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d-dave

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  1. I can see Sherman wanting to stick up for a guy with percieved physical limitations, like what caused Sherman to slip. But jones has much more going against him than the physical limitations. He's hard to evaluate. When has an Alabama QB lived up to the hype and produced in the NFL? Tua? Mac couldn't beat out Tua. To me, that is the biggest problem I have with Mac Jones. He is physically limited, and he also comes from a system that made it easy for him with the best athletes in the world around him. It's hard to figure him out.
  2. I watched it every Friday, got sucked into the theories, but after a couple of days to stew on it; I think this is one of my favorite shows all time. For me, it's not about continuity, action/direction, or even some gigantic theme. For me, the heart of the show came down to Vision and Wanda sitting on her bed (in her memories). When Vision said "What is grief, if not love persevering?" That has stuck to me like nothing else in a show has for years. I lost my father a few weeks ago, and certainly that is something I'm still dealing with. It's just one of the most beautiful sets of words that is so damn apt. Sure, I'm emotional, and I needed that. I also cried like a baby when he said it. The heart of Wandavision was phenomenal. Sure, there was a lot of mystery there early on. Jimmy Woo and Darcie were great comic relief. It's awesome to see Moncia gain her powers. But I'll admit, seeing the intense and wonderful love between Wanda and Vision was deeply satisfying. It set up for Wanda's major choices. Then when she said good bye to her boys...Well I lost it again. I've not had a show that made me laugh and cry this much. Totally loved it!
  3. Right? Sure we had to pay a part time OT (who wasn't bad, but missed half the year) in bitcoin, but we did get out of that contract. It would be HILARIOUS if Trai got released, and we managed to sign him for a much cheaper contract. Full circle?
  4. This last episode was amazing! The fact that vision was resurrected completely by Wanda, outside of his physical body is amazing. I wonder if Vision will continue post show in the rest of the MCU, or will he disappear with the Hex when Wanda eventually shuts it down? What will Agatha do with/to Wanda? Are her boys real? So many questions, and White Vision to deal with! I can't wait!
  5. The more I see about him, the more I think he's the QB I want. Sit behind TB for a year, work on his short range accuracy, then unleash the beast in 2022.
  6. The latest entry in the looter shooter genre. The difference, it's not a live service game like Destiny 2 or Division 2. More like Borderlands with set releases. The demo is out for all platforms for the weekend. Anyone else tried it? I played for a couple of hours last night, though I did spend a lot of time reading through the lore, which is interesting. But here are my overall impressions: 1. Gritty world - lots of swearing, bloody violence, and everyone is pretty horrible. I find the lack of hope and beauty presented to be lacking. We are playing for the survival of humanity, yet all we do is kill humans. Also, lots of stuff doesn't work so the setting seems hopeless. Visually, it can look nice. I mean, I'm playing on my laptop i7 (7700), 16gb RAM, and 1050 4gb, and I can play on Medium and basically no shadows. Good art, but it's almost all brown. I want there to be more diversity. 2. Combat feels very GoW, which make sense because many of the devs come from Gears. Cover is important, but the enemies will flush you out by charging you or expertly tossing grenades at you. Was there a school for this? Geeze! I am having issues with my controller settings. I guess I'm spoiled by D2's controls, but I found it very hard to actually aim and hit. I think on PC, M&K is going to be the way to go. 3. Lore is interesting. I like the descriptions of the characters and everything. The writing there is good. The characters in game? I don't like them at all. No charm, which is expected. I like there is a journal/codex of things you discover. There are discoverables on the map which help flesh the world out that isn't told as deeply in the main narrative. Though there is a main narrative so that's good! 4. The Loot! What is a looter without the loot? So I like the variables in the mods/perks. Like when I got a shotgun that also drained life, I was running around trying to shotgun everyone for that extra life. There are a lot of things we don't know about the game, but I think the loot and build game is going to be pretty good! 5. Classes - I have no idea. I played the berserker, who gets life by killing dudes upclose or with shotguns. The abilities recharged quickly and were cool. I look forward to playing with the rest of them. Overall, I am on the fence. It's a complete game when it comes out, so there's not the FOMO from a live service game. I want to see more of the rest of the game. I want to feel like my character is making a difference since we're set up as a hero to save humanity. I also would love to see some levity and beauty in the world.
  7. Since Kiper said it, we don't have to worry about it! How often has Kiper been horrifically wrong on our picks specifically? I get that he looks like a classic back up type, 15 years of clipboard holding and spot duty kind of guy. Rhule liked him, said he was an alpha. He's not the most physically gifted, threw to the best athletes in the world who were wide open, and comes from a school with a poor QB track record. I mean, if the Panthers think that...ok, then let's hope he's our guy. While it's fun to talk up and down the draft right now, it's really up to the guys in the FO to figure out how to make our team.
  8. I love that movie! Such a treat! As far as Planet 9 / Black Hole / Flying Spaghetti Monster beyond Neptune, I am so curious to see what we manage to discover. We need to work getting out beyond Mars much faster in general for both unmanned and future manned missions.
  9. I'd say keep going! I am in the same boat, episode 6. I think its interesting to see how the Roci's crew are trying to find their place in the world. I love seeing how the other characters are dealing with the transition of the universe. It does seem like a lull, but I think there's much more to see!
  10. I'm not sure anymore, to be completely honest! I can absolutely see going out and getting your QB. Unless you have a franchise QB, you're always looking for one. That's kind of an age old adage. On @ellis's podcast, Steven Ruiz made a similar point to how the Chiefs have been kind of wackadoodle in their player acquisition. Doesn't matter too much because Mahomes hides all kinds of deficits. On the flip side, we have SO MANY holes on our team. Giving up all of that, it would make it hard for Watson to really thrive here to make the investment worth it. I mean, we've seen teams with lesser QBs win SBs with a much stronger team around them. Heck, I'm just a fan. I don't envy the guys in the building who have to weigh those kinds of options!
  11. God, that sucks! I hope you and your wife are able to stay healthy. People seem to think that teachers are disposable. Like we are easily replaceable. When enough teachers quit, and there are no new ones in the pipelines (UNC system teacher ed programs are drying up); only then will the public have to realize what they have done to their kids.
  12. That's just tragic. Then again, I feel that way a long when hearing about people dying before their time. Sucks all around.
  13. I hope he's earned his right to a roster spot in 2021. Dude has been a long shot, but worked his butt off. He's also come so far. I love this guy, and I hope Rhule and staff do as well. Talk about the process.. He went from a dude with tools, to a man of a DL!
  14. I am very worried about trading up, or for any other QB. The market is nuts, multiple 1sts, 2nds, etc. You're giving up three years of prime draft capital HOPING that this guy can change your franchise's direction. As we've seen, no QB is ever a given savior. At this point, I'd rather just take the BPA, most solid blue chip player, and look for other QBs later in the draft.
  15. I never got into the table top, but I can absolutely fall into the setting. I've found myself getting sucked into lore videos and wiki holes for far too long to be productive! It's a very interesting setting!
  16. I loved nearly every minute of GoT. The problems, like @Zaximus said, was that they hurried things too much to get to the ending. There is some filler over the 8 seasons, but the vast majority is great. Characters that are dynamic, interesting and fallible. I wish the final arc had been given a little more time to stew. The negative feedback is warranted in some regards, but for some of us, it made sense. Not everything has to be fan service.
  17. Vaccinate teachers. Problem solved. After listening and reading all the stupid crap the general public has said, put your vaccines where your mouth is. Get us the vaccinations. If you expect teachers and faculty to be in rooms with 25-45 kids all day, get us vaccinated.
  18. It helps when you have two very good rush ends playing against back up OTs. Then the interior push does a lot more damage, and makes things easier for the rest of the LBs and DBs to do their jobs. It was really impressive to see Bowles defense kick it into high gear in the biggest game of the year. From the get go, the Bucs D was out for blood. So I guess we should really consider the importance of line building. You need OL to protect against that kind of front (which probably won't be the same next year), and a DL to disrupt these elite level QBs.
  19. On a random internet speculation, I saw someone say that the unnamed person Rambo was talking about could be Reed Richards of Fantastic Four fame. This could be a show that helps to bridge the gap and bring in some other great Marvel characters from Fox.
  20. I decided to fire up an episode that I was partially finished with, and ended up watching that one, and two more! Sheesh! So good! There are also good "pauses" where the commercials would go. Just really well written, even for the commercial structure!
  21. I searched before I started my thread =P But regardless, I was hooked hard in the first five minutes of black screen exposition. I love this kind of near future sci-fi. I am at episode 6 of season 2 right now. I'm doing the best I can with my family lol =P I love how it's not preachy, it's just people dealing with an overall bad situation.
  22. I know, I'm slow on the uptake here! But I just started watching this show, and I am completely engrossed. I'm at the end of season 1, and holy cow! I've heard season 2 and up get better. Well written, directed, and done over all. I love the visuals. Everything looks very real in a sense that it could totally work that way. I can't wait to tear through the rest of this show!
  23. This has been a thing for a LONG time, prior to the pandemic. Also, keep in mind that most teachers don't have a choice about remaining virtual compared to in-person. One thing that sticks out to me in this debate has been how the proponents of returning to in-person always talk about the grades, failure, getting behind and a litany of other things which do no matter. I'm in my 17th year of teaching, and I've realized that the most important lessons aren't learned from direct instruction. It's all of the socializing, dealing with crap from peers and teachers, learning to function, and how to learn a skill. They won't use 90% of what they learn, but they will be taught things the rest of their life. That why content based testing is such a poor metric for success. In 17 years, I've seen my fair share of kids who had perfect attendance who did not learn how to function. They might have great grades, but fail out of college. Academics don't matter if the kids don't learn how to function at home. When we talk about the funding gap between inner city schools and suburban schools, it has much more to do with the type of experiences and general attitude of the school more so than having the newest textbooks or computers running out the ying-yang. Kids remember experiences. They develop skills over time (several school years). Those things are being missed. But it comes down to if the kids really mattered, then COVID would have been handled better from the get go. School funding wouldn't be an issue, and teacher training wouldn't be concentrating so hard on the TESTING.
  24. I talked about this in a TB post, but I've also been thinking a lot about it (I dunno, my job I guess) as we get ready to return to in person instruction at my school. COVID has shown how fragile our country is. Most of us depend on jobs that have been severely impacted by shutdowns. Many people are dealing with the physical, emotional, and financial disasters that COVID inflicts and leaves on the survivors. We are truly interdependent upon each other, despite the most furious responses from bootstrappers! At this point, in person school should be a goal. A reward, if you will, for people getting their communities in order over the vaccine. People should also know that in person school right now is not real school. No hands on assignments, no small group work, no relating to your peers. It's kind of like prison. Or more generously, it's a place where your kids go to be supervised doing online work. Fun? Right? Teachers and school staff should have been way up the list of people who needed to get vaccinated. Right now, schools are having real trouble keeping teachers in their classrooms due to the rampant community spread and the need to quarantine. Healthy schools are vital to the success of the community. They need to be treated as such. That doesn't let parents off the hook because they need to be engaged with their kids. When I was in my methods class, a speaker from a local school system came and and talked about the social contract that exists between schools and communities. The gist was that they needed to work hand in hand. Right now, there is such an adversarial relationship between communities and schools. It needs to come back together. People need to realize that schools are here to help.
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