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Why is it breathing?

God damn you. Now I can't stop paying attention to it.

Damian Lewis:

The pragmatist gave the pilot a pistol instead of a parachute so they try their best to save the plane. ...I don't know if that's an extension of the analogy in this case. But it's a damned interesting piece of WWI trivia.

How in the Sam Hill did you manage to find a Smiling Friends gif?

Man, I came to this thread after getting the alert on my phone expecting some optimism. And what do I get? "Ermahgerd! My second round pick next year!" Seriously? After all the talk about how QB is the most important position in the league, and we need to trade the farm for a franchise QB, we get one for peanuts and all y'all can do is bitch? This is fantastic news! We kept almost all of our draft capital this year. We can invest in offensive line, Linebacker, CB. All the positions we actually need rather than pining for the 4th or 5th best QB in the draft. Hell! This puts us in position to trade back with a QB hungry team and get ourselves two firsts next year! And y'all bitching about the 2022 Second Round pick? Man this board is ridiculous sometimes.

I know you think you're doing well here... You're not doing well.

Drafting Clausen to put ourselves in a position to get either Andrew Luck or Cam Newton. That was some 4d chess, and you rarely see an organization make a move that ballsy today, much less have it pay off!

I see a solid 3rd down WR. You're right, he's not elusive, and I don't think he's the burner his pro day thumb-on-the-scale 40 time would show him to be. But what I do like is his ability to high-point a ball over a defender, and his ability to run a route across the middle and bring in the ball while absorbing a hit. We lost Curtis Samuel, so if this guy's ceiling is our 3rd down Mr. Dependable, I'm very okay with that.

I full on snot-laughed when I got to this picture: I'm not a huge fan of the expression, but I have to say it here: That's a whole energy.

I can tell you that young people in DC dig it. I see a lot of WFT ball caps. Let's be honest, the Redskins fans are dying out literally and figuratively. You've got the lifers who have gone to a game every year since their pappy took them in 1967. And even their interest is being eroded by the cynicism of the Snyder era. And after them, there isn't a lot of observable interest in Skins fandom among the young, diverse, and highly transient community of Washingtonians now. Look at a Capitals, Nationals or United game. Compare that to who you see in the stands in Landover every Sunday. The new name is attracting the next generation of fans, and I think they'd be wise to keep it.

Disappointing. Not shocking. He wasn't an all-star but I believe he was a valuable piece, especially considering what a quality DE goes for these days. And he had the versatility to shift inside for 3rd down rush packages. I don't know how much his tender was, but I have a hard time believing he wasn't worth the money. Maybe we can replace him, but I guess I prefer to spend a little more on the devil we know than save a couple shekels on the devil we don't.

This. I would be half as hard on Teddy if we were paying him half as much money. It's the pricetag that's attached to his mediocrity that makes it so hard to to handle.

Terrible idea. You're basically making high-profile sex offenders untouchable. What woman, abused by a powerful man, is going to bring charges against him if there's a remote chance of getting discredited by his high-dollar legal team, PR team, and the smear campaign he's going to throw at her? If she gets beaten in the courtroom due to crooked legal shenanigans, then she'll have a) been raped, b) didn't see her abuser get justice, and c) gets punished for his crimes.

Short answer: No. Long answer: No. By and large they're pulp fiction that's written like the authors are paid by the word and are writing against a deadline with a gun to their heads. They're pure plot progression with only a hint of characterization or world-building. Most novels are really just lore or fluff that accompany and enhance the tabletop gaming experience. BUT there are exceptions to the rule, which is great. Because the 40k universe is so terrifying, nihilistic and bleak, that it's an incredibly fun setting for sci-fi. And in particular, the books about Chaos are probably the best. Those authors, and John French in particular, play very well in the world where technology is incredibly advanced, but almost everyone has forgotten how to achieve it, so all the mighty spaceships are basically derelict, rusting and dripping with caustic, radioactive fluids, and there are malevolent gods and that exist in the immaterial plane that humanity uses for space travel, waiting for the fields that repel them to flicker for a microsecond so they can come spilling into our reality and fug everyone up. General rule, the darker the subject matter, the better the book will be.

I'm set, I think, until August.

Damn! Games Workshop recruited him. Astartes is now an official Warhammer property. Good for him! https://www.warhammer-community.com/warhammer-animation-astartes/

Overall the movie was meh, and if you skipped it initially, like I did, you aren't missing much. But this shot was amazing: I genuinely got creeped out when I watched this scene the first time. It's mostly Joel Kinnaman's acting; you really believe he's seeing himself being taken apart chunk by chunk and realizing how little of himself is left. How unnatural that it is that he's alive. And what it means to actually be "alive." Great scene. Blah movie.

If this was the dialogue from a stereotypical "American Redneck" character in a TV show or movie, I'd think it was lazy, unrealistic and a pointlessly knock-you-over-the-head level of satire. Post-Trump America has literally transcended parody of itself.

I'm sure I'm in a mega minority here. But LB is my #2 draft need after offensive line. QB is third. Because it wouldn't be exciting, but we could roll with Teddy for another year. After nearly 2 unbroken decades of stellar MLBs, we're huuuurting without a defensive field general. If Micah Parsons was there at 8, I'd take him. I'd take him over Lance.

Dying. That's the first thing that came to mind. You don't bequeath the largest gift in a college's history posthumously. You want to see that poo.

Nailed it

He wasn't a great player, but I'll miss him. Name him the Hype Man Emeritus or something, and just have him in the locker room and sideline. Or make him Sir Purr.

I liked the story line as well. Just the contrivance of his name being a derivation of "Hold the Door" was laughable. It would have worked equally well if he like knocked down a buttress (because he's a giant and really strong) and the cave collapsed, sealing the dead in and allowing them to escape.

"Hold the Door!" Okay, that was the first moment I've laughed out loud at the show, and not in a good way. Halfway through season 6 and I'm already starting to see the degradation of the writing. Major character kill-offs aren't even shocking anymore. But the "Hold the Door" thing was just so embarrassingly contrived. I can just see the writers room and some 23-year-old film school hack going: "And then Hodor helps them escape the cave as the White Walkers close in." "How?" "Maybe he closes off the cave entry?" "How? It's a cave. What could he close off?" "Maybe there's a door." "...a door?" "Yeah." "...to the cave? The cave has a door?" "Yeah." "But we've seen the other cave entrance like 10 times already. And there's no door." "But there is on this side." "Why?" "Because, get this. He HOLDS the DOOR!" "..." "Get it?" "Get what?" "He HOLDS the DOOR!" "I don't get it." "HO' DOOR. HODOR!" "Oh...Okay. I thought his name was just 'Hodor.'" "Yeah, but this is clever!" I was screaming with laughter, and I didn't even have to look to know that this wasn't something from the books. But indeed it isn't. His name is just Hodor.