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Hellraiser97

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  1. Release date for Book 8 is official! May 26th https://www.amazon.com/Parade-Horribles-Dungeon-Crawler-Carl/dp/B0FXY2JG27
  2. Posting on the football board as this directly affects watching CFB. Many of us, particularly older folks (and cheap bastards like me), rely on OTA boardcasts to watch a large numbers of games. Whether that's because boardcast channels aren't available (looking at you Sling) or just looking to cut costs (with the Sling daypass, I've been able to keep my costs this year under $50 total). Stole this from a reddit post in r/cordcutters: The FCC has reopened comments (deadline early 2026) on letting stations encrypt primary ATSC 3.0 channels — the exact thing that is already forcing CBS in some markets to fall back to lower-quality 1.0 or BLOCKING recording/playback entirely on HDHomeRun, Plex, Tablo, etc. If encryption wins without strong rules, we lose: • The ability to watch/record on the device we choose • Fair-use recording and ad-skipping • Truly free, open over-the-air TV on the public airwaves Public comments have stopped this before — they can again. Filing takes literally one minute here: → https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings/express Proceeding: 16-142 (no space before the number) Copy/paste examples (or write your own): Shorter version- Proceeding 16-142 The FCC charter for public broadcast TV provides that those radio frequencies are for the use by the public. ANY encryption at all on those frequencies violates that charter. Please ban encryption/DRM on primary ATSC 3.0 channels OR require permanent unencrypted ATSC 1.0 simulcasts. Free OTA should stay open to any antenna and any tuner — no paywall on public airwaves. Longer version- Proceeding 16-142 The FCC charter for public broadcast TV provides that those radio frequencies are for the use by the public. ANY encryption at all on those frequencies has been a violation of that charter. Any company that considers their content too valuable to broadcast unencrypted should not be granted a license to use the public airwaves. Encryption on primary broadcast channels would destroy over-the-air TV for millions who use HDHomeRun, Plex, Tablo, etc. I urge the FCC to prohibit redistribution-control descriptors on the main program stream OR make full-quality 1.0 simulcasts permanent for any station that encrypts its 3.0 signal. Every single comment submitted to the FCC gets read. Let’s not lose free OTA to DRM.
  3. Would it? The UK effectively bought every slave in the empire and didn't pay the debt off for a 150 years. Had they made the same offer to the US South, would there still have been so much desire to hang onto slavery?
  4. Some other things I learned in that mini series that I'd also never heard before was that at some point, maybe 1778 or 1779, the british bascially offered the colonials everything they had been asking for prior to the delcaration of independence, and that there was actually a fair amount of support for the colonials in Britain as those people viewed the Colonials as just fighting for the same rights every British citizen should have.
  5. I watched a BBC documentary mini-series about 20 years ago called Rebels and Redcoats. It was really great and it was the first time I'd heard the revolution described as a Civil War.
  6. RIP Scott I didn't know him well, but met him around the same time as Aus-97Horn. He was definitely a legend.
  7. Finished it book 7 on my drive last week. My new favorite line from the book:
  8. I know that was winning. It didn't feel like winning. It didn't really look like winning. But it was winning.
  9. Just started this last night after finishing up Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 7 (audiobook). I'm listening to this, but I may have to switch to reading. I'm about 20% in, story is interesting and drops in lots of little refreshers, without being a slog, since it's been about a decade since the last book. However, the narrator is driving me nuts. She's way too chipper and while her voicing the main character is fine, the way she is voicing all the male charaters is less than optimal.
  10. I am sad. I will likely finish Book 7 tomorrow on my drive to Dallas. I NEED the Book 8 audiobook to come out!!!!!
  11. Until we fix the offensive line issues, any QB we put back there is going to suck. Arch may never reach the potential everyone thought he had, but with an even decent offensive line, his performance would be markedly better.
  12. Just a reminder that it's been 741 days since 0U scored a TD on Texas.
  13. Agreed it's not a one to one comparrison, but no different than saying Mack got shut out while Sark never has. Sark has never faced teams like Mack did.
  14. Mack also never shut out OU, while Sark has.
  15. And this one earlier in the play
  16. This is the one they were talking about ont he TV. There's a better angle on the replay. It wasn't overly egregious I guess, but it certainly could have been called.
  17. I'm on the fence on this one. The story and characters I was 50/50 on. Some of their writing has always driven me nuts (the constant "Everything was exactly the same...except it wasn't"). What killed me though, and I had problems with the Expanse as well because of it, is the narrator (I listened to all of these). I just can't stand the way he enunciates things. When the next volume comes out, I think I'm going to try to actually read it.
  18. YOU ARE GEORGIA'S DADDY! Greatness
  19. https://www.amazon.com/Shattering-Peace-Old-Mans-War/dp/0765389193/ New book in John Scalzi's Old Man's War series. I really loved the first 6, hoping this one holds up.
  20. I modded my Wii years ago but only set up a couple emulators and then eventually switched to a RetroPie. I never really compared the performance though. Curious which one is better?
  21. 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!
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
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