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  1. Vaclav

    Dark Souls

    I've never bothered with parrying on Gwyn, definitely doable without.
  2. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    While possible, it's also equally possible she guesses that on all new patients. Esp if your provider includes a start date on it. (Medicare does, forget if any standard did) Many of the new policies in the past 2-3 months are likely ACA.
  3. Vaclav

    Smartphones

    Oh I've got a good number of 2x2x4 plastic boxes with mine, plus some monitors to the side even a still functional 1994 Sony VET I got around the time I moved in with the now wife. And this is after gifting tons, etc. Having 2 computer users in the house and 2 family that use me exclusively...
  4. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    And did they do anything different because of it? And I do find that to be hard to believe though unless your state is really low enrollment, max binder size is 10k policies unless that's a state requirement I've confused as an insurer one - so she'd be memorizing a ton of them if so. Heck...
  5. Vaclav

    Smartphones

    Yea N5 price with my conundrum is tempting, but really prefer the idea of having one that will last me 5 yrs in theory - I see about 20% odds on N5 being usable for most apps in 2019, M8 I see around 50-60% assuming battery life degradation is serviceable which I assume it is. Especially with a...
  6. Vaclav

    Dark Souls 2

    Broken Thief Sword +10 OTW
  7. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    No means for them to identify them differently to my knowledge, cards look identical to me. And on them refusing it's illegal under the ACA to discriminate policy holders within a carrier anyhow, so if they barred BCBS ACA plans, they'd have to bar standard ones also. Or in short, it's either...
  8. Vaclav

    Smartphones

    Already did the PM stuff. Just with the numbers I was seeing was all risk no reward. Not that I think a Tyen incident recurring is likely but didn't see where a median could be missed, equation could work out positive from what he saw so... And on VZW depending on the area the network is...
  9. Vaclav

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Noodle: Watch out you might bother him so much he'll buy a Scrooge McDuck vault of PS4s to swim through.
  10. Vaclav

    Smartphones

    Eh? IR doesn't operate through walls does it? Got a odd pass through window between them or something, or am I wrong to think walls block?
  11. Vaclav

    Smartphones

    I'll accept your help Tarrant just worried about a repeat of Tyen stuff again z especially since I can't see where I'm missing something. Seemed all risk if Tyen or another hacker struck with no potential upside, you seem to think there's room to improve I and the other Sprint agents overlooked...
  12. Vaclav

    Smartphones

    No unlimited data they'd offered me with framily, lost it with the switch in fact. But yea if you're not doing 2 yr upgrades or a 7+ framily it could work out ok. As my plan stands right now doing the upgrade will cost me $12/mo more to save $200 over the term. $69/yr more after factoring out...
  13. Vaclav

    Smartphones

    Remote functions on phone with proper app support are awesome without it, with should be better with more devices. (I.e. TiVo app)
  14. Vaclav

    Smartphones

    Whoops got it backwards I guess. And on "liking" Sprint, I don't get dropped calls like AT&T and VZW used to in my travel areas. Never tried TMo though.
  15. Vaclav

    Smartphones

    Reviews have quoted getting 2 days of actual use out of the M8 is doable. Don't think galaxy had IR blasters for full universal did it? DOF/2 cameras makes it a little harder to compare the camera nonfirsthand - the shots I tested it with in store were gorgeous, but not messed with S5 to...
  16. Vaclav

    Smartphones

    Little more complicated than that, universal remote is cool, the dotview case is incredible, battery is longer, better looks as well, and Google Play edition already on the table. Also camera is getting varying reports depending on the reviewer.
  17. Vaclav

    Smartphones

    Comparatively speaking vs subsidized, yea it is. And just burnt up over no middle ground, I've been CS or CS adjacent almost all of my working years - not one case can I recall a "Oh they misinformed you? Too bad" that I basically got when you parse it down to the meat of it. Hell, my brother...
  18. Vaclav

    Smartphones

    Yep it sure is, handled one tonight at the VZW store (although not getting one with VZW) definitely want one - just gotta decide what carrier if Sprint doesn't come around on honoring a misstatement their rep apparently had made to me. (Wife and I switched to framily with her parents - while on...
  19. Vaclav

    The Walking Dead

    Wife watches it while I multitask, as a background program with partial attention it's perfectly fine to me.
  20. Vaclav

    Smartphones

    Looks like I'll be going for the HTC One M8 next week or so with the data available. Seems like the best choice for longevity right now, right? (Battery life plus time til it will feel like it needs an upgrade plus durability)
  21. Vaclav

    Dark Souls 2

    Was so disappointed when I realized enchantments for poison and bleed weren't allowed for bows, buying good arrows is for the birds.
  22. Vaclav

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Give remote to wife, give wife voice commands, profit. She also makes sandwiches plus more.
  23. Vaclav

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Nod, there's been better in the past, my upgrade time was something like $35 with a $10 credit the next month IIRC, but with PS4 part of the party now, got a hunch the crazy deals are gonna be a smidge less crazy. $35 next time I need to update I'd be content with.
  24. Vaclav

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    And with a much better controller, I think I'll actually prefer that part to the resolution adjustments.
  25. Vaclav

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Year I assume? That was a killer price.
  26. Vaclav

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    What is? PS4 looks available ATM here (Amazon) at retail.
  27. Vaclav

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Probably, but it would be more productive - drama tends to inspire entertainment while reducing productivity. Angel: Mostly in the same boat with XB1 here - i.e. part of my "FPS centric isn't a good business model" stuff earlier was out of personal desire - I know I'll eventually see...
  28. Vaclav

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Leaving most stuff alone and curbing the worst of the worst isn't bad moderation most places... much less awful.
  29. Vaclav

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    meStevo: I agree, at this point separate threads would likely be more productive.
  30. Vaclav

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    You've got an odd definition of hidden since they were in plain sight. Not that PC vs PS4 means much without the PC specs they were likely badass but no one knows for sure that I've seen.
  31. Vaclav

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    He's being slow on the third use, it'll be even better that time. And Column, you didn't read what I'd said to mkopec clearly. I was directly stating it wouldn't make sense if they weren't into FPSs, to directly imply it could make sense if they were. Wife and I are dual income, no kids so...
  32. Vaclav

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I was quoting you for their future focus being FPS, and I've not backpedaled at all - you just can't fucking read. And looking on Amazon for titles with actual solid release dates, you know what they've got coming out before the end of the year that's exclusive? JUST Kinect stuff. 3/5 of your...
  33. Vaclav

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Read back in the thread - Column was claiming that XB1 in a better system for FPS focused gamers - as if that was a good business model to only court one audience. (call it a niche or whatever you want) Right now what he was claiming would be analogous to saying the Year 1 PS3 library issues...
  34. Vaclav

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Would XB1 being FPS-only be better phrased as it's a niche console then? Regardless of the nitpicking nonsense over the word NICHE - the point was that it's not a healthy ecosystem for the XB1 to be a FPS only system. Niche has such a flexible use across different markets perhaps I'm too used...
  35. Vaclav

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    When it's the only thing a system has to hold as a claim, yes it is. 21% when you're looking at the full market absolutely is a niche. (FYI, when I was saying it my guess would've been around 20%) XB1 dominates 21.2% of the demographics there, Wii 8.6%, and PS4 roughly 70% when it comes to...
  36. Vaclav

    Community

    Depends on how big of a table you do and how many people are familiar with the system, at alot of the cons around here 10+ person games with the GM handling rolls aren't that odd. And there were a TON of people in that party.
  37. Vaclav

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Any single genre is going to be a small niche - don't the biggest niches only have something like a 20% adoption rate? That's the point. FPS are a fraction of the whole market. If you're losing sales on "Adventure", "Platformers", "Indies", "RPGs", and all the other categories to dominate in...
  38. Vaclav

    Dark Souls 2

    axeman last page ranted pretty hard against pure magic builds.
  39. Vaclav

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I'm not sure on COD technically - but perhaps - but it's still a really small niche even if there was three dozen FPS. (Not to mention same MP focused titles in the same genre cannibalize the base from each other... COD loses people to Titanfall that will lose people to the next) It's like...
  40. Vaclav

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Halo is the only real argument there and MAYBE CoD because of mass adoption versus best platform. Rest are thriving on PC - while performing better on PC with more precise control.