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    His Dark Materials

    Just finished season 2. Found it very good and interesting, better than season 1. They had no problem killing people off cause there's only one season left.
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    NBA 2020-2021: The Dubs Empire Strikes Back

    Too bad he didn't call glass. That was luck.
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    HDTVs

    Picked up the 85" when Costco had it on sale for $1970 a few weeks ago. Only sucky thing about it is the in box stand, which wouldn't fit on my console and probably wouldn't fit on most others as well. Had to order a center mount stand on Amazon but as a bonus it also looks better than the...
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    The Expanse

    First few episodes hitting in a few days... https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/12/the-expanse-s5-review-the-show-is-bigger-bolder-and-better-than-ever/
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    Dune (2020)

    Yeah I'll gladly pay the fee to support this movie. I'd also gladly pay $30 on top of the monthly sub for this particular movie to watch from home if the theater experience isn't fully back up and running yet (though hopefully it will be.)
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    Home buying thread

    2.25% is great, good luck finding any lower. I just closed on a new construction a few weeks ago where I locked a 2.5% using loan depot a few months ago. This was through the builders "lender." At the time, guy told me the other lock he did that day was the first time he'd ever locked a 2.5%...
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    NBA 2020-2021: The Dubs Empire Strikes Back

    Hornets can't draw FAs unless they overpay. Hayward seemed on track to be worth that kind of money when he was ending with Utah. When he finally got healthy again in Bos there just wasn't enough ball to go around for him to put up those kind of numbers again, whether he was healthy enough or...
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    NBA 2020-2021: The Dubs Empire Strikes Back

    Just when I was starting to get excited about hoops again for the first time in about 18 months since that piece of shit Danny Green took out Klay. I was really looking forward to the draft, sit down tonight and turn on ESPN, see all these tweets on the bottom of the screen from Lebron and...
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    HDTVs

    Costco gonna have the X900h 85" for $1970 starting Nov 20th... may have to wait for this deal.
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    HDTVs

    Debating between a X900H 85" ($2600) or a X950H 75" ($2400). This is for an 18' x 16' room with a lot of natural light and nice views that I won't want to have to block too often, so I'm thinking the smaller 950H is the way I'll go for the 1200 nits and wider viewing angles.
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    RIP Sean Connery

    Double post..
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    RIP Sean Connery

    RIP Meeestah Bond. Last Crusade The Rock Finding Forrester Red October Some of my favorite movies at various points. In addition to being raised to know he was the one true Bond.
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    NBA 2019-2020 Season: Kawhi Saved Us

    I was only saying that because Yamikazo was comparing them to those Mavs. You missed the whole point of my post, like I said.
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    NBA 2019-2020 Season: Kawhi Saved Us

    You missed my whole point which is that the Heat are not as good as the 2011 Mavs, and the Lakers aren't even as good as the 2011 Heat. Yes Butler is good, my point is he is not a GREAT offensive player. And don't even try to claim he is. Davis is great, but Davis+2020 Lebron are not as...
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    NBA 2019-2020 Season: Kawhi Saved Us

    The Heat are not as good as those Mavs, not even close really. The Mavs had a top 20ish all time player, arguably top 10ish all time offensively, playing the best ball of his career. ENORMOUS advantage in the playoffs when you have a guy like that you can go to. These Heat have.. a top 20ish...
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    NBA 2019-2020 Season: Kawhi Saved Us

    Everything Stephen A. said is true though, and he doesn't go far enough tbh. Lebron made 7 straight finals by - banding together with another top 5 player and top 20 player in his own conference, creating a legit superteam while almost all competition in the East was gutted. Then when his...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Amazon just announced their own game streaming service so they'd probably prefer to sell fewer of each and more of their own garbage service.
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    NBA 2019-2020 Season: Kawhi Saved Us

    Perkins was an overrated 5th wheel whose role could have been replicated by any number of bigs. I think Rivers is an overrated whiner for sure that definitely didn't help them to win any more. Health and age were also a problem. Trading Kendrick Perkins is wayy down in the list of reasons why...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Flight Sim seems like a compelling exclusive case for getting a series X to me. Haven't upgraded my PC in 8 years, and think I'd rather just get a series X to play it on at this point (assuming it comes to XBOX relatively soon.) Anybody could have fun fucking around on that game in the comfort...
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    NBA 2019-2020 Season: Kawhi Saved Us

    Lol bitch ass got posterized and gargled nuts
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    Dune (2020)

    Nope.
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    Investing General Discussion

    Yes its undoubtedly the user base, and the fact that Microsoft has no inroads currently on young social media. So they'd be willing to pay more than say Facebook or Google who already have tons of young eyeballs and probably their own similar platforms tied to Youtube and IG / FG. (I don't...
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    Investing General Discussion

    Lame. Should just ban it. Don't give China all that money for something that will undoubtedly be repro'd here. Give them a taste of their own medicine.
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    Investing General Discussion

    But in this case it could be even more a trailing indicator because of allowed mortgage forbearance and FED help. Bottom line is that the government is going to do everything in its power to try to avoid a 2008 repeat. They're going to push for mortgage forbearance, they're going to keep...
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    Home buying thread

    Some not so great rates on there. I've been planning to use Wells Fargo for a while - not sure if I will in the end, but they had super competitive rates for a while because of all the negative publicity they had with that account nonsense. Not as great relatively as they were last year, but...
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    Home buying thread

    I've been using a Redfin realtor for the past couple years that I've been pretty happy with. Any realtor could suck, but a couple things about using Redfin that are nice - You get a little refund when purchasing, though this is a small benefit. 1-3k or so. The agent doesn't receive a...
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    Home buying thread

    I think taking advantage of low interest rates is a really bad reason to buy right now. The FED is going to do everything it can to keep them suppressed for a long, long while. It will not increase the FED funds rate for a couple years at least. If you have job uncertainty, i wouldn't...
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    Investing General Discussion

    So the only concern is what largely helped bring Macs back as a serious option when Apple switched from Power PC 15 years ago will be gone... its a very different world now, but how many Mac users out there still lean heavily on the x86 compatibility to be able to boot Windows when needed and...
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    Investing General Discussion

    25 to 1 reverse split. Price would be $0.60 if not for that.
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    Investing General Discussion

    The initial drop from +400 to around 0 was due to the NY shutdown. After the Trump et al briefing things kind of drifted between -200 to +100ish for a long while. The bigger selling wasn't until the last couple hours. Yeah I've heard rumors of further lockdowns coming soon. Thought of buying...
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    Investing General Discussion

    Didn't seem to be that ? They didn't start dropping more significantly til long after the briefing.
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    Investing General Discussion

    Cuomo just announced allowing only essential personnel to keep working for now in NY. Dow was dropping like a rock, went from +400 to negative in a couple minutes. Looks like its stabilized though for now around even from yesterday's close interestingly. Seems like a lot of resistance in the...
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    Investing General Discussion

    How confident are you on JPM now though ? Won't they have more trouble making money as rates approach zero ? Honest question. I've seen smart people saying recently that US banks will get destroyed if rates go negative (a la Deutsche.) And the market was pricing in another 100 bp cut...
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    NBA 2019-2020 Season: Kawhi Saved Us

    Giannis not a free agent til after next season. I'm not betting anything on him demanding a trade before that. He'll play out his contract and see whats up in 2021. Bucks will try to extend him with the supermax, and it he might give signals to them about hesitance to stick around at that...
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    NBA 2019-2020 Season: Kawhi Saved Us

    You couldn't have drawn this season up much better for the Warriors so far really. Klay / Steph / Draymond get tons of rest. Gives them a chance to recharge / remotivate themselves after a long 5 years stretch. Trade D-Lo for a more useful player (overpaid but can at least play a little more...
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    Investing General Discussion

    Holy shit.. 10-year treasury yield is at 0.48% right now. The money is flowing into bonds endlessly.
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    Investing General Discussion

    During trading today it was noted that the 10-year yield dropped under 0.9% for the first time ever (well duh its been all firsts lately but anyways.. ) And now 12 hours later its just dropped under 0.8%. I think it was just a week ago it dropped under 1.3% for the first time ever... odds of...
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    NBA 2019-2020 Season: Kawhi Saved Us

    Probably cause he's not 60+ ? I mean we've all seen the video of him hobbling out for game 7, but not many here watched the dude play. I loved watching Knicks ball in the 90's. I'd think of 20+ guys or moments from that era on before I ever got to Willis Reed. Starks dunk over Jordan and...
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    Investing General Discussion

    Fear is still through the roof. Futures pointing down again. 10-year treasury yield smashed through below 1.3% yesterday for the first time ever... Its gone down another 10 BPs today and is now below 1.2%. If there's any kind of bounce in the next week, it could just be setting up for another...
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    Investing General Discussion

    10-year yield has dropped over 8 BP's tonight to just under 1.39% now. Hell, that 100 pt S&P drop could potentially all come tomorrow. Futures currently showing down 70, DOW down 550.