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  1. Borzak

    The Astronomy Thread

    Had a flight from Chicago to Anchorage before entertainment systems in a plane would show where you are. I asked the stewardess if she could tell me where we were with the ice fields and mountains below. She asked the pilot who announced it over the PA. When we deplaned she introduced me to the...
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    Investing General Discussion

    Till the day she died my grandmother would often say she wish CD's would go back around 20%. Of courwse when you grow most of your food and work at home in a house you owned for 25 years by then. She did not keep buying and holding CD's for long, but for a short while she loved them. I...
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    Retirement... (i.e. what are you going to be after you've grown up)

    I was not a big investor. It was like you would think it was. Had to have an account and had to call and pay someone to do anything and everything. Then at some later time you would get a call (maybe) that your order went through and for how much, or wait for a snail mail. Everything had a fee...
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    Retirement... (i.e. what are you going to be after you've grown up)

    It's not uncommon in my line of work for someone to pick up a little work from time to time while retired. It's a lot different than going to work for someone every day. My dad is 83 and still picks up a small job from time to time. Might work a week a year in total across multiple jobs. Kept...
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    What are you listening to at the moment?

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    Weather

    Someone should make a site or app that tracks how accurate the weather forecast turns out to be. I looked the other day and for the next 3 weeks the future cast which is never right showed 90s every day which seemed about right for this time of year. Then one day it had 105 out of the blue and...
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    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    I'll look through the bag mod posted. I tried a few and the ones I got earlier were just bags of crap you get for new players. It's not a weigh issue. I carry all stuff I might actually use all the time on my two players. Anything that gets sent to camp is just for sale later. Some places you...
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    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    I need an inventory management mod. Playing with only two players most of your stuff doesn't go onto someone else. I looked at mods and most of the inventory stuff was like more bags or bags that came with stuff in them. Be nice if you could just rename bags but you can't.
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    EVE Online

    Another Python down. Only 1.25 trillion this time, minus the officer mods this time. https://zkillboard.com/kill/129129383/
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    Dating

    My last girlfriend was an OR nurse. She had very little patient interaction being head of some "team" they call it. She did actual OR stuff, not out patient stuff. She was normal to me. She did talk about other nurses getting fat eating all the stuff and looking for a doctor to marry. My GF...
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    Retirement... (i.e. what are you going to be after you've grown up)

    My whole adult life was like semi retirement in some ways and in others I was planning for it. I can walk outisde and be on the natiional forest in minutes after I cross my property line. I live minutes away from the largest lake in TX and have always fished a lot. I have a shooting range on the...
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    Health Problems

    Headed to the ER again shorly, waiting on my ride.
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    NVidia GeForce RTX 50x0 cards - 70% performance increase, but AI > you

    Of course the price will drop , bought a pre built with a 5070ti in it which was a large part of the cost. It really doesn't matter I needed a card and I'll probably stick with it for a while. The games I play don't need that much already. Some game that I want to play and requires more will...
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    General Gaming News and Discussion

    Never was a console player. I eventually got rid of all my old PC games that were DOS based. You could make them run but I had already done them at least once, somer more.
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    Home buying thread

    I have a "formal" dining room in my house. It has a dining table and has a door to separate it from the hall just down from the kitchen (so the servants can make a short trip lol). I use it as an actual dining room. I don't eat in the living room or while sitting at the computer or whatever. Of...
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    What if Everquest was to shut down and DPG disappeared

    I would be okay. I played EQ a lot back in the day and a few times later on. I logged in a year or two ago and with the changes and new stuff I really didn't even know where to start and did not feel like starting a new character. I have not kept up with the game and especially on who owns it...
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    Home buying thread

    Mentioned it before but a friend of mine right out of college got married and bought a house in Katy, TX where it was really booming 30 years ago. Building houses in what had beeb a prairie and mostly good hunting. Anyway the house was so close to the neighbor when it rained hard (and it rains...
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    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/loni-anderson-wkrp-cincinnati-star-224430034.html
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    EVE Online

    I haven't played in a while but this is making the rounds. People guessing RMT or not. No idea. Not every day you get a 1.5 trillion isk killmail off one ship. If you got the kill on that your killboard would be green for a very long time I'm guessing. Guessing nobody knows how much a hull would...
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    Rimworld

    I looked after someone mentioned a package with DLC or expansion. I did not realise how many the game has had over the years.
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    Depression

    I would definitely put some kind of happiness high on the scale of not being a failure. I know some pretty downright miserable people that are succesful but can't go 30 seconds into a conversation without talking about how much their life sucks but the business is doing good and they "own" a lot...
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    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    https://www.express.co.uk/celebrity-news/2089668/flaco-jimenez-dead-6-time-grammy-award Him on the accordion. Solo parts around 1:00 and 3:40. Great song by the way. He was with the Texas Tornados at one time.
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    Weather

    Normally high ar around 95-99 here where I live in east, TX. Same for where my parents live in Mississippi. Two years ago there they had a week of 105. Here I had around 103-104 for a week or more about 30 years ago. It comes and goes. Hell I was working for the US Forest Service all day every...
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    Health Problems

    Speaking of the eye laser surgery. I've never had it but I talked to someone that had it before. I don't know if it changed after ACA insurance and stuff but it was mega expensive unless your insurance covered it and not all did. Apparently the machines/lasers they use they rent or lease and the...
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    Geology, Earthquakes and Volcanos

    Been wondering if Mt. Rainier is going to be the next Mt. St. Helens since apparently a lot of earthquakes in the area lately.
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    Geology, Earthquakes and Volcanos

    When I was in AK the only thing I did in Anchorage was look at some of the 1964 earthquake damage. They had a lot of signs and displays of stuff that happened due to the quake all over the world. It was a 9.2 or so. Some barges were knocked loose of the dock at Dow Chemical on the Mississippi...
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Washington state had extermely low power cost, at least till they started trying to change the hydroelectric situation where they get most of their power from. I don't know if it's the same for industrial compared to residential but when I lived there my power bill was about what a meal cost...
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    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    Before Weird Al. https://www.thedailystar.net/entertainment/music/news/musical-satirist-and-mathematician-tom-lehrer-dies-97-3949701 It's not against any religion to want to dispose of the pigeon.
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    Interesting, Non Political News

    We used to call that "life". I read an article a couple of years ago about how much peanut allergies are a problem in England because they don't eat peanut butter and such and the amount they eat gets lower each year because of all the allergies.
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    Neverwinter Nights 2: Enhanced Edition - July 25th 2025

    Anyone get into it yet? I played NWN 1 but don't remember much about it. I watched a few minutes of streaming on 2 and so far kinda iffy.
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    General Gaming News and Discussion

    Is a DLC planned "Jesus, the missing years" Based on the John Prine song? It was rainy, it was cold West Bethlehem is no place for a 12 year old So he packed his bag and headed out To find out what the world was about He discovered the Beatles And he recorded with The Stones Once he even...
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    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    From wiki, guy was all in one his Hank Hill fame. Mangione's 2000 album Everything For Love contained a track titled "Peggy Hill" as an homage to the series.[18]
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    Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

    Pfft vinyl. I'm listening to a reel to reel now. Good quality 1/4" tape at 15" per second sounds pretty good. I'm not a hipster I've just had this shit a very long time. That and my cerwin vega speakers from about 1977. I buy 1/4" reel to reel tape by the box full off ebay for next to nothing...
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    Rimworld

    Looks too involved for, and that's coming from someone that plays Eve online. But it looks cool/interesting.
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    On becoming an electrician

    I'm not sure unions work like they used to decades ago. A guy I worked with is several years older than I am and he learned his trade in a union program. He became a pipe welder and they had training for it when he left the service after Vietnam. They got him good jobs and he went to AK to weld...
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    Investing General Discussion

    I used to stop at one 35 yeas ago to buy from offices and shops. Then they got into this thing of making them and packaging them to be put in stores and gas stations and that was the end of that. Became trash.
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    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    I make shit hard for no real reason. Doing honor run with just two characters. I suck at casters and am more of a bonk them on the head type player. I've been doing singing blade wizard with shart a tempest cleric. I really had to make sure and grab all the exp on the way. Myrkul was the suck...
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    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    Odd are the horse was easier to understand what it was saying.
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    Health Problems

    A while back I went to a Dr. at a hospital that had a partnership with the Mayo clinic. I got another referrel and went to the one in MN this time. I got thes same diagnosis again with more details than the first one. Of course the Dr. the referred me doesn't want to hear it. I really don't...