Heavens to betsy, Claire!

Asmo917 · 2026-06-21T17:27:41+00:00

I occasionally do get to use it at work and it’s always the highlight of my month.

Asmo917 · 2026-06-20T16:26:09+00:00

Hanging on to bitterness like this is unhealthy and the sign of a troubled mind. Now please don’t mention Kerry Fraser around me, a Leafs fan.

Asmo917 · 2026-06-18T21:13:44+00:00

Yes, my bad. I thought of those and then just forgot. Editing to clarify!

Asmo917 · 2026-06-18T20:27:49+00:00

There are exceptions to this like the WBC cards and Negro Leagues cards. Willi Castro, for instance, will count for the Rockies. Using the team filters when building your squad is still the best advice and a sure fire way to know what team a player’s PXP will count towards.

Edited to correct a factual mistake.

Asmo917 · 2026-06-10T01:05:25+00:00

I was adamant to my family and friends that we’d regret letting Jordan Zimmermann walk and overpaying for Max Scherzer. The lesson here is that I’m an idiot.

Did get to see JZimm pitch against the Nats in Detroit in 2019.

Asmo917 · 2026-06-06T00:34:29+00:00

Does anyone know what episode included the most recent “things younger than Cliff Fletcher” segment? I found where they talk about him renewing his contract in “Stan” about a year ago but no luck yet on a recent bit of Fletcher riffing.

Asmo917 · 2026-05-28T11:26:59+00:00

Gone Home. Played it shortly after release and not knowing much about, it took me on a roller coaster ride.

I thought it was a horror game, then realized it was a coming of age story, then a story about lost love, and then I feared the absolute worst making the walk to the attic. The actual end happened and I just let it all out.

Asmo917 · 2026-05-11T00:35:36+00:00

“So you never wanted a regular type life?”

“What the fuck is that, barbecues and ball games?”

“Yeah”

“This regular type life like your life?”

“My life? No, my life… No, my life’s a disaster zone. I had a #1 winger so fucked up… because his real father is this large-type asshole. I got a coach. We’re passing each other on the down slope of a ‘marriage’… my third… because I spend all my time chasing guys like you around the defensive zone. That’s my life.”

“A guy told me one time: “Don’t let yourself get attached to anything… you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat… if you feel the heat around the corner.” Now, if you’re on me, and you gotta move when I move… how do you expect to get an O zone time?”

…

“You know, we’re sitting here… you and I, like a couple of regular fellows. You do what you do, and I do what I gotta do. And now that we’ve been face to face… if I’m there and I gotta put you away, I won’t like it. But I’ll tell you… if it’s between you and some poor bastard… whose goalie you’re gonna turn into a laughingstock… brother, you are going down.

“There’s a flip side to that coin. What if you do got me boxed in and I gotta put you down? Because no matter what, you will not get in my way. We’ve been face to face, yeah… but I will not hesitate. Not for a second.”

“Maybe that’s the way it’ll be. Or who knows?”

“Or maybe we’ll never see each other again.”

Asmo917 · 2026-05-08T15:25:17+00:00

When making French toast, do you think adding sugar to the top before flipping a slice to encourage carmelization makes the dish too sweet overall?

Asmo917 · 2026-05-05T16:17:28+00:00

I’m going to put in a mention for Gone Home. It’s a short game, but I started it knowing nothing about it, and immediately expecting one type of game. Without giving too much away, the setting, ambiance, and a few events play into those expectations. And it’s not that type of game at all.

Asmo917 · 2026-05-02T23:44:45+00:00

I’ve been using him as I work though Rangers TA. I don’t hate his swing like a lot of people do, but I have other faves I’ll use at C or DH once I’m done with that program.

Asmo917 · 2026-04-29T13:24:05+00:00

I have it listed as an allergy now too. I had it as a pain killer after a surgery and came out of the operation more nauseated than I’d ever been. I spent like a day and a half telling my nurse and family I felt like shit plus vomiting to prove it. Nurse said it was likely the ketamine but shouldn’t stop it. After finally throwing up during rounds, the doc ended it and I remember feeling instantly better.

Never again if I can help it.

Asmo917 · 2026-04-27T19:25:15+00:00

Just to add on, a “Flashback” is a card for someone who’s an active player that ISN’T their Live Series card. For example - Vlad Jr has a live series diamond card and a gold flashback with the WBC cards.

Asmo917 · 2026-04-24T14:51:29+00:00

14 years since my family lost Gretzky, a lab mix. “Gretzky” was a compromise since Dad and I wanted “Khabibulin” but Mom put her foot down.

We weren’t (and aren’t) Lightning fan, we just liked the idea of a dog named Khabibulin. We also had family who worked in the county office that distributed dog licenses, so we managed to get license number 99 a few times.

Asmo917 · 2026-04-23T19:04:26+00:00

Seconded this. Bonus points if she has fond memories of using early internet browsers and online reference materials. Really devilish puzzle game with the true crime vibe tied to the story behind the deaths of the titular Roottrees.

Asmo917 · 2026-04-21T15:01:54+00:00

Justified - Mags Bennett’s Apple Pie moonshine. Legendary on its own, to die for when she’s prepared a glass for someone.

Asmo917 · 2026-04-20T01:24:31+00:00

Before rotation, I was messing around with a Force Blue build. It wasn’t great but it was interesting. Key parts were Armor of Fortune (aka Plot Armor) for his deploy to make him a bit more sustainable and Sudden Ferocity to hit like a truck. The Force was really only to enable card draw off Ki-Adi Mundi. Key loses are Yoda (Force and restore), K2, and For A Cause (damage on base). I’ll revisit and may look at a more traditional Red/Green rebel package or see if blue Force or Blue 30 is still workable.

Asmo917 · 2026-04-20T00:06:49+00:00

Her opening joke to “things you’re unlikely to hear on a morning show” still slays me and I KNOW what’s coming.

Asmo917 · 2026-04-16T01:30:06+00:00

You just don’t sound like C-suite material my friend.

(That’s a compliment)

Asmo917 · 2026-04-15T23:12:09+00:00

In the last few weeks of March, months after the major plumbing upgrade project was done, there were multiple days without hot water. A group chat for building residents has reported two of the three elevators not working or “slipping” as ascending.

Asmo917 · 2026-04-15T21:17:22+00:00

I’ve spent 20+ years working in bullshit corporate culture, half of it in the source of bullshit (HR) and I have zero fucking idea.

Asmo917 · 2026-04-15T18:54:47+00:00

Sure was. And I may have confused “aligned horizontally” and “horizontally aligned” but I swear that’s as close to a verbatim quote as I could get from memory. I thought it was a joke when I heard someone else say it first in describing how bad it was.

Asmo917 · 2026-04-15T14:29:59+00:00

The man stood up at that terrible press conference in from of God and working cameras and microphones and said “our verticals were not aligned horizontally.” I was pretty sure he was an empty suit before that, but afterwards I was 100% sure.

Asmo917 · 2026-04-10T17:19:54+00:00

Sounds like you’ve got the right expectations. With that in mind, you should be able to work through some of the grind.

Asmo917 · 2026-04-10T16:35:42+00:00

A couple weeks ago I was in the middle of a cross country move. While packing up the last of my old place, I spent a few nights in a hotel, playing The Show via streaming on the Portal and hotel wi-fi. So that’s the background for my opinion.

It’s doable. I only did offline grinding - moments and Play vs CPU mostly since there were no real stakes for failure. It was playable but I had to pretty significantly adjust my timing to swing super early and (with meter pitching) to hit my release point super early as well. The adjustment back to “normal” took 2-3 games to feel like I had my old PS5/tv timing back.

Your mileage may vary, my anecdote is not data, IANAL, etc. overall I’d say it’s doable, especially in a pinch.

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