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Koopa Kid posted:2013 was easily the most fraudulent Leafs team I’ve ever seen, "Fraudulent", what an interesting word choice. What would make a leafs team fraudulent, besides quality and class? https://twitter.com/TheFourthPeriod/status/1173564210778976256 There is nothing stranger to me than how people revere bob mckenzie. He harasses people on the phone for information. Said it before, I would love to see a skit/actual segment where players sit around the table and speculate on the careers of the insiders. Anyone remember back when TSN had this comedy guy hired back around early-mid 2000s and he did a skit where he interviewed players to show how they always respond with the same cut and paste cliches no matter what they asked? Like he said "[player] I just got engaged to J.Lo, how do you feel about that" "oh we just need to get in and put pucks deep and work hard etc etc". That was good poo poo. I've never been able to find it on youtube or anything. I feel like his name was Stuart something.
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Sep 16, 2019 13:00
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fisting by many posted:Nah, you don't have to defend Ticketmaster. It's to prevent third-party ticket selling. Except it's really just a fig leaf because Ticketmaster does so much to enable that poo poo in so many other ways, this is just bullshit.
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Sep 16, 2019 13:06
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Stretch Marx posted:What if it actually isn't hard and old people just like complaining? What you should worry about is that this is just a means so that they can charge a "convenience fee" to whoever you sell your tickets to.
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Sep 16, 2019 13:29
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codo27 posted:"Fraudulent", what an interesting word choice. What would make a leafs team fraudulent, besides quality and class? Winning games while actually being egregiously awful. That year was so bad because, among other things, the media was at Bush White House levels of spin. Talking head after talking head getting up there, insisting that getting outshot 45-20 meant that Carlyle was a defensive genius, and the Leafs would continue winning so long as super-elite defensive forward Tyler Bozak could continue to carry useless plug Phil Kessel.
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Sep 16, 2019 13:38
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I mean, this part is just me, but I generally don't sell my tickets. If this is a common thing for you then yes I could see that as a problem. Also I'm not defending ticketmaster, I'm defending the concept that a cell phone based ticket tracking system isn't bad inherently and is only bad by the people managing it. The actual system fundimentally makes poo poo easier. The smart phone itself essentially obseleted a huge number of physical devices. The problem is that most people with the drive to make these thing keep turning out to be sociopaths.
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Sep 16, 2019 13:39
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Pretty sweet they don't charge 4.99/mnth for access to their app and a 20.99 app service fee everytime a ticket is scanned. Pretty generous of them, if you ask me.
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Sep 16, 2019 14:02
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Stretch Marx posted:If you still refuse to own a smart phone in 2019 that's a personal choice to make your life less convenient. I have a customer who is 70ish, has glaucoma , and quite frankly doesn’t have the dexterity to operate a smartphone with accessibility features on. Can’t see the screen, and it’s too late for him to learn how the accessibility features work (I recommended another flip phone for him). So like, yes, most people should have smartphones at this point, and yes there are people who refuse to learn and just need to accept that they really should learn. But the assumption that every single person who doesn’t have a smartphone is because they’re choosing not to is not s good assumption to make, so I encourage you to really take a second look at your opinion. Edit: the other argument I would add is that once someone buys a ticket, it’s their ticket to keep or sell, so making it harder to sell is just Ticketmaster being loving Ticketmaster. Duckman2008 fucked around with this message at 14:07 on Sep 16, 2019 |
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Sep 16, 2019 14:04
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I very much enjoyed being able to watch hockey yesterday and also it was amusing to watch the Coyotoes go 0-8 on the powerplay while giving up two shorthanded goals in the process.
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Sep 16, 2019 14:34
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Duckman2008 posted:I have a customer who is 70ish, has glaucoma , and quite frankly doesn’t have the dexterity to operate a smartphone with accessibility features on. Can’t see the screen, and it’s too late for him to learn how the accessibility features work (I recommended another flip phone for him). This is absolutely correct. It's literally just Ticketmaster being difficult, and trying to force something that people don't want to have. When I'm buying something, I am buying season tickets to have the security of getting in, among other things. Digitizing everything takes that away.
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Sep 16, 2019 15:18
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Panthers moved over to mobile-only last year, so I take it we were a test market for the league and everyone adopted it this year despite the confusion and similar examples to older people etc given. I heard they can resolve this by going to the box office prior to the game, but I've seen (bizarrely) long lines for that. They said it was to make things quicker going in, but I honestly don't see how scanning a piece of paper was slowing anyone down so it was obviously a BS reason. The inability to send your friends their tickets from my phone wallet last year was just eye rolling. I've bought Seat Geek tickets for a game in early October, and it sounds like I need an account on something called XFER for the Islanders so that's yet another thing I need to look into and sign up for. I expect it's just another Ticketmaster team site.
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Sep 16, 2019 15:31
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It’s 2019 and Pandora’s box is already open but lol if you don’t realize at this point that smartphones and IoT in general are a soul sucking scourge with some coincidental benefits about making commerce slightly more convenient. Any resistance to making our lives more dependent on them should be applauded IMO
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Sep 16, 2019 15:33
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Can we cut this off before you sad old dudes start talking about all the dang superhero movies today and how music was better?
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Sep 16, 2019 15:38
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Just because I didn't mention it: I exclusively used my phone before last season anyway, as I think it's the best way for me as I'm good at forgetting pieces of paper. I still think it's stupid to force it though.
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Sep 16, 2019 15:48
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Neo-ludditism is super bad and frustrating, but Ticketmaster is clearly worse. I'm with the luddites on this one. Looking forward to getting to watch some Canucks today. 
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Sep 16, 2019 15:54
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Anyone else play the new NHL game? The new "feature" this year seems to be players taking one-timers from their knee every time. Much value.
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Sep 16, 2019 16:15
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You guys know about the NHL 2004 restoration project right.
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Sep 16, 2019 16:19
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Chad Sexington posted:But he just said dude doesn't even have a smartphone. Even airlines will let you receive them as text and save as an image. Airlines (at least Delta and American, the two I fly) give you choice of printable PDF, print at the airport, and eBoarding Pass.
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Sep 16, 2019 17:31
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Stretch Marx posted:I mean, this part is just me, but I generally don't sell my tickets. If this is a common thing for you then yes I could see that as a problem. This is a bad opinion and you should feel bad for having it.
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Sep 16, 2019 17:47
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https://twitter.com/MattBarnaby3636/status/1173588206354407426 It never sounded to me either team officially offer sheeted him, though.  e- https://twitter.com/RussoHockey/status/1173625481502937088
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Sep 16, 2019 18:26
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My beef is 50% that my old man is disabled and losing his vision, and only just figured out how to use his flip phone. The likelyhood of him getting a smart phone before he dies is slim to none, so he's going to have to shuffle to the pickup window and stand in line to get physical tickets just to get in the building. The other 50% of my beef is that it's an extra hoop set up solely for collecting data for tracking and marketing purposes, not to prevent you from selling your tickets. You can send your tickets to anyone for free... as long as they have a ticketmaster account...
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Sep 16, 2019 18:29
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https://twitter.com/mrgrozz/status/1172718102787874816
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Sep 16, 2019 18:44
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Somehow none of this actually surprises me.
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Sep 16, 2019 18:47
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Not real of course, but all too believable regardless.
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Sep 16, 2019 18:47
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Love it. I wish it was real
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Sep 16, 2019 18:47
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Chad Sexington posted:Anyone else play the new NHL game? The new "feature" this year seems to be players taking one-timers from their knee every time. Much value. ya, I'm liking it, but I haven't bought a NHL game since 17 I think so for me it feels like theres a bunch of new features.
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Sep 16, 2019 18:52
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Dillbag posted:The other 50% of my beef is that it's an extra hoop set up solely for collecting data for tracking and marketing purposes, not to prevent you from selling your tickets. You can send your tickets to anyone for free... as long as they have a ticketmaster account... My understanding is that mobile-only ticketing exists to solve the problem of ticket resale fraud. It's a huge mess every time someone shows up with a printed PDF ticket they bought on Kijiji, and it turns out 3 other people showed up with the same ticket. Of course, everybody except the fans are making huge money off ticket reselling so they don't want to limit it in any practical way. Mobile-only is basically DRM for tickets in that each ticket can only exist once in the system in a way they can control. They would rather piss off season ticket holders by getting rid of physical tickets and deal with upset grandpas at the ticket counter than lose their stubhub kickbacks and have to somehow refund the fraud victims. And yeah, getting your sweet, sweet data is just icing on that cake.
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Sep 16, 2019 19:05
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Not to mention if you purchased the ticket online, they already have most of your pertinent info. Again if your biggest fear is identity theft, you should have destroyed your computer a decade ago because you are already hosed. Also Air Lines do the same thing and are phasing out the same things so don't fly.
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Sep 16, 2019 19:23
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Radium also has all your info and recordings of you masturbating he will send to your family unless you transfer 1 Bitcoin.
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Sep 16, 2019 19:25
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radium!!!!!! 
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Sep 16, 2019 19:27
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I prefer physical or PDF printout tickets to mobile tickets. It's more of a pain to have to bring up the app and tickets on my phone than it is just printing the tickets out and bringing them with me to the game. Also, Oilers tried to go mobile-only with tickets last season but it was such a disaster in the pre-season that they were forced to go back to allowing tickets to be printed out.
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Sep 16, 2019 19:42
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Kilza posted:Also, Oilers tried to go mobile-only with tickets last season but it was such a disaster in the pre-season that they were forced to go back to allowing tickets to be printed out. I suspect this is also going to happen in Vancouver.
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Sep 16, 2019 19:46
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https://twitter.com/reporterchris/status/1173669412739719168
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Sep 16, 2019 19:47
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My company doesn't make money if NHL games don't occur and the last lockout nearly wiped us out so uh... thank gently caress
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Sep 16, 2019 19:56
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FrenzyTheKillbot posted:My understanding is that mobile-only ticketing exists to solve the problem of ticket resale fraud. It's a huge mess every time someone shows up with a printed PDF ticket they bought on Kijiji, and it turns out 3 other people showed up with the same ticket. Of course, everybody except the fans are making huge money off ticket reselling so they don't want to limit it in any practical way. Mobile-only is basically DRM for tickets in that each ticket can only exist once in the system in a way they can control. They would rather piss off season ticket holders by getting rid of physical tickets and deal with upset grandpas at the ticket counter than lose their stubhub kickbacks and have to somehow refund the fraud victims. And yeah, getting your sweet, sweet data is just icing on that cake. I once had to tell a group of 40 WWII vets that their suite tickets (who had driven 2 hours on a bus to Dodger Stadium) they had won on a raffle were no longer valid because the star (who owned the suite) 's assistant forgot that she has printed out the tickets back in March. The assistant then received a call from said star the week of the game that he needed to give the suite to a client/friend. So she reprinted the tickets. Tickets in March no longer valid. Literally nothing I could do since the suite was full. You ever had a guy with an eye patch tell you that your "grandfather should be ashamed of you?" gently caress printed tickets.
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Sep 16, 2019 19:59
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Im hype for the 22-23 lockout Is 0 an even number for roulette
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Sep 16, 2019 20:08
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If we could only be so lucky
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Sep 16, 2019 20:12
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https://twitter.com/NHLFlyers/status/1173674241448759298
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Sep 16, 2019 20:17
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Nice
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Sep 16, 2019 20:21
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That’s a good deal for his Clayton Keller-like production
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FAS May also be interested to know that Michal Neuvirth hasn’t been participating in camp scrimmages because, to quote Babcock “he wasn’t feeling good body-wise”
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