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  1. Mist

    I am currently living in my parents basement. AMA

    Yeah but I can pull in 140K+ here working hourly at my current rate, plus an extra couple thousand in Amazon gift cards for bonuses/holiday coverage. I turned down a job for 110K (after bonuses) because it was working for a bunch of fucking Indians aka HCL, in some shithole Chicago suburb.
  2. Mist

    I am currently living in my parents basement. AMA

    I'm hourly. My employer knows the leash they've got around my neck. My pay is highly dependent on putting in a large number of hours every week, working every holiday, etc. No matter how much money I make I am desperately afraid to ever be poor again. I was basically poor my entire life and...
  3. Mist

    I am currently living in my parents basement. AMA

    It gives me vacation days but the various perks of my shift, a 15% shift differential and 12-15 hours of time and a half on Sundays, do not apply if vacation or personal time is used on those days. Nor do the 5-20 hours of OT I regularly get per week, obviously. So I am better off just not...
  4. Mist

    I am currently living in my parents basement. AMA

    I don't get my Sunday pay, or shift differential, or certainly any overtime, if I take days off, so I lose over 30% of my paycheck just by taking days off. Hence, I do not take days off. At best I could take a vacation Monday to Saturday, which doesn't even seem like enough time to be worth it.
  5. Mist

    I am currently living in my parents basement. AMA

    That turns out to not be the case. She was the reason I was broke all the time, but now I have like infinity money and I'm not enjoying anything any better. (I'm only posting here because a) people keep mentioning me and b) IBTR)
  6. Mist

    I am currently living in my parents basement. AMA

    Did you guys forget when I said my mom's been dead over a year?
  7. Mist

    No Man's Sky

    Why can't I rebind keys yet. Fucking god.
  8. Mist

    Humankind (Civ-style game from Amplitude Studios)

    This looks a little too much like a ripoff. I really liked Endless Space 2 though.
  9. Mist

    Destiny 2 - Clan Link 1st Post

    How much longer is the Solstice of Heroes thing going on? I haven't logged in since that shitty forge expac.
  10. Mist

    MTG thread

    Official MTG yoga pants. I'm not fucking kidding either.
  11. Mist

    MTG: Arena

    Too iconic.
  12. Mist

    MTG: Arena

    Mulligans are very effective in the current state of the game. You should learn to use them.
  13. Mist

    Desktop Computers

    Killed my GTX 1080, it's been limping along since playing too much APEX on launch before they optimized it. Actually, I think my old PSU damaged it. EVGA is sending me an RTX 2070 for my RMA.
  14. Mist

    Headphones & Audio Devices

    Yes. My second screen is actually a second computer. If I want to be on a Webex meeting on my work laptop and still hear my main PC, or if I want to watch streams/videos/movies on my laptop while playing a video game on my main PC, I want everything coming through one pair of headphones...
  15. Mist

    The Hunt (2019)

    Obvious things don't occur to stupid people.
  16. Mist

    Boston

    Sounds like a nucleus for more traffic which is the last thing that place needs.
  17. Mist

    Apex Legends new free to play battle royale game from Respawn

    I told you it would be Pathfinder. Grapple is way better for joining and escaping fights than almost any ability. Wraith too. Mirage is so bad against anyone who isn't an idiot. I would have also expected some Octanes because he can just get around the map faster than anyone else when he's...
  18. Mist

    No Man's Sky

    I hear they completely fucked up the KB/M controls.
  19. Mist

    Apex Legends new free to play battle royale game from Respawn

    Duos would have been interesting, but it would have been all Lifeline + Gibralter or Caustic.
  20. Mist

    Boston

    Is Worcester still the same shithole it's always been?
  21. Mist

    Headphones & Audio Devices

    are the best gaming headphones I've ever used, as long as you want open-back headphones. I've been using them for 4 years, they were the first thing I bought when I got my current job. The soundstage is huge and that's really important for open world video games where you don't want the game...
  22. Mist

    Defense Against Becoming Another 8chan

    It's not 8chan because people actually have to post with usernames. Shut the fuck up.
  23. Mist

    Aliens and imploding simulations.

    The idea that some balding apes learned language, built some huts and suddenly like 20,000 years later we're splitting the atom is pretty fucking bizarre if you ask me. That kind of rapid intelligence explosion tells me that evolving higher intelligence rapidly must be pretty easy, yet as far...
  24. Mist

    Headphones & Audio Devices

    Yeah, I'm trying to build an all-in-one battlestation now that I'm pretty much working from home all the time.
  25. Mist

    Headphones & Audio Devices

    No, I want to be able to listen to more than one input at once, which is why I wanted a mixer. I use Mouse Without Borders to control multiple PCs at once and I'd like to be able to hear multiple PCs at once too. I'm not really that interested in a USB DAC, that's a fallback option, but I'm...
  26. Mist

    Headphones & Audio Devices

    At least 2 computers and possibly my smartphone and possibly a PS4 into a pair of AKG K712 Pros. But I really only need 2 inputs at a time. The main gaming PC already has a sound card with a headphone amp in it, but I've been thinking about ditching the sound card and might need a standalone...
  27. Mist

    Headphones & Audio Devices

    Hmm, this will do 2 inputs and amplify.
  28. Mist

    Headphones & Audio Devices

    What about a combination mixer/amplifier? At least 3 input sources.
  29. Mist

    Headphones & Audio Devices

    I was looking at this. Would I just get a bunch of 3.5mm to RCA cables from all the output headphone jacks and put them in the back?
  30. Mist

    MTG: Arena

    Cloudkin is okay to fill out a deck but good players are running Heart-Piercer Bows most of the time so it's not as great as it could be in other sets.
  31. Mist

    MTG: Arena

    And I might take Chandra's Outrage over both of them, and maybe Audacious Thief too. Red/Blue decks have done the best for me, followed by Black/Blue, Black/Green, and then Red/Green and Blue/Green are about tied. Generally avoid white in 2020 limited.
  32. Mist

    Designing a Card Game

    You should make a Q-anon trading card game, like the old Illuminati: New World Order CCG but fucking crazier somehow.
  33. Mist

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    You voted for Trump, right? The guy that's defaulted/bankrupted out of more loans than quite possibly anyone ever? Bing image search: Fat orange baby. Thanks Bing!
  34. Mist

    Headphones & Audio Devices

    What do I need to combine a bunch of input sources from multiple PCs and other devices into a single pair of headphones? A mixer? Is there a simple mixer that will do just that?
  35. Mist

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

    Burn this motherfucker down.
  36. Mist

    Your favorite moments in video games (Or "WOW" moments"

    Just getting that game to run on my shitty Packard Bell was a WOW moment for me. My autistic quest to get that game to run on my piece of shit PC is actually the main reason I know how to IT like a fucking pro today. "Well, guess I'll read the DOS manual and these reams of print-out FAQs about...
  37. Mist

    Desktop Computers

    RTX 20XX cards have Thunderbolt 3 ports for output on the card itself.
  38. Mist

    Rando Movies.

    That movie was funny when I was like 8. Not as funny as Spaceballs but still funny.
  39. Mist

    MTG thread

    You might be able to do this with like, some kind of Conspiracy cube format, but it wouldn't be that fun and no one would play it.
  40. Mist

    MTG thread

    Brawl is going to be on Arena so I expect it to get popular. It could even be a decent format.