Evolith

joined 2 months ago
[–] Evolith@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Sure, you can spend the last turn choosing a split path direction to pick a red or happening space for a better chance of that possible bonus star if you've been mentally counting the spaces everyone lands on like counting cards in blackjack. An x% chance of reaching the star next turn with double dice if nothing ridiculous happens. The usual.

You can also win most of the minigames among your couch buddies and still end up rolling 1s and 2s for movement in the first 4 rounds, just like queuing up on Lichess against other 500s for 4 straight games as black and dealing with Wayward Queens. Yeah, you remember how to play against it by the fourth match, but it's better just to treat it like a dice game lol

[–] Evolith@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I was chess club president for several years back in my high school. Now, as a 500-rated player and lifelong Mario Party connoisseur, I can guarantee you that both games feel like RNG even if I put the neurons to use.

[–] Evolith@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's the amount of time your computer opponent takes to make a move! I think Classical is played by an iMac G3. They're really slow and sometimes crash mid-match.

[–] Evolith@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

When it gets re-released for the 6th time.

[–] Evolith@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

OP is smrtr because he useded one bishop to get checkedate

[–] Evolith@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Big ol' cascade effect. Even back in late 2015, they made an update to old-gen release consoles (PS3, 360) that prevented users from loading directly into Online upon booting up the game. If you chose that option; endless load loop and an eventual crash. From that point on until forever, you had to load singleplayer and use the shoddy interface to select an Online game for your multiplayer character.

They have a history of ruining Online with every update. I can only imagine all of the problems that accumulated since then, if it is even playable at all on those consoles.

[–] Evolith@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'm a recent university graduate who has been working in different entry positions since early high school. I thought a health Bachelors was going to finally allow me to obtain stable, relevant employment but it has done none of that so far: Healthcare institutions only care if you're a nurse and the one corporate job I got is substition-based, so I can only work if someone calls off which is highly inconsistent and unsustainable.

I feel like my only option is to apply for grad school in a medical profession pipeline, but I'm nervous about asking for letters of recommendation.

Most relevant job apps either deny me after a few days or simply do not respond. Even research or lab jobs no call me after a while, regardless if I follow up by contacting them directly.

Edit: Additionally, I can't even get unemployment as my last job was PRN during my intense year of classes and they need you to have been working near full-time hours for a number of weeks to get it.

 

Was recently granted the privilege of a permanent ban on reddit for a username I had for over four years and it led me down the rabbit hole of seeing more and more claims from other people who went through similar experiences. Hell, there's a lot of them. Frivolous reports resulting in punishment, appeals being automatically denied, the works, etc.

It might just be a presumption, seeing how many bots slide under the radar each day on that site through posts and comments, but I have a strong feeling that most (seemingly random) admin bans are designed to flush out active and semi-active human users rather than weed out bot code posing as people online. The end goal? Whether it's to create an automated, cyclical platform designed to extract marketing and ad revenue from a steady stream of new users or anything else for that matter, I know not. All I know for certain is that the ban tendencies have ramped up in the recent year and the people actually being punished for it are those who have been using it for long periods of time and manage to conveniently fall on the edge of a subjective TOS offense.

I had my suspicions that it was gradually turning into an AI-fueled cesspit, but now I've had my chance to really believe that it has. Good riddance in that case