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Never tried, sounds expensive as heck at $75 USD for 1.35 kg / 3lbs, especially with no real details. Sounds mass produced. Which doesn't mean its bad but I'd expect much better value. I buy the Echo from Stereo for about $40 CAD for a 2lb bag. I stay strong with my reco: find a local coffee shop When I say local, Im talking hipster / small business. build a relationship ask them for recos.

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Ever heard of Apeman? It’s the budget gopro. Should do the trick but image stability might not be great. It’s like $50 so don’t expect a whole lot. Otherwise, go for a used Hero 4, 5 or 6. Should be under $150 all in with a mount. I prefer helmet mount or vehicle mount (car, bike, sled etc.) instead of chest. Just a more enjoyable PoV in my opinion. I have an OG Go Pro, my wife had the 4 (can’t seem to find it), and I bought my dad an 8 recently. The more recent ones are stupidly good but personally, the 4 will do you good. Does 1080p 120 if I recall correctly.

Could you install a mount that allows you to swing the TV out of that nook, beyond the finish face of the brick / brick veneer? Or is that not a concern?

Quick update: I'll not be updating thread throughout April and into early May. Primarily due to work schedule. If anyone wants to jump and add posts with any interesting updates, by all means Please do so If you have any comments for the sheet, you should be able to write them on the sheet directly, and I can QA, adjust accordingly. My schedule (3rd post) broke for some reason. I've deleted it for now, will fix it when I have more spare time. Lower priority. In other news, there was a very interesting announcement showcase that aired I believe last week. Called the Triple I (iii) Initiative. Basically a play on AAA (definition for $100m+ budget games), but indies. Not sure what to make of the name lol but the games highlighted seem very interesting. Full rundown here: Complete List of Titles Revealed During The Triple-i Initiative 2024 BLEEDINGCOOL.COM Earlier this week, the The Triple-i Initiative held a new hour-long livestream showing off new games and updates of indie titles on the way.

I've been out of the loop for a while, haven't played games in weeks but damn... I am impressed @Avacado I need to catch up!

Honestly don't know what's best. Not an expert but I always just ask my coffee shop what they do and they store beans in containers. So I went ahead and bought an "airscape" container. As you push the lid down, it pulls out any air from the storage space. Essentially vacuum seals the beans. I paid about $50 CAD for a medium container that holds approx. 1Kg. Airscape Coffee Storage | Planetary Design PLANETARYDESIGN.COM Airscape® brings you the best coffee storage canisters. Keep goods fresh with the patented inner lid which forces excess air out and keeps freshness in.

You can still get flavour out of a dark roast. I’m no coffee roaster but I think there is a lot of nuance to how you roast and can still obtain unique flavours up to a point. Personally if it’s super oily and roasted to hell and back, I can’t notice it. My local coffee shop always has a medium roast and dark roast in their grinders. I swap around between them because the beans they use get a real nice smokey chocolate type flavour. Like a peated whiskey. Same shop that reco’d Stereo. I do have to say, this is not a flex lol, a good brew process can make the difference. I couldn’t notice as much of the diff between good dark roast and so-so one with my delonghi espresso machine. I’d personally suggest to you to use up your Echo if it’s pre ground to get the most out of it while it lasts before you open another bag Have fun exploring new beans

No comment. Never tried

Just seeing this now - yea it’s pricey but it’s fantastic. I still think Kicking Horse is the best value. Like it’s a B tier coffee at an S tier price. Whilst Stereo is an S tier coffee at an A tier price. It’s expensive but compared to other local roasters, it’s quite affordable. You also get a decent discount when you buy in bulk. The 2lb bag I bought was $44 CAD. Which is probably around 32-34 USD. Still, I can drive there but I implore you to find your local roaster. Start by speaking to your coffee shop if in doubt, as they have those B2B hook ups The other Barroco brand I bought was more expensive and IMO only A tier. Still very good but not as good value and quality compared to Stereo.

Started to make Iced Tea with the leftover Tealish, black teas we have. Super fun with honey and lemon. Also bought a larger bag of Echo espresso (2lbs) and another bag of blend as a gift.

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2024-03-22 - Release Update Heads up that today marks a unique milestone. It's that time where large corporate developers release their final title to boost their FY results XD. So with that said.... Alone in the Dark PC, PS, XB March 20, 2024 Horizon Forbidden West™ Complete Edition PC, PS March 21, 2024 Dragon’s Dogma II PC, PS, XB March 22, 2024 Princess Peach: Showtime! NS March 22, 2024 Rise of the Rōnin PS March 22, 2024 Quick notes: Alone in the Dark is hovering around high 60's on Metacritic. Not great but it's fairly affordable on GMG, doesn't have DRM, and heard it's actually quite fun from friends. Horizon Forbidden West is looking like an excellent port on PC. Dragon's Dogma II is reviewing exceedingly well, high 80's, but also has quite a few technical issues, predominately CPU limited. Sheet will be updated before end of day. Updated*

Let me know when you get to my level, then we talk. Reported for abuse XD

When I first started, I leaned too hard to two suits. Which sucks when a boss blind debuffs one. Avoid that riff raff and those + 4 mults to a suit. That’s really only helpful for the first few antes but it cannot scale well. Especially as flushes don’t scale nearly as well as 3 of a kind or 4 of a kind. Watch carefully some of the jokers. Some require you to play a hand, where others require your hand to contain a hand. Example: I had a joker that gave me +12 mult if my hand contained 3 of a kind. I still get that mult if I go full house or 4 of a kind or 5 of a kind. The other tricky one is when all cards played in the previous ante are also debuffed. Skipping at least one blind per ante usually helps mitigate that one. I also recommend you burn all your discards early before playing hands, generally speaking. Sometimes you get a crappy RNG and not much you can do. Other times, with a bit of luck, you can last a few antes to start to convert your deck the way you want to. It just takes a bit of time to really unlock meaningful vouchers and jokers. Try different decks if you’re running into a brick wall and always watch your economy. $20 is my baseline once I get out of Ante 4. All in, I’ve only won about 10 times so far out of maybe 100 runs XD. Last but not least, sorry for all the edits, I found a youtuber / streamer dude who outlines some pretty good strategies.

Sorry OP, I've corrupted your thread and got too many people addicted to this crack card game XD Balatro 1440p Did my first "Fibonacci" run, which adds +8 mult per each A,2,3,5,8 played. Leaned into 3 of kinds with my jokers. Used the spectral deck (first time win with it), which you'll gents will discover soon.

Not much else to add here quite frankly. Try to avoid dissimilar metals follow the fluid recommendations here (distilled + additives) use compatible tubing don't buy EK blocks don't over think it Add a drain / fill port if you want to make your life easier. My situation is a bit different / unconventional. As I have my small res modded into my rear fan mount, but the D5 vibrates my case (Fractal Meshify) and I had to buy some small rubber washers from Home Depot to help absorb / mitigate the vibrations that were being transferred from the pump to my case. Essentially my case became a speaker as it resonated with the D5 pump. So... if you're noticing weird noises, try dampening around the pump Below is my rig (CPU loop only). D5 pump, EK Res, XSPC EX 360 rad, Raystorm block, Primochill LRT tubing. 3 x A12x25 Noctua fans, black chrome bitspower fittings. There are better components available now, especially rads and blocks. My dream was to go full heat killer but I paused on investing into water cooling. I just love the machining, the quality of their components. If I had to do it again and budget wasn't a concern, I'd go full heat killer. For more context, I've had this D5 pump for more than 10 years. Still going strong. I actually purchased a TechN AM4 block from a user on OCN a couple years ago before I left but never bothered to install it. Sitting in the box collecting dust. One day I'll add it but it was highly recommended for AM4 along side Optimus since it provides flow above CCDs. Not applicable to your 10 gen Intel.

Happy to come back with some reco's but from my first glance at Avacado's response, it wont vary too much!

Keep it up, those discoveries will help next go around! I see you have 55$ in hand, dont be afraid to reroll for better jokers at the shop. There is a voucher to decrease reroll cost along side vouchers that increase interest. All of which should help build a better setup

Honestly, I think its the better call. They trade blows in many titles and anything RT, 4080 will peel away. If the 4080 was priced that way at launch, I would of went for it over the 7900 XTX.

Balatro Switch A few fun rounds on Switch tonight. Lacking… fish XD 1. Managed to duplicate a polychrome version of the king in hand buff Joker (Baron). Didn’t get too far but made chuckle. 2. Found the spectral card that converts your entire hand to one random rank. Got 9 kings from a hand full of 9s, 7s, and 2s. Huge win. Also didn’t make it far lol. 3. Took a chance on duplicating 5’s and leaned into hearts and spades. Had a few killer jokers, many were holographic, one that ranked up my chip value per time’s played, and multiple cards that multed mults when my hand contained a three of a mind. Made it to Ante 11. PR on Switch.

No sweat You don't have to stick to Four of a Kind. Thats just one strat and you'll have to be fluid and adjust strats based on RNG early on until you can exercise some control with tarot, jokers, and planets. I only suggest Four of a Kind because its one of the hand types that scales really well, with + 3 mult per level up. Going back to my screenshot, you can see in that run, my mult got to 43 on Four of a Kind and it only required level 13. Two pair was only 7 mult at level 6. I think you get 1 mult per level, so if I invested into Two pair to get it to level 13, I would be at 14 mult. Not ideal for late game. Flush House on the other hand... scales even more crazy. But my deck wasnt setup for it. I was trying to slowly get there but it was too late. Yes, go for card packs when you can and lean into something that makes sense with your hands, jokers etc. I had a joker that gave me x1.5 mult per King in hand. So I quickly started to convert my kings into steel cards (adds x1.5 mult) and then duplicate (sacrifice) cards into steel kings. With all those kings, I had good probability to increase my mult. For best chip score, I went for aces. Preferably lucky or polychrome. I didnt take a screenshot of my deck but it was primairly aces and kings, across 3 suits (one entire suit was sacrificed into kings and aces XD) I'm definitely not a pro. I have however beaten Ante 8 about 6-7 times. Furthest run is still the one mentioned, shared above.

It’s only poker themed. In truth, it’s a deck builder. You don’t need to understand the rules of poker to play because they don’t apply here. The only poker rule component are hand types, like two pair, 3 of a kind, royal flush etc. Even then, the game gets creative because your deck can be modified to play 5 of kind or flush house, none of which are possible in a 52 card deck. All you really need to think about is how can I beat my blind which requires you to pass a chip score. How you get there is the fun

Since this game doesn’t have cross-play, I had to re-unlock a lot of cards on PC. Unfortunately, it’s really quite difficult to make it to Ante 8 without unlocking at least a few jokers, vouchers that increase tarot or planet probability. My suggestion once you have unlocked about 50% of the cards (see stats for more info) is to not lean too much into one play style at the beginning. Play fluid and diversify into tarot, jokers, and planet cards. You really need the combo of all 3. 4 of a kind scales very well but it’s extremely low probability for the first few antes. Each level up increases mult 3x but you’ll need to expand your deck with card packs and clone your best cards with low cards. E.g., sacrifice your 2’s and 3’s into lucky or glass aces. So to start, work with two pair or flush combos and you should get some decent economy to invest more into better hands to swap to a better hand, like 4 of a kind. I typically avoid straights or straight flushes because probability is low. All straights either require a 5 or 10 and with so many other dependencies, I’d avoid in most circumstances. I usually, but not always, skip the first two blinds in the first Ante, depending on the rewards. Steel, glass, lucky are the best card enhancements. Red coins are critical for late game. Purple and blue coins are great for early game. Polychrome is the best edition. Skip foils. Last but not least, this is the most important advice: Card order matters! Pay attention to any cards that multiply your mults XD. They’re best at the right side of your joker stack or your hand. Some cards add chips. Some cards add mults. Stick those to the left. Example: Hand 1: +3 mult +3 mult x 3 mult = 18 mult Hand 2: x3 mult + 3 mult + 3 mult = 9 mult Hand 1 will score double hand 2. Same cards, just different order Took me about 10 hrs to notice there are cards that mult mults… XD That’s the gist of my advice! Good luck