Heretic

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On Oct 15, 2018:

  • Heretic replied to "2018 NFL Season Chatter" at 04:25 pm

  • Yeah! Why trust the NFL to admit mistakes when you can just trust the upset, biased Bengals fan to set things straight!!!!

On Oct 14, 2018:

On Oct 11, 2018:

  • Heretic repped a post in "Ohio Gubernatorial race" at 12:36 pm
  • posted by QuakerOats

     

     

    DeWine is one of the few in politics who is a thoroughly good human being, and has done a lot of good work in a lot of areas.  He is quite easily the good choice for Ohio.  No need to even delve into the radical ideology of the opponent, an obama-era, regulating bureaucrat.

    You’ve made it more than clear that you have disdain for career politicians - except for the ones you are personal pals with - in which case they are “thoroughly good human beings”. 

     

    And never mind the the fact that, like his opponent, Cordray’s been a career politician for ~ 30 years. How then that makes him an “Obama-era” is hard to see. 

     

    You out may have more confirmation bias than just about anyone I can think of. I recommend the book Factfulness. It may help you see the world from someone else’s perspective once in awhile. 

  • Heretic replied to "Ohio Gubernatorial race" at 12:35 pm
  • posted by QuakerOats

     

    I have known him for a long time; proven track record.  If you have to have government; he is the type of person to have in government.

     

    Take care.

     

    Shocking! The walking, talking commercial for the Republican party is super in favor of the Republican candidate to the "verbal fellatio" level...even if he's been in the political game around here long enough to erase all doubts he's as entrenched in the "swamp" as anyone. Breaking news if I've ever seen it...

On Oct 10, 2018:

  • Heretic repped a post in "Ohio Gubernatorial race" at 02:35 pm
  • posted by BRF

    I always disliked the word "gubernatorial". 

    Goober. 

    It's certainly fitting in this race.

  • Heretic replied to "Ohio Gubernatorial race" at 02:34 pm
  • posted by QuakerOats

     

     

    DeWine is one of the few in politics who is a thoroughly good human being, and has done a lot of good work in a lot of areas.  He is quite easily the good choice for Ohio.  No need to even delve into the radical ideology of the opponent, an obama-era, regulating bureaucrat.

    And there's today's episode of "Ask A Blind Partisan Who Is Better". Tune in next time for another predictable response!

    posted by Spock

    I would really like some more policy incite

    Holy fuck....

     

    posted by justincredible

    Latest polls from fivethirtyeight:

    https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/governor/ohio/

    In other words, "It changes every day; we don't know; stop asking us questions!!!!!"

     

    posted by justincredible

    It's certainly fitting in this race.

    Rep'd for accuracy.

     

     

     

     

  • Heretic replied to "The WTF thread..." at 11:18 am
  • posted by O-Trap

    It's gamer lingo, primarily used in MMORPGs for a character that isn't controlled by a real person.

    Essentially, people are using it to refer to people as unthinking, unreasoning, politically lazy drones who regurgitate the same talking points (like the limited line rotation of an NPC) without being able to expound on them, think critically on their own, or differentiate their own reasoning from that of those from whom they are spoonfed information.  The idea is that they are so seemingly incapable of original thought that there is reason to believe that they are not actually even real individuals, but part of the environment of earth.

    It's a pretty fucked up theory.

    But a really funny theory for me, as a guy who has played a lot of RPGs (which is where it came from; MMORPGs came a long way after NPCs, you N00B!!!!), but doesn't pay much attention to all the political namecalling and shit.

  • Heretic replied to "Week 6: Chargers (3-2) @ Browns (2-2-1)" at 11:12 am
  • posted by SportsAndLady

    This would be a huge win. I am not expecting it though.

    Fucking sucks that the browns are facing the second toughest schedule in the NFL the rest of the way. I thought the NFL actively tries to do their schedules so that this wouldn’t happen to a previously last place team? SMH 

    The thing is, that only effects two games, where you'd get the last place team from two other divisions (Jets, Houston for you). Other than that, every team in our division plays every team in the AFC West and NFC South. And in our division, you'd have the perceived toughest schedule by default because every other team would have two games against your 0-16 team from last year, while you'd have 6 games against three teams that combined for 29-19.

    Really, toughest schedule in the NFL means nothing until you're at least halfway through the season in order to know how the teams legitimately are this year because with a 16-game season and all the turnover that happens on rosters via the draft, free agency, injuries, holdouts, whatever, you can always count on some changes from who's good and who's bad from year to year.

  • Heretic replied to "NFL....Thru Week 5" at 11:01 am
  • posted by friendfromlowry

    Is it statistically possible for the AFC North to send three teams to the playoffs? 

    They've done it before (2011-12 and 2014-15 recently), so yeah. Whether any two of Pittsburgh, Baltimore or Cleveland can be consistent enough to get there is another story, but it is possible.

  • Heretic replied to "What was the last movie you watched?" at 10:55 am
  • posted by ernest_t_bass

    Watched Jacob's Ladder the other day.  OK.  5.5/10.  Noods probably bump it up to 6.5/10

    JACOB'S LADDER IS A 9 AT MINIMUM YOU CHARLATAN!!!!!!

    *ahem* got a bit triggered there...

    I've noticed that because I'm, on one hand, watching a lot of gangster/mafia movies (or re-watching in a lot of cases) and, on the other, watching a lot of cheap horror films on those 8-to-20 movie collection packs, the quality of what I watch changes wildly on a daily basis. Sunday night, it was The Godfather (10/10, no explanation needed). Last night, it was Descendant, which was a really dull murder mystery (of sorts, since there was no actual suspense with whodunit) with an Edgar Allen Poe theme.

  • Heretic replied to "What is your daily driver?" at 10:49 am
  • posted by justincredible

    What kinda mileage does everyone get?

    I typically get about 26 MPG. On my recent trip to Minnesota I got 31 MPG, which was nice.

    Highway, around 33-34. In town, less, but I'm not 100%. 27-28 probably.

  • Heretic replied to "What is your daily driver?" at 10:48 am
  • posted by CenterBHSFan

    You're right about how nice it is to not have a car payment. My next one will be cash and carry so I don't deal with finance charges and one less bill a month!

    That's how I got my current one. Much nicer that way.

On Oct 9, 2018:

  • Heretic replied to "What is your daily driver?" at 12:30 pm

  • 2015 Fusion for the past year and couple months. Found it with only 5000 miles and had the complete package, so there was no way I could pass on essentially getting a new car for about 25% off. Took a little while to get mentally used to going from only having A/C and a CD/stereo to having all the luxury shit, but that's a fun adjustment, so it definitely worked out.

On Oct 8, 2018:

  • Heretic replied to "2018 NFL Season Chatter" at 11:09 am
  • posted by wildcats20

    The fact that he hasn’t been fired yet drives me insane. 

    It is bizarre.

    1. Head coaches get fired constantly for not winning consistently or making the playoffs.

    2. Jerry is an outspoken owner who loves making headlines.

    3. Jerry keeps Garrett around even though the team has been mediocre for years under him.

    It makes no sense. Basically comes off as being complacent at working for 8-8 years because he knows his team will be on national TV most every week no matter what.

  • Heretic replied to "Browns BS Drama continued Part II..." at 11:06 am
  • posted by BR1986FB

    Guess the teams with the winning cultures (NE, Pittsburgh) get the breaks? Browns will have to overcome that and maybe then they will get the calls?

    I don't know how many breaks Pittsburgh's getting, being the most penalized team in the league, but I will agree that you guys are getting the "League office calling to apologize for blowing that big call" shaft a lot this year. Personally, I believe the refs are sucking all around this year because every year, they get this list of stuff they have to focus on for "safety" and it's leading to a situation where legit calls are missed because they're looking for other stuff. I think every team this year has probably gotten at least one ticky-tack call for a hit on the QB that's probably borderline as hell even considering the rule changes there because they're more concerned with enforcing the new rules there than anything else.