OT: Hrricanes Lounge XLVII: The return to obeying Rhules

[Stickpucker]

Not sure if there are any other film buffs in here but David Lynch, one of the most influential filmmakers ever, just passed away. Mulholland Drive may be my favorite movie ever and Twin Peaks changed tv forever too. Not too surprising given his age and recent health issues from smoking but for some reason it felt like the man would live forever and I was still hoping for more projects from him.

Rest in peace.

I tried to watch the Twin Peaks reboot and feel I have a pretty good tolerance for the zany but has no idea wtf that was supposed to be.

 

[Stickpucker]

Imagine taking Buffalo or the Lions in a high stakes tournament. Have we learned nothing?

Have their qbs begun dating a pop star lately?

 

[Svechhammer]

Yeah, and the media wonders why people weren't upset at the CEO getting dealt with

 

[Blueline Bomber]

Yeah, and the media wonders why people weren't upset at the CEO getting dealt with

"But he was a family man!" Yeah, so was Hitler

 

[LakeLivin]

Imagine taking Buffalo or the Lions in a high stakes tournament. Have we learned nothing?

If I'm going against Buffalo I'm going to force them wide right.

 

[AD Skinner]

He wasn’t even. He reproduced, he was not a family man

 

[cptjeff]

The arena would certainly matter but again a crack shot hunter would kill you before any of the defense options could stop him. He wouldn't best them in a fight but that's not his objective. It's to put you down and nothing on that list is stopping him before he does it.

The longest confirmed kill shot from a sniper is over 2 miles. Nothing on that list will stop the hunter from killing you.

Snipers also often take hours setting up their positions. And those shots several miles out require multiple spotters to measure wind conditions along the way. If you're a football field away against a Buffalo charging at full speed you have 2.7 seconds, and your shot has to be perfect, with a rapidly moving target. If you send the lions that distance against the hunter they have around one second. A lot of these animals are just insanely fast compared to humans.

If the hunter is starting with a prepared position, sure, they'd have a chance of nailing you before anything can happen. But how I'm imagining this, you and your allies are getting the prepared position and the challengers are more or less dumped onto the field. The more I think about it, the more vulnerable the hunter is to any number of the animals without a chance to secure a position.

And yeah, the hunter is getting a hunting weapon, not an M2 or whatever.

 

[LakeLivin]

How do the attacking animals rank their personal health compared to attacking me? Will they ignore defending animals to attack me, even at the cost of their well being? Or if the defending animal poses a threat, will they focus on that defending animal before attempting to attack me?

Seems like the attacking animals have to prioritize attacking the human over their own well being for this exercise to make sense, but I don't think it's as if the they're completely impervious to pain or robotic to the point of completely ignoring defenders. This one is tough to define. I started to try to and just gave up.

If anyone has a more thorough definition that makes sense for the exercise, feel free to chime in.

 

[Anton Dubinchuk]

Lmao can we go back to gun control?

 

[MrazeksVengeance]

Seems like the attacking animals have to prioritize attacking the human over their own well being for this exercise to make sense, but I don't think it's as if the they're completely impervious to pain or robotic to the point of completely ignoring defenders. This one is tough to define. I started to try to and just gave up.

If anyone has a more thorough definition that makes sense for the exercise, feel free to chime in.

Just use the Hawks to carry you away from the arena.

Unless they choke just before the end.

 

[Blueline Bomber]

So this “TikTok ban” is interesting, because while TikTok is the biggest app hit, it’s actually much more far reaching than that. If I’m reading it correctly, it’s basically saying that China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea are “national security threats” and that any company that they own 20% or more stake in can be targeted by the President as a “national security risk” and be forced to sell or be banned.

Right now, the only company specifically named is ByteDance, which owns TikTok, but also owns subsidiaries like NuVerse, who created the mobile game, Marvel Snap. Marvel Snap is also currently down because of the ban.

However, MANY game companies are at least partially owned by the Chinese. Tencent is a major one, and apparently the next target for this ban. Tencent owns League of Legends and Riot Games, GGG (Path of Exile), Funcom, and a majority share of Epic Games (Fortnite being the major game there, as well as the Unreal Engine, which most games use).

Now, I’m 95% sure this is all for show, and that sometime in the next couple weeks, we’re going to get headlines about how “Trump saved TikTok” (which ignores the fact that he introduced the ban in the first place), but if they do start to target some of those bigger game companies, they might be kicking a hornet’s nest without knowing it.

 

[MrazeksVengeance]

Sycophancy not seen since the 1930s

 

[Svechhammer]

Not even hiding it anymore