I bought a soda maker for the bakery. If it works out I'll get an adapter and a tank to get around the stupid proprietary CO2 tank thread bullcrap. They sell their 20 oz CO2 tanks for $30, I can get a 5 lb. tank filled for $20.
this is how you spend your saturday afternoons, huh
lording your soda machine over me
It's pretty cool. You fill the bottle with water and screw it into the machine, and it injects it with CO2. It was about $100 for the kit that came with a filled CO2 bottle, enough to make 60 litres of carbonated water. We're going to use flavored syrups and do Italian soda.
The players have been complaining about the lightness of the ball, which they always do but they may actually have a point this time around since there seem to be more shots than usual going wildly high. The altitude the games are being played at is apparently also a factor.
There isn't a universal, official soccer tournament ball? Huh, I kinda figured their would be.
Each national Football association specifies a tournament ball, and FIFA specifies another for the World Cup, which can never be the same ball as that used by any nation, for obvious reasons.
So, I don't get it, are soccer balls just incredibly hard to aim or something? It seems like 90% of the shots at the goal, despite the goals large size, completely whiff it and about 50% of the passes don't even end up near their intended target.
I though these were supposed to be world class athletes?
I imagine a lot of it is nerves and stress
like how cops are trained in shooting all the time but will still go a whole clip without shooting someone when it comes to it
The players have been complaining about the lightness of the ball, which they always do but they may actually have a point this time around since there seem to be more shots than usual going wildly high. The altitude the games are being played at is apparently also a factor.
So what about the 2008 EC being played in the sisterfucking Alps? That's not a high altitude? :P
Is there a rationale to the banning of Mac people or is it just PC-Mac elitism?
The rational is: "Hey, people different from us. Let's be jerks to them" and "If they are getting TF2 for Mac they are just getting the game so they must be noobs and I don't want to play with noobs"
So, I don't get it, are soccer balls just incredibly hard to aim or something? It seems like 90% of the shots at the goal, despite the goals large size, completely whiff it and about 50% of the passes don't even end up near their intended target.
I though these were supposed to be world class athletes?
I imagine a lot of it is nerves and stress
like how cops are trained in shooting all the time but will still go a whole clip without shooting someone when it comes to it
The players have been complaining about the lightness of the ball, which they always do but they may actually have a point this time around since there seem to be more shots than usual going wildly high. The altitude the games are being played at is apparently also a factor.
So what about the 2008 EC being played in the sisterfucking Alps? That's not a high altitude? :P
I don't know, I'm just going on what Adidas have been saying.
people are going to blame the new ball, but watch football long enough and you'll see it's common. it's like an nba player taking a three- let them stand still with no one in their face, and the good ones can knock them down at a rate well over 50%. but if they get harried and people are in their face, that percentage drops considerably. these players, alone on the pitch, can put it in any corner a good deal of the time. but on game day, they usually only have a split second to make their touch, and it's rarely on a stationary or slow rolling ball.
Sure, but watching other sports, basketball, hockey, etc, sure they are being harried but they are putting way more shots either on the goal, bouncing off the rim, etc. They don't necessarily go in but they are at least getting close. Half of the soccer shots I've seen miss the goal by a mile.
it's apples and oranges, really. you can't compare them straight across just because they have nets. even at high levels of play, many shots are off target- many more than air balls in basketball. it's just a particular challenge.
The whole "ban Mac players from TF2 servers" is, in fact, the dumbest fucking attitude I've ever seen in my life.
What? Are you cereal? People are actually doing this?
Yes.
That is retaaaaaaaaaarded.
Daxon: My favorite drug movies aren't explicitly drug movies.
I'm fairly dense so I'm gonna have to double check with you. Are you implying movies you watch while high are your "drug" movies, but they are not about drugs?
Yeah, call me retarded or whatever but I really not good at subtlety.
Also ME2 has a plot, it's just more character-centric. To be fair though the entire last boss thing they had going on for them I understood nothing. Seriously just wuuuuuuut?
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Eh, I've done it enough times now that I have a feeling for the major pitfalls.
And I haven't gotten to the part where you assign the SSL certificate to services. That's the annoying shit. It's like... I have one fucking certificate for this one fucking server, but I have to explicitly tell Exchange to use that certificate for the 10 different things Exchange does? And it's all done through the command line? What the fuck, Microsoft?
MS and their ways are very strange. If I could ever get the Office UI team and the guys who do their installers in one place, I could save the world a lot of pain with a lot of explosives.
Did you ever play 2(or 1 for that matter)? I do not want to spoil too much about what sort of beast it is if you haven't
I've played 1 and the only thing that kept me playing it as long as I did (I did not beat it) was the plot. It certainly wasn't the gameplay. I don't mind having ME2 spoiled for me as I have no intentions to ever play the game.
So, I don't get it, are soccer balls just incredibly hard to aim or something? It seems like 90% of the shots at the goal, despite the goals large size, completely whiff it and about 50% of the passes don't even end up near their intended target.
I though these were supposed to be world class athletes?
Well, for one, they're aiming for the corners, so the keeper doesn't catch them
and it's not that easy to aim when you kick something
it's apples and oranges, really. you can't compare them straight across just because they have nets. even at high levels of play, many shots are off target- many more than air balls in basketball. it's just a particular challenge.
I guess my point is that it makes soccer boring as shit to watch and the flaws of the game seem to run as deep as the very rules and set up of the game itself.
I bought a soda maker for the bakery. If it works out I'll get an adapter and a tank to get around the stupid proprietary CO2 tank thread bullcrap. They sell their 20 oz CO2 tanks for $30, I can get a 5 lb. tank filled for $20.
this is how you spend your saturday afternoons, huh
lording your soda machine over me
It's pretty cool. You fill the bottle with water and screw it into the machine, and it injects it with CO2. It was about $100 for the kit that came with a filled CO2 bottle, enough to make 60 litres of carbonated water. We're going to use flavored syrups and do Italian soda.
let's say you wanted to go for actual big brand sodas- like coke and such. do they require contracts or can you just buy them OTC at some beverage store?
it's apples and oranges, really. you can't compare them straight across just because they have nets. even at high levels of play, many shots are off target- many more than air balls in basketball. it's just a particular challenge.
I guess my point is that it makes soccer boring as shit to watch and the flaws of the game seem to run as deep as the very rules and set up of the game itself.
True.
Rugby is a billion times better, seriously. Football is pretty fun to play with your friends though, and it's an easy game to get into cause it's kicking a bleeding round object.
it's apples and oranges, really. you can't compare them straight across just because they have nets. even at high levels of play, many shots are off target- many more than air balls in basketball. it's just a particular challenge.
I guess my point is that it makes soccer boring as shit to watch and the flaws of the game seem to run as deep as the very rules and set up of the game itself.
To you, maybe.
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it's apples and oranges, really. you can't compare them straight across just because they have nets. even at high levels of play, many shots are off target- many more than air balls in basketball. it's just a particular challenge.
I guess my point is that it makes soccer boring as shit to watch and the flaws of the game seem to run as deep as the very rules and set up of the game itself.
I bought a soda maker for the bakery. If it works out I'll get an adapter and a tank to get around the stupid proprietary CO2 tank thread bullcrap. They sell their 20 oz CO2 tanks for $30, I can get a 5 lb. tank filled for $20.
this is how you spend your saturday afternoons, huh
lording your soda machine over me
It's pretty cool. You fill the bottle with water and screw it into the machine, and it injects it with CO2. It was about $100 for the kit that came with a filled CO2 bottle, enough to make 60 litres of carbonated water. We're going to use flavored syrups and do Italian soda.
let's say you wanted to go for actual big brand sodas- like coke and such. do they require contracts or can you just buy them OTC at some beverage store?
You basically rent a machine. There are all different sizes. We had one (it had Coke, Diet Coke and Sprite) at a bed and breakfast I worked at, it used small CO2 cylinders and syrup packs that all fit into the machine. You press a button and it would dispense the right portion. I don't know how much it cost to rent though, but I'm guessing you could call any local distributor and find out.
it's apples and oranges, really. you can't compare them straight across just because they have nets. even at high levels of play, many shots are off target- many more than air balls in basketball. it's just a particular challenge.
I guess my point is that it makes soccer boring as shit to watch and the flaws of the game seem to run as deep as the very rules and set up of the game itself.
right, it's something that a lot of people struggle with. the pitch is very large, and you're challenged almost immediately unless you're well rearwards of the mid circle, so games can go along very slowly- especially if a leading team manages a long streak of possession. you will have periods of frantic activity- rebounds off hand saves, rapid jabs at shots off the wood, etc.- but they're few and far between. you just grow to appreciate the other facets of the game- like a beautiful run from a through pass (which is super tricky because of offsides), and a guy with a phenomenal cross from the corner. it is a game that very, very much acknowledges the lead up to any shot on goal.
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Did you ever play 2(or 1 for that matter)? I do not want to spoil too much about what sort of beast it is if you haven't
I've played 1 and the only thing that kept me playing it as long as I did (I did not beat it) was the plot. It certainly wasn't the gameplay. I don't mind having ME2 spoiled for me as I have no intentions to ever play the game.
aw. Well, basically
ME 2 is very much the second entry of a trilogy, with all of the strengths and weaknesses that that entails. The universe has already been established, and you're already familiar with the pressing threat. And rather than trying to move the plot forward very much, ME2 opts to take the more setting up approach with the third game; the absolute core of the game is your interaction with your crewmates and their concerns and motivations; the main plot is really just a vehicle for this interaction, along with some added exposition.
and I can see how this would bother some people; you get to the end of the game and realize you didn't really accomplish very much at all. but I cared about all of my crewmates a lot, and it's rare for a game to make me feel that connected. so I very much enjoyed what it tried to do and accomplished.
The struggle of an uncanny valley-lookin' bitch with black hair to get fucked in half by some Shepard with all kinds of metal on him like some Darth Vader with braces.
right, it's something that a lot of people struggle with. the pitch is very large, and you're challenged almost immediately unless you're well rearwards of the mid circle, so games can go along very slowly- especially if a leading team manages a long streak of possession. you will have periods of frantic activity- rebounds off hand saves, rapid jabs at shots off the wood, etc.- but they're few and far between. you just grow to appreciate the other facets of the game- like a beautiful run from a through pass (which is super tricky because of offsides), and a guy with a phenomenal cross from the corner. it is a game that very, very much acknowledges the lead up to any shot on goal.
Yeah, it's just so anti-climactic to me. I don't mind a big lead up to a shot on the goal, I don't mind a team having to work really hard to get that opportunity. But when they do finally get all the hard work done to take the shot it goes sailing harmlessly off into the stands with the goalie shrugging his shoulders amusedly.
It's like someone talking about how much thought and effort they put into getting you a christmas gift and then when you open it it is a pair of socks.
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Each national Football association specifies a tournament ball, and FIFA specifies another for the World Cup, which can never be the same ball as that used by any nation, for obvious reasons.
So what about the 2008 EC being played in the sisterfucking Alps? That's not a high altitude? :P
The rational is: "Hey, people different from us. Let's be jerks to them" and "If they are getting TF2 for Mac they are just getting the game so they must be noobs and I don't want to play with noobs"
Both are retarded.
I don't know, I'm just going on what Adidas have been saying.
Did you ever play 2(or 1 for that matter)? I do not want to spoil too much about what sort of beast it is if you haven't
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it's apples and oranges, really. you can't compare them straight across just because they have nets. even at high levels of play, many shots are off target- many more than air balls in basketball. it's just a particular challenge.
I'm fairly dense so I'm gonna have to double check with you. Are you implying movies you watch while high are your "drug" movies, but they are not about drugs?
Yeah, call me retarded or whatever but I really not good at subtlety.
Also ME2 has a plot, it's just more character-centric. To be fair though the entire last boss thing they had going on for them I understood nothing. Seriously just wuuuuuuut?
MS and their ways are very strange. If I could ever get the Office UI team and the guys who do their installers in one place, I could save the world a lot of pain with a lot of explosives.
I've played 1 and the only thing that kept me playing it as long as I did (I did not beat it) was the plot. It certainly wasn't the gameplay. I don't mind having ME2 spoiled for me as I have no intentions to ever play the game.
Well, for one, they're aiming for the corners, so the keeper doesn't catch them
and it's not that easy to aim when you kick something
try
I guess my point is that it makes soccer boring as shit to watch and the flaws of the game seem to run as deep as the very rules and set up of the game itself.
I would mind having ME1 or ME2 spoiled for me. Oh and Drakensang, Dragonage, Fallout3 and Half Life ep.2...
let's say you wanted to go for actual big brand sodas- like coke and such. do they require contracts or can you just buy them OTC at some beverage store?
It certainly has one, it's just more...um...non-linear than ME1.
Valve thought it'd be fun to give a free hat only to Mac players who logged in during the TF2 Mac debut free weekend.
This did not go over well.
True.
Rugby is a billion times better, seriously. Football is pretty fun to play with your friends though, and it's an easy game to get into cause it's kicking a bleeding round object.
I used to play soccer as a little kid, I don't remember it being that hard (of course it was also way less competitive).
Also, me trying to kick something accurately doesn't mean anything, I'm not a professional athlete.
:P
To you, maybe.
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Well, duh. :P
My favorite "drug movie" is The Salton Sea.
That movie is one of my top 10 favorite films.
edit: Heh and by drug movie I mean a movie that is drug-related.
People were asking Cesca to log in to Steam with their details so they could have it too.
You don't really see that much Stalin nostalgia these days.
Earbuds? Really? It's like the lamest hat.
I figure people only want it so they can go "hahah look what I have that you don't neener"
right, it's something that a lot of people struggle with. the pitch is very large, and you're challenged almost immediately unless you're well rearwards of the mid circle, so games can go along very slowly- especially if a leading team manages a long streak of possession. you will have periods of frantic activity- rebounds off hand saves, rapid jabs at shots off the wood, etc.- but they're few and far between. you just grow to appreciate the other facets of the game- like a beautiful run from a through pass (which is super tricky because of offsides), and a guy with a phenomenal cross from the corner. it is a game that very, very much acknowledges the lead up to any shot on goal.
Oh and when the kids grow up and start using physical contact.
The whole point of TF2 is to get shit that nobody else has.
aw. Well, basically
and I can see how this would bother some people; you get to the end of the game and realize you didn't really accomplish very much at all. but I cared about all of my crewmates a lot, and it's rare for a game to make me feel that connected. so I very much enjoyed what it tried to do and accomplished.
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most games are hard to play well
Then you bang her.
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Then you bang her.
Or
Then yo- you get the picture.
I SENSE A PATTERN EMERGING.
Yeah, it's just so anti-climactic to me. I don't mind a big lead up to a shot on the goal, I don't mind a team having to work really hard to get that opportunity. But when they do finally get all the hard work done to take the shot it goes sailing harmlessly off into the stands with the goalie shrugging his shoulders amusedly.
It's like someone talking about how much thought and effort they put into getting you a christmas gift and then when you open it it is a pair of socks.
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