GooberTheHat wrote:

Diluted Dante wrote:

GurtTractor wrote:

Most Effective Tactic Available IIRC.

Pretty sure thats a backronym.

Damn, back to square one.

That;s the backronym yep.

Meta is just being used as a shorthand for metagame. Meta means "beyond". The metagame is the game beyond the game or, the game which forms outside the individual matches you play, which is based on the holistic understanding of all the elements of the game available. It's mostly evident in competitive games where knowledge of what the strongest elements of the game are form a secondary game: how do we beat that optimum strategy, and then that tumbles down even further to how do we counter-pick the counter-pick etc. All of that is formed from data outside of the game you are currently playing.

It's is not really all that different from metatext - the requirement of knowledge outside of the singular instance of text you a reading to fully understand it, or a text referring to itself therefore referring to the world outside of its construction.

It's OP for speedrunning replies and until they patch it I'll keep using it!

GooberTheHat wrote:

Diluted Dante wrote:

GurtTractor wrote:

Most Effective Tactic Available IIRC.

Pretty sure thats a backronym.

Damn, back to square one.

There are two similar terms with different meanings for me: the meta-game (something like collection building) and 'the meta' which is the predominant / successful playstyle or character / setup.

GooberTheHat wrote:

Subbax wrote:

It goes in at the top of the wall and comes out further down though. I'll try using the existing bell wire to start with.

I've got a Ring Video doorbell. I just connected it to the original doorbell's wires and it works fine.

Yeah, the current transformer isn't powerful enough to sort the camera out so I'm replacing the chime and transformer for new.  I did try but the existing transformer made a really weird buzzing sound no matter how I wired it up.

So, tomorrow we're gonna exchange a cashier's check for keys to an actual house. It will still be rent, but it has a yard and a garage.

Currently we're living with a roommate in an apartment, and the plan is that he will join us for the house as well. When B brought it up first, it was fine and preparations for the contract etc were made. It's just B and I currently on it.
Later on they did mention they would need to do a background check for a potential roommate as well.

Now there's the problem, he filed for bankruptcy 8 years ago, and that's an instant red flag and a reason we've been refused before for other places (other times it was me not having anything to my name here). The place we currently live at didn't have a problem with it as we were living in a different apartment before moving to this one, and they trusted us.

B wants to bring it up tomorrow (just mentioning the possibly of a roommate again, and see where it goes from there), but a colleague says wait till you've paid the first rent and then add him to the contract. This would obviously be less ideal for our roommate, as if he gets refused he has less time to find something, and it isn't easy with that bankruptcy.

We could afford the house with just B's new Facebook salary, but splitting costs would definitely be better and we could still save some money / lift the Jeep to ridiculous heights.

Should we bring it up tomorrow or wait with it? It's so annoying that years of steady income / paying rent / decent credit score mean nothing if there's also an old bankruptcy on your name.

Facebook bought Ready At Dawn didn’t they?

And that dear Muzzy is how B became employed by FB.

Thanks for the input Muzzy. B and I are locked in for the house, contact is signed and we only need to exchange keys for money. So yeah, the roommate isn't gonna make the difference, but would make things a bit better for our financial situation.
Have to go there and lunch today, we'll see how it goes.

And yep, Reg and Uncle are right. Officially B isn't employed by Facebook yet, as the visa needs to be transferred, but hopefully that won't take too long. All his colleagues got a sign on bonus already, he's still waiting (it's quite a bit of money, that you can't touch for the first year working there, if you stay for a year it's yours. It would definitely help to put my mind at ease a bit more about the house situation).
Everything's fine for now, way more meetings than I'd like (current apartment only has one main living space, so I can't do much during meetings apart from go away or be quite). Have seen Zuckerberg on chat doing some q&a once at the beginning.
Will see how it goes, our visa is usually valid for 3 years, but you could quit the job after 2 without needing to pay it back. As long as Trump doesn't decide to kick everyone out. (Our visa is an O-1, which should be pretty safe, hopefully).

Kids beds! With things useful things underneath like chest of drawers/desk. Anybody know good places to look?

We like this one but its too wide unfortunately - https://www.cuckooland.com/brand/julian-bowen/julian-bowen-jupiter-midsleeper-bed

acemuzzy wrote:

How'd it go, Nina?

Moving in this weekend, incl the roommate. We just mentioned the possibility when we met owner, and a couple days later send him the information from the roommate. He took his chance and increased rent, bit whatever. I can buy Gundams guilt free again.

As a kid I just had normal bunk beds with planks of wood laid on the bottom bunk to turn it into storage space.

Hello all - I'm looking to get a replacement wrist strap for my Sony smartwatch 3. I ordered an unofficial one off ebay and the build quality on it was shoddy at best. I'm desperately trying to find an official one - I like the way they sit on my wrist too - but can't seem to find one anywhere, in stockists or ebay. Any help?

As a last attempt it may be worth emailing customer service. They may not sell them but they might have replacement parts.

Grumble. Thanks all, I'll look at my options.

Probably cost you a lot more to have it repaired than it would to get another one these days.