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That was hilarious from a grappling perspective, and exactly what I meant when I said the techniques you train don't always work on people with non-standard bodies. His opponent tried to close his guard a couple times and attempted a half guard position that would have controlled Zion, except...

I filled up my Suburban for:

Heinlein did it better. That list has the same shit repeated 4-5 times.

What even is the Torchlight IP at this point? They use some of the same names and design aesthetics, but they've totally retconned the entire setting from the first two games. Torchlight was the name of a town, not a superhero co-op. The game itself played great, but given that it's basically a...

No.

Yeah. What we see is the market speaking. Maybe the market is a moron, but there it is. People do all kinds of voluntary stupid shit, but that doesn't mean it should be illegal.

I don't see anyone siding with the companies here. I hate that shit as much as you do, but regulation is not the right response. The right response is to stop giving these fuckers money.

So, when the parents fuck up. (Also, these days you need pwd/biometric confirmation for in-app purchases.) I'm not saying it's admirable for companies to do this kind of targeting, but it's entirely avoidable if you pay a small amount of attention. It's their job to be educated when it comes...

Or solo 401k, yeah. They're equivalent at the extreme, but for lower income levels the 401k lets you front-load faster. I have both.

One nice thing about being self-employed is I can put away 100% up to the 401k max and then match myself 25% off the top after that up to $66k. Obviously I need the raw income to do that, but if it's a good year I get to stuff a lot away tax-free.

Nothing of value would be lost. I'm not recommending legislating it away, but I sure do wish people exercised more discipline and just didn't buy that shit. That is absolutely about kid control. I could give my kids all my devices, passwords, and biometrics and they would never in a million...

It's going to be 80 tomorrow here in LA. We've had the windows open all day.

A follow-up here in case anyone cares: Never believe anything private equity tells you. Apparently the PE owners of my wife's firm had been bullshitting everyone, buyer and employees, and stripping the company of cash prior to the sale. They walked giving themselves bonuses and snuck out the...

Same. I'm rolling 8 years of my wife's 401k into an IRA right now. I'm fine with things staying down for a bit.

At this point I don't even have time to watch the whole event, at least live. I just watch the good fights the next day.

It could just means the job is replaceable by AI, which a lot of low-tier white collar jobs probably will be in the next 10-20 years. When it matures, this kind of tech is going to eliminate most legal research work, for example. Instant context-appropriate summaries of case law, etc. It's...

Agreed. He is not getting the answer of an attorney interested in getting the resolution he wants. An attorney trying to get the client's result would be immediately helping to escalate instead of "idk tough shit not my problem". I'm close friends with several lawyers, including a family law...

I was just at the Smithsonian with my kids. The scale doesn't really come through here. These fuckers were up to 80 feet long and 70 tons. No swimming for me.

All that extra currency might be good for something finally. (Edit: Heh, yeah, just made all the new weapons without a perceptible dent in the bank.)

I got those for my wife last xmas. She loves them. Similarly stupid hats:

I really don't think this is how it works. You need some second opinions. You can't legally get off the hook for your obligations, especially those imposed by the state, by hiding from the court.

Pass. This is sounding just like the first movie, which was so memorable that I couldn't tell you a single character name at gunpoint. I don't need to pay to see a three hour rendering tech demo.

I was about to say he's smarter than that and definitely set it up as consensual, but then I remembered he's Jake Shields and in the Diaz crew, so... At least he didn't broadcast the video of the start of the engagement.

Actually a decent simple gift idea for the non-ebook luddites in your life. I'm going to make one for my dad.

If I were giving my kids a general purpose, Internet-enabled device but only wanted them to use a single service, I'd probably use MAC address filtering on my router to restrict those devices to whatever Google/YouTube domains are required. (And don't get cell service for them, obviously.) If...

Control in what sense? There's a lot less trouble to get into without an internet connection, and basically none if it's a single-purpose MP3 player. Do you want to limit the amount of time they listen to music? If so, why? How old are the kids?

In a lot of ways this kind of match is unfair to the non-handicapped guy. You see it in wrestling occasionally. If the legless dude can get a hold on his opponent, he's got the clinch strength of a competitor 2-4 weight classes higher since his mass is all arms and chest. A lot of the opponent's...

My son and I ended up making a base in the mistlands. Without spoiling anything, it's significantly easier to set up there due to certain features of the biome and types of materials which are locally available compared to needing to be imported.

They added crossbows, which I think are a bit OP. There's a slowish crank time during which you can't run/jump and stamina doesn't regen, but once cranked you can wait to fire at will and the bolts have no arc over distance. Huge damage, too. Overall it seems easier to dodge, hit, and harder to...

Per video description: "With zero game development experience, I'm learning unreal engine from scratch and picking up any other skills that I can along the way" It's just some dude fucking around for edutainment, not a serious project.

Yeah, you can't just hide to avoid lawsuits. The process server will give their "best effort" and then the court will figure out how to proceed from there. Certified mail, posting on the door of residence, local paper, etc. Link pertains to debt collection, but same process applies...

My son and I are into the Mistlands finally. I think they did a stellar job with this update. Walk forward as you parry. You'll be knocked back less and still be in range, even for power attacks with slow weapons.

When I was younger I thought I could remember every detail of everything. Now the buffer is full and/or my brain is aging. I used to re-read previous works for each new addition, but now with work and family and the insane volume of modern entertainment media production I don't have time for...

It's a pretty neat set of experiments. Some limitations, though:

I never bother. My credit score is perennially 790 because, although my record is perfect, I don't utilize "enough" credit. But then again I don't utilize credit, so who cares? It doesn't make a material difference in mortgage applications, which is about the only credit I'd ever use.

I think we are actually agreeing. What I am taking about is your complaint in the first part of the quote. Bottom line, the devs have to pick a number, say for item acquisition rates. That number can be friendlier to isolated players or tuned to some vision of what it's like to play in a larger...

I like that one. It generates a gnarly amount of torque. Dude should have tapped way earlier. Most normal people will give up before the hand even gets behind the torso.

I do the Citi card from Costco. Put everything I can on it and never carry a balance. Reward rate varies based on what you spend on. For our patterns we get 1.5-2% back net, which is ~$1000 a year cash after paying for our Costco membership. 20% APR? Jesus fuck.

I don't mean comparable as in identical, just that the game content should be realistically achievable regardless of how you play it. In most of the popular ARPGs so far the SSF players face a fairly stiff penalty by comparison because the progress rate/endgame is balanced around a trading economy.