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    Investing General Discussion

    People are / were buying new construction because that is all they could get. I'll put my finances out there. Rent raised from 1300 to 2200..so we started looking for a home. There is no guarantee that rent didn't keep exploding, so we had no choice. My budget range was about 200k for a...
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    Investing General Discussion

    I don't know how accurate this info is, but there is a gentleman that purchased 4 houses near us who said he raised all the rents because the govt raised their subsidized rates. According to him, quite a few of his tenants qualify for some sort of govt program and they now guarantee roughly...
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    Investing General Discussion

    I feel like some people figured they had no choice at this time. The nature of my job and trying to progress upwards meant, in theory, that renting was the best option. However, the rent on the home we were living in went from $1300 to $2200 over the course of 2 years...and the entire area...
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    What are you playing?

    Was Crystalis on Sega? I thought it was on NES
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    Steam deck portable handheld gaming PC from Valve

    Well, bought a Rog Ally. Very frustrating experience so far and a SD is not even a concern. Downloaded Everspace 2. In the tutorial you have to do a barrel roll. The combinations of button presses do not correlate with any buttons on the screen, so stuck there. Downloaded Last Epoch. Get...
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    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    This is certainly the fastest I've ever lost interest in an arpg. Can't believe how boring the game gets so quickly. There is no way in remote hell I would want to replay the entire game again for a different season. Playing through once was ok for what it was, but it just boils down to the...
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    Steam deck portable handheld gaming PC from Valve

    So I dont know much about either of these machines. The smaller screen is hard for me to enjoy most games these days, as I am spoiled with large screens and surround sound. However, I think I wouldnt mind playing MAME emulated games, as well as a few from the PS2-PS3 era...mainly NBA Street...
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    Desktop Computers

    I think you can pick out parts and have someone put it together for you if that's the route you need to take.
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    World of Warcraft: Classic

    So as far as classic goes, do you prefer Classic or Wrath Classic? I stopped playing during Cata, so figure I might give this a run until the next set of games come out that I want to play.
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    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    Won't it be on Xbox game pass and you can play it on PC for basically free?
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    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    70 to 100 was completely unnecessary. 30 levels of complete boredom and very little in item chasing.
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    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    I really felt that impact on Last Epoch. Even though it had zero multi-player at the time, there was the ability for global chat. The game seemed alive with it, and I didn't really realize how much of an impact it made until it was disabled for a few weeks for a fix.
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    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    For a seasonal game, sure sounds like almost zero reason to even play the season. Am I to assume that the codex powers do transfer over for the eternal and following season tools? I sure see no incentive to eve play S1.
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    Lost Ark Online

    This is what matters the most. While Lost Ark was one of my top games I was looking forward to, I ended up disliking almost everything about it except the combat. If you are having fun with it, that's all that counts. I wish I could find a title that I could stick with for awhile, but almost...
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    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    At the end of the day, even for a filthy casual as myself, the game starts going rapidly downhill after the campaign finishes. 1-50 I felt was fairly solid and then 50 - 70 you could see progress. Everything post 70 is not fun at all since you hardly ever get excited to see a drop. 70-100 (...
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    Games You Regret Spending Time On?

    All MMOs. My first entry was Everquest and ended up dedicating every free minute of my existence in either playing, or reading forums about it. Played end game with the #2 guild on our server and never missed a raid. Wow was the same thing...class leader for the top guild on the server and...
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    Guild Wars 2

    I really enjoyed the original GW2 zones and leveling, but I went back and tried the expansions and couldnt stand them. The mounts are pretty amazing, but running around in a zerg for all 3 zones and having mostly group content running from point to point for 20 mins per event wasnt my cup of tea.
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    Everquest TLP - Aradune and Rizlona Servers (Now with real customer service)

    Do people just not burn out of this? I assume a majority of Progression server players keep jumping to the newest progression servers as they are released. How does this maintain anyone's interest over time? Every strat and secret is known, there is no more mystery at all. How do yall guys...
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    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    I'm a filthy casual, and yet I find myself agreeing with most people in this thread on both the positives and the negatives. I have 2 classes to 50+ and don't really see a carrot dangling for me anymore. I did enjoy playing through the game, but I'm not sure I'd find the appeal in repeating...
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    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    I will add that a few of the people that are the most vocal about how bad it is, cant seem to log off... I only get a few hours a day to play, and when I log in randomly at 8pm, and maybe again for an hour before work at 5am, and then when I get off of work around 2:30pm.....I see the same...
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    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    I am far from a fanboy of any game developer, so I can view this with an open mindset. I saw alot of hate on this game, didnt play a single minute of beta, didnt watch videos etc... I am really glad I tried to play it. Had I listened to so many reviews and opinions about how much shit this...
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    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    Thats on par with Indiana as well. A footlong combo is now $16+. Average #1 combo at any random fast food place is $11-$12, Portillos is $16, Panda Express is now $15 or so. Trip for 3 to Dairy Queen is now $30+. You can get a full meal at Texas Roadhouse with a meat and 2 sides and...
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    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    I don't understand everyone here batching about a cost. We have been spoiled over the last 5 years + with all the steam sales , Xbox game pass, Playstation pass etc. I used to spend $1000+ a year on gaming easy and now I have access to hundreds of titles for $15 a month. This is one of the...
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    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    My memory could be wrong, but reminds me of Voldeth and the Lost Ark thread. He joined the thread talking about how easy the game was, how it wasn't worth it, how he had put a ton of time on a foreign server and he just might happen to play NA launch casually. Turns out he had 2 level 50s...
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    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    Hope this game is fun. I haven't followed it at all, but can't seem to find any enjoyment out of single player games anymore. Which is strange because the multi-player games I do play, I'm usually solo 95% of the time. It's like Last Epoch and their chat channel before multi-player. I have...
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    Lost Ark Online

    There are more bots in that game than there are real players. The fact that a new player could log in and never interact with a real player prior to max level is fucking awful. You can watch 100s of bots running a lvl 1-50 script, so most new potential players just newp right on out. I was so...
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    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    Well, We did just have about 99% of all the world governments , all tech, and all the science communities come together and fabricate fucking Covid and ran with it in lock step. The idea that something couldnt happen because "X" number of people would have to be involved has had it ships sail...
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    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    I've been in the food and beverage industry over 20 years. At no time are tipped employees paid less than federal minimum wage. Sure, their hourly rate was $2.13 an hr, but the wages they received for working far outweighed the $4.25 - $7.25 that it had been since the early 90s. If a server...
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    Nintendo Switch (previously NX)

    I am certain I'm not the only one, but I am not buying a new machine that has 1/3rd the power of current consoles to play only 2 to 3 titles. Nintendo has some great exclusives and IPs, but to play only 2 to 3 titles and then be forced to buy another new Nintendo console to play the next 2 or 3...
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    Nintendo Switch (previously NX)

    I really wish Nintendo would go the Sega route and just publish games and forget the hardware. Nintendo still has some of the best IPs on the market, but are drastically held back due to hardware limitations in my opinion. Also, the games come out at such a snail pace, that I know I might not...
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    Investing General Discussion

    I don't believe a single number the govt releases about anything. There is no way I am convinced the labor participation rate is going up. Just in my God forsaken industry, you can see businesses suffering every day due to lack of staff. I have a contract with Coke, but they can't find enough...
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    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    No clue why I remember this... But the first and only time I was allowed to call that Nintendo Power hotline was with that spot in Castlevania 2 where you had to kneel down at an exact spot at a river in order for the zone to open up below it. That shit had to have been between...
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    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    Im not going to shill for any particular game, but I find some complaints rather interesting. Every ARPG ever made has a boring end game. D2 was endless Meph / Pendle / Baal runs...or cows. D3 was rift, rift, rift, rift,rift again. PoE is run the exact same fucking maps over and over until...
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    Last Epoch

    Which class / builds did you end up liking the most? I pushed rogue marksman / vk autobomber to 100 and currently have a 96 paladin hammer smite build rolling....like all 3 for various reasons.
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    Last Epoch

    Most people take the extreme approach one way or the other. Some people feel that you cant like multiple games in the same genre for some reason. or that one has to be a clear cut winner and the other games are trash. You could purchase this game and get from level 1 to the end game without...
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    Last Epoch

    Must not have played PoE then. You had to farm currency to remove each skill point. However, it only takes a handful of monolith or arena runs to get 5 to 6 levels of your skill back. You could probably take a skill from 1 to 20 in 30 mins or so at the higher levels. Why that mechanic really...
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    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    I don't see why people can't enjoy each game for what it is. I played PoE up to lvl 90 about 3x, bought some stash tabs etc. I enjoyed the time I spent there, but got toward the end game and despised it. Not the games fault, it was just not what I preferred...so I quit. I personally don't...
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    There isn't a single person on this forum that thinks Pantheon will ever release. Watching this dumpster fire of a game be put together is more entertaining than the game could ever be. Every update is comical because people are on the edge of their seats trying to predict just how much...
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    They are following in true Everquest footsteps. Isn't that what everyone wanted? I remember numerous people dying at the forges in EQ2. Getting damaged while using tradeskills is a copy of a feature from back in 2004ish.
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    Last Epoch

    While some may disagree, I feel like it's a good time to be an ARPG fan. Everyone has their personal favorites for whatever reason. What I am excited about is that you have several great quality arpgs out there now and none really seem to be trying to compete with each other. No matter what...