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  • KamarKamar Registered User regular
    edited April 16
    Has anyone tried one of the King's Field clones that got decent reviews? I know Lunacid is one of them, but I feel like there was another one...

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  • IceBurnerIceBurner It's cold and there are penguins.Registered User regular
    edited April 16
    FWIW I really liked Lunacid. I haven't seen any others that truly fit the vibe and feel. The next closest one seems more like an old Elder Scrolls to me.

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  • AthenorAthenor Battle Hardened Optimist The Skies of HiigaraRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Carpy wrote: »
    Everyone says I can get first time homeowner's support, but.. well, I don't really want some ancient place.

    Oh sorry, I read this on being worried they'd lock you into an ancient place that you didn't want

    It might have come across wrong. The most "affordable" places in my area are extremely small homes from the 1900s-1940s. Homes I would physically not be comfortable in due to their size. You could.. well, call that my privilege talking, but I specifically picked this 3rd story apartment because it had tall ceilings and a vaulted roof in the main room. I also want a basement for tornado preparedness, ideally a garage for car maintenance and storage, and a few other amenities.

    I know I'm just on the beginning of this journey. Like tonight, I'm going to cancel my recurring subscriptions that I've built up and am not using. I am just afraid of what the market may look like out there. I'm 41. By this time, my parents had the house I was born in for like 10 years... and I don't think I'll ever afford something that nice.

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  • AthenorAthenor Battle Hardened Optimist The Skies of HiigaraRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    I do not know what those acronyms mean, but I will look them up. :grin:

    I also did a little bit of spring cleaning and canceled pretty much all the subscriptions I'm not using, so that's another $50+ a month saved (and more if I wanted to push things). Mom has been making double payments on her house and has really knocked down the outstanding loan amount there, so if I can possibly do similar I will. Sorta like how I'm paying $1k+ on my credit cards each month when minimum is.. a bit less.

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  • AthenorAthenor Battle Hardened Optimist The Skies of HiigaraRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    I have managed to consolidate my credit card debt onto my credit union card, which is way below the insane APR of my previous cards. Just because one of them has a 15k limit doesn't mean I intend to use it anytime soon.

    I probably will end up signing a new lease. I just wish the month to month wasn't so high. I would be fine with the 940 if that was the month to month raise.

    Edit: Maybe I can negotiate with my rental place... I am still curious why the rental price jumped $200/mo.

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  • HappylilElfHappylilElf Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    lonelyahava wrote: »
    Hello friends.

    Well

    We have been having a Time of it here.

    wanted to get our steel roof painted, to help elongate it's lifespan. Noticed that some of the gutters were a bit messed up. So we called a roofing guy. "yeah your gutters are fucked. can't do that. Oh and don't paint the roof, you have lead-head nails, they're going to rust through in 5 years and you'll need a new roof. See ya"

    wellok. fuck. guess we'll start saving.

    time passes, and gutters are *really fucked*. like, whole sections have rusted through. So we call another roofing guy and are like "hey, we need gutters and what's your opinion on the roof?"

    This guy actually climbed up onto the roof and started taking photos. Sure enough, several of the lead head nails have rusted through and there's holes starting to grow. Well. Guess we're getting a new roof.

    So we order a new roof. We're going with White instead of the old Dark Brown. Hoping that in summer it'll keep the house temps down. The roofers are doing really well and then one day their boss comes by and is like "hey, so the guys were up there and they found that one of your exterior walls is just crumbling"

    oh, look at that. so it is.

    SO

    We have the roofer recommend a builder he works with. Builder comes by and gets pissed because whoever did the siding on the house used some form of particle board. WTF. So we get a quote to fix the damaged upper gable and then another exterior wall that I noticed had some damage to it. We get scaffolding cause we have.... really high steep roof. like old ski chalet looking roofs.

    So the builders start work and oh hey, actually, only half of the wall is particle board, the rest is actually hardiboard siding, which is like, real god quality stuff. or at least, better quality.

    So we don't have to reclad the entire house. But it looks like it's been done in stripes of hardiboard and particle board and again, WTF. But it's ok, cause I got rid of a window that was kinda useless to us, we never used it and always had the blinds down. So now we've got a new wall in the lounge.

    only the folks that flipped the house before we bought it decided that instead of doing plaster and paint on the walls of the house, they would use boring beige coloured *textured* wallpaper. and the plaster isn't liking the wallpaper. and he wallpaper isn't liking the plaster.

    So we've made a deal with the Builder to now remove the lower half of that one wall in the lounge's wallpaper, and then plaster it, and where we do the seam across the top, the builder is gonna build me a nice shelf all across, so I have place to store my pretty things and Lego and such.


    It's been a very long long few weeks.

    How old is your house?

    I hate everything about what you're having to deal with but at the same time in the US a lot of this would just fall under "bought a 50-80+ year old house" at which point it's still incredibly frustrating but also much more understandable.

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  • HappylilElfHappylilElf Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    lonelyahava wrote: »
    about 40ish years old. the old roofs have lifetimes of about 35 years or so, hardiboard should last for I think about 70 or so, with proper maintenance.

    So built in the mid 80s-ish?

    In that case I'm salty about so many of the things you're mentioning but at the same time I've learned over time that comparing construction here to other places isn't really fair.

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  • RichyRichy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
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  • SatsumomoSatsumomo Rated PG! Registered User regular
    edited April 16
    korodullin wrote: »
    Going from DS3 and Elden Ring back to Bloodborne is really rough because DS3 runs like butter while Bloodborne runs like shit.

    Silver lining for me is that Boodborne has helped many people understand what bad frame pacing is. It's just not that the game runs at 30fps, it's that it has wildly inconsistent frame timings that make it look just bad.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seKQOQy5Ab4

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  • DarmakDarmak RAGE vympyvvhyc vyctyvyRegistered User regular
    edited April 19
    BahamutZERO wrote: »
    People want the lore fragments they drop, or at least I do. Probably also the arcanes. And you do have to physically haul your biometal ass over to the grimoire to get the drops.

    Plus I hate me, and that thing wants to pretend to be me? Hell no, fuck you buddy, nobody hates me more than I do so I'm gonna kick your ass. I can't pass up an opportunity to kick my own ass, even if it's just a doppelganger

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  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Ok, got parts cooiing for nuckear crowd control

    Stabby shame will get his final part as soon as i find all those mushrooms

    Vanilla khora almost fully leveled before dropping her into helmeth


    So the meters grow

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  • AbsoluteZeroAbsoluteZero The new film by Quentin Koopantino Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Does anyone make a combination gas oven + microwave unit? I can find plenty of electric ones, but no gas for some reason.

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  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    amateurhour wrote: »
    Does @Preacher still work with realty?

    If so he can straighten this out for us, otherwise he can get drunk with me on $2 beers in a better time

    I work in realty, but not nearly enough to answer questions in general.

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    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

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  • KadithKadith Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    https://www.dmagazine.com/food-drink/2023/05/why-jalapeno-peppers-less-spicy-blame-aggies/
    The standardization of the jalapeño was rapidly accelerated by the debut, about 20 years ago, of the TAM II jalapeño line, a reliably big, shiny, fleshy pepper that can grow up to six inches long—with little to no heat. TAM II peppers have become some of the most popular in the processing business. The 2002 paper in HortScience trumpeted TAM II’s benefits: virus resistance, absence of dark spots, longer fruit with thicker flesh, earlier maturation, and, compared to a variety of jalapeño called Grande, less than 10 percent of the spiciness. TAMs grown in one location measured in at 1620 Scoville units, while those at another came in at just 1080, which is milder than a poblano.
    Since I know you’re wondering who the inventors are: the clue is in the name TAM II. The hot (but also not hot) new jalapeño is an invention of Texas A&M University. Yes, Aggies took the spice out of life.

    Texas is continuing to ruin food for everyone.

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  • akTheraakThera akjak Registered User regular
    edited April 17
    Hope Summers season is on. I'm trying her in a Ms Marvel thing. Hope > Ms Marvel > Doom is a pretty good play line.

    I also have the dreaded Super Giant > Alioth line in there, cuz you could go Hope > Giant > Doom > Alioth also.

    Main problem so far is that Hope fights with Storm for turn 3.

    There's also probably some kind of Galactus degeneracy to be had, but I haven't cooked on it yet.

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  • Vann DirasVann Diras Registered User regular
    edited April 17
    Phoenix force suddenly dragging me into infinite at the last bell with some big 8 cube wins, that's a nice surprise.

    Spotlights gave me tokens, ham, and mobius. Which honestly, yeah alright. I’ve got another key to get pixie if I decide I want to, but gonna give it the week to see how people feel about her. Day one seems like she doesn’t work with thanos like people hoped, which is a bummer

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  • MNC DoverMNC Dover Full-time Voice Actor Kirkland, WARegistered User regular
    edited April 17
    Vann Diras wrote: »
    Phoenix force suddenly dragging me into infinite at the last bell with some big 8 cube wins, that's a nice surprise.

    Spotlights gave me tokens, ham, and mobius. Which honestly, yeah alright. I’ve got another key to get pixie if I decide I want to, but gonna give it the week to see how people feel about her. Day one seems like she doesn’t work with thanos like people hoped, which is a bummer

    In her early datamine, she didn't have the "...that started there" text at the end. I'm guessing she did originally work with Thanos stones but proved to be stupidly busted in testing. She was also a 1-cost card.

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  • KnightKnight Dead Dead Dead Registered User regular
    edited April 17
    says cards that started there, so it wasn’t going to work.

    the card thanos is might nerfed this month is mockingbird. playing some stones and dropping cull on 3 and mockingbird on 4 with energy to spare is gonna be some fucked up shit lol

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    edited April 14
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  • cB557cB557 voOOP Registered User regular
    edited April 16
    Brody wrote: »
    Does anyone have any tips for a solid new player build for Elden Ring? I played a fair amount of DS 1/2, but it’s been a long while.

    Edit: mostly I’m just worried about making dumb stat choices that waste points.
    Making a decently effective build is still pretty simple. Just pump health and stamina to taste, pump whatever the best damage stat is on your weapon of choice, and meet whatever that weapon's minimum stat requirements are. And if you're doing a spellcaster, also pump mind to taste so that you have more mana to cast more spells.

    You'll unlock respeccing probably before too long, so don't worry too much about fucking up your build.

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  • akTheraakThera akjak Registered User regular
    edited April 17
    Knight_ wrote: »
    says cards that started there, so it wasn’t going to work.

    the card thanos is might nerfed this month is mockingbird. playing some stones and dropping cull on 3 and mockingbird on 4 with energy to spare is gonna be some fucked up shit lol

    I’m gonna let Cap out to play and let Mockingbird get big enough to make Skarr cheap. Blue Marvel too probably makes the cut.

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    edited April 14
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  • KamarKamar Registered User regular
    edited April 16
    The standard strategy of focusing on health and stamina early on and worrying about scaling later works as well as ever, maybe better with how potent bleed and frost weapons can be.

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  • cB557cB557 voOOP Registered User regular
    edited April 16
    Oh yeah also all the softcaps are higher in ER than the other games. 40 is the new 20, 60 is the new 40.

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    edited April 19
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  • MNC DoverMNC Dover Full-time Voice Actor Kirkland, WARegistered User regular
    edited April 17
    Just read that Pixie can shuffle a card's cost with itself. So like your Magneto can swap his energy cost with himself.

    That can't possibly be intended behavior, right? Right?! Because that really makes her ability way too random to be good.

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  • pezgenpezgen Registered User regular
    edited April 17
    It’s all part of the randomness, I guess. I think she’s supposed to be a fun card rather than a serious competitor.

    I might give her a go, but I feel like the mental probability calculations I’d need to be doing just make her too much hard work beyond just a bit of messing about.

    I’m sure I’ll be proved wrong in a week or so when she’s ruling the meta

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  • hushhush Registered User regular
    edited April 17
    increasing her cost and neutering her in thanos decks was probably one nerf too many for a card so unreliable, but maybe someone will crack the code with something broken and hilarious - it does not currently feel like it will be worth 1 to 4 keys, though.

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    This is the future. This is what we built. This is what we wanted. It must have been. Because we all had the fucking choice, didn't we? It is only our money that allows commercial culture to flower. If we didn't want to live like this, we could have changed it at any time, by not fucking paying for it.

    So let's celebrate by all going out and buying the same burger. -transmet
  • kralizecckralizecc Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Do we have a soulframe thread?

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Not yet. There's not much to discuss since it's in closed alpha/beta still and the testers are under NDA.

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  • KadithKadith Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Jedoc wrote: »
    I hear if you try to import any kind of peppers from Texas to New Mexico they burn the truck to the ground on the spot.

    unfortunately they are definitely in the state based on my infrequent anecdotal shopping trips; but the article confirmed my subconscious bias for the "ugly" ones that actually look like chili peppers.

    also i find the blame of aggies funny considering NMSU also calls themselves aggies.

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  • DarmakDarmak RAGE vympyvvhyc vyctyvyRegistered User regular
    edited April 19
    BahamutZERO wrote: »
    Not yet. There's not much to discuss since it's in closed alpha/beta still and the testers are under NDA.

    I got an invite email last night, haven't clicked on the link in it yet

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  • RichyRichy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
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  • Vann DirasVann Diras Registered User regular
    edited April 17
    at the very least, pixie seems pretty good for conquest. second game in a ticket they drop gigantic, magneto, doom, and one other six cost I can't remember, two of them on turn six. so I got to spend the rest of the match wondering just what bullshit they could drop on me

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 16
    I think the issue is less "magic doesn't have the tools" and more "magic keeps its tools in completely random places all around the world and unless you know what you want already it will be a long time until you acquire all those tools as a new player"

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  • iguanacusiguanacus Desert PlanetRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Doodmann wrote: »
    I feel like ground should never be red though
    VishNub wrote: »
    Yeah spend some time on Zillow Redfin and more importantly go to some open houses to get a feel for what your price point could be.

    It’s not fun, but it’s worth it.

    Zillow is based on techbro magic, redfin is at least a MLS aggregator
    Carpy wrote: »
    I'm pretty sure both of them use MLS listings for their primary search. When we bought last year they were giving us the same results and were sourcing them from a couple of different MLS services. I wouldn't trust either of their estimate processes but they were largely the same when browsing active listings

    I'm glad my township let me use the zillow listing of house price when I inherited it last year, cause the price disparity is stark.

    Zillow = $197,600
    Redfin = $328,698

    Taxes in Jersey are pretty high, so that saves me about $4800 a year in property tax. Sure, it might matter if I ever sell and the tax man wants his cut (though it'll only be on the difference) but I intend to live in this place forever anyways.

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  • AbsoluteZeroAbsoluteZero The new film by Quentin Koopantino Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    When we were looking at houses there was one fairly large and beautiful house for the price that we went to see in person. It absolutely reeked of pee. The whole place must have been bathed in cat and dog piss. I don't know how you'd ever get the smell out. Needless to say we passed.

    Another very pretty and recently updated house we looked at, we ventured into the crawl space and discovered a portion of the crumbling foundation being propped up by a 2x4. That was also a nope.

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 16
    My favourite build I did was a strength/arcane build, but in contrast to a lot of builds, my weapon of choice was... A pair of spiked clubs. None of this rivers of blood or seppuku edgelord here, just spikey smashy doom

    I still had all the faith arcane dragon casting goodness on tap, but my main strategy was just combining quick step with pummeling thingsto death with clubs. Worked well, and even splattered players quite effectively.

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