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Hozz

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  1. What is the thinking behind conference games being safer to play?
  2. That was a cool story. I bet someone could make a good movie out of that.
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    The Boys

    I have read that S2 has a lot more Black Noir.
  4. I think its a great show. That said I can't dispute a lot of the criticisms over the past 4 pages of this thread. I guess they just bother me a lot less. I wanted to re-watch S1/2 before watching S3 and had put it off, but I watched all 30 over the past month or so including about the last 15 in just two days. I thought S3 was the weakest of the three seasons but I still enjoyed it to the point where I could not help myself from starting the next episode. For some specific criticism, I think they tried to do way too much in the 10 episodes they had to work with. Highlighting this was the last episode which felt ridiculously rushed. Like Marty got some stills to an FBI agent that resulted in US interdiction in Mexico against the rival cartel in a matter of hours? The worst written plot, to me, was by far the Darlene-Ruth-KC Mob triangle. Nonsensical. The show runners could have crowdsourced a more sensible plot from Reddit. I found that one GoT S8 levels of bad. Navarro's character didn't work for me at all. What was the point of rendering Marty and torturing him for a week? lol because he had spyware on his wife's phone? And how can you drop him back down a hole after he fixes your flagged offshore account in seconds? He's clearly worth keeping around just for that. Finally, I don't get all the Ben hate. That actor is going to win every award a TV show supporting actor can win.
  5. How is the PS5 IO twice as fast as the Xbox? I think a lot of people, especially console gamers who have never experienced an SSD in an OEM console, significantly underestimate the overall impact an SSD has on the overall gaming experience.
  6. Timney makes a very nice drop in 10/22 trigger replacement. It is one of the best single stage triggers I have ever pulled. Downside is that it costs almost as much as the rifle.
  7. I read that HBO Max has all the Bachelor and Bachelorette seasons in its library. Can anyone with HBO Max confirm? What about BIP?
  8. Yeah the NBA is shitting the bed IMO. Getting restarted way too slowly and going too deep into football season. Then, what are they going to do about next season? The two month shift start at Christmas end in early August is a great idea to further avoid football...but how are they going to squeeze the off season, the draft and training camp into the space between October 12 and December 25?
  9. Rotten is pretty good. Six in the first season and that's all I've watched. Each episode tackles a specific food or produce industry and then proceeds to get into one or more issues affecting it. Spoiler alert: China is fucking everyone on yet another front: Narrator sounds like a poor man's Rob Lowe. You can pick any one of the six and watch it, if you like it you'll like the rest if you don't, you won't.
  10. Do people consider the Spurs 99 title legitimate? The strike shortened (or lockout, whatever happened) 50 game-ish season after Jordan retired for the 2nd time and the Bulls were broken up? I bet most people don't even remember or know that about it. This is definitely different from that but a title is a title and all the teams got 60+ games in during the regular season up to this point, which was more than that 99 season. I think under the current circumstances the regular 1-8 conference seeding makes the most sense here with 3-5 regular season games for a week or two ahead of the playoffs. As for where to play them, I think they are overthinking it. The Vegas or Orlando scenarios are interesting but they could probably just play them in the normal arenas with some capacity adjustments. The NBA pushing back the season start to Christmas is long overdue. If I am running a pro sports league the last one I want to compete with is the NFL. June and July are terrible sports months currently, starting league play at Christmas makes them yours.
  11. I look at it by conference. To me, there is zero chance the SEC does not play. I can't see any scenario they aren't playing short of multiple dead players, which seems unlikely. Big 12 will also play. Probably with more caveats than the SEC, ie less fans in the stands. Big 10 would be next, I am pretty sure they play but maybe with no fans. ACC I don't have a read on, Clemson will find a way though I am sure. Pac 12 is the one that I worry about. I think there is a 50/50 shot they don't play at all mostly due to local politics.
  12. I think Outer Banks is fucking great. Surprisingly so. It seemed like it would be too 'young adult' for me and the main plot is a little hokey. All the other stuff really works though. The high school clique dynamic is spot on and the kids are depicted accurately as drinking drugging fighting and trying to get laid in a way that very much reminds me of my own experience, minus the occasional gun. The girl that plays Sarah Cameron is an absolute smoke show.
  13. I could not get into it...don't think I even made it half way. Not sure I laughed even once. I loved his show in the 90s and enjoy his comics cars and coffee gig.
  14. Operation Odessa was fantastic. Tarzan needs a podcast.
  15. Yeah that is crazy to me. Growing up in Houston, and probably anywhere in Texas, you were brought up to think Blue Bell is like some mystical shit other states don't have and that its the best ice cream you can get. I remember reading the label for the first time and thinking what the fuck is all this chemical bullshit?
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    Brandon Jones

    Rooting for him more than normal. He was one of our best tacklers. He often took a perfect angle on pursuing the ball carrier even when deep or starting from the other side of the field.
  17. I love IWI stuff so I am definitely biased. I have an X95 in 5.56, a Galil Ace in 7.62x39 and their newish optic ready 9mm pistol, the Masada. I did replace the triggers in the X95 and the Ace. X95 trigger replacement was not worth the price. ALG makes a version of the AKT for the Ace and that absolutely was worth it. Also replaced the handguard on the Ace with an MLOK model from RS Regulate. There is another company that makes them now too, for less. Forget who they are now. People say the X95 is not as accurate as the Tavor...that may be true but I am not as accurate as either and neither is the cheap steel I shoot through it most of the time. I like my X95 a lot and when I let people shoot it, they are smiling when they hand it back to me. I got my Ace in 7.62x39 because it is about the best factory AK in that chamber around. Recently suppressed I shot some subsonic 196gr Brown Bear through it. The pings on a steel target from 100 yards are arguably louder than what you hear when you pull the trigger. Normally I shoot based on price per round so I like lots of cheap Russian steel for the most part. This is steel and Russian, but its about 50 cents a round which is not cheap to me. But it will be hard to go back to full speed cheap from the subsonic. Masada is an impressive gun at its price point. I think I paid $500 for a pistol with optic bundle. Especially considering IWI shit usually is not reasonably priced. Honestly it reminds me of an improved G19, at least out of the box from the factory. 3 dot sights and trigger are vastly superior to my factory gen3 G19. Ergonomics are subjective but I think Masada wins there too. Standard mag is 17 v 15, in favor of Masada as well. Also, the optics ready slide. This was my first pistol to mount an optic and I liked it more than I thought I would. One downside is there don't seem to be any threaded barrels for the Masada. Never shot or handled a Scar.
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    Gears Tactics

    Have not played anything in a while and this was not even on my radar until a few days ago. Preload up on Steam and unlocks April 28. Strong XCOM vibe + over the top violence/everything from Gears franchise. https://www.gearstactics.com/ https://www.youtube.com/embed/9QJRZNrD6XU
  19. The CARES act, I read anyway, has some forbearance plan for FHA loans in it. I want to say up to a year in 90 day intervals. Might be worth looking into. I filed 2018 taxes but not 2019, yet. Stimulus money posted to checking account on April 15.
  20. Sorry to read this. I've had to put down three dogs and they were all brutal experiences.
  21. sgammo.com still has some stuff at close to normal pricing. I ordered Sunday and they shipped 1k 7.62x39 on Monday and I got it yesterday. Texas sales tax on it now sure does suck. A buddy of mine uses www.targetsportsusa.com because of that, no tax allegedly, flat rate shipping, havent ordered from there myself.
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    Tiger King

    Allegedly they are going to add another episode to this in the next week or so.
  23. Not a lot of actual debate there, and that's not the forum for me. I don't think I posted anything political. I think its worth talking about. If we can bet on death tolls surely we can debate public policy responses to this virus here as well.
  24. So preventing one death is worth how many jobs exactly?
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