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  1. derka has alerted me that a deal was struck to chop the championship pot at 400/300 (instead of the pre-arranged 500/200) so it seems you're owed a hundo more than you initially thought. he wanted me to pass that along, as a continuation of his relentless efforts to poison this website.
  2. hello fantasy basketball players. you all did well and should be proud. you should be proud that you almost did as well as derka. but you did not. you have failed. you sicken me. his venmo is blake-ross-24 he can't post it himself because of reasons. good day to you.
  3. i go back and forth on this. i really don't see a decision made because a vp pick is a "good" fundraiser. and didn't some of haley's people leave and start raising money for biden? remember, trump still thinks campaigns are run like 50 years ago. i think he will choose someone to attack a perceived (obviously real) weakness. he's been doing publicity stunts to gain black support, but at the end of the day, the gender gap will fuck him. i think he's gotta get a noem type to try and bring in the suburban women. not saying it will work, i just think it's the move he will think is best. also, fwiw, the site that once had biden at +202 (when i first bet it), now has biden at +115, and has dem vs gop at pick'em. which i guess accounts for the chance something happens to biden's health in the next 6 months. predictit has biden up 52-45. that site leans right but has always been more accurate than polling.
  4. he died how he lived. sitting in judgment and shitting his pants.
  5. my people will call your people.
  6. i had a gaping hole in my outfield and y'all just let me pick up colton cowser? seems like a tactical error.
  7. all black people’s last names look the same.
  8. if you strike down derka, he shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine. good luck with that.
  9. which of you ranger nerds wants to buy high on bradford?
  10. that's why i used the word "basically".
  11. i've been on these boards for 25 years. this is not "the internet", and should never be dismissed as that, especially to excuse or allow what might be labeled "typical and unavoidable online bullying". this is not elon's twitter. this is not reddit. this is a community, and always has been. i know many of you in real life. some i knew before and separately from these sites, and others since. i've met a whole bunch more out in the world just once or twice. i've met some of you for lunch, a beer, scored coke for one of you, and connected another of you with a midget for a bachelor party in vegas. rip donny. i am friends with derka. not "friendly", friends. i knew he and bob had been meeting and working on things, and i thought that was great of bob to do, and i know derka appreciated it. i did not become friends with derka to help him through his mental issues, i became friends with him because i like him and we have a lot in common and i enjoy talking sports and tv shows with him. we text most every day. i've texted with his mom, and she is a wonderful and supportive human being. happy birthday, betsy. derka gets worked up here, like others do at home, a sporting event, a bar, or a grocery store. everyone has their outlets. that's who he is, and if you don't think he's worked hard and gotten a shit-ton better over the years, you haven't been paying attention. derka has an issue letting things go and settling back down from a worked-up state. he'd be the first to admit this. he has bitten his tongue, so to speak, dozens, if not hundreds of times, when people would antagonize him. it's bullshit it was happening to begin with, but he was doing his best not to exacerbate the issue. what you've seen from him on this site is not perfect, but it was the best he could do, and i consider it admirable. again, i'm his friend, so i am a biased commenter here. there's nothing about this situation that doesn't suck. i think most of us are on the same page on that. surly is not groupthink. it's not an echo chamber. even the cloak room isn't that way, though it's often characterized as such. anyone who says that hasn't been over there in several years. there are lots of opinions, lots of discussions, and lots of characters that fill out this community. but there's only one derka. immamac is trying to change that, and i disagree mightily with this decision. it also sucked that it was made in advance, which makes this even more inexcusable. flying off the handle and making a rash decision at least could be understood, if not justified. yes, it is his decision to make, no one is disputing whether he has that ability. yes, it sucks that derka and bob were on the road to recovery, and immamac stepped in and reversed that progress. ironically, this type of reversal is exactly the type of thing that drives derka over the edge. he jumped through the hoops, he did the work, he shared himself, he was honest and self-deprecating about it. and now he's told no, it's easier just to rid ourselves of you. someone upthread called derka a cancer. i know because i negged him. it's probably my 2nd or 3rd ever neg-rep and i stand by it. cancer needs to be removed to make the body stronger. that's not what's happening here. if derka is gone for good, it will make things worse. worse for him and worse for this community. from reading through this thread, it's pretty obvious that i'm not alone in this opinion. a few pages ago, immamac said that sometimes derka would get banned, and he would get pm's asking for him to be reinstated, because derka had asked people to do this. as someone who has sent one of those pm's, i can say i was not asked to do so. if you know derka at all, you would know he doesn't go around begging others to fight his battles. shit, how could anyone not know this? i saw what happened and sent those messages on my own accord, because while i don't always do what's right, i always know what's right. and this is not right. reinstate him. it's what's right.
  12. it's hard to evaluate something like a screenplay 50+ years after it came out, because it inspired so many movies you've seen since. it's like the stupid argument people get into about pulp fiction and how telling a story out-of-sequence isn't that special (duh, because pulp fiction basically invented it). chinatown used twists and turns in ways that were revolutionary at the time, and we learn a lot about jake - both who he is and how he got that way - through his actions and his relationships, which is another thing that wasn't really done in in the 50's and 60's. we were coming off decades full of westerns, musicals, and plays-turned-movies, so original screenplays (and many adapted from books) like this were hard to come by. godfathers, the sting, chinatown, the conversation, the early 70's all the way up through president's men and jaws really changed hollywood. go read "easy riders, raging bulls" if you want more insight. that decade was dark and dingy and inspired the gritty and cool movies of the 90's, my favorite movie decade. i've seen this movie 25+ times and i notice something new every time.
  13. gonna be honest i do not love the royals pick. i do like the marlins pick.
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