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  1. TJT

    Losing your Job

    I worked on his boat up until I was 18 then I joined the Army. It's damn hard work and most of the people are nice... but also retards and just not my scene. It isn't a bad life though. They are much more interesting than mill workers though. As the majority of boat crews (any fishing crew) are...
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    Losing your Job

    Tuna on the Oregon coast mostly. As he is old now. He used to do Salmon and Crab in Alaska for like 12 years from 1978-1990. Yes like in Deadliest Catch.
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    Losing your Job

    Yeah, most welders are shit. My father is a fisherman by trade but also had a business doing dive salvage work on the Oregon coast. Been around blue collar type workers my whole life. Most welders are fucking idiots and really bad at it or just mediocre. They don't get work and eventually go and...
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    Health Care Thread

    That was half the house saying that 24 million hard working Americans wouldn't have healthcare anymore.
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    Health Care Thread

    At the beginning of this year it was ~$450/month for a single, 24 year old, non smoking male making $50k a year. This is in Arizona.
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    Health Care Thread

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    The Handmaid's Tale

    I liked it.
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    One thing I do credit Brad for and his, "visions" is that he is willing to do some wild development. Put in totally experimental game design choices right into production because fuck it, that's cool. While Vanguard did eat it. It did a some things very well and I hope he does include those...
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    Everquest Mysteries

    So? Were you having fun exploring? I read something several years ago about how something like 5k+ quests in Everquest were never even completed by any player.
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    Health Care Thread

    They don't matter when your constituents are paying $600 extra a month to support those people and you can decrease it by $300. They'll vote for it. Sympathy ain't worth a not insignificant portion of their monthly income. This is even before the death spiral the ACA creates by pushing huge...
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    Health Care Thread

    What you're talking about is the gap between Medicaid and the ACA itself. People who are still in that gap (on ACA but make too much to get Medicaid) are just going to get fucked. That's what Ryancare is doing. And that's the point. The subsidizing fund for the high risk pool has been drying...
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    Health Care Thread

    Okay then you know that the ONLY reason insurance companies even agreed to enter the ACA market is because they were being paid cold hard cash through some funds such as the Risk Stabilization Fund. The intent of that fund was to balance out their actuarial tables so they would offer lower...
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    Health Care Thread

    Do you even understand how the ACA functions? The intent of this reorganization is to price people out. Even if they qualify for subsidies. The entirety of Ryancare can be summarized as thus: "Squeeze out the lower end to decrease pressure on the middle."
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    Health Care Thread

    While the new Ryancare bill is shit. It will allow for the reorganization of people into risk pools. Thus pricing people out of the market and lowering prices for others.
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    Better Call Saul

    I think it's going to b a pretty epic Coup de Grace and a turning point for Jimmy to prove to himself and Chuck that he is fully capable of bending a court to his will. That he is just as good at the game as Chuck is. He just has to play it his way.
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    Ashes of Creation

    Sounds interesting. I'll go in for $40. Whatever. I like the idea of what they want to do.
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    Hearthstone

    I enjoy it and get to rank 8 or so before I get tired of the grind. Still annoying bro.
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    I'm down with the no RMT police state.
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    I honestly don't know how you get around that other than controlling the RMT bullshit in game. Even then... The other way is to maintain a police state on that crap.
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    Everquest Mysteries

    I'd consider that if those crafting survival games didn't seem to be universally shit. "Make your own story" is just about having meaningful interactions in a game.
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    Everquest Mysteries

    What game are you talking about? I am just meaning something where you are just a dude, an adventurer in a dangerous world. Not the Hero Of the Universe like @Fight is talking about. Not WoW's style in that everything is just so sterilized. I am just so tired of that.
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    I am all for not sterilizing loot like that. Really, original EQ (up to Velious) did not have THAT much of an item problem. Loot tables are something else but items themselves? No. Bring on items with poorly thought out effects. If they truly end up game breaking? Nerf them. If items are a...
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    Everquest Mysteries

    Agreed. Too many Theme Park MMOs thanks to WoW and its spawn. Let's have a sandboxy game with lots of background to make our own stories in.
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    I like the death penalty and I am too old for true XP loss IMO. I don't mind hell levels here and there but I don't want shitty DND implementation of XP penalties on certain classes/races. Like Troll SKs sucking the penalty dick and Halfling faggots having an exp bonus for... reasons. There are...
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    I am excited to follow the development of this game. They will be able to do some pretty clever stuff with the game mechanics if they don't go crazy on the graphics. Which they aren't doing and that's totally fine. Might be just the MMO we deserve.
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    Hearthstone

    For me, I like playing the game while doing other shit. But god damn if I don't get rustled with the ridiculous losing streaks that plague me. Change decks still run into opponents with god draws or stupid RNG victories. Makes me Salty AF.
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    Everquest Mysteries

    I knew of the Pot Portal room in Tim Deep or wherever it was. Never bothered to go there though. EQ was quite vast compared to others. So much was just unknown and out there. I loved that.
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    Good stream. Although this was some dungeon. I am much more interested in the greater game world. Need muh mystery and excitement! I do want the death penalty to sting. Just a little though.
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    Billions

    Yeah, especially specific people all of which have either direct or indirect ties to you. Ex-Employee's maid, ex-employee, wife's friends... etc. Pretty sure Ice Juice will survive. Ira is not going to be ruined over it. People forgot about the Tylenol cyanide poisoning and stuff too.
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    Silicon Valley

    Gavin already has the algorithm or a similar version of it. Its in the data-boxes they were selling to China. The plot point where Richard would have had to lease the algorithm to the databox company ONLY for five years is why they didn't go through with it. But this was probably just blatantly...
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    Better Call Saul

    Any theories on what Mike was doing other than fixing the door? Can't really place what the pictures were for. The ploy is to make Chuck look like his "sickness" is just him being insane? Seems it would be pretty cake to show that he took care of him for over a year at his own detriment.
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    Billions

    Oh well IDK. They're close to Lara and her family in some capacity. They covered for her when she came to the working man's bar. She will think Axe went too far because they have zero way out of this and he never even talked to Lara about this plan.
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    Okay so I really like this discussion. If I end up having the time to play this I will only be playing one character. Fucking bullshit adult life and all that. Currently I am enjoying Dungeons and Dragons online a lot because its a great and underrated game. But anyway. I like that they want to...
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    Investing General Discussion

    Thinking of taking a position on Target since their price tanked since November. Strong history of comebacks (I mostly just go long on my money) seems like it will rebound back up in a year or so. They're putting a ton of cash into remodeling and new brands and shit. I've got about 10% returns...
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    Cruises: Good Value Vacation or White Trash Rafts?

    Why? He didn't say anything incorrect. Letting dumb (black people) into university for muh diversity wasn't a good decision.
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    Cruises: Good Value Vacation or White Trash Rafts?

    Yeah, but srs. Fuck undergrad. 90% of the shit I learned was from free websites, tinkering, and stackoverflow.com.
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    Cruises: Good Value Vacation or White Trash Rafts?

    Why? If you let just anyone in you must inherently lower your standards to do so. Education at university isn't that beneficial both monetarily and mentally. I've said on this forum dozens of times that university is fucking stupid and I hated it. This practice has caused IQ (at university)...
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    Cruises: Good Value Vacation or White Trash Rafts?

    Is this the part you have an issue with? Do you also disagree that blacks commit disproportionately more violent crime at all income levels?
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    Cruises: Good Value Vacation or White Trash Rafts?

    Explain your reasoning of this concept sir. Are you saying that letting dumber people into university does not inherently "dumb down" a generation because going to university at all is just a dummy variable used for pivoting?
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    Cruises: Good Value Vacation or White Trash Rafts?

    What? That isn't what it was saying. If you let more stupid people into university then you obviously decrease the IQ average of "educated" America.