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  1. Show us your bellies!
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    Dragon Age

    The Rock, Paper, Shotgun review sold me off this one. It’s barely an RPG, more like an interactive story with arcade like combat.
  3. Honestly, I thought given that the board is relatively well-informed that I wouldn't need to be so pedantic. I mean, this isn't Clutchfans.... Thank you for highlighting that Luhnow had some international signing that worked out.
  4. I don’t think evaluating performance based on what you did in 2017 and when you’ve had almost 100% turnover among key decision makers is a good way to evaluate results. Is that how you or your firm run the business? Maybe, but that’s the kind of Jose De Jesus Ortiz excuse making I’ve seen written to justify poor performance since the 90’s. Law has the Dodgers and Red Sox and his 2nd and 3rd ranked teams and they had to deal with similar draft positions and signing bonus pools (more so the Dodgers, obviously). Bear in mind I don’t agree with Law-I think we’ve had at least average drafts in terms of pushing players into the majors, and I also think we’ve had some really bad luck. I don’t know how we end up with perennial head case Forrest Whitley but Cleveland keeps drafting college pitchers that end up cheap top rotation guys, often guys we’ve passed on.
  5. Keith Law had finished his farm system rankings and we’re 2nd from the bottom. Not terribly shocking as he’s always appeared to dislike Houston’s farm and development, now across multiple GM’s. I’m not sure his analysis is correct about draft success, as restoring those four lost picks for the trash can stuff would possibly make a huge difference (I’ve been going through draft results on baseball reference and there’s not really a trend line where a single team is just killing the draft after round one). I think where Houston has really had poor results is the international signings and that’s going back to Luhnow. Also interesting is he doesn’t rank Baltimore or Atlanta very highly.
  6. That one was particularly egregious, although it could also be that spending a week informally getting to know Herman better might have made an impact, too.
  7. Love her. If I was told I had to put together a play with ten different roles but was limited to a single actor to play them all she would be my first choice.
  8. Bregman money isn’t coming at their expense unless you subscribe to bullshit baseball owner economics. If Brown and Brown want to make a deal there’s plenty of money for that and both of those guys should be able to moved absent LMJ type arm catastrophe (I.e., in case the teams ends up shitty inspite of them). More valid, imo.
  9. Picking nits, but nothing was “given”. He signed a deal exchanging presumed market value for security. His next deal, unless he wants to go one year at a time, will have the same bargain presumed of it. The negativity is because it doesn’t look like there’s a better deal out there and the Astros are showing a lot of restraint in leaving their offer on the table. It’s probably not altruistic on their part, as Bergman’s “butts in seats” value is probably higher in Houston than elsewhere (plus, there’s not another obvious candidate to spend the Bregman money on currently), but it’s also out there helping Bregman establish a floor in negotiations with other teams.
  10. Fwiw, I'm in Austin and close to an Academy and it's probably 60% Aggie gear. I just figured that's how they roll.
  11. At a minimum, they are in a position to make it more expensive for us and get a little payback for Terry.
  12. If Wikipedia is correct, the originally script was for a feature and was named on the thriller/horror version of the Hollywood Black list (the “Blood List”) I’ve been wondering the same but I like your explanation. Interesting that both versions appear full of determination, particularly compared to Mark’s passivity.
  13. Perhaps that’s a good thing when the retaliatory tariffs result in less exports.
  14. If that number isn’t accurate then I think they would have cast more doubt on it. I think the story they want to tell is one with people like Bernard and Simms doing horrible things but in good faith that they are protecting the vast majority of the Silo. In other words, we should be able to rely on Bernard’s honesty in that exchange.
  15. I’m pretty sure Bernard said the silos are 340 years old. We’ll see-I don’t know how you end this story if they aren’t leaving the silos, having found a safe place to colonize topside or in search of one. If that’s the case, then it appears that the AI running parts of the Silo and that Lukas encountered may end up being the antagonist. I’m curious why Solo appears to not be receiving direction from the AI in Silo 17, or why it appears they have the technology for silo to silo communication but it’s not being used.
  16. We stayed at the St Regis but went over to the Four Seasons for dinner-I think the latter is a little nicer/more updated. Hector’s was probably the best restaurant we ate at, though we were weren’t normally hungry after pounding ceviche all day on the beach. Sayulita was a little underwhelming as an outing but there’s lots of Americans there for either surfing or working remotely and probably some cool stuff if you have time to explore.
  17. I love the idea of pork and paprika but my family is very German and weekly meals of sauerkraut as a kid has ruined it for me as an adult. Can you make the dish without it or sub in something that doesn’t smell like Oma’s breath?
  18. I almost pulled the trigger on Thursday to sign up before cut-off. Last year’s weather was perfect. I bet they are miserable today with the wind.
  19. We recommend it all the time if someone is making a principal reduction or otherwise meets the requirements. It’s never and “either/or” comparison against a refinance, the latter of which is pretty much always an attempt to either access equity or to lower the finance cost of carrying the note. Bear in mind that everyone outside of depository lending and Rocket relies on referrals to generate leads and it’s obviously bad business to recommend anything not clearly in the borrowers self-interest.
  20. Come again? You're presuming there's even going to be a Department of Education in 6 months.
  21. I’m going to cite Derek Thompson’s podcast again, but he also just had someone on in December to talk about Google’s quantum computer successes if anyone is interested in that. I think the TL:DR was that it was capable of remarkable problem solving given very discrete and specific instructions, but that it was not yet broadly superior to what they refer to as classical computing (also, there may be a thread for this stuff already but we’re veering off Facebook fuckery into far more interesting subjects).
  22. I can't recall who was mentioned but the Chase guy cited some and made the point they have legitimate reasons. At the moment, no one can monetize it to match the degree of investment and subscriptions to LLM shit for resume reviewing isn't a good use case. Bear in mind he's coming at it from an investor standpoint and this isn't VC money he's advising. I presume his enthusiasm is more dampened because it's unclear WHICH firm might win out than that one of the will do so.
  23. I’m glad you brought this up because Derek Thompson just had the chair of market and investment strategy for JP Morgan on his podcast (Plain English if you want to listen) and he made the same point. The Mag-7 are burning through lots of cash building infrastructure but don’t have customers yet and it’s likely a few of them are going to be big losers. That said, he described himself as 51% bull on AI and was kind of impressed just how committed these firms were towards the R&D. I was listening to Ezra Klein Jake Sullivan interview yesterday and it was interesting how confident Sullivan was on winning AI dominance over China, presumably because these tech titans who have created cartels over our information are using those enormous profits in competition for the next thing.
  24. Holy shit, trailers have cycled back to use Moby Play for the trailer music! I have definitely lived too long.
  25. This--the regular violence between nomadic aging adolescent ne'er do wells from San Antonio and Killeen can go someplace else. They aren't coming to Austin for the music, they are here for mayhem.
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