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  1. The Custom Shop relics have gotten pretty damn convincing. The EVH mural outside the Sunset Guitar Center looks stellar, but inside the guitar room in the back is still worth the price of admission. I don't know who homeboy on the left was, but he was super tatted and super nice and playing a non-reissue '54 gold top plugged into some old-ass Hiwatt (a brand I really don't know shit about) and the two sales dudes were fawning over him.
  2. Yeah. Alienware m15 R4 with an RTX 3080 doing the heavy lifting. It can push that 49" monitor (effectively a 6k panel) at a comfortable 140Hz. It's crazy what laptops can do these days.
  3. If not a chair, check out a wheel base of some sort (Wheel Stand Pro kind of thing) since a sturdy mount is the best upgrade next to a wheel. But for seats, if you don't want to go the aluminum profile route, check out Next Level Racing's rigs. I started with a GTTrack and that thing was rock solid. But they have quite a few good solutions up and down the lineup. In other news, I decided to upgrade the button cluster to a Podium Button Module. Should have just done this in the first place, those other buttons didn't really solve any problems. Now I can map far more than I can remember which is a perfect amount.
  4. David Allen Coe.
  5. Have we already done this one?
  6. User name checks out?
  7. CSL DD is the first big disruptor to hit this market. I was wave 1 for the pre-order, and while we're waiting for fulfillment I came across a killer deal on the DD2 (which was very lucky since there are NO deals to be had with sim racing gear atm) so I cancelled. Had I not I'd be eagerly anticipating it with the 180W power supply. I don't know how Thrustmaster intend to respond (properly), but they need to quickly. Once the CSL DD becomes stocked, that segment will be on lock.
  8. Got to hang out with this dude today.
  9. Very cool place to visit (and the Drum Exchange next door). Parking sucks ass, because Chicago. You're also not far from Wrigley, so if you can time it right... Hopefully the demo room where they had the cleanest '68 Super Reverb I've ever seen in person is open and the amp is still there. Pick a wicked guitar off the wall and check that thing out. Really, all the demo rooms had cool stuff to crank so I doubt you'll be left wanting. The wall of LPs is something else, too. Post some pics if it works out! It's a bucket-list-type place, imo.
  10. We've jumped the shark 6 or 7 times now. Not a bad effort.
  11. Coincidentally, some of my justification was along the lines of, "we can use it to teach the kids how to drive, safely, and without the need to carry some extra personal asset protecting insurance."
  12. So I've been getting into racing sims and upgraded my trusty Logitech G29 to a direct drive setup by Fanatec. Brother, let me tell you, it's a whole different immersive experience. Covid sent racing sim interest into the stratosphere, and there are a bunch of products that elevate the experience - you can achieve quite a lot of fidelity nowadays. Here's what I ended up with so far: Fanatec DD2 wheel base Fanatec R300 wheel and a 2021 Limited Edition F1 wheel Fanatec Clubsport Pedals V3 Inverted Fanatec Clubsport Shifter SQ and Handbrake Sim Lab P1-X racing cockpit (Sparco Evo II US seat) Samsung Odyssey G9 49" curved display that switches duty with an Oculus Quest 2 Alienware M15 w/ RTX 3080 I'm looking into adding a seat mover (like Next Level Racing's Motion Platform V3), but there are options here, like those from DOFReality. Other than that, I might collect a few more wheels, but the setup is pretty done for a while. The way all the road information gets transmitted to the wheel is something else. You get some great force feedback with the Logitech, but it caps at around 2.5 Nm of force. That's not a lot of headroom to convey it all. The DD2, on the other hand, has 25 Nm of force at the ready, coupled with a free-floating, non-geared drive shaft that feels like butter to spin, which is enough to break your wrists (not broken bones, but broken grip - I GUESS it could break your bones too if you crank up the juice and don't pay attention, who knows...) and deliver an immersive experience like no other. After I skill up a bit, I'll try my hand at racing with the crazies in iRacing. Steam's current sale has the year membership at $30, so that's almost a no-brainer. If anyone else wants to hop on and race in Project Cars 1, 2, 3, Assetto Corsa Competizione, Assetto Corsa, or rFactor 2, holler. I'll try any game, just pick your poison.
  13. BoomMF

    Led Zeppelin

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  14. ...and a Gigrig TBH.
  15. Karen Carpenter is like the female Merle Haggard imo. Not much range to speak of, but a complete and total master of the range she does have. She had a tonal quality that was able to effortlessly lament in that sincere way that never gets tiring. She has Billie Holiday's believability without the fatigue you feel after 3 songs. She's in the top 5.
  16. Team Overcompensatingly Large Pedalboard We have a bit of overlap: I rock a pre-cease-and-desist Muffroom Cloud, though. No big deal. You probably need to try out a Riverside. Just a hunch.
  17. I've been checking out his upcoming tour page and it's been a while since there's been any activity. I hope I didn't miss the window, but looking at some vids of his most recent performances, that window is closing pretty damn fast regardless. I picked up both his LPs recently so did what little I could to give back.
  18. The feels I get when he breaks down at the end... Powerful moment given his life's trajectory. And it's a great live cover. Sent from my SM-T970 using Tapatalk
  19. You probably right af.
  20. David Allen Coe, Dale Earnhardt(?), GOAT, Brooks and Dunn or Dunn and Brooks, who's to say...
  21. Villainous is such a great game, and perfect to gateway people into board games - it's a theme that everyone "gets" and has a base interest in from the start. That wooden box under the Villainous collection is from a guy on Etsy that holds the entire series and I haul it to family get-togethers. He also made the Marvel Champions box up there that performs the same function. I'm a sucker for collections being in one box because I hate choosing. And speaking of recent interest in D&D, have y'all noticed the pricing for the books, even recently printed books? Tasha's alt cover, which is only a few months old, fetches $100 on eBay. All the alt covers, even for unpopular titles like Saltmarsh, have shot up. I'm never going to get Volo's alt at this rate. That thing hit $1000 now. When I mentioned it earlier in this thread it was around $350. That looks like the golden age at this point. Ravenloft's alt, which isn't even 2 weeks old, has sold out and is already about to eclipse Tasha pricing. Ridiculous.
  22. According to this thread, May is my anniversary month. So, one more again, here's the shelfie one year after the last. This has to be the end. There's no more room for another 5x5! This time last year the collection was in a 4x4 and bursting at the seams. Covid overcorrection.
  23. At a stoplight somewhere outside Miami and in the distance is this big ass hotel shaped like a Les Paul. So Flordia wins.
  24. That's the route I went. Seemed to just make sense when I was putting together the home studio to go the mic modeling route and Sweetwater had the silver ML-1 for $699, making the decision between the Slate or a Townsend easier. Picked up all the available mic packs for it, too. The 800G is my go-to, but jumping around applying different mics after-the-fact is its own fun little diversion, and sometimes even illuminating. Were I to do it over again, I'd go the amp modeling route sooner, too.
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