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  1. Joeboo

    Apple agrees to buy headphone maker Beats for $3bn

    I can't speak to Beats specifically, but most brands of headphones/earbuds work on insane profit margins. When I worked at Best Buy one summer, we could buy anything at cost, and cost on a $20 set of ear buds or headphones would generally be under $2. And that's Best Buys cost, the actual...
  2. Joeboo

    Penny Dreadful

    Yep, the 3rd episode was by far the weakest so far. Pretty boring overall. Hope it's just a bump in the road and not a steady decline from this point on, after the first 2 amazing episodes.
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    Home Improvement

    Yeah, that does suck. 1 deductible for your broken car window/vandalism damage, then another deductible for your stolen items off your home policy. It also really sucks if you ever accidentally drive your own car into your garage door and damage it(that happens a LOT). 1 deductible for your...
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    Home Improvement

    That is your personal property though, it wouldn't have covered the car itself being stolen. Your personal property, no matter where it is at (home, work, school, in your car, on vacation, etc) is going to be covered off of your homeowners policy. Alternately, your car insurance covers NOTHING...
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    Home buying thread

    Just know thathttp://www.annualcreditreport.comwill give you a copy of your report to see details as far as credit lines, debts, collections, etc, but you will not get an actual credit score. There's pretty much no free source for getting your exact credit score from one of the 3 bureaus...
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    Home Improvement

    I'm not sure about all states, but in my state, sewer backup is not covered by default on most homeowners policy. You have to add an extra endorsement that's usually refers to something like "backup of sewer and sump-pump failure". Basically, insurance policies cover no water that comes in...
  7. Joeboo

    What do you do?

    Seriously, some people are just worthless fucks and will lie to your face about doing something that you request. Email is great because you can totally shame them into doing their damn job by CC'ing in their boss/supervisor, or CC'ing in their entire department/team, something of that sort...
  8. Joeboo

    The Fast Food Thread

    It all evens out though, because us lucky bastards here in the midwest have cheaper steak than the coasts. I love seafood, but I eat steak/beef a hell of a lot more often than I eat seafood(although maybe I wouldn't if I lived elsewhere, who knows) Although the best deal I ever saw was when...
  9. Joeboo

    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Are you cooking with chicken that still has the skin on, or off(like skinless/boneless breasts)? Chicken with the skin still left on, while tasting WAY better when you fry it, does tend to make the breading come off in large chunks, as it's mostly stuck to the easily removable skin, rather...
  10. Joeboo

    Dark Souls 2

    That plus only being able to upgrade them via Twinkling Tantanite/Petrified Dragon Bones has kept me from really upgrading any of them to test them out. I'm not exactly swimming in either of those two items. I've got enough Twinkling to probably take 1 weapon to +5, and enough dragon bone to...
  11. Joeboo

    Dark Souls 2

    Hrmm, I don't think I've seen either the sun sword of the drakekeeper broadsword yet, they must be close to the end of the game. And I screwed the pooch on the barbed club, I used my first 4 or 5 boss souls to level up with before I knew you could trade them for weapons. Blech.
  12. Joeboo

    The Fast Food Thread

    Their fried shrimp will be cube-shaped I'd still try it
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    What do you do?

    It sounds like your main problem is that you give too many fucks. I'll show someone how to do something once, MAYBE twice if they are really nice otherwise, but you better believe on that second time I step them through it I mention that they better write down the steps if they think they might...
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    Dark Souls 2

    Even though it is close, the stun/stagger it provides makes it feel safer than just about any slashing weapon I have used. It staggers most normal trash mobs on the first hit, interrupting their attacks. It staggers most large trash enemies on the second hit, and will even stagger a lot of...
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    Dark Souls 2

    Here's my #1 complaint I finished a bunch of areas over the holiday weekend, Gutter/Gulch, Drangelic Castle, Kings Passage, Shrine of Amana, etc. No real issues with any of that and I'm starting on the Undead Crypt, I'm probably 2/3 of the way through the game from what I can tell. My...
  16. Joeboo

    Watch Dogs

    SLI/Crossfire is fucked on this game right now 'Watch Dogs' PC Benchmark Results -- Multiple AMD And Nvidia Cards Tested - Forbes SLI 780Tis averaging 13fps at 1440p, and AMD cards putting out lower performance in Crossfire than solo Glad I didn't pay money for this Also, this...
  17. Joeboo

    Smartphones

    Nah it's just voice commands for your phone. You can tell your phone to turn on, turn off, answer or ignore a call, shoot pictures with your camera, etc. It's basically general voice commands for the phone that replaces having to touch the screen in a lot of the built-in functionality like the...
  18. Joeboo

    Watch Dogs

    Anyone else having performance issues on PC? I run SLI 3GB 660Tis, and it runs other graphic intense games flawlessly(my setup benchmarks roughly on par with a Titan/780Ti), and this game runs like dogshit at 2560x1440. If I turn everything to max, I'm chugging along at like 10 FPS, its...
  19. Joeboo

    The Fast Food Thread

    Oh hell, Burger King now takes orders online & delivers https://bkdelivers.com/ They have delivery meal deals. 10 Cheeseburgers, 10 fries, and 40 chicken nuggets for $46.99, lol.
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    The Fast Food Thread

    Stolen from the screenshots forum:
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    Smartphones

    Ditto. I have both voice programs on my Note3 but I never use either
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Yeah we just planted our tomatos last weekend. Hell, 2 weeks ago we were still having overnight low temperatures in the 30s(and then a couple days after that, a daytime high of 90, goddamned Missouri weather), I was afraid we were going to dip below freezing, so I held off on planting our...
  23. Joeboo

    The Beer Thread

    AB-InBev owns: Bass Beck's Boddingtons Budweiser/Busch Goose Island Labatt Lakeport Lowenbrau Michelob Natural Light Red Bridge Rolling Rock Shock Top Spaten St Pauli Girl Stella Artois Stone Mill and about 50 other beer brands sold in foreign countries like China, Russia...
  24. Joeboo

    The Fast Food Thread

    I get the $1 Breakfast Burritos at Mcdonalds fairly often. 2 of those and a coffee...hell of a breakfast for 3 bucks. However, this is the finest fast food breakfast item in existence: Goddamn Hardees Monster Biscuit. The bastard is like 700 calories, so I don't get one too often. But...
  25. Joeboo

    Desktop Computers

    Very nice SSD breakthrough means 300% speed boost, 60% less power usage... even on old drives - Neowin
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    I'm fairly certain that every time I eat one it takes a year off of my life, with the amount of cheese, butter, and calories in one of those things. It's worth it though.
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    The 80s kid thread

    There's the 1 thing I want back. When I was 16 I could fill up my 10 gallon gas tank with a $10 bill and have enough money left over for a bottle of coke too.
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    The 80s kid thread

    We used to take a roll of wax paper to the park with us to use on the giant metal slide. Wax that motherfucker down and then slide on it, I'm pretty sure we just about broke the sound barrier on a few runs. You'd fly off the slide and roll like a ragdoll on the ground for like 20 feet before...
  29. Joeboo

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    The older you get the truer this is. A lot can be hiding under those clothes. Stretch marks, C-section scars, etc. Having kids is hell on your body apparently.
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    Desktop Computers

    Just make sure not to sit on parts for too long or your can run into issues with returns/exchanges if something is defective, unless you've somehow been able to test them out as you got them.
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    For those that want/need a Kitchenaid mixer, here's about as good of a deal as you'll ever find: 5-Qt KitchenAid Professional 5 Plus Bowl-Lift Stand Mixer (metallic chrome) $190 + Free Shipping - eBay Deals, Coupons and Promos $189 new. Ebay Daily deal, today only. Same thing is $400 at...
  32. Joeboo

    Desktop Computers

    Don't buy the Titan Black video card, Its less than 5% faster than a 780Ti and it costs damn near twice as much. By the time you would need 6GB of VRAM, the card will be obsolete, so that is a useless function over the 3GB 780Ti Nvidia GeForce GTX TITAN Black Review - Battlefield 4...
  33. Joeboo

    The 80s kid thread

    The top recess activities at my gradeschool in the 80s 1) 2) 3)
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    The Fast Food Thread

    What is Burger King Chicken Fries that are mentioned there? I've never heard of such a thing, but it sounds awesome.
  35. Joeboo

    The Fast Food Thread

    This discussion seems to be in line with most of the posts here What is THE best fast food item? : AskReddit Top nominees so far: Taco Bell Cheesy Gordita Crunch, Wendy's Spicy Chicken Sandwich, Mcdonalds McGriddles
  36. Joeboo

    NFL 2014 Off-Season Thread

    That is every bit as awesome as I had hoped it would be. Well played Johnny, well played.
  37. Joeboo

    Dark Souls 2

    Goddamn you Ornifax! Here I am thinking I'm going to be able to get a bunch of cool weapons with all these goddamn boss souls when I find her, and then she tells me I have to track her down in a different zone, past another boss or two. GODDAMN STUPID BIRD LADY
  38. Joeboo

    The 80s kid thread

    Same here, 2nd grade. It's the only thing I remember about 2nd grade to this day other than getting my whole stack of Garbage Pail kid cards stolen out of my desk while we were out at recess. I was too scared to tell the teacher so she could find who did it, because we weren't supposed to have...
  39. Joeboo

    The 90s kid thread

    Man, fuck Surge. My freshman year of college (96), my campus was an all coca-cola campus(no pepsi products in dining halls or sold anywhere), so instead of my go-to Mountain Dew I had to settle for Mellow Yellow. Not a terrible alternative. Well, Surge came to market that year and they...