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I feel like there should be something more to Vault 81.

Holy fucking shit. The stat correction for Latavius Murray is going to cause me to lose. At first, I thought that no way would I lose by 3,it would be more than that. I fucking lost by 3 points!!! Now what? Am I just fucked? This is in regard to the play at the end of the half. Both penalties were declined. Then, the next day, 3 points disappear because of the stat correction with no explanation. Then NFL changed it to show that one of the penalties was accepted, except on ESPN and Yahoo, it shows both penalties were declined. I'm so fucking pissed. I'm as annoyed because my dumbass trusted Ted Ginn Jr instead of Allen Hurns.

Thanks to DeSean Jackson and Antonio Gates for totally fucking my team over in the championship. Worthless fucks. Figures, I'm the highest scoring team all season... Except in the ship. I could have really used that $500.

Man. I couldn't imagine living with Mojo. "WHAT? Play board games?! Come on bro! Lets go out and get some digits, son! Better yet, I'll bring the party here!" And that is probably every day living with Mojo, until you move out or you're both evicted.

I dislike Mojo so much. He's just so totally outclassed by Zach in every way. There's no reason why Zach should be in NXT except to not release him and have him make money for another company. He's not the best wrestler, but damn, for the main roster, he's good enough and he does enough little things to make the people in the cheap seats like him. He's good enough on the mic, kids would love him, he's catchy and smart enough to get adults to like him, and yet he's stuck with Mojo trying to get Mojo over. Mojo. Who loves LMFAO in a not ironic way. Mojo is hopeless unless he can find a way to get Gronk to be a wrestler.

Also, man do I not like Mojo. If his in ring skills weren't bad enough, then it's his true to character personality. He's just too much to take.

On one of your points, I think you're underselling the feeling some of those guys have, even Sami Zayn, when it comes to being sidetracked. For someone like Sami who was on the indy scene for so long to finally get to this point, have a huge debut on Raw only to then get injured, have surgery and be out for months probably does feel like his door or window is closing. My own personal feeling is that if you don't look at life and the opportunities it has to offer as if that window or door is always on the verge of closing, then it's going to be tough to succeed. In something like wrestling where opportunities are lost for the dumbest of reasons and punishment comes in the form of burials and demotions, even if you make money for the company, then yeah, I totally buy Sami feeling like he could be losing an opportunity.

Yeah. I'm going through this thread now and that's pretty amusing. A couple more things... It's a good game despite the jank. I never remember shit being so broken in Skyrim, Oblivion, or Morrowind, but it doesn't bother me much in Fallout because everything is broken in this universe anyway. My biggest annoyance is that Codsworth is an unstoppable killing machine and if you don't get a hit in on an enemy, then you get no experience. This is a problem because anyone or anything that is not an NPC is something he just charges at to kill. Even creatures like those 2-headed deer that aren't aggressive at all he is just like KIIIIIILLLLLLL and then he's chopping up the deer or torching it with his flame thrower. That entire mechanic is especially problematic when you're sneaking around in stealth mode because your murderous robot housekeeper tends to blow your cover 100% of the time due to his insatiable bloodlust. But when you decide to kill an unarmed synth being held at gunpoint because he was going to kill the human he's a copy of, Codsworth's bloodlust is just totally ignored as he holds that one innocent death over your head as a reason for why your relationship with this robot has deteriorated. "Codsworth doesn't like this." Oh, fuck off, Codsworth. Do as your told and speak when spoken to.

I bought this game and I have no idea what I'm doing. These are some things that have happened though... I don't know why, but for as janky as it is, and it's REALLY damn janky, the Minecraft-ish town building mode in Fallout 4 is addicting. I spent another 2 pointless hours re-building my town. I was 400!!! lbs. over the amount of weight I could normally carry because of all the junk, weapons and other shit I collected. And that town building mode is so addicting that I fucking walked from that bluff where you talk to that couple who needs help from the Minutemen killing all the way to Sanctuary because I you need all of that junk to make shit in your town. I scavenged for way to damn long to find the mats to make a radio beacon. When I made the radio beacon, I learned I needed to make a power generator, so I used my mats to make that. Then I had to wire all that shit together so it would work. After I did that, people started showing up in Sanctuary, which meant I needed more beds. I proceeded to spend 30 goddamn minutes using one of the jankiest mechanics ever to build a house with beds for the people coming to my town. And for those people that came, I robbed them of their money (Bottlecaps), weapons, and other goods and put them to work farming my crops. Somehow, Bethesda stealthily made a post-apocalyptic Sim City and slave owning sim, and a bad one at that, but it's one that I've invested more time into than anything else in Fallout 4 and I don't know why. Also, I nearly had the shit scared out of me when walking along the shore of a lake when I happened upon some mirelurk eggs that started hatching Alien style. As if that wasn't bad enough, two giant mirelurks walked up out of the water at that moment and nearly one shotted me. I somehow survived, I train-ed them back to my town where I had some security turrets setup, and the people in my town with weapons along with the turrets killed the giant mirelurks which gained me nearly 2 levels of experience because I was so underleveled for them. I later realized that my character had no armor on and was only in his tighty whities. I had power armor on earlier that I removed and exited. You can just exit the power armor, but I guess if you remove the armor from your body in your Pipboy first, you're left naked. So here's my naked ass self, in his tighty whities, running up to the town I basically founded, with two monsters chasing me. Also, I made my character look like Walter White, so it was basically the Walter White in his tighty whities running up to the town.

Rodgers vs Captain Kirk has been the talk of Reddit the last couple days and I've been swayed into thinking Kirk is the better play. It's risky and bold, but you know what they say: Ride or die. For your RB, I do not at all believe that Woodhead is going to have anything close to the week he had last week, but given your other RBs, and that it's PPR, Woodhead is probably your best option. My opponent in the 'ship is rolling with the Browns as his WRs as well and he's likely going to beat me, so you may as well keep that train rolling. And Chris Boswell is the secret weapon in fantasy football.

Fuck you both. Not one of you had to endure the Jimmy Clausen era in South Bend where Charlie Weis let that asshole punk kid roll up in a limo and show off his stupid fucking high school state championship rings. Everything that followed that moment was probably the worst few years ever for ND football and there weren't any Steve Smiths around to put Jimmy in his place. The lone consolation prize for Jimmy's time here in South Bend was getting his ass kicked at CJ's Pub, which, if you're ever in the area, is a damn good spot for a burger.

Suspension stands. No OBJ this week.

This is risky as hell, but how good of a play would the Miami D/ST be this week? They're not that great, but the Colts have looked terrible as of late. Haselbeck can't play a game without getting hurt and he's playing hurt to begin with. So basically, Miami taking on the Colts, or Arizona, taking on Green Bay?

Jaws fell for the bait it appears.

At this time, I'd like to HIGHLY recommend listening to the Island of Dr. Moreau episode of How Did This Get Made? because it's one of the funniest episodes of that podcast. Later in the episode they air some audio clips of the producer or director, I forget which, and it's from an interview he did where you get first hand knowledge of just how crazy that movie shoot was.

I think there's a pretty significant difference between things JJ might say to protect a movie's major surprise prior to release and JJ giving a Q&A for the express purpose of explaining the movie post-release. There's just not value for him in lying in the latter context, especially considering it's a relatively minor, but I would argue necessary, bit of shoe leather to the plot. Maybe Rian Johnson thinks it's a lame coincidence, too, and attempts to retrofit a better explanation in VIII, but for now, that's all it was, according to the writers themselves. You're looking at this as one movie though, when it's three movies. If it ended here, then that's fine, but giving a bullshit answer post-release is at least similar to giving a bullshit answer in the pre-lease period of Episode VIII.

Fair enough regarding the "official" line from JJ. JJ, on more than one occasion, not just with Star Trek: Into Darkness, has gone back on what he's previously said. And this is inference, but... C-3PO says that R2 went into sleep mode when Master Luke left and no one had any idea why or how to wake him up. Maybe...just maybe...a character in the cast, one that could be related to Luke, would get flooded with the Force and that would lead to R2 waking up. Rey lets the Force flow through her and lets say that Occam's Razor is correct and she's a Skywalker. She returns to the base and, huh, how about that, R2 wakes up, almost like a Skywalker deeply connected with the Force was in R2's presence, which caused it to come out of its slumber. That guy in the review was totally clueless as to why R2 woke up, not even making the connection I made, that my girlfriend made during the movie, and that plenty of others have made and he also doesn't even try to make an inference. For what it's worth, I think JJ is as full of shit as ever, even with his apology for Into Darkness. A tiger doesn't change its stripes and he's still in the business of being associated with some of the biggest money making properties in entertainment so he's always going to be involved with obfuscating the truth.

As for Max Landis, I made the mistake of watching the Screen Junkies spoiler review panel. It was not good. Landis' criticisms were centered on Rey not being Furiosa, that there weren't B wings and Y wings, and he kept repeating this point about them being video game characters where they're all awesome from the start. Um, I don't know, but the thing I don't like about video games these days is the amount of time you have to invest to unlock the cool shit and to level up. I Prestiged in CoD Black Ops 3 and what a fucking mistake that was. I grind out 55 levels and thought I would Prestige. I had never done this in a game before. I went right back to the start. Everything I worked to unlock was gone. I went from regularly having a 1.5 to 4 K/D ratio to barely getting 5 kills. Such a mistake. I also just started playing Fallout 4 and I have no goddamn clue what to do because there's so many options. The Rey/Furiosa thing was particularly annoying, but not as annoying as the criticism over the lack of different spacecraft when what was used was FUCKING. AWESOME. Who cares that a B wing wasn't used! What, so you can watch a B wing get blown up instead of an X Wing? Stick with what works for crying out loud. Not to mention that it completely ignores the backstory that Landis is apparently so very well aware of. For the unaware... - The Galactic Senate eventually signs a peace treaty/cease fire with the Empire - Leia and others see what is happening with the First Order, but the Senate disregards her concerns by sticking their fingers in their ears pretending nothing is happening. The Senate also moves away from having a militaristic presence in the galaxy. - Leia then forms the Resistance to protect the Galactic Senate and to watch them movements of the First Order. The Resistance is not a military wing of the Senate, they operate outside of it. They also don't have nearly the funds that even the Rebels had so they wouldn't have fucking B Wings. Anyway, Landis wasn't even the worst part of the review. One guy on the panel says he saw the movie 4 times and yet didn't understand AT ALL why R2-D2 woke up at the end of the movie and wished that there was some explanation for it. How do you see a movie that many times and just be totally oblivious to why R2 woke up? Honest Trailers, good. Movie Fights, eh, usually good. Reviews, awful.

I just had a bittersweet thought... So in all this time traveling together, Han NEVER uses Chewie's bowcaster and then he finally gets to do so and looks like he's 30 years younger all of a sudden and then he gets to use it again later. One part of me thinks that it sucks that he didn't get more opportunities to use it and the other part of me thinks that it's really sweet that he gets to use it at least once before he dies. Thinking back, I liked that a ton. EDIT: Moved the Landis and review talk to a separate post.

I dunno dude I LOVED Rey's theme. They played it during her early scenes and also during the walk up to Luke at the end. I think Craig mentioned it earlier, but it did have a LOST vibe to it. "Rey's Theme" is fucking great. It's so damn whimsical and I can't help but smile whenever it, or a variation of it, played. And yeah, it did have that same Lost vibe. The track I was specifically referring to was "The Jedi Steps" that plays at the end. The first minute of that feels like it came straight out of a Lost season finale and it transitions beautifully to the Jedi/Force theme when Luke turns to face Rey. Fuck it. I'm listening to that again now.

Bob Brenly comes to mind since he didn't play as a Cub, he was just the best man for the job and it worked. His son was drafted by the Cubs, but I don't think that played into any homerism. Biased as this may be, but Kasper and Brenly I think were the best announce team in baseball. I really miss Brenly now, but Deshaies is alright I guess. He's Brenly-lite.

I have no idea what to do for my PPR league championship game. First, my RB situation is not good. I have Shady, Latavius, CAP and Ajayi. I could drop Ajayi for Gillislee. My opponent already has Karlos. I'm guessing I start Latavius and CAP? Then there is my QB situation. To this point, Cam has carried me. Since he could be rested though, do I start Palmer instead? And I need to figure out what to do with OBJ. I'm either going to have DeSean or Sanders start for him.

Who owns Shady and OBJ and is going to the championship? This guy.

Fuck yeah! As long as Snead doesn't score 38 points (PPR), I'm going to my first championship. I thought I was done for with Shady and Hurns having bad days, along with leaving almost 90 points on my bench from Sanders, Ginn and DeSean. Luckily, Cam was king sized and the rest of my team had decent days to get me to 136 points. If I win, I'm taking on someone who scored 181 points this week. He was the #2 seed and I was the #1 and we didn't play each other during the regular season.

No no no! He's getting mad!