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$4.1m can get you all of this (http://reatx.com/idx/mls-6720025-8207_two_coves_dr_austin_tx_78730).

That's pretty awful.  Whoever buys that is probably going to knock it all down and start over again.

Yeah it's a fugly building. The spiral slide into the pool next to the medieval shit decor is pretty  :facepalm:

That being said, that 4ac piece of property is absolutely top notch.

Yeah, but you can dress that slide up to look like a dragon and have it fit right in.

The house is meh... I like nondescript looking things - but the interior is just a nightmare. Good fucking god what happened in there?

And no computer room/server room pics?

And no secret passages shown.

Also... Are those vinyl windows?

I think the picture of the spiral stairs is a secret passage. Also, it mentions that it is "Britannia ManorII ?" There is more than one?

There are 3:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britannia_Manor#Haunt_History

Something about the perspective of this shot just makes me go  :uhrr:

(http://mls-photos.diversesolutions.com/394/6720025/3-full.jpg)

Looks like that article needs some cleaning up. In the next section it starts talking about the 2nd Manor being built but it sounds like it's actually talking about the 3rd. I assume this must mean it's fully built now and he's selling #2.

I wonder when the open house will be. :awesome_for_real:

They look like they might be vinyl-clad wood. That's what I suspect because the hardware you see is metal and most vinyl windows I've seen have vinyl latch housings as well.

It's a godawful house, though.

Where's the closet where Schild took a shit threw up?


I like the spacesuit llurking in the corner.    :pedobear:

You guys are crazy.  I would totally live there.

So would I, but they're not wrong about the hideousness!

The decorator was seriously confused.

"Mr Garriot, I'm not sure I understand your spec here."

"I cannot help thee with that."

Why is he selling it? To fund more space "exploration"?

I just wish he could wipe my memory and release Ultima 7 again.

He's building another, bigger property. Why? I don't know. How much space does one crazy LARPer need?

He's probably saving up enough money so he can buy an abandoned animal reserve, invite over the remaining UO players, and hunt them for sport.

Britannia Manor IV, on the sunny shores of Mare Imbrium.

Every game needs a starter zone. I just hope there is no long ass queue.  :why_so_serious:

With a triple crossbow.

What is that exterior finish? Particle board?

Freshly tanned baby skins.

The large painting of Neuschwanstein in the kitchen made me chortle.

He does seem to have tastes similar to King Ludwig's.

It'd be fine if you got rid of all the teen-age fantasy kitschy crap.

The listing says stucco but the reveals make me wonder if it's actually EIFS.

According to Wikipedia he recently married. My guess is he wants a house that's more appropriate for real child rather than a manchild.

I'm baffled as to why he didn't use a sword to hold him off.

Because ranged DPS > all.

And people aren't primed to be afraid of swords.  You wave a sword at somebody, they're going to give you a dumb look but they're probably not going to be scared.  Put a bullet in the wall behind them, you've got their undivided attention.

--Dave

Lightning Bolt!

Lightning Bolt!

Lightning Bolt!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_ekugPKqFw

 :why_so_serious:
EDIT: Just noticed the first "Lightning Bolt!" hit his own melee dps and killed him. Fucking mages.

EDITED (again) for noun and present pariciple incompetence.

Manchildren don't grow up unless forced.  If that's the case I'd go with it not being his own decision.

4 typos, all the same word. Impressive.

Are you saying this based on something that has been proven, or is it just an assumption you're making?  I would have guessed that most people would have a primal fear of anything sharp, much more naturally so than a gun.  Everyone can relate to getting cut.  Almost nobody can relate to being shot.

Not trying to troll you, was just curious if what you are stating is an actual known fact.

I'm not Dave, but in my experience with swords (even the live ones I use for martial arts), it's maybe 1 in 3 people tops who display any real concern when I've got them out.  The rest aren't bothered or make a crack about "bringing a knife to a gun fight."

I too have a sword, and although I haven't shown it to a great number of people, those I have never showed much concern when I drew it and waved it around.  Granted, it isn't finely sharpened, but they didn't know that initially, and still showed no concern.  It's probably a sort of reaction to a weapon being 'primitive'.  I expect most people would also not worry overmuch if you 'have a bow' as opposed to a gun, even though a bow within its effective range can be quite deadly.

To a degree, that sort of reaction partly makes up for the inherent weaknesses of a sword, such as having to come into melee range to use it.  If someone isn't taking you seriously, they won't defend themselves properly and that gives an advantage (though not as big an advantage as having a gun, of course).  Besides, I doubt most people would have the slightest idea how to defend themselves from a sword, so if you happen to actually know how to attack with it...another advantage.

You can out run a sword... bullets require a little more effort.

What are you trying to tell me? That I can't dodge bullets?

It's a lot of things.  The "primitive weapon" thing along with not being exposed to them overmuch.  Also the undercurrent of knowledge that it takes skill and practice to be really dangerous with an edged weapon while even a 2 year old able to put out the trigger pressure is deadly with a gun. 

People aren't scared of sticks and stones, either, but a guy with intent or who swings/ throws them wrong is going to kill you just as dead with them as with a firearm.

A bearded manchild with a sword is a lot less frightening than *anyone* with a gun.

Now, a glass sword...

The only actual *fact* I have would argue the other way, statistics that say that rape is resisted less often when the rapist uses a knife rather than a gun.  So I'm pulling this out of my ass.

--Dave

You generally have to be actively doing something ridiculously fucking stupid with a sword to accidentally injure someone in a way that might require stitches, whereas simple inattention with a .22 is sufficient to end someone's life immediately.  Also, the people watching you do your forms implicitly trust you not to fucking lop their hand off by virtue of the fact that you seem to exhibit some competency.

Plus, people fear being gruesomely maimed more than killed outright.

You people are shifting topic away from the fact that house will never sell because it's ugly as sin.

WTF is up with property tax in Austin? Seems worse than what I left behind in Jersey.... Which amazes me.

No state income tax in Texas. So the money to pay for things like Rick Perry has to come from somewhere.

Yeah, because Texas has no income tax, they have tons and tons of crazy ass taxes on everything else to make up for it.  For instance I was customizing software for a facility that, among many other things, rents out parking spaces.  Its just a normal flat monthly rent charge for the spot.  Unless you decided to park a boat in it.  Then they have to charge you tax on the rent charged for the spot.  Which of course was hard to implement because everybody else in the entire fucking country either charges tax on rent or doesn't, end of story, and the software was designed accordingly.  Shit like this comes up every time we have to do any software customization in Texas.  Their tax laws are fucked.

I'm telling you that when you're ready... you'll have to.

There are definitely ugly aspects to the house, but other aspects are really quite cool. The indoor/outdoor pool is nice (plus when the temp is right and you have the hut tub running, it rains inside the pool enclosure), there's a built-in home theater room, it has closets behind all the AV gear everywhere (an amazing and obvious idea), and there's the watchtower off the bluff. :)

Our baby shower for our oldest was held there.

Once upon a time, Richard asked if I wanted to buy it. I told him he should know what he paid me. :P

Time to kick off some new construction.

Hahaha.