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General Chat / Re: Mortgage Rates are DROPPING. I am a Loan Officer - Any Questions?

« on: September 11, 2024, 12:06:54 AM »

Damn it.  I deleted your reply before realizing it was a real post.

I know I don't post here as often as I used to but sometimes I do post important stuff.  Still thinking at the post it did have some identifying info so thanks I guess for deleting my post?!?

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General Chat / Re: Mortgage Rates are DROPPING. I am a Loan Officer - Any Questions?

« on: September 09, 2024, 01:45:58 AM »

Bumping this because I am in the process of becoming more independent and I have a girlfriend who would help with finding a house for both of us to live in.

We are also considering having two or three bedrooms to rent out for a resident to add some extra income.
What are feasible options for this in regards to make this a reality?


I am in Arizona in Mesa and my girlfriend is in California.  We are looking to stay on the west coast so California, Oregon, Washington and Nevada.  Arizona isn't an option because I want to leave Arizona and it is too hot for my girlfriend. She works are Target in a very bustling city and myself on a second seasonal stint at Amazon in Phoenix but prospects are looking good for a more permanent status.

So we want to move to so we can stabilize with those jobs in these cities; Seattle WA, Tacoma WA, Bellevue WA and Redmond WA.

In Oregon Portland and surrounding metro suburbs.   

In Las Vegas Nevada.

In California with three different searches on Zillow; LA, Long Beach, Irvine, Altadena, Pasadena for the first search.  Price range in the 159,00 to 570,000 on the first page

Second Search would be this, Real Estate & Homes for Sale 1(( lower price condos in Anaheim, Long Beach, Bellflower, Seal Beach, Los Angeles). On the first page the price range is 255,000 in Anaheim to 479,000 in Santa Ana

Last one is the most expensive. The lowest price is 2.2 Mil in Long Beach with the highest being 20.7 Mil on the 1st page

I am searching on Zillow in the above areas. I can send you the Zillow Searches if you need the links.

 Help me BNM, You are my only hope.

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TalkBack / Re: Beyond Good & Evil 20th Anniversary Edition (Switch eShop) Review

« on: July 08, 2024, 04:04:38 PM »

I played a little bit of this on Steam but got stuck early on.  I think it was more of a controller issue than anything else.

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NWR Mafia Games / Re: Mafia XC: XC1 - Definitive Mafia Edition. Sign-up Thread. Take 2.

« on: July 06, 2024, 01:03:55 PM »

9/16.

Loading and accepting more players...

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Switch Online NES Library Adds Six Games, One Tire Fire

« on: July 06, 2024, 01:09:34 AM »

When I saw the trailer for the new games I smiled brightly as I saw Solar Jetman across my screen. I have wanted to play that for ages after seeing it back in the day in Nintendo Power.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Switch is so popular people don't even post

« on: July 06, 2024, 01:07:21 AM »

One thing I still like about forums over chat messaging is that there is a record of things where you can take note of what is being written.

Yes I know Discord and other chat options has an option of finding specific chats but with how fast paced Discord and other chat apps you have to do a lot of scrolling or have a very good memory to look for something 6 months ago where as with forums you can typically find it without much effort.  By that I mean the systems of Forums and discord are different so the mechanics change how things are done.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Will Nintendo Finally Drop the Switch Price?

« on: July 04, 2024, 02:06:53 PM »

We don't have any real info on that, but it wouldn't surprise me if it's fairly early 2025, similar to how the Switch came out in early March. But with the Switch still selling well at the current price there's no real reason for Nintendo to drop it right now.

Historically, Nintendo releases consoles in November but I wonder since the Switch and Switch 2 are not typical standalone home consoles that has changed the timing of release.  Plus as MK Ultra said, the older console stays on the market as the new console gains steam or until things balance out.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: My Video Game Collection/Museum

« on: July 02, 2024, 10:23:53 PM »

I am so jelly of everyones collections. I have some things but not a room to display them all in.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Will Nintendo Finally Drop the Switch Price?

« on: July 02, 2024, 10:22:34 PM »

When is the Switch 2 supposed to be coming out?

Do we know late 2025 or summer 2025?

I think that is going to matter on when there would be a price cut for the Switch.

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General Chat / Re: NBA Thread: Brought To You By The Tampa Bay Raptors Of Toronto

« on: July 01, 2024, 11:29:13 PM »

First two days of free agency is needing lots of patience from me as there have been no moves by the Lakers yet.

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TalkBack / Re: We're Not Getting a 2024 Switch Price Cut Are We?

« on: July 01, 2024, 11:26:31 PM »

Price Cut for the hardware is unlikely as you noted the new library Kairon but I could see some older titles going on sale during the holidays or in the summer for kids and their parents to play together. 

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TalkBack / Re: Pair Of Capcom Collections Take Prosecution For A Ride This Year

« on: July 01, 2024, 11:22:51 PM »

Excited for the Marvel vs Capcom collection

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Downloads - July 4, 2024

« on: July 01, 2024, 11:20:11 PM »

Legend of Heroes games are ones I have been interested in but haven't really played any.  I wonder what is the best place to start with?

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TalkBack / Re: Minecraft x The Woobles Review

« on: July 01, 2024, 11:18:09 PM »

Never really got into MineCraft but I see the appeal of it.

Crochet can be fun at times and is a pretty good way to be creative.

Enjoyed the review of it.

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General Chat / Re: NBA Thread: Brought To You By The Tampa Bay Raptors Of Toronto

« on: June 21, 2024, 06:18:11 PM »

Yeah I saw that.  It would be interesting to have him back on the team.  Hope his legal issues get resolved.

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General Chat / Re: Faceball 2000 Part 3: Faceball 2024 in Milwaukee

« on: June 20, 2024, 11:02:06 AM »

After all this time it is official.

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General Chat / Re: NBA Thread: Brought To You By The Tampa Bay Raptors Of Toronto

« on: June 20, 2024, 11:00:07 AM »

According to a source it is a done deal but there hasn't been an official announcement yet. 

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TalkBack / Re: The Legend Of Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom Launching September 26 With Playable Zelda

« on: June 20, 2024, 09:13:25 AM »

I've wanted a playable Zelda with magic Zelda game for over 15 years now. But the nagging thought in the back of my head was how to make the magic actually interesting and distinct from non-magical Link's items. The chemistry/physics engine of BotW seems to be their solution. While magic could break the game and make it too easy like Kirby, they can make it more limited and situational based to make it challenging. They haven't said anything about how you select summons so you might be limited to a set of local ones to find a winning combinations. I don't think they're going TotK building path (at least for the 1st game) and probably closer to great plateau BotW experience where you can rush enemies with spamming summons or you can find ways to exploit the environment + magic.

The only downside is they used the remake LA toy-like models, I rather something closer to the old artwork or anime. I get it that it makes the magic less jarring and out of place looking if everything has a toybox appearance but still...

I saw a breakdown on YT by Zeltic and they noted something I didn't notice in my hype for playable Zelda.

 They noted there was triangles tailing Tri and that was how many uses you could get from the echo uses and certain items and/or foes who have a set amount needed to use them.  Also sounds like within the trailer it went from 3 in the jail scene to 4 at various points in the game.  So it seems like that power will grow in uses.    So all the memes about 27 pieces of furniture may not be a possibility but someplace within the middle of 3 and 27 is likely.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Switch is so popular people don't even post

« on: June 20, 2024, 07:55:04 AM »

I am just going to say that I have had less time to post on here than I did in the Gamecube and even Wii Era.  I didn't have a WiiU and had a 2DS and I had gotten a Switch Lite with Pandemic money.  I have also been trying to balance jobs, gaming and my other interests. 

So on top of me trying to find time to game there is not enough time to chat on here even though I want to.

 

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General Chat / Re: NBA Thread: Brought To You By The Tampa Bay Raptors Of Toronto

« on: June 20, 2024, 07:47:19 AM »

Starting to get frustrated by how long it is taking for the Lakers to hire a new Head Coach.  It has been two months since Darvin Ham was fired and there is a week till the draft! 

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NWR Mafia Games / Re: Mafia XC: XC1 - Definitive Mafia Edition. Sign-up Thread. Take 2.

« on: June 20, 2024, 07:39:40 AM »

I have another seasonal job offer on the 6th of July in the afternoon with Amazon so it would be during the time we start.  Having said that it is part time so I should be able to contribute some.  It has been some time so I am going to vote for the simplified setup plus with me working again I don't want to go into a super complex game., even though I love those.

I personally find those complex games are more doable when there is a string of games in a row with a set of players playing in games in a row.  Just adds another layer to the expected way folks play.

That said I am in.

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NWR Mafia Games / Re: Mafia XC: Xenoblade Chronicles 1 - Definitive Mafia Edition. Sign-up Thread.

« on: April 22, 2024, 08:47:55 PM »

The never ending Mafia sign up thread

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General-3 / Re: It’s Time for Evan_B to End

« on: March 13, 2023, 04:07:54 PM »

Aww oh no I know you probably won't see this but I will miss you.  It just seems people are busy with their own lives and only pop in here when they can and that is understandable but disapointing.  A lot of old hats have been here for a while so we need to get some new fresh faces here to keep this forum going like it was in its hayday.

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General Chat / Re: NBA Thread: Brought To You By The Tampa Bay Raptors Of Toronto

« on: February 28, 2023, 11:51:40 PM »

Once again:



I mean the Jazz are trying to tank.  There is your reason there.

What the **** were the Jazz thinking trading Vanderbilt and Beas- Never mind, I’m gonna stop questioning it. Thanks, Trader Ainge.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Pokepal plays through a bunch of Pokemon games. Nobody knows why.

« on: February 24, 2023, 02:29:30 AM »

Good post pokepal.

I do like how you talked about the game themes and some of the history of the series and for your team it is pretty varied and I like you used some pokemon that one doesn't normally play in a typical in game play through.

I look forward to reading about the next game you will play in Heart Gold.