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Hyperlynx posted:Has anyone got that vid of them not doing anything to indicate the start of play, where they instead just stand up and calmly stroll through the other side's players? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ymtjy844OE
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You can sing the lyrics to Country Boy Can Survive by Hank Jr to Going to California by Led Zeppelin. Well, for the first couple lines anyway.
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Gomez Chamberlain posted:So actually you can't then? You can, if you have determination and the typical goon's understanding of lyrical meter
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You can "sing" the verses to Johnny Cash's Drive On to The Monster Mash. We were crazy, we were wild And I have seen the tiger smile I spit in a bamboo viper's face And I'd be dead , but by God's grace They did the mash.
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Captain Hygiene posted:You can, if you have determination and the typical goon's understanding of lyrical meter Preacher man says it's the end of time, the Mississippi river she's goin' ... dry work with me here. Please don't get to the high parts.
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Captain Splendid posted:The person who shoots you at the start of Fallout: New Vegas is Matthew Perry It is hard to tell because the fact someone would hire Matthew Perry and give him literally zero funny lines is so incredible.
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Isn't that everything he did after Friends? And most of Friends?
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Aphrodite posted:Isn't that everything he did after Friends? And most of Friends? Dunno I didn't watch Friends. But I thought he was a comedian or something? 3D Megadoodoo has a new favorite as of 07:11 on May 2, 2024 |
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Phy posted:One thing I always wanted to know but never really knew who to ask, is if TV stations buy syndicated programs by the episode or by the season. If it's by the episode, and they tend to only buy the ones with higher Nielsen scores, that would go a long way to explaining why it always seems like you catch the same few episodes over and over, without relying on invoking confirmation bias. My understanding, based on a conversation I had with a program director several years ago, is that they are bought by season, for a certain number of airings per episode. Of course, this only applies to series with cash contracts (in back-end syndication, that is, reruns, compared to front-end stuff like Jeopardy!), where stations are free to schedule as they please. Most syndicated reruns I have paid attention to adhere to a nationwide schedule (the barter system with a number of built-in ads as well) and that goes more or less in order or multiple ordered threads. The Simpsons is the only show in the former category that springs to mind, having ended its barter runs in 1999. And it's also full of bizarre scheduling choices these days, especially as the popularity/quality declines and the catalog just gets bigger. WUAB in Cleveland has gone from a few early-evening episodes per weekday (and a rotation through most seasons) to a few episodes in weekend slots (often in the middle of the night) that often get skipped for weeks or months at a time. When it does run the show, it's only from a recent season, more or less in (production) order, but sometimes leapfrogging some. It could barely manage to show anything really old anyhow, mathematically. Acquisition of a new-to-syndication season usually puts that season on very heavy rotation, along with apparent burning off of remaining runs of older episodes. For example, now it's been slowly working through season 33 and 34, after bouncing through 27-32 a bunch. A few weeks ago, it jumped to a few season 26 episodes and back again, as if a few low-rotation episodes just need to get used up, but I have not seen anything older than those in years. It's quite possible that older seasons are retired from availability, at least in this case with such a huge number of episodes. On the other hand, on WTXF in Philadelphia, which currently has a pretty consistent middle-of-the-night weeknight slot, it seems to stay with the most recent season exclusively, but in completely random order (random with replacement!), leading to a lot of deja vu over the course of even a few weeks. For example, a chunk of season 33 last summer was very random, though did cover 21 of 22 episodes in about 6 weeks. This winter/spring, season 34 has been running for over 3 months but 7 of those episodes still haven't run in the time I've been paying attention. But I am still fairly confident the station isn't buying more of some episodes than others. These three months, though missing a few, have still had fairly even distribution of the rest overall. One thing that complicates this is that groups of about 7 episodes are not available in syndication the next fall when the rest of their season are, usually because the original network is still planning a rerun or two (often a combination of holiday episodes that make more sense to reair a year later than in the middle of the year, and episodes from the end of the season that just haven't had a chance to air the typical three-ish times by September). Usually those holds are released by January or so. In the case of Simpsons season 34, it's true that the Halloween episodes seem to be getting passed up in both cities in question, as well as possibly the last few. But season 34 had very few airings on Fox, so it's hard to predict what the held episodes should be with the usual certainty, they should all be available by now, and I don't know what WTXF did in the fall. The station may itself want to feature the holiday episodes more at an appropriate time. Even without adding all the details I have amassed over the years, I know this is very rambly, but I hope it sketches out a rough picture.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:It is hard to tell because the fact someone would hire Matthew Perry and give him literally zero funny lines is so incredible. "Could the game have been more rigged from the start?"
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I was just watching a Street Fighter 6 tournament, and thinking it would be funny if people really did yell out the names of attacks when they do them, and then that it'd be funny if, like, soldiers yelled out "SHOOTING GUN!" when they fired, and so on. Anyway, I just realised that fighter pilots LITERALLY do that. There are radio code words for different kinds of attack. Admittedly "shoryuken!" sounds a lot cooler than "fox three!" but there you go. e: Captain Splendid posted:"Could the game have been more rigged from the start?" Oh real smooth, Courier! Smooth like smooth little babies!
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Hyperlynx posted:I was just watching a Street Fighter 6 tournament, and thinking it would be funny if people really did yell out the names of attacks when they do them, and then that it'd be funny if, like, soldiers yelled out "SHOOTING GUN!" when they fired, and so on. I shout Street Fighter moves when I take a big poo poo, makes the experience a whole lot more fun. HADOUKEN!
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Laukaus! Laukaus! Sarrrrrrrja!
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Hyperlynx posted:I was just watching a Street Fighter 6 tournament, and thinking it would be funny if people really did yell out the names of attacks when they do them, and then that it'd be funny if, like, soldiers yelled out "SHOOTING GUN!" when they fired, and so on. In the Canadian military it's procedure to yell "grenade" *before* throwing a grenade. Which leads to a lot of confusion during exercises with US troops where someone yelling grenade is a warning that one just landed near them and to take cover.
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If I were a knife fighter I'd be absolutely shouting STAB, SLASH, STAB STAB Or a fencer announcing all my moves in a haughty French accent
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:I shout Street Fighter moves when I take a big poo poo, makes the experience a whole lot more fun. HADOUKEN! https://youtu.be/xbHLQAthI7M?si=bmDEYRJkXL8jNLi4
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Dunno I didn't watch Friends. But I thought he was a comedian or something? If I remember right, they actually hired him because he was a big Fallout fan.
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St_Ides posted:In the Canadian military it's procedure to yell "grenade" *before* throwing a grenade. Classic mistake. If you want to surprise the enemy, it's best not to announce what you're going to do beforehand. I'm available for consulting if the US or Canadian militaries need help with this sort of thing.
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You know, shouting the same word whether you are the one throwing the object or it has been thrown in your direction is probably a bad idea in general I would prefer "THINK FAST CHUCKLENUTS!"
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St_Ides posted:In the Canadian military it's procedure to yell "grenade" *before* throwing a grenade. Unlike the movies, "say again" is how you request someone to repeat all or part of the transmitted message. "Repeat" is asking for another round of artillery or naval fire support. Depending on circumstances, mixing those up will either matter not at all or quite a lot.
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Hyperlynx posted:I was just watching a Street Fighter 6 tournament, and thinking it would be funny if people really did yell out the names of attacks when they do them, and then that it'd be funny if, like, soldiers yelled out "SHOOTING GUN!" when they fired, and so on. Soldiers very much do, only not with small arms. Tank gunners and carl gustaf shooters kinda prominently. And small arms don't go off unannounced either ideally, but leader shouting 'fire' or an enemy call out might not be very street fighter idk
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It's Estus Flask, not Estrus Flask.
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canyoneer posted:Unlike the movies, "say again" is how you request someone to repeat all or part of the transmitted message. "Repeat" is asking for another round of artillery or naval fire support. I saw that mistake happen live in Desert Storm; a whole bunch of sand got rearranged instead of an artillery correction being used.
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MariusLecter posted:It's Estus Flask, not Estrus Flask. Don’t— [hrrk]… kinkshame
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St_Ides posted:In the Canadian military it's procedure to yell "grenade" *before* throwing a grenade. So what do Canadians yell when a grenade lands near them? "Hadouken"?
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It's common knowledge that Australia has feral populations of large introduced animals such as camels, horses, deer, cattle, water buffaloes etc but apparently we also have a small number of feral ostriches wandering around the outback: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-02/elusive-ostriches-roam-outback-after-farming-attempts-go-bust/10190990
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:It's common knowledge that Australia has feral populations of large introduced animals such as camels, horses, deer, cattle, water buffaloes etc but apparently we also have a small number of feral ostriches wandering around the outback: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-02/elusive-ostriches-roam-outback-after-farming-attempts-go-bust/10190990 They're not really the worst feral thing we got here though. That's White Australians
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MariusLecter posted:It's Estus Flask, not Estrus Flask. Maybe in Bloodborne
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Power Skanssi (Power being a chain of electronics stores) is not in the shopping centre named Skanssi. e: Modern Family Guy in the motion picture The Incredible Hulk is doctor Leonard Samson. It would be p great if he appeared in one of the Marvel movies as that character, bright green hevi hair and all. 3D Megadoodoo has a new favorite as of 18:52 on May 4, 2024 |
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Yesterday's Wordle being "decal" reminded me of a couple of counterintuitive etymological facts: 1. "Decal" and "cockamamie" are both shortenings of the exact same word ("decalcomania"). 2. "Periwinkle" (the gastropod) and "periwinkle" (the flower) are etymologically unrelated. Also, this post from Guavanaut in the D&D UK megathread deserves to be more widely seen: Guavanaut posted:My rodent true fact that would make someone look like a david icke tinfoil hat weirdo were it not 100% true is that Jews invented hamsters in the 1930s. I find it bizarre that, for example, Michael Caine was born before hamsters were domesticated.
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