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  1. Gravel

    Lone Survivor

    Was a phenomenal book. Hopefully since Marcus was heavily involved, they didn't fuck it up too bad. Would be cool if they did a movie based on American Sniper too. I worked with those guys (NSWTG in Iraq) quite a bit.
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    Watch and frisk at the movies?

    Movie industry has their heads so far up their own asses. What a bunch of idiots. Subjecting people to searches is going to drive more revenue away from movie theaters than it will save from people pirating. This isn't the airline industry where people have no choice. The choice here will be...
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    Weight Loss Thread

    Comparing anything to marathon runners is always going to come out on top. You ever seen someone after a marathon? It's like they want to fucking die. Marathons are stupid.
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    Survivor: Blood vs. Water

    I didn't think it was that crazy. From Tyson's comments at tribal, it sounded like the pairings were a huge issue that everyone was talking about through the first part of the game. Being the only pair still in the game is a much larger target than those stupid clues that everyone was burning...
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    Weight Loss Thread

    Most people looking to lose weight don't actually lift weights though, even though body recomposition will be way more successful than just dieting with tons of cardio. Having been heavily into lifting now for a few years, I've determined that 99% of the population doesn't have the...
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    Online Gift Shopping

    Amazon.com
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    2013 NFL Season

    Time to part ways with this coaching staff. I'd like to get rid of RG3, to be honest, but we threw way too much away for that. Eagles' Fletcher Cox: RG3 is right, we knew what was coming
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    2013 NFL Season

    So how many expected the Panthers to start the game up 10?
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    Steam Deals and Digital Sales

    I've got a ton of shit from the summer sale I never even played. But I think that's just about everyone from Steam sales.
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    2013 NFL Season

    What planet do you live on where peanut butter doesn't go with bananas?
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    2013 NFL Season

    I kind of feel like Wilson and Griffin are just products of a fluky season last year too. The only reason Wilson and Kaepernick are successful right now is they're surrounded by tons of talent that bails them out. But they all seem to suffer from the "can't read a defense" and "lock onto first...
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    Almost Human

    What's the plot? All the commercials all just focus on "Anroid cops!" But they don't touch on anything related to why I should actually give a shit.
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    Steam Deals and Digital Sales

    I saw it for $17 or whatever on the Steam weekend sale and was going to ask if it was worth getting for that much. But then I figured I'd just wait for the holiday sale. Looks like I missed the Amazon one though, cause it's $17.99 there too.
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    2013 NFL Season

    Refs need to start letting them play. Hate this bullshit where every other passing play has a flag.
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    2013 NFL Season

    This won't be worth watching by halftime.
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    2013 NFL Season

    Trent Williams accuses ref of cursing at him during game Apparently Kory Lichtensteiger was mic'd up and probably close enough to get it on tape. I really hope it was some bad shit and refs start being held accountable for being asshats. And hopefully that leads to some major changes to the...
  17. Gravel

    What is the Best first episode?

    Surprised no one mentioned LOST. That first episode had me hooked.
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    White House Down

    Wife and I watched both within the last 2 weeks or so. Olympus was way better. But they were both so fucking ridiculous with the plot holes. I wouldn't recommend watching either one as I wasn't able to suspend disbelief quite that much and ended up just irritated.
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    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    Squats are by far my biggest weakness. I'm actually trying to figure out how to fix my butt wink at the moment, which is killing my ability to get out of the hole. I know how to coach the lifts (and have done so for several people). But when it comes to myself, I basically have to try to...
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    Fantasy Football 2013 Advice Thread

    Tolbert has been poaching my Williams touchdowns all season. Fuck that guy.
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    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    I've thought about eventually building a home gym. But the costs are just kind of ridiculous. Power cage, barbell, set of dumbbells and a set of plates and I'm already looking at at least $2,000. That still leaves me short stuff like a cable machine, ez curl bar, and really any other machine I...
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    Fantasy Football 2013 Advice Thread

    Kind of depends on who the Redskins put Deangelo Hall on. He's been shutting his guys down all year, having a career year (fucker has 3 touchdowns this season). After that though, there's a huge drop off and the 2nd receiver will get 100+ yards almost guaranteed. I feel like Desean tears the...
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    Weight Loss Thread

    I meant I'd like for you to log, in this thread, your results from the 12 week plan. So it's something you could do still. I'm just curious what the actual results would be. When I said physically impossible, I meant it. The body just can't synthesize protein into muscle that quickly. GH and...
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    Weight Loss Thread

    It's stuff like that that makes me think Ossoi is just a troll. 14 pounds of muscle in 6 weeks is PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE, unless you're taking GH or steroids. Even ignoring the outlandish claims, plans like that irritate me. 6 weeks, 12 weeks, 18 weeks. Whatever. It's basically for people who...
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    2013 NFL Season

    What the hell is going on with the AFC South? Colts are sucking dick lately. Texans had a ridiculous drop off from last season. Only team playing remotely like expected is the Jags.
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    Weight Loss Thread

    I have a lot of problems with dress pants. Like, the ones I'm wearing now are fine when I'm standing. But when I sit down they look like I'm wearing fucking spandex (and my legs aren't big at all...23" at the largest spot). I also fucking hate dress shirts. Outside of a few brands, they're...
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    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    It's either an ankle, hamstring, or hip flexibility/mobility issue. More than likely, assuming you're like everyone else who sits in a chair for work all day, it's shortened hamstrings and tight hip flexors. Try foam rolling your hip flexors and use static stretches on your hamstrings prior to...
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    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    I see plenty of people squatting, but almost none of them doing anything more than quarter squats. I think I've seen maybe one or two who get to parallel, and NONE below it. As far as getting your form down, I'd say you just need to drop the weight a bit. Your form will change with weight...
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    2013 NFL Season

    Yes. Did you not read my entire post? My thought process there is that, while going for it on 4th deep in your own territory is stupid, if you also went for it in the opposition's several times earlier, it balances out. Also, the more times you go for it in your own territory, the more likely...
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    2013 NFL Season

    I kind of wish an NFL coach had the balls to always go for it on 4th down. I think if you look at it on an individual basis it's probably not a great idea (like if you do it from your own 30). But when you average it out over the entire game it ends up being a better decision. Especially on the...
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    Survivor: Blood vs. Water

    Tina is a fucking idiot too. No clue why, at tribal, she goes "Nope, didn't find the idol!" You dumb bitch, what if they would have voted off Monica? Now you've just told everyone you don't have the idol. Anyway, they were smart not to throw any votes Monica's way. I was going to cringe if...
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    Storing large DVD collection

    When they say filmmaker though, isn't that basically studio? I mean, how many directors/producers/actors own the movie? My guess is 0 as I don't think any of them are bankrolling a film. So basically the studio is getting 70% of the sale, and then the actual people who "made" the film are...
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    Storing large DVD collection

    I don't know, but Universal blu rays are the fucking worst. Whenever we pause them, we end up having to start over from the beginning. Then there's also some fucking thing they put on a few where it tries to download previews instead of just having static ones. Well, shit doesn't work right and...
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    Weight Loss Thread

    It's Sabotage!
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    A Song of Ice and Fire (Released Spoilers)

    I think it bothers people because he's apparently only concerned with getting the next book out, and not very much at that. But that's not the last book in the series. There's still one more fucker after that! It's already been over 2 years since ADwD came out. You'd have to imagine he...
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    Weight Loss Thread

    Honestly, as long as you stick with it ("it" being anything) for longer than 6 months, you've already beaten out 95% of the population.
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    The Fast Food Thread

    The center looks like one of those shortcake things (circle of lady finger?) that you can get for super cheap at the grocery store. That, or angel food cake.
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    Weight Loss Thread

    You probably need to work on eating more. That's like 1600 calories. Unless you're like 130 pounds...
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    Rerolled Fun League(s) - Fantasy Football

    Fucking seriously... I've got 100 points more against me than the next person (1099 to 991). Most everyone else is around 850 or so. And yet, I've got the 2nd highest points scored...and the worst record in the division. Fucking horseshit league!
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    Weight Loss Thread

    Yeah, I haven't used it in a few years, but when I first started it really helped me out in getting better at estimating calories. It's a pain to setup at first, but once you input most of the foods you eat regularly, it becomes really fast. At that point you're basically just having to input a...