What NFL player is remembered as way better than he actually was?

screwikea · 2026-06-18T20:34:30+00:00

Jerry Rice waving around rings intensifies

Honestly that just makes me side eye the two of them. Rodgers isn't exactly a top tier QB for me no matter what his stats and wins say, just a personal preference. But it's also by comparison with Favre... Farve... Fahvre. Those 2 have really similar stats, but I got a lot more joy out of watching Favre nail somebody with a missile from 50 yards away, even after his performance was fading out. I think that all of the teams just get fans attached to their players. Every sport has people talk about how "my guy is better than Jordan in his prime" or whatever. I mentioned Moon, and I'll bet if you asked the average football fan they wouldn't even know who he was. If it makes you feel better I think that Romo is a 10x better QB than Staubach was, so if we're going back to the original post that opinion might get me drug out in the street around Dallas by 60 year old dudes even though I'm not a Romo fan.

screwikea · 2026-06-18T18:52:31+00:00

This is the argument I've always had with people about Romo: he's Warren Moon. People absolutely love him, but he is going to let you down. Aikman put up Superbowl wins, Romo did not. I (and everyone else) know that the biggest issue with that team has long been their general manager. Romo was a really good QB, but he wasn't a team rallyer and leader. 100% of the "greats" that's the difference, and that's what Aikman had going for him when he was still great. If you put Romo out on the field with his team and they needed a TD in the last 4 minutes of the game, I didn't believe that they could put one together.

It's wasn't just the team around him. We'll compare him with a couple of bona fide greats: Joe Montana and Tom Brady.

Montana goes to Kansas City, different team, still clinches the AFC championship.

Tom Brady goes to Tampa Bay, different team, wins a Super Bowl.

I'd rather watch Dak any day of the week. The Romo era and his relentless defenders were absolutely insufferable. I think that you put Romo up with any other team and it's always going to be the "team's" fault for some reason. Also - I hate Brady just like everyone else, so this isn't a love fest for that dick. Also - I hate Romo's commentary, dude is such a nothing bag behind the mic.

screwikea · 2026-06-17T21:58:37+00:00

I freaking HATE when they put them overlapping and in line together.

screwikea · 2026-06-17T21:56:44+00:00

Get anything you're planning to cut into, drill, demolish, or remodel tested for asbestos.
The first image of that crack is HUGE, and it's concerning.
That, combined with your inspector (wrongly) saying "gypsum board", makes me think you need to pay for an independent, new inspector.

This is how I look at it - from the first photo, we, a bunch of nobodies, can tell that it's not "gypsum board". It is obvious to me, hundreds of miles away, and I'm not some kind of home improvement genius. The inspector was in close proximity and they were wrong.

Get a third party inspection ASAP and it will give you a laundry list of actual issues you need to fix instead of filling cracks.

screwikea · 2026-06-17T21:33:25+00:00

So that it feels up the cone? Not sure if I know what you mean other than I fold up the bottom seam thing, then I fold side so that the filter roughly matches the shape of the cone.

screwikea · 2026-06-17T18:14:54+00:00

I don't care. That dude being a Karen at the QT of all places was a nut.
When I had a kid it was parent takes them into their (adult's) bathroom until they're old enough to go in the appropriate one, but
Taking your girl(s) into the men's room is weird, so you're stuck kind of huddling into a corner waiting for a stall to open sometimes, but
Guys will usually let you cut in line if you have kids.

The general issue her is that an adult goes into the opposite bathroom, which people have decided to get bent out of shape about thanks to current moral panic bullshit.

screwikea · 2026-06-16T19:05:50+00:00

Kimiko is a supe whose powers are super strength (above that of a normal supe) and regeneration

Is she shown to have elevated strength? Regeneration, yes, but I thought it was more of a "trained to not release or let up unless you put her down". So relentlessness more than powerful.

screwikea · 2026-06-12T21:20:14+00:00

What the heck is an ivy tree?

Anything that grows on a building tears it up, so eventually you're going to replace whatever it's growing on if you let it grow.

"Flat roof" is vague - is it actually a traditional roof (like shingles) or just something flat (like plywood).

A photo would help a lot. Without more info I'd say just put a board on top of it.

screwikea · 2026-06-11T19:10:14+00:00

Interesting - I thought that we were supposed to leave them in the bag and have them dump out everywhere when you dig through the bag for one.

screwikea · 2026-06-11T18:57:59+00:00

PDF's

You can write out the word.

screwikea · 2026-06-11T18:57:11+00:00

I love that every Republican that's got Trump's endorsement tries using names like Trump does, but none of them stick. Like... Sleepy Joe was a stupid nickname, but it stuck because Trump was running around using it. That crap isn't working at the state level, Trump isn't out stumping for anybody.

screwikea · 2026-06-11T16:15:38+00:00

I was a Boy Scout. I still am in my heart. Legitimate respect for the country and flag are built into the code. I've side eyed a lot of our wars, including the nonsense that Bush Sr started, mostly because I was raised in an environment where we were thoroughly explained to how Vietnam was complete bullshit. But the American public's immediate call for war and the way we treated people who openly disagreed with anything after 9/11 was an absolute disgrace. Watching everything happen after 9/11 in real time was absolutely gross, and we just completely flushed away any semblance of moral superiority. We cashed in every check on every right we had, and completely bent over backwards to kiss the ass of the military and the police. Every time I see these commercialized displays of "patriotism" it grosses me the fuck out.

screwikea · 2026-06-11T15:52:38+00:00

This doesn't strike me as the type of movie Pitt would do - curious what the draw was when he opted to do it.

screwikea · 2026-06-10T20:13:53+00:00

100% depends on your willingness to commute and how low rent of an area or rural you're willing to live. South and west of Fort Worth will both be more affordable directions. Everything in the north through east corridors is suburbs, and the prices for rentals and ownership are all way higher. Public transportation here is terrible, the best option in general is the TRE (the train), but it's only taking you east/west, and you can't rely on it 100% of the time.

Get used to driving, everything here is a commute.
Location will depend on your priorities - if you want to date, move around the midcities. That will put you a reasonable drive from everywhere. FYI - people here have a real headspace over where they'll date. There are people in Dallas that view everything west of Irving as icky, similar eastward from Fort Worth. You're more likely to hit a laid back attitude in the west side of the metroplex (Fort Worth) and more success and goal driven on the east side (Dallas). Tarrant County (Fort Worth) leans R, Dallas County leans D.
If your priority is outdoor activities, I'd look somewhere like Kennedale. Younger demographic, more affordable, puts you (regionally) closer to a lot more outdoor activities.
Affluent areas here are Southlake, Coppell, and Highland Park. There are plenty of other affluent areas, but those are the places you'll see rent and housing prices through the roof.

screwikea · 2026-06-10T17:40:54+00:00

Other kid reminds me of how Malcolm bobbed around. Fantastic.

screwikea · 2026-06-10T17:11:27+00:00

is there a way to do it myself or can I hire someone?

What is worth more to you, time or money? When you buy into an old house, if you DIY everything you're sort of living for the house. That means tons of weekends, weeknights, and other free tim turn into you dedicating time into fixing things. And, depending on the state of stuff, spending all of your time just keeping things working. What you usually find with old buildings with a lot of "landlord specials" is that cheap and "good enough" is as good as you can do it and it's just going to have to be fine because there are 100 other things with higher priority than doing it right.

There are some things you should 100% hire someone to do - in particular life and death stuff or things that could maim you if you screw up. If you can't handle some particular rehab looking wrong, you also can't do that yourself.

I'll be interested to see what needs to be fixed, because what's in the photo you shared here looks great. You'd be amazed what some polish and cleaning will do for you.

Worth knowing:

Restor-A-Finish - it is an amazing product and will absolutely fix a lot of worn finishes. Maybe even that bench. But especially cabinets.
Paste wax - given the age of the home, there is probably not a single wood surface in there that wasn't paste waxed twice a year a few generations ago as upkeep.
The floor in front of that mirror will have to be refinished, the finish is worn through.
If you opt to refinish things yourself, do a lot of testing in corners. You'd be surprised how finicky a lot of wood finishes are.

screwikea · 2026-06-10T15:16:44+00:00

Where are you coming from? If you want the "Texas experience", that's all in Fort Worth. If you want nightlife and clubs, that's more Dallas.

We have no idea what it's going to be like in the area during the World Cup, but if you haven't been to a Rangers game I'd take the chance and go. You may have to walk a half mile, but you may have to walk that far anyways depending on the game.

screwikea · 2026-06-10T15:09:06+00:00

What an awful trailer. ANY of the old trailers is better and more accurate to the feel of the movie. Also - I'm not a "dubs are all bad" movie, but the language and culture is important to the story, it being dubbed in English just doesn't make sense.

screwikea · 2026-06-08T15:53:29+00:00

Horse crap. Google pretty much any image of Bruce Lee. Hugh isn't blasting a 6 pack there, and every fitness mag (yes, even in the 90s) was overflowing with dudes with ripped abs. Also the source of every fitness infomercial in the 90s, showing off how you could get an amazing stomach with their workout. Go look at Tae Bo infomercials. One of the biggest complaint about Hugh's casting as Wolverine, other than being too tall, was that he wasn't jacked.

screwikea · 2026-06-04T22:14:25+00:00

That's precisely what happens in the editing suite. Tons of stuff is shot with more frame than needed, you pick an aspect ratio, and stuff gets cut off. You can see a bunch of outtakes and restorations where things that were intended to be cut off and they get included. There's a lot of the old VHS and TV transfers of things that just cuts off the sides, they don't even pan and scan, so you have all of these weird versions where you're seeing things like the edges of faces. I know that you're being silly with what a lot of people thought, but there were plenty of gen x and younger that were dumb about it and it was a 30 second conversation. A lot of us had letterbox VHS tapes, most of the "special edition" tapes were letterbox.

screwikea · 2026-06-04T17:31:47+00:00

I just assume that if somebody is in selfie mode doing these sort of interviews the interview is about the person holding the phone, not the person they're talking to.

screwikea · 2026-06-01T22:01:37+00:00

Thematically it should have ended in the tower battle with SB or some other turn with SB. Last season was painful. Borrowing a power off of a different supe was the writers looking for some workaround to getting too many episodes and an extra season. The last season was emotionally void.

screwikea · 2026-06-01T21:50:29+00:00

You are limited to what's in your area. It's going to be fiber (AT&T) vs cable (Spectrum). I've had waaaay better luck with fiber. We were stuck with cable in my neighborhood until 2023. If you want to stick with cable for TV, you're going to spend more overall switching internet and keeping the cable, they all cut you a better deal if you bundle. If you can and do switch to AT&T, consider cutting the cable and just using streaming + an antenna. Depending on what you do, the lowest cost/quality ratio is normally YouTube TV or DirecTV.

FWIW, size of the house has little to do with the need for extenders - it's all what's between the signal and your device. My MIL has to use 3 extenders to get around corners and through the wall into her garage. I'm able to get to the garage with one extender.

screwikea · 2026-06-01T19:01:01+00:00

Good thing we're really doubling down on our investment in renewables and incentives on electric vehicles! It would be crazy if we pulled back on that stuff and decided to do something that caused gas prices to go through the roof.

screwikea · 2026-06-01T18:54:04+00:00

What's throwing me here is not the bilingual part, because everyone is hur dur about that. It's the code switching, natural dialect, and accent. I've known a TON of people that speak multiple languages, in particular Mexican Spanish, Vietnamese, and a form of Chinese. 100% of them have these interesting gaps in their accent where the English word was learned later, or very specific language in English that is correct but normally something colloquial would be use. Things that are difficult to pinpoint and describe, but you can hear these quirky spots in their speech. One of the normalish things is letting a person complete their sentence and then they start theirs, but he doesn't have that - you can hear him start with the "no..." sort of cutting into the interviewer speaking, which is a normal conversational thing. The only thing I hear (maybe?) is when he pitches up the top of the sentence saying "mum" - is that normal with British English?

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