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  1. TJT

    Ancient Civilizations

    No doubt there are tons of dumbass grifters in on this. Guaranteed. But there are also many times where mainstream academia blatantly ignored contradictory evidence when it didn't fit the mold. See Clovis and Glaciation as just very basic examples. Look again at the ancient Celtic Sites in...
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    Ancient Civilizations

    You are referring exclusively to American Protestant Christian Fundamentalists. This is the only group that take the scripture of as exact literal truth and thus force themselves to bend reality to make it also forensically true. This is a fringe group of Christians in the best of cases.
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    Ancient Civilizations

    Well you need to look at the major part of it logically. Logically, humans will build things out of things that humans can move around. Leading to the obvious rational conclusions of uniform bricks as seen throughout the known world. Sumerians figured that one out and their tar sealed sun dried...
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    DOOM: The Dark Ages

    This one seems to be going full on absolute batshit. Which I appreciate.
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    DOOM: The Dark Ages

    Doom 2016 was a masterpiece. Eternal was good and this one will also be metal as fuck. But 2016 is by far the best.
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    S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2

    I recommend giving the first one another go. It has a real rough beginning but opens up a lot as you get some more game knowledge. Doesn't really hold your hand about anything either and has a good amount of complexity. At least for its time.
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    S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2

    Can I get a hell yeah? I really loved the first Stalker. Woman says they actually are speaking authentic Ukrainian in this one (@Araysar). This was really a pioneer in terms of survival horror FPS game.
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    Dragon Age: Why We Can't Have Nice Things

    The Darkspawn were quite uninteresting in Origins. As they are more like a force of nature and you thus didn't really have much of a compelling antagonist like Sarevok or Irenicus. They just destroy shit and come up from the underdark every generation or so when they wake up one of the old...
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    Dragon Age: Why We Can't Have Nice Things

    Dragon Age II shit up this series so much that I never even bothered with Inquisition. Despite it being at least okay. One thing I did really love about the original Dragon Age was that it toyed with the idea of "hidden classes" so to speak. Where you only got the Blood Mage class if you went...
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    Home buying thread

    Yeah, my old house was a standard 3/2 in a very normal neighborhood on the outskirts of Austin. You could buy that for $180 or less in 2015. That same house costs you $400+ now and the jobs out there are mostly the same. How do you afford that? That said, I am looking at buying a summer house...
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    https://garlicsaltandlime.com/baja-sauce/ Orly?
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    https://www.alyonascooking.com/taco-bell-grilled-stuffed-burrito-copycat/ I feel the need to replicate my youth.
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Agile is prone to breaking down much faster than waterfall is due to the above. Knowing all the requirements before you start coding? That's the kind of thing I jack off thinking about.
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    Investing General Discussion

    Doesn't this mean that institutional investors went right back to shorting GME after the fiasco a few years ago?
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    Death and... Taxes.

    God damn ~$2k a month in property taxes for a house that is completely within my price range or was before their bullshit evaluation can straight suck a dick.
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    Investing General Discussion

    On what grounds could they possibly ban him? Not that it matters in clown world. This guy made too much money!
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    Investing General Discussion

    That dude had no way of knowing how viral his shitposting would go.
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    Investing General Discussion

    I read something that said Roaring Kitty got access to hedge fund money to continue fucking around with stuff. Which would explain why he has additional capital? Or did he grow all of it himself after the first time?
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    Investing General Discussion

    Self made billionaire by fucking around with a meme stock for a few years. Try to grasp that.
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    Ancient Civilizations

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea_deluge_hypothesis The Sumerian Flood Myth is one of the more interesting ones. As the Persian Gulf was ~200 feet lower than it is today in the distant past. That coupled with the Sumerian language itself that survived through later civilizations similar...
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    Ancient Civilizations

    The Wyoming Falling Rock. Seems to be included in the way more fringe theories, but more rarely. Exists in very remote Wyoming so doesn't have much through traffic.
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    Monster Hunter Wilds

    Yeah I don't have a PS5 and I don't think I will pick one up just for this. So will be sitting tight for awhile.
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    General Gaming News and Discussion

    10 hours long. What is wrong with people?
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    Home Improvement

    We have one of these from like 2015. They are amazing and work really well. Fixed all of the stuff my dumbass kid dropped and spilled on my furniture.
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    I saw goldies method. I tried this time to let it rest covered in beef tallow. The last few times I just used unsalted butter. So far I do not notice a difference between doing one or the other. So I will just keep using butter for that part. But it does keep the brisket way more moist. When...
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    The "Texas Crutch" creates a sauna for the brisket to speed up the cooking process. After the initial ~7 hours of smoking you put on the paper (or foil). Foil blocks out all smoke and also keeps the brisket extremely humid, which eventually melts off a lot of the bark texture. Paper gives it a...
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    I've gotten the art of brisket down to a clear process. The final piece I need to figure out is a bark I love the flavor of. This bark came out really well but I didn't like the taste. Next will be to develop my own BBQ sauce. 9.5 lbs and took ~12 hours or so. I used to avoid pink butcher paper...
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    Investing General Discussion

    I bought a decent amount of NVDA. I may buy more before the split here.
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    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    I love trolls but when you play a troll shaman vs an ogre shaman it was just so obvious. Ogres can sit there getting hit and cast spells with no problem whatsoever. This is just a massive advantage. I doubt this game will replicate that.
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    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    Ogre being able to be a rogue is good shit. Not just because lol Ogres sneaking around, but the archtype of underhanded brutish thug is cool in its own way. Rather than Ogres just being big warriors rocking full plate.
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    Web Serials

    The author of Pith sold trilogy rights for 7 figures to traditional publishing. He's also a troon now but I hope we get the third book and a conclusion soon because it's really good.
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    Ancient Civilizations

    In my opinion the better evidence that some civilization more advanced than we realize existed is simply knowledge that does exist in the historical record. But the origin of said knowledge is unknown and it was highly unlikely scholars of the period had any way of knowing. Like gobekli tepi...
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    The Fast Food Thread

    This. Texas or Southwest BBQ (Texas/Oklahoma mostly) is traditionally brisket. The sides that you can get with this are green beans, pinto beans, coleslaw, mac and cheese, baked potatoes. Along with some classic desserts like cobbler. That is Texas BBQ. It never comes with fries if you're...
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    The Fast Food Thread

    I hate poutine because you make fries soggy as shit. Which defeats the purpose. They are only tolerable when the fries are super crispy and you eat it immediately. When you do a poutine type thing on mashed potatoes its perfect though.
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    Car ?'s

    So on my Tundra. After getting rear ended by another truck at the gas station the cosmetic damage to my truck costs ~$6000 at the body shop to repair. The truck that rear ended me was going at most 10MPH. Clown world indeed.
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    Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin

    Ishina fight in Sekiro is the best boss fight they have ever done. I will die on this hill.
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    https://twitter.com/WatcherGuru/status/1793750935912718572 What are "All Spot" Ethereum? https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-sec-approves-exchange-applications-list-spot-ether-etfs-2024-05-23/
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    Deadlock (New game from Steam - unannounced)

    Hard pass. I don't need another hero shooter, or any hero shooter for that matter.
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    Car ?'s

    Anything of any distance we'd be using my Tundra.
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    Car ?'s

    My woman has decided she wants a god damn Rivian R2 and not the Rav4 I had been pushing on her. God help me.