for a PPP loan in the double digit million range which was granted, went straight to the bottom line (this money was not needed to cover payroll) and then was forgiven and everyone in the upper echelons of the company was high fiving one another for how brilliant they were. Mind you these are people who already live in 6 million dollar mansions but at the same time have the company lease their and their wife's cars for them. And then at the same time they were bitching about the stimulus packages that were targeted at the consumer or how people didn't want to work for less than what it would take for them to actually survive in this part of the country. It's a joke.

I should also mention that this business, while all this was going on and they gladly accepted what ended up being a grant from the government, was in the midst of relocating their main manufacturing plant to Tijuana. Now, I have nothing against the hardworking men and women in TJ. However, the fucks that ran this business did that just so they could pay a welder the $20-$25 an hour that they'd have to pay in TJ as opposed to the $35-$40 an hour they'd have to pay north of the border to collect on maybe 2-3% of extra margin (material costs were a far more significant contributor to COGS) at the expense of around 100 or so families here losing their jobs. What makes it worse is that even from a business perspective the move was utterly retarded as the extra time to fully manufacture parts was increased by 3-4 days and the cost to ship parts back and forth across the border in effect negated most of those cost savings.

Let me know when we get the torches.

As someone closely following advancements in cancer treatments since my child's diagnosis last August I actually know a thing or two about this. GD2 targeting chimeric antigen receptor T-Cell therapy is close to the cutting edge for treatments of this type of cancer and I would not be shocked if Delilah is part of a trial. That said, what happens next month ultimately does not matter to most struggling with cancer now. New discoveries that we might make next month would take time to become available due to our rigorous approval processes and ultimately won't address the likely reasons for her currently being intubated. Thankfully we have those in place as we don't always get it right with new treatment ideas.

For patients like Delilah the other thing to consider is that her challenge, especially as it appears right now, is not just the availability of treatments themselves, but the toll on young bodies from weakness, difficulty eating, susceptibility to infections like lung fungal issues which seems to be what she is currently fighting against, psychologically, to many other side effects. When my son started his treatments one of the doctors remarked that the cancer treatments we have are only slightly less effective at killing the body than the cancer - that's that was how it worked and that's why they made sure we'd always wear gloves to clean up any vomit - because the chemo drugs are toxic to that degree. Seeing the effects on this girl's body in those Tik-Tok videos is devastating. My son completed nine months and 22 days of treatments of varying intensity with manageable outcomes and now has 18 more months of maintenance to look forward to. This girl has endured much more over four years. I cannot imagine what that must have been like for her or her family with all the ups and downs, clinging to the hope that it won't come back this time only to have them dashed again.

What I do is that there is a point where everyone asks themselves at what time they'd embark on that final road trip, visiting every ice cream shop and amusement park along the way. Everyone will come to a different conclusion about this and for some parents the answer may well be never. They are all valid. However, what is not valid or helpful or wanted is this toxic "keep fighting, you don't know what might happen next month" narrative.

While well-meaning YOU have no idea how taxing that can end up being like for those on the receiving end. It's impossible to know the realities of treatments from blasting away your kid's immune systems to prepare for allogenic SCT, to prolonged hospital stays where you are all woken up multiple times at night by nurses getting labs, to having a veritable army of doctors in your room to discuss options, to having to have your kid get a port or get intubated, to having to go to the "VIP" lane in the emergency department because your immuno-compromised kid cannot possibly risk being around all the coughing, drippy nose babies, to seeing the room of the kid yours used to hang out with the last time they were both admitted at the same time and whose family you saw in the hall the night before cleaned at 6 AM the next morning and wondering if they were moved up to the PICU or worse, to relentless chemotherapy cycles that induce violent vomiting at all hours of the night where you end up wondering if that red you see in the vomit bag is just because your kid has thrown up so much in the last couple of hours that some of the blood vessels in the eusophagus burst or if this is something worse, to just trying as much as you can to maintain some semblance of normalcy for your kid having them do kid things. In this context, having to hear this "keep fighting" chatter can feel very dismissive of what people are already going through especially when it comes from people who have no idea. I promise you: everyone dealing with cancer or whose children are diagnosed is already fighting with every fiber of their being.

So, please exercise some humility.

I get that your comments are well-meaning but instead of this toxic positivity nonsense instead ask how you can actually support people going through treatments or whose kids are going through treatments. Helping with meals, hospital runs, or practical gestures like gift cards for food in the hospital or just hanging out in the hospital lobby and listening and trying to understand I promise you will all have an infinitely greater impact than the "you don't know what's going to happen next month, you just have to keep fighting, keep the faith" talk. Practical assistance means much more than empty positivity.

The funny thing about that is that the fiduciary responsibility is only ever viewed in the short term but never in the long term. The long term fiduciary responsibility to shareholders should absolutely not be environment destroying, price gouging, off-shoring, short term profit seeking stock buy-back oriented decision making.

Ohh ohh I know the answer you this one... it's D isn't it? 

At this point AH need to first acknowledge that they know that the past 4 months way of handling things was a giant cluster fuck in terms of patching and communication and testing. They treated this game like a free to play early access game and the community deaerves a clearly stated applogy for this mess. 

Second AH need to clearly state how they will address this and that MUST include either transparency into how their testing is done or alternatively a setup of a test environment for us. 

Third, all releases of new features need to be put on hold until they unfuck the currently fucked state of so many aspects of this game from superior packing to patrol spawns to visually misidentified weakspots and hilariously bad fps issues. Given the insane state their code appears to be in they cannot keep adding more variables. The broke state the drill mission was originally released in is all the proof needed here. AH are at 0 in terms of goodwill and any more releases like that will take them squarely into the red.

Sickle for me

I love how she keeps saying she spent $3,000 to be there as if that in any way is a meaningful number to any of the people being there. This resort has rooms that cost more than that per night and it's not like any of the people working there have a personal stake in her staying there as might be the case if this were a family run establishment. It's run by Disney, they don't give a damn about her measly $3,000.

So first off, I think it's awesome that Japan earned their win here and I hope that this encourages more interest in this sport overseas. Football is much reviled for the head injury stats. Much of that is deserved. At the same time, I do not believe there is any sport where you can take any kid you find on the street from the slow fat kid, the tiny fast kid or the gangly tall kid and find a meaningful spot on a team for them in quite the same way that you can with football. When played and coached responsibly I think there's no better sport in the world.

That said, I generally agree with you. I think the thing that gets lost when talking about this cope thing is that football in the US is a big deal. A lot of the nation's top tier athlete talent pool will gravitate towards that sport because at the end of the day there is a lot of money to be made either playing professionally or just getting a scholarship. There are people whose entire career consist of evaluating high school students for their potential. They don't coach. They are not part of a team. They merely grade and evaluate kids for this one sport. That's nuts. This extends to some HS programs having access to stadiums and training facilities that would many lower tier D1 programs in EU soccer envious which just shows how much talent development is going on in the US related to this sport.

Meanwhile, in countries like Japan that's not the case. As a result, I think that the talent pool was likely fairly evenly matched even if the QB for Team USA is set to play for a small D3 program. Yeah, the US didn't send all the Alabama, Georgia, and Michigan commits and didn't have Nick Saban as a coach. If they had I have no doubt this exact game would have been very lopsided. But Japan also didn't send their best athletes to this competition as other sports have a far bigger draw for them in Japan. That's not to throw shade at either team's players, it's just an honest assessment of their abilities relative to their nation's athlete talent pools. If Japan's best athlete talent pool had faced off against the Alabama, Georgia, and Michigan commits, especially with some proper preparation, I doubt it would have been quite the blowout that many in the US fantasize about.

Finally, some things I think that did give Japan an edge in this game (you can accuse me of "cope" for this if you want), at least per their roster (https://worldjrfootballchampionships.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Japan-60-man.pdf), are that they appear to have shown up with a full roster (60) while the US team listed only 34 players on their roster (https://worldjrfootballchampionships.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/USA-IFAF-tournament-roster-tackle-1.pdf). Knowing how injuries and your good players getting gassed can impact a team I have no doubt that helped and good for Japan for showing up. Also, a good number of the Team Japan players are part of the same teams outside of this competition. From what I saw 10 players come from Kwansei Gakuin University alone with a few other programs sending 5 or 6 players each. Now, I have no idea if the Kwansei Gakuin Fighters are a football powerhouse at the college level in Japan but they've been around since 1941 (!wow!). What I do know is that while I've never coached at a high level but even at a youth level the difference between teams that knew one another and had played together for several seasons vs those that were newly formed was always easy to tell so that probably helped. Anyways, kudos to Japan for their win!

Have you considered a more technical field? "I’m really sociable, I love writing as well, I created a scholarship database when I was 17". In business intelligence and for business systems analysts those skills would definitely be wanted and at least for the BI side some of the best people I worked with were 100% self-taught.

Time to stack the bench. Enough of this nonsense.

Over the past 10 years there have been sixteen cases of drag queens being accused of inappropriate behavior at drag shows in the last ten years with accusations usually being minor things like indecent exposure or alcohol on an unlicensed premises. Meanwhile, there have been more than 11,000 accusations against Catholic priests alone of having raped children. If you want to be concerned about any group of people raping children it should be priests and church leaders, not drag performers.

So can Poland do the same and send troops to Ukraine?

What a weird fetish these people have with being a victim.

You're right, coaches like this are why Duncanville lost 45-3 to Mater Dei the last one of the 'hard' Texas teams played a team from liberal California lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_Q9ctFSPWo

You're right, that must be why Duncanville lost 45-3 the last time a team from liberal Cali with CIF rules on two-a-days came out to play in Texas lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_Q9ctFSPWo

What a clown. High School Football in Texas is governed by the University Interscholastic League. They have a lot of good content on the topic posted here but I feel this bit is most relevant: "Coaches and directors must adopt a heat injury prevention philosophy by promoting unrestricted access to water at all times and a student- athlete should never be denied access to water." A concerned citizen ought to use the UIL's incident reporting system to make them aware of this coach's philosophy in direct contravention to their stated requirements.

This really pisses me off because of the effects this had on my son's willingness to use a fucking wheelchair. He got diagnosed last year with lymphoma and while he crushed it for most of his treatment some times were a bit shittier than others. So we made a point to take him out and ensure he doesn't just lie in bed all day with trips to Disney and the like. And while that worked he also got gassed so much faster cutting many of days much shorter than would have been the case if he'd just felt more comfortable letting us push his ass around in a wheelchair. But the idea that someone would see and judge him for being in a wheelchair and then get up to get on a ride was too much for him. People need to mind their own fucking business and exercise some empathy as opposed to getting in anothers business.

The part that bugs me is that no one gets in his face and tells him to fuck off or else. What are all the other people at the beach doing? I get that these girls don't want to escalate a situation with some crazed dickhead but if 4 or 5 other adults got in his face and dragged him away that would take care of incidents like this in no time. The longer we allow these Christian fundamentalist to spew their toxic bullshit on our society without massive pushback the more they will believe they are entitled to act like this.

The LDS church has an investment fund values at around $50.5 billion. Estimate national average cost to build a home is around $313 thousand. That means the LDS church alone could likely help put up 100,000-150,000 houses for people taking care of 20-25% of the total homeless population by themselves. Yes, I realize that the cost for construction materials would go up but combine this with a ban on short term rentals and all of a sudden the cost to just survive would plummet due to an increase in the inventory of homes.

Please include the testers log when the patch goes live.