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CasanovaZelos posted...

Does anyone else here really love Get Real Paid off of Midnite Vultures? I think it's one of his best songs, but its lack of being released as a single has obviously limited its reach. He did play it live when I saw him, however.

I pretty much love every song on Midnite Vultures, so yes
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azuarc posted...

Mr Lasastryke posted...

together forever was really big. obviously youngsters who only know rick astley from the memes won't know it but yeah.

There probably aren't too many folks on B8 older than I am, tbh. Certainly not by an appreciable margin, anyway.

I think it's one thing to say that you had songs 20+ years ago, and another to say that you have them now. In Living Colour had songs other than Cult of Personality. Faith No More had songs other than Epic. That doesn't mean anyone other than fans remember them, though.

I'm about to turn 30 and I know Together Forever

*shrug*
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also I really want to know what this was about

https://twitter.com/DimeUPROXX/status/965428681647763456
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LeBron should get more Executive of the Year Awards for that ASG team than Koby Altman should for the Cavs
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Really? He seems like a pretty level-headed guy compared to most of the rest of the people on the All-Star rosters

But I'll readily admit that I've only watched him play a handful of times and that could be a sample bias on my end
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Honestly if you don't want to upset someone, Horford and Aldridge are the right guys to leave for the end anyway, regardless of play style. Like the least rattle-able stars in the league
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LeonhartFour posted...

so we now know that Aldridge and Horford were apparently the last picks in the All-Star draft

Not surprising, but what's the source on this?
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Most people would say Milli Vanilli fits the category (Blame It on the Rain and Girl You Know It's True), even though they had four songs make the top 5
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SmartMuffin posted...

Nelson_Mandela posted...

Beck is one of the most prolific artists in the history of music.

The answer might be Lazy Flies by the way, but it depends on the mood.

yeah so was Prince and yet people still only know like 4 of his songs

what is wrong with you
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the correct answer is Debra, guys

come on

(also New Pollution was bigger than Devil's Haircut. So were E-Pro and Girl)
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there's an app called The Rock Clock and you can use it to have him tell you to get your candyass out of bed
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Allegedly it was the Lue/Wade (non)relationship that was the biggest issue.

Also: Utah has won 10 straight? And is now above 500? What on earth is going on in SLC?
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transience posted...

haha blake really did have bad aim tonight

https://streamable.com/me22v

that seems like a real soft tech
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Anyway the thing I'm feeling most is just kind of unsettled. I don't feel good that he's gone, I've grown enough and been to enough therapy to not let the bad things embitter me. I don't feel directly bad that he's gone either, though. Indirectly, I feel bad for my mom and aunts and nana, but mostly I just feel, for lack of a better term, weird
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I'm pretty sure they won. It was against the Indians. I was super little, so it's hard for me to remember.
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HotDogButts posted...

Not trying to sound crass, but is there really anything to deal with? A person in your family died who you didn't love or feel particularly close to. You also didn't hate him from what I can gather. Sounds like you're expecting to feel some way and are looking for someone to tell you how you should feel, when indifference is totally fine and normal. It's just another thing that happened.

I wouldn't really say that it's indifference, though. It's more like true ambivalence, I guess.
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Up.
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if we removed the series qualifier, I would say Killer7's plot is pretty dense and weird and impossible to explain to anyone who hasn't played the game
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My grandfather passed away this last night/this morning. He was 82. Weirdly, his younger brother died earlier this week.

He had been unwell for a while, following a heart attack in the early fall, and had been in and out of hospital/nursing home/rehabilitation in the intervening time. Ultimately, it was the flu that killed him. He went to bed last night and they realized he had passed sometime around midnight.

He and my grandmother moved to Florida shortly after I was born, so we were never as close as I am with my dad's parent's. We'd see each other for parts of a few weeks every summer, when they would escape the Florida summer for New England, and when I was younger, on occasional family vacations to Florida (the last one was just before 9/11).

Those visits were sometimes fraught with tension, especially as we both got older. He had a bad temper and it was impossible to know how long the fuse was at any given time. During the World Cup in 2006, he asked what the appeal of soccer was, and after explaining it to him, he became incensed, calling me a whole bunch of things: rude, a know-it-all, 'some kind of wise guy' and said he was going to 'beat the snot outta [me]. This was in my living room, in front of my parents, my grandmother, and my brother, and the previous night I had given up my bed and slept on the couch so my grandparents had a place to sleep. Being 18 (and having a fairly long history of getting in fights at that point), I stood up to him and he stormed out. The event has never been spoken of since.

That's one of the worst examples, but he had a tendency to behave this way towards me, and only towards me. When I graduated high school (and college), my grandparents sent cards with some cash. When my brother and each of my cousins graduated from high school and/or college, they flew up for the ceremony and the party. He's never had any issues with my brother, and my cousins have generally dismissed anything I've asked them as if my questions are outlandish or groundless. I know he and my mom sometimes had issues when they were younger, but she'll never talk about them, to me or to anyone else.

But at the same time, I have these good memories, too. He was there when I was at my first Red Sox game. I sat between him and my dad. I remember going to Busch Gardens in Tampa when I was little and going on rides with him (and being amazed that he would go on the big, scary rides that I couldn't go on because I was too small, even though at 5'3", he wasn't that big himself). Golfing with him as a kid in Maine when Air Force One zoomed maybe a hundred or so feet above us to land at the adjacent airport.

I don't know if I would say I love(d) him. Maybe when I was young, I guess. It's not like I didn't want to love him, but he made it so incredibly difficult sometimes. I'm sure I didn't always make things easier for myself, either, but still.

I've been typing this piecemeal throughout the day, not even knowing whether or not I'd hit the post button at the end. It's weird, being in a position where no one I'm close to really empathizes with me. My dad, having a level of distance by virtue of it not being his father, understands that grampy wasn't always kind to me, but that's kind of the extent of his understanding of things.

I don't know what any of you guys have experienced, but if any of you have been through anything similar, I'm all ears.
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Cavs starting lineup for the Celtics game per Ty Lue: George Hill, JR Smith, Cedi Osman, LeBron James, Tristan Thompson


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transience posted...

dear god what is this cavs rotation tonight

I think Atlanta might be the only team that would give up a combined 54 to Kyle Korver and Jeff Green off the bench

Or 16-5-5 to Cedi Osman, for that matter
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Celtics ran out of gas / had no answer for Oladipo

Good second half, at least
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If you're not the superstitious type, you should reconsider
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foolm0r0n posted...

EmoCombeeDancin posted...

what if theres a plateau

That's different, but is there?

research suggests yes
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Nelson_Mandela posted...

SeabassDebeste posted...

transcience posted...

honestly, Lebron doesn't need stars around him. he needs guys that can run and defend and give effort and make hustle plays and hit 3s.

he needs both. every title team needs both. he doesn't beat GSW without kyrie and love as well as TT/JR/shumpert/delly balling out; he doesn't beat OKC or SAS without wade and bosh in addition to miller/battier/allen/chalmers.

Has any alpha dog player willed himself to a title... like ever? I can't think of anyone in my lifetime, honestly.

are we not counting Dirk in 2011?
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Oubre is such a turd in big moments though
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Denver, New York and Dallas agreed on a three-way deal, league sources tell ESPN. Mudiay to Knicks; Devin Harris to Denver and Doug McDermott to Dallas.

"oh"
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Cavs are going to sign Perkins out of semi-retirement
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Also this deal makes the Lakers worse in the short-term, which may put them lower into the lottery

Which would net the Celtics a top 5 pick
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I know it's the last year of IT's deal, but that doesn't necessarily mean he's going to a 4th team in 14 months
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Utah is putting Rose on waivers as soon as the trade happens

Minnesota is apparently interested
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But if LeBron and IT are at odds with one another enough for this trade to happen

And Isaiah is in LA

Does that lead LeBron to not go to the Lakers
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https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/961644990857465856

Lakers and Cavs are working on something

I have no idea what to make of this or who it may involve
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I assume they have some kind of plan in mind to at least not hemorrhage season tickets and what not. They've played decently since the Griffin trade, and got a pretty good return there. Doesn't seem like they're gonna sell anyone else off.
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Also the Clippers are trying to extend Lou Williams so it looks like he's probably off the table?
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ExThaNemesis posted...

OKC is 4-0 against Cleveland, Toronto, Houston, and Golden State this year.

Cleveland's record against the top teams in the league of them is terrible though. I think their only win was against the Celtics on opening night.

Still, beating Toronto, Houston and GS is a nice troika
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my favorite part of the Cavs box score is that the only player to post a positive +/- was somehow Derrick Rose at +1
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The Celtics losing tonight isn't that much of a shock, given the injuries and that Toronto is really damn good

The Cavs getting outscored 65-31 (they had a 9 point fourth quarter! Nine!) in the second half to lose to Orlando by 18, however, is remarkable, even with how bad the Cavs defense has been.
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Not sure if anyone has said it but: the Patriots lost because Ulti jumped the bandwagon

What teams does Trump root for in other sports? We should figure that out now so those fans can prepare in advance
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SeabassDebeste posted...

lillard is a fucking assassin in the fourth

That and one was so soft though
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Tapper is the first thing I thought of
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yes that's the joke
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TheRock1525 posted...

LiquidOshawott posted...

Meanwhile the Clippers won with Avery Bradley

How did they do it

Bradley still somehow had more shots than points.

that's not that impressive! like 8 cavs are doing that right now
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De'Aaron Fox is better at DBZ than he is at basketball
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Brogdon out 6-8 weeks

Tore his quad
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the thing i am learning most from this topic is that some people call them "brights"

what the fuck
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Good move by the Pelicans, I think.
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While I am not a neuro grad student, I am v pleased with my clinical psych education that I understood everything NotYou mentioned

That being said, it's highly unlikely that Tamiflu had any meaningful effect on this kid's mental state. You're probably more likely to die from refusing to take Tamiflu than from taking Tamiflu.

In all likelihood, the parents are somewhere between denial and bargaining as they deal with the grief of their son's suicide. He probably hid it well, and certainly we all know that people about to commit suicide often seem like they're doing well, in large part because they have finally come to a resolution for their problems. It's a sad story (and Tamiflu seems like a questionable antiflu drug to begin with), but it's so unlikely that there's any real connection between the drug and his death.
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McCullom put up 50 in 29 minutes

Yowza
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