OTDOD - 051611 Social Awkwardness Edition
by Faux on May 16, 2011 7:29 AM PDT
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PrintAs it's a new week, I guess we should start off on a fresh foot. I'll start with a word-eating story and questions on top, and some topics below. Standard OT rules apply.
So we've had discussions of awkward phone messages, but here's the situation I found myself in today - I have a text on my phone from a number I don't know, but obviously the person knows me and saw me at a store I was at over the weekend.
Anyone else have that problem, and how did you handle it? Do I embrace my tactless self and ask who it is, or attempt to carry on a conversation and try and discern clues? If it's someone I wouldn't mind becoming social with again, how do I answer the FB/Contacts delete question without sounding like an ass?
Also on my awkward list - I just got a wedding invitation for family that I'm largely estranged from. I don't particularly want to see any of these people in the future, but I do think it would be fun to show up for the weekend like I'm worth a million bucks - rent a Cadillac, stay at the Hilton, borrow a $4K watch, buy a $1000 suit (which I could use either way), etc.
Do I ignore it, try to make amends, decline for a real or fake reason, or make the most of the weekend to rub it in their faces?
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TOPIC: Long distance job searching.
Both myself and a couple of friends have all been wanting to move back west (them to CA, me to the NW), but obviously need a source of income when they get there. Has anyone done this before, and how did you do it? Found a job first, saved as much as possible and lived on nothing until you found something, stayed with a friend for a couple months?
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I haven't - A friend has multiple times.
Basically he applied to jobs. Did a couple phone interviews until they were serious. Then flew to actually do a face to face.
by Scruffy Lefty on May 16, 2011 8:53 AM PDT up reply actions
So he didn't leave until he had a job in hand.
But if there is a option to stay with friends – I would take them up on that offer.
by Scruffy Lefty on May 16, 2011 8:54 AM PDT up reply actions
Side note - Drupal is a pain in the butt, and modules either work correctly or look like vomit.
That being said I actually like the format, and am working on bringing my php up to a level where I can write/edit modules.
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Modules can either be a great asset or a complete burden.
Most modules need to be rewritten to fit what you actually need. Also avoid turning on Modules you aren’t using.
by Scruffy Lefty on May 16, 2011 9:03 AM PDT up reply actions
That hiking site I posted in the last offtop was built in Drupal
And that maps feature is a custom modules we built.
by Scruffy Lefty on May 16, 2011 9:08 AM PDT up reply actions
Did you build your own theme for tmber or modify one?
Do you use Ubercart for ecommerce, or do you recommend just going with Dru7 for that kind of thing?
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My Dad's site is actually the worlds #1 ubercart site!
So we use ubercart for all our e-commerce needs.
As for theme – We always start with the “basic” theme and build everything from scratch.
by Scruffy Lefty on May 16, 2011 9:18 AM PDT up reply actions
When I moved down to Los Angeles, I came with a couple grand and stayed with a friend that let me live on low rent, IOU basis.
It took me awhile to pay him back but I eventually got on my feet and paid him back.
I was lucky. But even if I wasn’t, relocation is something anyone can do. Some cases are harder than others, but in this case I really believe where there’s a will, there’s a way.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 16, 2011 9:35 AM PDT up reply actions
TOPIC: The house front!
I know there are the usual suspects that are mired in the maintenance battle. I myself put up most of an addition to a shed (until the weather no longer cooperated) and ran a new sump line in the past couple weekends.
Anyone make any progress on anything, fun or otherwise?
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This rain has a sprung a leak again in my roof.
So I need to go check that out.
by Scruffy Lefty on May 16, 2011 9:01 AM PDT up reply actions
Looking at doing a deck/patio
A question! We have a basic concrete patio with 2 concrete steps from the sliding glass door leading to it, and are hoping to build something over the top of it. Our initial plan was to do a wood deck over all of it, but we realized that it would be too high (there’s little clearance between the top of the top step and the bottom of the door), so we’re talking about staining the top two steps, expanding the bottom into the yard by bringing it to the level of the concrete with fill dirt/paver sand, and using pavers.
Anyone done this type of thing before? Is it a pain in the ass, and does it turn out OK?
If it grades down from the patio, you'll need some sort of retainer to keep that fill dirt in.
And think about how it’d look with extra pavers tacked on the end while you’re standing out there. I know I’d only use pavers to make walkways or whole patios, not to make a patio out of half and half. You might be better off doing a second concrete pour and staining the whole thing one color.
Also, a jackhammer or a sledge will do wonders on that step, and you can then build out the door-level deck without worries. Keep in mind, though, if you do that your next owners will hate you for building a deck over a patch of concrete, unless you hide it well.
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I have 2 sets of venetian blinds I stare at, daily, angrily, wishing I didn't have to put them up.
Since the first set (originally I bought 3) were such a pain in the ass.
How hard was the sump line? My sump pump is essentially broken, and I know very little about fixing it, and I have a feeling it’s not “broken” so much as clogged somewhere.
Luckily, I live in a part of town where a sump pump is really a luxury and not a necessity—even in massive flooding a few years ago, our house was fine.
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
I have to say that I don't understand the trouble with blinds. You put the side mounts in the same distance from the top and back of the window, then slide the blinds into the mounts.
If they’re more complicated than that, let me know how they go in and I might be able to give you some tips.
Otherwise you just take a piece of something about 1/4" thick (like a couple CDs or a bic pen) and use it to hold the side mounts up to the corner, and either screw in or mark and drill holes, then screw.
For the sump, does it try to push water and just not go anywhere, or drain back into the pit once it goes? Or does it just make a noise and no water goes anywhere?
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The blinds were cut with probably too little room on each side (maybe 1/8th inch?)
The screws jammed a bit and it only took a millimeter or two of extra screw on each side to make fitting the blinds into the mounts a horrible ordeal.
Then, couple this with the fact that one of my bottom knots slipped after I removed the extra slats and the entire thing unthreaded. Re-threading blinds is not a quick, or enjoyable, process, and required removing it from the mount. Not sure why the screws jammed though.
For the sump, it makes a noise and no water goes anywhere, so I’m not sure what the deal is. I know very little about sump pumps, and we bought the house as-is and it wasn’t functional when we moved in.
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
Pre-drilling should help with the screws sitting early, as will making sure that you go in straight.
If there’s caps on either side, those aren’t needed, you can toss them if you haven’t already. You should be putting up a valance of some sort if you’re putting blinds up anyways.
Also, your main bar is probably aluminum? Try bending in/knocking in the back side for that extra 1/8" clearance, and worse comes to worse force it into the mounts with a block of wood and a hammer (light, quick taps – the vibration should put it in, not the hammer). For the strings, yeah, that’s a bitch.
I’d take apart the part of the pipe that joins the sump first and turn it on (with a towel or something over the top so you don’t spray). That’ll tell you what part you have to look at, the sump or the piping.
If it’s the sump, pull it out and see if there’s anything stuck to the bottom/inlet, and that it’s not rusted out. If it’s rusted out, there’s no real fixing it.
If it’s the pipe, depending on the size and twists of the pipe you might be able to get away with a drain snake, but you might need to borrow an air compressor or something to see if you can pop out the obstruction. Look for trap joints (parts or turns with a square threaded plug that gives you pipe access), those will be your best friend in cleaning out that pipe.
Can you see your whole sump line from start to finish, or does it go underground out to the road/yard?
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by Faux on May 17, 2011 5:41 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Thinking about it, while you have your sump out, I'd take a wet/dry vac to your sump pit and pull any sediment or junk off the bottom.
It should be part of your five-year maintenance.
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You are a god among men.
I did pre-drill, but apparently didn’t do a good enough job. Bending the aluminum bar was probably the best bet, but I ended up banging it in with a hammer (straight, with no wood) which dented it a bit but the mount clasp went over it, so it didn’t really matter. Next time I’ll definitely use the wood block. For the strings, I just sextuple knotted the damn thing and then hot glued the plug over the strings in the bottom, so that thing isn’t going ANYwhere but it took some extra time.
For the sump, I can’t see much of the line, it travels pretty far underground to the road. I didn’t know the first place to start checking, so I’ll use some of your ideas and see if I can figure out if it’s the sump itself or the piping.
It definitely needs to be cleaned though, there is a lot of sediment and gunk (like grass clippings) in the bottom.
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
Getting those drill holes straight is the biggest part, but you should be fine knocking them in over the screws.
The fact that you line goes straight out to the road is probably a blessing in disguise, as the pipe probably doesn’t have any bends once it gets out of your house. You should be able to run a drain snake out and see it on the other side. Also try hooking up a garden hose and see if you can get water out.
If you have a blockage in the line and the snake stops at a certain point and comes back clean every time, you might have a bigger problem in that your line might be crushed, and you’ll have to dig that part up and patch (not that hard unless it’s right on the foundation or under the sidewalk).
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In this day and age where people aren't expected to know phone numbers and people do get new phones all the time I don't think it's rude to say "Who is this?"
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If this person has my phone number they know it's my work number and I'm an IT guy, so therefore have no excuse to lose contacts.
It’s not like I give my number out to random hookers in Vegas.
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Is that a problem though?
A lot of people prune their contact list out occasionally, especially work phones where you theoretically could need to talk to a bunch of different people all the time. If you deleted that number because it was just sitting idly in your phone then no harm no foul- I can’t imagine somebody being offended by that in this day and age when everybody has a hundred different people’s phone numbers
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Fair enough. I'm enough of a hermit that I've never come across this problem before, maybe it's not as big of an issue as I had assumed.
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I have texted people in the past few months who have responded with "who is this?"
I haven’t been offended. Both times when I’ve told them who I am they responded with something like “Really? I thought I had your number. Duh. Hello!”
I still expect people to know phone numbers.
I don’t trust directories of speed-dial or address books. I’m not calling a person; I’m calling a number.
I like using semi-colons; they make me feel smart.
It would be funny to call someone by a ranking system
Don’t tell them what the numbers mean and rank friends
I agree to an extent
You should know the numbers of people you call often, but otherwise an address book is good enough. The problem is the sheer quantity of numbers people have nowadays. If you worked for a company, you used to just dial the operator and they transferred you to everyone you’d need to talk to in the company .Now you have to have 50 random salespeople’s phone numbers. If you called a family, you’d have one number. Now you’ve got four different people’s phone numbers.
I’m a fairly antisocial person and I still have about 30 numbers that I call regularly and over 100 I call irregularly to keep track of- it’s just not feasible to memorize all of them
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I have one phone number memorized that doesn't belong to me
why should I waste space on memorizing people’s numbers when I have technology to do that for me? It’s not like I ever leave home without my cell phone
by seattlebruin on May 16, 2011 12:39 PM PDT up reply actions
The video store I worked had a customer management system that was based on phone numbers
I used to be able to memorize a phone number in about two seconds, and there were many people who I would see on the street and not remember their name, but their phone number. Now, though, I struggle to remember my wife’s phone number because it’s in my phone under her name. If I need any number, I can call directory assistance and get it, and have it texted to me so I can store it if I need to.
I fail to see why this is a bad thing.
I wasn't trying to say it's a bad team, just that it's one of many skills that the internet has rendered useless.
It’s why I don’t bother remembering most baseball statistics, either. After I hit post, I realized I should’ve opened it up to similarly now-useless skills, like being good at remembering movie casts.
I worked there!
3 free rentals at any time gave me a useless skill of movie trivia.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 16, 2011 1:45 PM PDT up reply actions
I wish I had used my time there to watch movies but instead I played frisbee with the cases and rode segways around.
They promoted me to assistant manager for this.
Its funny how back in the day you could work at a video store and feel like you had all the movie power in the world.
Now for 7.99 a month you have instant access to 1000s of movies.
That wasn’t meant to sound like an ad for Netflix… but hey, come back now for a Free Trial!
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 16, 2011 2:14 PM PDT up reply actions
The only time I would consider a video store
would be for the really weird movies that Netflix doesn’t have for whatever reason. But then I’d probably have to drive to like hollywood and deal with some film school drop out asshole so its not worth it.
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Yeah, I mean, we live in a pretty cool area for obscure titles at video stores.
When I wanted to see The Room immediately, we called 20 places until we called Ameoba and found it.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 16, 2011 3:24 PM PDT up reply actions
I was pretty new in town. Didn't know about it!
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 16, 2011 3:40 PM PDT up reply actions
Its a Record store primarily?
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
There's an Ameoba records in San Francisco.
Isn’t that where it started?
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by perfectstrat on May 16, 2011 3:42 PM PDT up reply actions
I dial the regular numbers by memory because it's faster for me to just type in a ten digit number than to pull up the contact list, find the name, and then call
That’s good for irregular folks.
I think it’s a good cognitive skill to have, and I’ll definitely make my kids memorize phone numbers because I think it’s a good part of brain development, but I don’t see it as necessary for adults
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My phone finds the numbers if you type their name into the dialer
I remember my family’s cell phones and my home phone but no others really.
by Mariner John on May 16, 2011 1:45 PM PDT up reply actions
I have my parents home number and my mom's cell number
and my ex girlfriend old phone number (because I’m too lazy to get my own Von’s card).
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
Memorized that is
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
I have had this happen a couple times and my standard text response is
“I’m sorry, but I’m not sure who this is – can you please let me know?”
It’s always worked pretty well, it’s nice and tactful.
As for the wedding, I wouldn’t try to be someone you’re not – if you don’t want to go, don’t go. If it’s in a city you’ve never been before, go just to see the city and don’t stay long at the wedding.
If I go I want to throw it in their drug-addled faces that I got out and now I'm better than them, then leave. Otherwise I won't go, as it's in Phoenix.
I think it’d be fun (and a bit of a “costume vacation”, to bastardize the phrase), but I’m having a little trouble thinking of downsides to the idea, aside from the money I’d have to spend.
If there’s any group that can help someone with thinking of downsides, it’s Mariners fans.
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Note: I'm nothing if not spiteful and grudge-holding. It's a flaw, but one that has served me well through the years.
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The downside is that it's in Phoenix
Phoenix is nothing if not one giant, sprawly, strip-mall-and-Walgreens laden downside. And if the wedding’s in the summer, it’ll be 115 degrees!
Aside from the 115 degrees, that sounds like Vancouver, WA.
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by Phil Hatzenbuehler on May 16, 2011 9:26 AM PDT up reply actions
so, so, so much worse
Phoenix is about a billion square miles and every road is a four or six lane traffic-clogged pain in the ass.
That sounds like areas of Vancouver.
And Vancouver loves loves LOVES its medians. Makes it impossible to turn in this fucking town.
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by Phil Hatzenbuehler on May 16, 2011 9:32 AM PDT up reply actions
Ooooh! New Topic: City Driving
Best/Worst experiences? I’ve driven in New York and felt like I did okay given that I had been driving for only 6 months. I didn’t kill anyone, which was a plus.
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by perfectstrat on May 16, 2011 9:33 AM PDT up reply actions
Washington DC is the most insane place I've driven around in.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 16, 2011 9:36 AM PDT up reply actions
Yea, when I was in DC I always cabbed.
It looked like hell to drive through.
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by perfectstrat on May 16, 2011 9:39 AM PDT up reply actions
Aside from the usual suspects of bad/crazy drivers, Minneapolis/St. Paul drivers are very aggressive. Snow be damned, they will tailgate you like your car is made of cheese and hot dish.
by sanford_and_son on May 16, 2011 9:38 AM PDT up reply actions
Weather is a big part of it. People in Seattle don't give a crap about heavy rains and we can spot an outsider right away.
Or when we drive in a place that doesn’t usually rain (like LA!) and I’m like “Get the hell out of my way”
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 16, 2011 9:42 AM PDT up reply actions
Driving in Vegas, especially on the Strip, is a fucking NIGHTMARE.
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by Phil Hatzenbuehler on May 16, 2011 9:45 AM PDT up reply actions
My biggest problem with driving in Vegas is how fucking confusing it is.
I was looking right at MGM and had it right in my sights. It took me 30 minutes to get there because of all the U-turns I had to take.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 16, 2011 9:48 AM PDT up reply actions
And if you're driving on the Strip on purpose, I don't feel all that bad for you
by seattlebruin on May 16, 2011 9:51 AM PDT up reply actions
How else am I supposed to get to MGM!
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 16, 2011 10:23 AM PDT up reply actions
You should either go the back route or stay on the Strip for as little time as possible
by seattlebruin on May 16, 2011 10:27 AM PDT up reply actions
Yeah. Lesson learned, but this was my first time driving in Vegas.
I’m just happy that I can get there on a tank of gas now.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 16, 2011 10:47 AM PDT up reply actions
Koval
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Car Rental drop off!
I’m sure its by the airport. Wait its no where near the airport!? Ah fuck I just sat in airport traffic for an hour for nothing.
by Scruffy Lefty on May 16, 2011 9:52 AM PDT up reply actions
I have not done a ton of driving in a lot of cities but here's my list of worst cities to drive in, in no particular order
1. Seattle
2. Portland
3. Boston
4. New York
5. San Francisco
6. LA
Seattle and Portland are bad because oh my god people the left lane is for passing not going the speed limit. Boston’s bad because the streets are small, very poorly marked, and if you’re not intimately familiar with them you’re in someone’s way. NY is just insane, SF has the small-street problem, and LA is wow it just took me 45 minutes to go two miles.
by pdb on May 16, 2011 9:52 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
After visiting SF (but not driving) and watching how people drive there
I realized I would get run over if I had to get behind the wheel. I’m aggressive when I need to be, but most of the time I pretty much go with the flow. Drivers in SF are aggressive ALL THE TIME and it’s a little frightening to even be a pedestrian in that city.
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by Phil Hatzenbuehler on May 16, 2011 9:54 AM PDT up reply actions
The thing about LA is that the problem is too many people, not their actual driving abilities
by seattlebruin on May 16, 2011 9:56 AM PDT up reply actions
I hate when their is a traffic jam
and I get to the end of the traffic jam and there’s no accident.
Why did we just drive 20mph for 5 miles? BECAUSE THERE WERE TOO MANY PEOPLE TRYING TO GET OFF ON ONE EXIT.
This is the only thing that ever really bugs me.
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I've driven in SF all my life (which is what, a year that I've had my license), and I don't find it too bad.
You get your fair share of bad drivers, but the problem I get most often is hills. It’s so damn hilly, and I hate having to get to a stop sign and not being able to see the crosswalk right in front of me.
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by perfectstrat on May 16, 2011 9:57 AM PDT up reply actions
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by thehemogoblin on May 16, 2011 10:15 AM PDT up reply actions
It's no place for a stick shift*.
*Unless you’re into that sort of thing.
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by thehemogoblin on May 16, 2011 10:15 AM PDT up reply actions
This news story might make you happy PDB
State troopers pull over 223 lane campers.
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The interesting thing about that article is it notes that HOT lanes during non-peak times are passing lanes
It’s pretty much impossible to treat the HOT lane on 167 (and I’m assuming it’s the same with HOT lanes in other areas) like a passing lane, because the double white line makes it illegal to get into or out of the lane for basically 99% of the road.
Unless you time it right and pass someone during the checkered-white sections, you can’t use that lane to pass.
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
It's illegal in Washington state to use the HOV lanes as passing lanes.
A friend of mine has been ticketed for this very thing more than once. She bitches about how wrong it is every time it happens.
tell your friend to stop bitching
if you get busted for the same thing multiple times, you can’t really rant about how wrong it is the third time you do it. You have already been made aware that it’s wrong, and you keep doing it – at that point it’s your own fault.
This is my point. They're not always HOV lanes
But it’s still illegal to cross the double-white lines, making it pretty much impossible to use them as passing lanes even when they’re not HOV.
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
Okay. Those HOT lanes are confusing (but probably smart) and I'm kinda glad I don't live near there.
I live right by then and think they're really stupid, but I'll end there for risk of entering the realm of politics.
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
I use the left lane for almost solely for passing, but often times I'll encounter dumb drivers.
These drivers like to go 85 and tailgate the shit out of you, while you’re only passing one car and then getting back in the right lane.
I also have a problem with douchebags that think I’m not going fast enough when I’m going 10-15 mph faster than the speed limit and passing people at a strong pace, who then pass in the right lane really aggressively. My dad is one of those drivers. I always thank karma when they get caught behind a slow-ass truck.
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by perfectstrat on May 16, 2011 10:02 AM PDT up reply actions
The worst is where you're passing the one car while being tailgated by guy going 85
And then just when you’re ready to get back into the right lane after waiting for a safe distance the asshole going 85 tries to cut into the gap to pass you, cutting off the other driver in the process and then whipping back over when you turn on your blinker
by tootthekazoo on May 16, 2011 4:58 PM PDT up reply actions
This is exactly why you're not supposed to pass on the right
It really bothers me too. This seems to add a huge amount of retarded risk (not to mention sucking down extra gas) to cut 3 seconds off their trip.
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
London's also hell to drive in.
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by perfectstrat on May 16, 2011 9:58 AM PDT up reply actions
Never tried it, and don't particularly want to
I’ve been a passenger enough to realize that you’d have to be a special brand of insane to want to drive in London.
The most stunning thing I experienced there is that pedestrians don't have any right of way.
Either it’s not a law there or drivers just don’t care.
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by perfectstrat on May 16, 2011 10:07 AM PDT up reply actions
I crossed into the center of a round-a-bout in Dhaka.
Not the smartest thing I’ve ever done.
by Scruffy Lefty on May 16, 2011 10:20 AM PDT up reply actions
I did this on a bicycle in Phnom Penh.
I just peddled as fast as I could and counted on other people not to kill me. I still see it in nightmares sometimes.
I was really pleasantly surprised by Houston the other day
I had to navigate across Houston during rush hour and was surprised to find the drivers to be very good and not selfish pricks who don’t contribute to the overall network of traffic.
My favorite is Kansas City. KC drivers are awesome.
Phoenix is pretty good to maneuver too- Tucson not so much. I-10 between Tucson and Phoenix is a disaster- it’s like every bad driver in the world uses that corridor exhaustively. The only reason they have to six lane it is because people drive like inefficient fuckwads.
Denver is a bit aggressive but not too bad.
Seattle/Portland are just slow and clogged due to left lane issues that have been repeated ad nauseum.
Others- I enjoy Chicago driving. It’s aggressive but it’s fun. Once you get the hang of it, I think it works pretty well but it takes a while to get the hang of it.
Salt Lake is a bit weird- they’re like Denver drivers on speed and they suck at driving in snow which is weird because it snows there.
Omaha is a lot like KC- fairly pleasant.
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It's done through Tucson and they're working on Casa Grande right now
10 between Tucson and Phoenix is pretty much the worst I’ve ever seen for keep right except to passers- it’s nearly as bad if not as bad as Seattle/Portland but makes even less sense because it’s more rural
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Forgot about Tulsa and OKC drivers
Oklahoma drivers are just pointlessly aggressive- they’ll cut you off for no reason whatsoever and they don’t keep right except to pass and it just sucks to drive.
I do wonder how much of that is that the freeways are poorly maintained and were initially designed by retards with like 1000 left exits- maybe they’d be better in a place with logical roads
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I'm glad there's more than one reason to dislike Oklahoma so my hate doesn't seem so overdramatic.
by Mariner John on May 16, 2011 11:28 AM PDT up reply actions
Oklahoma is possibly my least favorite state in the country which is weird because I love all the states that surround it
I tend to find goodness in even the shittiest of small towns, but if there is one town in America I wouldn’t mind seeing disappear it’s Altus, Oklahoma.
Altus is the setting for the made for TV Toby Keith movie Beer for my Horses, which pretty much says all you need to know about Altus.
I was there last Wednesday and there were people racing semi trucks down Main Street, the area is totally flat and full of nothing ,there’s confederate flags everywhere and Altus is a bit west for that sort of thing, the gas was overpriced, and the people were obnoxious.
I actually met this guy there
which is great if you watch him on TV but in person he’s not so cool
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Time for a new list?
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All right
1. Iowa
2. Kansas
3. Idaho
4. Nebraska
5. Wyoming
6. Ohio
7. Arkansas
8. West Virginia
9. Maine
10. Missouri
11. New Hampshire
12. Texas (I have gained a lot of Texas respect in 2.5 cross Texas off-interstate drives- Texas has the best looking small towns in the western part of the country)
13. Vermont
14. North Dakota
15. Washington
16. Minnesota
17. Pennsylvania
18. Wisconsin
19. Virginia
20. Kentucky
21. South Dakota
22. Montana
23. Tennessee
24. Illinois
25. Colorado
26. Louisiana (in my first off interstate cross Louisiana drive I was disappointed, I hate to say)
27. Massachusetts
28. South Carolina
29. Utah
30. North Carolina
31. Oregon
32. New York
33. Indiana
34. Rhode Island
35. Alaska
36. Nevada
37. New Mexico
38. Alabama
39. Maryland
40. Delaware
41. Georgia
42. Mississippi
43. Hawaii (too isolated)
44. Florida
45. Michigan
46. Connecticut
47. Arizona
48. New Jersey
49. Oklahoma
50. California
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by Corco on May 17, 2011 3:40 PM PDT up reply actions 4 recs
Good to know that time hasn't made this list any less bad
by seattlebruin on May 17, 2011 4:40 PM PDT up reply actions
Arkansas is really a state you have to see to believe- I was absolutely baffled by how awesome it was- it really, really exceeded my expectations
and you haven’t been to Nebraska unless you’ve been to northern Nebraska and you haven’t been to Kansas unless you’ve been off the freeway in the Flint Hills. The people in Wyoming are absolutely awesome and yeah, Ohio may be a bit of a sentimental pick but I still love it for that reason. Your mileage may vary on Ohio though.
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Iowa is number one?
May I ask what your criteria is? My childhood memories of Iowa are of my first experience with a true outhouse, not a portapotty. Also, the cousins in Van Wert would watch brush fires for entertainment.
Rolling hills, trees, very nice people, lots of old red barns, no really major cities
besides Des Moines which is constantly rated as a great place to live, Maid-Rite, good weather- the right mix of snow and hot and precipitation, Dubuque, lots of lakes and reservoirs, they use old-spec US highway shields, and it’s centrally located so it’s an easy drive to any of the other 47 contiguous states. A state like Washington would do a lot better if it were centrally located
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47?
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Sorry, missed the "other"
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This gift should be a 20" x 42" framed glossy of you standing next to a Ferrari wearing a condescending smile.
by ToddK on May 17, 2011 9:58 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Nothing but a condescending smile.
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by thehemogoblin on May 17, 2011 10:48 AM PDT up reply actions
Re wedding
much more fun to be had in faking being destitute than pretending to be a high roller.
by Bearskin Rugburn on May 16, 2011 9:12 AM PDT reply actions
For instance
wear a dirty suit, don’t wash or shave, ask everyone to borrow a ten spot, wrap food in napkins and slip it into your pockets for later.
by Bearskin Rugburn on May 16, 2011 9:14 AM PDT up reply actions
That would make me blend in more than anything else, I'm sorry to say.
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All the less reason to show up all flashy like
by Bearskin Rugburn on May 16, 2011 9:25 AM PDT up reply actions
See above (or the link)
http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2011/5/16/2173365/otdod-051611-social-awkwardness-edition#67337446
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As for as the unknown contacts, just claim to have smoked too much pot so your memory sucks.
Works for me everytime. Also helped that I smoked a lot of pot over the years…
OOOOOH!!!!! That was NASTY!!!!!!!!
If Barry Bonds should be prosecuted for anything, it should be inventing a cloning/time reversal device
turning himself into Jose Bautista, and not telling anyone
How does he only have 2 IBBs
at this point, wouldn’t you just walk him every fucking time?
by seattlebruin on May 16, 2011 9:22 AM PDT up reply actions
To be fair, Twins' pitchers are taught to never walk anyone ever.
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Barry Bonds had a .538 wOBA in his legendary .609 OBP year
Jose Bautista is currently at .572. That’s a 15 run difference over the year
by seattlebruin on May 16, 2011 9:29 AM PDT up reply actions
He's on pace for a 16.9 WAR season, assuming 650 PA.
Bonds’ best year was 13 wins.
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by Phil Hatzenbuehler on May 16, 2011 9:32 AM PDT up reply actions
Bautista is hitting like that at a time when League wide offense is down considerably from the 90s.
Average OPS hovered around .770 in the late 90s. This year its .713
by Bearskin Rugburn on May 16, 2011 9:39 AM PDT up reply actions
Jose Bautistas 34.5% of pitches in the strike zone is by far the lowest in the league.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 16, 2011 9:32 AM PDT up reply actions
I mean, obviously 160 PAs is a very small sample, but this level of performance is just insane
by seattlebruin on May 16, 2011 9:34 AM PDT up reply actions
His numbers don't even appear to be real.
He rarely gets a pitch in the zone. He only swings at pitches in the zone 57% of the time. When he makes contact, the ball goes in the air over 50% of the time. And when they go in the air, they’ve gone over the fence 32% of the time.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 16, 2011 9:39 AM PDT up reply actions
How does someone make that kind of leap at his age?
I mean I know people want to whisper about PEDs, but last I checked there weren’t any drugs to give you god like plate discipline.
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PEDs don't turn you from Michael Saunders into Barry Bonds
by seattlebruin on May 16, 2011 9:42 AM PDT up reply actions
It's not just plate discipline.
He’s got a .500 ISO!
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by perfectstrat on May 16, 2011 9:42 AM PDT up reply actions
The only thing I can think of is that he always had the talent in him, but he never learned how to use it until later in life.
Then he changed his swing and it all just clicked. Like he was driving with the emergency brake on for all these years and then someone in the passenger seat like “Hey, idiot. Your emergency brake is on.”
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 16, 2011 9:44 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
This is an excellent analogy, because now he can drive the ball with much greater acceleration.
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by perfectstrat on May 16, 2011 9:47 AM PDT up reply actions
And he doesn't smell funny anymore!
by Eyebrows on May 16, 2011 9:51 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions
I wonder how much z-strike% correlates with ISO
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by perfectstrat on May 16, 2011 9:34 AM PDT up reply actions
Oddly, he's ahead of Freddie Freeman and Adam Laroche.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 16, 2011 9:41 AM PDT up reply actions
Mike Carp did his best impression of Bautista yesterday
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Yeah. That was pretty racist of him.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 16, 2011 9:39 AM PDT up reply actions
I don't know why Jay doesn't talk about Carp more...
:)
Who's gonna save the world? Who's gonna save the day? From Ahab crabs who steal and eerie eels with evil rays?
I read about Carp's weekend on USSM
and I think I know exactly why Jay doesn’t talk about him.
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Because fishing is considered off topic on LL?
by seattlebruin on May 16, 2011 10:43 AM PDT up reply actions
You know with so many people from the PNW
I’m surprised we’ve never talked about fishing. I have so many fond childhood memories of that pink marshmallow bait.
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I have a not so fond memory of having large amounts of Salmon cum on me.
Soaking wet. While walking around downtown Bellingham with a Large salmon in a garbage bag with its head popping out.
by Scruffy Lefty on May 16, 2011 10:49 AM PDT up reply actions
Yeah
When’s this Carp kid going to get a crack at the majors?
by Bearskin Rugburn on May 16, 2011 10:46 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
How smart does Toronto look right now? 8 million this year and 14 million a year until 2016.
Even if he declined in the middle of the deal, he could have walked after this season and got a 9 figure deal.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 16, 2011 9:47 AM PDT up reply actions
Sooo, 30 WAR next year?
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by perfectstrat on May 16, 2011 9:49 AM PDT up reply actions
Jose Bautista's OPS is 1.388
That is greater than the sum of ANY 2 Mariners’ OPS, minus Justin Smoak.
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
The closest is Ichiro and Adam Kennedy, who combine for 1.367.
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
Tell the random number you recently lost your contact numbers
This happens all the time for me. I’m too lazy to save contacts.
Jack Z on the radio earlier said Guti is a week or two away
I feel like he’s been a week or two away for ever now
Fuck birds.
My freshly cleaned car is not your toilet. Go shit on some one’s prius
by LeftArrow2 on May 16, 2011 9:55 AM PDT reply actions 2 recs
Try driving a car things don't want to shit on.
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by thehemogoblin on May 16, 2011 10:17 AM PDT up reply actions
A segal has been using the roof of my car to drop clam shells on.
I have like 6 dents now.
by Scruffy Lefty on May 16, 2011 10:25 AM PDT up reply actions
Steven, or Jason?
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by Phil Hatzenbuehler on May 16, 2011 10:28 AM PDT up reply actions 8 recs
Thinking about Ackley again?
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by Faux on May 16, 2011 12:16 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Of the eleven outfielders currently below replacement level per FanGraphs, seven make more than $10M
baseball!
This is like when everyone in the NBA got max contracts
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Joe Johnson says hello!
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by perfectstrat on May 16, 2011 10:03 AM PDT up reply actions
Joe Johnson is good
this is like when Theo Ratliff and Erick Dampier were getting max contracts
by seattlebruin on May 16, 2011 10:04 AM PDT up reply actions
Joe Johnson is essentially a league average player.
If you’re superstar making $20 million a year is a league average player, that’s not very good.
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by perfectstrat on May 16, 2011 10:09 AM PDT up reply actions
This is why the NBA is so fucked up
well not the only reason, but still, how many league average or worse players got max deals?
Giving Rashard Lewis big money is far worse for the league than Bosh, Wade and LeBron all colluding to play for the same team.
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Calling it collusion is unfair--they didn't really do anything illegal or deceptive.
Preventing teams from giving big contracts to overvalued players (such as high volume shooters or 6’10" guys who can’t rebound) would be collusion. Allowing teams to make stupid decisions isn’t the worst thing for the league, though it can lead to teams not being competitive for years. If Orlando trades away Howard this summer, that team might be awful until they luck into another #1 pick.
I wasn't serious about it being collusion
But the NBA seems to need ways to protect its owners from being stupid moreso than the other big professional sports.
Although as I type that I am reminded of how stupid the whole Ilya Kovalchuk saga was and thank my lucky stars that Dean Lombardi did not go all in on it.
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Yeah. I think the problem, which you may be alluding to, is that the Hawks felt they had to give Johnson that contract because they couldn't afford to lose him.
He got overpaid because the Hawks felt he’d walk away if they didn’t give him such an outstanding deal. It was a necessary evil. The revenue they got from 2 playoff series probably helps offset some of the deal.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 16, 2011 10:46 AM PDT up reply actions
That's like the one time out of how many that giving a max deal
to a non super star worked.
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Oh yeah, for sure. And it made a lot more sense than "That guys big, lets pay him whatever" for Adonis Foyle and Dampier.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 16, 2011 11:22 AM PDT up reply actions
FIVE YEARS THIRTY MILLION
Oh Isiah you so crazy.
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Isn't that what Channing Frye got as well?
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by perfectstrat on May 16, 2011 11:43 AM PDT up reply actions
His Phoenix extension yes
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Adonal =/= Adonis
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by thehemogoblin on May 16, 2011 11:44 AM PDT up reply actions
I was certain he was referring to the mythical figure.
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by perfectstrat on May 16, 2011 11:45 AM PDT up reply actions
Well he was pretty handsome.
Wait, no, he was hideous.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 16, 2011 11:52 AM PDT up reply actions
I'm seeing Sublime with Rome and 311 in August, so I'm pretty happy about that.
I had not heard of the Fastbacks.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 16, 2011 10:58 AM PDT up reply actions
That would definitely make them a pretty big deal.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 16, 2011 11:02 AM PDT up reply actions
Is the 1997 version of LL hosted on Geocities or Angelfire?
by sanford_and_son on May 16, 2011 11:00 AM PDT up reply actions
Geocities. I know because I did an Alta Vista search.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 16, 2011 11:01 AM PDT up reply actions
You should really use Dogpile.
It’s way better.
by Eyebrows on May 16, 2011 11:08 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions
My computer tech teacher in high school (three years ago now) still used Dogpile.
I was beyond perplexed. I know Google’s going to run the world someday, but it really earned that with its search engine.
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by thehemogoblin on May 16, 2011 11:45 AM PDT up reply actions
One of my bosses still uses Dogpile.
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by Phil Hatzenbuehler on May 16, 2011 11:57 AM PDT up reply actions
I'm living out a childhood dream!
311 was my favorite band in middle school.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 16, 2011 11:01 AM PDT up reply actions
Me too. Not hatin', just surprised Goo Goo Dolls or Cake aren't opening or something.
by sanford_and_son on May 16, 2011 11:30 AM PDT up reply actions
Cake doesn't really match with Sublime or 311
Not stonery enough. Bloodhound Gang would be a better pick.
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True, but I think my dream show when I was in 7th grade would have been something like Green Day, 311, Subline and Cake.
Back when I thought “Alternative” was a legitimate music genre name. Yikes!
by sanford_and_son on May 16, 2011 11:52 AM PDT up reply actions
Thanks, pdb
I’ll try and make this.
Haven’t seen them since Chop Suey was the Breakroom.
I was talking to an uninformed M's fan at a bar yesterday.
Things he said that made me love the Mariners more: 1. Ichiro is 31 years old. 2. Felix is 27 years old. 3. Felix will leave the team either this year or next year. 4. Justin Smoak is awesome. It felt wonderful to correct him about the first three and agree with him on #4.
Ichiro is 31?
So he was a RotY and MVP as a 21 year old? Niiiice.
by Bearskin Rugburn on May 16, 2011 10:47 AM PDT up reply actions
Easiest job in the world?
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I have to say, my favorite part is "Position may require a criminal background check."
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by thehemogoblin on May 16, 2011 11:02 AM PDT up reply actions
On a severe documentary kick lately.
This weekend I watched a documentary on atomic bombs (Trinity and Beyond) Colossal Squids, gangs (Bloods and Crips: Made in America), Wrestemania… All of those were pretty interesting, but the one I’ll recommend to everyone is The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia. That is one crazy ass family.
Any documentary recommendations? Seen any good ones lately?
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 16, 2011 11:10 AM PDT reply actions
Noted. I fell asleep watching Cosmic Collisions last night.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 16, 2011 11:33 AM PDT up reply actions
I'll second this.
So so good.
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by Phil Hatzenbuehler on May 16, 2011 11:58 AM PDT up reply actions
I think I saw Bloods and Crips Made in America on tv once
It made me glad I didn’t go to USC in the 90s
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Isn't there an unwritten rule that gangs don't fuck with USC students?
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 16, 2011 11:43 AM PDT up reply actions
I have no idea
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I was pretty shocked when I found out where USC was actually located. Talking to other people though I heard it was like "Yeah, but gangs know that if they fuck with rich, white kids its going to bring even more hell down on them"
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 16, 2011 1:21 PM PDT up reply actions
I've never heard this expressed
but honestly campus is fairly removed from the bad areas, so I dunno. The Gentrification is slowly spreading southward though.
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Yeah. You still have to go pretty out of your way down there to get to the bad neighborhoods, huh?
The only time I went down there was to meet some people at Roscoe’s. It was well worth it.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 16, 2011 1:25 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah you have to go more than about 5 miles south of campus
I think. I never went much further south than that.
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Yes.
Anything North Korea has been excellent on Netflix. Kimjongilia was good and there was another that just left me dumbfounded. I can’t believe people can be brainwashed that easily.
NO POLITICS
I saw that one looking at North Korea and I'm definitely very interested to check it out.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 16, 2011 11:53 AM PDT up reply actions
I can't think of the name of it off hand
but there is one that follows a group of doctors that go into north korea and perform some eye surgeries for a group of people there. It was a very eye opening documentary. (pun sooo intended)
Both are really good and worth watching.
Escape to Chimp Eden is a pretty good Animal Planet documentary series.
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by Phil Hatzenbuehler on May 16, 2011 11:58 AM PDT up reply actions
I saw the Whites of W.V. documentary
It was interesting, though I felt like I needed the website with its handy family tree to really get who all of the people were. Ultimately not enough meat to it. Scions of famous dad now mired in dependency. OK…
oh my god, i know. it was really hard to follow because the family was so big. Really good though.
I watched a documentary last night called My Flesh and Blood about a woman who adopted 11 kids with special needs. Inspirational and sad, as expected.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 18, 2011 10:05 AM PDT up reply actions
So I just came across Flip Flop Fly Ball,
And found some ichi-humpin’
Site is fantastic, I’m guessing it’s been discussed here before.
by sanford_and_son on May 16, 2011 11:32 AM PDT reply actions
My favorite part about the site is the guy's Twitter feed.
All Craig Robinson does is drink Corona or tequila and watch Mexican baseball games. The dude is living the life.
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by thehemogoblin on May 16, 2011 11:47 AM PDT up reply actions
This is amazing
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I looked on Street View proper and Felix's face wasn't isn't blurred
Neither is Silva or Beltre. A bunch of photos are blocked by trees. For some reason Yuni’s named is blurred. Looky here, scroll left.
I like this graphic of the Mariners rotation
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I don't really see the point of that one--it's hard to tell, for example, when or why Felix's spot was skipped
Though his stretch of starts on 4 days rest after the All-Star Game is nifty.
Looks like the Thrashers are going to move to Winnipeg.
If Canada wants more teams, they should encourage the league to put teams in Atlanta.
I'm normally pretty progressive about sports franchises in weird spots (Puerto Rico Marlins!), but if this goes through it'll be good for hockey overall.
Short of an expansion, there’s no reason not to have hockey where the fans are.
Let’s all face it, there are going to be rich white kids in hockey around the US no matter where the NHL teams are located, but the ones that are really serious will end up making the trip to New England or MN. Hell, they barely have a D1 hockey program in Penn State, and that’s as far south as they go.
Plus, this isn’t the 70s. Canada has a stronger currency than the US, and is projected to for at least the next 5+ years. A team there doesn’t have to seat 15K + ~10 large corporations buying ad space and suites to be solvent and growing there. They can get by on a local TV contract, some revenue sharing from RSN and CBC, and filling a stadium with 22K every game like they would if there was a team there.
Maybe in ten years it’ll swing back to US markets being the better choice, but it’s not like teams haven’t moved often in the past, hockey has been pretty good at swinging teams around as they need to.
But I basically spent five minutes writing about something that will never happen. Now that the NHL is free of monetary control of the Coyotes, they have the wherewithal to buy out the Thrashers if they want to. But they’d be retarded to do it, the US market isn’t going to grow on the strength of franchises in bad markets.
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I do feel a little bad for Atlanta given that the Thrashers' owners were awful.
However, i think it’s good to move hockey back to Canada as it makes sense for cities like Winnipeg and Quebec to have teams, even if they are smaller than potential American markets, since they are going to have more interest. It seems like a lot of the reasons teams moved was because they were WHA teams and the NHL didn’t have much loyalty to them. The only WHA team left in its original city is Edmonton and it took Wayne Gretzky for that it seems.
by Mariner John on May 16, 2011 12:24 PM PDT up reply actions
This was their second go-round with hockey and they still couldn't make it work
if the new Winnipeg team is called anything but the Jets they’re doing it wrong.
Like the Sonics and OKC, the history and rights went with the Coyotes.
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I have to imagine they'll work something out
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What? I don'
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t even...
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I can't even watch it at work but just the blurb hurts my head.
If someone wants to see if it’s as retarded as it sounds, here’s the link:
http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=6470996&categoryid=2459791
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I want to stab whoever it is who came up with "vlogumn".
by Eyebrows on May 16, 2011 1:19 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Pretty sure it was Buccigross, a play on his previous "blogumn."
Silliness aside, I find Bucci entertaining and funny and I appreciate how hard he shoehorns hockey references into his Sportscenter shifts.
by sanford_and_son on May 16, 2011 1:23 PM PDT up reply actions
I've only watched a minute of this and so far its just old guys Bucci thinks deserve to win the cup
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Er Buccigross
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DO NOT WANT
Seth MacFarlane to reboot the Flintstones.
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I didn't even like it when I was a kid
But then I didn’t like The Honeymooners so I’m not sure why I would have liked The Flintstones.
Its not that its untouchable
I just don’t want more MacFarlane
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He does seem to spread himself as thin as possible and turn down nothing.
I wonder how funny people think MacFarlane is. My opinion is that he is very hit and miss… I do like Family Guy, but seeing MacFarlane talk in person, I don’t find him to be funny. Family Guy was also really bad for a couple of years after its return, but I like it again. Cleveland Show, I hated what I saw.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 16, 2011 2:17 PM PDT up reply actions
Even though I used to find Family Guy hilarious, and still occasionally do, I found the humor wore out really quick.
As someone who fancies himself something that occasionally resembles a writer, or at least as a guy who knows the difference between good writing and bad writing… once I figured out all the funny jokes were completely unrelated to the plot, it became much less funny to me.
Plot plot plot FUNNY MENTION OF ROBERT REDFORD plot plot plot BLOODY ATTACK ON DEFENSELESS WOMAN plot plot plot POOP AND MEXICAN JOKE plot plot.
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
South Park pretty much tore it apart and revealed a lot of that device for how lazy and bad it was.
It might actually be why I think Family Guy got better after that. Like “oh shit, we’ve been found out. Time to mix it up.”
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 16, 2011 2:23 PM PDT up reply actions
See, that's what made it more funny for me
I think it’s funny as a random series of jokes that don’t connect to anything. Plot is superfluous.
I guess I can see the allure of that
But I can just as easily watch Robot Chicken if I want an unabashed series of lowbrow skits.
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
I've never thought of the Flintstones as an untouchable piece of history personally
In a way Family Guy is already a reboot of the Flintstones, so it doesn’t really surprise me that he’d want to do this or they’d let him.
Doesn't seem like most people have an attachment to this franchise so far... Curiously, what classic, childhood cartoons do you think are untouchable? The Jetsons?
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 16, 2011 2:09 PM PDT up reply actions
The Jetsons is just The Flintstones in space
Untouchable cartoons? Bugs Bunny/Road Runner and that universe and Bullwinkle are about the only two that spring to mind for me.
by pdb on May 16, 2011 2:10 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
If done with the right people, I think it would be really cool to get an epic Bugs Bunny movie.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 16, 2011 2:15 PM PDT up reply actions
The right people are all dead because they worked on Bugs Bunny when it was a thing
It’s like trying to cover a Ramones song and not sound like a total idiot. There’s no way to do it right.
There are some really talented people out there that I'd be okay with.
Jerry Seinfeld for instance is a huge Looney Tunes fan.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 16, 2011 2:20 PM PDT up reply actions
The main problem (and the Muppets have it too) is that the replacement voicing is replacement voicing.
by msb on May 16, 2011 2:21 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I have slowly got used to the new Kermit voice.
but (for example) that ad that supposedly features Foghorn Leghorn?
Jabberjaw and Captain Caveman
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by Phil Hatzenbuehler on May 16, 2011 2:16 PM PDT up reply actions
The Great Grape Ape and Hong Kong Fooey
They were all part of USA Network’s Cartoon Express on Sunday mornings in the 80’s. I think the Smurfs and Snorks were on that as well.
So what? Who cares? When a supervillain plots, to send an army of lobsterbots, to tie you up in sailors' knots?
Call back to the Pain subthread from the last OTTOD!
Who's gonna save the world? Who's gonna save the day? From Ahab crabs who steal and eerie eels with evil rays?
I doubt Disney will let anything of theirs be touched.
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by perfectstrat on May 16, 2011 2:18 PM PDT up reply actions
This reminds me that I ALSO watched The Story of Pixar this weekend.
Seems like Disney/Pixar could re-imagine some old Disney stuff and do it justice.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 16, 2011 2:21 PM PDT up reply actions
What about all those terrible direct-to-video sequels a few year back?
People can easily ignore the garbage and focus on what’s good.
Black bear up a tree in Renton, tranked 2-3 times, finally got it to fall into the waiting net.
film at 11.
if not sooner.
by msb on May 16, 2011 1:49 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
That was just 2 minutes from my house
And those apartments right by the tree were the ones that caught fire during construction about 2 years ago and spectacularly burned to the ground
by tootthekazoo on May 16, 2011 5:39 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm surprised nobody has ever mentioned Bret Boone when talking about the ridiculousness of Jose Bautista and we've never seen this before.
Bautistas transformation is more major, but I think Boone is at least a player worth mentioning.
Boone was a solid player when he came to Seattle, but consider this:
In 1072 games pre-2001, he accumulated a total of 6.1 WAR.
In 2001, he was worth 7.8 WAR. Though he was “only” 4 WAR the next season, he followed that up with 7.4 the next season.
He dominated every season he had ever had before offensively except for 1994 and he still did much better than 1994.
For Bautista to not only hit 54 HR last year, but follow that up with his ridiculous numbers this season… yes, its more insane than any transformation we’ve ever seen before. But it’s not unlike anything we’ve ever seen before, and I’m surprised Boone doesn’t get mentioned.
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I think you could point out a lot of guys in the obvious PEDs era that fit this category.
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Right, but Bret Boone went from bad baseball player to MVP candidate
Jose Bautista went from bad baseball player to God
by seattlebruin on May 16, 2011 3:37 PM PDT up reply actions
TOPIC: regarding social awkwardness, anyone have tips for remembering names?
Specifically, when being introduced to approximately a dozen people in less than 10 minutes. I typically remember about two or three names at best.
by Kermit. on May 16, 2011 2:16 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
Yeah, it's really embarrassing. Huge source of anxiety
Some people seem to be able to manage it, I don’t know if they have little tricks or if their brains just work better at this particular skill.
Word association.
I have an amazing mnemonic device by which I have now memorize all of your names. Shirty, mole, lazy eye, Mexico, baldy, sugar boobs, black woman. I have taken a unique part of who you are, and I have used that to memorize your name. Baldy. Your head it bald. It is hairless. It is shiny. It is reflective, like a mirror. M. Your name is Mark.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 16, 2011 2:19 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
This is good advice, all joking aside.
I will somehow find a way to practice this art of mnemonics, thanks
It's a quote from Michael Scott. Though still amazing advice!
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 16, 2011 2:22 PM PDT up reply actions
Mentally reviewing todays little function, all I'm coming up with is "Guy needs a haircut"
Dude needs to shine his shoes, she seems nice, I want him to stop shaking my hand, this guy was in charge of something that worked?, holy shit lay off the aftershave, and so on and so forth
Not really. I forget names quickly and terminally
however I don’t think people have a problem when you ask them to remind you unless you have to do it five times in one evening. If you’re that bad, you’re better off inventing fake names for people which seem fitting. Then at least you can joke about it.
by Bearskin Rugburn on May 16, 2011 2:21 PM PDT up reply actions
I self-deprecate
I admit up front to people that it takes me forever to remember names, and that I’d forget my own name if I didn’t carry my drivers license around to remind me what it was. I’m horrible at remembering names, and that at least buys me some time and patience while I do remember the name I should have remembered two days ago.
Honestly if I'm introduced to a ton of people in a short time span
I don’t even bother with trying to remember the names. If the person is going to be important in my life in some way (person at work or whatever) I generally learn their name the second time I talk to them. But on that initial “here are 30 people at once” type intro I don’t see how anyone can reasonably be expected to remember names.
I honestly have no qualms about admitting to a person the second time I talk to them that I didn’t get their name the first time.
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I just don't call people by names when I forget them and look like an uncaring, cold asshole
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Do you use condescending catch-all nicknames like Big Guy, Bro, and Chief?
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Nope, I just make eye contact with the person I'm talking with so they know I'm talking to them
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I think it's ok when inebriated
Especially if the people you’re talking to are also inebriated. Then it just builds camaraderie.
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Say the person's name as soon as you hear it, and refer to them by that name as often as possible
Rob Lowe’s character on Parks and Recreation does this perfectly, albeit in a potentially annoying manner. “Ann Perkins!”
by tootthekazoo on May 16, 2011 5:42 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
My AP English teach in HS told me that there are some people whose names
just ask to be said in full. She always called me by my first and last name.
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I think Gorilla Monsoon is one of these names.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 17, 2011 9:59 AM PDT up reply actions
Some names just roll off the tongue
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Something I keep forgetting to mention when Ron Swanson is invoked...
Nick Offerman’s other career, woodworker.
by msb on May 16, 2011 2:26 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
I'm so sending this to a former coworker who does a ton of woodworking
Although I dont know if he watches Parks and Recreation.
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Answering the main prompt from the OT with a semi-similar situation
Yesterday I saw somebody I know while I was waiting in line at Fry’s. This person was just leaving the store and I only happened to see her by chance as she approached the exit. A small child ran in front of her and hit the brakes and she nearly demolished the kid. Since I already had my phone out, I sent her a quick message along the lines of “you almost killed that stupid kid!” I then waited for her response. Two hours later I get a text back saying “what the fuck are you talking about?” since she apparently did not have her phone on her at the time.
Anybody else ever sent a time sensitive text for something funny and have it not be received until way after the context has passed?
Not necessarily funny, but in college, a few times texts would get delivered a day or two late by Verizon for some reason
which led to interesting texts reminding me what time IM basketball games and such were taking place, two or three days after the event occurred
by seattlebruin on May 16, 2011 3:39 PM PDT up reply actions
That still happens to me every now and again
Verizon seems to be the only carrier that has this problem that I know of.
If they are texts from services or from online (non-phone) sources, the delay is because they're sent on a different system.
One that Verizon doesn’t really like, and cracks down on rather heavily because it considers it a likely spam source. Other providers are much more open about their SMS networks and allow pretty much anything in.
In short, Verizon considers it in their best interest to make non-carrier texts unreliable. Why, no one knows.
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I do this with my wife like once a week when we're in social settings, and you'd think I'd learn to stop sending time-sensitive texts after it never works.
I personally love the one you sent; it would have been perfect if only the lady would have cooperated.
I try to explain the context of the texts I send to my wife when she gets them like half a day later, but she mostly just stares at me like I’m trying to explain the intricacies of demon-summoning.
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by HititHere on May 16, 2011 3:47 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Mine would have been extra perfect because she had no clue I was there
And yes, trying to explain it to her after she finally got it was pretty awkward
by tootthekazoo on May 16, 2011 4:15 PM PDT up reply actions
You should text her "Are you sure you want to wear that to bed tonight?"
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 16, 2011 4:16 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Given that it is my ex and the mother of my son, as well as me being married and her being engaged...
I’m gonna have to pass on that one, I think
by tootthekazoo on May 16, 2011 4:26 PM PDT up reply actions
Well, in that case, absolutely.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 16, 2011 4:26 PM PDT up reply actions
It changes the story a lot when you put it like that
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Pujols back to third!
LaRussa, you so crazy!
by Eyebrows on May 16, 2011 3:27 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
Wow
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No plays for him in the first
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In other baseballing news...
The Astros were sold for $680 million!
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Interestingly, we can also now see why the hell FS Southwest payed so much for the Rangers TV rights.
A major selling point was the Astros’ share in a new deal with the NBA’s Houston Rockets to create a regional sports network that will begin airing Rockets games in 2012 and the Astros in 2013.
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by perfectstrat on May 16, 2011 3:37 PM PDT up reply actions
Ugh, my friend knows the owner
who personally asked him to send in a resume for a position
by seattlebruin on May 16, 2011 3:39 PM PDT up reply actions
Why is that an ugh?
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by perfectstrat on May 16, 2011 3:41 PM PDT up reply actions
Imagine how much Taco Bell they could buy working for a huge media conglomerate.
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Mmmmm, enchiladas
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by perfectstrat on May 16, 2011 3:47 PM PDT up reply actions
Taco bell has enchiladas?
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As if this weren't socially awkward enough, the guy has to go and fuck it all up too
Woops.
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Is that Hadoken?
Feel free to insult my street fighter knowledge.
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by perfectstrat on May 16, 2011 3:52 PM PDT up reply actions
It's the dragon punch motion, but it should be forward, down, down-forward. He switched the first 2 motions.
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Especially since you have to circle the board once before you can purchase any property
That’s a lot of dice rolls to tat on your arm
by tootthekazoo on May 16, 2011 5:45 PM PDT up reply actions
That isn't actually a rule right?
I used to always play that but me and my friends have been on a huge monopoly kick and they refuse to play that way.
It's not an official rule
But a very common house rule. The official game instructions don’t require players circle the board once before buying property.
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What's the benefit of this rule?
I see the outcomes being that people have more money and there could be less of a benefit for going first (since they’d usually hit unbought property). That benefit would then go to whoever has big rolls, which doesn’t seem like it’d make much of a difference, strategy-wise.
The person who rolls first has an automatic advantage because they have first crack at buying whatever they land on
Forcing everyone to wait an entire trip around the board at least levels the field a bit because the first person who rolled might not be the first person to pass Go the first time.
Right, I think it adds more variability, instead of screwing the person who rolls last.
Anyone may or may not get screwed, depending on the first few rolls.
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But if you have to roll to see who goes first, that's just as variable for who gets the first crack at property
This rule seems to just extend what’s already a pretty long game.
But at the same time it removes the back end people from being stuck with a 1/6 or better odds of landing on a bought property first roll.
Because people are spread out more by the time someone can buy property.
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Right, the variability gets distributed more widely by the increased number of rolls
As opposed to frontloading a bunch of the winning probability on the “who goes first” roll. If you need to get around the board once first, the person who rolls last has only a fractionally smaller chance of getting to the buyable properties before other players.
If I played with people who didn’t use this rule, and had to roll last out of 6 players I’d basically not want to play any more. That’s a huge disadvantage.
If I wanted to play “who rolled higher on a single roll before the game starts” I’d play War instead.
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All that means for me when I play
Is I end up going to jail, landing on luxury tax or getting a bad chance card before I get a chance to buy anything.
While some fuckface rolls doubles 3 times and scoots around the board
Then gets all 4 railroads his next time around.
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One of the last few games I played the guy who went first got the I think the pink monopoly in 3 turns.
Landed on the first, rolled 2 landed on the second, then landed on chance giving him a card to go to the 3rd. It was crazy.
We had a couple of pretty specific house rules when we played
2 trips around the board before any purchasing was allowed and ALL money paid to the game would go into free parking, which always started with $500 in it
by tootthekazoo on May 18, 2011 4:20 PM PDT up reply actions
I like it because it can be a game-changer in the later stages of the game
You’re down to your last $200 or so but there is $2500 in free parking and you hit it? Boom
by tootthekazoo on May 18, 2011 5:11 PM PDT up reply actions
We would sometimes do silent auctions for properties landed on during the first pass around the board.
In which everybody would write down their bid on the property that somebody landed on the first time around. Largest bid wins but the person that landed on the property has the ability to trump the winning bid, after all are shown, by offering $10 more.
My favorite house rule, however, was the Property Damage fee
Where you were assessed $25 per house and $100 per hotel for each one you knocked out of place with a dice roll. (The stipulation being that, in order for the dice roll to be valid, it would have to remain in the center square of the board.)
by ThomasG on May 18, 2011 5:17 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
We used to do basically $500 to start in free parking and pay all taxes to the middle
but it just adds that much more luck to the game which is already mostly luck driven. Whoever happened to land on free parking usually had a huge upper hand, so now we just leave $500 in it at all times.
Is it wrong? I haven't played in so long.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 16, 2011 3:56 PM PDT up reply actions
I am going to go Shoyruken myself off a bridge
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
Forward down down-forward fierce punch fall
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
Shoot. I hope the tattoo artist can fix my tat now.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 16, 2011 4:06 PM PDT up reply actions
The one on your forearm or right above your butt?
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by perfectstrat on May 16, 2011 4:06 PM PDT up reply actions
Right above my butt is a racy picture of Chun-Li.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 16, 2011 4:07 PM PDT up reply actions
I would probably get a tattoo of Battletoads descending down my right calf.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 16, 2011 4:09 PM PDT up reply actions
What do you have right below your belly-button?
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by perfectstrat on May 16, 2011 4:09 PM PDT up reply actions
The Blob from X-Men
Nope, thats just my gut.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 16, 2011 4:11 PM PDT up reply actions
Like they're descending the Impact Crater?
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GameGenie was created for this game.
by Eyebrows on May 16, 2011 4:23 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions 1 recs
I don't remember this game being as hard as everyone makes out.
Maybe I’ve just blocked it out.
by Eyeball Kid on May 17, 2011 11:32 AM PDT up reply actions
I would wager a bet that you just blocked it out.
This game was really hard.
Many NES games seemed hard at the time but are ok now
Like Contra—I can get through the whole game in 1 life now, but couldn’t do it without the 30 lives code as a kid.
Playing Battletoads now, I still sometimes fail to pass the 3rd level, and can almost never make it through 5.
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Regardless of age, your Contra boast is impressive.
Still a fairly tough game.
by sanford_and_son on May 17, 2011 12:46 PM PDT up reply actions
Thanks. It was a newfound revelation I had a year or two ago at my buddy's house.
We can each make it through solo without dying pretty regularly, andkeep trying for a perfect 2 player game. But one of us inevitably dies stupidly on level 5 or 6.
We’ve started doing it as a drinking game, where each death and subsequent restart (we restart as soon as one of us dies) requires the deceased take a shot.
After 1 or 2 attempts, it devolves into us both gleefully racing up the waterfall in level 3 trying to scroll-kill each other.
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As it should be.
It’s nice to find someone who’s just as good as you at a particular game, and then split your time evenly between serious play and fucking around.
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by JY on May 17, 2011 1:23 PM PDT up reply actions
A friend and I do something similar with Metal Slug X
Which I contend is essentially “Better Contra”. Unfortunately, both of us trained on MSlug 2 on an actual arcade cabinet, which is way way easier than X on the PS3. We can usually get to the trains level on the one quarter challenge, but someone inevitably gets killed stupidly by a sniper, or on the tower climb during the level 2 boss. That’s also a far cry from our almost full game runs on the 2 cabinet in the basement of the HUB.
Haven’t tried it with death shots yet. Sounds like that could be fun.
I've played some Metal Slug, but not MS X.
So I can’t really place the difficulty compared to Contra.
But I highly recommend this approach as a drinking game, and I can see it working for MS.
The beauty of NES Contra, though, is that even though it’s hard and 1 shot kills ya, it’s actually a pretty short game so it’s a feasible challenge.
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One shot kills in Metal Slug games and some of them are appreciably hard.
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Some of the later games can give Touhou Project games a run for their money
Bullet Hell. There are two things that are great about Metal Slug vs other contra-clones. 1st instead of taking damage when an enemy touches you, you whip out a knife and slash the bastard’s throat. 2nd, the enemies are nazis, in green (American!) uniforms, lead by a Sadam clone in league with aliens from outer space. It’s just about the best super-trope for a villainous organization since Cobra.
I know!
And yet I’ve gotten into so many arguments w/ friends about how it’s just Saddam leading Nazis, and how it’s clearly not Hitler.
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by JY on May 20, 2011 8:33 PM PDT up reply actions
And how are you at Ninja Gaiden?
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That's a real question.
I haven’t played it in some time, but to this day, I can only get to the final room, not beat it.
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by JY on May 17, 2011 1:57 PM PDT up reply actions
Or the NES TMNT game
F U Underwater level.
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Once you get out of that level, the rest is not so hard.
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by JY on May 17, 2011 2:01 PM PDT up reply actions
I've watched speed runs
that game can fuck off.
I think the one game I had as a kid that I never had any hope of beating was Fester’s Quest.
Although A Boy and His Blob was a close second.
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I don't even know how you're supposed to play A Boy and His Blob.
The Addams Family NES game was supposed to be way way harder than even Fester’s Quest.
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by JY on May 17, 2011 2:07 PM PDT up reply actions
You make your way through the sewers
collecting treasures and jelly beans and then eventually come back to the surface. You use the treasure you bought to stock up on vitamins, then use a root beer jelly bean to rocket to Blobonia.
Then you dodge some really impossibly hard shit and fight the evil king with the vitablaster.
I played it on emulator to the end once but it bugged out and I couldn’t finish the boss.
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I don't think I ever played A Boy and his Blob past age 8 or so
When I played it back then, I just fucked around and tried to find the coolest jelly beans I could without actually knowing what to do.
I’ve been curious about the Wii remake, though.
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The remake is a lot of fun.
They updated the gameplay a bit to (I imagine) attract the newer generation of tween gamers. While it lacks the difficulty of the original, it’s still pretty tricky.
Oh Christ, Fester's quest was goddamned impossible
Love that game
by tootthekazoo on May 18, 2011 4:30 PM PDT up reply actions
Haha I didnt know he covered this game
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That was perfect
I remember having the exact same reaction to the game as a kid, minus the swearing
by tootthekazoo on May 19, 2011 12:01 PM PDT up reply actions
That is exactly where I am. I have gotten to the final room, but not beaten it.
Even with the Game Genie infinite lives code, it’s freaking hard.
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What was his name... Jacquio? Pacquio? Something like that.
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
Jacquio.
But that’s the picture of the demon that was in the background that came to life when Jacquio bit it. Jacquio was the flying fireball guy that came after you beat the masked samurai.
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Oh, that's right.
God what a hard game.
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FUCKING BIRDS
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by JY on May 18, 2011 10:18 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
That level had no other purpose than to send kids to the loony bin.
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GOD DON'T GET ME STARTED
Who's gonna save the world? Who's gonna save the day? From Ahab crabs who steal and eerie eels with evil rays?
The only way I've beaten any of these games is using save states on an emulator.
Great games though. This is the first game I think of when difficult games are mentioned.
Something about it just clicks for me. If I was a super geek, maybe I'd put a speed run of it on Youtube.
My favorite part is haphazardly charging up to the boss on the 1st level, shooting fast enough that the boss explodes before his first bullet can touch me.
Man, if I knew I could do that when I was a kid I would’ve felt like the most badass 8 year old in the world.
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Sounds like how I played RE4.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
And one particular run of RE3, where I decided to fight the Nemmy a lot but never save.
It was a lot of dodging accompanied by Three Stooges sound effects while I fired the gun a lot.
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Fuck yeah I have.
Fine game that was.
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by JY on May 17, 2011 5:55 PM PDT up reply actions
I still get stuck at level 17 or 18 and end up throwing the damn controllers.
That game was impossible when I was a kid. It still may be now.
There are only sixteen levels?
I seemed to have an easier time of it as a kid. These days I end up wasting a bunch of lives in the Dark Ruins level because I get to into the exploration.
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by JY on May 17, 2011 6:09 PM PDT up reply actions
The final boss was stupid easy compared to the rest of the game, so probably fifteen.
Dark Ruins was 13!
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by JY on May 17, 2011 7:14 PM PDT up reply actions
Indeed
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The best story of any fighting character
A wandering, useless hobo who does nothing but beat people’s asses.
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
Fighting games have stories?
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
Other fighters didn't have similar goals?
Ryu only has one goal in life: to perfect his skills and become the ultimate martial artist.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 16, 2011 4:07 PM PDT up reply actions
Ken just wanted to party and kick it with his girl.
by sanford_and_son on May 16, 2011 4:16 PM PDT up reply actions
GOD YOU GUYS
ELIZA
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by HititHere on May 16, 2011 4:40 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Whose sister is Guile's wife
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Dan is totally gay.
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by HititHere on May 16, 2011 4:57 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Sure they do
“Chun-Li’s backstory centers on her quest to avenge the death of her father…”
“Guile’s backstory centers on his quest to avenge the death of Charlie…”
“Balrog’s backstory centers on his quest to become a really badass rich dude who parties like Charlie Sheen in Vegas”
Ryu’s backstory centers on his quest to become a useless hobo who beats people’s asses.
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
But is there goal not also to perfect their skills and be the best martial artist?
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 16, 2011 4:25 PM PDT up reply actions
No, I think they just want to beat M Bison up
Or score some coke and hookers, as the case may be.
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
Added link. IGN's top 25 Street Fighter characters:
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 16, 2011 4:57 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I don't even know which comment to rec for 2011 LLemmie bookmarking purposes
So I’m just putting one here at random
Brandon McCarthy knows about FIP
@spacemnkymafia @luckiexstar I know what FIP is. I also know how to be creepy. See?
Could he be more awesome?
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Fun word oddities
What are some of your favorite word oddities?
How about these anagrams:
Astronomer – Moon starer
Desperation – A rope ends it
The Eyes – They See
The morse code – Here come dots
Dormitory – Dirty Room
Election Results – Lies, lets recount
Snooze alarms – Alas, no more Z’s
A decimal point – Im a dot in place
Eleven plus two – Twelve plus one
Mother in law – Woman Hitler
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Wow, the section on "Typewriters" is blowing my mind.
I used to be obsessed with words in correlation with how you typed those words out.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 16, 2011 5:00 PM PDT up reply actions
What a good opportunity to break out the history books!
Lee has 5 bb’s through 4 innings.
This season he has 7 bb’s in 52.1 innings.
Last season he had 18 walks in 212.1 innings.
His season high this year is 2 walks.
He didn’t give up his 5th walk until May 1st.
Last season he gave up his 5th walk in his 13th start (4th of July)
His season high last year was 3 walks (happened once) 2 walks happened 3 times.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 16, 2011 5:37 PM PDT up reply actions
It pales in comparison to Jose Bautista's 8 in his last 10.
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by perfectstrat on May 16, 2011 7:28 PM PDT up reply actions
And stopped swinging they did.
I’m having a hard time finding the exact number of swings. In May however, he threw 56 pitches and 14 were strikes. He had an xFIP of 96.45.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 16, 2011 6:32 PM PDT up reply actions
Self defense?
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
"I live alone, and rarely have visitors"
Another LifeAlert ad. In this one she mentions worrying that her children and grandchildren would have to go on without her.
What they never visit, they never call?
Any of you guys ever been to a WWE match?
Is it fun?
Against all common sense, I’m going to the Key Arena WWE event at Key Arena next weekend. I know absolutely nothing about wrestling. I think I watched it for about a week in 1985, when Rowdy Roddy Piper feuded with Hulk Hogan. Mr. RC likes watching it on tv sometimes, so we’re going.
I think it will be hilariously fun. Pay Per View wrestling! John Cena and “The Miz” (whoever they are)! Jumbotrons! I’m pretty sure I have a Warrant muscle shirt somewhere I can wear.
The Miz got his start on the Real World or Road Rules, I cant remember.
That’s all I got.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 16, 2011 9:29 PM PDT up reply actions
Unless we're talking about 90s wrestling, because I was obsessed for about 5 years as a kid.
I recently looked up wrestlers that has passed away, and wow, those guys hit themselves which so much abuse and drugs… some of my favorites were already gone. (Bam Bam Bigelow and Yokozuna for instance)
But I haven’t followed anything since I was 14.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 16, 2011 9:30 PM PDT up reply actions
That's part of why The Wrestler was so sad.
I know it’s “fake” but they still get the snot beat out of their bodies.
The Miz is the single least creative wrestler name of all time
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I just looked at his Wiki, apparently he's just a reality TV slut.
I pretty much hated wrestling to begin with, but it really irks me that any trashy reality TV “actor” can strike it big in a major industry.
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That episode was pretty good
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We used to watch Rowdy all the time on Portland Wrestling before his WWE days!
I bet it’s a hoot if you just people watch and enjoy the sillyness. Also, what was that pretty good sci fi film Rowdy was in years ago-with the sunglasses that let you see the aliens?
Some buddies and I saw Raw at the Key Arena about 10 years ago and aside from the place being sweltering and smelly
it was alot of fun to watch. Of course, this was back when wrestling was still good, so I don’t know how the live experience would be nowadays since the product is complete crap.
If you like Hogan, Cena is basically the modern day Hogan, in that he doesn’t have any real wrestling ability, no sells everything, and is superman in the ring.
RIP Dave Niehaus.
I went to Monday Night Raw at Key Arena when I was 13.
It was rad.
by Aaron Campeau on May 17, 2011 7:43 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I didn't know Patton Oswalt was a wrestler.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 17, 2011 11:22 AM PDT up reply actions
Go
Get really into it ,Yell, Scream, Cheer, Booo and you’ll have a blast
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Speaking of films, anyone seen Of Gods and Men yet?
Just saw a preview for it on a French animated film I rented. Looks good, and the Allegretto from Beethoven’s symphony No. 7 gave me playing on the preview gave me chills.
Taking on the social awkwardness theme...
what should I do about my roommate? Our relationship has become one of avoidance basically. We do not speak, mainly because speaking to him is like pulling teeth and I don’t want to get into nitpicky conversations over the smallest misuse of words or misspeaking. I can handle not talking to him but in the last few months the two things that have gotten to me have been his extremely loud typing and the blinds always being closed, like even when it’s actually sunny. So much so that the first thing he does when he walks into the room is shut the blinds. I haven’t said anything because these are so minor of things that I don’t want to look like an ass. Is it best to just stay the course for the remaining four weeks or so I have of this situation and then be happy with never talking to him again? Or should I say something to keep my sanity intact? I realize that this relationship isn’t exactly healthy but I don’t want to start a pointless argument after waiting so long to say something.
To make this somewhat less LLLJ, what is the peak moment of social awkwardness for you? Or what is the most toxic/awlward roommate relationship you have had?
I just got out of a toxic/awkward roommate situation 3 weeks ago when the girlfriend and I got a place together.
I’ve known the guy since I was little, as he was a friend of the family. We got a place together for the common financial reason of not having to pay full bills about 5 years ago. And it worked fine for a while, but it got to the point to where we couldn’t stand to be around each other. And it got even worse when he lost his job in October, and made zero effort to get another one(still hasn’t). And the awkwardness came because I have/had a serious girlfriend and he never really had any women over ever.
The roommate situation is a tricky one. If my instance, the overall goal was achieved because I am in a pretty good financial situation right now as a result, but on the other hand it’s kinda crippled a friendship I’ve had for years.
RIP Dave Niehaus.
Seems that is you only have 4 weeks, you might as well not say anything.
If you won’t have anything to do with him after the enforced roomatery, you could say something just before you leave, if you really want to clear the air.
—your Passive Aggressive Armchair Analyst.
Situations like this can affect my personality, frequently I'll get overly critical.
So basically I’m bitchy and it’s not limited to the environment that’s causing it. Logging off for a day or two usually fixes the problem.
I had a roommate that was a drug dealer
that kind of sucked
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A friend of mine had a roommate that poo'd in a garbage can in his room because their toilet was broken.
Wait, what are we talking about here?
Sorry, I wasn't listening. I'm too busy filling up my blow-up doll with Chinese food.
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by Faux on May 17, 2011 11:11 AM PDT up reply actions 4 recs
Well. At least he tried.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 17, 2011 7:08 PM PDT up reply actions
Uhhh, wut?
"I can't recommend highly enough going back and watching old clips of Jose Lopez." -Jeff Sullivan
I have always heard that about Olbermann
I used to love watching Patrick and Olbermann – it was clear they knew a shit-ton about sports but it was also clear they took it much less seriously than most people, including their audience.
Maybe it's just because I sort of grew up watching Sportscenter, but I still love zoning out to it.
Obviously it’s not to be watched for actual sports news/analysis, but I am easily entertained by top ten best plays, witty banter and Barry Melrose’s hair.
by sanford_and_son on May 17, 2011 8:17 AM PDT up reply actions
And wow, that was a pretty great read.
by sanford_and_son on May 17, 2011 8:36 AM PDT up reply actions
That was really interesting stuff
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From my experience as a broadcast production major, on-air television personalities are people with big egos.
You have to have a big ego to think you’re good enough to deliver news to people on television. There’s nothing humble about it. That’s why I got my degree behind the cameras.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 17, 2011 9:56 AM PDT up reply actions
Ichiro bobblehead arrived today, is awesome.
Thanks, harkening!
by Eyeball Kid on May 17, 2011 8:49 AM PDT reply actions 2 recs
AAAAAAAAA++++++++++++++++ SELLER WOULD BUY AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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by Faux on May 17, 2011 8:55 AM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
I was going to e-mail you at the end of the week to check if you got it.
It said 6-10 business days. Glad to see it came through!
Yeah, I saw the ones from previous years, but this one seemed pretty well made.
...and now I'm here
So if you were a child of the 90s like me
you may have watched the X-Men animated series every Saturday.
by BrianL on May 17, 2011 9:08 AM PDT reply actions 2 recs
The theme song to that show gets me so fucking amped.
Like I just chugged a Dew while snowboarding in front of an avalanche.
X-Men Animated series = Saturdays of my youth
by sanford_and_son on May 17, 2011 9:14 AM PDT up reply actions
My buddy is a drummer and I'm a guitar player...
And we play the theme song to the X-Men animated series to open up our jam sessions, pretty much every time.
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
Speaking of which, has anybody watched the animated Astonishing X-Men series?
I was a big fan of the Whedon comics, and am wondering how that translates to an animated show.
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by Phil Hatzenbuehler on May 17, 2011 9:18 AM PDT up reply actions
They made it a "motion comic," so it's basically Cassaday's art plus a tiny bit of animation.
I saw the first part, and it was okay, but it was basically like watching a comic book.
How old were you in 1992? 4?
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Yes, but that series got a ton of Saturday replay through 1998 or so.
Same with the Spiderman animated series.
Understood, it just hit me how old I am.
But did you realize that Shrek came out ten years ago?
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And still an absolute fox.
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Well now that explains it all.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 17, 2011 9:58 AM PDT up reply actions 5 recs
There were 5 seasons of that show?
Holy shit.
I should go across the street and thank everyone at Marvel personally.
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I loved that show, but it drove me crazy because my favorite X-Men were Nightcrawler, Colossus, and Shadowcat.
The first two only got one episode each and I don’t think Kitty Pryde ever showed up at all!
Who's gonna save the world? Who's gonna save the day? From Ahab crabs who steal and eerie eels with evil rays?
I was disappointed that my favorite was Gambit and he never got any love in the movies.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 17, 2011 11:11 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
His power was retarded though.
If they had made him powerful enough to blow up something besides cards he would have been awesome.
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He could energize any object, cards were just his calling card and he could charge them quicker because they were so small. (boom, puns, yeah)
His power was awesome! :(
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 17, 2011 11:19 AM PDT up reply actions
He was way better than Beast.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 17, 2011 11:19 AM PDT up reply actions
He could, but he was just really good with throwing cards.
Tim Riggins from Friday Night Lights played Gambit in the Wolverine movie that I never bothered to watch. There’s tons of rumors that he’ll come back in a new X-Men movie (just like Ryan Reynolds is supposed to make a Deadpool movie).
Unrelated: the new X-Men movie looks neat, or at least the advertising, with character trailers, does.
He was just meh in Wolverine, and how dare they subject him to just a Wolverine movie!
I was just really hoping to see him at least get a role in the third movie and be played by someone like Sawyer from Lost.
But you can’t please all the people all the time. Lots of people hated Gambit.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 17, 2011 11:21 AM PDT up reply actions
I got annoyed at how friggin long it took to resolve his traitor back story and issues with Rogue.
I have no idea what he’s been doing for the past 5 years.
A Deadpool movie makes me hopeful that someday a Transmet movie will come out.
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Wikipedia said Nightcrawler and Colossus both appeared in two episodes.
Kitty had Pryde of the X-Men, with Aussie Wolverine. I remember it being neat. It also was the basis for that sweet X-Men arcade.
I also really enjoyed X-Men Evolution, which did a good job bringing in lots of characters and making the storyline understandable (at least t the beginning). I didn’t get into the Wolverine and the X-Men show, though the series plot sounded neat.
On another animated note: I just started watching The Avengers, which is a pretty decent show. It smartly gives individual characters their own introduction episodes, since the team concept of the Avengers makes less sense than The X-Men.
The gold standard for superhero adaptation, in any form, is the Justice League Unlimited series.
by yuniform on May 17, 2011 11:15 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
"The gold standard for superhero adaptation, in any form, is the Justice League Unlimited series."
Batman: The Animated Series?
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
I wonder if I'm biased merely because I look on Justice League shows as a serious version of Super Friends.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
"Nobody knows what it's like.... to be the Batman..."
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on May 17, 2011 5:59 PM PDT up reply actions
There was the episode where the Joker played Amazing Grace on the kazoo at Batman's funeral in BTAS
Who's gonna save the world? Who's gonna save the day? From Ahab crabs who steal and eerie eels with evil rays?
The Joker, VOICED BY MARK HAMILL
That fact is never going to get old for me.
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by JY on May 17, 2011 9:00 PM PDT up reply actions
YOU KILLED CAPTAIN CLOWN!
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It's in a league all it's own, IMO.
Pure awesome.
by sanford_and_son on May 17, 2011 1:36 PM PDT up reply actions
I disagree. I was going to put "in my opinion" in that sentence, but it seemed needlessly wordy.
I find TAS to be a bit slow. I really enjoy the fun and expansiveness of JLU, while TAS feels more like a chore. Also, TAS did a lot in terms of creating/reshaping characters (Mr. Freeze, Harley Quinn, Montoya & Bullock) while JLU was surprisingly faithful to its characters, which makes it a better adaptation, I think.
Batman Beyond was one of those shows, that when it first came out I immediately dismissed it and never gave it a chance
Simply based on the fact that on the surface they appeared to be marketing Batman TAS to the “teenage crowd” (despite being a teenager myself when it came out). Years later when I actually sat down and watched it, I was amazed by how good it was.
RIP Dave Niehaus.
Usually these days I'd be suspicious of direct-for-TV stuff, but just about everything in it was handled well and they did their own thing as much as they worked with what was already there.
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by JY on May 18, 2011 7:18 AM PDT up reply actions
Did anybody else collect X-Men cards?
Though I have more baseball cards than anything else, I still do have a lot of X-Men cards and made a very expensive purchase (for my age at the time) to get the full set of… cards that I can’t find online or remember the exact name of. All I know is that the art was really high quality and the first card in the set was The Blob. I can find a few of the cards on a google image search but can’t find the name of the set.
I do have a crapload of these too, if not the whole set.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 17, 2011 11:34 AM PDT up reply actions
I collected a lot of
Fleer Ultras. I remember Marvel Masterworks being a big series, but it wasn’t X-Men centric. I’m so glad I never got into CCGs.
Thank you. It was actually Marvel Masterpieces. Not just X-men.
I’ll have to look at the set when I get home. I can’t tell if its 1996 or not, it appears the 1996 version is worth some money now.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 17, 2011 11:53 AM PDT up reply actions
Its the first set. 1992. By Joe Jusko.
Not as expensive as the 1996 set, but I wouldn’t have sold it anyway.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 17, 2011 12:00 PM PDT up reply actions
Here is the full set.
Link
Its always interesting to see another artists take on a specific character.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 17, 2011 12:08 PM PDT up reply actions
I remember those.
I nearly had all of them, but then I decided the cards weren’t really for me after hearing that the higher end collectors wouldn’t even physically handle them, which seemed bizarre.
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Yeah I did
I probably have a few pages of them back home somewhere.
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
Not sure about the first set you are talking about, but I also have a ton of the X-Men series II cards in your link.
I’ve got almost the full set. My favorites were the 2 and 3 card combos that formed scenes and pictures…and of course, the hologram cards.
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
Oh, man, best thing to collect as a kid.
X-men series 2 baby! I was obsessed.
And Marvel Masterpieces were legitimately nice cards with iconic artwork. Loved ’em.
by sanford_and_son on May 17, 2011 12:18 PM PDT up reply actions
I collected a CCG called Overpower for a while
It was a highly underrated game.
Worst place for a typo ever. Not to be irreverent, but RIP Harmon Killibrew.
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
I'll kill a brew in his honor.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 17, 2011 9:34 AM PDT up reply actions
Unless there's a joke I'm missing you had it right the first time.
by Mariner John on May 17, 2011 9:43 AM PDT up reply actions
No joke, I just panicked because CNN has it spelled "killibrew" in the headline so I second-guessed myself.
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I want to upgrade sound quality stock in my car
I drive a kia spectra5 that has component speakers in the front. What is the best cost effective way to upgrade the sound? I don’t want to be that guy at a red light with his bass so loud it shakes near by cars, but I want some. Should I get a subwoofer and amp or upgrade the speakers first? I also use the stock head unit, should I upgrade that or does it not really affect sound quality
If you're not looking for exhaust-shaking sound, an amp and speakers will probably work best, no sub needed (unless that's your thing).
But you could probably get away with a mid-range or better head unit and new speakers, and that would probably be easier to install, assuming your car doesn’t have 22GA speaker wire out to your speakers.
Keep in mind that if you get an amp, you’ll need to rerun all your speaker wire (which I usually recommend doing anyways, especially if they’re crappy wires), where you might be able to save that hassle with a decently powered head unit.
In general, I recommend getting rid of the stock speakers first, followed by the head unit or procuring an amp, with the sub and amp as a last resort if you just can’t get the lows you want.
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Nah. I'm just like everyone else, only with more free time and less ability to sit still.
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Ever think it would be interesting to have a website to post up projects, share pics, give advice?
Most of the do it yourself blogs I’ve found are shit, and have this unwieldy message format that drives me nuts. With the gigantic avatar pics/gifs and massive personal messages that are posted to every comment. Yuck.
I've thought about it, and with the new Drupal learning that I'm putting myself through I might give it a shot.
That could actually be a good content vehicle to hop on and actually figure out functionality instead of just dicking around in pre-made sites.
Of course I would actually have to take pictures and notes while I’m doing things, I suppose. You’re bad for me, Kermit, I already have enough to do without giving myself new ideas to turn into projects.
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Give me a name for it.
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On Scruffy's behalf, he meant to say "Don't chuck it - fix it yourself"
I still like the first one better
I will second this post and add that if you want some really good sound
you should find a head unit + amp and make sure that the RCA output is around 4 volts. Most RCA outputs in head units are garbage and they typically don’t like to offer up those specs when you are looking for one.
Do some research and find a 4V pre-out and a good 2/4 channel amp to power the front/rear speakers and you will sound great. A small sub wouldn’t hurt either and if you go that route, you can find a 3/5 channel amp and power everything with the one amp.
So the networks are having their upfronts for the media, revealing next fall's shows.
I watched trailers this morning for
New Girl, I hate My Teenage Daughter, and Are you there Vodka, its me Chelsea
All 3 of them are downright awful. Then again I don’t watch many sitcoms anyhow.
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
There is not one thing on any of those lists that is even mildly interesting
and most of it is apologize-for-wasting-talent sounding awful.
Up All Night looks great (especially the swearing in front of babies bit).
I’ll watch Awake, just to see it crash and burn like Lone Star did. (Bring it back, Fox. Or don’t, that’s fine, too.)
Going off the subthread of X-Men cards and card games above, I just remembered the CCG I played for a while in middle school called Jihad.
This was 1995 or so. I have a feeling that game wouldn’t go over so well now.
In fact, I don’t even want to Google anything about it because work might start asking me questions.
Man, I bet the creators of that card game were pissed about 9/11. Fucked their whole world up.
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
There were several other CCGs at the time that weren't that bad either
They just had to compete with Magic the Gathering, and that is what killed them. IMO of course
Holy crap, Ackley has his batting average up to .270?
Wasn’t it a couple days ago he was sitting at .200?
"I can't recommend highly enough going back and watching old clips of Jose Lopez." -Jeff Sullivan
He went 3 for 5 today so its even higher now.
He has reached safely in 11 of his last 16 PA’s.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 17, 2011 12:58 PM PDT up reply actions
April is the cruelest month.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
Ichiro/Ackley Aprils are going to be brutal, aren't they?
"I can't recommend highly enough going back and watching old clips of Jose Lopez." -Jeff Sullivan
I wonder how many of those we will actually see.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 17, 2011 1:39 PM PDT up reply actions
Guti is supposed to be activated tomorrow.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 17, 2011 1:04 PM PDT up reply actions
According to Curto.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 17, 2011 1:04 PM PDT up reply actions
He's in Seattle today to determine if he can come back tomorrow.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 17, 2011 1:16 PM PDT up reply actions
Whaaaaaa?
Just in time for his fly swatter! It’s a PR/promo dream come true!
by sanford_and_son on May 17, 2011 1:53 PM PDT up reply actions
And Ackley may be coming with him
https://twitter.com/#!/d_a_cameron/status/70587473243287552
by Eyebrows on May 17, 2011 1:41 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
I just saw that!!! HOLY CRAPOLY!
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 17, 2011 1:43 PM PDT up reply actions
8====================================================D
by Scruffy Lefty on May 17, 2011 1:49 PM PDT up reply actions 8 recs
Why the long face?
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Stupid Twitter being blocked at work. =(
But that’s exciting!
"I can't recommend highly enough going back and watching old clips of Jose Lopez." -Jeff Sullivan
Oh, wow. It works.
"I can't recommend highly enough going back and watching old clips of Jose Lopez." -Jeff Sullivan
Holy dumb fuck.
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by Phil Hatzenbuehler on May 17, 2011 1:51 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Has anybody played L.A. Noire yet?
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by Phil Hatzenbuehler on May 17, 2011 1:56 PM PDT reply actions
Not me, I'm waiting to hear more.
After GTA4, I’m super wary about Rockstar sandbox games.
Did nothing for me
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Well keep pilling driving that shark then.
by Scruffy Lefty on May 17, 2011 2:00 PM PDT up reply actions
Mike Haggar is a boss
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by bluemax on May 17, 2011 2:02 PM PDT up reply actions 3 recs
Man, you guys drive a hard bargain.
I liked GTA IV, and LOVED RDR.
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by Phil Hatzenbuehler on May 17, 2011 2:00 PM PDT up reply actions
I preferred Lost and Damned to vanilla GTA
but RDR I just could not get excited for. I liked the set up, but I think I am kind of done with Rockstar’s open world design philosophy.
LA Noire seems to have more in common with old Sierra Adventure games like Police Quest than GTA.
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Something in common with Sierra games?
This I can buy into.
Although after reading Tom Chick's initial impressions
I’m somewhat less excited. Apparently it has a lot of those R* plot touches I didn’t like about RDR.
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King's Quest, Space Quest, Leisure Suit Larry.
Those three games pretty much define my childhood. Love point and clicks.
I can't bring myself to get rid of RDR
And I’ve purchased GTA IV 3 times after reselling it twice. The most recent purchase was an Amazon Gold Box deal, where I got the game, the art book (meh), and a lock box for just $14.95. Considering that I originally bought the Limited Edition to get the same lock box (which I use heavily) and the duffel bag (which I use even more heavily), I’d consider myself a happy customer. Games like that are good to keep on the shelf because they fill time nicely
by tootthekazoo on May 18, 2011 4:53 PM PDT up reply actions
Thankfully its not developed by R*
only published. If it was developed by them I would be passing.
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Really? I wasn't aware of that.
Given that it’s still a sandboxy game, I’m going to wait to hear more, but odds of purchase just increased now that I know that.
It's done by Team Bondi
This is their first title as far as I know, but their creative director was the lead on The Getaway which was a decent open world game on PS2.
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
It's not too sandboxy, based on what I have seen so far
I mean, it has a huge map but you can play the game in a very structured manner, which is not something that can be said for games like GTA IV and RDR
by tootthekazoo on May 18, 2011 4:55 PM PDT up reply actions
Honestly after 2.5 hours of play
the open world aspect is a total meaningless waste for this game. Especially since it has GTAs shitty driving physics and you’re penalized for hitting anything, which isn’t easy to avoid unless you drive like a grandma.
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Yeah I found myself just letting my partner drive everywhere.
I kinda want to just beat it really quick and try and sell it off to someone else before the hype goes away. It has been fun and all, but I can’t see myself getting any replay value out if it
I kinda want to see how it goes differently if you're successful with everything.
I love this game so far, besides the dumb driving problems.
by Mariner John on May 19, 2011 11:52 AM PDT up reply actions
It would have to at least play out a bit differently
Without spoilers, there’s been a couple of instances in cases already where I can see that the method of solving the case would be completely different if I had done something in a different way. I’ll probably play it again at least once, just to try and see how things go depending on how you play it
by tootthekazoo on May 19, 2011 12:05 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, it doesn't serve much of a purpose in the early stages (I'm about 3 hours in)
I know the game has a free-roam mode where you can respond to crimes but I haven’t tried that yet. The driving physics do suck, but I love games where I can drive old classic cars (see also: Mafia).
Obviously the major appeal to the game is solving the crimes, and I am loving that aspect so far. Finding clues, interviewing witnesses/suspects, and trying to put it all together is great fun. Add in the character animation and facial-mapping tech and it is absolutely a good game in my book
by tootthekazoo on May 19, 2011 12:09 PM PDT up reply actions
I did 7 of the 40 street crimes
they all ended with someone dying.
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Yeah, I'm still wondering if there is a way to apprehend a suspect when they take a hostage
Also, the game said that if I’m running and near a guy I can tackle him but I’ve yet to be able to get that to work. I think I have arrested 2 of the 6 or so street crimes I’ve done
by tootthekazoo on May 19, 2011 3:05 PM PDT up reply actions
I know it just pisses me off
Have either of you done the “Cosmic Rays” one? I was right on the guy while chasing him but it wouldn’t let me tackle, no matter how much I hit the “A” button. Drove me insane
by tootthekazoo on May 19, 2011 3:10 PM PDT up reply actions
Haven't done that one yet
But I think the street crime is there to inject some action into the game, so they’re probably not meant to have non-violent resolutions.
Yeah, that's my guess
Just seems strange that if the overall emphasis of the game is the “sleuth” aspect of being a cop, then allow players to play the whole game that way instead of forcing them into action for the sake of probably selling a few additional copies of the game
by tootthekazoo on May 19, 2011 3:19 PM PDT up reply actions
I don't mind it myself
It helps break up the investigation segments, and you can easily just ignore street crime if you want to.
I'm something of a completionist, so I can't just ignore it
And I don’t mind the action so much as the fact that the street crimes seem to only be solvable in one way, so there’s no feeling that you’re in control. But, this is a minor complaint in my opinion, I’m still loving the game so far
by tootthekazoo on May 19, 2011 3:25 PM PDT up reply actions
The action elements feel really tacked on
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I did that one
The guy jumped off a gas station
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Same
I was in position to be able to tackle him at least twice and it wouldn’t let me, and then when he got to the last pipe-climb I was right with him and he kicked me in the face as I came up after him. Then, he jumped and died
by tootthekazoo on May 19, 2011 5:21 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah I wasn't expecting him to kick me off the pipe at all
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My Amazon release date delivery has failed
Apparently something happened in transit yesterday.
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Buy it. Buy it NOW.
It is not a sandbox game; it is very very story driven. It’s like Heavy Rain with actual gameplay added.
So this is a bit LLLJ
But I won a free copy of the 360 version of this game tonight.
I had my radio on my normal college radio station and when I was going to the grocery store they were playing some nice jazzy soundtrack sounding stuff. When I get back out they’re talking about the music and I realize that it’s the soundtrack to LA Noire, the guest on the show was the composer for LA Noire and RDR.
At the end of the show they give away a copy of the game to the fourth caller, which just so happened to be me. This is the first time I’ve ever called a radio show and I actually won!
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That's pretty sweet. I've never won anything on a radio show either.
I am not trying to one-up you, and its not even my story, but it reminds me of a pretty awesome story of a guy I know who got into his car and heard “Call to win” He didn’t know what they were giving away. He called. He won. He was soon on Wheel of Fortune.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 18, 2011 8:41 AM PDT up reply actions
I love youtubing game shows by the way.
The one on Wheel of Fortune about the girl who gets “I have a good feeling about this” is classic. (and sketchy)
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 18, 2011 2:18 PM PDT up reply actions
This is an awesome story. I love that Drew Carey's response, after being informed they thought the game was rigged by the ex-producer, was
“Fuck, they just fucking fucked us over!”
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
I find it pretty interesting so far
Basically just got through the introduction levels of the game and I think it might have some potential. It also has some slit-my-wrists potential too because I have a feeling the interrogation room parts are going to frustrate the hell out of me.
But so far so good. I’ll have more info tomorrow
I put 2 hours into it last night
It is a lot of fun and the facial animations border on incredible. I was getting excited when I could tell people were fibbing to me based on how they broke eye contact. At least twice I said something along the lines of “HA! Got you, fucker!”
That said, I’m thinking of restarting the game because I fucked up a LOT of interrogations/interviews while trying to figure out the system. Selecting “Lie” is not what it seems at first.
by tootthekazoo on May 18, 2011 4:51 PM PDT up reply actions
I fucked up the very first one even though they were basically telling me what to pick.
by Mariner John on May 19, 2011 12:59 AM PDT up reply actions
When you interview that guy at the station?
Or the guy with the “missing” gun from early on? I fucked both up, but I’m running better than 75% at this point, and even caught a couple of people in lies last night by presenting the proper evidence, which made me way more excited than I should have been
by tootthekazoo on May 19, 2011 12:10 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh, the first detective case
Yeah, I pissed off that girl so much that she kicked me out of the store
by tootthekazoo on May 19, 2011 12:43 PM PDT up reply actions
Since we were talking so much about Bautista the other day
and I’ve been wondering, what constitutes a fair trade value for Jose Bautista?
Assume you’re a playoff contender. What sort of hypothetical package would you give up for Bautista right now?
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and I mean this in real world baseball, not imaginary baseball
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So, not "all the Yankees prospects except Montero/Bettances/Banuelos?"
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by JY on May 17, 2011 2:25 PM PDT up reply actions
Assume you're the Blue Jays.
Why would you give up Jose Bautista right now? You’re right behind a struggling Yankees team, you have at least a legitimate shot at meaningful games deep into the season. Bautista’s a significant part of that – why get rid of him right now?
And moreso, a struggling Yankees team that doesn't look like it's going to get too much better,
a Boston team that hasn’t looked so hot either, and a Tampa team that is probably about as good as they’re going to get.
This is really the ALEast’s weakest year in quite a while.
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And because he is on the most favorable contract this side of Evan Longoria?
If he didn’t sign the contract extension he’d definitely be talked about at MLBTR every day. Instead, it makes his price way high.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 17, 2011 2:33 PM PDT up reply actions
Because he's 31, and not guaranteed to repeat this kind of truly insane performance forever
if someone like Dayton Moore offers you Eric Hosmer, Wil Myers and Mike Montgomery, don’t you have to say yes?
by seattlebruin on May 17, 2011 4:46 PM PDT up reply actions
If that ridiculous offer came through the pipeline, absolutely.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 17, 2011 6:07 PM PDT up reply actions
Wladimir Balentien is hitting .386/.485/.916 with 13 homers!
“Why do they always- wait its with the Yakult Swallows?”
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Maybe we should just move to the National League.
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Bedard and Pineda have both hit homers in pitchers batting practice. Brandon League’s swing is well…. not good
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Jamey Wright just crushed one to left for a homer
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Jason Vargas easily has the best swing of any of the pitchers. But he was a pretty good DH at Long Beach State.
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And Pineda just hit one out to dead center. Is there anything he can’t do?
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by JY on May 17, 2011 3:48 PM PDT reply actions 4 recs
I would fuck Scott Spiezio if it meant I could watch Erik Bedard hit a home run
by royalcurve on May 18, 2011 12:17 AM PDT up reply actions 15 recs
He wouldn't be able to get it up
then blame you for it later
by Bearskin Rugburn on May 18, 2011 8:43 AM PDT up reply actions 9 recs
I...I can't rec any course of action that gets Scott Spiezio laid, no matter how hilariously stated.
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by JAH on May 18, 2011 10:59 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I'm about to start reading this really long article on Louie
I just figured I would post a link anyway because I think the first season was one of the best new shows on TV in awhile.
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Yes. You can get animated tattoos.
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
That's not, strictly speaking, a tattoo
That is an implant.
by Bearskin Rugburn on May 18, 2011 8:37 AM PDT up reply actions
I suppose so, but they call it a "tattoo" because apparently it makes it seem slightly less illegal.
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
I thought this was Eyebrows' retirement plan.
Eyebrows – I’m still good for one JackWilsonGnomes animated gif tattoo, by the way. Maybe WilsonGnomes on one arm, BuseyGnomes on the other.
I forget sometimes that baseball players have superhuman reflexes
Here’s a link to a story I read a little while ago on Pujols taking some tests – dude is 2-3 standard deviations above the mean in some cases. Unreal. http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/7535.aspx
by Bearskin Rugburn on May 18, 2011 8:42 AM PDT up reply actions
I hate to be this guy, but we know this is a commercial with Evan Longoria, right?
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 18, 2011 8:43 AM PDT up reply actions
Oh shit really?
I thought it was batting practice. Thanks for being that guy. I’m too credulous for the internet.
by Bearskin Rugburn on May 18, 2011 8:44 AM PDT up reply actions
I'm pretty sure its part of the Longoria/Kenny Mayne commercials ESPN is running.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 18, 2011 8:47 AM PDT up reply actions
Gillette, according to a news show I saw yesterday.
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Notice also that there is no cage around the batter or in front of the pitcher
This is like that video clip that showed a Tacoma Rainiers ball-girl scaling the LF wall to catch a foul. I had about 10 people forward it to me thinking it was real but it just wasn’t possible in any kind of manner
by tootthekazoo on May 18, 2011 5:00 PM PDT up reply actions
Brent Johnson was at the plate for that!
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by JY on May 19, 2011 1:46 PM PDT up reply actions
At least the Pujols article is real.
I think.
by Bearskin Rugburn on May 18, 2011 8:45 AM PDT up reply actions
Yep.
Look at the batter rewind his swing.
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by perfectstrat on May 18, 2011 9:59 AM PDT up reply actions
Just slightly before my time of watching M's baseball on a consistent basis.
Does anybody remember this game and what happened?
Jeff Nelson had an outfield assist.
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Retrosheet has this
RED SOX 8TH: NELSON REPLACED FLEMING (PITCHING); QUINTANA BATTED
FOR PENA; Quintana grounded out (third to first); Fletcher
grounded out (pitcher to first); Hatcher singled to right;
POWELL REPLACED LITTON (PITCHING); NELSON REPLACED NEWFIELD
(PLAYING LF); Greenwell popped to second; 0 R, 1 H, 0 E, 1 LOB.
Mariners 3, Red Sox 2.
But I have no idea why.
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Actually reading it
It sounds like Litton came in at Left Field, then swapped places with Nelson for one batter, then they swapped back and Newfield had to come out of the game and Felder took over in LF.
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
So thinking about it, you could DH for another position if you felt like bending the rules to their logical conclusion.
Say you wanted to DH for your 2B instead of your pitcher:
Put your pitcher in the Lineup card as the “2B”, your second baseman in as “Pitcher”, and switch them when you get out to the field.
Not that anyone would actually do this, but we’re getting closer to a moon made of cheese.
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Or I'm an idiot, nevermind.
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And in the 9th
RED SOX 9TH: FELDER REPLACED O’BRIEN (PLAYING LF); NELSON
CHANGED POSITIONS (PITCHING); Dawson lined to center; Melvin
struck out; RILES BATTED FOR ZUPCIC; Riles reached on an error
by T. Martinez [Riles to first]; HAMPTON REPLACED NELSON
(PITCHING); Cooper flied to left; 0 R, 0 H, 1 E, 1 LOB.
Mariners 3, Red Sox 2.
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So they could do a pitching change with Nelson and then be able to bring back Nelson in the 9th as a pitcher again?
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 18, 2011 9:49 AM PDT up reply actions
I guess so
I thought you could only do that in Little League but it looks like they managed it in this game.
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I know that I've seen both LaRussa and Pinella do it multiple times, for both AL and NL teams.
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It actually sounds like not a bad idea. Surprised it doesn't happen more often.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 18, 2011 9:59 AM PDT up reply actions
LaRussa would be the one to do it.
Anyone see how Pujols looked at third the other day?
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by perfectstrat on May 18, 2011 10:02 AM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, the newspapers in Boston the next day were just slamming the Sox manager
as being completely outclassed by Piniella, and pointing to this as an example of why. I’m surprised the M’s didn’t do this more often too – Nelson was made for something like this.
The big reason is that by doing so, you forfeit the DH. So, you have a big advantage in a few PAs, but if your opponent ties the game up (and you’d only do this in a close game), you could go to extras at a disadvantage.
Nelson was pitching, Greg Litton was in LF, Marc Newfield was the DH.
Then they made a double switch – Dennis Powell (a LOOGY) replaced Litton, and Nelson swapped with Newfield. Then they had Nelson play LF for one batter. As Newfield made the last out of the prev. half inning, that means Nelson wouldn’t have to bat for a long time; if they’d just swapped Nelson and Litton, Nelson would be almost assured of getting a plate appearance in the late innings of a 1-run game.
Ha! I was at this game. This was my only visit to Fenway!
Pretty standard – Nelson had huge platoon splits, and so they took him out for 1 batter to bring in a LOOGY to face Mike Greenwell. By sticking Nelson in LF, they could bring him back in to pitch to the righties after Greenwell. So they did.
Capitol Hill Block Party lineup is out!
Mostly the same old boring dad-rock, but a few highlights.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/matsononmusic/2015084664_capitol_hill_block_party_2011.html
TRY HARDER PEOPLE
And to clear up an inevitable confusion: “The Rolling Stones” is a Seattle Rolling Stones cover band featuring members of Truckasauras, Flexions, Blood Brothers and Whalebones.
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by JY on May 18, 2011 10:06 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Yeah, that seems decent to me.
I think I like boring dad-rock more than you, but there’s a half decent amount of variation.
Fucked Up, EITS, Battles, then the Posies. That’s not bad.
Has anyone heard He Whose Ox is Gored? Are they good?
I went to my first Lacrosse game yesterday for work
I was really surprised how physical it was. People can get decked really hard. What surprised you your first time watching a sport?
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Women's Water Polo is brutal
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I hear that there is a lot of underwater shennanigans in water polo of the violent nature.
Who's gonna save the world? Who's gonna save the day? From Ahab crabs who steal and eerie eels with evil rays?
The above water stuff was pretty crazy
Some girl got her suit ripped. I saw a boob!
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But it was a water polo boob. Now you can't unsee it.
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Yeah :(
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
What's wrong with water polo boobs?
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
Many of the women who play Water Polo
are very very masculine
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It's like aquatic field hockey boob.
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I just got 3 responses to this that made me retch for 3 different reasons
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
And Eyebrows hasn't even chimed in yet!
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Women's rugby, having no notion of the rules of the game.
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Depends on the team you watch.
The teams from Minnesota, Amazons and Valkyries, were both fun to watch skill-wise and pretty pleasing in the guys that like athletic women sense. If you want to learn the rules there’s likely a team near you that can shed some light. It’s a great sport! I think I read you’re in NY. Seattle’s women’s rugby teams used to be rated highly. Men, at least Seattle, are playing in Canada now for theoretically better competition but Old Puget Sound Beach is currently doing well in the Super League and regularly sends players to the national team.
Learn the rules and watch some high level competition. The World Cup is coming up soon and when the game is played right it’s a beautiful thing.
by hairofthedawg on May 18, 2011 10:34 PM PDT up reply actions
Anyone seen this, or heard about it? It got rave reviews from a friend, but I never have time for movies so I want a second opinion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Live_In_Public
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No, but I will now! Sounds awesome.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 18, 2011 10:08 AM PDT up reply actions
It appears to be Nexflix-streamable, for those that have it.
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I really like this quote
And I think that’s an important lesson; the Internet, as wonderful as it is, is not an intimate medium. It’s just not. If you want to keep something intimate and if you want to keep something sacred, you probably shouldn’t post it.
What other methods of communication does this apply to?
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by perfectstrat on May 18, 2011 10:12 AM PDT up reply actions
Text messages or phone communication in general.
If you want it to stay personal, only say it face-to-face.
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by thehemogoblin on May 19, 2011 10:55 PM PDT up reply actions
So that rules out phone sex?
I always thought sexting now replaced phone sex, because people seem to like to message each other more than talk to each other. Here’s a really interesting article I read on a plane about technology and the effect on social interactions. Money quote:
Let’s face it: How often do you opt to visit a friend an hour away now that you can read their status updates on Facebook? Why rush to host a game night when you can play Scrabble with friends using your smartphone? And why dress up and cruise bars for that special someone when you can lounge at home in your pajamas and surf FishInTheSea.com?
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by perfectstrat on May 20, 2011 9:25 AM PDT up reply actions
I hate that attitude
(not yours, perfectstrat, the article’s)
Why rush to host a game night when you can play Scrabble with friends using your smartphone?
Because seeing people is fun? Because interacting with friends in person over an evening is far more preferable than sitting at home alone?
I know people that still host board game nights
So its not something thats going completely out of practice
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That was his point, at least I interpreted it that way.
He’s asking why we instead sit at home and play on our phones instead of going out and having real social interactions.
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by perfectstrat on May 20, 2011 9:45 AM PDT up reply actions
There was a really good article on this a while back where they talked to a young person who had cancer
He got a ton of messages and wall posts on Facebook that said “Sending prayers your way” and “hope you’re doing ok today” and “hang in there man, thinking of you!” but virtually no actual, in-person visitors. Said he felt more alone than ever.
People commonly use Facebook as a replacement for face-to-face contact, which maybe is ok sometimes, but can be really bad when you need actual support.
Then you add in the group mentality, when everyone sees the other people posting their support and everyone assumes someone else is showing up in person while he’s holed up in the hospital or at home…but nobody is.
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
I was looking at it from a journalist's perspective.
On a personal interaction level, it’s way different. I’m totally OK with just using the Internet to communicate with friends, but I do like hanging out with people on a pretty regular basis. I’m a social creature who needs interpersonal interaction to stay sane.
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by thehemogoblin on May 20, 2011 12:39 PM PDT up reply actions
Watched most of this last night before I fell asleep.
Pretty interesting stuff. I was more into the dot-com stuff than the expirement, but it really does seem like this one guy was WAAYY ahead of the curve in terms of internet. Seems like he really missed the boat on Youtube/Skype and really had the chance to do something like that.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 19, 2011 7:49 AM PDT up reply actions
Someone or multiple people at Sony are about to lose their jobs.
PSN passwords compromised. Again.
The password reset page appears to have been exploited.
Yea, shit has hit the fan.
I heard they got a bunch of credit card info in the previous hack as well.
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by perfectstrat on May 18, 2011 10:39 AM PDT up reply actions
It's pretty incredible. What has happened to Sony in the last month, and what is continuing to happen, might be the biggest meltdown I've seen in my lifetime.
This was basically Playstations moment to overtake the Wii, which has hit a huge bump in the road, and they were taken down by potentially 1 person. (Probably more)
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 18, 2011 10:40 AM PDT up reply actions
And I have yet to hear of 1 thing they are doing for American PS3 owners that would really satisfy a month of downtime.
I don’t even know what Qirocity is.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 18, 2011 11:02 AM PDT up reply actions
Streaming service
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Sony is going to have to hire a stadium full of hookers for PAX now.
Who's gonna save the world? Who's gonna save the day? From Ahab crabs who steal and eerie eels with evil rays?
by JAH on May 18, 2011 11:03 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Not so fun Fact
Brandon League has the fourth-worst WPA in the league, and a FIP 20% above league average.
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Fun fact.
Hippo milk is pink.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 18, 2011 11:39 AM PDT up reply actions
Oh hey cool
Entire set of 30 for 30 available on DVD.
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I really like these, but I'm definitely a sucker for sports docs.
Even the not so good ones are very watchable, like the Raiders one. I’ve only seen a handful, but my favorite so far was “Run, Ricky, Run” because Ricky Williams is one weird ass dude.
And “Jordan Rides the Bus” was cool just because I had forgotten that whole MJ playing baseball thing had ever happened and it was neat to get an actual rundown of that. All I remember is coming across a Michael Jordan baseball card for the Chicago White Sox and being like “wut?”
by sanford_and_son on May 18, 2011 1:02 PM PDT up reply actions
I hated Run Ricky Run. I just saw the one on the Kirkland Little League team. I had no idea Taiwan was so good at kids' baseball.
I also liked how podunk they made Seattle and (especially) Kirkland look. Stuff sure was different when Boeing and the port were the only economic engines.
There are no words.
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More like Coor's Fat.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 18, 2011 1:13 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Because he ate them.
Who the hell is that?
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Given the commercials I have been seeing, Larry the Cable Guy?
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Former NFL QB Jared Lorenzen
Now of the Northern Kentucky River Monsters of the UIFL. He’s also the best QB in that league statistically.
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The hefty lefty!
He was in the NFL for a while and looked exactly the same. Bless you, Jared Lorenzen.
He had some of the best nicknames in all of sports:
- Pillsbury Throwboy
- Round Mound of Touchdown
- J-Load
"What shape?"
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by JY on May 18, 2011 2:13 PM PDT up reply actions
"Is that an egg?"
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by perfectstrat on May 18, 2011 2:26 PM PDT up reply actions
Hey there Firefox users!
How are you liking Firefox 4 so far?
Personally, I’m really enjoying it. They’ve only made the add-on feature more accessible, and that was something that really made me giddy in the previous versions. I love the idea of an “app tab” and use it for things like facebook, gmail, and sometimes LL anyway, so why not make it neat?
Varieties of 3.6 also experienced crashes from time to time for me, and I’ve had no such issues so far in 4. What are your thoughts?
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I like 4 pretty well so far
I held off on it until last week, actually, because the RC I was using (based on beta 12 I believe) was RIDICULOUSLY slow and buggy, and it made me gun-shy. But having installed 4 and run it for a week, all those problems are gone and 4 is a pretty solid release. I don’t use the app tabs, because I have disabled favicons (to allow more room on the bookmark tool bar) and without favicons app tabs are pretty hard to use. I love the concept, though.
And yeah, the add-ons are vastly improved and it’s nice to see.
FF4 seems OK so far
but I prefer Chrome still. Some stuff at work doesn’t work with Chrome but does work with FF, so I use FF at work and Chrome at home.
First browser to not support the Mac G-5 processor, so I'm not happy
This is how the bastards force you to upgrade. Damn the man
I don't like it.
It’s awful for .gifs and I’ve had no end of problems with Flash, mlb.tv completely freezes whenever I click in the window and I’ve had to start using Chrome to watch games.
Yea, I experienced an MLB.tv temporary freeze with it last night when I tried to click the second window.
It only lasts 5 seconds for me, so it’s manageable, but if it gets worse I’ll have to reconsider the situation.
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by perfectstrat on May 19, 2011 10:24 AM PDT up reply actions
Your favorite fast food burger sucks
Five Guys v. In-n-Out v. Shake Shack in a very odd taste test.
Dick’s wins.
As long as Five Guys doesn't win I'm okay
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I like Five Guys better than In-n-out, though they're both very good.
However, Five Guys is a tad more expensive and their small fries are enough for three people.
I have not had Shake Shack.
by Eyebrows on May 19, 2011 10:21 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions
I assume you've had Hodad's. Probably discussed it before.
I waited in line for 10-15 mintues and gave up. Worth the wait?
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 19, 2011 10:24 AM PDT up reply actions
Oddly, I didn't care for In-n-Out the first time I had it, when I was in Arizona.
When I got it in California however, I loved it.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 19, 2011 10:21 AM PDT up reply actions
My wife had a similar experience
After raving about In-n-Out for years we finally went to one – but we went to the one on Sunset in Hollywood, which was packed full of hung over junkies and dirty and just not what it should have been. Then last summer we went to one in Sacramento because I was insistent that she’d had a bad experience, so she went just to humor me, and she was totally convinced of its awesomeness. Mustard-grilled with hot peppers convinced her.
Location does matter. Though I'm pretty sure I saw Danny Ainge at the Phoenix location.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 19, 2011 10:31 AM PDT up reply actions
I was endlessly entertained by the Hollywood one
mostly because the place was full of hung over junkies at noon on a Tuesday. You just don’t get that in most places.
I once saw the most low-key drug bust ever in front of the Capitol Hill Dick's.
It was like everyone involved was sleepwalking through it.
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by JY on May 19, 2011 1:50 PM PDT up reply actions
I lived in Pennsylvania for 6 months after living in California, and was pleasantly surprised by how good Five Guys was.
Their burgers are good, but as Eyebrows said above their fries are completely overboard. I still like In-n-Out more, but I’d gladly go to either place.
In-n-Out has better fries and better shakes, but their burgers are generally smaller and I’ll have to order multiple to satisfy my hunger.
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by perfectstrat on May 19, 2011 10:26 AM PDT up reply actions
I do and it's still not enough.
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by perfectstrat on May 19, 2011 10:32 AM PDT up reply actions
Maybe that's because I don't like cheese on burgers. Who knows.
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by perfectstrat on May 19, 2011 10:32 AM PDT up reply actions
yes!
They’re really, really good. Although you might want to wait until they open up in the old Totem House.
Well yes of course
although I havent been in 11 years so maybe its crap now
by Bearskin Rugburn on May 19, 2011 10:55 AM PDT up reply actions
Shake Shack is pretty awesome
but for me it’s more about being in Madison Sq Park than the burger per se
by Bearskin Rugburn on May 19, 2011 10:54 AM PDT up reply actions
Red Mill is still the best burger place there is.
by Mariner John on May 19, 2011 11:55 AM PDT up reply actions
No. That's the West Seattle one right?
by Mariner John on May 19, 2011 12:39 PM PDT up reply actions
Actually they just moved to white center about a month ago.
They’re by the Bartell drug on 15th & Roxbury now.
Since we haven't had a new music thread in a while...
I owe a big one to Jeff. I hadn’t heard of New Politics until he featured “Give Me Hope” on the Music Thread a little while ago, and I really like their sound. They recently put on a show at the Fillmore, and the show was awesome (New Politics with the Dirty Heads and Pacific Dub). Their lead singer David Boyd is an absolute menace on stage, and I’m pretty sure he was sober. It wasn’t a very clean-cut sound, and I prefer listening to them on recording, but their persona completely engulfed me.
What was the craziest thing you’ve seen a band do on stage? What concerts have you been to where the bands actions on stage overshadowed their music?
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I went to a festival where a band filled up a super soaker with what they said was their own urine and shot the crowd toward the end of the set.
Fortunately, I was too far away to know if they were being truthful.
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What band could that possibly have been?
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
Some random punk band at a festival in NPortland
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Jane's Addiction was pretty wild the first time I saw them as well.
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Did they have a giant snake that ejaculates blood?
by Aaron Campeau on May 19, 2011 11:03 AM PDT up reply actions
They had like 20 strippers on top of podiums and a crocodile that shit confetti.
And that was just right next to me. I was way too out of it to remember anything else that was further away.
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Wait, thinking about it some more, I'm pretty sure it was spraying condoms.
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I imagine there'll be a new music thread tomorrow, but I'll answer anyway because I actually have a good story for this question.
My first ever Reading Festival had Dillinger Escape Plan as the first band on the main stage. Near the end of their set, the frontman laid a towel on the stage, took a shit on it, put it in a plastic bag and started waving it around saying something to the effect of ‘this represents a lot of what you’ll see on this stage today’. He then threw the bag into the crowd, had it promptly thrown back at him (this went on for a little while) then tore open the bag, wiped it on his shirt and stage-dived. Sadly, I was too far back to see anyone’s reaction but I imagine some people left that crowd happier than others.
by Eyeball Kid on May 19, 2011 11:02 AM PDT up reply actions
I think the band I was thinking of was the Sweaty Nipples
Could be wrong…slightly different era.
The first time I saw the Aquabats
at the Phoenix Aboveground in Seattle, the lead singer spit a fire ball out.
And the guitar players shot roman candles off their guitars while playing.
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I saw Deftones at Endfest a bunch of years back, when it was still at the Kitsap County Fairgrounds in August
It was 105+ degrees that day and Deftones came out to do their set at like 2:30. It was super hot, the stage was in direct sunlight, and Chino comes out wearing all black dress clothes (slacks, longsleeve shirt, tie, the works). He is sweating profusely right from the start and is very obviously inebriated, as is his usual way of being on stage.
Anyway, at one point during a song he hopped up on the railing at the front of the stage and was singing and walking around while standing on it. This would have been tough enough to do as a sober person that wasn’t nearing heat exhaustion, so I was pretty impressed. Then, he slipped and nutted himself on the railing but never once stopped singing, even after falling off the rail and lying on the stage. When the song ended, he drank an entire bottle of water and said he invented a cool new skateboard move when he fell like that, and proceeded to complete the show. It was pretty crazy.
by tootthekazoo on May 19, 2011 12:23 PM PDT up reply actions
This reminds me of the gig where Casey Chaos from Amen climbed up the speakers, jumped off, banged his head on the ceiling and fell to the stage unconscious.
I wasn’t at that one, but I have seen Amen and can totally picture this happening.
by Eyeball Kid on May 19, 2011 12:29 PM PDT up reply actions
I thought I saw Deftones at this show so I checked out the lineup, and no--I wasn't at that one.
What I did notice was that Endfest shows have gone through a weird progression. At the first one in 1992, it was Sarah McLachlan and Toad the Wet Sprocket… wha?
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
The End used to be a not-terrible station.
Although Sarah McLachlan has always been terrible.
by Aaron Campeau on May 19, 2011 1:42 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh, I also saw a Glassjaw show about 10 years ago at the Graceland
I don’t remember much about the show and actually had to leave early because my girlfriend at the time was getting a headache because it was “louder than she was expecting.” What I do remember, though, was that Daryl Palumbo (lead singer of Glassjaw) stopped after the second song and asked somebody backstage to make him a PB&J sandwich because he wasn’t feeling well (he suffers from Crohn’s disease and had just gotten out of the hospital 3 days before). The band fucked around for a bit and then when the sandwich arrived he stood there and ate it on the stage. No music, just sandwich eating for about 5 minutes. Then, they went right back to playing. It was kinda bizarre
by tootthekazoo on May 19, 2011 12:27 PM PDT up reply actions
Gogol Bordello put on a pretty great show
at least I was pretty blown away by them the first time I saw them which was almost a decade ago. I saw them a few times after that, and when I saw that the show was basically identical to the first one I was disappointed.
by Bearskin Rugburn on May 19, 2011 12:36 PM PDT up reply actions
This doesn't really count, because I saw it online via a club recording
but the bass player for Dillinger Four used to play these old Rickenbacker basses [and play them until they were utterly destroyed] and frequently, he’d shred his hand on the bridge while playing. To counteract this, he would drink heavily to numb the pain, but this would also thin the blood, so there were plenty of photos of them in the early years with the blood covered bass hanging around his beer gut.
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by JY on May 19, 2011 1:55 PM PDT up reply actions
Adrian Gonzalez, after going 0-3, asks Terry Francona if he can 'hit like Ichiro' next time up
by Eyeball Kid on May 19, 2011 10:54 AM PDT reply actions 6 recs
If we ever achieve blowout status again (on the good side for once), I wouldn't mind seeing our whole team come up and do that, aside from Ichiro.
He would do his best Babe Ruth impression.
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I made spaghetti sauce "from scratch" the other day. Not using pre-made sauce for the first time.
It turned out really good! But without realizing it, I made enough sauce for a family of 15. Now I’ve eaten spaghetti for every meal for 5 days in a row.
What’s the most you’ve ever eaten of the same food in a row, whether on purpose or not?
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 19, 2011 12:12 PM PDT reply actions
That is a crapload of spaghetti.
I made a big pot of goulash a few weeks ago that was fantastic. It did make a huuuuuuge amount though. I ate it twice a day for 3 days before I decided I’d had enough, even if it was great and there were still a few bowls left.
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
Is it bad that I enjoyed the spaghetti so much, that I made another batch last night? It just turned out so good!
Though, I could see myself ruining spaghetti for all-time if I don’t stop soon.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 19, 2011 12:18 PM PDT up reply actions
I did that with myself and lasagna.
I made enough for a party that was cancelled last-minute. I ended up eating the whole thing over a week or so and now I can’t even think about ricotta without getting sick to my stomach.
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My wife makes enough lasagna that I have to eat it for lunch the entire week.
Its amazing how it ages over the course of 4-5 days…
Freeze it, and then spread the four to five days out over two to three weeks.
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by thehemogoblin on May 21, 2011 1:13 PM PDT up reply actions
I had a roommate in college who would do this
make about a half semesters worth at a time and slowly use it.
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I have always wanted to tackle the sauce from scratch thing with alfredo sauce.
But I’ve never had the guts. I want to make the same sauce that the olive garden uses for alfredo.
Anyone with a recipe idea?
It's extremely easy.
For a basic, simple sauce, you need nothing but a few cans of whole, peeled San Marzano tomatoes, red pepper flakes, a few very ripe fresh tomatoes, olive oil, one clove of garlic and some lemon zest. Heat the pan to medium, hit it with the crushed garlic and a pinch of red pepper flakes, only for about 30 seconds until the garlic is fragrant. Then hit it with the tomatoes and a few pinche of kosher salt, lower heat to “low”, let it simmer for 20 minutes or so. Then add the zest of one lemon and you’re done.
There are hundreds of variations to this. There are sauces that you can simmer for hours, and ones with many more ingredients. This one, however, is just very simple and delicious.
Alfredo, babe.
Although I have to say this should turn out better than my tomato sauce… I’ll have to give it a shot.
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Even when you're wrong you still contribute awesome stuff, so you won't hear any complaints from me.
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such as:
Ingredients
* 1/4 cup butter
* 1 cup heavy cream
* 1 clove garlic, crushed
* 1 1/2 cups freshly grated Parmesan cheese
* 1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley
Directions
1. Melt butter in a medium saucepan over medium low heat. Add cream and simmer for 5 minutes, then add garlic and cheese and whisk quickly, heating through. Stir in parsley and serve.
It's exceptionally easy
and the first time I made it for my ex she was amazed at how much better it tasted than the canned stuff she’d been eating
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nd do you have a good recipe for homemade stewed tomatoes? I've tried five or six different ones I've found online, and none end up "stewed" enough (I guess would be the word). Too tangy.
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BUT ITS SOOOO GOOOD
If I can get better than that though, I’ll take it
That is far from a good Alfredo.
Once you have made your own and dialed it in to your tastes you will probably never eat that bile again.
The first time my wife and I made chili with dry beans.
I didn’t realize how much larger wet beans are than dry beans and we had a gigantic, delicious pot of chili. We ended up freezing it in lunch sized portions.
Soup and sauce ate two things that freeze remarkably well
one of my favorite things to do used to be to grow a shitload of basil, which is very easy, and spend a day making a huge amount of pesto. Then I freeze it in ice trays and pop the fuckers out into quart sized freezer bags. Having pesto cubes kicks ass.
by Bearskin Rugburn on May 19, 2011 12:41 PM PDT up reply actions
2 for a buck. Blessing and a curse.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 19, 2011 1:46 PM PDT up reply actions
I've had a couple bites of one, and I see no blessing.
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When you're drunk, the grease soaks up all the alcohol perfectly.
And if you wipe it on the outside of your stomach, you can see inside!
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 19, 2011 3:05 PM PDT up reply actions
Also on this note - I made my first stuffed chicken breast and BBQ'd it the other day.
Black pepper, Some special seasoning and Mozzarella. It was delightful.
by Scruffy Lefty on May 19, 2011 1:27 PM PDT up reply actions
Turkey after my first Thanksgiving with my ex
I made a whole 9lb turkey and there was only the two of us. I even made some into soup. It ended up going bad before we finished it.
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I just started playing words with friends. If anyone wants to play: casetines
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 19, 2011 12:45 PM PDT reply actions
Damn, I forgot all about that after it kept fucking up and I stopped playing it.
You will have a challenger shortly. Not a very worthy one, mind.
by Eyeball Kid on May 19, 2011 12:53 PM PDT up reply actions
You're the only person to beat me twice.
...and now I'm here
Though JLProck is also a considerable challenge every game
...and now I'm here
I just started today, so I need to shake the word rust off. Please do send a challenge any time.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 19, 2011 4:29 PM PDT up reply actions
Alright. My SN is CapSea. I prefer the rule that the loser starts the next game so that people can quit any time if they want.
...and now I'm here
I like playing. But people quit on me a lot so I don't want to force them to play.
...and now I'm here
If there are any other rules people like to abide by, let me know.
I’m not even a big scrabble player, so I’m just trying to get my beak wet.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 20, 2011 8:05 AM PDT up reply actions
That's certainly a lot of ads they got there on that game.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 19, 2011 1:08 PM PDT up reply actions
You guys are both going down.
I mean up.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 19, 2011 1:08 PM PDT up reply actions
That game devours my battery life like a hungering elder god.
Who's gonna save the world? Who's gonna save the day? From Ahab crabs who steal and eerie eels with evil rays?
Yeah, I've been playing for a couple hours and I'm about to dead.
Eyeball Kid is killin’ me!
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 19, 2011 3:04 PM PDT up reply actions
No fair. My letters suck. "Here's 6 E's"
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 19, 2011 3:24 PM PDT up reply actions
This is only game 1 my friend.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 19, 2011 3:33 PM PDT up reply actions
I still see both games. Weird.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 19, 2011 3:43 PM PDT up reply actions
my phone is dead anyway. Will have to continue this evening.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 19, 2011 3:48 PM PDT up reply actions
I really wish they'd come out with it for Windows Phone
I miss playing against people from here and I had a stellar record to uphold
by tootthekazoo on May 19, 2011 3:09 PM PDT up reply actions
What DOES the Windows phone have?
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 19, 2011 3:24 PM PDT up reply actions
An excellent UI
Developer support is growing, but it will be a while before there is consistency between the WP7 Marketplace and iPhone. I’m happy with the phone though, the only thing I’m ever left “wanting” is games, which is no different than owning, say, a PS3 and complaining about not being able to get Xbox 360 exclusive games
by tootthekazoo on May 19, 2011 3:28 PM PDT up reply actions
Huh.
http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/ad-day-hot-wheels-131802
Just hours before the [Indianapolis 500], [Mattel] will send a life-size version of a Hot Wheels car down a giant custom-built replica of an orange Hot Wheels ramp, where it will pick up speed and, at the end of a straightaway, attempt a new world-record jump by a four-wheel vehicle.
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This is so cool
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Hooray for maniacs on buses!
The street right in front of my building is all taped off, because a maniac whipped out a gun and shot somebody while on a metro bus. Apparently he got off and made it about 10 feet before being apprehended.
What possesses people to do something like shoot a guy, right in broad daylight? Do they not have any inkling they might get, you know, caught??!
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
Be thankful he didn't eat his head?
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 19, 2011 1:46 PM PDT up reply actions
Hi Coach!
CDC on Preparation for a Zombie Apocalypse
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by JY on May 19, 2011 2:00 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
Just bought my tickets for Saturday in San Diego!
California burrito? Yes.
Pineda? Yes.
Amazing? Yes.
Anybody else going by chance?
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California burrito sounds like something that happens in public restrooms and remains unflushed.
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
While that is true, it is quite the opposite.
Perhaps the perfect food?
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 19, 2011 4:28 PM PDT up reply actions
California burritos are really good, and they only get better as you move closer to the border.
East coast burritos can’t compare. I once ate at a place on the east coast called “California Burrito,” and I’m not sure that what they gave me even classifies as food.
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by perfectstrat on May 19, 2011 6:15 PM PDT up reply actions
At a local taco place (which I DO like) somebody ordered a "California burrito" and they asked "What kind of meat?"
No no no no no no no. Call that burrito something else.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 20, 2011 8:04 AM PDT up reply actions
Meh, I'm OK with non-steak California burritos
not that I would order one
by seattlebruin on May 20, 2011 10:05 AM PDT up reply actions
I am happy to have had one but I do not think I ever need to eat another one.
I see the appeal, just not for me.
by Aaron Campeau on May 20, 2011 8:16 AM PDT up reply actions
This weekend?
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Aww nuts it is this weekend
I don’t think I can make it
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Yeah, it kind of snuck up on me. I saw that it was coming but figured by now it was too late.
Then my roommate just up and bought tickets. Lucked in.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 20, 2011 8:03 AM PDT up reply actions
Lower back issues :(
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by JY on May 20, 2011 9:02 AM PDT up reply actions
Gee man...
that sucks.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 20, 2011 10:09 AM PDT up reply actions
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I hope him and Miss Elizabeth are back together in heaven. :(
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 20, 2011 10:10 AM PDT up reply actions
In his honor, I will be snapping into a Slim Jim today.
by kevin_ess on May 20, 2011 10:25 AM PDT up reply actions 5 recs
You should listen to his Rap Album while doing so
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Can't be better than Hulks album.
Hulkster in Heaven is one of the greatest songs ever made.
Link to the album on amazon.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 20, 2011 11:00 AM PDT up reply actions
"I used to tear my shirt. But now you've torn my heart"
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 20, 2011 11:02 AM PDT up reply actions
He calls out Hulk Hogan
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And this song is a little bit sadder
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I will also be doing so, while watching his match with Ricky Steamboat at Wrestlemania III.
Which is still one the best matches of all time.
RIP Dave Niehaus.
The Wrestlemania doc I just watched covered this. It's amazing that it was the same Wrestlemania as Hogan/Andre, yet Macho Man/Steamboat was voted best match of all-time for like 13 years in a row.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 20, 2011 2:53 PM PDT up reply actions
The Hogan/Andre match was pretty terrible though from an actual wrestling standpoint considering
that at that time Andre could barely move and Hogan was always a bad wrestler.
RIP Dave Niehaus.
): RIP
I had this poster on my wall as a kid.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
I wasn't a big Randy Savage fan. I preferred Bam Bam Bigelow around that time, and when I really got into wrestling, I think Savage moved to WCW.
Undertaker/Shawn Michaels/Bret Hart. That was my heyday.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 20, 2011 11:12 AM PDT up reply actions
I saw that British Bulldog was dead now too.
The name Repo Man sounds familiar. I just remembered Lex Lugor after I read that Miss Elizabeth was with him after Randy Savage.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 20, 2011 11:39 AM PDT up reply actions
RIP Leonard Ghostal :(
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
From the "Now you know" Department:
The same day that Apple introduced the iPod was the last time the Mariners played in a postseason game.
Clearly, the iPod is the source of all of the M's problems.
So who’s got the power to get it off the market?
M's fan in the Bay, soon to be LA SanFranPreps
by perfectstrat on May 20, 2011 10:37 AM PDT up reply actions
Or Sony
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by perfectstrat on May 20, 2011 10:43 AM PDT up reply actions
I wish there were video of
Ba, which is an insane all day rugby/football/clusterfuck game they play in a few Scottish towns. The object is to get the ball to the other side of town. There is no route or course – you just have to get the ball from point A to point B before sundown.
Sounds like original football
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
Right...this sounds like the version of football that was banned by the King in 14-15th century England.
Clearly nothing like modern football, as it was banned because players kept dying.
I love college baseball rain delays.
And my personal favorite involving Shakeweight.
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by perfectstrat on May 20, 2011 11:09 AM PDT up reply actions
You know what would be a perfect activity on a day like today?
A minor league baseball game. Fuckin’ Portland. GOD
I guess I’ll have to content myself with sitting out on the porch of my favorite brewpub. Still.
Brandon Phillips is an OK dude
Phillips shows up 14 year old twitter followers baseball game.
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
Possibly my favorite headline of the year
sheerly due to the unlikeliness of anyone ever uttering this phrase
He thought they were talking about the KKK.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
"Kentucky big man"
seems weird to call him that given that he didn’t play a single minute for Kentucky
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
So how bad is the play-by-play guy for the Rockies?
I was watching the top moments from last night’s games on MLB.com earlier and #1 was Giambi’s three homers. The Rockies’ play-by-play guy couldn’t care less about them.
I saw Thor last night (did not pay) It is godawful.
BUT, the interesting thing is that the king of the Jotunns is named Laffey, which I found charming.
by Bearskin Rugburn on May 20, 2011 12:48 PM PDT reply actions
I pretty much avoid any comic book movie now, on the preconceived notion that it will probably be terrible.
Even if it’s not terrible, I’ll constantly lament the lack of creativity in modern movies, which detracts from my enjoyment of it.
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
Is that to say you avoid anything that's not an original screenplay?
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 20, 2011 1:13 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm assuming this gets rid of 90% of todays movies at least.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 20, 2011 1:13 PM PDT up reply actions
You'd think so, but my mind doesn't work that way.
Although in general, I kind of avoid movies based on books, even if I haven’t read the books first.
And it’s less the “I need to see original work” idea, and more the “how many more times do I need to see a caped superhero overcoming personal challenges to save/avenge their city/wife/child/integrity.”
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
Yeah I didn't expect it to be good
I was exhausted from work and wanted to watch something dumb, and I had a chinatown dvd of it kicking around.
by Bearskin Rugburn on May 20, 2011 1:27 PM PDT up reply actions
Anyone have any idea how much Marvel or DC makes off of these comicbook movies?
It makes me wonder just how rich Stan Lee is right now
Marvel Studios was purchased for I think 4.7 billion. I don't know how much of that Stan Lee got, but I'm sure he's doing just fine.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 20, 2011 3:11 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh I didn't realize that.
I just figured he was getting royalties from all of these movies.
I looked it up recently because of how wealthy Marvel would have to be off of the movies.
X-Men, Spiderman, Iron Man, Thor, Hulk, Fantastic Four, Ghost Rider, Punisher, and now Captain America and The Avengers… Looking at it again, Disney bought them for 4 billion. There was no way Disney was going to let someone else get super rich.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 20, 2011 3:16 PM PDT up reply actions
According to one story when the merger was announced:
Whatever the case, Marvel’s rich, Disney’s rich and Lee’s rich. Of course Stan didn’t create Captain America, Punisher, Elektra or Blade, so he may not “deserve” all that money. Superhero creators historically haven’t gotten much of what their characters are worth.
Stan Lee probably got jack shit
Marvel has been fucking him over for years
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He did a cameo in Spiderman, so he couldn't be too upset!
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 20, 2011 3:31 PM PDT up reply actions
He sued them for $5 billion in 2007
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
He was probably pretty upset then!
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 20, 2011 3:41 PM PDT up reply actions
Hey look a sensible realignment proposal
No divisions, Rockies to AL, 6 doubleheaders scheduled
I would love for this to happen and it seems really well thought out. I doubt anything ever comes of it but it would be interesting.
I agree. I don't want to hate every non-Mariners team in the AL
as much as I usually hate the Rangers/A’s/Angels. It would be exhausting.
by ChristopherA on May 20, 2011 10:16 PM PDT up reply actions
So we get to now compete with the Red Sox and Yankees for a playoff spot?
Maybe I’m just complaining too much about the balance of power, but right now we have to compete with the Angels, Rangers, and A’s and even THAT seems to be a struggle. If top 5 out of 15 teams go to the playoffs, and I assume that the Red Sox and Yankees will be going. Now were actually trying to be a top 3 team out of the remaining 13 teams. I just feel like we’ll never get there in that scenario.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 20, 2011 2:06 PM PDT up reply actions
I would rather things be more fair.
This is more fair and more entertaining. I get so damn sick of playing the A’s 18 or 19 times a year.
by Mariner John on May 20, 2011 2:15 PM PDT up reply actions
But at least in this scenario
The Yankees/Red Sox aren’t getting a high number of games against teams like Baltimore and the overall scheduling among all other teams would be much more balanced. We may be competing with 12 other teams to be in the top 3, but with a balanced schedule I think we’d have a pretty decent shot of at least being near the top of that list, which then makes for a fun season
by tootthekazoo on May 20, 2011 2:20 PM PDT up reply actions
You all make fair points. I suppose I am still against it though. Call me crazy.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 20, 2011 2:23 PM PDT up reply actions
I don't think there's a good solution to the Yankee/Red Sox problem
At least this way it’s twelve teams’ problem instead of just three.
by Mariner John on May 20, 2011 2:32 PM PDT up reply actions
The solution to the Yankees/red Sox problem is to expand the league and add two teams
New York can support three teams and NE can support two. Maybe one in Hoboken and another in Providence or something.
by Bearskin Rugburn on May 20, 2011 2:38 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm not sure that's a solution, because I highly doubt very many Yankee or Red Sox fans would switch allegiances
So another franchise would not really affect the market/buying power of said Yankees/Red Sox team.
It’s a complicated problem, and I doubt there’s an easy solution.
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
Now that I'm looking at it, I don't think I agree with it either
It’s well thought out, but there are a lot of angles he overlooks.
Will players REALLY want to play 6 pre-scheduled doubleheaders? If there are rainouts (and there inevitably are) can you imagine trying to squeeze more doubleheaders in when some are already scheduled? Doubleheaders are taxing on the players, especially bullpens, and I can’t see teams or managers embracing this, when there’s a distinct possibility they might be forced into having 2 doubleheaders in the same week, or heaven forbid the same weekend.
Is there a point to a best-of-three playoff round? This actually makes it harder for the 4th playoff team (currently the wildcard) to do well because there’s a chance they get knocked off by a team with a better top 2 SPs. The only way to guarantee a fair playoff round is by being in the top 3… the same as winning your division, in the current setup. Then you weight it even more towards the top 3 by forbidding the 4th or 5th teams from selling playoff merch?
In this format, I think you’d see a LOT more Yankees-Red Sox/whomever in the top 3, repeatedly, with nobody else ever getting a shot at a decent playoff series.
Never going to happen. Ever.
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
Even if what you said was 100% valid, saying its never going to happen is like saying Type A and B free agency will never happen.
It was stupid as hell and it still happened.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 20, 2011 3:35 PM PDT up reply actions
Interleague play was never going to happen ever
The wild card was never going to happen ever
There’s no such thing as “never” in an enterprise where profit is concerned.
You 2 have refuted my point, but I still hold that is is exceedingly unlikely.
I should not have been so absolute, but I see opposition from all concerned parties in this scenario (Player’s union, management, and front office due to the merch restriction).
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
It's weighted even MORE towards the top 3 when you consider the winner of the "play in" between 4 and 5 gets only 1 day of rest
Before heading to the divisional round against an opponent guaranteed to be on full rest. They’re are guaranteed to have SP mismatches…on the road. (“Game 1: CC Sabathia vs. Carlos Carrasco in Yankee stadium!”)
While you’re at it, why don’t they just eliminate the wildcard right now and only have the top 3 teams make the playoffs. It’s not like teams 4 or 5 would ever have a fighting chance.
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
e.g. I can trade the tickets for another night, but it's Mariners and I want to go
but I can’t seem to find anyone to go with
by seattlebruin on May 20, 2011 2:56 PM PDT up reply actions
I thought so, kind of a different experience
Much easier to settle in and focus on the game
I actually really enjoy going to games by myself
it’s much easier to focus on whatever you want to focus on.
OK, you guys have talked me into it
I’ll go tonight, hopefully Bedard won’t suck.
by seattlebruin on May 20, 2011 3:03 PM PDT up reply actions
I can trade my tickets for any other game in the season I want through my ticket package
so yeah, if I go, no sitting next to randoms, just relaxing and watching baseball
by seattlebruin on May 20, 2011 3:46 PM PDT up reply actions
Plenty of times
It’s not so bad at all, really
by tootthekazoo on May 20, 2011 4:01 PM PDT up reply actions
Good to hear that from you and toot
I’ve decided I’m going to go to tomorrow’s game too, no matter what just to see. I’m now actually kinda hoping no one wants to go
by seattlebruin on May 20, 2011 4:08 PM PDT up reply actions
One nice thing about flying solo is that it is much easier to sit in a different section
As just one person you can blend in much better and get yourself some pretty good seats. I’d definitely look into selling your other ticket to cover the cost of a beer or parking or whatever, and then just go sit somewhere better
by tootthekazoo on May 20, 2011 4:20 PM PDT up reply actions
All the time.
It’s great, especially like Toot said, moving around and sitting all over the ballpark is cake.
Probably more often than I've been with people.
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by JY on May 20, 2011 8:35 PM PDT up reply actions
Relevant: How would you spend your last day on earth, if you knew it was the last day on earth?
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Better eat the red meat first.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 20, 2011 2:54 PM PDT up reply actions
With my daughter
preferably in the mountains
by Bearskin Rugburn on May 20, 2011 3:03 PM PDT up reply actions
I would probably spend my last day on earth contemplating what I would want to do with my last day on earth.
Then I would end up doing nothing
And I would drug myself so I couldn't feel pain and go and crash cars and cause all sorts of mayhem. I would last about 45 minutes before my death probably.
by Kirk on May 20, 2011 4:13 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I do wonder how many people would kill another person.
Now THAT would be socially awkward.
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by Kenneth Arthur on May 20, 2011 4:21 PM PDT up reply actions
I imagine that all highways would be packed the closer you got to Reno.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on May 20, 2011 8:43 PM PDT up reply actions
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