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    Hearthstone

    Hit 60 on Warlock! Paladin, Hunter, Rogue, Druid to go. I guess I am technically more than 3/4 of the way to having all classes to 60, but it feels like I'm nowhere near that close. @Alexzander in my experience with the Paladin secret that resurrects a creature at 1 hp, it is either based on...
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    Hearthstone

    I had a bad arena week last week. Didn't do better than 6 wins for any deck, but today I had a 9 win deck (which is more normal for me). Arena is worth it because it teaches you the game, if you really aren't ever getting to ~7-10 wins, you aren't playing your cards correctly. I helped a friend...
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    Hearthstone

    It depends. TBK isn't a card to play around in certain match ups. And with Rogue dominating the meta, lots of people aren't running it at all. When ramp Druid was common it was in every deck though. Usually you can figure it out. That is the hard part about constructed. But yeah, you won't see...
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    Hearthstone

    It'd help, I went from rank 5 1 star to rank 3 3 stars without a loss the other day. Realized I would have been legend if win streaks were a thing at those ranks.
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    ultra beta male virgin shoots up hot girls at UC Santa Barbara at least 7 dead

    Thanks. Jesus I was supposed to work with her next time I visited, we had a date set up.... what the fuck. She was one of those people who is just nice to everyone, you know? It sounds trite, but the world feels darker for me without her in it.
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    ultra beta male virgin shoots up hot girls at UC Santa Barbara at least 7 dead

    Three more bodies were found in his apartment... a friend of mine, a girl I'd taught to dance at UCSB, was among the victims of the shooting. No idea yet if I know anyone else who was hurt or killed.
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    Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

    Now if only I had any friends who still played D3. They all abandoned it and refuse to pick it up again.
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    Hearthstone

    He isn't, actually, sometimes he doesn't slow down the turn clock correctly.
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    Weight Loss Thread

    Ketones, yes. They sell little testing sticks you can pee on to get an idea of how much. You'll be surprised. You can start at any time. Just bear in mind it is tough at first.
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    Weight Loss Thread

    Remember when you switch over into ketosis and your body starts cannibalizing stored fat, it can't put it back. You literally end up peeing out any excess fat your body doesn't use. Oh, that is another reason keto helps with satiety. Your body is constantly pulling from your reserves if you...
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    Weight Loss Thread

    Don't mind Ossoi, last time he tried to make this argument he linked to a study that actually did that exact thing. The control group and the keto group, both of which were on "high protein" according to the study, had the same protein intake (roughly .72 g/lb, which see my link and again that...
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    Hearthstone

    That is almost as bad as the reward for getting all the cards.
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    Weight Loss Thread

    A healthy, balanced, diet is going to be better than what most people eat. Keto just has specific advantages. It started out as an anti-epilepsy diet. Apparently excess carb consumption causes, very minor, inflation in tissues and getting rid of that inflammation completely helps with not having...
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    Start-up Automation Control Panel Shop in Texas

    This is absolutely true. I know half a dozen tech guys who moved to Texas to start their businesses for just this reason, saved them millions in taxes when they (inevitably) ended up selling a part interest in the company.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I'm sure when it is released it won't be that long before people have it working on a PC. Official support or not.
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    Weight Loss Thread

    When you are in ketosis your body literally burns fat, or rather broken down bits of fat called ketones, instead of sugar. In addition to requiring more energy to make this work, to break down the fat into ketones, it causes a shift that makes your body start using your fat reserves. And your...
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    Weight Loss Thread

    It is expensive, but macadamia nuts ground down into flour make a very good bread. Can google recipes for it.
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    Hearthstone

    That pack is basically three legendaries of your choice if you don't care about golden cards. 2 from Tink, 1 from Nether.
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    Weight Loss Thread

    If you engage in heavy cardio, add more carbs, it won't bring you out of ketosis. This is where the little blood test kits come in handy, you can track your ketone levels and see how many carbs you can eat to feel energetic during your cardio, without eating so many it drops you out of ketosis.
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    Heroes of the Storm

    Got into today. Have literally never played a moba type game. Seems all right, it is hard to know if you're being effective or not. Some heroes seem to suck pretty hard, but I can't tell if that is because I'm picking bad abilities or not.
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    Hearthstone

    Got my best Shaman draft ever going right now. 2x Fire Elemental (first time I've had more than one despite getting to level 40 on Shaman purely through arena, ugh). A Lightning Storm, 2x Sea Giants, Al'Akir. Only thing I wish I had was Hex and a tiny bit more card draw.
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    Home Improvement

    Ripping up carpet is easy. Putting down tile is time consuming and you have to be careful or you'll wind up with a crooked pattern. Tile is sold by the square foot ($2-$5 usually), pick out your tile, measure bathroom, that is basically going to be your cost. There are some ancillary costs but...
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    Hearthstone

    Still playing Tink in control Warrior. Works fantastic. Brawl, oh the good thing lived? Tink. Between selective removal of everything else, removal of everything but one target, etc., it has been pretty stellar. And the 3 health makes it harder to kill as a body on the board. Has been a good...
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    Hearthstone

    Should get a third class to 60 today, Priest. Kind of sucks about the victory thing now. Really lacking on the Rogue/Druid/Hunter/Paladin front in levels, I think they are all around 34-42 area. Warlock and Shaman are in the low 50s. I think I might try and figure out how to play Miracle Rogue...
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    Winter 2014 Anime Thread

    HxH needs to have more than one episode a week!
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Just buy pasteurized in the shell eggs if this bothers you.
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    Hearthstone

    I feel bad for d/eing the three Pagles I got over the last two weeks now. Oh well.
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    Hearthstone

    So, Assassinate? They don't really like to overlap identical card effects.
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    Hearthstone

    That is a pretty big blow to Priests, Tink and Mind Control are the only ways they have of dealing with stuff like Ysera. And MC takes your whole turn.
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    Comcast Agrees to Buy Time Warner Cable

    You mean am I assuming that the exact same thing that has happened in other markets (Music:iTunes, Games:Steam, etc) will happen? Yep. I am assuming that people pretty much behave the same in all markets of entertainment. Because that is how it has worked every time. Sure, at the end of the...
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    Comcast Agrees to Buy Time Warner Cable

    What? Viewership for the Mad Men premier was the highest of anything on AMC, clocking in at 1.4 million households. It went up from there. Mad Men costs between 2.5-3 million an episode. Do you think you most people would pay $2 an episode if they weren't paying for cable? Because that is break...
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    Comcast Agrees to Buy Time Warner Cable

    Oh no, they begged him to stay and keep doing it. Heaps of money were thrown at him. No dice. He was burnt out. @Chaos: Yes, in the short term you're going to lose shows/channels that are essentially sucking the profits of other shows and only on the air to fill a time schedule so you have X...
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    Comcast Agrees to Buy Time Warner Cable

    http://www.broadcastingcable.com/new...ril-live/27988 13% fewer viewers than Good Eats. Wrong, as you put it. Good Eats, in terms of ratings and advertising dollars, is the Food Networks must successful show ever. I'm not just making things up here incidentally. So we're clear on that, I'm...
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    Homebrewing

    The Kickstarter it had a couple of months ago has more info. I didn't really look at the website, I'm surprised it doesn't have all the same info as the Kickstarter page...
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    Comcast Agrees to Buy Time Warner Cable

    You're talking about a network whose most popular show of all time, Good Eats, barely got green lighted. Networks don't really have any incentive to care if something is popular or not, precisely because of bundling. So long as each show, individually, is making enough via advertising to justify...
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    Home buying thread

    Well water tends to be pretty delicious though. All the places I've lived with drinkable tap water were well systems. And it isn't like you handle the well yourself, unless you are really out in the boonies.
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    Comcast Agrees to Buy Time Warner Cable

    Modern video editing programs allow a similar thing for TV. Hell, look at movies (which for big ones cost even more than shows) that are made on budgets of like 60k. People sub to HBO for the quality content. There will be no decline in quality content. The only difference is people will only...
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    Comcast Agrees to Buy Time Warner Cable

    That is interesting speculation. Did you miss the part where it is demonstrably false in the case of HBO shows? Or in other entertainment markets? Sure, content creators want to make money. But competing the in mass appeal market means competing with everyone and making, essentially, the same...
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    Comcast Agrees to Buy Time Warner Cable

    Industry average is 1.5 million per episode, so minor exaggeration there. Also GoT is an interesting example (as are other HBO shows). Funny thing, when HBO is airing an original show, the number of people subbed to the channel via their service provider spikes! Then it goes back down when the...
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    Comcast Agrees to Buy Time Warner Cable

    By that logic, indie music shouldn't exist. Nor should any other niche market entertainment. But they do. Indeed, those markets are growing and becoming more diverse precisely because consumers have the ability to access only the things they want, when they want them.