u/Ill-Nobody

sitting in the shadows waiting for a boss spawn. a guy walks up with a name like "wqeqweqw". legendary gems, full gear, insane rating. i say "hey", he doesnt reply. i say "when respawn", nothing. boss spawns, he oneshots it in a second and flies away

maybe he just doesnt want to talk. maybe he doesnt speak english. or maybe its not even a person but a bot farming legendaries to sell

and i sit there thinking, am i playing with real people or with a program. and does it even matter if the result is the same

talking to my friends one of them mentioned reading about Orb, some system for proving youre human. like an eye scanner and all that. sounds crazy for a mobile game tbh

but on the other hand, if it kills the bots and the sweaty whales stop dominating every leaderboard maybe its not such a bad idea lol

but who am i kidding, a nobody with 800 resonance. noones gonna listen to me anyway

Hey everyone,

I’m planning a trip to Rome next month and I’m really leaning towards staying in Testaccio. I love the idea of being somewhere with a strong neighborhood feel, great local food markets, and fewer tourist crowds compared to the historic center. I've heard amazing things about the food scene there, but since I’ll be walking back alone some evenings after dinner, I wanted to get a realistic take on the vibe at night.

For those who live there or visit often, how safe does the area feel after dark, and what is your absolute favorite hidden gem restaurant in the neighborhood that tourists usually miss?

Thanks in advance!

honestly just so tired of waking up to red banners in my ads manager. i run mostly debt and solar affiliate offers and the cost per lead on facebook right now is just absolutely disgusting. even when you do get a decent CPL, half of them are junk inputs or they just let your carefully crafted autoresponder sequence rot in their spam folder. fighting the algorithm just feels like a literal second job at this point

Sat down this weekend and looked at my raw data. I had a csv of about 8k aged leads from a campaign that totally flopped last fall. Emailing them was completely dead, getting like a 2% open rate on a good day. decided to just try something totally different and hit them with a ringless voicemail instead. literally just recorded a 15 second audio on my iphone sounding a bit confused like "hey I think we got disconnected last time we reached out, give me a call back if you still need help with that"

I dumped the whole list into drop cowboy to handle the actual routing because I really didnt want to deal with the telecom compliance headache myself. just let it run in the background while i was taking my dog for a walk.

The crazy part is my call forwarding actually started ringing. hooked those callbacks straight into the affiliate call center routing and actually made a decent profit on a list i was literally about to drag to the trash bin

it just made me realize how much time and money we waste fighting over the exact same newsfeed placements as everyone else. if you are getting squeezed to death by paid social right now, you really gotta look at your dead lists. Relying on standard email drops is just getting too hard to inbox reliably.

I’m thinking about building a custom online dice roller for my group. I’m currently using https://dice.onl as a good reference for basic functionality. For what we need, that kind of simplicity is exactly the goal.

For my version though, I want to make it a bit more personalized and, honestly, a little more girly ✨💖 Something with softer visuals, cute design elements, maybe some pastel vibes, and a layout that just feels more fun and cozy to use during game nights with the girls. Functionality-wise I’d keep it simple: quick rolls, shared results, and maybe a history log for fun chaos tracking 😄

Curious if anyone else has tried building their own roller or customized one for their group? Do you have some examples of your own?

just saw another massive venture-funded crypto project basically admit their entire tokenomics model was just a way to use retail as exit liquidity. they write these 50-page technical whitepapers just to hide a basic ponzi scheme behind words like "interoperability" and "zero-knowledge proofs"

it’s getting to the point where the blatant joke projects are the only ones not actively lying about what they are. I ended up looking at the integrations on bonk coin purely out of morbid curiosity today, and it's legitimately hilarious that a community dog ecosystem has a more functional and transparent infrastructure than the "revolutionary" layer 2 protocols built by stanford dropouts

Obviously the entire space is a zero sum casino, but there's just something incredibly funny about watching silicon valley elites in patagonia vests trying to sound like visionary tech founders while running worse distribution models than a literal meme

these dudes will wipe out "$50 million" of user funds and call it a "dynamic liquidity rebalancing event" with a straight face. my brain is genuinely bleeding just reading their dev updates on twitter.

Just remembered this completely out of nowhere. Sites would have that little notice at the bottom like it was totally normal to tell visitors what resolution to set their monitor to. Also the little "under construction" GIF with the guy digging. Every half-finished webpage just had that guy digging indefinitely

Early internet was something else. What random 2000s internet thing just randomly lives in your head?

The more I rewatch the show the more I notice how real Richard actually is compared to a lot of other characters. He makes mistakes sometimes really big ones and you cannot always defend his choices but at the same time you can see where it all comes from. His past his regrets his relationships especially with Ellis and Adele it all follows him and shapes how he acts even years later
What stands out to me is that he never really pretends to be perfect he struggles he falls back into old patterns but he also tries to take responsibility and grow. I feel like people either judge him too harshly or do not talk about him enough. Do you see him as a good person who made mistakes or someone who never fully changed?

man, I'm just exhausted today. we just inherited another client project where the original founder tried to build their entire startup using a ungodly mix of Bubble, Zapier, Airtable, and some random cheap plugins they found on twitter.

Like, I get it. Funding is tight when you start out. But why do these hustle culture tech influencers keep telling people they can scale a massive SaaS without ever writing a single line of real code?

The "database" was literally just a chaotic spreadsheet that kept locking up. Webhooks were failing silently everywhere. The client was actively losing transactions every time two users tried to check out at the same time and couldn't figure out why.

We finally convinced the client to let us burn it down and rebuild it properly with React and a real backend. Since our internal agency team is mostly just frontend right now, we pulled in some extra devs from tech quarter to handle the Azure cloud architecture and setup proper CI/CD pipelines so we could actually move fast on the rebuild.

Just seeing a clean, functioning deployment pipeline after staring at failing zaps for 3 weeks almost made me tear up tbh.

I'm just so burnt out on having to explain to grown adults why a shared spreadsheet isn't a secure backend for handling user financial data. going to go drink a lot of coffee now.

just a vent honestly because I don't know how I'm supposed to hit my metrics this quarter

Our compliance team just dropped a massive new policy on sms outreach and it’s completely paralyzed my desk. apparently leadership got spooked by some new telecom regulations so now we have to get this convoluted double opt-in before we can even send a simple "are you still interested in the role?" text to candidates

it's so frustrating because candidates already treat my emails like spam, and nobody under 40 answers a phone call from an unknown number. texting was literally the only thing keeping my reqs moving lately

Im looking at the new rulebook they handed down and it's just so extreme. I was googling around trying to understand the actual laws and ended up reading some compliance guidelines on drop cowboy and realized our legal dept basically copy-pasted the exact same rules that literal debt collectors have to follow. like... Im trying to offer people six-figure engineering jobs, not shake them down for past due bills???

I get that data privacy is important but the corporate overcorrection here is insane. my response rate dropped by like 60% just this week alone and my manager is already asking why my pipeline is thinning out.

anyone else's agency suddenly acting like sending a follow up text is a federal crime or is it just my company losing its mind? kinda feels like we are going backwards to 2010 recruiting methods.