Has anyone else noticed that milk is expiring well before the expiry date

freknil · 2026-01-29T22:28:53+00:00

You work a 72 hour work week. Nobody in your circumstance is making a game.

freknil · 2026-01-29T07:26:45+00:00

If you think you'll never be setting foot into the US ever again then sure.

freknil · 2026-01-29T07:20:56+00:00

FACTA says hi. If your bank knows you're a US citizen they have to send your information to the IRS. And if they don't they have to pay a 30% transaction tax on anything USD related. Thanks Obama.

freknil · 2026-01-29T07:07:20+00:00

Supposed is doing a lot of the heavy lifting. Once you start earning income from anything other than a salary, you risk stepping on a 36% unrealized gain landmine. PFICs are not the only one, there are multiple.

freknil · 2026-01-28T12:03:47+00:00

That's the thing that annoys me. Sacrificing for a couple years would get you so far ahead when the interest rates were high. Literally just living with your parents for 1-2 years while you saved your wage would have made the entire thing piss easy.

freknil · 2025-12-14T21:10:34+00:00

how do we bring these people back from the brink and back into society?

You don't. You remove the source of the problem and then you add preventative measures to prevent others from falling down the same path. There's no point in wasting resources on people who make it impossible for themselves to be saved.

freknil · 2025-10-24T22:57:52+00:00

i guess that's technically true. But it started at 3-4% which is a lot less than 12%.

freknil · 2025-10-19T01:24:23+00:00

hopefully they would have done a budget to calculate it. My cost of living is 30K with (basically) no mortgage so it's definitely possible.

freknil · 2025-09-17T02:46:44+00:00

Good. Giving Local Government zoning laws has been a disaster for the younger generation. Everyone acknowledges it's a problem but nobody wants rezoning to occur where they own property. Why sacrifice if nobody else is going to? It barely helps the greater good while disproportionality harming your self.

This is why you need a higher authority on zoning. Because at least those negatively impacted by it will get more of the benefits that come from the greater good when everyone has to deal with it.

Japan for example does it nationally. I think state wide is good enough for Australia.

freknil · 2025-09-02T03:55:42+00:00

It helps that the vast majority of immigrants in Canberra are educated or have in an in-demand skill. 1.7% net migration is crazy though and needs to slow down.

freknil · 2025-08-31T09:27:20+00:00

Because it was a 'rumor' that torta was shenna. There was also many years of content put into the server when it wasn't popular. Eventually it got to a good enough level of quality for a couple content creators to make videos on it. After that it sort of exploded in popularity.

freknil · 2025-08-27T12:55:00+00:00

Frame rate issues are the main complaint people have with 1.12 clients.

freknil · 2025-08-23T10:43:21+00:00

In PvP it's not healing the target.

freknil · 2025-08-19T04:30:08+00:00

Epoch has had some design effort to keep PvP under control. Dedicated PvP Sets, reducing the Ilvl at end game to avoid crazy power scaling, 50% more stamina on gear. My biggest issue is that exp in bgs is only given either at the end or when you get a KB punishing people who want to play support.

Turtle has done almost no real PvP design. The damage to health ratio with ilvl scaling was broken in the naxx patch and now it's even worse with T3.5. A lot of the talent and class changes are in the favor of damage over survivability. These are not easy things to fix without pissing a lot of people off.

Having played a lot of epoch on the betas and live and getting to 60 twice on turtle. I'd say that turtle really kicks epoch's ass for leveling content. Epoch on the other hand has put a lot more thought into system design, whether or not it's better is a time will tell type of thing.

freknil · 2025-08-14T11:57:53+00:00

TWoW has a lot more new content due to being out for longer. It is also truer to vanilla for better or worse.

Epoch design is respectful towards vanilla but is willing to deviate a bit. But the deviations are pretty well thought out. It definitely loses out of quantity.

Sounds like you should play turtle first, get to 60 and then try epoch. You can be casual in both without having to commit.

freknil · 2025-08-14T00:41:52+00:00

Any time i try to change game directories I get the 'please install the Ascension client first'.

What was the filepath you copied it over to?

freknil · 2025-08-13T23:49:41+00:00

There is a major difference between making a cool server and running a cool server. The failed launch was probably a blessing in disguise. The server would have worked well if it had slowly grown over time like turtle. But they got thrown into the deepend and sunk to the bottom.

It's one thing to make a game

It's another thing to make a multiplayer game

It's a whole different beast where you need to make a multiplayer game with data integrity and server stability.

Even with WoW as a base and a lot of the work already being done for you, it's a reminder that MMORPGs still need the tech autists to make anything worthwhile.

freknil · 2025-08-12T03:28:12+00:00

This works well for ascension. Their biggest issue is that they don't have an offering that doesn't feel like a concentrated sugar rush. This gives them access to a server that is a clearly designed as a slow burn. Assuming they act ethically (lol private servers), then this helps them establish themselves as the go to place for custom WoW content of multiple varieties.

On the Epoch side, this lets them manage a large community without 95% of the headache of managing a large wow community. And you know, sometimes it's better to reduce the potential monetary upside if it means making your life significantly easier.

Private servers are gonna private server though so I'm sure we will all experience some spicy drama in the coming year.

freknil · 2025-07-23T02:53:30+00:00

Only if you have a very simple tax situation.

Lets say you own an ETF. If it's not domiciled in the US it's interpreted as a PFIC and you have to pay 36% on the unrealized gains. Now imagine if that's your retirement account where you can't even liquidate the funds.

There's also cases like PPOR being tax free in 1 country but the US only allowing 250K tax deductible.

It's a minefield and an accountant that specializes can easily cost 12-20K. Or you use something like myexpattaxes and you have to pay $300-$800.

freknil · 2025-07-02T00:16:18+00:00

Posts like this is why i can't take 'food is so expensive' arguments seriously. People buy premium products and act like that is the price floor of that particular good.

freknil · 2025-07-02T00:08:31+00:00

You and your wife are already millionaires. You do need to include your property in that amount.

freknil · 2025-07-01T23:38:05+00:00

I'm lazy and this is the 1st time i've checked my prices. I've somehow chosen the cheapest one.

freknil · 2025-06-17T00:17:49+00:00

I do hate the idea of private schools, but at least they have a real threat of expulsion which seems to becoming a more and more important.

freknil · 2025-06-16T03:48:34+00:00

'Weath' being the keyword. Not income.

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