@thwr said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@wirestyle22 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@DustinB3403 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@wirestyle22 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

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@thwr said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@scottalanmiller said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@thwr said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@DustinB3403 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@wirestyle22 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@DustinB3403 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@thwr said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

Bought my wife a copy of Titan Quest... bad idea Still a great game which supports LAN-only multiplayer - sadly, most older games don't play well with with virtual NICs from Hyper V and Docker Desktop.

Looks like an early rendition of WoW.

It's more like Diablo. Great game for its time

like Diablo and Diablo 2?

More like D2 or PoE. The interesting aspect is that you can combine two classes, like rogue + mage or rune + defender.

I guess you aren't talking about Power over Ethernet?

My bad: Path of Exile, really worth it. Free 2 Play without Pay 2 Win. You can only buy chest space, character slots and cosmetics, but nothing that makes you more powerful in any way.

I agree that the game has a ton of play through and depth, but it's such a massive grind.

Yeah it's kind of a grindy genre though

I get it, I do, it's just such a long grind. Even worse than WoW. .

It's 100% worse than WoW in that regard. I am playing classic and I basically raid 1 day a week. The rest of the time I'm playing other games

What made me stop playing PoE was trading. It's fun, but it starts to become actual work at some point. Eventually, we gifted everything to friends. Hundreds of Ex (Exalted Orbs) and items worth a few thousand Ex

Yeah you really need to understand the economy but it's very interesting. They clearly knew what they were doing when they designed it and every system in the game really

@DustinB3403 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@wirestyle22 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@DustinB3403 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@thwr said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@scottalanmiller said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@thwr said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@DustinB3403 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@wirestyle22 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@DustinB3403 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@thwr said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

Bought my wife a copy of Titan Quest... bad idea Still a great game which supports LAN-only multiplayer - sadly, most older games don't play well with with virtual NICs from Hyper V and Docker Desktop.

Looks like an early rendition of WoW.

It's more like Diablo. Great game for its time

like Diablo and Diablo 2?

More like D2 or PoE. The interesting aspect is that you can combine two classes, like rogue + mage or rune + defender.

I guess you aren't talking about Power over Ethernet?

My bad: Path of Exile, really worth it. Free 2 Play without Pay 2 Win. You can only buy chest space, character slots and cosmetics, but nothing that makes you more powerful in any way.

I agree that the game has a ton of play through and depth, but it's such a massive grind.

Yeah it's kind of a grindy genre though

I get it, I do, it's just such a long grind. Even worse than WoW. .

It's 100% worse than WoW in that regard. I am playing classic and I basically raid 1 day a week. The rest of the time I'm playing other games

@jmoore said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@thwr said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@scottalanmiller said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@thwr said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@DustinB3403 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@wirestyle22 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@DustinB3403 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@thwr said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

Bought my wife a copy of Titan Quest... bad idea Still a great game which supports LAN-only multiplayer - sadly, most older games don't play well with with virtual NICs from Hyper V and Docker Desktop.

Looks like an early rendition of WoW.

It's more like Diablo. Great game for its time

like Diablo and Diablo 2?

More like D2 or PoE. The interesting aspect is that you can combine two classes, like rogue + mage or rune + defender.

I guess you aren't talking about Power over Ethernet?

My bad: Path of Exile, really worth it. Free 2 Play without Pay 2 Win. You can only buy chest space, character slots and cosmetics, but nothing that makes you more powerful in any way.

That's awesome. I've never looked at this but sounds like I should.

If you like hack n' slash games it's the best one by far right now

@DustinB3403 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@thwr said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@scottalanmiller said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@thwr said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@DustinB3403 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@wirestyle22 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@DustinB3403 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@thwr said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

Bought my wife a copy of Titan Quest... bad idea Still a great game which supports LAN-only multiplayer - sadly, most older games don't play well with with virtual NICs from Hyper V and Docker Desktop.

Looks like an early rendition of WoW.

It's more like Diablo. Great game for its time

like Diablo and Diablo 2?

More like D2 or PoE. The interesting aspect is that you can combine two classes, like rogue + mage or rune + defender.

I guess you aren't talking about Power over Ethernet?

My bad: Path of Exile, really worth it. Free 2 Play without Pay 2 Win. You can only buy chest space, character slots and cosmetics, but nothing that makes you more powerful in any way.

I agree that the game has a ton of play through and depth, but it's such a massive grind.

Yeah it's kind of a grindy genre though

@thwr said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@wirestyle22 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@thwr said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@DustinB3403 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@wirestyle22 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@DustinB3403 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@thwr said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

Bought my wife a copy of Titan Quest... bad idea Still a great game which supports LAN-only multiplayer - sadly, most older games don't play well with with virtual NICs from Hyper V and Docker Desktop.

Looks like an early rendition of WoW.

It's more like Diablo. Great game for its time

like Diablo and Diablo 2?

More like D2 or PoE. The interesting aspect is that you can combine two classes, like rogue + mage or rune + defender.

To be fair Titan Quest doesn't hold a candle to PoE. No hack n' slash really does. Before POE it was an incredible interpretation of the genre though. Thoroughly enjoyed it

haha, no, absolutely not. PoE is a hell of a game with the most complex skill tree ever.

Yeah it's really insane what they have done and over the years it has just gotten better. What a rarity

@thwr said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@DustinB3403 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@wirestyle22 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@DustinB3403 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@thwr said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

Bought my wife a copy of Titan Quest... bad idea Still a great game which supports LAN-only multiplayer - sadly, most older games don't play well with with virtual NICs from Hyper V and Docker Desktop.

Looks like an early rendition of WoW.

It's more like Diablo. Great game for its time

like Diablo and Diablo 2?

More like D2 or PoE. The interesting aspect is that you can combine two classes, like rogue + mage or rune + defender.

To be fair Titan Quest doesn't hold a candle to PoE. No hack n' slash really does. Before POE it was an incredible interpretation of the genre though. Thoroughly enjoyed it

@DustinB3403 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@wirestyle22 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@DustinB3403 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@thwr said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

Bought my wife a copy of Titan Quest... bad idea Still a great game which supports LAN-only multiplayer - sadly, most older games don't play well with with virtual NICs from Hyper V and Docker Desktop.

Looks like an early rendition of WoW.

It's more like Diablo. Great game for its time

like Diablo and Diablo 2?

yep. although Diablo 2 was 1000% better than 1 in my opinion

@RojoLoco He was great in The League too

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Watching Now:

Adrian Pimento

lol. i love Jason Mantzoukas

@DustinB3403 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@thwr said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

Bought my wife a copy of Titan Quest... bad idea Still a great game which supports LAN-only multiplayer - sadly, most older games don't play well with with virtual NICs from Hyper V and Docker Desktop.

Looks like an early rendition of WoW.

It's more like Diablo. Great game for its time

@black3dynamite sounds like quake?

@Dashrender said in Writing a Job Posting:

@wirestyle22 said in Writing a Job Posting:

@JaredBusch said in Writing a Job Posting:

@Dashrender said in Writing a Job Posting:

@JaredBusch said in Writing a Job Posting:

@Carnival-Boy said in Writing a Job Posting:

@JaredBusch said in Writing a Job Posting:

*We currently run on an hourly payment model. The time you bill to clients is what you are paid.
There is no vacation, but the hourly rate accounts for that. If you can't swing taking time off, it is your own fault.

Wow, seems like a tough gig.

From your perspective maybe. But I take off when I want. I work when I want. For 2019 I put in 40/week most weeks.

You might have missed where the rate accounts for the time.
I worked 1983.5 hours in 2019. That is 96.5 less hours than 40 hours a week. Basically, I took 12 days completely off.

In reality, I took off more than that, and worked more than 8 hours a day often.

Fuck your old school 8-5 bullshit concepts of a job.

If you have the self-discipline, this can be awesome - you could work 4 10's and have three day weekends, or better. The issue is when you want a continuous 7+ days off in a row - Does the company have other people to take over while you're gone?

What are the chances of a real 2 week (or even three week vacation)? Perhaps these are a reality to you - They have been for me.

Well at the moment, the possibility it near zero, but only because I need this person.

Financially, that onus is on me. When I was hired, I negotiated an hourly rate to account for ~80 hours of "vacation". If I don't have the financial ability to handle it, that is my own problem. I had the option to negotiate a typical "vacation" allotment and take a lower hourly rate. Math people. It is not that hard of a thing.

How frequently is your vacation interrupted by work? You're the highest level of support at your company so I have to imagine it's somewhat frequent. I'm curious if this is taken into account how much work/life balance you actually have

I'm not in his situation - but I can tell you I've taken a few 2 week vacations - and they have all been interrupted, But usually only for 20-30 mins, 1-3 times. My 3 week vacations (while traveling abroad) have had email interruptions that I get to when I get to in most cases.

My cruises are the only time I've ever actually been 100% off the grid.

In all case those - the callers know I'm on vacation, know my response times will be slow, if at all. generally they call to speed recovery of something. I can't say I've ever actually been bothered by a call, at least not enough to remember it. I'd rather have my company get back to working well, than not. Perhaps I've been lucky and didn't find myself strapped to a computer for 2 straight days because of an issue while on vacation.

I think it's up to the company to staff enough to cover their needs. We shouldn't be on call 24 hours a day 7 days a week. We are human and need to decompress. I've changed a lot over the years as to what I am willing to do for the company that I work for.

@JaredBusch said in Writing a Job Posting:

@Dashrender said in Writing a Job Posting:

@JaredBusch said in Writing a Job Posting:

@Carnival-Boy said in Writing a Job Posting:

@JaredBusch said in Writing a Job Posting:

*We currently run on an hourly payment model. The time you bill to clients is what you are paid.
There is no vacation, but the hourly rate accounts for that. If you can't swing taking time off, it is your own fault.

Wow, seems like a tough gig.

From your perspective maybe. But I take off when I want. I work when I want. For 2019 I put in 40/week most weeks.

You might have missed where the rate accounts for the time.
I worked 1983.5 hours in 2019. That is 96.5 less hours than 40 hours a week. Basically, I took 12 days completely off.

In reality, I took off more than that, and worked more than 8 hours a day often.

Fuck your old school 8-5 bullshit concepts of a job.

If you have the self-discipline, this can be awesome - you could work 4 10's and have three day weekends, or better. The issue is when you want a continuous 7+ days off in a row - Does the company have other people to take over while you're gone?

What are the chances of a real 2 week (or even three week vacation)? Perhaps these are a reality to you - They have been for me.

Well at the moment, the possibility it near zero, but only because I need this person.

Financially, that onus is on me. When I was hired, I negotiated an hourly rate to account for ~80 hours of "vacation". If I don't have the financial ability to handle it, that is my own problem. I had the option to negotiate a typical "vacation" allotment and take a lower hourly rate. Math people. It is not that hard of a thing.

How frequently is your vacation interrupted by work? You're the highest level of support at your company so I have to imagine it's somewhat frequent. I'm curious if this is taken into account how much work/life balance you actually have

good old mathfinder

@notverypunny I'm not 100% sure that this has been implemented. I'm currently running 17.02 but @scottalanmiller reported that it isn't implemented on 18 (BETA and RCs) either

@scottalanmiller said in Nextcloud Hub Launches To Compete Directly With Google Docs And Office 365:

@brandon220 said in Nextcloud Hub Launches To Compete Directly With Google Docs And Office 365:

I just upgraded my personal instance to 17.0.2 yesterday. Will the upgrade to 18 have all the new "Hub" features?

We've been on the 18 Beta and RCs for a while, and we aren't seeing it.

Interesting. Contrary to what it seems like on their website. You'd think a release date would at least be addressed in the article but I don't see it anywhere.

@RojoLoco incredible desert rock. love kyuss

Nextcloud Hub Launches To Compete Directly With Google Docs And Office 365

@IRJ said in Do you list your side business on your resume?:

@wirestyle22 said in Do you list your side business on your resume?:

I'd think it would be valuable just as a point of experience

I've always thrown it completely out when Ive done interviews, as have other hiring personnel in my experience.

No way to verify anything unless you start calling their clients.

It can also be seen as a negative by some because it shows your full attention wasn't on your primary position.

Yeah but it's the same for volunteer work. It's a talking point for the interview that you need to prepared for.

I'd think it would be valuable just as a point of experience