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  1. Deathwing

    Keyboards & Mice

    Been loving my new mechanical keyboard, not sure how I got by on rubber domes all these years. Well, actually, I didn't, I could feel my typing degrading over time, especially as my keyboard(from 2001) got older and older. Anyway, that aside, time to upgrade my ancient MX518 mouse. I'm...
  2. Deathwing

    Hearthstone

    This brawl is a great idea with bad execution. The matches are way too lopsided to see your hard theorycraft put to any value. I played shaman hex/far sight/lava burst versus a rogue that was just continually shadowstepping a novice engineer. All I could think was that I was eventually going...
  3. Deathwing

    Most underrated and overrated movies ever

    Where did I say it was just a mindless action movie?
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    I don't mean to be negative, but that was one of the reasons I left IBM. Lots of old people, which by itself is not a bad thing. Experienced people is usually a good thing. But it's indicative of a work force that's not seeing a lot of new blood. What happens when those people start...
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    Most underrated and overrated movies ever

    To be fair, most major movies have little substance too. Rare is the "thinker" movie. The problem with Fight Club is that kinda plays at making you think it has some meaningful message or commentary when it mostly doesn't. It's mostly unique in style, presentation, soundtrack, and quotability...
  6. Deathwing

    What do you do?

    What was consensus' username on the old board?
  7. Deathwing

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    That seems like something a doctor would be able to answer.
  8. Deathwing

    Hearthstone

    vS Data Reaper Report #17 - Vicious Syndicate (vS)
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    Hearthstone

    Elemental Destruction + Volcanic Drake deals with mechwarper/metaltooth very well.
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    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    Treating trex like a simpleton is never out of date. Also, hopelessly futile.
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    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    The internet has made even your own house unsafe from your lecherous thoughts. Seriously though, I'm in a profession with few women and I still run across a fair amount that I want to fuck. Even just friends of the wife. You can't avoid this shit. Just learn to handle it properly.
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    What do you do?

    Nah, it's definitely based on yearly performance reviews. Standard procedure for all companies I've been employed. I look especially good here because it's hard to find smart programmers that are motivated to do software test engineering. See my response above. My position is not nearly...
  13. Deathwing

    What do you do?

    As in, approximately that amount year to year? Seems like it, so far. I've been with the company under 3 years, so this is my second raise so far.
  14. Deathwing

    Divinity: Original Sin 2

    Hmmm, trying to determine the ideal party comp then(because that's who I am, I just can't "play" a game). 2 warriors, 2 mages? Rogues, melee or ranged, fit in there at all?
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    Most underrated and overrated movies ever

    Drive is underrated?
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    What do you do?

    Some people I talk to say 5% is good, some say it's barely above inflation. To play devil's advocate, if we say bumped it to 10%. 10% yty(I got 5% last year too) will spiral out of control pretty quickly. This is the frustrating part of trying to objectively judge whether I'm being paid...
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    Divinity: Original Sin 2

    I couldn't even find the other thread for the original game, so I'm posting here. But happy to move if someone points out where it is. Been playing through a couple restarts of this game and it seems like combat is dominated by status effects. To that end, I'm trying to understand the point...
  18. Deathwing

    What do you do?

    My happiness is subjective, so I'm trying to leave that out of the equation. For now at least, not trying to say that shouldn't factor in eventually. As for your first question, I guess that's what I'm trying to answer.
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    What do you do?

    5%, regular old raise, no extra responsibilities or whatever.
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    What do you do?

    And how would one go about fixing that? I would love to be able to objectively measure the raise I just received so I can act on it accordingly(look for new job or not), but I just don't know how to think whether the raise was good enough or not.
  21. Deathwing

    Hearthstone

    This was news to me, so I thought I'd post it here just in case anyone else had similar misconceptions: Ben Brode on Standard 2017 - If Things Won't Change Enough, We'll Tweak It I think everyone knew BRM and TGT will rotate out next. The surprise to me is that LoE will as well.
  22. Deathwing

    Hearthstone

    I was extrapolating the amount of dust(400 from dupe legendary and 40 * 10 from the packs) into how much it would cost to "pick" your own legendary.
  23. Deathwing

    Hearthstone

    It's likely a decent deal to round out your collection for cards you'd never craft. But, at the same time, would you pay $10 for pick your own legendary? Maybe.
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    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    Firiona Vie, obviously.
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    Hearthstone

    800 dust for $5? Eh...maybe? Welcome the Welcome Bundle! For those who can't read at work, you get 10 classic packs + a classic class legendary for $5. Anyone remember the pity timer for epics? I know it's 40 packs for legendaries.
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    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    Not shaving your legs is only a problem if the guy notices before you point out it to him. In which case, she probably needs to shave her arms and mustache too, so... Frenzied fucks porn stars, you guys need to get on his level instead of trying to pull him down.
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    Most underrated and overrated movies ever

    So overrated, I had to look it up and still not sure I know which movie you're referring to. I like Fight Club, I'm sure for many people on this board, it debuted when many of us were older teens, so it gets some nostalgia bonus. But I can also agree that it's overrated. It's an extremely...
  28. Deathwing

    What do you do?

    The people deciding whether a candidate is worth interviewing in person rarely ever have to deal with the financial consequences of that decision.
  29. Deathwing

    Hearthstone

    Pre KZ, that would have been a terrible bet to take. Fewer warriors and nobody expecting freeze mage since it's been out of the meta for so long....maybe. But any deck even approaching 60+ percent win rate in Legend seems impossible.
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    His email and phone should have been on the resume.
  31. Deathwing

    Hearthstone

    Molten Giant, Echo of Medivh, Ice Block. Rarety is not so important for how often it gets offered, but for how often specific cards get offered. Run a deck tracker and take note how often you get beat by someone with commons and rares. Epics and Legendaries do not guarantee you quality.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I wasn't into raiding at that point, so my memory is hazy. Was 4H 1.0 unkillable too?
  33. Deathwing

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Oh, Sadris wanted lots of CC, ok. I misinterpreted M'uru to mean (over)tuned tight as fuck.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Surely you mean C'Thun 1.0?
  35. Deathwing

    Hearthstone

    No golden cards in arena, I would definitely appreciate that one. And that's been echoed a lot by others I get your point about using your collection, I've definitely thought that myself and...idk. Like, I don't see the monthly reward as motivation enough to play constructed by itself...
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    Hearthstone

    But you would still keep them if you got them in a random pack? Yeah, I guess arena isn't worth it if you've run out of effective uses for dust. I'm not really sure constructed is doing much for you collection either outside of the monthly reward either, though. Which you should be...
  37. Deathwing

    Hearthstone

    Good suggestions overall. I disagree with your supposition about mediocre rewards once you have near full collection. Once you get close to having all cards, the chance that a pack will randomly give you a card you need is very low. Thus the extra dust you get from playing arena is much more...
  38. Deathwing

    Hearthstone

    Charge and rampage are both ok cards, so likely a wash there in card value. In the context of the other cards also removed though, you'll notice that there aren't any other worse common class cards left. Aside from maybe Ironforge Portal, but they aren't going to remove that. So, after...
  39. Deathwing

    Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

    It's not really dead in the sense that you can't grind with it. I believe it's currently not the best barb build for pushing grifts. But farming lower grifts and rifts? Still quite good at that. I'm pretty sure you can complete the season journey with any class's four sets.
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    Hearthstone

    Good idea and while they removed a lot of the stinker cards from the not Rogue or Mage classes, I'm not sure the cards they removed from Rogue and Mage do much because they aren't part of the KZ offering bonus. Undercity Valiant and Goblin Auto Barber *used* be deck defining because you could...