Posts made by buttercup

@packrat

That's great progress!

Can I make a character yet?

I love this game. It's been really fun and I play a very interesting character there. I hope it gets more active outside of the Monster of the Week stuff. I would encourage people to give it a try.

@ganymede

Completely forgot about the Football Hall of Fame in Canton. I'm absolutely doing that. Were it just for me the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame would be on the agenda. For my sons though I'll give it a pass this round.

Anyone know a can't miss thing to do in Chicago for a morning? I think maybe a tour of Wrigley Field. I think I found my Deep Dish pizza place to try -- The Art of Pizza? Any other suggestions?

@Ganymede

$1,100 from checks (set aside weekly through my salary). That is for gas and spending money.

The tickets I will just buy outright ahead of time. Same with the hotels.

I'll have another $2k cash on me for reserves. And $20k in credit cards in case I need it but I better be like really in some sort of bind for that.

Mostly I'm looking for stuff I can do that isn't about spending a ton of money in these cities. Or thoughts on what to do.

For example I think ahead of the trip I'm going to get hats shipped from China for each home team for all three of us. Then when we arrive in each city I'll bust them out to wear until the next city.

For example:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Mitchell-Ness-Hardwood-Classics-NBA-Chicago-Bulls-Snapback-Basketball-Cap-Hat/162863963868?hash=item25eb72dedc:g:PKoAAOSwblZZFBFT

When in Chicago I will figure out the best place to take my sons to get Chicago style pizza. Never been there before so will need to see what is suitable for my sons and I to try.

No idea what to do in Cleveland for a day.

I have planned for a couple of years to take my eldest son on an NBA road trip that he will remember for the rest of his life and I plan to do it this year. I have saved ten dollars a check for two years and I think I have enough to do it on the cheap.

I am not poor but part of this trip is not to spend a lot. It's about quality time and I set this goal for myself worse comes to worse I could always put a few thousand dollars more on credit cards and do it more expensively but I just worked hard to get out of debt finally in December (40k in two years). When my father was alive we were poor as dirt and my best memories are when we penny pitched and got nosebleed tickets. My sons don't care how we do it. I think living out of a cooler mostly, road tripping, cheap hotels and fellowship is the way to go.

My son is an amazing child. He is on the high functioning side of the autism spectrum (Asperger Syndrome) and struggles socially while excelling intellectually.

I was much the same as a child. One of the outlets I had available was basketball. My father and I were rabid Phoenix Suns fans and as child we bonded over the team. When I was eleven he had his first heart attack which led to a quadruple bypass. We were watching a game one night and he started sweating and throwing up in a small trashcan. The game went into overtime and I could tell something was wrong. We used to listen to the radio broadcast with a delay and watch the games through the small television in the living room. After the game (we won) he looked to me and told me he had a heart attack and that I needed to drive him to the hospital.

The doctor told him that he could not watch basketball anymore and he coded while on the stress test the next morning. He wash rushed through to get a bypass. My father told the doctor to go to hell with his basketball request. I spent the next number of games smuggling in a black and white little rabbit ears television unit and we watched the games at his bedside. He lived twenty-five more years and our love of the Suns are my fondest memories of my father and I. It was everything to us.

From an early age despite living in Texas my eldest son and I watched basketball. We are die-hard Suns fans but we love the NBA in general. One of my sons aspirations was to get good enough in basketball to play for his high school team. We played daily and despite making progress that likely is not going to happen. He helps the 8th grade team as an assistant coach now and while he is okay for a kid his age some of his challenges and awkwardness won't allow him the chance in high school. I would be understating it to say that for my son, basketball, is important and one of his only successful social outlets. He is a brilliant child -- straight A's his whole life and his academic future is amazing. I am so proud of his manners and he is the most amazing son a father could wish for.

I will be picking him up for Spring Break in Louisville on the 3/31 and bringing his little brother (6) and I will pretend like we are making the drive back to Texas. We won't be, I am packing a cooler, and we're going to start our NBA road trip together. Each stop I will tell him I love him and it is time to go home but then it will be on to the next city until it is actually time for Spring Break to be over and I will put him on a plane in Dallas to fly back.

My Request:

I do not know these cities. And while we follow the teams I would like to do something iconic and affordable with the little time I have in each.

If there is something unique about the team to do or a particular food or iconic place I should see that is affordable please let me know. I will be buying the tickets over the next couple weeks (nose bleeds) and budgeting out the trip as hotels, gas, and food will add up. Most of the trip will be packed lunches and I could probably afford one meal in each stop for my sons if I stick to the budget.

Here is our tentative schedule:
*3/31 Pick up in Louisville, drive to Chicago
*4/1 Spend day in Chicago, Chicago v. Wizards
*4/2 Travel to Cleveland (Spend Day there)
*4/3 Cleveland v. Toronto (In Cleveland)
*4/4 Travel to Detroit, Detroit v. 76ers
*4/5 Travel to Indianapolis (Indy v.Warriors)
*4/6 Travel to Memphis (Memphis v. Kings)
*4/7 Travel to Dallas (Eldest son flies home, my youngest and I travel two hours home)

Our time is limited so really looking for must do things. Tips to get affordable tickets as for some of these games I'm going to struggle to afford (like v. Golden State, etc).

Sucks.

How no team has never gone far with that guy baffles me. By the numbers he is fantastic. It doesn't matter the era. While he shouldn't be paired up with someone like AD and should have a good backcourt -- like Portland -- I think he would make a team championship capable. (After GS dies or breaks up)

@aria Re:l Power. I am so afraid of this show after loving the graphic novels.

@thatguythere Lol, I acknowledge I may be the unhealthy one in this aspect of a relationship.

To be fair I kicked her out because she stole money out of my son's piggy bank to buy cigarettes because she was broke and not because of the binge watching without me. She came home to find her stuff stacked in nice piles outside the garage. She planned to pay it back, of course... and then mentioned she had done it five times before (I had no idea) and always paid it back. My six year old son found out on his birthday because he wanted to buy a video game with his birthday money.

That said, I should finally finish season 1 of the Magicians. Lol.

@cupcake Oh, awesome. I used to love the Outer Limits. And I adore Black Mirror of course and could dig a broader thematic scope. I think it will killed and finished this weekend.

Unrelated but...

Those of you in relationships. Is there anything worse then when your partner binge watches without you? I fell asleep once and she finished the Magicians season 1. I never watched it since and she is current. Like, if I don't care about the show then go for it. Which is most shows and anything involving 'dundun' beeps and dudes solving crimes (unless it is Batman, True Detective, the Wire, etc.).

So in retaliation like a mature and communicative adult. I binge watched Stranger Things season 1.

She retaliated with Star Trek: Discovery.

Am I crazy? Is it just me? Is this co-tv-dependence?

I'm now single again!

@ortallus It is absolutely fantastic. I fell in love with both of the main characters. Give it through episode three.

End of the F'ing World on Netflix is awesome sauce. Need to buy the comic version now.

Excited about Electric Dreams, Altered Carbon, season 2 of Legion, and read apparently there is going to be a John Wick TV series.

Lets have the Lebron v. Jordan talk.

I'm on the side that Lebron is greater. Lebron would have been the best player in any era at three positions (pg, sg, and sf) and he is just a beast. I think it is close though but I have to give the nod to Lebron James.

What say you @Ganymede and @Arkandel?

@ganymede Oden was such an elite prospect. But dude was secretly fifty years old.

I love Embiid's character and gravitas. I hope he shrugs off the injury prone status but doubt he will. I hope Fultz will develop but unless he or Simmons get a reliable three (and neither might) then in today's NBA they would be poor. This team would have killed it in the 80s.

What do you guys feel about the Sixers? Such a fascinating team. Are they going to turn the corner in the next couple of years? Will Fultz get it together? Will Mr. Glass play more than a token amount of non-injured games?

@ganymede You were really appreciated. People thought I represented the character well from prior play. I loved the character it was a shame the game was not very active.

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I am a rabid basketball fan of the Phoenix Suns. Been some hard years. Going to be a hard year. About to be some hard years on the horizon.

This was, hands down, one of the better offseasons for the NBA I think.

Shame about the Celtics injury. I think the Timberwolves could do some things once they get it down. I love Butler, Thibs... KAT...

No doubt staff will hate me for this

Would anyone else /love/ to see another grid for Eurus? A separate game that overlaps and has a crossover from time to time.

Coming Soon: Eurus the Dune Kingdoms, #%#^#@ your Reckoning we have Blood Magic!

#wantmesomeDuneKingdomfun