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tarlibone posted:The thing that gets me about what is known popularly as the Confederate Flag is that its staunch defenders, the heritagefolk, will trip over their dicks all day long trying to tell you that it is not a Confederate flag. "It wasn't one of the official flags!" they say. "It was just used by one of the armies as a battle flag, that's it, it's not the Confederate flag." Then you say, "Wait.. what wasn't the Confederate flag?" Then they say, "This Confederate flag on my shirt and belt buckle." With a smile. It's a fun thing, watching defenders deny that it's the Confederate flag before and after they refer to it as such. And seeing as how they were the only ones to ever fly it, even if it literally wasn't flown over every government building, it's still, at the very least, a Confederate flag. Can you imagine the hootenanny it would cause every time the US wins at a sporting event when this starts playing? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqhcGL9hbeA Spectators would be a dancin in the stands.
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Jul 6, 2015 18:57
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Baloogan posted:Can you imagine the hootenanny it would cause every time the US wins at a sporting event when this starts playing? ... I like it. Those aren't the lyrics I'm more familiar with, but as a musician and once a student of music... it's just a well-written tune. It's sweet and wonderful, like sweet iced tea with a slice of conflict-free lemon. Hell, Abraham Lincoln was a fan of the song. Thanks, Confederacy, for ruining all the nice stuff.
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Jul 6, 2015 21:18
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Sinteres posted:John Oliver is human garbage for coming out against subtitles. John Oliver has never been a non-native english speaker trying to understand what the hell Avon Barksdale and them were even saying
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Jul 7, 2015 11:32
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I'll have subtitles on literally anything that isn't animated. When you're not a native speaker it becomes really apparent how bad audio mixing is in most media. People are complaining about this stuff in the True Detective thread for instance. If you're used to subtitles you'll never even notice their presence and they arguably allow me to focus more on the movie because otherwise I'd be too preoccupied trying to hear what people are saying. Subtitles rule.
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Jul 7, 2015 11:57
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Hakkesshu posted:I'll have subtitles on literally anything that isn't animated. When you're not a native speaker it becomes really apparent how bad audio mixing is in most media. People are complaining about this stuff in the True Detective thread for instance. If you're used to subtitles you'll never even notice their presence and they arguably allow me to focus more on the movie because otherwise I'd be too preoccupied trying to hear what people are saying. I'm a non-native english speaker and tried The Wire with german subtitles for shits 'n giggles. You laugh your rear end off at the first "Neger, bitte.", but it goes right back to cringe-inducing awful.
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Oh yeah, most translated subs are awful, I primarily use closed captioning
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Jul 7, 2015 15:17
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Also, holy poo poo, i thought I was the only one with trouble understanding True Detective this season. Thank god it's not me.
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Jul 7, 2015 15:24
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Cinematography in TV has almost caught up to all but the most meticulously planned shots in movies and it seems that sound design is following as well. Short answer is, they don't intend these sound mixes to be listened to from TV speakers or $50 soundbars. They are mixing for 5.1/7.1 (or even higher like the Atmos releases of GOT) and it's likely watching it on anything else is going to produce a subpar result.
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Jul 7, 2015 16:08
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That same issue is pervasive in video game design - I have a 22" TV because I valued 1080p over size in my limited budget. And every single goddamn game assumes you're playing on a loving mega-sized projector, because the text is so small I have to squint to read any onscreen text.
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Jul 7, 2015 18:30
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I didn't know Al Roker and Lenny Kravitz were cousins.
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Jul 7, 2015 19:49
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Narcissus1916 posted:a 22" TV [...] 1080p Neger, bitte
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Narcissus1916 posted:That same issue is pervasive in video game design - I have a 22" TV because I valued 1080p over size in my limited budget. And every single goddamn game assumes you're playing on a loving mega-sized projector, because the text is so small I have to squint to read any onscreen text. Seems you've bought a computer monitor and you should probably not place it more than a meter in front of your face
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To be fair to Taser girl, the City of Glendale is pulling some bullshit on the team.
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Jul 13, 2015 04:29
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That was loving great. I love the sports segments he does because he gets so loving fired up about it.
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Jul 13, 2015 04:35
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Relentlessboredomm posted:That was loving great. I love the sports segments he does because he gets so loving fired up about it. His FIFA segments are still my favorite segments in the show
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Jul 13, 2015 05:14
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Kinda surprised he didn't make the connection between Wisconsin spending 250 million for the Buck's stadium while simultaneously cutting about that much from the State's university system.
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Jul 13, 2015 06:18
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I kind of expected the joke following the Great Wall story would be "of course he knew about the Bucks, he probably personally stitched 10,000 of those loving shirts and your weak mascot now haunts his dreams every night. That man truly 'fears the deer.'"
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Jul 13, 2015 07:30
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Baloogan posted:Can you imagine the hootenanny it would cause every time the US wins at a sporting event when this starts playing? So I'm remembering singing an alternate version that went "run away! run away! run away! dixie lads!" back in Boy Scouts in North Carolina. Retrospectively, I'm sure we infuriated someone.
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Jul 13, 2015 08:23
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Whoopi Goldberg doesn't believe the loving moon landing was real. And I guess it's because she never looked up really basic info like who worked the camera?
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Jul 13, 2015 12:48
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Lumberjack Bonanza posted:Whoopi Goldberg doesn't believe the loving moon landing was real. I didn't know and it just took me less than 30 seconds to find. (There was a pop-out camera attached to the side of the landing craft which was used to film Neil Armstrong's first step onto the lunar surface.)
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Jul 13, 2015 13:45
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Chris James 2 posted:His FIFA segments are still my favorite segments in the show Agreed, they're perfect.
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ultramiraculous posted:So I'm remembering singing an alternate version that went "run away! run away! run away! dixie lads!" back in Boy Scouts in North Carolina. Retrospectively, I'm sure we infuriated someone. Strange, that are the lyrics I remember too, and I'm not from the US.
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Jul 13, 2015 19:09
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At first I wished Oliver used his show to explain the origins of the Greek financial crisis, but Oliver sold me on making sports stadiums the main story. I'm personally not invested in sports all too much, so maybe you might want to ask someone else, but when the Nets left New Jersey, people here eventually didn't care and moved on with their lives. I have a feeling that the Whoopi Goldberg montage was just the tip of the iceberg. Whoopi had that one great story about the first time she saw Uhura on Star Trek; and never said anything agreeable since.
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Jul 13, 2015 20:26
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Echo Chamber posted:At first I wished Oliver used his show to explain the origins of the Greek financial crisis, but Oliver sold me on making sports stadiums the main story. The Nets went to Brooklyn, so all the local fans are essentially there already. What is devastating to a town is when they actually relocate, like the Browns going to Baltimore, Seattle to OKC etc. The Nets was basically just a name change, it was still the same team.
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Jul 13, 2015 21:00
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The trouble with any sports thing is that it's all very tribal and every team essentially has a little monopoly - people don't want to watch any team, they want to watch THEIR team (even though any team is basically just a collection of interchangeable players that happen to wear the same outfit for a season). So despite there being tons of sports available at any time, threats to move a franchise elsewhere carry way more weight than they should because to the people that care, that one team is 100% of sports. If the Yankees left New York it's not like their fans would be happy to just switch over to watching the Mets. Or rather, they probably would be if they were forced to but they THINK they won't be and that's where all the power is. Sports fandom is all about convincing yourself that your team of choice is somehow intrinsically better or more important than any other team, but the specific one you pick doesn't actually matter, just that the choice is made. The owners know that and know that they can get away with basically whatever they want by pressing on their fans to demand concessions from the municipality to support their team, because "supporting your team" is how fans feel like they're contributing to their teams success.
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Jul 13, 2015 21:19
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MAKE THEM PAY MAKE THEM PAY MAKE THEM PAY MAKE THEM PAY
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Really disappointed that John didn't spend more time on the Everbank pools and cabanas. I actually watched one of the first Jaguars home games after they were in and the camera man kept focusing on a hot girl in a white bikini with quite the camel toe pressed against the glass. My friends and good laugh at the pervy camera man, though in his defense otherwise he'd be forced to focus on the Jaguars "playing".
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Gyges posted:Really disappointed that John didn't spend more time on the Everbank pools and cabanas. I actually watched one of the first Jaguars home games after they were in and the camera man kept focusing on a hot girl in a white bikini with quite the camel toe pressed against the glass. My friends and good laugh at the pervy camera man, though in his defense otherwise he'd be forced to focus on the Jaguars "playing". Does much time really need to be spent shaming the cursed denizens of Jackshitville? They all know the overwhelmingly crushing shame and despair of living there already, on top of living in Florida, which is already worse than anything but living in New Jersey.
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Lumberjack Bonanza posted:Whoopi Goldberg doesn't believe the loving moon landing was real. Didn't that awful movie Theodore Rex take place on the moon? After that I'm surprised she still accepts that the moon exists.
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swickles posted:The Nets went to Brooklyn, so all the local fans are essentially there already. What is devastating to a town is when they actually relocate, like the Browns going to Baltimore, Seattle to OKC etc. The Nets was basically just a name change, it was still the same team.  It all ends up as one big game theory bullshit because the incentives are HUGE to relocate. The league itself gets a cut for a team to be bought out IE if the Coyotes went to Seattle they would have to basically up front pay a billion dollars for the team which a solid 30% of it goes to the loving league itself, so the league is also trying to get you to move. The city is throwing out incentives, and depending on the players leagues they want to go too. For example no payroll tax in Seattle. Basically what i'm saying is sorry passionate Yotes fan girl who is the only fan of the coyotes, they're probably going to be in Seattle soon. ALSO gently caress EVERYONE WHO GOES I DONT GET SPORTS WATCH 30 FOR 30 AND PICK A TEAM TO LOVE IN ANY SPORT.
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I'm just happy the Bills stayed in Buffalo. gently caress Bon Jovi after he tried to relocate them to Canada.
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Jul 14, 2015 02:42
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Nobody gives a gently caress about the Coyotes anymore, since they killed the fanbase by moving the team to Glendale. Glendale is the US version of Potemkin villages. Outside of Cardinals games and Coyotes games, and concerts/expos, there's nothing to do out there. Holding hockey games 45 minutes to an hour away from the main cities of the metropolitan Phoenix population centers was a terrible idea to begin with. When they were in downtown Phoenix, they did decent numbers. Hell, in hindsight, putting an NHL team in ARIZONA was a terrible idea to begin with. The hockey fans that do exist here have no loyalty to the Coyotes, because they all grew up elsewhere with different teams. Don't listen to hysterical lady Coyotes fan. The only time the Coyotes sell out that arena is when Original Six or California teams are playing. I went to a Coyotes/Wings playoff game a few years ago, and 60% of the place was wearing Detroit jerseys. Myself included. The Coyotes overall home attendance numbers are atrocious. In the 2011-2012 season, they won their first division title ever, and made it all the way to the conference finals. They had a good team that was fun to watch. Their attendance numbers that year? Dead last in the league. You could fit every single diehard Coyotes fan in this state into a bingo hall. Glendale was absolutely right in refusing to continue their financial support for an NHL money pit. Gonz fucked around with this message at 03:29 on Jul 14, 2015 |
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The funny thing about the Coyotes is that NOBODY is making money on that team. Barely even the players. In fact some of their "players" are on the team making 500k a year not to play on their team but instead be injured and add cap hit so they meet the floor (cap is calculated by average wage over the contract). loving sports so much of it is politics except at the end of the day someone actually wins.
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The government spends a ludicrous amount of money on sports, and so do colleges. I don't think I've ever seen any evidence that investment into sports will pay off in any real way. The only real reason to invest in sports is to show off how irresponsibly you want to spend money. These are enormous industries that make obscene amounts of money already. They're big boys, they don't need government subsidies to get by. What they're doing is just extorting the government. Of course, people tend to care a lot about sports for reasons I don't fully understand, and to some people, they are well worth the price of having to flush oodles of money down the toilet or inflicting long term brain damage on individuals, and it would be political suicide to take a stand against sports. Reminds me a little of how Julius Caesar practically bankrupted himself spending money on games for the public to get elected.
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SlothfulCobra posted:The government spends a ludicrous amount of money on sports, and so do colleges. I don't think I've ever seen any evidence that investment into sports will pay off in any real way. The only real reason to invest in sports is to show off how irresponsibly you want to spend money. These are enormous industries that make obscene amounts of money already. They're big boys, they don't need government subsidies to get by. What they're doing is just extorting the government. How many episodes of 30 for 30 have you seen? Doctor Reynolds posted:People take games way too drat seriously. THIRTY, FOR, THIRTY
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SlothfulCobra posted:I don't think I've ever seen any evidence that investment into sports will pay off in any real way. The only real reason to invest in sports is to show off how irresponsibly you want to spend money. In the city I live, we pride ourselves on being "the sports capital of the world". Whether that is true or not, I think the cities investment in sport (and it goes for the rest of the country as well) has definitely paid off. We are passionate, it's part of our cultural fabric and the country is better off as a result.
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xcore posted:In the city I live, we pride ourselves on being "the sports capital of the world". Whether that is true or not, I think the cities investment in sport (and it goes for the rest of the country as well) has definitely paid off. We are passionate, it's part of our cultural fabric and the country is better off as a result. If you're Australian (and probably Melbournian)... we have the advantage that we have so few metropolitan areas and such focused population. Not to mention profits from those sporting events feed back to the infrastructure. And we use those sporting events to actually bring people across the country and internationally. We manage our sports economic tactics to benefit our cities, which... doesn't seem to be the case in the American examples. But yeah, it can't be denied that Australia has very good examples of sport investment benefiting the city. That said, it helps when you have the ability to pull , in, say, Melbourne's case, a Grand Slam tournament, the Cricket World Cup, the Formula 1, and events or ongoing things like that. Most cities don't have a hope of anything like that. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 06:40 on Jul 14, 2015 |
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MikeJF posted:We manage our sports economic tactics to benefit our cities, which... doesn't seem to be the case in the American examples. Yeah, it's clearly apparant that things are done a lot differently in the US. I don't think it's an accident that we pulled all of those events to our city though, we worked very hard to accomplish that. Granted, your point about so few cities is probably the kicker, there are hundreds of cities in the US. This could be slightly offset by the fact that our country is in butt-gently caress no where.
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