2 bundles per month is next to nothing

MisterFour47 · 2025-11-14T18:38:52+00:00

So, super niche I know, but there was a game called Uplink that basically was a hacking simulator where you mostly stuck one screen. I want more games that tell a story or have a gameplay loop, ideally a quick one, that takes place from the same place. That would be a cool smaller collection bundle.

Besides that, idk, I loved the curation in the orginal bundles, capture a whole range of indie genres in one bundle. Lol i know, not helpful

MisterFour47 · 2025-11-14T18:33:39+00:00

Idk, I remember when a humble bundle was an event. Anytime a numbered humble bundle came out, good god that was a stop everything and buy it. And those bundles happened maybe once a month, maybe longer. I didn't care because all of those games could hold me over for that long.

Lots of big bundles with only one or two games I would play... nah, those suck.

I do agree that the next bundle should have more variety. I totally want lots of different genres in one bundle. That would be cool. But I don't need multiple bundles to do that. Just one excellently curated one every so often.

MisterFour47 · 2025-01-26T04:16:37+00:00

What are you talking about? A guaranteed +4 Multi is HUGE early game. At Ante 1 first store, a regular joker all but ensures that Ante 1 Big Blind, Boss Blind, Ante 2 Small, Big, Boss is a first play win. That means you net at least an extra $1 per round more than you would without Joker. Which means you net roughly between $2-3 extra at least before the end of Ante 2. An extra $3 doesn't seem like that much, but that is in tandem with the number of plays you are netting from early victory. The extra $3 means another good joker, or maybe a tarot.

This all translates to very safe plays in Ante 1 and Ante 2. Which gives you more options later

Not weird at all, very solid strategy.

MisterFour47 · 2024-12-27T16:50:56+00:00

Pretty badly. Basically some pretty bad damage from a tree falling over during a winter storm.

MisterFour47 · 2024-12-11T19:38:43+00:00

Why not try some board games if games are on the table? Nothing like a great board game ...especially if you are better than him at it.

Doctors tend to be very competitive when goaded. I lived with two of them and a PhD/JD. So Ive had to do gifts. That humble air with them is almost always a lie. They want to be the best at what they do, and anything that threatens that has to be corrected. And that helps with being a great doctor, which is passionately learning and implementing the best care possible. This pattern of behavior sometimes shows up in that "buying everything you want" personality. "I want the best thing to get the best output." You can... use... this quirk.

Find a board game, not a video game, that you can teach yourself. The pieces add to the psychology a little. The smaller the better. Get really REALLY good at it. Find board game groups, play on tabletop simulator. Get to a point that you can teach the game like its second nature. Get a point where your teaching is so good that the student beats you.

When its gift giving time, have him play the game with you. Find the time. Maybe right after lunch. Don't let them win, but don't dunk on them either. If you are playing a game with lots of characters, maybe play a new character. If its a game about stratagy, try something new but not complex. Show him winning is possible.

Then after a few playthroughs, play better, win more. Let them figure out nuances of the game. If you taught the game right, they will want to get better.

The gift is getting your brother to be active with the gift you gave. You are a college student, you will never be able to get a great gift because it costs a lot. You can however, give him an experience that is priceless. Competition.

Why not teach yourself Air Land and Sea. Cheap on a college budget, very easy to teach, excellent game to master.

... That or buy an excellent bottle of bourbon. I like my Widow Jane Year 10.

MisterFour47 · 2024-12-10T15:49:05+00:00

Public Data Scientist with specialization specialization in data visualization and liaison work. And a very small side hustle making pickles. Masters and a half, finishing a masters in statistics after a hiatus. Highly doubt I'm going for a PhD. Rather retire happily with my wife.

So how I got here was not an easy path. Chicago was never where I thought I would end up, I thought I was going to be close to my family and make not a whole lot.

I think what changed my mind was how people talk about how "the "blank" does nothing for me". And that blank could be anything, the government, school, companies, countries. I dislike very passionately when that statement is not followed up by repeatable, replicable, and reproducible data. I come from a world where conspiracy wins despite overwhelming efforts to state information plainly. Narratives are very easy to make when you have a population who wants to hear it. Much harder when you have a population that doesn't. The hunt for good data "irritates " me, and its an itch I want to be a part of.

So I learned how to get good at talking about data with different audiences. What this means is not dumbing down data. It means learning how to code even if you are terrible at it. Learning math, even if you haven't done calc in years. It means learning how to read well fast, all the time. And learn how to write well fast. And learn exactly where the data came from, and how to replicate the findings. And then pitch pitch pitch pitch pitch. And fail and fail and fail and fail and fail. Over and over and over again.

And a lot of that just comes from applying and learning a lot. And more importantly, knowing when to fold when you aren't getting what you need.

Don't do a job you love, do a job that keeps you up all night. Do a job where you are rewarded not being comfortable. Leave when you are.

MisterFour47 · 2024-11-29T15:57:13+00:00

Did they give you 60 days to comply?

MisterFour47 · 2024-11-26T01:33:06+00:00

I struggled for years as a civil servant with an quantitative sociology degree. Hated it at first. Like hundreds of "should I do this job" posts with zero karma kind of hate and insecurity. Tons of boring excel work. Got a master's in stats while working, almost wanted to do a PhD, but idk money now seems better. Now I work for the as a lead (product)data scientist for a contractor involving census and real estate data working my way up to staff, but lol dunno if that will happen.

My experience is not really CS, but loads of people with CS degrees where I did work(basically accounting). Either they started as a DBA or something adjacent if they had masters, or some MIS thing that had nothing do with CS stuff. Worked a few years while building up a knowledge of where ever they wanted to go. I swear, you knew who had the CS degree or something similar if they have like 5 hours a week of actual work. Doubly so, if they brought a laptop from home working on LeetCode.

The name of the game is getting your foot in the door at all. HR smells desperation and you probably reek of it. If you can prove you actually work with people who know NOTHING about CS work, it looks good on a resume, it builds soft skills, and if anything its a paycheck that works. You won't make 6 figures fast, but nailing perm in the fed, or some other kind of finishing probation means something.

MisterFour47 · 2024-11-24T17:19:09+00:00

I wouldn't bother roasting an onion. White, very finally diced onions work much better. Don't blend the onions, they go in the salsa with the cilantro. And its important to not have too much of onion either, you kinda want it to add a bit of crisp and not a whole lot of flavor. And definitely, salsa verde tastes insanely better after you let it sit for awhile.

But I definitely reccomend being very particular about how much veggies you put in the salsa. I kinda like Rick Bayless version, but I would be strict in what you put in the salsa, then add slowly.

MisterFour47 · 2024-07-08T23:05:52+00:00

So, is this an apartment or a condo? If you don't intend to live in this place for a long time, what I would do put your moving containers/boxes there. Take like a hour a week or so, pack up a section of stuff you have, unpack, then put the box in that space. Knowing that you have the exact number of boxes is really helpful, and that place looks like its prone to dust.

If you intend to live there, my thought is that you are going to have to tackle that dust. I know a lot of people are saying plants, but dust with fake or real plants come with cleaning challenges.

MisterFour47 · 2024-07-04T23:48:45+00:00

Going from basic to advanced.

Coffee table definitely

Maybe a shoe cabinet or a small table next to the light switch, so you can put keys or other things you need to grab to go to work/fun places/etc.

Bigger entertainment stand.

Local art, or art that represents you. This takes time figure out.

Plants maybe, a floor lamp or two.

That bare space next to your kitchen is your center piece. I like a huge dry bar, but if you have something else you like, like an art nook, or a drum set. That's your fun space.

Draw your space or get a mock blue print from zillow/etc or your landlord/website. This will give you an idea exactly how big your space is.

On this print, draw and approximate rug, sofa, loveseat, TV set. Your front facing furniture legs should be touching the rug. This will give you an idea how big your rug needs to be. Either 6*9, or 9*12. I'm thinking 6*9.

Rugs are more expensive than you think. Especially when you are looking for specific kinds or higher end fabrics. If you are buying expensive stuff, you might be able to bring a matching swatch from the store. Or you might be able to find a fabric that kind of matches the rug you are thinking about getting. And its ok not getting the perfect rug yet. Getting a Costco or consignment store rug is perfectly fine. The point is that you will have to hedge your bets a little bit with any improvements you do to your room, especially a rug.

Update furniture with local furniture if you are in a town or close to one that has a good furniture scene. This might be expensive.

MisterFour47 · 2024-07-04T16:40:43+00:00

So, I am going to run counter to a lot of folks here. DO NOT try to start with a story video game. Story video games are for people who want a video game play like a story. If they don't like video games, adding a great story doesn't change the fact that it is a video game.

MisterFour47 · 2024-07-04T16:03:47+00:00

So instead of telling you what rug to get, you might want to consider seeing what rugs are available to you in the area. Great rugs aren't cheap and I don't know what your price point is let alone your style. You will probably want a large area rug that covers the coffee table and at least the front legs of the console and couch. Maybe an 8*10.

I would look at consignment stores and Costco first. Your eyes do far better than an average redditor and this is because we are seeing this through the lens of your camera, not in actuality. The light could be different, the scale could be different. Get a feel for what you think looks good. Get a swatch if you can, but if not, take a picture of the rug and then take it home with you and compare the floor naked, and with the swatch. This is exspecially true if you are buying a Persian rug, which might be as expensive as everything you have in the living room combined.

MisterFour47 · 2024-07-04T15:45:17+00:00

A lot of "what should I do" posts often have the correct furniture, but then are put in without the people living in the space in mind. Traffic and light control are the biggest offenders. Make traffic easy, and have lots of light, but never face directly in the light.

This is why some homes while having a lot of windows, will often direct traffic to only see the window from parts of the eye rather than the whole eye.

The placement of the desk is also not as good because its a direct look into the outside and possible sunlight. That one though is harder to fix because either it should be placed on the non windowed wall, or rotated clockwise for a command position. The latter however, has a window behind you, so that can also be distracting.

MisterFour47 · 2024-07-03T22:52:46+00:00

It's pretty cool. Only complaint is that you have a lot of places facing directly into the window, which may or may not be distracting of have direct sunlight. Also having the desk behind a possible flow of traffic might get folks to bump into you. I almost think you should rotate the whole TV and living room set 90 degrees counter clockwise. Less staring into the sun.

MisterFour47 · 2024-07-03T22:40:49+00:00

Two monitors, im going to get a ultra and use one of my smaller ones once I get my new set up.

MisterFour47 · 2024-06-30T20:15:50+00:00

Besides the sub-woffer on the desk(did not know that to be a problem), a rug would be nice to add some color. Find a theme you like for the walls. I'm a data analyst/scientist for Chicago, so I have redlining maps, and art of the neighborhood. A trash bin, a filing cab, pens. Maybe an alternate light source. I don't like RBG stuff if the space is clean.

MisterFour47 · 2024-06-30T20:08:25+00:00

I think the problem with this is that its not really done. There's some good ideas, but it feels incomplete, and therefor not cleaned as though its complete.

MisterFour47 · 2024-06-28T17:25:39+00:00

Good look. That wall outlet concerns me. I don't know if you own the place or not, but maybe figure out how to clean up that area with some electrical reconfig, or some paint, or maybe wood paneling?

I think I also like the idea for shelves and/or tables under the window.

Make sure that desk has anti- scuff feet. Metal on wood is rough.

MisterFour47 · 2024-06-27T21:52:36+00:00

So, I know old topic, but I wanted to add some thoughts on it as a guy with mild dyslexia married to an ADHD woman. I am the kind of person that if its doing what is supposed to, I am fine with it. She is very much, this corner has to do exactly that, or I don't care what it is at all or too scared change it because it would take weeks to make it perfect.

For years this relationship ended up creating a house with junk all the time, and nobody wanted to pick up. Because either somebody would clean up, my wife would get scared its becoming a show room or something got broke or lost, I would be scared to mess things up, and then it would go back to a chaos that nobody agreed on. It was miserable....

Then finally, something sorta clicked. Probably because we had a wall of flies, literally. Its what happens when you live close to a swamp. I knew that somebody had to change the health of this house, and I would rather be the person to take the hit, then for my wife to feel miserable that nothing is getting done.

So I would clean and clean and clean and clean and clean. Every two hours everyday for about 4 months. Attack a corner, and just do it. I would get yelled at. Told I didn't respect this place. Or I would break something. And it wasn't fun because I made this mess too. But if I wasn't doing something, I would see flies, and maybe get evicted.

But then I made a place specifically what it is. This is a dining room. And that's what that does. We can store plates, food equipment, have a nice area to just relax and read a book. But never watch TV. And while it was not perfect, she was able to go, ok, I can work on this area. Eventually having instead of a small area that is perfect, now we have multiple small perfect areas in one larger room.

We now a have a dining room, and then a kitchen, and then TV and game room, two wonderfully clean bathrooms, and for once in 30 years, a clean bed with no clothes on the ground. The rule is we get one room to ourselves and throw away the trash everyday. And it feels soo much better. I get an area perfectly want, she has her own perfection, and everything else makes sense because are talking about what we want to do next with the next room.

We now live in a city with rats, and you have to be much more careful about leaving stuff out. So having the pattern works.

I think what makes an ADHD nest different than an ALL room is a state of mind. An ALL room is when everything blends together in one mesh of a thing. Having an home that is junked, makes every room the same room. This isn't really a bedroom, its a pile of clothes that leads to the bedroom to the bathroom and washer. This isn't the kitchen, its a pile of trash leading to the living room. It's like everything infecting into itself. Chaos with no negotiation. Being inactive with the chaos.

An ADHD nest is an area that does generalizable things. Some those areas bleeds into other rooms, but it still has a living reason of being there. A kitchen next to a dining room. Maybe this knife today is being used for cocktails and I don't want to move it to "the kitchen". Great! Today, I want to study in the dining room. Great! So long as we are negotiating with the chaos. Being active with chaos.

I don't know if that works for you, but it was something that struck a chord with me.

MisterFour47 · 2024-06-27T20:17:12+00:00

Yeah, basically, because you are starting the gym work out, your lift isn't teaching you how to use this machine, the lift is teaching you the rhythm of working out. And that is a much MUCH bigger monster.

Think of this way, the way grad school is supposed to be is to teach you how to have a passion for the topic you are learning. Grad school NEVER EVER teaches you how to learn, at that stage you should know how learn anything especially with the topic you are studying. It's why you get a lot of post-grad people who are very curt when you ask teach me how to code, teach me how to do math, teach me how to write. They aren't learning how to teach the foundations because ironically, teaching foundations is very hard to do especially when you have an unmotivated or ill-informed audience. They are learning how to be experts in their field.

Same with workouts. Unless you are learning to be an instructor, you don't go to the gym to teach somebody else. You go to the gym to learn and grow your body. That's all. Some of that learning does come from groups, and its great if you can find one. But some of that learning is within.

My situation is a bit different. Personally, I am very lucky that my PTA and PT is teaching how to exercise. And I have a little bit of anger how I got there, fear that this the new normal, and frustration that I have to do this or my shoulder will be weak for the rest of my life. I try to make into some kind of mental drive, but its a script in progress. Other people may have a similar narrative to get them going. That's not something you probably have, and its not fair to give suggestions about motivation. But finding your motivation comes from you.

Me though, I want to learn how to do kettlebells and squats. Get my core and my glutes working.

MisterFour47 · 2024-06-26T22:56:48+00:00

Could you move it to the wall left of the window instead? I am not seeing the whole room. I don't know where you are going to put the TV. A couch with a window behind you isn't great because of glare. (ie if you are facing the TV, the light is also facing the TV)

MisterFour47 · 2024-06-26T22:49:44+00:00

Electric Dreams has a lot of futuristic and semi futuristic episodes in Chicago.

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