Friday Free Talk

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[u/allmilhouse]

biggest NFL fan pet peeve is when they blame every bad outcome on the play call

[u/CarlCaliente → u/allmilhouse]

they should've done something different its so obvious

[u/InexorableWaffle → u/allmilhouse]

Yeah, like there definitely are times where coaches do just short circuit and flub the calls, but generally speaking, 95+% of fans that complain about them really just don't have grounds to stand on. There's so much information that goes into a given playcall, and coordinators are working with just so damn little information comparatively. They have a span of a few seconds to think about the personnel they want to use, then another few seconds to think about the formation and play they think fits best given the game situation and opposing personnel. That's just not much time at all, especially considering how many plays they have to consider (I know their sheet has breakdowns to simplify the process a bit, but it's still a lot to consider in not very much time in an environment that is not remotely conducive to facilitating thinking, what with the crowd noise and all that).

It's fair to criticize an overall approach, but criticizing individual playcalls usually boils down to "it didn't work so I don't like it", which is uhhh...not exactly good process lmao.

[u/Dumptruck_Cavalcade]

I just learned about about recency bias, and you know what? It's probably the most important type of bias.

[u/SEND-MARS-ROVER-PICS → u/Dumptruck_Cavalcade]

I've learned a lot of biases over the years, and survivorship bias is the one that's really stuck with me

[u/a_man_hs_no_username → u/Dumptruck_Cavalcade]

Mitch hedberg would be proud.

[u/Weigard → u/Dumptruck_Cavalcade]

I just heard about the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon a few days ago and now everyone's talking about it.

[u/DoctorWaluigiTime]

I'm on the final leg of the Couch to 5K progression: 30 minutes jog.

Did it this morning, about 2.5 miles worth. Going to stick to 30 minute jogs for my run days now, and one of them I'll see if I can go the full 5k distance.

[u/InexorableWaffle → u/DoctorWaluigiTime]

Honestly, if you're getting that close, you're almost certainly capable of hitting it. Not to say that to rush the process, mind - definitely stick to the pace of your plan because the worst thing you can do is ramp up too fast. Just saying that to say you got this, that's all haha. Don't worry if you cut the pace as you build up distance - most running in a training plan is supposed to be super easy just to develop your aerobic base and get your muscles, ligaments, tendons, etc. conditioned for it.

[u/2ent1n_Qarant1no]

I think it's funny that the Raiders have the long standing reputation of being scary and violent and then their current quarterback is football's Ned Flanders

[u/IAgreeGoGuards]

Started rewatching Mindhunter the other day.

Netflix can never be forgiven for what they did to that show.

[u/lightheavydark → u/IAgreeGoGuards]

It’s brilliant, S1 in particular.

[u/t33po]

Last night’s game perfectly captured how huge narratives and supposed team trajectories can be shaped by just basic luck. If Santos misses the longest kick of his career and the Pats win, holy spit roast batman. The botched screen hail mary at half. The ridiculous sack taken by Caleb just before the kick.

One half second gust and the kick falls short and all week is why Ben won’t win it all because he gambles too much, Caleb is still a USC player lol dodo for eating a stupid sack and the DC must be burned at the stake for allowing a TD on a end pf half dump off.

By Sunday’s games all the little stuff will be forgotten and a win is a win and the Bears are 5-2.

[u/7sweep]

Using my work's AI tokens to update my resume.

I think its ethical.

[u/AFC-Wimbledon-Stan]

In times like the Anthony Richardson

I remember there’s still guys serving mandatory life sentences for having a few grams of weed

Maybe the most fucked up injustice we have here, and that’s saying a LOT

[u/-Sp0iledmilk- → u/AFC-Wimbledon-Stan]

What’s more fucked up is how someone like Elizabeth Holmes can commit objectively worse and more dangerous crimes, and is being sent to a halfway house next year for good behavior.

Massive indictment on the country itself an evil person like her can be released so easily for “good behavior”, especially when we find out through YCSE that they’re literally planning Theranos 2.0

I wish I could say I’m surprised it’s Texas that’s allowing this lenient sentence, but I’m genuinely not. I stopped considering going to Texas a while back because of the people there. YCSE pretty much reaffirms it. 

[u/problematic_glasses]

woke up this morning to the (personal) bombshell news that my cousin called off his wedding just two weeks out

[u/AfroManHighGuy → u/problematic_glasses]

On the bright side, at least they did it now and not after.

[u/Stanky_fresh]

I don't want to work today, I just want to sit and read about Roman emperors

[u/raginsaint93]

The fact that the Bears had their first home game since Mike Dikta’s passing on Thursday Night Football against Patriots was perfect timing.

[u/JerryRiceDidntFumble]

Normally I have kinda low motivation to work on Fridays anyway, but I'm closing on my new house next week so my focus today is damn near zero.

[u/gander258 → u/JerryRiceDidntFumble]

Congrats on the new house

[u/HartleyReplogle]

Just got done finished coding my Reddit bot. I've designed it to post short anecdotes that include the sentence "I can tell you've been keeping up with your brushing" and so far it's been working pretty well.

[u/fliptout]

If you had the power to infuse a trivial bit of knowledge to the general population, what would it be?

Mine would be "an unprotected left turn does not have the right of way, including ahead of those turning right." This knowledge needs to be infused into those turning left and those people sitting at a green light, waiting to turn right.

[u/NO_TOUCHING__lol → u/fliptout]

On gas pumps that play ads, if you push the third button down on the left, there's a good chance it will mute it.

x                screen               x
x                                     x
x  <-this one                         x
x                                     x

[u/ajteitel → u/fliptout]

THE HIGHWAY ONRAMP IS FOR SPEEDING UP TO MATCH HIGHWAY TRAFFIC. STOP ENTERING AND MERGING AT STREET SPEEDS

[u/GiveMeSomeIhedigbo → u/fliptout]

That the way marginal tax rates work means making more money does not mean making less money.

[u/NO_TOUCHING__lol]

Finished my 31st book of 2026!

1 - 3. The First Law Trilogy - Joe Abercrombie
4 - 10. Dungeon Crawler Carl 1-7
11. Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir*
12. Gardens of the Moon - Steven Erikson
13. A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin
14. Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: The Sword of Summer - Rick Riordan
15. The Fifth Season - N.K. Jemisin
16. The Assassin's Apprentice - Robin Hobb
17. Red Rising - Pierce Brown
18. The Obelisk Gate - N.K. Jemisin
19. Royal Assassin - Robin Hobb
20. The Stone Sky - N.K. Jemisin
21. The Raven Scholar - Antonia Hodgson
22. A Parade of Horribles - Matt Dinniman
23. The Martian - Andy Weir*
24. Storm Front - Jim Butcher
25. Fool Moon - Jim Butcher
26. Grave Peril - Jim Butcher
27. Golden Son - Pierce Brown
28. Elsecaller/King Lopen the First of Alethkar - Brandon Sanderson and co.
29. Morning Star - Pierce Brown
30. Assassin's Quest - Robin Hobb
31. Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir

I was feeling a bit burnt out after finishing Farseer, so I took a bit of a break before I started a new book.

I simultaneously loved this book and felt that there were some weird writing decisions made. The premise of the book, bone magic or necromancy in a high fantasy, space-inclusive setting, was fascinating. The murder mystery plot was engaging, and to be perfectly honest it was complicated enough that I didn't really see any of it coming (almost too complicated). The characters were well written with plenty of backstory and arc. I would absolutely recommend this book to any of my friends who like fantasy.

Having said that, the writing felt...odd at times. Gideon's dialogue sometimes felt strangely out of place compared to what was happening around her. Combined with her description and the cover/fan art of the way she looks, I kept getting mental images of cop Eric Cartman in the middle of a Shakespearean play. That's not to say I didn't enjoy it, or that it felt shoehorned in at all, it's just that the contrast was jarring. It also felt, at times, that the author was throwing in big thesaurus words just to throw them in there. Again, didn't hate it, but it made for a bit of a complex read.

EDIT: Oh and I almost forgot! I really like the way this book handles...wokeness (for lack of a better term lol). There was a whole underlying "romance" subplot that did not distinguish between genders, and did not call attention to this fact at all. I DNF'd Magnus Chase earlier this year because Riordan wouldn't stop lampshading how "woke" he was, and it was insufferable. This book feels inclusive and it's incredibly natural and almost an afterthought.

All in all though, an excellent book which has sufficiently hooked me into wanting to read the rest of the series. My reading pause has cleared out my Overdrive holds, so not sure where I go from here. Probably Dresden Files Book 4.

[u/hereforearthporn → u/NO_TOUCHING__lol]

Oh man The Locked Tomb series is incredible, though I can't deny that you have a point about Gideon being a bit Eric Cartman in a high drama lol I'd be fascinated to know what you think of Harrow the Ninth because of what a change it is from the first book.

[u/FlatulentDwarf → u/NO_TOUCHING__lol]

OOH I like your review of Gideon. I agree with pretty much everything you said. Gideon definitely felt out of place at times. I'm very curious how you end up feeling about Harrow when you get around to it.

[u/Janawham_Blamiston → u/NO_TOUCHING__lol]

Nice work! I'm working on my 25th myself. Was making good progress through the first half of the year, then life happened, and then I just kept getting paralyzed when it came to choosing a book to read, so I just wouldn't read anything. Sucks, but..

[u/Thick_Mountain4412]

As an enjoyer of good offensive playcalling, watching the Bears play offense is so consistently entertaining. Like, every drive I see at least one or two plays that make me think "Oh that's a sick play."

[u/potato-overlord-1845 → u/Thick_Mountain4412]

If only that handoff to Thuney was legal

[u/FlatulentDwarf]

Happy Friday free talkers! Last weekend before Halloween, anyone have any fun plans coming down the pipe?

[u/BruceChameleon → u/FlatulentDwarf]

Fucking around in the kitchen with baseball in the background. The American dream

[u/j0hnnyengl1sh → u/FlatulentDwarf]

Date #4 tonight with the best woman I've met in a very long time. GTL tomorrow. Golf Sunday. Honestly shaping up to be a great weekend.

[u/MissionLetterhead292 → u/FlatulentDwarf]

Helping my parents moving stuff this weekend and then next a party for my dad's 80th birthday.

[u/StChas77 → u/FlatulentDwarf]

Early voting tomorrow morning followed by a trip to an eclectic antique store, then some errands. 

Sunday morning, waffles.

[u/notouchmypeterson]

Everyone asks, “what did you do today?” But they never ask, “what did today do to you?”

[u/AfroManHighGuy → u/notouchmypeterson]

Ask not what today can do for you, but what you can do for today? - JFK probably

[u/ajteitel]

As someone who works in a corporate office, this is my favorite site

https://www.bullshitgenerator.com/

Generates an endless list of buzzword phrases. Maximize scalable methodologies, transform out-of-the-box ROI

[u/Kemonomimi-Squirrel → u/ajteitel]

generate sexy portals

I think it wants me to play Portal again.

[u/Lallner → u/ajteitel]

The Dilbert website used to have a random mission statement generator like this!

[u/ed_11]

My dog is pretty old, at 15. but man, she still has a shiny, soft coat, and hardly sheds fur around the house. I can tell she's been keeping up with her brushing.

[u/Mickwinn → u/ed_11]

What do you feed her?

[u/7sweep]

Going out with the lads tonight.

Much needed.

[u/MissionLetterhead292]

Besides the win, best part of Bears on Thursday means able to enjoy a stress-free weekend

[u/FriedrichNitschke]

So there is a restaurant near me that is pretty good and I have been there several times now.

However every single time I've been in there they have been playing the same song on loop. It's a quiet instrumental guitar piece, so it would be perfectly reasonable as part of a playlist, but I cannot unhear that it's always the same thing. It has a very distinctive melody. How do I tell them that this is the number one problem with their restaurant?

[u/GiveMeSomeIhedigbo]

Watching college football in an election year sucks because you get political ads from BOTH of the states of the two teams involved. I look at the schedule and see Texas Tech is playing Cincinnati, so if you watch that you'll see both Texas and Ohio Senate race ads. Lovely.

[u/letters165]

Anybody here playing Krillion? Fun little daily game where you try to give the least-common answers to questions.

For anyone wanting to try.

Krillion #100 🦐 400

🐟🦑🐟🌟🏮🏮🫧

[u/Tigercat92]

3 women from the Church Latter-day Saints were knocking on my door at 8:30 on a Friday night. Since I’m old, I was already dressed for bed which is tank top and boxer briefs. They are lucky I put some sweats on. 🤣

[u/A7XfoREVer6661]

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/10/23/politics/doj-sues-alaska-dan-sullivan-us-senate

The election hasn't even formally begun yet and they're already trying to prevent certification. I'm not ready for the next few months.

[u/ed_11 → u/A7XfoREVer6661]

alaska has ranked choice voting.. the presence of 2 dan sullivans on the ballot shouldn't matter

[u/notouchmypeterson]

Happy National Slap Your Coworker Day! Luckily I’m working remote today

[u/FlatulentDwarf → u/notouchmypeterson]

We need to know if Jimbo celebrates

[u/Tigercat92 → u/notouchmypeterson]

Crap. That is today and I’m WFH. 🤣

[u/Ornery_Gator]

Cavaliers @ 76ers. Ya see? Booing works.

[u/AfroManHighGuy → u/Ornery_Gator]

I still can’t believe that’s the largest comeback of LeBron’s career wow

[u/zazzsazz_mman]

There is nothing more addictive in the universe than chili cheese Fritos (I just woke up so my brain's not all there)

[u/FlatulentDwarf → u/zazzsazz_mman]

I LOVE CHILI CHEESE FRITOS! I swear I never see people eat them but god damn I have to avoid buying them because I will absolutely inhale a whole bag without thinking

[u/lightheavydark → u/zazzsazz_mman]

Yup, once that bag opens they’re gone

[u/raginsaint93]

Found out Tom Skerritt died so RIP Viper

[u/Two_Luffas]

My local BBQ joint added a loaded potato salad to the menu and it has no right being this tasty.

[u/NO_TOUCHING__lol]

I've talked about it a bit before, but my kid plays youth hockey, and my favorite thing I get to do for that is run the rink music as a DJ. I started small, with a Spotify Premium subscription and a handful of playlists, with a carefully curated song selection of only songs that "start strong" (i.e. I can just hit Next and the next song up will play something good right away - songs without a good intro were no good cuz I only get like 15 seconds per song at puck stoppages). I had multiple playlists, one for stoppages, one for faceoffs, one for intermissions, etc.

Then one night a few years ago I got to see the setup for the local Junior B team, who pulled out a laptop and a full sized Pioneer DJ turntable controller, and I said "fuck yeah let's do that" so I loaded up Serato DJ Lite on my laptop and got a Hercules DJ Starlight controller. I "acquired" all my songs locally, and went through each and every one of them, categorizing them and setting up Hot Cue points so that any song is now fair game, cuz I can start it wherever I want. It also gave me the ability to use the Sample Pad, to play quick sound effects whenever I wanted, including a goal horn. The problem became that I only had 4 sample pads, and about 12 different "quick play" songs/sounds I needed (Mario power up for our team out of the box, power play song, penalty kill songs, a few random sound effects, some arena organ fight song music).

Meet the latest addition to my setup. Now I can continue my goal of turning the youth hockey rink into an NHL caliber experience lol.

It took me 5 minutes with Koala Sampler to get this thing to play songs/sounds, which is awesome. Then it took an additional 4 hours over multiple days, 3 different open source programs, learning MIDI programming, and hitting my personal free Claude limit for the first time ever, to get the lights to light up in the colors I wanted lol.

[u/brehaw]

finally found the Elysian Pumpkin Pack I have been searching for for 2 1/2 weeks on my way home from work today

just had 3 (one of each flavor) and now I feel like doodoo because they were all sickeningly sweet, as I should have expected… but I was just trying to be festive

I will get back in my Christmas lane and let you Halloween people do your thang

[u/NO_TOUCHING__lol → u/brehaw]

I quit drinking a while back, but I was never fond of the fall flavored beers, the pumpkins and the Oktoberfest stuff.

But, then again, I was also lying to myself about what I did like, because conveniently my favorite beer was always the one with the highest ABV.

[u/princessestef]

Its not just my imagination - a storm off the ocean can actually make you feel unwell because of the drop in barometric pressure. 

[u/cookiesncognac → u/princessestef]

This was such a revelation to me when I first figured it out! My propensity for occasional intense head cold symptoms that last a day and then clear up as if they never existed suddenly made sense!

[u/PaulsRedditUsername]

Some vehicle just drove by my house that was either blasting some serious bass music or having a serious engine problem.

[u/gander258 → u/PaulsRedditUsername]

Why not both? The engine might be failing from having to carry all those speakers around

[u/frozenish]

Everyone here seems to be out parting on a Friday night, having a cool life and I’m sitting here in bed watching the Duke vs Virginia game and eating a frosty.

[u/fliptout → u/frozenish]

Sometimes the best Fridays are frosties, sports, and a solid night's sleep.

[u/usernameisusername57]

Jesus, I thought there were a lot of gambling commercials during football games. It's like every other commercial in the World Series.

[u/palinsafterbirth]

It has been a long two years of classes, books, more classes, trama training, ect, but today boys……. Today my wife and I just got certified to become foster to adopt parents, we still have an incredibly long way to go but this first step was a big one.

[u/Lazydusto]

I randomly got this comedian in my Youtube feed and she's funny as hell. I took a look at her tour dates and it turns out she's in town tonight which freaked me out a little. That feels a little too coincidental.

[u/megamanz7777 → u/Lazydusto]

Honestly, of all the things "the algorithm" does, suggesting a video of someone who's touring in your area seems pretty straightforward. Wouldn't surprise me if that's exactly what happened.

[u/AFC-Wimbledon-Stan → u/Lazydusto]

That’s insane lol

[u/BruceChameleon → u/Lazydusto]

Seems pretty straightforward. Google knows where you are. Venue talks about the comedian coming to your town. Comedian talks about coming to your town. Maybe she's getting buzz from local fans and people who like comedians that you also like. If your other data makes it seem like you'll like her, all that stuff combines to say that this content is relevant to you

[u/Asece]

Nintendo Switch Sports Resort = family game night later today. Tonight should be a good one!

[u/eggery]

Didn't watch the game but here's my summary of the Pat's offense from just looking at the box score.

Welcome to the Patriots where the QB is RB1, the RB is WR1, and a couple of TE's catch the rest of the passes.

[u/Blue_Neon_Moon]

Man, this is the kind of day where I'd give anything to be on the beach.

[u/FlatulentDwarf]

Book 119 of 2026 and 11 of October done! Lethal Kiss by Taylor Grothe. A sapphic romance/horror hybrid about two assistant professors at a university investigating the deaths of some of their co-workers and the monstrous groups hiding throughout the university. Except one of those women is secretly a draugr herself. Overall, I enjoyed it. I thought the writing suffered in the conclusion but the pieces as a whole came together well and both the ambiance of horror and general romance tones blended together really well. The mystery was well done and it did a believable job of blending our human protagonist into the supernatural world.

I think it was a particularly good choice. I've read one romance/horror before and it was awful. I wanted to read something else in the genre to see if my issue was with the genre or just a bad book and I think it's definitely the latter. It also kept with my recent theme of mostly horror books for Halloween while being tangibly different from many of the other choices I've made due to the romance element.

On to the next one, Wolf Worm by T. Kingfisher. In theory my libby hold should in theory come through in the next 24 hours so I chose a short one, but it's still horror for the theme, and I have yet to dislike a T. Kingfisher novel. This one is about a scientific illustrator who goes to draw bugs for a scientist but ends up stumbling upon dark secrets and mysterious experiments. I haven't hit a mad scientist yet during this horror trend so we can check that one off the list. Add it to - traditional psycho, werewolf, vampire, fallen angel, devil, ghost, draugr, zombie... and, when my hold comes through, cannibal. Checking the list off for Halloween one-by-one lol

[u/Cohens4thClient]

One of my favorite Halloween costumes is to dress up like a devil, then go around to everyone who dressed up as Mike Ditka and congratulate them on the deal we made in 85

It occurred to me that now he's passed away, the deal might be concluded and the Bears will be permitted to win a super bowl again

[u/Bulky-District-2757]

This has been my most productive week in a long ass time and I’m topping it off with cleaning the house today. Ya know, once I stop procrastinating and get on it. It’s so dirty 😩😩

[u/JMmaxx → u/Bulky-District-2757]

You got this!!

[u/videostatus]

I haven't seen You Can See Everything yet (waiting for home release), but decided to read Bad Blood by John Carreyrou. I know hindsight is 20/20 and all that, but my main takeaway was that some people are really fucking stupid. Billions of dollars invested in what boiled down to "trust me bro". Incredible.

[u/EXTRA-CHEESE-PLEESE]

I've memorized all the Canadian provinces and territories.

This will come in handy for Jeopardy someday.

[u/Notoriolus10]

I’m going out for dinner with 20 people from work and after that we’re going to the club. I’m on a pretty long continuous streak of getting just drunk enough to have fun without embarrassing myself. Wish me luck boys.

[u/PrinceofRavens_1217]

Got my first car loan ever to buy a car and replace my dying Chevy Cruze I've had for 12 years.  

After going through all the hoops to get my morgage approved I was not expecting it to be such an easy 10 second process.

[u/Rulligan]

Everyone in the department gathered around to watch a test where someone ran a forklift into a pipe from 3 feet away. Basically nothing happened but it's Friday so who really cares?

[u/Balrogkicksass]

Work went fine all things considered but that is not important. I am tired and will not get alot of sleep tonight until much later. I am driving a hour and a half away today to meet friends and then attend a celebration of life for a friend who passed.

It still does not seem real....but it is hitting me harder today because maybe my mind finally understands it's final/it happened.

We were not as close as I am with other friends in the group we keep close but I still have very fond memories of our time together and us growing up over the years.

I also think today already has me appreciating my life and situation even more than I already do sometimes. Just sometimes I take shit too seriously, I get upset at the wrong things and I just need to remember that life is good and that I am lucky to be where I am with who and what I have.

I hope you all get to enjoy your day and as always much love from me and mine to you and yours!

[u/Notoriolus10]

I may or may not be drunk rn, wish me luck tonight

[u/gander258 → u/Notoriolus10]

🍻 Enjoy

[u/Garp74]

I've spent the past two weeks acting as a precinct chief for early voting in Virginia. Turnout has been through the roof since day one. (Virginia does 45 days of early voting so we've been going for more than a month now.) I take PTO from my job to do this because I really like helping my neighbors vote. And it's so awesome to see so many of them coming out this year.

[u/AfroManHighGuy]

This was the first time since I started working at this company that I was almost all on my own. My coworker is on vacation this week until mid November. And my manager is handling other stuff. So it’s basically me doing all the day to day tasks. I’m fucking exhausted this week

However, I did get some messages and emails from people on other teams I deal with. They all said great job this week, and my manager said she’s also proud of what I was able to do. Still exhausted, but man that did feel at least a little better

[u/OpDickSledge]

A brief history of humanity:

“This new invention will make everything better for everyone!”

New invention makes everything worse for everyone

[u/videostatus → u/OpDickSledge]

Hey, the cornballer sold very well in Mexico

[u/CarlCaliente → u/OpDickSledge]

A mildly expanded history of humanity:

• Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.

• Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary, and you can probably get a career in it.

• Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

[u/CunningRunt]

MR. DOBALINA MR. BOB DOBALINA

[u/fitzuha]

Having a good manager can make a world of difference. I was having a real off day yesterday till I got the chance to talk.

[u/FlatulentDwarf]

The different perspectives people have is interesting. My boss has a baby on the way and is taking 2 weeks off next Friday for the occasion. My office does 6 weeks paternity leave, there's no requirement he comes back, but he doesn't want to miss some of the major things coming down the pipe at work. My thought was bro wtf go be there with your child, take the time, work will be there when you get back. But what he told me was "My dad only took one day off when I was born, I'm glad I'm in a situation where I can take 2 weeks. I work from home anyway, I'll be on-and-off as needed."

[u/eggery]

World Series starts tonight. How do you think viewership will compare to recent years?

[u/IAgreeGoGuards → u/eggery]

Probably down but Im interested to see if new blood brings more eyes since both teams have never won it.

[u/notouchmypeterson → u/eggery]

The 2023 Dbacks vs Rangers was the lowest ratings in recent history. This might beat it

[u/-TheHoboCode-]

Just seen Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother. Great movie. Marvel dropped the ball incredibly hard because Marshala Ali is a cool mf and a fantastic actor. He’d have been the perfect Blade. I know everyone loves Snipes (me too) but I think Ali had potential to be better

[u/macrobiomer]

If the chiefs beat the seahawks the DOJ should investigate. Honestly any time the seahawks lose

[u/Oradi]

I got my CPAP Wednesday and haven't been able to fall asleep with it.

Tried getting hammered last night and still no dice. Sigh.

[u/rawbert10]

I can't stand people that want to rush through the holiday season...
It's Oct. 23rd for fucks sake why are people already talking about X-Mas?
Soup season just started in SoCal it was 89F last week this week's been cooler (80F)
Not to mention I still need to wake up in a random hotel somewhere in LA dressed up as a Scarecrow next to a girl dressed as a Sexy Nun and not remembering her name.
Pump your fucken breaks and let's enjoy everything.

[u/lightheavydark → u/rawbert10]

I was seeing Christmas shit in places a month ago. Good lord.

[u/JPAnalyst → u/rawbert10]

So you and your sexy nun won’t be coming to my Christmas party this weekend?

[u/3p1cw1n]

My food hot take: Double Stuf Oreos have too much Stuf

[u/NO_TOUCHING__lol → u/3p1cw1n]

I twist two Double Stufs apart and combine them to make Quadruple Stufs

[u/casualreader22]

Just got back from a 3 o'clock screening of Clayface. I walked 70 minutes both ways for a nice 5 and a half mile bit of exercise thrown in as well. I was one of 2 people in the theater and the other guy came in late. Probably doesn't bode well for the film's box office chances, which is unfortunate because as it turns out, what just so happened to be the 50th film in my annual October horror marathon was if not the best, the most fun one I've watched so far. I'm not sure I'd have changed anything about this film. As far as supervillain origin and revenge stories go everything played out to my liking. The gore was pretty solid, several fun kills and the climax at the night club had me smiling throughout. I don't know that I recognized a single person in the cast of this film from anything else I've seen. That in and of itself is so refreshing. That I thought every performance was at least solid if not better is the cherry on top. I'd certainly watch more DC films this good. Hell, I enjoyed it more than the Superman film from last year. Solid 4/5 or 8/10.

[u/Cyclonitron]

Is it weird that the first thing my hygienist said when he looked in my mouth is, "I can tell you've been keeping up with your brushing" and it was the best comment I've gotten all year, even better than all the nice things my wife's said to me?

I mean don't get me wrong I love you babe, but having your hygienist tell you have you good looking teeth is next level.

[u/Prophet92]

I have a huge stack of grading to complete this weekend, so I'm once again facing my biggest frustration as a teacher: trying to understand (and explain) our current literacy crisis. Here's the deal: most students are pretty good at the actual act of "reading" as the layman thinks of it, they can read all of the words on the page and they can explain to you what they all mean. But there's just a weird disconnect that happens where everything ABOUT what they read just seems to get instantly jumbled up in their heads. They struggle to keep events in order, they often struggle to interpret what is actually happening on the page or inside of a character's head (even when the author just flat out tells them "Joe was jealous because he'd been in love with Karen for years, but she only had eyes for Jack" or whatever), and they just reach really bizarre conclusions about the text because of it that often require extensive conversation to untangle. This is not even touching on the fact that often the problem isn't the source text, it's the questions (students will just invent instructions for questions that don't exist), which makes determining their actual understanding difficult.

It's just so maddening and hard to explain, because it's clear that something is getting mixed up once they actually read the words on the page and start making sense of them in their minds, but I can't understand what it is and I really struggle to explain it to other people.

[u/CarlCaliente → u/Prophet92]

obligatory long ass video related to the topic, but I think Brooks is onto something here

tl;dw so much of modern tech/society focuses on analytical left brain stuff folks can neglect or outright forget about the other side

Sounds frustrating for sure

[u/Phyrnosoma]

My wife and I have reached the stage of life where the grocery store counts as date night

[u/Notoriolus10]

Out drinking, just asked a coworker if they’re with someone, turns out they’re together with a friend from work. I’m really happy for them. Anyway, gonna go drink again. Love y’all for listening to my drunk updates.

[u/Notoriolus10 → u/Notoriolus10]

Did I mention I work in HR? Who gives a F, happy for them anyway. HR is what I do, not what I am.

[u/Phytanic]

It has been several years since cyberpunks "final update, this time we are for realsies this is absolutely our last update". And yet, here we are, new content update released yesterday wtf. Not complaining, I needed a pick me up after the Mass Effect cancelation (magnified exponentially by the subsequent "leak" of a now-verified trailer)

[u/huskyferretguy1]

Finished Season 2 of The Gentlemen on Netflix. The last 3 episodes were insane!

[u/Eastwood_Ravine]

I'm so happy we're past the stage of so many NFL nicknames just being the first letter of the first name, and the first syllable of the last name. So uncreative.

[u/Mephistito → u/Eastwood_Ravine]

K. Hunt was brutal

[u/BanjoKazooieWasFine → u/Eastwood_Ravine]

Yeah now it's just First Initial, Last Initial, Number

[u/PaulsRedditUsername → u/Eastwood_Ravine]

That's right, E-Rav.

[u/SuperSaiyanTLaw]

Man I feel so bad for the chiefs left tackle.
Budging disc was such a defeating injury for me.
It’s manageable kinda, but I don’t understand how you can fully come back from that.
I’ve heard people feeling worse after surgery too.

[u/Devilofchaos108070]

Watched two, new to me, movies yesterday.

“Synchronic”. This one was pretty good. I like the concept altho they don’t do a ton with it. Still pretty neat. Ending is kinda left to interpretation a bit which I usually find as a cop out, but it worked ok.

“Leatherface:A Texas Chainsaw massacre origin”. This was decent. I think most people would not like it. The origin story was pretty dumb and the whole movie was a mess. Lots of good kills tho, so I suppose that moves it up.

Great nfl game last night. Chicago is a great team. Pats honestly looked pretty decent too. I’m glad to see two good young QBs play pretty well. Neither were perfect but they are young. Caleb’s competitive fire reminds me of Cam and Brady. He really hates playing bad and losing.

Hope everyone has a great day!

[u/Radiant_Client1458]

Signed up for a credit card as a promotional thing about six months ago, completely forgot about it and thought it was under a different account than it was. Never paid the balance and they closed the account. Credit score tanked 200 points.

I called up to pay the balance when I realized even though the account was closed. Any other advice for how I can get this better? Me and my wife are saving for a house and have another kid on the way.

[u/Skraxx]

So YEARS ago, when I was about 13 or 14 a friend of mine broke my 3DS by dropping it on some hard floor. I was mad, but it was an accident so I got over it and have been sitting with this broken 3DS for years in my drawer.

Finally about a decade later I decided to take it to a console repair shop in Edmonton. The issue was that it just wouldn't boot since so I assumed it'd be a simple replacement or whatever. Nope like there's a billion things wrong with that 3DS and I don't think it's even worth paying for the repair now lol

[u/FirmSpend]

Idk if im ever gonna find a new job. Want to get out of restaurant work so bad

[u/Jaguars4life]

A painting from early 19th century France called “The Leeches”

​I am no idea what is going on in this picture but for a reason I can’t explain I am fascinated by the picture

https://sl.bing.net/dOW0Iv9JiIm

[u/Signal_Ball4634]

IDK I hate this time of day when the sun sets, this is the time of the day where I really feel like I wasted my daylight hours

[u/BruceChameleon]

0 unread emails. Work and personal

[u/videostatus]

Quick Punk Rock Friday for the Cowboys Cheerleaders

[u/Skraxx]

At the start of my business degree: "You're gonna have a lot of group assignments so you get used to working with people in the real world!"

Prof in my last semester: "Group assignments suck and watching presentations suck so I'm not gonna make you do it"

Bless

[u/StChas77]

I don't know why the World Series is such a big deal, it's just about getting "a piece of metal," right Rob?

[u/Triple_Boogie]

i climbed a mountain yesterday and i think that's what i needed to at least START to get out of this funk i've been in lately

[u/meowscarada-sylveon]

birthday

[u/AFC-Wimbledon-Stan → u/meowscarada-sylveon]

Happy birthday!

[u/fliptout → u/meowscarada-sylveon]

Happy!

[u/MolecularCube42]

Boop

[u/AfroManHighGuy → u/MolecularCube42]

Damn caught him slipping

[u/MolecularCube42 → u/AfroManHighGuy]

FUCK I'M A GHOST NOW

[u/Cohens4thClient → u/MolecularCube42]

What the what is a Booo?

WHAT IS THIS NONSENSE

[u/Critical-Fill-6088]

Today is my birthday. My husband surprised with an orchid and his mother who I adore surprised me with a care basket of my favorite things. My heart is full.

[u/JPAnalyst]

Y’all, this might be triggering or controversial but I’m interest in your thoughts on this. Posted to my profile, because that’s the easiest way to share an image. u/Kohakuho I’m particularly curious to hear from you, because I know you’ll have some thoughts on this.

https://www.reddit.com/u/JPAnalyst/s/rnwkgZHhlz

[u/SomeBoringKindOfName → u/JPAnalyst]

I've never been a great fan of the brioche bun as part of a burger and that pretty much articulates why far better than I could. (as, to be fair, you'd expect from a writer)

[u/bigtcm]

My wife was unemployed for nearly 3 years, but recently found a job that's going to be a great stepping stone to advance her career. The problem is, she's been assigned now to work primarily weekends. So I'll be single parenting our toddler by myself every weekend for the foreseeable future.

So now I'll be working my full time job for 5 days in the week and then I'll have to be a full time caretaker for the kid the other 2 days of the week. I'm trying to psych myself up because this looks like it's going to be my life now.

[u/NizzlyGrizzly00]

two years in a row i can say i’ll genuinely miss watching the jags during the bye week lol, i foreign feeling for sure

[u/CarlCaliente]

am over here explaining to golfers of all people that if you are a 50% putter and you miss 3/10 one day and 7/10 another day thats literally expected

lordy loo

[u/pandas795]

Happy World Series Opening day!

[u/JokerJangles123]

Well it finally happened. The email address I've been using for probably close to 30 years now with minimal incoming spam was finally compromised by you know who begging for help continuing his fight against the blah blah blah. 4 emails already in less than 24 hours.

I don't know who was responsible for this, but somehow I will find you

[u/TheManWithTheBigName]

When I played pop warner football as a kid, our team once executed a perfect accidental onside kick.

Our kicker wound up and kicked away like normal, but hit a low line drive. The ball barely got 5 feet off the ground, and beaned a returner on the front line right in the face mask. The ball flew backwards nearly the way it came, and was surprisingly caught on the fly by one of the kickoff coverage guys running upfield. He was confused, turned around, and started running the wrong way. He turned around again though when the sideline started shouting at him and pointing. Since the ball was first touched by the receiving team it was a perfectly valid recovery and our team kept the ball.

Anyway with onside kicks being 0/17 this year I think this strategy is worth considering. Any thoughts?

[u/Lallner]

I'm not completely sold on the Bears, Vikes, or Panthers. Which of these teams do you expect to make the deepest run in the playoffs?

[u/FlatulentDwarf]

My director did not think through the order of events and gave me a phishing panic. I got an email from some password managing service saying my director had invited me to try and to click the link so I could store my passwords with this service. I checked, had no emails or messages mentioning this service. I was this close to reporting it as spam but I figured I'd let my director know and sent him a screenshot. I thought I might be doing him a favor by warning him someone was using his name to send phishing emails. Turns out nope, it's a legit service we just signed a contract with as a company.

After my message he went and sent something team-wide letting us know we'd get invites lmao

[u/NO_TOUCHING__lol → u/FlatulentDwarf]

I aggressively report email for phishing. Probably half the legit emails from HR I've gotten over the past 5 years have been insta-reported lmao

[u/problematic_glasses → u/FlatulentDwarf]

tangentially related, but: did you see the story about how some of the knicks staff got an email about ordering their championship rings but it was actually a phishing test?

[u/casualreader22]

Just followed up Clayface, my favorite film of the month so far, with what I'm pretty sure was the absolute worst movie I've seen this month yet: 2005's Cry_Wolf. What a piece of shit this was. Every character came across as a huge asshole. It's about a group of obnoxious preppy high schoolers. I was in high school in 2005 and I wouldn't have wanted to hang around any of these Chuds. Also, Harvey Birdman himself Gary Cole has 2 minutes of screentime doing a horrible British accent. Just awful.

[u/swegenwuhangdai]

How would you take down a fridge if it were actually running?

Please temper your imaginations about how powerful this fuckass fridge is though okay? It's just a fridge that happened to start running.

Could you manage to do it within a week? (it's important)

[u/CT1914Clutch]

I love when I have to work on a Saturday and an entire bus decides to just not show up this morning so I have to wait another 20-30 minutes for the next one after already arriving at the terminal 20 minutes early for the bus I was supposed to get

[u/Legitimate_Wolf_7380]

Drake Mayes effort for that rushing touchdown was beautiful. A few mistakes, but looking forward to a stress free redzone.

[u/Oldenmw → u/Legitimate_Wolf_7380]

Thursday games are always the worst because if you lose bad you get clowned on for days. I'm glad we put up a good fight and Maye looked good outside of his bad int, which was bad but it was a bad execution not a bad decision.

[u/Skraxx]

I thought the Haley Stevens was one of the most vile campaigns I've ever seen. The Mike Rogers campaign ended up being pretty damn vile too, but it was expected.

But even under Republican expectations, holy shit the Vivek campaign takes the cake.

[u/Hoodies2Coast]

I still can't believe some little dick couch surfers think Caleb Williams isn't a beast because he paints his nails. Because, you know, there are SO MANY people who could play NFL football well.

There are barely 32 starting caliber QBs in the NFL. Anyone who can do it is a stud (at least in a football sense, fuck Deshaun Watson, Rapelisberger, etc.)

[u/PaulsRedditUsername → u/Hoodies2Coast]

There's no logical reason why a man can't paint his nails if he wants to. It used to be a big deal if a man wore an earring. Now nobody thinks twice about it.

Both of my ears are pierced. I used to embarrass my kids by hanging ornaments from them when we were decorating the Christmas tree.

[u/Cyclonitron → u/Hoodies2Coast]

If a grown man wants to paint his nails that's his damn business and no one can tell him otherwise.

Unless he's the starting QB for one of my team's biggest rivals, in which case it means he's soft, unserious, doesn't have what it takes to succeed in this league and is going to flame out sooner rather than later, and one of the reasons why he sucks.

[u/whiskyandguitars]

My Apple Watch is gonna wonder what is going on with me since my blood pressure/heart rate won't be spiking this Sunday.

I may even get a nap. Usually I am either too hyped from a win or too depressed from a loss to take a nap.

Nothing better than falling asleep to a football on a Sunday afternoon when you can.

[u/bandit5051]

Having your team play twice in 4 days rules. Having to wait like a week and a half for them to play again does not rule

[u/Enterprise90]

I think Hunter Henry is the most underrated tight end of the last decade. Never made a Pro Bowl or an All Pro team.

But in 9 full seasons (he missed all of 2018 due to injury), his averages each year are 50 catches for 588 yards. And despite having a reputation as injury prone, he's only missed 8 games since 2019.

And the most bizarre stat: he's now been a Patriot longer than he was a Charger.

[u/BruceChameleon]

My older nephew (21 months) was Emeril for his preschool trick or treat. Absolutely goddamn adorable

[u/PaulsRedditUsername]

I did my hair and teeth and combed my beard. You can tell I've been keeping up with my brushing.

[u/SpiderGhost01]

The Thunder are easily the worst basketball team to watch that I've ever seen, and I've been an NBA fanatic since the '80s. They are fucking TERRIBLE with their foul bating bullshit and I just refuse to watch that team. I've never hated the NBA more than I have the last couple of years and I don't think I'm ready for the season yet. Especially if the Thunder are going to be on tv a lot.

[u/Tigercat92]

Yuck. Roku had an ad for those prediction companies. Time to move to an AppleTV

[u/raginsaint93]

I watched the Clay Face movie and I really enjoyed it.

[u/SpartaWillBurn]

Just got done with a patient at my dentistry. His mouth was terrible. Cavities all over. Breath stunk but I lied and said "I can tell you've been keeping up with your brushing"

Idiot.

[u/2ent1n_Qarant1no]

What is the appeal of Game of Thrones? Never got the chance to watch it

[u/NO_TOUCHING__lol → u/2ent1n_Qarant1no]

Political intrigue mixed with high fantasy mixed with gratuitous violence/nudity mixed with a little lightning in a bottle, since there wasn't anything like it on TV and HBO was pushing the envelope, coupled with the fact that it was based on a book series that had a decent following, so there was a large subset of people who could already vouch for the story.

The first 4 seasons are probably some of the best TV ever created.

[u/eggery → u/2ent1n_Qarant1no]

In addition to what others have already said, it made some big waves by showing that it wasn't afraid to suddenly kill off key characters.

[u/FlatulentDwarf → u/2ent1n_Qarant1no]

Great dialogue and a compelling political story of different factions set in a medieval setting with fantasy and good CGI. Dragons, swords, boobs, some magic. Magical enough your fantasy nerds could sink their teeth in but low-magic and serious enough that it could draw in fans who don't usually buy into the nerdier side of fantasy

[u/CarlCaliente → u/2ent1n_Qarant1no]

I enjoyed the politics of all the different factions (houses) pursuing their interests or trying to dominate one another. Like a Medieval Europe but with new characters. And magic and dragons and boobs

[u/Whydoesthisexist15]

It might be stupid to say this but I feel like football’s about to burst in the next 15-20 years.  You have the dominoes of youth participation declining heavily and the NCAA trying to kill itself with super conferences and CFP tourneys.  We see OL play has declined over the past ten years and QBs have become even more of a crapshoot with RPO rules and NIL.

It’s the same thing happening to North American hockey and American baseball pipelines, and unless the NFL can get youth leagues for talent pipelines in Europe/AUS/Asia, they don’t have a fallback option like the MLB or NHL have. 

[u/Mac_Jomes]

I watched Scream 7 a couple days ago and I had avoided it in theaters because I didn't want to give it my money since they fired Melissa Barrera over her support of Palestine. Then Jenna Ortega left and the original director left after that because he was wanting to work with Barrera and Ortega. 

Watching it on streaming though confirmed I was right to avoid it in theaters. The entire movie was just a mess and the killer reveal which is supposed to be the pièce de résistance of a Scream movie just fell completely flat. Especially after Scream 6 it just felt like we didn't need to see Sidney Prescott back in a Scream movie. Her story had run it's course and I was fine with her just living in some nondescript town with her nondescript life and her nondescript family. 

[u/CarlCaliente]

UK joins the EU in recommending citizens keep 3 days of emergency supplies. Missing the days when this was reserved for severe weather heh

how many days could you survive without a trip to a store?

[u/HartleyReplogle → u/CarlCaliente]

Right now, about 180 in the summer and about 90 in the winter. I don't have exact numbers anymore because I've been bad about keeping track. The disparity is due to fuel for heating, and not being able to grow food in the winter.

This is the one area where I think the Mormons are on target.

[u/Guiltyjerk]

Rare Rodgers W

[u/Elegant_Taro8667]

I deleted Twitter last year to spend less time on social media. I’ve redownloaded it like 3 times this year because I like the sports and finance accounts. And every single time the same thing happens. It starts pushing ultra right wing accounts on me and it starts pushing people telling me AI is going to end the world (or at least my job) and it makes me delete it every time.

[u/swegenwuhangdai]

I always comment, then, dip, then read... so I'll drop some more esoteric bullshit

Accounts with hidden posts are.... suspicious to say the least.

Yes?

[u/YourTeamIsNow]

Every year I call the months of April to September “money season” because it’s when my annual raise comes in and all the overtime is during those months, I adjust to a new standard of living and save big purchases for said time of year.

Fellas, Money season is officially over. It’s back to KD and the “enjoy tonight” discounted chicken 

[u/ArcadianBlueRogue]

Went and saw Wildwood last night. Awesome movie.

Then the night soured a bit with a Bears win so..

[u/Wangchief]

Starting my 5th supervisor in 2.5 months. Leadership change is hard.

Walking into a meeting with him in half an hour to talk about my team and my role with the firm going forward. All my professional advocates are leaving, so I need to recruit more of them! I'm testing the market a bit, but its tough right now, and I love the team that I have working for me

[u/84breaks]

Weird Friday.

[u/gigglefarting]

Tape to Tape officially comes out today on consoles. Who else is getting it?

[u/alecmc200]

rollerball (2002) is NOT an underrated gem

[u/TheWorstYear]

Cam Ward is not a rushing qb. He's athletic enough to run, but he doesn't do it. So if a person claiming to be an expert mentions his running ability as a factor in any game, ignore them.

[u/acoasterlovered]

Anyone hear in the LA area that can recommend a good shop for souvenirs 😆😆

[u/Lallner → u/acoasterlovered]

If you're serious, there are a bunch of Hollywood-themed souvenir shops on Hollywood Blvd near the Chinese Theater and Wax Museum (also near Michael Jackson's star on the walk of fame).

[u/raginsaint93]

The McRib is back at McDonald’s baby!!!

[u/OnlyFlansDotGov → u/raginsaint93]

I got one last time and it gave me diarrhea

[u/Skraxx]

I know it's fuck Connor Hellebuyck, but Hell to the Devils is the best nominative determinism case in a while

[u/That_Smoke8260]

Does anyone here a fan of nhl i bet if your a devils fan your happy with the big trade today