Look Boss! Dee Plane! Dee Plane!
Weee! Fantasy football is fun. Fellas, you don't need to know a lot about football to play fantasy football. The game auto-drafts you a team and all you have to do is change your starting lineup each week according to who you think might do better (against a crappy team, for example). It comes with plenty of helper notes and is really quite kick back. Additionally, it's a fun way to get to know and follow players you may not have otherwise paid any attention to.
If I may make a few suggestions as to league settings?
I've only done this for a few years now, but there are definately some settings that seem to make this whole thing easier for everyone and a lot more balanced so that any one player type can't dominate the entire league.
If I may suggest changing the lineups as follows:
Starting:
1QB
2RB
3WR
1TE
1 K
1 DEF (team defense)
With maybe 7 bench positions?
On Scoring:
QB touchdowns, 4 points.
Yards per point (rushing/receiving), 15 yards.
Regarding scoring "type", I think the head-to-head weekly matchups are more fun as it's a little more like a "real" football game being played each week, but I'm up for whatever everyone else wants to do.
On the Passion of the Baby-J:
I'm afraid I'm with R-man on this one. Mel Gibson is a paranoid, twitchy crazy ass with a bone to pick with the evil Jews. I've always found that particularly oft-repeated line a bit funny, though. "The Jews killed and persecuted Jesus!" As if the guy wasn't a JEW himself. It would be more accurate to say that neo-Roman sympathizers co-conspired to end a perceived threat to their cushy established government jobs. But, that's not quite as emotionally rewarding and not nearly as strong of a lightning rod for a call to arms.
Saturday, September 11, 2004
Do each my own, biatches!
It's all good jael - we can have our own opinions on the matter. I admit that I was biased as hell going into it, but I'm also rational enough to be proven wrong. I don't think my biases were uncalled for, but we can just leave it at that. I'm all for gore and ultra-violence in flicks, but I REALLY thought this flick was over the top and made with the intention to incite hate - plus I don't think jesus would have liked this film. :) honestly dude. And as far as "the apple falling far from the tree", Mel Gibson was very selective and careful about what he said about his dad - he never outright denounced his father's bass-akward beliefs. Plus his version of "catholicism" which goes against the vatican by still blaming the jews for christ's death seems kinda border-line cultish. I've had this conversation with peeps at work a shit load when this flick came out, and I swear its like talking to conservatives about bush - no one is going to change their mind on either side. this is our modern world. :)
Futbol!
Even though my greed is motivating me to watch a shitload of footy this weekend, I really don't know enough about it to get into a fantasy football league. Blood Bowel, on the other hand - we can get Art in it and maybe get that going? And some openRPG too! :) I've used TeamSpeak back in my Wolfenstien days and it's surprisingly easy to use/run/etc... would be awesome for lots of gaming action.
PS I'm 2 for 2 in my work pool so far! I think most people are too although like art said, thursdays game was a close one!
In the year 1997 there lived 2 kinds of inhabitants on the planet Earth. They were Yumans and Hobos. -from some 1973 album I'm sampling from right now.
Yumans & Hobos?
It's all good jael - we can have our own opinions on the matter. I admit that I was biased as hell going into it, but I'm also rational enough to be proven wrong. I don't think my biases were uncalled for, but we can just leave it at that. I'm all for gore and ultra-violence in flicks, but I REALLY thought this flick was over the top and made with the intention to incite hate - plus I don't think jesus would have liked this film. :) honestly dude. And as far as "the apple falling far from the tree", Mel Gibson was very selective and careful about what he said about his dad - he never outright denounced his father's bass-akward beliefs. Plus his version of "catholicism" which goes against the vatican by still blaming the jews for christ's death seems kinda border-line cultish. I've had this conversation with peeps at work a shit load when this flick came out, and I swear its like talking to conservatives about bush - no one is going to change their mind on either side. this is our modern world. :)
Futbol!
Even though my greed is motivating me to watch a shitload of footy this weekend, I really don't know enough about it to get into a fantasy football league. Blood Bowel, on the other hand - we can get Art in it and maybe get that going? And some openRPG too! :) I've used TeamSpeak back in my Wolfenstien days and it's surprisingly easy to use/run/etc... would be awesome for lots of gaming action.
PS I'm 2 for 2 in my work pool so far! I think most people are too although like art said, thursdays game was a close one!
In the year 1997 there lived 2 kinds of inhabitants on the planet Earth. They were Yumans and Hobos. -from some 1973 album I'm sampling from right now.
Yumans & Hobos?
ID's and Video Games
The Fantasy Island Football League is 686404.
The Pick Em Football League is 43359.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE LETS ALL PLAY BLOOD BOWL AGAIN!!!!!
Lets retire Leather Chaps, Costa Rippers, Shhh.. It'll Be over soon, Smoking Tacos, Tea and Crumpets, and Weapons of Mass Corruption and make some new kickass teams!
Hooray Beer!
The Fantasy Island Football League is 686404.
The Pick Em Football League is 43359.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE LETS ALL PLAY BLOOD BOWL AGAIN!!!!!
Lets retire Leather Chaps, Costa Rippers, Shhh.. It'll Be over soon, Smoking Tacos, Tea and Crumpets, and Weapons of Mass Corruption and make some new kickass teams!
Hooray Beer!
Rudy! I think youre being too judgemental and youre conclusions are half biased.
I don't think the movie is a propaganda of Anti Semitism.
The movie is violent, and that creates a hailstorm of critism, but try to see the suffering, absolving sin and tolerance rather than the physical torment. Also keep in mind, the focus of the movie was on the most violent and darkest time of persecution for Jesus.
Equivalating Gibson's father to Mel is translucent and flawed. Here's some of Mel's own words.
"Do I believe that there were concentration camps where defenseless and innocent Jews died cruelly under the Nazi regime? Of course I do; absolutely," he said. "It was an atrocity of monumental proportion."
Rude, rather than seeing the movie as a biblical source, I think people should see the movie as Mel's own interpretation of what he has learned in his life. He picks out quotes from the bible that he associates with and what is most important to him, as we do.
For example, Mel quoted the gospel luke "love everybody including your enemies because if you just like people who like you, what good is that?"
This is just a Pin-thread in the fabric of the bible that can be chosen from. But Mel chose it because he believes it. And so goes the whole movie.
I'm not to convince you to like it or saying youre wrong rude. Think as you may, but to me, it's the first attempt at creating a non-censored, visual portrayal of the events that occured to Jesus, rather than your cartoons or dumbed down stories. It also triggered an emotion which made me cry, when I saw Jesus suffering that I couldn't have imagined purely from reading the bible. I personally think that's all there is to it and all the criticisms and the attack on the movies are unfounded and fluff.
I don't think the movie is a propaganda of Anti Semitism.
The movie is violent, and that creates a hailstorm of critism, but try to see the suffering, absolving sin and tolerance rather than the physical torment. Also keep in mind, the focus of the movie was on the most violent and darkest time of persecution for Jesus.
Equivalating Gibson's father to Mel is translucent and flawed. Here's some of Mel's own words.
"Do I believe that there were concentration camps where defenseless and innocent Jews died cruelly under the Nazi regime? Of course I do; absolutely," he said. "It was an atrocity of monumental proportion."
Rude, rather than seeing the movie as a biblical source, I think people should see the movie as Mel's own interpretation of what he has learned in his life. He picks out quotes from the bible that he associates with and what is most important to him, as we do.
For example, Mel quoted the gospel luke "love everybody including your enemies because if you just like people who like you, what good is that?"
This is just a Pin-thread in the fabric of the bible that can be chosen from. But Mel chose it because he believes it. And so goes the whole movie.
I'm not to convince you to like it or saying youre wrong rude. Think as you may, but to me, it's the first attempt at creating a non-censored, visual portrayal of the events that occured to Jesus, rather than your cartoons or dumbed down stories. It also triggered an emotion which made me cry, when I saw Jesus suffering that I couldn't have imagined purely from reading the bible. I personally think that's all there is to it and all the criticisms and the attack on the movies are unfounded and fluff.
From a post over at rpg.net about what jon was saying about that thar game:
From what I've heard, Hasbro signed an exclusive contract with Walmart for the first X copies. However, the first printing wasn't enough alone to cover that, so Walmart hasn't even gotten all of it's stock yet.
That's a bummer. I had zero interest in the game beforehand, but now I'm all "ohhhh!" must be a good one! People on the forums are saying it's pretty fun and that the pieces alone are worth the money. But fucking walmart? What a bummer - that's the last place I'd really wanna do busyness.
Passion of the Jew - Honestly Johnny, I went in seeing that movie (or d/ling it at least) with plenty of preconcieved notions about how sucky it would be. They were all fullfilled. Gibson comes from a crazy sub-set of catholicism. His dad is practically a nazi (doesn't believe in the friggin' holocaust!? WTF?) Etc etc...
My main beef with that flick johnny is that it seems like an obvious piece of propaganda. Jesus was a man of peace, correct? This film wasn't about peace, it was about gettin' you all pissed off and upset inside about what them "crazy jews" did to jesus. It focused on the violence committed against him (over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again) but it didn't give any insight into why the hell the son of god would allow that to happen to himself. I know the bible johnny - I'm catholic. I know as a filmmaker, if you wanna make a movie thats all about the gorey details of the jews killing jesus - go for it! But just because it was graphic as hell, doesn't make it "good" in my book. I think Jesus is one hell of an interesting character from history, and I'm sure someday someone will make a decent movie about his existance, but "the passion" wasn't it. It just felt cheap as hell to me.
"It's all -- maybe not all fiction -- but most of it is," he said, adding that the gas chambers and crematoria at camps like Auschwitz would not have been capable of exterminating so many people.
"Do you know what it takes to get rid of a dead body? To cremate it?" he said. "It takes a litre of petrol and 20 minutes. Now, six million of them? They (the Germans) did not have the gas to do it. That's why they lost the war." -Hutton Gibson
From what I've heard, Hasbro signed an exclusive contract with Walmart for the first X copies. However, the first printing wasn't enough alone to cover that, so Walmart hasn't even gotten all of it's stock yet.
That's a bummer. I had zero interest in the game beforehand, but now I'm all "ohhhh!" must be a good one! People on the forums are saying it's pretty fun and that the pieces alone are worth the money. But fucking walmart? What a bummer - that's the last place I'd really wanna do busyness.
Passion of the Jew - Honestly Johnny, I went in seeing that movie (or d/ling it at least) with plenty of preconcieved notions about how sucky it would be. They were all fullfilled. Gibson comes from a crazy sub-set of catholicism. His dad is practically a nazi (doesn't believe in the friggin' holocaust!? WTF?) Etc etc...
My main beef with that flick johnny is that it seems like an obvious piece of propaganda. Jesus was a man of peace, correct? This film wasn't about peace, it was about gettin' you all pissed off and upset inside about what them "crazy jews" did to jesus. It focused on the violence committed against him (over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again) but it didn't give any insight into why the hell the son of god would allow that to happen to himself. I know the bible johnny - I'm catholic. I know as a filmmaker, if you wanna make a movie thats all about the gorey details of the jews killing jesus - go for it! But just because it was graphic as hell, doesn't make it "good" in my book. I think Jesus is one hell of an interesting character from history, and I'm sure someday someone will make a decent movie about his existance, but "the passion" wasn't it. It just felt cheap as hell to me.
"It's all -- maybe not all fiction -- but most of it is," he said, adding that the gas chambers and crematoria at camps like Auschwitz would not have been capable of exterminating so many people.
"Do you know what it takes to get rid of a dead body? To cremate it?" he said. "It takes a litre of petrol and 20 minutes. Now, six million of them? They (the Germans) did not have the gas to do it. That's why they lost the war." -Hutton Gibson
(You grow up with that shit as your father, youre bound to be at least a little fucked-up too!)
BITCHES! :)
Friday, September 10, 2004
I'm not kidding. I didn't want to spoil the depictions and was not referring to the storyline. I think if you believe in Jesus and don't mind being drawn emotionally, go watch it. As for Rudy who so brilliantly puts it *gettin' his ass fuckin kicked *... kudos, but I don't think that was quite the point. Theres definitely some prenotions you have to have going in but I think the movie suggests "how" jesus dies (for us) and not "why" Jesus dies (the assumption you have to believe).
amended: whatever fuck... don't watch it if you don't want to! =D
What about getting back into blood bowl or something interactive like that rather than Yahoo football? just a thought.
amended: whatever fuck... don't watch it if you don't want to! =D
What about getting back into blood bowl or something interactive like that rather than Yahoo football? just a thought.
The hockey is dead, long live the hockey
Okay, so big surprise, the hockey season is basically over before it has started and I am sad. Okay fine. I need to move on to other things. One of those will be supporting the Long beach Ice Dogs, and the other will be trying to get into football.
This will prove virtually impossible, BUT something that will help immerse me in the football world will be Fantasy Football. I have set up two leagues at Yahoo Sports, one for Fantasy Points Auto Draft Stylee and the other for the Pick 'Em Stylee. They are both named "The Action Team" and their passwords are "actionjackson". Please join. They are setup very basic, Art will dominate over everyone, and most of us will be clueless, regardless we should all play!
Please join and tell me cause the league is due to start the 2nd week!
Okay, so big surprise, the hockey season is basically over before it has started and I am sad. Okay fine. I need to move on to other things. One of those will be supporting the Long beach Ice Dogs, and the other will be trying to get into football.
This will prove virtually impossible, BUT something that will help immerse me in the football world will be Fantasy Football. I have set up two leagues at Yahoo Sports, one for Fantasy Points Auto Draft Stylee and the other for the Pick 'Em Stylee. They are both named "The Action Team" and their passwords are "actionjackson". Please join. They are setup very basic, Art will dominate over everyone, and most of us will be clueless, regardless we should all play!
Please join and tell me cause the league is due to start the 2nd week!
This is a long-ass post, but it's pretty good, I think
The blog looks all screwed-up on my monitor, whassup with that?
i played Neverwinter NIghts, but found the single player sort of uninspiring. The multiplayer component looked fun, though. I'm not sure how well the main campaign supports multiplayer. I did fool around with it quite a bt when I got it.
(In fact, during the time that I was spending a lot of time with the editor, I was listening to these two albums--one by Bob Dylan, one by Yo La Tengo--over and over. To this day, hearing either of those albums reminds me sharply of sitting at my desk messing around with that game.)
Campaign-style play with a GM might be cool. It's easy to build basic maps and stock them with monsters and loot. Scripted stuff is easy for code, but it's still more in-depth than any of us would get into. But if you're planning on playing with set groups you can just hand-wave the scripting and chat out everything.
I'm torn on whether it would be better to use NWN or try something like openRPG, which is a free program whose purpose is to enable tabletop-style gaming; it's basically a chat program with automated die rollers and simple grid maps.
The big problem for me is that since I've since switched over to Mac, I would have to pick up the OS X version of the game and expansions. Like all Mac software, it'll probably be full-priced until kingdom come. So I'd pretty much have to jump on somebody else's PC.
walmart is the greastest hambuger
Remember that cool hexy Hasbro game I mentioned the other day? Heroscape? I tried ordering it through Nerd Planet. When I went in today, the owner told me that he wasn't going to be able to get it for me; it's impossible to get for the small guys because the mammoth guys (WalMart) have all the stock. But he's also not going to be able to stock this very cool-looking game when it is available because (drum roll): the wholesale price of the game is $38. WalMart's price: $39.99. You gotta love it.
If I have to buy this shit through a megachain, I'll wait for Toys R Us to get it.
last thing I promise
I forgot to mention that I stopped by Strategicon last Sunday. The experience literally made me sad. The attendance was the most anemic I've ever seen, with barely anybody walking around. The lobby was like a ghost town. There were plenty of vendors in the dealer room, but besides my girlfriend and I there were about eight other shoppers. It was terrible.
We've said it before, but I'll say it again: it's bizarre that LA conventions suck so bad. WTF man? STFU.
update: Holy shit is that photoshop friday good, especially "Mystery Date."
The blog looks all screwed-up on my monitor, whassup with that?
i played Neverwinter NIghts, but found the single player sort of uninspiring. The multiplayer component looked fun, though. I'm not sure how well the main campaign supports multiplayer. I did fool around with it quite a bt when I got it.
(In fact, during the time that I was spending a lot of time with the editor, I was listening to these two albums--one by Bob Dylan, one by Yo La Tengo--over and over. To this day, hearing either of those albums reminds me sharply of sitting at my desk messing around with that game.)
Campaign-style play with a GM might be cool. It's easy to build basic maps and stock them with monsters and loot. Scripted stuff is easy for code, but it's still more in-depth than any of us would get into. But if you're planning on playing with set groups you can just hand-wave the scripting and chat out everything.
I'm torn on whether it would be better to use NWN or try something like openRPG, which is a free program whose purpose is to enable tabletop-style gaming; it's basically a chat program with automated die rollers and simple grid maps.
The big problem for me is that since I've since switched over to Mac, I would have to pick up the OS X version of the game and expansions. Like all Mac software, it'll probably be full-priced until kingdom come. So I'd pretty much have to jump on somebody else's PC.
walmart is the greastest hambuger
Remember that cool hexy Hasbro game I mentioned the other day? Heroscape? I tried ordering it through Nerd Planet. When I went in today, the owner told me that he wasn't going to be able to get it for me; it's impossible to get for the small guys because the mammoth guys (WalMart) have all the stock. But he's also not going to be able to stock this very cool-looking game when it is available because (drum roll): the wholesale price of the game is $38. WalMart's price: $39.99. You gotta love it.
If I have to buy this shit through a megachain, I'll wait for Toys R Us to get it.
last thing I promise
I forgot to mention that I stopped by Strategicon last Sunday. The experience literally made me sad. The attendance was the most anemic I've ever seen, with barely anybody walking around. The lobby was like a ghost town. There were plenty of vendors in the dealer room, but besides my girlfriend and I there were about eight other shoppers. It was terrible.
We've said it before, but I'll say it again: it's bizarre that LA conventions suck so bad. WTF man? STFU.
update: Holy shit is that photoshop friday good, especially "Mystery Date."
False gods! All worship before the altar of your master KEHHHH THOOOOOOO LOOOOOO!!!
Yo! sup dawgs. So my homeboy Cth-loo rolls up on that punk ass JC and goes BAM! That's right bee-ach! How you like that shit? Wacha gonna do with that crown of thorns son? Then he gets all crazy on 'im wit that tentacle shit and all. And I go Damn! you one crazy mothafucka Cth-loo. Peace.
(this is why I don't post often.)
Yo! sup dawgs. So my homeboy Cth-loo rolls up on that punk ass JC and goes BAM! That's right bee-ach! How you like that shit? Wacha gonna do with that crown of thorns son? Then he gets all crazy on 'im wit that tentacle shit and all. And I go Damn! you one crazy mothafucka Cth-loo. Peace.
(this is why I don't post often.)
Man, i think the people who run blogger are idiots. When you go to the blogger page to sign-in for this here blog shit, they have an article called "blogs vs. 60 minutes" which talks about how bloggers are uncovering that the documents that 60 minutes ran about bush skippin' out on nam duty were possibly faked because these genius bloggers recognize the fonts in the memo as being from ms word! OMG SUPAR SLEUTHS! The blog they mention is called "Little Green Footballs" and its one of the MOST disgusting ultra-right, ultra-offensive political blogs out there. If you ever go to that shit-blog and read the comments the users leave, they're the most hateful, ignorant, racist, false shit you've EVER seen. NO SHIT. and blogger.com is using that as some kind of legitimate source. Plus, the whole argument that the fonts and format of the army memo was made using ms word (even though it was written in the 70s) assumes that bill gates' Word invented all these typefaces and font and layouts. It's total bullshit, and it's already been discredited, but what the fuck. i get so fucking pissed off.
i hated "the passion." comeone jael - that shit was garbage. it was 2 hours + of jesus ***spoilers*** gettin' his ass fuckin kicked without any reasoning of WHY it was happening to him or why he just took it all. Mel Gibson's a tool. ***end spoilers*** :)
i hated "the passion." comeone jael - that shit was garbage. it was 2 hours + of jesus ***spoilers*** gettin' his ass fuckin kicked without any reasoning of WHY it was happening to him or why he just took it all. Mel Gibson's a tool. ***end spoilers*** :)
Passion of Christ:
Saw that movie on the plane, thought it was pretty good actually. No spoilers, but it's definitely worth a rental. Van helsing on the other hand sucked really really bad.. I think Jon mentioned liking it on a previous blog. If so, Jon, youre nuts. The movie Stinks!
Oh if anyone has a chance, watch this documentary/movie. "When I turned nine" Jung Sun Kyung Kim Suk
http://global.yesasia.com/en/PrdDept.aspx/pid-1003445552/pname-When-I-Turned-Nine/Section-videos/code-k
It shows how even a nine year old can be so compassionate, understanding and intelligent and makes me want to be better. I find myself envious of a nine year old! wow. Just a little asian culture for u guys.
Johnny
Saw that movie on the plane, thought it was pretty good actually. No spoilers, but it's definitely worth a rental. Van helsing on the other hand sucked really really bad.. I think Jon mentioned liking it on a previous blog. If so, Jon, youre nuts. The movie Stinks!
Oh if anyone has a chance, watch this documentary/movie. "When I turned nine" Jung Sun Kyung Kim Suk
http://global.yesasia.com/en/PrdDept.aspx/pid-1003445552/pname-When-I-Turned-Nine/Section-videos/code-k
It shows how even a nine year old can be so compassionate, understanding and intelligent and makes me want to be better. I find myself envious of a nine year old! wow. Just a little asian culture for u guys.
Johnny
FOOTBALL!! OMFGWTFSTFU WEEEEEEEEE!!!
What a great game last night.. down to the wire and the last second kick, even. I would have really have liked to have (how many haves can I have put into one sentence?) seen the Patriots get their collective asses kicked.. but you can't always get what you want, have have.
(LOL)
Oh, it's friday... new Photoshop Phriday is out with a theme of "board games"..
http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=2364
Late,
~ Cap'n O.
What a great game last night.. down to the wire and the last second kick, even. I would have really have liked to have (how many haves can I have put into one sentence?) seen the Patriots get their collective asses kicked.. but you can't always get what you want, have have.
(LOL)
Oh, it's friday... new Photoshop Phriday is out with a theme of "board games"..
http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=2364
Late,
~ Cap'n O.
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