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Hozz

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  1. Amazon Fresh is a superb service if you have it available. Free two hour delivery window for any order over $35, so usually with this option it takes 2 hours and change to get to you. $5 if you want a 1 hour window sooner. You do tip but what is not having to go to the store worth to you? Probably more than the tip they suggest. Probably more than double. They do beer/wine too but then you have to show id to accept delivery whereas normally they just set it on the porch and text you. I had one bad experience where a bag of cold items was not at all accounted for (usually they have insulated bags for longer trips or they just prioritize delivery for orders with cold items) and was like room temp when I got it. Amazon processes the 'return' like any other order but then at the end they tell you 'Just kidding, we don't want rotten shit sent back to us. Keep it." For the most part inventory is a mix of Wholefoods brands and regular HEB type stuff you don't find in a Whole Foods. The meat has been nicer HEB level meat. Often times it is Pat LaFrieda brand stuff for HEB prices. Produce has been as good or better than what my wife normally picks out by hand. They have a real hard time keeping certain things in stock but for pretty much any type of grocery store item they are always going to have some option in stock just maybe not the size brand or count that you wanted. We have placed 6 orders of around $80-$150 total per order and literally aside from the one bag of stuff not being cold, they have made zero mistakes in terms of shorting us, wrong item, etc. Another thing that is nice about it is multiple people can shop from multiple devices (on the same account) over the course of a week or however long and it keeps the cart synced across them all. Sometimes things go out of stock this way or the price changes, but its pretty prominently displayed at the top of the order when this happens so at least you know and can adjust if need be. So it's kind of a high tech grocery list that delivers itself when you want it to.
  2. sportsurge.net has been fine for me since r/cfbstreams went away but I didn't want to chance it so I got the Sling trial a few hours before Texas Gameday was starting. I set everything up to record Gameday, the game itself and the post game. But then when I went to recordings...if it was something in progress it would just dump me to live. I could pause it but not rewind. So that sucked. UI in general not as slick as YouTube TV. Also the audio was slightly out of sync and it was very noticeable when someone was on camera talking. Finally, the video quality was poor. Much worse than YouTube TV. I have been with YouTube TV since it was like $30/month and the last price hike really fucking sucked but everything I have looked at to replace it just doesn't match the overall product that YouTube TV is and I guess they know it.
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    Wasteland 3

    I am playing on a PC. The load times are terrible. I have an SSD for Windows and an SSD for my games. My machine will cold boot to the login screen in 9-10 secs. Loading a save or transitioning an area takes ~30 seconds in the game. That said, the game is awesome. Any fans of Fallout 1/2 or Wasteland 2, this game is worth your time and money.
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    Wasteland 3

    Pleasant surprise...I didn't realize it was so close to release until a week or so ago. Steam shows an unlock at 7p central tonight.
  5. These are up for sale now.
  6. As was mentioned this came from a commercial for the EPL on NBC. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRqypM7jb5Y&t
  7. I finished a week or so ago. I thought it was one of the best games I've ever played.
  8. Read something about the ratings...they are down like 60% from last season. Speculation in the article was that it was the lowest rated Hard Knocks premier ever.
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  10. I signed up for a trial to get on board with Hard Knocks starting back up. There is no HBO Max app for Roku still but you can login into the old HBO app on there with your HBO Max account. It does not seem to have all the Max content but it has all the HBO content. You can also chromecast from the app on either Android or IOS.
  11. I love this show and it never gets old to me. I'm not even that big an NFL fan (fuck you Bud Adams). I watch RedZone and the playoffs. Liev Schreiber is a great narrator. The contrast between Lynn and McVay was...stark. One of them is sipping rose with his hot ass sex-robot looking wife and one of them is smoking ribs with a considerably more normal looking 50ish. Lynn seemed very blue collar. McVay seemed like Frank Caliendo playing Jon Gruden. I thought it was funny when Lynn snatched Derwin James' shades. The player's giving each other shit is always great. Last night when the dude said "I love his balls" lol, hilarious. The way the dude looked at the camera when the nurse told him "Just the tip. It won't hurt." That guy might have a future in comedy his timing was impeccable. Finally, McVay screaming at his team for shitting in the porta potties was a perfect way to close the episode. Hard Knocks is infinitely more watchable than an NFL preseason game and a great way to segue into the season.
  12. I don't get the impression OU is on board at all.
  13. I did this for the last predominantly white Texas week zeros...I think the 2017 ones. Might have been 2018. Anyway, one pair is dirty as hell to the point where I don't wear them and the other is brand new in the box still because I don't want to get them dirty...
  14. https://texassneakers.com/the-week-zero-tradition-continues-with-the-nike-air-zoom-pegasus-37-texas/ Looks like August 20 for $130. I don't think the design is their best work but I will be ordering them anyway.
  15. Watched Marco Polo over the weekend. It was easy to binge but not great. Very interesting setting but I think they took a lot of liberty with historical accuracy.
  16. Business of Drugs is good. 6 part series broken down by drug type, ~40 mins an episode.
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    2020 MLB thread

    I don't like watching baseball but I am very happy for the MLB to return. Hopefully they can manage any outbreaks well and the other popular team sports leagues can learn lessons from this and the NBA plan next week.
  18. What did you get? I think the most powerful piece of gear I got is the charm that heals you out of combat. You can get it very early in Act 1, its close to the archer guy's first quest location. I grinded all the minor tales I had before closing out Act 1. As soon as I finished Act 1 I got a whole bunch more tales immediately. This is a pretty big game.
  19. Last year's week zero Texas came out on July 22. So yeah they should be releasing pretty soon...I didn't see anything about them though with a casual Google. Usually some of the SB Nation team sites have preview pics a few weeks out.
  20. The game needs a respec mechanic. I have a lot of technique points spent that I don't ever really get anything out of. The Deflection tree overall is great but the last one costing 2 points really sucks. When you terrify dudes they straight sprint away from you full speed never to return. It's funny the first few times but then its annoying because you have to be quick with a bow to get them or you have to get on your horse if you want to run them down.
  21. There is a charm at one of the shrines near the first main area (it is near the fort you take with the first archer story mission) that adds to the parry, perfect parry and perfect dodge windows. Getting this helped me a lot. My favorite technique so far is probably standoff streak and its follow up. I love the standoff mechanic and being able to kill 3 enemies and be full resolve before the melee starts is pretty awesome. Maxing parry tree I also found super helpful. Perfect dodge is better than perfect parry but perfect dodge requires a lot more investment to get to and most of the techniques along the way are meh. The parry tree...pretty much all of them are good. Of the ghost weapons I found Kunai to be the most useful because they are super easy to deploy and stun up to 3 guys. When you get the double damage technique they kill most enemies if they are already wounded.
  22. I played for a couple of hours last night. Just on the default medium setting I am getting my ass killed constantly. The parry window seems tighter than most games that have that mechanic.
  23. I have something like this on an 870. I'd say it reduces felt recoil by at least half. Well worth it IMO. Mine is the Blackhawk SpecOps Gen 2.
  24. Open world action RPG set in 13th century Japan. Releases midnight Friday. Reviews are out as of yesterday, largely positive.
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    Yellowstone

    Sorry if this has been asked before...I didn't read through the thread. Are S1/S2 on any streaming service? I have Prime, Netflix and Hulu and they don't have it. I see S3 is on YouTube TV but we'd want to start from the beginning. TIA
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