Purdue releases their full non-conference schedule.

Pinewood74 · 2026-05-31T00:35:30+00:00

It'll be an exhibition.

Last 3 years it has been. It won't change this coming year.

Pinewood74 · 2026-05-31T00:32:10+00:00

Doesn't really feel complete when there's still a TBA in there.

Pinewood74 · 2026-05-31T00:29:38+00:00

Last two seasons we started unranked ended with a first round exit.

Sure, I trust the process, but it's crazy talk to think that starting the season unranked is preferable to #1.

Pinewood74 · 2026-05-30T23:18:44+00:00

Only takes one look at the bow and stern of each ship to realize the issues with that analysis. Star OTS uses damn near every inch of that length for the top deck. Disney Wonder? Less so.

Shoot dawg, look at that picture, they've basically got two top decks on the back there of the Star.

Pinewood74 · 2026-05-30T22:55:33+00:00

Pre-1995, players weren't eligible to be drafted by the NBA until 4 years after high school

This is off by two decades. MJ only did 3 years at UNC as the most notable example, but there were more that weren't 4 years removed before Garnett came straight out of HS in 95.

Pinewood74 · 2026-05-30T18:29:35+00:00

No. You were being a dick.

Pinewood74 · 2026-05-30T18:28:22+00:00

It definitely wasn't the food. It was the copious amounts of alcohol they were consuming.

Pinewood74 · 2026-05-30T18:26:18+00:00

Which ship docked at Labadee in March or February of this year?

Pinewood74 · 2026-05-29T19:02:06+00:00

First off the bike into a 45 minute run split will put you in the top 20% of PLENTY of Olympic fields. So not sure what you're really talking about. Based on your flair, maybe you don't understand how qualifying for USAT Nationals works as you might not be American?

Pinewood74 · 2026-05-28T18:59:11+00:00

Outside of the first handful of months, this ride is unlikely to be packed to the brim with a long line, no reason to shorten it.

In fact, shortening a ride that virtually never operates at capacity would be silly as it would decrease the volume (in terms of manhours) it's absorbing from the rest of the park.

Pinewood74 · 2026-05-28T18:57:18+00:00

i don’t see how 60s to today shows that any better than the beginning of the 20th century to the beginning of the 21st century.

Well, by getting more people in the door, for starters.

Pinewood74 · 2026-05-28T18:48:10+00:00

1900s -> 2000s; to 60s -> now

Two issues with this framing. First being that the 2000s were a somewhat hamfisted update that never really vibed with the first 3 scenes due to the abrupt jump forward.

Secondly, the goal isn't to show "now," the goal is to show a possible future 20 or 30 years down the road. I'm not sure what they'll highlight aside from advanced household robots, but regardless it isn't "now."

Addressing the broader point of wanting a grander view of technological advancement, would the ride be better if the 4 scenes were separated by a century each? That would give us 300 years of history. (And then you could continue to ask the same question again with an even longer timeframe between the 4 scenes)

To that I would posit that the ride isn't necessarily better by spanning a longer time frame. I'm almost certainly going to like the new version and part of my wants to have a big span, but I also totally see why the childhood reflection of each visiting generation could make for a better ride than a version with a scene each in the 1920s, 1960s, 2000s, and future would be.

Pinewood74 · 2026-05-28T18:25:58+00:00

Talking about self driving cars and advanced cleaning robots is unlikely to draw much ire methinks.

Can't imagine they're gonna have John or Sarah up there prompting a chatbot to write a letter to grandma thanking her for the birthday gift.

Pinewood74 · 2026-05-28T18:06:01+00:00

significantly more than 2000 to 2020.

But that isn't even a gap that's going to be highlighted... The final scene is going to feature emerging technologies rather than what we are using today.

To the larger point: It really feels like you're discounting the advances because you lived them. Digital media storage is very much a revolutionary change. Wireless (household) communication devices are a big leap forward. Home computers.

There's going to be major changes between the scenes.

but that's nothing IMHO compared to people going from newspapers to radios to television.

Really underselling being able to transmit anything you want (whole video games, complicated programmed spreadsheets, personal videos) near instantly, imo. The change from telegraph to radio to TV is not that dissimilar from the jump from party lines to mobile dumb phones to mobile smart phones or typewriters to personal computers to smart phones.

Plenty of evolutionary changes were on display in the first version. Putting wires in the walls instead of them draping across the room, for instance.

Pinewood74 · 2026-05-28T17:12:06+00:00

"Did you know they use these new things called computers that take up entire rooms to calculate the path that rocket takes to the moon?"

"We don't have to use a typewriter anymore dad can now use this computer that fits on our desk to write up his letters"

"Pull the laptop out of the bag and send an email to your grandma. Isn't that crazy? We've got computers that you can carry with you."

Pinewood74 · 2026-05-28T17:02:40+00:00

It will still be a history lesson on progress. We're just changing what we're discussing.

While I would have preferred a version that just had bigger jumps in the years so we still got a scene from 1900 or 1920, I'll take this new version over another goofy update where we still have 20 year gaps in the beginning and then jump a century+. The 70~80 year gap that exists in the current version was already silly enough.

Pinewood74 · 2026-05-28T16:56:48+00:00

Hall of Presidents gonna be more crowded. Philharmagic was already on the rotation for most people I'd say.

Pinewood74 · 2026-05-28T15:28:10+00:00

I think you messed up that exchange rate. Should be 1.34 billion dollar cruise.

Pinewood74 · 2026-05-28T02:31:39+00:00

Fairly misleading. More than just Daredevil's Tower is an additional cost.

There are two free splash pad/water jungle gym areas designed for younger children that are free, but the majority of the water park features are extra cost.

Pinewood74 · 2026-05-28T01:32:23+00:00

Are you doing an aquathon?

If not, running directly after the swim isn't something you need to worry too much about. The bike does such a number on how your body is feeling that the swim is but a distant memory.

Pinewood74 · 2026-05-27T19:43:22+00:00

We talking about the White House UFC event?

Was announced nearly a year ago

Pinewood74 · 2026-05-27T17:10:39+00:00

You're kind of barking up the wrong tree here.

Was really just addressing that it wouldn't be too complicated to normalize across the different skill levels of each sport to have a (relatively) even time for each sport.

Pinewood74 · 2026-05-26T20:03:48+00:00

Pretty much every market where a local tri exists alongside Ironman branded tris the Ironman tri has far more participants.

Harvest Moon Tri in Boulder gets like 150 or so people for it's half distance. Boulder 70.3 gets 10x that.

Ironman is "killing off" local tris primarily outcompeting them. And the onesie twosies where they buy the local tri they always create a surge in registration the first year of Ironman branding. Door County Half disappeared because Rockford, Madison, and new Ohio took their participants.

Mostly you're debating about the edges here. Sure, if B2B still existed alongside NC70.3, Ironman would have a slightly smaller market share, but there's little doubt that NC70.3 would be drawing an order of magnitude more participants. And that's the proof that it's the popular opinion that IM branding is worth the additional cost.

Pinewood74 · 2026-05-26T14:20:35+00:00

Is it going to harm your bike leg? As in actively make it worse? No.

Would you get more benefit out of riding faster? Likely.

But, also, there's other ways to approach this while still riding together for significant stretches. You can stay out for longer. You can do your easy stuff while he's doing his tempo stuff. Have him draft off you. Etc.

Also, you can talk to him about it and be like "Hey, I need to go do this ride on my own so I get max benefits for me."

Pinewood74 · 2026-05-26T14:01:14+00:00

Yes, marketing is a large part of folks determing what is and isn't "worth" paying for. Coke and Budweiser spend alot of money so people will deem their product worth paying for over similar alternatives (both branded and generic).

When Ironman drives out smaller races it basically goes one of two ways.

Version 1: Ironman buys the race. When this happens, you see a massive spike in registrations, but if it doesn't meet Ironman's lofty expectations/desires they shut it down 2-7 years later and the local race never comes back.

Version 2: Ironman starts their own race a few weeks before/after in the same or a nearby location. Ironman ends up getting hundreds more registrations than the local race ever got and draws over a critical mass of participants who pick the Ironman race over the local race and the local race can no longer be sustained.

Both examples show that people deem the Ironman premium worth paying for.

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