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  1. It's actually not as bad as it sounds. A big chunk of the money isn't even as guaranteed as it sounds AND SF can cut Kap as late as April 1 each year - without penalty. There's also penalties for him not playing and all kinds of other stuff.
  2. Tabe

    MLB 2014: JUNE

    Nah, everyone loved Zimmer. Colleagues who dealt with him, one of which is a Sox diehard with a tattoo of the team's logo, adored him Speaking of Zimmer and Brooklyn.... Photographic proof he wasn't always 90 years old! I swear, Zim has always seemed like he was ancient since the first time I remember seeing him in the late 70s. Helluva baseball man, that's for sure.
  3. Thoughts are with ya, Mike. And anybody who read my posts when Trish was going through chemo 2 years ago (has it really been almost 2 years?!?!?!) knows just how much hatred I have for insurance companies. I mean, I'm the guy who was told by his insurance company's case manager "Stop calling, I can't help you!" because I'd called so often.
  4. You don't have to redownload anything. Back up the system to an external USB, swap hard drives, restore from external USB. No redownloading necessary. My only regret is that I didn't hold out for the PS4. What I *should* have done is bought a 1.5 TB drive, bought a PS4, put the 1.5 in there, and taken the 500 from the PS4 and put it in the PS3. I didn't do that though Now I've got 500 in each system.
  5. That's because there is no PS3 version of the game. Next-gen only.
  6. Upgrade your hard drive! I did and am so glad I did. If you do a backup/restore with an external USB drive, it takes a couple days for the whole process to complete but it's all incredibly easy. Of course, if you've already upgraded or don't have the cash for another drive, then this advice is useless to you
  7. In this case it wasn't really the insurance company's fault. The insurance company asked for medical justification for the treatment and the hospital didn't give them any, despite three separate requests being made. Now, that doesn't mean things should have gone like they did. The insurance company assigned a case manager - I believe all insurance companies do that for cancer cases - and that person should have continued following up instead of just giving up after 3 tries. That said, as I've experienced first hand more times than I can count, insurance companies absolutely DO deny claims for no reason. They very clearly deny claims just to see if you'll fight the denial. It's BS and they do it all the time. Why not? A percentage of people won't, or won't know they can, fight the denial. That's like adding money to the insurance company's bottom line. However, as I've also learned, it's often best to ignore an initial denial. Wait until the bills start showing up. I can't tell you how many times a claim for my wife got denied initially, only to get cleared up before I ever got a bill because more information was received - without me doing anything.
  8. Am just over a third of the way through Console Wars, the new book covering the battle between Nintendo and Sega in the early/mid 90s. Lots of great information but... It's blatantly obvious that Sega's Tom Kalinske was the main source for the book. And that the author took his word for pretty much everything. As a result, we learn that Kalinske has never lost a job because he stopped being good at it, that he's never made a bad decision ever, and that every good idea or decision from Sega was Kalinske's and nobody else's. Also, if anything ever goes wrong, it was Sega of Japan's fault. Beyond that bias, the author also went for a writing approach that leans toward the "novelesque" in terms of style. As a result, we get obviously faked dialogue, details, and scenery that just sound....fake. I prefer a much more factual style in my non-fiction books. All that said, so far anyway, this has been a great read and well worth picking up. Fun story that highlights the author's shortcomings/bias at the same time: Apparently Sega approached EA to rescue them when development on Joe Montana Football was way behind schedule, asking them to make the game using the John Madden engine. This is something I either never knew or had forgotten. Trip Hawkins eventually agreed and EA made the game. The author then goes on to rave about the game, saying people "had no idea" (true) that it was the same game as Madden and so on. Well...people had no idea because Montana wasn't as good. NOBODY at the time thought the games were equal. There's a reason one franchise is now 30 years old and the other has been dead for 20. The funny part? The author raves about EA helping out Sega and how awesome this was for Sega while ignoring that EA intentionally crippled Joe Montana Football so that it wouldn't be as good as their own game. But that doesn't fit the pro-Kalinske, pro-Sega narrative, so it just gets left out.
  9. Who knew Whose Line Is It Anyway? was still/again on the air? Rob Gronkowski, apparently:
  10. Another Netflix documentary: The Last Gladiators - Documentary on the great NHL enforcers and fighters of the 1980s and 1990s, with 90% of the movie being the life and career of Chris Nilan. Lots of great highlight clips shown, including lots of fights (of course). Nilan has had a difficult life - before, during, and after hockey. Abusive father, fights with management, drugs, shoplifting, and so on. He is brutally honest and pretty unrepentant about all of it. We also get interviews with fighters like Tony Twist, Todd Ewen and, in perhaps the last interview before his death, Bob Probert, who died during the making of this movie. The end result is a compelling look at this aspect of hockey and a very entertaining movie. 8/10.
  11. Another night, another Netflix quality film: Between Us - Two couples reunite two years after a weekend visit that turned really nasty and ugly for one of the couples - so bad that it ended their friendship. The reunion lets us catch up and see where each couple is in their lives. Basically, what we have here is four characters that are not likable yelling at each other and saying really, really mean stuff to one another, so much so that you question how they were ever friends in the first place. The cast is decent enough, the acting is decent enough but in the end, the results are just mediocre. But, hey, Julia Stiles looks perhaps the hottest she's ever looked in a movie and that alone is worth an extra point from me. We'll say... 5/10.
  12. The way I took it was he was basically saying "Hey, I'm no longer employed by CBS and the NFL, I can get a piece of the concussion settlement!" and then somebody was like "dude, you'll never get another NFL paycheck if you do this..." and that was that.
  13. Would be nice if they'd done a sale on just the first game. I've got (but not played) 2 & 3 from before #1 was even available on PS3. I suppose I could sell the disc versions and buy the trilogy...
  14. Tabe

    MLB 2014: JUNE

    I know I'm old and all but, man, it's just so unprofessional to put profanity in article titles.
  15. For sure. Almost to the level of playing somebody dying or mentally retarded.
  16. Doubt it. Unlikely they'd be in the game during a redshirt year.
  17. They said June somewhere last week and are now saying "hey wait, no, we really said July". So, yeah, July for the all-at-once plan. As for The Show, I'd say the odds are somewhere between zero and nil. Why give away a franchise that's the only game in its genre?
  18. EA and the former NCAA players suing it have reached a settlement that will pay the players approximately $951 for game in which EA used their likeness without permission. I am disappointed this didn't actually go to try and that the players are settling for such a low dollar amount.
  19. Yeah, that scene had me rolling. Give that chick credit, man, she was willing to talk to him even after he spilled his beer right away.
  20. BTW, IGN has updated their site with a PS3-specific review of Watch Dogs and it boils down to: good game, bad performance. 7.5/10.
  21. This week's update for the US: Free - Trine 2: Complete Story (PS4) - Side-scrolling action game with fabulous graphics. I'll be downloading this for sure. - Pixeljunk Shooter Ultimate (PS4) - Lots of people love it, me not so much. Just not a fan of Pixeljunk's work. - NBA 2k14 (PS3) - Another current-season sports title for the PS3 comes to Plus, joining PES 14. I'll be downloading for sure, all while cursing that it's not the PS4 version. Discounts - This week it's all about the Rainbow Moon. The game is $4.89 and a whole bunch of booster items are way discounted. I'll be picking some up for sure.
  22. Back home from Seattle, it was a night of documentaries for me: After Porn Ends - Interviews with a bunch of porn stars regarding their careers and their lives afterward. This movie is a mess and the actual amount of "what are they doing now?" information is surprisingly low. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to the structure. What could, and should, have been a fascinating topic ends up just being terrible. 2/10. Superheroes - This one traces the phenomenon of real people dressing up capes and costumes and acting as real-life superheroes on the streets of their cities. 95% of this movie is an unintentionally hilarious train wreck with one "superhero" demonstrating his devastating fight technique in a scene that could be an outtake from Napoleon Dynamite. Another guy drives around with a color in the back of his van with popsicles in it - in case, you know, he runs into kids that will take treats from a stranger at night. And beer. He wanders around and then comes back to his van and drinks beer. Other heroes are less pathetic, with one guy patrolling Washington Square Park with a cameraman, filming drug transactions, yelling in a megaphone to drive away drug dealers, and so on. Another group chases down a drunk driver who rammed a park car and, unable to get the police to even stop, manage to get him to give up his keys for the night. The last few minutes of the movie covers the heroes going around giving out food and water to the homeless or the drunk hero guy's annual Christmas drive that's actually pretty successful. This ends up being "halfway decent" with the first 30-45 minutes being "the greatest movie ever" [/sarcasm] because of the unintentional comedy. It is fascinating to look at all of these very earnest folks who just aren't quite right in the head. 6/10.
  23. Wow, that looks like one of the more unoriginal and cliche-filled movies we'll see this year.
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