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  1. Haus

    Dead Boy Detectives

    I thought this was a spin off from their appearance in the HBO Max Doom patrol series.... Where it turns out ONE of them was gay and essentially pining for the other as I recall.
  2. Haus

    Investing General Discussion

    There was a time when it was a ritual amongst my friend group to do movie nights. Especially the weekend that big scifi/fantasy movies opened... Now I'm in a world where I still haven't seen Dune 2 despite being a fan of the IP, and having heard it was pretty good from some people I trust...
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Any application that needs an immutable ledger of activity can benefit from the technology. But the fact is a ledger is only as valuable as peoples trust in it, and we haven't reached a point where people trust the concept of blockchains and cryptocurrencies yet. I know a person who wrote...
  4. Haus

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    I think what you're thinking about is the NFT as digital collectable bit for the most part. What I was talking about was using NFT's as a non-fungible and reliable means to show actual possession/ownership, not fractional ownership. Things like right now I have to keep track of a lot of...
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    Investing General Discussion

    It's how young "unicorn" companies trying to hockey stick can attract talent. Once they reach the "profits actually matter" point you see them pivot to massively limit/reduce stock based compensation. Which means those initial geniuses no longer have golden handcuffs and leave.. which leads to...
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    The problem will be that the government will see it as it's solemn duty to be the custodian and sole authority over that blockchain rather than have a truly distributed and secure one... Mostly because they can't fathom not having control to abuse it at their will.
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    This is actually the EXACT real actual use case for NFTs. Tokenize an NFT to represent any given asset you could own. Home title? NFT. Car title? NFT. Each share of stock in XYZ corp? NFT. The problem will arise in that only a somewhat iron clad trustable secure blockchain can be...
  8. Haus

    RIP Araysar

    Yeah, I thought the previous April Fools stuff was un-funny enough. But congrats to @Lightning Lord Rule on setting a slightly higher bar. I'm logging out. I'll check back at some point maybe to see if it's rectified. Not having any notification on here as to why, no response from LLR in...
  9. Haus

    X-Men '97

    Did you just use "popular" in a sentence about the Disney+ animated What If? ... What If the Disney What If show was made decently....
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    What's worse is I saw this meme, liked it.. decided to post it here.. then realized the number of people around here who might be too young to get it were kinda astounding.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

  12. Haus

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Back to wholesome potato-centric content...
  13. Haus

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Pretty sure home fries lost in the play in game.... Unrelated :
  14. Haus

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    It's March, and you know that all means it's time to fill out your brackets! STARCH MADNESS BABY!
  16. Haus

    Nightingale

    I found that if I "reset" (i.e. respawned) my Astrolabe forest realms then ran around and did all the puzzles, and farmed mats I get a decent rate of essence. Also make sure you have that essence charm, seems to considerably up the drop rate (especially when farming mats). Spam collect as...
  17. Haus

    Nightingale

    Yeah, if I hit any puzzle where it's more than 4 tones and I can't see all of them I just skip it. I assume there's definitely going to be a substantial patch before "real release" happens. Question will be if it includes a "We're wiping EVERYTHING" card getting played. That and some...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

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    Nightingale

    When I see those "intellect" challenges if they're more than 3 pylons (or if the pylons are scattered around some structure) I either skip them, or just click a wrong one over and over to farm bound for whatever reason.... I have dove more into the crafting system, and the more I'm getting into...
  20. Haus

    Nightingale

    Around 19 hours in now. At this point the biggest survival aspect will be "Surviving until they finish development/polishing of the game". It's giving me No Man's Sky initial launch flashbacks, but NMS at least somewhat redeemed itself with later content/fixing. Most of the reviews in here...
  21. Haus

    The Grand Tour (from the guys in Top Gear)

    Well considering that, unless I heard wrong or things have changed, that's it for them and this show... I'll forgive running longer than any of the crappy movies I've seen lately. ;)
  22. Haus

    Death and... Taxes.

    This is true so long that your finances accommodate and allow for you to liquidate assets to pay the bill, which is what I'm doing this year. Question is which assets to liquidate.
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    Death and... Taxes.

    I don't see it as failure. That extra $7k I had would have gone into investments and such. Meaning that paying it now, I still keep whatever I made on it while I had it.... In my case I had a lot of Stock RSU's vest, plus being in sales I had an "above quota" year to the tune of around %150...
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    Nightingale

    "We're launching a survival MMO which will have servers that have to stand up to player load... We did some limited stress testing... Would we rather have 4 days before the first full bore player weekend to tune/beef up/fix servers, or two? "
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    X-Men '97

    My biggest recollections of the Jubilee/Wolverine relationship were from the comics, where he definitely treated her as an adopted kid a lot. Of course this was back in the 90's for me and heaven knows how many reboots ago.... Which also means we will have one shameless self insert...
  26. Haus

    Dune: Part Two (2023)

    Can you even fathom the simp based economy that could be supported by her and an army of Thots pulling the angle of "I'm wearing this Stillsuit and it's collecting all my sweat, piss, farts, and everything else. You can buy a bottle of it on my website!"
  27. Haus

    Mugshawtys

    If?
  28. Haus

    Madame Web (2024)

    I think they've figured out how to tweak the formula to course correct lads! https://babylonbee.com/news/sony-doubles-down-and-announces-madame-morbius
  29. Haus

    What vehicle do you drive?

    I have one on my Caddy but only because the trim package I wanted for other reasons only came in a package with a sunroof.... It's nice in the spring and fall in Texas. But nothing I'd go out of the way to get. One downside for me is I can tell it increases the in-cabin wind/road noise.
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    Investing General Discussion

    I don't personally have issues with this idea. But at the same time it breaks some "in polite society" guidelines that are there for a reason. First, it's considered "poor form" to ask a person about : Their age or weight (if they're female) Their worth (if they're male) How many head of...
  31. Haus

    Death and... Taxes.

    So...... Just did my initial run on taxes this year. Still needing a few minor documents on interest earned in a few side accounts and whatnot.. But it's looking like I'm going to end up owing somewhere around $7k this year. Could we move the boog up to happen before April 15th?
  32. Haus

    Post Your Pet

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    Investing General Discussion

    As somewhat mentioned. If you can foresee it, it's been priced in. Unless it's such an outlier that it doesn't have any viable prospect of happening, then it probably hasn't. But those things are so few and far between we literally call them black swan events.... They're things like "Nuclear...
  34. Haus

    Aquarists unite: fish are friends, and food

    Yeah, they screw up for me around half the time too.. Still boggles my mind, back in the day when I cared for my massive tanks I used to have (think 15-20 years ago) and I had to run crazy density CF bulbs to do decent plants. With this thing it's insane speed growth. Although I seem to have...
  35. Haus

    Investing General Discussion

    It's easy to have digestible inflation numbers when you don't count food, energy, or housing.
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    Aquarists unite: fish are friends, and food

    I've had horrible luck with shrimp. I've tried a few times ordering up batches of nicely colored ones.. They all inevitably just vanish (even though Mollies should be that aggro towards them). The only shrimp I've had long term are a couple Amano algae eaters, which I think at least are still...
  37. Haus

    Aquarists unite: fish are friends, and food

    Seeing people notice this thread made me figure I should do an update... That tank you saw (with the memorial jug) was how it was a while back. it had been running forever with essentially zero effort from me, and I had added those plants you saw in the back. I made one change, I added a...
  38. Haus

    Investing General Discussion

    Well... 12 months from now will be 3 months after the elections. So all the shenanigans pulled to prop up Democrats through the election cycle might be crashing back to Earth about then... So I would see a crash starting around this time next year being a better than zero chance.
  39. Haus

    Investing General Discussion

    I've consistently had sell to covers on my RSU vesting over the past 4 years and inevitably they never sell enough so I keep ending up owing. But that's fine by me since the undersell to cover meant more stock getting more valuable over the year.