Off Topic Discussion Megathread

[ValkyriaCrystalis]

whats ur new job ? no need to answer if u dont want

I’m a CIP : counsellor in professional insertion.Still in social working but instead of adults I have 16-18 years kids who left school for various reasons. We run a program to help them to get back on track regarding their social life and work. I can teach them maths as well as taking them to museums or cultural events. I’m here to help them to find a professional goal too.

Sometimes it’s hard, sometimes they are very sweet. The work conditions are way better too (I’ve got all the human and material ressources I need) and the salary is one of the best I can make on this field. ^^
Oh and quite flexible schedules too, if all the programs preparation and administrative are done.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Someone at work told me that I should go big or go home. They seriously underestimate my willingness to go home.

[Vyrerus]

Been on a kick of replaying the older Pokemon games via emulation as side games/wc games/waiting on the bath to fill games.

Turns out in Gen 1, Speed influences Critical Hit rate greatly, giving Pokemon like Primeape, Golbat, Charizard etc. really high crit rates. It also seemed like quad weakness wasn't a thing, but also that dual typing didn't always cancel super effectiveness vs. certain types. Did Gen 1 in Yellow version. Ending team wound up being:
Jolteon
Primeape
Charizard
Venusaur
Blastoise
Nidoqueen
All in the Mid high 40s with Primeape hitting level 51 after KOing Gary's last pokemon.

Just finished replaying Gen 2. My Gen 1 playthrough heavily biased me into wanting a Primeape again, so I dropped Silver halfway through even though it's my preferred version of the Gen, just so I didn't have to bother with figuring out emulated trading. Can only catch Mankey in Gold or Crystal, and I don't really like Crystal.
Team was
Primeape
Ampharos
Magmar
Feraligatr
Crobat
Sudowoodo

Levels going into the Elite Four were high 30s and extremely low 40s. Afterwards I blendered Kanto into oblivion, though Sabrina did give me a scare. Just rode naturally gained EV bonuses and type advantage all the way to the bank. The sheer rise in level going from any other Kanto gym leader to Blue's team though was rather steep imo. All his are like 54~58. After that, Mt. Silver opens up, and the path to Red is almost linear. I waltz'd up to Red with my whole team all at level 50. That climb is even steeper though. He's got a level 81 Pikachu, 73 Espeon, 77 Venusar, Charizard, and Blastoise. Then a level 75 Snorlax.

Had my Ampharos beat the ever loving hell out of his Pikachu. Then had it paralyze his Espeon. It died after that. Tried to finish off Espeon with Magmar, but Espeon one shot it. Ended Espeon with Crobat. Red sends out Snorlax, I send out Primeape. Cross Chop lands but doesn't crit, reduces Snorlax to slightly under half HP. Snorlax Body Slams Primeape, and OHKOs him. Send out Sudowoodo, and Red starts the whole Rest, Snore, Sleep Talk B.S. So I just keep slamming him with Rock Smash, lowering Snorlax's defense every other one. Sudowoodo gets low, I Hyper Potion. I must have pumped at least 7 Hyper Potions into Sudowoodo before Snorlax finally got defense low that a crit Rock Slide finished him off from 2/3rds full.

Venusaur's next. I manhandle him with Crobat. It's like Venusaur doesn't have 27 levels on me. Dings Crobat to 51. Blastoise comes out. I say fug it, and just settle into Confuse Ray -> Fly repeatedly. Blastoise misses Blizzard FOUR times, only one used during a Fly 1st turn. The other 3 were missed during Confuse Ray turns. Blastoise down in the red, finally lands Blizzard #5 to kill my Crobat. I also used this time to Max Revive my Ampharos, who I send out and Thunderpunch Blastoise to death. Blastoise gets a Surf off first, reducing Ampharos to 63 HP. Out comes Charizard.

Charizard flambés Ampharos, so I send out Sudowoodo again. Quad weakness to rocks, Rock Slide takes Charizard into the red. No luck on the Quick Claw proc, so Charizard kills Sudowoodo. Send out Feraligatr.

Charizard crits Flamethrower, and reduces Feraligatr from 171 to 19 HP. I had no other conscious pokemon, so watching the HP drop that rapidly, I thought I was baked. Nope. Surf kills Charizard, Red says, "......" Credits roll.

[RyuDragnier]

UPS is being an absolute joke right now. New laptop has been 4 days late in getting here. I send a message to the customer service, mentioning it hadn't shown up yet and asked if they could.see if there was a delay. They decided to expedite it (apparently it never had even been sent out), and proceed to not knock at my door (I'm sitting right next to it), and leave a "final attempt notice" on the door, telling me to pick it up from the local CVS. Then I get the tracking number updated, and they were 100% snarky about the entire thing, pointing out the day it was sent out, the fact that it arrived today, that it needs a signature, etc (complete with commentary). I think I got somebody in trouble, because 2 other packages that were also late by over a week suddenly arrived today.

[RyuDragnier]

Laptop is up and running, and feels so smooth. Haven't tried any games on it yet, because I have a rule about playing games on my laptop (only while it's charging). Ever since I accidentally caused my old laptop to shut off due to not noticing the battery life while playing Guild Wars 2 (which resulted in it starting to turn off at 5% battery life left), I've become highly paranoid about it.

[RyuDragnier]

Did some raiding in GW2 on my laptop. Holy crap I have upgraded. Maximum graphics, 9s loading times into the busiest areas of the game. Pure beauty and power...and the FPS never dropped that far. I'm not sure I can handle all this power.

[NekoMataMata]

Soooooo I accidentally did my first raids roulette today. It's... not that scary actually. I've soloed every raid I've unlocked so far unsync'd(aside from Alphascape 4.0). Ended up in Deltascape 1.0 and nothing interesting really happened. We also killed it a lot faster than expected, I'm assuming due to ilvl creep.

[RyuDragnier]

Soooooo I accidentally did my first raids roulette today. It's... not that scary actually. I've soloed every raid I've unlocked so far unsync'd(aside from Alphascape 4.0). Ended up in Deltascape 1.0 and nothing interesting really happened. We also killed it a lot faster than expected, I'm assuming due to ilvl creep.

Yeah, raid roulette is most of the time not that bad. Though there are a few fights you will find yourself wary of after a while, just because they have a higher chance of things going wrong.

[TheMightyMollusk]

The main fights in raid roulette that trip people up seem to be A9 (the Refurbisher, because people try to ignore the generators) and O11 (Omega, because the Starboard/Larboard mechanic still gets people). Sometimes E5 (Eden Ramuh, just because there's a lot going on) and P3 (not-Phoenix, because it's just a visually badly-designed fight, all the colors blend together and make it hard to see what's happening).

[Raoabolic]

O11 (Omega, because the Starboard/Larboard mechanic still gets people).

To be fair, the localizers really screwed us there. In other languages it's just called "left laser" and "right laser" or something along those lines. The big takeaway was that just about every other langrage uses left and right.