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Posts posted by Hellraiser97
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CFP didn't ruin college football. It's not perfect, but the last two seasons have been exciting to the last game. In the BCS and 4 team era, it was just maybe 1 or 2 teams arguing about if they should be in, and we all complained about seasons like 2003 when an undefeated major conference team got left out. By the mid teens, you had situations like we had in 2019. A break out season (at least we thought), but not good enough for the playoff, so we go to the Sugar Bowl! We're excited.... and a large chunk of both our and Georgia's starters opt out. For the FUCKING SUGAR BOWL!
Yeah, teams and players are opting out of bowl games still, but 12 teams are going in full force into the CFP (well maybe 11, not sure how Ole Miss is looking these days). We've had excitement through the season and a lone loss didn't suddenly make your season a failure. The CFP needs tweaks, but this is a vast improvement overall.
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5 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:
Point of order, it wasn't actually "his" vodka. Apparently yours or your bros.
You got rooked.
True. My father was a thief, but firmly believes possession is 9/10ths of the law. Spoiler though, I drank those bottles too!
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On 11/3/2025 at 2:30 PM, Parliament said:
Betty's story arc at the end was fine. Not as good as many others, but still. Ms. Jones is a decent actress and played Betty as a generally bad person.
Not sure why all the hate. Glen, otoh... I hope he died in Vietnam.Apparantely she was a raging bitch on set. One of the actors who played the son told the actor taking over from him to avoid her at all costs.
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On 8/8/2025 at 7:50 AM, utee94 said:
Which also happens to be what young utee94 used to replace the stolen aged tequila in his parents' liquor cabinet circa 1988.
My dad didn't discover it until sometime in the late 90s. We had a good laugh over it.
I had a similar. When my older brother was headed back to UT one thanksgiving, my dad went ot check my brothers car for air in the tires, fluids, etc. Came back in with a bottle of vodka under each arm (that cheap crap in the plastic bottle, McCormicks or something?) Brother was pissed. Dad was grinning. I was scheming.
A few months later parents were gone and I had a big party. Took a screw driver, popped those caps off without breaking the safety seal and poured the vodka into milk jugs. Filled the bottles with water and put them back. My parents drank a reasonable amount, but it was alwasy scotch or bourbon, so in the next 4-5 years, they didn't finish the bottle of decent vodka they had much less get into my brother's stash.
Day finally comes and my dad is getting ready to make something with vodka for everyone at Christmas. I ask him if I can see the bottle, he hands it to me, and I proceed to chug down like that scene in Animal House. My parents just stare at me in horror. I didn't drink the whole thing, but I slammed it back down and said "Thanks, I really needed that!"
Then my brother starts laughing, I start laughing and my parents are realize something is up. Brother had taught me that trick about popping tops without breaking the seal. He says "You son of a bitch, you drank my vodka years ago, didn't you?" I say "yes, and it was a hell of a party!" Then we explained what I'd done. Mom thought it was hilarious. Dad was impressed but then made me get in the car and go buy him two new bottles!
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Took my dad to see it day after Thanksgiving. Like Sbbruin, no new info, but it was entertaining. I thought Russell Crowe did a phenominal job.
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15 hours ago, Deej said:
They are having a showing of "Christmas Vacation" with a Q&A with Chevy Chase at Bass Concert Hall. I bet they could have included Randy Quaid for cheap.
Didn't he flee the country? Not sure he's allowed back in yet.
14 hours ago, Bama Llama said:You cynical fucks probably find this one annoying:
I enjoyed that movie, though there were a few parts that seemed overly dramatisized.
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Dragonlance Chronicles, Dragons of Autumn Twilight
First tried to read it when I was in elementary school (4th grade maybe?) but I was too young I think. Picked it up again in middle school and proceeded to blow throw the books as fast as they could publish them for about the next decade. My first introduction to D&D and since I never got to play the tabletop games, only D&D until I played Baldur's Gate in 1998.
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On 11/30/2025 at 8:56 AM, Bevo&Pevo said:
anything on the Hallmark channel.
And this qualifies because they are all the EXACT SAME MOVIE
I used to get stuck watching these with my ex and her family. My FIL and I would crack jokes like "Is this the one where one of them returns to a small town, discovers their true love, has a big misunderstanding and then they get back together at the end?" The looks my ex and MIL would give us were something.
I would also nominate White Christmas. I actually enjoyed it the first time, maybe the second time, but it was a family tradition for my ex to watch it EVERY Christmas Eve. Even hearing the damn song now is triggering to me.
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Reveillie is nothing but a BITCH
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Release date for Book 8 is official! May 26th
https://www.amazon.com/Parade-Horribles-Dungeon-Crawler-Carl/dp/B0FXY2JG27
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Posting on the football board as this directly affects watching CFB. Many of us, particularly older folks (and cheap bastards like me), rely on OTA boardcasts to watch a large numbers of games. Whether that's because boardcast channels aren't available (looking at you Sling) or just looking to cut costs (with the Sling daypass, I've been able to keep my costs this year under $50 total). Stole this from a reddit post in r/cordcutters:
The FCC has reopened comments (deadline early 2026) on letting stations encrypt primary ATSC 3.0 channels — the exact thing that is already forcing CBS in some markets to fall back to lower-quality 1.0 or BLOCKING recording/playback entirely on HDHomeRun, Plex, Tablo, etc.
If encryption wins without strong rules, we lose: • The ability to watch/record on the device we choose • Fair-use recording and ad-skipping • Truly free, open over-the-air TV on the public airwaves
Public comments have stopped this before — they can again.
Filing takes literally one minute here:
→ https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings/express
Proceeding: 16-142 (no space before the number)
Copy/paste examples (or write your own):
Shorter version- Proceeding 16-142
The FCC charter for public broadcast TV provides that those radio frequencies are for the use by the public. ANY encryption at all on those frequencies violates that charter.
Please ban encryption/DRM on primary ATSC 3.0 channels OR require permanent unencrypted ATSC 1.0 simulcasts.
Free OTA should stay open to any antenna and any tuner — no paywall on public airwaves.
Longer version- Proceeding 16-142
The FCC charter for public broadcast TV provides that those radio frequencies are for the use by the public. ANY encryption at all on those frequencies has been a violation of that charter.
Any company that considers their content too valuable to broadcast unencrypted should not be granted a license to use the public airwaves.
Encryption on primary broadcast channels would destroy over-the-air TV for millions who use HDHomeRun, Plex, Tablo, etc.
I urge the FCC to prohibit redistribution-control descriptors on the main program stream OR make full-quality 1.0 simulcasts permanent for any station that encrypts its 3.0 signal.
Every single comment submitted to the FCC gets read. Let’s not lose free OTA to DRM.
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13 hours ago, Hagbard Celine said:
but then the uk ending slavery in 1834 would have eventually created a divorce war
Would it? The UK effectively bought every slave in the empire and didn't pay the debt off for a 150 years. Had they made the same offer to the US South, would there still have been so much desire to hang onto slavery?
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13 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:
I do like that they really hammered home a couple of major points that many don't realize:
- Washington's army got pretty fucking small as many Americans were not fully committed to this endeavor.
- A lot of British would have been fine with the colonies leaving if it stopped the hemorrhaging of money and they still had trade, and a lot of American patriots/rebels would have been fine staying within the empire if things would go back to the way they used to be.
#2 is an amazing alt-history topic to run down the rabbit hole on - had the Brits backed off, listened to the American grievances, compromised in some manner (yes, they had enormous war debts still left over) and you don't have Washington, Adams, Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson, Adams, and all of the other Founding Fathers getting together and building a new nation, what happens? If American remains a colony (or 13 colonies) into the 19th Century, what does that do with British military engagements and foreign policy into the 19th Century, Napolean, etc. What about the French Revolution? Just crazy to ponder.
Some other things I learned in that mini series that I'd also never heard before was that at some point, maybe 1778 or 1779, the british bascially offered the colonials everything they had been asking for prior to the delcaration of independence, and that there was actually a fair amount of support for the colonials in Britain as those people viewed the Colonials as just fighting for the same rights every British citizen should have.
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20 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:
that it was truly a civil war.
I watched a BBC documentary mini-series about 20 years ago called Rebels and Redcoats. It was really great and it was the first time I'd heard the revolution described as a Civil War.
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RIP Scott
I didn't know him well, but met him around the same time as Aus-97Horn. He was definitely a legend.
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Finished it book 7 on my drive last week. My new favorite line from the book:
SpoilerQuasar: I'm going to drink for free all night and wake up in a ditch with 3 new venerial diseases!
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Just now, Honeysucklerose said:
Told y'all we were winning
I know that was winning. It didn't feel like winning. It didn't really look like winning. But it was winning.
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On 9/29/2025 at 8:09 AM, Hellraiser97 said:
https://www.amazon.com/Shattering-Peace-Old-Mans-War/dp/0765389193/
New book in John Scalzi's Old Man's War series. I really loved the first 6, hoping this one holds up.
Just started this last night after finishing up Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 7 (audiobook). I'm listening to this, but I may have to switch to reading. I'm about 20% in, story is interesting and drops in lots of little refreshers, without being a slog, since it's been about a decade since the last book. However, the narrator is driving me nuts. She's way too chipper and while her voicing the main character is fine, the way she is voicing all the male charaters is less than optimal.
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I am sad. I will likely finish Book 7 tomorrow on my drive to Dallas. I NEED the Book 8 audiobook to come out!!!!!
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Until we fix the offensive line issues, any QB we put back there is going to suck. Arch may never reach the potential everyone thought he had, but with an even decent offensive line, his performance would be markedly better.
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Just a reminder that it's been 741 days since 0U scored a TD on Texas.
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20 hours ago, Codaxx said:
Happy to slam Mack, but this is apples to oranges. OU has been a mess under Venable. OU rarely had a bad offense or team under Stoops.
Agreed it's not a one to one comparrison, but no different than saying Mack got shut out while Sark never has. Sark has never faced teams like Mack did.
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1 hour ago, Js1 said:
Sark and Mack now both have 3-2 records in a 5 game stretch in the series (2004-2008 for Mack, 2021-2025 for Sark)
Mack:
Average score: 25.4-20
One loss as the higher ranked team (2007)
One win as the lower ranked team (2008)
Shut out once (2004)Sark:
Average score: 36.8-19.6
One loss as the higher ranked team (2023)
One win as the lower ranked team (2025)
Never shut out
3 games with no TDs allowed (2022, 2024, 2025)Sark's first 2-game win streak in the series. Mack had 3 of them himself (1998-99, 2005-06 and 2008-09)
Mack never had a 3-game win streak
Mack also never shut out OU, while Sark has.
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The CFP ruined college football.
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Unless it's changed, it's also insane how much and what they spend money on. I remember one of our Holiday Bowls an article broke it down. One of the main line items was buying a PS2 and 5 or 10 games for every player. Another was leather jackets with the Holiday Bowl logo on them (would they even wear those after the game?) All sorts of stuff like that. I get that it was a way to essentially pay players, but then don't go complaining how you lost money on it.