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  1. Wombat

    2021 NFL Offseason: QB Carousel Imminent -- Retirement Boogaloo

    Since we keep mentioning the Steelers, and I love Spotrac, give a listen to #249: The Pittsburgh Steelers with Mark Kaboly, & Valuing MLB Projections with Cousin Dan
  2. Wombat

    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    NVIDIA Nerfs Ethereum Hash Rate & Launches CMP Dedicated Mining Hardware states that they are intentionally shittying up the drivers for bitcoin operations. Miners then using custom drivers doesn't even seem like a speedbump to them.
  3. Wombat

    Star Wars general purpose movie stuff

    To be clear, Rogue Squadron is the only movie project with an announced release date, and even that's not until Christmas '23. I strongly suspect Taika Waititi's movie gets made, and Feige's project afterward, but Rian's 'movies' just sound like 'sit on the rights in case they're needed'. (To...
  4. Wombat

    2021 NFL Offseason: QB Carousel Imminent -- Retirement Boogaloo

    I don't see Watt going into the same division as a brother, and as mentioned above, the Browns are more likely to regress than progress. This smells like him realizing what most teams will actually pay for him nowadays and trying to bump up the price.
  5. Wombat

    WandaVision

    I rewatched (or watched, in the case of things like Captain Marvel) all of the Marvel movies when I signed up for D+, and I have a far higher opinion of Thor 2 now than before. It's not good, mind you - the dark elves suck from top to bottom, and the anything involving Portman and earth is...
  6. Wombat

    2021 NFL Offseason: QB Carousel Imminent -- Retirement Boogaloo

    Oh, I think 2021 boils down to Bucs / Chiefs again. Bucs since they are in a pretty good cap spot and Saints are about to fall apart, meaning the Bucs should win their division (at least) and get good seeding, Chiefs because I don't see Ravens or Bills catching up enough.
  7. Wombat

    2021 NFL Offseason: QB Carousel Imminent -- Retirement Boogaloo

    As much as I think JJ would want to retire in his home state, the Packers aren't in a great position to pick up much of a contract. This time of year, NFL 2021 Salary Cap Tracker is one of the handiest reference points for me. I would be pretty surprised if the Chiefs, Steelers, or Packers...
  8. Wombat

    WandaVision

    If we're going with the Sword director coverup version, then he intentionally sent Monica in to get absorbed into the town so she wouldn't dig into what he's been working on. (As mentioned in that episode, far more creating weapons than pre-snap.) Him suddenly leaving to Washington in Episode 4...
  9. Wombat

    WandaVision

    As expected, once I 'knew' the source material better (and Malcolm in the Middle was the stealth best comedy of that era), I got a lot more out of the homage. Seems like we are going with the most predictable outcome, the town was already a preexisting project, likely finding new ways to create...
  10. Wombat

    NFL 2020 Season: Gravy Edition!

    Chirs Wesseling died? Fuck.
  11. Wombat

    NFL 2020 Season: Gravy Edition!

    Uhh, do you think Brady plays pass rush, and to a far lesser extent WR, RB, and TE? TB (as in Tampa Bay) got a pretty sizable Brady discount on a number of offensive players after already having a monster defense.
  12. Wombat

    NFL 2020 Season: Gravy Edition!

    Yeah, this is just a carbon copy of Bucs / Packers at this point. Time for the Chiefs to get some points to keep things theoretical, but never really in doubt.
  13. Wombat

    NFL 2020 Season: Gravy Edition!

    Brady isn't pass rushing against backup Oline.
  14. Wombat

    NFL 2020 Season: Gravy Edition!

    The backup Chiefs Oline will be what makes or breaks this game.
  15. Wombat

    NFL 2020 Season: Gravy Edition!

    I hadn't seen it announced, but apparently the minimum Salary Cap is $175M for next year, with most thinking it will end up atound $185M. The Saints are still hosed in that scenario, and it wouldn't surprise me if a lot of these QBs moving around take pay cuts, or at least restructure base...
  16. Wombat

    WandaVision

    Yeah, the tag was 'when accidents get out of control' or something similar - though the commercial actors are also unidentified.
  17. Wombat

    WandaVision

    Vision was basically recreated from scratch by Wanda, and she copy pasted left and right: as mentioned, he has Quicksilver's speed powers, Wanda's flight powers, and in this episode, they mostly 'are of the same mind', like her breaking out Wanda's anger here. The FBI board is not a complete...
  18. Wombat

    WandaVision

    FBI is a white dude and this is the 21st century. He may be incompetent just because he's a white dude, not because he's trying to clean up his op gone bad.
  19. Wombat

    The Matrix Resurrections (2021)

    You guys do know that the original casting plan for the first Matrix, with Will Smith, was all the heroes were black and all the agents were white, right? They haven't changed, its just the studio execs have all aged out and been replaced by modern leftists in the interim.
  20. Wombat

    WandaVision

    Was that the first time we've seen the water tower in the show? It's pretty predominantly displayed in the MCU credits, with no actual connection to the MCU show or Wanda's show so far. And yeah, I don't know why they are pushing Wanda as the villain this hard, we all probably assume that the...
  21. Wombat

    NFL 2020 Season: Gravy Edition!

    Again, Rodgers has a $31M dead money hit, and a $37M salary. His play is worth $6M next year, and the new guy wasnt even active for most of the season.
  22. Wombat

    NFL 2020 Season: Gravy Edition!

    The problem is people are assuming GB was playing to tie, and need to get a TD with one attempt, then get the two point conversion, then hold off TB from scoring, then hope yhings went your way in OT. None of this should be considered a given. Everyone forgets the GB scenario was 4th and, what...
  23. Wombat

    NFL 2020 Season: Gravy Edition!

    Just because I was wondering, take a gander at New Orleans Saints 2021 Salary Cap They could easily be _double_ the actual 2021 Salary Cap. Even if Brees doesn't retire, they are going to have to jettison a large chunk of the team. I would not expect to see them as a major contender next year...
  24. Wombat

    NFL 2020 Season: Gravy Edition!

    According to Spotrac:Aaron Rodgers, Aaron has a $37M salary, and a $31M dead money hit, for 2021. Long story short, a year of Rodgers is worth paying $6M for. I still suspect the 49ers stick with Garoppolo for one more season, then grab Rodgers once he is formally released next year. ... then...
  25. Wombat

    NFL 2020 Season: Gravy Edition!

    It was nice of the Chiefs to let the Bills ha e a brief lead before they took over.
  26. Wombat

    NFL 2020 Season: Gravy Edition!

    Yeah, they shoulda taken their shot there.
  27. Wombat

    NFL 2020 Season: Gravy Edition!

    Pretty sure both the Bills and the Chiefs are salivating at the chance of facing any NFC team in two weeks.
  28. Wombat

    NFL 2020 Season: Gravy Edition!

    Well the better team is clearly winning this game.
  29. Wombat

    WandaVision

    Actually, that _is_ the image I was thinking of, my 30-year-old memories had combined the two characters together.
  30. Wombat

    NFL 2020 Season: Gravy Edition!

    Yeah, I wasn't optimistic, and this is going as well as I figured.
  31. Wombat

    WandaVision

    Again, if you get nothing out of the homages, then its extreme 'padding'. They probably assumed more of their audience would get something out of the homages.
  32. Wombat

    WandaVision

    See, to me, the unstated question was always what sort of budget the Marvel shows would have. Mando (esp Season 1) used the virtual sets to hide that most of the time there were four or less actors involved. With WV getting moved up ahead ahead of F&WS, everyone now wonders how much of this is...
  33. Wombat

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    They really dropped the renown granted from 3 a week to 2 just to stretch out the unlocks for the silly crap? Cripes. No joke, I bought one of the LOTRO expansions since Shadowlands launched. I log in on a single character every couple days to knock out some callings, maybe hit the Maw...
  34. Wombat

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I've bounced off it hard. There's nothing new here - its the Suramar campaign, but you have to do it on four characters! They've taken the dark secret of WoW - in a game with constant gear / level resets, only toys, mounts, etc. have any long term value - and built the campaign progression...
  35. Wombat

    NFL 2020 Season: Gravy Edition!

    To be clear, Kamara runs it down our throat, or Brady throws it up our ass. Either way is going to be rough, and getting demolished by Chiefs / Bills aint that much of a reward if we do squeeze out a win.
  36. Wombat

    NFL 2020 Season: Gravy Edition!

    Well that should have altered the win odds a bit.
  37. Wombat

    WandaVision

    Now that makes way more sense, and explains why someone from (fictional) Eastern Europe would be thinking in terms of decades old sitcoms - she's thinking of/in the handful of shows that would have been translated to Sokovian, which also explains why the plotlines are so hokey.
  38. Wombat

    WandaVision

    Ironically, I've been rewatching Community between Mando and Wanda, and its the same scenario: It's very difficult when a property does an homage to something, to have the fans of the property care if they arent familiar with the homage. So when Commumity had a My Dinner with Andre homage, I...
  39. Wombat

    NFL 2020 Season: Gravy Edition!

    The Packers aren't exactly lighting the world on fire either here. As much as I'd like to root for the home team, unless the weather is abysmal I am not sure I am picking them next week (and even then Brady's played in snow before), and I really won't pick the Packers over the Bills or Chiefs.
  40. Wombat

    NFL 2020 Season: Gravy Edition!

    I still think the Packers win this, but this could be last possession wins.