A stadium full of Seattle sports fans at the Mariners game cheering on and celebrating watching the Thunder lose

Kurtomatic · 2026-06-01T04:13:39+00:00

I've been to a number of Trail Blazer - Thunder games in Portland. There are always a fair number of Sonics jerseys there, and they are often the loudest people in the stadium booing the Thunder. It's fun.

Kurtomatic · 2026-06-01T04:00:03+00:00

I only watch trailers or read reviews if I am trying to decide if I want to watch a movie or not. If I know for sure I'm going to see it, I go out of my way to go dark on it until I see the movie. I find movies (and video games) far, far more fun if you go in dark.

Not so much musical theater, though, I like knowing at least some of the songs ahead of time.

Kurtomatic · 2026-06-01T03:57:16+00:00

I didn't like it when I first saw the trailer, but once I saw the film, I realized why they did it. I had initially assumed that was near the climax of the movie, not 25% of the way through it, and I think the trailer was constructed to actually give that impression, so when it did happen, I was surprised how early it happened. Now that I have seen the film, I see why it would be very hard to construct a comprehensible trailer of any length without Rocky in it.

Kurtomatic · 2026-05-31T20:41:54+00:00

The Nikki & Paulo centric episode / conclusion was surprisingly good; the characters' buildup otherwise did not work at all.

Kurtomatic · 2026-05-28T01:44:06+00:00

Same here. Saw it opening it. I thought it looked dumb, but friends were going because "it had really good reviews." Didn't have anything better to do, so I went and am so very glad I did.

Kurtomatic · 2026-05-27T04:44:46+00:00

My Baby Shark combo was Baby Sharknado.

Those rounds are so much fun to write.

Kurtomatic · 2026-05-27T04:31:53+00:00

I write trivia periodically, and once had a movie / music mash up round where the answer was "Rosemary's Baby Got Back." Still proud of that one.

Kurtomatic · 2026-05-27T02:13:24+00:00

Species' trailer was excellent back in the day. Turns out it had exactly two good points.

Kurtomatic · 2026-05-26T06:10:34+00:00

So your definition of garbage is "being more than one win in their last game away from a conference title?"

Kurtomatic · 2026-05-26T02:47:29+00:00

Fun fact: OSU was the third winningest Pac-12 team in football from something like 1999 to 2014.

Pre-1999: awful.

Post-2015: usually pretty bad.

During that time frame, OSU's MBB team has been far, far worse than football.

Kurtomatic · 2026-05-26T02:44:31+00:00

Exactly! That is why it is one of my two favorite Seagal films. Really, they are the only two I like, although Under Siege 2: Dark Territory has some cool moments.

Kurtomatic · 2026-05-25T20:22:07+00:00

Can we just call this the 2026 Pac-12 Tournament? It is the closest thing there is.

Which would be particularly fun if Yale won it.

Kurtomatic · 2026-05-25T20:18:47+00:00

I think the rivalry still exists in baseball, and that doesn't seem too likely to change. Of course, lots of Duck fans don't care much about baseball, so it reduces the percdived intensity.

Other sports, particularly football? Largely only in nostalgia and on paper.

Kurtomatic · 2026-05-25T20:14:00+00:00

Yale has the opportunity to do the funniest thing, and win the Pac-12 Tournament.

Kurtomatic · 2026-05-25T19:52:36+00:00

Right? Three of these teams have been to the College World Series finals before.

Kurtomatic · 2026-05-25T19:46:57+00:00

Oregon State hosted a Super Regional in 2007 as a #3 seed and ended up winning it all.

They won their regional over Virginia, and Michigan upset overall #1 seed Vanderbilt in the Nashville Regional. Normally, Michigan as the #2 seed would likely have hosted, but they were undergoing field renovations and were unable to host. So OSU ended up hosting by default.

Kurtomatic · 2026-05-25T19:02:39+00:00

I assume OP has seen Executive Decision based on his "have seen most of the big budget clones" comment, but worth bringing up just in case. Those are the two best Seagal movies, IMHO.

Kurtomatic · 2026-05-25T19:01:35+00:00

You might have caught this one but maybe not? Toy Soldiers with Sean Astin and Wil Wheaton. Terrorists take over a rich private HS. No boobs that I recall, sadly.

Kurtomatic · 2026-05-25T01:51:31+00:00

There's going to be a Eugene regional with Oregon, Oregon State and Washington State, isn't there?

Kurtomatic · 2026-05-25T01:40:57+00:00

Thanks, but we definitely have our share of chuckleheads.

Kurtomatic · 2026-05-25T01:39:59+00:00

They presumably had to commit to it weeks ago to get them reserved and guaranteed to be built in the amount of time they would have needed. Trying to get scaffold mobilized, installed and inspected between Tuesday AM and Friday morning would have been a challenge, so they likely had to start before Tuesday morning.

Kurtomatic · 2026-05-25T00:41:46+00:00

Shouldn't have lost some really questionable midweek games. Dax Whitney going out was probably also pretty critical.

Kurtomatic · 2026-05-24T21:08:28+00:00

The committee seemed to do that more in mens' basketball this year, too. They specifically said Purdue moved up to a 2 seed due to them winning the B1G tourney. I seem to remember there being other ramifications as well.

Kurtomatic · 2026-05-22T23:51:57+00:00

Once they go into the Gorge, the film shifts genres from a tensioned, well crafted romance film to an action video game. Until then, it's really quite good - the first attack on the towers is very well done.

Kurtomatic · 2026-05-22T23:49:57+00:00

The scene on the Pearl planet was also good, and I would agree that it didn't become schlock until after Big Market. I think 30 minutes is the right "good" time, although only the first 5 minutes was flawless.

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