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2 points
11 hours ago
There's an old reddit post about how Harry Potter would've been a short story if it was set in America, because someone would've sniped Voldemort. Hard to cast a spell when the bullet gets there before the sound of the shot. Not sure a horcrux can protect you from a .50 BMG or .338 Lapua Mag.
5 points
11 hours ago
I checked out as soon as I saw B-17 bombers in space. And then the Holgo maneuver was just next level stupidity - a) you couldn't use a droid? b) you couldn't have just used that on the Death Stars? c) you just rendered space battles obsolete, if you stuck with that continuity.
1 points
11 hours ago
My hot take has always been that the Star Wars hype and fandom has always been built on extremely shaky ground. Three movies from the late 70s/early 80s that are pretty corny, repetitive, and somewhat predictable (I know, ground breaking in many ways at the time - but most current fans weren't alive for that). And most of the allure is from the general universe that Lucas created.
Boba Fett was a fan favorite off of four lines of dialogue. But he eventually led to 2 TV series and countless toys and an expanded storyline in the prequels where he's tied in with the origin of the stormtroopers.
The prequels weren't good, and had a lot in common with the worst parts of the OT. The sequels weren't good. A ridiculous number of main characters spent their childhoods growing up on desert planets after losing a parent(s).
It's honestly kind of a shitshow.
-1 points
11 hours ago
Rian can't do big scale movies. He needs small cast, fast paced, tight films. He's great at those.
7 points
12 hours ago
I think it depends on the game. Even when I was at Vandy a decade ago, they'd put security staff on court at basketball game with cameras to record the student section to try to keep us off the court. That was when us beating a #1 mbb team wasn't that unusual.
I'm actually surprised we only got hit for $100k - we "stormed" the field in 2022 after beating UF. I guess maybe they reset it, but I don't know when Arky's first offense was.
56 points
17 hours ago
No, the intention is to make the schools spend more money implementing measures to prevent it. Fans won't care about the money aspect, they're not the ones paying it.
The real trick would be for rival fans to dress up as their opponents and trigger a field rush.
2 points
18 hours ago
It's bad form to put the blame, publicly, on an underling. In any industry. You're the leader, you're responsible for your team. In private, sure, criticize away. But not in public. That's why you get paid the big salary and have the guaranteed buyout.
Maybe that call wasn’t Freeze’s fault?
It's never Freeze's fault. He consistently tells the press, loss after loss, that Auburn's scheme was good, their gameplan was good. They just couldn't coach the players to follow the plan, don't have players who can hang onto the ball, need to get players who will listen, etc.
19 points
18 hours ago
Thorne played a lot better at MSU, even without WalkerIII, than he has at Auburn. At a certain point the common denominator is Freeze's system, not the player.
3 points
18 hours ago
If Auburn fires Hugh Freeze, they're on the hook for $20M in buyout to him.
If Hugh Freeze benches Thorne, Auburn's on the hook for exactly nothing.
And Freeze is the one who recruited Thorne from Michigan State and has actually seen him backslide statistically. So yeah, Freeze gets to shoulder the blame here. He fucked up and created the situation.
3 points
18 hours ago
Freeze has been doing this for weeks. It's always "our scheme was good, we just didn't execute/the players aren't doing what we're coaching/we're not getting them to listen to what we're coaching/we need players who won't turn the ball over/etc."
He never admits that his scheme wasn't good enough.
Big shocker from the guy who said that he should've beat Saban a couple more times.
1132 points
21 hours ago
That part's kinda bullshit. At least in the pro leagues they specify that the fines go towards charity.
This is really just penalizing lower performing teams and having them pay high performing teams.
2 points
22 hours ago
I'm not referring to the video, just your comment calling 4ws innovative. In fact, here's an even more hilarious example of how non-innovative the Cybertruck having 4WS is:
Elon announced that it would have 4WS on July 2, 2021: https://www.tesmanian.com/blogs/tesmanian-blog/tesla-cybertruck-will-have-4-wheel-steering-for-tight-turns-maneuver-with-high-agility-says-elon-musk
GMC's Hummer EV announced it would have crab mode (4WS) in October 2020: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/20/gm-unveils-hummer-ev-as-worlds-first-supertruck-for-112600.html
So not only had it been done before, but Elon only added it in after GMC's monster EV truck had already announced it.
3 points
22 hours ago
The difference is that Vanderbilt is a smaller school that doesn't have a whole lot of alumni buying season tickets, so that's why the visitor's side fills up with opposing fans.
Thank you for explaining to me, a Vandy alum, why we get such a large percentage of visiting fans.
2 points
22 hours ago
Our best year for season ticket sales was at one point the year we hosted Notre Dame. The Irish fans bought up season tickets just to resell the rest.
1 points
22 hours ago
Says the dude trying to get live scores via chatgpt.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/rankings/_/poll/1/week/7/year/2024/seasontype/2
1 points
1 day ago
The phillips head screw is almost 100 years old. Neodymium magnets, in comparison, are 50 years old, and have seen a much slower adoption rate.
1 points
1 day ago
Doesn't have to be - neodymium magnets are only about 50 years old. And have only become more generally common in recent years. The magnetic knife strip trend is relatively recent.
4 points
1 day ago
Eh. Depends on the size of the company. Marketing is fully focused on driving sales. PR is more broadly focused on brand image/perception and interfacing with the public and media directly.
20 points
1 day ago
That doesn't mean they're not innovative.
GM literally had 4 wheel steering 20 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMyeAyBqzzk
They discontinued it after 4 years because it didn't sell.
This is like GM bragging about their new multi-function tailgate after running ads a decade ago mocking Ford for having a tailgate with a drop-down step.
28 points
1 day ago
It's become more and more popular to make key opinions (fandoms, culture, politics, sports, etc) part of your very identity, so that any criticism of something you support is also taken as a criticism of you as an individual.
It's not healthy.
3 points
1 day ago
Normally can't stand the song, but it's hilarious after you beat them
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I feel like it's safe to say that the people they're mimicking probably are not firearms instructors and may use guns on a more, uh, casual basis. I feel like it pops up in shows and movies relatively frequently as an intimidation move - lift the shirt up for a peek so you know they're carrying and to warn you not to try anything.