NHL Mega-Mock Draft Reboot - Discussion / Draft Thread – A WHOLE NOTHER PHASE TWENTY-ONE!

[DancingPanther]

It's interesting that the urban collapse of the west didn't bring a shift in economic centers. For example Aachen was the capital of the Frankish empire, but it just didn't have as many highway connections as Paris. The political and cultural clout of being at the center of power couldn't compete with those residual pathways.

London is another city that crumbled hard. But so many converging pathways made its re-emergence inevitable, rather than Winchester.

You are too smart for me.

Isn't this kind of what I'm saying? London, Paris, Rome....they're historical powerhouses. They all have roads.

I guess what I'm trying to say is if a city is infrastructure'd enough to survive for thousands of years, it would have an early road system. And cities don't really move (do they?) so the original road system would corroborate through time/population/economic boom, yes? I must be missing important context.

 

[pit]

Phew. I am thankful to be going early in this one.

Traditional Cartoonists need a specific wit that allows them to lampoon larger ideas in a small number of panels. What it turns out is not required is the ability to draw particularly well. Combining that with a background in hard sciences and an unrelenting determination to be Chaotic Good gives you the only possible M.A.D. Cat in this category, Randall Munroe.

@BernieParent I want to tell you about a girl who only eats plants. You've probably never heard of herbivore.



I would absolutely eat this. That looks like it should go on a spit?

You snake in the grass.

Good pick.

 

[BernieParent]

"Ever the trendsetter, @jojo the Whale has broken the seal on Team Cartoonists, which makes the owners of the Tampa Bay FireSticks grateful that we focused our initial brainpower in this category. We therefore select Gary Larson as our Team Cartoonist.

"Mr. Larson was born in 1950 in University Place (suburban Tacoma), Washington, and graduated from Washington State University with a degree in Communications. He began drawing cartoons in 1976 as an alternative to his job at a music store, which he hated. He submitted cartoons to various Seattle magazines and newspapers and eventually to the Seattle Times. To supplement his income, Mr. Larson worked as a cruelty investigator for the Humane Society, due to his love of animals. Mr. Larson continued offering his cartoon strips, called "Nature's Way" by the Times, to other newspapers. The San Francisco Chronicle bought the strip and promoted it for syndication, in the process renaming it "The Far Side."

"The Far Side was eventually syndicated to more than 1900 newspapers over a period of 15 years. It is a rare gift indeed to contain so much hilarity, often dark, into a single panel.

"It is our honour in this new drafting round to cede the drafting podium to @ajgoal."

 

[Beef Invictus]

You are too smart for me.

Isn't this kind of what I'm saying? London, Paris, Rome....they're historical powerhouses. They all have roads.

I guess what I'm trying to say is if a city is infrastructure'd enough to survive for thousands of years, it would have an early road system. And cities don't really move (do they?) so the original road system would corroborate through time/population/economic boom, yes? I must be missing important context.

They didn't have roads before the Romans. The Romans laid the highway footprint and resulting economic centers for Europe. None of these cities were major cities before that. Some of them didn't even exist, or only existed as minor towns. They weren't the economic or political centers before. The road systems converging through these areas is what transformed them, and the road systems converged in places like London and Paris because that's where the Roman military decided to make controlled river crossings. The roads dictate where the cities are, they dictated their trade potential, and these strategic decisions from 2000 years ago are still shaping Europe today!

 

[ajgoal]

Phew. I am thankful to be going early in this one.

Traditional Cartoonists need a specific wit that allows them to lampoon larger ideas in a small number of panels. What it turns out is not required is the ability to draw particularly well. Combining that with a background in hard sciences and an unrelenting determination to be Chaotic Good gives you the only possible M.A.D. Cat in this category, Randall Munroe.

@BernieParent I want to tell you about a girl who only eats plants. You've probably never heard of herbivore.



I would absolutely eat this. That looks like it should go on a spit?

 

[ajgoal]

She started out as just a smart, shy bookish sidekick. Then she learned how to levitate pencils.

There was that one time where she tried to destroy the world.

But hey, we all had angst when we were teenagers.

Team Sorceress: Willow Rosenberg

@Magua

 

[BiggE]

Joining us for commentary on our first pick will be

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

Here you go. You're welcome.

 

[Young Sandwich]

Here you go. You're welcome.

I like to imagine that you have this video playing on a loop in your house 24/7, and that wouldn't be a wrong decision.

 

[CanadianFlyer88]

"Ever the trendsetter, @jojo the Whale has broken the seal on Team Cartoonists, which makes the owners of the Tampa Bay FireSticks grateful that we focused our initial brainpower in this category. We therefore select Gary Larson as our Team Cartoonist.

"Mr. Larson was born in 1950 in University Place (suburban Tacoma), Washington, and graduated from Washington State University with a degree in Communications. He began drawing cartoons in 1976 as an alternative to his job at a music store, which he hated. He submitted cartoons to various Seattle magazines and newspapers and eventually to the Seattle Times. To supplement his income, Mr. Larson worked as a cruelty investigator for the Humane Society, due to his love of animals. Mr. Larson continued offering his cartoon strips, called "Nature's Way" by the Times, to other newspapers. The San Francisco Chronicle bought the strip and promoted it for syndication, in the process renaming it "The Far Side."

"The Far Side was eventually syndicated to more than 1900 newspapers over a period of 15 years. It is a rare gift indeed to contain so much hilarity, often dark, into a single panel.

"It is our honour in this new drafting round to cede the drafting podium to @ajgoal."

By Cap's definition of the category, this is not a valid pick , though I'm happy to share Larson (I own Far Side).

*I'm sorry if this forces a re-pick.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

By Cap's definition of the category, this is not a valid pick , though I'm happy to share Larson (I own Far Side).

*I'm sorry if this forces a re-pick.

Bernie can do whatever he wants, he's Bernie.

 

[Striiker]

@Striiker I just thought of something - did you try turning it off and then back on again?

The guy came and looked at my PC today.

He was surprised that it was so bad that he couldn’t even open up basic menus for hardware info.

He believes the problem is that the hard drive is a dud and needs to be replaced. Apparently quite a few that have come out of Taiwan recently have been defective. So he took the PC with him, is going to try to back up my files before things get worse, and replace the hard drive with a new one.

But right as he was leaving, he turned to me and said “You know this could have all been avoided if your stupid ass had just tried turning it off and turning it back on”. Then he spit on me and left.

 

[ajgoal]

The guy came and looked at my PC today.

He was surprised that it was so bad that he couldn’t even open up basic menus for hardware info.

He believes the problem is that the hard drive is a dud and needs to be replaced. Apparently quite a few that have come out of Taiwan recently have been defective. So he took the PC with him, is going to try to back up my files before things get worse, and replace the hard drive with a new one.

But right as he was leaving, he turned to me and said “You know this could have all been avoided if your stupid ass had just tried turning it off and turning it back on”. Then he spit on me and left.

You should have kicked him in the shin then shot him in the nuts with your bb gun.

 

[Striiker]

You should have kicked him in the shin then shot him in the nuts with your bb gun.

He was holding my poor dying 7 month old PC in his arms. I couldn’t risk it.

 

[JojoTheWhale]

The guy came and looked at my PC today.

He was surprised that it was so bad that he couldn’t even open up basic menus for hardware info.

He believes the problem is that the hard drive is a dud and needs to be replaced. Apparently quite a few that have come out of Taiwan recently have been defective. So he took the PC with him, is going to try to back up my files before things get worse, and replace the hard drive with a new one.

But right as he was leaving, he turned to me and said “You know this could have all been avoided if your stupid ass had just tried turning it off and turning it back on”. Then he spit on me and left.

1 year parts warranty. That's why I said to contact the vendor.

 

[Striiker]

1 year parts warranty. That's why I said to contact the vendor.

I’m just going to let him handle it, even if it costs me more.

I don’t really want to deal with them, send it back, and worry about my files.

 

[Beef Invictus]

The trick is to not have any files you care about on a HD. Cloud storage. Then you can shrug and drop in a new drive yourself and start anew, which is always liberating.

 

[DancingPanther]

They didn't have roads before the Romans. The Romans laid the highway footprint and resulting economic centers for Europe. None of these cities were major cities before that. Some of them didn't even exist, or only existed as minor towns. They weren't the economic or political centers before. The road systems converging through these areas is what transformed them, and the road systems converged in places like London and Paris because that's where the Roman military decided to make controlled river crossings. The roads dictate where the cities are, they dictated their trade potential, and these strategic decisions from 2000 years ago are still shaping Europe today!

Ahh ok I am getting it now.

You must remember sometimes bif. i m dum

 

[Striiker]

The trick is to not have any files you care about on a HD. Cloud storage. Then you can shrug and drop in a new drive yourself and start anew, which is always liberating.

Ok but please consider that I’m stupid

 

[ajgoal]

Ok but please consider that I’m stupid

Also, if you store things in the cloud, everyone can get to it whenever they want.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

The trick is to not have any files you care about on a HD. Cloud storage. Then you can shrug and drop in a new drive yourself and start anew, which is always liberating.

That doesn't seem private enough for my files.

People have been saying for decades "Make sure you back up your files," but no one ever tells you how you are supposed to do that.

By Cap's definition of the category, this is not a valid pick , though I'm happy to share Larson (I own Far Side).

*I'm sorry if this forces a re-pick.

@BernieParent I am very sorry to say that your fellow Canadian is right for once. Even by the looser definition of duplicates, it looks like this one is taken. Sorry, pal - nothing would please me more than sticking it to him, but it would open too many cracks in the multiverse.

F***ing automerge.

 

[JojoTheWhale]

Also, if you store things in the cloud, everyone can get to it whenever they want.

You can even put a shared spreadsheet in the cloud that eventually has so many cells it freezes an $8,000 workstation PC when you try to open the version history to revert a change. Hypothetically, of course.

 

[JojoTheWhale]

Bern and I overlapped a pick and you evildoers will never find it. The Fire Sticks-M.A.D. Cats alliance shall not be broken.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

You can even put a shared spreadsheet in the cloud that eventually has so many cells it freezes an $8,000 workstation PC when you try to open the version history to revert a change. Hypothetically, of course.

Challenge accepted.

 

[ajgoal]

Bern and I overlapped a pick and you evildoers will never find it. The Fire Sticks-M.A.D. Cats alliance shall not be broken.

I don't care as long as it was your thing first and Bern stole part of it.