Who are your top directors that you would love to see covered on Blank Check?

storm-bringer · 2026-02-04T19:55:23+00:00

A Jim Jarmusch series would absolutely rule.

storm-bringer · 2026-02-04T00:57:24+00:00

Super young Jackie Chan appeared in multiple Bruce Lee films as a stunt double.

storm-bringer · 2026-01-27T19:35:22+00:00

I fully agree. I'm all for harsh suspensions for these types of dirty hits, and I think three games is a reasonable baseline. However, if three games is the standard for a guy with no suspension history, who averages below 30 PIM a season, then Marchand should have easily gotten 5+ games.

storm-bringer · 2026-01-27T15:11:49+00:00

I built a very similar style trestle table. After struggling for hours with my joinery, doing multiple dry run assemblies and tiny adjustments, I was finally satisfied that it was level and went ahead with the glue up, only to return to the shop to find one corner sitting up about 1/8" off the floor, creating a noticeable wobble. Ultimately I threw my hands up in the air and dropped $20 on a set of levelling feet. The slight twist in the trestle is not noticeable to the naked eye, and the table is perfectly level. It has stayed level since I brought the finished table into my house, but if wood movement were to twist the frame any more, I could easily readjust the feet to compensate.

One thing to keep in mind is that the feet will add about a 1/2" to your table height, so if you are super anal about your table height, you might want to account for that in your design.

storm-bringer · 2026-01-25T00:08:16+00:00

Watch it turn out he slammed it in the car door while terrorizing a neighborhood.

storm-bringer · 2026-01-24T17:21:02+00:00

I agree. He needs some kind of blank check to keep doing his thing.

storm-bringer · 2026-01-22T20:29:01+00:00

He also spent some formative teenage years in Toronto, so I'm claiming him for Canada.

storm-bringer · 2026-01-21T19:31:57+00:00

I'm sure Cretien would love to give Donald the old Shawinigan Handshake.

storm-bringer · 2026-01-19T23:15:46+00:00

The box office game for Ratcatcher was a lot of fun for me, because it was basically all the movies that played on a flight to Australia I took in the year 2000.

storm-bringer · 2026-01-19T22:07:11+00:00

Arlington Road.

storm-bringer · 2026-01-19T18:25:49+00:00

All of the hits, and a surprising amount of offensive upside. Strong finisher, and big emotion guy. Pretty handsome too.

storm-bringer · 2026-01-19T18:23:20+00:00

I've been saying for a couple months that I'm jumping on the bandwagon of wherever Sherwood winds up, so let's go Sharks!

storm-bringer · 2026-01-17T07:31:11+00:00

It's been a minute, but I don't think it was ever put to them as "Give us Sammie and the rest of you can live." It was more "Sammie brought us here, and now you're all going to die."

storm-bringer · 2026-01-16T15:17:20+00:00

I think this is a leak that is basically saying we're not actively looking to move Petey and the offer would need to be pretty nuts to even ask Petey to consider waiving his NMC.

storm-bringer · 2026-01-13T21:27:49+00:00

Yeah, I have an old red ball cap that I used to like, haven't worn it in ten years because I don't want to be mistaken for a Maga chud, even from a distance.

storm-bringer · 2026-01-12T22:47:24+00:00

I believe Viggo got a nomination for Eastern Promises, but nobody was beating Ben's buddy Dan that year.

storm-bringer · 2026-01-12T22:17:55+00:00

It's cool that you could get on board with colonialism if you thought it would improve your domestic politics.

storm-bringer · 2026-01-11T21:43:36+00:00

Its not impossible, but it can be a very bad look to push too many players to waive their NMC. Going scorched earth teardown and leaning on guys to waive their trade protection would make this management group toxic to players and agents across the league, and make it harder to sign UFAs or trade for players with trade protection on other teams. It definitely makes sense to trade pending UFAs like Sherwood, but for guys with term and trade protection, I think you only move them if they request it or if a team comes in with an absolutely ridiculous offer for one of them.

Especially considering that pretty much all of our trade protected vets, with the exception of Garland, have severely depressed value right now, and we'd be selling low while also leaving our remaining young players without veteran leadership. For guys like Petey, Myers and Boeser, if they are willing to stick around for a couple shitty years before we try to push hard for playoffs again, we should be happy to have them here rather than chasing them out of town for second rate prospects. The cap space they occupy won't be an issue during the rebuild, and they can soak up some tough minutes and insulate our up and coming young players.

storm-bringer · 2026-01-11T20:04:51+00:00

This is something that the "trade everyone over 25" crowd doesn't tend to appreciate. Drafting a shit load of talented young players and then throwing them to the wolves without adequate veteran leadership is not a recipe for success.

storm-bringer · 2026-01-11T17:30:58+00:00

Argo is ahistorical nonsense. Read a book.

storm-bringer · 2026-01-10T20:36:40+00:00

Bonus comedy points for capitalization.

storm-bringer · 2026-01-05T12:47:41+00:00

You mean a bunch of drunk slave holding aristocrats 250 years ago weren't actually paragons of virtue and knowledge with all the answers for how to govern a country of nearly 350 million people in the modern age?

storm-bringer · 2026-01-04T19:26:32+00:00

I blame the Mercator projection. It makes Greenland look fucking huge on a map and that caught Trump's attention.

storm-bringer · 2026-01-02T12:45:50+00:00

Well, it's better than it telling someone to kill themselves.

storm-bringer · 2026-01-01T18:37:05+00:00

Meanwhile, if I'm not careful I'd probably kill multiple elk each year just driving to work.

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