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Happy Birthday, good sir! Keep up the fine work.
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Quote:As others have already pointed out, even if those were both called penalties, Vancouver wouldn't have scored on the ensuing power plays. They were horrible (really both teams were, but Vancouver's stink was epic considering how good they were during the season).
Chara and Thomas both, in front of the refs, had their sticks in the face of Canucks players. It is like the refs forgot that rule 60 existed. Even the commentators of the game were going "What the <censored>?" At that point the credibility of the officiating goes out the window.
Vancouver was getting out-hustled, out-muscled, and their stars didn't show up. Refs had little to do with that, and they made bad calls for both teams the entire series. -
Not sure why they picked Blade 2 over the first one.
Also surprised that Unbreakable is on the list, since it's not typical superhero fare.
I might have snuck the first Tim Burton Batman on the list somewhere in the second 5, but that's about all I'd change. -
There are places where posts unrelated to the game are welcome. It takes more than that to get something modsmacked no matter how much you think it should be.
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Quote:You mean inconsistent goaltending cost Vancouver the series. Call it like it is, man. Refs don't allow all those soft goals in and get yanked out of two games.Originally Posted by Snow Globe
Inconsistent reffing cost Vancouver the game. If the refs actually did their jobs, I suspect that this series would have gone differently. Then again, being on the team with the head NHL disciplinarian's kid seems to grant you a pass in the season. -
Not sure why Canucks fans are booing Bettman, but it's pretty classless. Be a graceful loser, gang. I'd be embarrassed if that were my team.
Congrats, Boston. You wanted it more in the last two games. -
Intent is 9/10ths of the law, Snow Globe. The hit caused injury, but mainly due to it being awkward. The player that got his head taken off in the center of the ice was subjected to a lot of intent to do just what the offending player did. If the player with the injured back had hit the boards normally (standing up), he would have been fine. Chara's hit on the Canadien player was also a freak thing, and more a problem with the design of the boards/glass than what either player did.
I don't remember anyone getting suspended for an accident, especially in the Stanley Cup Finals. -
You guys are forgetting something important:
Continuity with source material is only good if you can get a good movie story out of it. By all accounts I've seen, the story in the movie works. There's nothing wrong with look at the universe First Class created as an alternate take on events, even if it's a "prequel." By saying it's a prequel, all they mean is that the events being shown would have happened before events already depicted, or showing characters in their younger days. It doesn't necessarily have to sync up with what we've already seen. -
Just because you "have" a power doesn't mean you have to use it, acknowledge that it's even there, or slot it.
The only way to fix your concern would be to offer more slots instead of a power, and that's not going to happen. They've given us more powers at our disposal by moving Fitness to inherent status, and they didn't even give us more slots then. -
This series is coming back to Vancouver for Game 7. Canucks haven't proven they can play even half as well in Boston as they do at home. I wouldn't bet on Luongo getting another shutout, either.
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Quote:I'd rather have this than a movie where you've guessed what happened and who did it 10 minutes into it.Originally Posted by Pouncer
It's gotten good reviews but the trailers did not make me want to see it. It looked like they tease you the whole movie and don't tell you what's doing it until the end.
Movie trailers used to be more cryptic about what the plot twists were, especially for monster/horror movies. Go youtube the original Alien trailer. You don't even get to see what they look like. No one knew till they saw the movie. -
Quote:That has a good chance of changing in two years when realignment happens. Detroit is the front-runner to move to the Eastern Conference.Originally Posted by Ms. Mesmer
This. Sorry, not Canadian here. I like Canada just fine. Ontario is about a 30 minute drive from where I sit right now, depending on traffic on the Blue Water Bridge. That said, your team are still newbs to the league, while Boston is one of the Original Six, much like my Detroit Red Wings. The Bruins also have the advantage of not being Conference rivals.
Go Bruins!
My theory on rooting for teams that I have no sentimental interest in (Stars fan here), is to go with the team that has the smallest goalie. Tim Thomas is awesome. Go Bruins. -
Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't SD ComiCon been sold out for months now? I'm glad you guys will be there again, but at this point you're only informing those that managed to get their hands on a pass before they were gone. I just checked the site and all 4 Day and single day passes are sold out.
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Sorry ZombieMan, but making gender-based decisions is not the same thing as making sexist ones.
Z has already come in here and explained the art department's reasoning. It's mostly about time vs output, with a little bit of quality thrown in. If you don't like those reasons, you and the others don't get to call BS and proclaim it's something it's not. -
Quote:Many kids wish they had a dad that cared enough to wave at them at all, goofy costume or not.Originally Posted by Samothrake
Embarrassing? Yes. For a while.
But many kids wish they had a dad that cool! -
When your inspiration for artwork in general is from the comic world, it's inherently going to be "sexist" (whatever that means). Google some random heroes and heroines and you'll understand exactly why they design the way they do.
Trying to project how you would design something onto a product that someone else has control over is just going to lead to frustration. They've chosen an art direction. I'd rather see men in coats and women in skirts and get some things that are visually different, rather than everyone running around in coats. I'm sure the art dept would rather design gender-specific items rather than three versions of the same thing as well. -
Mine happened in a couple of hours.
Like any business, some days are better than others. -
Quote:Why do you keep insisting that Superman has millions of hidden powers that are just waiting to be discovered in the right situation, rather than just take him at face value? With all of your worrying, nothing would ever work because there's always a chance he could have a power to counter it. He's not the God-Mode character you keep trying to make him out to be.Originally Posted by Durakken
Actually there are 3 things that should be brought up...
#1. If you were to try to defeat superman it would be great to have access to the ability to control his powers, turning them on and off, at will. This can be done relatively easily. Luthor created a satellite based device that could do this in the late 80s early 90s... it was one of the first superman stories i read in my readings of superman...
#2. depending on version of superman you don't need shields and such... you just need to be fast enough, smart enough, and durable enough to keep just out of range for long enough to drain off his power... This was done in the early 90s to some effect. It didn't work 100% but worked well enough for proof of concept.
#3. Red "solar" light is and always has been a bad idea. While it is true that superman loses his powers under red solar light to varying degrees... it could be that he just hasn't found what powers he has under red solar light... As unlikely as it might be I wouldn't tempt it is all. -
Quote:Pretty much this. Anything else and Superman could outlast it. You have to negate his powers or he'll win every time. Anything that's man-made can be destroyed, especially by Superman.Originally Posted by That_Ninja
Okay, have a suit that can pour out a ton of red sun radiation.
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Quote:What do "liars" have to do with the topic, if there is even such a thing?Originally Posted by Residentx10
My only comment to this is the PUG queue needs to be set to the highest setting not the minimum or allow members to join in progess. If you want less then go to Pocket D. We can't fix liars...people who lie to get on a team with no intention of staying the whole time. 20.5's solution is progressive.
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They show up in the Peregrine Island Bank mission, so they should definitely be in regular police missions.
You could always do high level Tip missions as well. I seem to get about 50% Malta missions running those. -
The complexity of electronics today is staggering, but it still pales to what the master artists could do with mechanics and scale.
These are awesome. -
I'd buy that for a Double Dollar!
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I think:
1) If he made these videos for a class project, the school DOES have the right to step in and complain about them. From this quote from the first article
Quote:I believe that's the case.Mr. Christie created the videos on his laptop for presentations in economics and politics classes over the course of the last school year.
2) The school administration, if they had such a problem with it, should have gone to the teacher that allowed the videos to be presented in class, since the teacher signed off on them, and figured out why the project was allowed to proceed. It sounds like the student is the only one in trouble.
3) These things being said, however, I believe the school is overreacting. Unless they can prove that anything said in the video was slanderous or libel (not sure how the laws in Canada work about that), there's nothing they can do to prevent him from posting it on the Internet. The school, by its actions, has caused more of a problem within the school than the videos did.
Edit: If I were the teacher assigning this project, I wouldn't have ok'd it. It's probably not appropriate for school. My point about the school overreacting to its posting on YouTube still stands, though. -
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That's a pretty epic goof. I wish the programmer for interfaces would fix that. I've managed to catch myself before making a huge mistake (made some smaller ones, though, mostly bidding on a stack of rare salvage when I only wanted one). I'm guessing you have the "Are you sure you want to bid this much?" alert turned off?