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  1. Khane

    Going to College as an Adult

    I know very few people who have Master's degrees in Engineering and I went to an Engineering University (Clarkson). All of my engineer friends either went straight to the field after their bachelor's or stayed in school to get their PhD. As far as I can tell the FE and PE licenses are more...
  2. Khane

    Home buying thread

    It's a doggy dog world out there. Sometimes you just have to iron while it's hot.
  3. Khane

    World of Warcraft: Classic

    I don't think it actually went live like that.
  4. Khane

    Narcos

    Yea, I don't know if the character is written to feel lifeless and devoid of any real emotion or human characteristics, or if that's just the way the actor portrays him. He probably was a sociopath IRL but he doesn't feel like a sociopath on screen. He feels like a marionette. The rest of the...
  5. Khane

    The Fast Food Thread

    The debate isn't really about sugar substitutes. Those are used in diet sodas but the they still have calories. Which makes sense. The 0 calorie drinks don't. They use "natural flavors" which is nebulous and dubious in and of itself. If you look at the nutrition label of a flavored seltzer is...
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    World of Warcraft: Classic

    I thought the title stayed even after you deranked in patch 1.12?
  7. Khane

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

    Baron Andrew Von Fancypants! We've finally uncovered your secrets!
  8. Khane

    Steam Deals and Digital Sales

    Has anybody installed and run the steam link app on a Raspberry Pi? Wondering how it performs/if it's worth using since I already have a Pi that's doing nothing other than running pi-hole.
  9. Khane

    Home buying thread

    "Now's the time to buy! The market is exploding! The soil here is perfect for wine grapes and you need to get in now before it's too late! These properties are going to be worth 300% more in 5 years! Sign with me and we can start the paperwork right away!"
  10. Khane

    The Fast Food Thread

    It doesn't make any sense to me that something with artificial flavoring and other ingredients to make it taste like "something" can somehow be the dietary equivalent of water at 0 calories. Seems like bullshit marketing wizardry. I also don't understand how people find themselves in a...
  11. Khane

    Home buying thread

    Appraised value *always* being lower than sale price is a good indication the market is inflated. People tend to have very short memories when it comes to real estate so I'd take what people tell you about appraisal vs sale price with a grain of salt.
  12. Khane

    Lucifer

    Supernatural never gets good. Grimm is a much better version of a similar show.
  13. Khane

    Steam Deals and Digital Sales

    Pryor to what?
  14. Khane

    Steam Deals and Digital Sales

    That's actually Charlie Murphy. Easy to confuse them.
  15. Khane

    Narcos

    So, least for me, they edited Carlos Salinas de Gortari's name out of the show. They bleep it out whenever a character speaks it and it's blank text in the subtitles. This season is good, I didn't like the beginning of Mexico S1 but it came around in the end and this one is becoming as good as...
  16. Khane

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    That's an actual race that could be interesting to watch. Let me tell you how interesting actually watching the race in WoW is....
  17. Khane

    MLB Hot Stove 2020: Congratulations to the nations capital

    "I will continue to be an MLB pitcher in the coming season"
  18. Khane

    Urtuk: The Desolation (Band of Darkest Dungeon Brothers)

    Hrmm, if someone purchases this make sure to post a review here. I'm always interested in tactical, turn based RPGs
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    Investing General Discussion

    That's an interesting take. The idea of the USD becoming worthless has ramifications far greater and much worse than just having unrealized gains or losses in the various markets.
  20. Khane

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Especially since they removed the skips that made it much less painful in WoD/Legion. Another shitty change that doesn't make any sense.
  21. Khane

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Eh, that's a pretty good change. Azshara doesn't drop a mount?
  22. Khane

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Once they introduce a new Medallion of the Legion you can!
  23. Khane

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    And titles and achievements... is that really pay to "win"? It may cheapen the title a bit but WoW has long since lost that kind of illustrious conqueror aspect of itself. I guess that's really why none of this bothers me in the least. That title doesn't really mean anything and all the gear you...
  24. Khane

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Yea, you can do that no matter what. You can do that with in game gold you earned playing the game without ever buying a WoW token. You can do that by being friends with and buying beer for people in a raiding guild.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    The inclusion of the WoW token is something I think that has been very positively received by most players, myself included. So while it adds the possibility that players can use real money to buy a token, sell the token on the AH, and then use the proceeds to buy in game services it also allows...
  26. Khane

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    People are going to do this whether there is a WoW token or not.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    When I think of p2w I think of cash shops selling stuff that increase power or are mandatory to success for real money, or even worse, boosts and other things that affect gameplay that you can only get from said cash shop. That's the kind of thing that ruins game economies and sucks all of the...
  28. Khane

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    You can pay to win if you want. And you always have been able to, like xzi said. That doesn't make these communities "pay to win" communities. Shit a lot of items in Everquest were tradeable and could be sold on eBay. Guess EQ was pay to win too.
  29. Khane

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    That auction house analogy falls real flat. You can do better than that. It isn't pay to win. And like I said these services existed long before Blizzard ever created the WoW token. The sudden inclusion of the WoW token doesn't immediately make WoW a pay to win game. And if the WoW token was...
  30. Khane

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    See above. Also, with a true pay to win model a la a cash shop there is an infinite amount of rewards that can be purchased. The only limiting factor is the amount of people willing to spend real money in the cash shop. These boosting communities have a finite number of guilds/players able to...
  31. Khane

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Well, because it requires interaction between players, creates a symbiotic relationship between differing playstyles within the playerbase, creates entire communities of people interacting with each other to facilitate it's prosperity and usability and can be achieved entirely without ever...
  32. Khane

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Trading in game currency for in game services is not even close to the definition of pay to win...
  33. Khane

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Oh I thought it was the name of the woweconomy discord server. Didn't even realize they had a whole boosting community nowadays.
  34. Khane

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    It's a gold farming/auction house playing discord/reddit community.
  35. Khane

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Obviously you don't pay attention to any of the arguments presented in this thread or the many discussions revolving around Blizzard fucking over the rest of us by trying to fuck over Limit and Method. And with every nerf Limit and Method find a way to persevere while the rest of us are left...
  36. Khane

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I liked raiding and they ruined it I liked M+ and they ruined it I hate dailies and always will For a while I 5 boxed to farm mounts and other rare shit and to make enough gold I could buy anything I wanted in game or from the cash shop without ever spending actual cash. Who the fuck would farm...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

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  38. Khane

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

    I feel like Lendarios' "advice" is always a bad idea, always something he would never do, and always something he secretly hopes would get people fired.
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    World of Warcraft: Classic

    Not to belittle the achievement, but Classic WoW raiding is incredibly easy. Except for maybe Naxx, but we'll see when it releases if it's as ball breakingly hard as it was back in vanilla. I kind of wish MMOs went back to that model of raiding, where it's a minor challenge but it's kind of...
  40. Khane

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    There have been way more than 2 expansions with daily required wizard chores. World Quests just gave you more options in your dailies and less travel time. World Quests admittedly are a better version of dailies, but they are still dailies and dailies will always suck, no matter what dress you...