Jiji
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Babe Ruth ain't got shit on Carlos.
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So last night I found Monster Squad and of course sat down to watch it. I loved it as a kid, and probably haven't seen it in fifteen years. While I felt some parts dragged a bit, I was surprised with how modern mist of the dialogue and jokes felt. Sure, things like Frankenstien saying bogus are pretty inherently 80s, but some of the asides and meta comments could be placed right in a Joss Whedon project and would not be amiss. I did find myself comparing it unfavorably to Lost Boys, which I was surprised by because I think if you had asked me before I would have said Monster Squad had the fonder place in my heart.
A friend and I had the biggest blast watching it for the first time last year. The ending had me in tears from laughter for multiple reasons.
Dracula calling a little girl a bitch in the most heinous of tones AND...
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There are Oilers fans bitching we should have Thomas instead of Dubnyk and I don't even know how to respond to that. The glee some of them have throwing Dubnyk under the bus all of 2 games into a year is just astonishing.
"Sometimes I hate the fans of teams I love." - Phil Rippa
Except Dubnyk has always been terrible and always will be terrible. This shouldn't be surprising.
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I couldn't connect to GTAO on ps3 an hour ago. Lame.
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Sexiful power play goal.
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Didn't Kießling say he'd never play for the national team so long as Löw was in charge just recently?
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Something about rings and ears.
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That link ain't working. Here's YT footage:
Also this:
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Yeah but we know that's a half measure that's doing little to nothing to reduce concussions. You get a concussion if you're hit in the chest. This whole putting hits under the microscope to see if someone is "targeting" the head is only making self-righteous people feel better about themselves and about the NHL protecting itself from a lawsuit.
Why is hitting part of hockey? Why do we accept that? It's not part of basketball or soccer. Why are you physically allowed to attack someone even when he doesn't have the puck?
I had this debate with myself like 5 or 6 years ago over football. It's a violent game. That's obvious to everyone. Am I willing to put up with the consequences of what I'm going to see due to that or not? I decided for myself that I was. It's a serious quesiton that a sports fan is entitled to ask.
I don't watch MMA very much anymore, but that's not an issue of violence. I simply don't care for stuffing instead of potatoes. But the violence aspect isn't what turns me off.
I don't have a problem with contact sports. Both playing them as an adult and watching them is a moral choice. "Don't give people the choice" is some totalitarian nonsense. If you don't want to watch contact sports, that's fine. There are literally dozens of alternatives.
I think trying to change sports into something they aren't is a waste of time. See the classic American argument: "Soccer would be great if it wasn't soccer". Or basically me on basketball: "Basketball would be great if it was NBA Jam instead of basketball".
No sport has fundamentally changed what it is, to my knowledge, ever. I don't see any reason to believe it can be done now. It just seems like a waste of energy to me.
Change happens all the time. No three point line in the NBA before '79-'80.
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How would eliminating blind headshots not reduce concussions?
I get your point, Charlie. Hockey is a construct, right. Constructs change and evolve.
DFA, how do you make people feel things are acceptable/unacceptable about a sport? The conventional way is through the rulebook. Referees are capable of calling the games closer, we've seen it. Do you have specific examples of how fighting acts as a deterrent because that's a myth in my mind and there isn't any evidence to support your theory from what I've seen.
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If you really believe elbowing, stickwork, and hitting from behind won't increase in a hockey without fighting, God help you. I mean you've watched enough hockey to have a sense of who the NHL has at referee.
The idea referees police sports is insanely naive. Players police themselves in pretty much all the major sports. Hockey handles it in a strange way.
That's the key, though. It would have to rely on two things. Referees actually calling the game and suspensions being consistent and harsh.
Charlie, they've outlawed the hits blatantly targeting the head. Of course, that ain't going to remove concussions from hits but it will help. You can't make a game with dudes as fast and big as NHLers safe but you can do things to limit needless risks.
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I agree. It's hypocritical and I accept that. The main difference, though, is punches to the head are an inherent part of combat sports, they aren't in hockey. That's where I see the difference. Furthermore, when Rashad Evans does the stanky legg, he's not cracking his skull on ICE.
Fighting in hockey is just some archaic bullshit, with players stating its a form "self policing," which doesn't work at all. I loved the media dolts asking guys like Spezza about fighting. Like he's going to alienate a handful of his teammates in front of the national media.
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LAWLZ. Bryzgalov is close to signing with the Vegas ECHL team. If only he had some money to burn down there...
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Wait, not wanting dudes to be concussed and have all the possible physical and emotional fallout from repeated severe concussions is not a valid concern? Cool. Shit, I'll admit it, some fights are fucking entertaining, but it's not worth it. If those guys want to earn money through fisticuffs, join a boxing gym or martial arts camp.
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It's one game, guys.
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Fuck yeah, fighting!
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Can we use the Wolfpack?
No. There are only four gang signs/taunts/greetings: bro chest bump, double middle finger, jerking off, or up yours.
You can also set up custom names for each grouping of 10 levels, so I chose wrasslin names/terms (ie, level 1-10 is Curtain Jerker, 11-20 is Jobber, etc.)
I can change the color of the crew but the Social Club site is barely working at the moment. What color would people like? Or what would be easiest to see, especially to seperate us from other crews?
If someone wants to make a different emblem, that is fine. I just used the one Gonzalez made so it was something different from the default fist.
Maybe a touched up version of the main site's logo?
Beat the game last night, feel dirty for doing so. I didn't want it to end. But, seriously, though...
fuck that torture scene. That was the worst.
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So the rumoured Kessel extension is supposedly 8 years @ $8m per year
I like Kessel a lot but that's way too much money.
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David Perron.
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From what very little I've seen of the game so far, the Franklin/Lamar stuff is an Ice Cube comedy just waiting to happen.
Seriously. One of my few complaints is that there is not nearly enough Lamar.
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How does one do this?
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We've had the AMC Marathon on at our house nonstop. I haven't really been watching, just background noise while doing other things, but man oh man...when Boxcutter came on earlier I had to switch the station. That scene really bothers me, and I'm not generally the squeamish type.
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Speaking of the east and goalies, Garth Snow sucks. He had one job, get a goalie that can post NHL competent numbers for more than 20 games and he re-signed Nabokov. I have a hard time seeing them making the playoffs this year.
I actually think Nabokov and the Islanders are a good fit together. As a young team on the rise they benefit from having a veteran goalie who has plenty of post-season experience. And I like how he had such an attitude about joining the Isles originally but now has begrudgingly been part of the process of them becoming a playoff contender. I'll admit I thought it would play out awfully at first, but in the long run I think it's a relationship that benefits both sides.
This was true for the first half of the shortened season, then it became a gong show if memory serves me correctly. He was the Islanders' achilles heel against Pittsburgh in the first round. I thought they had a legitimate chance of beating Pittsburgh if they didn't have a goalie of their own to match Fleury's poor play.
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I'd hope that Thomas only plays around 35-40 games at absolute most. If he plays as many as 65 then the Panthers are fucked.
I don't think Markstrom was bad last year, the team was awful and he was by far and away the Panthers best goalie. Not too many young goalies would've done better with what the Panthers iced last year. He's only 23 and it was his first "full" season in the NHL so I'll give him a break.
That means nothing when your other options were Clemmensen and Threeormore. He was particularly bad in his first handful of call-up games, but he did improve a little bit towards the end of the season. I think he showed he wasn't ready yet for the NHL, at least not as a starter. I had a shit tonne of free time last year and watched way too many TBL/Panther games. I'm going to miss not being able to watch as many Phoenix games with Bronald Cherry up in that bitch. Still ordered centre ice but won't be putting as much time in as last season.
October 2013 NHL Thread
in HOCKEY
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It appears Laviolette is done in Philly.