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    Homebrewing

    PicoBrew LLC - Introducing PicoBrew Zymatic(tm) Surprised no one linked this yet. Turns out the exact same beer every time, online database of recipes, you can add/share recipes. Pricey, but a ton of craft breweries I know now use this to do develop recipes. Before doing a sample batch was...
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    Hearthstone

    Priests are like that sometimes. You have a lot of cards that are highly dependent on 3 or less attack, or 5 or more, or 2 or less, etc. Some people build whole decks with nothing but those cards and then... oops.
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    Hearthstone

    All golden cards work like that. Defias Ringleader makes golden Defias Thug. Golden Leeroy makes golden Whelps, golden Thoughtsteal makes the stolen cards golden, etc.
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    The Girls Who Broke Your Heart Thread

    I feel dirty posting this, but if you want easy access to young girls take up partner dancing. Swing, Salsa, Bachata, Kizomba, Ballroom. Your local college has a club (I promise, it does) that is open to the public. And if the practices aren't, the socials are. My original ballroom instructor...
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    Home buying thread

    Just need to vent. All the work I'm doing to get the house move-in ready is going great. Eletrical is redone, knocked out a wall and built a bar, stripped the carpet, dozens of small things. Floors are scheduled for today, paint for Monday, some stuff I have to do over the weekend and it'd be...
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    Weight Loss Thread

    Is Ossoi still on his trip about how impartial scientific studies can't possibly be right, but a personal trainer with no actual science background couldn't possibly be wrong if he disagrees with twenty years of controlled studies? All of which have been peer reviewed and reproduced?
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    Hearthstone

    Was even better when Syl was 5 mana.
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    Desktop Computers

    Don't really have time to look into it, but a friend asked me what he could put together for ~$500 if he already has a case/power supply. So video card, MB, proc, RAM, bang for buck right now?
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    Hearthstone

    I'll play a deck, either deck!, against someone in this thread who wants to play the other one. Best of 3, 5, whatever, so long as we can post the results and end this conversation. Christ.
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    Hearthstone

    Have you watched Koyuki's stream? He got to legend on nothing but Paladin giants and he really didn't have any issues with Hunters. You just play around traps, put up taunts, and delay as much as possible till you draw your heals and/or bigger taunts. The only match-up where his win rate was...
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    Hearthstone

    In something like ~45 arena runs with Shaman, half of my decks have had zero Fire Elementals. The Shaman decks you run into at 6+ wins usually have more than one, that part is true, but they are already way ahead on win rate.
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    Comcast Agrees to Buy Time Warner Cable

    If you click the link it is "downstream" traffic in North America only. Curiously bittorrent is down to 4% of downstream traffic, from 31% five years ago. What a curious mirror of numbers.
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    Hearthstone

    Predict past 4 wins he wins or loses based on the luck of Mind Vision/Thought Steals.
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    No. Sous-vide is like $20-30 for a PID, some minor wiring, and an aquarium bubbler if you want to be fancy. Total cost for something equivalent to a $5k machine is something less than $75. Don't go buy one, it isn't worth it. Try it with a cooler first to see if you actually like it. Vacuum...
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    Comcast Agrees to Buy Time Warner Cable

    Comcasts deal with Netflix makes network neutrality obsolete Related. This is really bad news because on 2011 Netflix promised to never do anything like this. So I imagine there will shortly be some backlash on them.
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    Torrents

    Whoops, seems like I let both my Waffles and What accounts lapse due to inactivity and I can't seem to logon to either if their IRC servers. Any idea how I can get that fixed? My ratio on both sites is over 2... EDIT: nvm, figured it out. Also I way understated the case, my ratio on what is...
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    Desktop Computers

    I think I am asking the wrong question in Google. It ought to be possible to take a 7.1 sound card and turn it into 4 2-channel stereo streams, so long as you can separate the outputs like that. Apparently this works with some soundcards and with others there are custom drivers. I can't find a...
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    Hearthstone

    Basically every class, has, potentially, a 2-card combo that can do 12 damage at 9-10 mana. Brewmaster+Leeroy is, after all, 10 mana, 2 cards, and 12 damage. It makes your life total matter. Control decks go for board control and card advantage. Agro decks go for face and burn their cards trying...
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    Weight Loss Thread

    There is no benefit, in over twenty years of clinical studies, to anything over .82g per pound of lean body weight. Some doctors have, anecdotally, stated they believe that excess protein has caused minor kidney damage and have expressed concerns that if their is an undiagnosed pre-existing...
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    Desktop Computers

    27 IPS-ZERO-G Slim Monitor WQHD 2560x1440 - Dual Link DVI, VGA - Monoprice.com Sale on Monoprice. $390 for a 27" IPS monitor is a fairly good deal. Not sure how it compares to ordering from Korea, but thought people might be interested.
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    Hearthstone

    The 1/1 and the taunt totem are both useful. They can be Argused, at which point the healing totem also becomes useful. Spell damage is primarily useful if you have lightning bolts in hand to use as finishers. You're only worried about one card after all, no reason to entirely pass up your hero...
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    Hearthstone

    Alternate class heroes would be pretty interesting. Give access to two different hero powers, depending on which one you pick.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    We don't have the overheating issue that four-legged animals do. The wiki article on "Endurance Running Hypothesis" is pretty fantastic.
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    Speakers and amps

    So I worked out how to do multi-zone audio off of one HTPC. Going to run speaker wire to the closet and each zone has its own amp. They don't have to be fancy or anything, but ideally I'd like something that is designed to be set into a wall or ceiling and be discrete. I know very little...
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    Home buying thread

    2k here. Regional variation in pricing for this kind of work is pretty funny. Also I am probably getting the best rate available because it is a family friend.
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    Hearthstone

    Buying a house really interfered with my trying to rank up.
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    Home buying thread

    Turns out our house really needs to be upgraded from a 100A panel to a 200A panel and for some reason the old fusebox is still being used as a sub-panel, which is completely unnecessary. So that'll be... fun. Wall demolished to open up the kitchen, drywall guy is coming tomorrow to tape and...
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    Hearthstone

    Hogger is super OP in arena actually, every time I've ever drafted him I've gotten at least 10 wins.
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    If you have more than one Mexican restaurant anywhere near you, odds are there is a tortilla plant somewhere nearby. Get them from the source and they'll make amazing chips.
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    NAS+Virtual Machines

    VMWare does it, they have a short FAQ for setting it up. I imagine there are other options. It is literally drag and drop for VMWare, start client, drag to screen you want that client to use, that machine will now run on that screen. I am not going the thin client route, primarily because for...
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Thermoworks open box sale ends today, for anyone still interested.
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    Hearthstone

    Yetis, Yetis everywhere. Lava Burst is a good response to an Innervated Yeti actually. With Warrior if I was vs Druid I would always try and keep Cruel Taskmaster or Slam+Execute or Shield Block+Shield Slam in my hand if I got them on the draw. At best the Yeti gets two attacks in that way...
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Unglazed terra cotta. Done. Also quarry tiles. It will slow warm up times of your oven if you leave it in there all the time, but it will also reduce the variance of your oven's heat over time, which is a pretty good thing. Especially for older ovens.
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    NAS+Virtual Machines

    So I bought a house recently and there is this great closest that I want to stick a computer into to manage some things. I am going to run an HDMI cable from it to my TV and use it as an HTPC (it is already being used for this). I want to run a second monitor cable to my dance room and use that...
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    Hearthstone

    BoK is one of the most powerful arena cards. Surprised you went 12-1 with only one Consecrate, no TSC, and no Equality, though you did have a nice curve.
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    Hearthstone

    Hunters don't run much that requires hard removal (in constructed). Save it for Buzzard. In arena just kill it however you can. Card advantage is massively important in Hearthstone, don't let your opponent draw cards. Unless they let their hand get over full and you can make them burn cards...
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    Unsung Story: Tale of the Guardians - From FF Tactics and Vagrant Story designer

    I guess they didn't really advertise it enough... I mean there are multiple forums dedicated to FFT and they didn't have someone go and post on those forums with a link, it popped up a couple of days after from fans posting it. But that isn't enough, you need to aggressively get the word out...
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    Hearthstone

    Predicting 9-3.
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    Hearthstone

    Hit 60 on Warrior. Time to work on a new deck I guess. Was really proud of this Warrior deck.
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    Hearthstone

    To quote Kripp "Always pick Evis." There are exceptions (mostly weapons), but Evis is just to useful compared to most cards.