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I am thinking about solar shingles when I need to replace my roof (probably 5-10 years from now), but there are several things preventing me from doing it.

1) My area has heavy cloud cover 9 months out of the year, and partial cloud cover the other 3 months.
2) The price is going to be highly variable. If I end up needing power from the grid, it is going to be charged as a secondary source which will more then double the price. However, if I end up producing more energy then I use, I will be adding power to the grid and the electric company will end up writing me a check.
3) Solar isn't as popular in my area because our energy is already 90% hydroelectric and nuclear. In fact, only like 3% actually comes from "dirty" power like coal or petroleum. So finding contractors who do it is difficult. Would be a lot easier and cheaper for me to install a geothermal heat pump (assuming I have enough space in my yard) and cut natural gas for my furnace and water heater.
4) During the winter, my roof regularly has about 4-6 inches of snow on it, and I don't want to have to go out there and clean it off.

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shipwreckers posted...

To this day, I've still never played...

Minecraft
Overwatch
No Man's Sky
League of Legends
PUBG
Fortnite
Rocket League
Forza (the whole series)

Pretty much all these. Add to that Legacy of Kain, Animal Crossing, Last of Us, Among Us, the Souls Series (although I played other games by the studio including Eternal Ring and Tenchu). I played FNAF3 for all of 5 minutes, and that was it for that series.


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EvilMegas posted...

Glad that being a mod is finally paying off.

I know this isn't about being a mod.

With GameFAQs stock, I can probably get a pack of gum in 5 years!

Clench281 posted...

Is it chicken stock? Beef, vegetable?

Will it still be good after five years (in the freezer I presume)?

I hope so, nothing worse then moldy stock...

Far-Queue posted...

Yo congrats dude

Company I work for just adjusted payroll across the board to increase retention and I wound up with a $7K a year pay increase. Probably more, depending on overtime.

Due for a merit raise later this year but that'll pale by comparison for sure

Thanks! And congrats to you too!

I had a similar thing happen to me just after I bought my house, company I worked for finally adjusted starting salaries for inflation, and I ended up with a 10% raise as a result. Went from "how am I going to afford this house?" to "time to build up my retirement fund!"

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Bad News: It is in stock, which I can't cash out for another 5 years.

...Ah well, at least I can think about what I want to spend it on 5 years from now.

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Ferarri619 posted...

Did a large portion of Diablo team even make Torchlight though? David Brevik went on to develop Hellgate London

The Schaefer brothers (Erich and Max) were part of the team that made Torchlight.

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DrPrimemaster posted...

Optimal brushing is after every meal isn't?

Like 30-60 minutes after. Too soon and you can scrub away some of your enamel since it tends to be softer right after eating.

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Mead posted...

and D1 is a cool game but D2 is where things really open up and get fun

I always considered Diablo 1 to be the "single player version" while Diablo 2 was the multiplayer one. Funny enough, when the creators left Blizzard and formed Runic Games, they did the same thing with Torchlight.

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Nah, I used to do it at work until I started working at places where the bathroom situation didn't really make it easy/feasible. Since I have been working from home, I do it during meetings, lol!

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You son isn't that off, I would argue Insomniac is better. Still, Dookie is a fine choice.

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Pretty sure every amusement park has had someone die on their rides at some point.

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Only if I am going to be outside for long periods of time on sunny days. Most times I am good about going inside every 10-15 minutes to cool down.

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Way more then a month, the only calls or texts I get are scammers/sales people, I don't have social media, I don't really need a GPS right now, etc. I would probably get police showing up for a wellness check in a few months, but that would be it. I would just have to use my laptop more for everything else.

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Revelation34 posted...

Oh god I hope it wasn't Frigidaire.

Hell no! I have some self respect!

I went with Whirlpool.

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Jen0125 posted...

I've been here for over a year already so I'm well aware right now I have a broken dishwasher I'm not repairing

Eh, dishwasher would be at the bottom of my list anyways, my main issue was a stove that had one working burner, one "sort of" working burner, and two completely dead ones. The rest of the appliances were just about to go anyways so I replaced them all at once since you get package deals.

And either way, I wouldn't go back to renting any time soon. Probably not until I am at least retirement age.


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Welcome to home ownership!

I had to spend over $10K last year on new kitchen appliances, new water heater, new air conditioner, and emergency plumbing... :(

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Reigning_King posted...

Uhh... wow, did you just assume she had to get a loan to purchase the car and couldn't afford to buy it outright with cash??? Isn't that pretty, like, racist of you? I mean there's no way that could have been an honest assumption you made based off of common knowledge or anything, you must have had some ulterior and hurtful motive behind your post.

I payed cash for my last car and still had to sign my name like 10 times...

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CoorsLight posted...

Please turn in your mod badge after admitting to such a heinous crime

Custom states you have to beat me in a fight to the death with a weapon of my choosing. I pick rubber chickens.

I will meet you on the battlefield in 3 days time!

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On the one hand it is less clutter, on the other hand you miss out on things not playing on real hardware. For example, Star Fox actually runs too good on emulators or even clone consoles. The game was notorious for having massive slowdown due to the FX chip when running on an original SNES. But, the game was designed around that, so people who complain that it is "too hard" probably don't realize it is supposed to be played at like half the framerate they usually play it at. Also, some NES games (usually unlicensed ones) don't work well on anything other than original NES hardware.

The main one I can always tell if someone is emulating or running on a clone console is Dudes with Attitude, as the main hub is supposed to look like this:

https://www.mobygames.com/game/nes/dudes-with-attitude/screenshots/gameShotId,286331/

But when emulated it looks like this:

https://www.video-games-museum.com/en/screenshots/Nes/4/4897-ingame-Dudes-With-Attitude.jpg

But yea, I would rather get stuff digital now then searching our retro hardware, especially since the last retro game store in my area went out of business several years ago.

Edit: Oh yea, and of course there is Mike Tyson being impossible in Punch Out unless you are playing on a CRT...

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I prune channels if I get tired of seeing them in my feed and never watch their content. I haven't in a few months through, I should probably start doing it again.

I never really un-sub from dead channels though, I just never think to. I still have Clan of the Grey Wolf in my subs despite the fact they haven't uploaded in over 4 years (or output anything besides podcasts in almost 8).

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As "tech savy" as I am, I would never have an Alexa/Cortona/Syri/whatever. I don't mind the Google assistant barking directions at my while I drive though.

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I think it depends on the company. I find that companies that try to drown interviewees in code projects and exercises usually are trying to make themselves seem more interesting then they actually are. I would rather have a 1-2 hour interview with someone, maybe ask them some simple programming questions just to make sure they know their stuff, and spend most of the time evaluating them as a team member. As long as you are willing to learn and can show you are halfway competent, then that is good enough for me. I don't need you to show me a program that can evaluate all prime numbers in log n time (actually a question someone asked me in an Interview).

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Playing Skyward Sword over the weekend was a reminder of how absolute shit the Zelda franchise was from after Twilight Princess until A Link Between Worlds. I mean, yea, turning off the motion controls make it a little better, but the fact the whole game is built off of them fundamentally just makes the it difficult to play. Plus it is so damn linear compared to the "do the dungeons in any order" way it has been recently (and in much older games). And FUCK the ever living shit out of Fi!

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Probably not, but I haven't watched the olympics in 20 years, so IDC either way.

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Metalsonic66 posted...

All of my favorite dogs I've ever had have been mutts.

I did love my greyhounds, though.

aww, I have a greayhound too. He is such a good boy, he required almost no work to train. I swear I had him house trained in less then a week.

Sadly he is getting old, just turned 12 in May. Has some trouble with stairs, but for the most part still moves around fine, just not as active as he used to be.

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ParanoidObsessive posted...

Last time I had a double cheese pizza in NYC, it was after a night of drinking/clubbing, and I was so hung over the next day, I threw up and the cheese came out of my stomach like a rope, and I literally had to pull it out of my own throat because half of it kind of got stuck.

Ah, the good old pizza throw ups, haven't had one of those since college.

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I bought it at Best Buy. They sent me two emails today, one that said it was ready for pick-up at the store, and another that said UPS is going to deliver it before 5:30 today.

Do I have two copies or is Best Buy just really confused? I only bought one copy...

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I think it will work for some games now, even with crappy Broadband internet. It is going to take a VERY long time for it to be viable for FPS and Fighting games though.

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Zeus posted...

Will it show everything?

https://youtu.be/SY6GvTY7E5U?t=23

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Black_Crusher posted...

Respectfully disagree, but I also played it on OG gameboy so it probably had something to do with it. Those screens were impossible to even SEE, let alone the monochromatic nature of the things. I had to sit under a friggin' 100W bulb lamp just to play it haha.

Most of those things are complains about the gameboy though, which for the record I was never a fan of (even the color version, and I "tolerated" the GBA). I wouldn't fault Metroid 2 for it because it worked well within the confines of the system. The game had to be more linear with more save spots due to the nature of handheld gaming in general, and I think it did a great job of doing that.

As much as I love the original SaGa (Final Fantasy Legend) games, I maintain that my dislike of the Gameboy was primarily having to play them on it because those games were not designed well for that system. Would have been much better if they came out on the NES.

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Firewood18 posted...

Ive never played any of the Yakuza games. What would be the best one to start on for the PS3?

That's tough because you are going to be starting in the middle of the story, but if PS3 is your only option, probably 4. 3 can be brutal because the combat is very mid 2000's. 4 they cleaned it up a bit and added a lot more content. 5 is a beast (I am currently working on that one), you probably need to abandon life responsibilities for a good 2 months to get through that...

If you have PS4, PC, or XBox One, definitely 0.

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BUMPED2002 posted...

If you quit a job, you disqualify yourself from unemployment so that isn't the best move to make.

Generally, unemployment is provided only to those who are temporarily out of work through no fault of their own so if you quit a job, that's your fault.

Depends on the circumstances for which you quit. If it was because of a better opportunity, school, or becoming self employed, then no, you don't qualify. If you quit due to unsafe work conditions or because your employer basically forced you to so they didn't have to fire you, then you might qualify. Of course, that has to be proven and can take quite a while before you see anything.

https://www.employmentlawfirms.com/resources/employment/unemployment/how-to-get-unemployment-after-quitting-job

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RE4 was my first, and that was a huge mistake because I absolutely hated it and wouldn't touch the series for a while. A couple years later I played REMake and liked the series much more after that.

Anyways, I would play RE2 first, it is the better of the two games (Although RE3 isn't bad by any stretch).

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I drove a car 500 miles with the frame literally rotted away to the point that the shock absorbers had fallen off. And that was before everyone had cellphones. Nowadays I would drive anything any distance since I could just call a tow truck anytime I was in trouble.

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Typically the tea in bags is a bit finer than the stuff you normally put in an infuser, but it won't make a huge difference. Might just end up with more "particles" in your tea.

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When my mom was thinking about naming me after my father, he almost divorced her right on the spot. Thankfully, she relented and settled on just giving me his middle name.

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MeteoricBurst posted...

Both look fake. The first one is the most obvious with dark roots and eyebrows. The second one looks more natural but I'm still doubtful because her eyebrows are still really dark.

#2 clearly used eyebrow makeup, which makes sense given that natural blonds don't usually have pronounced eyebrows.

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TheSlinja posted...

I dunno If I qould say its worse than metroid 2
man playing that on a GB is NOT fun

I would. Metroid 2 isn't bad, just not really what you think of as a Metroid game, since it is more linear with less "hidden" items. It works for the Gameboy though, and that is what is important.

The original, as influential of a game as it is, is just way too cryptic and downright frustrating. Zero Mission improved on it in every conceivable way and made it obsolete.

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I always considered Big Brother to be the "whitest" show on television, and not just because most of the contestants are white. It is 16 people sitting in a mansion with free food, clothing, and shelter having petty arguments with each other, forming cliques, and trying to kick each other out so that they have more space. The closest thing to a "punishment" is that they are forced to eat poor people food for a week. One person sits in his private room and looks down on all of the peons they control while deciding who should be voted on to be kicked out. In the end, the winner is decided by a popularity contest.

It is no surprise Friends ended around the time this show became popular because all the Karens and Kevins needed something to watch...

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Around here, they require road work has to be done at night for various reasons, not the least of which is they don't want their workers collapsing from heat exhaustion. Having worked in a machine shop with no A/C during college, all I can say is "Drinking a glass of water every half hour and not peeing all day".

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I went once for a convention, and spent a few days seeing things. Penn and Teller show was awesome to see live, certainly recommend that if you are a fan. Fremont Street is cool to walk around at night. I wasn't much for gambling, but I did play blackjack for 4 hours for the free drinks. Ended up making about $11.

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HHHHEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLL NO!

That is the main reason I never play the lotto in my area because I don't want anybody to know exactly how much money I have or make. And it is required by law that you be publicly identified if you win. Well, that and the chances of winning are the same as me having sex with 5 super models at the same time so why waste the money?

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Doom Eternal is the only thing standing out as something I might get. There are some other interesting ones, but not discounted enough for me to care.

Biggest problem is I already know all the games I am going to be playing for 2021 just based off of backlog and pre-orders. So anything I do buy I won't be playing until at least 2022, and if I won't get to it until then, I'll just wait for the Christmas Sale. So unless it is heavily discounted to a point I don't think it will reach for a very long time, I am not going to bother.

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I have always called it Soda, which according to that map is wrong in my area, but I still haven't heard very many people call it "Pop" except when I go to Toronto. From what I remember of Montreal, even there they called it "Soda".

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I never really "cut the cord", I just didn't bother getting a cable subscription when I bought my house about 10 years ago. Before that my apartment just came with cable for free. I still have Internet from the cable company though because Fiber hasn't made it to my neighborhood. The second it does though, I am switching.

I have Netflix and Peacock (from WWE Network), but I will probably drop them soon. I watched pretty much all I care about on Netflix, and I hate Peacock's platform. I used to have Hulu a long time ago, but dropped it for the same reason I am going to drop Netflix.

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Kamala-Harris posted...

As a moderator of this site, do you think that statement could be a bit hyperbolic? I wouldn't say NO ONE, as there is a lot of ignorance (willful for not) around the world.

I appreciate you citing that it hasn't been used in almost a century for clarification and transparency.

If you have an elementary school education, then you were taught about the gold standard and learned that it is no longer used. That said, you weren't necessarily taught about how fiat money (the current monetary system used by most countries in the world) works because that is WAY more complex than what would probably be taught at that level.

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Kamala-Harris posted...

Lol, if you think every dollar is backed by gold.

No one thinks that, the gold standard hasn't been used in almost 90 years.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqeT9ooYKnM

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Yep, probably my best friend. Which to outside people looking in is not the case because we talk maybe once a month and visit each other only during holidays. But that is how we treat our friends.

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Fighting games.

Love playing them, HATE the community. Like, fighting games are some of the easiest pick-up and play type games out there, yet people get up in arms about not only which games you enjoy, but HOW you enjoy them. I have never gotten more hate mail in my PS3 message inbox then when I played Tekken 6 online for a few months.

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Mead posted...

I still dont get why people are so bothered by using more than one storefront

like you dont see people being that way outside of video games really

I am not bothered by using more then one storefront, I am bothered by using Epic Games Store. Simply put, they spend all of their resources trying to force people to use them with free games and exclusives rather than making a storefront that is actually comparable to something like GoG or Steam.

And of course you see that outside of video games. How many people want Walmart in their area simply for the fact they don't want to have to go to different stores for bread and pants? Or if you want an "on-line" example, Amazon?

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