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  1. Hachima

    Bioware's "Anthem"

    What exactly are these "RPG" systems that are considered difficult? Like it doesn't give you an algorithm to calculate rarity of item drops out of the box so you need someone with a PHD in statistics to do it for you? Or you know... don't base a players drop rate based on other members of the...
  2. Hachima

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    For big companies, I'd say none. To take it to an extreme, Facebook even prohibits interviewers from even asking how you got to the interview location. Well known companies are going to be paying for your flight/hotel and likely a meal stipend to get to the interview and will also have some...
  3. Hachima

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    I spoke with one of their recruiters once if that counts :) Topics has a decent amount of good information from current employees (and any well-known tech company) The cliff notes: No real career progression compensation wise. You get the initial offer and then a guaranteed 20% raise at 18...
  4. Hachima

    The Division 2

    Even if you play solo I suspect it won't work well because it's still a server-side instance hosting the game and the server needs to be ready for more people to join.
  5. Hachima

    Bioware's "Anthem"

    Well BW updated their luck explanation, so now its 90 luck that you want to target.
  6. Hachima

    Bioware's "Anthem"

    According to the difficulty description Hard only contains a subset of available MW drops.
  7. Hachima

    Bioware's "Anthem"

    Yeah, multiple official responses at The other thing that was mentioned was supply % drop only affects ammo and repair drops. But the official response conflicts with the data gathered so who knows if its working as described.
  8. Hachima

    Bioware's "Anthem"

    Uhg... so they put out numbers on the luck system and 0-100 luck are the same so unless you have 101+ luck its wasted. After that there are thresholds so 101-109 then 110-119 up to 190+ being the last boost available.
  9. Hachima

    Bioware's "Anthem"

    I crashed at the XP screen after getting my first legendary drop from a mission... However I joined freeplay and then instantly left and it then performed the end of mission loot based on the previous mission that crashed and I ended up getting my legendary after all.
  10. Hachima

    Bioware's "Anthem"

    Yeah, when something is primed ice and frozen the fire cancels it (its even in the tips for the long loading screen) I had some newb flame walling a turret that was destroying people trying to kill it and it would have been disabled if they left my ice on it...
  11. Hachima

    Bioware's "Anthem"

    I play Colossus and love the lightning coil(Vassa's Arc) You can use it while shielding and with the MW version it creates some nasty combos and is great for eating away enemy shields. Firewall was fun but unless your group is super powered for the tier at GM levels you need to be able to keep...
  12. Hachima

    Bioware's "Anthem"

    I enjoy the combat mechanics of Antem so far and more interesting legendary gear could make it even better. Given games like Tabula Rasa, Destiny 2, Defiance, Rift etc the enjoyment of freeplay events is a wreck. The problem I see is that part of the mechanics I see is the Combo/AE mechanics...
  13. Hachima

    Bioware's "Anthem"

    Did Destiny 2 get such a bad rap for loading times? Queueing up was several minutes for match making. Then flying once a match was found was at least as long as Anthem. I think the huge miss on Anthem's part is how much perception of loading plays a factor in the experience. They also missed...
  14. Hachima

    Bioware's "Anthem"

    Does it cause a problem when its over 100%? Or is that what people think the cap is?
  15. Hachima

    Bioware's "Anthem"

    Traditionally hard drive speed is the main contributor to long load times but as I monitor disk IO during the loading the hard drive activity is a very small part of the long load time (20% at most) Something else is contributing. Most likely server side matching syncing/creating the instance etc.
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    Bioware's "Anthem"

    I have an LG 'HDR' monitor and it support HDR10 content but yeah, its only rated up to 350 nits where my OLED TV is rated at 820 nits. The high end panels/LCD TVs are hitting 1000+ nits. This last patch did greatly improve HDR though. Before (as others were also complaining about) launching...
  17. Hachima

    MTG: Arena

    I haven't seen any stability issues the last few days (30+ games played).
  18. Hachima

    Bioware's "Anthem"

    When I got to that mission the only thing I was missing were the treasure chests. Normal gameplay got me past the rest. I think one aspect that is very lacking is the lure of a looter game and using techniques to hook players. Diablo 3 learned to give guaranteed legendaries. They could have...
  19. Hachima

    Bioware's "Anthem"

    For a There’s always some dick going for collectibles...aka this reviewer? haha
  20. Hachima

    Bioware's "Anthem"

    I did my first Hard Stronghold with a pug (12,13,15,17). It was a bit rough at first but the team started to stick together after a few wipes. We beat the final boss but it was disappointing in that there was no final loot chest and it instantly ended. Prior mini bosses had nice loot chests...
  21. Hachima

    The Eating on a Budget Thread

    Haha yeah I pick em up for 2.99 at Uwajimaya.
  22. Hachima

    Please help find who murdered my friends family member

    Hmm true... maybe we need to know more about this 'close friend' and their possible involvement?
  23. Hachima

    Please help find who murdered my friends family member

    I agree. I also wonder how much restriction in data access there is for officials for investigating cases like this. For example I would want to do a cross check with the vehicle type and get all the names/addresses associated with that vehicle then try to correlate it with any gun...
  24. Hachima

    Please help find who murdered my friends family member

    When I see signs they usually are a few days before and announce they will occur Saturday or both Sat/Sun. I've never seen something listed for a Friday but maybe their sign said it was for the weekend and they were prepping on Friday. I can see putting a new sign up Friday morning to catch...
  25. Hachima

    Please help find who murdered my friends family member

    The reason for the garage sale to pay for an anniversary trip seems a bit odd to me. That would hardly cover plane tickets somewhere and is way too last minute desperation time wise. Now if it was just a few weeks to the Disneyland StarWars grand opening later this year and they still didn't...
  26. Hachima

    MTG: Arena

    In my case the shortcut disappeared but the installation was still there and then after launching it directly it recreated the shortcut.
  27. Hachima

    The Eating on a Budget Thread

    Make a batch of any of the S&B stews https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Dgrocery&field-keywords=S%26B+Stew and freeze them to mix it up a bit instead of just having the same stew flavor for a week.
  28. Hachima

    MTG: Arena

    For better or worse Momir's comes to an end... I am a bit tired of the format but I couldn't stop playing it with a 70%+ 5 win rate (20+ 5 win runs) I had the format down... It also ended earlier than I thought before I could pull off my last win
  29. Hachima

    Atlas

    Do you know what hardware setup your friend is using for their 2x2 setup? Is it a 3rd party hosting setup or are they using their own hardware? I ran several ARK servers for several years in the past and may start up an ATLAS setup myself. For now I've just been playing official and am...
  30. Hachima

    MTG: Arena

    I said near infinite and when you factor in the quests gold you get on the side I have been so far. If you can consistently do at least 3 wins that's only 100 gold lost a round. I'm still at my ~4600 gold when this event I started and I've probably played 30+ rounds now. Great advice in the...
  31. Hachima

    MTG: Arena

    Perfect example just now. My opponent pops a nice low cost mythic when I have crap... I'm sure they are cheering I'm about to concede because I have crap... Then next turn they pop demonlord bezenlok ... lol 1 more person to learn not to pop 6 cost when you have the board... I skip to...
  32. Hachima

    MTG: Arena

    I'm loving this Momir's madness event. I'm going near infinite and have collected 10+ new mythics so far. I leaned my lesson with demonlord bezenlok and at 6 mana I pull a 5 cost if I have anywhere near an advantage. I I won several games were I was completely dead the neat turn but my...
  33. Hachima

    Starlink - Battle for Atlas, Ubisoft's Star Fox

    To unlock everything the physical way it costs $253 but if you don't care about the toys its $80 to get the digital deluxe version. Being able to switch ships is a bit OP. Basically when one ship is low life you can switch and let it recharge and you continue fighting. No way I'd want to...
  34. Hachima

    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    What movie did you get that from? hehe Normal pole flips are usually a several thousand year event for the change to take place. I know of 2 flips that are theorized to have been completed in 4-5 years as the most dramatic flips. Still not something I'd call a snap flip as if over night it...
  35. Hachima

    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    Well I've actually flown in a UFO before... It was outside the Hilo International airport. I was in a private 2 seater plane and our radio went out. It was a bit nerve wracking as I played lookout for big commercial jets coming in that we couldn't hear or communicate with. We followed...
  36. Hachima

    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    Here are my own UFO photos. I didn't even notice it until I was looking at the images later. I was taking rapid exposures (50 frames per second) with different lighting per exposure and I caught a cigar UFO! Realistically it seems more plausible that movement of an actual UFO would so fast...
  37. Hachima

    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    Lasers don't provide a viable beam unless there is a huge amount of interference (smoke, fog etc). Watch some videos for Disney's 'Illuminations' on YouTube to see what it takes for a laser to make a visible beam and what a laser actually would look like. If that type of interference existed...
  38. Hachima

    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    Skip to 4:34 and you can see the 'laser' transforms to a circle and the hole image will transform to the lines as focus is changed... If you watch the far left closely you can see the 4 lines get reflected on the left side at 4:35. The reflection of the lines on the left make me suspect some...
  39. Hachima

    What vehicle do you drive?

    Realistically YOU should be the one providing additional incentive to drop the monthly to $750 if you want a chance and more like $720 to move it quickly.
  40. Hachima

    What vehicle do you drive?

    Well just look at Burren's post :) if I were to compare it with dealer listings it may look bad but these listings seem a little suspicious for the rates...