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gyroprotagonist

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  1. misleading title is misleading. That's not a pick up game. if it's a true pick up game, I am taking Shaq. aint no charges in pickup games who is going to stop that?
  2. holy S! just saw this beast https://knowyourhorses.com/horses/15745 10 races at class I - 6 wins, 2 place, 1 show and then 1 7th. for sale for 4.5ETH pulled sub 2 odds in G-race and pretty much sub 4 in all other races. curious as to why they stopped racing. maybe it broke the game or something. looks like the drop and breeding are pushed out. new drop date is ~Friday 6/11 and then breeding to follow.
  3. i just assume Texas has a stand your ground law. basically the portable castle doctrine law, where if you get scared you can legally start blasting anywhere you can legally 'constitutional carry'
  4. who is responsible when a human does it? The people starting these missions DGAF and know they are not accountable. they probably keep terrorist bodies in deep freeze and will toss them in the wreckage of the building and then say 'look! a terrorist. we got 'em!'
  5. we had ordered from door dash, which we rarely use, and we could see that our food was ready and picked up, but not moving. text the driver and he said that door dash was making him wait for another order at another nearby restaurant where the food was not even ready yet. Given that our food had already been sitting for 10-15 minutes, we said and cancelled. I don't blame the driver, but DD's algorithm that said 'Yeah, it's cool to leave that order sitting to 20+ minutes while waiting on another order to finish up' is all fucked up. We use the hell out of uber eats and generally no problems. now that i can go and have drink at the bar while waiting on food order, I have outsourced uber eats with myself for the most part.
  6. 2 ways to look at it. is this really that much of a leap between firing a smart missile? you program it to seek the position chosen. It flies to that position and then does its damnedest to deliver its payload to that position. With the drone, you would tell it fly into a location. Then give it parameters on firing/releasing payload. It's not (for now) coming up with its own parameters. If it's told to shoot people with boomer sooner tattooed on their forearm, it will keep going until no more targets meet that criteria. It is not checking back with base after each target acquisition, but just executing to its parameters. it's not suddenly going to think 'you know what, those cocksuckers from aggyland need to die as well' and start firing at them. this is a weak sauce argument for it, but theoretically you could have it only target people that are holding weapons or have it not shoot kids by putting those parameters in its mission programming. The other way to look at it is that this is a horrible advancement in weaponizing drones that is the first step in installing a truer AI version that is given freedom to react on its own. These things will plague any any forward bases in hostile territory in the near future carrying IEDs and trying to get into a base.
  7. Thanks. guy was advertising on twitter about Z2 and Z3 below floor price. this one was listed at ~3.6 or so and i put a bid in at 3 and sorta forgot about it. The Z2 Naka went for just over 6 ETH i think. yeah, i have not seen anything either way. breeding is where ZED will get the most money to put back into game and make their nut after drops are done. Since they have restricted the # of foals and number of covers that can happen every month, I think they will leave it open for a pretty long time; at least 3 months. All it does is increase the level of horse you need to race as better and better runners are discovered and this turns to a vicious cycle that perpetuates more demand for breeding to keep competing in races. - This will output a TON of trash horses that may serve no purpose at all. maybe they come up with a way to players to 'recycle' glue horses for perks/rewards. That's the biggest downside i see to leaving breeding open indefinitely. Then you throw in the other variables like how they run in the rain, top speed etc... and some of those trash horses might have a redeeming trait that is worth breeding (match your decent horse that is low in that trait with a trash horse that is high). Just spitballing - They also may/will expand the racing tiers. maybe make sub tiers based on odds with in the class (just guessing). They have said something about finding places for every horse to race. As they get more $ into the game and if the base keeps expanding, there is no reason to not expand on the number of races as long as they are still filling up in a reasonable amount of time.
  8. yeah, might target a Z6 or Z7 or maybe just a Buterin Z8. Those unraced are still selling above drop prices right now. Everything Z1-Z5 seems to be right at or below drop price. Z4/Z5 are right at last drop price. So the value is getting those Z6-Z10 in the drop. The 3-5x premium for unraced Buterin could be coming down as 1000s more of them should be in the next drop. so that's why i will target Z6-Z8 for something. if those Z1-Z4 go for higher than last drop, then the floor will rise on the market. i scored this bad boy a few days ago https://opensea.io/assets/matic/0xa5f1ea7df861952863df2e8d1312f7305dabf215/1103. unraced Z3 Szabo colt for about 1/2 of what they were going for in the last drop. A bunch of these sold really cheap from uninformed sellers and the brokers snagged the 4-5 that were available for 1.75-2.5 ETH and i bought one off of them for 3 ETH. Market is still pretty high on them around 4 ETH for unraced. There are only around ~70 genesis horses left each of Z1-Z4, so I think those will jump in price at the drop even though market is at or below. See the chart below for how many are left and how many sold in the last drop. This could be the last drop ever for the Z1-Z5. The market is really picking up on Legendary Nakamotos no matter the racing results probably due to breeding. I have been bidding like crazy on dormant accounts trying to wake up someone to sell. There are soooo many Z1/Z2/Z3/Z4 Genesis unraced horses out there in seemingly dormant accounts. If they stay dormant and since there are only 1000 minted each of those, they will be even more scarce in the game. I plan on breeding that Z3 and even with setting the fee low around .2 ETH (min would be .1) that would generate .34 ETH per month. I have not been able to see any ranges for stud fees for unraced. I think i could get at least .35 ETH per as trash Legendary Szabo floor price is .4 right now. That makes the pay back time on that 3ETH price about 5 months if I can fill up 3 spots per month. if this dude is right (https://zombie.racing/the-power-of-the-z1-naka-why-we-should-value-the-boys/), then the demand for the Z1-Z4 genesis should only increase as the demand for Legendary breeding (genesis sire x legendary dame) should increase as more and more legendary fillies are created every month.
  9. here is a pricing chart for all the drops so far on ZED huge jump for that last one.
  10. offer to work as the cleaner and to complete to job overnight
  11. locked and loaded for labor day weekend at the cosmo. flights seemed to be getting more expensive (at least from Dallas) so maybe less trash walking around by then. hopefully Uber with the surge pricing back in place will be under control as well. thanks to all for posting your recent trips.
  12. this hits close to home because played pickup ball on Sat and got the same pain in my neck/shouulder. hopefully Luka can get in to see a doc faster than my Tuesday appt. I am hoping some corticosteroids will do the trick. i was sky high during that first quarter run, but damn, KL decided not to miss the entire night. seemed like all of their offensive rebounds led to 3s. i don't blame Rick too much for taking Luka out in the first. I mean fuck, can we not expect the rest of the team to not blow a 20 pt lead in 3 minutes? hindsight, it wouild have been better to ride the hot hand and finish the qtr scrong.
  13. so i think i see how these NFT grinders are operating. They look up horses that the owner has not started an auction for yet, then start bidding on them with a low ball offer. A lot of times there is no activity on the account for weeks+ so owner is probably not up to date on pricing. If the owner bites, then they keep going through the horses trying to get them all. It usually takes a few sales for the owner to wake up and check the market. Most opensea accounts are set up to email the owner when a bid is received. If you can hook a person that just an NFT collector and got these horses cheap 3 months ago that's where the crazy deals are had. - It's all the guys with "NFT" in their opensea handle. I watched them snipe each other up to a certain level, then they are out. But that's how they get these crazy good deals. They sorta provoke the horse owner to sell by creating activity on their account. I saw one that bought an unraced Z1 Nak for 0.85 ETH (yes decimal is in the right place) 7 days ago. holy S! But they want to turn around and sell them quickly, so normally they will list at or below floor and drop their price every few hours to get a sale. anyway, i wish the horse sexytime would hurry up and happen. Has anyone seen an speculation on the potential drop prices? wondering if they will stay the same or go down. the opensea market seems lower (than TERA drop) on the expensive (unraced) horses Z1-Z4 and higher on the Z5-Z10 genesis. I think a lot of the people who got those horses cheap/early are cashing in and willing to sell below drop prices.
  14. yeah, MRIs are almost always like that. last one i had you could go after hours to the facility and pay cash and it was ~$350. Using insurance it would have been about $1200. I could not count it towards the deductible though. If you are doing MRI that will probably lead to surgery (in the same year) then better to use insurance and assume you will hit your max out of pocket. Had a CAT scan that was the same way. $175 cash money or $800 w/ insurance.
  15. also, gas fees are pretty low right now. it was like $10 to move some ETH into the ZED WETH wallet.
  16. wish i was browsing when this drunk person sold off their horses in the last 24 hours. unraced Z3 for 1.2 ETH ($3200; drop price $13,600) https://opensea.io/assets/matic/0xa5f1ea7df861952863df2e8d1312f7305dabf215/3841 unraced Z3 for 1.6 ETH https://knowyourhorses.com/horses/3840 it's racing now and drawing all single digit odds unraced Z2 for 3.2 ETH ($8600; drop price $19,500) listed for 7.75 ETH now https://opensea.io/assets/matic/0xa5f1ea7df861952863df2e8d1312f7305dabf215/3839 unraced Z2 for 2.96 ETH listed now for 6.1 ETH https://opensea.io/assets/matic/0xa5f1ea7df861952863df2e8d1312f7305dabf215/3838
  17. food for thought https://zombie.racing/the-power-of-the-z1-naka-why-we-should-value-the-boys/ tldr - dude thinks that Nakamoto covers (stud fees) could end up being very lucrative based on the fact that Genesis sire can keep an Exclusive or Elite at the same level (but the filly can't). With an ever expanding base of Exclusive/Elite fillies and a finite number of Genesis studs the supply and demand ratio keeps getting more and more out of whack. anyway, you can monkey around with the stud fees but using some fairly conservative numbers it might not take long to recover your costs on buying a Nak for those outrageous prices. I don't know what the ZED rake is (10%?) on stud fees. ROI even col is # of months to break even on purchase. you could make back that fee in 7-9 months of breeding. Maybe that is why people were willing to pay $20-40K for these things. Or ZED could get raided by a 3-7 letter acronym government agency and and it all goes tits up. These guys that were in from day 1 did not pay hardly anything for their Naks (i am guessing) so it is all house money to them. so with that said, can you buy more ETH by using a kidney as collateral? asking for a friend.
  18. yep, had trouble getting sleep after that game last night. still amped. seeing Luka just say IDGAF who you put on me I am getting mine was bad ass.
  19. the US is so far out in front on the vaccines compared to the rest of the world. not going to get into a should we have re-opened or not, but the vaxs work and are slaying the chances of any nth waves happening no matter our behavior. they are making gov's from all states look good no matter their stance and finally forcing the CDC to relax their stances. yay us. Hearing same thing from Indian colleagues i work with. my director has lost something like a dozen extended family members (all old-ish) that live in India.
  20. lol, if you paid 3.2 for that then we need to have an intervention
  21. i've taken to the notion to just keep any genesis horse no matter how crappy. who knows what could be sired by that horse. I listed my non-winner Z7 Finney Colt for about 10 minutes then changed my mind. I think genesis horses are going to spike right after the drop if we have another wave of people pissed that they could not get in on it. if you look at the super long term view either - lol, ZED run has like 5 users and Z1 Nakamotos are $10 for a dozen. - betting on digital horses catches on, all the genesis horses are dropped and there is still a demand. There is still going to be a buzz for genesis horses, even crappy Buterins. does that buzz mean crappy Z10s are going for 2 ETH or just maintaining their value? who knows NFTs seem pretty fucking stupid to me, but then i was never a sports card collector or could give fuckall about memorabilia and stuff like that. I look at the other collections in some of these people's wallets and and am WFT is this shit? But add in the gaming/gambling aspect and the ability to make your own NFTs that could or could not be valuable as a racer or a breeder or to just resell and now sir, you have my attention. - Also as they add attributes to the horses that you can see, you don't want to have sold off an idiot savant horse that has a stupid high attribute in say speed, but just sucked at all the other ones. maybe that would be worth something as breeding stock.
  22. lol. just missed this. genesis sold for 3 cents https://opensea.io/assets/matic/0xa5f1ea7df861952863df2e8d1312f7305dabf215/26593
  23. some rando on twitter prediction on horse prices leading up to and after the drop and breeding. i tend to agree with these general trends although i think the post breeding curves may just be flat. It all depends on how many new players join up and catch the FOMO fever.
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