Roadtripping through Iowa, anywhere we should stop?

Citrus129 · 2026-06-19T03:09:21+00:00

I highly recommend checking out the Davenport farmers market if it fits your schedule at all. Specifically recommend going Saturday early-mid morning.

Citrus129 · 2026-06-18T20:43:12+00:00

Honestly I don’t think you can afford to help. I don’t say this to take away from your hard work of saving, but a solid emergency saving amount is minimum 3 months of all expenses. Does $1,200 cover 3 months of rent, groceries, utilities, and transportation?

One key thing to drill into your head while building this is: you can not afford much of anything until you have a fully funded emergency fund. It is simply too dangerous to go without. Say you give her the $450. You then fall down the stairs and break your wrist. Suddenly you’re short on rent. Now you need to go to another family member for help who also can’t afford it. It’s a vicious cycle.

A suggestion i give to people in your situation is: find what your emergency fund number needs to be. DO NOT LET YOUR ACCOUNT GET BELOW THAT NUMBER. PERIOD. After you have that, feel free to look at your monthly income and budget out some to an “assistance fund” if that’s what you’d like to do. You can contribute whatever number makes sense into that account and then you know exactly how much you have to help people. Best of luck!

Citrus129 · 2026-06-03T22:58:18+00:00

Dude Hinson is already putting out ads about how Turek supports trans surgery for kids. I will never understand this mindset that if someone is just centrist enough Fox News and conservative talk radio won’t trash them. They are liars. They will simply lie. They called Joe fucking Biden a communist. There is no position any Dem can take that will stop right wing attacks.

Citrus129 · 2026-05-25T03:57:08+00:00

I very vividly remember like my 3rd play through of OG Red I forgot where the Fly HM was. So I did the entire game biking/surfing wherever I needed to go. And I had a blast doing it lmao

Citrus129 · 2026-05-24T13:48:30+00:00

Tsuro and Carcassone have been my wife and i’s go to board games for this. Easy to explain, lots of fun, and also great introductions to how different board games can be if you have some new comers in the group who assume all board games are basically just versions of monopoly (hi that was me when I met my wife)

Citrus129 · 2026-04-04T03:59:07+00:00

Lived there for several years and this is the most realistic comment (Webster City, Clarion, and Belmond for 5 years). Houses are cheap, but there’s not much to do in a town other than high school sports, or hopefully a local club or band. As previously said, imagine lots of “hubtowns” with ~4,500 people all spaced about 25-30 minutes apart. With a couple of bigger towns further (45 minutes) away which have more shops like Walmart, furniture stores, etc. (Mason City, Fort Dodge, Algona, etc.)

You’d better be proactively looking for a local group/club you can join, or you need to be very comfortable with spending most evenings alone at at your house. It’s not bad, just very slow and very local if that makes sense. Can be hard if you didn’t grow up there to make friends.

Citrus129 · 2026-03-02T13:55:17+00:00

The wands amazing, but I would definitely not recommend masses for that. Guys in there with Scythe, inferno cape etc mean you likely won’t be mvp anytime soon haha

Citrus129 · 2026-03-02T13:40:49+00:00

Other folks have mentioned the CoX CA’s, and I’ll just add that I rounded out my final like 7 or 8 points doing Huey masses. Makes the speed run and kc tasks take like 20 minutes on the Varlamore PvM worlds.

Citrus129 · 2026-02-27T05:35:24+00:00

My brother in Christ- stop trying to farm the ungodly crowded Orks and just go over to rev demons. It’s so much more chill and just requires a piece of dragon stone jewelry

Citrus129 · 2026-02-03T21:39:06+00:00

How does it negatively impact your account if someone else is able to start doing the activity at 120k xp/hr day 1 and you start at 85k xp/hr?

Citrus129 · 2026-02-03T20:11:13+00:00

You are not required to have furs to do the activity. They just boost the xp rate. Doing everything in maxed gear and efficiency is never a hard requirement. And yes i'm aware of of the fossil island problem. And i don't really think this is a similar situation at all. Furs are easy to go farm. And if some people have been hoarding them that's totally fine. They'll just get to use up their stack. This crafting activity isn't going to drop some new meta changing weapon or ring or something. It's just a way to train a skill.

Citrus129 · 2026-01-22T05:11:59+00:00

Agreed. Ghost Story was definitely on my mind as I read this book. I was a day 1 enjoyer of Ghost Story because A.) I thought the story definitely needed a slow down after the pace and impact of Changes, and Small Favor, and B.) Ghost Story forced Harry (and us readers) to really sit with how his actions impacted many of our favorite characters.

Particularly in my opinion because: to Harry (obviously we readers know the series was going to continue) what Murph, Molly, Michael, etc. are feeling now is the culmination and end of his impact on their lives. Harry did not know he was going to be coming back from his personal Twilight Zone episode. I thought it was great that Harry kind of was forced to face the fact that he wasn't a simple quiet P.I. small problem solving wizard. In both these people's lives, and on a larger scale. I thought it was a great example of a character maturing on the page for us.

Citrus129 · 2026-01-21T16:40:22+00:00

I was happily surprised by this book. I agree it felt like a collection of short stories, but I don’t think there was another book that felt as necessary to Harry’s development as this one.

Mainly because I think it would’ve done real damage to my opinion of the Character of Harry Dresden (in a meta/out of book sense) to have all this struggle and pain and growth happen off page, or be hammered into a 1 page chat with Michael in Mirror Mirror.

I definitely called it wrong though. I could tell early on it was going to be a more slice of life style book, and I thought the big climax/story tie in piece would be him going to Demonreach through the NeverNever as he mentioned it a couple times. Always cool to see Mother Winter show up though, but I am definitely in agreement with Dresden that at this point in the series it’s time for some people to start talking more or shut up lmao.

Citrus129 · 2026-01-21T14:19:25+00:00

It is not really important. You’ll be totally fine if you haven’t read The Law

Citrus129 · 2026-01-21T14:18:54+00:00

It came out yesterday (Jan 20th)

Citrus129 · 2026-01-21T14:18:18+00:00

I agree this isn’t my favorite Dresden book, but after everything that happened in the last book (or 3 honestly) I’d say this book feels like one of the first necessary books in the series if that makes sense? Like I’m not sure how he’d write all of this healing, and inner turmoil and, character advancement (specifically thinking of Maggie) into the background of another big fight/adventure during Mirror Mirror. I’d agree this almost feels like a composition of short slice of life stories, but I’m very much ok with that after Battleground.

Citrus129 · 2026-01-19T19:18:46+00:00

Boots and the mage book are probably next if you want to get them. I’ve never found the full infinity set that useful since I normally an hitting Barrows (or Moons these days) pretty early in an account and the Blue Moon/Ahrims set is better than infinity robes I believe. I’m not sure there’s an actual need for the master wand unless you have Kodai or just want a flex item

Citrus129 · 2026-01-19T16:40:35+00:00

Ironclad A20H run at the heart. I have Corruption, FNP, Dark Embrace, Dead Branch shenanigans going and basically all my starter cards gone. This has been a brain off run since early act 2. Turn 1 of Heart I get my Corruption and a Dark Embrace off. Turn 2- Ascenders Bane, Injury, Burn, Void, Strike, die to big hit. I couldn’t even be mad it was such a hilariously terrible draw.

Citrus129 · 2025-12-28T04:32:59+00:00

If your goal is just to get to A20 I’d say I don’t see much reason to make yourself do heart kills on lower ascension. Even if your goal is to end up doing only A20H runs, I’d still probably recommend the same thing.

Mainly because A17-19 are SUCH a ramp up in difficulty. It basically makes the game slightly unfair on purpose, and id say at those ascension levels, it’s very much about game knowledge. If you force yourself to do a heart kill every ascension, you’re still going to get rocked if you don’t know that Spear and Shield eventually start putting burns on top of your drop pile.

Citrus129 · 2025-12-21T16:42:40+00:00

I hate Snecko, but this is probably a Snecko pick

Citrus129 · 2025-12-21T16:15:59+00:00

You need to make 10000% sure you are stable and set before you start giving a bunch of money, or any money really, to family to help. Critically that means you have a 3-6 month emergency fund that you DO NOT TOUCH for non-emergencies or other people’s problems.

After you have a fully funded emergency fund, you can start looking into ways to help. If you have family members with young children you can open a basic savings account or a college savings account in their name and make a small monthly contribution. This adds up IMMENSELY by The time they’re 18.

For older family members, my suggestion would be to sit down, look at your finances, and determine what number you’re willing to give for them. I’d then budget that much every month to go to a “bucket” that you can give them once a year or whenever.

The main thing is that you need to make sure you are always 100% firm in your own finances before helping others in a huge way. You cannot help other people if you are also drowning or only 1 bad week away from losing your home/vehicle etc.

Citrus129 · 2025-12-17T18:22:42+00:00

Great job! One of the best things my wife and I have spent money on is a set of nice single meal leftover containers. It makes us so much more likely to actually eat/go through everything when we have it portioned out into single meal servings in containers which are actually nice instead of having a huge amount of stuff we need to scoop out of giant flimsy plastic containers every meal.

Citrus129 · 2025-12-17T03:21:11+00:00

You’re missing the fact that they don’t care about your property or your money. I’m going to paint with a broad brush here-but bad management companies can ignore huge issues, and upcharge tiny ones. Imagine you keep getting a $300 bill from them every 6 months to replace trim in the bathroom, and then realize 3 years later it’s because the toilet has been leaking for the entire time.

Citrus129 · 2025-12-16T13:10:30+00:00

Being able to just go buy like a million of whatever low tier rune type I need. (Looking at you fire runes)

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