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There are plenty of good reasons to stop doing your job but it's hard to imagine a legitimate beef Kawhi could have with the Raptors already.

I agree he should play. What did the Spurs even do to him that made him go so nuts

Josh Hader is going to receive sensitivity training for his tweets. Sports rocks

So it looks like Dustin May and Yusniel Diaz are going to the Orioles. Not gonna pretend I know anything about them but just reading a bit this seems like a pretty good haul for a Machado rental. Diaz is a Cuban as you can probably guess by the crazy name and like most other Cuban prospects apparently has great tools, but most interestingly he's got really good BB and K numbers in AA. Dustin May I don't see what the problem is with him just looking at the facts, he's shown great command in the minors and he's a power pitcher. FG still says his ceiling is a 3 or 4 but maybe that's just emblematic of how powerful pitchers have become.

He's only signed through the end of this year. There was never going to be major salary considerations in a trade for Machado this year and the prospect package isn't going to light the world on fire. Come back and complain when they sign him in the offseason if you want.

That being said I agree with the notion that it kind of sucks just because it was fun when the Dodgers seemed like they might not win the division. Fucking Max Muncy saving their season

Chewster posted...

Did anyone catch the Josh Hader tweet saga lmao

Too bad. Just a few hours ago he was just a cool relief pitcher. Now he's going to become the governor of Wisconsin

Do you put shaving cream on your head? Not trying to make fun, this just sounds terrifying to me

Also this shouldn't be surprising but John Wall is extremely fast for a player in that game. Also Josh Norman made a funny DB jumping catch. Tim Kurkjian scored a run too which was funny, he really hustled. Overall, it was exactly as entertaining as every other time they've done it

Not a lot to report from the softball game this time but Carlos Pena's swing is still beautiful and naturally he did hit a homer

Hey Bryce actually won, that's pretty cool.

*NDT voice* Home runs are called moon shots, but they never get anywhere near the moon. They'd have to reach escape velocity off the bat and at that speed the ball would disintegrate instantly.

BlackScythe0 posted...

CaptainHammer posted...

Fuck off idiot. A very comfortable environment lmao. I'm comfy as hell walkijg on marble floors all day and making $8.50/hr

It's super comfortable to walk around for 8 hours and deal with people who seem to only want to come in when they are angry over unrelated issues and make it your problem. And pushing credit/loyalty cards no one wants more of.

Plus you get to work random hours that change all the time. Who doesn't love to work until 10 on a Saturday night?

thebestestbest posted...

CaptainHammer posted...

thebestestbest posted...

Retail is the cushiest, easiest job available in north america

My retail job was a lot more demanding than my office job and it paid like shit. Retail jobs are by definition not cushy because they don't pay well, and that says nothing about how hard it is to deal with customers literally your entire day

They are cushy because they present no difficult challenge as well as a very comfortable environment.

Dealing with customers is trivial compared to something like having to keep up with a dinner rush or maintain production levels at a factory.

Fast food is a superset of retail difficulty. You have to deal with customers just like retail, but you have to do it faster and better.

Fuck off idiot. A very comfortable environment lmao. I'm comfy as hell walkijg on marble floors all day and making $8.50/hr

The fights are long already. Scaling these encounters for 8 guys sounds like an absolute nightmare. They'd have like 14 enemies in an encounter just so you couldn't win on the first turn

You get up to four. You have to have your lead character in the party at all times and you have to have someone in your party if you're playing one of their chapters

thebestestbest posted...

Retail is the cushiest, easiest job available in north america

My retail job was a lot more demanding than my office job and it paid like shit. Retail jobs are by definition not cushy because they don't pay well, and that says nothing about how hard it is to deal with customers literally your entire day

I have been playing Octopath Traveler all weekend and I have thoughts.

Pro:

-amazing music
-great aesthetics
-excellent turn based battle system
-good writing/characters

Con:

-because of level scaling you're basically required to collect all 8 heroes before moving on in any of their stories. I've got 6 of them now and every time I stop playing because I feel like it and not because I have something to do I do so right when I reach the next hero. This is because I'm going to have to play through their origin story which means maybe 20 minutes of reading is coming my way. They're nice stories and they're important to enjoying the game but it's becoming pretty draining. After that you've got another 40 minutes or so to play out the conflict in their stories (note: I'm not timing this, just guessing). At least you get your party and you crawl a dungeon for those but the structure is very repetitive.

-fellow party members don't show up in the cutscenes for each other's stories. It's weird. You'll run up to a boss room for Therion's origin with your lead character in front and three others behind him, then the cutscene begins and only Therion is standing there. It's odd to me that they couldn't make this work so that at least your lead character would be in the shot and chime in once or twice.

Anyway, the game is definitely good but seems extremely long so I probably won't finish it. I'm just very ready to have all of the octopath travelers.

It was definitely very good and much better than the first one. It's sort of awful that were saying things like this but I agree with Ultima that it is a top half MCU movie.

quigonzel posted...

SkynyrdRocker posted...

quigonzel posted...

Those fans that ran on the field fucked up a decent Croatia counterattack.

Throw them in Putin's torture centers

My boy Putin is on it.

This is one of the weirder posts I've seen lately. If you felt like you had to reply affirmatively you could have just said "ok." It's like you were trying to name drop Putin as if you knew him but the post you're quoting already specifically mentioned him

MNTwins1991 posted...

ok call me crazy, but the France goalie probably shoulda had that one too!

Any football fan worth their salt knows how hard it is is to *watches replay* look in front of you to see where the other team's players are

Hmmmmm....

Dammit. France isn't the worst case scenario but it sucks for Croatia. I felt really bad for Japan when they choked and this sucks worse to come so close for this tiny little country.

He was like side stepping back and forth and ended up falling down on that one. He maybe could have gotten some fingertips on it but it may not have saved it anyway at that point

MNTwins1991 posted...

I want Croatia to win. Not sure why, just a gut feeling

They're underdogs and France is douchey

This is legit the best cards news all year

Matheny got fired!!!!!!!!

Mail it to me.

Honestly when I want a serious trim I just get it done with my haircut. I don't get a ton of haircuts anyway, maybe every 8-10 weeks or so. I don't really want my beard to be longer than my hair which it would be post haircut so I just let them take it down to the length I want. For those of you who are my Facebook friend, the current profile pic was me right after a haircut and beard trim the first week of June and I haven't done anything since then besides the occasional touch-up on the beard.

I shampoo and condition it and when I can be bothered apply some beard oil so it never really gets that coarse

It's more challenging to keep it neat I think in terms of shaving skills required, but in terms of hours spent shaving in one's lifetime yes it's a lot less

I like having a beard and people seem to like it on me, generally speaking. It's just a bit of a pain to keep it looking neat so it doesn't usually look neat.

I used to have a razor like that back when I was clean shaven. Now I have just a trimmer that I use for the occasional touchup. I liked it fine but you need to stay on top of your grooming if you're going to use one of those because it can hurt if the hairs it's getting are too long.

The Mariners are only five games up on the A's. They're really gonna blow it again aren't they. Especially because now Billy Beane is saying that they're gonna be buyers so knowing him they'll probably somehow end up with Machado.

Hey remember when he traded Carlos Gonzalez and Huston Street for one year of Matt Holliday? That sure was weird

It's worth watching just because it's so iconic and influential. Speaking of which I'm seeing Akira in two hours at the movie theater, the other most influential anime, this time in movie format. Never seen it either but I'm excited

I didn't realize this but Star Ocean was an Enix property. That's interesting because it and Dragon Quest were two of the biggest gets from combining the two companies on the Enix side, but also both are fine and sensible names for RPG series. Unfortunately they're a lot less popular than the Square counterparts.

Also, these are Namco Bandai games, but what about the Tales of... series? They just make up a word to finish those names and they don't mean anything. I've completed a handful of those games and played many of them and the names never have anything to do with what happens in the game! And even when they're not made up words (e.g. Tales of the Abyss) they still have no bearing on the story or setting or anything.

The over 2 might refer to how Roxas and Xion are sort of a split personality. Or something. Sorry for spoiling the DS spinoff for Kingdom Hearts

Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy are also stupid titles, you just don't think about them in those terms at this point. Dragon Quest is fine but generic. I don't think they can do worse than Bravely Default or Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days though

Not like these shows have valuable lessons about friendship and perseverance.

Oh and it's much more mature to watch your sporps I guess

Also I'm getting near the end of Neon Genesis Evangelion. It's becoming one of the craziest things I've ever seen which I actually like. The slow reveal of how insane everything actually is has been quite satisfying to watch, enough that I can get past the hyper sexualization of 15 year old girls

The only one of those I watched in my Ghibli kick this year was My Neighbor Totoro. I thought it was cute but nothing mindblowing. It made me sad a couple of times too. My rankings of what I watched:

Spirited Away
Princess Mononoke
My Neighbor Totoro
Howl's Moving Castle

I liked them all ok but loved the top two. Howl's is visually stunning but I really lost the plot

Also our IBM system thing is down at work so I can't do anything. I can't do my job or help with the job I used to do. I just have to post on gamefaqs until it's fixed.

My mom bought it for me for my birthday - again, it was my birthday last week - but only as a preorder because it was literally the only game I could think of to ask for and she always buys me a game since she loves spending money on me. So I'm going to go to her house after work and grab it. I'll share my thoughts in the coming days

Lol I forgot I told you guys that story. Yes that was him. That was our one hang in four years

I have a college friend I've seen once in the past like four years who texts me sometimes about baseball. He's an aspiring stand up comic. He has a show in St. Louis next month with his country music parody band and he sent me the Facebook invite today. My life is over / I kind of want to watch this extremely badly

Congrats man. Ennui has really set in for me with the Cardinals too and that's just because they've become so content with utter mediocrity

That is extremely good, thank you for bringing it to my attention. Descalso has given up two homers, very cool

STLCards1991 posted...

Well I guess it's not coming home after all eh lads

Also...bugger you!!!

My three lions couldn't pull the old sword out of the stone after all

CaptainHammer posted...

What did Abraham Lincoln say when he was falsely accused of a crime

btw the answer is "I'm in a cent."