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  1. OU Ariakas

    Houston, moving there.

    Jumps on Westpark and Synott? That is like 10 min from my house.
  2. OU Ariakas

    Houston, moving there.

    14th is my birthday; I bet I can convince the wife to let me get away for a few hours that night.
  3. OU Ariakas

    Twitch.tv

    Bro, you do this every time. It was a tounge-in-cheek remark meant to sound sexist just to offend you; like about 90% of posts internet wide. Still love you for the retro game threads. Come to the Vegas meet up and I will buy you the fruitiest, girliest drink you can order.
  4. OU Ariakas

    Monster Hunter: World

    Ok, the tempered mobs that drop streamstones I need to uncap armor can one shot me through defense up L and mega armorskin. What. The. Fuck.
  5. OU Ariakas

    Twitch.tv

    Because anonymous 8-15 year olds are little edgelords that will do things specifically to get a rise out of morons that make a big deal out of It? This is the Streisand effect in practice and, despite what Polygon and it's ilk want to believe, hardly any of the morons throwing those emotes into...
  6. OU Ariakas

    Westworld

    I like this idea, did you happen to watch the Film Theorist episode about where Westworld is located?
  7. OU Ariakas

    Westworld

  8. OU Ariakas

    The Netflix Thread

    The Ritual is the best horror movie to come out in at least 5 years, right? I cannot name one that comes close.
  9. OU Ariakas

    Bright (2017)

    Movie was 5/10 but I liked the world it was set in. Would watch any sequel. Will Smith was the worst part and I bet any no name actor would have been 100 times better .
  10. OU Ariakas

    Wind River (2017)

    Watched this on Netflix last night. Movie of the year so far for me. If there is any race I will cut a little slack for being preachy it is the NA because the US government ruined their lives and futures with the reservation system.
  11. OU Ariakas

    Whiskey

    Holy shit, I just looked up some pictures and found one of an older bottle with a paper looking label that was exactly what we had! The newer bottle is just glass, no paper, which is why I didn't recognize it. I tell people to this day that it was my favorite whisky (I cannot get over the peat...
  12. OU Ariakas

    Whiskey

    I remember having a bottle of Weller about a decade ago that I swear was called 'Old Weller' and it was great. I have tried to find it since and can never pinpoint what I actually drank. It was about 60 for the bottle.
  13. OU Ariakas

    Monster Hunter: World

    Came from using Dual Blades on the 3ds games and wanted something with more breaking power in MHW. I chose Switch Axe and haven't regretted it once.
  14. OU Ariakas

    Parent Thread

    Same exact situation here. Started with twins and then laughed at other parents when one was tired because they got to choose who had to stay up all night with the kid. Our third seemed so easy by comparison that we are considering a fourth.
  15. OU Ariakas

    Parent Thread

    I would have sued that hospital for neglect of a patient if my recovering wife was told to shower alone and fell. Fuck that noise.
  16. OU Ariakas

    Parent Thread

    My only advice is to sleep train that baby as soon as possible. Lots of friends who thought cry-it-out was mean now have 3 to 5 year olds that won't sleep in their own rooms a single night. Meanwhile, all three of ours are out cold from 7:30pm to 7am and have been since 6-9 months old. It is the...
  17. OU Ariakas

    God of War (2018)

    No season pass, assuming no DLC, trailer looks amazing....... I am going to buy it for full price even if I don't play it for a year (backlog and no time). It deserves my money for hitting all the right notes.
  18. OU Ariakas

    Lost in Space

    People bitching about characters in the show outside of the Robinson family never watched the show. There was also the young male captain and the creepy stowaway doc with loose morals. Plenty of room for more characters on a space ship show if it means better plotlines.
  19. OU Ariakas

    Monster Hunter: World

    They really need to tone down his chance to show up by about 75%. I mean, if he showed up once every four or five fights it would feel ok. As is, he shows up in every expedition and optional single monster hunt quest and it just feels tedious instead of interesting.
  20. OU Ariakas

    Monster Hunter: World

    *Ahem* Fuck Zorah Magdragos Gem farming The end.
  21. OU Ariakas

    The Joe Abercrombie Thread

    I felt sorry for Cosca but it was more pity than empathy. Lamb, however, was my favorite part of the book. The knowledge that he cannot just fight because if he does then no one is safe.
  22. OU Ariakas

    Designing a Card Game

    That also opens up fun things like buying votes (pay to play) or stealing them a la Hillary from Bernie.
  23. OU Ariakas

    Designing a Card Game

    Resources could be campaign staffers, everyone gets one head staffer and there is a pool of other staffers for each party. You have to choose a party before the game and the number of staffers you get a turn is divided among the others of the same party.
  24. OU Ariakas

    Designing a Card Game

    Go for Electoral Votes as the wincon. Making deals for electoral votes in exchange to be part of a party's ticket could be fun. Maybe the winning teams VP could have an advantage the next game played?
  25. OU Ariakas

    Designing a Card Game

    Easiest way to figure out a resource system is to throw together some proxies and start trying things out. Remember that the biggest question to keep asking as you test is 'are the players having fun?'
  26. OU Ariakas

    Toys R Us -- ruining a company is very lucrative

    Gross income is essentially their margin; improving that by 10% would have a more profitable long term effect than any one positive year of net income due to real estate sales/savings or large tax write offs. I was giving an example of a way an executive might be compensated that sounds absurd...
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    Toys R Us -- ruining a company is very lucrative

    Again, you have company with gross income north of 1 Billion dollars a year that was 2 Billion a few years ago. Paying a new CEO every few years to turn that around is literally paying someone 1 or 2% in a contract to hopefully boost gross income 10 or 20%. The number may look large but it is...
  28. OU Ariakas

    Monster Hunter: World

    Everything great about MH in one comic.
  29. OU Ariakas

    Toys R Us -- ruining a company is very lucrative

    A quick glance at Toys'r'us balance sheets shows them as a 12-15 Billion dollar company. Their total liabilities are around 8 billion which is admittedly highly leveraged but shows Toys'r'us turning profit up until a few years ago despite the new debt. Do you think that private equity firms...
  30. OU Ariakas

    Salary Negotiation Question

    Need a new thread in which Gravel (who I assume is not yet in his 50's) is going to tell us the why's and how's of retiring early and what projections they are using to make sure that they are not short of money when they are in their 70s and on a fixed income. This is not a snark Gravel, I...
  31. OU Ariakas

    How to handle a bad VP

    You are right. My mind was thinking Motorola while I was typing Nortel for some reason.
  32. OU Ariakas

    How to handle a bad VP

    Haha, I almost typed that he needs to learn Cisco Telephony (UC) or switching from the other guy and then use that to become a Cisco delivery engineer since he is guaranteed work for the foreseeable future and Avaya just went bankrupt. Seriously @Brahma, if you are within 10 years of retirement...
  33. OU Ariakas

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    I am going to make an observation about women in general. They don't want to share their partners' anything with anyone else. Time, attention, affection, resources; you name it and women want it with their partner and for their family. The problem is that they are usually high in agreeableness...
  34. OU Ariakas

    How to handle a bad VP

    Ever thought about becoming an Avaya implementation engineer at a local or national Avaya re-seller? I'm sure you could make bank doing that.
  35. OU Ariakas

    Monster Hunter: World

    FINALLY got to pick this up now that we are back in the house after renovations. HR 3!!! Loving the Switch Axe. Anjananth is not fun in this game after minimal problems in the beta. Just realized that weapons, armor, and charms probably made him way easier than I thought. Other monsters...
  36. OU Ariakas

    The Hunt Showdown

    Permadeth of hunters looks like a cool mechanic.
  37. OU Ariakas

    Real Estate Investment Thread

    We have 5 properties all about 1/2 the size of Aladain's. I'm doing the entire P&Ls for them in a few weeks and will post my findings. I have definitely seen the problem with a higher percent of shitty tenants in lower prices houses and it eats up a significant portion of the cash flow. We are...
  38. OU Ariakas

    MTG thread

    Did you try Hex:Shards of Fate? Not free but drafts are half as much.
  39. OU Ariakas

    Monster Hunter: World

    Jailbreak your 3ds and get Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate. Edit: you don't have to jailbreak your 3ds to play it, I just recommend doing that because it is awesome.
  40. OU Ariakas

    Monster Hunter: World

    Don't come in here with your facts bro, I feel like we were left out and that is all that matters!!! Seriously though, the US audience just needed to see the light and we did! Doesn't hurt th at the game is fucking gorgeous.