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  1. Haus

    Idle Earl, home-made

    Yeah, there seem to be two "walls" you approach. Earl is stuck and not advancing in arenas. Ranks , 2x bumps, and upgrades cost so much you have to wait so long to afford them that you might forget about the game... You solve number one by arming him better with ranks in skills, but that...
  2. Haus

    Health Problems

    This is going to sound crazy but... Have they checked your T level? (kinda assuming you're a guy here). I remember one thing when I was doing T pellets was that RBC count seems tied to T level in men, so they always monitored mine. Higher T often causes higher Red Blood cell production. Just...
  3. Haus

    Investing General Discussion

    I'm kinda worried about this as well. Not to mention now Trump trying to fire someone off the Fed board and the courts telling him, I think today, that he couldn't so she'll be on this fed board meeting with an axe to grind against Trump....
  4. Haus

    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    Volunteer to bring donuts.... Bring a veggie and dip tray... choose violence.
  5. Haus

    Idle Earl, home-made

    OK, did a rebirth/reload to test. Did rebirth first, within an hour had everything unlocked, and was back into Sp/Sec fast. Then realized I had just rebirthed at .69. Did a reload, so now at what seems to be pre .64 levels but with the first hour of .69 level progression : Observations ...
  6. Haus

    Idle Earl, home-made

    This will show to what level my inner autist has taken this.... I know if I do a rebirth in the morning I'll be right back to where I left off arena wise and passive wise (plus diamond bonuses) by around dinner the next day. heh In my head I already know that I will have work meetings taking...
  7. Haus

    Idle Earl, home-made

    I'm popping a credit around every 8 seconds, so yeah, that bolstered up a LOT with this update. But also this is , as you can see, at a moderately advanced passive income level. If I let it just run in background and rebirth tomorrow morning I estimate I'll harvest something stupid crazy...
  8. Haus

    Idle Earl, home-made

    Here's my current snapshot : Currently in that "rebalancing freefall" where I'm watching to see how low that Arena number goes before I get back to around a "win one, lose one" rate. Own all the perks... Even the skin. heh Last night I was just getting past 3.xxx Sx/sec in passive income...
  9. Haus

    Keyboards & Mice

    Well. The native steampunk part of my brain would probably start off with just brass with blackened areas. That's easy. You pour the key, rub this blackening stuff on it, rinse it off. Then sand/polish the top to remove that blackened area and expose the brass. It's what I did on my daily...
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    Idle Earl, home-made

    And this morning... Thanks for that "Next 2x" button. Make a fresh rebirth much easier.
  11. Haus

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

  12. Haus

    Swamp Thing

    I don't see how they improve on the original cinematic swamp thing and Adrienne Barbeaux's incredible contributions.
  13. Haus

    Batgirl

    They literally decided to never release this movie because it's greatest value to them was as a tax write off full loss.
  14. Haus

    Idle Earl, home-made

    And now you'll see how stupid my brain gets thinking about shit while I'm tidying up my workshop. In my head I imagine damage happens something like this : Attack calculates damage and well call that %damage Subtract %damage from %hp_bar_remaining if %hp_bar_remaining < 0 round is over and won...
  15. Haus

    Idle Earl, home-made

    Yeah, it's not breaking. If I had to guess I would say the logic is as I do damage it reduces the main HP bar, when that bar reaches 0 the round is over. But for some reason there are more mobs on the board than there are HP in the bar. So I magically finish a round with a few mobs still let...
  16. Haus

    Idle Earl, home-made

    .64 and the rework seems solid. Although one thing I swear I've seen (I believe in .62 and now .63), but it happens so fast that I haven't been able to screen shot it. I would swear that every now and again I'm reaching the "end phase" of a round, have around 5-8 high HP bad guys around me...
  17. Haus

    Idle Earl, home-made

    Not even sure or going to ask how the math under the hood changed up (and yes I read the patch notes). But I loved having around 3x the passive income when I refreshed from .62 to .63
  18. Haus

    Keyboards & Mice

    Somewhere buried in my workshops stockpile of gear I have an OG Old school model M. It's still the favorite feel of any keyboard I have known. But my neighbors thinking I'm firing an automatic weapon when I start typing fast became a drawback. ;)
  19. Haus

    Idle Earl, home-made

    Back with another edition of "Haus has thoughts about the Arena" for @pwe .... How about a diamond purchasable card that adds "Time is Money". Here's what it does : When you successfully complete an arena, any remaining seconds on the clock are cashed out to you at your current passive...
  20. Haus

    Keyboards & Mice

    Yeah, silicone doesn't hold up well at all to even the lowest temps of molten metal. If I were to try to make keycaps it would probably be along these lines : Print keycap on nice resin printer for best quality Sand print for additional smoothness use sandcasting to cast print in metal of...
  21. Haus

    Idle Earl, home-made

    That makes sense, it's just that elsewhere passive income was referenced as the $ amount, not the % boost off base. So I was , as usual, easily confused. heh
  22. Haus

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    You don't sell Token based AI usage. You bundle it into an "artificial assistant" subscription service, make it flashy enough and optimize what actually has to be handled by the model to minimize cost, and crank up the subscription fee.
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    Idle Earl, home-made

    Is M% supposed to be the variable used for denomination?
  24. Haus

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    The vast majority of what people currently use "AI" for is really over glorified English language parsing search. The real AI usage doesn't tend to be things that the everyday person would find in the least big "fancy" or "cool". Vibe coding with AI is still a category 5 shitshow in most...
  25. Haus

    Idle Earl, home-made

    on .61 , Earl looks to be leaving a slow walking shadow following him around, which also slowly walks back to the start point between rounds....
  26. Haus

    Idle Earl, home-made

    Oh, make no mistake, I don't mind the change at all. I just found it funny that poor Earl is gonna be walking backwards for a while. And it does make sense if you want there to be more uphill battle rather than it feeling like Diablo where you walk into a room and instantly kill dozens of bad...
  27. Haus

    Idle Earl, home-made

    OK. new oddity I have now seen twice in my cascade of out of times. (Down to Arena 21837 now) On a couple arenas I have gotten the initial witch doctor blast out of the way, had a couple mobs left. Then the faceless would just vanish, but the HP bar would still be over 80B or something. But...
  28. Haus

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    How I feel relaying information to our R&D team for requested new features right now...
  29. Haus

    Idle Earl, home-made

    Yeah, I can't even kill an Afro Orc anymore. heh I'm gonna let this run overnight and see where it "evens out" on arena level, hopefully by morning. Then probably rebirth to cash in the 2400 or so credits I'll have. (Currently 22018 and falling...)
  30. Haus

    You know you're getting old when.....

    He was a solid quarter century younger than me....
  31. Haus

    Idle Earl, home-made

    But I'll admit I like the new ricochet direction changing factor for fireballs...
  32. Haus

    Idle Earl, home-made

    Wow, so @pwe , exactly how many nerfs did you tuck into .57? ;) I was on arena 22080 and the "bullet time bug" kicked in and everything went to glacial speed, I had been clearing arena levels on average in around 15 seconds each. I was on v 0.55 at that point. So I refresh and get .57, with...
  33. Haus

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

  34. Haus

    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    "fucking" does not rustle my jimmies... Ergo it's not one of the two words. ;)
  35. Haus

    Idle Earl, home-made

    It's happening every round for me now. By the time I get down to 2-3 mobs left I'm losing skulls, and I pretty much never finish a round with any left now. Notable patterns : They only vanish when attached to an enemy, free floaters still bounce around until they attach something. Has gotten...
  36. Haus

    Home Improvement

    Speaking of Ryobi stuff..... I've already resuscitated one of my pile of dead batteries with this article... https://badar.tech/2025/08/24/ryobi-battery-repair-guide/
  37. Haus

    Idle Earl, home-made

    OK. Odd thing I have now seen happen a few times today as he blasts his way through arenas on the baby screen... I'll be blasting something with two of three skulls on it too, and on the other end of the arena I'll have an Afro Orc with one skull on them. Then suddenly the one skull on the orc...
  38. Haus

    Idle Earl, home-made

    Nice update this morning. Daggers suddenly relevant again, which subsequently turns necro damage into a Trouble-seeking buzzsaw...
  39. Haus

    You know you're getting old when.....

    Yeah, there are even "semi-pro" leagues for this stuff now. I know this because this team in Dallas sponsors one of the podcast/streams I watch from time to time (CirqueDuSirois.com - All Episodes) and there's definitely a high performing Asian on the team...