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  1. alavaz

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    It doesn't sound like you are in any danger of accidentally marrying anyone so it's a good thing you are "so happy." I'd tell you why I got married but it doesn't sound like you want (or perhaps lack the capacity) to understand. It had nothing to do with sex or "practicality."
  2. alavaz

    Home Server Hobbyist

    I wouldn't purchase those big ass power hungry servers. Mini-ITX Box PC Solutions | SuperServer | Products - Super Micro Computer, Inc. I also wouldn't run obscure Linuxes either if you want viable experience. CentOS or Ubuntu (including raspbian on the Pi). As a bonus, you can run the STIG'd...
  3. alavaz

    Death of a Game - Everquest franchise

    If you were going to make a game centered around running multiple characters then it seems to me you would just code it all to run from a single instance of the client. No need to key broadcast and all that.
  4. alavaz

    Death of a Game - Everquest franchise

    They could just recreate classic EQ in Unity. Would be much easier to find talent and probably more maintainable in the long run. If they made enough money they could spend the next ten years recreating existing expansions.
  5. alavaz

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    I think that was deep throat lol. I've found chicks who can't orgasm by clit generally have really small clits and also will generally orgasm if you hit their g-spot. You have to really go forceful on it too. Look up a video on how to make girls squirt, they'll show you how to do it. It will...
  6. alavaz

    Job Hunting

    I'm not real sure what happened to the professionalism in hiring these days, but I've had lots of shit experiences like that and it's all been within the last 3-4 years. The irony is that I've had more than one prospect where the recruiter/manager/whatever have ghosted me only to be re-contacted...
  7. alavaz

    How much real money have MMOs made you?

    I'm sure I'm at a net loss overall but I sold a few things: 3 Fungi Tunics over the course of 3-4 months for 2-400 a piece. A couple of fishbone earrings for 40-80 as well as some other clickies (can't remember). My Dwarf Priest right around the time AQ was released for 1200. He had a good...
  8. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Can you transfer a Scarab Lord off server though? If not, then you are kind of advertising that you bought an account. Though I suppose these days know one would know or care.
  9. alavaz

    Death of a Game - Everquest franchise

    I think the downside of making things too interdependent is that you drastically lower the amount of players. As much as I'd love to have the original EQ experience I know that I just flat out couldn't do it for any sustainable amount of time. So like wilk said you basically wind up with degens...
  10. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I heard people were buying accounts with specific legendaries last expac. I think people were only paying 1-200 though. I can't see one selling for much more than that and I think the only way you could not get screwed would be to work out a way to transfer the toons to another account. Even...
  11. alavaz

    Parent Thread

    That's concerning for sure, but if he's otherwise normal it might turn out fine. Hopefully they had his hearing checked along with other tests.
  12. alavaz

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    I'd take a butterface any day over a fatty. I guess everyone has there own definitions of what is what though. I happen to find short women in the 140-160 range quite attractive but have friends that think that's too fat. Proportionate of course, not chicks with giant bellies and nothing else.
  13. alavaz

    Men's Fashion

    Id look clownishly out of place if rolled into work with a leather satchel. I use backpacks I've gotten for free from conventions. They are quite nice.
  14. alavaz

    Health Problems

    Plug your nose.
  15. alavaz

    Health Problems

    For serious, try throwing in some Greek yogurt as well.
  16. alavaz

    Health Problems

    I like to fight fire with fire and eat taco Bell when I have dhiarrea.
  17. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Well to be fair I crafted a full suit of 300 for both my shaman and DH and that helped at 120.
  18. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I didn't feel like there were any power issues while leveling up in any of the 3 classes I have. The shaman felt pretty fun to me even though everyone hated on them. I do agree about burst lacking. It is also annoying to me that they still haven't gotten a good grasp on how to design encounters...
  19. alavaz

    Health Problems

    Smashing my big toe with a 50 pound brick while I was wearing flip flops felt like a 10. That was 20 minutes of cold sweating, nauseating agony.
  20. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Genuinely curious. Was it the content or because too many of your friends quit? Or do you think the burnout was inevitable? I'm asking because I myself have been having a good deal of fun this expansion, but I'd definitely quit if my guild fell apart. For me though, that's how WoW has always...
  21. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I still play for all the usual reasons. Raiding and no better alternative.
  22. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    You joke about that, but I'm waiting for the levelling sqish expansion where you travel to an alternate reality and get capped at level 50. Want to go play old stuff? Fine but old stuff only exists in old world.
  23. alavaz

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    Mhmmm.
  24. alavaz

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    I guess there are two types of people. Those that say you should never go to Cosby's house and those that say you can go, just don't have a drink. Guess I'm the latter.
  25. alavaz

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    I'm sure he was a swell guy and got screwed. My point is that you're inviting all kinds of trouble if you start playing grabass at work whether it's a co-worker or not.
  26. alavaz

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    Well he did something stupid and got fired for it. If you are one of those people who has to fondle your girl everytime she's in eyeshot then yeah you should never date someone from work. I was also assuming some basic common sense was going to be applied.
  27. alavaz

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    I didn't "pooh pooh" it, it's the biggest risk in my opinion. Your experience is completely contrary to mine though. I've never seen anyone get fired that wasn't a manager/subordinate of the person they were dating and I've some seen some real dramatic bullshit work relationships too. I've...
  28. alavaz

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    I already stated the obvious (and you restated it) but everyone knows that manager/subordinate relationships are playing with fire. That is not the case here. I'd also agree that being on the same team especially where team work is a major factor for success is probably also a bad idea. But...
  29. alavaz

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    Why does everyone think that dating a co-worker automatically results in job loss? With the exception of dating a manager / subordinate I've never seen it happen once in the 20 years I've been in the work force. And I've seen a lot of co-workers date, breakup, be awkward and do plenty of...
  30. alavaz

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    We all know dating a co-worker carries more risk than a non co-worker. If I were in the situation to do it again, I definitely would but I also know that I could find a new job if I needed to. I would not however date my boss or a subordinate. Those stakes are too high right there.
  31. alavaz

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    I met my wife at work 13 years ago. Granted, I didn't really give a shit about my job at that place so I probably would have quit if it ended badly anyway. We worked together in the same department for 2 years though and everyone knew we were together and they were all very cool about it.
  32. alavaz

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

    Didn't someone here work for Booz Allen before? I heard they had better than average pay/benefits for the industry so I applied for a job that looked pretty fun and that I was well qualified for. Got called right away by recruiter, then did a technical interview and the technical guys were...
  33. alavaz

    The Official Guitar Thread

    Never heard of Burns. After looking at them, I think they are rather ugly, but to each his own. It looked to me like all of their guitars had single coil pickups so you're probably going to get a straty / trebly sound from them.
  34. alavaz

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

    You guys have any sos (system of systems) you have to build out all the time? Ansible is great for that sort of thing.
  35. alavaz

    The Official Guitar Thread

    When I think slide guitar I think Ry Cooder myself.
  36. alavaz

    A Celebration of THOTS.

    You say thot (like thought) but it's an acronym.
  37. alavaz

    Job Hunting

    DevOps is hipster slang for putting your docker confs in a git repo. All joking aside though I was doing what people call "devops" now 10 years ago and we just called it "configuration management" back then.
  38. alavaz

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

    I don't know if the PhDs working on murder tools (missile systems, aerospace) is the largest sector. I'd say there are plenty of them in the intel community doing various intel related things. They usually are contracted/assigned to R&D programs and departments though. I know I'd like to wind up...
  39. alavaz

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

    There are tons of PhD's in defense. I know we like to shit on it around here, but tons of innovation still happens in defense.
  40. alavaz

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

    I'd rather hear them talk about it. Like I said, I've worked with 20+ year "engineers" who would look very impressive on paper but couldn't troubleshoot their way out of a paper bag.