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  1. Captain Suave

    The Animated GIF Thread

  2. Captain Suave

    Home buying thread

    https://www.visualcapitalist.com/interactive-map-price-per-square-foot-us-housing-markets
  3. Captain Suave

    Home buying thread

    Agree except here. Basically every adult will have a vehicle long before they are in a position to own a home, if only to get to work. Just park it in the driveway, though.
  4. Captain Suave

    Chess

    These were interesting as well. The poster did a analysis of 400,000 positions by elite players and calculated their accuracy relative to Stockfish 15 along with their move consistency. The tldr is that there is a very clear path that players take as they grow, with accuracy and consistency...
  5. Captain Suave

    Chess

    So the report from Chess.com is released: https://www.chess.com/blog/CHESScom/hans-niemann-report The fucking baffling part to me is that Chess.com clearly offered Hans a way out if he would just fess up, admit what he'd done, and move forward. Really classy move on their part. But amazingly...
  6. Captain Suave

    Chess

    Disagree. This shows Hans lied to everyone during his "confession" at the Sinquefield Cup. He said unequivocally that he cheated in paid tournaments only once at age 12, when in reality he did it multiple times in 2020 at age 17, and who knows when else. He has demonstrated broken professional...
  7. Captain Suave

    Chess

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/chess-cheating-hans-niemann-report-magnus-carlsen-11664911524 tldr; Chess.com analysis shows that Neimann cheated well into 2020 in over 100 online games, including events with prize money. Neimann himself said that he did not cheat past 2019. They don't weigh in on...
  8. Captain Suave

    Coffee Thread

    I recently received a bag of this as a gift. If boutique chocolaty coffee sounds good to you, I cannot emphasize how fucking amazing it is. Good enough to make me seriously consider that insane price. I might buy a bag just for the smell.
  9. Captain Suave

    UNDECEMBER - Action RPG

    I echo everything else said here. Gameplay is fine, if a touch on the floaty side. I liked the music. An incredible amount of overcomplication, though, presumably to later charge for people avoiding it.
  10. Captain Suave

    Office and gaming chairs

    After years of sitting in mediocre chairs and finally starting to pay the cost in lower back pain, my wife and I went to a local office furniture wholesaler for new chairs. We had the chance to sit in all the major makes and models side by side, which was quite informative. We both ended up with...
  11. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    I've mentioned this a few times, but one of my business school professors was a behavioral economist who studied investment psychology. He found that for the vast majority of people, the optimal approach, both for perceived satisfaction and for long-term returns, was to interact with your...
  12. Captain Suave

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

  13. Captain Suave

    Diablo II - Resurrected

    ftfy
  14. Captain Suave

    Diablo II - Resurrected

    Conviction and Lower Res apply to the rest of the party, but still...
  15. Captain Suave

    The Video Thread

  16. Captain Suave

    UNDECEMBER - Action RPG

    I'm trying the demo now, and the second notification while creating a character was "Connecting to billing server...". Seems fine five minutes in, but too early to tell. Edit: Experiencing CTDs.
  17. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    Markets up almost three percent, zero activity here, lol. The last few years have us all so jaded.
  18. Captain Suave

    Must Have Software

    I guess I don't subscribe to people who make shorts. I'll try the extension.
  19. Captain Suave

    Must Have Software

    I've enjoyed YT a lot more since I changed my shortcut to my subscriptions page instead of the algorithm's feed.
  20. Captain Suave

    AI Image Generation

    First lame attempt: "the fires of heaven" seed 293258, upscaled In all my other samples it keeps trying to put text in the picture. I think this prompt phrase is heavily biased towards the Robert Jordan book covers. Looks like it's about to take a flaming dump.
  21. Captain Suave

    AI Image Generation

    Most of you have seen the text-to-image products of Dall-E, Midjourney, etc. Stable Diffusion is a comparable approach which you can run on your own hardware. https://stability.ai/blog/stable-diffusion-public-release...
  22. Captain Suave

    The Astronomy Thread

    If we can shift this argument to "disband the Presidency and Congress" then I'm on board.
  23. Captain Suave

    The Astronomy Thread

    It was basically the first shot they published. https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/2022/035/01G7DDDR3P8ZW10HD8MKXGV8MJ One of the differences between Webb and Hubble is that Webb collects more light and can take much faster exposures. The above picture was taken in ~12 hours vs...
  24. Captain Suave

    The Astronomy Thread

    And they operate in totally different frequencies of light, hence the differences in the images - like how Hubble couldn't resolve the rings at all. Frequency directly relates to resolution, which is why the best microscopes use light WAY out of the visible spectrum. Different tools, different...
  25. Captain Suave

    The Astronomy Thread

    It's almost like all three are using wildly different technologies for different purposes and "sexiest desktop background" was not their primary criteria.
  26. Captain Suave

    Steam Deals and Digital Sales

    They're still doing it, with some minor recycling.
  27. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    Welp, I've definitely hit my "turn off the news and go outside for a while" trigger.
  28. Captain Suave

    Weather

    Current state of the marina where my dad used to keep his boat.
  29. Captain Suave

    Diablo II - Resurrected

    Fair.
  30. Captain Suave

    Diablo II - Resurrected

    Man, if DII had only managed to sell a few million copies they could have afforded game developers.
  31. Captain Suave

    The Video Thread

  32. Captain Suave

    Diablo II - Resurrected

    It was a stupid, heavy-handed band-aid solution to a problem for which the correct fix was to thoughtfully buff the other classes.
  33. Captain Suave

    Weather

    That camera is six feet off the ground, not six feet above average sea level.
  34. Captain Suave

    Weather

    My dad moved out of Boca Grande, FL and sold his house last year. It's looking like that was a good call. His house was elevation 6 ft, predicted 12+ ft storm surges in Charlotte Harbor. Yikes. He built the house himself and specced it to survive a cat 4 direct hit so that he didn't have to pay...
  35. Captain Suave

    MMA Thread

    Well yeah. All-time great wrestler and he's still young and seems to be polishing his MMA skillset very quickly. Not a man to be fucked with. Edit: This was gorgeous. https://dubz.co/v/51zqvg Edit edit: Not sure that link is working properly. Source from here:
  36. Captain Suave

    Chess

    Botez sisters become highest-earning competitors.
  37. Captain Suave

    MMA Thread

    Oh. That wasn't even close to the gnarliest heel hook of the weekend. Nicky knew he was caught and tapped to that plenty early. Pato vs Kennedy was awful. (Can't find public video, sadly.)
  38. Captain Suave

    The Video Thread

  39. Captain Suave

    MMA Thread

    Given the copyright strike from Flo I assume that was ADCC. Kennedy getting subbed?
  40. Captain Suave

    Diablo II - Resurrected

    I'm sure he means pure firewall sorcs and such, at least without conviction. Though if you make a build like that you obviously know what you're getting into.