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  1. Captain Suave

    Home Improvement

    House I just bought is done this way. It's a little generic, but honestly quite pleasant all around and matches anything you put anywhere.
  2. Captain Suave

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    Why does anyone pay attention to these people? It's one thing if they're giving build advice or whatever, but this guy is just explaining his own bad play. Who gives a shit?
  3. Captain Suave

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    Just bought that and will force my kids to play this summer so they know true greatness.
  4. Captain Suave

    MMA Thread

    That was a Victor roll/standard rolling kneebar. This is an Imanari:
  5. Captain Suave

    The Creator (2023)

  6. Captain Suave

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    Sigh. This is going to be like 2e as a kid, where I spent easily 10x the time theorycrafting as I did actually playing. I'll be lucky if I make it out of character creation.
  7. Captain Suave

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    This is the no brainer part of seasons that they completely flubbed. Leveling new characters over and over to no long term gain is just drudgery.
  8. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    Unmet housing demand so badly dwarfs supply that at an average level well see at best a minor slowing of price growth. YMMV in specific hyperlocal markets. In my area a stupid percentage of sales are pure cash, so rates have no effect at all.
  9. Captain Suave

    Home buying thread

    Right, because what we need more of is trust fund babies raised by nannies. I'm fine with disinterested people not reproducing. Leave it to those who care.
  10. Captain Suave

    Chat GPT AI

    It is 100% less time than sanity checking my own code. It's a big accelerant just to give me a rough template that generates the ballpark of the correct output I'm looking for. If that means I'm a bad coder, I'll own that. My last formal training was Java 20 years ago in college and everything...
  11. Captain Suave

    Chat GPT AI

    I'm a partner in a two-man business consultancy, mostly in the pulp and paper industry, based on simulation and optimization tools I build. A bit of low end data science and machine learning on the side. Also, my wife runs a data science department and I try to stay current and occasionally...
  12. Captain Suave

    Chat GPT AI

    I use it all the time. I'm not a coder per se but do a lot of modeling in R/python and ChatGPT is a godsend in saving time banging my head on stupid syntax issues or remembering what library/function to use for one task or another.
  13. Captain Suave

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    Almost everything feels too slow. Frozen orb has fewer projections that move sluggishly compared to D2/3, just feels bad. Barrage has a similar problem with weirdly fat, slow "arrows". Barbarian lunging strike moves faster. Whirlwind looks like a lazy susan instead of something dangerous.
  14. Captain Suave

    Home buying thread

    So you'd rather have perpetually escalating taxes? It's better for long-time owners and about the same as everywhere else for recent buyers.
  15. Captain Suave

    Home buying thread

    In CA it's pretty braindead easy. Assessment is what you paid for the house, period, until the next time the house is sold.
  16. Captain Suave

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    That's an argument for keeping your own stash loaded, which is fine, that just scales linearly with players. If I understand the explanation, though, all players are sent all nearby players' stashes in addition to their own, causing exponential backend congestion, which is just moronic.
  17. Captain Suave

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    You've got it backwards. The season is worthless because everything is nerfed and you gain nothing durable whatsoever.
  18. Captain Suave

    MMA Thread

    Not MMA, but this could be a fun match: https://www.flograppling.com/articles/11143516-georges-st-pierre-to-grapple-demian-maia-at-ufc-fight-pass-invitational-6
  19. Captain Suave

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    But now it's educated dumbassery instead of standard know-nothing ass-talking.
  20. Captain Suave

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    You guys realize if you bitch and then still play the season you're validating their approach, right?
  21. Captain Suave

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

  22. Captain Suave

    Post Your Pet

    You guys are making me nostalgic. This is my lab/husky girl that passed in 2015:
  23. Captain Suave

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    Plus no meaningful synergies between classes or challenges that would utilize them.
  24. Captain Suave

    Home Improvement

    This. They're more expensive to install than equivalent BTUs of central air, but they're much more efficient by design and will pay back in the long run.
  25. Captain Suave

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    Rofl, the final reward for completing the season is a respec scroll? Do I read this correctly that there is nothing unique whatsoever that is gained from participating in the season?
  26. Captain Suave

    The Video Thread

  27. Captain Suave

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    I don't know why they implemented slower speeds at all. If you need more fine-grained positioning, just walk.
  28. Captain Suave

    Home Improvement

    1a (Sink). Either valve and/or occlusion in the water line. What kind of piping do you have and how old is it? If you've got galvanized piping you may be in for a plumbing replacement. 1b. "My washing machine had been disconnected and when I turned off the valve, water was still coming out of...
  29. Captain Suave

    Home Improvement

    A product designed by Big Electrical Cabling to induce you to kick and break all your plugs.
  30. Captain Suave

    Home Improvement

    Sure, and that's all remediation companies do anyway. Just saying it warrants being extra careful during the project and cleanup. I've done a bunch of work around cancer outcomes from industrial asbestos exposure and I wouldn't want any of it loose in my house in any form.
  31. Captain Suave

    Home Improvement

    If you're touching popcorn ceilings and your house was built pre-1980's you should check for asbestos. Mesothelioma is no fun.
  32. Captain Suave

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    I don't hate the scaling changes: Level scaling inside dungeons and most overworld territories has been adjusted in World Tiers III and IV. Monsters will begin to trail behind the player in Level after a certain point (up to a maximum of 5 Levels behind). This change does not affect World...
  33. Captain Suave

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    There is, just tested it.
  34. Captain Suave

    Home buying thread

    Which could be who knows how many years from now. Many don't, but home maintenance and customization isn't a strict function of economic payback. The benefit of redoing your own house is that you get to live in a house with exactly the amenities you want, and you can do it right now without...
  35. Captain Suave

    AI Image Generation

    Different model, different data. Edit: Tuco ninja'd with better response.
  36. Captain Suave

    Home Improvement

    Same shit in my house, also on the docket for later in the year. I definitely need an electrician, though, as I also need a main panel upgrade. Current wiring is old and a clusterfuck. I'm going to put in 40 circuits, each room lights and outlets isolated, multiple high amp circuits to the...
  37. Captain Suave

    Home Improvement

    Depending on how much your local government has a stick up their ass you can be forced to remove unpermitted/code-violating modifications to the house. My wife's aunt was forced to remove a mini split AC in her garage after her neighbors turned her in (fuck those people), and I've heard horror...
  38. Captain Suave

    Home buying thread

    Yup. Sounds like the solution is one of those memes where the fed up guy gets elected to the board and then refuses to attend any meetings so they can't have a quorum to vote.
  39. Captain Suave

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    Which is pretty hilarious, because in the post-beta discussion everyone was shitting on the balance becasuse "all the testers said" that Rogues were bad and barbs were top of the endgame food chain.
  40. Captain Suave

    The Astronomy Thread

    Up to 350,000 gallons, I've read.