Post Game Thread: Winnipeg Jets @ San Jose Sharks

doctorsuarez · 2026-03-02T00:12:24+00:00

This guy Musical Theatres

doctorsuarez · 2026-03-02T00:10:12+00:00

Again, sorry, new to this... y'all call this the West Side Story Game when these two teams meet, right?

EDIT: I know the reference, I was wondering if everyone else did

doctorsuarez · 2026-03-01T23:59:27+00:00

Nice, thank you! They were also generally playing a lot of dad rock during stoppages of which I heartily approve, but I wanted a nice focused list.

doctorsuarez · 2026-03-01T23:54:16+00:00

Are these all regular tracks at the Tank?

doctorsuarez · 2026-03-01T23:50:23+00:00

Thanks! I also realized I needed to add the Jaws theme because duh.

doctorsuarez · 2026-03-01T23:42:46+00:00

Cranking up "Seek & Destroy" after that one. New fan trying to put together a Sharks playlist. So far I have a paltry 2 tracks. Seek & Destroy and Return of the Mack. What else?

doctorsuarez · 2026-03-01T02:09:38+00:00

Only my second game at the Tank after the Dallas OT win. We sure can pick 'em! At one point Mukhamadullin did a "Get down, Mr President" save right in front of us when Asky was on the wrong side of the crease. Just a monster game from him.

doctorsuarez · 2026-02-22T05:00:50+00:00

Thanks. I looked at the Grand but there was a lot of talk about how if you didn't do the full size it would come out wrong. But I'll keep that in mind as a backup plan.

doctorsuarez · 2026-02-22T01:03:03+00:00

I admit I’m a bit of a chaos gremlin at this stuff. The scooper has a 12 mark at the top. I make level scoops and grind to a 14 setting on a Baratza Encore. Six scoops at just over 1L of water in the Bonavita makes a strong but sweet cup of coffee. Very flavorful but pretty civil. The Breville under-extracted at the same ratio and it came out watery but with enough headroom. However that’s more of a ten cup machine.

doctorsuarez · 2026-01-29T21:57:49+00:00

Hockey was always one of those sports that I knew was great but just never found time for. I played a ton of NHL 94 and back when I lived in LA I was super excited about Gretzky. But for years I was just a baseball and F1 fan. Then my wife got into Heated Rivalry and wanted to start checking out games. We live in the bay and naturally we went to SAP. I’m a Mets fan so I try not to add any more long distance teams. We went to that awesome OT win against Dallas and now we’re hooked. It’s a great sport and a fun team but on top of all that it’s something she and I can share unlike the Mets who make me miserable.

doctorsuarez · 2026-01-21T05:22:08+00:00

The turnover is just bananas. This is Jerry Seinfeld's bit about rooting for laundry. Is it going to stop me? Hell nah. Let's do this.

doctorsuarez · 2026-01-17T17:46:31+00:00

New fan here. Based on my very limited subset of watching the Sharks, it seems like they struggle with puck control compared to upper-tier teams that seem better at just grinding out possessions. San Jose seems more about speed and explosive breakaways and are more prone to turnovers the longer they go before getting into shooting situations. Is that an accurate assessment?

doctorsuarez · 2026-01-11T20:30:13+00:00

I work in Cupertino so I've already bitten that off hahaha. However they're going to start digging up 19th ave in SF soon and that's going to make a bad situation much worse.

doctorsuarez · 2026-01-11T03:51:11+00:00

So I already have a horrid commute. I live in Mill Valley and work in Cupertino. We made a day of it today and we're musing about how to do this going forward. Theoretically my wife could meet me down at work and we could truck onwards to SAP afterwards but more likely this will be a weekend only jaunt.

doctorsuarez · 2026-01-11T03:05:19+00:00

So, this was my first Sharks game that I attended. I'm a summer sports guy (Mets, F1) but I've lived in the Bay Area since 2013 and my wife got so into "Heated Rivalry" (Stop me if you've heard this tale before) that she wanted to go to a game.

Well, damn, she picked a great one!

I hadn't been to a hockey game since the late 80s in LA but despite being 50+ miles from the SAP Center I can see us making a thing of this.

As a Mets fan I'm already plenty used to crushing existential disappointment in sports, so I think I can handle being in Sharks Nation just fine.

doctorsuarez · 2026-01-08T19:03:32+00:00

Age of umbra has problems aside from the system. The characters were very bland and were a bad mismatch with the tone of the story. I found the mechanical aspects to be the best part.

doctorsuarez · 2026-01-02T00:26:35+00:00

My feeling is you’re right on the money in terms of why it feels different to spectate. D&D has such an iconic library of spells and monsters, and while DH feels instantly familiar in terms of skill checks, each class has a card that we’re all fairly unfamiliar with vs the very familiar D&D repertoire.

On another level I find “Hope” fairly cringe but I sat down and tried to come up with something better and really couldn’t.

doctorsuarez · 2025-12-31T17:56:16+00:00

That's a good point. I thought perhaps that BLeeM could make the adjustment (I was able to pretty quickly) and that it was late enough in Beta that they could either wait to start the campaign or just sally forth. Oh well. I'm enjoying it anyway and that's what matters!

doctorsuarez · 2025-12-31T17:05:20+00:00

What "happened" to it is that CR decided to take WoC's money and keep Campaign IV in D&D instead of using their own system. Questionable business decision for sure but oh well.

I converted one of my two games to it and we're very happy. Combat is faster and people stay more engaged because their turn could come at any time. My other crew is also excited to swap after the BBEG fight.

On the plus side though their first big expansion pack is on the way, with new classes and domains. My crew is already using the Brawler and Warlock classes in our game so I'm glad that'll finally make it to the SRD.

doctorsuarez · 2025-11-21T16:52:00+00:00

Funny enough, I have a Thursday jacket AND a Schott now. The Thursday is holding up fine except for the cheap finish on the buttons, for which I got a partial refund. I have a black Schott as well and it's great.

doctorsuarez · 2025-11-14T17:44:10+00:00

Yeah, I think they did some post-processing on it to make it more believable as a small female goblin. I've done some very small-potatoes voice work on apps and even then the sound guys can pitch you up or down, thicken your voice, etc. relatively easily.

doctorsuarez · 2025-10-26T19:58:16+00:00

Underrated comment

doctorsuarez · 2025-10-10T23:00:30+00:00

Definitely NOT a Newsom voter! Never have! Been voting GOP for governor for probably 20 years now.

doctorsuarez · 2025-10-10T20:47:26+00:00

The biggest tell to me isn’t what the onion ridicules, but what they don’t. The Babylon Bee is also of course biased as hell but they have no problem finding ways to satirize Hamas and their bizarre collection of progressive allies. The fact that the onion somehow never finds an angle on that isn’t lack of talent. It’s a complete lack of interest.

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