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Guadaloopy

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  1. 4 minutes ago, UTexasFight said:

    Yeah.

    not concerned until the end of April. I feared  tonight start when the schedule came out (and still fear it’s going to get worse before it goes better).

    it’s clear this team is all out of sorts and can’t find its rhythm…yet . Blame a new coach, news guys in new roles, injuries, complacency. But they’ll find it eventually 

    This is usually me, but there is usually some bad luck or a key injury to help me look forward to brighter days.  Outside of the two wins, we have seen a LOT of bad baseball.  Bad approaches at the plate.  Badly located pitches.   Bad base-running.  Starting pitching has been the one slightly bright spot, and even that has faltered a couple of times.  
     

    Bregs looks horrible.   J. Abreu looks even worse so far than he did while purportedly  injured last year.  Altuve is hitting, but his TOOTBLANing is worse.  Despite some decent results, Yordan has been missing a lot of meaty pitches.   I can’t even begin to talk about the bullpen.  
     

    Of course it can all turn around, but I’m seeing more worrisome signs than bright spots for now.  I’ll always root for this team and hold out hope, but my confidence in them is fading rapidly.  
     

     

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  2. Altuve’s gonna keep running those bases like a madman, until there’s a free run on the table.   That’s when you stop.  It’s not worth it unless there’s a degree of difficulty attached.  

    I am not as confident as I was three days ago.  

  3. Just now, Mo Horn said:

    Not one fucking break. 

    Doesn’t matter if you follow it up with two weak fly outs.  Lineup looks anemic and the bullpen has long COVID.   This is tough to watch.   
    And here comes Montero to seal it. 

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  4. 10 minutes ago, Samson's Wig said:

    I agree with your sentiment 100%, but that reads a lot like the fully stretched interpretations of the bible that fundamentalists come up with.  Don't get me wrong, I enjoy your interpretation, but I don't think any Christians' heads are exploding over what amounts to heavy inference.  They're busy with their own.

    Yep... It's impossible to read scripture without doing a lot of inference and interpretation.  I try to default to the reading that is more inclusive and accepting of those on the margins.  You know, like Jesus did.

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  5. 1 hour ago, Dutchrudder said:

    Need to reduce our TOOTBLANs too. I think we are already at 4 or 5 this year. 

    We had 4 on Monday alone.

  6. On 4/1/2024 at 10:02 AM, A-Tex Devil said:

    My take having not read the books, but answering some questions upthread to see if I am right?

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    - The nanofibers were used on the ship because they could wipe everything out, but they could save the computers, right?  They mention they need to do that, but then just jump straight to going to Augie.  Why wouldn't the fibers slice through the computers, too?  Anyway, I think that was it.

    - I don't think the Sophon can do anything physical -- it can just read/monitor/change what we see.  I guess it could digitally remove a mountain causing a plane to run into it or something like that.  But my senes is that the Sophon's only can affect people's perception.  Saul's theory of the blinking sky being a deep fake at the beginning was right (and watch Ye's reaction again when he says it).  That's all the Sophon's can do -- deepfake what we are actually seeing.

     

     

    On 4/1/2024 at 4:18 PM, atomheartbevo said:


     

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    They couldn’t take the time to storm the ship as there would be resistance and time for the nutters to destroy the computers/drives,

    The nano fibers were spaced enough that they would kill the humans but not destroy everything, and would have them in a panic and there’d be nothing to resist and little to no time to respond, given how fast it was.

     

     

    On 4/1/2024 at 5:24 PM, Frank The Tank said:
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    I never really understood the strategy there. They didn’t know exactly what they were looking for or where it was. Just documented back ups of all the conversations so far, so presumably in a computer or server(s). Their plan with the nanofibers could have easily destroyed what they were looking for but for blind luck. 

     

     

    18 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:
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    It’ll be interesting to see how they destroy Judgment Day in the books. It seems like a shitty plan, but it sure did look cool. 

     

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    Even if the nanofibers cut through the hardware, the fine cuts would still allow a recovery of much, if not all of the data.  The Judgement Day scene happens in the book almost exactly like it did in the show.  The only difference is that in the book, there was no description of an entire cult society living on the ship, so it was relatively few people who died in the attack.  The show pumped up the magnitude quite a bit.

     

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