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  • Nah, Diablo 4 is much more fun when leveling from 1 to 70 or so. 70 - 100 is just doing the same things over and over with barely any rewards. It’s the other way around there, leveling is fun, endgame is dogshit.

    Usually “game starts at max level” is used for MMOs like WoW. Where all the leveling is seen as annoying bullshit fetch quests and at max level you do dungeons and raids.


  • The story or the gameplay? Because all I wanted to do was play a fun MMO, get items and do dungeons with other people. Instead I did quests like hit 3 rocks with your basic ability. Great! Hit 3 more rocks with the same ability. Done? Now run between 4 NPCs and talk with each of them. Great, now kill 8 enemies over there. Run back, talk with 2 more NPCs. Run through the city and interact with 8 lamp posts, the interaction takes several seconds each, because why not? …

    I really tried to power through this absolute bullshit, but after a few hours I simply gave up. It only got worse, not better.

    As you say Heavensward, I still hear that there is a ton of dumb quests then. Like the story is right at a critical point and they send you off on hours of fetch quests before you can continue?


  • The story or the gameplay? Because all I wanted to do was play a fun MMO, get items and do dungeons with other people. Instead I did quests like hit 3 rocks with your basic ability. Great! Hit 3 more rocks with the same ability. Done? Now run between 4 NPCs and talk with each of them. Great, now kill 8 enemies over there. Run back, talk with 2 more NPCs. Run through the city and interact with 8 lamp posts, the interaction takes several seconds each, because why not? …

    I really tried to power through this absolute bullshit, but after a few hours I simply gave up. It only got worse, not better.


  • Not just for series, this is the same with games.

    “The first 50 hours of Final Fantasy 14 suck, but the expansions afterwards are worth it!”

    “The game starts at max level!”

    I can’t stand it. And it’s not like the game magically gets much better, it just feels pretty okay for someone who just wasted months of their time on the bad parts. Of course you’ll enjoy mediocre parts later on after suffering through that crap.

    A game has to start being fun ten minutes after the tutorial tops. Why play it otherwise?



  • But the NAS is in your house… which basically means if it gets flooded/burns down all your data is gone too.

    I already have my data on my PC, a second backup inside the same house isn’t worth that much. But instead of relying on a cloud service I just rent a virtual server (for various things) and use Seafile to keep my data in sync.

    PC breaks? House burns down? My data is on my own server in a datacenter. My server gets cancelled? My data is on my PCs.

    So even with your NAS you are 100% reliant on a cloud backup still, so why did you get the NAS when you already have a copy of your data on your devices?






  • Vlyn@lemmy.worldtoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.mlSounds great in theory
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    1 year ago

    TDD is great when you have a very narrow use case, for example an algorithm. Where you already know beforehand: If I throw A in B should come out. If I throw B in C should come out. If I throw Z in an error should be thrown. And so on.

    For that it’s awesome, which is mostly algorithms.

    In real CRUD apps though? You have to write the actual implementation before the tests. Because in the tests you have to mock all the dependencies you used. Come up with fake test data. Mock functions from other classes you aren’t currently testing and so on. You could try TDD for this, but then you probably spend ten times longer writing and re-writing tests :-/

    After a while it boils down to: Small unit tests where they make sense. Then system wide integration tests for complex use-cases.



  • Vlyn@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.ml""Higher"" ""Quality""
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    1 year ago

    But they do.

    For example on desktop if you skip through a video while it’s set to auto (1080p) at some point it will fall down to 480p. Maybe because YouTube thinks your connection has an issue, or maybe they just want to save bandwidth. If you manually set it to 1080p it stays there.

    The whole thing is annoying.


  • That’s not true. I edited (nearly) all my comments. Then did a GDPR request. All the comments I touched were overwritten in there.

    I didn’t catch all of them though, it’s damn tough to get every single one. If you just go through your profile page by page they don’t show all. If you select “Top” comments you find more. If you select “Controversial” you find even more and so on. So I only managed to overwrite maybe 95% or something, but it’s good enough.

    Oh and they also have caching and spam protection. So you have to slowly overwrite comments, about one comment every 3 seconds or you get rate limited. And directly after overwriting the comment it might still show up in the old version till their caching servers catch up. So maybe you thought you overwrote your comments, but in reality the requests failed in the background because you went too fast.