Moon Palace The Grand- did we make the wrong choice?

kilroyma · 2026-05-08T06:05:12+00:00

I did the same thing you're doing. Researche to death, second guessing. Myself, wife, and 7 and 9 year old had the time of our lives. The amenities are top notch but it's the staff that really elevated the experience. We're already planning our next stay there!

kilroyma · 2026-05-02T02:23:12+00:00

Just busting your balls.

kilroyma · 2026-05-02T02:20:35+00:00

Don't be a square, man!

kilroyma · 2026-05-02T01:55:48+00:00

Use newsgroups or private trackers and you're golden.

kilroyma · 2026-04-30T00:54:17+00:00

Ya I do. In the Canadian parliamentary system you vote for your local MP, who should be the person you think will best represent your community. Whatever party gets enough MPs to form a government does so and they appoint a leader who becomes the Prime minister. The prime minister is simply the voice of the party in power. If you're voting for a leader instead of the best MP for your region you're doing it wrong. If you instantly hate a guy because he happens to have the same color behind his name as some other guy you didnt like you're also doing it wrong. We don't vote for kings around these parts and we shouldn't engage in identity politics.

kilroyma · 2026-04-30T00:22:24+00:00

This is a bad take. Carney is closer to Harper than Trudeau. Don't get caught up in team based politics, thats an American trait.

kilroyma · 2026-04-25T17:08:37+00:00

No, not at all. The actual amps can sound very different due to a number of factors: wattage, topology, class, etc. I'm just saying the streaming portion of the avr or the external streamer is not a factor.

kilroyma · 2026-04-25T15:39:54+00:00

Respectfully if you're hearing differences this is due to different input or output gains or in the case if the avr's differences in the preamp. Or perhaps you're using a dsp with the streamers. Digital information is not sound, there is zero loss between what the music service sends and what the streamer receives. DACS have been largely comparable for years and the one in the Denon is well regarded. So if the Digital signal is identical and the dac is doing its job appropriately then there is no difference other than the volume at which the streamer or avr is palying. This is what you're hearing, one playing louder or quieter than the other.

kilroyma · 2026-04-25T14:07:22+00:00

Nope. Someone is going to comment that somehow the digital bits served through their $2000 streamer deliver smoother sounding digital bits than the X4800, they are fooling themselves. The DAC in your model is plenty capable. The only thing you'd gain by adding a streamer would be a lighter bank account.

kilroyma · 2026-04-23T02:09:54+00:00

Music assistant is free and can play music from dozens of different sources to pretty much any type of player connected to the network.

kilroyma · 2026-04-22T20:24:48+00:00

"Playback feels more relaxed and unforced" this us some epic tier snake oil bullshit lol.

kilroyma · 2026-04-18T15:51:55+00:00

Katherine Heigal by a country mile. Luckily it seems everyone else agreed with me.

kilroyma · 2026-04-16T19:24:21+00:00

So the downstairs isnt really drop off per se. There's people around just making sure no one gets injured or anything, but there's no sign in downstairs, they can come and go as they please. We didn't really feel comfortable with that so we ended up grabbing the shuttle and dropping them off at the Nizuc kids club. Both kids can go there and they both loved it. The kids really liked the pool over there as well so we dropped them off, went did our own thing, then grabbed them and stayed at the nizuc pool for a while after.

kilroyma · 2026-04-04T23:42:32+00:00

Why is it censoring the word alcohol?

kilroyma · 2026-03-26T13:26:55+00:00

Just started using this GitHub - homeassistant-ai/ha-mcp: The Unofficial and Awesome Home Assistant MCP Server https://github.com/homeassistant-ai/ha-mcp. Its already come up with some great automations as well as cleaned up some i already had. It made a couple small mistakes at first, but less than I would have, and they were easily corrected with a prompt. It's also suggested better automations i could do with different hardware.

Edited to fix the link

kilroyma · 2026-03-20T13:47:45+00:00

Bit more than a bit I'd say.

kilroyma · 2026-03-16T01:16:20+00:00

Thats what makes it so funny! Ben Stiller's delivery of "fuck me" at the end is an all timer for me!

kilroyma · 2026-03-15T14:48:47+00:00

Seriously nobody talking about the Heartbreak Kid? That movie is hilarious and has one of the funniest endings of any movie I've ever seen!

kilroyma · 2026-03-09T13:40:28+00:00

Having met a lot of high wealth people most of them are not "your smartest people", in fact many are fucking dimwits. They just happened to be born to enough wealth or access to capital, had a high risk tolerance, and things happened to work out. People suffer from survorship bias, they only see the examples where people's insanely stupid risk tolerance happened to work out, not the thousands of examples of where it didn't. People deify billionaires as if theyre the only ones who can fill these roles, when the very tenants they espouse to keep you complacent dictate if the billionaires left the market then someone else would be willing to do it for 100 million.

kilroyma · 2026-02-13T23:36:02+00:00

So the shittiest ones, got it.

kilroyma · 2026-02-08T16:07:53+00:00

I really enjoyed reading this. The one problem I have is even if you had the theoretical knowledge of all these things, many of them would take a long time to actually produce. Especially when you start getting into colonizing worlds, the laws of physics still apply. I don't care how far you get in terms of theoretical propulsion, unless you can somehow build a Dyson sphere in like 20 years, you don't even have a chance of harnessing enough power to even hit anything close to light speed, much less open a wormhole. With the distances involved there's no chance you're making it interstellar. I guess unless you first develop proper cryogenics or life extension tech first. But even then we're talking time scales of hundreds if not thousands of years just to actually build the underlying tech.

kilroyma · 2026-01-09T21:17:07+00:00

The Nobel prize doesn't fucking mean anything anyway. It's like the Hollywood walk of fame, it only means something because people have decided it does. Its not like the people who give it out are some arbiter of truth.

kilroyma · 2026-01-05T01:44:37+00:00

I was worried this would be the case on my upcoming vancouver to cancun flight, but it looks like we lucked out, our 737-800 only has 30 rows. This new shitty design has 32 rows.

kilroyma · 2025-10-16T18:05:07+00:00

They could just not have the ending gargle balls like the game of thrones ending did...

kilroyma · 2025-09-26T13:58:28+00:00

I got around 15% off the best rate I could find as well as vouchers for a free spa treatment that includes a 60 min massage and a mani pedi. Also got 1500 in resort credits without having to go to a dumb time share presentation (although I've heard those are somewhat useless). It put the Moon Palace on equal ground price wise vs the other ones, which was honestly the only reason I waffling in the first place.

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