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  1. I made it through, but that was rough. Never knew the Russians all had Brit accents. 

     

    Would you have them speaking Russian with English subtitles or are you just used to Russians speaking with Russian accents in English for some reason?

     

    This is an English-language production. Why wouldn’t they being speaking their language perfectly amongst each other?

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  2. Rockets' fans, is your new owner as big of a toolbag as he sounds?
    "I'm a fighter," said Fertitta, who has owned the franchise for two seasons. "That's my culture, and I think the longer that I own this team, they're going to pick up more of my culture. We had [the Warriors]. We should have stepped on their throat the other night and cut their throat. It's not, 'Let's make a few shots and win.' It's step on their throat and let's take it back to Houston and end it in six. We'll pick up a few Tilman-isms along the way in the next few years."
    I know he had Morey make some savvy moves to duck below the luxury tax and didn't use Houston's MLE this season (the post-deadline waiver line was slim pickings), but any cause for concern?


    Fuck, what an asshole!
  3. For this to be a UT board the level of knocking KD is wild as fuck.


    Dude was stuck in Oklahoma for years, a team and place most people here hate. That team blew a lead and lost to Golden State. He then tucked tail and headed to Oakland to join a team that just needed him for Lebron. He’s a bit thin-skinned.

    He’s a great player and UT alum, but I lost some respect for him when he made that move and I understand why others feel the same way. I also understand why others feel the opposite.
  4. Local sports radio here in Phoenix-metro is refreshingly not terrible.
    The consensus seems to be that, while acknowledging the Kingsbury/Murray deal is a huge experiment and could blow up spectacularly, Murray is gonna put a jolt in the fan base and will likely succeed in the NFL.  
    Personally, I'm hoping Kingsbury wrecks shop and changes the way the game is played throughout the league.  As long as I've been watching football, innovation tends to happen at the collegiate level and then eventually makes its way up to the pro's.  I swear, the NFL makes Ronald Reagan look like a utopia-hyping progressive, they're so damned paralyzed by conservative mindset.
    Whether he can accomplish that with Murray is intriguing.  He's supremely talented, but he's significantly shorter than 5-10 and he doesn't have leadership/alpha personality that a guy like Mayfield has.
    Whatever, it'll be fun to watch.
     


    He’s significantly shorter than 5-10 but measured at the combine at 5-10?
  5. 1. He wasn't "struggling to beat Finn." He was injured from taking the Chewie blaster to the side and he was just toying with Finn until he was actually ready to beat him and he beat him in like 2 seconds.
    2. "He" wasn't "reading minds from across the Galaxy." Snoke was the one who was doing that.  He manipulated the Force to connect Kylo and Rey. 
    3. The "couldn't tell he was dueling a hologram" was more about Luke using a power that nobody had ever seen before. He also fooled Leia and all of the other Resistance who thought he was real.  That's more about showing how powerful Luke was.
    4. In the first half of the movie he wasn't trying to kill Rey.  He was trying to capture her for Snoke.
    Again, I think these are all nitpicks that you could easily make about inconsistencies in how various powers were used in the OT.  Those inconsistencies just don't bother you because you originally saw those movies when you were young and so you weren't focused on them, just the story.


    That’s some mental gymnastics there- “it’s not dumb like that, it’s dumb like this.”Minor details from a 70’s movies vs Major Plot Holes from a big budget movie in 2018.

    And save the “we’re kids” bullshit. It blew people’s fucking minds and enabled TLJ to suck shit threw a straw. It holds up and was a tight little movie that turned out great.

  6. You dumbasses talking this better without KD nonsense need to stop and go back and watch the championship they lost to Cleveland, and then watch them the next year.
    The thing that KD absolutely delivers is a guy that gets his own shot when the shot clock is running down. If Curry is not hot and drawing the double team no one else on GSW can consistently get open. Curry winds up with hugely contested DEEP 3's. Farther you go in the playoffs, refs letting them play a little, Curry has some struggles at times, and they become very beatable. Durant puts a stop to that.
    Yeah they have slowly got away from what to me was the most beautiful ball I've seen. That first year with Durant, when things were clicking it was truly special. They have gotten lazy knowing KD will bail them out. I predict if KD makes it back, they will get back to that beautiful ball, no more heat check crap. Don't be afraid to run the offense, etc.


    Golden State’s 73-9 team with a healthy Steph Curry is an all-timer and would have won it with a healthy Steph Curry and Draymond on the floor. They were lethal then and they are lethal now and the Rockets would have been fortunate to beat them tonight. This was not a upset.

    Durant helps them in all phases and gives them other ways to beat you, and most notably removes OKC from beating them. Their offense can stagnant with Durant in there, but they’re gold either way. This bickering is pointless!
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  7. It will be a choke if they lose tonight, period


    The Warriors still have 3 all-stars and a nucleus than won a championship and 140 regular season games in two years. Klay and Steph can still light it up. It’s a pick’em game against an old ass Rockets team deep in a series.

  8. One of my favorites, every line is repeatable damn near.  Classic.  
    But have you ever seen what hit the cutting room floor?  Thankfully Marcia Lucas was working that day, what a different movie it would have been.
     


    Started out funny, but then got weird. Wow.
  9. Learn to read bro.   


    Learn to write and read. Still have no idea what your point was as I asked “what are you blathering about”

    blather: talk long-windedly without making very much sense.
  10. The age hate by the left is so trippy.  You'll embrace the idealism and ignorance of a 16 year old but want to write off the voice of folks who have 'seen it all and done it all.'
     
    That, my friends, is begging for disaster.
     
    I mean hell, ship em off after 70.  They're worthless anyhoo.  and this 35 year age minimum for POTUS... that's ridiculous.  Make it 12.


    WTF are you blathering about? You’re defending the elderly guy sucking off Nixon, one of the worst Presidents ever, or elderly Trump, one of the worst Presidents ever?
  11. Honestly I thought she wasn't overtly necessary to the plot outside of saving Ironman which seemed a bit of a reach. I know they are trying to bridge and introduce another big name as some fade away but it seemed a bit forced.


    Captain Marvel, Ant-Man and Spiderman all feel forced. Paul Rudd stepped up and Ant-Man was better conveyed than in Civil War.

    But Spider Man has been a Scrappy-Doo character mixed with Cousin Oliver. Robert Downey did his best, but the character is annoying. That’s partly by design, but he’s a beating.

    Captain Marvel’s scene where it’s her turn to take the gauntlet in the final battle scene was also cringeworthy. Even though she just zapped through Thanos’ battleship, she needed help from her girlfriends in the form of every single female character. I know this isn’t Shakespeare, but I didn’t want to be interrupted from the pretend battle with gratuitous, non-sensical, heavy-handed bullshit. I like my political statements in movies embedded, sensible, allegorical, thought-provoking, natural, authentic. Not, Mr T saying “Just Say No” in an A-Team episode.

    Didn’t see CM origin movie, but she was mostly unlikeable and out of place in Avengers. Her powers are too strong so they have to put her in timeout and her character is arrogant - which would be OK if it were portrayed as a weakness as it was Thor in his first movie.

    If I were to introduce the female Super Man (as CM is akin to as a dominant super) it would be along the lines of Ripley as the reluctant and smart heroine in Alien or as a female Thor, who is powerful but who needs to learn from mistakes made in hubris. So far, she’s unlikeable and uninteresting.

    The integration of BP was seamless in Civil War and Infinity War. Character has been excellent in everything. Hopefully, they nail the next one. That’s how you introduce a new hero.
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  12. Dany and Grey Worm have killed Sons of the Harpy people in Essos during negotiations/parleys, Cersei blew up the sept with all the Sparrows and half the nobility of Westeros, the Red Wedding occurred at a place when everyone was supposed to be off limits, and so on and so forth.  
    Really anyone except Brienne and maybe Jon, but especially Cersei, suddenly feeling honor-bound by the rules of parley is absurd on its face.  And as you point out, it’s even more ridiculous considering they killed Missandei at the parley anyway.  


    They parlayed during the zombie exhibition OK. You could make the stronger argument about this last parlay if Cersei hadn’t sent Bronn to assassinate her brothers. Then you could make the argument that Cersei had different plans for Tyrion than shooting him during the parlay.

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  13. How would Bill Clinton have claimed Executive Privilege to prevent the release of information in the Starr Report? I don’t get it.

    Because Barr had conversations with Trump about the Mueller Report?

  14. A couple of really important aspects to FSM.  First, they make an insanely good spicy margarita....made with muddled seranos (not jalepenos).  Secondly, the Duck Enchiladas are the shit...amazing and unique in their own right.  The only problem I have with FSM is that their chips / salsa are subpar.

    Why all the hate in this thread for Chuys?  For cheap, good comfort food...I enjoy it.  You can put Creamy Jalepeno on anything and it would taste great.  Plus, they have recently updated their drinks to include a nice, spicy margarita that is made from the green chiles they use in other food items.  It's pretty tasty.

     

    Interior Mexican food doesn’t really include chips and salsa. Just like real Neapolitan pizza isnt offered by the slice.

     

    CSB- Inlaws were in Rome. Asked for their pizza to be sliced. Waiter brought scissors, sincerely, to cut the pizza.

  15. Of what I have seen:
    1.  Infinity War
    2. The Avengers
    3. Thor Ragnarok
    4. Black Panther
    5. Endgame
    6. Guardians
    7. Winter Soldier
    8. Dr. Strange
    9. Captain America
    10. Captain Marvel
    11. Ant-Man and the Wasp
    12. Thor
    13. Age of Ultron
    14. Civil War
    15. Guardians 2
    16. Thor 2
    Have not seen any Iron Man because I do not like him (he's rich and smart, like Batman, with no actual powers) or the first Ant-Man or Spiderman: Homecoming
    Also, shouldn't this be amended after Spiderman: Far from Home as that is the actual 100% end of Phase 4? 


    In a universe without Robert Downey Jr and Iron Man, not even sure we’re having this discussion.
  16. KD elbowing CP3 in the face: https://streamable.com/171qi
    Draymond trying to sell a hit to the head, kinda hurts himself flopping to the floor lol:  https://streamable.com/nrbmj
     
    Through 4 games James Harden has 143 points this series. Steph Curry and Klay Thompson have a combined 145 points.
    Harden:
    143 points on 108 shots
    29 rebounds
    20 assists
    Durant:
    144 points on 100 shots
    20 rebounds
    18 assists
     
    Rockets’ P.J. Tucker: ‘I’m living my dream right now guarding Kevin Durant’  https://theundefeated.com/features/houston-rockets-pj-tucker-im-living-my-dream-right-now-guarding-kevin-durant/


    I wished he had lived his dream of playong with KD at Texas. Would have been a great team. He’s exactly what they needed.
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