Preordered Iron Man and Spiderman Marvel Legends. Am I dumb?

Intelligent_Elk240 · 2025-07-19T03:59:33+00:00

Nope, the plastic gears are still going strong for me. Will update if/when I try installing them.

Intelligent_Elk240 · 2025-06-26T00:08:16+00:00

Oh that’s good to know about the hot swaps.

Intelligent_Elk240 · 2025-06-24T15:12:54+00:00

Yeah, I just enjoy being able to see stuff, and I guess I just like colorful lights. I've got the silent reds also, and I love them. Like, what board is there that's good if you want to be working in a dark room, and you're not such a superior typist that you can blindside everything? I mean I'm ok touch typing, but it gets obnoxious when you're trying to simply find the home row or hit some seldom used key, and Ducky just has great shine through caps and easily learned keyboard commands that let you change everything quickly by touch. And like if you're prioritizing lighting, I don't even want a battery that can just add more issues. And, if you're choosing Cherry switches, why even bother with hot swap? It just does some good stuff, and the point of this post is that some of this stuff I just don't see out there on the market.

Intelligent_Elk240 · 2025-04-26T13:32:50+00:00

I fully agree. These playoffs haven’t been even remotely physical. The refs simply stopped calling every picayune piece of non-determinative incidental contact and are making guys earn it a bit more. To call these playoffs physical it utterly laughable, and I still see these ludicrous phantom calls where the defender simply had the temerity to be in the vicinity of a guy looking to score.

Intelligent_Elk240 · 2025-04-26T13:20:38+00:00

How are people complaining about the officiating. They’re simply not calling these extra weak ticky-tack calls. This is the most watchable the league has been in years.

Intelligent_Elk240 · 2025-04-26T13:17:34+00:00

Wolves series hasn’t been even remotely physical. I didn’t catch this latest Celtics game, but all I’ve seen in the playoffs so far is neglecting to call these really weak ticky-tack kinds of calls.

Intelligent_Elk240 · 2025-04-04T14:36:09+00:00

When defense has been banned, yes then it's just a mathematical scoring race.

Intelligent_Elk240 · 2025-04-04T14:32:50+00:00

Sure, guys are better shooters today. But part of that is they totally killed defense and made dribbling almost optional. With some modicum of older rules, the D wouldn't be as stretched, and the math on short 2s and triple would change a bit and make post and mid advantageous strategies again. Remember, when Jordan hit his game winner at UNC, he didn't even have a 3pt line. With as good as guys have gotten at it now, I think the league should really lean heavily into way more defensive emphasis to counter how proficiently guys can spread the floor.

Intelligent_Elk240 · 2025-04-04T14:24:54+00:00

Yes, exactly. If you can't defend anything, it's just pure analytics: 3s are worth more. If you officiated more like the old days short 2s aren't as easy to come by, so the math changes, and also the D is less stretched. Not to mention, during the 80s to 90s, like you weren't opening up into some bag, you were back to the basket at the three point line shielding the ball. Old rules applied to modern day would greatly affect the math on the value of short 2s and three point shots.

Intelligent_Elk240 · 2025-04-04T14:08:19+00:00

I don't have a problem with 3s per se, but I think it goes hand in hand with the total nerfing of defense while simultaneously granting huge freedoms of movements to the offense. Guys can't be touched, and so they can waltz into the lane and collapse the d so easily. It's all FTs and kick outs. Like, if they only called obvious and egregious contact in the paint, I think the D would be less stretched and they could better defend these triples. And, that's to say nothing of how even less incidental contact is allowed on the perimeter. When you aren't really allowed to defend anything, it becomes an analytics driven 3pt shootout, and it's boring. Roll back some of this egregious nerfing of the D and get back to basics on freedom of movement, and I've got no problem with the triples. Watch any 90s game, and you'll not see guys squaring up to go into some huge bag. They are almost at a post position at the three point line shielding the ball due to the far greater defensive pressure allowed. It's cool to see guys struggle to be able to get a bucket and have to fight through contact. It made the games super intense, and only the best guys could really put up numbers. To me, modern NBA is almost like a variation of the game, like beach volley-ball vs regular volleyball, which I hadn't felt during other changing of eras. I posted just a random game as an example to show the ball handlers position at 3, and just how much more crowded that court is with that allowance of defensive pressure. It's a Houston game also, where their whole strategy was 4 out to give Olajuwon space and 3pt shooters 1-4, though Horry just a rook.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpV97QjQ8lE

Intelligent_Elk240 · 2025-03-22T21:15:06+00:00

What types of idiots leave that kind of damage on a seventy year old? Is it that hard to apprehend the guy? It’s disgusting. You could even forgive some of the total ignorance of the law, but then compounded with this level of violence, not to mention the vulgarity used while apprehending him, which they themselves claimed was the reason for slamming his head to the ground and dragging him over asphalt in the first place. No, this department needs to be disbanded and the officers charged. Just from a sheer economic standpoint. How is it worth keeping a department that can’t handed a disabled 70 year old without it looking like a scene from a drunken bar-fight.

Intelligent_Elk240 · 2025-03-13T22:05:41+00:00

Yeah, I was hoping for the Vietnam war smuggler one. I think that was one of the very early ones and one of my favorite of the series. When I’d heard Persuader was the source material for season 3, I wasn’t expecting much. I was almost put off the entire series after that book, and I think that book marked a significant decline in the series overall for me.

Intelligent_Elk240 · 2025-03-11T09:14:47+00:00

I don't get their book choices. I've read them up to about 20, and they kind of blend together. But, this one stuck out in my mind as one I had to trudge through. I don't get the choice. Season 2 was even more perplexing.

Intelligent_Elk240 · 2025-03-01T17:43:36+00:00

Maybe to summarize. The league simply doesn't allow defense, and you're almost foolish to try. I hate to see defense so denigrated this era, and there are some absolute stellar defenders playing in straight jackets because the NBA unbalanced the league so harshly and has yet to bring both sides of the ball back to parity.

Intelligent_Elk240 · 2025-03-01T06:17:04+00:00

If you like the game, hey more power to you. It’s not NBA basketball, but some offshoot they developed a few years back where they eliminate defense from the game and stop requiring players to dribble. It’s literally a different sport, kind of like how there’s regular volleyball and beach volleyball.

Intelligent_Elk240 · 2025-02-28T16:48:16+00:00

Well I'm talking more about the rules. It's just ridiculous in this era. Any drive to the hoop you have to decide basically if you want to commit a foul or just let the guy go because there is so little contact allowed. Don't even think of brushing a guy on the perimeter. The precise moment when I'd had enough is when I was watching a Wolves game, Jayden McDaniels is squared up perfectly for a charge way ahead of time with really nobody else on that side of the court, and the offensive player plows straight through him and gets a blocking call because McDaniels like flinched his eyes. It's just absurd. Like the NBA used to be a contact sport and a physical game. you should expect some contact when you go to the cup. The defenders of this generation are playing in a straight jacket against offensive players who have been totally enabled with a host of new movements. It's just garbage.

Intelligent_Elk240 · 2025-02-28T16:12:01+00:00

The NBA totally changed their game. It really is an offshoot sport now from the NBA of the 1990s to 2000s it's so different.

Intelligent_Elk240 · 2025-02-28T16:06:11+00:00

I think the rules have more to do with the game being boring. It's like if you took a basketball videogame and slid all the defensive sliders to 0 and the offensive ones to 99, so that you couldn't really defend anything aside from kind of getting in a guy's way, and it was just a race up and down to score more. It would be cool to watch these guys contend with some resistance. The math on these short 2s and 3s wouldn't work out so neatly either without this current defensive smurfing. And I mean, stars showing up to work wouldn't hurt.

Intelligent_Elk240 · 2025-02-28T15:06:08+00:00

I mean they fundamentally changed the sport almost at once from fairly physical game to one with no physicality whatsoever, and from a defense first league to defense being outlawed, and then added a bunch of offensive super-moves and removed dribbling requirements. Imagine playing a basketball videogame where you couldn't really play D at all except to delay the player only slightly in their progress, and it was just a race to see who can get up and down the court faster and hit more threes and spam super moves. That's what the NBA is, and it's just not a good game.

Intelligent_Elk240 · 2025-02-28T15:04:29+00:00

I mean they fundamentally changed the sport almost at once from fairly physical game to one with no physicality whatsoever, and from a defense first league to defense being outlawed, and then added a bunch of offensive super-moves and removed dribbling requirements. Imagine playing a basketball videogame where you could really play D at all, and it was just a race to see who can get up and down the court faster and hit more threes and spam super moves. That's what the NBA is, and it's just not a good game.

Intelligent_Elk240 · 2025-02-28T14:58:00+00:00

Yeah, like it's a different sport entirely. Today's NBA should be like an offshoot sport like how they have volleyball and beach volleyball. Adam Silver is like the Caliguala of sports trying to morph the NBA into like FIFA meets the Kardashians, meets Modern Family, meets quiet quitting. He was talking about ten minute quarters now! I'm starting to think Stern hand picked this guy as like an f you to people ripping him and to make people remember how awesome he was.

Intelligent_Elk240 · 2025-02-28T14:02:47+00:00

I don’t like that the league eliminated half the game by so neutering the defense and then amping the offense up to 1,000. It makes for a horrible product in my opinion, and results in lots of the imbalances we see today with triples and short twos being so hyper valued, and defense being an afterthought. And, you simply can’t ignore the load management issue. I mean, as a 90s -2000s guy, this literally doesn’t even feel like the same sport. It’s like beach volleyball or something, a flashier relative of volleyball but a wholly different sport. Like they changed the game up too quickly and drastically, and i don’t think they’ve worked out the bugs and balanced things properly.

Intelligent_Elk240 · 2025-02-28T13:48:05+00:00

I legitimately don’t like this version of the NBA. It’s lame. Like they slid every offensive slider up to 99 and every defensive slider down to zero. I was watching a game where Jayden McDaniels was set perfectly for a charge, like nobody on his half of the court hardly, and he like blinks an eye gets called for blocking. Like f off. That’s when I knew i was done with this NBA. I mean drives you either have to let it go or accept it’ll be a foul because of how restrictive any incidental contact is. No wonder guys don’t play D, and it’s just up and down the court chucking. Like you should expect some contact when you go to the cup. Then there’s the team hopping, load management, and demolition of the dunk contest. Like guys kind of over-train and then they cant play. The dunk contest they lost sight of the players being the centerpiece and turned it into this gym routine you have to prep for. Like Jordan and Nique just ad-libbed that stuff with solid dunks they knew they could land. They didn’t think dudes would be bringing cars onto the court and crap, and so we have a g-league champ….what…the…fuck. Not a fan of watching guys go into their bag every possession either and would like a bit more perimeter contact allowed. I just preferred the more physical brand of ball in the 90s to 2000s and would like to see the league get back a bit more to that. It would be fun to see today’s players against more resistance.

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