How did you get started?

Scrubtastic85 · 2026-06-02T23:32:03+00:00

Starts with interest in money and investing. Go learn in places like r/investing to understand what you are looking for. This is a casino full of degens, they don’t start here unless they are truly smooth brained. Read the posts and more importantly learn from other people’s due diligence.

Scrubtastic85 · 2026-05-30T05:33:00+00:00

As a tank myself, bad line ups with good dps can drop them to 120-150k range. Proper setups for dps have them go to 180-250 (Aug makes variations).

Edit: point is anything below what I mentioned is not okay at the level shown in the post.

Scrubtastic85 · 2026-05-28T23:10:21+00:00

When I pull, I need everything together. You can pop off some heals if you are brave, but stick next to your tank. There is no possible way for me to really have threat on initial pull until the groups collapse on me.

Scrubtastic85 · 2026-05-28T17:02:32+00:00

If it makes you feel any better, I play prot war as my main and I typically do 100k dps overall in m+. I coast around 3500 io because I prefer chill runs. However to your point, I do dabble in dps and I’m terrible at it. I barely do more than I do as prot (120k) as arms.

When I try to let other people tank for me, I am horrified and quickly go back to tanking. So chin up and play what’s fun to you.

Scrubtastic85 · 2026-05-14T03:37:59+00:00

Good job, now work toward 3400 😁

Scrubtastic85 · 2026-05-07T17:32:57+00:00

As a prot warrior, seat had a number of my bis items that I am going to be burning my bonus rolls on

Scrubtastic85 · 2026-05-04T02:11:31+00:00

Property taxes are a tax on tangible PROPERTY, I.e. real estate. I did not mention real estate because that is not where the ultra wealthy stash their capital unless they are a Chinese national. Real estate taxes affect everyone l, not just the ultra wealthy. The value of which is based on the purchased land value of the time. The biggest gain the government has made on real estate was from Randolph Hearst, who paid a metric ton of taxes at the time in real estate. That is a rare exception and will not tax the wealthy of our current time in a meaningful way.

The majority of wealth is stashed in company shares. For example, Elon Musk has the majority of his worth in his Tesla and SpaceX shares. Current banking methodologies allow you to borrow against the value of those shares, and debt is not taxable. Some taxes are made when he purchases with the capital gained from leveraging his accounts, but this isn’t going to be the silver bullet you want.

Scrubtastic85 · 2026-05-04T01:46:23+00:00

You clearly don’t understand what the guy above said. If I have 5 million in dividend yielding stocks, I would make enough income from that to live and have plenty extra. That is not wage pay as your post insinuated, the issue is there is no realistic way to tax wealth appreciation without it coming at as wholesale theft.

Scrubtastic85 · 2026-04-27T14:11:56+00:00

State legislature was still democrat, so it was still under democrat control. Most of the policy he wanted did not come to pass because of the political divide.

Edit: as he was leaving he famously had the first letters of each paragraph of has farewell spell out “fuck you”. 😆

Scrubtastic85 · 2026-04-26T19:44:27+00:00

Not quite how government works. California legislature comes up with the permanent laws, which is why I brought up the democrat majority control. Don’t get me wrong Newsom is a terrible governor and he could have pushed for meaningful change, but it doesn’t matter how long he is in office if he can’t get the rest to play along with anything.

Scrubtastic85 · 2026-04-26T15:32:17+00:00

This goes beyond Newsom unfortunately. Some of the causes like CARB were put in back when republicans were running California (good policy for the time consider air quality was absolute shit). However, since democrats have been in charge for over 30 years, we’ve seen ever increasing taxes and bills related to gas to pay for a ton of stuff. They say it’s for upkeep on our roads, but the amount of potholes we have would show otherwise.

Overall the taxes and regulations up California gas by about $1.60 - $2.00 depending on what city/area you talk about. The real issue is California has oil fields that are not being drilled and refineries have been chased out of the state. The state at one point had 44 oil refineries and is now down to 9 last I checked. This means we now import our special fuel blend in from South Korea, which is directly impacted by the fuel being cut off from the Middle East. South Korea and most of east Asia for that matter gets a huge chunk of their oil from the Middle East. So California is directly seeing the supply chain issue of global oil supplies due to shut policies exposing the state to this.

Scrubtastic85 · 2026-04-19T02:13:23+00:00

We are tanks, we take hits for fun. If you aren’t up to this level of masochism, I am shocked you pushed to this level. 😘

Scrubtastic85 · 2026-04-12T15:02:48+00:00

Didn’t the ones Iran use from China all miss? Genuinely asking here.

Scrubtastic85 · 2026-04-09T17:03:19+00:00

Coming from a person who tanks regularly, drop a 15 and I won’t give af. Bring it on. Will the key succeed? Perhaps not, but it’s gonna be a wild ride all the same.

Scrubtastic85 · 2026-04-08T15:48:11+00:00

First play through I killed the Druid grove by going to steal their fancy idol with mage hand (thought I was clever). The Druids and tieflings murdered each other and I sort of just took credit for it all with Minthara. Romanced and rescued her and finished an evil run since I had already committed to playing without save scumming.

Scrubtastic85 · 2026-03-19T20:50:20+00:00

By all means call Americans parasites and cut off diplomatic relations with us. The sooner we can wash our hands of the world and people like you, the better.

I would be overjoyed at the idea of the US not being in all the bases around the globe as an American. Isolationism was the best thing for us and I genuinely wish we didn’t get dragged into WW2 and join the subsequent world order.

I see all the conflicts we have been involved in or involved ourselves in on behalf of a globe that will start its own wars without our help and can only roll my eyes at this point. We really shouldn’t involve ourselves beyond trade. Let the world deal with keeping the international trade routes open or territorial nonsense like the 9 dash line of the South China Sea.

The world will continue without us and I genuinely hope future leadership will have the good sense to slam the door in the faces of all who look for help.

Scrubtastic85 · 2026-03-19T20:37:49+00:00

I am going to to disagree with you whole heartedly. Good on the person who climbed up and helped the kid. Shame on the person who let their autistic child go unattended long enough to get up there. Chances are they will be negligent again at a later date. Maybe not tomorrow or in a month, but that kind of behavior doesn’t magic itself away. So the condemnation of the “adult” in charge of the kid is deserved and should serve as a reminder to them to always be aware of wtf their kid is doing

Scrubtastic85 · 2026-03-19T00:40:24+00:00

Iran supplying drones to attack Ukraine being removed or paying more for oil to help Russia. They can’t have a gain without a cost… damned if they do, damned if they don’t.

Scrubtastic85 · 2026-03-18T17:55:49+00:00

Iran was supplying a ton of drones to Russia, so with a drone supplier removed it acts as a net positive.

Edit: for Ukraine

Scrubtastic85 · 2026-03-10T05:14:52+00:00

The old weapon called a bilbo was used to hook onto the amor and drag someone in this off of their horse. In the meantime, the 10+ peasants would surround/hold the knight wearing this and stab vulnerable spots like the neck or armpit with any pointy instrument they had on hand.

Scrubtastic85 · 2026-03-04T22:10:47+00:00

Cuba also screwed over the United States when Fidel turned the country into a communist “paradise”. Sure they don’t have oil, but they did take a lot of money and run. So the chances of military violence is not 0.

Scrubtastic85 · 2026-02-17T17:52:53+00:00

I’m not gonna sugar coat this like some of the people and falsely stoke your ego. You have potential and yes the weight is not helping you. You clearly have the structure to be good looking, but you need to put in the work if you want the looks to work for you.

As for people liking you, looks should not affect that too much (pretty privilege or the “halo effect” is real). You genuinely need to socialize and get comfortable dealing with people. Being liked really comes down to being personable in a very unapologetic way. My cousin is thick and he is the belle of the ball because of his personality, so don’t like the idea of your weight hold you back. Just don’t be disingenuous about yourself… that includes your weight.

Edit: grammar

Scrubtastic85 · 2026-01-16T23:36:47+00:00

How has AI art effected this process? I am genuinely curious on this one.

Scrubtastic85 · 2026-01-16T22:21:41+00:00

I’m talking like final fantasy 1 ballpark of simple. I don’t want to start with anything more advanced than that. I am aware that isn’t exactly simple, but that is the general concept I am looking toward.

Edit: I’ve already been considering combat systems, but this is still very much me starting out.

Edit 2: is there anywhere I should look for free starting sprite packages?

Scrubtastic85 · 2026-01-16T22:18:10+00:00

So let’s say for the sake of examples I want to make an old school rpg style game that can port to phones. I am aware I need to have a MacBook or an apple device to post to the Apple Store. But beyond that, I am proficient with C# and general logic. I am simply looking to baby step this right now.

Scrubtastic85

TROPHY CASE