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The Royal We

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  1. Yea, there's a lot of new users and the cheapest class V races fill up very fast. It's a grind to try to get my horses in their preferred distances too and yes, the competition in a $10 race is definitely more stiff. The really need to completely revamp the class system.
  2. I'd be in for that too! If we want to buy the cheapest mare and stallion on the market we need to raise about 50 ETH...
  3. I just saw this @Nice Guy Eddie Looks like it may make your life a little bit easier!
  4. I'm here for a Vice City remake. It was that game that got me to buy a PS2 - played it once at a friend's house and went out and got a new console the next week. I think that's the only GTA game that I got to 100% completion. Hopefully they adopted the later games engine for riding a motorcycle. I loved flying around on those things in Vice City, but if you even nicked any kind of obstacle you were going to get yeeted across the map. I'm pretty sure I could hop in a car in Vice City right now and still fly around all over the map.
  5. This is my issue too - what, exactly, is his concern here? It's not too dangerous/scary/new/gene altering, whatever the fuk for his wife and daughter but it is for him? I really don't understand how people like Joe process decisions like this.
  6. Ahhhh yes, small government "conservatives" using the full weight of the government to compel private business to do as the overloards wish.
  7. Lulz!
  8. Jesus, that's infuriating.
  9. This is just so god damned depraved. There are a few places in this country where unlawful/forced entry should be met with extreme force. Military bases, the White House, and sure as shit, the fucking Capitol (during the transition of power)! More people should have been shot.
  10. Sure, I don't think that hot take surprises anyone that is even remotely familiar with your whole catalogue. There is such a thing a too high IMO. I think we'll get there in early '22 if the Delta variant doesn't totally fuck everything up. Then come the windfall profit taxes and other anti-free market BS that makes me crazy.
  11. Agreed we are heading toward a crisis. Maybe $100/bbl isn't the number, but it's not too much more than that where it will raise the cost of all goods considerably. Bring on the f'n fuel surcharges again when buying anything that has to be delivered or service that requires driving. No good answers here other than encouraging responsible production of our own resources.
  12. This guy gets it. The rest is a bunch of bloviating about stupid shit that all presidents do. I sure wish Biden wouldn't have appealed to the KSA, they are not allies and we shouldn't be begging them to produce more. Fuck them. At the same time, sustained $100+/bbl pricing is not going to be good for the economy as a whole and some of our refineries need to run on their grades. I know @Dr. Beeper has argued in the past that the positives of high oil prices to the energy industry outweigh the drag on other areas of the economy, but I don't buy that. Even though $100/bbl is great for my clients and my side hustles, I don't think that is what is best for the country as a whole. But I think the perceived damage to the industry that Biden's rhetoric will cause is being greatly overblown by some of y'all. We are going higher and there isn't fuck all that the POTUS can do about that. Supply & demand is going to supply and demand.
  13. 100% this. They need to start chunking out new ranks/racing groups. I know the Zed whales want to be able to continue feasting on the glue, but it's going to hard to grow the game if newbs get crushed by Vanilla Bean/Doc Brown/Moonlight Graham/insert class V monster all the time. I think the 0% win and sub 5% win races are a great start towards giving more owners a chance to win.
  14. I like that they are adding fatigue and I think I read that each horse will only be able to enter 1 race at a time. I think both of those are good changes that keep the whale horses from dominating so many races. The U shaped beasts that never climb out of class V would run 30-40 times per day if there were no queues and no fatigue. I don't know how I feel about the removal of odds - it seems like it will be harder to buy/sell quality horses. I guess it might increase the value of solid horses that win quite a bit, so it could help me on a few of mine. I need to sell some horses - I'm up to 11. 8 females and 3 males.
  15. Yup. I've got lots of buddies that are rabid TCU fanbois. I lobbed a few text mails around this morning and it's been crickets in response so far. I wasn't even pointing and laughing either, just trying to check in on them.
  16. Not salty at all. Just think it's where we're headed anyway and probably would be the best end result for everyone. Maybe. But the NIL stuff put the wheels in motion on big changes before this realignment news came to light. Shit was going to change no matter what. ISU has done everything right and is really cooking at the moment - the timing on this for them is brutal.
  17. Salty af. I feel bad for ISU and OSU. TCU, Baylor and Tech? Not so much.
  18. I think it's a new world record time in the 2400 m - sumbitch won by almost 5 seconds! Those dudes just won the lottery. https://www.hawku.com/race/5TmYMoUc?selected=41710
  19. People are making accusations here - and one that is typically lobbed around too much - (he's a sock!), but there's some serious circumstantial evidence in this case. Pace yourself man...
  20. Yea, the gas you get charged to change ETH to WETH within the Zed game varies depending on network congestion on the blockchain. I didn't know this at first and got stung for a painful amount of gas. Late at night it usually much cheaper. I do think there were some hiccups with buying horses on OS with ETH not working properly in Zed, but that may be sorted out by now. @SquishMitten
  21. I'm glad shes going to the mat on this. I can't believe these ass hats are trying to paper over this - I mean, I can, but god damn, this is some depraved shit. Even if iT wAS aNTifA that did this, shouldn't we want to figure that out and do everything we can to make sure it doesn't happen again!? With all the video evidence how can such a sizable portion of our populace think this was a nothingburger that doesn't even warrant an investigation? Man, out of all the BS from the last year and the whole Trump experience, this is the thing that makes me most despondent. I just can't understand it. Can't abide it. Won't abide it.
  22. Hell yea Squish, get in there! Post up any questions you might have. I stumbled around painfully for a while before feeling comfortable with the various ETHs/wallets/gas/etc. There are a lot more good resources for trying to find a horse now too, the easiest/best being https://www.hawku.com/zed Lots of good info on the Zed discord too about getting started. There was a reset on genesis breeding yesterday so there are a lot of cheap horses floating around today. Try to find one with <10 odds that can hang out in class IV as a place to start - you can sometimes find value with someone selling a horse before finding it's best racing distance. But if a horse is consistently pulling 20+ odds, then it's likely it's always going to be a donkey.
  23. Splashing it around on the Crypto thread too. Although he's pimping ETH instead of bitcoin trying to throw everyone off the scent trail.
  24. Quite a bit of good PR for Zed today. It looks like more and more "mainstream" capital is pouring into the NFT space and Zed has an early jump with collaborations with Stella Artois, Atari and The Preakness. Hopefully this allows them to hire more engineers and build out better servers to cut the racing lead times <8 hours as well... https://www.wsj.com/articles/tcg-and-andreessen-horowitz-invest-in-startup-behind-virtual-horse-racing-platform-11626865200https://www.wsj.com/articles/tcg-and-andreessen-horowitz-invest-in-startup-behind-virtual-horse-racing-platform-11626865200
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