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  1. OU Ariakas

    The Fast Food Thread

    McChicken in Fort Bend County, TX is $1.39 up from the dollar menu pre-COVID. We have seen our share of things go up, but the lower end items at McDonald's are not huge like other places.
  2. OU Ariakas

    2024-2025 College Football. Now there will be 12

    Good, if they are going to go down this path then they might as well lock them up in true contracts to at least limit the crazy shit going on out there.
  3. OU Ariakas

    Home buying thread

    I get at least 2 a day and up to 10. They are all using robo-dialers which I thought were supposed to be illegal to use now...but here we are! Edit: I am an outlier because we own more than one house and they just scrape County Assessor records for their contact lists. If you have one house I...
  4. OU Ariakas

    Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin

    Any build with the right weapon and just use summoning ashes on every boss. I did a whole new playthrough determined to use either INT, FAI, or DEX and ended up just going STR again. Second time through was more enjoyable.
  5. OU Ariakas

    Home Improvement

    Can you tell me about your setup for this? I have been using Tougher Than Tom Mosquito TNT for the last few years and it seems to work well. I forgot to load up going into the summer and it is now an annoying problem
  6. OU Ariakas

    Home buying thread

    Did you go to college? What age were you when you started making $55k? Did you have any student loans that had to be paid back? I only say that because an 18 year old out of high school can go start at Costco or Aldi starting at $18 an hour and, if they just show up and work hard, will be at...
  7. OU Ariakas

    Home buying thread

    I don't recommend co-ownership to anyone; our situation was different because we were both young professionals that grew up lower class/poor (not poverty thought) and both decided very early on that we would work to never have financial issues. Now, you are correct about location, but then...
  8. OU Ariakas

    Home buying thread

    I get where you are coming from, but where I think we disagree is someone stating that the "dream of homeownership is dead for Gen Z and on." It most assuredly is not, and I put the blame on their parents for shielding them from the realities of what life is like when you start out on your own...
  9. OU Ariakas

    Home buying thread

    I am biased because we now own 9 rental properties and I want to own 20 by the time we retire. I think that real estate is truly diversifying your portfolio outside of stocks/bonds. I posted some numbers about how great the deals were on the 4 we purchased in October '23 in the real estate...
  10. OU Ariakas

    Home buying thread

    No, you think it isn't terribly realistic because you are unmoored from what constitutes living a good life. You think that the most money, biggest house, and the most luxuries around you are the goal and then come here talking about how your generations women are not worth your money and about...
  11. OU Ariakas

    Home buying thread

    Home ownership seems to be a microcosm of some other cultural beliefs that have been cultivated over the last few generations. There is a mindset to home ownership that completely goes over the head of young people that look at the cost vs. renting and just say "it's close enough, why deal...
  12. OU Ariakas

    NBA 2023-24 Season Thread - The Lakers Lose, America Wins

    Agreed. They barely call traveling or moving screens, both of which occur 5+ times every single goddamn game.
  13. OU Ariakas

    NBA 2023-24 Season Thread - The Lakers Lose, America Wins

    It all started with Vlade Divac bringing his flopping and whining to the game. He was the start of the decline of hard-nosed defense and now refs call fouls on absolutely everything. I hate it.
  14. OU Ariakas

    What happened to..........(FoH Poster)?

    Because everyone knows what happened to him and no one cares that he is gone. They way he shit up every single fucking thread with a pulse and made it all about him was damn near a work of art.
  15. OU Ariakas

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    Fallout is a weird one because there are hardly any "main characters" to get wrong. I said in the Fallout TV show thread that I thought they absolutely nailed the feel of the universe. Having thought back on the show, however, there are hardly any memorable parts to the season and the story...
  16. OU Ariakas

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    Wow, Amazon really has perfected the formula of a.) buying a beloved video game/fantasy/sci-fi property, probably for an obscene amount of money b.) spending a metric fuck ton of money on production/development/filming c.) ruining it all by choosing directors/writers/producers/actors who flat...
  17. OU Ariakas

    Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin

    But why? There is so much crap out there today and DS3 is in the top 5% of games available. It would probably be in the top 1% of games if you played, and liked, the other souls games. Why skip it? I also noticed no one is mentioning Bloodborne. That one must be played since it was...
  18. OU Ariakas

    What happened to..........(FoH Poster)?

    @khorum and @Big Flex Both gone in 2020.
  19. OU Ariakas

    Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin

    The fucking dungeon that is the 3 level maze where you can only tell that you are in a new part is because the enemy layout changes/there are no bodies from previously killed enemies. That one sucked but felt really good to figure out and complete.
  20. OU Ariakas

    MTG thread

    I don't think I've ever physically hated a card until I saw this. My mind did not even recognize it as a card.
  21. OU Ariakas

    Adventures with Corndog: Corndog's Fish Store

    Not only that, but his Youtube has over 1 Million subscribers. He could stop selling fish today, just make fish content videos and he would crush it.
  22. OU Ariakas

    Fallout

    It is the most wholesome, family-friendly cartoon on TV right now and people recognize that.
  23. OU Ariakas

    Warhammer 40k Space Marine 2

    You know, I used to not think this was true; but I have come to believe it more and more over the last 5 years. Anyways, it fits here nicely as well.
  24. OU Ariakas

    Warhammer 40k Space Marine 2

    It's like you all forget that Video Games, Music, Movies, TV Shows, and Books all fall under the umbrella of ART. Artists were always the weird types and they gravitate towards outcasts/misfits because every one of them thinks THEY are an outcast/misfit. The very things that make them creative...
  25. OU Ariakas

    Warhammer 40k Space Marine 2

    They cannot leave us alone because their entire lives revolve around narcsisstic feelings of acceptance or vengeance. Either you agree with their worldview and are an ally or you disagree and are a threat that must be eliminated. There is nothing in between to these people.
  26. OU Ariakas

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    I don't think people would have hated the endings and motivations if they got books and books worth of nuance and inner dialogue to justify the decisions. The problem is that the show did so much wrong in the post books seasons that no one was going to accept the ending.
  27. OU Ariakas

    Fallout

    They are setting up Norm and Chet to be the reluctant heroes of Vault 33. Norm hides during the first fight, is humiliated by it, and then finds ways to be courageous for the rest of the season. Chet is middle of the road, but you can see his hesitation to action even in his last scene when...
  28. OU Ariakas

    Fallout

    I just finished the first season and was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed it. Were there some dumb fucking choices in some of the episodes with regards to plot, situations, and characters? Sure. But goddamn if it didn't feel like the Fallout world. Personally, I liked the mix of...
  29. OU Ariakas

    The Fast Food Thread

    I can get any specialty patty burger at Texas Roadhouse with a side for like $10.99; I don't understand how fast food restaurants are not seeing a huge decrease in business.
  30. OU Ariakas

    Baby Reindeer

    You guys can skip this one. The amount of time this show spend with the camera close up on the characters is off-putting; and not in a scary movie way. Minor spoiler that they don't tell you about until the second episode is that the main character likes trannys and is trying to hide it.
  31. OU Ariakas

    Hades (Supergiant Games)

    The game is from a developer in San Fran, this shit? I'm shocked that the first game didn't have more of it, all things considered. Truthfully, I'm going to play this because the first one was fucking baller. It was an amazing game with amazing mechanics and amazing replay value. This...
  32. OU Ariakas

    Investing General Discussion

    They either don't understand that the reward for sticking with investments is a lower tax rate or they understand it completely and are just trying to get more money from the middle/upper class and don't get that it will absolutely tank long term gains when you are almost 100% certain to pay...
  33. OU Ariakas

    Warhammer 40k

    GW is a company so what this really comes down to is that they either did it because they think it will sell more models or they did it because they thought it was the right thing to do, sales be damned. Regardless, I don't think GW is a big enough company that they can do the latter without at...
  34. OU Ariakas

    Deadpool & Wolverine

    This just goes to show that all those fucking creatives that said the costumes from the comic books wouldn't translate to the big screen can go fuck themselves. That is the best Wolverine costume and you fucking know Deadpool is going to make a joke about it. Also, looks great.
  35. OU Ariakas

    Cancun

    Try the Riviera Cancun resorts as well. They are all the large ones between Cancun and Playa.
  36. OU Ariakas

    Transformers One (2024)

    More of this generation's endless talking. They cannot let a single second of any scene be silent and carried by either the emotional weight of the last line or any sort of physical acting/body language. Just talk talk talk joke on top of joke sarcasm.
  37. OU Ariakas

    BB.com Misc Refugee Thread

    Ah, ok. I was missing some Y's and Z's. What a fucking weird username.
  38. OU Ariakas

    BB.com Misc Refugee Thread

    Yeah, they may be, but the guy on misc specifically typed out Zyxxzz; isn't that exactly how one of our skeletons spelled it before he threatened to doxx someone?
  39. OU Ariakas

    BB.com Misc Refugee Thread

    I see some of them mentioning Zyxxzz on their forum... is that our old friend who devolved into a gibbering maniac?