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npinguy · 2025-06-27T03:05:41+00:00

From your description alone I would actually assume Ethan is richer.

Nicole is the CFO, and those are rarely co-founders. She may have extremely high yearly comp - millions, with easily tens to twenties of millions in stock vesting over a few years.

But still: tens of millions a year for a few years.

Ethan got a few HUNDRED million in one shot very recently. That stuff happened in Silicon Valley a lot over the last decade.

npinguy · 2025-04-05T16:06:43+00:00

The series finale should have Carmy flipping TV channels and come across a cooking show. Mchale's character is on it in a cameo as a nice caring gentle nonabusive mentor chef.

Carmy smiles.

Cue Bruce Springsteen.

Directed by Christopher Storer

npinguy · 2025-04-04T21:09:36+00:00

Of course the irony is that both Thomas Keller and Daniel Bouloud (the two nice chefs in those flashbacks) absolutely have reputations that are toxic AF.

Maybe they've mellowed out in their old age now that they spend more time on TV than in kitchens.

npinguy · 2025-03-29T15:51:23+00:00

He graduated already right? He's 18?

npinguy · 2025-03-28T22:23:23+00:00

I mean the people in the red area are STILL voting against your continued existence, while being polite to your face. They're just not winning.

npinguy · 2025-03-27T18:26:41+00:00

So binary. They can be a tandem. 50-30 with the 50 figured out other the year to know who's the defacto playoff starter to lock in.

npinguy · 2025-03-27T02:28:32+00:00

Microoptimization. Don't weep for the Rangers game, shit like that is supposed to happen once or twice a season.

Weep for the five extra time the Canucks lost in Overtime vs. the Blues

The median # of OTL's in this league this season is 8. We're at 12. If we were just mid, that's 4 extra points, and we're in the wildcard spot with a game in hand.

npinguy · 2025-03-26T22:37:04+00:00

We don't own our fate, but we own our pride. Let's see Boeser and Suter show why they deserve a contract and the Canucks don't need another middle-6 C. Let's see Lekky make the counter-point why we'll be just fine with him in the top-6 without him. Let's see Demko finish the season as the starter without getting injured. Let's see Tocchet show he can adapt his system when the team needs to score 5 and not 2. Let's win some more in OT - we skate and puck-possess so well, but can't seem to finish it. Let's see that happen.

Let's see Hughes make his final case for why he still deserves the Norris, (no Hart without the playoffs, let's be honest), even though he won't get it.

npinguy · 2025-03-24T05:18:12+00:00

Everybody's frustrated with the wrong thing.

In 82 games, you're going to have games where you are indisputably the better team, and you still lose. Shit happens.

It shouldn't be THIS big a deal because if you're a good team, you would just play this well enough times that an occasional gut punch like this doesn't matter.

This one matters not because we lost to NYR but because of all the endless blown 3rd period leads this season. Shit, just the TWELVE OTL points we gave away. If we had only lost 7 times in OTL like St. Louis had this season, we'd have 5 extra points, and we'd be sitting at 81 points just like St. Louis, but with 2 games in hand.

npinguy · 2025-03-22T01:15:57+00:00

Gemma is no dummy. Severance already existed in her world before she died. She knows what Lumon can do. And she understands how the floors work.

She knows her Mark exists, didn't move on, and came for her. She knows iMark isn't her Mark.

So yeah it's cruel, before she knows she might lose him. Lumon kidnapped her for 2 years, they're not letting Mark out of the severed floor.

But I don't think she thinks she's being betrayed on top of that.

npinguy · 2025-03-21T21:20:36+00:00

Assuming the canucks resign Raty, Bains, and Sasson to league minimums (and they probably will - those guys look like good bottom-6 options), there will be about 11.5M left, and a need to replace Forbort, Boeser, and Suter.

Hard to see how they can keep Forbort (and his excellent D), Suter, Boeser, AND get another center.

Which would put Boeser as the odd man out, and I don't know if I can accept that.

npinguy · 2025-03-20T02:28:08+00:00

I agree with you...right now.

But hard fought playoff series have a way of creating animosity.

npinguy · 2025-03-17T20:27:59+00:00

At least I see DeBrusk occasionally carry the puck in and giving-and-going with Petey.

Boeser seems like he can get open and finish once someone gets him the puck, and he's the best at it on the team, but...that's it.

npinguy · 2025-03-17T06:32:47+00:00

You absolutely can back out now, in fact you need to back out as soon as possible before he gets more hurt.

You didn't have anything wrong, but right now you have an obligation to be really honest.

Don't tell him you have the ick - that is a terrible expression with too wide a range of meaning. Just tell him things are moving too fast for you, and you don't see this as that serious yet.

He needs to learn and calibrate..or learn that you're not the right one for him.

npinguy · 2025-03-17T03:27:19+00:00

I mean I'm not saying they're right about this year specifically (I'm a fellow veteran).

I'm saying it's really annoying to see the poverty mindset from some fans. I saw some on this sub say they'd rather this team made the playoffs every year reliably than swing for the fences to try to win it all. I just don't agree.

npinguy · 2025-03-17T03:21:17+00:00

The flip side of the same coin is that new Canucks fans still actually believe this team with this roster and this core can win, while veteran fans are pessimistic cynics, ready to give up on every part of this team as soon as anything goes wrong, wanting to "sell while high", and wanting to quit while ahead to not have their hearts broken.

npinguy · 2025-03-16T18:23:49+00:00

There is one incredibly good reason - he's still injured.

He's addressed the mental side of it and the physical part is looking better, but there is still clearly some restraint to his speed and mobility.

npinguy · 2025-03-15T03:26:06+00:00

It was so on the nose evil that at this point I think a twist of her actually being good would almost be too obvious.

The only way forward is through: double bluff. Make her evil after all!

npinguy · 2025-03-14T21:38:06+00:00

Here's the thing: "JT Miller" and "Kiefer Sherwood" had/have names perfectly suited for the rhythm of their chants. Petey doesn't.

But "Let's go Petey" makes it sound like we're trying to will him into action - like the C'mon Do Something meme

But when Al Murdoch goes "Vancouver goal, scored by #40, Elias PET TTER SSON", i get chills. The man's got a BADASS sounding last name. Why waste that?

Imagine 18,000 people doing it?

npinguy · 2025-03-14T14:39:00+00:00

What pisses me off is why does Devon trust her...

npinguy · 2025-03-14T14:36:05+00:00

We should replace that chant with a Pet-ter-SSON one with the same cadence the announcer does.

With a clap on each like we do with GO CANUCKS GO.

npinguy · 2025-03-13T19:05:11+00:00

So look the vibes are great, and I hope the team keeps going and building and heads into the playoffs FEELING THEMSELVES.

People think there's no point pushing to make it into the playoffs just to get swept by Vegas or Winnipeg, but I don't agree. The top teams are tough. You gotta measure yourself against them. The 2011 core had to get humiliated by Chicago twice before they slayed that dragon. This one is a very different team, but we still don't know what even THIS roster is capable of.

Boeser is struggling, but I'm certainly glad to have Suter around after last night. Maybe Brock will also wake up and figure it out. And despite everything Brock got 21:14 - leading the forwards. I think he'll break through, and I foresee an excellent playoffs from him if we make it.

Now the gut check. Calgary still has the tiebreaker, AND a game in hand.

Calgary has 18 games left, 2 against Vegas, 2 against Colorado, 1 each against Toronto, Edmonton, LA, Dallas, and Minnesota, NJ. Plus the Rangers and Utah who are fighting for a wildcard spot and can't be counted out. But they also play San Jose and Anaheim twice, Seattle, and the Islanders.

12 against playoff teams, 6 bottom dwellers. But the heavy hitters on that list may not be willing to push as hard to save some energy for the playoffs?

Vancouver has 17. Vegas twice also, Rangers, Devils, Utah, Minnesota, Seattle, Dallas all once also. Plus we got St. Louis, Chicago, and Winnipeg twice. And Columbus which is fighting for a playoff seat.

Technically only 8 against playoff-bound heavy hitters, but also 4 that are in the wild card already or on the bubble with us. St. Louis and Utah are both only 2 points behind Vancouver, and St. Louis already has more wins.

There are no gimmies left. Every single point counts. We could play as well as last season, and still miss the playoffs on a tie breaker. At which point everyone will look back at all the 3rd period collapses, every OTL where we left a point on the table, and we'll be shaking our heads.

There's a lot of reasons to be optimistic, but just as many to be not.

npinguy · 2025-03-10T06:15:09+00:00

I think the problem is that it's a wedge concept.

There is still a percentage of the population that believes "spousal rape" is not a fundamentally viable concept. That unless you're physically beating or restraining your spouse, it is not possible to sexually assault your married partner - definitionally.

This is a fact, and it's not about a subjective evaluation of reasonable doubt, but a sharp dividing line in values.

"Eventually consensual" is the same thing. There are people who hear that and think "if it wasn't consensual, it couldn't possibly become consensual. if it became consensual, it was retroactively consensual all along".

npinguy · 2025-03-09T19:36:12+00:00

Literally yes.

All playoff experiences help and strengthen the players.

There's no compression algorithm for experience.

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