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  1. Captain Suave

    Home buying thread

    No. Failure to secure financing is one of the common contingencies on earnest money.
  2. Captain Suave

    Home buying thread

    Bird in hand, etc. When I sold my house I had two financed offers fall through despite that they were "pre-approved". I lost whatever other offers I had on the hook at the time and delayed sale by several months, incurring several thousand in carrying costs.
  3. Captain Suave

    The Astronomy Thread

    I can't wait to see the year 2400 blooper reel of this technology where the engagement clamp release timing fails and the spacecraft get launched back into Earth's surface at 40k mph. (Also, holy shit, the acceleration you'd experience as a passenger if you're talking going from airline cruise...
  4. Captain Suave

    Path of Exile

    I just got the same thing twice.
  5. Captain Suave

    Path of Exile

    I was just about to bitch about not having gotten anything despite having the stream open for the last day, but then I got an armor pack.
  6. Captain Suave

    Plotter Printing

    That's a simple enough shape that it's probably easiest to get a big piece of paper and reproduce it by hand with a straight edge and protractor. If that doesn't work and you absolutely need a paper template at low cost and are willing to tile it yourself you could try this, courtesey of...
  7. Captain Suave

    Parent Thread

    Something similar happened to me. I waited them out and my dad finally let me got to bed but said it still going to be the next thing I ate. I thought I was clever and got up at 5 AM to have some cereal. I spent like 20 minutes on pins and needles tip-toeing across the house obsessing over every...
  8. Captain Suave

    Parent Thread

    Sure you can. Lack of alternatives is a great motivator.
  9. Captain Suave

    Path of Exile

    Nice redesign on gem system.
  10. Captain Suave

    Path of Exile

    This guy is more nervous than I was on my first date.
  11. Captain Suave

    Game Streaming Services - Stadia, Geforce Now, xCloud, PS Now

    We're not in the future where hotels can deliver the necessary bandwidth anyway. I'm lucky if I can browse the web half the time.
  12. Captain Suave

    Parent Thread

    Same problem with my son. He'll eat a serving of broccoli the size of his head and then be on the toilet the entire next day.
  13. Captain Suave

    Parent Thread

    I choose their servings at meals. Provide veggies first, when they're hungry. No dessert/playtime until veggies are consumed. If they're really being bastards about it, veggies appear again, cold, at breakfast. By the time they're elementary age they'll actually like the greens. As for most...
  14. Captain Suave

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    In fairness, D3 is what happened when they didn't. Also, I have full confidence that this community can rise to the occasion and be the loudest group of retards on the internet.
  15. Captain Suave

    Homesteading and Hobby Farm/Ranch

    I hope your family is kitted out with hats for the next 10 generations.
  16. Captain Suave

    Parent Thread

    Also: - Working while half asleep - Driving while half asleep - Remembering fondly what it was like to have time to shop, cook, clean, do laundry - Keeping a list of shows you'd like to watch in 10 years when you have discretionary time again
  17. Captain Suave

    Death and... Taxes.

    I believe the limits apply to all parties on the joint application. You don't get any benefit from a spouse with a lower annual income (beyond the income, obviously). Everything else works that way.
  18. Captain Suave

    Losing your Parents

    Condolences. I lost my mom to cancer when she was 53 and I was 24. Don't make any permanent decisions with regard to the rest of your family. Even if they're pains in the ass those are the kinds of choices you might look back on differently, and as we've sadly seen here you never know exactly...
  19. Captain Suave

    The Astronomy Thread

    ^ Those things don't just spring leaks without catastrophic consequences. It's ~3400 degrees and 100 atm in the combustion chamber. Even the fuel lines running in are already pre-heated and pressurized by passing through the bell material first. The fuel itself is the coolant.
  20. Captain Suave

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    "Bad. Down. Kill." "Stay a while, and listen."
  21. Captain Suave

    Health Problems

    As much rest as possible and the standard PT exercises you can find online. I had a nasty case from martial arts and it took nearly a year to go away. For my case the best exercise was wrist extensor flexes. The finger contraction muscles were incredibly tight.
  22. Captain Suave

    Health Problems

    You can buy blood pressure monitors at any pharmacy, manual or automatic as you see fit. $50+ for a decent one.
  23. Captain Suave

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    I never understood why this kind of thing happens. There are effectively an infinite number of decent stories that could be told without immersion-breaking revisionist history. It certainly wasn't inherently required to move forward in D3.
  24. Captain Suave

    Home Improvement

    Lucky fuck. The few friends I do have are useless.
  25. Captain Suave

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    The sweet spot for ARPG stories is somewhere between Diablo, where the plot is bad enough to be distracting, and PoE, where I've played for hundreds of hours and still have no idea WTF is going on in the world.
  26. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    Blog-level journalism and sloppy analogies for sure, but I read that piece as a bit of a chuckle at that guy's exploitation of the system with a while providing sufficient information that this is a bad idea to actually do.
  27. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    The article did use the words "what amounts to free money" once, but they were otherwise pretty careful to say "unlimited borrowed money" and the spirit of the piece is definitely realistic about how infinite leverage can easily lead you to lose your shirt.
  28. Captain Suave

    Parent Thread

  29. Captain Suave

    Parent Thread

    My daughter is 4 and she still clings like a monkey to whoever comforted her the last time she fell down and denies everyone else.
  30. Captain Suave

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    In one of the streamer dev interviews the guy said straight up, "What you see here in this demo is literally everything we have." It's going to be a while.
  31. Captain Suave

    Parent Thread

    That's the idea. Of course, what kills pumpkins is mold from airborne spores. Edit: I will say it's heavily climate-dependent. When I lived in Boston I remember pumpkins lasting for several days with no special treatment. In LA now and you're lucky if they survive an afternoon.
  32. Captain Suave

    Parent Thread

    My wife read some bullshit that you can dip your pumpkin in bleach solution for preservation. As far as I can tell, it extended the life of the pumpkin by about the 45 minutes it took me to get all the shit together and clean up again.
  33. Captain Suave

    Health Problems

    Yeah, I'd just like to only enjoy the process once, since I'm currently 40 and stand pretty good odds of outliving the prosthesis. (Ditto for my knees which are also fucked.)
  34. Captain Suave

    Home Improvement

    Careful with those things in enclosed spaces. Ozone is toxic and those machines can create 5-10x the levels deemed hazardous. https://www.epa.gov/indoor-air-quality-iaq/ozone-generators-are-sold-air-cleaners
  35. Captain Suave

    Health Problems

    As someone who will need a hip replacement in 10 years, please go fuck yourself. I'd like to think about that as little as possible.
  36. Captain Suave

    MMA Thread

    The best kind of shit talk is unvarnished truth. While eating a pizza.
  37. Captain Suave

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    Apparently there are people like this, and others who upvote them: "Can you actually play single-player offline? If it's online only ala D3. I'll be skipping this one. " https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/11/diablo-iv-is-revealed-sure-looks-like-a-supercharged-diablo-ii/?comments=1&post=38199765
  38. Captain Suave

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    Because there were virtual riots the last time they didn't announce D4. It's lose/lose for them, really. The only thing that would make people happy is if the game were already out and either fully offline (people bitching on Ars Technica) or a MMO (other forums) or a third person loot shooter...
  39. Captain Suave

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    They can't win. This is one specific thing that people shat all over D3 for moving away from.