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I've seen pictures/ videos of her engaging in what appears to be heterosexual behavior. Those must not be canon

Reminder that Blizzard changed Tracer's pose because they don't want you thinking about her sexually

Ultima_Dragoon posted...

Reminder that Blizzard changed Tracer's pose because they don't want you thinking about her sexually

Wow this is censorship. I'm gonna j/o to her right now to get back at them.

My hockey league announced their summer league rosters and for some reason they pick your team name for you... maybe because the season is shorter and you don't always make your own roster. Anyway, they always go with a theme for team names. Last year was dog breeds and there were teams like the yorkies, poodles, schnauzers, etc, so I was hoping for something good.

This year the theme is apparently hockey lingo and our team is the Five Holes, which is very lame.
There is a team called the Suck Holes... I would give anything for that to be our name

Don't worry, to me you'll always be a suck hole.

So for most of 2018 I haven't been eating sweets of any kind and as a result when I do decide to partake the stakes are incredibly high. For the most part I've been disappointed and just wished I had eaten a candy bar or something. Anyway, I'm gearing up to get some ice cream soon. Have you ever had Thai rolled ice cream? It looks so cool but I'm afraid it won't taste as good as it looks when I could get some frozen custard instead! There are so many artisan ice cream shops in St. Louis that I want to try, but there's honestly an extremely low chance they're as good as the one that's like 100 years old, Ted Drewes Frozen Custard

You're always a suck hole to me, pal.

I made the same joke as my brother................

I would just like to add that in my estimation I believe you to be a suck hole

And as an aside, I must reiterate that I am using tilt controls.

It's too bad you can't do the quick chat statements in-game in MK. I love spamming them in Rocket League, it's hilarious

Never even heard of that ice cream
STLCards1991 posted...

I made the same joke as my brother................

You guys do stuff like that all the time

Chewster posted...

It's too bad you can't do the quick chat statements in-game in MK. I love spamming them in Rocket League, it's hilarious

If that was the case I'd just stay at the starting line and let everyone know that I'm using tilt controls repeatedly

Also reminds me of this comic I saw the other day
https://i.redd.it/ppq9dwazemz01.jpg

Saying "okay" is a taunt? Who are they, Ness?

CaptainHammer posted...

So for most of 2018 I haven't been eating sweets of any kind

...but why?

Chewster posted...

I love spamming them in Rocket League

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To lose weight. It's part of why I'm down 30+ pounds from the start of the year

I try to eat fewer sweets and less stuff like bread but I don't really stick to any plan. I don't even know what the end goal is other than carbs are generally bad. I'm lighter but I still look like I have a gut so idk.

Thirty pounds is impressive though, good job.

Yeah, 30 is impressive. That's awesome. From the small amount I've seen of you, I didn't think you were overweight.

Thanks dudes. By BMI I'm still like half a pound shy of being overweight though last I checked lol. BMI is a tough judge

The cheapest seats to game 3 are $806. I will not be seeing a game

about to play my first game of overwatch in literally forever. Ultima do you play on pc

aaand 20gb update

Nope I play on PS4. I'm actually playing now.

I'm so happy I get to join the overwatch crew

I have now seen Solo twice. Probably won't be seeing it again for a while, but, you never know

Here's my greatest fear Overwatch fam: am I expected to use a headset when I play

You don't have to use headset. 95% of the time I'm playing with friends, but when I'm alone I never talk. It admittedly helps; for instance let's say you saw a guy flanking behind. If you called it out, the team could turn around and deal with him. If you don't say anything, the guy uses ultimate and kills four of you and you lose the game. In normal games I don't really care, but if you really wanna win, you should use the mic to at least call out stuff.

Well maybe I'll talk sometimes. I have a headset somewhere. I just don't like yelling at my TV.

CaptainHammer posted...

I have now seen Solo twice. Probably won't be seeing it again for a while, but, you never know

How was it? I'm going to see it today. I was okay with waiting to see it, but my kids wanted to see it in theaters.
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Wii3Kings posted...

CaptainHammer posted...

I have now seen Solo twice. Probably won't be seeing it again for a while, but, you never know

How was it? I'm going to see it today. I was okay with waiting to see it, but my kids wanted to see it in theaters.

No spoilers below, just my thoughts in spoiler tags.

I like it very much. The first act is slow and it gets better as it goes. I prefer it to Rogue One

May 25, 1977 A New Hope was released.
May 25, 1983 Return of the Jedi was released.
May 25, 2018 Solo: A Star Wars Story was released.
Think Star Wars likes May 25?
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Apparently my co-worker knows the girl who poured a drink on tomi lahren. I didn't know it happened in Minneapolis

MNTwins1991 posted...

Apparently my co-worker knows the girl who poured a drink on tomi lahren. I didn't know it happened in Minneapolis

That owns very very much

The president tweeted about that

Someone poured water on her arm and the president tweeted that "everybody is behind her"

I kind of want to put "Looking for the Trammell to my Whitaker" in my Tinder bio, but that's super baseball nerdy.
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If anyone gets that reference, you know they're a keeper

If we're back on tinder bios chat for the moment, another thing I like is "5'5" because apparently that matters on here" along with "I don't care how tall you are"

Is pushing off with your arm on offense not a foul in the NBA or is it just one of those things they don't ever call?

I don't know how to answer the lebron vs Jordan GOAT debate, but it makes me think of gretzky, who is the indisputable GOAT. I'm not sure if other sports that i don't follow as closely have a for sure , but hockey definitely does. The world will end before anyone even gets close to his records.

Gretzky has so many insane records that it's beyond even video game stats. One of my favorites is that gretzky leads all nhl players in points (goals+assists). If you subtract every goal he scored, he's still #1 in points.

That's just dumb. I've looked at his stats before and I can't really contextualize them too well but I remember comparing him year to year to like Sidney Crosby or whoever I knew to be good at the time and thinking like oh he had 8x as many goals as Crosby does when he was his age.

In baseball it's all completely disputed all the time. There are too many factors that get people riled up (PEDs primarily but Ruth didn't play against non whites for example) but the one thing I can think of is that Pedro Martinez at his peak was the best pitcher who ever lived. You'll get some love for peak Sandy Koufax and Kershaw had momentum for a minute there but really Pedro is the only reasonable stance to take for GOAT peak

Yeah in that sense, baseball seems like football where the positions are different enough (or there are more positions than basketball and hockey), that you can't put 1 player as the goat, but can do it position by position maybe?

I've also read an article that Ruth was the best of his era, but nowadays any 12 year old in the Dominican republic can hit better than him.

I sometimes think about how lucky I was to see some of the greatest athletes of all time when I was a kid in the 90s. It's probably what turned me into such a big sports fan as I got older.

NBA: Jordan - I think he is easily still the GOAT but LeBron is in the conversation

MLB: Bonds - Maybe the best hitter of all time. Probably not GOAT because of PEDs. Hard to pick a pitcher. I think Pedro, Johnson and Maddux are all great 90's pitchers, but I don't know if there's a consensus GOAT pitcher in any era.

NHL: Gretzky - Without a doubt the GOAT.

NFL: Montana, Rice - Too many positions so it's hard to say, plus Brady has probably surpassed Montana at this point. I hear Rice being called GOAT every now and then because of how far ahead he is of other WRs. He's like Gretzky in that regard.

PGA: Tiger was on the GOAT path, but now we're seeing he's probably going to end up second to Jack Nicklaus.

Gretzky's records are untouchable because that video game NHL doesn't exist anymore. I think Lemieux was close--his point per game pace was within 0.1 of Gretzky, if I recall correctly--but health really messed him up.

Anyways, Lebron is the NBA GOAT. Fight me.
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CaptainHammer posted...

That's just dumb. I've looked at his stats before and I can't really contextualize them too well but I remember comparing him year to year to like Sidney Crosby or whoever I knew to be good at the time and thinking like oh he had 8x as many goals as Crosby does when he was his age.

In baseball it's all completely disputed all the time. There are too many factors that get people riled up (PEDs primarily but Ruth didn't play against non whites for example) but the one thing I can think of is that Pedro Martinez at his peak was the best pitcher who ever lived. You'll get some love for peak Sandy Koufax and Kershaw had momentum for a minute there but really Pedro is the only reasonable stance to take for GOAT peak

No, Walter Johnson is the GOAT for baseball. 110 shutouts (a record that still stands), 417 wins (second-most all-time), 2.17 ERA (12th lowest all-time), 3,508 strikeouts (a record that stood for 55 years until Nolan Ryan broke it, and is now 8th all-time), 3 time Triple Crown winner. And he played for a team that was known for mediocrity. If he had played for Boston or the Yankees, he might have surpassed Cy Young for career wins. And he was a power-pitcher that threw sidearmed.
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Walter Johnson would have his shit ruined if he pitched today. A "power pitcher" who struck out 5 batters per 9 innings.

Babe Ruth would strike out 250 times this season and Walter Johnson would have a 6.66 ERA

The basically undisputed positional GOATs are Ruth in RF, Gehrig at 1B, Schmidt at 3B, Bench at C, and *400 second long groan* Honus Wagner at shortstop probably. Thanks for making A-Rod move to third, asshole Yankees.

STLCards1991 posted...

Walter Johnson would have his shit ruined if he pitched today. A "power pitcher" who struck out 5 batters per 9 innings.

3,508 strikeouts over 20 years. That's 175.4 a year, or about one per inning. And he still managed 110 shutouts, despite only having one-two pitches (fastball and later a curveball)
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What the heck is your math dude. He pitched nearly 6000 innings.

The fact that he only had two pitches also works towards @STLCards1991's belief that he would get murdered by today's hitters

What was it about the NHL that allowed video same numbers by Gretzky that couldn't be put up today? How'd the game change?

Also, in regards to rule changes, delayed offsides in the NHL is a great rule change, and the trapezoid behind the net is a terrible one. Let goalies play the puck everywhere, man.