I didn’t say you had to agree with me. I’m not a big LOTR fan, so the games lore and setting didn’t do enough for me to make up for it’s shortcomings.

I think the big take away is that France completely let off after he went out. They were rampant for 20' and then it was gone, never to return.

I live in a city now, so I’m not likely to take it up again. It was fun though.

I actually was really disappointed in Shadow of Mordor. I thought it was really repetitive and stopped playing without finishing the game.

I used to practice in my backyard, which undoubtedly unsettled the neighbors. I got pretty good at it too, but eventually the hatchet broke and I never got another one.

You could say fargin anything and I’d give you a star with that username. :)

I think loosing the tip sounds painful, but I’m clearly less adventurous than you. lol

I learned to throw hatchets when I was a kid, it’s way easier than most people would imagine so long as the hatchet is well balanced.

They don’t have any kind of aerodynamic stabilization though ( tail fins... etc ), so they have to be thrown perfectly straight in order to not rotate around the COM. I also doubt that any thrower could apply enough spin to stabilize it that way either.

Atlatls are amazingly effective force multipliers. I would assume they’re really tough to master, or they’d have been much more widely used in the pre-gunpowder world.

Yeah, same here. Aside from soccer and ice hockey I don’t follow any Olympic sports.

That might not be good enough if, say, everyone else is throwing 210'.

I think they have to have their legs and body moving to generate sufficient power because the velocity of the thrower would be transferred to the thrown object. Drag on a javelin can’t be very significant either, so every little bit of velocity helps.

Watching Portugal win this tournament was like having really bad sex for way too long and not being able to finish.

Not for a few centuries.

It’s meant to be a “guard of honor” in order to show respect to the vanquished. It may not always work that way in practice though.

I will never understand why Clattenburg is so highly regarded. He is not as good as the best Refs in Europe, yet he gets the CL final and the Euro final in the same year.

Wales without Ramsey are not that great. Add in the fact that Bale wasn’t very good in that game and Portugal’s accomplishment seems a little less impressive.

The head to head record disagrees with your assessment. USMNT 2-2-2 all time against Portugal 1-0-1 in World Cup play.

USMNT haven’t lost to Portugal in a game that matters, only in friendlies. Record is 2-2-2 overall.