NHL Mega-Mock Draft Reboot - Discussion / Draft Thread – A WHOLE NOTHER PHASE TWENTY-ONE!
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mja
Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt
Beef Invictus
Revolutionary Positivity
DO NOW TEAM SORCERER
NECROMANCER (from Diablo II)
This is objectively one of the greatest classes in any RPG game ever and if you disagree then you are dead inside and fit to have your insides summoned by the Necromancer. Dude man specializes in poison, curses, and summoning; he can summon skeleton warriors*, skeletal mages, and various golems. If the Flyers had him in their organization, maybe they could raise veteran careers from the dead instead of inflicting their corpses upon us annually.
*Please get this song stuck in your head now:
@mja
Truculent mja! Sedate mja! Furry mja!
NECROMANCER (from Diablo II)
This is objectively one of the greatest classes in any RPG game ever and if you disagree then you are dead inside and fit to have your insides summoned by the Necromancer. Dude man specializes in poison, curses, and summoning; he can summon skeleton warriors*, skeletal mages, and various golems. If the Flyers had him in their organization, maybe they could raise veteran careers from the dead instead of inflicting their corpses upon us annually.
*Please get this song stuck in your head now:
@mja
Truculent mja! Sedate mja! Furry mja!
mja
Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt
Thank you! Old Beef! Functional Beef! Convex Beef!
This is the one I absolutely must have.
Team Arcade Game: Yie Ar Kung-Fu
This is one of the OG fighting games. I was absolutely obsessed with it in the late 80s. I'm not even sure where the game was actually at - a pizza place? the baseball card shop? - but it was on or very near Frankford Avenue and me and my friends played it religiously. And then, poof, it disappeared, except for one summer roundabout in 90 or so when it magically appeared at the Funland in Rehoboth.
It was a one player game and you played the character of Oolong, who had to defeat an assortment of villains each with their own special weapons and fighting styles before meeting up with the Big Bad, Oolong's doppleganger Blues. In researching this pick, I've learned that it was really an innovator. It was the first to feature female fighters and the first to use the soon-to-be ubiquitous health bar, among other innovations.
@pit, please proceed with another fine pick, just try to make sure it's not one I'm planning on taking. Thank you kindly.
This is the one I absolutely must have.
Team Arcade Game: Yie Ar Kung-Fu
This is one of the OG fighting games. I was absolutely obsessed with it in the late 80s. I'm not even sure where the game was actually at - a pizza place? the baseball card shop? - but it was on or very near Frankford Avenue and me and my friends played it religiously. And then, poof, it disappeared, except for one summer roundabout in 90 or so when it magically appeared at the Funland in Rehoboth.
It was a one player game and you played the character of Oolong, who had to defeat an assortment of villains each with their own special weapons and fighting styles before meeting up with the Big Bad, Oolong's doppleganger Blues. In researching this pick, I've learned that it was really an innovator. It was the first to feature female fighters and the first to use the soon-to-be ubiquitous health bar, among other innovations.
@pit, please proceed with another fine pick, just try to make sure it's not one I'm planning on taking. Thank you kindly.
Beef Invictus
Revolutionary Positivity
Thank you! Old Beef! Functional Beef! Convex Beef!
This is the one I absolutely must have.
Team Arcade Game: Yie Ar Kung-Fu
This is one of the OG fighting games. I was absolutely obsessed with it in the late 80s. I'm not even sure where the game was actually at - a pizza place? the baseball card shop? - but it was on or very near Frankford Avenue and me and my friends played it religiously. And then, poof, it disappeared, except for one summer roundabout in 90 or so when it magically appeared at the Funland in Rehoboth.
It was a one player game and you played the character of Oolong, who had to defeat an assortment of villains each with their own special weapons and fighting styles before meeting up with the Big Bad, Oolong's doppleganger Blues. In researching this pick, I've learned that it was really an innovator. It was the first to feature female fighters and the first to use the soon-to-be ubiquitous health bar, among other innovations.
@pit, please proceed with another fine pick, just try to make sure it's not one I'm planning on taking. Thank you kindly.
Wowwwww I forgot this existed. I played a lot of this. My skate rink had it.
Lord Defect
Secretary of Blowtorching
- Nov 13, 2013
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Thank you mja! Absorbing mja! Able mja! Billowy mja!
I pick now. Some say I may pick twice. This could be true. I hope it isn't, because I only have a single pick planned out right now and that leaves me in quite the conundrum. Hmm. Well, picking in such a historic phase is a big deal. And I should like to say a few words to mark the occasion:
Rotational atherectomy (RA) is an established tool in interventional cardiology for treatment of calcified coronary lesions. Over 3 decades of clinical experience and research, techniques have matured and outcomes have improved. Heterogeneity exists, however, in RA utilization and technique. We assembled a group of experienced RA operators and device experts to summarize and critique key elements of contemporary RA technique, to identify areas of consensus and controversy, and to offer recommendations for optimal performance for the practicing interventional cardiologist. Evolution in RA strategy toward a focus on lesion modification to facilitate balloon angioplasty and stenting has underpinned major advances in procedural safety, including opportunity to use smaller caliber equipment and radial access. Optimal technique and improved safety have permitted exploratory use of RA for different lesion types and reevaluation of procedural requirements, including flush solution composition and transvenous pacing. Preparedness to manage complications remains paramount and recommendations for operators and institutions are outlined.
Rotational atherectomy (RA) is an endovascular procedure to ablate atherosclerotic plaque by forward advancement of a rotating abrasive burr. The Rotablator Rotational Atherectomy System (Figure 1; Boston Scientific, Natick, MA) has been commercially available for use in the coronary arteries for the past 3 decades.1 Over this time, RA has matured as a tool for management of calcified coronary lesions, with additional advances in design accompanying the new RotaPro system (Figure 2; Boston Scientific, Natick, MA). Yet utilization and practice vary widely, with use of RA varying from <1% to >10% at select centers.2 Incremental experience has revealed best practices associated with efficacy and safety. Recently, European experts put forward a consensus document on RA technique.3 Over a series of 4 meetings, a group of experienced North American RA physician operators and industry device experts sought to summarize and critique RA practices. This document represents a collective effort of this multidisciplinary group to provide a contemporary scientific review of key areas of consensus and controversy pertinent to selection of patients and lesions, safe and effective technical performance, and qualification of performing operators and centers.
One in 5 patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) exhibits moderate or severe coronary artery calcification.4 Coronary calcification increases technical difficulty of PCI. Accumulated mineral content in calcified plaque complicates delivery and expansion of angioplasty balloons and stents, increases risks of procedural complications including stent underexpansion, asymmetrical expansion, and malapposition, and increases postprocedural complications including restenosis and thrombosis.5–8 For severely calcified lesions, even high-pressure inflation of a noncompliant balloon may fail to dilate a stenosis despite angiographic appearance of complete balloon expansion.9 Asymmetrical calcification predisposes to dissection10 or perforation.11 Friction from calcification impedes device advancement and wire manipulation.
Patients undergoing PCI for calcified lesions experience a high rate of major adverse cardiovascular events,12 including in the contemporary drug-eluting stent era. For example, in postmarketing surveillance of everolimus-eluting stents, moderate to severe lesion calcification was associated with a higher rate of ischemia-driven target vessel revascularization (5.8 versus 3.1%; P=0.025) and major adverse cardiac events (10 versus 5%; P=0.0011) at 3 years.13 Both lesion and patient factors may contribute to this association.14 Intimal calcification correlates with comorbidities including advanced age, diabetes mellitus, and chronic kidney disease.15 Extent of coronary artery calcification is predictive of systemic atherosclerosis burden, adverse coronary events, and also adverse peripheral vascular and cerebrovascular events.16
The primary rationale for use of RA is to modify physical attributes of calcified plaque to facilitate balloon angioplasty and stent deployment. This notably reflects a shift in emphasis from an earlier objective to debulk plaque before or in lieu of balloon angioplasty. Two randomized controlled trials inform the current approach. The STRATAS (Study to Determine Rotablator and Transluminal Angioplasty Strategy) compared outcomes of an aggressive strategy (maximum burr:artery ratio >0.70 alone or with adjunctive balloon inflation ≤1 atm) and a routine strategy (maximum burr:artery ratio ≤0.70 with routine balloon inflation ≥4 atm).17 Aggressive strategy yielded no advantages for clinical success, final minimum lumen diameter, or residual stenosis, and higher rates of periprocedural creatine kinase-myocardial band release and target lesion revascularization at 6 months. The CARAT (Coronary Angioplasty and Rotablator Atherectomy Trial) also showed no benefit with aggressive strategy for procedural success or target vessel revascularization at 6 months, and indeed found higher risk of angiographic complications with a larger burr:artery ratio.18 Transition in RA practice away from aggressive debulking has permitted use of smaller burrs, sheaths, and guide catheters with improved safety and equivalent efficacy.
There. That was a good speech. One of my best. It is now time. The time for picking. No more waiting. We go NOW
Team Retro Fashion Item:
RAPIER
Once upon a time, people carried swords. It was what you did. Dueling was illegal, and yet often one thing would lead to another and you'd find yourself in a f***ing swordfight. This was a possible outcome of any day for a lot of dudes, like getting stuck in traffic now. And so it was common for men of status (or who aspired to it) to carry swords as part of their everyday dress. Swords became a part of fashion, and were often decorated as such. The rapier is an interesting evolution, because its hand guard was routinely inherently stylish as well as fully functional, meeting both roles of the weapon with ease. Even an unadorned rapier could have an eye catching guard, whether it be the swept-hilt variety or a simpler cup. Owners routinely had them engraved or decorated. Being able to afford a sword was a statement of your own standing; and they were often made into a fashion statement as well. Look at this fashionable thing:
That is, as the tubular youth of today say, "lit banging yeet."
Another example:
And finally, this is Metal As f*** a solid 4 centuries before "Metal" even existed, truly ahead of its time:
Alright me, we are up again. Hurry up and think of something.
Asnito
Blood Rival to a Briere Simp
- Mar 2, 2017
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Thank you mja! Absorbing mja! Able mja! Billowy mja!
I pick now. Some say I may pick twice. This could be true. I hope it isn't, because I only have a single pick planned out right now and that leaves me in quite the conundrum. Hmm. Well, picking in such a historic phase is a big deal. And I should like to say a few words to mark the occasion:
Rotational atherectomy (RA) is an established tool in interventional cardiology for treatment of calcified coronary lesions. Over 3 decades of clinical experience and research, techniques have matured and outcomes have improved. Heterogeneity exists, however, in RA utilization and technique. We assembled a group of experienced RA operators and device experts to summarize and critique key elements of contemporary RA technique, to identify areas of consensus and controversy, and to offer recommendations for optimal performance for the practicing interventional cardiologist. Evolution in RA strategy toward a focus on lesion modification to facilitate balloon angioplasty and stenting has underpinned major advances in procedural safety, including opportunity to use smaller caliber equipment and radial access. Optimal technique and improved safety have permitted exploratory use of RA for different lesion types and reevaluation of procedural requirements, including flush solution composition and transvenous pacing. Preparedness to manage complications remains paramount and recommendations for operators and institutions are outlined.
Rotational atherectomy (RA) is an endovascular procedure to ablate atherosclerotic plaque by forward advancement of a rotating abrasive burr. The Rotablator Rotational Atherectomy System (Figure 1; Boston Scientific, Natick, MA) has been commercially available for use in the coronary arteries for the past 3 decades.1 Over this time, RA has matured as a tool for management of calcified coronary lesions, with additional advances in design accompanying the new RotaPro system (Figure 2; Boston Scientific, Natick, MA). Yet utilization and practice vary widely, with use of RA varying from <1% to >10% at select centers.2 Incremental experience has revealed best practices associated with efficacy and safety. Recently, European experts put forward a consensus document on RA technique.3 Over a series of 4 meetings, a group of experienced North American RA physician operators and industry device experts sought to summarize and critique RA practices. This document represents a collective effort of this multidisciplinary group to provide a contemporary scientific review of key areas of consensus and controversy pertinent to selection of patients and lesions, safe and effective technical performance, and qualification of performing operators and centers.
One in 5 patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) exhibits moderate or severe coronary artery calcification.4 Coronary calcification increases technical difficulty of PCI. Accumulated mineral content in calcified plaque complicates delivery and expansion of angioplasty balloons and stents, increases risks of procedural complications including stent underexpansion, asymmetrical expansion, and malapposition, and increases postprocedural complications including restenosis and thrombosis.5–8 For severely calcified lesions, even high-pressure inflation of a noncompliant balloon may fail to dilate a stenosis despite angiographic appearance of complete balloon expansion.9 Asymmetrical calcification predisposes to dissection10 or perforation.11 Friction from calcification impedes device advancement and wire manipulation.
Patients undergoing PCI for calcified lesions experience a high rate of major adverse cardiovascular events,12 including in the contemporary drug-eluting stent era. For example, in postmarketing surveillance of everolimus-eluting stents, moderate to severe lesion calcification was associated with a higher rate of ischemia-driven target vessel revascularization (5.8 versus 3.1%; P=0.025) and major adverse cardiac events (10 versus 5%; P=0.0011) at 3 years.13 Both lesion and patient factors may contribute to this association.14 Intimal calcification correlates with comorbidities including advanced age, diabetes mellitus, and chronic kidney disease.15 Extent of coronary artery calcification is predictive of systemic atherosclerosis burden, adverse coronary events, and also adverse peripheral vascular and cerebrovascular events.16
The primary rationale for use of RA is to modify physical attributes of calcified plaque to facilitate balloon angioplasty and stent deployment. This notably reflects a shift in emphasis from an earlier objective to debulk plaque before or in lieu of balloon angioplasty. Two randomized controlled trials inform the current approach. The STRATAS (Study to Determine Rotablator and Transluminal Angioplasty Strategy) compared outcomes of an aggressive strategy (maximum burr:artery ratio >0.70 alone or with adjunctive balloon inflation ≤1 atm) and a routine strategy (maximum burr:artery ratio ≤0.70 with routine balloon inflation ≥4 atm).17 Aggressive strategy yielded no advantages for clinical success, final minimum lumen diameter, or residual stenosis, and higher rates of periprocedural creatine kinase-myocardial band release and target lesion revascularization at 6 months. The CARAT (Coronary Angioplasty and Rotablator Atherectomy Trial) also showed no benefit with aggressive strategy for procedural success or target vessel revascularization at 6 months, and indeed found higher risk of angiographic complications with a larger burr:artery ratio.18 Transition in RA practice away from aggressive debulking has permitted use of smaller burrs, sheaths, and guide catheters with improved safety and equivalent efficacy.
There. That was a good speech. One of my best. It is now time. The time for picking. No more waiting. We go NOW
Team Retro Fashion Item:
RAPIER
Once upon a time, people carried swords. It was what you did. Dueling was illegal, and yet often one thing would lead to another and you'd find yourself in a f***ing swordfight. This was a possible outcome of any day for a lot of dudes, like getting stuck in traffic now. And so it was common for men of status (or who aspired to it) to carry swords as part of their everyday dress. Swords became a part of fashion, and were often decorated as such. The rapier is an interesting evolution, because its hand guard was routinely inherently stylish as well as fully functional, meeting both roles of the weapon with ease. Even an unadorned rapier could have an eye catching guard, whether it be the swept-hilt variety or a simpler cup. Owners routinely had them engraved or decorated. Being able to afford a sword was a statement of your own standing; and they were often made into a fashion statement as well. Look at this fashionable thing:
That is, as the tubular youth of today say, "lit banging yeet."
Another example:
And finally, this is Metal As f*** a solid 4 centuries before "Metal" even existed, truly ahead of its time:
Alright me, we are up again. Hurry up and think of something.
We really need Arcade Game II because this was impossible to decide on one.
But I did it.
A game you can play solo but is best with 3 friends.
Team Arcade Game: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
(And I get Donatello)
@Lord Defect ... now why am I suddenly reminded of Krang's android body without Krang?
But I did it.
A game you can play solo but is best with 3 friends.
Team Arcade Game: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
(And I get Donatello)
@Lord Defect ... now why am I suddenly reminded of Krang's android body without Krang?
Beef Invictus
Revolutionary Positivity
We really need Arcade Game II because this was impossible to decide on one.
But I did it.
A game you can play solo but is best with 3 friends.
Team Arcade Game: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
(And I get Donatello)
@Lord Defect ... now why am I suddenly reminded of Krang's android body without Krang?
Turtles IV was objectively the best one
Lord Defect
Secretary of Blowtorching
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I’m sort of lost in some of these categories. @Young Sandwich go ahead and pick I’ll jump in when I figure something out.
Beef Invictus
Revolutionary Positivity
I haven't read the OP by the way, I'm just making up categories and hoping they match up. How is it going so far?
Check out this badass sorcerer. He was cursed by mysterious entities identified only as his gods. The curse forcibly decreases his lifespan, unless he takes the souls of others to replenish himself. His primary objective is to find an infinite source of souls on which to thrive indefinitely. Without souls, his body will rapidly age, wither, and eventually die.
However, due to his ability to absorb souls, he has also discovered an unforeseen side effect, granting him the ability to shape-shift into the people whose souls he has taken. The change is more than skin deep as he has access to their memories, fighting prowess and powers as well.
Not only badass, but extremely useful in our quest to exterminate any rivals in the QV.
Team Sorcerer - Shang Tsung (Mortal Kombat)
@JojoTheWhale Your soul is mine!
However, due to his ability to absorb souls, he has also discovered an unforeseen side effect, granting him the ability to shape-shift into the people whose souls he has taken. The change is more than skin deep as he has access to their memories, fighting prowess and powers as well.
Not only badass, but extremely useful in our quest to exterminate any rivals in the QV.
Team Sorcerer - Shang Tsung (Mortal Kombat)
@JojoTheWhale Your soul is mine!
Lord Defect
Secretary of Blowtorching
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The Stay Pufts will select for our cartoonist, Kevin Eastman; creator(ok co creator) of the Teen age Mutant Ninja Turtles.
How have we gone through 21 phases and mortal Kombat has been left out so far?Check out this badass sorcerer. He was cursed by mysterious entities identified only as his gods. The curse forcibly decreases his lifespan, unless he takes the souls of others to replenish himself. His primary objective is to find an infinite source of souls on which to thrive indefinitely. Without souls, his body will rapidly age, wither, and eventually die.
However, due to his ability to absorb souls, he has also discovered an unforeseen side effect, granting him the ability to shape-shift into the people whose souls he has taken. The change is more than skin deep as he has access to their memories, fighting prowess and powers as well.
Not only badass, but extremely useful in our quest to exterminate any rivals in the QV.
Team Sorcerer - Shang Tsung (Mortal Kombat)
@JojoTheWhale Your soul is mine!
I was seriously surprised when my searching didn't unearth anything. Shame on us.
Hollywood Cannon
I'm Away From My Desk
Shao Kahn was taken in the past so that’s why I didn’t take Mortal Kombat as my arcade game.
Grey areas and all that.
Grey areas and all that.
Striiker
Former Flyers Fan
If I didn’t know any better, I’d say quite a few of these categories were made to spite me.
Lord Defect
Secretary of Blowtorching
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Striiker
Former Flyers Fan
Beef Invictus
Revolutionary Positivity
Yessssss Shang Tsung was one of several I considered.
Luckily he is nothing to me, as The Necromancer can just summon all the souls straight out of him and leave him a pile of dust.
Luckily he is nothing to me, as The Necromancer can just summon all the souls straight out of him and leave him a pile of dust.
JojoTheWhale
(Singing to the Horse)
- May 22, 2008
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I'm out of ideas that someone else might actually take, so now we wing it. No explanation required.
Team Retro Something Clothing Something
The Energy Dome
@BernieParent I got to tell you, I've been living in a wiggly world.
Team Retro Something Clothing Something
The Energy Dome
@BernieParent I got to tell you, I've been living in a wiggly world.
Lord Defect
Secretary of Blowtorching
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Isn’t Shang Tsung a necromancer as well?
Are we about to have a necromance-off?
Beef Invictus
Revolutionary Positivity
A shoddy one at best.
Diablo Necromancer is who you hire to defeat an actual god of evil. Shang Tsung is who you hire to put on a basic necromancy show at your 5-year old's birthday party.
Shang Tsung has brought back countless dead pets in his time. For a steep price, of course. Parents can be such suckers for a good birthday present.
Magua
Entirely Palatable Product
While on a dog walk pondering about music videos and why we haven’t done this before and how we should certainly have a Part II in future rounds, I had an idea for another music category, since we are all music lovers except @Striiker who prefers the sound of refrigerator whirs and the heater blowing and dry mouth smacking and virtual guns going pew pew and that hum in your brain when everything is quiet…..
Team Last Scene/Credits Song. I prefer it in a movie/tv context, but I guess you could just call it an outro song. But I don’t prefer it that way.
Team Last Scene/Credits Song. I prefer it in a movie/tv context, but I guess you could just call it an outro song. But I don’t prefer it that way.
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