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    Puzzles and Dragons

    My Zeus is so far just a baby =/
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    Puzzles and Dragons

    How do you stall with a Satan team? The upcoming patch is pretty awesome. So much is being buffed and added.
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    Home buying thread

    I've had 2 realtors as my buying agents and 1 realtor as my selling agent. I also dealt with the 3 realtors on the other side of each transaction. Only 3 of those realtors seemed professionally competent, and only one of those three seemed to care a little bit about what happened to my wife and...
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    Buying a car?

    Their insane resale value sort of offsets the initial price. I love them too. But I'd really like the Tacomas to offer a 4 cylinder 4x4 that gets 30MPG. I don't care about towing. I just want to be able to move landscaping materials and the occasional appliance without having to spend $200+ a...
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    Auto refinancing.

    If the rate is low, I don't think the term really matters. In fact, it helps keep more cash on hand. Interest rates and terms on auto loans are a hell of a lot better than the rates and terms for student loans.
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    Sony to close 20 of 31 US stores and sell off PC & Vaio division

    Electronics stores definitely suck. They're useful for TVs I guess. I think this is about Sony concluding that PCs and laptops (and electronics stores) are dying (dead). It doesn't help that Sony is usually on the higher end of price, either. Once Haswell-equipped tablets and large...
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    Puzzles and Dragons

    Can anyone put up a high-level, bind-immune Green Odin? Never mind, a couple just popped up.
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    Puzzles and Dragons

    That generally matches my experience with Descends. I'd put an asterisk on Izanami and Zeus for how trivial they are with an AmaO/Godin team.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Fewer gimmicks is good. I would light a decent light gun and modern Duck Hunt and Hogan's Alley type games, though. I agree about the quality of Nintendo hardware and software, too. Nintendo's bug-free releases are the exception anymore. I don't mind that Nintendo has fewer games to offer...
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    Puzzles and Dragons

    I've got a Shiva, the Destroyer level 94 max awoken up, +7hp, +12atk, +1rcv. As soon as dark shiva goes live, I have the mats to do the ultimate evo and fourth awakening slot. ID: 367,647,281 Also looking for advice for what to do with 2 angelits. Should I go B/L Isis, R/L Horus, or D/L Yomi...
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    Buying a car?

    I've heard good things about the 6s. Mazda has some nice offerings. I read there is an RX9 in store for 2016 or so, too.
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    Buying a car?

    For anyone looking for a new car in the $18 to $25K range, the new Mazda 3s are pretty nifty. They're better than Lexus CT200Hs in just about every way and cost $10K less. Can't wait to see a Speed3 version.
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    Puzzles and Dragons

    Odin's leader skill reduces damage taken by 80% when hp is full. So if you have Ama on one side and Odin on the other, Odin soaks up nearly all of the damage of the first incoming hit, and Ama retores 6k+hp each turn, assuming you can match just one set of orbs. So you're basically always at...
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    Puzzles and Dragons

    Had some good luck yesterday and this morning. Got both of the Izanamis using this team: AmaO, Gigas, Kirin, Luci, Hera, and GrOdin. Very easy with that team as long as you burn Kagutsuchi at 50% and burn Izanami at 25%. Also got my first highlander. Best streak of luck with PAD in a while.
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    Home buying thread

    $325,000 financed at 3.65 (basically the terms on my house) creates a mortgage of $1,486 (not including taxes or PMI), and a 30-year repayment of $535,000. @ 4.65 makes for a mortgage of $1,675 and a 30 year repayment of $603,000. @5.65 the mortgage is $1,876 and 30 year repayment is...
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    Home buying thread

    I'd add that the program sets the owners up for failure, too. There is a lot more to a house than the mortgage payment. Are the owners given breaks on utilities, upkeep, and taxes, too?
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    Puzzles and Dragons

    I would start keeping track of the dates and times that you get successful skillups. So much of the game seems linked to the letter/time zone designation on the account. The thing is, Gungho can tamper with that at any time, and there could be many factors, like skillup chance goes down as...
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    Puzzles and Dragons

    Invite sent. My Kirin is evo'd and level 43 at the moment. If I'm not practicing with her or trying to level her subs, I'm usually running Lucipher or Hermes. If I can get some luck with dubtopalitz, I'll get a Light Dominion Raphael up. Here's the complete list:PADherder: coldherder -...
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    Puzzles and Dragons

    Other than Lucifer: I really like blue/light hermes -- he allows for some well-rounded blue and yellow teams: Hermes, Amaterasu, Kirin, Hera-Is, etc..can even stack Lucifer in there. Amaterasu makes the game easy at first, and eventually she can be switched to a nice sub. Kirin is...
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    Home buying thread

    I think it's a neat idea, especially for dealing with small landlords, but I don't think it's common. If there are other applicants who won't put the landlord through the trouble, why bother with you? It's probably something that legislation should require, maybe as part of licensing to...
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    Puzzles and Dragons

    Bleh take 2 of mine. I made three rolls during godfest and got two orochis. Now at three total.
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    Home buying thread

    How do you justify PMI for the life of the loan?
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    Home buying thread

    I declare that there is no such thing as good debt anymore. Educational loans and mortgages (FHA now, anyway) are complete bullshit.
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    Puzzles and Dragons

    putting up busty max Ama O, too: 367,647, 281 cleared out some friend slots for anyone who wants to farm
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    Buying a car?

    I think your reasoning is ok but $1,800 in repairs could be 5 to 9 months of car payments. Insurance varies from person to person, but I wouldn't automatically assume the new car premium increase will be huge. Call up the insurer and ask. Some new cars sip so little gas that low-cost refueling...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    A lot of people are missing out. It's an all-time great. I'm personally pleased when I make a good purchasing decision for something that is important, and often expensive, to me, like a house, truck, or lawn equipment. I don't feel the same about video games and sytems, which I see as...
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    Puzzles and Dragons

    I guess I should be thankful. You know, I have about 20 wicked ladies banked and max leveled. I think that's like 500 stamina in dark keepers to evolve...
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    Wii U

    I don't think the Wii U is emulating either, but maybe the contrast of the 1080p text and the lower-res Wii graphics is making the Wii graphics look fuzzy and worse than it really is?
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    Puzzles and Dragons

    After spending the last two weeks maxing out the relatively insignificant Pierdrawn Joker, the game isn't feeling fun right now. It was a chore to log in every day, and it's demoralizing to see bad luck on random drops followed by bad luck on random skillups allthewhile suspecting that the whole...
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    Puzzles and Dragons

    any chance you have multiple lilliths to use instead?
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    Wii U

    I took advantage of Black Friday sales and put together this collection in the last couple weeks: Wii U: Super Mario 3D World Zelda Wind Waker HD Rayman Legends ZombiU Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate Just Dance 2014 Wii: Xenoblade Chronicles Muramasa: The Demon Blade Okami Metroid...
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    Puzzles and Dragons

    Thanks. I can definitely get the dark stuff leveled up a bit over the next two days. Astaroth might take a bit longer to develop.
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    Wii U

    You need to have a wii remote to do the backwards-compatible wii virutal console stuff, and the nunchuck is also needed for some wii games (like xenoblade chronicles). The Pro Controller is really comfortable and good quality, and it can last something like 80 hours on a charge, but it's $50.
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    Puzzles and Dragons

    I maxed-out Amataersu O last night, + 62 (37 rec) and fully awoken, too. Maybe not worth the trouble, but it certainly took long enough. I will do her Ultimate Evo as soon as it's available for the US. I'm sort of hoping Shiva gets a red/gold ultimate I think that might be useful with Ama O...
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    Wii U

    Anyone have a line on a reasonably priced copy of Radiant Dawn for Wii?
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    Puzzles and Dragons

    I think the 2x drop rate actually drives down the chance that you will get the persephone monster. It would drive the chance of getting DJ down too but the stage five solo spawn drop increase offsets it.
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    Wii U

    For anyone looking, used Xenoblade Chronicles is on sale at Gamestop for $39.99. Metroid Trilogy, too. Kinda sucks to have to pay that for used, but it's about as good a price you can find.
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    Home buying thread

    There's definitely a lot of that, but, it's not hard or expensive to remove/modify walls, and the other updates are going to happen anyway if the place is for the long-term.
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    Home buying thread

    Protip: find a senior citizen seller who is moving on to a retirement home. Often times they are house-proud and not as concerned about sale price because they own the home outright. I'm not saying exploit them, but they make for a much easier transaction.
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    Home buying thread

    Need to check. 180ish? Have to maintain it for minimum of 2 years from purchase.