Recent content by Candiarie_sl

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    Home buying thread

    For FHA loans with <10% down (I think that's the number), you're stuck paying mortgage insurance forever. Conventional they drop it at 20%. Mortgage insurance is expensive too, if I remember right it's about 1% every year. In my case I got an estimate for a 280k purchase price with 20k down...
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    All things Brandon Sanderson

    You're right, apparently I can't read. It was on my recommended items list on amazon so I clicked on it and saw all the reviews...totally missed the release date.
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    All things Brandon Sanderson

    Rithmatist is out, but can't decide if I should pick up the digital or hard copy. Apparently there's a decent amount of illustrations in the book but I'm not sure how they would transfer to the kindle edition. Anyone pick it up and have an opinion either way?
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    All things Brandon Sanderson

    Maybe the plate, but the only other surgebinder (I think that's the name) we know well is the assassin, and he uses the shardblade pretty damned handily.
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    Steam Deals and Digital Sales

    Bioshock 1 is already unlocked I believe. I only played it on Xbox so I guess I'll replay it now and see how much better the PC version looks.
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    Comic Books

    Just read a bunch of American Vampire, got caught up on Saga, and started Bedlam. Saga is still amazing. Bedlam's art is solid, story seems good so far. Just a crazy Joker-esque villain. American Vampire is all over the place, but other people have recommended it so I assume it gets better. Next...
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    Investment Property

    Is the management expense what you think it will cost you to manage or are you paying a management company 7%? To do what? It's also interesting that your property tax/insurance are so small. I'm only familiar with residential and for some reason thought that commercial would be higher.
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    Motorcycle Thread

    This is good advice. That amount of mileage is actually pretty low for the bike and the year. It's ten years old and its got 28k...even my friends on sport bikes will do 3k/yr (if they somehow manage to keep a bike for ten years). I bought an R1100 awhile ago as my first bike and have had a good...
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    Board Games

    Then Arkham Horror is for you. Main difference from Risk is going to be switching from a competitive game to a cooperative one.
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    Comic Books

    So I've got my ipad on the way. Got Mylar set up to automatically download a bunch of comics for me. Is there a calibre-like software for managing my library and syncing it to the ipad? It looks like for Windows (which I use) that ComicRack is available but I don't know if that's what I should...
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    Smartphones

    I just moved to it from the Galaxy S3. I have no regrets. Battery life is better. Dude showed me a screenshot of his phone being on for two days. That's about the longest you can expect but if you're just using your phone occasionally then I could see it lasting that long. Using mine throughout...
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    House of Lies

    Did you notice at the end when Matt Damon sees Don Cheadle waiting after shooting the charity promo that he does the jack off motion? Because it was funny as fuck.
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    Smartphones

    Had to switch phones, ended up getting a DNA instead of just getting another S3 and am pretty happy with it. $50 instead of $70 and you get a bigger screen with more pixels. I do like the shape of the looks of the S3 more (hardware keys more useful and less dumb, gigantic notification light) but...
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    Smartphones

    Yeah I'm stuck being a new customer on VZW. According to my phone I've regularly gone over 2-3GB/mo, but at least in this house I'm usually not on wifi because the access point is so far from where I'm usually at and 4G tends to be better at that range. Pulse seems to be using up a lot and I can...
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    Relocating to San Antonio

    I just accepted it, should hear from the relo company soon. I'll suggest southtown/king william area to them and see what they come up with. Thanks everyone