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  1. Chuck Rhoades is a worm, but we are now on the flip side with him being in the doghouse now. That end scene makes me less enthusiastic about another season.

     

    Agreed. Too bad. Only other options include a new villain.
    I predicted it a year ago
  2. Watched it in my office this week and enjoyed it. A lot of shots were composed to look like old shots from the first two films, like the desert scenes, which was a nice nod for cinematography nerds. The one truly refreshing thing was the lack of merchandise they were trying to sell us.

  3. Check out counts customs while youre there. He has his personal collection in the show room!

    Nah, that place was 2 Countaches and some weird stuff from the show, plus some merch to buy. Down the road right there is Welder Up as well. Never heard of them, apparently they had a show and produced some ratrods with some welding talent. There is one of the 1960s TV Batmobile replicas there. Combined the shops had maybe 30 cars. Good people, just nothing to see there, not the showrooms from the TV shows. Honestly, the car spots in Vegas are not interesting, Shelby is ok because you see them building cars and the merch is stuff you'd want to own, but the rest are not much more than a free way to waste 15 minutes.

  4. LV Eric is around here somewhere...

     

    Doubtful kids will enjoy being outside to see the damn! and canyon, if you can afford the chopper tours over the canyon, esp with the landing (~$2k for a family of 4), or even just the strip at night, do it. I took my dad about 2 months ago, Nuke testing museum (esp when the bus tours go to the test sites), Mob museum (get the "experience" package and shoot at fake bad guys) these are the best museums in town to kill a few hours. We learned anything related to any TV show is terrible. Usually a warehouse in an industrial park, almost never worth it, but we saw maybe 10 museums in a 4-day weekend.

     

    They might enjoy container park for a few hours, and the Donut Bar (just for the experience), but get there at 8am before they sell out for the day. Then zipline in Fremont for a ton of fun after dark when the neon is lit up. Try the Neon Graveyard/Museum, but book now, no walk ins and they fill up fast. Valley of Fire and Red Rocks drives are nice too.

     

    If you drink with your son, go to Atomic Liquor and ask about the history of the place, grab food next door with the family. Also Frankies Tiki Room is a classic tiki dive bar, one of the best around, I always grab a tiki mug on any trip. If you like mobsters, try Capo's Speakeasy for some decent Italian food and the old mob-vibe. Hashhouse-a-go-go serves big portions, I take tourists there, you'll talk about the portion sizes for a while.

     

    Of course there is a ton to do on the strip but all the shows look the same to me now and I am not in to gaming.

  5. Still no release date for Ozark season 2, only info is Summer '18 release is expected. Very eager for season 2 to begin.

    I am looking forward to that and Arrested Development in 2 weeks, though, I am also ok with it being their last season. Esp with Tambor's sexual harassment getting him fired from transamerica

  6. All helicopters, the way we build them (their size, shape, weight, power, blade size/shape, etc.), are ultimately limited aerodynamically to figures just above 200 knots due to the principle of retreating blade stall...assuming there is enough power to get there. That is where the helicopter is moving fast enough forward such that the retreating blade bites increasingly slower and more disturbed airflow and begins to stall while the advancing blade still gets a clean look into the wind. The imbalance this causes when only one half of the rotor disc is producing lift results in vibrations, uncommanded pitch & roll, and ultimately loss of control if uncorrected.

    thanks Mr Science!

  7. The whole movie feels like a clip show. Too many characters, half of them don't interact with each other, one main bad guy with some inconsequential soldiers, lots of loud bangs and crashes, nobody ever really gets hurt, but the people that die might surprise you.

     

    I mean isn't it always this in these Marvel movies:

     

    Bad guy shows up to collect something to gain ultimate power to destroy the universe while some good guys in-fight and have to overcome their differences to unite and defeat evil.

     

    In this case the bad guy adds in the attitude of an ex-wife, he wants half of everything.

  8. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust...

     

    It is 2.5 hours of the same loopholes of superpowers that could just end it all but are never used. It's just yet another comic book movie that lacks any depth or meaning and is only a commercial aimed at selling tickets for the next sequel.

     

    Cliffs:

    1. Villain "Thanos" believes in consolidating powers and the lifeboat theory of economics.

    2. everyone gets a fight scene

    3. good and bad guys die

    4. Peter Dinklage is HUGE, but needs a helping "hand" to get the fire started

    5. Credits name more people than live in the state of Kansas and go on for 10 minutes

    6. Post credit has me

    Fury-ous

    but it blows over fast

     

  9. Wow, I talked with engineer who did the huaracan at the sneak preview of the Huaracan performante in Beverly Hills Co then. He was involved with the se30 back in the Diablo days and we were conversing about the gold engine cover as a nod to the se30.... I told him wouldn’t it be great to add the ALA system on the aventador sv as a retro jota kit.... I would like to think perhaps some part of my suggestions may have been adopted...not as kit but as a another variant....;). SV Jota.

    that would be kinda cool

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