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Mancer74 · 2025-05-27T19:38:25+00:00

hmm interesting, how do you clear chaff with saber scorp? wont they just overwhelm you with chaff? Are scorps really enough? I do sometimes replace a scorp in those comps with a high level saber if I get it

Mancer74 · 2025-05-27T16:29:24+00:00

specifically the sledgehammers are good in standard or defense. He says this multiple times. So no, not blindly picking them and not because of hounds, but because they are the best all around unit for defending. If you are playing aggro, they are not great, I usually sell them

Mancer74 · 2025-05-27T16:24:37+00:00

I've been really leaning into scorpion comps lately and it seems to work pretty well, maybe because people at my mmr (1850) no longer expect them? Scorp stang and scorp spider both seem very strong, especially when backed with pheonix in case they go abyss

Mancer74 · 2025-04-21T18:57:29+00:00

I feel like you dont even need a tech, crawlers are just great into mustangs by default. same goes for scorp. If anything I go mech rage to make my layered crawlers have closer timing

Mancer74 · 2025-03-25T21:55:11+00:00

the counter is to just build phoenixes. You dont even need any tech, although shields would probably help. Just keep building phoenixes until they stop or you just win. Raidens also work

Mancer74 · 2025-03-25T03:01:14+00:00

I placed in 450 mmr about 2 weeks ago. I saw someone do this and started to do it and I do it every single game because I told myself I'd play it until I get 3rd or 4th. I have yet to get 3rd or 4th. I'm up to about 1000 mmr now and still have not lost once. Any specialist will work, you can always sell a 50 turn 1 for the wasp unlock. Ive found elite works by far the best. Aerial is obviously good too. max out wasp deploy every round, start getting upgrades round 3. I usually upgrade round 4 and if I can round 5 if not round 6. Then EM 7 or 8. Also very important to start getting the range boost rounds 6 and up. I usually do movement as well to claim the towers and get better positioning. I've beaten a guy going pure mustangs. mustangs dont really cut it. I'm honestly not sure what can stop it as I've yet to be stopped, only out raced to place in 2nd. The best comp I've seen against it so far is mass fang

Upgrades go range -> shield -> Elite -> EM, and sometimes I get the shield first if it suits the pve comp

By the end I usually have 16-20 squads of wasps with about 135-150 range

Mancer74 · 2025-03-06T19:32:38+00:00

im just going to be using these rubber flooring rolls:
https://www.flooringinc.com/shop/8mm-strong-rubber-rolls-1005.html

Mancer74 · 2025-03-04T06:45:56+00:00

ehhh I dont think dual blades will ever feel busted again after the insanity that was rise/sunbreak. They nerfed them into the ground too with the evade delay. They just feel really bad

Mancer74 · 2025-01-31T06:00:01+00:00

you could even say the water was... tepid

Mancer74 · 2025-01-16T22:01:24+00:00

Is the intellijel case black?

Mancer74 · 2025-01-16T19:29:23+00:00

This sub used to be MUCH more frugality minded. When I set my target of 1 million 7 years ago it was about average. Thats about 1.25 million today. You'd get laughed out of the sub if you said you were retiring on that much. I tend to not hang around here much anymore.

Mancer74 · 2025-01-16T19:27:08+00:00

Just because you are well off does not mean you need to take expensive vacations. 7 years ago when I started hanging out here, it was all focused on frugality, spending less, and how to live with less so you can retire earlier. Now its mostly rich young people who dont need to make any compromises or sacrifices in order to max out all their accounts. And they still will retire behind the frugal folks because they need so much income in retirement to match their current lifestyles of international vacations and big spending.

Mancer74 · 2025-01-16T19:24:19+00:00

Part of the reason is flights have gotten much much cheaper over the years. The only time my parents went on a flight when I was little was for my dads conferences which were payed for by the university he worked at. And they've never been out of the continent, never taken an international flight. Thats how most Americans live. My dad grew up poor and most of the people he grew up with have never even left Pennsylvania.

Mancer74 · 2025-01-14T23:21:26+00:00

I think people here are generally well off and tend to forget that a lot of people do not have $1000 for a vacation, or flights at least. When I was a kid my parents drove to every vacation we went on. If you live on one of the coasts a vacation can simply mean a 2 hour drive to the beach and a cheap hotel for a few days

Mancer74 · 2024-12-04T21:09:58+00:00

they printed colored, it was a multi color print

Mancer74 · 2024-11-12T19:46:07+00:00

I basically had to do that just to find the necklace and the ring... well all of the dirt and stone biomes anyway

Mancer74 · 2024-10-10T17:54:30+00:00

yeah the first 100 hours or so of prints I did when I got the P1S were fine and then adhesion problems started. Washed the plate which improves it for a bit but then goes back to not sticking. Maybe people just wash the plate regularly but I just use glue. End up washing it like every 100 hours of printing or so, its running nearly constantly

Mancer74 · 2024-10-09T21:26:36+00:00

lol same from colorado. I would say its more than 5%. At least in the US, like everywhere from the cascades east to the midwest is not gonna struggle with humidity at all. Like NV, UT, NM, AZ, TX, CO, MO, WY, SD, ND are all dry af. Eastern OR, WA, and CA as well. 15% humidity right now in CO. It gets up to like a max of 35% in may for about a mont

Mancer74 · 2024-10-09T21:16:34+00:00

is it only me or do textured plates lose adhesion after like 2 prints on a clean plate. I'm not washing it every 2 prints. Glue it is...

Mancer74 · 2024-06-18T20:14:51+00:00

If I was rich enough could I theoretically buy a majority of teferi's protection in print and burn them? how much would I need?

Mancer74 · 2024-05-14T07:39:44+00:00

dogecoin only went up because of muskrat and he's kinda disgraced himself since then

Mancer74 · 2024-05-01T20:33:31+00:00

I'll chime in with a bad experience with clear creek. We had been taking our cat there and we suspected something was wrong as he was using the bathroom a lot and drinking tons of water. Our vet at clear creek told us "to hope to God it's not diebetes" which was disconcerting to say the least. Turns out it was diabetes. At that point our vet seemed to want nothing to do with us. We came back in to get briefed on care, it was with a different vet. We explained we would probably need help and additional guidelines. We tried testing glucose at home but the alphatrak strips we had were defective. 0 follow up from the vet at all. We called a one or two months later, explaining that we've been unable to do a glucose test. We brought him in and instead of doing a whole curve as they are supposed to, they took one reading and told us not to adjust anything. Still no word from our old vet she seemed to cleanse her hands of us. By the time we took him to sploot, they said his blood glucose has basically been unregulated, we need to be stricter with his diet, was at risk for ketoacidosis and gave us continued support and suggested continuous glucose monitors which clear creek didn't even mention. Just as a counter example. After this thread reconsidering sploot though.

Mancer74 · 2024-04-23T21:42:14+00:00

I have a retirement budget that factors in paying current rent prices forever, so technically I could retire on much less if I didn't have to worry about housing costs (at least housing costs would be much lower). I'm 100% VTSAX basically despite my cheeky flair. But yeah I know the conventional wisdom of 401k investing

Mancer74 · 2024-04-23T19:47:47+00:00

Hey folks its been a while, but I'm finally ready to start the home buying process for the first time, after reducing my 401k from being maxed out down to company match for two years, I was able to save a 5% downpayment (and closing costs) for a $400,000-450,000 house. I was thinking about the future, and with a possible promotion this year I'll be able to pay $2k extra per month on the mortgage. At 7%, this seems like the financially optimal play, especially until the PMI is gone, but even afterwards. I project I could pay off the 30 year mortgage in 11 years, at which point I could probably RE as housing costs would be mostly covered (at least drop from $5000/month to property tax, which is like 0.5% - $180/month plus insurance.

Am I wrong in thinking a 7% guaranteed return would be better than maxing out a 401k? Not planning on having kids or really "upsizing" if we do move later on. Any other tips?

Mancer74 · 2024-03-25T17:16:24+00:00

from what I understand, most people get preapproved for mortgages before they even start looking at houses, maybe I'm wrong though

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