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  1. Tuco

    World of Warcraft: Season of Discovery

    After leveling so many times in WoW I'd honestly be relieved if the optimal path was just grinding shit your level. I get a headache just thinking about the optimal quest pickup and routes to follow to maximize leveling speed. I'd rather just get a buzz and murder mobs.
  2. Tuco

    World of Warcraft: Season of Discovery

    Sometimes I think back to all the drama I've seen over the years of MMO nerds fighting over loot and how pointless it all really is. Guy will get dozens of items of a year and the one item they get fucked on causes them to lose their mind. I smile, thinking we've all got a bit wiser. Then I...
  3. Tuco

    World of Warcraft: Season of Discovery

    Phase 3 hy next week, Dragonflight by March.
  4. Tuco

    Student Loans and the SAVE plan

    Hm, not really. As a computer science major I did my first two years at a community college and worked as a computer lab bitch. I went from that to an degree-relevant internship at an automotive engineering place and did that for the rest of my college. I didn't bother working at my school.
  5. Tuco

    Student Loans and the SAVE plan

    I read this article, got confused and lost interest. https://profession.mla.org/the-humanities-as-service-departments-facing-the-budget-logic/ I'm going to concede the point via apathy and agree with you that if a dept or degree is highly valued but competing with teachers of that subject is...
  6. Tuco

    Student Loans and the SAVE plan

    Thanks. Mathematicians on suicide watch. Why are visual and performing arts so expensive? I'm guessing that's where a dance degree would be grouped in. I'm picking on dance majors because those degrees are the worst according to 21 most useless degrees and what to study instead -...
  7. Tuco

    Student Loans and the SAVE plan

    I'd prefer that you substantiate "all those shitty degrees heavily subsidize the extremely expensive STEM programs" before I got into how you'd control this data to draw enough conclusions to make general recommendations on on-campus vs off-campus living. I definitely agree that giving students...
  8. Tuco

    Student Loans and the SAVE plan

    Me and my sister did the same community college strat, although to finish off our high school. Her kids are doing the same thing.
  9. Tuco

    Student Loans and the SAVE plan

    I've never considered that. How do you substantiate that?
  10. Tuco

    Student Loans and the SAVE plan

    How much did the instructor (Who I'm guessing was acting as an student advisor/counselor or something?) try to dissuade on-campus living, out of state tuition and extra-curriculars that often inflate student loan debt (either directly or indirectly by encouraging students to take on a maximum...
  11. Tuco

    Student Loans and the SAVE plan

    Historically there's a whole other thing you have to go through to drop student loans via bankruptcy, called adversary proceeding. https://studentaid.gov/manage-loans/forgiveness-cancellation/bankruptcy I've never looked into this seriously, only to argue on the internet. I only accrued 14k of...
  12. Tuco

    Student Loans and the SAVE plan

    btw, a couple points of bias I should disclose: As a STEM graduate I think shit-tier degrees and the entire institution around ineffective training are parasites on universities and the more responsibility that's brought to universities the more motivated they will be to expunge that plague. I...
  13. Tuco

    Student Loans and the SAVE plan

    I doubt you and I disagree from a high level about how much responsibility an adult should have to caveat emptor for all products they buy, but I think there are some distinct points around student loans that are important differentiators: Minors often get student loans Can a 17-Year-Old Get a...
  14. Tuco

    Student Loans and the SAVE plan

    Is there any part of this that tries to make the groups that profit from debt partially culpable to forgiven debt? For example, if some 17 year old kid gets signed up to $80,000 debt with a 4 year plan at a University, graduates with a 2.8 GPA in dance, then goes through the SAVE plan, does...
  15. Tuco

    Everquest - Live Servers

    I've had Bristlebane as my home since 2000 or whatever, so I'm kind of stuck there. If there was a vote to make it have FV(everything tradeable) or Oakwynd (everything heirloom) rules I'd be very tempted to go along with a change. But the advantages to notrade gear are really just the obvious...
  16. Tuco

    World of Warcraft: Season of Discovery

    But the key broadcasting is through IS Boxer? I've been seeing people talk about using AHK or hardware KVM to get around the rule against key broadcasting that Blizzard put out in 2020 or something. This is all just me reading about it though, I last played in 2018 apparently, and even then I...
  17. Tuco

    World of Warcraft: Season of Discovery

    But seriously, is this on IS Boxer and how much time in the last couple years did you play like this?
  18. Tuco

    World of Warcraft: Season of Discovery

    I hear it's like you say, one key press for one ability and key rebroadcasting is not allowed. But it's the same noise you get every time large numbers of cheaters get banned. People write up sob stories about how they dindu nothing just to create smoke over the whole situation. If I boxed...
  19. Tuco

    World of Warcraft: Season of Discovery

    It's been a looong time since I leveled, and that was long before WoW: Classic. On SoD how many hours after release did people start hitting 25?
  20. Tuco

    World of Warcraft: Season of Discovery

    Did you ever get banned from it? I've been reading a bit and yeah, a lot of the community is outright hostile to boxers. I dunno if that's from getting ganked by 5boxing losers in pvp (which is a super lame strat) or what. Coming from EQ where a huge portion of the population boxes it's super...
  21. Tuco

    Obscure / Rare Technology you used.

    I have a GTX1080 Ti that I use to play EverQuest on. Pretty ancient stuff.
  22. Tuco

    Everquest - Live Servers

    Leveling in EQ on late-game TLPs or live just isn't fun enough to support a system like FF14's job system where you are encouraged to level multiple characters. On a live or late-game TLP, leveling through the first 50% of the game is boring but fast, leveling from 50% to 90% with powerleveling...
  23. Tuco

    World of Warcraft: Season of Discovery

    That's the other things i was wondering. I've leveled maybe 20 characters to level 25 over the years, it still only takes an evening if there's no spawn contention, right? Is there an "endgame" grind for these runes? Can you sweat out some exploit kills of higher level content?
  24. Tuco

    World of Warcraft: Season of Discovery

    lmao my old ass Diablo 3 physical authenticator is still ticking
  25. Tuco

    World of Warcraft: Season of Discovery

    I'm tempted to jump in, anyone able to answer the above questions???
  26. Tuco

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    That's a good balance of having a legitimate hard mode without all the metabuild OP bullshit while also letting players in easier modes have fun breaking the game.
  27. Tuco

    Factorio

    I wouldn't say there are any must have mods. The game itself is really polished and most things mods bring either bring extra content or alleviate burdens the game developers want you to face. If you're looking for the base game + some extra stuff, Krastorio 2 is good Krastorio 2 If you want...
  28. Tuco

    Everquest - Live Servers

    https://forums.daybreakgames.com/eq/index.php?threads/alternate-personas-faq.294487/#post-4265649
  29. Tuco

    Student Loans and the SAVE plan

    I'm safe, my savings are in gold and dogecoin.
  30. Tuco

    Student Loans and the SAVE plan

    Because I paid off my student loans I can righteously state that anyone who takes advantage of this is stealing from me personally. Also I hope this makes it so that my kids aren't burdened with debt and my savings aren't annihilated with overpriced tuition costs.
  31. Tuco

    World of Warcraft: Season of Discovery

    Questions: If someone has played so much damn WoW in their lives that the idea of rolling a new character and doing fucking Mulgore or Coldridge again makes them recoil, how fun would SoD be? As in, how different is it really? Last time I played all the content outside of instances was...
  32. Tuco

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Is an egg with dark brown crispy egg lace burnt ass white something that people like? Are the instructions for that egg, "bring high heat oil to smoking point then sear the bottom"?
  33. Tuco

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1086940/view/3897365207669541523 Looks like there's no option for legendary actions for bosses, which seems like an oversight.
  34. Tuco

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    good. I wonder how they're going to strike a balance between really interesting itemization and being able to stack a bunch of horseshit onto spells like Eldritch Blast.
  35. Tuco

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    more excited for custom mode than honour mode. Hardcore rules don't really interest me as much as making the game so ballcrushingly hard that you have to try difficult encounters several times before you git gud enough to defeat them...
  36. Tuco

    Investing General Discussion

    Stupid question: Is it possible or common to just track what investment groups like Berkshire do and accept that you'll be chasing them and often getting worse prices for trades?
  37. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    I'd like to say that a well-publicized website that outs current botters would be compelling, but yeah, you're right, aint nothin gon' happen.
  38. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    I'm not really talking about run of the mill cheaters, just the 24/7 bot groups that have attained a protected class status that Pharone is talking about.
  39. Tuco

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    My 1080ti when i installed Starfield a few months ago