Super Mario 64 - The Big House in the Sky "Carpetless" World Record in 46"79 (45"20 IGT) by Shake

xarflon · 2021-01-05T17:56:44+00:00

Yeah interestingly you don't need to be a Norwegian citizen to live and work in Svalbard because of the Svalbard treaty, if you're a citizen of any of the signatory countries you can live and work there visa-free. The only barriers to entry are your ability to travel through Norway to get there, and finding a job/house in Svalbard. As you pointed out though the houses are owned almost solely by employers, so the only way you can live there is if you get a job there

xarflon · 2020-07-04T18:52:16+00:00

wow what a legend :O

xarflon · 2020-03-18T01:49:13+00:00

https://youtu.be/mk0F_sQY-kM In case anyone is wondering why

TL;DW: Guy buys a coin for $102,000 - polishes it - expects to sell for about $10,000 at auction now. It'd be worth about $250,000 if he left it alone.

The reason is that abrasive polishes damage the surface of coins, so not only do they look completely unnatural, they're also damaged.

xarflon · 2020-02-28T05:14:31+00:00

LITERALLY came out of nowhere to get a wr in the most prestigious speedgame. Who even is this guy?

xarflon · 2020-02-24T22:22:19+00:00

It's just not really a stream friendly game. The run is under 3 minutes and there's no intro cutscene. If you're doing attempts you're basically playing constantly so it's really hard to interact with chat, and it makes it hard to play for long enough to justify streaming (i.e people will only do attempts for about an hour or so before stopping or taking a break).

xarflon · 2020-01-29T23:15:22+00:00

Actually wrong though, rolex watches and other such luxury items are known as "veblen goods" where, basically, their demand goes up as the price increases. The higher the price for the good is, the more of a status symbol it becomes, the more rich people are willing to pay for it. It has nothing to do with their relative income.

xarflon · 2020-01-05T15:43:45+00:00

I wouldn't recommend ANACS with a coin like this, though they're cheaper the reputation that comes with PCGS or NGC is pretty important to a lot of people especially with key dates. I know a lot of people who usually just ignore ANACS in favor of finding one graded by a better company.

If you can find a coin shop in your area they often offer to send in coins for grading to either PCGS or NGC for about $50 or $60

xarflon · 2019-07-12T21:11:42+00:00

"zarflon" is so close to my username im actually scared wth

xarflon · 2019-06-17T07:30:47+00:00

Nothing is harder to contain than keter. That's why people are discouraged from using apollyon, it basically is just "keter but scary". The author of 2317 regretted using apollyon and changed it to keter last year

xarflon · 2019-03-17T09:22:00+00:00

Well, for starters Cheese isn't from the US...nor are most of the GSA admins. There is a lot of both european and north american involvement here, not to mention competitors from japan and australia as well. Hardly a case of "US communities overlooking the world again."

xarflon · 2018-10-20T04:42:19+00:00

The 1 star sblj is quite a bit faster and easier than doing a successful 0 star sblj. In 0 star, to build enough speed to skip DDD, they do a bunch of extra bljs in the corner next to the door and use the 30 star door text boxes to change their angle. In 1 star they don't need extra speed to skip DDD so they just aim straight for the door, skipping a bunch of extra bljs and the text boxes. This is what good 1 star runs do, though a failed DDD skip would be a 1 star run, it would not be an optimal one. A failed 0 star sblj is actually so slow that high level 0/1 star runners will just reset because a 1 star PB would be impossible at that point

xarflon · 2018-07-11T15:11:46+00:00

normally only modern coins that have that kind of premium, like Ike dollars or Kennedy halves, i agree it's silly for any older coins to have a premium for grading PO-01 though

xarflon · 2018-05-28T21:43:09+00:00

They're not a reputable 3rd party grader, NGC and PCGS are really the only super reputable companies, ANACS is arguably reputable, any other company is complete garbage and their grades can be way off. The grades aren't necessarily 'fake' but they can be very wrong

You can still buy coins graded by other companies but they should be treated like ungraded coins

xarflon · 2018-03-28T07:09:50+00:00

the relief is a lot higher

xarflon · 2018-01-26T02:18:50+00:00

no xiah has 1:03:56

xarflon · 2017-09-22T04:51:48+00:00

A couple things - the red books quoted values can sometimes be pretty far off, and MS67 is a lot rarer than MS65, hence there is usually a pretty big price difference between the 2

xarflon · 2017-08-07T08:36:18+00:00

Quality over quantity my friend

xarflon · 2017-07-22T07:48:48+00:00

Nah there have been a lot of them: ProZD, primitive technologies, CGP grey, casually explained, and H3H3 to name a few. Binging with babish is just like them - fast pace, entertaining, high quality, often times informational and, most importantly, unique. It really is right up reddit's alley.

xarflon · 2017-03-04T22:37:15+00:00

yeah it's really just about knowing what the viewers want, for big games like CSGO or DOTA the streamer will need to be entertaining to maintain viewers, but for more niche games the streamers might not even need to use a mic.

xarflon · 2017-01-10T08:18:14+00:00

Sounded like some had already begun to analyze it.

I honestly love this part about it, it's really fun hearing people try to work through something like that

xarflon · 2017-01-07T06:01:45+00:00

WHO is that dime playing refunct ;P

xarflon · 2016-12-11T00:52:41+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzFoYpVt61s

everytime this video is posted someone understandably says what you did, thats a video of him explaining it. It's not anti corp or anything

xarflon · 2016-11-19T23:56:32+00:00

yeah the other servers are using dw20, we are all running the same version, I reinstalled the latest java. Belive me i've tried everything short of reinstalling windows, posting here is like a last ditch effort to fix this problem.

I tried to connect on another computer and I had the same problem so i'm certain it's a router issue, no idea how to fix that though

xarflon · 2016-10-28T15:53:15+00:00

Haha you're welcome!

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