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  1. Ant-Man and X-Men: Days of Future Past on Blu Ray Books: The Hardcore Truth: The Bob Holly Story Wrestling for My Life - Shawn Michaels Live From New York An 8 qt. stainless steel pot with two strainer inserts, a skimmer/spider, a couple of gift cards and some cash. All that was great, but nothing was better than watching my 7 year old open her Sasha Banks rings and t-shirt, plus the Uso Crazy, How You Doin', I'm a Hugger, Finn Balor demon, and New Day unicorn shirts and losing her mind over them all.
    5 points
  2. MacTavish ripping off Harvey the Hound's tongue was basically the highlight of a 9 year window of the franchise for me, other than Eberle's first ever NHL goal.
    3 points
  3. Got a couple books, a gift card, couple magazine subscriptions, some jerky and homemade chocolate chip cookies. It was my son's first Christmas, so fortunately everybody focused on him. He got so much stuff that it barely fit in my giant sized SUV. His birthday is less than two weeks away, and that will include a bunch of people that weren't around for Christmas, so he'll have another giant haul then. Gonna have to ask people to tone it down for next year. He got his first ever Lego (Duplo actually) set, so I'm super excited about that. He also got a drum that might need to get accidentally misplaced. He's more than capable of making enough noise without that thing.
    3 points
  4. I got socks, two cheap new sets of earbuds (I go through them like no one's business), a small wrench, and a Marshmallow Santa that I bought for one of the kids but was reallocated into my stocking out of pity. I didn't ask for anything. I don't have time for the stuff I already have. The kids did great and were very happy and the wife appreciated effort at least so that's all the gift I needed yesterday.
    3 points
  5. Like any sensible human being, I'm spending Christmas morning watching Die Hard.
    3 points
  6. I'm not sure there's a HASEGAWA match where he takes less of a pasting than the other guys in the match combined.
    2 points
  7. So thst was exactly the kind of sappy sentimentality that is virtually guaranteed to work on me. I liked the silliness, I liked the sap. I loved the moment of slow recognition.
    2 points
  8. I uploaded a bunch of pics from my Feb 1992 (Christmas 1991) WCW Magazine on twitter. This of course is my favorite. https://twitter.com/D_V_D_V_R/media
    2 points
  9. I've just been feeling so flat lately.
    2 points
  10. I got an old man robe that I will use as soon as El Nino makes it under 80 degrees, I got a Dallas Cowboy shirt that was awesome! THE DALLAS COWBOYS! I got two nutcrackers, one on a hobby horse and one with a secret area where I can hide my cocaine. I got a million dollar set of razors so I can finally shave the sides of my head and stop looking like a Civil War re-enactor. I got a sweater to make me look all hip and shit. My kids got a PS4, Madden 15 and 16, Fallout 4, MEtalgEarsOlid 5, and WWE something so I will never actually be able to watch my TV ever again. So whadyaget?
    1 point
  11. Stupidity thread - though because it covers so many sports I will probably have to create its own thread
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  12. The ceiling wasn't that high, but Road Dogg sure was.
    1 point
  13. I think that venn diagram has a large overlap.
    1 point
  14. I'm confident the football industrial complex TV division will do its best to poke holes in the movie, all while taking ad movie for spots.
    1 point
  15. Glory hunter? He supports the Red Bulls. That's the exact opposite of a glory hunter.
    1 point
  16. My dad has always looked like Han Solo in a way, to me. He and I went to this movie with my 7yo daughter. After we parted ways, I asked my kid - who hasn't seen anything "Star wars" - what she thought. "It was like watching grandaddy die. We should have watched 'Road Chip.'"
    1 point
  17. Dear Shitty Third Party Amazon Sellers Don't try and swindle my Mom. Especially in regards to Christmas presents. Because now you are dealing with me and my sister So yeah there is no way to "fix this bitterness that we have" as you put it in the email.
    1 point
  18. Sounds like I need to take a break from CRAWL(ing) OUT THROUGH THE FALLOUT BAY-BAY for a little while and come back to this. I haven't even installed the latest update. Are the yachts still attracting people for beach sniping parties, or have I already missed out?
    1 point
  19. Our boy HASAGAWA is in some kind of KOTDM thing.
    1 point
  20. The glitch has been fixed now- and if you weren't using Steam at the time you had zero risk. Valve's response has been lacking, but as far as issues go this was fixed fairly quickly and my guess is the impact is going to be random.
    1 point
  21. That's...not a very high ceiling.
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  22. Those 1976 Heat throwbacks were fucking SWANK
    1 point
  23. I don't know about that, there's a couple people out there who think he's overrated or whatever but I completely disagree. He's one of the best five workers on the entire roster. Cena is a great wrestler but he was horrendous in a couple of those matches with Rollins and Seth carried the load. The pace and execution.. it was like watching a figure skater kill it at the Olympics. Maybe some people hate his brand of offense but nobody does it better. He's a machine.
    1 point
  24. It just isn't Christmas without one of these
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  25. A few shirts(including a Star Wars T-shirt) and another gift card. Pretty good haul, all around. Browsed eBay this evening on a whim and picked up a few G1 Transformers. Nice capper on the holiday.
    1 point
  26. You know those films that you think you've seen, and then you rewatch them and realise you'd never actually seen them before? I just watched Conan the Barbarian (1982) and... I'd not seen it before. I must have thought Red Sonja was Conan somehow. James Earl Jones had blue eyes and straight hair. I think his character was supposed to be caucasian, seeing as he was the only black guy in the whole movie. Written by Oliver Stone and John Milius. That must be one of those re-write things where the original writer gets a credit even though his script was thrown out, because I can't see any way those two could collaborate or even agree on anything. Kid Conan's Mother was really good looking, then she got her head cut off. Not sure how you'd develop biceps from pushing a big log round in circles, that's pretty much a quads and pecs/shoulders workout, but Arnie did look like a Frazetta painting come to life. Having said that, the book Conan could beat film Conan's ass six ways to Sunday. There was much less nudity in this movie than I was expecting. Early 80s action movies are usually tit central. This was tit peripheral.
    1 point
  27. A pretty fantastic illegal Chinese mobile emulator, the GPD XD: and a year's subscription to Fandor for artsy fartsy movies. My dad was a pipefitter and he used to pay for Christmas every year by working all night Christmas eve making like triple plus 1/2 time because that's the only time the auto plants were closed down to work on them. It's like a couple of hours: Bam we get an Atari! Couple of More: Bam: we got Berzerker! and Activision Ice Hockey
    1 point
  28. It's not Christmas until the Satan worshipper sings!
    1 point
  29. Oh YES. Civil Bore can eat ten bags of dicks. Deadpool and Apocalypse is all I fucking need next year.
    1 point
  30. to highlight just a small portion of that excellent read, my wife has been watching the UFC fights with me and the guys (since we always host) and, up until Rousey lost, she was completely convinced that Ronda could compete with anybody in the mens 135 division. this was my main point in trying to convince her otherwise, but it wasn't until the Holm decimation that she even understood what i was saying.
    1 point
  31. I don't see any disrespect. To me, it's just two different animals all together. With the men, the phrase "best ______ in each division" is starting to mean less and less every year that passes. It's fun for little debates and forum discussion. However, when we talk about Demian Maia being the best submission grappler we've ever seen in MMA, that's more or less a fact. Yeah, you can pick a handful of guys and talk about it. If it doesn't include Demian Maia, is it even worth discussing? The thing with Aldo and McGregor is you have to learn to separate those two types of thoughts. You can say that Conor isn't the best striker in whatever category without impeaching his skill or Aldo's. This wasn't like the straight up Hail Mary, "here goes nothing" strike Junior landed on Cain four years ago. That was still a good punch (shit, it worked), but you don't go, "oh shit, Junior dos Santos is ready to take on Daniel Ghita and Wladimir Klitschko right now." Conor went in there and knocked out one of the best strikers we've ever had the pleasure of seeing with a punch he has used to knock out previous opponents (IIRC Ivan Buchinger and another guy early in his career he knocked out super fast). Patrick Wyman had some incredible analysis before the fight that kinda mirrored what I was saying after the fight with my comment that Aldo walked up on Conor like he was Chris Mickle or some other Midwest journeyman fighter. Wyman basically said that Aldo cannot underestimate McGregor on the feet, and that his striking is way too good to just fight any type of fight. He also said that if Aldo played it a certain way, he was going to get lit up. I know I'm not doing his analysis any justice, but in that respect, you cannot look it as just a lucky punch or something that Aldo just let slip by. It was perfectly set up and executed. So at worst, Conor McGregor is at 1b in his weight class right now, which isn't bad given he knocked out one of the most accomplished fighters in the sport in a mere thirteen seconds. With the women, it's just an entirely different beast. I think 115 for the UFC is more immune to it, but it's still very behind. To be completely honest, in an ideal, developed weight class, a woman like Joanna Jedrzejczyk wouldn't be champion just yet. She would be facing fighters like Penne and Letourneau on the way up the ranks like you have with a promising lightweight like Ferguson facing a tough, skilled yet somewhat diminished vet like Thomson and a super dangerous, young fighter like Edson Barboza. She could be still earmarked to challenge for a belt and win, but not wearing one at the present moment. The same thing could be said for Gadelha. What a fight like Rose and PVZ showed is that while women's MMA has advanced a ton, it's still lagging far behind. If it I had to place it, it would be the 2003-2004 era with the UFC. My biggest gripe with comparing 115, 135, or any current division for females is that grit, toughness, or any intangible thing when it comes to fighting cannot be your best attribute in modern MMA. When that ends and the primary focus is on the skillset, that's when we can discuss and debate "_____ is the best striker at ____" like we do the men. I like Jim Miller and his fights entertain way more often than not. He is the closest textbook definition of a solid MMA fighter. The problem is that you cannot have a division full of Jim Millers, but less skilled. If women's MMA is to evolve (especially bantamweight), this is something that cannot continue. Although, I will say that women's MMA has evolved to a certain level where it passed it a critical point. Hence, why I didn't go SEG UFC. The reason I said that is because you have people like Tiffany Van Soest and Jorina Baars come into MMA and fail miserably just like a Joe Schilling. That's a critical point to pass because seven years ago I would've said give me a couple of great Muay Thai practitioners (and a few world champion BJJ girls) and they could fucking wreck shop. My stance hasn't changed a whole bunch, but it comes with a stipulation. MMA is and should be at a point where great fighters from one discipline can be very mediocre at MMA and not adversely affect how look we look at that discipline. The reason those two women failed is not necessarily tied to who or what skills transition better. I mean I would take Schilling to beat Kato in a kickboxing fight 10 times out of 10 attempts and maybe 6 or 7 times out of 10 in a standup fight in MMA. The problem comes in where you don't take it seriously and don't have prerequisite skills that override your innate thinking to do something ill-advised on the ground or in the grappling department. There was no reason that Joe Schilling should be holding on to a guillotine choke while Rafael Carvalho has side control. That's just something that has to be eliminated. Those women are great strikers, but atrocious MMA fighters. That doesn't mean they cannot knock out random females at 125 or 145 respectively. That just means it most likely won't be anyone good. I mean GdR barely got off that bubble after the Porto fight, but she still has a ways to go if she wants to contend even in a weak field. However, it all goes back to what I talk about with the whole grit thing. It's looking at the other side of the coin from where the comparisons specifically in striking are made. I will take someone like Germaine de Randamie to beat Larissa Pacheco on any given day. Hell yeah, she is going to break her arm and jaw just because all Larissa Pacheco has is grit when it all comes down to it. In MMA in general, there is no amount of grit, determination, and toughness that can overshadow being underskilled and underserved by your coaches. There is a reason why people had high hopes for Germaine when she said she was entering MMA after quite possibly one of the most brutal KOs (male or female) I've seen when she KO'd Angela Rivera-Parr. She is what I was hoping for when you had the whole thing where EliteXC was introducing female MMA and then you got stuff like ShoXC specifically for getting over the women. You would hope these awesome strikers and grapplers (think Hannette Staack back when she dominated her weight class in BJJ and the absolutes and not Kyra Gracie) would make that transition. Hoping for someone like Lucie Decosse who looks like a physical freak of nature and competes like one. They just never came. You got brief glimpses with people like Babydoll Reid and few others, but ultimately it never worked out. There are women out who are like Jacare and Maia and can do amazing things. They're just not in MMA. So if that's not happening, you better believe that people like Ronda Rousey and Holly Holm are going to be your rays of light. So for someone like Cristiane Justino to tighten up her boxing, it's extremely critical because she can go for being scary to fucking downright murderous. Because so many female fighters are underskilled, a precise right hand that is set up perfectly is going to do damage. As you just look up and down the UFC.com roster page for the women's bantamweight division, it's nothing but women whose best attribute is being gritty. That would be nice if I was describing a Sam Peckinpah film and not a slew of trained prizefighters. Sure, you got some who are a tick better on the ground than on the feet (or vice versa) but that highlights the actual problem. I mean how does someone like Sarah Kaufman who won a belt in a company that has other female fighters lose to someone whose way less experienced on a certain platform. Kaufman is tough and she can put stuff together, but that's not how you want to describe a top fighter in any given weight class. So if you want a female who has awesome striking to make a successful transition to MMA, it's going to be someone like a Holly Holm or Valentina Shevchenko who are good enough grappling wise to just make other girls who are not skilled or not as proficient look silly. The last part is just the truth. Like what is a girl like Elizabeth Phillips going to do when she is up against a great striker who can stop takedowns? She's either getting knocked out brutally or get beaten up really badly on the way to dropping a 30-26 or 30-25 3x emphatic decision loss. It's MMA and that should happen. People talk about women don't have the knockout power, but you don't need the knockout power to do the job as UK boxing announcers put it. The overall skill does that for you just in case you don't have that. Frankie Edgar ain't exactly Dim Mak'ing dudes but he still night night'd another really talented featherweight. So when you're going against a girl who has nothing for you, it should look like Joanna Champion vs. Penne or GdR vs. Pacheco because there is no good reason for those fights to end any other way. They should not look like the MMA version of that sham of a fight Melendez's wife had on that Dynamite card. That defeats the whole purpose to displaying women in combat sports on a televised platform and undercuts promoting it in the future. In order for that to happen at a more efficient rate, you're going to need two things. Obviously, it's the progression of talent entering the sport. Jacare and Maia make up for the fact that folks like Galvao and Marcelo Garcia really didn't get a chance to do what we know them for. Yoel Romero makes up for the fact Jake Rosholt stunk up the joint. We still need that influx of talent in female MMA especially at 135. So if we're talking strictly striking, it has to be those kickboxers and boxers like Shevchenko and Holm who can successfully cross-train. Not this Ana Julaton thing where you're just kinda doing it. If you do that, you're going to kinda get submitted. Secondly, that talent has to force out that old guard. It happens every other event in the UFC and few times a year in Bellator when it comes to the male fighters. I hate to name names, but it's the circle of life and you got to get to use to it. So in three or four years time, if fighters like Leslie Smith, Lauren Murphy, Jessica Eye, Marion Reneau, Bethe Correia, Sarah Kaufman, Raquel Pennington, Elizabeth Phillips, Jessamyn Duke, Liz Carmouche, and others are still in that immediate cluster, that's a very bad sign. They got to go as time progresses for things to get better. Either they have to be forced to improve like a Rafael dos Anjos or they have to go back to the place whence they came. If it's not on a strictly gatekeeper status, then they really serve no purpose in the promotion. You're going to need Thomas Almeida or Aljamain Sterling type figures to do that very task. That's not picking on the Johnny Eduardo and Brad Picketts of the world. In defense of those guys, they are no Brad Picketts or Johnny Eduardos in that list of women. The Sara McManns of the UFC have to be bumped down to the roles those women currently occupy while new talent surfaces. If you're getting a young female from Lion Fight, whatever kickboxing/TMA organization, or any boxing scene, they need to completely annihilate that class of women above and do the same amount of brutality Nunes did on McMann on that Nashville card. It sounds like a lot to ask, but it's not when we see so many fights almost every week and month where prospects and contenders rise to that occasion and reach new plateaus. Valentina Shevchenko beat a mainstay on one week's notice and only five weeks of training. The right women, especially with the amount of top level trainers and the amount of trial and error in cross training already completed, are certainly capable of doing that.
    1 point
  32. Sixers just reacquired Ish Smith from the Pelicans for two second round picks. And they waived Tony Wroten, the name best equipped to pronounce in a Philly accent. How I think it went down: Colangelo: So, Brett, what do you think we can do to improve the team so they're not 1-30? Brett: I think we could use a veteran point guard. Someone like Ish Smith. I liked coaching him last year. He's a nice guy and can dribble the ball without it ending in the third row. Colangelo: Why don't we just get Ish Smith? Hey, Sam, don't we have a bunch of second round picks? (Hinkie just stares straight ahead nodding.)
    1 point
  33. I'm totally fine with the Hype Bros. existing because it gives Corey Graves a chance to flat-out call them morons and trained apes.
    1 point
  34. I was very pleased with the dueling mind trick scene, because I'm so used to movies having a line like "I can't believe you are blocking my mind trick, and now you're reading my mind!" instead of just letting shit happen and you figure it out by body language. Worked so well they did it at least one more time, maybe twice. It was nice to see a movie, especially a tentpole movie, let a scene breathe and let the acting convey the story instead of the dialogue spelling it out for you.
    1 point
  35. Ha, this is pretty awesome http://www.wired.com/brandlab/2015/12/lexical-analysis-lex-luthor-on-disrupting-the-vigilante-industrial-complex/#^eyJocmVmIjoiaHR0cDovL3d3dy53aXJlZC5jb20vIiwiYWRVbml0Ijp7InNlcnZlciI6ImRmcC1ncHQiLCJlbGVtZW50SUQiOiJyYWQtcG9sYXItY2FyZDE2NXgzMDdfZnJhbWUifSwibGFiZWwiOiJwb2xhciBjYXJkIiwic2VsZWN0b3IiOiIjcmFkLXBvbGFyLWNhcmQxNjV4MzA3X2ZyYW1lIiwiY3JlYXRpdmUiOiI0M2I5ODc3YzgwZDU0ODNmYTkyMTA4ODFlNmI2ODAyZiIsImV4cGVyaWVuY2VUeXBlIjoiaW5ib3VuZCJ9
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  36. Anytime, mane. (edit: spelling)
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  37. Dunno if it's odd/unusual, but it is awesome:
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  38. Thanks, random youtube algorithm recommendation program, for this WTH moment today.
    1 point
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