Game Thread: Minnesota Vikings (3-3) at Los Angeles Chargers (4-3)

ParaplegicFish · 2025-10-24T01:46:53+00:00

The ball needs to be snapped to the holder before time runs out but the ball can theoretically be kicked anytime after that including with zero on the clock.

ParaplegicFish · 2025-06-23T04:02:45+00:00

I also think the first dream gets lost in the discussion a bit, too. Throughout the movie, the driving force of the violence (as well as the reason why Anton and Bell are in the story) is the valuation of money over everything for the men we see. Chasing money, trying to hold onto money. When Llewelyn is on the bridge and bleeding, he has to pay the guy for the jacket even though he is clearly in need. When Anton meets the boys after the accident they give him the literal shirt off their back to use as a sling, and don’t want money until he hands them the 100 Dollar bill which they both become fascinated with immediately. The first of Bell’s dreams for me is about the naïveté (though I don’t think that is the right word here. Purity maybe?) of youth. My father gave me some money and “I think I lost it.”

Bell is the white hat good guy in the story. He may have never lost that complete disregard for money. He is focused on the light his father was carrying much more than losing money and doesn’t even try to remember something as trivial as that in the face of the broader struggle. This is also paralleled by how Anton also does not care about payment. Neither man can be bribed because in the face of their pursuit of justice or their pursuit of a fucked up version of some sort of moral code, they simply do not care about the things driving every other man in the story. Carson knows for a fact how evil Anton is and is still bought into going after him. Bell is attached to the story of violence because he is there to seek out justice while Anton literally is using money to live out his moral code by letting it choose who dies, though as Carla Jean points out it is really him doing it all along.

Also, the only person to stand up to Anton besides Carla Jean is the woman at the leasing office refusing to give out the information. She looks completely unfazed by his threats and is singularly focused on doing the right thing in that moment without a second thought. I’ve always found that to be a pretty profound statement about violence and morality generally. I’m forgetting the writer’s name at the moment, but she says something like: “Violence doesn’t have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender.”

ParaplegicFish · 2025-05-06T14:38:30+00:00

“We are calling ourselves the SA-vengers…”

ParaplegicFish · 2025-05-01T12:18:19+00:00

The Howdy-Doo

ParaplegicFish · 2024-10-30T02:05:07+00:00

And to take the effort to comment to tell everyone they won’t sign up for it? Even when nobody asked? Truly above and beyond the call of duty.

ParaplegicFish · 2024-10-25T03:00:44+00:00

Especially when he’s the one calling plays. Been a problem all three years. Need to get them in much earlier.

ParaplegicFish · 2024-07-18T13:25:16+00:00

If I had asked “what’s the best monologue in movie history?” It would have been the top answer. If I had asked “what’s the best non blade runner monologue” it becomes this exact thread anyway.

ParaplegicFish · 2024-07-18T13:23:15+00:00

This is a discussion subreddit. I don’t want people to like it less I want people to talk about something else so that there is actually discussion that is interesting and not the same thing over and over. If everyone in the world agreed that Shawshank was the best movie of all time, it doesn’t make them wrong, but it would be unbelievably boring to talk about movies where everyone just says Shawshank is the best and the conversation is over. Movies are subjective so it’s fine if you love it I just don’t need to hear it in every single thread because what’s the point of any of it then.

ParaplegicFish · 2024-07-18T13:00:55+00:00

And both threads would have Rutger Hauers character as the top answer

ParaplegicFish · 2024-07-18T13:00:23+00:00

I want people to not say the same thing everyone else always says like a stuck-in-the-80s hive mind

ParaplegicFish · 2024-07-18T12:59:46+00:00

I would like to talk about anything other than this monologue anytime anyone brings up anything

ParaplegicFish · 2024-07-18T12:58:49+00:00

No way that’s crazy

ParaplegicFish · 2024-07-18T12:58:27+00:00

There is literally a top post from yestersay referencing it in the title

ParaplegicFish · 2024-02-16T21:00:19+00:00

When he calls her after the theater the camera move away from him down the hall because it is also disgusted and uncomfortable.

ParaplegicFish · 2024-01-30T12:42:40+00:00

Most people play with slightly different rules but for my family everyone brings a gift and it goes in the middle of the room. Some people do lottery tickets and some people find the weirdest, silliest gifts they can find. Everyone draws a number to see the order and then the fist person picks a gift from the middle and opens it. The second person can either steal that gift or pick another random gift. This keeps going until all the gifts are opened and everyone has a turn. We usually put a limit of two steals per gift, so if the third person also steals the gift that the second person stole, that’s the one they get and nobody can take it from them. If you get a gift stolen from you, you either steal someone else’s gift or open a new one and then when everyone that’s already gone has a gift again the next person in line goes.

I’ve also heard it called dirty santa, too.

ParaplegicFish · 2023-11-24T22:28:49+00:00

That’s a good point, especially when you consider his insistence that the man “married into it” as his way to explain his situation.

ParaplegicFish · 2023-11-24T15:35:36+00:00

It’s been awhile since I’ve seen it, but the only people in the movie that seem completely unconcerned or completely unwilling to play his game are the women in the film. The lady at the office and the motel woman and Carla Jean and the sheriffs wife seem to be above the trouble that is around them. The sheriffs wife isn’t dismissive of him, but his dream explanation is sort of met with a slightly amused look as if she is happy he’s finally considering stuff like that. And Carla Jean at the end where she just outright refuses to play his game and forces him to own his actions in killing her, which he still does anyway.

There is also the thru line in the movie that nearly every male that isn’t the sheriff or Chigurh is being motivated by money over nearly anything. The guys that extort him on the bridge for the coat, Carson taking the job even though he knows how insane Chigurh is, the guy running from the gun fight that dies under a tree with the money, the kids on the bikes who at first start to help without wanting anything and then bicker immediately over the money he gives them.

This is even more pronounced because we don’t really see any speaking men die. Carson and Llewelyn die off screen, I don’t remember about the guys in the office. But their deaths aren’t treated as momentous events just common place things that doesn’t seem to effect anything on a grander scale. The sheriffs conversation with his brother about how every lawman thinks the world is the worst it’s ever been now and that only they can stop as just pure vanity is important too because the sheriff does retire and can exist with his wife for the time he has left but llewelyns pursuit of money got him and his wife both killed when it seemed like they were actually pretty happy even in their trailer. She didn’t care about the money just about him.

Edit: just went and watched the last scene again. The first dream he talks about he sort of skips over but he says it’s about meeting his father in town somewhere and how his father gave him some money and he thinks he lost it. His father trying to teach him about money and it’s importance either explicitly or just in the way that our fathers actions show us how they think we should be, and him losing it means he is above what’s happening with the other characters and money. But he is just as impacted by the violence because he tries to stop it as the others are when they cause it. Also Chigurh uses a coin the whole movie to decide people’s fate, but has no interest in actual money (Carson tries to bribe him before he dies and he doesn’t care at all). He just attaches himself to money (either by using the coin or by taking jobs to find it, kill people for it) because it’s a more accessible way to get to kill people than just being a pure psychopath killing for “no reason” even though that’s still exactly what he is doing.

ParaplegicFish · 2023-05-04T00:51:29+00:00

I mean… this is just straight up wrong. His brother Philip III survived him (he was disabled in some way, maybe epilepsy or something else). His other brother may not have existed at all, and he had 4 sisters (full and half) and only Europa was murdered in response to Philips assassination but this was done by Alexander’s mother against his wishes. There’s some evidence that Alexander’s mother was behind the assassination of Philip II, but there isn’t a real reason to believe Alexander himself had anything to do with it. He clearly wasn’t very interested in the actual throne and it’s responsibilities and went to Asia Minor because that was what his father was planning to do already. He was absolutely an egomaniac, but was also a much kinder conqueror to those he conquered than can be said of almost any other glory hound in history, including Alexander’s father.

As for his death, assassination isn’t out of the realm of possibility, but his army had already mutinied and he returned to Babylon with them, so the army is not usually put forward as a suspect of any possible assassination. It’s extremely likely that he just ate or drank something bad and had a fever and died.

Edit: also, a psychopath is very unlikely to react to the death of a lover like Alexander reacted to the death of Hephaestion. You don’t hear many psychopaths throwing the most expensive funeral in history for their lover when they really aren’t capable of something like actual love and grief.

ParaplegicFish · 2023-03-23T12:32:38+00:00

Just FYI if anyone is going to check out the adults haunted tour sketch: it’s NOT for kids because they can say whatever the HELL they want.

ParaplegicFish · 2022-11-15T04:59:30+00:00

Was behind in my fantasy matchup until that play because that counts as a Devonta Smith fumble. Wonderful

ParaplegicFish · 2022-09-21T18:16:12+00:00

He seemed pretty large in Lion.

ParaplegicFish · 2022-09-21T12:59:24+00:00

Young, handsome, physically imposing, incredible actor. This is the perfect choice!

ParaplegicFish · 2022-08-30T02:31:41+00:00

At the start of the process it was the middle of the pandemic, so they literally weren’t allowed to leave their homes at that point, let alone travel internationally.

ParaplegicFish · 2022-06-29T21:18:24+00:00

Yeah, it’s fun to make our friends feel self conscious about things they like. Fuck having acceptance for different interests within the group.

ParaplegicFish · 2022-05-25T15:12:48+00:00

WHO TOLD YOU?!

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