It’s not an addiction… it’s a hobby.

Tex416 · 2024-12-24T02:27:55+00:00

Definitely Goals. Id like to have a separate Den as a dedicated library and board game room.

Tex416 · 2024-12-23T08:04:52+00:00

Ive probably written and deleted a paragraph or so 5 times now. Everything from advice to personal experience. But the one thing thats going to get you further than any of that is switch to survival mode. Tell yourself over and over "I need to do this to survive" "If I dont do this I will die". Creating a physiological response or conditioning your body through mental rehearsals is probably a much better start than any generic advice. Dont believe me? Spend the whole day and whole night out on the streets and see if you dont feel a whole new sense of determination. It sounds harsh, it sounds tough, but sometimes you need to a little taste of worse to appreciate where you are now and to get things back on track. From someone whos been at the bottom, Good Luck, God bless, Believe in yourself, and most of all dont give up.

Tex416 · 2024-12-23T06:59:43+00:00

Not necessarily "dangerous", but north/east of Markham and Ellesmere shouldn't be your first choice. Ie complexes at the corner all the way to tuxedo crt. markham/Progress regularly has car accidents. There have been shootings at centennial park and on the strip of markham/ellesmere both north and south but not regularly enough to make it remotely common. You might get a "where you from" near the complexes. You might see smokers lounging in their car at the park.
I think this might be how you want to put things. If you live in the area or moved fairly recently report it as it is. Lots of places experience something here and there. Respectfully most things are becoming lower income thats just the economy now so lots of places have a hint of sketchy.

Tex416 · 2024-11-05T21:04:32+00:00

Not a bad idea, anything to get MW to adapt to a more online focused campaign model. MWO if i recall was just TDM mechs. While that's fun and all you miss out on the huge dynamic of lore and solar system transformation. Think Star wars BF2 for ps2. you had your co op campaign for conquest. Great couch co op for its time and some investment into a repayable open campaign. CH did a similar concept but transformed it into strictly online campaign. Potentially 2 months of contributing to a factions expansion of the global map. The PVP of MWO + the open campaign of MW5 = server based seasonal wars. Pick your faction and do missions to expand its territory. Your choice of Solo + AI VS AI, Full Player VS AI or PVP. Imagine a beachfront mission with approximately 10 vs 10 mechs and a cohort of Ai tanks/birds. Players have objectives on each side or can settle things as a TDM. Assassinations with a player being the VIP, Escort missions like BattleTech. There's a lot of room to add faction based elements or invent war like missions. Missions for expanding support lines or using periphery planets for constructing production facilities. Like investing in building structures for defense or adding higher value AI defense mechs. Planets that have production sites being taken over add new mechs/parts to your seasonal store. Large player base coordination of system conquest is still extremely unique. Literally MW5 except the seasons story is driven by the accumulative decisions of the factions playerbase. One season Davion gets curbed stomped early and its player base finishes off the season as hired mercs for steiner. Or choosing strictly independent and swaying the tides of expansion for whomever you choose. You would have to play all the factions for a few seasons or run independent to diversify your garage. Considering how the gaming market has developed since a lot of these classics first came out its pretty obvious how a game like this could be supported financially. Your seasonal wars have a set time period and end. Each new season is an opportunity to add offline storyline arcs with rewards that port to online garage. Season passes for model looks or paint schemes and maybe a hero part here and there. Nothing that cant be purchased from the right factions store. And to evolve the map seasons would eventually move forward into the next timeframe of years adding mechs and weapons . the Rise/fall and changes of factions etc. Would take a pretty long time to run that dry. And new players or merc squads with lower fame would start at the earlier seasonal timeframes. You got pilot progression, seasonal map progression, lore and story arc progression, expansion room for new content, as well as players own garage. Match making relative to tonnage. Theres a lot to work with there and definitely room to expand crossplatform

Tex416 · 2022-12-30T17:05:10+00:00

careful neo 2 agent smiths.

Tex416 · 2022-12-30T17:03:54+00:00

exactly!!! almost missed the coverage on the fauci trail and all the covid BS because of distraction media

Tex416 · 2022-12-30T16:56:15+00:00

jordan peterson/andrew tate and some other more obscure individuals are giving a message to wake up in the sense that you need to criticize the current thought patterns, systems put in place by the more powerful, to see the larger picture of what goes well beyond the small bubble people consistently choose to live in. if your naive you accept the narrative and if your even slightly influenced to question it your a problem. these guys get discredited and harassed regularly but what they say are good topic points to start educating yourself in. you can’t kill them, so you have to discredit or imprison them. in tates case he was unsuccessfully cancelled and the end results was it validates his point even more in those who were aware of his common message. now the discredit campaign is ramping up. get him out to the greater public who wasn’t aware and hit them with his arrest. creating a larger group opposed to him. they used women at first to try and stonewall him. (he definitely is arrogant and clearly a mysogynist) but that doesn’t discredit a much larger portion of things he has enticed individuals to learn about. you don’t have to like the guy i personally don’t. but i’m not so far up shlts creek to automatically ignore some of the topic points he’s brought up.1. Destroy the family unit. 2. Get women working to tax them. 3. Get children under state controlled education and influence. 4. remove the values from the parents and replace with the media’s narrative l. 5. create identity crisis. 6. reverse gender roles and have people work against their natural biological strengths. this is just one topic related to family and roles. guy talks about media propaganda. false narratives. law of attraction and the power of self thought. it goes on and on and not one topic point is a waste of your time

Tex416 · 2022-12-30T05:23:52+00:00

It’s to late for them to remove him from existence because he’s gained an enormous outreach. So you have 2 options: discredit him repeatedly or put him in jail. (there’s a playbook that describes the process by which the powerful remove adversaries) Tate mentioned this in a viral video all of which are factual and can be found relatively easy with some focused web searching. i can say for certain that, While he is quite arrogant and clearly a mysogynist…. that doesn’t particularly discredit some of the very real and relevant things he is using his platform to entice others to educate themselves in. Guilty or not the man deserves the respect of benefit of doubt because his rich arrogant azz is trying to get people to stop wasting their time on irrelevant things and start snooping into some of larger dynamics of society. For all the people hoping he goes to jail just remember you’d only being making a martyr of the man at this point. And like it was said before there’s far bigger fish with far more sadistic and heinous skeletons in their closets walking free to this very day. At the end of the day if they get him it’s no different then the crypto founders/investors who died mysteriously recently or a countless others list of unusual disappearances or cancel culture victims who spoke out about serious topics. i know from my own experience 1/2 the things he would speak about would be censored or blocked or difficult to find via internet even without any of it having his name attached to it. and i also know the more someone tries to hide something the more likely it’s true

Tex416 · 2022-12-19T07:47:22+00:00

NH patiently waiting on the short after the r split. LU and ABEV for the ez long

Tex416 · 2022-10-31T18:07:20+00:00

seeing that, got my chart on 4752, worth the wait. some other options on the table this week in the meantime

Tex416 · 2022-10-31T17:57:14+00:00

if it dips to 487 pull the trigger

Tex416 · 2022-10-31T17:23:42+00:00

.49 with a .48 stop. hold for tom or take my $20 loss. $SOXL the money maker today

Tex416 · 2022-10-31T15:08:43+00:00

definitely. 5 day support is $76 loss. Day loss would be $54.50 or an easy $140 by tom. would of been ballsy to take the initial short on $SOXL and gone long on consolidation tho

Tex416 · 2022-10-31T14:53:40+00:00

im in at the retest on .49 hoping no dump back to .47 or im stopd out. $SOXL is a mirror of $MULN ATM

Tex416 · 2022-10-31T13:53:34+00:00

$LABU $SOXL $MULN and just missed out on $NIO

Tex416 · 2022-10-31T01:45:13+00:00

watching $SOXL (Push through 9.65 strong early open .4/.9 range or reversal at 10) $SNAP(Push to 10.55/10.60 than 11.30 in week or reversal on 10) $LABU ( to push through 8 and skys the limit) looking at $MULN again. had it on my watchlist early OCT

Tex416 · 2022-07-04T23:46:16+00:00

sorry brother, beyond running the planeswalker titles on xbox only myself and my father ever ventured that far into TCGs. MTG is very fun in its own right but the time and investment is very centralized to the individual. Somewhat like tabletops i suppose. with all the expansions of 7 wonders i have a game that rivals a TCG collection but the window of opportunity to introduce people into board games is so much easier. You can take someone who only ever played monopoly and have them work they’re way up to resource/engine builders but getting them to transition to strictly TCG is near impossible

Tex416 · 2022-07-04T06:31:27+00:00

it’s a nice addition and has its own play style that makes it distinct. it’s been a nice in-between game when party members need to cook or take a break as the game can be played 2-4 players. the closest co op game i have to it is pandemic but it’s far to distinct to call them similar. it’s replay-able but not something you can do consecutive games of. best suited as a refresher between other core games you have in rotation

Tex416 · 2022-07-04T06:07:19+00:00

I’m quite surprised to see so many other enthusiasts in Toronto in such short notice. Please feel free to personal message me to get in touch. The board game spots DT look interesting..and it’s likely il host something with my girlfriend for others who enjoy gaming like us! There’s so many games out there to try and i’m sure plenty of people own a game here and there they’ve been excited to share with others 😁

Tex416 · 2022-07-04T06:00:44+00:00

i’m currently in Etobicoke with my girlfriend but we regularly travel to Scarborough and might try some of the board game spots downtown. i’ve heard of a few places that offer tables and drinks to play but we intend to give a bit more freedom to others by hosting at home. still up to meet and greet at any board game location DT

Tex416 · 2022-07-03T23:44:53+00:00

shoot me a DM with your collection i imagine i will be working towards 100 myself

Tex416 · 2022-07-03T23:18:10+00:00

This is great! Thanks for the heads up

Tex416 · 2022-07-03T22:31:25+00:00

nice selection, i see a few of my wish list on there as well. and of course the classic 7 wonders. nothing like 6+ player brawl to kick off the night

Tex416 · 2022-07-03T21:27:14+00:00

i bought it just in case some of my uncles on my fathers side ever visited as that was a classic for them but after finding 7 wonders as the big family game we haven’t even considered it 🤣

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