Beautiful. I’ve always been a big fan of Joel’s work. You have some seriously nice cues!

Mensabum said:

Always wondered why the chicks were checking me out in those jerseys I have, one says Gotwood, the other Sternweiner.

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Are you sure they were chicks?

Johan spoke a lot of sense on the Doggin It podcast.

Matchroom do a lot of good things, but the Reyes Cup and Mosconi Cup are not competitive.

It looks like people are getting fed up of the Mosconi Cup, ticket sales look very slow and I have no doubt Matchroom will be worried.

Get the USA a proper coach like Johan and see how Team USA get on.

If USA go with Sky as captain with input from "JJ" and "Frosty", I will not be watching.

Europe will win easy, 11-4 or 11-6 at best.

Wybrook said:

I bet I've shot millions of balls!!
For a time period of about 12-15 years, I played anywhere from 10-14 hours a day.
I think its entirely possible for those of us who are crazy passionate for a bit.

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When you do the math plugging in reasonable times for racking and running balls you will find you probably run a million balls in less than five years. You could very easily have hit three million balls or more. When Danny Medina and I were playing on a seven foot coin op table I noticed the mechanism warming up! Games were going by in close to speed pool times. Table time per hour was very expensive at fifty cents a game.

Hu

Oliver said:

I'm looking for a game in London, UK. Can be action or just tryhard for a beer. I play all games, including snooker.
Probably not English pool though.

Offering lessons for advanced players as well. If you have been struggling with some issue for a long time, I'm confident I can help you.

Send me a PM!

Cheers, Oliver

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Are you European?

sudocrushms said:

We've got enough regular slop on this site, we don't need "ai" contributing to it.

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Like I said, AI is what it is you either get on board or get left behind.

Fear or dislike of forum discussion of AI is misplaced. The threat isn’t to labor jobs like we’ve seen with past technology. The threat is to higher skilled work like doctors, attorneys, designers, architects, writers, musicians. These people in these jobs used to feel untouchable.

If I have a concern since I’m none of those, it’s how the economy is going to adjust when that kind of job displacement starts to hit.

Again the concern of how to handle AI using people’s likeness like the video above. What happens if pool players, or anyone really, living or long gone, are depicted endorsing products or saying things without their consent or their family’s or estate’s consent?

Technology always displaces jobs but this technology is exponential and society never adapts fast enough to stay ahead of the problems new technology creates.

All of us, in one way or another, endorse the use of new technology, even if begrudgingly otherwise we wouldn’t even be in this forum.

vinniebabarooch said:

It’s been awhile since I have posted so I figured I would share a cue that I have had locked up for quite some time
and that I haven’t shared before.
It’s a super player with a few “golden” upgrades.
I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
Thank you

Some professional pics first and then my disasters.
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ALWAYS a great cue build from Joel....
This Hoppe is no exception.
Joels points and veneer work always TOP SHELF.
Thanks for sharing !