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My wife initiated with me. Good thing, too, because I had zero game.

For the curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toroidal_planet Noteworthy: "[There is] no firm theoretical understanding as to how toroidal planets could form naturally" For the super-curious, some math about the allowable geometries and speeds...

Sounds like this chick and drama-free are mutually exclusive.

Yes. Been living with my wife for almost 20 years and it keeps getting better. This is the way. Sounds like you aren't a good match. IMO if a relationship feels like work you should move on.

Are there any tech/review sites these days that aren't shoveling incomprehensible ChatGPT garbage over the transom? I'm looking at building a mid-range gaming PC for my kids but the sites I used to go to are either garbage or just straight advertisements.

This take suffers from lack of imagination and faith in technology, IMO. Synthetic meat is coming eventually just based on the fact that 80-98% of the feed energy invested in farming animal meat is wasted by the time you get to the end product. I don't think that even includes transportation...

*Cries in Los Angeles with good schools* $1.2M, minimum.

That's what I was going to suggest.

Never played Warframe, but yes, I'm allergic to buying shortcuts of any type. Loot, luck/drop/exp accelerators, etc. As far as the utility features, it depends on the game. Like porn, I'll know abusive design when I see it.

Anything P2W is an immediate hard nope from me. Likewise for anything approximating a stamina mechanics or gatcha. Fuck those cancerous ideas. I'll pay to remove ads, utility features like stash tabs, or very occasionally cosmetics. Even better, give me a demo and a fair price for the whole...

It cost him about $8500, designed and built himself, some used parts.

Jesus fuck imagine trying to score this.

We were looking at options for adding to our house, got similar ~$500k quotes for putting a few rooms on top of our existing 2200 sq ft. That was way out of budget and would also take 18 months optimistically with a year of prep for engineering, plans, and permitting.

I can count on probably one hand the number of high runes I found myself in however many hundreds of hours of DII I've played. They were always available for trade, though it was never clear to me how many of those were duped or not.

*checks calendar* ??

Also dumb. I vastly preferred stat-based item restrictions.

Sunset the systems, fine, but let me keep the gear. I couldn't possibly give less of a shit about the cosmetics. With the lighting and desaturated pallete you can't see anything beyond the silhouette anyway.

Meh, fuck these seasons with ephemeral gear. Who gives a shit about power bloat on the eternal realm? Are they worried that someone might have too much fun or have fun the wrong way? If I played for something, I want to keep it. I don't have the time or inclination to build new characters over...

"Sorta questionable"? This acidic/alkiline diet shit is outright quackery. Motherfuckers never heard of homeostasis. If you could change your body pH through diet in any meaningful way we'd all be dead. He's worried about "acidic foods" and his stomach pH is 1.5...

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/07/valve-says-steam-games-cant-use-ai-models-trained-on-copyrighted-works/

This just means than 66% of people were idiots and 30% of people are irredeemable idiots, which should surprise no one.

It might not violate any laws of physics in abstract, but for a planet of any meaningful size I'm sure it requires material with impossible strengths in order to keep it from collapsing to its center of mass.

Running a guild in EQ (Paradigm, Sol Ro) sure taught me some formative lessons - namely that I have no future interest whatsoever in leadership positions. I'll fucking gouge my own eyes out before I again attempt to corral 40 ADHD neckbeards towards a common goal. Other than that, EQ was a big...

I never see YouTube ads by virtue of my hosts file. If they block me for that I guess I'm going to stop watching youtube. The mobile experience is fucking cancerous by comparison.

I use my daughter as a weightlifting program. I guess I'll have to start steroids if she gets too heavy for me to pick up.

I just read an article that passed my gut check saying that, on average, by the time your kids are 12 you'll have spent 75% of the time with them that you ever will, and by 18 it's 90%. I'm not trying to rub it in for you, lurk, but rather highlight that those of us with kids at home should...

First rule of forecasting - never give a number and a date at the same time.

In some ways it's worse than that. The swords probably weren't mislabeled initially but the mapping index of models to labels is offset by one. Rookie coding and no QA.

Neimann's lawsuit vs Magnus, Chess.com, and Hikaru dismissed with prejudice on grounds of jurisdiction. https://www.reuters.com/legal/carlsen-chesscom-beat-niemanns-100-mln-suit-over-cheating-scandal-2023-06-27/

10%, proportionally speaking

Or reflect, most likely.

Is that the only life steal item in the game?

It's an infrared telescope. All the images will look weird to laypeople. The point is science, not pictures you find pretty.

There's a discussion in the video about floors. tldw; it will look good and repel water and floor finishes rely on the strength of the wood anyway. Don't expect scratch protection. I think Matt Cremona is using Rubio on the floors if his new house? Check his channel.

A pretty good roundup of hard wax finishes: (tldw; some of new, cheaper finishes seem like much better values than Rubio)

IMO it's the other way around. There's no reason to play S1 because they're very unlikely to add enough content to make that experience more worthwhile than this one. I plan on playing my first character till I get bored and then revisiting in a year or two, unless the seasonal content wildly...

Skim back in this thread a bit. These models are best thought of as really fancy autocomplete algorithms and are not reasoning or calculation engines. At least in the current generation of ChatGPT there is no executive oversight that goes back and makes sure that rigorously factual claims are...

Exactly this. When I get bored of my first character I don't see myself starting a second expressly because almost none of my work transfers over short of a few skill points. In D2 (and other games) you can be constantly acquiring gear that inspires alt play even if it doesn't help your primary...

I like the first one. Very Dr Strange-ish but I think the color balance is better.