Lurker > bigblu89

Freshman and Sophomore year, no.
Junior and Senior year, yes.

Worked at an indoor amusement park. If I remember, I worked after football practice ended during the week. School would end at 2, practice would start at 2:30, would usually be over by 4:45. I'd have just enough time to shower and get to work for my 6-10pm shift every Mon/Wed/Fri.

I'd then work Saturday nights after our game, so usually 6-Midnight, then I'd work 10am-6pm on Sunday.

No.

We go based on the UPS Ground Pickup/Delivery calendar, so we get:

New Years Day
Memorial Day
Independence Day
Labor Day
Thanksgiving
Christmas Day

I don't really rewatch TV shows, so that one would take me a while to decide.

But Movies? I guess I'd just go with the 5 I've probably watched the most:

Jaws
Big
Rounders
Major League
Cool Runnings (It's my Son's favorite movie, and I wouldn't want to lose the chance of rewatching it with him)

ReturnOfThaJedi posted...

Great team

Jason Kidd is a horrible coach

Well, I don't think it was Kidd that instructed Luka to attempt to take a charge at quite possibly the most ill-advised time with 5 fouls and only down 4 points last night.

They're obviously good. You don't make it to the NBA Finals without being good.

They just don't matchup very well with the team they are currently playing, as the talent drop off after their best too players is way too steep to compete with how much deeper the Celtics roster is.

I'd initially agree, but it would be a slippery slope.

Like, trying to explain to someone how gas prices are controlled by supply and demand, not any magic wand the President has, that could be looked at someone "simping for a corporation".

I would better.

It's just a lot easier to argue and "yell" at each other on a message board.

For example, if most of us saw a guy walking down the street in a Trump shirt, they would probably just think "What an idiot!" and keep walking, whereas on here, if someone shows support for Trump, they're (rightly so?) bombarded with hatred and harassment to back up their stance.

No sane person is doing that to random strangers they encounter in real life.

UnfairRepresent posted...

It just seems so needlessly cynical.

That could be the tagline for CE as a whole.

Tonight on The Daily Show: When you try to hold a burning log in your hand, you will get burned.

Some ground breaking shit right here.

Giant_Aspirin posted...

watch out for counterfeits. they counterfeit everything from TVs to toothpaste on there

I make sure the seller is Amazon, and not 3rd party, but who knows where they wholesale from.

theAteam posted...

In that case sell those machines and use the money to buy a decent reclining bench and use the dumbbells. Chest press (flat or inclined), overhead press, flys, rows, curls.

This.

Use free-weights, not the machines.

I don't really buy any "off brand" stuff from Amazon.

I mostly use it for "Subscribe & Save" items like toilet paper, paper towels, shaving cream/razors, deodorant, dog food, etc.

Last concert I saw was Weezer last summer.

Unless I get tickets to something sooner, the next concert I go to will be... Weezer in September at MSG.

I can't watch the video here at work.

I assume it's just some company that "invented" a high speed rail line?

"When does the new hire start?"

"They start Tuesday."

"Did they fill out the benefits paperwork?"

"Yeah. She e-mailed it to me today."

I'd lean towards the "they" being used as a general unisex/uni-gender reason, and not to make a point.

I'd also just wait until I met the new hire. If you happen to misgender them, unless it's obvious, them politely correcting you should put everything to rest.

If they're aggressive about it, then that's on them, and I know from here on out to keep things strictly professional.

ToteAll posted...

I see liberal CE has drastically different views about gun ownership in public spaces vs private homes.

Well, in this particular incident, the gun wasn't even his, so there's that.

But on the broader topic.

Yes there are "all guns should be illegal" people, but I would bet a majority of CE is more proponents of sensible guns laws/ownership. Gun safes, registries, licenses, etc.

Want to collect guns for hunting or to take to the range for target practice as a hobby? Go for it.

Want to carry it to the bar incase someone gets rowdy an dyou can be the "good guy with a gun"? Kick rocks.

When did it stop allowing it?

No, just my parents. 22 days apart.

Which part?

The part where I had to rush my Mom to the hospital becasue she was running a 103 degree fever, only to have to then drive my Dad there 6 hours later when his temperature spiked as well?

Or the part where 6 days later my Mom dies of a heart attack becasue her heart was trying to overcompensate for her lungs failing her?

Or maybe the part where I spent all of June 2020 going back and forth to the hospital every morning on my way to work to talk to my Dad on his phone while looking at him through the window of his hospital room while he was slowly dying from Covid complications, eventually passing away 22 days after my Mom did?

Yeah, I'm kinda over "life during the pandemic".

Yeah. Whoever thought their lockdown was great it was because of all the people that still had to leave their houses to go to work to do all the shit that made your lockdown easy.

Like deliver your groceries. Keep the banks open so your stimmy checks could get processed, deliver all the shit you ordered from Amazon, etc.

dummy420 posted...

When I was in Korea the best part was I could get anywhere not having to drive a car. I could walk to the train station or use a taxi and if I was getting groceries or something heavy I just used a taxi. I walked for 20-30 minutes to a place regularly and I would love to be able to rely on public transport if I needed to get far instead of having to drive for everything. Most places even if they are a mile or two away dont feel like a safe walk in the states.

But did you purposely get a place near your job, and everything else kinda fell into place?

Ivany2008 posted...

Not to mention that these walkable cities are built for walking or taking public transport. Like I would consider Tokyo a walkable city. It's massive sure, but its design is so that if you wanted to, you could get to the other side of the city in 20 minutes just by taking the train, and everything is within walking distance of any train station.

Same can be said for NYC, but on a larger scale. Your never more than a 5 minute walk from a subway stop, but it would probably take you more than 20 minutes to get from one end to the other.

So is the only thing stopping NYC from being considered a walkable city the size and lack of affordable housing?

lydiaquayle posted...

There is no example. People are trying to advocate for them.

Maybe thats why Im having such a hard time understanding it.

Whats an example outside the US? Just the idea that people want a city where everyones job, supermarket, entertainment options, etc are all a 15 minute walk from their house AND that house is affordable to the lower/middle class.

It just seems like a pipe dream

lydiaquayle posted...

Few thousand? That's your bar for what makes a city these days?

3000 people barely qualifies as a rural town in America.

I admit I dont know much about the concept of a walkable city, but when I said NYC as an example, I was told no because theres no affordable housing.

So what IS an example of a walkable city in the US?

Aristoph posted...

I feel like TC literally just doesn't understand the concept of a walkable city.

The grocery thing is a non-issue. When you can walk to the store in 2 minutes, you don't need buy 400 pounds of groceries to stock up for weeks in advance. Feel like a salad for dinner? Go to the store and buy salad stuff. It takes 2 minutes. That's the point. You can buy things fresh as and when you need them because it's no longer a major inconvenience to go to the store. You end up with better/fresher meals and you waste less food because you don't buy enough at once for it to go bad before it's used.

Going to work is also not an issue because, hey, it's a fucking walkable city. You can walk to work. That's the point. And the few buses the city might have for public transportation are more efficient and more reliable because there's far less traffic on the roads to cause problems. But again, the point is for it to be walkable. Ideally you don't need any transportation.

And of course your current 17 minute commute would turn into an hour of hassle. You don't live in a walkable city.

So if everyone can walk to work, were just to assume that all these companies only hire from the few thousand people that live within the city?

I really need to research walkable cities because this literally sounds like an impossible scenario. Or like one of those cities from the 1970s in the middle of nowhere, where everyone works at the factory and once that factory closed, the town just gets abandoned.

DrizztLink posted...

That's a no on being priced for the neighborhood, then.

Coulda just said that.

I haven't had to buy any sort of real estate in literally 19 years so I know the game has changed, but if people are willing to pay for it, why would anyone charge LESS than what the market is dictating.

I'm honestly not trying to be argumentative about it, I'm truly not educated ion the subject.

How does "supply and demand" not apply here?

DrizztLink posted...

Are the apartments priced for people living in the area, or are they jacked way the fuck up?

They're market priced.

If they go up for sale and people are willing to buy them, are they really "jacked up"?

Whenever I hear people describe a walkable city, I just picture those Main Street, USA "One light towns" in the middle of nowhere where everyone knows each other and everyone works in some mom and pop shop that's all on one block.

I guess I really need to look into exactly what they are before I give a true opinion.

emblem-man posted...

You mean in terms of density and walkability?

Sure. But NYC also needs more housing still.

But you can't have it both ways, and this isn't me arguing, just making a point.

Some company comes in and buys up an abandoned apartment complex, fixes it up, and then people complain, even if they are apartments that are built for ownership.

Mainly becasue anything being sold by a "corporation" is seen as evil.

emblem-man posted...

But, I don't really care if people want their suburbs. I just think cities should make it legal to build walkable areas with dense housing. If no one wants to live in them then fine. But right now it is simply illegal or practically impossible to build the type of housing, public transportation, and services that would exist in a walkable city.

If suburbs are so wonderful, then there should be no fear in making urban areas legal. Let it actually be a free market and let people have options. You can live in the suburbs and pay for those costs. And others who have different tastes can live in more urban areas, legally build homes for that area, and they can also pay the costs for that.

Sooooo... Basically the NYC 5 boroughs, along with Long Island?

YellowSUV posted...

WTF, I thought the athlete for 25 was Barry Sanders!

Yeah, they kinda dug a hole by calling the 25th anniversary Madden "Madden 25".

But they figured enough time passed where people wouldn't be confused, considering that version came out in 2013.

[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

For Madden itself, there's only one gameplay version that has any sort of "currency" and it is very easy to:

1) Play that version without spending a dime. I used to play it and never spent any money. I just got tired of the "sweats" that played online and stopped playing.

2) Play any other other versions of the game. Franchise Mode, Online vs Friends, Create a Player, etc.

AceMos posted...

yea i agree that is much worse

i miss read the post thought they where talking about selling the jerseys themself

OK. So now that you corrected yourself, back on topic...

The PA is the one that brokers the deals, not the players themselves.

It would be like if you worked for Burger King as a cashier and I yelled at you becasue the Franchise Owner buys your uniforms from overseas using cheap child labor.

I enjoyed ID4 more, but he was better in MiB.

AceMos posted...

that is not the same at all as selling your likeness to gambling that targets children

No, it's like selling your likeness to further child labor exploitation.

AceMos posted...

no i do not

are they forced to sign over their likeness to a game that is targeting children with gambling

Part of being in the PA is being compensated for the use of their likeness, yes.

Do 8-12 minutes of research on a subject before you comment on it. It'll make things a lot easier for you.

In the meantime, no one tell them where they make the jerseys and T-Shirts with the player's names on them. Their head may explode.

AceMos posted...

"free to play" so yes its jammed with predatory practices to get kids to spend tons of money

so yes as i said the athletes who sell their likeness that makes this possible for EA

should be called out for selling their likeness

You have no idea how being part of a Player's Association works, do you?

It's OK to admit that you don't. No one will fault you for it.

AceMos posted...

so does EA Not shove in micro transactions and loot boxes into madden like all their other games?

In order to play any versions of the game? No.

Even MUT (Madden Ultimate Team), you can play the game for free.

Do I need to spend money to build my Ultimate Team? No, Madden NFL users do not need to spend money in order to build an Ultimate Team. There are free-to-play options through solo objectives or by competing in online head-to-head play that can help toward redeeming rewards to acquire new player cards.

AceMos posted...

good I'm glad to hear that

what about all the children who DO get suckered into spending insane amounts of money on sports games to get their favorite athlete

A fool and his money are soon parted.

AceMos posted...

ppl should go after athletes for selling their likeness to these predatory micro transaction filled games

My son's Birthday runs almost parallel to Madden being released, so my in-laws buy it for him every year.

He does online franchises with his friends, and offline franchise rebuilds

He has yet to spend a dime on any of these games.

*shrug emoji*

DrizztLink posted...

Is the Madden curse still a thing?

Not lately. The number usually represents the season before it. So Madden 2025 is for the 2024 season.

So looking back the last few years.

Madden 2020 - Patrick Mahomes - 2019 Season - Chiefs won the SB
Madden 2021 - Lamar Jackson - 2020 Season - Ravens went 11-5
Madden 2022 - Mahomes and Brady - 2021 Season - KC went 12-5, TB went 13-4
Madden 2023 - John Madden in tribute to his passing
Madden 2024 - Josh Allen - 2023 Season - Buffalo went 11-6

None of those players got injuries that made them lose more than a game.

I think the curse is over.

I've been "gaming" since the days of Atari 2600, and I don't think I've ever played an "incomplete game".

Have games I've played added content post release? Sure.

Did not buying them hinder my experience at all? No.

Unless the perfect body also means perfect health, and not just visual appearance, knowing every language in the world would be a lot more useful to me.

Despite the colors supposedly representing the different "colors of people" you know this was 100% made by the kind of person that would be mad if they saw someone wearing a T-Shirt that said "Black and Proud" on it.

Yes. Had one from 95-ish till around 2000, when I finally got a cell phone.

We still send and receive faxes at my job, so yeah.

DrizztLink posted...

Absolutely nothing.

Considering I didnt know what they were till just now, same.

Was listening to a podcast and they were talking about how there was a rumor about 10 years ago that they were going to remake the movie Jaws. It got to them discussing who they were cast in the main roles.

So, who would you cast? Let's assume you were tasked with casting the following roles:

Sgt. Brody
Hooper
Quint
Ellen Brody
Mayor Vaughn

uwnim posted...

This is a no. Cant be having cereal whenever Im thirsty and need some water.

I'm calling BS on that qualifier becasue it wasn't posted in the OP by TC.

I read it as every meal needs to be cereal with milk or a milk substitute.

There's enough variety in cereal and the assorted types of milk out there than would make this challenge a layup for me.

Even with that caveat, I'd just drop a single Corn Flake or Cheerio in a glass of water, my "milk substitute" and drink the glass of water if I was thirsty.