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  1. Comment on Little late but...anyone interested in fantasy football? in ~sports.american_football

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    Scarecrw and Jpslam both easily won their different matchups against ughnotdr and myself, with the winners both scoring around ~350 points (We doubled the positions to make it more like 8-man,...

    Scarecrw and Jpslam both easily won their different matchups against ughnotdr and myself, with the winners both scoring around ~350 points (We doubled the positions to make it more like 8-man, since normal roster sizes would be crazy with only 4) and us around ~300.

    We'll see who the winner of winners and the losers of losers are this week, as Scarecrw and Jpslam face each other and I go against ughnotdr 😂

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  2. Comment on Little late but...anyone interested in fantasy football? in ~sports.american_football

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    Aye for sure! Definitely think we can get a full league next year based off the last minute interest. We got 4 teams for this year, never played in a league this small but it's been fun so far....

    Aye for sure! Definitely think we can get a full league next year based off the last minute interest. We got 4 teams for this year, never played in a league this small but it's been fun so far. But should be easy to build on it next year.

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  3. Comment on Little late but...anyone interested in fantasy football? in ~sports.american_football

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    Well we can see if we can fit in it! I added Super Flex (So start two QB), an extra flex spot, and a couple extra bench spots since the league will probably be light on members. Set the time for...

    Well we can see if we can fit in it! I added Super Flex (So start two QB), an extra flex spot, and a couple extra bench spots since the league will probably be light on members. Set the time for 7PM EST with a 1 minute clock, so should be able to be done by the 8:20pm EST kickoff time

    Heads up I'm actually going to be busy during the draft and will set up a bit of queue beforehand, but I'll also just deal with the hand I got from auto lol. I'll check my phone periodically in case there's any issues though, just ping me in the chat.

    Put it on Sleeper since someone specified that as a platform, and I do find it to be the best platform as well. And hopefully can actually set this up earlier next year to actually get everyone in

    https://sleeper.com/i/JKlMJ9075nZNE

    Going to send PMs to people in this thread that expressed interest since don't want to spam every reply in this thread with a link, but assume a direct message is good for the notification pop up

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  4. Little late but...anyone interested in fantasy football?

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    Family league was foiled, so couple of us are just looking for randoms to help fill out a Yahoo league. There was a few members active on here during the season last year so figured there might be...

    Family league was foiled, so couple of us are just looking for randoms to help fill out a Yahoo league. There was a few members active on here during the season last year so figured there might be some interest.

    Was originally thinking of solely a Tildes fantasy football league but don't think there's enough people for that lol

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  5. Comment on Small talk, ice breakers, lines in ~talk

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    Yeah that's why it was by far the best conversation advice I ever came across. I don't have the conversation skills to be able to follow up a memorized single line, but following this leads to...

    Yeah that's why it was by far the best conversation advice I ever came across. I don't have the conversation skills to be able to follow up a memorized single line, but following this leads to multiple different branches to go down that will likely find something of actual substance

    It also kind of helps me understand when to let a conversation go, eg if it just feels like I'm playing 20 questions with somebody I should probably just leave them alone lol

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  6. Comment on Small talk, ice breakers, lines in ~talk

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    Not an exact line, but FORD has always helped guide me to some kind of question to ask: Family Occupation Recreation Dreams Basically pops into my head when I don't know what to talk about and...

    Not an exact line, but FORD has always helped guide me to some kind of question to ask:

    Family
    Occupation
    Recreation
    Dreams

    Basically pops into my head when I don't know what to talk about and just run through potential questions in each

    6 votes

  7. Comment on TV Tuesdays Free Talk in ~tv

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    Have been throwing on Parks and Rec the past few days. Was on an episode where they meet Colts players and I went to see what year it was from and saw 2013...did not realize the show is nearly a...

    Have been throwing on Parks and Rec the past few days. Was on an episode where they meet Colts players and I went to see what year it was from and saw 2013...did not realize the show is nearly a decade and a half old.

    It also hit me just how little TV shows like that cross my path these days. Not that they don't exist (eg saw commercials for St. Denis Medical during football games), but that 15+ years ago easy sitcom comedies seemed to have a lot more public discourse. The last ones I can think of were Brooklyn 99 and The Good Place.

    But this likely just goes back to how there's a lot less "mainstream" stuff with everyone in their own little niches.

    Oh, also Dragon Ball has very much been on that itch for me. Created a playlist on Plex that goes through Dragon Ball -> DBZ -> DBGT with movies inbetween episodes that roughly fit timelines that I can just throw on without having to think, having used a script to cut out the OP/EDs so that it's just the actual episodes playing (shout out to the SOM release to watch it in it's OG dub glory).

    It's crazy how dumb the show is now not being 12 years old but I still love it, and just hits that nostalgic "home" feeling so hard.

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  8. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~life.men

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    100% to everything but just emphasizing this point to. Like, shitty people are shitty so stop being around them It makes me think of the red pill/PUA community, who would use vapid techniques for...

    There's a level of immaturity there that I escape with age now, but also I just refuse to be around shitty people.

    100% to everything but just emphasizing this point to. Like, shitty people are shitty so stop being around them

    It makes me think of the red pill/PUA community, who would use vapid techniques for vapid reasons was only able to attract vapid women...and their takeaway is that all women are vapid rather than that "seduction techniques" are terrible if you actually want a good partner

    Male stuff is just a harder issue for me because it annoys me how much crying there is about how there are no male spaces or male support groups and such...and as someone who has been a part of many/tried to start them and they all fall a part because of lack of participation, it's hard not to be bitter with "well where the fuck were you?"

    10 votes

  9. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~life.men

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    I mean as an elder millennial all my friends were definitely lying about how big their penises were. Honestly that's where I started having anxiety about my penis, before easily accessible porn...

    I mean as an elder millennial all my friends were definitely lying about how big their penises were. Honestly that's where I started having anxiety about my penis, before easily accessible porn was even a thing.

    Male self reported penis size is just like self reported height size, fabricated.

    6 votes

  10. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~life.men

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    This is what really gets me. I've been too big for a couple of women (because vaginas are also different sizes) and it's not a good time for anybody involved. I would HATE to have a porn size...

    If anything, the bigger guys can make it painful at times

    This is what really gets me. I've been too big for a couple of women (because vaginas are also different sizes) and it's not a good time for anybody involved. I would HATE to have a porn size penis.

    It really is funny how much toxic masculinity gets pointed as coming from women by some men, when most women don't actually care about it. Not to say no woman cares about those things (eg size queens certainly exist), but it's a subset and the ones barking about it are other men.

    It's especially funny of how they turn stuff women care about as "only other women care about that" as if stuff men care about isn't stuff only other men care about.

    9 votes

  11. Comment on What are your personal crackpot conspiracy theories about the world right now? in ~talk

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    I didn't watch Star Wars until I was almost 30 (movies as a kid were mostly limited to the one shelf of rentable movies at Albertsons that never changed), and it's so clearly aimed at children...

    I didn't watch Star Wars until I was almost 30 (movies as a kid were mostly limited to the one shelf of rentable movies at Albertsons that never changed), and it's so clearly aimed at children from the get-go. Not that there's anything wrong with that, I still watch DBZ to this day...but I know it's a kids show.

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  12. Comment on What are your personal crackpot conspiracy theories about the world right now? in ~talk

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    It really is funny how the defender awkwardly looks around for the flag instead of celebrating until he gets to his teammates celebrating. IIRC he even admitted after the game to purposely trying...

    It really is funny how the defender awkwardly looks around for the flag instead of celebrating until he gets to his teammates celebrating.

    IIRC he even admitted after the game to purposely trying to get a flag on the play to stop the TD? Really is an insane no-call

    I try to give a lot of leeway in esque of "don't attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"...but greed would be the appropriate word over malice in this situation, and greed exploits that leeway a lot.

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  13. Comment on What are your personal crackpot conspiracy theories about the world right now? in ~talk

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    I don't necessarily buy into #1. That said, the 2 point conversation failure overturned in the Rams/Seahawks game was all kind of wtf? Like, I get it's the "right" call...but that was some...

    I don't necessarily buy into #1.

    That said, the 2 point conversation failure overturned in the Rams/Seahawks game was all kind of wtf? Like, I get it's the "right" call...but that was some selective enforcement there considering it wasn't challenged by either of the teams. When you just randomly call down and say "let's re-look at this specific play", while letting other plays that could be turned over stand all the time, it's hard not to think "why this specific play?"

    Then add on the fact that it was someone working for the broadcast that phoned in to do the replay and it's all kinds of messy. Especially when going back to "why this specific play?" and the broadcast wanting that specific play which would tie the game late to be looked at again...

    So I don't necessarily buy into it, but I certainly ain't buying out of it.

    I do very much buy into league rigging when it comes to the NBA though. And there's a lotttttt more credence to it considering the whole Tim Donaghy betting scandal and Scott Foster still being an official. It's why I think they don't do anything about flopping either, because it makes it easier to call/no-call plays.

    5 votes

  14. Comment on What are your personal crackpot conspiracy theories about the world right now? in ~talk

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    I'm confused by this subthread as a whole. What makes any number aesthetically pleasing? Like even in the original comment I see no difference between 545860 and 115167

    I'm confused by this subthread as a whole. What makes any number aesthetically pleasing? Like even in the original comment I see no difference between 545860 and 115167

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  16. Comment on 'The Boys' has ended. What are your thoughts? in ~tv

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    It's crazy how one of the compliments of the early seasons was that it severely toned down the comics...then for some reason they decided to go after just shock value like the comics

    It's crazy how one of the compliments of the early seasons was that it severely toned down the comics...then for some reason they decided to go after just shock value like the comics

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  17. Comment on What's your favorite personal gaming memory? in ~games

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    Ha that is a great way to put it. It was crazy how many were popping up in the 00s. The only other one I can remember playing off the top of my head, besides WoW and FFXI, was Ragnarok Online....

    Basically "chasing the tail of the MMO dragon."

    Ha that is a great way to put it. It was crazy how many were popping up in the 00s. The only other one I can remember playing off the top of my head, besides WoW and FFXI, was Ragnarok Online. Which still looks like it's around crazy enough, that's gotta be pushing 25 years. But like you said there was definitely a lot of others mixed in there that didn't stick around.

    Never played UO but definitely heard a lot about it. Same with Everquest aka Evercrack. Crazy how hardcore MMORPGs were back in the day. But even with that, I have heard a LOT of good things about FFXIV.

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  18. Comment on 'The Boys' has ended. What are your thoughts? in ~tv

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    I'm curious which scene you're talking about? It's been way too long for me to remember. I'm guessing the Herogasm scene?

    I'm curious which scene you're talking about? It's been way too long for me to remember. I'm guessing the Herogasm scene?

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  19. Comment on 'The Boys' has ended. What are your thoughts? in ~tv

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    S1 is very likely my favorite season of any show all time. Was telling anyone who'd listen they needed to check it out. Thought it was going to be a modern day Watchmen, where it was going to be a...

    S1 is very likely my favorite season of any show all time. Was telling anyone who'd listen they needed to check it out. Thought it was going to be a modern day Watchmen, where it was going to be a lot less "parody super hero show" and a lot more about how fascists the concept of Ubermenschen are and commentary on how a capitalistic, celebrity-driven society gives them power.

    But like @Wafik (edit: and it turns out a lot of others in this thread lol), I dropped the show after Season 3

    I thought S2 was a drop off from S1 but was still fine, but I rolled my eyes at the "girl power" scene. It basically became "The Boys vs MCU, who did it better" and I don't think being compared to the MCU is a good thing. Like I said I'm not interested in watching a Deadpool knockoff, and that's basically what the show became.

    I though the start of S3 was really strong. But the end of it is what swore me off from the show. A big reason I liked the show so much was how much tension was created in S1. But I've come to learn just how many shows abuse that - start the show off being incredible tense, but then never actually have any pay off for that tension again after the start. The fact that absolutely nothing happened at the end of S3 showed that it was just another product that wasn't going to lose characters. IIRC the only two people that died at this point was Black Noir (a background character that all we knew about was that Homelander respected him...then never got the payoff on why) and Solider Boy (who was introduced just that season). And hell from the little I've seen both of those characters are back anyway? Going straight up Marvel.

    It's so hard to take any scene seriously when you know nothing is absolutely going to happen. I stopped there because it was a lesson I learned from GoT - that scene where Arya gets stabbed after being a dumb and is then just magically okay the next episode showed how little respect the writers had for the audience. The second they stop respected you is the second it's time to quit the show. While I'm not the biggest fan of Breaking Bad, it's very much what it does right: keep the tension throughout the entire run.

    It also bothered me how much the show became a lot less a critique on society and a lot more of satirical political commentary. I thought how on the nose it was was insulting, and that if you're adjusting your output to the lowest common denominator than it's not something I'm going to continue to be interested in. I also think satire generally does the opposite of what it's setting out to do, by giving it attention that isn't outright negative (since it's at best making light of the situation by turning it humorous, and at worst giving something for supporters to be turned on by)

    I was still hopeful that there'd be a reason to check out the rest once it was finished, but I'm glad with the choice I made. It really is a massive problem with television, how much is just made up as it goes along instead of understanding what story you're trying to tell from the beginning. It's all Lost again and again. I think what also gets ignored is how much writers change in TV shows...like yeah, obviously it's going to change if the people writing it are different. Woo for miniseries who actually get it right lol

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  20. Comment on What's your favorite personal gaming memory? in ~games

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    FFXI was my first MMORPG, and just plain experiencing the world is so memorable. First loading into the game and exploring the starting city of San d'Oria (with heavy overlap of Smashing Pumpkins...

    FFXI was my first MMORPG, and just plain experiencing the world is so memorable. First loading into the game and exploring the starting city of San d'Oria (with heavy overlap of Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream, as I got both the game and that CD for Christmas that year); first time exiting the city and killing mobs; getting a group together to make the impossible trek to Jeuno; taking an airship to Kazham; getting to Sky; so on and so forth. Every new area was just so special and came with it's own hardships to conquer.

    There was also then having awesome accomplishments in the game; I joined the top NA guild of the server (and one of the top in the world) and eventually became the main tank as a Warrior - which was considering the worst class at the time, but then us OGs showed how it was actually one of the best because it could be a tank taking barely any damage (using Ninja as a sub) with comparable damage output to the DPSes (previously the meta focused on Paladin's being pure meat shields, which meant harder to keep alive, taking longer to the kill HNMs [more likely to wipe], and harder to keep hate). Was also a huge deal when I got all the rarest equipment in the game, though that was really the start of me falling out of love for the game - had nothing else to strive for, and in the end getting the rare stuff didn't really change anything.

    The world was just so big and so cool, and just such an amazing place to escape too. And the fact you couldn't do anything by yourself, everything had to be done with a party, meant there was such a heavy social aspect to the game. I understand why the WoW model changed things, but I do think there was a lot benefits to the old MMORPG style of needing other people to do even simple things. Though what the WoW model DEFINITELY got right was instances, holy shit having to wait around in a 6 hour window waiting for a mob to spawn was so dumb in retrospect. But then again, going back to the social aspect, it's hard to call it a waste of time...it was hanging out with friends for hours on end.

    I can't ever play a MMORPG again - I only found it fun as an escape, and now can't help but feel it's wasted time. But it was still special. Not just gaming wise, life wise. Definitely a reason MMORPGs lead to so many of people favorite memories of gaming lol

    7 votes