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  1. Captain Suave

    MMA Thread

    Remember, kids, CTE is bad.
  2. Captain Suave

    MMA Thread

    And this is why the most important martial skill you can learn is how to fall safely. (Spoiler: NEVER post on a straight arm.)
  3. Captain Suave

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

    "Have to" is strong. I don't use any shouts.
  4. Captain Suave

    The Video Thread

  5. Captain Suave

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

    God, no. Public chat is the first thing I disable whenever there is one.
  6. Captain Suave

    The Astronomy Thread

    It's a technologically cool idea and has been done small scale by several research groups, but not remotely economical at present. If anyone could make that work if they wanted to, it's Elon.
  7. Captain Suave

    Dating

    My wife initiated with me. Good thing, too, because I had zero game.
  8. Captain Suave

    The Astronomy Thread

    For the curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toroidal_planet Noteworthy: "[There is] no firm theoretical understanding as to how toroidal planets could form naturally" For the super-curious, some math about the allowable geometries and speeds...
  9. Captain Suave

    Dating

    Sounds like this chick and drama-free are mutually exclusive.
  10. Captain Suave

    Dating

    Yes. Been living with my wife for almost 20 years and it keeps getting better. This is the way. Sounds like you aren't a good match. IMO if a relationship feels like work you should move on.
  11. Captain Suave

    Desktop Computers

    Are there any tech/review sites these days that aren't shoveling incomprehensible ChatGPT garbage over the transom? I'm looking at building a mid-range gaming PC for my kids but the sites I used to go to are either garbage or just straight advertisements.
  12. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    This take suffers from lack of imagination and faith in technology, IMO. Synthetic meat is coming eventually just based on the fact that 80-98% of the feed energy invested in farming animal meat is wasted by the time you get to the end product. I don't think that even includes transportation...
  13. Captain Suave

    Home buying thread

    *Cries in Los Angeles with good schools* $1.2M, minimum.
  14. Captain Suave

    Woodworking

    That's what I was going to suggest.
  15. Captain Suave

    Fair MTX Models in free to play games

    Never played Warframe, but yes, I'm allergic to buying shortcuts of any type. Loot, luck/drop/exp accelerators, etc. As far as the utility features, it depends on the game. Like porn, I'll know abusive design when I see it.
  16. Captain Suave

    Fair MTX Models in free to play games

    Anything P2W is an immediate hard nope from me. Likewise for anything approximating a stamina mechanics or gatcha. Fuck those cancerous ideas. I'll pay to remove ads, utility features like stash tabs, or very occasionally cosmetics. Even better, give me a demo and a fair price for the whole...
  17. Captain Suave

    Woodworking

    It cost him about $8500, designed and built himself, some used parts.
  18. Captain Suave

    MMA Thread

    Jesus fuck imagine trying to score this.
  19. Captain Suave

    Home Improvement

    We were looking at options for adding to our house, got similar ~$500k quotes for putting a few rooms on top of our existing 2200 sq ft. That was way out of budget and would also take 18 months optimistically with a year of prep for engineering, plans, and permitting.
  20. Captain Suave

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

    I can count on probably one hand the number of high runes I found myself in however many hundreds of hours of DII I've played. They were always available for trade, though it was never clear to me how many of those were duped or not.
  21. Captain Suave

    MMA Thread

    *checks calendar* ??
  22. Captain Suave

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

    Also dumb. I vastly preferred stat-based item restrictions.
  23. Captain Suave

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

    Sunset the systems, fine, but let me keep the gear. I couldn't possibly give less of a shit about the cosmetics. With the lighting and desaturated pallete you can't see anything beyond the silhouette anyway.
  24. Captain Suave

    The Video Thread

  25. Captain Suave

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

    Meh, fuck these seasons with ephemeral gear. Who gives a shit about power bloat on the eternal realm? Are they worried that someone might have too much fun or have fun the wrong way? If I played for something, I want to keep it. I don't have the time or inclination to build new characters over...
  26. Captain Suave

    MMA Thread

    "Sorta questionable"? This acidic/alkiline diet shit is outright quackery. Motherfuckers never heard of homeostasis. If you could change your body pH through diet in any meaningful way we'd all be dead. He's worried about "acidic foods" and his stomach pH is 1.5...
  27. Captain Suave

    AI Image Generation

    https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/07/valve-says-steam-games-cant-use-ai-models-trained-on-copyrighted-works/
  28. Captain Suave

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    This just means than 66% of people were idiots and 30% of people are irredeemable idiots, which should surprise no one.
  29. Captain Suave

    The Astronomy Thread

    It might not violate any laws of physics in abstract, but for a planet of any meaningful size I'm sure it requires material with impossible strengths in order to keep it from collapsing to its center of mass.
  30. Captain Suave

    Games You Regret Spending Time On?

    Running a guild in EQ (Paradigm, Sol Ro) sure taught me some formative lessons - namely that I have no future interest whatsoever in leadership positions. I'll fucking gouge my own eyes out before I again attempt to corral 40 ADHD neckbeards towards a common goal. Other than that, EQ was a big...
  31. Captain Suave

    YouTube's War on Ad Blockers

    I never see YouTube ads by virtue of my hosts file. If they block me for that I guess I'm going to stop watching youtube. The mobile experience is fucking cancerous by comparison.
  32. Captain Suave

    Parent Thread

    I use my daughter as a weightlifting program. I guess I'll have to start steroids if she gets too heavy for me to pick up.
  33. Captain Suave

    Parent Thread

    I just read an article that passed my gut check saying that, on average, by the time your kids are 12 you'll have spent 75% of the time with them that you ever will, and by 18 it's 90%. I'm not trying to rub it in for you, lurk, but rather highlight that those of us with kids at home should...
  34. Captain Suave

    Investing General Discussion

    First rule of forecasting - never give a number and a date at the same time.
  35. Captain Suave

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

    In some ways it's worse than that. The swords probably weren't mislabeled initially but the mapping index of models to labels is offset by one. Rookie coding and no QA.
  36. Captain Suave

    Chess

    Neimann's lawsuit vs Magnus, Chess.com, and Hikaru dismissed with prejudice on grounds of jurisdiction. https://www.reuters.com/legal/carlsen-chesscom-beat-niemanns-100-mln-suit-over-cheating-scandal-2023-06-27/
  37. Captain Suave

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

    10%, proportionally speaking
  38. Captain Suave

    The Astronomy Thread

    Or reflect, most likely.
  39. Captain Suave

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

    Is that the only life steal item in the game?
  40. Captain Suave

    The Astronomy Thread

    It's an infrared telescope. All the images will look weird to laypeople. The point is science, not pictures you find pretty.