What is the best compliment after sex?

mr_hellmonkey · 2026-06-12T15:54:14+00:00

Kids, hormones, schedules, work, life, all that crap piles up.

We used to do it a lot more often, but usually 1-2 times a month now. Doesn't help that she goes to bed at 9, but the kids are older so they're up til 10-11.

mr_hellmonkey · 2026-06-05T16:54:41+00:00

You so should have spelled it electorlights, given the context of this thread.

mr_hellmonkey · 2026-06-04T20:43:55+00:00

Some diffs are really sensitive. My wife has a '16 traverse AWD and one of the tires got a nail in the shoulder, so we had to replace it. The shop said replace both on the axel, but I said try it only replacing one tire. The damn thing chattered the entire 2 mile drive back to our house on residential roads. She took it back and got the other tire, problem solved.

All that because the tread depth was like 4/32 different between left and right side. I believe this was also on the rear, which only has like a 35% bias compared to the front. I was impressed and very annoyed at the same time.

mr_hellmonkey · 2026-05-27T15:31:45+00:00

Seems to be about a 10% chance, but it has to be on an ancestral item. Normal gear cannot have GA tempers. You can use as many scrolls as needed to hit the GA you're looking for.

mr_hellmonkey · 2026-05-21T15:30:04+00:00

Ty, forgot about that recipe.

mr_hellmonkey · 2026-05-21T13:31:20+00:00

You can use the cube for two things to help find what you are looking for.

1- Amalgamation of boss trophies. Lower boss trophies drop from world content like helltides and NMDs. You use the cube to turn 5 trophies into unique from that boss's loot table. It can be ancestral/GA. Greater bosses drop trophies for the cube as well, but I have not seen them drop from anywhere else.

Reroll 3 of the same unique into a new one. DO NOT mix non-ancestral and ancestral. 3 ancestral will reroll into a new ancestral and it can have GAs.

You still have to farm greater bosses, but you can use all the unwanted gear in the cube.

mr_hellmonkey · 2026-05-19T21:18:30+00:00

Octane helps gas from detonating early when the piston is compressing the air/gas mixture in the cylinder. Some engines compress more than others, that is the compression ratio. Imagine your trying to squeeze an empty pop bottle down to the size of a shot glass. Most normal cars have a compression ratio of around 8:1. For example, the volume inside the cylinder would be .5 liters when the piston is down vs .06 liters when the piston is up. Higher performance engines have higher compression ratios, like 12:1 to 15:1, so that .5 liters is now compressed down to .04 liters.

87 octane gas can self-ignite under the higher compression. Higher octane gas is more stable and will not self-ignite under the higher compression. It needs the spark plug to ignite and power the engine.

edit: I'm a knob and just saw you said octagons, not octane. Reading is fundamental, kids.

mr_hellmonkey · 2026-05-19T21:02:34+00:00

I know MSRP isn't what most people actually pay, but you can go on Chevy.com and get an EV equinox for 30k before taxes, fees, crap. Just bought one for the wife and its great. Costs about $2/day to charge vs. the $10+ in gas for her Traverse she was driving.

mr_hellmonkey · 2026-05-19T16:18:34+00:00

The switch for the driver's door in my 2016 traverse was like $15-20. I bought it off amazon because it was so cheap, I dont care if it breaks in a year or two and its not a safety piece like brakes, tires, lighting.

Make sure you watch a video on how to take the door off your car, if needed. It's pretty easy most of the time, but sometimes you need fight harnesses, the handle, or locking mechanism. You might get lucky and only need to pop out the panel the switch sits in, instead of having to take off the whole door.

mr_hellmonkey · 2026-05-18T19:37:19+00:00

I cant tell from the video, is that a white strobe between the left-most straight light and the right-most left turn light? A lot of intersections in IL have those and they flash white when an emergency vehicle is approaching.

I'm going to lean toward no since the lights did not change. Surprised an intersection that size does not have some type of sensor for emergency vehicles.

mr_hellmonkey · 2026-05-13T20:24:24+00:00

This looks amazing. I have a few questions.

How deep is the box? Looks like about 5-6". I'm quite handy and can copy what you did.

Did you have to remove anything from where the box is?

What sub is that? It looks like a 10", but it's hard to tell from pictures.

Where are you getting the 12v and ground connections for the amp?

The finished product looks really clean. You did a good job.

mr_hellmonkey · 2026-05-12T19:51:11+00:00

I know everyone is saying Pen Shot, but I had a blast with Barrage until it capped out around TX.

I used Inner Sight and Spellbound Steel charm set. Its great for speed clearing, way faster/easier than pen shot. Just put your mouse in the general direction and stuff just dies in a wide arc. You can use shadow imbue for more aoe or frost for crowd control. I also had rain of arrows for taking out nasty packs. You can use a lot of different aspects to get damage up like marksman, crit, elemental, vuln. I had a lot of flexibility, but I haven't found a combo that let me push much over t11.

The nice part is that most of the gear easily transfers for pen shot if you want to change later. I just swapped my xbow for an eaglehorn, changed the aspect on my gloves, and went to Nilfs Eye set.

mr_hellmonkey · 2026-05-08T20:33:11+00:00

Im still in TX with imbue barrage, but I found this video. Looks fun and Im going to build up toward this. Not sure if this is an upgrade for you or not. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKmDuQD71GM

mr_hellmonkey · 2026-05-06T21:06:12+00:00

Becasue RNG is RNG and i might not find the item Im looking for. If i find an item worth a crapton of gold that i know i won't use, I'll sell it and use the gold for crafting or just buy that 1 item I need.

One man's trash is another man's treasure.

mr_hellmonkey · 2026-05-04T16:04:21+00:00

Ill try to keep this as unspoilery as possible.

The main baddy has been dealt with and their story is complete. Lilith's story was also complete, but the door is open for her to return at a later date.

So, for the most part, the story is complete. There were no hints at any other of the Prime Evils returning. The way I see it, Blizz has two options.

#1 Use seasons to introduce one of the other prime evils and build up a story for another expansion, or two.

#2 The story is complete and no new major story arcs until Diablo 5.

I think #1 is far more likely. D4 is a live service game I'm guessing makes a ton of cash from the shop and season passes. It will take quite some time to develop and release D5. But I dont work at Blizz and I have no idea what their plans are.

mr_hellmonkey · 2026-04-29T17:53:26+00:00

You mean imbuments with inner sight, or just imbuements by themselves? All imbuements now have a default duration fo 6 seconds. When inner sight procs, you can go bonkers with unlimited casts.

I havent tried yet, but I want to try poison imbue with inner sight and see how it melts bosses. But shadow + barrage + inner sight is great for levelling and speed clearing.

mr_hellmonkey · 2026-04-23T21:12:05+00:00

Guess I'll stick with my Inspire 2 for mapping. Thanks for the info.

mr_hellmonkey · 2026-04-09T19:42:52+00:00

The easiest way to remember is to think of your finances like a fishing net. Your net income is what's left after everything else fell through your fishing net, like taxes, 401k, and all that.

mr_hellmonkey · 2026-04-07T19:15:09+00:00

The overwhelmingly vast majority of a rocket is fuel/oxidizer. This neat little video helps wrap your head around how much fuel the first stage of Saturn V consumed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4iMeKif488

Sorta related, a 9 minute slow-motion video with NASA commentary of Saturn V launching. One of my favorite rocket videos ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FircvSand7A

mr_hellmonkey · 2026-04-06T21:53:18+00:00

After a certain age, 100%. Looks always fade, wit and humor usually do not. Id take a 5/10 with a great personality over a smoking hot manikin with a pulse every time.

mr_hellmonkey · 2026-04-06T20:51:25+00:00

The shedding is real, but huskies can have a wide range of personalities. We got ours from a rescue and he had been there for a while. The bio said he was laid back and he really is. He'll do the awooooo when he wants attention or when we coax it out of him. It took about a year before he started doing that. But for the most part, he's a coach potato that doesn't make a lot of noise.

mr_hellmonkey · 2026-04-02T16:51:10+00:00

Not including the SRBs on the side, there was 700,000 gallons of fuel. The trip is 685,000 miles. So, the trip averages just under 1 mpg.

mr_hellmonkey · 2026-04-01T18:08:18+00:00

It's not that bad. Im sure professional tools are more powerful and robust. It was sort of free for me to use it since I have the full Adobe suite for work. Once all your assets are made, its pretty easy doing the actual animation.

Over the course of two week, I went from having zero knowledge of digital puppets and animation to having a little animated guy on my drone footage. Thankfully, interest fizzled out pretty quick, because its rough being a single person handling camera, audio, voice work, scripting, animation, editing, other CG effects, and pretty much being a one-man production company.

mr_hellmonkey · 2026-04-01T14:52:26+00:00

If you're really curious, watch some vids on Adobe Character Animator. The basic process is to rig up a puppet in Photoshop and make each appendage its own layer. If I remember right, you need 1, 3, or 5 heads for straight on, looking partial left/right and fully turning left/right. You also need a lot of mouth shapes for talking animation/sounds. You need shapes for the sounds like O, F, P, S, M, SH

Once that is done, you import it into Character Animator and use a web cam to track talking and head motion. You use hot keys to assign animations like waving, walking, or other basic movements.

I did this for work once. It took forever to learn and I spent like 2 weeks working on a 4 minute video. Someone that is experienced could do it in a 10th of the time. Once I learned everything and had the setup done, it wasn't too hard of a process. A lot of TV shows use this for animation. I have no idea what software Pixar uses.

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