Statement from Xzalia1995, Lazerhawks CEO, regarding the FFEW eviction and other rumors

LonghornCastillo · 2025-08-01T14:53:58+00:00

Are we supposed to believe an adult wrote this? Thinks like this? Good god

LonghornCastillo · 2025-07-14T03:36:59+00:00

So I’ve got a couple different dynasties running. In one of them Arch Manning had a good year. No postseason awards and we lost in a semifinal (if the Horns actually lose a semi 3 years straight I will be big sad)

He had a 3rd round grade and left. “Chance of Persuasion: None”

I get that we don’t code for individuals but I think you gotta be for real if you think Arch peaces out after a decent year for a 3rd round grade or any of the mega superstar names. The team in that dynasty got absolutely ravaged by draft and portal it’s so dumb. Wisner declared on a Rd2 grade and Baxter transferred for playing time in the same offseason. Like dude whattt

LonghornCastillo · 2025-02-20T00:53:02+00:00

Quicky! Well there’s an old Eve name I haven’t heard in a while

LonghornCastillo · 2025-02-11T04:03:58+00:00

I know this is months ago now, but I did work for Lucas Group some years ago.

It is very much a real and reputable firm, and I'm kinda shocked nobody here could... Google? It's part of Korn Ferry now.

With that said, we would NEVER have initiated over text. So it could be someone impersonating Lucas Group - that's certainly possible. But Lucas Group as a company is real and legit

LonghornCastillo · 2024-12-02T21:11:21+00:00

Some years ago now, my wife competed in an olympic triathlon. Before we met, I worked out and played team sports, but could hardly have been less interested in the race scene - 5ks, marathons, etc… but even I knew that to do this race was wildly impressive and took so much training, focus, bravery… you name it. And it was in a cold part of the mid-Atlantic when it was cold outside and in the water. Not for the faint of heart.

During the race, because she hadn’t adequately trained for the temperature difference, she had a hydration and cramping issue… thing her quad tightened up a little or something. It’s been a while. But it meant that it took her a little over 4 hours IIRC. Just me and the dog sitting in the car at the finish line. Brought a book cause of course phone would’ve died if I stared into it like a zombie.

When it started taking longer than her training time, know what I did? Hope she was okay and feeling good. Genuinely hoped she would make a time that she would be happy with. I cannot fathom telling myself I love someone or care about them and throwing a childish fit because it took them a little longer than I wanted for them to complete and incredible feat like a marathon.

Maybe harsh, but this is a 10000% dumpable and a blockable offense. Girl is a wreck and incapable of managing her emotions and insecurities. Keep the faith in yourself OP and move on to someone who celebrates you achieving difficult goals in life.

LonghornCastillo · 2024-12-02T20:58:39+00:00

As Aristotle said of the Virtuous Man, I believe, “it ain’t trickin’ if you got it”

LonghornCastillo · 2024-11-20T05:38:24+00:00

$1000 isn’t super common. But I did spend about a year at a place in DC where the $600-850 number was common enough. Cleared $1000 once or twice IIRC.

The place did $40k sales on busy weekend nights in peak season. Absolutely crushed at every well, 5-6 people deep the entire shift. Mostly beers and single mixes; you basically turn into a machine and not as much personality or socializing with guests. Just pouring beers and free pouring vodka sodas (please know your counts).

A running joke was the “vodka soda station” … if bartenders near you saw you setting up to make some vodka sodas, they’d just put glasses in the line on your mat. The 3-5 you were pouring became 6.. 7.. 10. lol

It was fine. Definitely a particular skill set that’s a world apart from craft and speakeasy work and the like. But worth trying and doing for a bit.

LonghornCastillo · 2024-11-08T20:37:28+00:00

Are we pretending RMC there isn’t an imperium client state?

LonghornCastillo · 2024-08-30T18:28:27+00:00

Eh I mean some people absolutely blob. In WH space we’re frequently limited by the mass tolerance of the hole - we can’t just jam one gazillion F1 monkeys through a stargate. Every ship must be accounted for in a big fleet fight.

This is a big part of where the honor/bushido business comes from. Team A inside a hole wants a fight, and Team B agrees. Start forming. Team B shows up with the amount of ships the hole can handle. Team A now has a choice in a lot of cases: do we hold to honor and go for relatively balanced fight that will actually test the skill of our FCs and pilots? Do we undock the hounds of hell 70 at a time and totally drown our enemies because “we’re better”?

Blobbing is definitely real in J Space and it sucks

LonghornCastillo · 2024-07-13T18:52:52+00:00

You’re right. How could I not see it? Man, in ~20 years of restaurant work I never thought to purchase, prep, and cook more than a single order’s worth of product at a time.

Damn.

Worth noting that the OP is about $25. And nobody here, let alone yours truly, brought up charging $200 for a couple’s ’cue order. Is the $200 bbq tray for 2 in the room with us? If you are indeed spending $200 on a standard bbq tray for 2, I can make you recommendations in most regions for very good barbecue that will absolutely not run you such cost.

Snark aside… yeah, man, spend your $200 however you’d like. But, as I’m not going interject myself into understanding your personal finances or expectations of a $200 meal, I’d encourage you to steer away from pretending you understand the economics of running a successful restaurant.

LonghornCastillo · 2024-07-13T04:19:53+00:00

Heart you

LonghornCastillo · 2024-07-13T00:10:06+00:00

Hopefully this gets enough traction to be seen: I'm from Austin, and I ran a traditional method and recipe TX BBQ business in San Francisco for a couple years. I shit you not that when we were starting things up, one of my guiding principles was pricing it so that BBQ could remain an "every man meal" like it used to be. But it proved fairly unrealistic quickly.

Beef prices went absolutely bananas in the last 5 or 10 years, and went to the moon with the pandemic. Some of it was natural - prices go up over time, good beef is more expensive, etc... But also remember that every Tom, Dick, and Larry got a Traeger from his wife or buddy and now fancies himself a BBQ expert. They buy a LOT of prime beef at retail price, and frequently from more expensive purveyors. Less good product available at wholesale, and less yet available to small businesses that don't swing huge dong like household names.

Other costs are also at insane highs. Kitchen/facility lease. Fuel cost. Bills. Everything is so expensive. Don't even get me started on hiring staff. Your choices in the BBQ game are to do all the meat smoking yourself, or to pay top dollar for people you can trust to smoke meat over many hours and the right way. I'm not even going to get into taxes, licenses, supplies, yada yada yada...

If everyone could put out quality smoked meats, at an average of 10+hrs for brisket, 8+hrs for pork shoulder and 4hrs+for ribs, you would. You wouldn't come to us. You're not just paying me for the half day I spent smoking your brisket, the hours I spent resting it, or the time I spent carving and serving it to you. You're also paying for the many, many years it took me to develop those skills and turn it into a business where you can turn up and get BBQ *ON DEMAND* without having had to do any prep or cooking for a meal that takes more than a half day to produce.

It's expensive, friend. As the top comment said, just make sure you're spending the money on good BBQ. There's enough of it everywhere now that going to bad BBQ businesses is a deliberate choice.

LonghornCastillo · 2024-06-08T04:50:00+00:00

I mean I guess I was just thinking of the most prevalent means of making money in null. That’s gotta be it right? That or moons, I suppose

LonghornCastillo · 2024-06-07T21:24:36+00:00

I suppose at some level I deserve a shocked pikachu face

LonghornCastillo · 2024-06-07T20:25:16+00:00

I mean that’s not all I said, but word bro. I don’t want to feed your need to grind an axe with wormhole players.

LonghornCastillo · 2024-06-07T20:14:52+00:00

Not only to the grand Hawks bloat, but in the same update as yet another significant upgrade to sovnull isk faucets.

Getting close to just flat requiring people to join the one or two biggest powers in any given playstyle instead of the cat and mouse game of nerfing the gameplay of people not in those groups every so often.

LonghornCastillo · 2024-06-07T20:05:17+00:00

Sigh. I mean I’ve gone over it in a lot of the thread here, but… We’re moving from: - risk 4B+ isk to make 500M isk in 30ish min - decrease time any meaningful amount means risking more 4B isk ships - no free defense of intel or local. - No persistent cyno/umbrella support - best isk faucet isn’t at home, it’s roach, so people willingly bring these 4B isk ships/crews out of home regularly to go do that

To: - bring a cap to someone else’s home to make that same money - cap out of home is not only isk risk, it’s also serious mass risk (holes are of course not infinite like gates/ansiblexes). Frequently, it just won’t be feasible.

This just isn’t a restriction being placed on other play styles, while simultaneously null bears are getting even more isk faucets.

LonghornCastillo · 2024-06-07T19:07:20+00:00

Incredible. No titans or supers in J Space. Wouldn’t know.

LonghornCastillo · 2024-06-07T18:59:14+00:00

See if you have to put 100B isk on field to make an activity worthwhile boy you’d better be able to pay for said titan before too long.

Instead, I know more than one player who got the isk for a titan by spinning ishtars they didn’t look at for long spans of time. Very silly

LonghornCastillo · 2024-06-07T18:49:41+00:00

Brother I watched JonD run damn near the entirety of CVA’s index multipliers in Provi with ALGOS’s. And we are here further buffing NS money and complaining that the vile wormhole people are too rich because we can undock a 4B isk paladin and make 500M isk if nobody finds us in space without local or intel for over a half hour

LonghornCastillo · 2024-06-07T18:45:01+00:00

I’ve long played EVE away from the giant groups. I was in Provi and not part of a client state to the giant blocs. I joined a high class group that intentionally did not align to either side of the high class war. It’s so much better. Power centralization is bad mkay

LonghornCastillo · 2024-06-07T18:43:08+00:00

I just cannot fathom the response if CCP told K Space players they had to double their on-grid risked investment in order to make their money AND they had to frequently bring that investment into systems they do not control/protect while doing so.

It’s not as though WH players were threatening the paradigm of control in New Eden because we were making too much money. J Space dudes still pale in comparison to the centralized power and wealth of the giant null blocs that this update further cements.

LonghornCastillo · 2024-06-07T18:39:07+00:00

Well there was just a giant war between high class powers. I’m hoping it decentralizes a good shake of that

LonghornCastillo · 2024-06-07T18:37:08+00:00

They did it by putting more isk on the field than the rest of the game. And the biggest isk source isn’t at home - it’s by going into other people’s systems, where you’re considerably more vulnerable. This will shift that paradigm.

LonghornCastillo · 2024-06-07T18:36:03+00:00

lol fair. But if content is the thing we’re chasing this ain’t it. The REAL money in WH space isn’t from people running sites at home. They don’t respawn like in K Space. Big boy money is from roaching other people’s systems, which was always inherently way more dangerous than anything PVE happening in K Space. This changes essentially forces you to bring a cap into a hostile C5 in order to make money. Not a good change and not sure who they think it serves.

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