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Hozz

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  1. Kristen Stewart wins in a landslide.
  2. All grass no fakes.
  3. HBO Max app on Samsung TV here. The UI is super laggy compared to Netflix/Prime/YouTubeTV. Also the stream always starts in like 480. It gets better from there and eventually gets up to where its supposed to be but its annoying. Also there is no HDR in the Samsung app. If I Chromecast from a laptop to the TV, HDR works. Annoying all around.
  4. Unhinged is on there now. Russell Crowe road rage film. We watched it last night. 90 mins...unintentionally hilarious IMO. Crowe is very angry and is wearing a fat suit.
  5. Ha so the knifesolo.com fuckers sent me a Zero Tolerance 0350BW instead of the Benchmade Anthem 781 I ordered. Nice business model.
  6. So if you go there and you search by brand for Benchmade you will see the 3 most expensive items they have in stock are discontinued models that they have listed at prices significantly below MAP. Again I was new to Benchmade and this didn't set off the alarm bells it should have...I just thought I had found an Internet diamond in the rough. And you can definitely find mainstream places that discount Benchmades, Amazon almost always does and lots of places do like 15% of MAP. But these knives were discontinued, ie rare, and like 40% off MAP. So, anyway, I ordered all three of these knives, not just because they were a great deal but because I was interested in all of them, especially the 2 gold class. Well my order status had not updated so I contacted them. The interaction did not leave me feeling confident. They said the order had shipped so they could not cancel it but they could not provide me with tracking. Ok...from there I did some research and what I found was...not good. First if you search knifesilo.com in Google the first hit after their website is a lengthy thread about how they are a scam on one of the leading knife forums on the Internet. Then there are a bunch of hits to Reddit threads saying similar shit. I went back to their website and googled the two addresses they have listed...one in the UK one in FL. They are both residential addresses. Not warehouses, not store fronts. Just a street view of some house in the UK and some apartment looking place in FL. Ironically, this morning, they finally got back to me with tracking and they did send me something on April 2, from CA, that is supposed to arrive here today. So I will check back in when I get the package. Other people in similar situations have gotten the wrong model, the wrong brand or even things that were not knives. Like clothing.
  7. knifesilo.com is 100% a scam. Avoid.
  8. Anyone ever buy from knifesilo.com? Prices seem too good to be true, but I took a chance and bought a few knives there anyway. They have some discontinued Benchmade models you can't really find anywhere but the secondary market. They have a Gold Bugout and a Gold Foray for like $400 a piece and 10% off on top of that if you buy two or more knives. No tax (to Texas) and free shipping. They appear to be a UK company but they have a place in FL as well. This thread has cost me a lot of money at this point. I was not really ever a knife guy. Bought some Ganzos because of this thread and then at like $20 what's a gifted knife among friends. So I would give them away to anyone at the house who admired one and then just go buy more, different models. Graduated to a couple of Kershaws and that held me over for a year or more. Was more of a gun guy but that market sucks so bad now I can't bring myself to pay over MSRP for new guns if you can even find what you want and ammo is up 300% or so year over year. So I had some money burning a hole in my pocket and decided to take a look at Benchmade. I bought a 4170BK automatic and was smitten. At the time I didn't know shit about knives or Benchmades and still don't know a lot. Then I saw a few Gold class models online...holy fuck. $550-1000 for a knife took me a while to wrap my head around. I was like I just went from a Kershaw price point to a $340 price point. I can't pay double that for a knife...can I? Yes. Yes I can. I saw the 908-161 Gold Stryker and watched a YouTube unboxing of it and I had to have that motherfucker. And that was not the end of it. I can't get enough of those Damasteel blades.
  9. https://www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/a-dallas-fc-under-15-boys-squad-beat-the-u-s-womens-national-team-in-a-scrimmage/
  10. Doug Gottlieb was on a show talking about Marquette. He was making the case that it's a great job. Third biggest men's hoops budget behind Duke and Kentucky (no football so it's the premier school sport). Reasonably easy to win conference in the Big East compared to P5 schools. Home games in an NBA arena they share with the Bucks.
  11. I bet most people don't watch this in one sitting. We are going to need 3-4 nights here. 4:3 thing annoys me. I thought it was some kind of a joke at first. Also, its not HDR? There are many scenes in this that would benefit from HDR.
  12. It's funny because I find regular season college basketball to be a beating. I can't watch it. Not even Texas. Too many open missed shots and too many fouls. But man, I don't miss a minute of the tournament. I think the 4 days of the first two rounds are the greatest thing in sports. I can't believe we missed out on this last year.
  13. At this point how is playing a sporting event with a covid positive athlete too risky? Too risky for who? Why weren't all these dudes vaccinated? So for the layman that means any money line, point spread or O/U bet just on that game is void and your wager is refunded. If you had any of that in a parlay, your parlay is actioned as if you had not included this game in it. So you don't lose your parlay wager based on this but your payout if you win your parlay will be reduced because your odds have improved with one less leg in it. Future wagers are action means if you had bet VCU would get out of the first round or to the sweet 16, elite 8, etc. you lose. If you had Oregon advances to whatever the round of 32 is called, you win.
  14. It was ruled no contest...I think that means you get your money back in Vegas, on either team. Now, how will it be handled in brackets? Oregon advances but you get no points for them in round 1 is what I would guess.
  15. https://www.47brand.com/collections/texas-longhorns VALENTINE25 for 25% off and free shipping if you join their loyalty program. Code was automatically applied for me.
  16. I want to know who replied "Thay are not". Hard pass on that dude.
  17. Isn't the scholarship cap increased for 2021 because of the free eligibility from 2020? I thought I heard the cap is 94 for 2021 but goes back to 85 in 2022.
  18. KC -3 seems like free money. What am I missing?
  19. Never seen that clip, that was great. Team Applewhite my whole life and it may have changed my mind. It's hilarious that Simms knows Applewhite's body fat percentage numbers. And 27 something seems high for a QB.
  20. Anyone a member at https://www.bigdaddyunlimited.com/ ? I was wondering if they had ammo and what prices were like there.
  21. If you are playing on PC this is a pretty helpful guide on Steam for improving FPS https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2314931764 For me personally, the PoolCPU and PoolGPU changes worked wonders.
  22. For this quest you can actually hack to find her. On the ground floor of that market there is an area inside with a few arcade cabinets, around there you can find clues to where the lady is. You definitely need a certain level of technical ability to get access, I forget how much. I think this game is good but it was never going to meet the insane level of hype and expectation that a game 8 years in the making from the makers of Witcher 3 would have. To me it feels like a knock off GTA game set in the future. It is surprising how many things it does worse than GTA let alone RDR2 or even the Witcher 3. The car driving is so fucking bad. Games made literally decades ago had better physics/handling on the PC. I have not gone very far down the main story path, I have mostly been doing the cop side missions as an excuse to shoot different guns. Most of these missions are throw aways that almost seem procedurally generated but then every once in a while they have a decent backstory and lead to other quests. The loot system is too much. It's like a Borderlands game turned up to 11. I do like how you can upgrade gear so you don't have to outlevel a favorite gun if you dont want to...but man there is just so much shit to sift through. OCD in me can't leave a battlefield until its picked clean and there are some missions/quests where that is quite a challenge. I very much like the breach protocol mini game. Upgrading your main cyberware hardware thing helps a lot with this and there some pretty impactful perks very early on in the INT tree. Speaking of perks...most of them are super narrow and you really have to commit to a build/style or they end up kind of wasted. Is there a respec mechanic?
  23. My PC is something from Microcenter I got for $1300 in April, i7-9700, 2060, 16G, pair of SSDs (one added by me). At the time it was a hell of a deal for a prebuilt. This game runs pretty well for me in general at 1440. I am using Ultra settings with chromatic aberation, motion blur and film grain disabled. Not sure how much that does for frame rate, that is mostly personal preference in pretty much all games for me. I have some of the shadow settings turned down as well. Specifically, cascaded shadows resolution at high just destroyed my framerate...I thought I might end up in 1080p. Definitely set that to medium for huge gains. Ray Tracing off, DLSS set to quality. HDR scrgb (no idea what the difference in HDR settings are). My monitor is Asus 4k@60Hz so I cap framerate at 60 and Vsync. Going from 1440 to 4k is a no go for me, at least on Ultra. I half heartedly tried to get a 3070 for this in an attempt to play in 4K but can't find one for MSRP. I have not played much, just one prologue and got to V's apartment and walked around the city outside of it...had some big time graphics issues there. Screen went black, but the game didn't crash, audio was fine and the game was clearly still running. Eventually was able to get into task manager and back to the game but from there the screen was all shot to shit to the point where even tabbed out with the game running my desktop was jacked. Quitting the game fixed it. I have had some world glitches too like the game will tell me to tab to hack something and I do it but the hack menu doesn't come up. I played the Street Kid prologue and enjoyed it. I am going to play the other two and then figure out which one to stick with. I am generally a ranged/gun guy and I am pretty sure I will go that route...melee weapons seem pretty strong though. The perk choices are overwhelming to start. I went with combat regen in Body first, that seems pretty handy for any combat build. This game looks like it is going to wreck sales figures. 1 million peak players today just on Steam.
  24. Hozz

    Dragon Age

    I liked the first one and Inquisition had its moments. Did not like the combat changes for DA2, definitely did not finish.
  25. Nice find. In for the book on Jagged Alliance 2!
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