So apparently Tiger Woods is taking an indefinite hiatus from golf
Why not quit entirely, I ask
Two words: Michael.Jordon.
Don't say you're done because you look super sad when you come back. He could literally come back to golf in 30 years and still be able to play, you never know. No point in saying forever if he is sick of his break after 2 years.
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AtomikaLive fast and get fucked or whateverRegistered Userregular
So apparently Tiger Woods is taking an indefinite hiatus from golf
Why not quit entirely, I ask
too much meaning behind the word.
it is also insane that an emotional change can wreck a person on a professional and athletic level like that.
Well, that and the way he swings the club is predictably debilitating.
Every "power golfer" that was big in the late 1990s ended up retiring early thanks to an endless stream of injuries.
It's weird, but you'll actually last longer in professional golf if you're a pudgy slacker.
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LudiousI just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered Userregular
I love the idea of haunted places. It connects with me in a weird masochistic way when I was genuinely terrified of supernatural shit for a large portion of my life in a for-real way. There are a variety of very human reasons I wouldn't wander around, say an abandoned insane asylum ALONE, but with friends, it'd be fun as hell.
Of course it would be my luck that someone like this guy would be there and send me into some triggered ptsd frenzy where I wake up with feathers and blood on my hands
Didn't Tiger also get hit in the head with a golf club or something during the altercation with his wife?
Concussions are srs bznss. Big personality changes. Problems with depression and hormone production.
Sucks
Psn:wazukki
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GonmunHe keeps kickin' me inthe dickRegistered Userregular
Hmm...some sort of service interruption going on with the internet that's affecting our work email. Can't even access an outage analyzer to see what is affected.
I liked Skyfall because it wasn't just the Bond Identity.
Bond in it came off as an outright sociopath
how do you figure?
I mean, any more so than he usually does.
*woman he was rescuing gets shot in the head*
*booze related quip. never brought up again*
Meh, didn't really bother me that much.
The whole point of Skyfall was that Bond was a burnt-out, run-down, empty husk of a man after years of the emotional and physical toll of the job.
Him not losing his shit over the death of the woman who had already completed her narrative function while he was still prisoner of the villain seemed at least fitting with the story.
thats not a fun Bond to watch to me
I don't know if "fun" was Skyfall's aim, so you're probably right.
then ultimately I think they missed the point of James Bond
A big theme of it is "EVERYONE IS OLD AND WORN OUT AND THIS(type of movie) DOESNT WORK ANYMORE". I was kind of flabbergasted that daniel craig will be in the next one.
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There's a term for when you read a news story that pertains for your field of expertise, or at least a field in which you are competently knowledgeable, and realize it's a load of uninformed twaddle. Turning the page you find an article about which you have no knowledge and instantly assign the article authority on the subject. Wish I could remember what the damn term was.
Gamers are now experiencing the first part of that.
I love the idea of haunted places. It connects with me in a weird masochistic way when I was genuinely terrified of supernatural shit for a large portion of my life in a for-real way. There are a variety of very human reasons I wouldn't wander around, say an abandoned insane asylum ALONE, but with friends, it'd be fun as hell.
Of course it would be my luck that someone like this guy would be there and send me into some triggered ptsd frenzy where I wake up with feathers and blood on my hands
There's a term for when you read a news story that pertains for your field of expertise, or at least a field in which you are competently knowledgeable, and realize it's a load of uninformed twaddle. Turning the page you find an article about which you have no knowledge and instantly assign the article authority on the subject.
Gamers are now experiencing the first part of that.
What's the term?
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Deebaseron my way to work in a suit and a tieAhhhh...come on fucking guyRegistered Userregular
The SUV episode looks almost as amazing as the X-Files cyberspace episode, or the CSI: Miami episode about a GTA game.
procedurals doing vidya games will always be hilariously bad. I liked the earlier SVU episode where the parents locked their kid in a harry potter closet so they could raid.
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AtomikaLive fast and get fucked or whateverRegistered Userregular
I liked Skyfall because it wasn't just the Bond Identity.
Bond in it came off as an outright sociopath
how do you figure?
I mean, any more so than he usually does.
*woman he was rescuing gets shot in the head*
*booze related quip. never brought up again*
Meh, didn't really bother me that much.
The whole point of Skyfall was that Bond was a burnt-out, run-down, empty husk of a man after years of the emotional and physical toll of the job.
Him not losing his shit over the death of the woman who had already completed her narrative function while he was still prisoner of the villain seemed at least fitting with the story.
thats not a fun Bond to watch to me
I don't know if "fun" was Skyfall's aim, so you're probably right.
then ultimately I think they missed the point of James Bond
The Moore films were "fun" and they were also horrible.
However, I'm of the opinion that outside of the Craig films there are only about three or four quality Bond films.
- From Russia With Love
- Goldfinger
- Thunderball
- GoldenEye
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zepherinRussian warship, go fuck yourselfRegistered Userregular
There's a term for when you read a news story that pertains for your field of expertise, or at least a field in which you are competently knowledgeable, and realize it's a load of uninformed twaddle. Turning the page you find an article about which you have no knowledge and instantly assign the article authority on the subject.
Gamers are now experiencing the first part of that.
What's the term?
I feel like if he knew the term he would have used it.
There's a term for when you read a news story that pertains for your field of expertise, or at least a field in which you are competently knowledgeable, and realize it's a load of uninformed twaddle. Turning the page you find an article about which you have no knowledge and instantly assign the article authority on the subject.
Gamers are now experiencing the first part of that.
I just heard Ice-T say "I read on Kotaku that it's better than Civ 5 with the Brave New World expansion pack."
Who says we aren't living in the age of wonders?
Wonder if Gawker paid for that mention.
Ice T is legit and pretty serious about the hobby, he probably wanted to bring some legitimacy to the episode, it's not like he got to see the end footage on those "games". The script seemed to retaliate against him and treat him like a 7 year old everytime he tried to make a point.
He was the only one in the episode that said "Hey, maybe we dont need to send a swat team to tackle someone on a live news interview when we get a payphone call about a hostage situation?" and they sail right past it and continue to talk about how the fiance was cuffed on the floor this whole time and we should probably go ahead and let him up.
To be fair about modern swatting, usually the trash making the call fakes a local number, and plays a soundboard of gunshots in the background.
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LudiousI just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered Userregular
The best James Bond is the one where he fights aliens
Goddamn the anti-theist thread for making me post in a religious thread again.
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IlpalaJust this guy, y'knowTexasRegistered Userregular
My all time favorite gaming in cop show moment is when they were investigating a crime scene replicated in an MMO and to match conditions they had to "turn on the sun" stating they were "about to freak out millions of people"
FF XIV - Qih'to Furishu (on Siren), Battle.Net - Ilpala#1975
Switch - SW-7373-3669-3011
Fuck Joe Manchin
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Deebaseron my way to work in a suit and a tieAhhhh...come on fucking guyRegistered Userregular
There's a term for when you read a news story that pertains for your field of expertise, or at least a field in which you are competently knowledgeable, and realize it's a load of uninformed twaddle. Turning the page you find an article about which you have no knowledge and instantly assign the article authority on the subject.
Gamers are now experiencing the first part of that.
What's the term?
I cannot for the life of me remember.
The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect.
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I had one of those. I had a bunch of movies for it too.
Still a little salty that Blu Ray won because HD-DVD was a more consumer friendly standard, BD-Live sucks, HD-DVD could press the SD and HD film on one disc, Blu Ray runs unskippable ads before the menu and HD-DVD had that as a move that violated the standard (beyond studio logos) before you reach the menu. Sure, Blu Ray had bigger potential discs, but for movies even that wasn't a win because Blu Ray had much shittier codec support at launch, so those 25-50 gig discs had terrible MPEG-2 rips on them, and the majority of blu ray discs were 25GB at the time with the majority of HD-DVD discs being 30GB DL.
Blu Ray won because Sony was willing to take a major financial bath to push a standard that was inferior in every single way
SW-4158-3990-6116
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
I had one of those. I had a bunch of movies for it too.
Still a little salty that Blu Ray won because HD-DVD was a more consumer friendly standard, BD-Live sucks, HD-DVD could press the SD and HD film on one disc, Blu Ray runs unskippable ads before the menu and HD-DVD had that as a move that violated the standard (beyond studio logos) before you reach the menu. Sure, Blu Ray had bigger potential discs, but for movies even that wasn't a win because Blu Ray had much shittier codec support at launch, so those 25-50 gig discs had terrible MPEG-2 rips on them, and the majority of blu ray discs were 25GB at the time with the majority of HD-DVD discs being 30GB DL.
Blu Ray won because Sony was willing to take a major financial bath to push a standard that was inferior in every single way
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Two words: Michael.Jordon.
Don't say you're done because you look super sad when you come back. He could literally come back to golf in 30 years and still be able to play, you never know. No point in saying forever if he is sick of his break after 2 years.
Well, that and the way he swings the club is predictably debilitating.
Every "power golfer" that was big in the late 1990s ended up retiring early thanks to an endless stream of injuries.
It's weird, but you'll actually last longer in professional golf if you're a pudgy slacker.
Of course it would be my luck that someone like this guy would be there and send me into some triggered ptsd frenzy where I wake up with feathers and blood on my hands
were
you
camping
back
there?
The Law & Order SUV unit investigates New York City's most egregious vehicular manslaughters
CHUNG CHUNG
NNID: Hakkekage
AMAZONIAN WARRIORS
*farm*
*build*
*better than Civ 5*
NNID: Hakkekage
Switch - SW-7373-3669-3011
Fuck Joe Manchin
Who says we aren't living in the age of wonders?
Wonder if Gawker paid for that mention.
I think it means its time to pack up the internet and go home
we've had a good run
Concussions are srs bznss. Big personality changes. Problems with depression and hormone production.
Sucks
The Kotaku article seemed a little taken by surprise by it
NNID: Hakkekage
he probably got toxoplasmosis from all that pussy he was slaying am i rite
A big theme of it is "EVERYONE IS OLD AND WORN OUT AND THIS(type of movie) DOESNT WORK ANYMORE". I was kind of flabbergasted that daniel craig will be in the next one.
Angers
"I read on Kotaku that it's better than Civ 5 with the Brave New World expansion."
"OH MY GOD THEY TOOK A COMPLICATED GAMING ISSUE AND MADE IT A CARTOON"
well, a), I don't think it's actually that complicated, but I suppose you probably don't want your site hacked by a bunch of subhuman monsters so w/e
but b) I don't think the real world really is under that much of an obligation to be fair to a hobby that constantly shits the bed in public
and c) welcome to law and order
whoa chill out no need to get steamed
NNID: Hakkekage
Gamers are now experiencing the first part of that.
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What's the term?
procedurals doing vidya games will always be hilariously bad. I liked the earlier SVU episode where the parents locked their kid in a harry potter closet so they could raid.
The Moore films were "fun" and they were also horrible.
However, I'm of the opinion that outside of the Craig films there are only about three or four quality Bond films.
- From Russia With Love
- Goldfinger
- Thunderball
- GoldenEye
I cannot for the life of me remember.
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Gamergate, for those of us on the outside of the "gamer culture" like me, is a fucking cartoon.
It just basically validates any previous gamer stereotypes.
This list says Thunderball when it should clearly say OHMSS. And The Spy Who Loved Me because that is hilarious. And probably The Living Daylights.
I kind of love all the Bond movies, though. Terrible ones right alongside the actually good ones.
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Ice T is legit and pretty serious about the hobby, he probably wanted to bring some legitimacy to the episode, it's not like he got to see the end footage on those "games". The script seemed to retaliate against him and treat him like a 7 year old everytime he tried to make a point.
He was the only one in the episode that said "Hey, maybe we dont need to send a swat team to tackle someone on a live news interview when we get a payphone call about a hostage situation?" and they sail right past it and continue to talk about how the fiance was cuffed on the floor this whole time and we should probably go ahead and let him up.
To be fair about modern swatting, usually the trash making the call fakes a local number, and plays a soundboard of gunshots in the background.
let me know which one that one is
In fact, let's just make it a Doctor Who episode
Switch - SW-7373-3669-3011
Fuck Joe Manchin
The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect.
hhahahaha.
"major prize"
I had one of those. I had a bunch of movies for it too.
Still a little salty that Blu Ray won because HD-DVD was a more consumer friendly standard, BD-Live sucks, HD-DVD could press the SD and HD film on one disc, Blu Ray runs unskippable ads before the menu and HD-DVD had that as a move that violated the standard (beyond studio logos) before you reach the menu. Sure, Blu Ray had bigger potential discs, but for movies even that wasn't a win because Blu Ray had much shittier codec support at launch, so those 25-50 gig discs had terrible MPEG-2 rips on them, and the majority of blu ray discs were 25GB at the time with the majority of HD-DVD discs being 30GB DL.
Blu Ray won because Sony was willing to take a major financial bath to push a standard that was inferior in every single way
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
the inferior format almost always wins