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  1. Captain Suave

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

    I don't get the point of cosmetics at all in this game. The color pallete is so desaturated and the models similar enough given the zoom level that everything looks the same anyway. They're going to have to do PoE style skill changes or something. Yeah, I think this will end up true as a...
  2. Captain Suave

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

    The seasons better have some new and extremely fun features or they'll be DOA.
  3. Captain Suave

    Let's build some pools!

    I know there are companies that specialize in water delivery for pools. I have no idea if they're cheaper than paying for municipal water. Do the math on ~15,000 gallons out of your hose vs delivery. Just be careful that your water bill might not be linear if you pass some extreme usage thresholds.
  4. Captain Suave

    Marathon - Bungie Extraction Shooter

    I played the shit out of the original Marathons. This doesn't have anything obvious in common.
  5. Captain Suave

    Stay at home dad advice

    This. (Healthily) hungry kids magically become less picky. We recently had my daughter's friend over who apparently only eats white food (at age 8, wtf). Well, we were serving steak and veggies. After about a half hour of staring at dinner, we achieved conversion. Her parents were amazed when...
  6. Captain Suave

    MMA Thread

    Better hope that acromegaly skull protects his brain better than a normal human's.
  7. Captain Suave

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    Right in the childhood. "The Dark Star" and "Prophesy" are a few of those rare pieces that instantly transport me, every time. I will die on the hill that 90's game music has some legitimately all-time great compositions in miniature and is the peak of the form.
  8. Captain Suave

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

    I had 89 minutes and it took 4.
  9. Captain Suave

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

    Did you link your b.net account to twitch and claim it in your twitch inventory?
  10. Captain Suave

    Chat GPT AI

    Right, but the heat map in question was per capita.
  11. Captain Suave

    Chat GPT AI

    Per 100k, though? NYC is only about a quarter African American.
  12. Captain Suave

    Chat GPT AI

    Rather than politics, this is reflective of auditing people receiving assistance in various forms. Seems like we should be happy about that. From your link: "The five counties with the highest audit rates are all predominantly African American, rural counties in the Deep South. The audit rate...
  13. Captain Suave

    Chat GPT AI

    Yeah. I'm pretty aggressive with my schedule C. I've never been fully audited but I'm 5 for 5 on arguing with the IRS about various things and up mid-5 figures as a result. As long as what you're doing isn't totally beyond the pale and you have some kind of documentation they tend to roll over.
  14. Captain Suave

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

    I'm not hopeful that an S-tier ARPG will exist any time soon. IMO this is solid B+/A-, high end of than that if you're a sucker for the genre.
  15. Captain Suave

    Chat GPT AI

    The IRS doesn't even have staff to chase down people who completely fail to file, never mind audit anything but the biggest and most blatant frauds. By example, this year I declared (legitimately) a $250,000 capital loss on private stock from my wife's previous employer that went belly-up...
  16. Captain Suave

    Home buying thread

    It's a separate policy for me.
  17. Captain Suave

    Chat GPT AI

    That's never going to happen. When data can really be integrated like that, it will just be piped directly to the NSA, analyzed, forwarded to the IRS, and they'll deduct taxes from your bank account and "save you the trouble of filing."
  18. Captain Suave

    Home buying thread

    It's a few hundred bucks a year for the value of the structure, not that onerous. I did buy a house within a half mile of some wilderness, so if a little extra insurance is what it takes to get a tree-filled mountain neighborhood in LA, that's fine with me.
  19. Captain Suave

    Home buying thread

    In areas within a certain radius of at-risk open land, yes.
  20. Captain Suave

    Home buying thread

    I'm in SoCal and don't carry earthquake insurance. I live in a pretty nice neighborhood and the online quote I just got from Geico was for ~$1300/yr with a 15% deductible (~$75k). IMO this is an insurance product looking for customers. If the risks were high enough that the policy works in your...
  21. Captain Suave

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

    Where are you getting this from? All the dungeons are procedurally generated.
  22. Captain Suave

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

    I would have preferred that WT1 have absolute levels for the campaign. After that, scale away so the open world can be used for the endgame.
  23. Captain Suave

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

    I just finished the story and mostly enjoyed it, but there are going to have to be some amazing incentives for me to do that ever again, never mind the unlocks.
  24. Captain Suave

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

    I had this too. Audio and video were in sync but subtitles were several seconds early.
  25. Captain Suave

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

    Whoever set the color saturation so low did us all a disservice. I get the reactionary response to people's criticism of D3 rainbows, but some punchier greens and reds would go a long way towards making the environments look different. As it is all the assets look like the same tepid mush. I'm...
  26. Captain Suave

    So My Wife Died...

    So sorry to hear this, man. It's not remotely the same situation since we were grown, but I lost my mom to biliary cancer in my 20's and watched my dad struggle with finding himself again. Just remember especially in these early days it's really ok for things to be about you, and that it's ok...
  27. Captain Suave

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

    Wtf you're not kidding, I can't even follow what's going on.
  28. Captain Suave

    Let's build some pools!

    Because they're still $30-40k and less than half as useful as a traditional pool..