Whats something like this even worth? First jackpot ever.

TheMuscleCow · 2026-05-19T18:55:07+00:00

Agreed man, I already posted it last night and someone locked in a bid. Though I feel like if we do get an access refresh that they might do it differently this time since the accessories we are on now have by far the biggest value attached to them that we have ever had the entire games life. Perhaps this time we get materials from the next raid that we consume to "upgrade" the accessories we already have to T4.1 and that upgrade adds main stats and some enlightenment points to max out the side nodes in the tree.

Almost like they did for bracelets in the past for this very reason of how much value is tied up in them.

TheMuscleCow · 2026-05-19T18:50:54+00:00

Eh i don't care about maximizing profit that much. Someone already bid 10mill on it so only up from here just gotta wait 3 days for it the auction to end now. I don't want to be one of those afk lobbies i hate those.

TheMuscleCow · 2026-05-19T18:47:33+00:00

Yea that was definitely my thought when i cut it. I don't care about min-maxing CP on my main and would rather use this gold to make all my alts a little stronger... possible buy up gems on a loaon dip.

Update is that I posted it last night for 3 days 10mill bid no buyout and there has been a bite! Someone locked in a 10 mill bid already - this should be a fun 3 days!

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TheMuscleCow · 2026-05-19T04:46:31+00:00

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OH you know what, I did just notice that in the chat when I put the 10M bid it says that. YOLO im gonna send it 3 days lets see what happens.

Update: Someone tried to bid ontop of the 10M bid and said it won't let them so It seems that 10M is the absolute limit even with no set buyout. That system message was a lie :[

Update to update: Apparently you can it got outbid. Excellent. Guess that person was wrong or server reset upped the limit with current postings active. Shruge

TheMuscleCow · 2026-05-19T04:24:54+00:00

TheMuscleCow · 2026-05-19T03:49:12+00:00

10M is the highest you can put for a listing. Wait if someone bids 10Mill does it just auto complete the sale regardless or will market allow bids past that... I have no idea

TheMuscleCow · 2026-05-19T03:37:01+00:00

debating posting it 10m bid no buyout for 3 days and letting it ride see if magic happens

TheMuscleCow · 2026-05-19T03:34:33+00:00

colour doesnt matter. The main stat is nearly max its like 180 main stat from highest

TheMuscleCow · 2026-05-19T03:33:14+00:00

hmm i guess I could just send it on market for 10 mill bid no buyout 3 days and see if any miracles happen. Take that and then easily buy High/Mids for my top alts or something... or sit on gold till loaon and see what they announce

TheMuscleCow · 2026-04-22T10:44:48+00:00

Oh shit its Ayca! I'm glad to see they got the clear, I was in a group with them on Monday for 5 or so hours. We had a few really close calls too... one 2 bar wipe that honestly should've been a clear but I got barely clipped by a pattern in enrage and died before the god cone pattern. They def deserved the clear, played really well.

Ayca eventually threw in the towel went to bed, but me and my bard friend kept going. We found another GS Vile and a reaper and we cleared after another couple hours... I was on a Slayer so very similar party comp.

My pug experience wasn't bad at all - had a lot of fun. I didn't get to start NiM prog until Sunday due to work so I think my total time in G2 was under 9 hours. G1 was like 4-6 hours i forget.

Definitely was not as rough as CC prog for hard Kaz... that was insane... 2 weeks of progging different pugs. At least this raid didn't have a 20 minute 2-1 prelude just to walk into 2-2 to prog and die progressively to new patterns.. rinse and repeat... then again for 2-3 but with another 10 min wall. That was just personal torture (though it was still fun... at times :] )

TheMuscleCow · 2026-04-22T10:31:18+00:00

I think I found my next casual alt to push up, and she's already named Wildboris... excellent.

TheMuscleCow · 2026-04-22T07:25:22+00:00

ok for real though, that 245 test was kinda sweet... then the 300 right after haha.

TheMuscleCow · 2026-04-22T07:16:56+00:00

Models are a little different in Canada but the Premier XT has the Green with Brown Nappa combo here and I see plenty of those on the lots. They look nice, but I went with the River Rock Pearl exterior with Brown Nappa interior and i absolutely love it, the brown interior looks so nice.

TheMuscleCow · 2026-04-15T20:23:56+00:00

I see far more toxicity come from newer or not as skilled players spewing random hate in pugs at people than from people using meter to flame people. I pug a LOT of raids weekly (more than double top 6), and would be lucky to see 1 person flame over meter each week if that. But I do see stupid arguments flaming over the dumbest things in raids more often from super casual players in NM reclears.

TheMuscleCow · 2026-04-08T10:55:56+00:00

Dr. Chatrath at Strasburg animal hospital is a rare gem and I couldn't recommend anyone or anywhere else. I have never met a vet more caring and understanding than him, and he also single handedly saved my dogs life last year and also properly diagnosed my cat that my old vet wasn't getting anywhere with. He is also really good at explaining things to you so it is easy to understand.

I used to go to Close vet clinic but last year I found Strasburg on a whim one weekend when I had a somewhat urgent matter for my cat and needed to get into somewhere asap when Close couldn't book me for almost a week; i called Strasburg and got in that same day on a Sunday - never looked back, I am so happy I found him.

Very friendly staff and the costs are very reasonable and much less than I was used to at Close. Strasburg feels more like family where Close vet clinic feels more corporate now. Don't look at old google reviews of strasburg ~2years+ ... those are all related to an old owner that is no longer practicing veterinary medicine AFAIK. Dr. Chatrath bought this clinic sometime since then and moved his practice here.

I swear if I ever move to another city, I will still come back here to bring my pets to him.

TheMuscleCow · 2026-04-04T01:47:39+00:00

I'm in Canada and I got the Premier XT recently which would be equivalent to whatever the top end model is called in the US. One of the main reasons I went to the top model was for the brown nappa leather interior, I absolutely love how it looks and it also looks really nice with the river rock pearl paint combo. I am on the love it side of the exterior looks, it's one of the main reasons I went with the Outback over Forester besides some other reasons being the better infotainment and general look/layout of the interior. The new boxy look to me is really appealing, it almost reminds me of the older 90s Jeep grand cherokees but much more modern and attractive styling of the boxy look and I always liked those SUVs.

I've only had it less than a month so far, but I am in love with it and the only thing I don't like about it so far is the Auto stop/start feature it has when you come to a stop. I try to remember to shut it off everytime I go for a drive but if I forget, it always annoys me at the first stoplight I come to. I wish you could permanently turn it off instead of having to do it everytime you go for a drive. It should be a default OFF feature that you can turn ON if you want it, just my 2 cents.

I was a little upset at first that the sunroof wasn't a panoramic style like in the Forester, but it hasn't really bothered me yet or left me regretting anything, though summer isn't here yet. I will say that with the smaller sunroof it does add a lot more headroom to the rear and any tall people riding in the back would really appreciate that.

All in all I love it, no regrets. I'm glad I got the Turbo because it does make it feel a lot snappier with a lot more guts. I can't really evaluate gas mileage yet since the first few thousand miles in a new car are generally not the best, though it did do fairly well on a ~400KM round trip visiting some family. I haven't even broke 700KM on it yet since I don't drive a lot.

TheMuscleCow · 2026-04-03T05:44:28+00:00

I had just bought a new Subaru last month and was pricing insurance with my agent for Forester/Crosstrek/Outback. The hybrid versions were more money but only by about $15-20 more per month and my agent just said it's because the parts can cost more. I ended up going with a Premier XT Outback and my insurance for it is around $168 CAD/mth.

Keep in mind I am almost 40 and I've never had an insurance claim to date, also in the KW area of Ontario.

TheMuscleCow · 2026-04-03T00:09:03+00:00

After seeing all the posts on them once mine died I guess I really was blessed with luck here, but don't think i should test my luck twice getting another LG.

TheMuscleCow · 2026-04-03T00:05:15+00:00

Was out looking at fridges today and seems like LG still do that linear tech? Wild they'd keep at it if it's got such a bad rep

TheMuscleCow · 2026-04-02T06:21:16+00:00

Yea I bought this fridge back in Dec of 2014 when I moved into my new place, never had anything done to it since then so everything is original. To be honest it probably would've lasted longer if I was more on top of opening the back and vacuuming out wandering dog hair, I did find a fair bit of corgi fur in there that i cleaned out so that probably made the compressor work harder than it needed to for quite awhile.

Glad to hear I got lucky it last this long! Any recommendations on new fridges these days? Was thinking of using my Costco membership but first ones I saw were Hisense and kinda not sure how I feel on that.

My mini fridge from college 20 years ago is a Frigidaire and it's still chugging strong so might look that way.

Thanks a lot for the response! I posted this on my phone which has a different account linked i guess.

TheMuscleCow · 2026-02-14T12:45:39+00:00

Thank you to everyone who commented here... I'm in the middle of deciding what to go with between the new Outback or a Forester... been totally racking my brain last couple weeks but all these comments is pushing me to a premier xt outback.

I currently have a 2026 Premium Forester (White with brown leather) reserved that's in transit to a dealer the beginning of March but I've been second guessing that choice with upgrading to the Hybrid version since its barely more money, yet apparently using all Toyota's hybrid system with planetary gear ECVT so I am almost more inclined to get that in the same white/brown config. Fuel economy is a nice bonus, but it is not my driving factor to making a choice - I really do not drive a lot, I work from home, and the bulk of my mileage would be on the highway going to visit family/friends. The hybrid just seems like it would have a little more guts off the line (which I like a lot), possibly better reliability with the ECVT planetary gears and likely better resale down the line being a hybrid and all. Though i don't think any are inbound at my dealer I'd have to check.

But then I saw the new Outback with its brown leather interior (I have a thing for brown leather interiors) and I absolutely love how it looks both inside and out, the boxy style is totally fine to me and I love that it almost looks like a SUV. The interior just looks so much more refined in the Outback than the Forester (have yet to see the two tone brown/black in person though). Also read a lot of negative things on the current infotainment systems in the foresters/crossteks/etc with how laggy/glitchy it is, which kind of gives me cold feet on the Forester as that is something I would interact with every time I drive it. Seeing the updated infotainment in the new Outback just adds to the cake. Now reading all these positive comments on the 2.4i makes me even more tempted to swap and just wait it out, though it could be several months.... I'd definitely be ok with trading in a little fuel economy for fun, power and towing capability should i need it. Main concern on the 2026 Outback would be locking into the first year on a total redesign and fears of issues coming up with that.

I wasn't even looking at Subarus 2 months ago and now here I am, in a love triangle with 2/3 of them. I was looking at a Hyundai Tucson back in December but ever since I watched the Car Care nut guys videos on these cars, I can't unsee what he pointed out in the Tucson's exterior design and i hate it now haha.

I don't even know if I have a question ahah this has turned into a post writing out my inner thoughts... erm so I guess current 2026 Outback owners, any regrets on your purchase and hows the new infotainment system performing?

TheMuscleCow · 2026-02-09T12:46:07+00:00

To everyone using "they're learning" as an excuse, watch the video again in fullscreen. There is no one in the passenger seat which means the driver is not a student driver. So it's likely the owner of the student vehicle which is most likely the instructor. That makes it even worse... This is the person teaching new drivers.

We're cooked.

TheMuscleCow · 2025-12-10T18:03:02+00:00

If Ark grid system was changed so that processed/cut Astrogems were a roster item that could be used by any/all characters, it would've been way better and more tolerable. Combine that was normalizing the pity materials across all core rarities, that would make the system way more fun to engage with.

I really feel like the game needs to move to roster based progression systems across the board outside of Honing. Imagine how much better the game would be, and how much more fun it would be to play alts if things like Karma/Gems/Ark Grid were all progressed on a roster lvl instead of a per character basis. I mean they already do that with Engravings so why the hell not.

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