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  1. Haus

    Idle Earl, home-made

    That was pretty much also my shopping/buying strategy. heh
  2. Haus

    Idle Earl, home-made

    This one works powered off my PCs USB port, I like it for the touchscreen portion but that's finicky to get set up right. It's nice to drag pop up windows and things like zoom meeting controls onto. But I'll admit it was an impulse buy that I'm just having fun with. heh
  3. Haus

    Idle Earl, home-made

    I still don't grasp all this stuff about it not being displayed. I mean you guys haven't all bought mini third monitors exclusively for Earl yet? (Full disclosure, that's a USB-c third monitor that is also a touchscreen I used as a touch controller when I'm doing meetings) But it does also...
  4. Haus

    Idle Earl, home-made

    For those wondering about the later mobs... I had this asshole show up at Arena 8369...
  5. Haus

    Idle Earl, home-made

    Just file the ideas away. Once Idle Earl is done maybe they come in useful elsewhere, or you get REALLY bored and we eventually see Idle Earl II:Arena Boogaloo
  6. Haus

    Idle Earl, home-made

    Or a boss that's immune to certain damage types but more vulnerable to others. This could be your tool to encourage diversification of rank allotment rather than raw min/maxxing.
  7. Haus

    Idle Earl, home-made

    You do an array of the last 10 arena DPS outputs. Take that average and compare it to the total HP for the arena level. (cap it at 99% so there's always a slight chance of failure.) This should give you a "win probability" percentage, which you could put right under the arena number. Since...
  8. Haus

    Idle Earl, home-made

    Well, nobody buys upgrades while they're AFK/minimized. The "things get incrementally harder" is why you subtract .1% for each win, to reduce their win chances, and add .1% for each loss to represent lower level arenas being slightly easier.... The real goal here is like any idle game, you...
  9. Haus

    Idle Earl, home-made

    OK. I have been pondering... as it's something men of my age do.... Does the game know when it's not visible so prone to not being able to render the arena? If so, and since when not visible there's no point in showing an arena nobody will see, what stops you from simulating the arena...
  10. Haus

    Superman: Legacy (2025)

    He was a clone of Superman, so essentially Superman with a very young and not as well developed brain. He got thrown into a pocket universe "black hole". My bet is if this cinematic universe gets it's legs under it you'll eventually see him come back "twisted by the pocket universe energies"...
  11. Haus

    Health Problems

    The Urologist I have been seeing, who is their "complicated situation specialist" for doing things like laparoscopy when that's needed, is of the Tribe, and taking like a month off which I suspect means he's heading to Israel for the high holy holidays and whatnot. And congrats on getting...
  12. Haus

    Home Improvement

    In this case it was not only a crappy panel, it was on what was originally the garage wall. Then the original owners converted that garage into an office, a workshop, and a darkroom (which is now the pantry). For whatever insane reason, they literally put a wall right into where the box was ...
  13. Haus

    Home Improvement

    Close, Federal Pacific Electric. They were popular in the 60's because they were cheap. The highlights on them? No ground wire to prevent power surges from overloading the breakers. Breakers may not trip correctly when moisture is detected near an outlet, causing the circuit to overload and...
  14. Haus

    Health Problems

    Yeah, that's why he said I'd have to follow up with his associate, who will now become my go to there. But he put in for the MRI and Cryoblation today, and neither of those will be performed by this Urologist. It will just be who I follow up with after. Although I'll admit in general this...
  15. Haus

    Health Problems

    So.... Finally had the follow up to my mass removal from my right kidney, and discussion about what would need to be done about the mass on my left one. Yep, I am hauling around 1 (formerly 2) renal cell carcinoma masses. Thought it would hit harder, and still might, but a combination of...
  16. Haus

    Home Improvement

    So just had the fun of dropping $10k on major electrical work. Replaced the house panel, because old panel was a death trap... Moved said panel because old panel was in a non-code compliant location. Upgraded house to a 200 amp drop from the grid Added whole house surge supression Added an...
  17. Haus

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Rising again? For what? Dessert? Unrelated, but part of the world I live in....
  18. Haus

    Idle Earl, home-made

    Witnessed Oddly enough when "you have to wear a mask everywhere" was in full swing, I did 3d print a replica of his mask and wore it to a few grocery store trips... I mean.. it WAS a mask.
  19. Haus

    Idle Earl, home-made

    Well, you're trying to rebalance a system where you have what feels like possibly logarithmic costs, exponential passive income, and linear arena income. With damage systems which also combine all three. If you ever found a perfect balance to that I'd suggest you snag a gig at SpaceX and get...
  20. Haus

    Twitch.tv

    First off... It's "OK Gen-Xer". But I wholly expect you've forgotten that generation exists, everybody else did. Second, you get the better discount at Dennys. But so far I have yet to actually pay the senior price. ;)
  21. Haus

    Twitch.tv

    Yeah, I'm at the point where there's only one stream I pay any attention to on Twitch, and it's because they do marble races which I they can't do on Twitter and Youtube, both of which they also stream their livestreams on. Then again they aren't even gaming content. They're just some guys...
  22. Haus

    Idle Earl, home-made

    Curse these browsers and their... modernity!
  23. Haus

    Idle Earl, home-made

    OooooOOOhhhh... Here's my one that will make people hate me even more than "Make people hate me more than my suggestion of attaching credit progress to Arena outcomes..." Make unspent diamonds increase your arena cashflow instead of your Passive Income
  24. Haus

    Idle Earl, home-made

    In case all you folks who are obviously farther along on this than I am having noted yet... When your mystery button is ready don't hit it until you have a chest appear. If you win the mystery button (10x for 1 minute) that 10x will apply to the chest too. So mystery button, then open chest.
  25. Haus

    Idle Earl, home-made

    So am I to believe that the passive income does keep rolling even if they screen is not active and the arena doesn't run?
  26. Haus

    Idle Earl, home-made

    When I look at what Earl does, and how happy he looks doing it (in the pirate skin), I keep thinking it's really that he wants to be the best gladiator ever, but he just really sucks with money management, and that's where I come in!
  27. Haus

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

  28. Haus

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

  29. Haus

    Idle Earl, home-made

    On my most recent rebirth (this morning), I went zero back to around 6x my passive income in around 4 hours by following a strategy of "Ignore gold, ignore gold per dagger, ignore dagger damage once you have zap past level 10 or so". Admittedly I am not near your vaunted arena and passive...
  30. Haus

    Idle Earl, home-made

    Not really, it just gives some reason at all to care about the arena, gold, gold per dagger, etc... And slows the progression from new, which is an aspect of keeping people hooked in on a game like this from what I've seen. ;)
  31. Haus

    Idle Earl, home-made

    Notes from today : When I did a rebirth, it didn't keep the "faster mystery" and I had to spend a diamond to rebuy it. On a philosophical note. Since Arena earnings are such an afterthought... If you wanted to make Arena earnings (and ergo gold, gold per dagger, etc) more relevant, you...
  32. Haus

    Home Improvement

    I have both Ryobi and Generics in my 40v pool and they've been (knocking on wood) workhorses for me. Here's the generic I've been using : https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BXKV5H9V?th=1 And on another note. Today is another "spend stupid money on something which I'd rather not" day. Replacing the...
  33. Haus

    Marvel Universe stuff

    They kinda bastardized Planet Hulk already for Thor Ragnarok. Which dos suck, as I would love to see an honest PH/WWH pair of movies.
  34. Haus

    Idle Earl, home-made

    OK, one thought on the number spam. I see you added a "don't show money" and "don't show damage" checkboxes, which is great! (I unchecked money because arena money is a rounding error once you start piling on passive income). Could we get something like : Dagger/Skull damage in orange...
  35. Haus

    Idle Earl, home-made

    I noticed when I had to do a reboot this morning. When I relaunched the game my passive Income was way low, until I OPENED the bestiary, THEN it kicked that in and it went back to where it was before reboot. Intentional?
  36. Haus

    Avengers: Doomsday (2025)

    My bet is that it will be some variant Tony Stark showing how "one of two little differences" and Ironman ends up turning into Doom.
  37. Haus

    Idle Earl, home-made

    OK. taking a stab here... Top to bottom , left to right... Flaps Grumpy McFlattop Schwartzkopf The Ref Karen Magpie Pink Lady Porky Asshole McFeatherhead Lidz Therapy McManbun - He was Asshole, but then after his anger issues cost him his marriage and his kids won't talk to him any more he...
  38. Haus

    Idle Earl, home-made

    Can confirm, Orc skin works for me after only one rebirth. Do we have a catchy page with pics of the bad guys and appropriately funny names for them yet? There's one I call Asshole McFeatherhead , but that's another story.
  39. Haus

    Idle Earl, home-made

    Fair enough, I'm still early on in things. Waited for 4 diamonds for first rebirth, going to do a second at some point.
  40. Haus

    Idle Earl, home-made

    Quick note on skins.... I have Necromancer unlocked, but can't use that skin. Or is a "skull crusher" something other than just having at least one rank in it? I do love the new skin. One functionality note. It feels like dagger damage after the first few arenas (i.e. once you start...