Death From Above
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I was thinking Spin the Wheel Make a Deal.
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Gmail and their constant GIVE US UR PHONE NUMBER NOW NOW NOW is some seriously ridiculous Big Brother horse shit. As long as there are alternatives they'll never be my primary.
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I don't want to sound like I'm defending Grown Ups 2 but it's been a dry Summer for comedies and when it comes to Pacific Rim I feel like the thought was either A. I have no idea what this is or B. I've seen enough 'save the world' movies for a while.
I agree with what you're saying to a point. Sandler also has the non R-rated edge. We've got a choice of (depending on your size of theater) like 6 action movies to go see, but the other big comedies so far (Hangover III, This is the End, The Heat) have all been R-rated. I don't like Sandler much and his success is kind of crazy, but his studio picked a good spot for his film here.
The commercials for Pacific Rim had some great visuals (well it's Del Torro, no kidding) but I didn't see any plot beyond ROBOTS! MONSTERS! Not that I have anything against robots vs. monsters as a plot. And it's not like Grown Ups 2 really has a plot either. But there is probably something to action movie burnout this summer.
On the same front, I thought the commecials for The Heat looked really unfunny but I still would have picked it to beat White House Down which came out the same week, for basically the "comedy over action film #6" logic. White House Down looked like probably the most generic action film of the year thus far without a ton really going for it. The Heat looked like "that thing the wife made you go see because White House Down looked stupid and no one under 50 cares about The Lone Ranger" that ends up making a bunch of money.
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So a couple weeks back on the Humble Bundle weekly sale some game called Rochard came up. Didn't know anything about it but got gifted it by a friend. Just getting around to it now and... man, it's pretty good.
Somewhere between The Lost Vikings and the human cutscenes from the original Starcraft lies Rochard. It's a side scrolling sci-fi puzzle game with a pretty good sense of humor (and sections where gravity inverts on you just to really mess with you) I've only got about an hour into it but so far the game is a riot. You play as this redneck space miner who runs around with a gravity lift gun moving boxes/flipping switches/shooting fools trying to work your way from one room to the next.
It's like the original Prince of Persia in space (complete with an old school running timer saying how long it takes you to get through the game! God, I miss when games actually kept score, it actually feels like a bonus feature in 2013). Definitely going to have to play through this one until the end because if the first couple levels are any indication it's a good one.
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What about Hoardak?
This was the only name I thought about borrowing.
I was going to go around. Give compliments. Say nice things.
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I will only support one of these movies if we get Gina Gershon to be in it.
She's done shitty made for TV disaster movies before. I shuold know, I watched just because she was in it.
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I don't want to start a big war or anything, but who are these people that pay full price to go to Sandler movies opening weekend?
Don't play the date card either. Women don't like fart jokes that much.
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Also, the real reason the Oilers got terrible post-Gretzky and Messier was they sucked at the draft. Starting from the late 80's on, this is what we did with our first rounders:
87: Peter Soberlak, LW. 0 NHL games
88: Francois Leroux, D. 249 NHL games, 11 of them for Edmonton
89: Jason Soules, D. 0 NHL games
90: Scott Allison, C. 0 NHL games
91: Martin Rucinsky, LW. 971 NHL games, 612 points. Played 2 total games for the Edmonton Oilers. Traded for spare parts.
92: Joe Hulbig, LW. 55 NHL games, 8 career points.
93: Jason Arnott, C. The trend breaker. Over 1200 games and over 900 points. Really good player. Won a Stanley Cup with New Jersey in 2000.
93 part 2: Nick Stajduhar, D. 2 NHL games.
94: Jason Bonsignore, C. 79 NHL games.
94 part 2: Some guy named Ryan Smyth who played over 1100 games and had over 800 points.
95: Steve Kelly, LW. 149 NHL games. 21 career points.
96: Boyd Devereaux: 627 NHL games, but only 117 points. Fringe player at best.
96 part 2: Mattieu Descoteaux, D. 5 NHL games.
97: Michel Riesen, RW. 12 NHL games.
98: Michael Henrich, RW. 0 NHL games.
99: Jani Rita, LW. 66 NHL games.
00: Alexei Mikhnov, LW. 2 NHL games.
I mean for fuck's sake. That is an utterly terrible record even if you are throwing darts at a board as a scouting system. After that it starts to turn around (Hemsky, Dubnyk, Gagner etc) but what an abysmal track record there. Really only 2 good players you got anything out of in Arnott and Smyth out of 17 first round picks.
One of the things about other Oilers fans that pisses me off is this myth that Peter Pocklington singlehandedly ruined the team. He sure did his share, but goddamn that is a pretty rancid record at the business end of the draft.
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There are some huge busts at the top in the old days but scouting was awful then by comparison.
Patrik Stefan didn't just bomb out of the NHL he quit all pro hockey before he turned 30 so I'd say in modern terms he takes the cake. He never even threatened to be a good player really. Alexander Daigle at least hung around a while.
On Filatov: Doug Maclean on Sportsnet tells the story now and again that his scouting staff was split pretty much 50/50 down the middle. Half were adamant they should take Filatov, the other half were adamant they should take Anze Kopitar (who because he was from Slovenia was considered a riskier pick). Oh, hindsight, you make things so easy.
There's also the whole Rick DiPietro debacle, although he did look like an ok goalie for a while before injuries took him apart. But even so... the Islanders moved Luongo along for that guy? Come on.
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The Browns would be second in the Patriots division.
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Where the hell are J.T. and assfax?
A week without an assfax rant is really no week at all. One of the most amazing stream of counciousness writers I've ever seen.
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Montreal changed coaches and schemes and 5000 year old Calvillo wasn't smart enough to walk away. I can't wait to see what they do next year without him assuming he doesn't decide to be Favre North and keep hanging on for absolutely no reason.
Also, Edmonton aren't very good on offense at all so I don't know if there's any crossover guarantee there. Calgary, Sask, and BC are really all tough wins for my boys right now. Watching them play without Fred Stamps tonight, it's really obvious without him we've got very little. Dude is the best receiver in the league.
Also, I honestly enjoy how fucked up football gets in the rain. It's like watching football in the 1950's all of a sudden. Some crazy billionaire needs to build a dome with an indoor weather system so it can rain every game all the time.
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The whole Kovalchuk thing was always ridiculous because it reeked of the kind of situation where Lamoriello was "instructed" on what to do by his owners. The only reason he's never raised a stink about it is that isn't his style.
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My previously reported problem seems to have disappeared after a day or so. Like most technology problems, just ignore it until it goes away.
Were we able to like our own posts on the old board? God, the 50 or so boring heel gimmick accounts around here are going to eat that up aren't they?
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It can't even happen now because of the salary cap really. I mean the Rangers offer, Amonte I can't remember if he was a star or not yet. Kovalev came over with a ton of hype. Weight was just a prospect then, though obviously he turned out great. Beezer was a guy good enough to start and get Florida into a final. Plus all the 1st rounders they would have got... there's no way to even figure how that works in a cap world. They would have had to pull a post-Cup Blackhawks thing and fire sale half of what they got in like three years.
It's one of the things that has me down on the cap system is that it really limits what kind of lunacy you can produce through trades anymore. Trade deadline day has never had the drama it used to in a cap world, even if the Lindros thing was once in a lifetime and you're not going to see THAT again. But it's still pretty vanilla now.
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Wasn't Simon one of the guys they got from the Flyers? I don't think Quebec even had him.
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Movie was great. People who say it isn't have done a poor job of explaining why
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How do you have all those people and lose to Bret Hart someday soon? What a shithouse company.
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I went to your profile just to see what it said. You should sell advertising space there, make a little something something on the side.
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The Clarkson signing is so hilarious because the WENDEL CLARK thing started like 3 seconds later and this is going to end in so many tears.
I knew I was missing something. Alfredsson bolting to the antichrist at the death sounds just about perfect for him.
Bobby Ryan will outscore Clarkson by 100 goals in their mutual time in Ontario if they both stay, so there's also that.
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One of McNabb's relatives (by marriage, McNabb is married to the kid's aunt) was a first round pick for Edmonton in the NHL draft this year so he can move here if he needs to escape the stupidity of the USA and experience a whole different kind of stupidity here instead.
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I've started re-watching the 80's Mid-South set, and damn it is just about everything I like about US style wrestling. A lot of that to go, I probably won't do it all, but it's the first time I've watched wrestling in large chunks in ages.
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Not at all relevent to current wrestling but a couple classics I feel the need to ensure the children of the world see on the new board:
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Another thumbs up for Home Jersey. Nice.
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You really weren't part of the wrestling scene back in the day if you never had a retarded argument with Chris Coey.
Also, that guy was a seriously messed up asshole.