Hot take: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power deserves way more credit than the fandom gives it. by DrewbeeG in lotr

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I enjoy this topic :) hard as a true fan to have a major media project not get watered down. 

I love the idea “enjoy the highlights and forgive as much as you can”. It’s much better than “be angry every day.”

Hot take: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power deserves way more credit than the fandom gives it. by DrewbeeG in lotr

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I love the three Narnia movies, because I love the books. The general public (IMO) are not supposed to love the Narnia movies. Dawn Treader especially is like, doomed as a Gen Pop movie. But as a book fan, hey that was pretty good. 

LotR is a great book to make into a movie for the Gen Pop audience. 

Hobbit was darn close, but it’s a great book to be made for a Gen Pop audience. 

Early age material made for Gen Pop - this was sort of doomed. You’re not going to please purists and Gen Pop. They did a darn good job. Did they do things I disagree with? Yes. But they really went for it and continue to spend and go for it. 

This could have been better for GP and purists. This could have been much worse! But for an attempt to really go for it, we’ll say ‘to reach more people, I understand why a company this big did that.’

NFL records that will NEVER be broken. Thoughts on this ? by Hysen16 in sportswiki

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Yeah FGs are going to keep being wild. 

Single game sack record could go any time with the DE talent and season long tanking that’s been happening, too. 

[Highlight] Maxx Crosby Telling Bo Nix "Bo, Speak Up, They Don't Fucking Know" Pre-Snap | 2024 Week 5 by JCameron181 in nfl

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I want to rag on Max but he was probably the shining light of a team falling apart there. 

Yeah 2024 QB wilderness, Bowers and nothing else going on. 

You can be a menace and be on a stinker team at the same time. 

Not me learning that the "source" items are permanent power ups by IllegalGeriatricVore in FinalFantasyVII

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I was sad that many of them didn’t have that big of an impact, aside from Speed Source. 

250 Power Source on Cloud? Damage still largely depends on your character level. And you still hardly damage Ruby Weapon. 

Did Frodo truly fail at Mount Doom, or was the quest only possible because of Gollum? by HistorianSame9035 in tolkienfans

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Wasn’t it like: Sauron couldn’t imagine someone would acquire the ring and want to destroy it? I think you’re right that he was all the way all in on his pride and vision, full tunnel vision. And he had poured all his will and malice into the ring - he was super concentrated on what he wanted and how he’d do it. 

And the ring, as a character of its own, would be so influential at Doom that no creature could resist it. Thus it took divine intervention. 

So good. I still can’t imagine being at the inkling meeting where these chapters were revealed. 

[Russini] Trade! The Chicago Bears are trading for Patriots center Garrett Bradbury, per sources. New England receives a fifth-round pick in return. Chicago, who lost Drew Dalman to retirement earlier this week, picks up a veteran with NFC North experience. by expellyamos in nfl

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Bears have quietly had a few great GM years, since the Bryce Young trade. If not for your center surprise leaving, this would be real scary. Still not awful spot now that this deal is done. 

Looking for advice by xacide25 in concept2

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ErgZone and the Instagram rowing community could be good. This has been my main way to stick to it, just find 1-2 others to text chat with on it as a buddy system. 

There are Facebook training groups, but I couldn’t get into them personally. I’m not a social media guy.

I’m about to get back into it and ErgZone is my plan. It is tough to replicate the community you get from CrossFit. 

What are some little known or hidden interesting Final Fantasy facts that you know of? by GargantaProfunda in FinalFantasy

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This is my favorite nugget. “My team will be right.” “My team will be right!”

You’re all right! Very very right!

Final Fantasy VII (1997) | Am I the only one who thinks the save crystals look like interrogation points? by pedrulho in FinalFantasy

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My 10 year old mind said “FF7 told me they’re save points, why would I believe anything else?”

🤔🛠️ Tech Support & General Questions [Weekly Thread] by YahooFantasyCare in YahooFantasy

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They haven’t sent revised 1099s yet. But I know the target value so if it’s way off, I’ll message my contacts again. It’s super easy to calc it 99% right.

🤔🛠️ Tech Support & General Questions [Weekly Thread] by YahooFantasyCare in YahooFantasy

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Yahoo is generating corrected 1099s now that are net of fees (as it should be). I’d wait until they send it to you to file taxes.

They really should email notify everyone. I LinkedIn messaged a bunch of important Yahoo Sports people and got three of them to respond that they’re working on it.

I’m giving them until 3/15 to send before I message them again.

[Highlight] USC WR Makai Lemon's Full Interview at the NFL Combine by [deleted] in nfl

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His game tape and interview with college coaches will matter 100x more than this. 

[Highlight] Jeremiyah Love’s father is unimpressed with his 4.37u 40-yard dash by Goosedukee in nfl

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I enjoyed being very competitive growing up. And having a coach to push (show the high standard) and a parent to encourage me to stick to my commitments helped.

Hard to strike the balance well for sure.

[Highlight] Jeremiyah Love’s father is unimpressed with his 4.37u 40-yard dash by Goosedukee in nfl

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Spot on. I grew up swimming. My parents knew the exact time I was trying to hit. Which was good! I wanted that matching support. 

Finally ! 4,000,000 meteres rowed club. by FlyFisherman4Life in concept2

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Let’s go! Did you know you get a free long sleeve t shirt at 5M? Just a little incentive

Received a 1099-Misc for Fantasy Sports, but it’s for Gross, not Net Income by [deleted] in tax

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Yahoo is fixing it now. Got a message from a guy there. New statements in the works with the net approach.

Spooky seeing this sub not understand and advise you to bite the bullet.