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  1. Jysin

    Smartphones

    The point being, I am not stupid enough to drop my phone from that height. At best, it gets bumped off a table. Still never use a case, still have never had a problem to date. Why fugly up a phone? If you wear your phone on your belt like a grade A fag, sure.. get a case and call it a day.
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    The Fast Food Thread

    Pretty sure the big money maker in all fast food is soda sales. Way back when I worked fast food at a Taco Bell, the manager broke down the cost to me. They charged 99c for a large and the actual cost was 7c, most of which was for the container, straw, and lid. Sure the prices have probably came...
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    Smartphones

    Dude is dropping it at frigging chest height+ straight onto concrete. Who the fuck drops a phone from that height? I have owned smart phones for pretty much as long as they have been on the market and I have NEVER bought a case to date and yet to have a casualty. (Only exception being my Galaxy...
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    Smartphones

    I caved and bought an S6 Edge to replace my S5. I too am skeptical of the use of the curved "edge" screen, but I am going on a leap of faith that developers will come up with some cool app features for it. REALLY digging the lollipop OS over kitkat. Quite a few differences and feels overall more...
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    Smartwatches / Fitness Trackers

    It really isn't about productivity (FB browsing) as it is the huge security risks. You are bringing devices that interface and integrate over wireless connections. That is a HUGE no no in the IT world. The wrong piece of malware could get these devices broadcasting all sorts of information from...
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    Home buying thread

    Re the bolded part: Pretty much every single mortgage works this way. You pay all the interest on the front of the loan and towards the end it biases completely opposite. This is why people who flip houses every 5 years usually have fuck all in equity (in a flat market). Making some advanced...
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    The Fast Food Thread

    The thing is, if you have had Shake Shack, you know their burgers aren't THAT huge compared to say, 5 Guys or whatever. That is the shocking thing to me.
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    The Fast Food Thread

    Quick talk about some quality calories. Holy shit, Shake Shake has some calorie dense foods! It's not like their burgers or fries are huge portions, but they are calorie bombs. I had a "meal" the other day with 3 items and it was basically my entire daily intake of calories. Absolutely worth...
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    NeverGrind: EQ inspired, browser-based single player RPG

    Thanks for the continued Legendary work. I kinda mentioned it on the NG forum yesterday, but have you considered another implementaion of armor sets? RNG seems to be pointless, as I think it is absolutely impossible to get all the pieces of 1 class before you actually defeat Hell level game...
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    NeverGrind: EQ inspired, browser-based single player RPG

    Where to farm it? Also, any ETA on when Legendary weapons will have their procs coded in?
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    Nepal 7.9 Earthquake

    I am right at sea level and did a section of the Annapurna Circuit a few years back. Again, it really just depends on your suscepibility and hiking methods. Having access to altitude prior to a trip would be hugely beneficial, of course.
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    Nepal 7.9 Earthquake

    Killi also has more than half a dozen routes of varying length and difficulty. Just depends on what you want to do. Generally speaking though, you are right. If you don't know any better, one could blaze up the easier routes and get fucked by the altitude.
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    Nepal 7.9 Earthquake

    Good point. I have a friend here who is on attempt #3 at Kili. First time was just shitty luck and caught a cold on the flight over. Did not complete. Second attempt was turned back by altitude sickness. God damn altitude sickness, levels the playing field. You could be a world class olympic...
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    Smartwatches / Fitness Trackers

    Pretty much every watch worth a damn has had sapphire glass for countless years now. It's nothing special or exclusive about the Apple watch.
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    The Astronomy Thread

    Incredibly cool photo, considering the skill / timing involved. APOD: 2015 April 27 - Space Station over Lunar Terminator
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    The Fast Food Thread

    Not a huge soda drinker at all, but I never liked Baja Blast. Just tastes weird to me. My #1 is an ice cold A&W out of a can, closely followed by a regular Mountain Dew.
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    Nepal 7.9 Earthquake

    Doh! What on earth was I thinking?
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    Nepal 7.9 Earthquake

    Everest is still a serious fucking risk. People die every single year on that mountain, Sherpas included. Clueless fucking forum warriors in this thread. List of people who died climbing Mount Everest - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Add to the fact, that nearly all of the bodies are...
  19. Jysin

    Jurassic Park 4

    Just got around to watching the latest trailer. Forget about the obvious plot issues, but why does the CGI look so terrible!? That is more immersion breaking than anything to look at. Zero hopes for this movie. Such a shame.
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    Buhton

    I booked the tour locally out of Nepal. It was ~3 years ago, so I really can't help you there. Is that $4k package per person, or as a couple? It would be reasonable if it were a couple rate.
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    Buhton

    Minimum Daily Package | Tourism Council of Bhutan (Official Website)
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    Buhton

    That's pretty damn pricey! Like I said, the fee is flat $250 per day and the tour guide is inclusive of everything already mentioned in your itinerary (guide, driver, lodging, food, etc). Bhutan makes this a requirement for all travellers and the guide / drivers are all licensed locals through...
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    Desktop Computers

    Depends how hardcore you want to go. I have a Synology Diskstation 5 bay NAS with 5x4TB drives in RAID5. Torrenting 1080p movies and TV adds up quickly. I am at about 8TB of used space. The Synology is probably huge overkill for most consumers. You can do quite a lot with it.
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    Service Providers (Internet, TV, Etc)

    Most ISPs will just demand that you use their product if you want support from them. Understandable, as they can't expect to troubleshoot an infinite number of router brands and configurations. I have never used the provided equipment though. It's usually garbage quality anyway.
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    Smartphones

    Pretty damn sure, the default setting is no autoplay over carrier data. They will autoplay if you are connected to home WiFi. (You can change these default behaviors in settings)
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    Buhton

    Bhutan was god damn amazing. Spent about 5 days there. It is basically the land that time forgot. You feel as if you stepped back in time a few centuries. In my travels, I found that they only got television back in 1999. Marijuana grows absolutely everywhere (called weed for a reason). The...
  27. Jysin

    Nuvigil, Alertec, or other shift work/night work medications.

    Yea, I do 4x12 per week on nights. Fuck all that nonsense about swapping shifts all over the map. That would really fuck me up.
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    Nepal 7.9 Earthquake

    As someone who went to Nepal a few years back and did some trekking, you sound like dicks dismissing the Base Camp deaths as rich white people deaths. That's absolutely not true. The Base Camp trek does not require money or significant mountaineering skills at all. Just a moderate level of...
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    Red99

    You can get around it with using the second account on another PC / Laptop with a VPN. (Maybe even same PC running a VM and VPN?) I am fairly certain staff is not ok with this.
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    NeverGrind: EQ inspired, browser-based single player RPG

    I don't know how you would bot this unless you were farming total noob zones. I had probably 6+ deaths yesterday trying to grind xp mobs +/-1 or 2 levels of me. Most of those were due to fucking double ambushes. Getting 2-3 named pop on deck at once is pretty much insta death. XP loss hurts at...
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    Red99

    I enjoy the PVP, abhorr the Holo zerg raids. Stuff I mentioned in the thread here last week.
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    Red99

    Think I'm out gents. Need to liquidate all my chanter gear. Got some pimp stuff like a NoS, Tranix Crown, Shiny Robe of the Underfoot, etc. If anyone needs a chanter gear kit, we can talk.
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    NeverGrind: EQ inspired, browser-based single player RPG

    I am guessing he had a ton of banked gear just in case he did die. Pretty easy leveling up with a bank full of twink stuff. I also saw he posted that he was using +Exp Find gear over defensive gear, which is what he attributes to his first death. Exp greed! Funny enough, I first rolled a...
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    NeverGrind: EQ inspired, browser-based single player RPG

    Thanks a lot Joe! Can't wait to get appropriate level!!
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    NeverGrind: EQ inspired, browser-based single player RPG

    Holy shit, just got another one. Same exact mob! What are the odds?
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    NeverGrind: EQ inspired, browser-based single player RPG

    God damn super goblin nearly wrecked me. Managed to barely get by!
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    Manila Philippines

    It's the idea of beak and claws that's offputting! Ugh.. I have been around the world and tried strange things, but I have to draw the line there!
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    Red99

    Pretty much exactly what I was talking about.
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    Red99

    Unfortunately, the way EQ is so unbalanced as fuck in PVP, it mostly is just a numbers game. From what I have seen, Holo just throws a stupid number of bodies at a raid mob to kill it in 0.2 seconds while another mass zerg fends off the "competition". The recruitment process is basically "Hi...