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I have a Codex subscription for my business and a Claude account for my dayjob, so I use both constantly and fairly 50/50

Codex just does what I ask it to. It is a little too easy to be led and doesn't push back quite as much as I'd like. but it understands problems, investigates, makes plans, fixes them

Claude Code is getting worse. It's ai speak is reaching nonsensical levels, I find it hard to follow the sentences it comes out with. It does the "you're right to push back ----- i missed the point entirely here" thing that AI had mostly stopped doing a year ago

For quite a while, they've traded blows and who was on top alternated and was usually narrow. The gap is quite big at the moment

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This is probably the most I've felt lost on a character.

The best strategy I've come up with so far is spears as I feel as though I need the early HP and they do decent AOE dmg if I can group up the bait mobs

I have been trying to get 1 bait until I have 6 weapons and then scale it up to 2. Which simultaneously feels like too much to handle, but not enough for econ to stay afloat

Is this just a get good situation or am I missing a detail?

Edit: Nightmare mode on crash zone

1. git checkout main "your branch is up to date with origin/main"

I know it isn't

2. git pull origin main - many changes incoming. it is now actually up to date with origin/main

Am I misunderstanding something here?

Fixture congestion is getting so silly. Every player's hamstrings are made of cheese. They haven't had more than 3 weeks off in years. The constant need to build depth in squads makes the games less exciting as the best players are playing less.

Follow a pattern of:

1. club level tournament (CL, CONMEBOL etc)

2. continental tournament (Euros, Copa America etc)

3. club level tournament

4. world cup

It would cut fixtures down a lot, keep things exciting and allow players to have a proper rest so it can be more sustainable

You'd have to go to some kind of points system for qualifying for CL over the previous 2 seasons, which would take some figuring out

Clubs would obviously never do it because of money, will bleed the sport until its dry. I think it'd be better though

Just stumbled across this subreddit. It's entirely AI generated. Any actual real people here?

I used to listen to so many of those "chill vibe 3 hour tunes to study to" etc type things, you know the ones. One of my favourite parts of switching to Youtube music is the integration of those outside of having youtube tabs open, when im walking the dog etc

But so many of them are AI slop now. The sad thing is, a lot of the time I can't tell just from the audio, at least not quickly. I do not have a trained ear, I'm not a musician. It normally gets to one of the telltale signs that I notice, most of which require me looking at my phone

1. there are no songs listed on the playlist, its just a solid 3 hour block

2. no breaks inbetween songs (nobody can play the sax for 3 hours without taking a breath), but it takes me a while to notice this

3. playlist is suspiciously exactly 3 hours 1 second long

At this point, I'm basically just only listening to them if they were made before 2023, which sucks because I'm sure there's loads of real artists out there uploading their compilations of stuff they've made

I don't really know what my question is. Anyone set up any playlists or got good channel recommendations of these where its all confirmed 100% not AI? I hate being on edge about it and feeling like I have to check

Hi guys!

Curious, what is something that you think is either really overrated or really underrated when you see people talk about, from your experience? I think it's fun because there are a lot of varying playstyles that make things affect us differently. I'll start

Overrated - I think on nightmare, more often than not, pierce is a net negative when it's from things like sharp bullet. doing 30% dmg to an enemy behind the enemy that matters often doesn't make up for how much control you lose in terms of what you're killing.

Especially for things like SMG it feels really good in a way that's a little fake fake (twice the amount of numbers on the screen, but not that much more damage), and then it kills you on a fly wave

Note I don't think this is true for everything. Pierce is very strong sometimes especially on builds that care about burning

Underrated - I've seen people mention a few times in this sub that they don't like jerky. I might be off base and people generally do like it. Losing the instant healing can feel a little strange and has killed me before, but the overall benefit of the heal over time effect and extra healing is so so good

I've been wondering this for a while. Every time royal mail buzz my door its always "good morning sir i have your package, may I come in?" and we have a little chat and everything's great.

When it's evri or amazon or any of the other companies, they throw my parcel directly in my face and take a photo of me as it hits, then sprint off

What's the difference?

It's not just that i was winning. in all 3 I was so bored. none of the enemies do anything. Half the bosses the strat is either stand still or stand nearly still. Everything is cursed so your econ is nuts. I took a weird ghost on round 17 with bad healing just to feel something. I let one of the tower things go off and as far as i could tell nothing happened

Danger 5 crash zone is significantly harder than nightmare on the abyss. its weird how big the imbalance is, from my very limited perspective

It is one of the hardest, probably not the hardest. it is one of the least fun, probably not the least fun. but good lord am I uninterested in playing this. My last win needed and this is gonna be a wall

(I have nothing productive to say I'm just annoyed)

Can we just not? This has been argued to death for 15 years. nobody fucking cares anymore. we all decided what we think the answer is a long time ago, its been beaten to death

Say good morning to him? you're off. roll your eyes in his direction? you're off. you just got fouled in a really clear cut penalty moment and you look for his attention? penalty, but who's taking it? not you - you're off.

i am so sick of the dramatics and running to the ref acting as if you screaming in his face is helping your case in any way

the first like 3 games of the season would get forfeited due to too few players and then the game would get a lot faster

(i know this one is ridiculous and i don't actually think this but it is more a way of expressing frustration)

Obviously limited to leagues where the cost of implementing this is negligible. The POV and all audio from both dialogue with players and with other officials should be uploaded to youtube or something

German league does it a lot, I've gotten in the habit of watching it. The refs are generally a lot better than what I'm used to in the prem, and I'm wondering if part of that is an accountability thing. Its also an extremely fun perspective to watch the game from

I've been "struggling" with the Streamer for a day or so. At my ability level (very average but I am actively trying to get better), most nightmare characters take between 3-10 attempts. Streamer got to around 20 which puts it in one of the harder ones for me

I tried what I considered the two meta builds about 10 times each. Playing with wrenches/screwdrivers and focusing on engineering, and playing with SMGs.

I tried a medical gun run, and it was one of the easiest nightmare runs I've had in a while. Granted, I rolled an early lootworm, and in my opinion, no single item is as important for a character as lootworm is for streamer. But my healing was completely fixed from the start, my damage was never bad (especially with being able to get 40% speed and dmg on demand), armor is very easy to come by, and econ was roughly about normal with some thought given to shops

Are there any other things you never see people use that are underrated? Am I a bit off base in thinking people don't rate medical gun highly?

Somewhat connected to my last post. The game is harder now. The players are better now. Many different aspects have come on leaps and bounds. The best player to play in every role in history is currently playing or retired very recently

The comparison is really hard to judge because a lot of it is based on fond memory, and the main way we judge a players ability is comparison to the players around them

TL;DR you think players 20 years ago were a *lot* better than they actually were

Many had better longevity. Many won a lot more. Nobody has ever been as proficient as him at being a centre back as he was at his peak

It was years ago now, but I remember every detail so vividly. With games I love I tend to wait long enough that most of it fades from memory and I can re-enjoy it with some nostalgia , but I feel as though I can still play through the whole game in my head. I still listen to whirling-in-rags music while I work. Masterpiece. Utter masterpiece

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Context: I am a very average player and this took me about 100 attempts. I tried basically everything I could think of, this was the only thing that even got close. I hope it can help someone!

Hello everyone!

Hiker was extremely difficult for me at my skill level, and I thought I'd share what worked for me. This guide is intended for people like me, who are not particularly talented at the game and want to make this work. For actually good players, this may not be useful or even the best strategy.

WHY IS HIKER SO HARD? Hiker is, in my opinion, the hardest in the game, because it has a combination of extremely poor economy, and forces you to keep moving. Success in nightmare is usually a lot of small, controlled movements, which are antithetic to Hiker, as going back on yourself causes you to stop temporarily, making your already horrible econ even worse. You need to keep running into enemies, with very poor econ to help survive it. It's really nasty

WHAT IS THE GENERAL STRATEGY? I found the best was to take a pacifist approach, relying entirely on moving and harvesting for economy, focusing stats into speed and survivability, and basically just running in a circle until round timers run out. Fight your melee character muscle memory to be near enemies, just run away

STATS? Early game, you need harvesting and speed. Hands each come with 8 harvesting so these are high priority, and you need to get to a level of speed you're comfortable with ASAP. I aimed for between 35-40% as after this I felt I had no control at all. Once you have 6 hands and a good speed value, all in on survivability. Obviously all damage stats are useless. A slightly less intuitive one is luck becomes one of the worst stats in the game, as you aren't killing anything to get the bonuses. It still has some small value to increase level up and shop rolls, and trees dropping crates.

ITEMS? The item pool is particularly strange, because most items are useless for you, and some you'd usually ignore become very powerful. For example, alien worm in most runs is a bad idea, as consumable healing is so strong. However, you aren't killing anything, so there's very few consumables. SImilarly white flag is an auto-skip for me in basically every scenario, but is a very nice to have here.

An important item consideration is you need some way to reliably break trees, so either lumberjack shirt or lootworm. I like lootworm but just take whichever you get first. Don't take both, you can't afford it

Note: don't take any damage! no pets, no burning or anything. You are not going to be killing things reliably, and damage breaks the spawners and cause junkies, which can get really rough.

ROUND SPECIFIC CONSIDERATIONS?

Round 1 and 2 you can actually kill things with 1 damage hands. Econ is incredibly tight early game and you can get a small bonus by playing these rounds like an incredibly weak melee character.

Round 6 is the deadline for a good amount of speed as you need to be kiting 4-6 slashers.

Round 14 the spawners will start to break themselves so anticipate some junkies towards the end.

Round 16 and onwards is where buffing aliens comes in - at 34% speed with snail and wandering bot, i just about managed to kite the buffed enemies.

Boss rounds remember they move through their phases via time as well as via HP. Not all bosses are made equal. I have never successfully survived Monk for example, 15 slashers plus boss is too much.

OTHER STUFF?

I've said it many times. Econ is insanely tight. One bad purchase and the run is over a lot of the time. Get your bans out early as there are quite a lot of white items that will help. If by round 4 you don't have all of your hands and a decent amount of speed, it's probably over. Don't over-invest in HP as you'll get a lot of it by the end, focus more on speed then dodge/armor/healing.

GL gamers

As title says. Once you've won, you're exempt from all future awards. I think it'd be way more fun and would see players like Lewa, Iniesta etc all having won one at some point in the Messi/Ronaldo era.

Granted I don't anticipate constant repeat wins being much of an issue outside of those two, I still think its more exciting though