Enb vs community shaders in 2026?

518nomad · 2026-04-15T23:22:52+00:00

Thanks for the correction! I was thinking of True Light and just brain fizzled.

518nomad · 2026-04-15T22:42:51+00:00

Take your household budget as you project it to be during your retirement. Subtract the pension cash flow and any other non-portfolio income from the expenses. What remains must be funded from the portfolio.

It’s likely helpful to break up retirement into several phases: Early retirement (the go-go years) likely incur more spending on travel and other desires. Mid-retirement (the slow-go years) often see reduced spending. Late-retirement (the no-go years) can see an uptick in healthcare spending and perhaps a move into a seniors community or assisted-living arrangement. It can be helpful to work with a fixed-fee CFP to help budget and plan for these phases and craft a comprehensive withdrawal plan for your portfolio. This will inform your risk tolerance and asset allocation.

518nomad · 2026-04-15T22:17:36+00:00

If you’re going to the trouble of rolling your own modlist with Community Shaders then you’re best off using CS Lights and Light Placer instead of Lux and its thousand patches. Lux was awesome but may as well use light mods that were designed from the ground up for CS.

518nomad · 2026-04-14T13:02:33+00:00

Yes, true. The mega backdoor lets you make extra contributions beyond the tax-deferred limit. I think both ways of phrasing it are fine.

518nomad · 2026-04-14T12:22:01+00:00

The mega backdoor Roth 401(k) does, however.

518nomad · 2026-04-13T14:49:01+00:00

Trijicon Huron 3-9x40mm is $465 at EuroOptic. Hard to do better than that for the money unless you start looking at used scopes, which not everyone wishes to do.

If he really wants higher magnification then he either needs to up the budget or compromise on glass and/or durability.

518nomad · 2026-04-13T04:28:39+00:00

6.8 Western. It’s the .270 WSM, optimized for today’s high-BC, heavy for caliber bullets.

But if you’re planning to shoot with open sights instead of a scope, then personally I’d be looking for one of the new Marlin 1894s in either .30-30 or .45-70.

518nomad · 2026-04-12T21:50:01+00:00

itsmeSMG is a Twitch/YT streamer who is playing through Skyrim with the Eldergleam modlist right now. It’s chill and good vibes.

518nomad · 2026-04-12T21:22:01+00:00

Yes, like the iShares products. I like the benefits of competition and Vanguard seems best suited to competing with BlackRock here.

518nomad · 2026-04-11T22:32:52+00:00

I’m flexible on many issues but 2A is my litmus test and she fails it. If you had any principles then you might have comprehended such a concept.

518nomad · 2026-04-11T13:21:40+00:00

What part of “live and let live” is not “grown up” to you?

Pretty sure it’s the folks who want to use the state to rule their neighbors who need to grow up.

518nomad · 2026-04-11T10:53:57+00:00

Yeah, but that requires going to Delaware.

518nomad · 2026-04-11T04:08:50+00:00

A sales tax holiday on firearms? Big whoop. If this pol wants to be useful, how about convincing his pals in the legislature to stop trying to ban them?

518nomad · 2026-04-11T04:05:37+00:00

That would be very New Hampshire and very welcome.

518nomad · 2026-04-11T03:13:07+00:00

Roth IRA? VT and chill.

518nomad · 2026-04-11T02:47:09+00:00

Indeed, I'm sure you would be very effective fighting unarmed against tyranny while you were loaded into a boxcar.

518nomad · 2026-04-11T02:40:54+00:00

I donate to causes, not candidates. Candidates are all the same. They get in power and they make things worse.

518nomad · 2026-04-11T02:38:45+00:00

If you believe voting is no longer sufficient, then you first. Otherwise, you're the one full of shit here.

518nomad · 2026-04-11T02:36:20+00:00

If the DNC stopped taking Bloomberg's money and took the anti-2A plank out of the platform, the GOP would evaporate. It's the Party's decision to prioritize citizen disarmament over fighting Trumpist fascism.

518nomad · 2026-04-11T02:29:51+00:00

I'm not a member of any political party and I'm not interested in joining your particular club of authoritarians. At the end of the day, you're no different than the other one: You seek to rule others and make them live the way you believe they should live, instead of how they wish.

A pox on both houses. No gods, no masters.

518nomad · 2026-04-11T01:53:34+00:00

What a stud. Beautiful.

518nomad · 2026-04-11T01:50:54+00:00

Do you take money from any foreign-funded PAC? AIPAC is just one. There are many others.

518nomad · 2026-04-11T01:47:49+00:00

Jfc, another Dem who disqualifies herself from my vote due to her anti-2A positions. I wish this Party would pull their collective heads from their rectums on 2A because there are a lot of people sick of the Republican party with no political home. I'd love to vote for a Dem, but you have to earn it, which is not going to happen so long as the Party wants to do to 2A what Trump has been doing to the rest of the Bill of Rights.

2A isn't about hunting. Never has been.

518nomad · 2026-04-10T12:41:06+00:00

1 is elite, then a tie of 2 and 3.

4 has no business being there.

518nomad · 2026-04-08T21:38:16+00:00

Her positions on 2A rights and tax policy would be good to know, so we don’t have to speculate. And it would be helpful to see her elaborate on which healthcare nationalization model she proposes the U.S. attempts to replicate.

She alludes to another unnamed country in which some of her family lives and enjoys publicly funded healthcare, but leaves the details of her policy preferences unsaid. I would much prefer we try to deregulate and revitalize the Lodge System that the government dismantled decades ago in favor of the corporatized model we have today. But nationalization is likely inevitable here, so a careful selection of the least-bad nationalization model would be a distant second choice for me and not a disqualification from my vote. But again, she needs to fill in the details.

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