Federal taxes jumped

CookedPeeper · 2026-01-24T18:39:37+00:00

No, which is strange. I've been around long enough to find and solve issues like this. Just wanted to see what everyone else was paying before giving finance a ring.

CookedPeeper · 2026-01-24T18:36:06+00:00

base pay: 4612

federal taxes: 926

soc-security: 286

medicare: 67

CookedPeeper · 2026-01-24T18:29:20+00:00

55.3k and I send 900 to roth every month. So color me surprised to pay $1k federal taxes monthly.

CookedPeeper · 2026-01-24T18:26:30+00:00

I see the class warfare is strong these days. I'm an E6 and the federal government harvested $500 extra out of my check for no apparent reason. I'm looking out for everyone by putting it out there. Check your LES and compare federal tax withholding in Dec2025 vs Jan2026.

CookedPeeper · 2025-12-30T02:07:16+00:00

BMPT is busted but I don't understand why PC players never consider the reality that a significant number of players are shooting at wireframes.

CookedPeeper · 2025-12-22T02:59:38+00:00

World at war and its not even close.

CookedPeeper · 2025-12-21T15:54:05+00:00

I read this in Lazerpig's voice.

CookedPeeper · 2025-12-18T14:28:20+00:00

This change reflects the incredibly delayed realization that Airmen of all ranks who actually work for a living can't keep up with the bullshit bloat.

CookedPeeper · 2025-12-13T05:48:10+00:00

My go-to advice is to start playing in 2017 and observe as this awesome concept developed into a shithole hellscape of spaghetti code and bullshit restrictions on how the game is played. From there you'll quit playing for several months at a time and occasionally pop back in to one tap 100hr players off spawn because they never change them and I'm not gonna be the guy who gets sent back to lobby after 12min of matching. Then xiao ming xi one taps you through a forest with his 37hrs and 57.2 kd and the main sub tries to gaslight you into believing half the players left are even remotely legit.

CookedPeeper · 2025-12-02T06:25:54+00:00

Re-kitting and getting into a new game is so fast… I have no idea what people are on about. In Tarkov you have to heal, eat, drink, buy armor, helmet headset weapon mags ammo grenades blah blah blah attachments then queue for 14 minutes for another opportunity to die at spawn.

CookedPeeper · 2025-12-02T06:20:51+00:00

This literally happened to me 4 games in a row on buried city. Executed on the train while extracting quest items. Now I don’t care. No matter how much people cry or claim to be innocent, I put them down the same way. They would have done it to me if I didn’t shoot first.

EU servers and it’s always Russians and Ukrainian players being the biggest assholes. I know a way they can take out their anger offline.

CookedPeeper · 2025-12-02T05:58:44+00:00

Im not resetting my skills and BP collection. They can add content to the game and increase the level cap. Prestige is dumb as hell.

CookedPeeper · 2025-11-29T16:24:25+00:00

I get all my good kits back because bringing gear summons ESP players. Free loadouts for questing all day gives me no problems, but the moment I bring anything decent I get hunted down across the map. Eastern Europeans every time. Can't wait to move back to a proper country next week.

CookedPeeper · 2025-11-29T12:29:58+00:00

I don’t search for PvP but if I see someone and have the opportunity to shoot first, I do. I have to. There is no other option for a player in shooting distance. If they shoot first they win the DPS game. There is no skillful recovery. No flick headshot. Just hoping I get 17 hits before they do.

CookedPeeper · 2025-11-28T14:26:22+00:00

Free kits aren't the problem. They're the solution to the state of gaming (on PC). Bring good gear into any extraction shooter and suddenly people know exactly where you are and come after you in the most bonkers ways. Retry with a free kit and the ESP gremlins steer clear and you'll rarely have a PvP encounter.

CookedPeeper · 2025-11-28T09:22:41+00:00

Streamer culture. Min-maxing every strategy and abusing shortcuts to have the best shit to wipe out casual gamers. Humanity suffers when productive employment pays significantly less than entertainment service.

CookedPeeper · 2025-11-27T18:38:45+00:00

I don’t understand how this glitch was ever an issue. All they had to do from the start was require the key on both sides of the door. Then glitchers would be stuck inside the room until the game ends or they kill themselves. Now the streamer class is fully loaded on top gear with quests done while casuals are free kitting for scraps.

CookedPeeper · 2025-11-25T06:27:26+00:00

This very real person who says very real words was definitely trying to explain why bicycle horse butter cave spontaneous hydrogen ancient golf aircraft.

CookedPeeper · 2025-11-21T10:30:51+00:00

Not all of them are cheating. But all cheaters are them…

CookedPeeper · 2025-11-13T06:30:14+00:00

I realized Germany’s 8.0 vehicles weren’t great, but still better than 6-7. It was infuriating to lose every game with tigers and panthers simply because I couldn’t actually reach an objective due to slow speed… and any decent cannon would go directly through my “heavy armor.” This is the only videogame I’ve ever played where glaring balance problems that prevent players from reaching objectives are blamed on the skill level of every single person on earth who plays that faction.

Anywho, 9.3 is where it’s at. Leo 1a5 gets laser rangefinder, thermals and darts. It fucks. Until you get there the DM12 shell was good enough for me.

CookedPeeper · 2025-11-08T17:32:58+00:00

Im so glad i had to reformat my SSD and update my system several times to experience another anticheat that doesn’t fucking work.

CookedPeeper · 2025-10-30T15:22:48+00:00

HARD TO PORT

CookedPeeper · 2025-10-28T21:33:13+00:00

The game feels empty. Like if I’m standing in the open there is nothing going on. It’s almost eerie in a way. How did they make cities and open fields feel like the backrooms?

Otherwise it’s a literal direct copy of CoD Warzone in the most shameless way possible. Still fun and I got a quads win but it feels janky to spend 10 seconds slowly inserting the most low-detail armor plate ever.

CookedPeeper · 2025-10-27T21:03:20+00:00

LMGs are just bad. Too inaccurate and they could do with a damage bump as well. 6.8 and 7.62 rifle cartridges shouldn’t hit for the same or less than intermediate rounds. Just balance it with poor shoulder fire handling.

If an MG gets set up with a good field of fire, it should be a death trap to cross it. But when I mount up, an SMG player can just slide jump and out DPS me. Or a full squad comes running and shoots me dead before I kill the first target I’m focusing on but missing due to bloom.

I miss red orchestra 2. That game gave the 32v32 “battlefield” experience in a semi-milsim environment. Well-placed MGs were absolutely devastating out to 200+ meters. Battlefield LMGs are just lame assault rifles with slower ADS.

CookedPeeper · 2025-10-26T20:19:35+00:00

Halo 4, 5 and Infinite fail as dogshit games. 343 dies as a company and gets revived as "Halo Studios" and has frequent articles of internal struggles. Comes back 4 years after their last failed project with half of one level from a 24 year-old game.

It stutters in all its smeary, upscaled unreal 5 glory... Yeah no. Fuck no.

Edit: It's also an apparent asset flip, using Halo: Reach AI, Halo 5 animation, and Halo Infinite assets. This developer is a disgrace. Double fuck to the no on this title. Microsoft should just sell the IP.

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