What's going on with your life?

[ElectroSheep]

Dude, 8 years already ? Feels like yesterday for me the explosion of Crycore 

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1 hour ago, AlexM said:

I just realized you're in south california. I'm guessing the bay area is even more expensive with all the programmers?

One other thing to note is the pay in Vancouver is relatively quite low, even within Canada. It's gone up a lot for tech people lately though because everyone started leaving.

I guess that's the one thing many of us here have as an advantage. We aren't necessarily tied to our location by our jobs. After the pandemic stuff subsides I'm going to have to put more thought into where I want to live in the next 10 years.

 

Where I am in OC is a little better if you compare it to SF, sure. The bay area specifically is the most expensive city in the US, even more than Manhattan now. Just before the pandemic hit, a 1 bedroom studio was averaging $3500 a month there, I think it went down a bit since then because everyone's leaving these expensive cities, the "California exodus" is a very real thing, most of my neighbors that are not 60+ are either leaving or considering leaving, there's moving trucks every week around here.
Renting a 20ft uhaul truck used to cost you 700 bucks for 5 days, now it went up to more than 4000 if you're leaving CA, and you're probably looking at a few weeks wait. These are crazy times...

And yeah, you're right we're not tied to a location, which is definitely good, you can go look for a better life somewhere else now more than ever, deffo one of the silver linings of WFH.

1 hour ago, ElectroSheep said:

Dude, 8 years already ? Feels like yesterday for me the explosion of Crycore 

Dude tell me about it, it's unbelievable, the older you get the weirder the concept of time gets. People love saying "time flies" but that term doesn't really cut it, I think the notion of time changes as you age. I remember back in school times, 3 months used to fucking streeeetch forever, now it's literally a flash.

[blackdog]

I can imagine how quickly cost of property is raising in Texas!

I dunno why this apple repair celebrity is doing political videos now, but I stumbled on this craziness: so where people have been able to afford houses, you get insurmountable property tax

 

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12 hours ago, blackdog said:

I can imagine how quickly cost of property is raising in Texas!

I dunno why this apple repair celebrity is doing political videos now, but I stumbled on this craziness: so where people have been able to afford houses, you get insurmountable property tax

 

TX, house prices are still at around 350k. Property taxes are a little higher than Cali or other states but at least for right now, the difference could be worth it.

[blackdog]

10 hours ago, ┌HP┘ said:

 TX, house prices are still at around 350k. Property taxes are a little higher than Cali or other states but at least for right now, the difference could be worth it.

Just noting that the video refers to New Jersey / East Coast

[FMPONE]

if you work from home just move to alabama and you can live like a king

[blackdog]

I was made redundant last Aug. 6 months and 127 applications later I finally got a job offer on Tuesday.

Just found out the company has been bought by a couple of billionaire brothers that have offloaded half the acquisition price as debt on the company... *brace*brace*

Highlight of this experience was landing an interview with a AAA studio as my first application, despite my limited and ageing portfolio. Hopefully I can focus on game dev stuff now and look for jobs in the industry going forward, or make something of my own.

Edited February 5, 2021 by blackdog

[ZZZ]

I'm following a woman who holds a degree in psychology, economics and theology. She reads a lot about psychoanalysis, neuroscience and other fields. She has 280k followers in youtube. Pretty good stuff. Something about reading is that if you buy the right books and you take the time to read, it ends up being much cheaper to buy some books than to spend years in therapy.

It's also incredible how hard it is to find really good professionals in the psychology field. There are a lot of narcissists or just bad therapists out there.

Youtube showed her to me due to the popularity of Big Brother, the reality show. She was commenting about a certain woman in BB that was clearly a narcissist, with behaviors that really match the description of a narcissist. It's shocking to see how a narcissist is, live, on TV, with all the cameras around and nowhere to hide.

Edited March 8, 2021 by 0kelvin

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1 hour ago, 0kelvin said:

I'm following a woman who holds a degree in psychology, economics and theology.

Hell yeah, been fascinated with those 3 topics for the past few years too, i've read a few books and also watched a lot of youtube lectures on them, most recently philosophy as well. Which lead me to learn about history, specifically Roman and ancient Greek history, which so many of our values and language derive from.

I think it's safe to say that psychology and philosophy became my two favorite topics to explore and research on.

[Buddy]

There's also this:

https://www.google.com/search?ei=Y_1FYN-4N96FwPAP0rGJ0As&q=usd+to+eur&oq=usd+to+eur&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAMyCQgAEEMQRhCCAjICCAAyAggAMgIIADICCAAyAggAMgIIADICCAAyAggAMgUIABDJAzoHCAAQsAMQQzoECAAQQ1CwTFinWWCHWmgCcAJ4AYABlAKIAcMLkgEFMi45LjGYAQCgAQGqAQdnd3Mtd2l6yAEKwAEB&sclient=gws-wiz&ved=0ahUKEwif9ratv6DvAhXeAhAIHdJYAroQ4dUDCA4&uact=5

Its also the dollar loosing value.

 

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2 minutes ago, Buddy said:

There's also this:

https://www.google.com/search?ei=Y_1FYN-4N96FwPAP0rGJ0As&q=usd+to+eur&oq=usd+to+eur&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAMyCQgAEEMQRhCCAjICCAAyAggAMgIIADICCAAyAggAMgIIADICCAAyAggAMgUIABDJAzoHCAAQsAMQQzoECAAQQ1CwTFinWWCHWmgCcAJ4AYABlAKIAcMLkgEFMi45LjGYAQCgAQGqAQdnd3Mtd2l6yAEKwAEB&sclient=gws-wiz&ved=0ahUKEwif9ratv6DvAhXeAhAIHdJYAroQ4dUDCA4&uact=5

Its also the dollar loosing value.

 

 

tkx jerome paul

[Izuno]

This is the best thread on Mapcore.

I feel for everyone who has lost friends or family due to...all the the things that 2020 was and still is now that we are into 2021. I consider myself lucky that only a small # of my extended family got covid and none of them went to the hospital, but they all said it kicked their asses and are worried about the long term impact to their health.

I am in a different part of SoCal (just outside LA) and home prices here are crazy. We lucked out and bought at the bottom of the last housing crash. Otherwise at the time we would not have been able to afford it. California is awesome...and incredibly frustrating and terribly run all at once. My wife and I talk about moving but everywhere...on the planet...feels like is fucked in one way or another.

As for me, I've actually gotten into better shape during the pandemic. My wife got us to join a gym in 2018 and since dropping that in March 2020 we've (thanks to her) really upped our home exercise game. We have a 3rd empty spot in our garage (why I wanted this house) and now that is a legit workout center with a JKD trapping dummy, TRX system suspended from the heavy bag stand, a Favuke grappling dummy, large gym mat area for both me (grappling/movement drills) and the kids to do tumbling/dance/gymnastics. And lastly, I got really into this rope exercise thing that has helped my upper body so much. A trainer at our old gym got me into it...check it out: https://www.octomoves.com/  (Free EU shipping!)

Lastly, my kids are crazy about Minecraft. It's fun to play with them and my oldest reads all the books and watches the youtubes on how to do all the stuff. She's said to me "When you make a plan in Minecraft, it works out a better. I bet life is like that." Praise Jesus.

[That50'sGuy]

So while I was at my grandmother's house last week, she showed me her cassette tape collection.

After that, I ordered my own blank tapes and a recorder and started making my own tapes. And I must say, it's extremely fun! Designing my own labels is cool too!

Narrating my thoughts between songs is something I've always wanted to do anyways! 

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to go record some more!

Edited March 9, 2021 by That50'sGuy

[will2k]

On 3/9/2021 at 6:14 AM, That50'sGuy said:

So while I was at my grandmother's house last week, she showed me her cassette tape collection.

After that, I ordered my own blank tapes and a recorder and started making my own tapes. And I must say, it's extremely fun! Designing my own labels is cool too!

Narrating my thoughts between songs is something I've always wanted to do anyways! 

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to go record some more!

Be ready for this to happen, a lot

Pro tip: have a pencil nearby for such emergency 

[Dabu]

Life has been good and stressing so far, some complicated irl stuff and playing game (like CSGO etc) and workin on my own game