Jump to content

Hellraiser97

Full Members
  • Posts

    308
  • Joined

Posts posted by Hellraiser97

  1. My brother is on Book 7 I believe (Last Audiobook currently available) and he said it's really non-stop action and intense, kind of having trouble listening for more than brief periods.

    I'm on Book 5, just keep loving it!

     

    Spoiler

    Samantha is my current favorite side character.  Holy crap she cracks me up.

     

    • Hook 'Em 1
  2. 6 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:

    Does anyone know a person in Austin that could install a TV antenna on the outdoor second story of our house? I have coax run to each room already but the person would I assume tie into the coax line in the attic. I could probably figure it out and do it myself, but I just don't want to mess with it.

    Don't bother with that.  Get one of the rectangle flat ones you stick to the wall.  I have an Airbnb in East Austin and I run three TVs with one of those things.  It can take a bit of adjusting to find the reight spot, but it won't take long.  

  3. On 8/24/2025 at 5:02 PM, dec3169 said:

    Fox One bundle with ESPN Unlimited hits October 2nd I believe.  Fox One is out now but when the bundle happens It will be $39.99 for both.

    https://espnpressroom.com/us/press-releases/2025/08/espn-dtc-and-fox-one-to-launch-combined-bundle-offer/

      Hide contents

    The ESPN DTC offering will give fans access to all of ESPN’s linear networks – ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, SECN, ACCN, ESPNEWS, ESPN Deportes – in addition to ESPN on ABC, ESPN+, SECN+, and ACCNX, covering 47,000 live events each year, on-demand replays, studio shows, original programming, as well as newly expanded NFL content and more. For more information about ESPN DTC, visit Stream.ESPN.com.

    FOX One will bring all of FOX’s leading News, Sports and Entertainment branded content together in one dynamic streaming platform. For the first time, cord-cutters and cord-nevers will have live streaming and on-demand access to the real-time thrills, bold voices, and defining stories across the full portfolio of FOX brands including FOX News Channel, FOX Business, FOX Weather, FOX Sports, FS1, FS2, Big Ten Network, FOX Deportes, FOX Local Stations and the FOX Network as well as the option to bundle FOX Nation and B1G+ within one platform. The latest updates and information about the upcoming FOX One service are available at www.FOXOne.com.

     

    Quote

    Starting October 2

    What kind of dumbass shit is this?

  4. Not directly related to the books, but thought y'all might find this amusing.  My teenage daughter is into D&D and so I've told her about these books.  I was just finishing Book 3 and she asked me how it was.  I told her, "it's great, and I have a new favorite insult, fart goblin!"  She responds, "What about mind goblin?"  I say "What's that?" And she responds:  "MIND GOBLIN' DEEZ NUTZ?!?" and breaks out laughing.  Not sure if I should be horrifyed or proud.  Probably both.

    • Haha 4
  5. 1 hour ago, kevwun said:

    Keep poking them and they'll do an Epstein episode.

    Yes!  And it needs to be like when the did the scientologists with the text flashing "THIS IS WHAT THEY ACTUALLY BELIEVE!"  

    • Hook 'Em 1
  6. I did Sling last year on their 4 month college football package.  I think it was like $275 or $300 and ran from the first game through at least the beginning of the playoffs (I think the title game was right after my package expired).  I don't see that package this year.  This year it looks like you have to do the Blue + Orange package plus the sports pack to get all the ESPN, SEC network, and Fox Sports games.  And it does not include most locals.  But it was cheaper per month than what I saw Youtube TV for.

  7. 1 hour ago, Js1 said:

    I think, for some, it will watch better as a binge

    But I do laugh when I see people get "mad" that they're waiting weekly for a 20-22 minute episode.

    Like.... same as pre-streaming, with commercials? Back when we watched new episodes each week of The Office or 30 Rock? 

    Yeah, I find it frustrating to wait now (spoiled) but at the same time, when I do binge, either because they release a season all at once or I just wait to watch it, I miss the banter with friends the following week (and online) about the latest episode like I used to have with Lost, Battlestar Galactica, etc.

  8. I'm curious about that as well. I can listen to an audiobook while I'm doing something else, like driving or folding laundry, and I feel like I retain it pretty well, but if I try to just sit down and listen to one, my mind will wander and I'll barely pay attention, much less retain anything.  For non-fiction books, if it's something I have a really strong interest in, I can listen and retain.  Like for instance, I listed to a book about Narcissim while going through a divorce.  That held my attention really well as it got me thinking about a lot of things.  However, I've tried some self-help or professinal development books, and I just can't pay attention or retain it.

    I will say on the fiction, if it's a really complex book with a ton of characters (and those characters disappear for large portions at a time), I sometimes have difficulty.  I just finished the Stormlight series and in the later books I was constantly confusing which character was which.

     

  9. I'm on episode 5.  I'm enjoying it, but I get what some of you said about not caring about any of the characters.  It's basically just easy entertainment while I'm on the exercise bike.

  10. My brother suggested DCC to me a while back and I added it to my audiobook queue.  Just finished it last week.  Absolutely brilliant!  The voice actin on the audiobook really takes it to the next level.  Need to get the next book.

    • Hook 'Em 1
  11. I'm about 99% on audibooks, especially due to my weekly commute to Dallas from Austin.  I have trouble focusing when it's non-fiction, though occassionaly one has kept my attention.  I've posted most of what I've listened to in the Scifi/Fantasy thread, but I'll post some of them here later.

    • Hook 'Em 1
  12. It also restarted the whole Zombie genre.  There hadn't been anything, at least mainstream, since the 70's.  I didn't see it when it came out, only watched it a few weeks ago.  Agree the lo-fi was a bit tough, but still enjoyed it.

    I neither love nor hate 28 years later.  I was ok with the heavy human drama aspect, but the more out there stuff the director did (which I know is his style) and the tone shift at the end, didn't sit well with me.

  13. 16 hours ago, Elvis said:

    Any recommendations for "hard" sci-fi books?  I read a book a long time ago that was in that catagory.  I can't remember the name though.  It was very nerdy.  I liked the complex explanations of the physics that seamed close enough to reasonable.

    I just grabbed Carbide Tipped Pens based on no information other than: it's an anthology, about 13 hours long, and reviews had some good hard sci-fi things to say.

     

    https://www.amazon.com/Carbide-Tipped-Pens-Seventeen-Science/dp/0765334313

    Hard science fiction is the literature of change, rigorously examining the impact-both beneficial and dangerous-of science and technology on humanity, the future, and the cosmos. As science advances, expanding our knowledge of the universe, astounding new frontiers in storytelling open up as well.

    In 
    Carbide Tipped Pens, over a dozen of today's most creative imaginations explore these frontiers, carrying on the grand tradition of such legendary masters as Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, and John W. Campbell, while bringing hard science fiction into the 21st century by extrapolating from the latest scientific developments and discoveries. Ranging from ancient China to the outer reaches of the solar system, this outstanding collection of original stories, written by an international roster of authors, finds wonder, terror, and gripping human drama in topics as diverse as space exploration, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, climate change, alternate history, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, interplanetary war, and even the future of baseball.

    From tattoos that treat allergies to hazardous missions to Mars and beyond, from the end of the world to the farthest limits of human invention, 
    Carbide Tipped Pens turns startling new ideas into state-of-the art science fiction.

    Includes short stories by Ben Bova, Gregory Benford, Robert Reed, Aliette de Bodard, Jack McDevitt, Howard Hendrix, Daniel H. Wilson, and many others!

     

    81HrycFUD7L._SL1500_.jpg

    I think pretty much anything by Adrian Tchaikovsky falls into that category.  I know specifically that the Children of Time series was considered Hard Sci-Fi.

     
     
  14. Just finished book 1 of Dungeon Crawler Carl.  Absolutely hilarious.  As usual, I'm listening to it rather than reading, and the narrator is just top notch.  Really makes it even funnier.

  15. On 7/2/2025 at 5:12 PM, Rimbo said:

    I'm struggling to finish the first one.

    Yeah, I struggled with it too.  WAY too much setup for me.

    On 7/2/2025 at 5:19 PM, Chewbacca said:

    I really enjoyed the first 3.  The 4th dragged on in spots and the 5th was a struggle to get through.

    I enjoyed Books 2 and 3 a lot.  I think I actually may have skipped booked 4.  I have it on Audible, and it says finished, but I think I might have accidentally marked it finsihed.  There was a lot going on in Book 5 that I didn't remember.  

    On 7/2/2025 at 6:00 PM, Chewbacca said:

    Reading these books with a due date would be tough indeed.

    I read the Game of Thrones books largely that way.  I ended up getting Calibre and stripping the DRM from the checked out books so I could finish them.

    • Hook 'Em 1
  16. Pumped for this.  I am curious to see how they handle Ryland's resistance to the mission.  It seems from the preview it will be different than the book, but maybe I'm not remembering it well.

×
×
  • Create New...