OT, Oct. 24, 2011 --- Things that will never go away, Alex?
by msb on Oct 24, 2011 12:45 PM PDT
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PrintFall is upon us (where was Summer?) and like the annual turn of the seasons, other things seem that they will always be with us.
Wet winters.
Jamie Moyer? He fully intends to pitch next year and Gillick thinks he can. What would be the book on it happening in Vegas?
Shakespeare? Whether you think he did write those plays or you don't, they still get performed-- sometimes by unexpected people. Have a production you could not believe, for the good or the bad?
Halloween? coming soon, and it will bring its usual panoply of appalling costume ideas and clever ones ... best (or worst) costume you have ever seen, or worn? I was fond of my Spanish Inquisition costume, because a) nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition and b) it fulfilled the 3 Essentials: you could sit wearing it, you could eat wearing it, and you could use the bathroom without getting trapped.
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I full support Moyer giving baseball a shot again. Fairly doubtful that he'll be effective.
But, if that comeback ends up involving a Mariners uniform, I will be most displeased.
by sanford_and_son on Oct 24, 2011 1:12 PM PDT reply actions
I would only be displeased because we are bad, and Moyer should be on a better team so he can get some more wins.
Other than that, I would love to have him back.
I wouldn't mind him coming back as a long/swing man on a cheap contract.
Couldn’t be worse than bringing back Jamey Wright again…
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I'd be fine with a minor league contract/ST invite sort of deal
But otherwise I think it’d be crazy to throw guaranteed money at a 49 year old pitcher coming off Tommy John surgery. I’d like to think we learned at least a few lessons from the Ken Griffey disaster.
I don't think it's so much the road work that messes up traffic
but rather the drivers that mess up the traffic
by Matthew on Oct 24, 2011 2:14 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
Driving would be awesome if it was like a car commercial.
How come you can do all this other great shit, but you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?
I wonder how many reckless drivers realize that a lot of traffic is caused by other cars slowing down because they were cut off by reckless drivers.
...and now I'm here
Inverse of the amount of "safe" drivers that slam on their brakes unnecessarily because they think they were cut off but actually had a safe, if not optimal space to stop.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
My hobby in Tucson where there aren't freeways which seems to cause an inordinate number of people to drive like roided out assholes
is to honk at and flip off everyone who causes congestion by pointlessly weaving around, only to get to the next light at exactly the same time as everyone else.
They usually start driving even more stupidly, and I’ve had some fun conversations with idiots rolling down their window and yelling at me, but I still haven’t caused one to have an accident, which is the objective (maybe that makes me an asshole, but whatever).
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by Corco on Oct 25, 2011 2:50 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
When I see this on paper it seems way stupider and less fun than it actually is
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by Corco on Oct 25, 2011 2:51 PM PDT up reply actions 5 recs
I kinda go the other route when I'm down there
and I try to make sure that I am pacing either the car in front of me or the car behind me so that there’s about a half-car-length of daylight between us – enough to give that weaving asshole the idea, but then when he charges up there, not enough room to actually do it.
by pdb on Oct 25, 2011 3:14 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
It's really a weird driving dynamic down here
Because rushhour is on city streets, you have to somehow balance the need to not tailgate so you’re not constantly slamming your brakes with the need to sort of gun it to facilitate getting as many cars through the light as possible before it turns
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The thing that throws me is the left-turn lane drivers go last not first in the cycle
That, I will never get used to.
It seems dangerous- especially since the result is you can almost always turn left on a solid green, even when there are multiple turn lanes
I can think of a few situations (1st and River being the worst) where speed limits are high and sight lines aren’t that great, so you’ve got cars going 45 MPH as the light turns yellow and other cars trying to turn left in front of them.
It’s also super scary for unfamiliar drivers since there’s usually a couple second lag from green ball to red light to green arrow, and local drivers assume there will be a green arrow and get right on your ass expecting you to start turning. Or occasionally there won’t be a green arrow when everyone expects there to be (Campbell and Fort Lowell comes to mind), and you’ve got several cars trying to turn left in the middle of the intersection.
I don’t really get the point.
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rec rec rec reccccccccc
also, specfically Seattle drivers. Goodness.
by seattlebruin on Oct 25, 2011 9:54 AM PDT up reply actions
I also find that Seattle drivers are the slowest ever.
And traffic is really not that bad.
Fuck the Angels
Litany of factors:
King county has a disproportionately high amount of college grads compared to almost all . College grads make less money now than they did 30 years ago, in real money ($1,000 inflation adjusted dollars less.) Cheap cars are hard to make go fast. I drive a 91 Subaru. I’m sorry if anyone here is stuck behind me, because there is nothing I can do to get up to speed. Absolutely nothing.
That was a facetious rationalization. Don’t take it seriously.
Is anyone going to make this an ‘Asians’ thing? … Cuz I’m not.
IGNORE ME
by tsunamijesus on Oct 30, 2011 12:24 PM PDT up reply actions
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HAROLD REYNOLDS: Junior, what are you doing today?
KEN GRIFFEY, JR.: I’m the assistant head coach for a nine year old high powered offensive football team. My daughter plays basketball and Trey is football, so I spend most of my days going to practice. And when I’m not at practice, I go around still working with the Mariners. I go around to all the Minor League affiliates and help out the young kids, and get inside their head and have them ask me all the tough questions that they really don’t want to ask somebody that’s a coach. It goes a long way trying to help those guys out. You know, it’s my way of giving back to them. I don’t have to sit there and make the decisions who goes where. I help out everybody, just call me in the middle of the night, I’ll talk to you if you’ve got a problem. You’re not seeing the ball, you’re pulling the ball. I’m not offensive, defensive specialist, I’m an organization guy. Pitchers come, hey, how do I get this guy out? What is he doing?
Interestingly enough, my commute this morning was shorter than usual.
Why it’s almost like people are not incapable of adjusting routines to fit changed circumstances.
Your experience does not fit the convenient lazy media narrative and thus is not valid
it’s obvious you’re not filled with enough righteous indignance about the horrible inconvenience you survived.
by pdb on Oct 24, 2011 8:13 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I have to admit, I love rarely ever having to leave West Seattle now.
Traffic doesn’t affect me whatsoever!
On the other hand, as I drove down 45th, the line-up to get onto I-5 was backed up past Dicks.
Slowed by the asses who got into the ‘thru-lane’, and then attempted to merge into the turn lane, two cars back from the intersection.
Mine was quite long as well.
But I’m hesitant to chalk that up to the viaduct since the same thing happens probably once every two weeks even when all is normal.
by Aaron Campeau on Oct 26, 2011 1:28 PM PDT up reply actions
I live near Green Lake and I loved having 99/509 as an extra option for when I head south.
I guess I’m totally fucked now the next time I need to go south any week day between 4 and 7. Awesome.
by sanford_and_son on Oct 26, 2011 2:33 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm not saying it isn't going to effect people.
It certainly affects me quite a bit given where I live. I’m just saying the idea that people won’t change their habits given new information flies in the face of pretty much everything we know about issues such as these.
by Aaron Campeau on Oct 26, 2011 3:07 PM PDT up reply actions
Changing behaviour is easy.
We’re all cognitive misers at heart. Lazy, lazy people.
by Aussie Mariner on Oct 27, 2011 12:10 AM PDT up reply actions
Their Jason goes to Hell was decent, but From Dusk Till Dawn 2 was horrendously cut.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
The Jason Goes to Hell commentary tracks is one of the better commentary tracks I can remember.
The creators have a lot of fun with the movie they made.
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by Kenneth Arthur on Oct 25, 2011 3:49 PM PDT up reply actions
You could have left that at "From Dusk Till Dawn 2 was horrendous".
Why are vampires robbing a bank?
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by JY on Oct 26, 2011 1:34 PM PDT up reply actions
That's the weirdest thing about the trailer is when Roland Emmerichs name shows up.
From an early review I read, its also just about as good as a normal Roland Emmerich movie. I was fooled for a second by the trailer, thinking, “Wow, maybe he actually can direct.” (Well, he can direct a good popcorn flick.)
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by Kenneth Arthur on Oct 25, 2011 9:25 AM PDT up reply actions
Topic: favorite scary movie.
Frailty. Personally I think it’s underrated as it completely validates a lot of terrifying behavior.
I've only seen it the one time, but probably The Descent.
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by JY on Oct 24, 2011 11:01 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
This is my favorite also.
I’ve probably seen it 5 times. I love both The Shining and The Exorcist, but I am too scared to watch either of them all the way through, and I have to fast forward the scary parts. At least I can sit all the way through The Descent.
The Descent rules. Check out Neil Marshalls other horror flicks if you haven't yet.
Dog Soldiers (british commandos vs werewolfs!) and Doomsday (one of the most fun genre mash-ups ever)
by sanford_and_son on Oct 26, 2011 9:33 AM PDT up reply actions
Hmm, probably the 2004 Dawn of the Dead.
by Patrick Stites on Oct 24, 2011 11:27 PM PDT up reply actions
Do explain.
I’m a fan of the original.
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I dunno, just seem to like it more. Plus I'm a fan of Mekhi Phifer.
I do have the original on DVD, but I guess I’m just not as into the older zombie movies.
by Patrick Stites on Oct 25, 2011 12:10 AM PDT up reply actions
There are good aspects to the newer one.
I think that all the lead-up with the initial outbreak and the push to the mall was solid, but I have certain reservations about fast zombies vs. slow zombies (slow feel more like a force of nature, whereas fast zombies it feels like more of a brawl) and liked the original Dawn for the way it worked around certain political and social themes (back in the day when Romero gave a shit about that stuff).
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by JY on Oct 25, 2011 1:00 AM PDT up reply actions
The original versus the remake debate (I'm not really even sure you could call it that) simply comes down to how much you appreciate politics in your horror.
2004 is a really good zombie movie, whereas the original is (I think) only really appreciated if you watch it within the context of its era. Otherwise, I think it comes off really cheesy.
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by Kenneth Arthur on Oct 25, 2011 9:27 AM PDT up reply actions
Also fast zombies vs. slow zombies I mean seriously
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Fast versus Slow debate will live on forever. My favorite zombie movies have slow zombies, but I don't have an inherent dislike of a fast zombie.
If its a good movie, its a good movie. 28 Days Later wanted fast “bad guys” but made a zombie movie that wasn’t zombies.
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by Kenneth Arthur on Oct 25, 2011 11:48 AM PDT up reply actions
I think I need to re-watch 28 Days Later.
I dug it at the time, but it seems like the public opinion on it, at least among the people I know, really soured in recent years.
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I watched it a couple of months ago and still liked it.
I never thought it was the best movie or horror movie or “zombie” movie ever made though. Good actors, great director, but I am not sure I was ever heavily invested in any of the characters except for the one played by Brendan Gleason.
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by Kenneth Arthur on Oct 25, 2011 3:50 PM PDT up reply actions
Okay goddamit let's do this
How, all of a sudden, in Walking Dead, are the zombies suddenly fast? That last scene at the school was like a zombie track meet – where the zombies used to be plodding and slow, and now all of a sudden they’re sprinters. Is that even legal by the terms of the genre?
I’m really starting to question why people like that show. And not just for that.
Did they do that? I have the first two episodes this season waiting on the DVR.
I think the first season of that show at least, was driven heavily by the zombie fad, like Hollywood telling us “You LOVE zombies now! Trust us! You DO and more than you EVER did before!”
I guess that modern seedling might have been planted by Dawn of the Dead (2004) then grown with more and more good zombie movies and then really peaked with Zombieland. But The Walking Dead sort of reminds me of The Stand in terms of tone and feeling like a TV version of something better.
Maybe World War Z will either kill or keep alive the zombie fad.
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by Kenneth Arthur on Oct 25, 2011 3:53 PM PDT up reply actions
They did, in Sunday's ep
I think it’s the third of the season. It’s really bad for a lot of reasons but the “hey we’re fast now” zombie thing really kinda surprised me.
I noticed the fast zombie deal with the two in the woods, in last weeks episode
At this point I’m suspicious they’re just making shit up as it’s convenient to drive the interpersonal drama
You've unlocked the secret to The Walking Dead
Its not a story about Zombies. The zombies are only there to move things along.
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
Which is my whole problem with the show
I’m not at all interested in pretty much any of the survivors at this point – as mentioned last week, the fact that I can’t name more than one character’s actual name (I got Rick but only because of the mnemonic device of calling him Ranger Rick because of his hat) is a pretty damning indictment of how uninteresting most of them are.
The zombies are the best part of the show, but there’s only so many times that they can go back to the RUN FROM THE ZOMBIES well or the IT’S SAFE HERE WE CAN STAY FOR A WHILE UH OHS ZOMBIES well.
It was even worse reading the comic
because several of the characters were drawn too similar.
And like I said last week every plot arch in the comics was:
1. Found somewhere safe
2. Humans prove to be real monsters
3. Zombies show up so we gotta go now
If it was something like Y: The Last Man where I know it has a planned ending and its all leading somewhere then cool. But since its designed to go on indefinitely and likely never answer anything, meh.
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
Don't write it off so quickly. LOST didn't have a planned ending and it turned out just fi-*gets shot*
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Breaking Bad isn't super planned!
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by JY on Oct 26, 2011 7:29 PM PDT up reply actions
I read every issue of the comic that was out as of January
I think that counts as “not writing it off too quickly.”
I feel no reason to watch the TV show that hasn’t improved the formula.
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
I am however intrigued by Once Upon A Time
If they can make the dialog a little less stilted and if they can make the modern day evil queen woman less of a shrill one note caricature it could be a pretty good show for what it is.
No, not really.
You not liking Lost doesn’t make it bad.
by Patrick Stites on Oct 27, 2011 3:37 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
No, it doesn't.
It having completely abandoned any pretense of consistency with its storytelling, and its obsession with red herrings that never really got resolved in order for it to build up suspense for an event that never really ended up happening, that’s what makes it bad.
Indeed.
The story was at least as compelling as the characters until it turned out to really be a bunch of loose ends that were never tied because they couldn’t be assed to.
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Recently dead probably!
See how many times they’re able to use that excuse to their advantage. After a certain point they’ll just stop bothering with explaining it.
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by JY on Oct 25, 2011 6:16 PM PDT up reply actions
There was kind of an explanation for that!
Because I was watching a later airing, I got the last few minutes of their Talking Dead segment, and the creators explained that they try to adhere to mostly natural principles in how the zombies moved, i.e., more recent deaths, a little more sprightly, been around a while, little stiffer/slower. And earlier in the episode, when they were talking about having seen the blockade around the school, they talked about it being overrun as though it was a fairly recent bit of news. SO… while I have a lot of complaints usually, that one I can allow to slide.
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by JY on Oct 25, 2011 5:47 PM PDT up reply actions
On last week's Talking Dead, they also addressed the issue of hiding under cars.
Explained it as the sense of smell thing being very rudimentary, and that they aren’t bloodhounds.
by Patrick Stites on Oct 25, 2011 6:08 PM PDT up reply actions
Well it would be kind of dumb if being zombies gave them superpowers.
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by JY on Oct 25, 2011 6:15 PM PDT up reply actions
Had any of that been even remotely evident in the show itself I would have been fine with that
but I do not want to depend on watching things other than the show to have to explain what’s going on in the show.
Yeah, if ever there was a time for a little more exposition, that was it.
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by JY on Oct 25, 2011 8:57 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh hell yeah.
Not scary but probably my favourite zombie movie.
by Aussie Mariner on Oct 25, 2011 1:51 PM PDT up reply actions
Black Swan
Such a mind screw, you’re kept guessing the entire time and can’t help but feel incredibly unsettled throughout the movie. Aronofsky became my favorite director because of that film, and Natalie Portman’s performance was beyond outstanding.
Paranormal Activity in theater was probably one of my favorite horror movie experiences so that’s worth mentioning, but I can’t imagine seeing that film in any setting other than a theater full of people.
And as always, The Shining.
by Cascadian Man on Oct 24, 2011 11:36 PM PDT up reply actions
It's good. And I agree with the "unsettling" comment.
It’s probably my favorite Aronofsky flick, but I have a giant man crush on Vincent Cassel, so I am biased. And Mila Kunis + Natalie Portman? Rawr.
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by Kenneth Arthur on Oct 25, 2011 9:28 AM PDT up reply actions
What?
I figured that movie out about 1/3 of the way through. It was well-directed, Portman was brilliant, but it didn’t really keep me guessing.
I don't really think it was supposed to be a "mystery thriller" like it was billed
It was more of a study of how someone can slip into psychosis and schizophrenia in a terrible and insidious way. If someone didn’t know after the first fifteen minutes that she was psychotic, then they probably weren’t paying attention.
by twelveoutof10 on Oct 27, 2011 4:54 PM PDT up reply actions
Jaws.
I’ve seen other movies that scared me more at the time, but none gave me fears that stuck with me for life.
No matter where you go, there you are.
by KC Mariner on Oct 25, 2011 4:52 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Frailty is a really underrated and excellent flick.
This is impossible for me to answer without wavering but as of right now, The Thing. Or Scream. Or A Nightmare on Elm Street. In one way or another, all of those movies changed my life.
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by Kenneth Arthur on Oct 25, 2011 9:29 AM PDT up reply actions
The Ring still scares the bajeebus out of me.
And for a less scary more unsettling fear Something Wicked this Way Comes.
How come you can do all this other great shit, but you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?
Ring is probably mine too.
And on the unsettling horror front I nominate The Wicker Man.
by Eyeball Kid on Oct 25, 2011 10:05 PM PDT up reply actions
Considering a few scenes of the ring were filmed 4 miles from my house.
It still scares the shit out of me.
by Scruffy Lefty on Oct 26, 2011 12:33 PM PDT up reply actions
The Thing (1982), Alien and Aliens, Night of The Creeps, Cannibal Holocaust, Tenebre, etc etc
Big horror dork over here. Every October I try to watch as many as I can. This year has been pretty dismal due to my busier schedule, but I’ve posted some recent “reviews” on my blog.
by sanford_and_son on Oct 26, 2011 9:31 AM PDT up reply actions
When it first came out, I thought The Blair Witch Project was a remarkably clever horror movie.
It obvious hasn’t aged well for various reasons but, at the time, it was pretty damn scary.
Are you looking forward to the prequel?
How come you can do all this other great shit, but you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?
I've heard its pretty thoughtful to the original.
So I do want to see it.
by Scruffy Lefty on Oct 26, 2011 1:05 PM PDT up reply actions
Thoughtful in that they tried to make it more of a remake than a good prequel.
They tried pretty hard, but oh my god it’s fucking terrible. Such a bummer.
by sanford_and_son on Oct 26, 2011 2:34 PM PDT up reply actions
Awwww SHUCKS!
I hope people will watch the original.
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by Kenneth Arthur on Oct 26, 2011 2:39 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh crap! I hope people will watch the John Carpenter version!
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by Kenneth Arthur on Oct 26, 2011 2:48 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh man!
I remember back in college, the Italian department put up flyers all around campus saying that they were going to do a showing of it. Of course, when I got there I found out that part of the deal was that they were going to leave the subtitles off, and speaking no Italian, what I got was mostly a visual and sonic experience. And it was still awesome!
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by JY on Oct 26, 2011 1:12 PM PDT up reply actions
That rules!
The dialogue is useless anyways. Movie doesn’t make a lick of sense.
by sanford_and_son on Oct 26, 2011 2:36 PM PDT up reply actions
When this was explained to me I thought "Well then how can it be good?"
ITS SO GOOD
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by Kenneth Arthur on Oct 26, 2011 2:41 PM PDT up reply actions
Suspiria doesn't fall into this category really.
But AV Club has a good article on Giallo
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by Kenneth Arthur on Oct 26, 2011 2:41 PM PDT up reply actions
You don't think Giallo falls into the broad category of horror movies?
That is a most curious opinion, sir!
by sanford_and_son on Oct 26, 2011 3:28 PM PDT up reply actions
I don't think Suspiria falls into the Giallo genre.
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by Kenneth Arthur on Oct 26, 2011 3:40 PM PDT up reply actions
No, let me re-state that...
Even though Suspiria isn’t a Giallo film, here is a great article on Giallo films. Because Suspiria and Giallo share some similarities.
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by Kenneth Arthur on Oct 27, 2011 9:36 AM PDT up reply actions
When I watch this at home, is it going to be as good/bad as I suspect?
Whenever you bring something to the table, I’m holding Birdemic expectations.
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by Kenneth Arthur on Oct 26, 2011 2:42 PM PDT up reply actions
"Just don
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
Shit I hate my laptop
“Just don’t go in the pool!”
“That actually makes sense!”
“But its so hot out!”
“GOD DAMMIT”
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
A friend and I watched Birdemic after a recommendation from a friend not knowing what it was or what we were getting into.
It was one of the greatest movie experiences of our lives.
by Cascadian Man on Oct 26, 2011 8:04 PM PDT up reply actions
It is incredible.
Caught the big fish.
One million dollars.
A BILLION DOLLARS!
Takin’ a shit.
So many great lines in that movie.
Watch with Rifftrax and its even better.
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by Kenneth Arthur on Oct 27, 2011 9:37 AM PDT up reply actions
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1408, just freaky stuff.
The Ring. No movie has ever gave me the creeps like The Ring.
Night of living Dead, only because when I was in the Third Grade or so, my best friend’s older brother tied us to a chair and forced us to watch it and then I had to walk home in the dark. I was freaked out the whole time.
Fuck the Angels
I saw 1408 in theaters and right when it was about to get intense.
Some kid pulled the fire alarm. Scared the shit out of me.
Has that ever happened to anyone else?
by Scruffy Lefty on Oct 27, 2011 9:44 AM PDT up reply actions
No, but my most memorable movie theater experience was going to see The Others with a few friends.
There’s a jump scare near the end (I guess I still can’t spoil anything?) and one of my friends literally jumped out of his chair and ran out of the theater and decided to miss the last 15 minutes.
We were 18 years old.
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by Kenneth Arthur on Oct 27, 2011 9:57 AM PDT up reply actions
I had a friend do this while watching Gothika
One part freaked him out so bad – He jumped out of his chair and screamed “no fucking way” and left.
by Scruffy Lefty on Oct 27, 2011 4:38 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm enjoying spring!
I’m going to miss Halloween though. :(
Another thing this time of year: Movember. Anyone else doing this? It’s to raise awareness for Men’s health, specifically prostate cancer and depression. I’m finally in a workplace where I can get away with it, so I’m in for my first year, even though I’ll probably end up looking like Derek Holland.
Consider doing it or supporting someone who is.
by Aussie Mariner on Oct 24, 2011 11:01 PM PDT reply actions
I thought there was already Novembeard?
That’s usually around the time I have so much schoolwork I’ve stopped caring about proper grooming.
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Exam period for me, at least the first half anyway.
Then I’m free for the summer!
But working in banking up until now mostly face to face and with a lot of higher end/business customers I was never allowed to have a Derek Holland moustache, even for charity (although it’s probably the only acceptable reason to have one really).
by Aussie Mariner on Oct 24, 2011 11:32 PM PDT up reply actions
I thought it was called No Shave November.
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by perfectstrat on Oct 25, 2011 4:13 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm still recovering from both Zeptember and Rocktober
maybe I listen to too much classic rock radio.
Opinion: making men look like scraggly unwashed beings isn't the greatest way to endear sympathy to our health problems.
If women tried to do a no-shave month to raise awareness of breast cancer or something, by the end of the month I’d probably be fine with just letting them die.
by Matthew on Oct 25, 2011 4:42 PM PDT up reply actions 8 recs
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David Lynch’s hairstyles as compared to famous works of art
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Larry Stone:
New Red Sox GM Ben Cherington says John Lackey will have Tommy John surgery. Well, there goes the Lackey-for-Chone Figgins trade
Karmic response for hiring John Lackey
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Pictures of willfully offensive things like this should be required to have more than a little period to hide.
It’s hard to click a single pixel while cringing.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
Sign him!
I don’t care if it hardly makes sense!
by Cascadian Man on Oct 25, 2011 9:09 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
OL' JIM JIM IS GONNA MASH HIM SOME 'TATERS!
How come you can do all this other great shit, but you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?
by JAH on Oct 25, 2011 9:12 PM PDT up reply actions 7 recs
Aw man
Thome said his desire to capture an elusive World Series title is more important to him than setting individual records.
by Eyeball Kid on Oct 25, 2011 10:09 PM PDT up reply actions
I will seriously just swoon like an idiot if the Mariners sign him.
All doubters will be silenced when he mashes a god damn tater over the Safeco left field bleachers and into oblivion.
by sanford_and_son on Oct 26, 2011 9:49 AM PDT up reply actions
Need something to watch this weekend?
Netflix now apparently has Reboot! Well, seasons 1 and 2 at least.
Chicago questions!
I’m on the short list for a job in Chicago and I’ve never been to the city, so I’m really not sure what to expect if I get the position. The office is downtown in The Loop, but getting a 1or 2 bedroom apartment downtown is kind of pricey (plus I may spend significant chunks of the year on the road, so living really close to work isn’t that big of deal). Is anyone familiar with Chicago?
- How is the mass transit system (reliable, on time, etc.)?
- Any neighborhoods to focus in on during an apartment search?
- Any neighborhoods to avoid?
- Any general “if you live in Chicago you need to know this” type advice?
No matter where you go, there you are.
If you live in Chicago you need to know that Cubs fans are insufferable
they’re lovable losers!
(sorry, I don’t have any actual advice)
A nice thing about KC is how cool the Royals fans are.
Of course, there’s a sizable Cardinal fan base here too so that tends to balance things out. If I was forced to choose a hometown team to get behind in Chicago though, it would probably be the Cubs if only to avoid having to listen to the White Sox announcers.
No matter where you go, there you are.
In my handful of trips to Chicago, I've found the train system to be pretty damn awesome. It seems to pretty much cover the whole city and most of the surrounding burbs.
I’m sure a local could tell you more about it, but all my experiences with it have been goods. Super convenient.
I guess I would definitely avoid the Wrigleyville neighborhood.
by sanford_and_son on Oct 26, 2011 11:47 AM PDT up reply actions
Well, I guess it depends on how much Cubs fans bother you.
Seemed like a nice, bustling neighborhood for sure. Lots of good food, etc.
by sanford_and_son on Oct 31, 2011 10:59 AM PDT up reply actions
It sounds like it's a cool neighborhood but that parking is scarce.
No matter where you go, there you are.
Yeah, my friend doesn't own a car, commutes downtown daily to work by bus, rents a car for trips.
She’s about a fifteen minute walk from the ballpark and I don’t think Cubs fans are an issue at all. Very gay and dog friendly though, so if that bothers you.
That doesn't bother me, but I own a car (and don't plan on selling it), so that is a problem.
No matter where you go, there you are.
Everyone should go read how brilliant Jeff is on the MLB main site
by seattlebruin on Oct 26, 2011 11:49 AM PDT reply actions 1 recs
I love that pissed off face.
I’d hate to be in the middle if Dotel and Beltre ever got mad at each other….
I want Dotel to intentionally walk Beltre
maybe he’ll swing
by seattlebruin on Oct 26, 2011 12:03 PM PDT up reply actions
OK, I forgot this happened
What the hell, Eyebrows. What the hell.
by seattlebruin on Oct 26, 2011 12:30 PM PDT reply actions 2 recs
Can't see the exact comment you're linking to on mobiLLe
but I assume this has to do with my loving Ackley sponsorship.
by Eyebrows on Oct 26, 2011 2:49 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
I'll chime in: Yes.
follow @casetines
by Kenneth Arthur on Oct 26, 2011 2:50 PM PDT up reply actions
The image has 736 views so far!
Making 730+ other people look at that gif was SO WORTH the money.
by Eyebrows on Oct 26, 2011 2:50 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
It wasn't a bad "what the hell," per se
by seattlebruin on Oct 26, 2011 2:52 PM PDT up reply actions
Mariners fans have helped to alter an aspect of my life.
It’s only fair that I return the favor.
by Eyebrows on Oct 26, 2011 2:54 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
I have given them an answer to a question that they have never asked.
A question that they can never articulate. But I have fulfilled them all the same. This is my gift to the world.
by Eyebrows on Oct 26, 2011 2:55 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions 3 recs
"BMW innovations. Hear Facebook status updates with BMW apps."
From the ad on LL.
This sounds like the worst feature…
M's fan newly relocated to SF My homepage
Wasn't there another car that already did this?
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
Hultzen's line today:
3.2 IP, 2 H (HR), R, 5/1 K/BB, 2/4 G/F
Getting better….
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
The boy from Jurassic Park was a freshman at USC when I was a freshman
kids used to pretend to be Dilophosaurases whenever he’d come into the dining hall.
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
by bluemax on Oct 26, 2011 3:43 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I was doing some research for Field Gulls today and came across something new to me.
Does anyone own a Bengal cat, cheetoh, or other kitty cross-bred with a wild cat?
follow @casetines
I honestly know very little about breeding and cats, etc.
From what I read on wikipedia, the bengal cat is relatively new breed, having to be 3 or 4 generations removed from the original cross-breed in order to be legal to own. Its a domestic feline bred with an Asian Leopard Cat.
follow @casetines
by Kenneth Arthur on Oct 26, 2011 2:57 PM PDT up reply actions
Please tell me that a Bengal cat is a tiger the size of a house cat.
No wait, don’t tell me. I want to believe.
How come you can do all this other great shit, but you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?
No but d'awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
by Aaron Campeau on Oct 26, 2011 3:08 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Good enough for me!
How come you can do all this other great shit, but you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?
I'm still learning myself!
But the pictures are pretty great! Such as above.
follow @casetines
by Kenneth Arthur on Oct 26, 2011 3:14 PM PDT up reply actions
One of my best friends had a kitty that was part bobcat.
I loved B.K. (Her name* was short for Bird Killer. She was part bobcat, after all.)
*I’d have named it “Goldthwait.”
by thehemogoblin on Oct 26, 2011 3:17 PM PDT up reply actions
My dad brought home a baby bobcat for us when I was very little.
We lived in the desert, and his mother had been hit by a truck.
He was very cute and sweet for about a month. Then…. he wasn’t. Dad pretty quickly put him back in the desert. I remember I liked feeding him though.
We used to have a cat named B.K. too!
Except his initials stood for “Broken Kitty” :(
He had been found on the side of the road and brought into my dad’s clinic. My mom and dad adopted him after he had recovered and no one claimed him after a while. That cat lived until I was at least 11 or 12, and I’m pretty sure he was there before I was born. He kicked all sorts of ass.
by Cascadian Man on Oct 26, 2011 11:13 PM PDT up reply actions
Definitely going with Lobster dog for my corgi/beagle mutt.
Also, I can’t believe I’ve become one of those people who dresses up their dogs.
by sanford_and_son on Oct 27, 2011 2:12 PM PDT up reply actions
The facial expression of the dog in that costume is so hilarious.
Adorable.
I am convinced that Seattle sports teams exist to make me hate Seattle sports teams.
by the other side on Oct 27, 2011 4:21 PM PDT up reply actions
Corgis always bring a smile to my face
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
Then they wouldn't be nearly as hilarious
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
by bluemax on Oct 27, 2011 3:00 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Do read it just for the pictures:P?
How come you can do all this other great shit, but you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?
I wish there was way to ship that guy back to Canada.
Fuck the Angels
by InSpokane on Oct 28, 2011 8:34 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
What?
Regarding Hanley Ramirez’s position
“There has been no conversations with that,” Samson said. "I suppose if we sign a free-agent first baseman who would only sign with us if he could play shortstop, I guess that is the conversation we’d have with all of our players.
Determined, Jonesing Commentor
Dave Samson says something stupid? The shock!
by Mariner John on Oct 27, 2011 4:08 PM PDT up reply actions
Think of the value of that bat at SS!!
follow @casetines
by Kenneth Arthur on Oct 27, 2011 4:29 PM PDT up reply actions
Having not watched him much or at all, is his fielding as below average as the defensive metrics suggest?
I am convinced that Seattle sports teams exist to make me hate Seattle sports teams.
by the other side on Oct 27, 2011 4:18 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm reasonably sure it's not as bad as a free agent first baseman that insists on playing shortstop
Determined, Jonesing Commentor
I don't know, Prince looks like he could really flash some leather over there.
I am convinced that Seattle sports teams exist to make me hate Seattle sports teams.
by the other side on Oct 27, 2011 4:26 PM PDT up reply actions
Dave Samson says stupid things.
“My mother always taught me that if the only thing you have to say is ‘Screw Dave Samson,’ then don’t say anything at all. So I’m not going to say anything at all.” – Bill Bavasi
No matter where you go, there you are.
I thought so, but I wasn't sure, I saw screw in SI but also kind of assumed it was fuck.
No matter where you go, there you are.
Is dinner and bowling a good first date?
In which order should that happen?
Determined, Jonesing Commentor
I wouldn't suggest it as a first date, more like a third or fourth, unless she really likes bowling.
Dinner should almost always come first though, in my opinion.
by Cascadian Man on Oct 27, 2011 11:42 PM PDT up reply actions
I think so too
but she is a geography club president and a vegetarian so I feel like I need to do something trendy
Determined, Jonesing Commentor
I would argue it would be better to do something that you like doing than something "trendy".
The point of dates (at least conventionally) is to find a compatible person to spend a good chunk of your life with. Yes, you want to impress a little and certainly make it fun, but you don’t want to get stuck bowling for the next twenty years even though you hate it because you took her there on the first date and it turns out she’s an avid bowler (and now thinks you enjoy it).
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
He could take her bowling in Nebraska, and drive the entire way
by Kermit. on Oct 28, 2011 2:56 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
Dinner is too much for a first date
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
Too complicated
I mean I’ve done it, but in LA a lot of people don’t really do dinner on the first date.
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
It depends on how well you know the person before the first date, I think.
Blind/Internet date = dinner is risky because what if he/she is craaaayzaaaay
Known them for a while = go for it
by sanford_and_son on Oct 28, 2011 9:58 AM PDT up reply actions
In my experience, I've found bad/cheesy activities to be a great first date.
Skill games (skeeball etc), driving (golf), pool, bowling or anything else that you can be bad at, enjoy, and laugh at yourself over (or can act not expert-level at and laugh even if you’re a crack shot in any of the above). It breaks the ice, shows you’re a good sport, and allows for stories that involve moving around to tell. Just make sure to do things that don’t physically split you up, so you can talk the whole time while you’re doing it.
My first date with the last girl I got set up with offline went from decent restaurant to a bar with a bunch of skill games to pool hall to night hike.
Basically, this is my blueprint for an unconventional yet very good first date (used to great acclaim quite a few times by myself and close friends): Think about what you know about the person, try to find a run of good activities that you think you both will like and won’t take long to get between, and use as many of them as she wants, dictated by interest/tiredness. If she looked like she was bored/uninterested at the games or the pool hall or the mention of a night hike, it would have ended there and I would have had my answer as to how good a fit we were.
Setup: Make sure it’s stipulated before the date that you would prefer casual dress because activities were forthcoming, and you wanted to start with [bowling] after dinner, but switch to something close by depending on how much time is spent [bowling]. At [bowling], assuming dinner goes swimmingly, talk up the other activities as a choice at first (be open, surprises aren’t good on first dates), and see if she looks interested. If so, offer to make a night of it, and do as many as you can fit in. As you go along, make sure she knows that it can go or stop as she pleases, and I’ve found the phrasing “we can always pick up where we leave off on the next date” works well for that.
This turned out to be a little long, but I hope it helps someone, as it’s a great way to find a person that is up to your speed if you like doing stuff as opposed to standing around drinking (I don’t drink, so sitting in a bar isn’t appealing). Now if I hadn’t turned into a couch potato in my old age I could still use it.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
by Faux on Oct 28, 2011 7:05 AM PDT up reply actions 11 recs
Bowling first then dinner.
That way you have something fun to talk about. Don’t listen to these guys. You can turn this into an awesome first date.
Fuck the Angels
Awesome
I think honestly that’s about all I’d ask for, a chance to meet the player and an autograph to remember the moment by.
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
Very cool. Very similar to that fanpost a while back about the dude who caught Ackley's first homer.
I can’t help but laugh at his Cubs fan buddy, though.
Sub question: If you ever found yourself with tickets to a World Series game that the Mariners were not a part of (well duh), would you wear Mariners gear?
I sure wouldn’t.
by sanford_and_son on Oct 28, 2011 9:41 AM PDT up reply actions
Nope
when I go to Dodgers games where they aren’t playing the Mariners I don’t sport Mariners gear.
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
Exactly! How huge of a Cubs homer do you need to be to wear a Cubs shirt to a Rangers/Cardinals WS game?
It basically backs up all my assumptions and prejudices against Cubs fans, heh.
by sanford_and_son on Oct 28, 2011 10:21 AM PDT up reply actions
He's just trolling
Determined, Jonesing Commentor
by Corco on Oct 28, 2011 10:40 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Yeah, if I had a buddy who was a die hard fan of one of my rivals and he and I went to a WS game, I'd probably troll him too.
How come you can do all this other great shit, but you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?
World Series/playoffs, no.
Otherwise, yes. Just because I’m not at a Mariners game doesn’t mean I can’t support my team.
"Satisfaction is the enemy of success." SanFranPreps Twitter: @d_quazzo
by perfectstrat on Oct 28, 2011 2:33 PM PDT up reply actions
So, the Cardinals can't actually lose now, right? You can't possibly win an amazing game like that last night and then lose game 7, right? It'll just ruin the whole nice, tidy narrative of the underdog.
Just beat the Rangers one more time, please?
by sanford_and_son on Oct 28, 2011 11:07 AM PDT reply actions 2 recs
I'm totally expecting an unenthusiastic blow out tonight.
I don’t know by who, but it just seems like that’s the way it’ll go to me.
by Cascadian Man on Oct 28, 2011 12:37 PM PDT up reply actions
I don't think I could handle that, and I'm not even a fan of these teams.
If the Mariners ever make the World Series I’ll probably go into cardiac arrest whenever we get a base hit.
by Cascadian Man on Oct 28, 2011 1:19 PM PDT up reply actions
Is it just me or is referring to someone as "10 pounds of shit in a 5 pound bag" like the funniest and harshest put down ever?
by sanford_and_son on Oct 28, 2011 3:15 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
Jim Moore hates to watch Beltre because he 'went off to Boston and Texas and did all that'
well, ok.
I had to defend Beltre's honor last night at the bar.
One terribly uninformed person said, “Beltre? I can’t believe he’s still playing baseball! He was terrible when he was here!”
I dropped some truth on their ass pretty hard.
by sanford_and_son on Oct 28, 2011 3:27 PM PDT up reply actions
Beer Sale at the Whole Foods.
Deschutes Stoic
Deschutes Fresh Hop Mirror Pond
Russian River Damnation.
I am excited. Anyone else pick up something special for the World Series?
Tumblr presents...
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
I just watched to pilot for Grimm.
Does anyone else feel that the series name and the prognosis for it’s future are synonymous?
I'm convinced this scene is the reason movies were invented.
The mustachioed sneer is what really sells this.
by Chris Hafner on Oct 29, 2011 12:41 AM PDT reply actions 10 recs
What movie is this?
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
Has anyone else ever attempted suicide?
by Aaron Campeau on Oct 29, 2011 11:07 PM PDT reply actions 2 recs
It's just a game, dude. It's just a game.
So you lost. It happens to everyone at some point or another.
And how can you not handle a loss? You’re a Mariners fan, after all.
by thehemogoblin on Oct 29, 2011 11:44 PM PDT up reply actions
Ask bluemax, though he may have done it already.
I wouldn’t recommend it though.
"Satisfaction is the enemy of success." SanFranPreps Twitter: @d_quazzo
by perfectstrat on Oct 29, 2011 11:47 PM PDT up reply actions
I haven't attempted sports related suicide since 2007!
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
Also if this suicide thread is for serious then call the National Suicide Hotline
The counselors are well trained and will help you get the help you need.
Finding a therapist who can help you is really important. Depression and similar illnesses really blow (and that’s putting it mildly) but there are ways of dealing and coping with it. I speak on this from actual experience.
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
If you do decide to go for it
Dial 9-1-1 on your cellphone first but don’t hit call yet. Depending on your method, you may change your mind mid choke or mid bleed and its nice to be one button push from help.
If you succeed you won’t regret it, cause of the being dead, but just think of all the hungry, love-starved cats you would leave behind. Cats are more important than sports, and cats don’t even like sports, unless the sport involves getting high, licking butter and chasing lasers (Bowling maybe?)
In conclusion, instead of the generic emo type suicides, people should consider donating their lives to scientific research or some worthy cause. If you choose death anyways, might as well let “scientists” inject new perfumes into your bloodstream to see if they will be harmful to French streetwalkers.
by Craptastic-J on Oct 30, 2011 6:45 AM PDT up reply actions
Wait
Dial 9-1-1 on your cellphone first but don’t hit call yet. Depending on your method, you may change your mind mid choke or mid bleed and its nice to be one button push from help.
That seems like a terrible idea- if I wanted to kill myself, why would I leave myself a mechanism to support the instinctual urge to not kill myself?
Determined, Jonesing Commentor
Because you don't want to really kill yourself and are over-reacting on an impulse?
And when the instinct you speak of kicks in you won’t have to die.
And of course, if a person is serious enough, it’s not really hard to do. Just eat a bunch of french fries, those will suicide you to death for sure.
by Craptastic-J on Oct 30, 2011 7:51 AM PDT up reply actions
But even if in your heart you really want to die, doesn't your body automatically react when you try to kill yourself to abort the mission?
If so, why would you leave yourself a life raft?
Determined, Jonesing Commentor
Of all the people I've watched commit suicide
Only one’s body revolted and tried to save itself. Trying to grab that balcony railing after falling 15 stories was not the most successful method of self preservation.
by Craptastic-J on Oct 30, 2011 9:34 AM PDT up reply actions
Serious question, not trying to troll soccer fans at all here, but does anyone actually like the MLS playoff format?
I’m assuming there is a precedent for the total goals thing somewhere else in the world of soccer, right?
by sanford_and_son on Oct 31, 2011 11:06 AM PDT up reply actions
Everywhere else in the world, actually
It’s a little different elsewhere because nobody else has playoffs, but in things like cup competitions (which exist outside the structure of a league), the elimination rounds are generally home-and-away games in which total goals over both games decides the winner.
Ah, I see. Thank you!
It just sucks that one bad game can pretty much sink your entire season.
Not that that is exclusive to MLS playoffs…
by sanford_and_son on Oct 31, 2011 11:31 AM PDT up reply actions
My biggest complaint is the idea that it sinks the entire season.
The Sounders had a tremendous regular season despite losing three really important players very early on. They won another US Open Cup. They beat Monterrey in Mexico despite Monterrey playing their starters. They advanced to the knockout round of the Champions League.
This was an awesome season. But people are going to look at it as a failure and that pisses me off.
by Aaron Campeau on Oct 31, 2011 11:37 AM PDT up reply actions
I hate the MLS playoff format but it doesn't have anyting to do with total goals.
The second best team in the league should not be opening the playoffs against the third best team in the league. It’s fucking ridiculous.
by Aaron Campeau on Oct 31, 2011 11:19 AM PDT up reply actions
Watching the old trailers on TCM helps remind one that the making of movie trailers has always been fraught with danger.
they can go so wrong, so fast.
I'm worried about you
You used to be all about blowing up hospitals. Now you’re about blowing yourself up. YOU’VE CHANGED, MAN
No reason both those things can't happen together.
Maybe he’s going to vest strap a bomb and go to Josh Hamilton’s rehab clinic.
by Craptastic-J on Oct 30, 2011 12:51 PM PDT up reply actions
New stuff I did
I recently started watching Breaking Bad and decided to try scotch out. Any advice on scotch? I got Johnnie Walker Gold Label
I'll try that next, thanks!
I just tried the scotch at room temperature and with ice, it’s crazy how much of a difference ice makes.
It really depends on the scotch, too.
Some take ice really well (like the sweeter Speyside and Lowland malts) while others are better taken either neat or with a small bit of water (typically stronger-flavored scotches from Islay and some from the northern Island regions).
Oban is a decent starter scotch that isn't out of this world pricey. (~$70. per bottle)
Macallan 12yr is really nice also and a bit less cost wise (~$55 )
Lagvulin is one people seem to like quite a bit. Personally I’m not much of an Islay fan but it’s ok. (~$75 )
And of course the Laphroaig which already been mentioned but get the 18 yr. (~$70)
Of course these are all middle of the road scotches that will be a bit gentler on your wallet. Of course if you don’t mind spending $150+ you could get the Macallan 18 yr which is just lovely.
My taste in scotch is horribly skewed as the first time I had it was Jhonnie Walker Blue Label.
$200+ a bottle premium is not a fair standard to judge other drinks to.
How come you can do all this other great shit, but you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?
That's that scotch from the Dominican, right?
by msb on Oct 31, 2011 12:29 PM PDT up reply actions 3 recs
Nope, actually made in Scotland.
How come you can do all this other great shit, but you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?
....I knew that.
[lies]
How come you can do all this other great shit, but you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?
I'm surprised Mariner Jhon didn't respond.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Oct 31, 2011 6:36 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm going to go sit in the dark and listen to Pedro the Lion because of you guys!
How come you can do all this other great shit, but you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?
I TRIED SO HAAAAAARD
I GOT SO FAAAAAAAARR
Wrong meme?
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
It was obvious. Nobody from the Dominican is a Walker.
by Eyebrows on Nov 1, 2011 2:52 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions 6 recs
From what I heard Gold Label is just a step down taste wise from the Blue Label
Both good scotch but for the price Gold Label has a better taste per dollar than the Blue Label.
All Blue Label has going for it compared to Gold is cachet.
Having owned both, there is very little difference in quality of taste between the two…at least to the casual tasters like us.
I'm still waiting for Breaking Bad to get really good.
I’m halfway through the second season and it’s getting better after each episode. I still feel like it’s missing something
So Derek Lowe and ~$10m to the Indians for an A-ball reliever.
M's fan newly relocated to SF My homepage
That is something
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
For $5M and a nothing prospect, I would have welcomed Derek Lowe on the Mariners
Him and then sign Moyer for beans and you’d have your rotational depth issue taken care of for not much money
by Matthew on Oct 31, 2011 11:00 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Indeed, pretty good deal for the Indians.
Would have been even better with our stellar IF defense, but oh well.
M's fan newly relocated to SF My homepage
Question for Portland LL'ers
I’m going to be in Portland in 2 weeks for a quick weekend stop and I could use some travelers advice. I thought I saw a topic on Portland a few weeks ago, but I couldn’t find anything with a site search. Just going to be me and the lady friend and we’ll be staying on McCormick Pier. Anything close by that you would recommend to do? Eat? See? We have a car so if you recommend something that’s a good distance away, we can also drive to it.
We’re going to spend all day Saturday exploring and hiking the gorge, Sunday to rest and maybe stop by the Woodburn Shopping Center.
Where you're staying is at the opposite end of downtown/the Pearl from anything really
it’s not a bad area, but there’s not a lot there so you’ll need to go elsewhere. But I need more info. What do you like to eat? brewpubs, swanky restaurants, food carts? What sorts of things do you like to see?
For food,
I’d say that we like casual dining. Price isn’t really the issue, but we prefer more of a laid back atmosphere when we go out to eat. I have heard a lot of good things about the brewpubs, could you recommend some? We also love asian food. Any kind, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Korean.
We’re not big drinkers but we do like an occasional beer now and then too. Would a brewery tour be a good bet?
I think we would really just like to explore the city. Maybe find a good neighborhood or park to walk around in the evening after dinner.
Rogue and Deschutes are both in the Pearl District.
Split a sampler (or two) at each and then explore the neighborhood.
by Eyebrows on Oct 31, 2011 11:20 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Are you recommending a brewery tour?
Or do the breweries have restaurants or places to sample the beverages on the premises?
I don't think there's a Rogue tour. Deschutes' main brewery is in Bend, not Portland.
These are just the brewpubs I’m talking about. Get a table, maybe some food and some samplers.
A Rogue sampler is 4 beers, but each slightly larger than the sampler of 6 at Deschutes.
by Eyebrows on Oct 31, 2011 3:35 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Can you purchase a six pack at these brew pubs?
Or is this strictly a restaurant with beers on tap? I think I’d like to bring back a six pack or two if possible.
My favorite brewpub in all of Portland is the New Old Lompoc on NW 23rd
It’s kind of dumpy, but the beer is fantastic (best in Portland in my opinion) and the food is good, and it does have that laid back vibe to it. Plus you can be sure you’re there before it goes away.
Is the Pearl district the place to be?
And thank you very much pdb.
"The place to be" is highly subjective
I don’t care for the Pearl because it’s all suburban-y and full of annoying people, but there are a few decent things to do there. Lots of overpriced restaurants, some very good and some just overpriced. It’s probably worth a wander around, but there’s better neighborhoods in Portland (NW 23rd, Hawthorne, Woodstock) that get you a more representative sample of what Portland really is.
I google mapped where we are staying at yesterday,
and apparently we’re going to be right next to the Portland Union Station. Unless I’m totally reading the map wrong, that would put us pretty close to the Pearl District, correct?
by EvW on Nov 3, 2011 9:29 AM PDT up reply actions
That is correct.
You’re also right at a MAX stop (yellow/green lines) which will get you downtown or to North or East Portland. The Pearl’s a quick walk though, it’s just a few blocks from the station.
by pdb on Nov 3, 2011 9:36 AM PDT up reply actions
Is parking in the neighborhoods like the Pearl and NW 23rd a pain?
It’ll be the weekend and I worry a bit about parking, being unfamiliar with the area and all. Probably better to go on foot to the Pearl anyhow.
by EvW on Nov 3, 2011 9:55 AM PDT up reply actions
Unbelievably so, especially on the weekends
Imagine Capitol Hill on a Fri/Sat night. t’s really best to walk. There is also the Portland Streetcar that will take you up to 23rd, you catch it downtown a pretty quick walk or MAX from where you’re staying. But yeah, if you’re staying right by the train station it’s a really easy walk to the Pearl.
I enjoy the Screen Door for breakfast.
But there’s always a long wait.
by Eyebrows on Oct 31, 2011 11:11 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions
While I'm on the subject
My favorite Portland breakfast places:
Besaw’s
Gravy
Beaterville
Cup & Saucer
Pine State Biscuits
Get lunch at Deschutes and then browse Powells with a good buzz going.
by Eyebrows on Oct 31, 2011 11:12 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions
The Japanese garden and rose garden were nice when I visited in late July, but I'm not sure this is the right season for it.
by Eyebrows on Oct 31, 2011 11:13 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions
This sounds like something that's right up our alley.
Thank you Eyebrows.
I'm thinking about visiting the Japanese garden.
Is there an entrance fee of some sort?
No Glold Glove this year.
ESPN2 will televise the first-ever Rawlings Gold Glove Awards Show – emanating from ESPN’s Baseball Tonight studio in Bristol – Tuesday, Nov. 1, at 10 p.m. ET. The one-hour telecast, hosted by Baseball Tonight’s Karl Ravech with analysts John Kruk and Barry Larkin (a three-time Gold Glove winner – 1994, 1995, 1996), will include the announcement of the 2011 Gold Glove Award winners and extensive highlights and analysis of the best defensive performers and plays during the MLB regular season.
How is Doug Fister not nominated for pitchers
by seattlebruin on Oct 31, 2011 1:16 PM PDT up reply actions
It seems that shortstop in the AL is pretty crowded right now
apparently Web Gem Cabrera is going to win, in spite of UZR thinking he’s been quite bad at SS for a few years now
by seattlebruin on Oct 31, 2011 1:25 PM PDT up reply actions
So he's the new Jeter?
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by JY on Oct 31, 2011 1:28 PM PDT up reply actions
First time since 1987 that there haven't been any Mariners!
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by JY on Oct 31, 2011 1:29 PM PDT up reply actions
Hultzen update:
4.0 IP, 2 H, 5/0 K/BB, 3/1 G/F
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Any idea who in/around your top 10 would be if you did it right now?
and is Triunfel a prospect again, despite hitting for no power the second half of the season?
by seattlebruin on Oct 31, 2011 1:38 PM PDT up reply actions
My top 3 would probably be Hultzen, Walker, Paxton.
After that, I’m less certain. Franklin would probably have to be #4, and then Jose Campos would be #5. They could also be swapped. For 6 through 10, it would be something including Catricala, Brad Miller, Francisco Martinez, maybe Phillips Castillo and Alex Liddi, and I’d make a case for Erasmo Ramirez, but don’t know where to slot him yet. In any case, while Triunfel did work his way back onto the radar this year, I’d probably side with Erasmo first.
Bear in mind that this is all me shooting from the hip. I don’t do Top 10s as a general rule and haven’t given much thought to it.
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by JY on Oct 31, 2011 1:52 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
That's why the in/around clause! =)
we’re spoiled by your prospect style around here, no one should spend that much time debating who is a better prospect between an org’s #8 guy and #9 guy
by seattlebruin on Oct 31, 2011 1:58 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Thanks.
The whole “why is this guy #9 and not #8” thing is why I hate the lists, particularly considering that being a #9 prospect is going to mean a very different thing from the Rangers, let’s say, to the Astros.
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by JY on Oct 31, 2011 2:01 PM PDT up reply actions
Is part of the whole ranking bit how close they are to being MLB ready?
Or is it more on ceiling?
by Aussie Mariner on Oct 31, 2011 2:03 PM PDT up reply actions
That's one of the trickiest philosophical things to balance.
If I were going strictly on ceiling, for example, I might have Guillermo Pimentel in there over Phillips Castillo because Pimentel is projected to more power and is left-handed, but Castillo has had a better performance around the same stage.
Basically, the way I approach it is that I’ll factor in ceiling, but the ceiling itself is weighted heavily with performance. Take Greg Halman as an example. He’s one of the best athletes you’ll see in the minor leagues, but his skill s are so bad that it’s hard to see him having a great deal of impact. At the same time, because he’s near-major league ready, it’s easier for him to be imagined having a major league career than a more polished, less talented guy three levels down.
I don’t know. This is probably something that I shouldn’t be posting about right as I’m heading out the door, so maybe I’ll come back to it later.
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by JY on Oct 31, 2011 2:07 PM PDT up reply actions
As much as I poke fun at BP's rankings...
I can see some small virtue in his doing a top 11 and then separating the prospects into tiers within that.
Blobs are all good and fine but I’m still trying to figure out how to balance out the risk and reward in a way that makes sense.
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by JY on Nov 1, 2011 5:18 PM PDT up reply actions
Venn blobs
Here are some guys that are interesting because they have high ceilings.
Here are some guys that are interesting because they are close to the Majors.
There are some guys that are really interesting because they are both.
by Matthew on Nov 1, 2011 5:44 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I'm liking this as a starting point.
But… it seems to neglect guys that have low risk and low-to-moderate ceilings who are further down the pipeline. I don’t know why I’m even trying to figure this out right now because I sure as hell don’t have the time to implement anything.
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by JY on Nov 1, 2011 5:55 PM PDT up reply actions
What's an example of a low risk, low ceiling guy who's far away from the Majors?
And why would we care about such a creature? “In three years, if everything goes well, he could be a bench player!”
by Matthew on Nov 1, 2011 6:19 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
See, I knew you were going to say that.
It’s a side effect of studying this as intently. People like marc and I could spend an inordinately long time talking about a particular prospect who might end up breaking in and holding on as a bench player. After a point, you’ve seen so very much failure that this becomes something that seems exciting.
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by JY on Nov 1, 2011 6:49 PM PDT up reply actions
For internal discussion, sure. But that kind of player should never be on a prospect "list", right?
If you’re writing up Jose Yepez two years ago for public consumption…
I was initially thinking more along the lines of guys like Seager and Snow ~two years ago.
But both turned out to be more than we thought they would be, so I don’t know that they’re the best examples. A more recent one might be, I don’t know, someone like Jamal Austin, who will never ever hit for power, but has good bat skills, plate discipline, and speed in the outfield and on the basepaths.
It all depends on how deep you feel like going with these things.
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by JY on Nov 2, 2011 12:34 PM PDT up reply actions
True. I just, if you're willing to plumb down the depths of a Forrest Snow 2 years ago
(or even a Doug Fister 3 years ago) where do you stop?
A lot of prospect lists go to thirty these days...
What you get by going deep however varies from one system to the next and, just like the draft, beyond a certain point every scouting report starts to read in the same way. When you start splitting hairs over some Latin American pitcher in Pulaski who has demonstrated one interesting thing, and you’re trying to differentiate him from all the others who have come through and managed one interesting thing, you’re probably in trouble.
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by JY on Nov 2, 2011 12:55 PM PDT up reply actions
Right, but see how you're still a bit rooted in the list mentality there?
Why 30? I’d say that writing up the same number of prospects for each team artificially makes comparing the systems more confusing.
If instead you have the venn blob style that I just half-assed above and stopped writing up once you reached players that didn’t fit into either high-ceiling or near-ready then I think you’d present a more dynamic picture of each team’s system strength.
It shouldn’t be about filling a quota of names, I think it should be about how much is worth highlighting.
I can't easily avoid it...
seeing as how I’m supposedly going to take over the Future Forty one of these days. But within the span that I’ve been trying to figure it out, what the back-end of the list has looked like from one year to the next has changed drastically, which is a case for the design you suggested. At the same time, Halman, Peguero, etc have high ceilings, and are near ready, and experience has taught us that they are also terrible at baseball.
Perhaps a third circle encapsulating risk might be in order. I would also have to clearly outline what I mean by high ceiling, because there’s a difference between guys who flash all of the components from time to time, like say Erasmo Ramirez, and Danny Hultzen, who has it all going all the time.
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by JY on Nov 2, 2011 1:30 PM PDT up reply actions
Having a low-risk, close to majors overlap would provide a nice place to dump relievers as well.
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by JY on Nov 2, 2011 1:46 PM PDT up reply actions
That is such an obvious and simple way to do prospect lists, I can't believe it's not more common.
Why do we have to fill a quota, besides the fact that people absolutely LOVE lists and that the lists HAVE to have an even or round number? That’s a pretty cool idea.
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by Kenneth Arthur on Nov 2, 2011 2:50 PM PDT up reply actions
I will add that MLB.com recently had a Top 10 that was horrible.
They omit 2011 draftees, near as I can figure, but their list was Walker, Paxton, Franklin, Francisco Martinez, Pimentel, Ruffin, Johermyn Chavez, Dan Cortes, Liddi, and Mauricio Robles. The top three are defensible given the parameters, but the rest …. HOW CAN YOU PUT A GUY WHO HIT .216/.312/.360 IN HIS DOUBLE-A DEBUT AND STRUCK OUT IN 24.3% OF HIS PLATE APPEARANCES IN THE TOP TEN? ARRRRRRG.
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by JY on Oct 31, 2011 2:00 PM PDT up reply actions
I don't know how he'll do in the majors, but I just get the feeling that Hultzen will dominate his time in the minors.
He seems like he’s really far ahead of the other guys near his age and experience, and I don’t see him having a problem at AAA. He might get shafted a little bit on some “top 100” lists, but I just feel like he’ll be an early season story for minor league dominance. I hope I am right.
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by Kenneth Arthur on Oct 31, 2011 3:30 PM PDT up reply actions
When do the clocks go back for you guys?
I’m quite enjoying things starting an hour earlier than usual.
Man I thought my dog got upset when I put him in something
that cat looks down right pissed
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I don't know you guys has anyone here ever heard of Adobe Photoshop photo manipulation software?
by Eyebrows on Nov 1, 2011 10:27 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions 3 recs
I hadn't had my morning coffee
but now that is clearly taco bell on that cat.
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by bluemax on Nov 1, 2011 11:03 AM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
tacocat
Not many people can go as a palindrome for Halloween.
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by JY on Nov 1, 2011 11:04 AM PDT up reply actions
Awwww eyebrows beat me to it...
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by JY on Nov 1, 2011 11:04 AM PDT up reply actions
Things that will never go away.
@Ken_Rosenthal: Jamie Moyer threw for scouts Thurs. in SD area. Reports from scouts excellent. Nearly 1yr removed from TJ. Turns 49 Nov 18
by msb on Nov 1, 2011 9:05 AM PDT reply actions 3 recs
I'll be so happy if he pitches next year and beyond.
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by Kenneth Arthur on Nov 1, 2011 9:07 AM PDT up reply actions
Found while looking for something else:
Japanese star in camp
Three key members of the Orix Blue Wave, including five-time batting champion Ichiro Suzuki, will work out with the Mariners for the first two weeks of spring training and participate in a handful of Cactus League games.
The Mariners have a working agreement with the Blue Wave, who play in Japan’s Pacific League. Pitchers Nobuyuki Hoshino and Nobuyuki Ebisu will in camp, but the headliner is Suzuki, such an icon in Japan that his first name is on the back of his jersey.
“He’s the Ken Griffey of Japan,” Mariner President Chuck Armstrong said. “He’s amazed he’s not mobbed when he comes here.”
Suzuki, a 25-year-old outfielder who’s no relation to Mariner reliever Mac Suzuki, has won three MVP awards and has a .350 career average.
by msb on Nov 1, 2011 9:22 AM PDT reply actions 3 recs
CC got paid, again
5 years $125 million
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YES!
McCourt close to selling the Dodgers
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
And now he officially will sell them
I fully expect the Garvey group to get them as MLB is stupid like that.
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Let's just call all of them by colors
Right now the Big Twelve has eleven members, soon to be twelve, and then to be ten. The Big Ten has twelve members. The Big East just invited a school from Idaho, (that’s only one state from the Pacific Ocean. One!) and another from Colorado.
The Southeastern Conference isn’t the worst because their biggest distance team is “only” in Texas. The Western Athletic Conference has a team in Louisiana.
If the point of conference identity is to win a mythical regional championship, and then test yourself on a national stage, then why does one of the power conferences have teams in all the time zones?
by seattlebruin on Nov 1, 2011 12:56 PM PDT up reply actions
Isn't it pretty much the PAC 12 that started all this shit?
Whoever it was caused a domino effect, but it’ll sort itself out soon enough.
by Patrick Stites on Nov 1, 2011 3:38 PM PDT up reply actions
No, the Big Ten caused all this, and the comment is about the names
the Pac 12 very accurately describes it’s eleven member universities and usc
Well yeah the names will sort themselves, at least for the numbered conferences.
Pro sports aren’t immune to ridiculous divisions either, such as a team from Missouri being in the AFC West. Or MLB having a Colorado team in the NL West.
by Patrick Stites on Nov 1, 2011 4:12 PM PDT up reply actions
That too.
Although perception makes it feel the most right of any of those, for some reason Colorado feels more east in my head.
by Patrick Stites on Nov 1, 2011 4:37 PM PDT up reply actions
The teams that are in the West divisions in baseball are the 9 most western teams.
When Houston gets added they’ll be the 10 westernmost.
by Mariner John on Nov 1, 2011 5:13 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
There's like no way a conference has a team in every time zone.
That’s crazy!
by Matthew on Nov 1, 2011 5:45 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
As a die hard Boise fan I really hope they don't do it
Too much travel and a MWC/CUSA superconference will get the auto-qualifier before the corpse of the Big East if Boise doesn’t join
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Really funny.
Was there a specific thing that caused this FanPost or did Jeff just write it for humor’s sake?
by sanford_and_son on Nov 1, 2011 1:28 PM PDT up reply actions
I guess there have been 66 Treehouse of Horror segments.
And this guy ranked all of them.
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That is a pretty great list.
I wish he would have gone a bit more in depth on some of the brilliant references some of those Treehouse episodes from the first few seasons make. Some of my very favorite episodes.
“Stupid Smarch weather!”
by sanford_and_son on Nov 1, 2011 2:42 PM PDT up reply actions
It'll probably be awful
but the chance to blow up virtual representations of things I see in real life will get me to play it.
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I loved GTA:SA but GTA IV might be one of the biggest let downs for a video game in my life.
Curious to see how it goes.
Same. But most of my disappointment came from the fact it was NY
I loved SA to death. And rumors suggest that its Tommy Vercetti from Vice City being the main character. (Which I also loved Vice City)
by Scruffy Lefty on Nov 2, 2011 2:47 PM PDT up reply actions
Most of my disappointment came from the fact that 90% the missions were boring and bland.
The rest came from the lack of non-mission things to do compared to SA.
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I thought IV's main weakness was taking itself too seriously.
How come you can do all this other great shit, but you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?
by JAH on Nov 2, 2011 3:56 PM PDT up reply actions
They should have struck while the iron was hot and made GTA: Portland.
Just think of the bits of dialogue you’d overhear walking around the streets!
by sanford_and_son on Nov 2, 2011 11:50 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
They already plumbed New York with GTAIV
The only way to get people to ignore the incremental improvements over the last one is to change the geographic location.
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I forget that MTV exists and am largely unaware of what they put on TV
I didn’t even know they still did the Real World.
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The return of Beavis and Butthead was pretty amazing though.
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by Kenneth Arthur on Nov 2, 2011 3:21 PM PDT up reply actions
It is exactly the same show as it was when it was first on
The problem with it is I am not exactly the same person I was when it was first on, so I don’t find it nearly as funny as I used to – but I am in awe of how well Judge has done in keeping the tone of the show consistent with what it was during its original run.
by pdb on Nov 2, 2011 3:29 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, I was actually really happy that it didn't change at all, moreso than just being amazed that he could do that.
I love that when it was originally on, MTV played Music Videos, so that’s what B&B watched and made fun of. Now Judge acknowledges that they play a bunch of different crap, so thats what B&B make fun of.
I do want to believe that I’ve grown up since then, but I was laughing a lot.
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by Kenneth Arthur on Nov 2, 2011 4:29 PM PDT up reply actions
I laughed a lot but I can't imagine watching it on a regular basis any more
it’s one of those things I’ll probably watch once a year or so and get my fill of.
by pdb on Nov 2, 2011 5:37 PM PDT up reply actions
Speaking of video games: What are some video games that have surprised you.
I’m currently playing Just Cause 2 and am loving it to death. I bought the first one and played it for maybe 5 hours at most all while hating it. Meanwhile the second one is just fantastic.
It’s like the video game version of the Expendables! Fuck you plot I don’t like you. Let’s go blow shit up.
Just Cause 2 is so awesome
I barely played the story because, fuck it I can steal a helicopter and blow up everything!
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Do you have the PC? Because if so, the mods for that game add roughly 50 more hours to its playlife.
The pure childlike glee you will get from (literally) flying around as an invincible deity of explosions and multiple grappling hooks is too good to pass up.
by Cascadian Man on Nov 2, 2011 2:57 PM PDT up reply actions
I just picked up Just Cause 2 for Amazon's buy 2 get 1 free deal, along with Gears 3 and Batman: Arkham City
I think I’m most looking forward to JC2 because the demo was incredible. I loved hooking onto a propane tank right as it launches skyward
by tootthekazoo on Nov 6, 2011 10:03 PM PST up reply actions
Meh. GTA is still fun and all, but Saints Row is what GTA IV should have been.
It’s like San Andreas with even more insanity.
Link NSFW due to Giant Purple Dildo weapon, amongst other things.
by Cascadian Man on Nov 2, 2011 3:00 PM PDT up reply actions
Ignoring posting fees and such, how much would you pay Darvish?
Assume he won’t take less than a 5 year deal.
I think $13m/yr over 5 years would be a good bet, but more than that I don’t know if I could pull the trigger.
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Assuming the fee is a separate budget and will not impact the team in any other way, $90M over 5 years
by seattlebruin on Nov 2, 2011 12:34 PM PDT up reply actions
I don't trust JPL numbers anywhere close to being in the zipcode of comfortable with giving Darvish anywhere near that much guaranteed for that long.
What’s the upside? You basically need him to be one of the best pitchers in baseball — five years in a row — to break even
Yeah that's why I'm thinking paying him to average 2.5-3 WAR is a decent bet.
It’s hard to imagine him being below average in his current state, give his control and stuff. The upside is there for him to be one of the best pitchers in baseball five years in a row, in which case betting on him at ~$13m per year would yield huge dividends.
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It's a splash, and you would hope that he derives some marginal value from being a Japanese (kinda) import
in my scenario, I don’t count the posting fee towards the contract value (since it’s a GR&A that it’s not included), so the contract is something like 5/$55 or so. Even if he’s just a two win or so guy, you hope that the value of him coming over from Japan is worth that much to the team in additional ticket/merchandise/whatever sales.
Also, he’s been so dominant in Japan that I would see his floor as being somewhere around average – if you’re only slightly overpaying for average and different, there’s a ton of upside as well which could make the contract look like a bargain, however unlikely.
by seattlebruin on Nov 2, 2011 12:50 PM PDT up reply actions
What?
Ignoring posting fees and such, how much would you pay Darvish?
$90M over 5 years
I don’t count the posting fee towards the contract value (since it’s a GR&A that it’s not included), so the contract is something like 5/$55 or so.
Aw crap I totally missed that first part
OK then, I would pay him $60M over five years
5 years, $75M with a 6th year vesting option for $15M at 350 IP in the previous two years.
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by perfectstrat on Nov 3, 2011 11:51 AM PDT up reply actions
hahahahaha Angels
by seattlebruin on Nov 2, 2011 12:51 PM PDT reply actions 3 recs
I'm convinced my pockets would make a better Boy Scout than me.
I have no idea how my headphones end up in those knots.
by LeftArrow2 on Nov 2, 2011 11:51 PM PDT reply actions 3 recs
Is he going to give people their life savings back?
Not that I think he should.
So this might push me into getting a Kindle
I love the idea of a Kindle but never really had a huge need for one, but the basic one is cheap enough now that this might make it worth picking one up.
I have to admit, that had got me thinking about the Fire finally...
by msb on Nov 3, 2011 9:40 AM PDT up reply actions
I'm just the opposite
I’m probably going to get the basic $79 version. I really only want it for books – I have a laptop for video/websites, and a TV and computer for video, I just want the reader part.
Got my Kindle ~2.5 months ago and I like it quite a bit; really great product and execution.
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Yeah I bought mine earlier this year
the amount of books I’ve read has gone up. I couldn’t switch to another device though because I love eInk too much.
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So, I'm covering the Oregon/Washington football game Saturday night...
I have all day Saturday to blow in Seattle, and I need something relatively interesting to do. I’ll have my mommy’s minivan, so I can pretty much go anywhere. I’m also a broke-ass college student who is blowing pretty much all of his dispensable income on this trip. Do you guys have suggestions?
Depends on how wet it is Saturday.
If it’s the showers The Weather Channel says, outside works. If it’s any damper than showers, inside is probably the way to go.
by thehemogoblin on Nov 3, 2011 3:00 PM PDT up reply actions
Underground tour.
Do they do Safeco field tours in the offseason? If so, that too.
by Aussie Mariner on Nov 3, 2011 5:15 PM PDT up reply actions
WHY AM I NOT IN THE NORTHWEST WHEN THIS IS HAPPENING THEY NEED TO RESCHEDULE I BOOKED MY VACATION MONTHS AGO
grrr.
Speaking of Visqueen, their last-ever show is the week after that performance.
by pdb on Nov 3, 2011 1:28 PM PDT up reply actions
So in opposition to the title of this OT, there are still things that do go away.
One of those things is the company I currently work for. We are closing our doors after 85 years in business. Beginning Moday November 7th @ 9:00 AM we will be selling off whatever product we have left and all of our office furniture.
So if any Seattle area folks need framing nails, staples, sand paper, saw blades, a desk or two, conference table and chairs, pallet racks… we have lots of shit that still has to go so feel free to pop in and take a look. We’re just a few blocks south of Spokane street on Airport way in Seattle.
I like going to these sort of sales because of the deals.
If you happen to see a douchebag looking guy wearing skinny jeans and a black/grey M’s hat tilted to the side, feel free to say hello!
Sorry to hear your company is going away, though.
And deals there will be.
We have all kinds of stuff including bookshelves, various hand tools, safety vests & glasses…
Just lots of stuff. And we’re selling it all CHEAP.
Email is in my profile. If anyone is looking for something specific shoot me a message.
A couple questions.
1. It seems that a Power Search on Lookout Landing won’t turn up any results older than a few months even when I specify Jan 1 2005 – November 2 2011 or something like that. What’s the deal?
2. What the hell is the mean MLB team payroll for 2011? I can’t find the information anywhere and I couldn’t figure out how to export the payroll charts I saw (even the one from Baseball Reference) into Excel.
I miss the Daily Show. :(
I can’t wait until I’m done with uni and can justify pay tv.
by Aussie Mariner on Nov 3, 2011 11:14 PM PDT up reply actions
I am too lazy.
And I don’t have a good enough internet connection.
by Aussie Mariner on Nov 4, 2011 12:50 AM PDT up reply actions
Hulu!
I am convinced that Seattle sports teams exist to make me hate Seattle sports teams.
by the other side on Nov 4, 2011 11:41 AM PDT up reply actions
Drat, I forgot.
Apologies.
I am convinced that Seattle sports teams exist to make me hate Seattle sports teams.
by the other side on Nov 4, 2011 4:59 PM PDT up reply actions
I can't wait to cancel Hulu. Not satisfied with the content, compared to having Netflix.
It took me too long to realize I could watch Arrested Development without commercials.
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by Kenneth Arthur on Nov 4, 2011 12:01 PM PDT up reply actions
Hulu was great when all my favorite shows would show up around two am the night they aired.
But this season, all my shows are mired in copyright woes and now I can’t watch Chuck the same day. I think after I finish watching all of Psych I will cancel my Hulu+
How come you can do all this other great shit, but you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?
by JAH on Nov 4, 2011 1:38 PM PDT up reply actions
Your words are intriguing to me, sir.
How come you can do all this other great shit, but you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?
by JAH on Nov 4, 2011 4:48 PM PDT up reply actions
Sold!
How come you can do all this other great shit, but you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?
by JAH on Nov 4, 2011 9:19 PM PDT up reply actions
Only the first three season of Eureka?
Nooooooooooooooooooooo!
How come you can do all this other great shit, but you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?
by JAH on Nov 6, 2011 4:49 PM PST up reply actions
Yup, I agree.
Basically at this point I watch Community and Daily Show/ Colbert whenever I feel like it. Although I don’t have hulu+ that seems pointless.
I am convinced that Seattle sports teams exist to make me hate Seattle sports teams.
by the other side on Nov 4, 2011 4:58 PM PDT up reply actions
Internet fun for the day: Google search "do a barrel roll"
"Why ask a failed romance to come see your successful one? You know, it's like inviting the Seattle Mariners to a World Series game. It's just weird for everyone."
by Slurvey on Nov 3, 2011 10:50 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
I sat there googling "zz" and "rr" several times before giving up.
Then I read your comment again. I’m stupid :(
by Matt Erickson on Nov 4, 2011 11:37 PM PDT up reply actions
What the fuck is on your signature.
I don’t like this.
by BigR on Nov 5, 2011 4:37 PM PDT up reply actions 6 recs
Goddammit, why does it keep showing up as a little picture??
It’s just supposed to be a link :(
by Matt Erickson on Nov 6, 2011 6:45 AM PDT up reply actions
I hate this video
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
So a couple of things have me nostalgic, and I saw a pretty good idea and could use some feedback.
Has anyone played a table or roleplaying game (anything from Monopoly and Risk to Warhammer to D&D) over a G+ Hangout or some other videoconferencing chat?
For table games: I’m thinking one player/third party does the moving over a camera held over the gameboard, and the rest have a camera centered on a set of dice while they’re rolling, and on their faces otherwise. (Or I guess you could have a common webpage with a dice roller, but eh)
Same idea for RP games, but maybe the extra camera is more of a map/rulebook discussion/etc camera?
The only reason I would even think of it is I only know one other person around me that has the Wheel of Time CCG, and nobody I know does Shadowrun anymore. I know people that do both, but they’re all out west.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
Is this a just a one guy isn't there thing or is everybody scattered to to the four winds?
These options are mosting involving RPGs or board games. For stuff like miniture wargames I’m not sure how good that would work given the need for the person to look at multiple angles and distance eyeballing.
For option A, some of the nerd podcasts I listen to involving DnD have had decent success with setting up a camera at a good angle over the game map, and the person tells the other players what moves they want. It’s not perfect, and is subject to latency issues if you don’t have a wide enough pipe, but it’s doable.
For option B: there is a program called Maptools that people use to play games online without people having to physically be in the same area. I haven’t used it personally, but it is apparently pretty robust bordering on the “fuck there’s a lot of options,” but that can sometimes lead to it gumming up the works for no reason.
How come you can do all this other great shit, but you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?
by JAH on Nov 4, 2011 3:48 PM PDT up reply actions
I know some people who play board games like Arkham Horror
over Mumble. Although I think they use an online client to facilitate playing the game.
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
Awww. I would have liked to see him in a M's jersey.
How come you can do all this other great shit, but you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?
by JAH on Nov 4, 2011 4:45 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
It always seems wrong to me when Jim Thome isn't playing in the AL Central.
He’s the most AL Central player I know of.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Nov 4, 2011 4:49 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Thome in the field is now what I am most looking forward to next season.
I am convinced that Seattle sports teams exist to make me hate Seattle sports teams.
by the other side on Nov 4, 2011 5:03 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
The slow-motion car crash continues...
Possible leak of the new Marlins uniforms
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
Oh dear.
Those are….wow.
I am convinced that Seattle sports teams exist to make me hate Seattle sports teams.
by the other side on Nov 5, 2011 9:03 PM PDT up reply actions
Orange hat with a yellow brim?
Get right the fuck out out of baseball, please. Holy shit.
I would say these can’t be real, but given all the other insane shit that has leaked and proven true, this seems pretty in sync.
by sanford_and_son on Nov 7, 2011 8:07 AM PST up reply actions
Now....
are they better, or worse than the Houston Astros uniforms from 1975-1986?
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Nov 7, 2011 10:54 AM PST up reply actions
Well, personally, I love the seventies-ness of those uniforms and the color scheme. But, that's just because I like a lot of aesthetics from that era.
Objectively, yeah those are pretty bad. But you could make the argument that they fit in with the times. We don’t have the benefit of hindsight with these crazy Marlins unis.
by sanford_and_son on Nov 7, 2011 11:39 AM PST up reply actions
Holy ow.
Don’t ever bruise your tailbone. I am in so much pain right now.
I can’t even imagine what it would be like if I had broken/cracked/fractured it.
Oww oww oww.
You'd be aware if it the rest of your life if you sit wrong....
by msb on Nov 6, 2011 8:36 AM PDT up reply actions
I'm more concerned about it being right for my black belt grading which is in four weeks.
it should be, it’s just bone bruising but damn it’s inconvenient.
I’m just glad most of my stuff is ready or very close to, there are a few guys going for it that could not afford to miss a couple weeks training.
by Aussie Mariner on Nov 6, 2011 2:52 PM PST up reply actions
I hurt mine really badly once while snowboarding about 10 years ago
And I still get pain from it when sitting on the floor or other hard surface of any kind for too long.
by tootthekazoo on Nov 6, 2011 10:16 PM PST up reply actions
Aw man....
Kirby was one of my favorites, one of the few people that would regularly take the time to talk about minor league stuff while every other paper was distributing variations on the same story.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Nov 7, 2011 10:49 AM PST up reply actions
As Mariners fans we are worse off today than yesterday
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
You could post that exact sentence any day.
by Eyebrows on Nov 7, 2011 11:26 AM PST via mobile up reply actions 5 recs
I think Rick Neuheisel proved this weekend that he is in it for the long haul
and ucla should consider giving him a long term contract extension.
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
I think that you can go fuck yourself because my wet dream of almost winning the Pac-12 and Neuheisel still getting fired is coming true
by seattlebruin on Nov 7, 2011 11:15 AM PST up reply actions
Let's say ucla wins their next two
then loses by 2+ TDs to USC. ASU drops another game thus allowing the bruins to back in to the Pac 12 CCG where Oregon/Stanford drop 45+ on them.
Does Dan Guerrero fire Rick or extend him?
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
Are these really the Marlins new uniforms?
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
It's really just the logo, font, and color pattern on the text.
Otherwise it’s a fine uniform.
But the logo. That damn logo.
M's fan newly relocated to SF My homepage
What the fuck was wrong with the old logo and colors?
Change the “F” to an “M” and you’re set. It’s like they looked at the original D-Rays duds and said, “that doesn’t look stupid enough.”
I cannot wait to see Ozzie Guillen in that.
How come you can do all this other great shit, but you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?
by JAH on Nov 7, 2011 7:10 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
Unfortunately I have been informed they aren't real
by Aaron Campeau on Nov 7, 2011 7:30 PM PST up reply actions
This is the worst thing.
How come you can do all this other great shit, but you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?
by JAH on Nov 7, 2011 9:02 PM PST up reply actions
LL Gamers! Opinions needed!
So after 5+ years of waiting for a new console generation, I’ve finally decided to join this generation of console gaming. And after doing some research, and talking to friends who have both, I’m no closer to deciding between a 360 or a PS3.
by Goose on Nov 7, 2011 9:08 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
See, I tried to convince the girlfriend that I should buy one and she should buy one(since this was originally her idea)
so that we could have the best of both worlds, but that idea didn’t fly.
I have a 360 and I've got no complaints.
That said, I only got it because originally Ace Combat 6 wasn’t coming out on another platform.
It seems like every major game/game I’ve looked at anyway seems to come out on both the 360 and PS3.
by Aussie Mariner on Nov 8, 2011 12:56 AM PST up reply actions
Do you care about blu ray and don't already have a player? Then PS3. Online gaming important to you? Xbox 360 is better.
Overall I prefer the 360, I have all 3 current gen consoles and by far spend most of my gaming time on the 360. For my personal tastes, the exclusives and controller are better for the 360.
by Patrick Stites on Nov 8, 2011 1:09 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
I don't care about the Bluray that much, but it would be neat to have I suppose.
See here’s my internal dilemma.
One the one hand, I like the PS3 exclusives(the big one being mlb the show) a little more than the 360. But on the other hand the 360 appears to have the better online experience. But PSN is free! But PSN has had more issues! But the PS3 has better rechargeable controllers! But the 360 has better wifi!
And so on and so forth.
XBL is a much better online experience, it's a get what you pay for thing vs the free PSN. So, both have their merits.
One of the annoying things of the PS3 controllers is that when they die, you cannot use them while recharging them, at least mine haven’t worked. With the 360, if you buy the play and charge kit, it’s no problem to plug them in and play while you charge. Also, when you turn the console off, they will continue charging until full and then stop.
If you do want a baseball game, The Show is definitely the best out there. I can’t comment on the wifi since I have only ever used it plugged in. For media streaming, my PS3 has worked a whole lot better using a free media server, vs my 360, which has had many many issues trying to get the Windows Media Center working on my Win7 PC.
by Patrick Stites on Nov 8, 2011 2:50 AM PST up reply actions
You can use a PS3 controller while it recharges.
I’ve never had a problem with it at least. I leave mine plugged in most of the time though now, cause the battery low messages are irritating in the middle of a game. I know people love XBOX live too, but I don’t have any issues with PSN. Pay $50 a year for a better experience or get by with one that works for free (When it’s not shut down of course). I’ve seen the likes list of XBOX livers and it’s nothing I would need to spend $50 on, personal preference of course.
My main reasons for choosing PS3 over 360 at the time were Bluray player and free PSN. Both of which have already been mentioned. I think all the RROD/YLOD problems have been fixed and the exclusives seem to be less and less of a factor, what with multi-platform and all. Ohhh, one other factor. If you have friends and family who mostly have one or the other and you want to play with them, think about choosing the majority, or the people you want to play with more. My circle is split with about 60% being on 360 and I can’t play with them.
Well, have you tried PS3 controller charging after the controller has died? That's my issue. Never and issue with Xbox's play and charge kit.
by Patrick Stites on Nov 8, 2011 5:59 AM PST up reply actions
Yah, that's what I mean.
Controller run dead, plug it in and it still allows me to use it while it recharges. Do you have a 1st gen PS3 or a slim, maybe that’s the issue? I don’t remember having that issue with my fat PS3, but it’s the only thing that comes to mind right now.
I think I have the 160 gb fat PS3. Do you plug into the console? Maybe that's my issue, since I plug into the USB port on my laptop or something.
by Patrick Stites on Nov 8, 2011 6:17 AM PST up reply actions
Yes, I plug it into the console to play while charging.
That’s probably the issue. I will double check tonight though as I very well could be allowing the controller to charge up for a minute without thinking about it before I start playing.
Yeah, I have no issues playing while it charges, but I charge while its plugged into the console.
Why can’t you charge through the console Patrick
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by Kenneth Arthur on Nov 8, 2011 7:16 AM PST up reply actions
That thing is ridiculous. I picked up some of the 10 foot cables when I got the second controller.
Monoprice probably has some compatible ones for pretty cheap.
by Craptastic-J on Nov 8, 2011 10:11 AM PST up reply actions
Buy the one that has more games you want to play on it.
The majority of big games will come out on both though.
If you want to play baseball though then you definitely need a PS3.
The overall differences are almost completely negligible at this point.
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
360.
Their exclusive non-gaming content is the deal breaker, and if you think you won’t care about that later you’re wrong.
by Aaron Campeau on Nov 8, 2011 10:18 AM PST up reply actions
I own both
And I have not really noticed any outright deference between the two. I prefer the controllers for the Xbox, but sometimes find games cheaper for the PS3. The PS3 has an amazing blueray player (that’s why I bought it), but I have not purchased or rented a DVD for two or so years.
I say pick the one you can get the best deal on and go from there.
Fuck the Angels
I say 360, because fuck sony.
Well, fuck Microsoft too. Get a gaming PC.
by d0nkey on Nov 8, 2011 4:45 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Though if you want a baseball game. The show is the tiebreaker.
by Scruffy Lefty on Nov 11, 2011 1:48 PM PST up reply actions
The Show is like the amazing tie smasher because it's so great tho.
M's fan newly relocated to SF My homepage
In the end, the only thing that was appealing to me about the 360 over the PS3 was Xbox live.
And that just wasn’t enough to overcome everything I like about the PS3. Plus, what really clinched was that the PS3 slim was $40 cheaper that the 360 slim when I went to make the purchase.
There are some ridiculous deals coming up on Black Friday
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
I know Best Buy has a 250GB 360
With Fable 3 and Halo Reach for $200. They also have the 160GB PS3 with LBP2 and Ratchet and Clank All for One for $200. Most places have some variation of the same deal.
I thought I saw one deal that was the 4GB 360 for like $140 with stuff packed in.
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
Here's a better list
4GB Console + Gears 3 + 3 Month Live + $50 Gift Card $199.99 at Walmart – Friday 12:01AM
4GB Kinect Console + $50 Gift Card $199.96 at Walmart – Thursday 10PM to Friday
250GB Holiday Bundle* $199.99 at Best Buy – Friday 12:01AM
250GB Holiday Bundle* $199 at Sam’s Club – Friday 12:01AM & Saturday
4GB Kinect Console $199.99 at Radio Shack – Friday 5:30 AM & Saturday
4GB Kinect Console + $10 gift card $199.99 at Toys R Us – Thursday 9PM to Saturday 11PM
4GB Console $139.99 at Target – Friday 12:01AM & Saturday
4GB Console $149.99 at GameStop – Friday 12:01AM & Saturday
4GB Console $149.99 at Kmart – Friday & Saturday
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
Yeah I considered waiting till Black Friday to get one, but I had the money now and didn't feel like waiting a few more weeks.
Also, I am definitely bookmarking those forums.
Fair enough
and yeah CAG is pretty essential reading for people who buy games.
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
I don't play games but am considering buying something off the above list for someone.
What does the 250GB do that the 4GB doesn’t?
That's a bit of an understatement.
That 250GB may not be much better than the old 120GB or 60GB they used to make, but having only 4GB for offline storage isn’t enough for most people – even like myself, who thought I’d never use it.
Between XBL games and downloadable content, I’m glad I didn’t get the 4GB unit when I got my XBox. That whole 4GB would be taken up with map packs just from the various Call of Duty titles. That doesn’t even include the XBL games or the Fallout expansions I have, or the updates it wants you do download for some games.
I would argue that buying someone a 4GB console means that you are making them buy an overpriced hard drive for it down the road.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
Um
If the Mariners had wanted Thome, say as a designated hitter, they’d have needed more than the $1.25 million he signed for in Philadelphia. Need proof? A year ago, they paid Jack Cust $2.5 million
That’s… just irrelevant, Larry
Also, the Mariners can offer less money to free agents since WA has no income tax
by Matthew on Nov 8, 2011 11:32 AM PST up reply actions 4 recs
I think that income tax point gets overlooked
Roger Clemens reportedly used that to negotiate a bigger contract with New York, his option being Texas. It’s been awhile so I can’t recall the specific numbers.
Wow. I have never even thought about the no income tax thing for WA.
In fact, couldn’t that be used to support the idea that we should be paying players less?
I remember the issue coming up involving Randy Moss and the Titans.
Rarely gets mentioned involving athletes, but I think it was talked about a little with Cliff Lee’s offers this off season, with Texas having no state income tax.
by Patrick Stites on Nov 8, 2011 5:04 PM PST up reply actions
It's a lot bigger of a deal in sports with player salary caps.
M's fan newly relocated to SF My homepage
Didn't think of that angle, it makes sense
While digging around for the Roger Clemens deal, I found something that I’m not sure about. Someone thought the athletes pay income tax on the money they earn while playing games in that state (if they have an income tax). That kind of sounds reasonable, but weirdly complicated.
They do
Games are work for athletes and you, everyone, is taxed on where work takes place, not where you live.
A WA income tax on visiting athletes has been floated rather recently to try and capture some revenue from players who, being part of visiting teams, likely don’t live here.
To implement somehting
like that it would either require 2/3rds vote of the legislature and the approval of the voters, or going through Washington initiative process. Given our current climate, I really don’t think it would have a chance in hell. So, even considering it is similar to worrying about what to do with Carp if the M’s bring in Prince Fielder.
Fuck the Angels
by InSpokane on Nov 9, 2011 10:17 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
It's actually more complicated than that because said tax would not apply to WA residents
and thus may skirt clear of the Eyman Rule (for as long as that remains on the books anyways)
I really don't want to get into too this too much
But, 1053 as passed by the voters covers any tax regardless of where the tax payer lives.
One idea that was floated around last legislative session was to increase the sales tax on internet sales by out of state customers. The Lieutenant Governor said that idea would be a direct violation of 1053 and would be not heard on the floor of the Senate, so the bill was never introduced.
Additionally, 1053 was crafted to prevent the legislature for overturning it after two years, like they did with 960 and many other measures.
One clever way the state could go about collecting money from players is to setup a user fee, much like they did with the Discover Pass.
An argument could be made that the players benefit form the use of a publicly owned facility, so they need to pay the people for that privilege. Not saying anyone will attempt it or if I am for or against it or if a piece of legislation could pass. I’m just trying to have fun with a silly hypothetical.
I hope I have not cross the no politics rule.
Fuck the Angels
Couple things
You’re right that it does appear to cover any tax, but I’m not sure about the greater context of the RCW code it lives in. I think it’s likely that there are other code sections that deal with out-of-state visitors and what constitutes their tax responsibility. One aspect in particular that I’m thinking of is Oregon residents and WA sales tax.
While 1053 does have language in it to ensure it lives regardless of the leg’s actions on 960, I don’t read anything in there that prevents 1053 from being overturned as well. I’m not claiming it will happen, but anything can be overturned should the votes materialize.
I wonder if they could outright declare Safeco Field a state park. Bam, now they can charge user fees on it.
There is a Pete and Pete live reunion happening this month
and it is already sold out. And my Pete and Pete knowledge is too pathetic to have earned me free tickets on the radio this morning.
Also, my coworker who is 26 doesn’t know what Pete and Pete is. That seems wrong!
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
I hope he is there
Description coming soon… Schedules permitting, Mike Maronna ("Big Pete"), Danny Tamberelli ("Little Pete"), show co-creators Will McRobb & Chris Viscardi, and other cast/crew will be here at the Cinefamily to celebrate this event! Plus, the Wien Truck will be here between 5:30-9:30PM!
Other cast and crew!
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
Wow, this would be incredible to witness.
Maybe Endless Mike will make an appearance.
by sanford_and_son on Nov 8, 2011 12:42 PM PST up reply actions
I think I'm going to skip this year's version.
Battlefield 3 is treating me pretty good so far and I don’t get to play enough as it is. The reviews for MW3 look pretty good though.
by Craptastic-J on Nov 8, 2011 10:10 AM PST up reply actions
Probably not
too much other good stuff to play another cookie cutter shooter.
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
I'm going to wait till it is super cheap on Steam.
How come you can do all this other great shit, but you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?
Be prepared to wait a long time
Activision hasn’t done much discounting of the previous MW games.
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
Steam summer sale!
How come you can do all this other great shit, but you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?
by JAH on Nov 8, 2011 3:22 PM PST up reply actions
But yeah, I'm ok with waiting. Old Republic, ME3 and so forth are enough for my docket for the near future.
How come you can do all this other great shit, but you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?
by JAH on Nov 8, 2011 3:25 PM PST up reply actions
There will be end of the year sales soon enough!
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Nov 8, 2011 4:50 PM PST up reply actions
It sometimes feels like Valve makes shit up in order to have a sale on Steam, not that I'm complaining.
by Patrick Stites on Nov 8, 2011 5:05 PM PST up reply actions
Valve: Steam sales come but once whenever we feel like it!
How come you can do all this other great shit, but you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?
by JAH on Nov 8, 2011 7:07 PM PST up reply actions
The big ones are every six months or so.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Nov 8, 2011 9:54 PM PST up reply actions
And then they also have their daily sales, and midweek sales, and weekend sales.
I rarely ever buy games not on sale anymore.
Picked it up after work today.
Played for a few hours online and have enjoyed it so far.
by seattle_since_81 on Nov 8, 2011 6:40 PM PST up reply actions
I have zero gaming time.
And its all going to be taken by Skyrim.
by Scruffy Lefty on Nov 9, 2011 8:23 AM PST up reply actions
I already intend to sell Battlefield 3 and apply that to Skyrim
I’ll pick up MW3 when it is on sale at some point, or rent it maybe. I can’t keep up with people in online shooters anymore since I also get to play so very little. I’ll stick to deep single-player games these days
I think I am in the minority in saying that I actually kind of like them, if this is the official new 3rd kit.
I love that people freak out over new kits. There will always be people that will be all over the spectrum of love and hate with anything.
by seattle_since_81 on Nov 8, 2011 6:14 PM PST up reply actions
The freaking out is pretty clearly by design I think.
My initial reaction was less than enthusiastic, but I have the feeling that A) it will look better in the flesh/on the players and B) I will grow to love it just because everyone else hates it so much.
by Aaron Campeau on Nov 8, 2011 6:43 PM PST up reply actions
It definitely looks better than the highlighter-factory explosion that was this year's third kit
I like that blue and I’m a sucker for a soccer shirt with a collar.
by pdb on Nov 8, 2011 8:36 PM PST up reply actions
I don't know how long you've been a soccer fan
but in general terms, for me, the appreciation for a collared soccer shirt is a pretty handy demarcation line for long-time v. more-recent soccer fans. Most shirts in the 2000’s have been collarless, and so that’s what people have come to expect a soccer player to look like, but from the dawn of time up until the early/mid-90’s collars were pretty universal so that is what the norm looked like.
I don’t mean that as a value judgment on the length of one’s fanhood at all – it’s just a pretty easy shorthand way to tell how long someone has followed the game, in my experience anyway.
by pdb on Nov 9, 2011 8:08 AM PST up reply actions
I'm aware of the history
I don’t think my preference has anything to do with that. I hate them because I loathed playing in them when I had to. I’m trying to run here, I want my kit designed around that purpose. I don’t care about looking acceptable for the gentry.
by Matthew on Nov 9, 2011 10:58 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Eh
That’s because true math/date geeks are still one of the following (in order of least to most pure):
- Laughing at the people that flip out over this stuff when it’s 2011, not just 11
- Still fuming about the “new millennium” not being 2000>2001
- Planning for the upcoming Pi minute in 2015
- Long Now-ers that are too busy trying to get anyone to place an extra 0 in the front of their dates
- Count their passing days by Julian calendar
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
Holy shit.
Wilson Ramos kidnapped from his own home!
No matter where you go, there you are.
Sorry, I should have added a warning about scrolling down to read the comments.
No matter where you go, there you are.
Boy we should totally allow politics talk here!
by Matthew on Nov 10, 2011 12:10 AM PST up reply actions 2 recs
We could invite some of their commenters over here to help keep the discussion lively!
No matter where you go, there you are.
That shit is crazy. I hope he makes it out okay.
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by Kenneth Arthur on Nov 10, 2011 8:48 AM PST up reply actions
Exciting new videos from the Cat-Loving Engineer creator of An Engineer's Guide to Cats.
http://www.youtube.com/user/klusmanp#p/u/17/bvn4k970Qlo
Yay instant replay.
Australia are playing South Africa at cricket, we just had three decisions overturned by replays. None of them would have taken more than two minutes to enable the right decisions to be made.
Love replay!
Watching "The Fighting 69th"
Apparently that cowardly Jimmy Cagney was responsible for most of the dead Americans in WWI.
Who knew?
Don't the Red Sox get the Phillies' first round pick out of this too?
by Eyeball Kid on Nov 11, 2011 12:24 PM PST up reply actions
Not necessarily, depends on how the CBA shakes out.
by Patrick Stites on Nov 11, 2011 2:24 PM PST up reply actions
Why would a new CBA change a current labor agreement?
I can’t imagine the teams would be OK with giving this up until at least next year
by seattlebruin on Nov 12, 2011 11:45 AM PST up reply actions
That seems pretty dumb. Are the Phillies dumb or smart? I can't decide.
In 2013, they’ll have ~$100 million invested in six players. And the average age of those players will be 33. Though, looking again at his numbers, I didn’t realize that Papelbon really improved from 2010. Still… that’s a lot of money.
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by Kenneth Arthur on Nov 11, 2011 1:05 PM PST up reply actions
I... I... um. Wait. Wait what?
How come you can do all this other great shit, but you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?
This works best with Bollywood music in the background.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
Oh. Oh My.
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
Yay orange but I'm not keen on everything else.
by Eyeball Kid on Nov 11, 2011 2:22 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
They look like Rainbow Bright peed on a traffic cone.
Fuck the Angels
by InSpokane on Nov 11, 2011 2:28 PM PST up reply actions 3 recs
It looks like Gay Halloween.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Nov 11, 2011 2:30 PM PST up reply actions
Valid point.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Nov 11, 2011 2:46 PM PST up reply actions
Or West Hollywood
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
For the first time ever, a uniform has lost to a "Turn Ahead the Clock" day uniform.
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We move ever so closer to the Miami featured in BttF part 2.
follow @casetines
by Kenneth Arthur on Nov 11, 2011 2:34 PM PST up reply actions
I can only express one emotion seeing this. Thankfully, there is a gif for it.
How come you can do all this other great shit, but you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?
by JAH on Nov 11, 2011 3:54 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
...and Miami remains one of two places in the entire United States I actively don't want to visit
Determined, Jonesing Commentor
.
“this ballpark will reflect our lifestyle”
“if this ballpark could speak, it would say “Hola, Miami”"
“we are unique, sleek, and different, and the colors of Miami”
Well, I guess not everyone likes them ...
“My husband was a die hard Marlins fan until they decided to get the new stadium and change everything else.”
The Fish Stripes blog name also no longer makes sense.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
This is like the most elaborate troll of all time
by seattlebruin on Nov 12, 2011 11:46 AM PST up reply actions
Given the way the team is run
It very well could be just that. Or they’re desperately fishing for a marketing tie in with My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic?
I think hiring Rick Neuheisel is up there
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
I'd forgotten the eccentricities and the music in "True Stories"
as well as how good John Goodman was in it …
“I am six foot three, and maintain a consistent panda bear shape.”
Jose Reyes has signed with the Marlins!
Jose Reyes has agreed to terms with the Miami Marlins, according to Dino Costa of SiriusXM.
Terms haven’t been disclosed, though we know Miami made a pair of large offers to Reyes and Albert Pujols over the last week. Jorge Sedano of 790 AM The Ticket in Miami reported earlier that Reyes signing with the Marlins is “almost a done deal.” Both reports haven’t been backed by the club’s beat writers — yet. Reyes was seeking a Carl Crawford-type deal (seven years, $142 million). If the reports are indeed true, Hanley Ramirez would likely shift to third base next season. Reyes is coming of an impressive .337/.384/.493 campaign with the Mets.
Jose Reyes has not signed with the Marlins!
Jose Reyes and the Marlins have not agreed to contact terms, according to Joe Capozzi of The Palm Beach Post.
Capozzi cited a Marlins team source. Dino Costa of SiriusXM reported Sunday evening that Reyes had agreed to terms with the Marlins and Jorge Sedano of 790 AM The Ticket in Miami followed with a report that a deal was almost completed. But Capozzi is a far more reliable source. We’d expect Reyes to visit more teams before agreeing to a contract. The dynamic 28-year-old posted a .337/.384/.493 slash line in 2011 and is expected to draw a contract worth more than $100 million this winter.
Today's XKCD is spectacular.
It almost makes me want to pick up map-geeking again like I did in my GIS phase.
Link
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
by Faux on Nov 14, 2011 5:21 AM PST reply actions 1 recs
Meh
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
Per ESPN
Hellickson went 13-10 with a 2.95 ERA in helping the Rays win the AL wild-card spot. He drew 17 of 28 first-place votes and finished ahead of Los Angeles Angels first baseman Mark Trumbo.
So Pineda finished third at best.
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
These results are even dumber than I expected.
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by JY on Nov 14, 2011 1:03 PM PST up reply actions
By sWAR
1. Hellickson - 2.3
2. Trumbo - 1.2
3. Hosmer - 1.7
4. Nova - 2.2
5. Pineda - 4.2
6. Ackley - 2.1
2 WAR better than anyone else, and he gets 5th.
"Satisfaction is the enemy of success." SanFranPreps
by perfectstrat on Nov 14, 2011 2:41 PM PST up reply actions
So has anyone else come home from vacation and found a big mess that wasn't there before they left?
Let’s hear some bad roommate stories!
I know a guy who came from vacation and his roommates left a big mess and managed to lose a pasta pot
by Matthew on Nov 14, 2011 12:38 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Seriously, how do you lose a pasta pot?
by Kirk on Nov 14, 2011 12:39 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
In opposite land, the land of unexpected good news
My auto insurance just dropped $12.25/month! Thanks, Geico
I knew a guy that went AWOL and left two ferrets locked in his barracks room with a 40 pound bag of cat food.
They ate nearly the entire bag in one weekend. It was so bad. Oh my god the smell, we all had to move out of the barracks for the rest of the week while it was cleaned up.
by Kermit. on Nov 14, 2011 1:38 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Ooh my first summer of college I had a job on campus so I rented an apartment and hung around
I had some super weird roommates. They were not very clean dudes, one time I went to use the sink and found maggots in it.. Another time I was trying to decipher a bad smell and found a half full jug of milk sitting behind our trash can.
The guy I shared a room with slept in tightie whities and rarely had sheets on his bed. He also had a friend who would let himself into our apartment and use any computer that was not password protected to look at porn.
Good times!
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
When I was in college, my room mate moved out and I got the dorm room to myself. Which is great, because I hate living with other people.
I came back from Thanksgiving break to find out WSU assigned me a new room mate without telling me, and he had torn down all my posters, left tipped over beer cans on my key board, and had tossed all my stuff on my bed. Later on that year I woke up to find him so drunk he thought my closet was a urinal. Thankfully he didn’t piss on any of my things.
One sunday morning at 8am I woke up to knocking. Answering the door it was the police. They arrested my roommate. Best morning of my life.
How come you can do all this other great shit, but you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?
by JAH on Nov 14, 2011 9:55 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
Well, maybe by the time the NBA restarts, we'll have invented bionic knees or something.
That’d make me happy.
On one hand
Suck it Oklahoma.
On the other hand, no Blake Griffin :(
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
For video games that bomba!
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
Oh, David Stern.
“They seem hell-bent on self-destruction” “guaranteed years of litigation” “we’re about to go into the nuclear winter of the NBA”
Like he's not largely responsible for this.
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
I'm actually pretty bummed about this
not that the writing hasn’t been on the wall for quite some time, but you always think that two groups won’t be so bent on self-destruction as to actually eschew self-preservation in favor of it.
If they lose a season, it’s essentially the end of the NBA.
by seattlebruin on Nov 15, 2011 9:50 AM PST up reply actions
OK, perhaps hyperbole, but if the NBA doesn't play for a year
why should people care when they come back?
by seattlebruin on Nov 16, 2011 12:00 PM PST up reply actions
For the same reasons people watch any other sport?
Watching the best in their field compete, rooting for their team, and all that jazz?
I don't think anyone "should" care.
But they will. History from MLB, NHL, past NBA, etc have shown it. Specifically, the NHL lost a full season and is doing just fine.
by Matthew on Nov 16, 2011 1:00 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
It could actually end up being a good thing globally.
Basketball is big overseas and growing. In the best of world you could end up with a game focused less on the NBA and more on a FIFA style world basketball organization. Comments on FIFA management aside.
So, 5 team division, here we come?
@SI_JonHeyman: Prospective Astros owner Jim Crane has agreed to go to AL in 2013. Gets about $50M discount. Still needs vote of owners
I remember reading an article not long ago saying that this meant an NL franchise was worth $50M more than an AL one.
Dumb dumb dumb. No, it’s called leverage you idiot!
Plus you could justify it as compensation for having to change your roster construction around to account for the DH.
by Aussie Mariner on Nov 14, 2011 1:20 PM PST up reply actions
Oh great, now every agent is going to claim his DH'ing client is worth $50 million
I kid. Good point about the leverage.
Could be the only chance as an owner that you have a chance to stick it to Selig.
Wouldn’t you grab on with both hands and squeeze for all you could? I sure as hell would.
by Aussie Mariner on Nov 14, 2011 2:49 PM PST up reply actions
Me too, kinda.
I wish they’d go whole hog though
Miami-Tampa-Atlanta-Houston-Texas
Boston-NYY-NYM-Philly-Toronto
DC-Balt-Det-Clev-Pitt
Milwaukee-ChiC-ChiW-Cincy-StL
SD-LA-ANA-Ariz-KC
SEA-SanFran-Oak-Colorado-Minny
It worked out okay for the NFL
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
by bluemax on Nov 14, 2011 2:16 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
I choose to go this route:
nprmonkeysee: Don’t tweet me panicking about Community’s status until someone clarifies what that status is. Going off for a while is AMBIGUOUS. Chill.
also:
CrashburnAlley : … Every second that Community is off-air while Whitney lives is an unjust second.
by msb on Nov 14, 2011 3:19 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Maybe they will move it to a Friday spot!
I am convinced that Seattle sports teams exist to make me hate Seattle sports teams.
by the other side on Nov 14, 2011 3:20 PM PST up reply actions
It's a show of faith really.
We have confidence we will cancel you, go sit in the friday corner.
I am convinced that Seattle sports teams exist to make me hate Seattle sports teams.
by the other side on Nov 14, 2011 3:21 PM PST up reply actions
It may not be cancelled officially
but this is worse than “we have confidence in”
Fucking goddamn bullshit.
And there goes the last show I still currently watch. Son of a bitch.
I am convinced that Seattle sports teams exist to make me hate Seattle sports teams.
by the other side on Nov 14, 2011 3:17 PM PST up reply actions
This is streets behind.
How come you can do all this other great shit, but you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?
by JAH on Nov 14, 2011 9:59 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Mostly sunny and 69 for me, wheeeeeee.
by Aussie Mariner on Nov 14, 2011 6:20 PM PST up reply actions
Enjoy your drop bears, sir >:(
How come you can do all this other great shit, but you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?
by JAH on Nov 14, 2011 10:01 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Right about the same for me, too, perhaps a few degrees warmer
I think we already had winter last week
by seattlebruin on Nov 15, 2011 9:52 AM PST up reply actions
It might rain here on Sunday
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
I think I got diabetes just reading this description
To celebrate the release of Sony Pictures holiday Blockbuster animation "Arthur Christmas", Denny’s is offering children of all ages the chance to enjoy two new dishes – Arthur’s personal favorites available exclusively at Denny’s over the holiday season.
· Arthur’s Milk and Cookies Shake will have Santa hurrying down the chimney for this tasty treat. The thick hand-dipped milk shake is a delicious blend of creamy vanilla ice cream and sugar cookies, topped with whipped cream and sprinkled with sweet bits of sugar cookies.
· Arthur’s Christmas Cookie Pancakes is the dish that every kid wishes to wake up to. Three silver dollar pancakes with sugar cookies baked right in are topped with whipped cream and even more bits of sugar cookies. Served with a choice of two bacon strips or two sausage links, one egg cooked to order and a side of warm syrup.
Ye gods.
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
According to Dennys.com
those Pancakes have 660 calories and 59 grams of sugar.
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
I wonder how IHOP is going to one-up this.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
Begun the Pancake Wars have
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
by bluemax on Nov 16, 2011 10:08 AM PST up reply actions 3 recs
Alex Liddi just got cut from his second winter league team.
No matter where you go, there you are.
Winter league ball is serious business.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Nov 15, 2011 2:33 PM PST up reply actions
Anyone pickup or plan on getting Halo: CE Anniversary?
Got my copy in the mail today, haven’t been able to try it out yet.
Post-First-Day Kindle Fire Review
Pros:
- Nice look/feel/weight – love the 7" form factor
- Browsing is smooth and easy, Silk on or off
- Much like the Playbook, the screen coating that QNX uses means you can turn down the backlight pretty heavily before it loses contrast – makes it easier on the eyes when reading or using in the dark
- The video buffers at HD quality quickly, and displays HD at least as well as the iPad 1 and the Playbook.
Cons:
- Was hoping for an improvement in Amazon Prime browsing, especially for the Videos. The ability to playlist/“save” a set of TV shows and Movies to watch instead of having to use their crappy interface every time would be a major improvement. Even the PlayBook going through the web browser was less of a hassle.
- Laggy around the interface in general… especially where pictures are concerned. Example – Browsing the videos would freeze for a 1/4 sec on every scroll as thumbnails loaded. Coupled with no way to browse in list mode or even show text on items as you browse, made searching for video and TV much harder than it should have been.
- Email program isn’t that great, feels just like the iPad one – both fail massively at GMail functions, despite having dedicated GMail buttons.
- Home page for the device is muddled, hard to browse, and scrolling through the recently used items is touchy and difficult. No ability to change it or get rid of the recent items function entirely, which would be nice. Prefer the Playbook home screen and UI much better, and that wasn’t even that great.
Summary – Nice little tablet for media consumption, can’t beat the price, but I hope they update often with new features and UI improvements, or I’ll stick with my Playbook + 2nd Gen Kindle and this thing will end up at the bottom of my technology depth chart.
Even shorter summary – Unless you really really love Amazon, wait out the cheap Playbooks on Black Friday or wait on Amazon to clean up the UI.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
by Faux on Nov 16, 2011 9:43 AM PST reply actions 1 recs
Thank you for this.
I’ve been thinking hard about getting a Fire. Do you have any comments about the selection of streaming with Prime as compared to say Netflix? Is it redundant if you have Netflix? I really like the price, but I think I will at least see what’s available come Black Friday.
I am convinced that Seattle sports teams exist to make me hate Seattle sports teams.
by the other side on Nov 16, 2011 10:45 AM PST up reply actions
Not sure about a library comparison, as I'm not much of a TV/Movies guy, and don't have Netflix anymore.
The playing around in the video area was more just browsing to see if there was anything I liked. I have read in multiple places that Netflix has most of the stuff Amazon has, plus a lot more that Amazon doesn’t.
This link should take you to the Prime video area, where you can look at the categories and titles available at least. Beware, as it’s a jumbled mess compared to what I remember from Netflix.
Honestly, I’m a Prime user from before any of the instant streaming stuff, when it was just free two-day shipping. I keep it mainly for that, as it saves me a couple hundred a year in shipping charges even after the 80$ that Prime costs. And with the new book “lending” feature, it’s basically paying for my Prime membership in books I would already most likely buy.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
Makes sense. I am actually on my free student trial of Prime so I would be covered.
I’m looking hard at the Playbook as well and found this ad. I’m hoping there will be an online deal to go with this because there is no way I’m waiting in line for 2 days. I’m leaning Kindle, though for the reading capabilities.
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by the other side on Nov 16, 2011 2:37 PM PST up reply actions
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Salvador Dali illustrates Alice in Wonderland (no, really)
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
Dali, is not, crazy!
The Death of Salvador Dali (featuring Freud, Breton, Éluard, and Buñuel
It also has Dita von Teese as Gala Dali, so it’s not entirely worksafe.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Nov 16, 2011 12:12 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
I propose we use that "Bob Kearney Rented a House From My Grandparents" post that currently has no replies.
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by lailaihei on Nov 16, 2011 4:07 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Reading through that Astros post by Jeff makes me just want to post this picture after a couple of the Astro fans' comments
<img src="http://www.city-data.com/forum/members/rita-mordio-129085-albums-funny-images-pic46786-bawwwwww.jpg"/>
link http://mlb.sbnation.com/2011/11/17/2567666/houston-astros-realignment-al-west
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I'm trying to put myself in their shoes, but it's difficult.
The way I see it, the Astros have been terrible and probably hard to watch for years now, right? Even if I irrationally LOVED NL rules, I would think the prospect of new regular opponents and a very different schedule would be exciting and would make the games a bit more watchable.
Honestly I’d be ecstatic if the M’s switched leagues. No more shitty games in Oakland.
by sanford_and_son on Nov 17, 2011 10:31 AM PST up reply actions
Someone should really make another one of these now that it's fallen off the front page.
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