Search results

  1. James

    Fears

    I'd say I gained a new, much more frightening, perspective on nature after the hog attack, yeah.
  2. James

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

    Hey where's the rest of the conversation.
  3. James

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

    I'm in a similar situation at work, I keep telling them to hire someone who knows wtf they're doing, but they're giving me as long as I need to pick it up.
  4. James

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

    If anyone knows an Oracle guy looking for a job in Houston, my company is hiring.
  5. James

    Path of Exile

    Max Minus Resist and Elemental Weakness can be countered with that 60 ring chest + overcapping resists, shocking ground can be countered by Raider ascendancy, Verusa's Battering Rams...any shock immunity status item really. Vuln can be offset by physical % reduction, grab one of them flasks to...
  6. James

    Rimworld

    Never played it. I spend too much time playing Rimworld right now to do anything else, really.
  7. James

    Rimworld

    This is honestly the worst game I've ever played. It takes so long to even figure out if you're ready to play a game, and you're not even doing something cool, you're hitting a random button like a fucking monkey just waiting to get 'lucky' even though you know you never would. So pretty much...
  8. James

    Rimworld

    So I downloaded this, and I'm still figuring my way around, but I started this colony I thought had a real chance of success -- I had an industrious fast learner with high construction and cooking traits and several things she was passionate about I forget now. Well this other colonist decides...
  9. James

    Path of Exile

    Use PoEBuilder?
  10. James

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

    That doesn't seem like much of a celebration dinner? 60 bucks a head, that's like a sandwich for everyone and the rest in alcohol.
  11. James

    Ready Player One (2018)

    Don't be fooled, the story is meant for pre-teens. There will be some nostalgia for the older crowd, but man it's an awfully boring story. I bet the movie will be huge in the 12-18 year old demographic, they'll consider themselves so cool now that they know what the fuck a Max Headroom is.
  12. James

    Path of Exile

    The 'ish' being that you get 2 ex shards for identified shaper/elder sets, and 4 ex shards for unidentified.
  13. James

    Path of Exile

    The other recipe added is that ex shard one for full shaper/elder sets.
  14. James

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Just found another reason why I think BitCoin isn't going to be a major player for much longer and why their development has gone off the rails these past few years, Board of Directors - Bitcoin Foundation Brock Pierce was one of the founders of IGE, the dudes that sold WoW gold back in the day...
  15. James

    Path of Exile

    Well that's cause you're supposed to vendor rings not jewels. I got mine last night, pretty neat little chest.
  16. James

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    First real estate transaction on the blockchain:
  17. James

    Path of Exile

    No you wouldn't, you'd reroll a new character with the massive bank you had on hand and try again or quit the league. Do you play your past league characters? Those would be on Standard same as your HC chars that died.
  18. James

    Path of Exile

    No probably about it, temp chains + enfeeble should provide much greater defense than Grace against anything that's not the Shaper. First level 90 in hardcore was because of temp chains + enfeeble.
  19. James

    Path of Exile

    No way, that Sin+Innocence set is so baller.
  20. James

    Path of Exile

    I don't see how it's possible, tbh. Doesn't work that way with Vigilant Strike.
  21. James

    Path of Exile

    And the guide you're following probably sucks, too.
  22. James

    Path of Exile

    They're all softcore 160% inc life builds from what I've seen. Total garbage!
  23. James

    Path of Exile

    Obliteration Wands are $$. This has all of the damage conversions: Damage conversion
  24. James

    Path of Exile

    Jugg Tectonic Slam is definitely what I'll be rolling for my first char. Probably crit.
  25. James

    Health Problems

    If I had to do the hog attack over again, I would request absolutely no pain meds. Kicking my vicodin addiction after recovery was worse than the recovery itself.
  26. James

    Dark Souls 3

    Demon's Souls was alright, but too easy while at the same time being much more frustrating. I think the best thing Demon's Souls had going for it was the light/dark aspect of worlds.
  27. James

    Path of Exile

    Tbh, I'd think Temp Chains + Enfeeble would be a lot better in terms of survival, but curses are damn near useless on bosses now. Kaom's is a great item, sure, but hedging the bulk of your survival on any item (especially an expensive one) is probably not a good way to build a character unless...
  28. James

    Path of Exile

    What other defenses are you planning? 7% phys DR is a nice cherry on top, but it looks like the only defensive measure you have so far. Leech and Acrobatics are too far away on the tree to get with staff nodes, so you're looking at pure armor or Mind Over Matter as your primary defense...
  29. James

    Tax Reform and You

    Wage pressure is rising, though. Eventually they're going to pay out or lose good employees. EDIT: FWIW, wife and I work at the same company. She's an engineer, got a 2k raise. My situation is a little different and has nothing to do with taxes, but I'm expecting at least a 20k raise this...
  30. James

    Dark Souls 3

    I spent a few hours on her last night and almost beat her. I think the NPC summon is worth it, I've done it both ways and with a solid phase 2 he can last pretty much all of phase 3. It's hard though, like two hits from her and I die. I'm thinking I'm going to try a 30% weight build to see if...
  31. James

    Dark Souls 3

    Yeah, I found patches in the Cathedral, saved Siegward from the well, talked to him at the fireplace, moved on down to the Irithyll Dungeon or however you spell it, and then sent Greirat off to plunder Irithyll Valley, where he died since I already went to the dungeon. Thanks Dark Souls. I'm...
  32. James

    Dark Souls 3

    Yep. I'll check if Patches is still at the church, but Siegward is definitely not in the well.
  33. James

    Dark Souls 3

    Alright so I've killed the deacons and abyss watchers, but Siegward has never shown up in the well, and Patches is MIA - I may have just decided to run off the ledge instead of talking to him through the door first. But I got the tower key very early on, so I can't remember. Am I fucked, or is...
  34. James

    Path of Exile

    There's no way in hell I'm ever making a lab runner. I ran Uber Lab 3 times back to back once, and it was awful. I'll get rich the old fashioned way, scamming people and getting lucky.
  35. James

    Path of Exile

    Hey it's me, your brother.
  36. James

    Path of Exile

    I'd be really surprised if anyone on this board had an item matching such a description.
  37. James

    Path of Exile

    I always thought it was supposed to be like a mini-Juggernaut talent.
  38. James

    Path of Exile

    Increased armor % isn't multiplicative across armor types, e.g. 100% increased armor and 100% increased shield armor on a 1000 armor shield would yield 3k armor from your shield, not 4k armor. Same thing with increased global defenses. But yeah, I suspect the +1500 armor on block is a global...
  39. James

    Path of Exile

    Wonder how it interacts with The Surrender.