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  • PaladinPaladin Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I live in a place far from the ocean so I get no fresh fish in my diet. Just frozen fish, which makes cooking and eating fish unenjoyable for several reasons.

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  • wunderbarwunderbar What Have I Done? Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    The problem with any review system that reviews subjective calls is that it's never going to end well. The sports that seem to have the better review systems are the ones that mostly keep it to black and white things to review.

    The NFL allowed video review on Pass interference for one year and everyone hated it so much that it was dropped immediately. That doesn't solve the problem of bad calls on subjective rules but it was deemed that some missed calls were better than deciding subjective calls in video review. I'm super torn on that because in the CFL they do still allow reviewing pass interference and it really feels like it's 50/50 every time which way the call is going to go, and it isn't great for anyone.

    For the NHL, reviewing offside has gotten to the point where 98% of the reviews are pretty cut and dry and don't take long, without too much controversy. It's the goalie interference that's the problem, and that's the subjective part.

    I watched the Oilers/Blues game from a couple nights ago and there were two goalie interference reviews. Neither looked all that different to me but the rulings were opposite on the two reviews. One called a goal, one called no goal, and the plays looked similar enough to the average person that people are confused.

    I do not know how you solve for reviewing subjective calls. The easiest answer is to have the final decision to live with a single person who can apply his or her interpretation of the rule as consistently as possible from a central location. The issue with that is in the NHL (and NFL) you have time slots where there can be as many as 10 games on at the same time. What if, say, 4 of them are all initiating a video review at the same time? Does one game have to wait 5 minutes to start their review while another one is cleared? Or, you know, the person in charge of video reviews can't work every day for 6 months, so you have to introduce a second person into it, which now you have the variable of two different interpretations of those rules.

    Personally, I want more video review of more subjective calls. I fully understand that it will lead to calls that people do not agree with, but we need to get more calls right on close plays. But I'm not sure how we do this in a way that doesn't end in total disaster of "but MY team needs to get more calls going their way" than we already have.

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  • BurtletoyBurtletoy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Burtletoy wrote: »
    Malkin clearly boarded nemec of the devils but the play continued then as the penguins entered the devils zone offside, and the refs watched the replay, and retroactively decided they actually should have called a penalty a few minutes ago?

    But I don't think you can call a penalty on the refs when they break the rulebook

    Welcome to college hockey, where there's a coach's challenge that you can use to get majors called on the opposition minutes later for the most minute head contact in slow motion replay.

    Which might be annoying, but if the college hockey rulebook says you are allowed to review hits for missed penalties it's okay to do. The NHL rulebook doesn't allow refs to initiate a challenge against themselves for missing a call and review video to determine if they missed at call.

    I believe there is some very minor leeway written into the NHL rulebook for missed high sticks/puck over the glass, where linemen can tell the refs that the linemen think the ref missed a penalty. And then the refs can decide to call a penalty if they are convinced. But no video review unless they assess a double minor and then they can watch the video to decide if 4 minutes is the correct call.

    But as far as I know, the linemen can't convince the refs they missed a 2 minute boarding minor and they definitely are not allowed to watch the replay and call it, including watching if on the big scoreboard over head.

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  • wunderbarwunderbar What Have I Done? Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Burtletoy wrote: »
    Burtletoy wrote: »
    Malkin clearly boarded nemec of the devils but the play continued then as the penguins entered the devils zone offside, and the refs watched the replay, and retroactively decided they actually should have called a penalty a few minutes ago?

    But I don't think you can call a penalty on the refs when they break the rulebook

    Welcome to college hockey, where there's a coach's challenge that you can use to get majors called on the opposition minutes later for the most minute head contact in slow motion replay.

    Which might be annoying, but if the college hockey rulebook says you are allowed to review hits for missed penalties it's okay to do. The NHL rulebook doesn't allow refs to initiate a challenge against themselves for missing a call and review video to determine if they missed at call.

    I believe there is some very minor leeway written into the NHL rulebook for missed high sticks/puck over the glass, where linemen can tell the refs that the linemen think the ref missed a penalty. And then the refs can decide to call a penalty if they are convinced. But no video review unless they assess a double minor and then they can watch the video to decide if 4 minutes is the correct call.

    But as far as I know, the linemen can't convince the refs they missed a 2 minute boarding minor and they definitely are not allowed to watch the replay and call it, including watching if on the big scoreboard over head.

    Linesmen are allowed to call a 4 minute high stick and a puck over glass penalty. If there is a puck over glass and the linesmen clearly sees it, the call is made. the 4 minute high stick is the call if a guy gets cut/blood drawn. If a linseman sees that clearly, and there is blood drawn, the linesman can call that 4 minute penalty. I'm guessing that part is probably a leftover from a time in the 90's when a few calls of 4 minute high stick penalites were missed so this was added to the rulebook. Those are the only penalties a linesman can call. Now, you will often see all 4 officials on the ice get together to talk about it, and a linseman can tell a referee what they saw on a play if the ref asks. But the referees do have final decision on every other penalty.

    In terms of penalty reviews, right now the NHL has one allowance for penalty reviews. If a 5 minute major (of any kind) is called it can be reviewed and either kept at a 5 minute call, reduced to two minutes, or no penalty called. This is why you may see a referee call a 5 minute penalty on something he's not sure about so it can be reviewed. No other penalty can be reviewed.

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  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Dear NHL: What The Fuck?
    So let me try to explain what the hell this MulitiVersus NHL thing actually is. On April 14 at 3:30 p.m. ET, the Colorado Avalanche and Vegas Golden Knights (currently second and third in their respective divisions as we near the end of the regular season) will duke it out in a real-life hockey match with actual players in a real arena. Meanwhile, over on the Impractical Jokers network aka TruTV and Max (via B/R Sports), you’ll be able to watch a special broadcast of that same Avalanche/Golden Knights game. This version will use the NHL’s “innovative EDGE tracking technology” to recreate the action on the ice in real-time using digital avatars of popular WB characters and hockey players who will be superimposed over the real-life hockey players as they play.

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  • YamiNoSenshiYamiNoSenshi A point called Z In the complex planeRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Dear NHL: What The Fuck?
    So let me try to explain what the hell this MulitiVersus NHL thing actually is. On April 14 at 3:30 p.m. ET, the Colorado Avalanche and Vegas Golden Knights (currently second and third in their respective divisions as we near the end of the regular season) will duke it out in a real-life hockey match with actual players in a real arena. Meanwhile, over on the Impractical Jokers network aka TruTV and Max (via B/R Sports), you’ll be able to watch a special broadcast of that same Avalanche/Golden Knights game. This version will use the NHL’s “innovative EDGE tracking technology” to recreate the action on the ice in real-time using digital avatars of popular WB characters and hockey players who will be superimposed over the real-life hockey players as they play.

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    None of that is words.

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  • PaladinPaladin Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Yeah fish is as expensive as steak here

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  • wunderbarwunderbar What Have I Done? Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Mugsley wrote: »
    They did that for.....the All Star game? One of last Season's Cup games? I can't remember

    Disney has done that for one game the last two years, the games aired on Disney XD and ESPN+.

    Honestly, I think it's great. the broadcast is geared towards kids. I'm all for ways to get younger people interested in the sport/the NHL. Not everything has to be for everyone, and these broadcasts are in addition to the traditional existing broadcasts, not replacing them. There's a lot of hate for this kind of thing on the intnernet (not saying anyone here, just the internet in general) and I don't get it. Nothing is being taken away.

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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] regular
    edited April 19
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  • PaladinPaladin Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    My problem with fish is the smell when the fat goes rancid

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  • JayrichoJayricho Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Let’s all give it up for Jeff Skinner. The first player in NHL history to reach 1000 games played without ever reaching the playoffs.

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  • PaladinPaladin Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    ChicoBlue wrote: »
    Agreed. I love the smell of all other things when they go rancid.

    Actually I don't mind rancid butter smell or rancid red meat smell. Something about rotten fish fat is just special.

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  • 38thDoe38thDoe lets never be stupid again wait lets always be stupid foreverRegistered User regular
    edited April 19
    Xaku doesn't feel as much fun as Kull for me. push 2 and never die, but also never deal with the indignity of status effects. Also hurt a guy or yourself or something. Then randomly press 1 and 3. I should probably helminth something over 4. Any suggestions?

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  • kralizecckralizecc Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    the best middle ground for me is 15 guns. Xaku is crazy overpowered. The armor strip does not need to be recast, I'm not exactly sure what the duration on that power actually does but it is not linked to the defense (armor and shield) strip. If you go max range, and you should, it's a HUGE aoe centered on the target enemy and you can have TWO of them up at the same time.

    My afk cheese build has 265 range and 254 strength, it's silly.

    EDIT: I just realized the eternal defense strip I always have is probably due to being constantly in the vast untime. The ult pauses the timers on all xaku's sub powers so they last forever!

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  • MNC DoverMNC Dover Full-time Voice Actor Kirkland, WARegistered User regular
    edited April 17
    Went 3 keys on Red Hulk. Bummer. Oh well, my luck on 1-key pulls balances it out.

    Thinking about the remaining cards this month and which to get.

    US Agent feels like a pass, Red Guardian looks like a solid tech card, White Widow seems solid, and Valentia is average?

    If I had to pick, I'd lean towards RG and WW and pick up the others in future Spotlight Caches. What y'all thinking?

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  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Yeah, Xaku is very strong as long as you can maintain The Vast Untime. It eventually stops, as timers tick by a fraction of a second during recasting it, but... it's a frame with auto-firing attacks, a universal damage amp, armor strip, crowd control, and defense buffs. There's not really anything it's lacking except for I guess some kind of room-clearing nuke? Vast Untime is a giant AoE but isn't going to just delete everything in the radius the way Garuda or the like can.

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  • HellboreHellbore A bad, bad man Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    I don't think there's ever going to be a Frame that is as easy to make have a delete button as Kullervo.

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  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Hellbore wrote: »
    I don't think there's ever going to be a Frame that is as easy to make have a delete button as Kullervo.

    Garuda's kind of silly against the Murmur. Very quick for her 1 to scale to dealing 100%+ of the max HP of whatever you aimed it at, and since they have no defenses at all, just giant HP pools...

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  • ObiFettObiFett Use the Force As You WishRegistered User regular
    edited April 17
    I still need Nico, so I'm definitely gonna pull for WW.

    US Agent is a worse Man-Thing and that rarely sees play. Maybe this sees play as a counter against Discard? Its basically a 15 power swing for 2 when Discard get off Hela, but is that really enough to counter it?
    Red Guardian feels solid. Lots of targets I'd want to shut down with him. Definitely want.
    White Widow seems really useful. But I'm a sucker for clogging up my opp lanes.
    Valentina makes me wish there was a discover mechanic in Snap, not sure the downside is that bad and might end up seeing play?

    The important thing, though, is to look at the cards in May. They are all awful and I don't see anything in the caches that I don't have. So I'm not gonna feel bad about burning my resources this month grabbing WW, RG and maybe Valentina

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  • PaladinPaladin Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    For some reason fish takes forever to defrost -, I think it's because of the high water content. So I leave it in the fridge and it goes rancid. I suppose I could defrost the fish in water or something but that's a lot of work

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  • hushhush Registered User regular
    edited April 17
    i think valentia and ww are the two im most interested in - there are very few 6 cost cards i wouldn't be happy to play for 4 with 3 less power, and ww just seems incredibly annoying

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    So let's celebrate by all going out and buying the same burger. -transmet
  • jothkijothki Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Xaku is real good and I'm not sure why people sleep on them.

    Switch ability, without the big ultimate that makes it worth putting up with the switch ability.

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  • DacDac Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Okay no but really, Dante's default helmet makes me think of Leto the Second, God Emperor of Dune.

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  • BrodyBrody The Watch The First ShoreRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Chanus wrote: »
    next we'll just have AI hockey so we don't have to worry about details like paying players

    Or head injuries.

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  • MNC DoverMNC Dover Full-time Voice Actor Kirkland, WARegistered User regular
    edited April 17
    ObiFett wrote: »
    I still need Nico, so I'm definitely gonna pull for WW.

    US Agent is a worse Man-Thing and that rarely sees play. Maybe this sees play as a counter against Discard? Its basically a 15 power swing for 2 when Discard get off Hela, but is that really enough to counter it?
    Red Guardian feels solid. Lots of targets I'd want to shut down with him. Definitely want.
    White Widow seems really useful. But I'm a sucker for clogging up my opp lanes.
    Valentina makes me wish there was a discover mechanic in Snap, not sure the downside is that bad and might end up seeing play?

    The important thing, though, is to look at the cards in May. They are all awful and I don't see anything in the caches that I don't have. So I'm not gonna feel bad about burning my resources this month grabbing WW, RG and maybe Valentina

    Yeah, I forgot about those cards. None look appealing, except my Sasquatch, so looks like I can reload. Although I wouldn't be surprised if the cards get changed, but man they aren't impressive as of now.

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  • PaladinPaladin Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    pimento wrote: »
    Paladin wrote: »
    For some reason fish takes forever to defrost -, I think it's because of the high water content. So I leave it in the fridge and it goes rancid. I suppose I could defrost the fish in water or something but that's a lot of work

    I took a salmon tail fillet out of the freezer at about 2:30pm and left it on my kitchen counter, it was perfectly defrosted and just about room temp at 7pm and cooked excellently.

    You can thaw stuff for 5 hours??

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  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Breakfast was homemade soup I defrosted with the last chunks of cheese, a banana, and half an avacado

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  • jothkijothki Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    I really need to get around to getting Augur Secrets.

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  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Polaritie wrote: »
    Paladin wrote: »
    pimento wrote: »
    Paladin wrote: »
    For some reason fish takes forever to defrost -, I think it's because of the high water content. So I leave it in the fridge and it goes rancid. I suppose I could defrost the fish in water or something but that's a lot of work

    I took a salmon tail fillet out of the freezer at about 2:30pm and left it on my kitchen counter, it was perfectly defrosted and just about room temp at 7pm and cooked excellently.

    You can thaw stuff for 5 hours??

    I'm pretty sure you're really, really not supposed to do that.

    If you can keep it below 40° the entire time, go ahead, but thermal dynamics won't keep the temp uniform and some creepy crawlies survive beneath 40°

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  • MvrckMvrck Dwarven MountainhomeRegistered User regular
    edited April 18
    A shorter but definitely much needed lighter episode. A lot of fun and hilarity while digging deeper into the mystery as we ramp things up.

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  • BogartBogart Streetwise Hercules Registered User Mod Emeritus
    edited April 18
    That was a very funny
    double nat 1.

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  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I loathe covid and amazon for what they have done to the 0500 food economy

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  • RichyRichy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
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  • WordherderWordherder Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    So, uh. No comment on the wacky Mojo adventure and Forge being a creep and a half?

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  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Fun fact, breaking down the big blocks of cheese into smaller blocks makes them easier to grate and more likely that you will actually use them.

    I swear it fights mold as well

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  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Speaking of 10 minute misconducts for all, what the fuck happened with the Rangers and the Devils re-enacting the Battle of Quebec?

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  • YamiNoSenshiYamiNoSenshi A point called Z In the complex planeRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Speaking of 10 minute misconducts for all, what the fuck happened with the Rangers and the Devils re-enacting the Battle of Quebec?
    Perhaps it has something to do with the last time these two teams played on March 11, a game where Rangers forward Matt Rempe earned a four-game suspension for elbowing Devils defenseman Jonas Siegenthaler and giving him a concussion.

    As an NJ resident and fan, and a peaceful man I say FUCK EM UP.

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