Search results

Kind of hard to shake the conclusion that nothing really happened in the season, other than the showrunners saying "All the factions are somehow still around twenty years later, just everyones' forces are nerfed to the point that we can do whatever we want with them in the future." Well, I...

A) Yes B) But honestly, the bigger issue is that the final round of voting is not "Does this person have a hypermajority of voters think they're worthy of the HoF?", it's "Does this person have a hypermajority of voters think they're worthy of the HoF OVER the other finalists in the pool (to...

Yeah, it's kind of shocking how Balkanized the internet has become, such as this year when I asked myself who the hell is ishowspeed and why is he covering an NFL game on Youtube only to find out he has more subscribers than the population of most countries in Europe, or wondering why there's Mr...

The Pro Bowl hasn't been a full contact game from the 2022 season on, turning into 1:1 position games (emulating the MLB Home Run Derby) and, yes, flag football. No team (and likely very few players) wants to ruin their next season chances with a long-term injury.

Honestly, I am more annoyed with Shedeur over Flacco. Give Flacco a trip there before he retires for real, I'm fine with him getting to go once over nearly two decades. But fucking Shedeur Sanders? Year one, more interceptions than TDs, and a QBR (which admittedly isn't perfect, but is...

Player response has been so unsatisfied that Blizz actually bumped up the spawn rate to every 5 minutes for the rotation (note that one rare is not on the rotation), increased the currency by ~150%, and increased the catchup equipment drop rates by about 10x of what they were when the event...

Basically, the game fandom's opposition boils down to two (and a half) issues: 1) This isn't an adaptation, this is in-universe. Unlike The Last of Us, where they decided "Hey, let's film the videogame cut scenes with real people!" but the show has no bearing on the videogames themselves...

On one hand, I can see how, if you only effectively need 11 edit: non-votes, you can plausibly get to 11 from people pissed at the -Gates, assuming he'll be back once he's run out of the NCAA, or people trying to get other long running candidates in. I'm more shocked at how the voting is built...

I'm not sure any of the credit scenes should be considered canonical. IIRC, while Fallout's history had states, they were conglomerated into Commonwealths a century before the war. I'm not sure anyone would call Canada the 51st State, as opposed to the 14th Commonwealth. -- I will admit that...

To be accurate, Bill _only_ won 6 SBs as HC - the other two were as DC. Not being a first ballot is still insane to me. Bill has more SB wins as HC than the NFC North _division_, and more than the AFC South and NFC South combined. You can argue he wasn't an exceptional GM, but trying to...

The internal resolution could just be a bug, we've seen weirder incorrect rendering settings in the past, and there's a lot of evidence this was pared down from a system settings point of view at the end - that's probably why there weren't any previews, as _they_ probably didn't know if it would...

Eh, after watching Mike and Mike lose those other two games, I am going to have to instead go with Mike. (Is it really taking this long to come up with pro-Patriots analytics?)

I didn't like how gassed the Seahawks defense looked in the fourth, but the Seahawks sure had the better offense vs the Patriots today, even if you toss out the snowy portion of the AFC game. Seahawks over Patriots - The Patriots can turn Darnold into a pumpkin with a ferocious sustained pass...

Packers don't play the Browns next season, but with Gannon as DC, we'll probably inexplicably botch the game vs the Jets and/or Dolphins. Speaking of the Packers, that special teams gaffe could cost the Rams the game.

Do people really buy Conference gear in bulk? Either its superseded by your Super Bowl win in two weeks, or else you were just the Super Bowl loser.

I've been saying it for weeks, both high seeds being cold weather teams in mid-January with no traditional juggernauts meant the field was wide open for someone to waltz in. And now regardless of how they got there, they're just 60 good minutes away from a Lombardi trophy.

If the Seahawks win they have to be heavy favorites. Even the Rams might be favorites over the Pats, unless the weather is terrible.

Or not, no offense + bad punting is not a good situation for NE.

This game seems like its over.

I wouldn't want the Ravens OC job, because Lamar runs that org until he's off the team / off their books, and the OC / HC will get the blame until then. I wouldn't want the Browns job, because they still have to pay the Deshaun tax for years and the org is a mess. I wouldn't want the Raiders...

It's weird how all of the big three of the 90s had different arcs: TNG had a very weak beginning (all those leftover TOS scripts) and mostly skippable later seasons (most of their bigwigs were working on Star Trek: Generations). DS9 had a weak beginning but just kept getting better over the...

So the Ravens have Lamar running the team, the Browns have Shedeur and an organization no one even wants to interview for, and the Steelers have a terribly overpaid defense, no QB, and now McFatty. If Burrow and the Bengals can't get anything done next season, Cincy needs a complete rebuild.

I know nearly all 'cherry' flavoring is really grenadine, made from pomegranate juice. I also know it is called grenadine because the fruits reminded people of early explosive grenades, pomegranate being literally "grenade fruit", which sounds like the straightest of produce. I don't know how...

For F1, two reminders: 1) The field was expanded from 5 to (potentially / usually) 10 because mass market movies like the Dark Knight Rises were being left off the list in favor of pure Oscar bait. 2) There are (or at least, were prior to the voter expansion) a lot of Euros in the voting...

Apparently Lost references have aged out: The Man Behind the Curtain (Lost) - Wikipedia was the first episode to have flashbacks for Michael Emerson's character. (Fun fact: Jon Gries - the NCR Ranger who gets mind-chipped here - was also in that Lost episode as Emerson's dad.) The point...

I hate The Man Behind the Curtain. Obviously, that actor does well with parts where his alignment is in question, and he was a big actor for his screen time up to this point, but there was nothing - NOTHING - that suggested he was someone in a position of power in the footage so far. Nor is...

Yeah, a ton of Defensive Head Coach hires that I just can't fully evaluate without knowing what OC they get, but there's so many unfilled HC spots that it could be weeks before all the OCs get filled - how many of the Kubiaks and McDaniels get HC spots, etc.

Also, not only are the Bills keeping their GM, he's actually getting a promotion, when you could make the argument this is one of the worst versions of the team recently.

FYI, add another one: https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47660266/source-bills-fire-coach-sean-mcdermott On one hand, I get it, Josh Allen never making a Super Bowl suggests there's something wrong with the team - but that could just be not having a good enough team, and / or running into...

NFC West-Off has been reinstated. Seahawks over Rams - Seahawks are better than the Bears, though it should be a game. Patriots over Broncos - Even with Nix, I probably would have picked the Patriots, given how little the Broncos won by compared to the Bills' turnovers. With Stidham? Unless the...

Suppose the Bears could get a safety and then score a TD, but this might finally be over. The NFC West-Off cannot be denied. Edit: Or not, that's a great starting field position to score and two-point conversion.

Obviously the strong suit of both these teams are their defenses - but their weakness is also the Oline for both. The Texans' issues are obvious (frankly, its a testament to their defense they got this far with that Oline), but Oine was also the whole reason I didn't see the Patriots as a...

Man, what a goddamn string of luck NE gets this edit: postseason. Warm weather injured 7 seed, warm weather 5 seed in snow, then the 1 seed will be starting a backup QB - and only won by 3 points this week after getting, what, 3 net fumbles? And hell, who even knows if Darnold will be healthy...

I personally am rooting for the Rams at this point (get Stafford another win on his way out), but their odds are long.

Seattle should only have their backup QB in at this point.

Wow, as if this NE / Texans game wasn't important enough, especially if Darnold is limping (literally) into the Super Bowl.

49ers playing way too desperate for this early, unless even they know its a lost cause.

Do people not realize there was a classic power struggle for the Ravens over the last few weeks, and Harbaugh lost? Again, Lamar's cap hit is way too high next year - he either has to be extended or traded this offseason - and Bisciotti and co. decided they were siding with Lamar. Which is why...

It is exactly what it sounds like, and your reaction is correct.

AFAIK, the solo Rey movie directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy could still technically happen, it's just in script hell. The original assumption was the trilogy by Simon Kinberg would negate that movie, but it was then stated that Kinberg's movies would be a new later time frame after any Rey...