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I'm comparing open source tools like Pentaho/Talend to high-end enterprise tools like Informatica/Ab Initio. Using cheaper tools incurs a lot of tech debt because they tend to be kind of kludgy compared to the mainstream enterprise stuff. That's been my experience anyway, and I've always...

Just taking a quick look, it looks like today is screw the high alpha trader day, and Robin Hood traders are about to get pantsed

There is huge opportunity for disruption in the ETL space, but after working with a couple cheap/open-source ETL tools, I'm a little skeptical of them. Good ETL applications are expensive as hell, but worth it. I would say even necessary.

Hmmm.. looks like markets are getting lively again. Honestly the March crash has made me into kind of a junkie. I can't get that excited unless it's limit down. Wonder if this gets bought up.

I like this. Shorting the vix was a surefire way to make money for 3 years until volatility triggered a liquidation event. Buying the dip was ingrained into investors over several years, and worked fine, until the Coronavirus crash. People get caught in patterns, and think they've found the...

Finished Kentucky Route 0. Imagine if Neil Gaiman made an adventure game; it would look something like this. I liked the strange urban fantasy setting, but so many long stretches of the game are boring. I don't mind wordy games if the dialogue is interesting. Kentucky Route 0 is "very"...

DLC roundup. Finished Guns, Love, and Tentacles for BL3, which was above average for a Borderlands DLC. Cthulhu vibe which I dig. I spent half the time farming Aurelia for level 57 upgrades to my gear. Finished all the DLC for Spider-Man, and am finding the franchise wearing out its welcome...

The wokeness was too timid for my taste. This is a galactic collective hundreds of years in the future, and the best they can do are trannies? There should be humans with bug eyes and antennae and other transgenic accessories.

Markets are not rallying on this jobless report. I can only assume the real expected numbers were much higher.

I kept reexamining my opinion of ME3 while reading this thread, because for the most part I liked the story, and really liked the game. In the first hour you get a front row seat to the Earth getting completely reamed. Then you spend the rest of the game gathering together all the beleaguered...

Demand for Airbnbs will also crater, drying up a source of funding for residential properties. Commercial real estate will absolutely get hammered, and I have to think that is at least somewhat correlated to residential housing pricing. I suspect rich foreigners buying up properties will also...

Broken uptrend plus extreme valuations. Hard to be bullish here. Also hard to get short and sit on the opposite side of the table from the FED. I'll go play some Monster Hunter hoping for lower prices.

Dump at the close looked a bit panicky. Wonder if it gets bought up tomorrow.

Finished Days Gone. Loved it. It's like Dying Light meets Far Cry. My favorite part was the unconventional story-telling and characters. I liked the main character especially because he's kind of a dick and makes all sorts of bad decisions. It's refreshingly honest compared to the...

I had almost the exact same experience with Ultima V. I fought my way through the Abyss(fuck mongbats), and then through the final dungeon all the way to Lord British trapped in a prison, and I got stuck without seeing the ending because I didn't find and bring some "sandalwood box?" I also...

How many of those are you going to actually use though? Like 4? It's the illusion of choice. You have a hundred items in your inventory, but they're sniper rifle I to sniper rifle XII. I liked the streamlined approach of the later ME games so I didn't have to play quartermaster. Does anyone...

I love how the trans goes into a passionate speech about her struggle and how she used to be a man, without the slightest provocation. That's pretty accurate though tbh.

That's why I kinda liked Dragon Age 2. The fate of the world doesn't rest on you. You're just a refugee trying to get by, who happens to get caught up in the city's shenanigans. I agree that chosen one plots are contrived.

I just finished up an honor mode run of Divinity Original Sin 2. I actually had a much easier time than my first playthrough because of my OP party. 2 archers, 1 aero mage, 1 hydro/aero mage. Thunderstorm and ballistic shot my friends. Playing Days Gone now. This game is dark. I think I...

ME:A had some good ideas, but the execution was lacking. Sure, it had bland characters, and an even blander evil race as the villain, in contrast to the Collectors, who were creepy, ominous, and pretty bad-ass. It's interesting though, because if you were to ask what they should do to improve...

Really upsetting reading accounts of what people are going through. The impact of this virus in scope and volume is so enormous. If China were intentionally trying to screw over world governments, they couldn't have designed a better weapon. Just keep your head above water. Congress and the...

You can and should upgrade defender armor with orbs. It probably has HR-locked caps. I have all mine upgraded to 70 and it feels fair on 4 star Iceborne quests. Defender armor isn't bad at all for staying alive, and I'm too lazy to start farming until I get to endgame. Defender weapons are...

11-22-63. Was mostly bored. Like half of it was the main character trying to woo some chick in 1950s small town America. Would be hard for me to find a topic I find less interesting.

Danced with Narcuraga for 50 minutes and timed out. He(she?) wouldn't sit still for my charge blade bombs. Monsters in Iceborne are legit. I can only imagine what a beast they've made Tigrex into.

Barioth has been taking steroids. He wasn't this hard in past games.

Both Shadowrun games were quite good. The genesis version is superior though. Ahead of its time with real open world elements. And still has perhaps the best hacking minigame TO THIS DAY! Hacking in the SNES version was basically minesweeper.

Won't let me. Are your online settings set to private?

Elder dragons. Halp.

HBG is the closest thing to a main battle tank.

My bad. I had to disable all social ps4 stuff because of an online bug. I've reenabled it for the time being.

I just started this on the PS4. What is your gamertag Hatorade? PSN: Awonka2

It's difficult to explain why Death Stranding is my GOTY. A large part of it is because of the moments of emergent gameplay that you tend to only see in the best MMOs, where in the struggle to overcome the obstacles in the game, which are often fairly mundane but seemingly insurmountable, you...

Platinumed the game. 110 hours. The last preppers are some real squirrelly characters you have play email tag with. Was frustrating tbh. The ending was every bit as melodramatic and grandiose as you would expect. I could barely keep up with the wild revelations as they took the form of an...

The first time I experienced a heavy BT incursion I almost shit myself. The whole junkyard floods with black tar, and the cars and debris you were avoiding suddenly become platforms you have to jump on to avoid a swimming BT whale thing chasing you around. It is awesome. This would make an...

1 week in... I'm eyeballing the topography, calculating how to expand my zipline network with the least number of towers. I might have to put it up in MULE territory, which is a PITA. I check my boots to make sure there is plenty of tread left, examine the Bola gun in my cargo to make sure I...

Damn. I saw him a few years ago at PAX, and he looked good; sharp and focused. I thought, "this son of a bitch might pull it off." I would guess it was the stress that did him in. Creating an epic MMO with just force of will can't be good for you. It's the silent killer, my friends. I liken...

No reviews until the game goes live? lol Not expecting much.

Timefall destroys structures after a while if they're not maintained. "Likes" keep structures from degrading. So in theory only popular structures will last is my understanding.

I kind of miss the days of arrogant celebrity game developers who say what they feel. Most devs are hidden away behind a curtain, and anything they say gets minced up by PR/HR.

Hopefully by the time my game gets here there will be a giant elevated freeway I can stroll along. Cut my playtime in half.