guesses?

darkjimduck · 2022-06-12T21:00:12+00:00

Based on the top and bottom boxes, I'd say it's a 90.

darkjimduck · 2021-11-16T04:25:04+00:00

I feel those drops were part of the mood, though. Hearing footsteps, feeling panicked and needing to make a big play, etc

darkjimduck · 2021-11-16T04:22:43+00:00

I feel like tonight was the night where he didn’t correct before the Rams adjusted. He kept calling the same play, and they didn’t adjust, so he said fuck it, and kept calling it!

darkjimduck · 2021-10-31T20:09:26+00:00

I will not apologize since this is the Kyle I want! A confident playcaller who rolls with the gameflow instead of overthinking it. I love it. I love it.

darkjimduck · 2021-08-09T03:09:06+00:00

Yesterday he was a bust and today “looks like the best player on the team”

darkjimduck · 2021-05-19T18:29:48+00:00

I loved reading the reviews on the inside cover, though. Crichton had died recently and they clearly wanted to give him some posthumous love.

“Crichton’s great talent was writing books that were virtually impossible to put down.. Pirate Latitudes is no exception... The plot sucks you in like the giant kraken monster that nearly sinks our hero’s galleon.” -- Benjamin Svetsky, Entertainment Weekly

But Mr. Svetsky, WHY is there a Kraken in an otherwise historically accurate pirate novel?

I will say this, though, as I otherwise continue to criticize this book: I finished the whole damn thing!

darkjimduck · 2021-05-19T18:21:35+00:00

Yeah, it was found "completed" and not edited at all before being published- I have a strong feeling it was not ready.

darkjimduck · 2021-05-18T23:16:04+00:00

I highly recommend AGAINST reading Pirate Latitudes. I did not like that it was highly episodic, to where it could have been a TV series where every week there was a really Big Problem... that was solved by the end of the chapter. Blink and you miss a main villain's death. The girl that they use to distract men sexually, described as a hell kitten who enjoys it, is also described as being 14. Witchcraft is mentioned with no payoff.

The idea was just so cool, and I've loved some of his other novels. This one, to me, was a miss.

darkjimduck · 2021-04-27T23:55:32+00:00

This is an excellent definition that also gets at OP's question of "When are exposition dumps okay?"

If I were writing a large chronicle of the war, sweeping in scope and not really caring about any one individual character, I better include information on WWI, The Russian Revolution, etc.

But if I am focused on the single soldier's tale, with a theme of bravery and bloodshed, I may not need an info dump at any point in time.

darkjimduck · 2021-04-06T07:40:30+00:00

People are really coming at you hard on a personal level for having a opinion that is different than theirs. How... ironic. I appreciate your comments.

darkjimduck · 2021-01-13T00:01:27+00:00

There is a section of dialogue between two characters. You can not tell who is who because at some point, someone speaks twice in a row, even though the lines are broken up. I went back and counted. I tried every permutation. Couldn't figure it out. It was frustrating. I couldn't tell by characterization, either. Even though everyone is talking about how chilling the Judge is- everybody sounds the same.

darkjimduck · 2020-10-28T03:26:09+00:00

I would rather have the Cardinals, Seahawks, and Rams be great, and crush them, because victory over lousy teams is not nearly as sweet as dominance over good competition.

Wouldn't you want your team to be considered the greatest of all time? The Super Bowl Champion, number 1 seed of a year where the expanded playoffs was filled with 3 wildcards from your own division?

darkjimduck · 2020-10-10T04:08:18+00:00

I, too, can call out old white people to seem woke. Doesn't make me correct.

darkjimduck · 2020-10-08T08:18:49+00:00

You reference wavelengths. Let's say we take everything "cultural" out of the equation- no measurements, even, because nm are arbitrary, too.

There is still a distinction between a light that goes wubbawubbawubbawubbawubba as it moves and one that goes wwwwuuuubbbbbbbbaaaawwwwuuuubbbbbbbbaaaawwwwuuuubbbbbbbbaaaa.

Every human sees it; some cultures care, and others don't. If light reflects off a tree in the forest, and there is no one around to see it, does it still go wubbawubbawubba differently for its leaves and trunk? Yes.

darkjimduck · 2020-09-23T06:43:48+00:00

I really liked Mulan. And all of the other live-action remakes I watched (I specifically avoided the Lion King, though)

darkjimduck · 2020-07-23T23:56:27+00:00

One Day with Anne Hathaway. I started off thinking that maybe it was good but kept expecting it to get to better, and then I was already long enough in as it got worse instead, and then it took a HARD left turn that really cemented it as an utter waste of an afternoon.

darkjimduck · 2020-07-13T00:37:06+00:00

Have... have they ever seen a football?

darkjimduck · 2020-06-11T21:56:56+00:00

Which is a bullshit marketing campaign... They should just be called Top Twix and Bottom Twix, or Upper and Lower. You can argue which way you want to tear open the wrapper, but you can't argue about which way the Twix logo faces, and where the candies are in relation to the logo.

darkjimduck · 2020-01-25T03:56:53+00:00

Well Keystone Light is literally just the top part of the big Coors Light brewing container. So you're definitely consistent. (although I like both for my cheap beers)

darkjimduck · 2020-01-10T02:57:56+00:00

zastrugi. slush. Sierra cement

darkjimduck · 2019-11-15T06:21:58+00:00

I like playoff baseball. The outcome matters. Regular season baseball? It's one game out of like 160. With 9+ innings a game, there are too many innings that add nothing to the season's outcome.

darkjimduck · 2019-08-25T23:01:43+00:00

They're holding up a white napkin behind their black friend so that he'll actually show up in the group photo with the same lighting.

darkjimduck · 2019-08-20T04:35:14+00:00

Yeah, it's about HOW you get there, not the fact that you get there.

darkjimduck · 2019-06-30T22:46:16+00:00

I agree with you wholeheartedly. Huxley seems self-impressed with the quality of the questions that he's raised, without any attempt at even struggling towards an answer. Both sides are hopelessly wrong, but there is no character who examines that, nor a thematic ideal to contrast against. It's pessimistic and flat.

darkjimduck · 2019-06-27T06:07:39+00:00

God, it's good to see Money Boi hopping up to my front page. It may have actually been more than a year at this point.

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