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wild_turkey

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  1. Congrats Braves. Hell of a postseason for you guys and most of baseball appreciates what you’ve done.
  2. Just finished this. Agree with what many here have said. It was entertaining in parts but way overhyped for the quality of the show. I watched the English dubbed version. Perhaps I should’ve watched the subtitled version because the dubbed voices were terrible and that distracted me throughout the show. I didn’t realize there were 2 versions until I was a few episodes in and then I didn’t care enough to switch. The characters were across the board terrible. The main guy was a lifetime deadbeat with no job, a gambling addiction, a bad father, a bad son, and he brought no respectable skills to the Squid Game. I didn’t find him sympathetic in any way, which made it hard to care if he lived or died, which meant I was apathetic to the outcome of the show. They could’ve at least given him a backstory that showed him to be some kind of a secret badass that just got some bad breaks in life to hit rock bottom, but no, he just sucked as a person. Most of the other characters were one dimensional cliches, especially the meathead bad guy and the annoying girl that chased him around. Are those types of characters common in Korean film/television? Maybe something is getting lost in translation for me there. The plot was pretty predictable each step of the way. The final game was basically just a knife fight which was completely lame to end on, especially when Squid Game is the namesake of the show and it doesn’t even get played. The twists with the cop’s brother and the old man weren’t very surprising, or rather they just didn’t pack much of a punch because it was hard to care about any individual character. Lots of plot inconsistencies and agree that the doctor organ harvesting made no sense within the context of the show. Also, if clause 3 allowed a majority of players to vote to call off the games at any given time, then why didn’t anyone ever try to invoke that in the middle of the series? You would think during the marble episode the husband/wife or the 2 Korean girls or the main guy would all be lobbying the group for that way out. Or during the glass bridge episode players 1-13 would all realize their odds of survival were impossibly low and vote for the game to end. Stupid to ignore that rule and then use it again in the final episode. I don’t necessarily regret watching, but can’t say I loved it and I probably wouldn’t recommend it to anyone else.
  3. Lol at Astros fans getting really sensitive in this thread. Newsflash: Every baseball fan outside of Houston is rooting against you. You have your own Astros thread where you go crazy over Altuve HRs and melt down over Altuve Ks, then you come to this thread and act surprised that every non-Astros poster is cheering for the Braves. Enjoy 2017*.
  4. I really want Sark to be successful here because A) I want Texas to be good again and B) I like an underdog comeback story. It doesn't look great so far. His career at Texas may have peaked at halftime at the RRSO. Maybe it's better for Texas and OU to stay in the B12 through 2024 so we can get the next guy in here before the SEC move. I'm still rooting for him to turn it around but this is a pretty rough start and definitely not an upgrade from Herman so far.
  5. Lived about a mile from there during college. Loved sitting out there with a beer when the weather was nice. Sad to hear it's closing.
  6. I’ll be there in early December as well. It’s a great time to go because the island is nice and green, great weather, and it’s before high season officially starts. The Carl Gustaf seems like a great hotel. I haven’t stayed there but I have eaten dinner twice at their restaurant (Fouquet’s) since they reopened the hotel and it’s phenomenal. The hotel decor is great and the views of Gustavia are amazing too. Rent a car. Get something small like a Mini Cooper because the roads are narrow and parking spaces are small. You will want the car to explore during the day, and yes, driving in St. Barth can be fun. From your hotel you can walk to many restaurants around Gustavia - Bonito, Isola, Shellona, Bagatelle, plus all the more casual places in town. If you are uncomfortable driving at night, your hotel can easily get you a taxi for dinner to anywhere you can’t walk. I recommend dinner reservations at most places. Email your concierge about a week in advance and they should be able to help, or ask us here. Lunch reservations aren’t as important unless you want a weekend table at a popular beach club like Nikki or Gypsea. PM me if you have any specific questions.
  7. Sucks to lose. I had everything lined up to attend games 3-4 next weekend. Congrats to Atlanta fans. Y’all played a great series. Freddie Freeman looks like a bible salesman. Please beat the cheaters.
  8. What a terrible story. On the one hand, it was an accident. On the other hand, Alec Baldwin was holding a gun when it fired and killed someone. Which means he was pointing the gun at someone and very likely pulled the trigger, thinking it was safe. So it was an accident but it was the result of complete stupidity. If that happened to an average person at home, not a celebrity on a movie set, wouldn’t they be charged with involuntary manslaughter?
  9. I’m intrigued by the Vegas Loop concept. From some quick internet searches, it seems the LVCC loop is a single car lane wide and has a fleet of ~65 Teslas that are not autonomous. Each car currently has a human driver which limits max passenger occupancy to 4 people. So that’s ~260 total people max on a 1.7 mile loop that takes 3 minutes to transit. How much capacity will the Vegas Loop have if it’s built the same way? Suppose it ends up being 10 miles total and 350 Teslas at a time. That’s still only a maximum of 1400 people (and that assumes every car is completely full which obviously won’t be the case) which would be very low for certain situations, like the end of a Raiders game or any other major event. I would be interested to see it happen, but I hope it ends up being a practical alternative to current transportation methods and not just a novelty theme park ride.
  10. Especially for a high profile case where he strangled his girlfriend.
  11. Giving up grand slams is more of a Houston thing.
  12. Buehler should’ve been out of this inning with 0 runs allowed. He’s gotta be frustrated but he also can’t throw a 4 pitch walk with the bases loaded.
  13. Man, a missed play on a fly ball and a missed strike 3 call have cost 2 runs.
  14. I kept hearing great things about Brix so finally tried it a few weeks ago and was not impressed. In fact, I didn’t finish eating and went straight to Dayne’s to finish lunch. Maybe I caught Brix on an off day. Panther City and Dayne’s are my go-to places. I clearly need to try Goldee’s.
  15. I guess it all depends on where you need to go, but for me, Southwest has not been the cheaper option for at least 5 years.
  16. Would anyone be interested in a Surly FW happy hour? Wednesdays and Thursdays usually work well for me and it’s nice weather right now for an outdoor spot.
  17. Given that the Dodgers pitching allowed 1 run and won the game, I don’t think anything was pointless.
  18. Hey, even I agree that it was a bad call. Probably a lot of Dodgers fans would agree with that and no one wants the series to end like that. Just pointing out that the Giants had ample opportunity to win this series without it ever coming down to an 0-2 count against one of the best pitchers in baseball.
  19. Here's an idea for the Giants. Perhaps don't put yourself in a situation where you are down 2-1 at home in a winner-take-all game, with 2 outs, and Wilmer Fulmer against Max Scherzer with the count already 0-2, depending on Wilmer Fulmer to check his swing to keep the season alive. Perhaps try averaging more than 2 runs a game if you expect to win a best-of-5 series against the team with the second best record in baseball.
  20. Pretty weird to look at the stats and see: Win: K. Jansen Save: M. Scherzer
  21. Love that the Dodgers won but I wish that wasn't called a swing. I don't want to hear people whining about that 1 pitch forever in a game that we had all but won anyways.
  22. I saw a couple people discussing this earlier in the thread. I thought it was good and entertaining but not as good as The Martian. I do love the way Andy Weir can weave science lessons into the chapters of a novel and it amazes me the random shit he thinks up. Worth reading for that part alone.
  23. I've had this book laying around the house for a while now but I thought it would be too cliché or cheesy so I put off reading it. Finally picked it up and I liked it way more than I expected to. It was a quick and easy read. It looks like the movie comes out next summer and will feature Daisy Edgar-Jones (who by the way, gets naked a lot in the Normal People TV show I mentioned upthread).
  24. I was fairly disappointed by this one. I kept seeing it in bookstores and on book lists but the description didn't draw me in. Once I saw it won the Pulitzer, I finally thought it was worth reading. It felt like the plot was pretty boring and just meandered along without much development. I was happy to have it end and move on to something else.
  25. Bought this on a whim in an airport bookstore and ended up liking it quite a bit. It's a relationship drama about a couple of young people in Ireland, which I thought did a pretty good job of depicting people struggling to get through their early 20s. It was also made into a TV show which I also thought was great and started a thread about.
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