Posts made by Ghost

Currently looking to replace some old beat up furniture. Anyone got any advice on how to pick out a good sofa?

TMW you wake up at 5am to get to work for a 630am "town hall meeting" only to find no one is at work because they intended to sleep in and watch the replay at 8am.

@insomniac7809 said in Tyche Banned:

@Kodiak said in Tyche Banned:

But @Tyche kept telling us he wasn't a racist!

And that he'd never heard of any of the places he posted his alt-right poop from, and that it was just a weird coincidence that he kept linking to "news" sites that have "ISRAEL DID 9/11" on their home page, and that all his funny memes about what dumb bitches women are were just random jokes he felt like sharing.

Tyche should've been banned a year ago, but better late than never.

God it's terribad, the way some people act like they just stumbled over a stone and found some perfect news article that frames their political argument du jour. The ramp up is always some kind of fake pastor story, like when a pastor goes "I was at a comic shop this weekend and someone asked 'Hey, do you think theres room for cyborgs in heaven?'" THIS CONVERSATION IN NO WAY FUCKING HAPPENED.

Anyway, I digress, but it's like: "I ACCIDENTALLY came across this One World News article about Hillary Clinton..."

C'mon. Bullshit.

Tyche didnt really seem to have interest in interfacing with anyone constructively on the forum. He mostly just haunted political threads to ruffle feathers using superskeeeery alt-rightisms to watch people's reactions. Not surprised to see this, but ultimately I question why he wasted his time to begin with.

@Derp Interesting to investigate, but I'm reading on the differences between how Oscar nominees becoming Oscar winners vs Grammy nominees/winners. Slightly different processes but for both the short version is: people within the industry itself decide and vote.

@Auspice My only quirked eyebrow is at the timeframes turnaround to protest of these awards shows and the "totally organic(?)" response to those protests.

Oscars had an "OscarsSoWhite" protest is 2016 and the following year a record matching number of black actors/actresses were nominated/won.

The Grammys then had "GrammysSoMale" in 2017 and the last 2 years headlines are awestruck at how women are now dominating the Grammy Awards.

I'm not complaining about it (I could give a damn who wins what awards; I think these award ceremonies are more promotion of the industry than actual awards), but in that light I somehow question just how organic the turnaround is.

Then again, if the end result is the promotion of something more empowering/positive, then it's probably a net win.

Billie Eilish wrote a Michael Skarn song. For that she deserves everything ever.

Well, Penis Man has been apprehended. It's not great that a SWAT team with assault rifles was necessary to catch a serial graffiti vandal and it looks like they're hitting him with the book.

"Penis Man" arrested (link to local Phoenix news site)

@SG said in The Hockey Thread:

@silverfox said in The Hockey Thread:

WAIT, I came to this too late.

Is there an honest to god Coyote fan here? I thought that was a myth!

In theory, kinda. If I ever want to catch the Oilers live, it's cheaper to fly to phoenix and buy a ticket there than to get a decent ticket here.

When the Yotes come back from a 3 goal trail to beat the Red Wings, and while you're excited AF walking to the parking lot and a Red Wings fan yells out "YOURE WELCOME FOR THE TICKET REVENUE" because 70% of the house was wearing filthy bad-people costumes with names like Yzerman, Federov, or FUCKIN BERTUZZI on them...

True story.

It's probably cheaper to see the Oilers in Glendale than Edmonton. God knows Leafs and Habs fans are milking the out of town discount, too.

@Ganymede Will it make me go Warcraft on my man shaft? HOLTZY

(Disclaimer. This is a Letterkenny reference. I'm not that guy #puckbunny)

@Ganymede said in The Hockey Thread:

@silverfox

It’s crazy because he picked Fiddler, instead of a relevant franchise player, like Hawerchuk.

Silly Americans. Those are Canadian franchises.

Go Nords!

It's not crazy. Sure. Fiddler was only on the Yotes a few seasons, but I loved the guy. Tough as nails, great at faceoffs, wasn't shy about getting physical. After watching him play I followed his career. I dont know if he wanted to leave the Yotes or if they didnt meet his asking price or what, but I feel he was a great addition to the team.

Besides. Everyone fucking loves Doan and OEL is the only other player that they had that you couldn't expect to disappear after a season or two, anyway

@JinShei Is Musketeers as good as I'm told it is? I've been circling it like a vulture but havent committed yet.

I would love access to Sky to get my Karl Pilkington fix.

@JinShei NP. I think my ONLY complaint is that CBS all-access is 5.99/9.99 a month (9.99 no commercials) and that Picard is dropping 1 episode a week, so I can predict exactly how much I'll be paying to watch the whole season of Picard.

I decided that I'm gonna stick with watching this one as each episode drops to SUPPORT the show in hopes that there will be a 3rd season (season 2 has already been greenlit and online I guess Stewart offered Whoopi to join the cast!), but Netflix has spoiled me with being able to pick a show up and binge the fuck out of it in 3 days.

Not a fan of these mini-Netflix services, but Picard IMO is worth the cost more than Discovery is. I'm biased, though, because I think Trek should have never left the Prime timeline.

@Rinel Uuuuupvote.

Yea, no spoilers, but Stewart seamlessly slipped back into the role (and another old face despite not having the same face channeled an old character perfectly). The first episode SOLIDLY set up the season, Picard definitely takes place in the "Prime" timeline, and this new story is intriguing as hell with the implications about WHO this new girl is.

I suspect this season will showcase a culmination of the best TNG storylines, crossing the Romulans, the Borg, and the crew of the Enterprise.

The first episode is SO GOOD that it feels like it goes by too fast. By the end shot (which, I was going "HOOOOLY SHIT" during and the roll of the credits I had chills. So much to explore. After the episode there is basically a trailer for "what's to come" in the future of this season, and ALL OF IT looked like stuff I wanna see.

Also:

A family member and their friends worked for the Yotes during the Gretzky era. Here's the lowdown.

• Cool: Doan, Roenick, Tocchet, and Tyson Nash
• Gretzky is an asshole
• Mike Comrie talked in the 3rd person
• Danny Briere is the bomb

@silverfox said in The Hockey Thread:

@Ghost

That is crazy. When we lived in Phoenix and went to see the Aves play the Coyotes there were always more Aves fans in the audience.

Here's how that works. The following sentence applies to pretty much every Coyotes game.

"I went to a Coyotes game. They were playing the <other team> and most of the crowd was wearing <other team> sweaters."

I'm a Coyotes fan that wants to see the Yotes leave AZ. They deserve better. I think those hardcore Coyotes fans in Glendale who fight to get extra taxes to keep the Yotes from leaving are out of their goddamned minds.

Picard.
Holy shit.

I'm excited for this. So glad to see Prime Star Trek back

@silverfox said in The Hockey Thread:

WAIT, I came to this too late.

Is there an honest to god Coyote fan here? I thought that was a myth!

Fan since the season they moved to AZ.

Got me a Vern Fiddler jersey. #38 baby. Not a myth.

@Ganymede He coulda ran away to the Russian Super League and been banned from the NHL until finishing the rest of his contract with the Yotes.

Dude had options not to come to AZ.

• Run away
• Retire
• WitSec
• Sell all his belongings and move to Tibet

Cant we just be happy he didn't go to Detroit?

@Ganymede said in The Hockey Thread:

@Ghost

He was traded, numbnutz.

He could have resigned! No one forced him to take off that filthy Pens sweater and put on that majestic Coyotes sweater