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

[CanadianFlyer88]

I'm going to address this false slander when I can. That is a pee-addled post.

Don't bother. All Romans after Augustus are cowards. This is known.

Lolz, quoting actually worked here.

 

[DancingPanther]

I have no idea who to pick for team wizard

 

[Magua]

I have no idea who to pick for team wizard

Wind's howling.

 

[DancingPanther]

Wind's howling.

I know I know but that seems like a double dip/cop out

 

[GKJ]

OK, I have two picks here, I've been sitting on one because I couldn't figure out what to do with it.

Team Queen

Queen Zenobia, third century of the Palmyrene Empire of Syria

Legend, or Wikipedia, has it that after her husband was assassinated, she basically boss-bitched her way into annexing Egypt and invaded the Romans.


Team Music Video



It seemed like Virtual Insanity was something of a watershed moment in music videos. It won the 1997 VMA for Music Video of the Year, and it kind of set the bar that the industry then tried to match, and yet at the same time, it feel like when music videos reached their apex. Even MTV before this point, and after it. Today, I don't want to say it's not important because bands and artists still get discovered by them on YouTube and such. But we now we have generations that barely know about it.

@Chuck Downie

 

[Chuck Downie]

Team Queen

Alien Queen

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@Hollywood Cannon

 

[Striiker]

You couldn’t pay me to watch the new Avatar movie. Hated the first one.

I did watch Bullet Train, though. It felt like someone watched a Guy Ritchie movie and said “I want to make one of those”. Not awful, but super long and I thought it was wrapping up and about to end like 45 minutes before it actually did.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

Don't bother. All Romans after Augustus are cowards. This is known.

Lolz, quoting actually worked here.

Who is your anchorperson?

 

[CanadianFlyer88]

Who is your anchorperson?

Kevin Nealon.

Quote worked again... hmm.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

@Captain Dave Poulin

You can go. I’m just getting in from eagles game so gonna spend some time with your nephew.

 

[Beef Invictus]

OK, I have two picks here, I've been sitting on one because I couldn't figure out what to do with it.

Team Queen

Queen Zenobia, third century of the Palmyrene Empire of Syria

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Legend, or Wikipedia, has it that after her husband was assassinated, she basically boss-bitched her way into annexing Egypt and invaded the Romans.


Team Music Video



It seemed like Virtual Insanity was something of a watershed moment in music videos. It won the 1997 VMA for Music Video of the Year, and it kind of set the bar that the industry then tried to match, and yet at the same time, it feel like when music videos reached their apex. Even MTV before this point, and after it. Today, I don't want to say it's not important because bands and artists still get discovered by them on YouTube and such. But we now we have generations that barely know about it.

@Chuck Downie

These are two phenomenal picks. Zenobia was my first backup if HC didn't want me to have Nefertiti. She's also a far better pick as a rival to my civilization than the unwashed masses north of the wall.

Virtual Insanity was also a finalist contender for my video pick. It's elite.

 

[GKJ]

These are two phenomenal picks. Zenobia was my first backup if HC didn't want me to have Nefertiti. She's also a far better pick as a rival to my civilization than the unwashed masses north of the wall.

Virtual Insanity was also a finalist contender for my video pick. It's elite.

That's good because I was going to ask you which queen i should take.

 

[Beef Invictus]

Let's talk about Roman interaction with Scotland.

Romans initially, under Agricola, stomped any resistance they met and scouted the place. Like he would determine with Ireland, Agricola figured he could hold the whole thing with minimal presence; the question, though, was...why? Their initial line of fortification was well north, but they pulled south to what would become Hadrian's wall because there simply wasn't a lot of value there. Over time, presumably the people living nearby the wall Romanized and fell into the Roman orbit (as commonly happened), so the Romans went and built the Antonine wall further north to formally include them. They had no trouble doing so, because the locals just couldn't stop them.

The chief issue with conquering all of Scotland, per my own theory, is that the economic value of the place was so woeful that it would be a money pit to maintain the legion there. The place couldn't pay for itself. But with all the wars between the tribes and the usual Roman raiding into their territory, the people native to the area did produce slaves to be traded. And that was pretty much the only thing of value there. If Rome had taken the place over and pacified them, it would have shut down the conquests and raids that produced slaves, and shut down the only thing of value being exported.

Ireland was even more useless. Just like Scotland, they didn't produce anything that wasn't easily had for probably cheaper within the Empire. And with the added extra cost and risk of oversea transport. Roman presence in Ireland was one briefly lived fortified trading post.

The Picts couldn't shine until Rome left. Before that, they were nothing but gladius practice dummies to work on your stabbing form. I welcome them as rivals.

 

[Beef Invictus]

That's good because I was going to ask you which queen i should take.

I would have died a little as I gave Zenobia over to you, but it's who I'd have given.

 

[mja]

You couldn’t pay me to watch the new Avatar movie. Hated the first one.

I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it. Went just to take the kids and really wasn’t expecting to like it, as I wasn’t a fan of the first film. At a certain point, though, the pure spectacle of the third act kinda won me over.

Also, the character of Spider—he’s kinda like the Striiker of Pandora—is maybe the nuttiest idea Cameron has ever had.

 

[Striiker]

Also, the character of Spider—he’s kinda like the Striiker of Pandora—is maybe the nuttiest idea Cameron has ever had.

Oh great

I assume this is a comparison that will hurt my feelings.

 

[mja]

Oh great

I assume this is a comparison that will hurt my feelings.

I don't know, does being compared to a 15 year old boy who runs around in nothing but a loin cloth, a mask, and an awful haircut while trying to fit in with an alien culture offend you? It's like Cameron watched the SW prequels and decided what was missing was that Anakin and Jar Jar Binks should have been merged into the same character, and then he made sure that he didn't make the same mistake for the Avatar franchise. He's easily one of the most annoying characters of all time but also simultaneously strangely endearing.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

I'm thoroughly enjoying an early episode of "Gilligan's Island" right now. Spoiler Alert: Gilligan just f***ed up.

We start the day with @Hollywood Cannon on the clock, sort of, and myself on deck, but I am going to make my pick in just a bit. @Rebels57 is on the lido deck, but can go whenever, and DancingPanther is on the lido afterdeck.

I have been watching "Severance," right. I was absolutely positive that it was well-made, as I said the other day, but I wasn't sure how much I was enjoying it. That's the thing with stories about boredom - if you do a good enough job portraying the boredom, you make the viewer feel the boredom. "L'Avventura" (1960) is one of the most famous films ever made about enervation, listlessness, and alienation, and I love it to death - I couldn't begin to tell you why without sitting here and re-watching it for the umpteenth time, and probably not even then, but it is a great artistic achievement.

"Severance" doesn't rise to those heights, obviously, but I did really start to enjoy it as it moved along and more was revealed. There was no trick or secret to this - things started happening, and they were compelling. I don't know how the plot is going to evolve in future seasons, but I can strongly recommend watching the first.

I am also strongly satisfied by the cast of season nine of "I Am SOLO." Scrumptious and interesting is a deadly combination, friends.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

I don't have much epic fantasy in my roster, but I am going to add some now.

"Memory, Sorrow and Thorn" has always been my second-favorite series (behind "Lord of the Rings"). I re-read it several years ago for the first time - I hadn't before that because I wanted to keep my memories pure and didn't want to be disappointed - and it didn't hold up as well as I'd hoped. But it still rules, and it rules in a way that Tolkien doesn't - it has a love story at its center to go along with all of the great adventuring and fighting and whatnot. This was the thing that I loved more than anything from the very beginning, because it was the only thing that was missing from LotR. And the key thing is that it is handled so well. It's not trite or cliched - it's earned on the page, and it's very affecting. They are kept apart FOREVER (the three books are enormous), and it is excruciating to live through, but the payoff is immense.

The follow-up series is still ongoing, and I don't want to spoil anything from that or the previous one, so I'll just stop there.

Team Queen - Miriamele

@Rebels57

 

[Striiker]

I don't know, does being compared to a 15 year old boy who runs around in nothing but a loin cloth, a mask, and an awful haircut while trying to fit in with an alien culture offend you? It's like Cameron watched the SW prequels and decided what was missing was that Anakin and Jar Jar Binks should have been merged into the same character, and then he made sure that he didn't make the same mistake for the Avatar franchise. He's easily one of the most annoying characters of all time but also simultaneously strangely endearing.

Thank you for saying I'm strangely endearing.

 

[ajgoal]

Team Music Video



It seemed like Virtual Insanity was something of a watershed moment in music videos. It won the 1997 VMA for Music Video of the Year, and it kind of set the bar that the industry then tried to match, and yet at the same time, it feel like when music videos reached their apex. Even MTV before this point, and after it. Today, I don't want to say it's not important because bands and artists still get discovered by them on YouTube and such. But we now we have generations that barely know about it.

@Chuck Downie

Phenomenal

 

[ajgoal]

Also, the character of Spider—he’s kinda like the Striiker of Pandora—is maybe the nuttiest idea Cameron has ever had.

Oh great

I assume this is a comparison that will hurt my feelings.

 

[BiggE]

I don't have much epic fantasy in my roster, but I am going to add some now.

"Memory, Sorrow and Thorn" has always been my second-favorite series (behind "Lord of the Rings"). I re-read it several years ago for the first time - I hadn't before that because I wanted to keep my memories pure and didn't want to be disappointed - and it didn't hold up as well as I'd hoped. But it still rules, and it rules in a way that Tolkien doesn't - it has a love story at its center to go along with all of the great adventuring and fighting and whatnot. This was the thing that I loved more than anything from the very beginning, because it was the only thing that was missing from LotR. And the key thing is that it is handled so well. It's not trite or cliched - it's earned on the page, and it's very affecting. They are kept apart FOREVER (the three books are enormous), and it is excruciating to live through, but the payoff is immense.

The follow-up series is still ongoing, and I don't want to spoil anything from that or the previous one, so I'll just stop there.

Team Queen - Miriamele

@Rebels57

Great series, haven’t started the sequel series yet. For me, it’s right up there with LotR and Jordan’s Wheel of Time series.

 

[mja]

Thank you for saying I'm strangely endearing.

No problem, but don't forget the whole one of the most annoying characters of all time part!

 

[Striiker]

No problem, but don't forget the whole one of the most annoying characters of all time part!

I’ve decided to ignore that part.