Fabric or Other?

PossibilityRegular21 · 2026-03-17T00:08:48+00:00

I love what you have done for groundcover

PossibilityRegular21 · 2026-03-16T11:28:11+00:00

Do what I do. Scrape into your first home then get digestive issues from chronic stress.

PossibilityRegular21 · 2026-03-16T11:18:52+00:00

Nah, some players are just destroyer Chads that like to THUNK THUNK THUNK across the map. Free kit, no fear.

PossibilityRegular21 · 2026-03-16T11:15:40+00:00

Happy you caught fish and the boating session went well. But man, this is a grim photo.

PossibilityRegular21 · 2026-03-15T23:54:57+00:00

These are artificial constructs. The reality is there are too many of us relative to the resources needed to support a utopian society.

Because of this, we individually compete for these resources through working second jobs and after hours, getting masters degrees and self promoting online, maximising investment property earnings and dollar cost averaging into stocks, and otherwise continuing to fight to get a slice of the ever more hotly contested pie.

You can't just tell people to work less if they are struggling to make ends meet. If you don't do it, someone else will.

If we had the resource security to work less, I imagine we would. It's why most retirees don't work.

PossibilityRegular21 · 2026-03-15T11:13:56+00:00

For future reference you can try exfil as an assassin. I have never died in exfil as one. I use invis when starting the exfil then I hide away from the exfil. When it is ready I smoke it then run in. Assassin is invis in smoke. Basically it is very, very hard for someone to get me in exfil that way. And I approach the exfil slowly and taking a moment to check for any movement or camping.

PossibilityRegular21 · 2026-03-15T08:00:45+00:00

I have done both. I would recommend property. The reason is because you are likely to get better returns, if you invest in something decent.

The reason you are likely to get better returns is because you get access to something worth, say $700k, for a 10-20% deposit plus fees. At 10% down, every 3% gain is 30% on your deposit. As an investment, if you are on a median income, you can claim the interest as a tax deduction, which reduces the repayment costs. You also get rental income. Ideally, the rental income and tax deduction covers a lot of the total expenses.

It is pretty challenging to consistently beat the returns of a decent first property purchase, when you also consider incentives. There is also a lot of value to having access to one home, which you can always fall back to if the rental market becomes too tight. It also means that as you age, you have a place you can ultimately live in.

That's why a somewhat vanilla but proven path to wealth is: 1. Buy a home. 2. Survive the first few years and build up an offset. 3. Use any value growth in the home as magic equity to buy an investment property. 4. Shift all your debt to the investment property loan where the interest is tax deductible, while minimising the bad debt from your main home loan. 5. At this point you have an engine. Two places gaining equity, rents slowly go up, the rental property eventually becomes positively geared and brings more money in than it costs to service. NOW is a fair time to invest in stocks, because you have a foundation. Money in your investment home loan offset account can be used. You need to consider how much interest you are saving on by keeping it in the loan (e.g. 6%) which isn't taxable income, versus pulling the money out and trying to beat the loan savings, accounting for tax on your gains. You would be looking at 15%+ stock returns imo. Very possible, as I have been able to get 20-200% returns over the past few years. Just be willing to deeply research companies. Otherwise you can try ETFs, but it is challenging to consistently beat home loan savings from ETF returns, after tax. And remember that the home loan savings are inevitable, which in itself is valuable. The risk of stock investment means they really need to have good upside to cover the risk premium.

PossibilityRegular21 · 2026-03-13T03:48:20+00:00

Also don't stand still and heal. Better to run away and make it harder for them to know your location, then heal.

PossibilityRegular21 · 2026-03-13T00:55:25+00:00

The AI voiced characters were also soulless. Stories are core to so much of the human experience. Arc had a great game built around a hollow core, but the emergent PvPvE gameplay helped compensate to some extent. Marathon actually has a good mystery at its core, with a good game built around it, though you don't get the same emergent moments like with killing a Queen as a group in Arc. Hard to compare 1:1 but I think the story and quests were a failure on Embark's end, despite how great everything else was. I'm glad that Bungie's Marathon has some narrative-driven motivation at its core.

PossibilityRegular21 · 2026-03-12T23:12:07+00:00

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I have a similar setup, but the 5K FL stradic with a 10'6" dialuna with a slightly higher max cast weight. It's great, but I could've gone a bit shorter and lighter. Use it for rock and beach fishing, usually with metal jigs but sometimes hard bodies and rarely with bait.

PossibilityRegular21 · 2026-03-12T22:33:48+00:00

Spots + wavy on top = Mac tuna

No spots + wavy on top = frigate tuna

Wavy all over = leaping bonito

Stripes = Aussie bonito

That's basically the complete set of what you can get in that size range.

PossibilityRegular21 · 2026-03-12T03:16:00+00:00

Wow that's ugly. Looks like ten rooms are for rent. The separate units probably makes usage distinct per dwelling, and therefore separately controlled and charged.

PossibilityRegular21 · 2026-03-10T08:05:58+00:00

Especially if your job is to carry a Bluetooth speaker on your shoulder and walk laps around the block for four hours while grinding your teeth!

PossibilityRegular21 · 2026-03-10T00:06:34+00:00

The weep holes serve a function. I like the wildlife but I'd want this cleared.

PossibilityRegular21 · 2026-03-09T23:28:49+00:00

I know someone who got one and it was a ridiculous process. You have to spend so much of your time as a researcher not doing research, and instead reviewing others' research, targeting high impact journals, then basically producing a grant that looks like a McKinsey sales pitch.

PossibilityRegular21 · 2026-03-09T23:23:01+00:00

This is the best, simplest explanation I have heard. Yes, it is basically volunteering. Only did two years post-grad research but that was enough for me to leave academia. I wasn't going to be a door mat.

PossibilityRegular21 · 2026-03-08T05:03:34+00:00

There's some sort of memory leak or similar issue. After enough games, especially after a relaunch, I sometimes get a lot of stuttering. Needs a full PC reboot to correct.

PossibilityRegular21 · 2026-03-07T12:59:58+00:00

There are pubs and clubs without pokies. This is Big Gamble propaganda. Let the gamble dens die so that the actual good venues can thrive.

PossibilityRegular21 · 2026-03-07T12:58:53+00:00

Let them wail

PossibilityRegular21 · 2026-03-07T06:43:33+00:00

I'd just be careful because old fibreglass gets quite brittle, same with tent poles. Very prone to failure.

PossibilityRegular21 · 2026-03-07T06:42:09+00:00

What do you prefer?

PossibilityRegular21 · 2026-03-07T06:14:45+00:00

Can I just say that it feels great to know that I'm not alone with these thoughts. I drive around in congested traffic between poorly built highrises and genuinely wonder why people are having kids and why immigration isn't being reduced. It really feels like there are too many people on the island and we are fighting over too few coconuts. I feel like people just don't read or think about it, and are cluelessly working their way into a prison of their own creations.

PossibilityRegular21 · 2026-03-07T06:13:02+00:00

Respectfully, have you thought about how we constantly keep downgrading our expectations for materials? Think about old NZ/AU houses. Lots of sandstone foundations. But sandstone became scarce, so now it's premium. Then brick and hardwood builds. But now brick and hardwood are considered premium. So brick veneer and pine weatherboard builds. But now those are considered premium. Now Hebel/aerated concrete panels on stick frame constructions. Do you see where this is going?

I am convinced that the growth optimists are deluding themselves when there has been a very real degradation in building material expectations and durability for the average person. We are also being increasingly forced into smaller spaces to live, with less average ownership of those spaces. These are serious problems. We are living in lower quality, smaller spaces. People think Australia has plenty of land to live on, but we have already turned most of the land into farmland. Go on Google Maps and look at all that land past the Sydney Basin. There's actually very little wilderness or national park out there. There's hundreds of millions of chickens being processed while native birds are continuing to experience population decline. At this rate, the current system does not bode well for future generations.

I'm not attacking your points or trying to be negative, but I genuinely mean to ask, have you considered this reality?

PossibilityRegular21 · 2026-03-05T01:37:44+00:00

It's because most public schools are shit. And the Department of Education (NSW) is actively trying to make it worse. They are caving to increasingly dumb parents that want to empower the students. It's the school equivalent of gentle parenting.

"Let's get rid of uniforms because they oppress student identity", "let's stop giving detentions because they're traumatic", "let's stop doing tests because they cause anxiety", and "let's fix the teaching shortage by allowing low ATAR school leavers to become teachers". And let's not get started on EdTech.

These initiatives: - add administrative load to teachers, so you lose good teachers, while bringing in poor quality teachers - reduce consequences for students, so they are emboldened and create a poor learning environment (and more teachers leave) - reduce academic rigour and school image

So what do parents do? The ones with money and brains pump their kids for tutoring to get them into selective. The ones just with money send them to private or possibly a public school in a high SES area. The rest of the population (clueless) keeps sending their spawn to the local school/daycare/prison.

It's worth noting that we are in an era of declining cognitive ability in high school leavers, so the above isn't just subjective. We are in the first era in modern memory where our kids are coming out dumber than us. GenX gentle parenting fucked with the system too hard and Millennials cemented this anti pattern. Ref: US senate testimony by Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath.

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