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  1. Eidal

    Vermintide 2

    @Kriptini , feel free to add me on Steam for champ or legend runs. I can carry champ like 95 percent at this point. It'd take a truly terrible party for us to wipe. I only play Sienna though so if that's your main too, I'll be cranky. I could do dwarf but good god IB is boring and Slayer is...
  2. Eidal

    Vermintide 2

    Bahah I have 200 hours played to your 252 and have zero reds. The vast majority of my playtime was chaining successful champ runs, too. I guess that was all done prior to the rate increase though. Feels bad man.
  3. Eidal

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

    I researched something similar to this for a college project. I'd look into JS. What's cool about JS for this is that it easily lends itself to both front and backend work. There are already tons of tutorials on how to do something like this. Tutorials will have you do something like...
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    If you're going back to school, then you'll likely need to brush up on your math. Spend a few hours a week on Khan Academy. You'll need a solid foundation in algebra/trig/geometry in order to pass whatever higher math is required. The math part of my BSCS consumed about 80 percent of my study...
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    std::auto_ptr was an early implementation. They can't be copied; many of the STL containers depend upon copy/move semantics.
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    FYI: I'm totally aware of being a goddamn newb. I've been "working" off the clock at home trying to get a proper dev environment at home so I can actually test the things that I'm curious about. Like -- why is a C++ rendering engine drawing circles with no reference to PI... or, why do our...
  7. Eidal

    Vermintide 2

    Glaive is powerful because in Champ (and Legend in particular) -- dealing with armor is tough on some groups. A dual-dagger Shade can't do shit about armor; they either watch their group handle it or they get steamrollered. Meanwhile, Glaive has great penetration and range... can handle...
  8. Eidal

    Vermintide 2

    Hit me up for champ games, bud. I wouldn't sweat the kills/dmg levels -- a lot of that is just useless number padding. Example: three people meleeing a horde at a choke point. With Sienna, if I want to be a huge dickbag, I can push bit ahead of them and just start clearing it myself with my...
  9. Eidal

    Vermintide 2

    Add me on steam: Steam Community :: Eidal I'm pretty confident in running 3T2G Champion pugs now ~ probably 85 percent win rate. Legend is still a shitshow. Even a good PUG can just get fucked without instant coordination on voice chat. And most people don't use voice it seems.
  10. Eidal

    Vermintide 2

    https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/difficulty-specific-caps-scaling-and-buffs-arent-being-applied-to-hero-power/20013/17 tldr; game gonna get a little harder.
  11. Eidal

    Vermintide 2

    Feel free to add me "eidalon12345" -- I only play Sienna.
  12. Eidal

    Vermintide 2

    Also, my observation from Champion is that people ought to decide if they are trying to crush the scoreboard or trying to maximize their chance at success. Sienna can do some serious fucking work if she has someone peeling for her -- but people are really stuck in this weird "tank" mindset...
  13. Eidal

    Vermintide 2

    The meta for Sienna is Pyromancer with dagger/sword + Beam Staff. Beam staff is pretty fucking OP -- hitscan snipes, super strong boss killing, amazing horde clear... in conjunction with Heat Sink trait on staff. It needs a nerf. That being said, I'm not max ilvl so I'm not really paying too...
  14. Eidal

    Vermintide 2

    I'm at about ~530 power and crushing Champs in pugs pretty consistently. I only play Sienna, but if anyone wants to play, add me on steam. Steam Community :: Eidal
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    Vermintide 2

    I think they said they're adding dedicated servers within a month.
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    Everquest - Agnarr Server: Sunset Mode

    My buddy joined Zardalu and they gave him a BoC as a trial on his second raid with them. He didn't even speak up to roll (obviously) -- someone else said that he was the only warrior without it... brief 15 second pause for officers to consult, then they decided they'd give it to him rather than...
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    Everquest - Agnarr Server: Sunset Mode

    Imagine a short clip of men in business casual, walking through an office or in their cubicles yelling out dialogue ripped from your average day of an EQ TLP server.
  18. Eidal

    PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds

    Tip: practice keeping your view oriented properly when you're running around. You tend to stare at the floor for no discernible reason -- you ought to be lining your cross-hair up at head-level for every corner you go around.
  19. Eidal

    Path of Exile

    Yea, honestly, the problem only comes about when you're wealthy as fuck and want to scale but specifically can't because the biggest slow-down to killing are pet mechanics. If you're not dropping 100+ ex on a character then you're unlikely to really run into the issue.
  20. Eidal

    Path of Exile

    I played SRS in Harbinger and it was decently strong. Bought a HH and went 40/40... but like Pyros said, I couldn't scale my character up to the speed that my buddies reached. Even with hundreds of exalts of investment, I couldn't eliminate the summoning lag -- I'd be summoning while my buddy...
  21. Eidal

    Overwatch

    One thing to consider about voice-comm -- I've brought games back from Troll Town with some calm words of encouragement. If you pre-emptively mute everyone, then you can't prevent or slow the descent into rage and defeat. I'm not saying this happens frequently, but even turning the tide of...
  22. Eidal

    Overwatch

    To be "tilted" means emotion is affecting your game-play. Typically negative emotions from losing, but people tilt from win streaks too -- start playing more reckless, etc etc. The math for gaining rank in games is something like this: 45 percent of the games you play you'll win no matter...
  23. Eidal

    Overwatch

    Also people who rage through the roof and go to Troll Town for a few hours. Pretty much everyone sub Gold has serious tilt issues that they can't or won't address. At least, in my group of friends.
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    RIFT

    Do you truly anticipate playing that server throughout the entire lifetime of content before they xfer you off once you're caught up?
  25. Eidal

    RIFT

    Yup -- definitely remember the Hard mode dungeons causing epic salt throughout the community. I wonder if this new server will try to restore that original difficulty. It'd probably be a mistake. If my experience on the EQ TLE servers are any indication, most people nostalgic enough to play...
  26. Eidal

    Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

    @Variise Variise was last seen: 17w 3d ago
  27. Eidal

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    1) Casual sex usually isn't. Someone is more invested in the relationship than the other, which leads to hurt feelings. Everyone's moral compass is different; I'd prefer to live my life without leaving a trail of human wreckage in my past. 2) Risk of unwanted pregnancy that I have...
  28. Eidal

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    You're probably more in tune with the potential consequences of the hypothetical NSA turns into "not as NSA as you originally believed..." I'll go out on a limb and propose that there is a correlation between "catastrophic train wreck of a life" and wanton promiscuity.
  29. Eidal

    Path of Exile

    Honestly, my friend put it best: ("SRS is such a 2014 build.") The meta has changed; move fast kill fast. If you play a summoner, you'll never be able to keep up with someone playing a meta build. They'll be constantly zooming ahead of you while you try to keep up and keep more than a few...
  30. Eidal

    Everquest II

    I remember distinctly how terrible it ran, and I had a decent machine... definitely above median -- I played a Defiler and it's mandatory self-cast buff crushed my FPS down to sub 20. Meanwhile, they decided to launch in direct competition with WoW which had both a flawless frame rate and an...
  31. Eidal

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Haha I was just messing with you. I agree you have the credentials to comment -- it just made me laugh that you blasted fools for critiquing a world-class raider then went on to critique him a sentence later.
  32. Eidal

    Path of Exile

    I did 40/40 in Garbinger with Baron SRS and made a fortune, but I don't recommend it. It's slow. I rocked a HH and probably another 100+ex of gear and still couldn't keep up with builds that cost a fraction of that. You're just perpetually delayed by having to re-summon your ragers, and you...
  33. Eidal

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Hmm... irony?
  34. Eidal

    Everquest - Agnarr Server: Sunset Mode

    I'm a newb. How many symbol drakes are there in an instance?
  35. Eidal

    Everquest - Agnarr Server: Sunset Mode

    How many drops would you get in the average clear? My buddies like doing small group stuff for kronos and they've never heard about this.
  36. Eidal

    Path of Exile

    That is totally true and the game was even worse back when I made that post.
  37. Eidal

    Path of Exile

    Haha -- I think I remember making a "Hey check PoE out inbetween D3 seasons" post in the D3 thread a few years ago and you blasted me with "if we wanted to play that shit game then we would be."
  38. Eidal

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    @Deebo -- you need a lawyer. This is going to be messy.
  39. Eidal

    Weight Loss Thread

    Carb restriction makes caloric restriction easier. Protein is metabolized inefficiently and both fat and protein are incredibly satiating. It's hard to over-eat if you're capping your carb intake at 50g. That's a lot of chicken breast. I'm not convinced there is some magical hormonal system...