Everything posted by Paul Wesley
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The Guitar Pron Thread
Very cool, Goredho. Fralin just makes the best-sounding stuff, right?
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The Guitar Pron Thread
Interesting guitar, and I was surprised they're only $450. You'll be able to get a used one in a year for even cheaper. Could be a fun little low-budget sidepiece sort of like a fun little low-budget sidepiece.
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What game in 24 are you Horns most excited about?
Too late to edit this sentence... but y'all know what I meant.
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What game in 24 are you Horns most excited about?
Also, I think Texas will be fine. The overall level of competition will step up, but so will the overall talent level at Texas. I mean, barring a decimating run of injuries or portal departures, the Texas OL of 2024 will likely be one of the two- or three-best offensive lines in college football.... just loaded with 5-star athletic freaks. Compare that offensive line to the patchwork bunch of below-average JAGs on our 5-7 team that got embarrassed by Arkansas... Those guys probably weren't in the top-60 offensive lines in CFB. After a more than a decade of trying to sell recruits on Strong/Herman and a second-tier league, Texas now has a chance to get back to the days of monster recruiting classes like the ones from 2000-2005 who were fixtures in the top-5.
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What game in 24 are you Horns most excited about?
I don't know what Saban interview that was, but just before Bama started their decade+ of dominance, we saw Alabama's big run-stuffing safeties get spread out and beaten by Utah's little slot receivers. A year or two later, Texas got them in a championship with similar offensive personnel and the guy who - at the time - was one of the most accurate QB in CFB history. I think Texas wins that matchup more often than not, but Bama knocked him out of the game and won it. Credit to them. But - to the point - those Bama teams of the late 2000's were built to beat LSU 6-3. It's pretty obvious that Alabama is a completely different team on both sides of the ball now. I mean, there's no argument that the top teams in the SEC have had more NFL-caliber talent for a long time compared to those in the Big 12. But it's also hard to argue that in 2023, the SEC schematically looks a LOT more like the Big 12 of 2008, and not the other way around.
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How Fox News works
- Trump Town Hall thread, all snowflakes welcome
There is nothing centrist about letting the guy who relentlessly undermines democracy and tried to overthrow an American election sit up there in front of cheering fans and repeat the exact lies he used to fuel an attempted coup. No network needs to be shooting for the "middle" when it comes to the continuum of reality vs bullshit.- The Guitar Pron Thread
The yearly guitar show photos are like the swimsuit issue for this thread.- Paxton is Investigating Dell Children's Medical Center Over "Gender Transitioning Procedures" for Minors
A reminder: In 2001, Seton had UTMB run a completely separate hospital within *their* hospital (Brackenridge), and then - at tremendous cost - the city built a separate elevator entrance so that those (female) patients being cared for at UTMB wouldn't even walk through Seton's hospital on their way to getting medical care. And they did this just so that women who wanted a tubal ligation at the time of their delivery could get (GASP!) a tubal ligation. The humanity! So **that** is the monstrous, liberal, left-wing organization who is being accused of sponsoring teams of doctors who whimsically mutilate children's bodies? Am I understanding the allegation here? The state that I love just keeps re-electing this culture-war lunatic with numerous felony indictments, and this is what we are going to keep getting (in lieu of competent law enforcement).- Paxton is Investigating Dell Children's Medical Center Over "Gender Transitioning Procedures" for Minors
The mutilation consternation?- The Guitar Pron Thread
So I needed a couple things - a 3-pack of phosphor bronze acoustic strings and some compressed felt picks for bass (<--- if you are a guitar player trying to occasionally fake your way through playing bass, you should try these). Sweetwater: $47 delivered next week. Identical items on Amazon: $35 delivered tomorrow. I gotta say, it's a much bigger difference than I would have guessed. I bought it from Amazon.- The Supremes
I’m strongly leaning toward “Fire them all so we’re sure we got all the guilty ones.”- Hi Fi and Home theater set ups
I gotta tell you: When I saw this, I thought “14B3” was a joke - like someone doing a parody of how Bryson relentlessly adds “SST” or “pro” or cubed, or whatever, and just keeps marching onward with the model numbers. Turns out it’s a real thing.- Hi Fi and Home theater set ups
White guy stages of middle age: 1. "Honey, this World War Two documentary is really interesting!" 2. "I should get a tube power amp and some vintage floor speakers, and hook up that old turntable that belonged to my father." <--- I am here 3. "Get off my lawn!"- Hi Fi and Home theater set ups
Thanks, guys. I think I bought a Bryston for the studio on audiogon a decade ago. But I don't really dabble in the home theater world.- Hi Fi and Home theater set ups
Is there a dominant website for home audio gear… like what Reverb has become for musical instruments? Or do y’all think Facebook marketplace or craigslist are better for hidden audio gems?- Best Song 98% of Surly Hasn’t Heard
Heard this band when they played a SXSW show 20(?) years ago. They're not digging any new earth, but it's a pretty solid rock song front to back. The studio version is sonically better than this one.- Tucker Carlson FIRED
Thanks for posting. I probably already listen to too many podcasts, but I've never seen that one. I scrolled through a few of the recent episodes, and there are several guests whose interviews I'll listen to.- Transfer G Max Abmas
Holy smokes. That's crazy. This board was despondent a week ago, and we just landed two huge talents.- Tucker Carlson FIRED
We can agree/disagree on whether or not we like him, sure. But he is, IN FACT, lending credence to Powell (and to election conspiracies in general) throughout the video you posted to show how he's *not* doing that exact thing.- Tucker Carlson FIRED
Did you actually watch that video? I'll grant you that the headline sounds like Tucker is calling out Powell. Keep in mind that at the time of that piece, pretty much EVERY news organization was mocking Giuliani and Powell for their unhinged and completely unsupported claims of a vast anti-Trump election conspiracy. Everyone, that is, except the right-wing media bubble, which at that moment was surging toward OAN and Newsmax thanks to the seemingly irresistible lure of having your own world view reinforced and feeling like *you* are special because *you* know the real story. So yeah, the headline looks like he's calling them out, but if you watch it, it's pretty much Tucker being Tucker. I only made it through the first 5+ minutes (which is about 4 1/2 minutes longer than I can usually tolerate his firehose of bullshit), but he REPEATEDLY defends Russia. Paraphrased: "social media is more dangerous than Russia ever was," and also "Look at the silly news media saying that Giuliani was targeted by Russian operatives... Those morons are so stupid to see Russian conspiracies everywhere." He also FLAT OUT STATES THAT WE DO NOT HAVE FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS IN THIS COUNTRY, explaining that a "billionaire class" controls the media (which is a head-exploding level of hypocrisy). Anyway, just fucking stop with the idea that Tucker is anything short of a Goebbels-styled propagandist who relentlessly 1) undermined faith in American institutions (as he does in that video), and 2) inexplicably and almost invariably repeated pro-Russian talking points (as he does in that video). edit: he also repeatedly gives Powell and Giuliani credit for "raising questions" and he repeatedly legitimizes their fucking lunacy. In other words: That video most definitely does not vindicate Tucker Carlson in the way you seem to believe.- Tucker Carlson Tonight
It's crazy, right? The most popular host on the most widely-consumed American news media was - for YEARS - a mouthpiece for America's geopolitical enemy. But a third of Americans will either never get that fact delivered into their bubble. Or if they do, it will be "both sides!" in the same way that they get all their fucking news... just pulling a random hypothetical example here, but say maybe the wife of a Supreme Court justice takes an active role in overthrowing American democracy while her husband flat-out lies on his financial disclosures, fails to disclose some shady real estate deals, and does this while claiming decades of 5- and 6- figure yearly incomes from a corporation that doesn't really exist. BOTH SIDES!- The Guitar Pron Thread
Y'all sound fantastic.- The Guitar Pron Thread
Same chord shape in "Man on the Moon." Also: proof that you can get 2.7 million subscribers despite one of the worst-sounding acoustic guitars I've ever heard.- Guitar Effect Pedalphile Thread
It would have been interesting to see what happened to the Centaur prices (my guess: nothing). - Trump Town Hall thread, all snowflakes welcome
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