fsif posted:

I used to play DOTA but the games were too long so now I play HOTS, yeah.

Spoeank posted:

Hello Games subforum.

The NFL is inventing new ways of being lovely, including "just making poo poo up and not paying over $100 million to players"

http://www.wsj.com/articles/nfl-withheld-millions-from-players-1456189111

MY NIGGA D-LINK posted:

Cool the salary cap is gonna go up another 1.5 mil extra per team beyond what we even thought. Sweet

MY NIGGA D-LINK posted:

Cool the salary cap is gonna go up another 1.5 mil extra per team beyond what we even thought. Sweet

Spoeank posted:

Hello Games subforum.

The NFL is inventing new ways of being lovely, including "just making poo poo up and not paying over $100 million to players"

http://www.wsj.com/articles/nfl-withheld-millions-from-players-1456189111

MechaFrogzilla posted:

Can't wait to see which mediocre DB gets overpaid this year

vyst posted:

You mean Team Fortress 2: Blizzard edition?

Febreeze posted:

gently caress does Goodell have a point with all his uniform violation bullshit?

Febreeze posted:

TF2 owned before hats ruined it, once they let everyone customize how they looked the game went to hell.


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gently caress does Goodell have a point with all his uniform violation bullshit?

vyst posted:

You mean Team Fortress 2: Blizzard edition?

R.D. Mangles posted:

i'm writing a movie about a recreational spreadsheet club who win tickets to a cruise only to find out it's the gronk cruise. at first, they're upset because they can't do their spreadsheets in peace and they all have their glasses broken by errant limbo poles and trip hazard big johnson t-shirts. they decide to fight back. they break into the sound system and change all of the house music to tuvan throat singing, ruining gronk's fourth twerking event. they set up elaborate rube goldberg devices to snare gronk patrons in life preservers that bait partygoers with the original, illegal, four lokos or rig the ship horn to trigger every time someone utters the word "sssha?" triggering a deafening cacophony. finally, though, a prank goes awry when an improperly-calibrated spreadsheet fills a room with bubbles instead of fish guts and gronk says "yeah dudes" and all of a sudden all the spreadsheet guys are no longer wearing shirts and are jumping around partying with the gronk people and pumping their fists into a transcendent, meditative state removing all their cares and getting them jobs as spreadsheet operators for a startup bikini inspection company and the movie ends with them all pushing sunglasses down their nose and freezes right there, it's called boat nerd paradise jamboroo and it is available immediately on vhs.

3 DONG HORSE posted:

screw straight to VHS, get Simon Pegg and Nick Frost as the leads and that movie could be a blockbuster

Quest For Glory II posted:

having the last couple of games posts in this thread read to me

http://www.shutterstock.com/video/c...model/6764518:7

Thaddius the Large posted:

Edit: Pegg as Gronk and Frost as a hapless Tom Brady who snuck away from Giselle for a boy's night but doesn't want to cheat on her

NC-17 posted:

lol

Thaddius the Large posted:

Only if by leads you mean as Gronk and, I don't know, another Gronk.

Edit: Pegg as Gronk and Frost as a hapless Tom Brady who snuck away from Giselle for a boy's night but doesn't want to cheat on her

Chromatic posted:

3 DONG HORSE posted:

Can you paste the article

quote:

The National Football League has been ordered to return what its union calculates is more than $100 million to the pool of revenue that it shares with its players.

The ruling, handed down last week by arbitrator Stephen Burbank, found that the NFL owners had mischaracterized what Players Association officials say is roughly $120 million of ticket revenue during the past three years by creating an exemption that had the effect of keeping about $50 million in salary out of players’ pockets. The NFL Players Association, which discovered the discrepancy during an ongoing audit of league finances, filed a grievance on the matter in January.

“They created an exemption out of a fiction and they got caught,” said DeMaurice Smith, executive director of the NFLPA.

NFL officials would not confirm the figure. In an email, Brian McCarthy, a spokesman for the NFL, referred to the ruling as the resolution of a “technical accounting issue under the CBA involving the funding of stadium construction and renovation projects.” He stated that the main effect was one of timing.

The ruling is the latest in a series of legal victories for the NFLPA over the league, including last year’s U.S. District Court ruling that overturned Tom Brady’s four-game suspension in the controversy known as “Deflate-gate.”

This dispute stemmed from provisions of the collective bargaining agreement that allow NFL teams to exclude certain money from the pool that determines its players’ share of revenues. Players receive 40% of local revenues, which mainly come from tickets sales, 45% of sponsorship money, revenues from the post-season and NFL Ventures, such as NFL.com and the NFL Network, and 55% of the revenues from media deals.

Teams can exclude money from the sale of personal seat licenses, premium seating, and from mega-deals with corporations to put their names on stadiums. The NFLPA agreed to these exclusions because teams often use these funds to help finance renovations and the construction of new stadiums, which significantly increase revenue and the amount of money that gets shared with the players.

McCarthy said the ruling would not affect the league’s ability to support new stadium projects​

In its review of the NFL’s financial calculations, lawyers and accountants with the players association found the league had created another category of exempted money that isn’t in the collective bargaining agreement. In his ruling, Burbank noted that while the language and provisions of the agreement are complicated, interpreting the contract isn’t. The so-called “waived gate” revenues in dispute didn’t fit into any of the exempted categories. Burbank ordered the NFL to return the money to the shared revenue pool immediately, which, if the union’s calculations are correct, should increase the salary cap for the 2016 season by about $1.5 million per team.

“People have become accustomed to how we protect our rights when it comes to player discipline,” Smith said. “We are equally diligent when it comes to getting our share of revenues.” He said the NFLPA review of the league’s accounting will continue.

R.D. Mangles posted:

i'm writing a movie about a recreational spreadsheet club who win tickets to a cruise only to find out it's the gronk cruise. at first, they're upset because they can't do their spreadsheets in peace and they all have their glasses broken by errant limbo poles and trip hazard big johnson t-shirts. they decide to fight back. they break into the sound system and change all of the house music to tuvan throat singing, ruining gronk's fourth twerking event. they set up elaborate rube goldberg devices to snare gronk patrons in life preservers that bait partygoers with the original, illegal, four lokos or rig the ship horn to trigger every time someone utters the word "sssha?" triggering a deafening cacophony. finally, though, a prank goes awry when an improperly-calibrated spreadsheet fills a room with bubbles instead of fish guts and gronk says "yeah dudes" and all of a sudden all the spreadsheet guys are no longer wearing shirts and are jumping around partying with the gronk people and pumping their fists into a transcendent, meditative state removing all their cares and getting them jobs as spreadsheet operators for a startup bikini inspection company and the movie ends with them all pushing sunglasses down their nose and freezes right there, it's called boat nerd paradise jamboroo and it is available immediately on vhs.

Skwirl posted:

I like how the salary cap keeps the game fair in comparison to MLB and FIFA, but it's good to raise it in proportion to the income the NFL receives since the players are the ones risking their physical health every time they play.

Eifert Posting posted:

You can clone one player in the league and everyone gets one. Who is it?

I'd probably pick Aaron because I hate the have/have not QB situation.

BrownThunder posted:

The offseason affects people in different ways

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

Imagine leaving your phone out on a table at the office and your coworker spots that notification.

DO YALL WANT A HAM posted:

EDP is literally insane so I don't think he'd care

CraigK posted:

Spoeank posted:

Imagine being EDP

Spoeank posted:

Imagine being EDP

DO YALL WANT A HAM posted:

I'd smell like doo-doo butter