Daniel_Doyce

You can always sell, but that doesn't mean you'll make a profit off it. Even if you are more sanguine than I am on the current housing market, there are a lot of friction costs involved in selling. It sounds like you really haven't done the math to see if the return on equity makes sense. Cold hard cash flow projections in an Excel spreadsheet are a necessity for real estate investment.

Sounds like a recipe for disaster. Have you looked into REITs? That's a safer way to generate rental income by proxy without all the headaches and lack of diversification implicit in owning properties yourself. This is (IMO) a bad time to buy any real estate. Mortgage delinquencies are going up slightly and higher interest rates all point to house prices going south in the next few years.

I'm impressed. I've tried it a few times and the game doesn't beat me, my old man fingers do. Level 4 or 5 is when I say "no mas." I guess I could play it one level at a time, but that last level is intimidating as hell.

oh sure, just taking all the easy 1 pointers

A lot of people do both at the same time

Why are you there at all? Teaching ESL overseas for peanuts in (presumably) your 30s seems pretty miserable. When I was working in China, I knew a lot of language teachers barely scraping by and it's didn't look very appealing. Do you have some idea of where you want to be lifewise and careerwise in 5-10 years?

ugh, are you going to hold me accountable to finish that damn game? yeah yeah I will

Sounds like Keto. The irony of griping about McDonalds food being so unhealthy is that the beef is the the least processed and most healthy of any part of a Big Mac, ignoring the smattering of veggies. It's just 100% frozen ground beef. If it weren't, they would have been litigated to death over it by now. The rest is absolutely terrible, highly overprocessed junk - enriched white bread full of sugar, low-grade American cheese, and Big Mac sauce, which is soybean oil , HFCS, and sugar. It's all vegetarian processed food that is the nutritional equivalent of the non-tobacco parts of cigarettes.

This was definitely a 2-3 time a week gameplan for me during most of the pandemic, except Wendy's half the time

Man, I'm really feeming for 4-5 quarter pounders and a big ass thing of nuggets, with a large diet coke (no ice). Sitting in a parking lot and going through that before lighting a cigar and driving off in my beater sounds awesome right about now

Processed meat is awesome. Any dressed animal is processed meat, of course, but the more curing, salt, and nitrates, the better. Flame broiled choad-cylinders of ground beef, medium rare ribeye steak, milk-fed baby veal brains, applewood smoked bacon, sausage, mortadella, liverwurst, capicolla, well-aged salamis, slow cooked brisket, ribs, roast goose, pate, duck terrine, chicken galantine, two Popeye's chicken sandwich, 6 McDoubles. So good. I think I may have to head out tonight for a nice Wendy's triple with two JBCs to wash it down with

Cigars and Wendy's is the solution to all your problems. 5 cigars + 1 double cheeseburger + 1 spicy chicken sandwich + 10 spicy nuggets = a day well lived

Mashed, with some gruyere and gouda cheese, heavy cream, crumbled thick cut bacon, and a good portion the bacon grease in there too for extra tastiness

He's right that's there's going to eventually be armed conflict over Taiwan. He's just stating the obvious.

Congrats, dude. I'm embarrassed at how many of the top 25 I've never even played once, but you've really given me the kick in the ass to start going through them! No hard feelings about your criminal underranking of the Koei games

I haven't played any of #5 - #12 ever. Maybe I should rectify that at some point

Today is Paul Dukas' birthday, so I've been ram-assing through his published works today. Started with the Piano Sonata in E flat minor, then the Rameau variations. I'm going to savor Ariane et Barbe-Bleue, and then get into his Symphony, La Peri, and, of course, the Sorcerer's Apprentice. A few more smaller works, and, sadly, that's all there is. I can't think of another late 19th century-early 20th century composer who had a masterpiece in so many genres, and who is both incredibly recognizable for one work, and yet massively underappreciated.

@Reed Rothchild How are you going to fit Liberty and Death and Romance of the 3 Kingdom 2 into the top 6?

Do you mind sharing where you found it? In the wild or from another seller? Do you live in HK / Asia?

Are you saying you don't want my 20 PMs a day with thoughts on incorrect Koei rankings any more?

I mostly agree. It does seem to be the most hyped SNES game out there, unless you count Reed's love of Brandish. Earthbound CIB is $1300-$1500 nowadays. Ridiculous

Super Punch-Out!! is my favorite SNES game

It's definitely a very well-made game and a lot more fun that I expected when I tried it a few months ago. I'd like to try it again sometime soon and shoot for a better ending. It has a ton of replay value for huge nerds like me.

You and Reed have talked me into it - I'm going to put it next on my to-play list. I've watched some of the longplays and the non-platforming parts are definitely confusing without much context.

Nice! Gonna be sweet when you reevaluate Brandish and Liberty or Death and put those bad boys in the top ten!