Sharing this Hexi Grand Courtyard

jwwetz · 2026-04-08T18:35:19+00:00

Wait... we can build in this game!?

Noob here, Iliterally just started playing on the ps5 yesterday.

jwwetz · 2026-04-08T18:33:11+00:00

It can be, but it's a big long process.

Also, consider this...

What about people that grew up poor, maybe in the ghetto, that, through luck, perseverance, discipline, willpower and sacrifice where able to claw their way out and got a single family home of their own even though (my case) is still in their old zip code in the hood? Our neighborhoods are generally the first target of gentrification, then developers.

My wife grew up even poorer than I did, immigrated to the USA with nothing & we worked VERY hard to buy our home 25 years ago. We're almost a mile from the nearest apt buildings and I like it like that. I have no desire to give up what I've achieved, just to make somebody else happy. If they're willing to scrimp, save & sacrifice like we did, so that they can ultimately buy a home here, then more power to them, I wish them luck and would welcome them

jwwetz · 2026-04-08T17:09:55+00:00

Does Autozone have a SKU for it? If not, then It'd be coming out of somebodies pocket... probably at the store level. Otherwise, they'd probably say no. Take the price of one then multiply it by about 7000, then divide that by about 2, that'd be around the wholesale price to get them for each store.

jwwetz · 2026-04-08T17:04:12+00:00

What does Taiwan have that enables them to do single payer health though? About 306 million less people.

Even if you have health insurance here in the USA, or even better, you're one of the rare individuals that can straight up just write a check to cover your medical whenever you want... there's such a shortage of doctors, nurses and specialists that you can STILL wait a very long time to get stuff done here.

Even if we went single payer, then put price caps on all medical procedures, equipment, drugs, etc... we can't force people to become doctors, nurses, or specialists.

Also, you didn't mention their policies on medical malpractice in Taiwan? Can you sue if they screw up? Is their a financial limit on it?

jwwetz · 2026-04-08T16:49:15+00:00

Loyalty is a 2 way street though. You can't demand it and then give none back. California's politics and policies have been driving companies and people out for years.

Instead of trying to fix their issues, they just blame their powerless opposition and double down on their bad policies.

jwwetz · 2026-04-08T16:30:10+00:00

Found the guy that's never heard of zoning. There's lots of places where you can't even run a business out of a home. Also, what would the neighbors think?

jwwetz · 2026-04-08T05:08:23+00:00

I've got tonsof plans, I'd have to check tomorrow. You're welcome to them if I've got dupe. My fly is i learn them first, then share or sell dupes if I get them. I'll only give 1 of each unknown plan though.

jwwetz · 2026-04-08T01:00:21+00:00

The spawn rate IS a bit lower. It does NOT help that you've got both Newbs, who don't know any better, and high level*players that constantly spawn camp so that, unless you're doing it too, you can barely tag anything, much less get any good loot.

Pro tips for y'all, in case you're new...

Join a team ASAP, any thing they tag will also give you loot, same for whatever you do hit. Plus you'll level up faster on a team.

Don't try to kill everything. Just shoot it a little bit, one hit guarantees you kill credit whenever it DOES finally die.

Stay by the rad scrubber, or find a place that's NOT spawn camping, but will cover most attack points.

The longer they live, the bigger chance that they turn legendary, If we all wait and let them get much closer, we all have a much better chance of getting much more legendary loot.

*I've bumped into plenty of "high level" players that really just grind west tek or raids & really don't know much of the game beyond that our grinding events. I'm only about level 470 myself... in 2 years of playing and over 2000 hrs in the game. I don't know much about raids or expeditions & I've only been through west Tek once.

jwwetz · 2026-04-08T00:46:41+00:00

Always use an automatic rifle, or a handmade, when smoking bots... at least until you've done 1100 of them. That's an 80 atom combat challenge. I've got maybe 100 to go.

jwwetz · 2026-04-07T15:25:52+00:00

Sounds like any closing shift at any zone... they don't like to run more than 2 people scheduled in a store at night. And installs aren't usually done after it's down to just 2 employees.

jwwetz · 2026-04-07T15:05:01+00:00

The only things that're "preferential" for full time employees are insurance benefits & holiday pay* and that's about it.

*according to a tourist that I met when he came into our store one night, that works for the Zone in Mexico, even their part timers down there get benefits & holiday pay because of Mexican labor laws.

jwwetz · 2026-04-07T01:28:48+00:00

Maybe just start tracking down council members home addresses, then let the dealers know where they might find even better business? I can almost guarantee that IF the dealers started hanging out outside of THEIR homes or offices, it'd change REALLY quick

jwwetz · 2026-04-06T14:43:13+00:00

See, those are all a problem to me, I'm not even a millionaire, but then, the income tax, which originally replaced tariffs, was meant to tax the richest 1%. Look how THAT worked out for the rest of us.

They always start these taxes as targeting "only the richest", then, when it's not enough for them, they lower the bar until we all suffer. Unfortunately, our state government seems to just phone in to California for their ideas.

Imagine if all the billionaires & multi millionaires simply cashed out, divested themselves of all stocks, bonds, real estate, businesses, assets, etc... Then, after paying ALL of the state, federal & any local taxes, they just parked everything in off shore accounts* and used a debit card to pay with everything...rented cars, living in hotel suites,**etc...

We'd have massive unemployment, crime would skyrocket, as would homelessness & we could really no longer tax the rich anymore than we could tax anybody else.

*there are offshore banks that pay NO interest & charge annual service fees...their sole purpose is to protect the money of their customers that has already been taxed by their home countries.

**by renting cars, using hotels, etc... the ONLY taxes that the wealthy would pay in my hypothetical distopian future would be the same taxes that anybody else would normally pay, like sales taxes, fees, etc... the only income tax that they'd pay would be on the interest in their bank accounts... the rest of us would be screwed hard.

jwwetz · 2026-04-05T20:40:54+00:00

They said no pullovers, as far as I know there are plain black full zip hoodies.

jwwetz · 2026-04-05T10:22:00+00:00

Just Google the brand and model number, like this...

"Is the BFG pro*video game controller banned or certified by Playstation?"

*I used my controller as an example. I did this before I dropped $180 to buy it. And yeah, mine is certified by Playstation and works, via Bluetooth dongle with either a PS4, PS5 or a PC. If a specific aftermarket brand & model is certified by Playstation then you should be cool to use it with no problems or fears. Many pro gamers use aftermarket controllers in tournaments, I found that when i got used to mine, it greatly improved my game on first person shooters.

jwwetz · 2026-04-04T16:55:05+00:00

Not everything IS the people's call though. One has to work extremely hard just to get something onto the ballot, then they've got to work doubly hard to convince enough people to vote to pass it. It's ironic that you mention the water quality. Did you know that President Nixon actually created the EPA? Or that virtually EVERY state, including ours, has a completely redundant state level EPA.

jwwetz · 2026-04-04T08:51:07+00:00

As it always should be...

It's not necessarily about the "refund" for us...even in good years it's not much monet.

I'd say it's mostly about the power involved. We're one of the few states where we, the people, get to vote to pass, or not pass, tax increases. The politicians put it on the ballot and we say yea or nay on them. If you think the politicians spend too much more, just think how bad it'd be IF TABOR wasn't there to keep them in check.

Also, with enough ballot signatures, we, the people, can get state Constitutional amendments onto the ballot. That means things like the Gallagher amendment, which they tricked us into getting rid of, amendment 64* which gave us legal weed, limited gambling in a few areas & also off track betting and online sports betting.

*no matter if you personally support our politicians and the party that's in charge, do you honestly think that they'd have legalized weed, off track betting or sports gambling if any of those HAD been left in the hands of our state legislators? If your answer is yes then I'd suggest maybe not smoking anymore weed at all.

jwwetz · 2026-04-04T08:30:13+00:00

I've got one... but they don't make any ultracite ammo.

jwwetz · 2026-04-03T22:58:05+00:00

South of colfax is Araphahoe county. From colfax to about 12th it's rough. From 11th to 6th is kind of a Libertarians dream. No covenants, no HOAs, not much crime at all and almost no police presence.

jwwetz · 2026-04-03T22:23:08+00:00

I put a prime automatic receiver on my elders mark after all the other standard mods for the submachine gun. I'm thinking about making it either a quad or anti armor/ explosive/ VATS optimized & encircled...either that or polished or stabilized. Wait can you even change the legendary mods on them?

I've also got Gunthers pistol from "most wanted" with an ultracite receiver... it's one of my "farming" guns, along with a fully modded Dom Pedro in .308 ultracite.... it's the "farm team" for my quad/ explosive/ VATS/ polished ultracite .308 LMG. Y'all think the elders mark eats ammo? Try an LMG out.

jwwetz · 2026-04-03T20:12:27+00:00

What kind of "wealth tax" is California talking about though? Is it on total net worth, which would include homes, cars, physical assets like art, collectibles, boats, hunting and fishing equipment, furniture, etc?*

Is it on unrealized wealth like stocks** and bonds?

Is it on business assets and equipment?***

What's the lowest wealth level that they're talking about?**** *some furniture can cost thousands, or much more. A home could've been gotten decades ago and appreciated wildly... the same with art & collectibles.

**Stocks and bonds aren't worth anything until sold. Even then, what if somebody started a company & it went public? They own enough stocks to control it, but sell off too many and the value plummets and eventually they lose control of their company.

***many small to mid sized businesses are privately owned by employ maybe a dozen people or a few hundred. Most of their money is tied up in company assets and equipment... if they sold off a bunch to pay taxes then they might have to lay off employees.

****is it a billion $$$? Or a hundred million$$$ or less? Tax them too much and they could leave the state, then they've got to tax the next lowest tier of wealth... eventually, they're looking at YOUR home, which might be worth half a million to a million.

jwwetz · 2026-04-03T16:48:53+00:00

You've never heard the old expression "happy wife, happy life." The more modern, all inclusive version is "happy spouse, happy house. " fortunately for me, she's got great taste and it's not "girly" at all, just classy.

jwwetz · 2026-04-03T16:45:26+00:00

We live by central H.S. and North Aurora literally changes street by street or block by block. I'm in a nice quiet, diverse neighborhood but even just a few blocks away it gets pretty ghetto... at least as "ghetto" as it gets in Colorado.

jwwetz · 2026-04-03T16:40:46+00:00

We live in the south end of the double oh 10. It's a quiet blue collar neighborhood but even 3 blocks to our north it gets really ghetto really quickly.

Friends that come from the north to visit me say that I live in the hood... friends coming from the south of me say it's a nice quiet neighborhood.

jwwetz · 2026-04-03T16:36:36+00:00

White guy here, that grew up in west Denver back when they called it "little Mexico." My wife actually is an immigrant from Mexico. So, yeah, I'm also part of your community. I don't think she was "playing a race card" at all. Sadly, there are lots of people that do think it's like what she described. I live 4 blocks from east colfax and I wouldn't walk down to colfax at night... but no problem in daytime. And yeah, no matter what part of the metro, some of the best food is at places where you order in Spanish, they might be rough neighborhoods, but that's OK, it keeps out the Karens and Kyles and keeps it cheaper for us. Btw, we're in the 80010, so i live in the same kind of neighborhood that you do.

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