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Grittybeard posted:Guy going for G toward the beginning is low key one of the funnier things going on there. I'm a big fan of the lady trying to solve it with 'hat' even though H and T were both already on the board
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Bird in a Blender posted:Watched The French Dispatch on HBO, and I was fairly underwhelmed. I thought it started and end strong, but the middle two sections weren't all that great. Also felt like Wes Anderson kind of going over the top with his style. The mostly disconnected stories didn't really help either, although I get what he was going for. Just didn't have a lot of investment in what was going on. I don't think it was his worst movie, but it's pretty far down the list. I liked The French Dispatch but yeah being sooo enslaved to The New Yorker style can be a definite turn-off for those that don't care for that. It could've been a short TV mini series and people wouldn't bat an eye. Meanwhile I'm watching Pacific Rim this morning and this movie is sooo fun. It also reminds me that Nightmare Alley is out and has a Best Picture nomination. 
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Bird in a Blender posted:George McCaskey clearly said he’s just a fan! I think they like it, they’re just very bad at running a team. I dunno, I'm not convinced the McCaskeys don't just like feeling important.
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This seems like a good point on the baseball thing. https://twitter.com/barry/status/1499029188820492289 The owners motivation doesn't seem to kick in for a while yet.
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Watch Report Cage's Pig is a great movie. Probably not for everyone though. Also, a total bait and switch. I don't want to say too much about it because discovering what this movie is really about is half the enjoyment. Licorice Pizza is a movie full of great acting, where nothing meaningful happens in any scene. Also it's a story of a relationship between a 25 year old and a 15 year old and at no point does anyone mention this. WTF. Do not recommend. Power of the Dog is so goddamn boring. I could not get through it. Honestly, I found Power of the Dog and Licorice Pizza both boring, pretentious Oscar bait. Peacemaker was hilarious and great fun. Impossibly Perfect Sphere fucked around with this message at 16:42 on Mar 2, 2022 |
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Mar 2, 2022 16:35
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I am not sure who Pig would not be for. Fantastic film. Legitimate Oscar snub along with Red Rocket. Though Red Rocket definitely is not for everyone. .
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If we're gonna grab up Russian yachts and apartments, we should be confiscating 30 baseball teams and jailing treasonous Rob Manfred
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The Puppy Bowl posted:I am not sure who Pig would not be for. Fantastic film. Legitimate Oscar snub along with Red Rocket. Though Red Rocket definitely is not for everyone. . People without a heart who are looking for a straight up revenge flick with a violent payoff. I liked it a lot.
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Pig is one of my favorite movies of the past few years. It is criminal that it didn't get a single Oscar nomination.
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Good news, everyone! https://twitter.com/TheJohnDiMaggio/status/1498788959198978052
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Blowjob Overtime posted:Good news, everyone! With blackjack and hookers?!
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lol the owners pushed negotiations past midnight and tried to sneak a bunch of changes in, got caught, then hit the ground with propaganda first thing in the am to vilify the players for ‘changing their tone.’ In short: https://twitter.com/joe_sheehan/status/910628793823379456?s=21
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Bandcamp got bought by Epic Games? What on earth...
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Kalli posted:Bandcamp got bought by Epic Games? What on earth... free song thursdays?
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Blowjob Overtime posted:Good news, everyone! I figured they'd work it out.
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Blowjob Overtime posted:Good news, everyone! What's it called when text causes you to perfectly hear a voice in your head? I fear this is going to be the best bit we see from a resurrection of the previously resurrected Futurama.
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The Puppy Bowl posted:What's it called when text causes you to perfectly hear a voice in your head? If it’s not named already, it should be the Farnsworth or McClure Effect
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LeeMajors posted:lol the owners pushed negotiations past midnight and tried to sneak a bunch of changes in, got caught, then hit the ground with propaganda first thing in the am to vilify the players for ‘changing their tone.’ Also every rule change on the table is awful. Advertising on uniforms? Yuck. Universal DH? Ugh. Even more playoff expansion? Suck my loving dick.
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General Dog posted:Also every rule change on the table is awful. Advertising on uniforms? Yuck. Universal DH? Ugh. Even more playoff expansion? Suck my loving dick. Agreed. They wanted a 14 team playoff. It’s a shame how much the commissioner and owners hate the game of baseball.
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The Puppy Bowl posted:What's it called when text causes you to perfectly hear a voice in your head? tbh I'm hearing it as Frank Costanza https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNXhh7D9_cA&t=32s
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LeeMajors posted:Agreed. They wanted a 14 team playoff. They all loving suck so bad. Every change is worse for baseball. I know some players want the universal DH, but I hate it. Expanded playoffs would be the worst too. Playoffs are already too long as it is.
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I'm listening to sports radio because my fiancée wants to win their hourly call in prize, and man sports radio sucks. "Yeah, the players are right, but let's play devil's advocate, how does increasing the luxury tax make Tampa Bay spend more money?" Ughhh gently caress off!
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As with the NFL CBA's, if they're screaming poverty, show us the books. Changes to the game are whatever, you can build around that poo poo, but as long as the top team is spending what the bottom 8 teams are combined, then what are you even doing? I knew it was bad, but checked that earlier and just laughed hard that the Orioles spent less then what Robert Quinn got paid last year
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Kalli posted:As with the NFL CBA's, if they're screaming poverty, show us the books. Not to mention the poverty wages of minor leaguers. All while a bunch of doughy, baby soft finance villains soak up all the cash and contribute nothing.
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I tend not to think of this for most jobs, but I absolutely could be in the top half of American major sports team owners without much effort.
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I've said it before, but playoff expansion is deeply pro-owner- not just because of the direct increase in television revenue, but because when you have a 14-16 team field, the incentive to assemble a 95-win roster versus an 85-win roster basically goes out the window. You put together a just-over-.500 quality roster on the cheap, and you can turn to the fans and say truthfully, "we can compete for a championship with this team", and you're not lying. The playoffs have always been a crapshoot, and they'll be even more of a crapshoot when you're probably looking at a format with a bunch of 1-game or 3-game series on the front end.
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A 14 team playoff would let in so many teams with losing records. It's funny in football when some 7-9 team sneaks in because the variable nature of a small number of games. A team that lost 83+ getting in is a lot less amusing, much less multiple losers which 14 would have fairly regularly.
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bobjr posted:I tend not to think of this for most jobs, but I absolutely could be in the top half of American major sports team owners without much effort. In terms of win/loss record, or revenue? Just guessing you and the other owners may not be using the same scale to measure success.
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I mean if they can beat a supposedly better team in a playoff series I don't care that much. If some 100 win team is now so injured or whatever it loses to a sub .500 team, then they're weak and would lose against whatever other 100 win team they would've faced.
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Kalli posted:I mean if they can beat a supposedly better team in a playoff series I don't care that much. If some 100 win team is now so injured or whatever it loses to a sub .500 team, then they're weak and would lose against whatever other 100 win team they would've faced. Individual baseball results are extremely arbitrary, and 5 or even 7-game series are pretty arbitrary. The playoff in general is a concession of legitimacy you make in exchange for entertainment, but in general baseball plays a long season and has a small playoff field (relative to other sports) to at least ensure that the teams that go into the random number generator that is the playoff are all pretty good and deserving.
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bobjr posted:I tend not to think of this for most jobs, but I absolutely could be in the top half of American major sports team owners without much effort. That's my whole thing when this poo poo comes up. The worst MLB player is better at playing baseball than I ever was, but I'm pretty sure I could own the Brewers just as well as whoever currently owns them.
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Cmon you bastards finish Forbidden West so I can talk with you about it
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GD_American posted:Cmon you bastards finish Forbidden West so I can talk with you about it i'm working on it I just got through thebes last night which was kind of my first underwhelming moment in a game full of highlights
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GD_American posted:Cmon you bastards finish Forbidden West so I can talk with you about it I just started HZD like last week, gonna be a while for me lol
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I keep getting distracted by all the sidequests before I can get to the main line in Horizon. Sure I can continue this main quest but there's a rebel camp nearby and I need to murder everyone in there first.
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No idea if real, don't really care. Enjoy every single shooter lobby you've ever been in: https://twitter.com/einherjarvalk/status/1498803573240565763
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It is pretty wild to me that the media does not seem to be carrying water for the owners this time. How much do you have to suck to have these guys calling you out?
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Advertising on the uniforms absolutely needs to be a hard line in the sand for players. They don't get any of that money and it's their face next to the ad.
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