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  1. Captain Suave

    Home buying thread

    This is the real problem: (Charts are little stale for these particular comparisons, but nothing substantive has changed. Note the first chart includes trailers, so it's really worse than that.) https://www.realtor.com/research/us-housing-supply-gap-march-2023/
  2. Captain Suave

    Home Improvement

    You've checked the zone valve for debris, malfunctioning solenoid, or voltage/wiring problem?
  3. Captain Suave

    Home buying thread

    What places are these? There's a profound lack of starter homes in many areas because the economics of building are unfriendly to small footprints, and if there is a place that's small and cheap it's prohibitively far from employment, in a dogshit school system, or both. What would have been...
  4. Captain Suave

    The Astronomy Thread

    Although the Moon is tidally locked to the Earth, there's sufficient friction caused in the competition between a) its own gravity wanting to compress it into a sphere, b) its rotation wanting to make it ovoid around the equator, and c) the Earth's tidal force trying to draw it out into an ovoid...
  5. Captain Suave

    MMA Thread

    So they're accusing him of downloading bootleg porn? If that's a problem, 99% of dudes are in trouble. No one got punished for the fappening except the hackers.
  6. Captain Suave

    MMA Thread

    This girl is a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit/Victoria's Secret model, I'm sure there were no shortage of attempts to see if she had nudes on her phone. Dillon's too dumb to hack anything, but anyone can find leaks on the internet.
  7. Captain Suave

    Home buying thread

    My wife and I were faced with this realization in the last couple years. We'd been renting because due to a quirk of our local markets the cost of tenancy was about 30% less than the cost of owning. However, we had to move in 2022 and face a big catch-up in proportional rent. Fortunately our...
  8. Captain Suave

    The Video Thread

    Bethesda needs to hire this guy as lead QA tester. He broke the save mechanism in the first 10 seconds.
  9. Captain Suave

    Let's build some pools!

    I've seen some pretty cool shipping container pools with transparent sides, along the lines of this. Small, but neat idea and I imagine is a cost-effective way to put a pool on a slope. I'd be tempted to put two full sized containers end to end for lap swimming.
  10. Captain Suave

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

  11. Captain Suave

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    Depending on how deep modders can get under the hood and optimize, maybe there's hope for making the world have fewer seams? It looks like maybe they started out having a zoneless world and punted due to engine limitations...
  12. Captain Suave

    Homesteading and Hobby Farm/Ranch

    Goat is OK. It's both milder and slightly gamier than beef, if that makes sense. I don't mind it but won't go out of my way to find it, but that's probably just my palate being biased towards the more traditional Western meats. My wife loves it, but she's Chinese. I'm sure it would be great...
  13. Captain Suave

    Hogwarts Legacy

    FYI this is 30% off on steam right now.
  14. Captain Suave

    Health Problems

    Not so much pain, but I have an intermittent allergy to sweating (Cholinergic urticaria). It only happens after I've been doing several hours of major exercise and get deeply dehydrated. The next day, the first time I do anything that makes me perspire it's like someone injected poison ivy into...
  15. Captain Suave

    David Eddings

    Wow, that's fucked. If you still want the ebooks (Eddings or any others that are hard to find), I'm sure you can hoist your digital Jolly Roger and head over to:
  16. Captain Suave

    No Man's Sky

    I'm in the same boat trying to play with my kids. Minecraft is the obvious choice for collaborative base-building, with the bonus that it will run fine on a potato. If you don't want to do that, Valheim was also a good experience.
  17. Captain Suave

    No Man's Sky

    Skim the comments; there are some technical quirks with multiplayer that might or might not be annoying for you.
  18. Captain Suave

    Gaming and general purpose monitors

    I should have mentioned that unless I can figure out how to leave the PC in a central location, the run is ~80 feet. AFAIK that exceeds the HDMI spec for reliable transfer. I know there are repeaters and boosters, but I've not heard good things about the latency introduced.
  19. Captain Suave

    Gaming and general purpose monitors

    I know this isn't exactly the right thread, but I'm curious if knows if it's possible to set up multiple access points to a single PC. I recently moved to a new house, drew the short straw, and lost my dedicated office. I do work in my bedroom during the week but on the weekends want to game...
  20. Captain Suave

    Home buying thread

    What'll blow your mind even more is that the market is still tight in LA/SF where these people you're complaining about are moving out of. A nice 3/2 in a good school district is $1.5M. No one paying those prices is getting paid hourly. The math doesn't work, as you say. You're almost...
  21. Captain Suave

    Home Improvement

    You can get a jig/kit at your big box store for like $20. Edit: What he linked.
  22. Captain Suave

    Highlander

    Some fuckwit the other day was trying to tell me they made a sequel to The Matrix, too. What are these people on?
  23. Captain Suave

    MMA Thread

    Mighty Mouse enters hobbyist BJJ tournament, and in a shocking turn of events fucking smokes everyone while his opponents appear to be moving in slow motion:
  24. Captain Suave

    Home buying thread

    Of course not, but under hyperinflation you get to pay your fixed debt with monopoly money.
  25. Captain Suave

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    Much like Twitter, the world would be better off if we pretended Twitch didn't exist.
  26. Captain Suave

    Home Improvement

    Yes. *EER is BTU/W, assuming the unit is performing at spec.
  27. Captain Suave

    Home Improvement

    Just skimming some reviews, this one is 15 SEER for $250. That saves just under half the electricity for the same cooling. You can do the math on how long you think it runs and figure out a payback period.
  28. Captain Suave

    The Astronomy Thread

    We don't get them here because they hit Jupiter instead. If our solar system didn't have Jupiter to clear out asteroids, Earth would be a very different place. Edit: Actually this may be bullshit.
  29. Captain Suave

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    This is what I wanted. I might actually go play NMS again instead.
  30. Captain Suave

    The Video Thread

    Watch with subtitles on.
  31. Captain Suave

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    Oh man, that brings me back. My friends and I used to play tons of Trade Wars and Legend of the Red Dragon. The guy hosting the BBS was always in trouble with his parents for hogging the phone line.
  32. Captain Suave

    Home buying thread

    Pls wipe out my mortgage!
  33. Captain Suave

    AI Image Generation

    In B4 AI enhanced dick pics. https://12ft.io/
  34. Captain Suave

    Home Improvement

    I'd bet most people buy shitty brushes. Edging with a $2 Home Depot brush is an exercise in pain. (Ask me how I know...)
  35. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    It's not the most economically efficient course, but I'd be tempted pay off the mortgage. Being totally debt-free brings a level of psychological freedom that's hard to describe. (I'm not debt-free right now, but I was for a long time and don't presently carry any beyond mortgage.) However, I'm...
  36. Captain Suave

    MMA Thread

    No, I have no doubt what we see is exactly what's going on in his head.
  37. Captain Suave

    MMA Thread

    I'm just hoping both the Paul brothers and Dillon Danis can manage to die in a fire during this event. I've briefly interacted with Danis a few times since the '00's when we were part of the same jiu jitsu association and he was consistently a massive douche.
  38. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    An HSA is a great savings vehicle especially if you aren't using it for near term medical expense. You will undoubtedly increase your medical spend later in life, and in the event that you somehow don't you can withdraw HSA funds after age 65 and spend them for any purpose, without penalty...
  39. Captain Suave

    The Video Thread

    I have a black belt in Iaido. Trained pretty seriously for 5-6 years in my 20s while also getting a black belt in Aikido. Definitely a weeb phase. Switched to Brazilian Jiu Jitsu when I grew out of it.
  40. Captain Suave

    The Video Thread

    Iaido is by far the most common practice that uses a metal blade. There are various kenjutsu lineages, but they're vanishingly rare outside Japan. Metal blades are not typically used in Kendo, Aikido, or traditional japanese Jiu jitsu. They use shinai or bokken for cost and safety reasons. As...