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

[Expectations]

Man....(2013 draft)
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[BigToe]

There are seven Egyptian ones

Give me the shortest one

 

[BernieParent]

Looks like 2023 is going to be an aggressive dickhead, rather than a sneaky dickhead.

We start the day with @Young Sandwich on the clock, @Lord Defect on deck, pit on the lido deck, and mja on the lido afterdeck. I am hoping that @GKJ will eventually make up his pick, and everyone else can make up their picks in due course.

So much has happened over the last few picks. Toe spelled her name "Chleopatra" I find that fun and hilarious, and I imagine there are many Chleopatras with Twitch accounts twitching over League of Legends and the like. So much fun. But then Bernie selected the video that I had said we should set aside as the Spite Music Video for the whole Quackverse That is also hilarious and a lot of fun. I will think of another spite video for all of us - I already have three in mind which have no chance of being selected for anything ever - and I will not allow Bernardo to change his pick, because the primary goal is always to let people have what they want. It's just fun and hilarious. What's less fun is thinking of MacGruber choosing a civilization that is completely overrun with not only cobras, but king cobras. I will NOT be visiting that hellhole.

What is even less fun than that is hearing from the Pervert that Netflix is cancelling "1899" after one season. Although it's not the first time it has happened, this is ominous shit to see them doing this, cancelling a high-concept show like that. It is practically miraculous that we get all these foreign shows on there in the first place, especially if you have lived through the days of having six channels maximum to choose from, and you'd like to think that things like low ratings for some of them shouldn't really cripple a subscription-based streamer. You'd hope that all they need to do is pile on the crowd-pleasing gunk (plus crowd-pleasing good shit) to keep the accounts renewing and carry the stuff which is more high-brow and above the intellect of the general populace. But counting on businessmen to do the right thing is almost always a losing bet.

F***, that bums me out.

Also, what is the matter with the Netflix stooges??!?! We finished the series this past weekend and watched the "Making of ..." as well.

It had its faults but I echo Cap'n's take on the disappointing dismissal of high-quality foreign content. It would be rude to point out to him that he could stop watching the crowd-pleasing gunk in protest, so I won't.

 

[Young Sandwich]

Also, what is the matter with the Netflix stooges??!?! We finished the series this past weekend and watched the "Making of ..." as well.

It had its faults but I echo Cap'n's take on the disappointing dismissal of high-quality foreign content. It would be rude to point out to him that he could stop watching the crowd-pleasing gunk in protest, so I won't.

The making of it was wild Bernie. That new technology they used is seriously incredible. Don't tell Cap though, he thinks the making of stuff ruins the shows...

 

[BernieParent]

The making of it was wild Bernie. That new technology they used is seriously incredible. Don't tell Cap though, he thinks the making of stuff ruins the shows...

The thing that stood out as so innovative was having such a wide variety of languages spoken by the characters. I'd have liked to see that played up more, considering that much of the dialogue was incomprehensible to others, and I certainly wouldn't have been as patient under the dire circumstances!

 

[Young Sandwich]

The thing that stood out as so innovative was having such a wide variety of languages spoken by the characters. I'd have liked to see that played up more, considering that much of the dialogue was incomprehensible to others, and I certainly wouldn't have been as patient under the dire circumstances!

I said the same thing to my wife while we watched. I would have definitely freaked out having no idea what anyone else was saying.

 

[Asnito]

Make up pick. Team Sorcerer Harry Dresden

 

[BernieParent]

I said the same thing to my wife while we watched. I would have definitely freaked out having no idea what anyone else was saying.

Not to mention that there were individuals who could translate for them. I'll put the rest in spoiler mode even though I don't think it is.

Spoiler

Hot-headed Jerome, for example, just stood there while the doctor and captain babbled away in English. I would have been screaming at Clemence to tell me what they were saying. The Portuguese "priest" was the only one out of luck in the final group. Also, the fact that they kept talking to each other, knowing that the other(s) wouldn't have a clue what they said, was driving me nuts.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

I saw this morning that Tage Thompson had another hat trick. It took a while, but you can chalk off "Hey, look at Buffalo" from the checklists idiots use when they try to argue that tanking "doesn't work." On behalf of the human race and the memory of Albert Einstein, yous all can f*** off.

We start the day with @Lord Defect's dumb ass on the clock, pit on deck, mja on the lido deck, and Biff on the lido afterdeck with a pair (phrasing). @GKJ, @ajgoal and Jojo have to make make-up picks.

You know what I thought of last night? I don't think I have ever sat around anywhere and had a drink by myself. Not in a bar, not at home, not anywhere. I may have been in a room at a party where everyone had moved from while I kept hammering vodka tonics, or I may have been standing outside hammering vodka tonics for a bit after everyone else had gone inside, but generally speaking I don't think I have ever drunk alone. I don't day drink. I don't emotionally drink by myself (though I have been known to rally people together to go out and get shitfaced when I am in a rotten mood). It's the reason why I have never worried about being an alcoholic. I drink like an alcoholic - like, once I start, it's as if the first trickle of booze tickles my WOO-HOO button, and I just don't stop - but I can go years without having a drink (I've done that now), and I don't "need" to drink. It's a good thing, too, because if I drank the way I dip, my liver would be an evaporated f***ing memory.

I'm just the opposite with food. The last thing I want to do is eat with other people - just leave me alone and let me shovel it in and get it over with. I don't need to "savor" the shit and make f***ing sex noises over sauce and seasoning. I have eaten with other people countless times, obviously, but I'd really rather not. I also can't sit around listening to music - I have to be doing something else in addition to that. It feels weird to me to just sit there staring into space while music plays. I've told you before that I imagine actors, when they aren't working, sit in a hardbacked chair in total silence staring for hours into the corner of their kitchen ceiling because no one has told them what to say and do - that's what it feels like when I try to sit here listening to music without doing something else.

This is all perfectly normal. Don't judge me.

 

[Beef Invictus]

I am not ready to pick

 

[Rebels57]

I saw this morning that Tage Thompson had another hat trick. It took a while, but you can chalk off "Hey, look at Buffalo" from the checklists idiots use when they try to argue that tanking "doesn't work." On behalf of the human race and the memory of Albert Einstein, yous all can f*** off.

We start the day with @Lord Defect's dumb ass on the clock, pit on deck, mja on the lido deck, and Biff on the lido afterdeck with a pair (phrasing). @GKJ, @ajgoal and Jojo have to make make-up picks.

You know what I thought of last night? I don't think I have ever sat around anywhere and had a drink by myself. Not in a bar, not at home, not anywhere. I may have been in a room at a party where everyone had moved from while I kept hammering vodka tonics, or I may have been standing outside hammering vodka tonics for a bit after everyone else had gone inside, but generally speaking I don't think I have ever drunk alone. I don't day drink. I don't emotionally drink by myself (though I have been known to rally people together to go out and get shitfaced when I am in a rotten mood). It's the reason why I have never worried about being an alcoholic. I drink like an alcoholic - like, once I start, it's as if the first trickle of booze tickles my WOO-HOO button, and I just don't stop - but I can go years without having a drink (I've done that now), and I don't "need" to drink. It's a good thing, too, because if I drank the way I dip, my liver would be an evaporated f***ing memory.

I'm just the opposite with food. The last thing I want to do is eat with other people - just leave me alone and let me shovel it in and get it over with. I don't need to "savor" the shit and make f***ing sex noises over sauce and seasoning. I have eaten with other people countless times, obviously, but I'd really rather not. I also can't sit around listening to music - I have to be doing something else in addition to that. It feels weird to me to just sit there staring into space while music plays. I've told you before that I imagine actors, when they aren't working, sit in a hardbacked chair in total silence staring for hours into the corner of their kitchen ceiling because no one has told them what to say and do - that's what it feels like when I try to sit here listening to music without doing something else.

This is all perfectly normal. Don't judge me.

Proud member of the FOG

 

[Lord Defect]

The Pufts will be selecting Neodymium for our team element.

Neodymium - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Magnets and lasers baby! Magnets and lasers!
I do not know who is up but can I get a clarification that I have both retro and civ picks left to make?

 

[mja]

The Pufts will be selecting Neodymium for our team element.

Neodymium - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Magnets and lasers baby! Magnets and lasers!
I do not know who is up but can I get a clarification that I have both retro and civ picks left to make?

It's all literally on the first page! @pit is up and you should PM him, and we'll let you figure out what picks you still need to make.

So defective.

 

[JojoTheWhale]

Every 1/4, we have a 3:00 AM EST global conference call that goes hours and destroys the schedule of multiple days. It just ended, so I'll sneak my make-up pick in here quickly.

Cap has assured me that we're likely not drafting current NHL players anytime soon. It's not so much that I care about the hockey players. It's my OCD going absolutely nuts when I see the empty spots on my roster. How am I supposed to function like this?

Wild Card III: Tage Thompson

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

I do not know who is up but can I get a clarification that I have both retro and civ picks left to make?

Yep, that's what you still have to pick. Idiot.

 

[pit]

I find it hard to believe that this book or author wasn't claimed somewhere in some form, but my haphazard searching finds no evidence of this.

Children's Book: Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

@mja Wild rumpus time baby.

 

[mja]

Dealer's Choice: Stock's Pound Cake

If you know, you know. If you don't, well, then Stock's is a small family-owned bakery in the working class Port Richmond neighborhood of Philadelphia nearing it's 100th year. They sell killer snowflake rolls, and lots of cookies I'm not particularly fond of, but by far their biggest seller is their pound cake, sold in loaves by weight. There is simply no other pound cake like it and it is basically crack in cake form.

Also, future category: Team Dessert

@Beef Invictus - Stocky Beef! Pounded Beef! Cakey Beef!

 

[Beef Invictus]

I'm not ready for this

 

[Young Sandwich]

Dealer's Choice: Stock's Pound Cake

If you know, you know. If you don't, well, then Stock's is a small family-owned bakery in the working class Port Richmond neighborhood of Philadelphia nearing it's 100th year. They sell killer snowflake rolls, and lots of cookies I'm not particularly fond of, but by far their biggest seller is their pound cake, sold in loaves by weight. There is simply no other pound cake like it and it is basically crack in cake form.

Also, future category: Team Dessert

@Beef Invictus - Stocky Beef! Pounded Beef! Cakey Beef!

This is by far the densest cake I've ever eaten. Nice one.

 

[ajgoal]

This is by far the densest cake I've ever eaten. Nice one.

Is it denser than @Lord Defect?

Don't worry, makeup pick incoming.

 

[Lord Defect]

Is it denser than @Lord Defect?

Don't worry, makeup pick incoming.

It’s pretty close.
Good pound cake, but at the end of the day it’s still pound cake.

 

[ajgoal]

This always makes me smile.



Team Music Video: Weapon of Choice (Fatboy Slim)

 

[mja]

Is it denser than @Lord Defect?

Don't worry, makeup pick incoming.

Denser even, but not at all defective.

It’s pretty close.
Good pound cake, but at the end of the day it’s still pound cake.

So defective, but then I realize you’re just a little jealous that the pound cake is smarter than you.

 

[Lord Defect]

Denser even, but not at all defective.



So defective, but then I realize you’re just a little jealous that the pound cake is smarter than you.

It’s good but you can only do so much to a pound cake and it is not good enough to wait in line outside in port Richmond the week before Christmas for an hour good.

 

[Rebels57]

Dealer's Choice: Stock's Pound Cake

If you know, you know. If you don't, well, then Stock's is a small family-owned bakery in the working class Port Richmond neighborhood of Philadelphia nearing it's 100th year. They sell killer snowflake rolls, and lots of cookies I'm not particularly fond of, but by far their biggest seller is their pound cake, sold in loaves by weight. There is simply no other pound cake like it and it is basically crack in cake form.

Also, future category: Team Dessert

@Beef Invictus - Stocky Beef! Pounded Beef! Cakey Beef!

The Pound Cake GOAT for sure. The Amish farmers market in Newtown carries it so I snag it on my lunch break sometimes.