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  1. OU Ariakas

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    You should look at it this way: That company wants to hire you as a consultant for your expertise. Part of that expertise is that you now know your current employer is a better long term solution than the previous one. Even if they asked you if you were ethically compromised since you work at...
  2. OU Ariakas

    Path of Exile

    Proof that GGG can admit and fix mistakes. Great manifesto, maybe their best one.
  3. OU Ariakas

    Path of Exile

    Because they don't think about melee at all; they see the numbers that ranged/casters put up and balance around that. The end. Once in awhile someone says "what about melee?" Then they all look around the table quietly for a second before bursting into laughter.
  4. OU Ariakas

    Path of Exile

    Yeah, no. This guy sums it up nicely.
  5. OU Ariakas

    Path of Exile

    As funny as that is, people have been begging them to actually REDUCE the sheer amount of content bloat for a while now. The problem is their dumb ass cycle of adding league content into the base game, then gutting it for being too powerful, then 'making an adjustment (nerf)' to other popular...
  6. OU Ariakas

    Path of Exile

    Direct nerf to jewels for semi-casual players (especially melee) since now we need well rolled jewels with 4 mods instead of well rolled jewels with 3 mods and some utility. They just continue to bloat mod pools while limiting crafting options. I have often said I was not coming back until...
  7. OU Ariakas

    College Football 2022-23 Season.

    Not wanting to watch football on a Saturday is such a weird feeling... but here we are! @Springbok you guys are going to abuse us.
  8. OU Ariakas

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    Diablo 3 with just the gold auction house, no smart loot, skill points like D2, and some sort of end game mapping that was deeper than rifts would have been great. That isn't a ton of changes.
  9. OU Ariakas

    College Football 2022-23 Season.

    Buckle up, you're gonna see this a lot for the next few years.
  10. OU Ariakas

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    I know people have mentioned it before; but I really think that if Doge dips it may be fun to buy some because Elon is a shitlord and that coin is close to his heart. He will say you can pay for your Twitter blue checkmark with Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Doge. Edit: It is already down 30% in 24...
  11. OU Ariakas

    Westworld

    You hit the nail on the head; they wrote all these cool mysteries and subplots into the first season but never thought about the end of the story. This needed a writing team that had everyone's stories written for a 2 - 4 season show, executed on it, and then done all of the weird 'what if'...
  12. OU Ariakas

    AssHat of the year, 2022 version!

    I have an idea for a new award, the Aspie of the Year award. It would just go to Ossoi every year. That's it, the end.
  13. OU Ariakas

    College Football 2022-23 Season.

    That game was great! If you liked two below average teams showing just how below average they are. I guess we are banking on Texas Tech being just shit enough that we squeak through by a field goal and then @Springbok's Pokes are going to rip us a new one for the second year in a row...
  14. OU Ariakas

    MLB 2022: Georgia Gets the Last Laugh

    Thanks buddy, Arlington and all surrounding areas are terrible.
  15. OU Ariakas

    MLB 2022: Georgia Gets the Last Laugh

    I welcome the hate. By the way, all of your towns are also shitholes; you just like them enough to overlook it. The only difference here is that your favorite team is not in the World Series... except for Phillies fans.... and Philly is a shithole.
  16. OU Ariakas

    MLB 2022: Georgia Gets the Last Laugh

    Foggy, I think I finally figured something out. I am not a huge baseball fan and I'm not a native Houstonian. I moved here almost a decade ago and have probably been to less than 10 live baseball games in my 41 years. Oh, i played little league baseball some 30 years ago. But every time I...
  17. OU Ariakas

    Investing General Discussion

    China is not going to sell off all of their US treasuries at one time because it is a fucking horrible deal for them to do it. Right now they have $1.3T in bonds that we are paying them to hold them until they expire, then they will their principal back. If they put their 1.3T on the market...
  18. OU Ariakas

    Path of Exile

    Yep, it'll be like playing back before fun mattered, too.
  19. OU Ariakas

    Path of Exile

    I remember installing the Everquest Beta onto my computer with my brother and being really excited to play. We created a human Monk and were dropped outside of a city in a zone called Qeynos Hills. We were immediately attacked by a rat and died after about 20 hits because there was no attack...
  20. OU Ariakas

    Investing General Discussion

    Here is an update on an underperforming stock, ET, I talked about two years ago that cut their dividend and it looked like I was going to have to take a loss even thought I wanted to hold until break even. Well they have increased their dividend the last 2 quarters and all signs point to it...
  21. OU Ariakas

    The Witcher

    It figures you would be the one to question him being a gamer. What game are you failing to get 100 people to watch you play on Twitch now, 'streamer'??
  22. OU Ariakas

    MTG thread

    This clarification, and the company behind it, are both retarded.
  23. OU Ariakas

    Investing General Discussion

    So here is the good thing: it is a private company which means they will say something like $40,000 in stock options a year with a strike price of $4 per share. The biggest risk is that they never go public and you just don't ever get to sell those shares. This, however, is an Elon Musk...
  24. OU Ariakas

    Investing General Discussion

    Most companies do not have an all-or-nothing vesting period; usually you are given stock every year that takes five years to fully vest. The most common 5 year vesting number is 20% of it vests per year meaning after 3 years you would have 60% or so of it vested. You should ask that question...
  25. OU Ariakas

    Witcher 3

    Witcher 1 story was awesome; everything else about it sucked. Give me W1 in the W3 engine and I will gladly buy it.
  26. OU Ariakas

    Home buying thread

    It's Fucking Coming. Almost put an offer in on this beauty bit I was out of town when it dropped from $120k to $105k. https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1513-Shalimar-Dr-Del-City-OK-73115/22002383_zpid/
  27. OU Ariakas

    The Fast Food Thread

    Proud to say that my 4 boys that are all 7 or under have started requesting Flamin' Hot Cheetos or Funyns in their lunch box as their chips. This is over Cool Ranch Doritos, the best non-spicy chip in existence. The 5 year old has started requesting Frank's Red Hot sauce on his hotdogs...
  28. OU Ariakas

    The Fast Food Thread

    And another can of Rotel and a can of diced green chilies and a pound of sausage OR a 16oz can of chili I shouldn't have to add that there are *obviously* no beans in this recipe.
  29. OU Ariakas

    Wheel of Time

    So you're saying it turned from fantasy into non-fiction.
  30. OU Ariakas

    Star Wars Novels (Keep your EU shit out of here!)

    Haha, necro'ing this because I never saw the question. It has been more than a decade since I read the last book of that series, but I remember that Luke had been very absent the entire series (like you said). He hadn't really fought many Vong, but then he is at the battle of Courscant and...
  31. OU Ariakas

    Path of Exile

    I can honestly say that I have not played regularly since Ritual because I found the changes to be detrimental to how I enjoyed playing the game. I was happy to buy 5 and 10 dollar stash tabs but also would have happily paid 5 or 10 dollars every 3 months for the expansion leagues if they had...
  32. OU Ariakas

    Path of Exile

    What are the characteristics of that player base and what financial decisions would they have to make in order to be able to dump them? This is not tongue in cheek, i'd like to know what you think their best path forward would be. You are obviously very invested in the game and are not a...
  33. OU Ariakas

    Twitch.tv

    Yep, it is funny having people try and bring "feelings" into arguments on how assets are divided in a divorce. She honestly better hope that her state is a one-party recording consent state or she just broke the law by recording the call.
  34. OU Ariakas

    Twitch.tv

    Do you think he cares if he'll get alimony or not if he gets half of all of their investments? Marriage is a contract, not some feels bullshit. If she claims abuse is why she is ending it that still doesn't entitle her to all of their assets. This is even doubly true if he is an employee of a...
  35. OU Ariakas

    Investing General Discussion

    I have a question for our group of experts when it comes to markets; are you at all concerned about the impending population declines of most of the western nations when we talk about historic growth trends and predicting them into the future? If you are not worried about it is it because there...
  36. OU Ariakas

    Home buying thread

    As bad and as predatory as it sounds, this just means I will be looking to pick up some nice rental properties on short sale in 5 years when the loans don't adjust and those borrowers are drowning. I have no sympathy for investors or a couple buying their third house that choose an ARM; it is...
  37. OU Ariakas

    Twitch.tv

    2 & 3 are fucking retarded takes because the law is VERY straightforward when it comes to earnings while inside a marriage: They are split evenly and the PERSON making less is given some sort of alimony for some set period of time. That means that she will be splitting everything made while...