Patrick Johnson said:

lol

But my 7 million estimate was wrong - it's actually 14 million years to tilt one degree (I corrected the post).

pj
chgo

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GorstyBoy said:

Surprised no one is mentioning that the stream cutoff mid finals. I don't think it was just me.

There's definitely a lot to be improved in the stream presentation for a polished deliverable, but I know that it's difficult.

I watched all that I watched through a browser with 1.5- 1.75 speed and skipped all the riff raff. No YT commercials and can get through large chunks in much less time. I also don't think it was me, but the quality of video kept down sampling to a low pixel output. If it had been my buffer, stepping back in time should have replayed at 1080p per my settings, but the same artifacts remained. Anyone else have the same experience?

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Benelli said:

While I understand you may have heard that, I can assure you the Tungsten is a poly-resin core with a phenolic shell.

It was a $100 set for $70, which made it a better deal than any other maker out there who was selling 100% poly balls for $100.

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Benelli said:

Yes the prime balls are 100% poly but you can't show me anything in any of there literature that says the lower level sets in the Dynasphere line are 100% solid phenolic.

I've only been able to find those claims on the three highest sets in their line.

The whole "inlays drive the cost" BS has to be one of the greatest marketing ploys ever used. And I'm a marketer...

There single biggest cost outside of marketing is the cost of phenolic resins not the miniscule labor cost from doing inlays on the balls in China.

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straightline said:

Ah, but between the tilt and the mag field flipping, enough heat could be generated to make pool too sweaty to bother.

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rexus31 said:

Dynaspheres Palladium, Rhodium, Tungsten, Vanadium, Platinum and Titanium sets all use the same phenolic resin as do the previous Platinum, Gold, Silver and Bronze sets. The difference in price is based on the level of inlay work.

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Their Prime Series sets (Carbon, Xenon, Lithium and Cobalt) are made from poly resin.

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DrCue'sProtege said:

It's been six weeks since I ordered the Diamond Professional table.

I wonder if they have any kind of update for me?

Maybe I should just drive down and talk with them?

Thanksgiving is next week and then Christmas is right behind it.

r/DCP

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GorstyBoy said:

Surprised no one is mentioning that the stream cutoff mid finals. I don't think it was just me.

There's definitely a lot to be improved in the stream presentation for a polished deliverable, but I know that it's difficult.

I watched all that I watched through a browser with 1.5- 1.75 speed and skipped all the riff raff. No YT commercials and can get through large chunks in much less time. I also don't think it was me, but the quality of video kept down sampling to a low pixel output. If it had been my buffer, stepping back in time should have replayed at 1080p per my settings, but the same artifacts remained. Anyone else have the same experience?

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Patrick Johnson said:

And if it tilts another 31.5” every 100 years it will only take 7 million years to tilt one whole degree. Abandon Earth!

(And we think it’s from humans pumping ground water to the surface, changing the distribution of mass. I guess that’s “normal”…?)

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gregcantrall said:

Harry Platis was The Whale in the Northwest. He operated out of his own room on the north side of Seattle. He played only 1 pocket and .min bet was a thousand. Different players had different spots.
There was a stable type group of players that Harry supported. On a regular basis they would empty their pockets and that was the wager. They could pick a player from the uh let's see 3, 4 maybe more. Mike Danner was lead. Anyway each one gave a different spot. Kept Harry in shape and The Corporation paid their rent.
Harry and Keith made a pretty big score in Vegas once but that was playing 9 ball, if I remember right and Keith put together a huge package when the bet got high.

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skogstokig said:

there's probably fatigue for some international players. i don't get the players going to a barbox event over the international though. bad timing and some bad decisions i guess sums it up. hope this doesn't affect the event going forward

either way there's still a bunch top top players present, and what a treat of a match biado and yapp put on yesterday.

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