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Mobs leashing seems like a massive change. Basically flying in the face of the "super punishing old school mechanics" so many of the diehards seem to want.

It's both an age of the player phenomenon, as well as the time period the game came out. You'll never recapture 1999 era internet where everyone wasn't so connected like they are now. Several people have mentioned it over the years in this thread, but you're talking peak instant messaging era...

That doesn't sound like a good omen for the movie. Basically they don't think it holds up on its own, with just phase whatever the fuck Marvel bullshit behind it, so we're going to go back 7 years to the last thing that was interesting to support it. I don't think most movie fans will...

And here I figured she was acting like an asshole. Turns out that's just her personality. Her "everyone is raping little girls" and "don't trust any men" schtick is so obnoxious. Anyway, I meant to say it in my last post, but the conclusion to season 2 just felt like kind of a letdown. It was...

Honestly, the whole character was weird. They basically made him an incel.

Yeah, made me want to just play kick/hat/snare for a week and just see what happens.

Yeah, it's got some issues, and the woke stuff keeps creeping in, but it's one of the best dramas of the last few years by a long shot.

Well shit, it's unfortunate Tom Cruise won't be involved thi...oh wait.

Right, but I don't liquidate my entire portfolio when we need cash to live off. I do like $5-10k at a time. So it's an extra couple hundred dollars. Not nothing, but over the long term also insignificant. It's why I always say, even after you retire you still need to stay in equities. If you've...

The other day when the market broke even on the year, I asked my wife if we needed more money yet. She said we still had a month or two. I considered liquidating some, but boy am I glad I waited (not that 2-3% is a huge difference).

Appreciate it. Will have to look into the land equity part as I've never seen that. It makes sense, just something never seen mentioned on construction loans. I guess maybe cause most people don't own the land they're building on?

Probably why Abiotic Factor felt so refreshing. Check it out if you hadn't. Probably still on Game Pass if you've got that.

Dang, that seemed to come out of nowhere. So if you don't mind me asking, what's the summary? $850k or so at 6.5%? Assuming a construction loan? 1 year? I'm assuming everything as far as blueprints had to be finalized?

Many people have said it at this point, but even if he did finish this next book, who cares anymore? The window of me giving a fuck about these books passed about a decade ago.

Plenty of real people are pieces of shit.