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  1. BrutulTM

    Home Theater/Game Room Thread

    https://www.pecron.com/products/pecron-f3000lfp-portable-power-station-3600w-3072wh?https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pecron.com%2F%3Futm_source=gg&variant=44730689159356 This is the one I bought. Pecron is not as well known as the big 3 (Jackery, Anker, and Ecoflow) but they are by far the best bang for the...
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    Home Theater/Game Room Thread

    I recently bought a battery power station to run my bi-pap machine when the power is out. As a result I've done a lot of research on them and I'm really impressed. The one I bought was $750 and the size of a toaster oven and can run my machine for 5 nights on a single charge, more if I turned...
  3. BrutulTM

    Home Theater/Game Room Thread

    If you wanted to have battery backup for your lights, the real way to do it would be to buy something like this...
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    2025-2026 NFL Season Thread - God hates the Chargers

    Greatest gay quarterbacks of all time?
  5. BrutulTM

    Home Theater/Game Room Thread

    Btw, I have a couple of these things that I keep around for power outages. Plugs into anything with a USB plug. Pretty handy and very inexpensive at $9.99: https://a.co/d/09Sx3RqB
  6. BrutulTM

    Home Theater/Game Room Thread

    It sounds like you're thinking the wall switch connects the two sides of the outlet together? That's not how it works. The wall switch is only in the "hot" side and it connects the outlet to the breaker box. If you connected the two sides of the red switch to your switched outlet the wall...
  7. BrutulTM

    Home Theater/Game Room Thread

    Unless I'm still misunderstanding, you can't control it with a switch that's not in the circuit the lamp is being powered by. The normal way to attach backup power to the existing house wiring is with a transfer switch, but I'm still not sure I get what you are talking about.
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    Home Theater/Game Room Thread

    I don't understand what you're talking about. You want to power the circuit for your ceiling light fixtures?
  9. BrutulTM

    Woodworking

    I've found quite a few videos where people are putting it on with a rag, including this one from the Waterlox channel. This dude sanding the wet finish is really something I've never heard of.
  10. BrutulTM

    The Fast Food Thread

    I payed $10.10 .
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    The Fast Food Thread

    Had a "Bigger Mac" aka Big Arch today. It was a nice, beefy burger. Nothing miraculous though. The sauce was pretty similar to a Big Mac but I'm not sure if it was exactly the same. It had little red specks in it like there was some paprika or something in there. It had a little of the Big...
  12. BrutulTM

    A Song of Ice and Fire (Released Spoilers)

    I didn't hate the ending of the Dark Tower series as much as some people did but it wasn't exactly satisfying. "The Stand" really pissed me off. I wouldn't call King the greatest writer of his time but he was certainly popular and prolific. I've probably read more of his books than any other...
  13. BrutulTM

    The "Shit I just bought" thread

    Is it sharp? If you drop it, don't catch it. I saw a video on YouTube the other day where some chick was showing off a katana she bought on a livestream and it started to slip out of the scabbard and she reflexively caught it by the blade and severed multiple tendons in her hand.
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    Woodworking

    That's actually the exact video that got me worried about it. With regard to storage, some other videos I saw suggest this... Inert, heavier than air argon gas in a can. You spray some in to displace the air and put the lid back on. Interesting idea. Other people just smash the can...
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    A Song of Ice and Fire (Released Spoilers)

    That has been out of fashion for quite a while. I've been watching "Industry" on HBO and basically all of the characters are not just flawed, but are actually completely reprehensible people.
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    Woodworking

    So I'm almost ready to finish the counter top. YouTube seems to suggest there's issues with trying to reuse brushes for multiple coats. I don't want to buy a bunch of brushes. Is there anything wrong with putting it on with a rag? I have a whole bag of old flour sack dishcloths that seems...
  17. BrutulTM

    A Song of Ice and Fire (Released Spoilers)

    A guy who owes his career to Tolkien doesn't need to be giving notes to Tolkien. As a writer, Martin isn't qualified to launder Tolkien's jock, but killing off major characters is definitely one of the most interesting aspects of ASoIaF.
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    The Fast Food Thread

    Reese's and Oreo. The two great tastes that taste great together taste great with two other great tastes that taste great together.
  19. BrutulTM

    The Fishing Thread

    Her videos aren't bad if you watch with the sound off.
  20. BrutulTM

    2026 Winter Olympics!

    The stuffed thing is stupid, but hey, $430 is $430.
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    The Fast Food Thread

    I tried the peach cobbler rolls at Arby's. Two thumbs up. They are fried as all fast food pies should be now that we're out of the fat phobia era.
  22. BrutulTM

    2026 Winter Olympics!

    Asian women really seem to dominate in the sports I've watched. In both figure skating and snow boarding the only people in the running with Japan, Korea and China were Asian women from the US.
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    The Fast Food Thread

    I don't think they expect fast food workers to last long. It's usually just getting warm bodies in there to cover the next shift. I have interviewed people for jobs that they were overqualified for though, and it's usually a negative for me because I assume they're going to be looking for a...
  24. BrutulTM

    A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight

    Yeah, the TV writers had the added difficulty of having to do it in a very short period of time. The idea of having the revelation of Jon Snow's true identity, the battle with the army of the dead, and then going all the way to conquering King's landing and resolving all the other storylines in...
  25. BrutulTM

    A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight

    I think he's in a pretty bad spot with regard to the main GoT story. I think the biggest thing that made everyone turn on the show in the last season was Daenerys turning into a psycho so suddenly. Even though there is foreshadowing of it happening going all the way back to early in the...
  26. BrutulTM

    A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight

    I was wondering about that too. They made a pretty big deal of focusing on him slicing his inner thigh so I was sort of thinking he got his femoral artery and he was going to bleed out but obviously that wasn't the case which leaves me wondering why the focus on that.
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    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

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    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    Duvall will always be Agustus McCrae to me. The Godfather is also a pretty nice thing to have on the old resume.
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    South Park

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    A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight

    That head wound was a little fake I thought. There should have been blood gushing out of that. It's not something you would walk around and no one would notice.
  31. BrutulTM

    2026 Winter Olympics!

    Sometimes I really wonder why I keep reading this board and then I come to the Olympics thread and find a discussion about the best events to watch for butt jiggling and I know that I belong here.
  32. BrutulTM

    The Documentary Thread

    So I grew up believing that beavers needed to be wiped out. If there was a beaver dam in one of our creeks, my Dad got right to work to kill it and clear the dam but I was never sure why. Most of my neighbors still feel this way but there are some progressive types that are actually building...
  33. BrutulTM

    A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight

    You're right. At least in the horse training scene and probably a couple others.
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    South Park

    I don't think you know what NIMBY means.
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    A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight

    Has this show left Duncan's POV at all? I'm not sure we as the audience have been privy to anything that Duncan wasn't for the whole show which is interesting. The fight was clearly all from his perspective.
  36. BrutulTM

    YouTube's War on Ad Blockers

    Yeah. I feel like $15 a month for the amount I watch YouTube is easily worth it, but there's a significant faction here that seems to believe not paying for internet content is some sort of principled stand. Personally I watch hours of YouTube a week and it's easily worth $15 a month to never...
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    South Park

    Paramount Plus
  38. BrutulTM

    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    A week late but I did it...kind of half-assed. Cooked down some jarred marinara sauce so it wouldn't be too watery, then cubed up some pepperoni and mozzarella and wrapped them up wonton style and fried them. They weren't bad. Better than Totinos I would say, but not really worth the...
  39. BrutulTM

    Elderly Parents and Looking Out for Them

    Sorry to hear. It's coming up on the 18th anniversary of my dad dying at age 55. He died suddenly so I didn't get to tell him goodbye but I didn't have to watch him deteriorate either. Not sure which would be worse. Still wish I could talk to him sometimes.