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    NFL 2014 Off-Season Thread

    Yeah, a defender chucking a receiver while the ball is in the air is sometimes gonna get called, but that already happens occasionally. It's still PI even if it occurs within 1-5 yards of the line of scrimmage. Changing that from 0-5 is a really minor thing. It makes sense from a rules...
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Unfortunately, you will not have the time or spare duck fat for duck confit. This is sad because duck confit is pretty much the best thing ever created. Either way you'll start by giving the legs a good browning and finish by braising either on the stove or in the oven. In either case save most...
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    NFL 2014 Off-Season Thread

    I don't think you guys are reading the PI rule right. Right now you can't have PI at the line of scrimmage or the backfield. The proposal says you can't maul people at the line scrimmage while the ball is in the air. It doesn't have anything to do with the 5 yard rule, and doesn't affect bump...
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    NFL 2014 Off-Season Thread

    Oh hey, Bengals got Dontay Moch back. The defensive end who makes Clowney's 40 time look like molasses and who is also terrible.
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    THE Drunk Thread

    Notable drunk checking in: My wife just yelled at me at me for smelling like a brewery after picking me up from my friend's house for the second time this week. My friend and I split 2 growlers, 2 bottles of wine, and a fifth over the course of 6 hours. So, I'm not even that drunk.
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    The Beer Thread

    My friend and I picked up a couple growlers. I got the De Molen Geboren & Getogen and he got the Rogue New Crustacean Barleywine/ Imperial IPA. When I got home I was surprised to see that the internet consensus was basically the opposite of my experience. High praise for the Rogue and not...
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    The only paella recipe you'll ever need:
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    Awesome Random Surprises For Your Significant Other

    Whenever I'm feeling artsy or crafty I usually channel that into something for my wife. Paper flowers, a small sculpture of something she likes, a painting or whatever else I've got the stuff on hand for. Sometimes I just want to channel some creativity into something, I get to relax and my wife...
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    The Beer Thread

    My friend picked up a couple growlers from listermans, which is a local brewery/ homebrewing shop that makes fan-fucking-tastic beer but has no distribution. Then we finished up with about 12 oz of bourbon. Moral of the story don't drive drunk. My wife picked me up with a very disapproving...
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    Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey

    Not the right take away. We're pretty sure the universe is 13.8 billion years old, but we don't know how big it is. We can see back into the bubble 13.8 billion years, but we don't know how much of that bubble of the observable universe represents the total universe. Somewhat recently scientists...
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    Shaving

    I haven't shaved in like 5 years, my straight edge is rusty. Fuck it. Never shaving again.
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    True Detective

    I kinda liked it. When Marty has his fight with his wife the first time she laments about how he used to be so much smarter and a good man. It's just reinforcing the shows theme about recurrence and helping to complete his circular character arc.
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    True Detective

    Hahaha. That sounds fucking amazing. Edit: well it'd sound kinda dumb and Dan Brownish if we hadn't just watched that season, but fantastic given the delicate handling of the king in yellow.
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    True Detective

    Fuck me, that was fucking great. So, so much shit got tied together. Everything in the show was about that ending. Those were some heavy fucking character arcs for 8 hours. Redemption and catharsis is what everyone striving for is what Rust said. Hart becomes the smart, good man of his youth...
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    The Beer Thread

    Helles bocks/ Maibocks are cool. They are often pretty good. It's the Munich Helles that tends towards extreme blandness. Apparently for sophisticated palates they offer subtle interplay. My palate is decent, but it's shaped by tasting whiskey so those kind of subtleties are completely lost...
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    That's like the thousandth time it's happened in the bitcoin community. It's pretty amazing.
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    Homebrewing

    We learned the hard way what a "big beer" is when our 7 gallon carboy could not hope to constrain our 5 gallons of barleywine.
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    The Beer Thread

    The blandest style.
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    Homebrewing

    I tend not to brew in the winter, so haven't done anything lately though I do have several cases aging at the moment. I've brewed exclusively with a friend since we started a couple years ago, and that's help split up the cost. My project for this year is setting up a microbrew process so we...
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    The Grand Tour (from the guys in Top Gear)

    Oh God that Porsche.
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    Jackson, MS

    Stuff to do in Jackson: Mess around Wreck your health Make a big fool of yourself I went to Jackson for a wedding once. I was basically blackout drunk for 4 days, so I don't think Mr. Cash was very far off base.
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    CFB 2013-2014

    You've always been able to drink everywhere at Nippert.
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    All of the exchanges work on an internal ledger, so you have to send the coins to their wallet. Right now this is the way it has to work due to the current implementation of the protocol.
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    I just can't fathom how you could arrive at a position that all regulation is unilaterally bad. Like even noted Austrian school crazies Hayek and "child slavery should totally be a thing in the ~free market~" Rothbard acknowledge the necessity of some oversight albeit private in the case of...
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    I agree that it isn't sustainable and won't last, but it's because my long term view of bitcoin isn't good. Essentially, I don't think reward halving is going to significantly reduce the computing power of the network because it's more a function of how widespread adoption is. Since the...
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Yeah, if only everyone was smarter and behaved like perfect rational actors then the market would work flawlessly. Well minus all the ways markets break all on their own anyways. I'm sure this bunch is finally the ones who finally cast off human nature and solve this problem for the first time...
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Catch a break? What did you think was going to happen in a completely unregulated economy? I guarantee that if bitcoin doesn't get a regulatory bitch slap in the gox aftermath, that another exchange/bank/scam will suck down an equivalent amount of bitcoins and actual money.
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    True Detective

    Amazing.
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    True Detective

    The last episode was full of circular imagery, and even the characters actions followed a circular path back to earlier in the show. Rust is obvious as he retraces his investigation, but a lot could be said about Hart hitting his kid, who it seems was abused by someone thus perpetuating a cycle...
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    It's sous vide all the way down. Just use a cooler.
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    CFB 2013-2014

    Cincy has been literally begging anyone to take them for a couple years now. They'd join the Pac 12 if they had a shot in hell of actually getting an invite. I don't mean literally in modern sense of figuratively either. They fucked though.
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    The Beer Thread

    I really, really dislike Dragon's milk. But I dig most of their stuff.
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    The Beer Thread

    To be bourbon it has to be aged in new barrels. I'm not sure what effect it would produce if you were to age whiskey in beer barrels, but I presume it would mostly be unnoticeable after 7ish years or something would go wrong in the meantime. You could finish whiskey in beer barrels, but I'm...
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    The Beer Thread

    Yep, outside of the pot you're good to go. Welcome to rabbit hole of home brewing. You'll be buying plenty more stuff soon enough.
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    If u could be 1 dinosuar, what woudl it be?

    Probably one of the fuck off huge sauropods like Argentinosaurus or one of the bigger ones that may or may not have existed. Don't need protection from shit. Just stomp around like a boss.
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Their code was mostly fine, but there's a vulnerability in bitcoin that basically makes the transaction I'D useless for actually identifying the transaction. It's been known of for awhile but gox didn't realize the amount of fuckery relying on it would cause. So, it wasn't bad code, but ignoring...
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    I don't think of gumbo as stew, but it certainly could be. I tend to go pretty dark on my roux so my gumbo isn't very thick at all.
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Gumbo.
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Specifically Japanese? Or just hearty soups? When I think delicious hearty soup, I thinksopa de ajo.I'm also very fond of the Malayan dishlaksa, which is basically a thai curry with chicken or fish stock added to form a spicy aromatic broth. Throw in whatever veggies and meat you've got. I...