Robert C

Forgot to enter, which means I got exactly the same number of correct picks as last year.

Gonna have to jack to price of gas up some more. $77 million fully guaranteed coaches contracts don’t buy themselves out.

That’s the first I’d heard of there being NG+. Bethesda does know nobody ever actually finishes their games, don’t they?

Still on Xbox and still the same ID. Not sure what’s up. Possible I set it to offline when I was down with Covid a couple weeks ago. I noticed a few weeks ago that you’re not on my friends list anymore. No clue why. I uninstalled yesterday in a fit of pique. My play through was fucked badly enough (330k bounty on whatever that first planet is called) that I didn’t care enough to figure out how to un-fuck it. I’ll reinstall when I’m not pissed off at the world. Right now there’s so much I don’t like about the game that I don’t need it around.

So far, nothing has I’ve seen is gripping me. By the time I made it to whatever the the first populated planet is called, I just started shooting at civilians out of annoyance. Not sure if the problem is the game or me and the immensely shitty week I’ve had Maybe it’s both of us I’m hoping this turns out like Morrowind did for me, where I despised it at first, but eventually fell in love and played a billion hours of it.

Looks like Denver Harris may have been sent packing by LSU. If so, that will make four players from A&M’s 2022 recruit class that have been kicked off the team they transferred to before the start of the 2023 season. 30 for 30 on that class is gonna be bonkers. (side note - I may have set a board record for worst tense usage there)

So glad to not be there for awhile. I’ve been in Tennessee all week. People here saying it’s hot when it’s 15 degrees hotter at home. Between all the fire warning texts and the news saying it’s gonna get even hotter next week, I don’t wanna go home.

The old record was apparently set the day before. Was helping run my son's baseball practice Tuesday, and it was just brutal. Had one kid go down after about 20 minutes. The rest of em looked pretty pretty rough as well. Today was thankfully cut short by the wild ass thunderstorms that came through Manchaca. Even our dipshit coach seemed to realize that having a bunch of seven and eight year olds standing around in a hailstorm wasn't a great idea.

Gotta find a way to make that next billion, I guess. Figure GTA6 will be pretty much useless without GTA+. That list of removed stuff is crazy. Damn near every car that was around the last time you or JT played this thing got wiped today. Worst of all, the removed the Mini Cooper. Rendering the Nite Shift battle cry "To the Mini Cooper!" obsolete.

Wonder if anybody at Amazon actually seen the Jets play in the last 50 odd years?

I habitually skip the top of the page (sorry Rippa, but it's a fact that engineers can't read directions), so I accidentally saw this yesterday after seeing the mention in OSJ's memorial thread. I've had very little direct interaction with Dean, but I realized yesterday that at the age of 52 I've been reading his stuff for almost exactly half my life, going back to when I was doing an internship in the summer of 1997. I'd have time waiting for simulations to run, and ended up spending it reading RSPW. There were a few posters that I'd always read their stuff, and Dean quickly moved to the top of that list. Then I found his stuff on Ollie's old site and read all of that. Once this site got started, I migrated over here almost immediately, though I lurked forever. Looking at that list of donors yesterday was like looking back in time over the last 26 years Somewhere, on an old CD, I have a bunch of random stuff saved. A lot of it is stuff Dean did. Road reports. Dean/JDW threads either from the green board or RSPW. Lessons on how to be a man that I think he wrote when he turned 40. I've got a lot out of this site over the years, entertainment for sure, but more importantly friendships that extend beyond the online world. Selfishly, I hope and pray I get the chance to tell Dean thank you.

OK, so who here wants to give me an explanation why I saw my next door neighbor's kid (I use the term "kid" to mean he's their offspring, not that he's a child. He lives with his parents, but I'd guess he's at least in his mid 50s) dragging a coffin out of their garage this afternoon? I thought living in a house where the previous owner murdered his wife was odd enough already. Not sure I needed the coffin next door to really up the weirdness factor.

Memory is fuzzy, but I'm pretty sure I walked out of Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome and Less than Zero. A bunch of us dumbass middle schoolers managed to get kicked out of the original Red Dawn.

Saban oughta look further west in the SEC and snap up the dynamic duo of Bobby Petrino and DJ Durkin. If there was ever a pair of former head coaches who could use that Saban rehab clinic magic, it's them. Heck, why not grab Steve Addazio while you're at at. He's got head coaching experience, and A&M's OL play was something to behold last year under his leadership.

Thing is, Google doesn’t want to make 9 billion. They want to make 12 billion. I’ve worked major tech companies for more than 25 years. I’ve heard a lot about loyalty to employees. And I’ve never believed a word of it. As soon as my current employer thinks they can make one penny more profit with me gone, I’m gone. That’s always been my expectation. And every major company is the same way. Is any of that good? Probably not, but If you’re expecting something else going in, you’re fooling yourself. unrelated side note - typing this on my phone. I originally typed cam instead of can. When I went to correct it, my phone started up the camera, which was pointed in my lap. I found that both awkward and funny. Fortunately I got that fixed, and the board probably wouldn’t have embedded it anyway, so you were spared that image.

We’ve secretly replaced the Chargers with the Houston Oilers. Let’s see if anyone notices.

Been sick all week. Woke up from a nap and read this. I’m gonna assume this is just a fever dream and go back to sleep.

Nobody except the Australians, who come from a sport where missing a punt three feet to the left can be a killer.

Chaos chamber isn’t bad. It does get real repetitive real fast though. There’s also the dlc, though If you haven’t bought it I’d say don’t bother.

I once tried to help explain to Chris Simms that the PC he was using was running Windows instead of Apple OS, which is why it looked ‘weird’. It didn’t go well. So I’d say him putting out nonsense on twitter is actually an improvement, at least one n terms of his grasp of technology.

At least till Jimbo hires a newcomer named Bart Riles. Or officially makes himself OC.

I weirdly got through that one easily. Then I played it again coop, and got the crap kicked out of me. At least you don't have to beat that one to progress, so you can always come back to it later.

Whatever I did to offend the football gods, I'm sorry. Really, really sorry.

Wonder is there's anything in there about not forcing underage girls to remove their clothes in his presence.

Jimbo Fisher seems to have accepted reality (read bowed under pressure) and decided to hire an actual, honest to God, offensive coordinator. Or at least he's fired the guy that supposedly was OC till now. Will be interesting to see what we wind up with. Hoping at least for an offensive scheme from this millennium.