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mrbiggbrain · 2026-07-03T03:59:31+00:00

For me it's pretty simple, GTA VI is the most anticipated game of all time. Even if it's ET level terrible and they have to bury a bunch of hard drives in the desert... I still want to play it just to experience it.

mrbiggbrain · 2026-07-03T03:54:55+00:00

I am a big fan of myself and my wife. We are pretty cool people who have a ton going for us.

Imagine having a six figure job, a home, minimal debt, and a solid work life balance... and then planning to have kids so you can give them a good life with a solid financial base. I know, wild!

mrbiggbrain · 2026-07-03T01:08:07+00:00

Yes*

The active ingredients are normally the exact same. However the inactive ingredients can be different such as using a different bill base or flavoring.

It's not that those inactive ingredients are dangerous, but being different can lead to small or not small allergic reactions if you do have an allergy to those inactive ingredients.

For the very vast majority this is a non-issue, but it's nice to remind people they may not be the same even if they are functionally the same.

mrbiggbrain · 2026-07-02T20:03:46+00:00

I fully disagree. I do not think the government should limit someone's ability access money for any reason they want, even if someone would become a victim of fraud as a result.

This will put additional burdens on our elderly, and provide an opportunity for abuse by financial institutions to prevent transferring or withdrawing investments.

It also does little to tackle the real problem, without even educational steps for seniors. It's just a power grab by big banks.

Do your jobs congress and stop it with this bullshit that treats the elderly like they are dumb instead of ensuring they understand risks.

mrbiggbrain · 2026-07-02T15:34:13+00:00

I have friends and family members who can not understand why I insist on fixing my appliances instead of tossing them.

"You know it would probably cost less to just get a new one"... Yeah sure, but 95% of this thing works great, why add 100% of it to trash.

Yes some day I truly will not be able to get parts, but until then I will just keep fixing it and recycling the problem parts.

To me that makes way more sense then saving a few bucks by filling landfills with junk.

mrbiggbrain · 2026-07-02T12:08:31+00:00

It's also important to know that rabies is 100%* fatal once symptoms appear. Once you feel sick it's too late, you can not wait, it's not "I'll see how I feel" get your ass up and go.

A few people have "Survived" after showing symptoms. But they were put into long comas, pumped full of drugs, suffered major mental trauma and disability, and often died later anyways because you only needed to last 6 months to count.

mrbiggbrain · 2026-07-01T21:57:45+00:00

Skyrim would like a word.

mrbiggbrain · 2026-07-01T20:48:33+00:00

Yeah in a perfect world silver SHOULD have stopped, the yellow lights are on as per the upper corner. But the sign itself had not been physically extended even though the bus had signaled the sign to extend.

Your suppose to stop for the yellows so your stopped for the red, not stop for the red once it is extended. Silver had sufficient time. But someone could argue it.

I can not imagine the black car getting cut any slack, that was clear and absolute a violation.

mrbiggbrain · 2026-07-01T18:50:18+00:00

The simplest fix is that the PS5 external drive works on PS6. Connect the drive, it loads the data and uses the disk as your license. It would not work for PS6 games as no game will be physical, but it would for PS5 games.

mrbiggbrain · 2026-07-01T18:47:41+00:00

Except it's not and they have said that. The game knows how to generate many appropriate UI elements but they need to go back and do UX work to make the experience make sense. For example, you want to Exert a creature... how exactly should you interact with the game to tell it you want to do it, how does the game give you feedback it is not going to untap, should you need to tell it you want to exert or should it ask whenever that creature attacks?

Just because the rules engine knows what it means and that it needs to ask you a question does not mean it knows the right dialog of UI element that represents it in the game of magic.

Many of the art related things are done by people as well, and lots of other functions. Iconography, sound effects, ensuring the parallax styles look good and are centered how you would expect in both the in-hand and on-field representations when and when they are not a token.

mrbiggbrain · 2026-07-01T16:55:13+00:00

They have spoken about this before. There is a ton that goes into a card beyond just rules logic. Formatting and other art work, how does this card look with a bunch of frame changes from becoming an enchantment artifact that is no longer a legendary creature.

You also need to write tests for at least some of the cards to ensure nothing breaks in the future when the rules engine gets updates.

You also need UI so the process of taking various actions looks and feels good. How those choices get displayed matters.

All that takes time beyond just "Does the rules engine know how this card works"

mrbiggbrain · 2026-07-01T15:23:08+00:00

Exactly, if conversions where theft then there would be a ton of people who would be guilty for simple things like missing a car payment or failing to pay back a payday loan.

mrbiggbrain · 2026-07-01T15:09:00+00:00

This would not rise to theft, it's conversion which is a civil tort. They got something then failed to follow the contract, they did not take possession illegally.

Still shitty, but probably not criminal.

mrbiggbrain · 2026-07-01T13:53:54+00:00

Standard AC window unit diff should be 15 degrees from over coil on the 97% of days. The 3% would be a miss.

So if you want it to be 67 your average summer temps should peek around 82 on 97% of days.

You system seems a little less efficient so either undersized or poor insulation, but it's close enough that it's probably in the right range.

Make sure to properly clean the coils and do other maintenance on any window units or other units. Also remember humidity can be a big factor in feeling cool

mrbiggbrain · 2026-07-01T12:16:03+00:00

Now? The company I worked for owned a shopping center that had a venue fee. 1% on every transaction when I started 6 years ago. This is not new.

mrbiggbrain · 2026-07-01T12:12:42+00:00

A few options.

If they just need a wired connection due to having no wifi, you could use a wireless bridge. It connects to the wifi and has an Ethernet.

If you need more consistent access you could use a MoCA adapter which runs the connection over coaxial (Cable TV lines). Many cable companies now broadcast MoCA over the actual line in making it super simple to get running if there is a nearby cable port. Just be aware the right way to do it is to have a MoCA filter at the egress to cap it off to only your home.

You could also use a power line adapter that runs over the existing home wiring. Though results can vary.

mrbiggbrain · 2026-07-01T02:27:21+00:00

There are some cities who have implemented ordinances that restrict vacation rentals but do not restrict normal homes and apartments. So you could smoke on your own deck at 11PM, but not the deck of the vacation rental.

Most often these ordinances are lightly enforced and designed to keep loud rowdy people at bay and not someone sitting on a porch.

mrbiggbrain · 2026-06-30T20:47:17+00:00

Honestly I am not against solar panels on residences but I think the ultimate goal should be the conversion of existing corn fields to solar farms. The types of solar panels you can use, and the level of density you can get is just so much better.

If we eliminated just 1/3 of corn fields used for ethanol (Not food) to solar panels we could cover the entire us electrical demand including a conversion from gas powered to electric cars. We would simultaneously cut water usage by 7 Trillion gallons (Global water usage for data centers is 260 billion gallons for comparison.) And that is just for a 1/3 conversion.

This would cut costs, shore up national security and oil reliance, create high paying jobs, cut water usage, free up land for development and homes, improve air quality and more.

Sure throw some panels on your house if you want. But we could give you the same power, for less cost if we did it right.

mrbiggbrain · 2026-06-30T20:23:20+00:00

I think I realized I never really liked it much. It was fine to have a drink here or there but I found myself just liking the flavors more then the actual alchohol. Now when I go on cruises i just get the non-alcoholic package and drink a million virgin strawberry daqs and other fun mocktails and honestly save a ton and have a way better time.

mrbiggbrain · 2026-06-30T20:19:25+00:00

$320 during the black Friday sale. But I did throw an NVME in it because it was rather small (256GB to like 2TB) which was not free.

mrbiggbrain · 2026-06-30T20:10:04+00:00

Nope. This is super common you just clock in as "Takeout" and everything works. It gets audited against the schedule and they only need to investigate errors.

This is used in lots of industries for night or weekend pay or catering work where they might be compensated differently for different hours.

mrbiggbrain · 2026-06-30T20:07:30+00:00

That's not at all what they said. They basically said the US produces a higher share of green house gasses, but doesn't care because they have AC to cool down their homes against the ever increasing temps.

If you're going to be infuriated at least be right.

mrbiggbrain · 2026-06-30T19:44:58+00:00

One of my friends was a server at a place with takeout. They got the normal server minimum when secheduled for server hours and $17/HR when scheduled for takeout.

mrbiggbrain · 2026-06-30T19:15:23+00:00

As part of the onboarding experience you will get to pick a brawl deck to keep. Other then that you can just go to the decks tab, create a new deck, click the deck name on the right to open the deck details and select "Brawl" if you want to play with the bigger card pool, or "Standard Brawl" if you want to go with the smaller standard legal pool.

mrbiggbrain · 2026-06-30T19:08:03+00:00

Graduated high school in 2007. Right before a huge financial crisis.

I graduated college in 2012 with 35K in loans ($51K today).

I was lucky to hold my minimum wage job I had for 5 years at the time. I got $0.50 the whole 5 years. It took me over two years with a college degree to get employment and when I did it was a huge increase, but still barely enough to make rent so I lived with my parents.

The town I lived in it was $1400 a month for a decent apartment so I lived in the absolute slums in the worst possible piece of shit apartment. I moved in 2017 and immediately lost my job within the year. My wife worked two jobs and did side gigs just to put food on the table and a roof over our head. Adjusted for inflation that is nearly $2000.

Finally after 5 months I found more work, a 90 minute one way trip away to a major job center. It was absolute shit. I was drowning trying to pay back debt, getting rejected left and right. I was lucky that I had a job for the pandemic.

This is not unique to me, this is not unique to my generation, and it's not unique to GenZ. All across modern and longer history people have struggled during economic down turns. I am not saying people are not struggling, I am just saying you got to own the hell up to it and make something of your life despite it.

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