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yeah I eat rear end posted:If you want sports where the action worth watching can be condensed into a short time, soccer wins hands down (because there usually isn't any). I'd argue that's far more applicable to Cricket.
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There's actually a "fast rules" version of Cricket where a game can be finished in less than a day.
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There's also a super fast version that can be finished in like 3 hours but its a different game in terms of mentality and skills required from the 5 day version.
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Collateral Damage posted:Well if you remove all the commercial breaks there's only about 30 minutes of actual play in those 3.5 hours. And 11 minutes of the ball actually being in play
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The frequency of commercials on TBS drives me batty, so I can't fathom how sports fans deal with it. The Superbowl is about goddamn commercials.
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Das Boo posted:The frequency of commercials on TBS drives me batty, so I can't fathom how sports fans deal with it. The Superbowl is about goddamn commercials. I can barely watch NFL games that don't involve my team or have huge stakes in large part because of that.
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TBS also has noticeably terrible time compression to fit more commercials in, and that's really lovely, especially when musical scenes or music in general are time compressed. It sounds horrible. Comedy Central just said gently caress it and start and stop their programming whenever the hell they feel like. On my Comcast guide, everything is hours and half-hours, while CC has poo poo staggered with start times at like 4:17 and end times at 4:51. What the gently caress.
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Das Boo posted:The frequency of commercials on TBS drives me batty, so I can't fathom how sports fans deal with it. The Superbowl is about goddamn commercials. The NFL fuckin saturates the games with commercials. They've been steadily losing viewers the past few years and a lot of people are saying that's one of the big reasons. Even on Twitter you can't watch a 5 second clip without an ad being in front of it, it's goddamn ridiculous.
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Field Mousepad posted:The NFL fuckin saturates the games with commercials. They've been steadily losing viewers the past few years and a lot of people are saying that's one of the big reasons. Even on Twitter you can't watch a 5 second clip without an ad being in front of it, it's goddamn ridiculous. I saw some news report a couple of days ago that had one of the NFL's execs saying something to the effect of "Well, millennial's attention spans are short, so we gotta shorten the games!" There isn't a  big enough.
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NurSpec posted:I saw some news report a couple of days ago that had one of the NFL's execs saying something to the effect of "Well, millennial's attention spans are short, so we gotta shorten the games!" Haha Jesus Christ. They're also stupidly out of touch with their fanbase if that isn't obvious by that statement.
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Baseball was trying to figure out ways to shorten games as well. Ball games used to last about one and a half hours before they started running 5 minutes of commercials between every half inning. So their solution was to have a shot clock.... Why can't they just cut the commercial times in half and charge twice as much? I don't get it. Companies will pay whatever for their ineffectual form of communication.
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Because if they sell out at the doubled price they can add more commercials to get more money at the doubleprice, duh
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honest hearts is boring as hell, but at least it's over in an hour instead of dragging on like dead money does. DM has the holorifle to give, so that's one pro for it.
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Overwatch is a complete and total ripoff of Team Fortress 2 and is also a garbage game for losers.
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PromethiumX posted:Overwatch is a complete and total ripoff of Team Fortress 2 and is also a garbage game for losers. All on-line multi-player games are for literal children and literal children only.
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You can't ripoff a game that's not original.
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Video games are silly and anyone who spends their time and money on them is silly. 
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PromethiumX posted:Overwatch is a complete and total ripoff of Team Fortress 2 and is also a garbage game for losers. how about battleborn, then?
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The only games a man™ plays are pool and poker in a cash game at a bar, where he can get drunk, make money and get into a fight all at the same time. Anything else is for small babies.
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doverhog posted:The only games a man™ plays are pool and poker in a cash game at a bar, where he can get drunk, make money and get into a fight all at the same time. Anything else is for small babies. Or just watching larger men on a TV compete and pretending you are somehow part of it.
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Here's an unpopular opinion: Bars spook the poo poo out of me in a predatory way.
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If you are a woman I don't think that is really that unpopular. There is a reason women overrun gay bars and annoy the patrons every weekend.
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veni veni veni posted:Or just watching larger men on a TV compete and pretending you are somehow part of it. Gets a pass, sort of, but only if you do it at a bar and bet on the matches. That's not a game though.
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PromethiumX posted:Overwatch is a complete and total ripoff of Team Fortress 2 and is also a garbage game for losers. Overwatch is cool and good because they made the poster character gay. But then they lose a lot of respect by giving all of the women pornstar bodies.
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Fashionable Jorts posted:Overwatch is cool and good because they made the poster character gay. Tokenism LIVES!
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smh if you don't think that all of the men excluding winston have pornstar bodies
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veni veni veni posted:If you are a woman I don't think that is really that unpopular. There is a reason women overrun gay bars and annoy the patrons every weekend. I am, but it's expected for my age group and my industry that I mingle socially and it's more often than not in bars. It feels like a lot of the other girls have no problem with it and I'm the paranoid odd duck. 
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spit on my clit posted:smh if you don't think that all of the men excluding winston have pornstar bodies I'd gently caress torbjorn.
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"Open plan" and other modern gimmicks like games/toy rooms (or as at least one place I was looking at applying to called it, a ~recreation therapy~ room) etc for work offices are terrible. I always hear that open plan offices increase productivity and collaboration, but when you actually look at one everyone just has their headphones on because otherwise it would be impossible to focus with all the typing noise and multiple people trying to have meetings at their desk at the same time. Overall my unpopular opinion at least among people my age is that "traditional" isn't always a bad thing and especially with offices, businesses need to stop trying to fix something that wasn't broken to begin with.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:"Open plan" and other modern gimmicks like games/toy rooms (or as at least one place I was looking at applying to called it, a ~recreation therapy~ room) etc for work offices are terrible. I always hear that open plan offices increase productivity and collaboration, but when you actually look at one everyone just has their headphones on because otherwise it would be impossible to focus with all the typing noise and multiple people trying to have meetings at their desk at the same time. We're currently 7 people in one room where I work, and it's tolerable thanks to nobody being much of a moron. I feel sorry for the customer service people who have 24 people in a single open plan room, which is also part of the office kitchen.
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I guess I was more thinking of the types of offices you see in "startups" that try and be like Google or whatever and the employees buy into it too. I think in things like customer service they do the open thing to cut costs rather than improve productivity.
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PromethiumX posted:Overwatch is a complete and total ripoff of Team Fortress 2 and is also a garbage game for losers. Overwatch is a good game and I had a lot of fun with it for about 20 hours or so but the people who have made Overwatch porn a meme are the worst.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:I guess I was more thinking of the types of offices you see in "startups" that try and be like Google or whatever and the employees buy into it too. I think in things like customer service they do the open thing to cut costs rather than improve productivity.
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When I worked in an open space office everyone just used headphones and was in their own little world all day.
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Das Boo posted:Here's an unpopular opinion: Bars spook the poo poo out of me in a predatory way. I've certainly noticed once you go in it's extremely difficult to get out.
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Fashionable Jorts posted:Overwatch is cool and good because they made the poster character gay. That's good, children should know it's not acceptable to be unattractive.
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It's ok to be unattractive it's just frowned upon by society
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I'm okay with the Overwatch women having pornstar bodies because I like attractive women.
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More like oldpornstarbodyless
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I really like the culture of SA, think that is has an uniquely sardonic twist that is not replicated anywhere else on the internet, and I will genuinely miss the forums when some years from now some database failure or prolonged DDOS or similar finally brings them down for good.
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