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Hellraiser97

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  1. I have never heard the term commodork before! That looks pretty cool.
  2. I pulled a Pong machine from my Dad's house over Christmas. Damn thing still works! Been thinking about buying a dead C64 and putting a RaspberryPi in there for fun.
  3. The original campaign was so bad, and the whole interface so unrefined, that I never got far. Apparently they fixed a lot of the interface and other complaints with the expansions. I knew some people that played mods online for several years. They only gave it up because they had basically played through every decent mod. Figured it might be worth giving a chance again.
  4. Never really got into NWN (though I played the shit out of NWN2), but I own the whole damn thing. Finally going to to run through it and some of the mods that are highly rated, may even fire up an online game with some friends, but curious if anyone has got the Enhanced Edition? Big thing seems to be that multi-player works a lot easier now.
  5. Do they still do the buffet at North Star? Used to love that but it’s been 15 years I think since I’ve had it Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  6. I like Kerby but it’s mainly because my kids love their pancakes and I can take them there for kids eat free dinner and get a decent dinner myself. I like their breakfast but it’s nothing out of this world. I haven’t exactly been dining out a ton since I moved back three years ago but I’m amazed at how blah I find pretty much every Mexican place. Flores, Maude’s, Santa Rita, Matt’s El Rancho - they’re all good but nothing exceptional. I really have no preference of one over the other. One thing I find vastly over rated is most of these brewery/distilleries in southwest Austin. If they have a nice outdoor place for the kids, I’m in, but otherwise I’ve found most of their drinks and just about all their food to be mediocre at best Yeah an P Terry’s blows. Are their the first week I was back as a bunch of people told me how great it was. It’s just an over priced McDonalds Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  7. Yeah this is the deal. I'd have no issue living in some tiny town as long as I was a reasonable drive to a major city (1 to 1.5 hours), but I'd never do that to my kids. My in-laws live in Graham, TX, moved their when my wife went to college, and I can't imagine raising kids there.
  8. The number one thing driving our real estate prices is people moving here, tourism (AirBnB, etc) has a marginal effect. We have had roughly 30k people moving here year for over a decade which means we need roughly 15k new housing units each year to keep equilibrium. The best we’ve done is 13,500. It’s basic supply and demand. Code Next was supposed to help address that imbalance but of course the NIMBY crowd has gutted it Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  9. I found it hilarious when Will Wheaton read the line calling Will Wheaton an old geezer
  10. Greatest group of assholes in Britannia? I'm in. So I had an account when it first launched. I played for a few months, never got very far in it or did anything special with my character. Would it be worth it to try to revive this, or just do a new account?
  11. Can we get this moved to the new book forum?
  12. Just finished Red Rising. Not a bad book, but after having read the Hunger Games and a few others of that genre, it seemed kind of just more of the same. Going to read the next book to see if it gets more interesting as I think it sets up an cool universe.
  13. “If it weren’t for the slit between their legs, we’d be hunting them.” - friend of mine named George Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  14. Guaranteed money the husband was watching at some point.
  15. I read that as Latin hot teacher and was disappointed/confused when I opened this thread.
  16. Yeah, I was not convinced he was innocent, but if the evidence had been portrayed at the trial like it was in the podcast (which of course has no standard to measure against), I could not have returned a guilty verdict.
  17. Mine went up about 5% (Circle C area). I'm going to protest it, but really its not that far off from the sales I've seen in this area. As for protesting, unless there is something really weird about your property, or just not a lot of comparables, you're wasting money using those services. Takes less than an hour of your time typically. 1) Request the hearing (done online) and go for the absolute latest. You want everyone else to do the majority of the work first. 2) Find comps, use redfin or similar, that justify the price you're trying to get down to. 3) Go to the informal hearing, have them re-run the matrix. You get the benefit of everyone else that has already protested their taxes and gotten them lowered. Chances are that will be as low as you're going to get if there's any type of robust market in your area. If not, present your comps. They may accept them, they may not and you have to go to the formal hearing. I've never had to do that though. 4) No profit, but you'll need slightly less lube at the end of the day.
  18. Given how completely ignorant his lawyer was on all things internet (and seems likely he's not any better), I'd say he probably thinks he can keep it running and make a bunch of money. Obviously spite was part of this, but generally you don't get to be a multi-millionaire by spending hundreds of thousands of dollars just to be spiteful.
  19. Remain calm!
  20. Since there is no book forum yet, figured this is the closest fit. The master list courtesy of Texas Town:
  21. FAC for the book forum
  22. We getting one in the entertainment group?
  23. Fuck kevin
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