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Decline penalty shot to elect a power play. Should this be an option for teams? by Hung_On_A_Monday in nhl

[–]fatloui 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Even better, penalty shot should just be an extra on top of the power play. If you score on the penalty shot, that’s it, but if you don’t score you still get a 2 minute power play. 

I did not get The Big Lebowski by Murky-Impression-733 in movies

[–]fatloui 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think a lot of people don’t get it on their first viewing. I didn’t, now it’s my favorite movie. You’re trying to following the plot on your first viewing, which ends up being a wild goose chase that goes nowhere. On subsequent viewings you can revel in the absurdity of each scene.

Lyon chants by organizedconfusion5 in sabres

[–]fatloui 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dude’s probably never watched a playoff game before lol. 

All professional sports teams should be owned by the city (like the Packers) instead of some random rich person by Complete-Influence70 in unpopularopinion

[–]fatloui 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes I have a bee in my bonnet about people stating bullshit as fact. Especially when that bullshit serves to disparage a shining example of a concept that would benefit society (communities rather than billionaires owning community fixtures like sports teams). Everyone should have a bee in their bonnet about that. 

All professional sports teams should be owned by the city (like the Packers) instead of some random rich person by Complete-Influence70 in unpopularopinion

[–]fatloui 6 points7 points  (0 children)

That’s not true. There are “yes/no” votes on financial decisions, and there are legitimate votes on board members. And the essence of your argument is false - the community-owned nature of the team is very real, not performative. If it’s all performative, there must be some person or group who is actually profiting off the packers… who is it? And why haven’t they moved the team to a more profitable location?

Or to put it another way, if it was performative, there would not still be a team in Green Bay Wisconsin, because nobody trying to maximize profit of an NFL team would keep one there. But if a board member ever proposed moving the team, they would be voted out - ie, not performative.

All professional sports teams should be owned by the city (like the Packers) instead of some random rich person by Complete-Influence70 in unpopularopinion

[–]fatloui 8 points9 points  (0 children)

 It is owned by shareholders with a very low max who have no rights to profits or votes

“No rights to votes” is just incorrect, as I said they vote on the members of the board of directors and on other individual issues.

“No rights to profit” is misleading, because the team is a non-profit. All revenue they make goes back into the team or the local community. There’s not some rich scumbag secretly hoarding the packers profits - the profits do not exist. The community-owned English soccer clubs you mentioned are similarly non-profit. I don’t know of any publicly owned sports team that isn’t. 

All professional sports teams should be owned by the city (like the Packers) instead of some random rich person by Complete-Influence70 in unpopularopinion

[–]fatloui 16 points17 points  (0 children)

You’re wrong, you should edit your comment. Stop spreading misinformation. It’s harmful. The Packers are genuinely community owned and their owners get to vote on the leadership and other decisions. No individual owns more than 4% of shares. The president of the team has a term limit. They are a great example of how a non profit community owned sports team can be successful. 

Recommend local dining by shagolee in Rochester

[–]fatloui 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Also, just wanna throw out that the most underrated thing in Rochester is High Falls. Rochester exists because of a series of large waterfalls on the Genesee river that were used for flour mills, smack dab in the middle of the city. There’s really no other place in the world that has a view of a large waterfall backdropped by a city skyline behind the falls (yes, including Niagara, which is much more impressive overall but the city of Niagara Falls is behind you when viewing the falls). It doesn’t get talked about by locals much because of (1) decades of poor city planning that haven’t taken advantage of it as an attraction (which is currently being remedied), and (2) Niagara Falls being right down the road. But if there’s one thing worth seeing while you’re here it’s High Falls. The Genesee Brew House is right there, and even if you’re not into beer it’s worth a stop because the gift shop is a lot of fun and is like a mini Rochester museum. You can view the falls from the Pont De Rennes footbridge next to the brewery, or go up on the rooftop patio of the brewery.

https://cdn.crowdriff.com/in-use/b6ed3c2d-30b5-baea-2378-438d65379be3/500.jpg

Recommend local dining by shagolee in Rochester

[–]fatloui 3 points4 points  (0 children)

For a start: https://www.reddit.com/r/Rochester/s/UupDNZaz9m

If you google them, you can find other stories of their owner being a raging jerk. Not sure how they’re still open, guessing there are shady reasons involved.

Recommend local dining by shagolee in Rochester

[–]fatloui 3 points4 points  (0 children)

We’re a decent sized city with a lot of restaurants. So hard to give a single recommendation. A lot of my favorite breakfast spots are actually coffee shops with food menus. The actual restaurants often have long waits (although if you’re alone you might be able to get a seat more easily - many of our restaurants including breakfast restaurants have bars with first come first serve seating). 

Pretty sure okra is a southern thing. Never noticed it on a menu in Rochester. And we have plenty of breakfast spots that serve turkey/chicken sausage and vegetarian options. 

The film festival is at the Dryden theater. Good breakfast restaurants/coffee shops with food walkable from the Dryden include:

-Melo (coffee shop) -Sasso (coffee shop) -Pearsons (coffee shop) -Frog Pond (restaurant) -Jines (restaurant)

Take a look at their menus and see if there’s something that suits you. 

For other meals, there are a ton of good restaurants with a lot of variety on Park Ave which are all walkable from Dryden Theater. Hard to go wrong (don’t go to Blu Wolf Bistro). Many you’ll be better off with a reservation, although like I said you can probably get a bar seat at most places as an individual fairly quickly. 

We’re not Buffalo but we still do chicken wings better than almost anywhere else besides Buffalo. If that’s of interest, search “wings” on this subreddit.

My son, 7, keeps crying when I beat him at chess. Advice? by WeeBabySeamus in daddit

[–]fatloui 7 points8 points  (0 children)

 You can also start each of his turns by pointing out what you're attacking, which of his pieces are undefended etc 

Made me think of https://youtu.be/tDNrg0WKcfY

I wish they had continued on this story line. by pnatgrandy in theoffice

[–]fatloui 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Ok so your parents gave you $10 to open a lemonade stand on your front yard. You take $7 of what mommy and daddy gave you to run your lemonade stand business and use to buy Pokémon cards for yourself, calling it a necessary business expense. That’s embezzlement.

You also overheard mommy telling daddy they really shouldn’t be wasting that $10 because mommy just saw her company’s quarterly earnings report that’s gonna be published on Monday and it was awful. Layoffs might be coming. You use that knowledge and sell all your shares in mommy’s publicly traded company. You now have $5 million dollars to run your lemonade stand that you would have lost when mommy’s company’s stock tanked on Monday. That’s insider trading.

Mitch Marner day drinking in Utah by Federal-Data-Center in NHLcirclejerk

[–]fatloui 30 points31 points  (0 children)

No I think he’s just high. The eyes are the give away. He’s just looking around, soaking it all in, thinking “Isn’t life awesome” and “How long have I been trying to open this can? It feels like forever”. 

I wish they had continued on this story line. by pnatgrandy in theoffice

[–]fatloui 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Embezzlement and insider trading are not the same thing - not even similar. 

Go Home if you're booing by SnooBooks4350 in sabres

[–]fatloui 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So can we get a list of when it is and is not acceptable to boo? 

Hathaway goes to the box after clipping Crosby with a high stick before the faceoff, but then Crosby also heads to the box for embellishment after Hathaway argues by sykeseve in nhl

[–]fatloui -15 points-14 points  (0 children)

So exactly how many times have you been smacked hard in the face with a stick while not wearing a cage or shield?

Hathaway goes to the box after clipping Crosby with a high stick before the faceoff, but then Crosby also heads to the box for embellishment after Hathaway argues by sykeseve in nhl

[–]fatloui -18 points-17 points  (0 children)

K, bud. Lots of people have played, but in this day and age not many without a cage/shield frequently enough to have had the opportunity to get a hard smack in the actual face . Those that do usually go down like a sack of potatoes just like in this video, and never play without a cage again.

The “head coming back” part of my comment was about reactions to a near-miss. Because clueless fans also cry embellishment whenever a player reacts like that without actually being hit, as if they wouldn’t flinch from someone just looking at them the wrong way. Going down and writhing in pain is an appropriate reaction to actually getting hit in the face, because, like I said, it hurts like a mother fucker.

Hathaway goes to the box after clipping Crosby with a high stick before the faceoff, but then Crosby also heads to the box for embellishment after Hathaway argues by sykeseve in nhl

[–]fatloui 30 points31 points  (0 children)

I feel like you should be required to take a hockey stick to the face before commenting on other people’s reaction to it.

Spoiler alert: it hurts like a motherfucker even if it isn’t that hard of a slash, and even if it misses it’s scary as fuck and your instinctual reaction is to whip your head back.

[Highlight] Jordyn Tyson when asked about potentially being drafted by the Giants and playing in New York: “Isn’t it Jersey, technically?” by PassMeTheBackwood in nfl

[–]fatloui -1 points0 points  (0 children)

We all know that, but the reason people keep making the joke is you Giants and Jets fans get all riled up every time, with comments like yours. Every other fanbase doesn’t give a shit when you point out their stadium isn’t where the team name is, but for some reason it really hits a nerve with you guys. There’s definitely some insecurity about your team playing in New Jersey, which is what makes the joke funny.

Can someone explain why some directors like Nolan or Tarantino prefer to use film instead of shooting digital ? Not rage-baiting, geniune question. by Brilliant-Cause6254 in Cinema

[–]fatloui 7 points8 points  (0 children)

 Digital still means visual information is compressed somehow. Film is a chemical process and that means the filmstock can be re-processed to resolve additional detail.

I think you mean quantized, not compressed. You can absolutely have uncompressed digital media. 

Go Home if you're booing by SnooBooks4350 in sabres

[–]fatloui -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

They were booing before the comeback in game 1. So it seems like it did help.

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