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  1. Captain Suave

    Marathon (Bungie)

    Ok, that's bad.
  2. Captain Suave

    Marathon (Bungie)

    Artistic styles aren't copyrightable anyway. Producing something that looks like someone else's work is legal imitation as long as you aren't reproducing a specific piece. People forget that information is not inherently owned and copyright is just supposed to be a temporary grant from the...
  3. Captain Suave

    Home buying thread

    Something is wonky with that story. The real estate tax in FL is 0.74% for primary residences. $4.4M * 0.74% is ~$32k. A $90k+ bill would be 2%+ of the property value. FL property taxes are ~20% of municipal/county revenues and up to 60% of school funding. If they want to cut that source...
  4. Captain Suave

    Pets

    My lab/pit mix had a big mast cell tumor when she was 7. Surgery was ~$1100 and they gave her 2 years life expectancy. That was six years ago and she's doing fine.
  5. Captain Suave

    Routers & Other Networking Stuff

    And almost no host other than speed tests will even serve you data at that rate. Maybe if you're running a 20+ big torrents in parallel or backing up some kind of massive uncompressed media files. Netflix 4k streams are only ~25 Mbps. Practically speaking you're going to saturate the processing...
  6. Captain Suave

    Routers & Other Networking Stuff

    I get 985 Mbps up and down off my gigabit fiber (Frontier). Pretty damn close. From brief research it looks like your router's WAN port caps out at 1 Gbps. Hardly any consumer or even pro-sumer grade hardware offers more than that. I wouldn't pay for the extra.
  7. Captain Suave

    MMA Thread

    The only two coaches I would be less interested in hearing speak would be both Diaz brothers. They're incoherent and Jones is insufferable.
  8. Captain Suave

    3d Printing and the Future of Piracy

    I've had one for a while. Made a few bits and bobs. I'm hundreds of dollars in the hole compared to buying import industrial injection moulded parts. It's fun, though, and having the tools around enticed my then-10 year old son to learn CAD on his own. Totally worth it.
  9. Captain Suave

    Nintendo Switch (previously NX)

    It's an explicit strategy... ...for this reason. As has come up here before, Nintendo's operating profits are on the order of the combined total of both the Playstation and XBox divisions. Clearly their market is not evaluating the product in the same way you are.
  10. Captain Suave

    What are you playing?

    Finally getting around to Ori and the Will of the Wisps. Holy shit this game is GORGEOUS in HDR.
  11. Captain Suave

    Home Improvement

    Anyone have pool nets they really like? I bought a cheapie from Walmart and it lasted one season before the net was full of holes. I'd be open to getting two - one coarse for leaves and larger debris and a fine mesh for crumbly organics that my trees like to dump in.
  12. Captain Suave

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    The only thing I wouldn't hate is a 2D-HD glam-up that keeps the original pixel aesthetics, and maybe some very minor QOL. No 3d, and for the love of god don't fuck with the music.
  13. Captain Suave

    Woodworking

    Follow-up on this post from last year. It took me an embarrassingly long time to get around to modifying my plane to accommodate this grip (it requires drilling a single stopped hole). Having done so now, it works brilliantly. It's miles more comfortable than trying to grab the edge of the frame...
  14. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    Not calling you out, but I was trying to parse that chart and it didn't help me arrive at the highlighted conclusion at all. Turns out the axis labels are off by a factor of 1000. (What's three orders of magnitude between friends? Demerits for sloppy presentation.) For the curious here's the...
  15. Captain Suave

    Health Problems

    Endurance exercise can raise this significantly. Colonoscopies suck but let me tell you they're better than cancer. My mom died at 53 and that is not an experience I am going to allow myself or anyone around me to go through on my account.
  16. Captain Suave

    Wills and Estate Planning....

    You could always make your wife the executor. It doesn't have to be a neutral third party. My wife and I have an A-B trust set up where we are each other's executors.
  17. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    I have a Tesla. They give me free trials of FSD for several months a year and I still don't use it because it doesn't work well enough. I'm not saying it won't ever work; the tech is obviously possible and inevitable on a medium timeline, but it's not there now. I'd LOVE a Robotaxi that really...
  18. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    15% FSD purchase rate at $8k / $99/mo seems... optimistic.
  19. Captain Suave

    Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered

    They learned that modders will fix it so they can sell copies without putting in the effort.
  20. Captain Suave

    Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered

    IMO the relative isolation is more immersive. I couldn't possibly give a shit about the 10,000 other players lagging me with MTX armor while we all ignore each other doing the same NPC interactions in parallel.
  21. Captain Suave

    Last Epoch

    Controller feels great.
  22. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    It's great for highway cruising. I had it drive 200 miles through traffic ranging from speed limit to stop and go, clear to heavy rain. It feels really janky for anything more exotic, though. Changes lanes aggressively and unnecessarily, and on surface streets I feel like I need to intervene...
  23. Captain Suave

    Elderly Parents and Looking Out for Them

    With no will you'll have to go to probate, which is a PITA. The medical creditors will certainly come to collect.
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    Investing General Discussion

    Based on my experience with "FSD" trials in my own Tesla and having been in a Waymo, I'd put my money on Waymo. Tesla's tech is just not a good experience outside of single-lane highway usage.
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    Last Epoch

    Thanks. Guess I should pay more attention.
  26. Captain Suave

    Last Epoch

    They need to provide alternatives for the quests that give passive points and idol slots, then. Or did I miss that? I agree. I think it's our fault as gamers because we complain that there isn't an infinite amount of content to be consumed whenever we want it. You can't have both that and a...
  27. Captain Suave

    Last Epoch

    My main complaint with the campaign is that I spend 3/4 of my time looking at the minimap beelining to the objective markers. I just finished the final boss at lvl ~55 and I don't think I stopped running the entire time.
  28. Captain Suave

    Last Epoch

    Currently playing with a controller. New 1.2 targeting feels really good. Less carpal tunnel irritation for me.
  29. Captain Suave

    Elderly Parents and Looking Out for Them

    Be careful with this. There are clawbacks against the recipient's estate that extend back five years before delivery of first service and can easily wipe out the value of a home, etc. There are irrevocable trusts that can protect assets.
  30. Captain Suave

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    I assumed this was bullshit, but it seems not. TIL. https://realchernobyl.com/en/map-of-pollution
  31. Captain Suave

    Health Problems

    Dude. Fucking doctor ASAP. Systemic rash is a possible sign of large-scale death of your red blood cells. Tissue necrosis is no fun. My dad was bitten as a kid, was on IV antibiotics for days and needed surgery, has a chunk out of his thigh that looks like someone took an melon scoop to it.
  32. Captain Suave

    Health Problems

    Dosimetrist? My wife spent 5 years as a medical physicist. I'll third that radiation oncology is a significantly siloed practice, even from other specialist doctors working on the same tumors on the same patient. There's also a lot of art and differing risk tolerances in treatment design, which...
  33. Captain Suave

    RuneScape: Dragonwilds

    Initial impressions seem good. I'll probably get this over the summer and play with my kids.
  34. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    $550B according to this estimate. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/youtube-now-worth-much-550-141144886.html
  35. Captain Suave

    Home Improvement

    How much experience do you have doing this work? When I was fresh in the work force (not in the trades) I expected projects to take as long as I thought they should take. About 10 years in, I started doubling my estimates by default. Now to deliver a fully refined project I'm at 4x my gut...
  36. Captain Suave

    YouTube's War on Ad Blockers

    I posted a bike for sale here and immediately got hit with a dozen attempts at phone scams. Never was able to find an actual customer.
  37. Captain Suave

    YouTube's War on Ad Blockers

    Facebook is fucking cancer. They're trying as hard as they can to make it unusable. The other day 25 of the first 30 items in my feed were ads or "suggested" meme farms. If it weren't my only contact to family living abroad I'd delete my account entirely.
  38. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    The H20 chips were already specifically downgraded for the Chinese market to reduce AI performance. H100+ were the subject of the real export controls. The new restrictions also impact more markets than just China.
  39. Captain Suave

    The Astronomy Thread

    It absolutely is not 4. Jesus fucking christ. PEDMAS. There is no P or E. 25 * 0 first, then add the rest.