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  1. Nija

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    Is this better than Starsector?!
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    Investing General Discussion

    4 years is how long I keep my phones as well.
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    Playstation 5

    I'm personally kind of pissed about the change, and I'm going to let my plus subscription lapse for the first time since 2015.
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    Torchlight: Infinite

    I tried to play this. The login options, Apple auth, Google auth, some other auth... I actually clicked on both apple and google, to humor them, but the redirects pass through something that chrome attempts to translate from chinese to english. It's nailed by my dns ad/spam blocking. Maybe...
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    Investing General Discussion

    Nice work breaking through. I’m sitting at -24%!
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    Home Improvement

    Yeah, good color. Should come back next year I bet unless you do some drastic changes.
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    What game(s) had a final area/boss that ruined the game for you?

    I think it was Shovelknight that makes you fight all the bosses up to that point in a row. No thanks.
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    Home buying thread

    You can still get starter homes here. They just aren't $130-160k like people "remember them being" less than a decade ago. https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/707-Olivia-Ln-Centerton-AR-72719/70646109_zpid/
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    Home Improvement

    I paid someone to do it. They used an attachment on the front of a skid steer. They used that for everything. I think they even had a cement mixing attachment, along with forks for moving stuff around. There's no way I could put together a fence this well. Although I'm not sure what to think...
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    Home Improvement

    My fence wrapped up today. "Horse panel" fence. 4 ft tall for reference.
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    Home buying thread

    While the markets may be adjusting, they are lagging pretty hard. Like @Drinsic said, it now costs 2x to get the same loan as a year-ish ago. Home prices haven't fallen by 50%; not even close.
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    Home buying thread

    Friend of mine ran the stats on his place near Austin, if he were to buy again today at the same price. It REALLY doesn't look good when you line it up like this. People will always skirt around the issue and say shit about being below inflation, so you're still technically ahead. Yeah...
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    Home Improvement

    I'm getting a fence installed, as I got a new dog. I want an area where I can add a doggy door to the back and he can roam without concern. He does great so far, staying on our land, but I wouldn't leave him outside unattended for some time yet. Just throwing out some costs for people to make...
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    Home Improvement

    I use dynatraps extensively around my property. Including the enormous XL, which probably has about a pound of moths/mosquitos/wasps in it right now.
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    The Sandman

    They are trying to condition us to make this shit normal. It's not normal. Return to older, better media. Or better yet spend less time on entertainment in your off hours.
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    The Sandman

    Even my wife has peaced out on this series. Way too gay, way too much box checking.
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    Job Hunting

    I'm still getting about 10-15 messages a week. Here's one that I'm actually going to talk with. I know it's her hook, but it's a shiny fucking hook. Winner, biggest range:
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    Job Hunting

    Awesome. If you have the right relationships in place at each company, I would be as transparent as possible. Good people appreciate that. I did a similar thing, started full time one place, part time at another, and swapped time commitments after about 3 years. It worked out. My advice is to...
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    Job Hunting

    Good point. My question is this. If I simply put in my resignation, and didn't say shit about an offer... is it really a counter offer? I attempted to NOT play this game. Now I'm conflicted though. I'm going up against two of core traits that I pride myself on... risk avoidance and being true...
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    Job Hunting

    Hmmm this got interesting. I submitted a simple resignation letter Friday, 'please accept my resignation as Title at Company. My last day will be July 1st'. Met with an exec yesterday who wanted to know what they could do to keep me. I didn't try to do the counter offer dance intentionally, I...
  21. Nija

    Job Hunting

    I verbally accepted an offer today with a pretty well known company. This will get me good experience dealing with a lot of traffic and a lot of servers, one thing that I have been missing. It's almost exactly a 33% pay increase from my previous job. I'm at the top end of the pay scale for the...
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    Home buying thread

    I forgot to update the situation on my parents place. The realtor they used was ancient, out of it. The all cash deal they had wasn't "as is" and after getting 5" of rain over a week, he had an inspector out there that found "excess moisture" in the crawlspace. They wanted a $6k sump pump system...
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    Harrison, Arkansas

    I haven't watched this particular video yet, but I went to high school about 30 minutes away from Harrison. It's the outskirt cities that had (have?) the racists. The grand dragon's place had a circle drive, and the dare was to do a loop blasting rap music. I don't know of anyone who took that...
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    Home Improvement

    The battery requirement is what killed solar for me in AR. I was looking at a giant installation (on my shop building, which is perfect for solar) - 64 panels. $70-90k depending on the vendor. Spending that kind of coin on a solar installation that stops working when the grid goes down? That's...
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    Home buying thread

    Classes?
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    Home Improvement

    Around the house, yeah, but it’s mostly in or near the flower bed. The rest is effectively pasture that I mow. House is right in the middle of the 5 acres, so it would be hard to hay and make worthwhile.
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    Home Improvement

    I finally got a break in kids sports to mow. Lanx will hate this image, but this is what my mower at 6”, with a little closer to the house at 4” looks like. It was way overgrown, knee height in most areas. First time it’s all been a uniform height this spring - usually only have an hour to mow...
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    Home buying thread

    Buy an enclosed trailer and sell it at your destination.
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    Job Hunting

    I don't expect them to keep tabs on everyone... but now that you mention it, what else does HR have to do with nobody in the office fucking each other for the last 2 years? I have told a few close work friends that I'm looking, but we talk shit 24/7 and this isn't anything different.
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    Job Hunting

    I turned off my "looking for work" flag last week. I'm going to put forward a medium to high amount of effort to continue pressing the 5 in-flight interviews that I have at the moment. I have had about 40 phone calls, but I've been real picky about who I proceed with. In total 165 recruiters...
  31. Nija

    Job Hunting

    Next update in my potential job change journey... Talked to this recruiter on Zoom. He works directly for the company. About the same age as me, a lot of similar shit in the background of his office. We get along real well. By the end he's talking about the number of shares that hires are...
  32. Nija

    Home buying thread

    Great ideas. I'll pass them along.
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    Home buying thread

    They aren't prepared to move out - I don't think they realized what the market is like right now.
  34. Nija

    Home buying thread

    Yes, as is.
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    Home buying thread

    Accepted the cash offer, which was at $259k, as is, one month closing.
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    Home buying thread

    Yep, very perceptive. They received an all cash offer. I don't know the amounts yet, but they are up to 7 offers total. My advice to them was to consider the cash one first, provided it's not some foreign entity or a company, then buyers who already have funding secured and a known rate locked...
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    Home buying thread

    My parents listed their place yesterday afternoon in southern Missouri. 2k sq ft, 16k sq ft lot, built in the 60s. 4/3. Starting at $240k, they had 4 tours in the 4 hours that it was listed, two offers so far, leading offer is up to 255. 4 more tours were scheduled for today, as of last night...
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    Home buying thread

    They are building every kind of home like crazy here in NW Arkansas. You can barely see the AR average in the top graph from city-data. Also, lol Zillow, I know, but recall I fled CA 2 years ago next month… +350k supposedly since I landed.
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    Job Hunting

    I can start to trickle in updates as I go I guess. I had a call yesterday with a company. Guy on chat gave me the comp ranges for senior and staff positions, 265-475 is the bottom of senior, 475 is the top of staff. That's in my range, great. So I get on the call yesterday with his recruiter...
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    Investing General Discussion

    PUTTIN' MILES ON THIS OLD TRUCK!