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The Royal We

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Salty af. I feel bad for ISU and OSU. TCU, Baylor and Tech? Not so much.
  8. 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
  9. 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...
  10. 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
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. Splashing it around on the Crypto thread too. Although he's pimping ETH instead of bitcoin trying to throw everyone off the scent trail.
  14. 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
  15. So much this. In the current GOP it's not so much about how you actually do your job or what your values are, it's about what you SAY to the shitheels on social media! It's inconsequential that Liz's voting record is much more conservative than her replacement, she won't bend the knee so she's actually a libtard/cuck/rino/loser who must be primaried and destroyed at all costs!
  16. I bought some ETH today too. Mainly for my degenerate NFT/Zed habits that are worsening, but I figured it was a decent time to buy as well.
  17. True story. It only happened that first day and I only got one the last time around.
  18. Sounds like an awesome day, congrats on the hook up! I don't understand why what he said twisted you off so much though - he's right. Fly fishing is hard af. I know you've been at it for a while, but (from what I understand) catching a Tarpon on the fly is one of the harder things you can do with a fly rod... Is there more context to what he said? I had a fly fishing guide (on my first ever trip) tell me to stop being a bitch after I kept getting visibly frustrated by trying to cast into the wind. I didn't take offense, I shook it off and tried to not let the wind bug me so much, i.e. she was right. @troph
  19. Looks like it might be time for me to buy more XOM and VDE. FML on all the rest of my shit stonks.
  20. Thank you! There's a few decent food trucks in Nac, but nothing to get too excited about. I'll have to try this one out. And F you too. 😉
  21. I think they do need to raise the minimums for breeding, but agree with @gyroprotagonist that taking Nak Genesis minimums all the way up to .48 will not have the result these huge stables think it will. It would increase the amount they get for a cover, but decrease the total number of covers they are getting. It will definitely alter my plans for breeding. It's so cheap right now to breed my Buterins that I'll breed every time in the hopes that I scratch off a winning lotto ticket and get a good racer. I sold off 3 of the 5 horses I got from breeding my genesis filly in the last round and at least doubled my investment on all of them. I kept one of the fillies I got from that round to breed for lotto tickets, but will sell her off if the stud fees increase this much. I bought a bad ass Legendary Buterin filly last week to breed with my strongest racing stallion - https://knowyourhorses.com/horses/32194 she won back to back races in class III last night. Currently at a ~17% win rate and 39% ROI. 24 more days until I can breed her with Despicable Lemon. Lemon has been feasting on all the new class V racers too, he won 3 races yesterday including one that paid out $97.
  22. I'M NOT YOUR FRIEND, BUDDY!
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