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  1. Haus

    Home buying thread

    I'm at the point where the only thing between me and this screen is that I don't mind having my assets in investments making greater than then 3% I'm paying on the small remaining amount on my mortgage. And every month or two I get that itchy trigger fingers that says "It would only take a...
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    Investing General Discussion

    Can Confirm. Dr. Su is serious business. AMD is a customer of my company, and I've had the pleasure of working with them. She's a formidable exec in a world of empty suits and grifters.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

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    Metalworking Thread (aka Haus indulging his inner mountain dwarf)

    OK, so I didn't forget about all this, but I had a medical situation wholly divert me from any of my metalworking for a bit (see health issues thread if you're curious). OK, I was attempting "lost PLA" but in the end I was not able to "lose" the PLA before casting, so it was just melting and...
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    Investing General Discussion

    So how long before her "Investment update" is a subtle ad for her Lactation Fetish OF account?
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    Investing General Discussion

    I think this is somehow related...
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    Idle Earl, home-made

    Oh wait, I hadn't even noticed that he took out the one for getting to 500% on the 1% PI upgrades. heh My autism is slipping in my old age.
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    Idle Earl, home-made

    Yeah... now unlock all the skins ;) Your autism awaits!
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    I'm going to admit I still sometimes chuckle and shake my head over the fact that we call something that's pegged to fiat currency a "stable"coin. Now this one will be a Euro pegged stable coin run by.... the people who can mint more Euro at will.
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    Idle Earl, home-made

    Well... Bountiful 200 done finally So now to dilly dally until I have enough credits to feel it's worth the next rebirth. Currently clocking in at 20 sec per credit.
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    Idle Earl, home-made

    It's all a rinse and repeat cycle. I usually accumulate until credits = 50% diamonds, then rebirth. So for me that also means rebirth either tomorrow morning or Wednesday morning since tomorrow is kinda busy for me.
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    Idle Earl, home-made

    Missing variable detected.... How many diamonds do you have? That's the magic to make the long term grind more bearable ;)
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    Roguelite Enemy Hell/Bullet Heaven/Survivor catch-all

    AH OK, I thought you could rank up your mastery past the first level of it. On another note, I have started falling in love with ranking up the coil gun enough to turn on "damages terrain"....
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    Idle Earl, home-made

    A couple ideas... Chain fireballs - When a body explodes from Witch Doctor it generates a fireball (Damage at [RANKS] * 10%, cap at 100%, also only goes a limited distance (like 10% of a regular fireball:emoji_nose: Corpsplosion - Witch Dr Explosions increase in radius by [RANKS] * 4% (cap at 100, maybe...
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    Idle Earl, home-made

    I didn't think you had it in you to figure out 4-5 new skills. ;) The view from today : Going to push to 400 Dagger Damage, and after that it's probably bouncing between upping Earl's combat efficacy and just dumping into +1% , since my to next 2x value prop versus time for anything Skull...
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    FoH Gamer Tag Haus

    Steam : Steam Community :: Mister Haus
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    Roguelite Enemy Hell/Bullet Heaven/Survivor catch-all

    I just tried doing that too, to advance my mastery on one I had done the first mastery on and I also couldn't find a way to set it to three. If you discover a way lemme know... About 26 hours of puttering in on it and still just past gate 2. Mostly I'm on the heavy gunner, and mostly...
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    Idle Earl, home-made

    I think the difference might be in linear cost increase versus parabolic curve cost increase. In a prefect world you'd math out the perfect linear cost increase rate to get "equilibrium". The check in now at ~74Sx/sec... Note the "next 2x" numbers. I think the question is at what point does...
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    Idle Earl, home-made

    OK. Check in now on a day old rebirth and currently at around 59Sx/sec. I am definitely seeing the credit cost curve hitting me now. I was clocking around 30 seconds a credit before this rebirth (~20k diamonds), now (~30k diamonds) it's 45 seconds. I think the question for @pwe at this...
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    Idle Earl, home-made

    OK. for those wondering... Arena 40820 - 3 pigs Arena 40825 - 1 Darkness That seems to be the consistent pattern for me now. And Earl is going to get to pound this wall until tomorrow morning when I cash in around 10k credits into diamonds and rebirth ;) One thing I am noticing on some...
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    Health Problems

    Yeah, over the years I've gotten multiple checks from either insurance, or from a Dr's practice because of how they billed things that then turned out to be covered or whatever. The accounting reliability in that world is astoundingly bad, and most entities seem perfectly OK keeping the error...
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    Idle Earl, home-made

    Right now the Credit earning pace doesn't seem too bad to me. I'm clocking a credit every 30 seconds, I'm at 61Sx/sec in PI and right around 20k diamonds. This will mean my current rebirth will last around 3 days (I think I rebirthed Monday morning, and will do it again tomorrow morning). I...
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    Idle Earl, home-made

    I think it's that in the current end game you reach a cycle as I mentioned a ways back there. You get to the point you reach equilibrium on Arena level where you need to increase skills to move forward, but the exponential factor of skill rank costs starts making that slower and slower. So...
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    Idle Earl, home-made

    When I say "Free Fall" I meant that when I refreshed (to v 0.88) and the Darkness showed up I just didn't have the DPS to kill it at my current build out at around level Arena 42k so I lost several in a row until I was at a low enough Arena level (and ergo Arena HP total level) that it went back...
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    Roguelite Enemy Hell/Bullet Heaven/Survivor catch-all

    Well, since it costs less than getting lunch at Chili's I gave this a try. Very fun so far but I'm just now starting. Took me a while to figure out gear, still figuring out some bits and bobs and getting my motion pattern down how I like it. On the other hand, it sings to my inner mountain...
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    Idle Earl, home-made

    Update, I looked up and had cascaded down to around arena 40710 and was seeing space pigs again, so somewhere just north of there would be where you see the last enemy appear I would suspect.
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    Idle Earl, home-made

    I know I updated and I see the last mob now. And I was at Arena 42k. And have been losing constantly since as I can't break the new DPS check. heh
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    Idle Earl, home-made

    Yeah, that's what happens when you do "fullscreen mode" on a wide format monitor. We touched on that a while back and apparently it would be a real pisser to "fix" and not really a problem. But the "skull out of bounds" has happened to me when not in fullscreen mode as well. To give you an...
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    Idle Earl, home-made

    Odd skull behavior I've seen before but never got a screen cap of until now..
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    Idle Earl, home-made

    And honestly, it's not a problem that they're on top. I think the problem was they were so far out ahead and on top that most of everything else Earl was doing seemed trivialized, IMHO. I think the balancing feels good right now. If there was any thing I'd do to skulls it might be to modify...
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    Idle Earl, home-made

    The ability to have a legit reason to put a skill into a game called "Squiggly balls" should not be passed up. ;)
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    Idle Earl, home-made

    OK, cooking .86 this morning. Initial reactions : Balancing feels good man. Did Fireballs get "un-squiggly"? Originally we had fireballs which were straight line fireballs. Then somewhere, I think in the .7x timeframe, they changed slightly. When they hit something they would then make a...
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    Investing General Discussion

    Might I also add, that if you want a broad play, URNM has treated me pretty well... Before the AI boom I held that the real technology that will provide sustained power moving forward will be nuclear before wind/solar.
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    My company has had these, hell in our most recent performance reviews there was even a section to specifically document how you'd used AI to improve how efficiently you could do your job. And some people were doing some novel stuff with AI in the competitions, all the while cynical old ass...
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    Idle Earl, home-made

    The trick might be doing something to help daggers that doesn't further amp up skulls. As for fireballs/witch doctor, I dunno. Maybe something at the higher tiers to help them so it doesn't stupidly disbalance the lower arenas where they're more relevant. Right now the arenas are a three...
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    Idle Earl, home-made

    A definite improvement to the skulls. Any thoughts on buffing the other damage so that it's not always a game of "get all 4 skulls on your high HP target of you're gonna run out of time" at the higher tier arenas?? ;) In the 30k arena territory you quickly notice dagger are measured in K...
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Yes, which is why any outsourcing/offshoring control EO, Law, Regulation has to be non-India specific. Catch em all. You pay someone outside the country to do a service for your company in America? You're going to be taxed for the American we'll have to put on unemployment because of it.
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    It won't because of India's growing influence on congress. Limiting, even completely halting, H1Bs if anything helps India because it keeps their smartest workers inside India. They might put up a token "angry press statement" but that will be about it. Doing anything to impair the ability of...
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    Health Problems

    Yeah, the Urology practice I have gone to... I've been through three Urologists now. Started with one, who handed me off to a different one who "handles the complicated situations and surgeries". That guy lined me up for the first Cryoablation, but he's Jewish so taking essentially half of...
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    Health Problems

    I had to do multiple genetic screenings apparently to see if I was pre-disposed to cancers of this type because the doctors were all "Two masses, one on either kidney? Almost perfectly symmetrical? That just doesn't happen normally."