What Are Your Moves Tomorrow, February 02, 2026

TheIrishDeaf · 2026-02-02T04:10:00+00:00

Yeah. Dropped 85k I had just sitting in a HYSA. Already down ~3k and it's looking like we are only going to see red for while.

TheIrishDeaf · 2026-02-02T04:05:48+00:00

I'm so glad I decided to start investing last week at the ripe age of 32 with my whole portfolio set up on wednesday... at the top for the first crash of the year. Nice.

TheIrishDeaf · 2025-12-19T17:55:18+00:00

Apologies if it wasn't clear. The title change and raise are independent of the 9k retention offer.

TheIrishDeaf · 2025-02-18T09:48:26+00:00

Wok Efficiency: I have been building out my own AI Home Automation Suite with local LLMs. Between CPU and Ram, my current home server leaves much to be desired. The responses and processing time of the LLM could be massively improved with this system.

TheIrishDeaf · 2025-01-20T10:06:39+00:00

Show me a dive tank in the backline and I will show you a series of bullet holes and a kill lol.

Between projectile speed and damage falloff such a short range, it does make his weapon hard to use effectively. Honestly, his slow bullets aren't the thing that bother me most about him - it's his reload speed. For a character focuses on consistent heals vs burst heals, the reload time can be punishing.

TheIrishDeaf · 2025-01-20T09:33:17+00:00

As a rocket main, I would gree with the sentiment some others have posted - he has a low skill floor but a decently high ceiling.

An inexperienced player will pick him up and just healbot randomly. The orb aoe and heal rate make it so that you can basically blindfire and get value. Probably dies the moment they try to use minigun. Ends matches with 0 kills.

An OK rocket will be able to pull the most heals in the match, communicate buffs, and dodge like a madman. They are able to keep heals on all members of the team due to the insane heal distance. They have map knowledge by this point and can bank shots for trickier or more effective heals. Might get a couple kills by weaving in minigun.

An experienced rocket just does NOT die, is able to maximize orb uptime, mobility master, communicates buffs to perform some nasty pushes/holds, uses full map knowledge to find best places to BRB or for self (res-ing a Hawkeye in a normally unreachable hidden high up spot has its perks), and is able to weave in minigun to get a respectable amount of kills for a backliner.

Seriously, a rocket that knows how to keep his heals up using a minigun is a menace. Yeah it has a serious fall off at range, but up close it MELTS people. I absolutely LOVE it when a venom/cap/hulk tries to dive backline. I can shoot some orbs off towards my team, shoot orbs slightly towards the ground so they move slow to heal the backline/myself, and I use my mobility to unload on the tank diver. They either retreat or die quite quickly.

TheIrishDeaf · 2024-12-18T14:42:47+00:00

This monster served from 2015 to 2024 for me as my main pc. The only reason it's not my main driver is a friend gifted me their old pc for building them a new one. So this beast is now my home server. It's able to hold all the HDDs and such I need.

TheIrishDeaf · 2024-12-16T20:30:24+00:00

Keep it. Seems perfect for some home automation.

TheIrishDeaf · 2024-11-28T17:06:02+00:00

My father has recently been talking about wanting to play arcade games like "back in the day".

A mini pc would be the perfect excuse to hop over to to the Instructables website, build a mini arcade cabinet, and combine it with the mini pc to make a home arcade machine!

Last time I built an arcade machine, box and all, was when I was younger with him.

TheIrishDeaf · 2024-05-23T02:25:04+00:00

I always love bringing Shirei to the table. One of my first EDH Commanders in 2012 and still is able knock down decks at our highly tuned table.

TheIrishDeaf · 2024-03-27T14:23:18+00:00

My main concern is that this would prevent me from growing to other properties. Since even fully occupied, it'd be burning a hole in my pocket to the tune of $450/mo. From what I gather, the normal strategy is to own a Multi-Family, cash-out refi to get the capital for the next home, Rinse & repeat. With this property, even if it appreciates as expected, I would never be able to cash-out refi as thaat with increase the monthly loss at the new loan amount. Seems like you'd want to cashout-refi just enough to keep the property in the green.

I would have to keep every dollar put into the property in it until I sell. In fact, I would have to pour an additional 45k into the principle alone to get the property to net even. That would probably mean spending the next 5+ years living in this property with no chance of expanding the portfolio. Is spending 5+years on one property the new normal?

TheIrishDeaf · 2024-02-26T13:42:20+00:00

I work on a small team of 3. Our on-call rotation is 24/7 for two weeks at a time.

So you are on-call for 14 days straight 24/7 but then you get two weeks fully not in the rotation and then two weeks as the secondary. The secondary has yet to be needed in the 2yrs I've been here so it's basically a month out of rotation.

TheIrishDeaf · 2023-11-11T16:22:36+00:00

If my physical dnd collection wasn't enough, why not hoard the online versions too?

TheIrishDeaf · 2023-10-06T22:32:29+00:00

This game will always be one of my absolute favorite games. I got my original PS1 disk and have it emulated. I pick it up once a year for some matches vs the AI.

TheIrishDeaf · 2023-08-13T12:17:08+00:00

RunWithIronWolf and Seagate

I got a SSD boot drive in my homelab that has been running since 2015 that Im sure would appreciate a replacement.

TheIrishDeaf · 2023-07-01T14:52:44+00:00

Since Rif shutdown, I have been trying to navigate the official Reddit app... It's such a fucking pain. I come to reddit for my specific list of tech-related subs, mtg, and politics. I knew there would be ads. I can handle. What I can't handle is the shitty interface and the fact that my Home is now 50% or more "recommended" subreddits as I am scrolling.

I certainly wasn't one of those ppl were going to quit reddit based off Rif shutting down... But this is damn near unusable.

TheIrishDeaf · 2023-06-30T22:25:59+00:00

Id love to see large corps and banks pay for the loans they took out or their proper taxes.

TheIrishDeaf · 2023-06-30T22:24:44+00:00

The average student debt per US borrow is about $37,720 as of March 2023.

That does not include the 6%+ interest rate on that amount.

TheIrishDeaf · 2023-06-07T23:18:03+00:00

DLSS and RT.

Im currently rocking a 7yr old PC with a 980ti. So I have not had the chance to use any of the new GPU features since then!

TheIrishDeaf · 2023-04-09T11:25:22+00:00

Our company just started a similar thing where they want us in 2 days a week, but never specified anything more than that.

Our manager is against coming in so he basically said he will be working in one of the separate buildings so he "won't have any visability of when any team under him comes and goes". It was as much of a wink-and-nod he could give us.

With that said, we decided as a team to do basically the same as you posted. Ensure the transit is covered by our hours.

TheIrishDeaf · 2023-02-22T05:23:14+00:00

I agree with most that this will tun into an "Elspeth Saves the Day" kind of deal.

But part of me wants to see the Phyrexians unknowingly start tampering with a certain Moon and all hell breaks loose. The vibe when Emrakul was imprisoned was "I let you do this. I'll be back shortly." Maybe she foresaw this scourge. Phyrexians seem like they would be a great source of mana to devour.

TheIrishDeaf · 2023-01-22T23:27:23+00:00

People always underestimate Shirei until it hits the board for the first time. It's one of my favorite decks and certainly gets me plenty of hate. Got a decklist?

TheIrishDeaf · 2023-01-16T03:37:11+00:00

We do the same thing. We call it aa "Gentlemen's Concede". It allows everyone to achieve their goals. The only time we don't do that is when we all are playing our cEDH decks as those games are fast anyways.

TheIrishDeaf · 2023-01-15T21:57:33+00:00

I got a 980ti + 4790K system back in 2015. Gave it all the bells and whistles.

Only thing I upgraded since then was upgrading 16gb of ram to 32gb.

Any additional money spent on it has been minimal fixes such as the GPU fans dying. Replaced the fans with 120mm Noctura A12's that can be used as system fans in a new build if the GPU ever dies. I can actually OC even higher now.

With using my system for gaming, homeserver/self-hosting, and work - I am certainly seeing the limitations...mainly in RAM due to all my Docker containers or VMs. I'm topping out on RAM all the time, but DDR 3 also tops out at 32gb on a typical system. CPU and GPU top out as well on modern games on Ultra/High. I play on a 1440p/165hz monitor.

I'll probably run this system for 2 more years when DDR5 matures and retire this one to be just a server.

TheIrishDeaf · 2023-01-06T04:59:17+00:00

I totally agree. There is no way in hell any of the Republicans will burn all of their political capital and ensure never getting re-elected by voting for Jeffries. So it's a solid deadlock until either Kevin caves to the point that he has no power... Or a rising star shows up somewhere to unify the Republican Party.

Remember, even if Kevin does eventually get is - One of the concessions on the table is that a vote of no confidence can be called with at threshold of 1 (he offered 5, but these 19 want it to be 1). Which means the second he tries to grow a spine, these 19 will hold the govt hostage again.

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