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And speaking of a million years ago, I didn't remember that the guy that Patterson replaced at TCU was Dennis Franchione. There's a name I thankfully haven't hadn't heard in forever. Remember that time he turned down a ten year contract and bolted Alabama to lead A&M further into the wilderness than it already was during Slocum's last years.

And one stripper monkey.

The first half of the Oklahoma game must seem a million years ago to Sarkisian right about now

The full scale alien invasion is a nice touch. Nighttime is downright creepy looking. Downside is I keep having to dodge UFOs while trying to prepare to rob Rubio for the nth time

Stupid New York teams. Can’t trust em to do anything. Even to lose correctly.

I get what you're saying, but I think you're confusing my meaning or maybe my meaning just wasn't very clear in the first place. The danger absolutely has to be respected 100% of the time. When that doesn't happen you get things like that Rust shooting. There are procedures that should've been followed that would've made for a reasonably safe situation. They weren't, and that combined with the fools using that gun for target practice cost a woman her life. That's inexcusable. I grew up with a guy that shot and killed himself accidentally when we were 14. Smart guy, but did something stupid (incredibly stupid to my thinking, but I wasn't there) and ended up dying in a horrible manner in front of his father. Without exact firsthand knowledge of what happened, I've always thought he must've disrespected the danger there to do what he did, and he didn't get a second chance. But respecting guns isn't the same as being afraid of them. You respect the real danger a gun poses, not the imagined ones. I've been around folks that are so scared of guns that if they come into contact them their fear actually increases the danger level. Barring a massive failure of the gun itself, the danger is only comes from getting shot. That's a very real danger. So you make sure everybody handles the gun in such a way that nobody can get shot. If you you handed me a spider I'd freak out and try to get it as far away from me as possible, probably end up throwing it, with out paying attention where it went as long as it was away from me. Some folks have that same reaction to the mere presence of a gun, and that clouds their judgement. Their fear blocks their ability to handle things correctly. Respect for a gun is necessary. Outright fear makes people do stupid things. That's what I mean by overestimating. I've been around guns my entire life. I absolutely acknowledge the danger. I've been hunting for nearly forty years, so of course I've seen what they can do. But only twice have I been scared. Once was when my girlfriend at the time picked up a 9mm pistol, assuming it was unloaded, and pointed it at my head as a joke. The gun wasn't loaded, but she had no way of knowing that. She didn't know guns, and so didn't know any better, so she just assumed. That's rule #1 of right there - the gun is loaded unless you've proven for yourself that it isn't. And then, of course, she broke rule #2 - a gun should never be pointed at anything it's not safe to shoot, no matter what. Partly of course that situation was my fault. I should have never allowed her to handle the gun without making sure she know what not to do. I wasn't used to being around somebody who didn't know better, so I just assumed she'd know not to do that. Fortunately she didn't pull the trigger, and the gun wasn't loaded, so I got to learn from that mistake. The second time was when I was double-checking a rifle after I had unloaded it. The slide magazine on that gun is difficult to check visually, so after unloading it and counting the rounds, I was intending to cycle through about ten more times just to make 200% sure. On the sixth or seventh cycle, I out popped a bullet. That shouldn't have been possible, but it happened. Obviously it was an issue with the gun. That one scared the living shit out of me, because I'd done everything right. That last check shouldn't have been necessary. Been nearly 30 years since that happened, and I haven't fired that gun since. Not sure I trust it.

Partly that, I think. And partly a general cluelessness about guns that causes people to somehow both underestimate and overestimate the danger.

The answer is yes.

Thanks JT. Ended a bit after the fire started. Looks like everybody who wasn’t in the house is ok. News said the shooter had critical injuries, which is a strange way of saying they took him out of the house in a bag. Dumbass friend was standing in her front yard with her six month son in clear view of the shooter while the shots were going off, apparently thinking rifle bullets aren’t lethal at 60 yards. Fortunately she listened to my wife and got her ass back inside.

Been an interesting day. So far, there's been a murder down the street from my parents and a Swat standoff two houses down from a friend's house. They had shots fired this morning. Now they're having heavy gunfire and explosions as I type this. Getting a play by play over text is more than unsettling. Even better. House is on fire now. With gunfire still going on.

I think his problem is that if my father in law ever watched the Colonel Bat Guano scene in Dr. Strangelove (which I'm sure he hasn't, since he's entirely without a sense of humor), he wouldn't get the "You're gonna have to answer to the Coca Cola Company" joke. He'd think the colonel made a perfectly sensible point.

My personal feeling would be Vice City <decent sized gap> San Andreas <giant chasm> GTA3

Yeah, I'm right there with you on that, even though the Shepard blows up Earth thing is pretty dang close to my original expectation of how things would go when I played it the first time.

So they've added a few more temporary things to GTA online for Halloween, including killer clowns armed with knives. Also, Christine has been making appearances, and if the videos online are any indication seems to share my feelings about how to deal with car meets.

Below is a complete, lifetime list of games I've played on anything higher than normal difficulty:

Aw. I actually like that one. Maybe the only GTA RC vehicle mission I don’t hate. of course it may just be the one NPC that shouts “Crush! Kill! Demolish!” In that mission. I’m easily amused.

We all did.

I'm definitely getting this. And I'm definitely NOT trying to get 100% on an of em. Last game I did that on was San Andreas. Never again. Stupid Burn and Lap. CJ nearly starved to death while I tried to get through that thing.

All you had to do was follow the damn train.

I didn't know till I started looking at the survival stuff this morning. I mean, I knew they were bad, but didn't realize they hadn't won at all. Possibly because I don't think I've actually watched a minute of any NFL game so far. I took a look at who I've picked against so far, and I've spread it around more than I figured. Six teams in seven weeks, with the only repeat offender being Houston.

Yeah the Jets have been a big part of my personal flowchart so far.

So my In laws are getting rid of all their old VHS tapes. Instead of just throwing them in the trash, my father in law is cutting them up. I could maybe see the point if these were personal/family tapes or something, but they're just old movies they taped off of TV. So he's spending hours a day, every day, out in his garage cutting copies of Ben Hur taped off of cable into tiny little pieces.

He's no Bobby Petrino, that's for sure.

This. There are a lot of reliably bad teams this year.

Anybody want to be Washington State’s coach? Their previous coach apparently decided to be a clown full time instead.