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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
RomaVicta replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
Their answer the last few years about being "little brother" is that people don't realize that A&M opened its doors 7 years (or whatever) before we did. They think that's a real zinger. Should shut all those shit-talking t.u. mouths! Fucking morons think the nickname has something to do with relative age rather than relative station in the world. Their answer confirms how small they are. Personally, I won't call a stalker "little brother" even if the stalker isn't particularly threatening. They've become more virulent since their stint of shady success under Sherrill then his bagman. Thought they had a new world order going there for a while. Nope. To be clear, I talk about the TexAggies not the increasing number of 2%ers who may save the place. -
VirginiaLonghorn started following NFL Week 17; Christmas-style
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Concur .. and sadly Texas basketball has sunk to NBA unwatchable level for me.
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To which part?
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Pluribus - Vince Gilligan and Rhea Seehorn
ChickenSandwich replied to gofuckyourself's topic in Movies and TV
Love the characters and concept but was extremely weak overall for a season 1. Feels like 2-3 episodes worth of plot/story and the rest was filler/indulgence. Closest thing to 25 episode LOST season one that I can remember. Great story and characters etc but a struggle to fill the required episodes. -
I don't think people (and women in particular) undertand how soul crushing it can be to ask a girl out and get turned down. Plus, high school girls play cruel games like telling a boy some girl likes him only for him to ask her out and get shot down all as part of their game. Even if a girl does say yes, just getting up the nerve to ask is still difficult for a lot of men. Now, flash forward to current day where face to face social skills suck.
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As Greenspoint alludes, you pretty much describe what I was referring to. The amusement park ride comparison recognizes the enjoyability of the experience. As such, the ride does what you say it will. The notes above (by others) about the movie being too long may be an indicator of what I mean. A well-wrought story never feels long. Some will reflexively say that all movies don't have to be Shakespeare. I find Shakespeare mostly impenetrable to read or watch. However, as I understand, his plays appealed to all levels of intellect and social strata in his day. They're all great stories, many of them borrowed from other sources. The Dark Knight is otherworldly and brilliant in every aspect of filmmaking. Michael Mann's Thief is one of the tightest movies I've ever seen. Bridesmaids is similarly brilliant to me. They have well told, interesting stories with some depth. The quality I'm describing can be found in the full range of move genres. It's not about intellectualism. (I don't mean to lecture @GreenspointTexas, I'm speaking generally just to make my own position clear.) Avatar has simplistic plots of good versus evil, ugliness versus beauty, and man conquering nature. You can do a lot with those conflicts. Avatar does not. The story provides the thinnest of threads to tie together a bloated movie that is way too much in love with itself. When something meant to be thrilling seems to drag, it's a sure sign that the filmmakers see their work as so wonderful that not a thing should be removed. I'm concerned that the studios only generate extravaganzas where only the most accomplished of directors have freedom to breath in life. Director Nolan does so. His movies are good on the surface and invite you to think if you're inclined to. That's a perfect balance. Most other big directors are hacks with technical prowess and largely empty souls. No world view. A last observation about the sadness of studios dropping quality, riskier, cheaper movies from their slate can be seen in the Academy Awards the last few years. Most nominees are small movies not seen by many people. Some are very good. Last year's slate was pretty awful. I didn't finish The Brutalist or the Emma Stone nekked fest because I didn't care about anything or anyone in them. The movie that won was watchable. It would be nice to see a real Hollywood movie with sweep, solid story, great acting; something memorable. To create anything artistically great, the artist must take risks. Risks payoff or fail with more magnitude than staying safe which risks being boring. The studio executives are risk averse, so they churn out the same movies over and over with only minor twists. The worst thing would be if they're creating an audience that remains satisfied with that. I write long because this interests me so much. Film is one of my fields.
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Usually I’d be annoyed that my parents don’t have Netflix because we’ll be stuck there for a bit but I’m fine missing these.
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That's already me in my high 50's.
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Championship week decisions... Nix is on waivers but I think I'll stick with Brissett. If KC can't move the ball, Payton has no problem winning a low scoring game. WR2: Ladd vs. HOU or Pierce vs. JAX Flex: Pierce/Ladd, Carter @CIN, or Breece vs. NE
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No because Flood had to help out with the defensive backs and couldn't spend his full time with the Oline. Now that Akina is gone, he can again devote his time to the Oline. - Sark, probably.
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2026 Surly 10,000 Pushup Challenge
bborange replied to Celery Man's topic in Can You Help Me With This?
I like the cycled miles and squats options. 2 shoulder surgeries in the past, so pushups would be a no go for me. -
They won’t get away with naming anything that’s not Trump.
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when i am reading a thread i want the maximum real estate utilization side-to-side which enables faster consumption with less paging/scrolling a thread needs to render side-to-side like this: on the new site 20% of the frame (on the right) is not content) and the default sizing in essence doubles the amount of paging/scrolling if we have to have blank space (obviously for future ads) it needs to be configurable for either the left or right side thank you sir for the work you have done to keep this community alive
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I’ve had this discussion with aggy friends of mine, especially after it was announced we were joining the SEC. I told them we do not “hate” aggy in the same way as we truly hate OU. We don’t overly obsess over aggy and even OU as aggy obsesses over us. Our “hate” towards aggy is more like sitting back and watching a comedy of errors unfold vs anything else, but aggy fans seem to think it’s mutual to their hate they have for us. We hate OU for various reasons that include their outright cheating that should’ve given them the death penalty several times over to the way the Rig 12 Refs used to bend over for them which would later be exposed when they had to play a game with non Rig 12 refs I ask my aggy friends to point out anything like slogans or merchandise they’ve seen from UT fans or sources that taunt aggy and they can’t. I note other than one line in Texas Fight that even mentions A&M while the most known line in their “War Hymn” is about us and they look dumbfounded. Everything they’ve done the last several years has been in the name of showing up “t.u.” From their break from the Rig 12 to the SEC , their desire to take the collie station campus to 100k students to making sure Kyle Field has at least one more seat than DKR.
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
Gut Wagon replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
In public, they whine that we and/or some other evil force cheated them. In private, they ask themselves why they're perpetual losers. -
I'll be over around 2
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Ben Sasse now seems like a layup pick. Stage 4 Pancreatic cancer is no joke.
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The Watch and See Conference with Bezos, Zuck, Thiel, Andreesen, Elon, Altman, Pichai, Kennedy, Miller, Cook, Jennings, Tucker and Hannity.
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@notre dame joe you should read this your celebration of special-ness is at terminal velocity answer the question deplatform domer Everybody wants to fix the College Football Playoff, but nobody seems to know how. There's a good reason for this. It's because the College Football Playoff isn't broken... college football is. On Saturday, college football die-hards and casuals alike tuned in to watch two games that were largely decided before a snap ever took place. Sure, the possibility of an upset always looms, but the first quarters of Ole Miss' 41-10 win over Tulane or Oregon's 51-34 win over James Madison made it clear quickly how those games would go. They were results that would do nothing to slow the ceaseless wave of the college football literati who had spent the last few weeks gnashing their teeth in despair over the possibility these blowouts would happen and what it would all mean. But the pearl-clutching, hemming and hawing are all directed at the wrong target. What we're seeing in the College Football Playoff is the result of a far bigger problem in the sport. College football has always been a top-heavy sport, and while we've seen a more even distribution of that weight up top thanks to NIL and the transfer portal (the GLP-1 of college football), on the whole, the sport is more top-heavy than ever before. Resources, talent shifting in one direction There is far more talent available and far more money coming in than at any time before, and it's all flowing overwhelmingly in one direction. If you look at the top recruiting classes for the 2026 cycle, you'll notice a couple of things. The first is that, for the first time since 2008, the top class in the country belongs outside of the SEC. USC took the honors this year, the first non-SEC program to do so since Miami way back when. Furthermore, Alabama is the only SEC school to finish in the top four, but while that's nice to see as far as spreading the talent around, it ignores the larger picture. Sure, the Big Ten has the top spot, but 23 of the top 35 classes call the Big Ten or SEC home. The only non-Big Ten and SEC schools to crack the top 20 were Notre Dame, Miami, Florida State, North Carolina, Texas Tech and Clemson. Of those six, only Notre Dame and Miami are in the top 10, and Miami is 10th. Damage done by mass realignment Recruiting rankings are not the only area in which the Big Ten and SEC have consolidated power. They're just another result of that consolidation. In the last 15 years, the Big Ten has added Nebraska, Maryland, Rutgers, UCLA, USC, Oregon and Washington to the fold. Taking the last four essentially killed the Pac-12, while reaching out and taking Nebraska caused a destabilizing effect on the Big 12. An instability the SEC was all too happy to take advantage of as it poached Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas and Texas A&M from the league over the last 15 years, too. Both leagues will exist in 2026 but largely in name only. Clearly, the Big 12 has survived the attacks much stronger than the Pac-12 has, but the league has seen all of its biggest brands taken from it, which leaves it at a disadvantage when it comes to finding a television deal, causing the gap to grow only wider. Perhaps that's why, while we were all forced to suffer the horrors of two uncompetitive football games on Saturday, Arizona State's Kenny Dillingham was sending out a call to any possible billionaires who wanted to buy him a new roster. Because that's where we are now with NIL. The sport dragged its collective feet and ignored the giant tidal wave coming at it for decades, only to dive in full speed ahead on openly paying players (some of) what they're owed. Only, you know, with hardly any regulations or guidelines that everybody can follow and no viable way to enforce them. Whose fault is that? I don't know? Everybody's? Anyway, right now, people are looking at the Group of Five as the problem with the playoff, but believe me: if finances continue to work the way they're working in this sport, it's only a matter of time before the ACC and Big 12 get the same treatment people are giving Tulane and James Madison. After all, it's the Big Ten and SEC who have been handed complete control of the future of the format as a compromise to simply let the ACC and Big 12 continue to exist. Big Ten, SEC will win out in the end But, the truth is, the Big Ten and SEC have always controlled the College Football Playoff. The Big Ten and SEC have won nine of the first 11 College Football Playoffs. Clemson is the only team from outside those leagues to win it, and it's done so twice. Of course, Clemson has only made the field once since the NCAA stopped forcing transfers to sit out a year after changing schools and hasn't won a playoff game at all. That's mostly due to Clemson's stubbornness, but it's fitting nonetheless. To drive the point home even further, of the 22 teams that have played in a College Football Playoff National Championship, 16 currently reside in the Big Ten or SEC. Clemson (4x), TCU and Notre Dame are the only teams to get there who aren't in those leagues (Oregon and Washington made it while still members of the Pac-12, but are now in the Big Ten). As the Big Ten and SEC expanded, the Big 12 and ACC did what they had to do to try to keep up. All of which has led to bloated conferences spanning the entire continent where you only play half the league in any given season, leading to ridiculous tie-breaker scenarios that end up with a five-loss Duke winning the ACC, which puts those damned Dukes of James Madison in the field! So what's the solution? How do we fix it all? I don't know that you can, but I do believe there's a natural outcome from all of this that at least leads to equilibrium of some sort. You simply let nature take its course. Let the Big Ten and SEC finish what they started. Whether you're excited about it or not -- and believe me, I am not -- the Super League or whatever dumb name you want to give it is coming. I don't know if it will be the result of a hostile takeover by the Big Ten and SEC pilfering all the remaining valuable brands once the current television deals expire, or if it'll be the result of a compromise between the four leagues to break off from the NCAA and form their own, fully professionalized league. But whatever the method, and whatever the final makeup of the schools involved, it is coming. And when it does, your College Football Playoff will finally be "fixed." The blowouts, however, will continue.
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Yup. Come see me and Peggy in CR. We are all moved on to the new condo. May never go back to the states.
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One Battle After Another, the next Paul Thomas Anderson film
David Dennison replied to mdmost's topic in Movies and TV
Also, Jim Downey was an A+ casting decision.
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