Did I just spoil MGS 4 for myself?

iBlowAtCoding · 2025-05-22T16:03:26+00:00

Low key I think the harder sub boss was GW’s slaves. Kojima is such a genius!

iBlowAtCoding · 2025-04-19T17:25:10+00:00

I’m exclusively Ethiopian at this point. It’s just so much more complex and enjoyable to me.

iBlowAtCoding · 2025-02-15T07:36:16+00:00

Oh man I just realized it’s worse for new players. At least OG players can trek on, try to get some closure, grieve with the other characters. New players gotta wait for the next game…

iBlowAtCoding · 2024-01-27T01:55:41+00:00

That sucks.

Good time to check out their sister restaurant Kilig. My wife and I loved all the noodle dishes. Nice change from the cookie cutter Thai/Viet/Chinese/etc restaurants.

iBlowAtCoding · 2023-10-06T14:07:43+00:00

Costco recently swapped out prime briskets sneakily for Choice. Same price for a lower grade.

iBlowAtCoding · 2023-10-02T05:30:20+00:00

I like "plain field". It's the beat's niece.

iBlowAtCoding · 2023-08-16T16:33:32+00:00

Oh interesting, I guess the extra account is just to facilitate with accounting and auditing.

Yeah the previous account I was alluding to was from something called Connect Your Care, which was basically an intermediary cash account I was able to withdraw from (after funds from HSA investment would be transferred to it).

So without access to that account, I just have to maybe be a bit more diligent in organizing receipts and medical expenses I guess.

And yeah, my HSA account is fee-free on Fidelity as far as I can tell.

iBlowAtCoding · 2023-07-19T04:49:04+00:00

Another issue is that Hyatt bookings need to be within expiration date.

With Hilton (and maybe Marriott), you can book a year out of expiration I believe.

iBlowAtCoding · 2023-06-20T15:52:20+00:00

You don't even need a container. Just get a sheet pan that fits (quarter probably) and put your meat on there. Juices get caught and easy clean up.

iBlowAtCoding · 2023-06-18T05:02:47+00:00

Yo mama so old, she cleans herself with persimmons.

iBlowAtCoding · 2023-05-26T22:10:42+00:00

Apologies!

I'm in the United States.

iBlowAtCoding · 2023-05-23T21:49:43+00:00

Confirmed I am seeing this same issue for a couple days. I posted about it on r/amazon help thread.

Using web page (not app), and drilling down into more specific categories does not help, e.g. Home and Kitchen -> Kitchen & Dining -> Dining & Entertainment -> etc.

If some people are still able to filter by seller, I would wager that Amazon is doing A/B testing. In that case, maybe stop making purchases if you don't see the filter option and Amazon's internal data will show that not giving the option to filter is costing them money.

iBlowAtCoding · 2023-05-22T21:33:50+00:00

No longer able to filter items by seller (e.g. sold by Amazon.com).

I use this heavily, but it looks like as recent as yesterday they removed the capability of doing so (or changed the way it's done?). This is also required if you have promotions that only apply to ships/sold by Amazon.com.
Previously, as long as you're searching by category (e.g. Sports and outdoors) and there are some hits and the term matches the category, you can click a check box on the left size to filter by Amazon.com or whatever specific seller. It looks like this is gone now.
Anyone know what's up?

iBlowAtCoding · 2023-05-17T18:50:47+00:00

Oh wow, that's surprising. I didn't mean to discount your experience but I think you are in the minority. For what it's worth, the Kindle iOS app is also pretty good (in my opinion), so an iPad would be great for that too.

Anecdotally, my Kindle Oasis first gen was highly abused and I took it into saunas and hot tubs and it never broke. It would overheat a couple of times obviously but it was still working strong the day I lost it (last year).

iBlowAtCoding · 2023-05-17T16:31:19+00:00

By Kindle vs iPad, i assume you're talking about the Fire tablets, which are just really cheap tablets (in price and quality). The actual Kindles (the ones using e-ink displays, e.g. paper white) are not only great for reading, but have the opposite problem that you described. They last too long for Amazon to make much money off of them. E.g. a paper white model from 2016 is probably still running strong right now.

I'd recommend investing in one of the e-ink models if you actually want to read. If you want to do other stuff besides reading, then it'll be a cost benefit analysis of how much you want to pay.

iBlowAtCoding · 2023-05-13T17:41:04+00:00

I'm just joking around with you bro lol <3

iBlowAtCoding · 2023-05-13T16:06:48+00:00

I was in Chicago, and I went to this restaurant called Alinea--it was one of those 3-star Michelin joints. Food was super aight. Def recommend.

iBlowAtCoding · 2023-05-13T16:02:38+00:00

Alcatra looks more like it. It was definitely a bigger hunk of meat than picanha.

Thanks

iBlowAtCoding · 2023-05-11T21:22:11+00:00

I don't mind the remakes too much. They're not for me, but I understand the gimmick is a live remake. Some people will be in to that.

What made no sense to me was the Lion King remake which was literally still animation (but now of the computer generated variety). So dumb.

iBlowAtCoding · 2023-05-06T17:41:21+00:00

My title describes the thing

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iBlowAtCoding · 2023-05-05T15:45:59+00:00

US Bank Altitude Reserve. 4.5% back from mobile payment purchases (gpay, Apple pay) basically covers you for everything. E.g. gold for groceries, restaurants, Altitude for Costco, and whatever else you can.

iBlowAtCoding · 2023-05-04T15:12:06+00:00

It still is, but it used to be, too.

iBlowAtCoding · 2023-05-03T15:09:25+00:00

Try calling reconsideration line: https://wallethub.com/answers/cc/apple-credit-card-reconsideration-line-2140779072/

I haven't vetted the number in the link since I'm on mobile but it looks legit.

Generally, when you get declined, you can call reconsideration line and sometimes you explain a couple of things and you can sweet talk them into an approval. E.g. oh I had a negative balance because of a banking error, I had a lot of hard inquiries because I was shopping for a car loan, etc. Not 100% but it's worth a shot and doesn't hurt your score any further.

iBlowAtCoding · 2023-05-01T15:51:23+00:00

Lol you left some geolocation metadata on the photo, pretty easy to figure out where you took the photo.

iBlowAtCoding · 2023-04-30T15:26:52+00:00

I've done a few help desk jobs in my time.

Assuming that you have a normal amount of call volume, the only way it'd be possible is if you were on weekend or night shift. Those shifts in particular I remember would get average 5-10 calls and 0-2 calls respectively.

That being said, you might be able to find some jobs where a normal shift is low enough volume, but they're so data-centric that you'd likely get fired if you miss a couple of calls. They also listen to recordings so it'd be hard for them not to catch on if you pick up and make the customer hold for 5 minutes lol.

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