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    Home buying thread

    For FHA loans with <10% down (I think that's the number), you're stuck paying mortgage insurance forever. Conventional they drop it at 20%. Mortgage insurance is expensive too, if I remember right it's about 1% every year. In my case I got an estimate for a 280k purchase price with 20k down...
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    All things Brandon Sanderson

    You're right, apparently I can't read. It was on my recommended items list on amazon so I clicked on it and saw all the reviews...totally missed the release date.
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    All things Brandon Sanderson

    Rithmatist is out, but can't decide if I should pick up the digital or hard copy. Apparently there's a decent amount of illustrations in the book but I'm not sure how they would transfer to the kindle edition. Anyone pick it up and have an opinion either way?
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    All things Brandon Sanderson

    Maybe the plate, but the only other surgebinder (I think that's the name) we know well is the assassin, and he uses the shardblade pretty damned handily.
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    Steam Deals and Digital Sales

    Bioshock 1 is already unlocked I believe. I only played it on Xbox so I guess I'll replay it now and see how much better the PC version looks.
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    Comic Books

    Just read a bunch of American Vampire, got caught up on Saga, and started Bedlam. Saga is still amazing. Bedlam's art is solid, story seems good so far. Just a crazy Joker-esque villain. American Vampire is all over the place, but other people have recommended it so I assume it gets better. Next...
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    Investment Property

    Is the management expense what you think it will cost you to manage or are you paying a management company 7%? To do what? It's also interesting that your property tax/insurance are so small. I'm only familiar with residential and for some reason thought that commercial would be higher.
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    Motorcycle Thread

    This is good advice. That amount of mileage is actually pretty low for the bike and the year. It's ten years old and its got 28k...even my friends on sport bikes will do 3k/yr (if they somehow manage to keep a bike for ten years). I bought an R1100 awhile ago as my first bike and have had a good...
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    Board Games

    Then Arkham Horror is for you. Main difference from Risk is going to be switching from a competitive game to a cooperative one.
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    Comic Books

    So I've got my ipad on the way. Got Mylar set up to automatically download a bunch of comics for me. Is there a calibre-like software for managing my library and syncing it to the ipad? It looks like for Windows (which I use) that ComicRack is available but I don't know if that's what I should...
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    Smartphones

    I just moved to it from the Galaxy S3. I have no regrets. Battery life is better. Dude showed me a screenshot of his phone being on for two days. That's about the longest you can expect but if you're just using your phone occasionally then I could see it lasting that long. Using mine throughout...
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    House of Lies

    Did you notice at the end when Matt Damon sees Don Cheadle waiting after shooting the charity promo that he does the jack off motion? Because it was funny as fuck.
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    Smartphones

    Had to switch phones, ended up getting a DNA instead of just getting another S3 and am pretty happy with it. $50 instead of $70 and you get a bigger screen with more pixels. I do like the shape of the looks of the S3 more (hardware keys more useful and less dumb, gigantic notification light) but...
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    Smartphones

    Yeah I'm stuck being a new customer on VZW. According to my phone I've regularly gone over 2-3GB/mo, but at least in this house I'm usually not on wifi because the access point is so far from where I'm usually at and 4G tends to be better at that range. Pulse seems to be using up a lot and I can...
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    Relocating to San Antonio

    I just accepted it, should hear from the relo company soon. I'll suggest southtown/king william area to them and see what they come up with. Thanks everyone
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    Smartphones

    Question: I have a Galaxy S3 on Verizon now through work but am changing jobs soon so I need to get my own phone for the first time. I'm kind of addicted to 4G and unlimited data and would like to keep it. A few family members also have a work discount through Sprint I could get on. Both Sprint...
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    A friend once told me "tabasco is great, if you want your food to taste like shit and still not be spicy" and I'm inclined to agree. That said, I use equal parts butter and franks for my sauce and maybe some pepper and it turns out pretty sweet. I've used the allrecipes/food.com (don't remember...
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    Things that grind your gears about shows/movies

    It makes me sad that the article lists Terriers as one of his failures when it fits that mold and out of all the shows mentioned, makes the best use of individual episodes to continue the overarching plot.
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    House of Cards

    I think it was one of those things where he set things up so it works out for him either way. If Russo kept his shit together and won, Frank's done good work and is still a viable candidate for the VP since he was instrumental in the party maintaining a majority and now has a sober governor...
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    Castle

    Aw man totally forgot about that. Over the top
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    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    I'm on 3x5 now and will probably move to texas method or something when my gains slow down. 70sbig has an ebook on it but it's described online a few places
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    Castle

    Hopefully Baldwin shows up next out of nowhere. Or Summer Glau captures Alexis.
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    House of Cards

    Spoilers regarding Claire and the end: That male reporter guy just creeps me the fuck out. I'm hugely uncomfortable physically and emotionally when he's on screen. He seems like the kind of guy who would poke holes in his condoms when he thinks his girlfriend might leave him.
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    Gavinrad's Mass Effect 3+ Thread

    LAUNCH PROBE I have been thinking about trying out the multiplayer again though.
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    Relocating to San Antonio

    That's pretty sweet. It's humid as all hell where I'm at now and is above 90F even at night for weeks at a time. So I'm used to the heat, just not for it taking up most of the year. On a motorcycle I don't have too big of a problem with the heat as long as I'm not stopped. Everyone mentions...
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    Relocating to San Antonio

    Maybe this should be moved to Travel? Uncertain. I'm a twenty something who'll (hopefully) have a job offer in San Antonio soon, but I've never even driven through Texas. I could use advice on where to live or resources to find places to live/rent. The SA craigslist is the spammiest one I've...
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    Home buying thread

    My realtor has a site that emails me any new matches on my criteria (zip code/neighborhood, price, br/ba etc) and they can get a printout of any time the house has been listed and what it was listed/sold for every time we've gone to actually look at a house. Is that not a thing everywhere else?
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    Bicycling

    I have nothing to add except that the cyclocross worlds was the first cx race I attended and it was godddddddamn awesome.
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    Nutrition

    Use this: http://allrecipes.com/recipe/hughs-dry-rub/ And buy the family packs of chicken thighs from whole foods (or farmer's market if you can make it. I sleep through mine a lot). Grill it all on Sunday. Eat it every work day for lunch. Be huge and full. I also started using something...
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    FLAC Versus VBR MP3

    What has a rip of Rumours from a 45rpm LP that sounds pretty much perfect, other than that I don't really mess with vinyl rips unless forced.
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    New Years Resolutions 2013

    I've been cutting but an opportunity to train with an oly coach at my crossfit gym came up so it looks like I'll be switching back to making those sweet sweet gainz. I wanted to cut significantly more (still have a roll of fat I can grab at 6'1" 205lbs) but eh, there's always time and getting...
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    NZBMatrix is dead. What now?

    Hm. I don't download fringe so haven't had any issues. Castle, Justified, Archer, Modern Family, Daily Show and Colbert all downloaded fine from Astra this week. I use nzb.su for indexing and haven't had many problems. I'm interested in the idea of setting up my own indexer though.
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    Portugal

    I spent a week in Porto only being able to speak French and English and got by fine. I had a Portuguese phrase book but a lot of the young folks spoke English. Older hospitality folks spoke French. Anyone else I got by with the charades game. Porto is crazy cheap to stay in. We rented a 5 or 6...
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    Tablets

    Does anyone use their tablets for reading scanned comics? Which one and what do you think of it? I have a kindle for reading regular books, but somehow a few hundred dollars of TPBs I haven't read yet got lost in a move. I'd prefer to not buy them again and the library doesn't have them, but...
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    WDTV/ Roku Streamers

    I have a boxee and my roommate just picked up a Roku+plex. Good lord the UI is awful. Only showing 5 movies/shows at a time is ridiculous on a 50" or larger TV. There's a post from their devs saying that they use some screen template built in to the roku and they would need to write their own to...
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    Motorcycle Thread

    At a rally seminar awhile ago someone was saying that keeping your helmet out of the sunlight when storing it helps it last longer, evidently the sun will break down the styrofoam or whatever inside the helmet faster. Also, I had a street bike now but want to get off-road for the first...
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    Samsara (2011)

    Szlia, what did you think of Baraka though? I was introduced to Baraka in a photo class forever ago and have loved it since, and I think from that perspective it's amazing. It seems like all of the complaints you had about Samsara could apply to Baraka equally, so I'm curious. Dude loves his...
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    Top 10 movies of 2012

    I went into Silver Linings with zero expectations and enjoyed it quite a bit. Hangover guy is entirely convincing as bipolar and while the hunger games girl comes off as forced pretty often, she has spectacular moments as well. I think a lot of it is because the things she's saying are really...
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    Board Games

    Check it, I'm pretty sure this is the link:http://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/22...summary-refere
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    A Song of Ice and Fire (Released Spoilers)

    Filthy pirate I think is the best way to get a combined copy for an e-reader though, there's a decent html file going around that I have.