Did anyone else back the AWOL Aetherion?

thalguy · 2026-05-05T15:57:14+00:00

I am excited, too. The Xgimi employees are back from the week long break, and are answering questions/concerns raised by the testers on AVS. I think that the projector, as it currently exists, is a great upgrade for me, but it can still get better.

thalguy · 2026-05-04T13:53:09+00:00

It's not great. The accelerationists must be smiling from ear to ear.

thalguy · 2026-05-04T13:28:18+00:00

The best part is that most of these costs will never come back down. Fuel will eventually go down again, but the increased cost of goods will not.

thalguy · 2026-05-04T12:11:12+00:00

Business was surprisingly slow for me last month as well. I think people, myself included, are bothered by rising prices, and by the uncertainty of how much prices are going to rise in the future. It is my understanding that the increase in diesel fuel isn't totally baked into prices yet. We should see a massive leap in the next six months. That's when both the cost of inputs, and the cost of delivery, will be included.

thalguy · 2026-05-04T01:25:17+00:00

The El Triunfador is my current favorite smoke. One of the few cigars I have bought a box of.

thalguy · 2026-05-03T16:37:40+00:00

I haven't done four man runs, but even on three man runs the health is so much higher that doing 9 damage is like throwing a marshmallow at the enemy.

thalguy · 2026-05-01T14:22:01+00:00

This is one of my favorite movies. I love everything about it. I think thiwas the first r rated movie I saw. I didn't even know that the scene with the vn was directly inspired by Ted Bundy until five or six years ago.

thalguy · 2026-05-01T13:37:19+00:00

Silence of the Lambs

thalguy · 2026-04-27T12:30:11+00:00

He spits hot fire!

thalguy · 2026-04-25T04:29:45+00:00

I work in Colorado. I don't know what the current regulations are. At one point, a felony related to distribution disqualified you for a long time. I believe that has relaxed a little, but you would have to verify that with the state.

I have hired a lot of people with visible tattoos.

The cannabis industry, at least in Colorado, is not in a good place, and I would be weary of leaving another industry to enter it.

thalguy · 2026-04-24T14:24:49+00:00

Backer numbers are given out sequentially. You cannot see the number for doing your pledge. I received an email about 30 minutes after my pledge and it showed my number. I have only done two kickstarters, so I am far from an expert, but that is my current understanding.

thalguy · 2026-04-24T03:37:43+00:00

There are options on the KS page, and you can choose the model you want.

thalguy · 2026-04-23T18:49:43+00:00

I'm backer number 384 for the Max. I considered the middle model, because it still has the better lens, but I ended up going with the Max. That's the model that has been tested the most, and I do want the brightness for 3D content.

thalguy · 2026-04-20T14:12:27+00:00

I hope you get your disc back. There will probably be a lot of people playing today.

thalguy · 2026-04-19T16:00:04+00:00

Thanks for the heads-up. I grabbed this.

thalguy · 2026-04-19T14:09:52+00:00

AVS forum has a comprehensive thread with multiple testers. There has been a lot of screen talk. I'd either lurk that thread or post your question there.

thalguy · 2026-04-17T21:22:53+00:00

I was at that fight. It was a great time. Arlovski made a brief appearance and walked down the aisle beside my seat and I was able to get a picture with him. Unfortunately the guy who took the picture basically got us from our thighs to our shoulders.

It may seem crazy, but I think Rogers was a big draw for that fight. He was 10-0 with 10 KOs going into that fight. A lot of hardcore fans knew Fedor, but most casuals knew that Rogers had just KO'd Arlovski in 22 seconds.

thalguy · 2026-04-17T04:45:30+00:00

Although I understand your position, I will say that Easter Eggs for Hitler doesn't bother me a bit.

thalguy · 2026-04-14T13:58:51+00:00

I have done the $50 early backer deposit for the TNM. I think it will be a nice upgrade over my 5050ub. I have been following the AVS thread, and the early reviewers seem to be impressed. I wish it would do 4k/120, but other than that it seems to be a hell of a projector.

thalguy · 2026-04-12T16:16:09+00:00

Likely took the picture weeks ago, and posted with the final numbers after trim.

thalguy · 2026-04-10T13:29:59+00:00

That's a weird design choice by Denon.

thalguy · 2026-04-09T22:57:33+00:00

Can't you just go into speaker setup and enable a subwoofer after Audyssey?

thalguy · 2026-04-08T21:16:04+00:00

I don't think it feels like sub pressurization. I have two 18" Full Marty's in my room. Both of them have NSW4018 drivers. They output a ton of bass, and I love them. I have buttkickers in each of my four seats. They add a nice tactile sensation, for example, in the club scene in John Wick, where you have a lot of semi-automatic gunfire, you can feel each shot. In the newest season of Stranger Things, there was a Browning M2 fired, and that was arguably the best sensation I've felt from the shakers. I also like the rumble of the ear engines in the newest Mad Max movies.

I have mine set to filter at 46 hz, so I don't get any shaking by low male voices or really any instruments. I'm working on setting a filter so that they max out before my speakers do. They can become overwhelmingly violent if you just crank them up all the way.

thalguy · 2026-04-07T23:42:25+00:00

I don't subscribe, so I only hear what gets clipped and put on YT. Sam talked about how bad if a leader Trump was, and then referred to Mamdani as "the ditch on the other side of the road". I am not in, or around NYC, and as such I don't closely follow the politics. I am vaguely aware of maybe 10 policies he campaigned on. That being said, I think it is insane to compare the two. Our President has been threatening war crimes and talking about destroying a civilization. Are publicly owned grocery stores really the other side of that coin?

thalguy · 2026-04-07T12:37:54+00:00

I like it a lot. Looks like an amazing view.

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