Oh I agree that the constant gameplay improves the sport, but I’m already interested. I can imagine for new fans that can be rather jarring to deal with.

That’s...actually a good point about first half stoppage time. I’d never thought of that. Huh.

Only one of those sports, soccer actually uses any kind of countdown/count up clock (timing sports like track or swimming being different since there’s no designated timeframe) at all, so it seemed safe to assume “sports with a clock” was the subset there, unless you’re just trying to be pedantic. I take it most…

I think it’s also that the soccer clock never stops. It’s like the soccer gods specifically wait until you decide to get up to use the bathroom or grab another drink to allow someone to score...commercials and breaks are too frequent in US sports but we’re still used to some kind of stoppage. I’m honestly convinced…

Eh, documentary vs. feature, those two are definitely going for different things. The Jobs movies (or Departed/Black Mass) are basically covering the exact same ground in even the same way.

I think a lot of that is who won those NBA titles. There’s no way we’re going to be allowed to forget about Lakers and Celtics titles because the NBA would be content with those two teams winning 8 out of every 10 titles for the rest of eternity (split the other two between the Knicks, Heat, Bulls and every few…

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Ah right, Wayne “Fire Sale” Huizenga. But yeah, as another commenter stated, they did at least get pieces out of that first fire sale. The 49ers got Carl from Aqua Teen Hunger Force as their new coach.

I’m more inclined to think he’s just stupid, as opposed to devious. I think York legitimately believed Harbaugh’s unlikability/issues with him and probably some other members of the team would make firing him ok, especially when he hired from in house (hey, everyone likes Tomsula, right?!?) Combine that with Baalke…

I’m biased, as a 49ers fan, but I’d say this one is still worse because it seems like Loria 100% intended for those implosions to happen. Sure, they were really shitty to watch - I don’t remember the 1998 one but felt terrible for those fans in 2004 - but that was pretty much the gameplan. Nobody saw this coming,…

I’m less concerned with the Vikings in general, more concerned that an extremely pissed off Adrian Peterson is going to run for approximately 1,874 yards against that shambling pile of corpses that used to be our defense. The rest of the Vikings don’t need to do shit.

Don’t forget, fuck Trent Baaaaaaaaaalke too.

These Texans remind me of the Vikings the year before Favre arrived, when Tarvaris Jackson and Gus Frerotte were their QBs. Extremely solid defense, franchise that never won shit, solid RB, still recovering from a star WR exit and, if they get very lucky, might stumble into a wild card loss.

Nicely done then haha

There was another commenter around here who said the problems with the FF on film are a) there’s no real modern corollary to the Space Race to make people care (outside of the nerd community nobody really cares about SpaceX, sadly) and b) they’re quite arguably overshadowed by Doom. In the comics they’re already well…

Yeahhhh Admittedly the “so you’re saying there’s a chance” mentality is hard to break down.

That’s entirely true, but the reception this movie was getting, at least in places like here, at least came across as pretty universally negative loooooong before there were reports of actual trouble, back when this movie was “Josh Trank makes Fantastic Four with some very talented actors”, which looks fine to me.…

I always heard about how shitty it was on dating sites/social media/comments for women but didn’t entirely get it until a couple of female friends let me look at their messages. I mean holy shit, how do guys think any of that is a good idea? Beyond it being a really shitty thing to do in general, does it ever even…

I’m not necessarily trying to jump into the entire thread here, but just one point, out of curiosity...have you read much about understanding non-verbal cues when it comes to people we aren’t familiar with? Obviously we all learn what people who we interact with do on a regular basis but what about some completely new…

I will say that the main differences between Gretzky’s comment and these instances are that in hockey, you know exactly why the shot didn’t go in, and you can (and should) be taking multiple shots at the same goal. The goalie blocked it, or a defender swatted it away, or your aim was off target, etc.