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  1. Deathwing

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

    Depends on the company. The places I've worked, when team shuffling or downsizes(as in, layoffs) occur, you will get stonewalled asking for more money. Usually a better idea to look for a new job.
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    Health Problems

    Psychosomatic? Chugging some pool water would probably confirm that chlorine sensitivity thing.
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    Hearthstone

    I had the same problem as priest. One velens and one pw:shield. Lost every game to board clears. I'm not entirely sure those type of spells are balanced. But at least they haven't introduced more, beyond sheep.
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    Witcher 3

    What's with this game and amount of people insisting on playing it on their couch? I never seen another thread where the physical transportation of a desktop was an actual talking point.
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    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    Yes, much more impressive if she mumbled that through a mouthful of dick.
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    Hearthstone

    Referring to automation as cheating is not weird at all.
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    Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

    Yellows are fine for amulets until you find a legendary that rolls at least almost as well and has a useful secondary affix. Most dots don't stack. I believe there are exceptions like the firestarter rune for AC. It just resets the duration, you don't lose any damage. They hopefully...
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    Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

    DH amulets are Hellfire or a well rolled immunity. BoTT, for DH, is procced with something else. Polar Station sentries. A teammate. Thunderfury templar. Something like that. Pain enhancer's bleed does not stack with itself.
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    The ethics of stealing video games

    Please explain.
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    Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

    There's several resplendant and regular chests in the cow level. I think the chest the queen is guarding is guaranteed to drop a few legendaries. Not bad if you use gloves of worship and nemesis bracers too since it's packed full of shrines.
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    Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

    No, you need two Unity and an invulnerability trinket for the follower. Assuming you don't have that, all of these are better than Skull Grasp: anything. Zx88 made a good suggestions about the ancients. They are inconsistent as a fury gen. If you can get your fury elsewhere(don't...
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    Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

    Skull Grasp is useless. A well rolled rare is better. Replace it with Unity, should get you at least 5-6 more levels. At that point, you just need ancient everything. IK/WW hybrids feel too slow to me. Too fury starved as well. BK + WW is probably the best set at this point, even non season.
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    Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

    D3 needs more events like this.
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    Bootstrappers guide to being successful.

    I've never been on the other side of an interview, how do you judge whether work is interesting or not? My current job as a test engineer has a fair amount of drudgery, especially now since we're in heavy testing for release. But the times I get to work on the testing system, which is mostly...
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    Bootstrappers guide to being successful.

    So give the guy a slight edge in comparison to the other candidates. If his knowledge and experience is superior because of the side projects, that should come through in the interview even if they go unmentioned. My point is that it is a silly arbitrary distinction and will likely eliminate...
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    The ethics of stealing video games

    You have to assume a special level of stupidity when reading teck's posts. I knew he was asking about Witcher 3, that was just the wrong thread to ask such a question. And it was. Especially in such a manner that he did. I was guessing it might be the wrong subforum because I rarely see...
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    What tickles your pickle

    Double the pickle tickling then!
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    Witcher 3

    Difficulty is fine as long as they give you interesting tools and choices to defeat it. Mass dodging while pricking the boss to death is not interesting and only one binary choice.
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    Bootstrappers guide to being successful.

    Got my current job through a staffing agency, though I'm kinda mad about it. Admittedly, I'm not sure if I would have found the posting without their blatant reposting/spamming. But throughout most of the interview process, I was under the impression that my employer was working with the...
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    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    People that think it's ok not to put their phone on vibrate/silent at work.
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    Bootstrappers guide to being successful.

    Embedded software and hobby electronics are loosely related to circuit design and layout. If you do the latter, you more than likely know a lot about the first two, but doing them in your free time isn't going to help you decide how many fingers to put on that NAND gate for the Cu45LP library...
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    Bootstrappers guide to being successful.

    There are plenty of people, not just programmers, that are excellent at their job but have little motivation to work on projects outside of work. You only make this arbitrary distinction because you can. What about someone that designs circuit libraries for work? What do you expect this...
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    The ethics of stealing video games

    Wrong thread, bro. Maybe even wrong subforum.
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    Hearthstone

    Thanks, that's a good idea. I'm consider Morrow's idea of putting some money in my account too. But, why a separate region? Why not just play in the same region with two accounts?
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    Bootstrappers guide to being successful.

    Whatever their reasons, justified or not, I had the experience of an entry level for that industry. I guess my point was that even companies that offer entry level positions, they don't make it easy to fill. Will I jump ship if my previous job opens up? Maybe, just something you have to suss...
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    Bootstrappers guide to being successful.

    I've tried applying to entry level positions when I had a few years experience. I was unemployed, can't be picky. The HR for the company(IBM) stipulated that only fresh college graduates could be hired for the position, doesn't matter if I was willing to work that pay or if the manager thought...
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    Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

    Never gotten a good Hellfire amulet. Not that I've really tried. The amount of time required to get a good one is quite obvious from the outset. Worse than gambling for weapons.
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    Home Improvement

    Sorry, this post was written so borderline generically it sounded like you got her a vibrator. Which, you should, btw. Those Hitachi magic wands or whatever. It qualifies as a power tool because it's supposed to be a back massager, but no one uses it that way.
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    Hearthstone

    The example wasn't supposed to be something that would be vital to playing arena well. It was an example something someone who's played a lot of arena would know off the top of their head. A byproduct, so to speak, of being able to play at a high level and chain arenas. I'm not sure...
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    Hearthstone

    What's the difference? It's been so long since I've played MTG. My frustration is that I've basically reached my limit on what casual arena will teach me. I can watch that youtube video about whatever situation, but I actually need to experience it a bunch of times to beat into my head and...
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    Hearthstone

    I think I'm into double digit uninstallations of this game. Arena would be so much more fun if I could, you know, actually practice and play it with any regularity. Nope, 4-3 and 60g, back to getting your ass beat in constructed. Hope you remembered those mistakes you made and don't repeat...
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    Home buying thread

    Do you 2008 to happen again? Because that's how you get 2008. I'm kidding. Irresponsible buyers were only a small small part of the problem.
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    Witcher 3

    Really, it doesn't pick up? Darn. I think even with the FCR mod, combat is still bumming me out. It's not dodge bullshit anymore, but instead aard-whack-whack repeat. There's not enough decision making going on. The voice acting is great, the story is bland so far(not sure how much I...
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    Smartphones

    Do you still get all of your data routed through a server farm in Florida? Pings of 250+ ms kinda kills LTE speeds.
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    Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

    DH and Monk can play just as fast.
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    Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

    I agree with you there. Ideally, LoH and LPFS to diversify your healing sources. But only the runes on IP or WoTB. As an affix, LPFS feels really underpowered, especially on weapons.
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    Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

    I'm not saying 5k lpfs is insignificant. LoH, in this build, returns more. If you assume your dust devils hit at least one target, 20k of LoH(bare minimum for an ancient 1H weapon) returns approximately 20k * 3 * APS per second. At 2.5 APS, that's around 150k lps. 5k lpfs, assuming 20 rage...
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    Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

    ItF is marginally better, but it does mean more blood funnel. I disagree about the healing part, I'll take as much as I can get. LoH on one weapon will easily out-do the IIB rune.
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    Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

    Don't spam overpower. The quicker you put it back on cooldown, the more zodiac procs it will eat. The damage it does is insignificant, just keep the buff up. That small change means you might be able to drop CDR from your weapon. Why bloodshed instead of ItF or StP?