OT: Sens Lounge: "Pleeease won't you be.....my neighboµr"

[thinkwild]

100k Bitcoin

Congrats. Going to get a lot more support in America too. Still have that stereotype to get over:

 

[OUT HOUSE]

Anyone who owns NHL25, is it worth it?

 

[Beech]

https://wwos.nine.com.au/videos/cycling-news-2024-uci-track-champions-league-grand-finale-katy-marchant-injured-alessa-catriona-propster-crash/cm4f2xjpz00080hp7z7o4px1l

Ohh f***

 

[BonHoonLayneCornell]

Anyone who owns NHL25, is it worth it?

Call me jaded, but they are never worth their sticker price. If there's any video game genre that needs to drop the full annual release model, it's sports games.

I have Game Pass that comes with EA Pass, so I just stay on the previous years version until they drop the new one on the service late in the season. No way am I paying $90 for some menu/feature shuffling and slight tweaks.

 

[BigRig4]

Anyone who owns NHL25, is it worth it?

I play it extensively. I think it’s the best one in several years. I’d wait til Boxing Day - it’ll almost certainly be on discount.

 

[AchtzehnBaby]

 

[jbeck5]

Anyone who owns NHL25, is it worth it?

Haven't been for a decade. I still get it every year...I just wait til black Friday and pay like $40 instead of $90.

I then proceed to edit players to make them more accurate...don't play...next month's roster updates...I re edit all the players...don't play...rinse and repeat for the last 10 years lol

 

[jbeck5]

I play it extensively. I think it’s the best one in several years. I’d wait til Boxing Day - it’ll almost certainly be on discount.

I haven't gotten this far yet...but have they fixed player demands in the off season in dynasty/gm mode?

The players demands were always based off overall instead of production...so you could have a ppg player who is 79 overall and is asking for a 2 way contract after scoring 44 goals in the NHL. And on the other hand you could have a guy who's been in the minors for 5 years get a little overall boost one year to like 81 or something and is asking for 4 years at 4 million despite getting 40 points in the AHL as a forward.

It bothered me that year after year, they couldn't make salary demands after the actual stats...being strong or a fast skater doesn't make a player command high salary...being productive does...theyve never been able to figure that out.

Haven't gotten far enough to see if they finally fixed that.

 

[Beech]

The Sun's bulb needs replacing

2021-2024.. Near identical sun hours
2021-2024 a loss of about 5% in Kw/m^2 of solar radiation in 2023 and 2024
2021-2024 a loss of about 10% in Solar radiation November, December and January, in 2023 and 2024

you know how something is best when brand new.. Must be the damn same thing for the sun.

2014 and 2015, it seemed to be dying out. Someone must have changed the bulb in 2016.. it max'd out and has been slowly diming ever since.

If the weather does not brighten up, we will have one of the least sunny Decembers in recent years. About 200 hours, versus about 290 hours. A solid 30% drop.

to put it in perspective, we get about 475 hours in June and July..

Man this city is unlivable in winter.

 

[jbeck5]

The Sun's bulb needs replacing

2021-2024.. Near identical sun hours
2021-2024 a loss of about 5% in Kw/m^2 of solar radiation in 2023 and 2024
2021-2024 a loss of about 10% in Solar radiation November, December and January, in 2023 and 2024

you know how something is best when brand new.. Must be the damn same thing for the sun.

2014 and 2015, it seemed to be dying out. Someone must have changed the bulb in 2016.. it max'd out and has been slowly diming ever since.

If the weather does not brighten up, we will have one of the least sunny Decembers in recent years. About 200 hours, versus about 290 hours. A solid 30% drop.

to put it in perspective, we get about 475 hours in June and July..

Man this city is unlivable in winter.

Huh? I prefer cloudy in winter to be honest.

The sunny days are the coldest.

Plus, I want a white Christmas.

 

[BigRig4]

I haven't gotten this far yet...but have they fixed player demands in the off season in dynasty/gm mode?

The players demands were always based off overall instead of production...so you could have a ppg player who is 79 overall and is asking for a 2 way contract after scoring 44 goals in the NHL. And on the other hand you could have a guy who's been in the minors for 5 years get a little overall boost one year to like 81 or something and is asking for 4 years at 4 million despite getting 40 points in the AHL as a forward.

It bothered me that year after year, they couldn't make salary demands after the actual stats...being strong or a fast skater doesn't make a player command high salary...being productive does...theyve never been able to figure that out.

Haven't gotten far enough to see if they finally fixed that.

Im an EASHL guy so I can’t say much about franchise, sorry. I generally just do 3 on 3 games with a few buddies and have a blast.

 

[Beech]

Huh? I prefer cloudy in winter to be honest.

The sunny days are the coldest.

Plus, I want a white Christmas.

misnomer.

Cold is simple, artic air. It gets pulled down because pressure in Ottawa is low, while pressure in Boston is high. Clouds develop when cold air, swoops over warmer water and thus moisture.

Moist air can only come to us vis the great lakes, which means the current begins in the artic travels down along the Rockies, down to Texas and back up along the east coast chain of mountains. It still requiring Ottawa to have low pressure. Which still means we draw cold artic air.

alternatively, the pull is so hard, it only goes down to Nebraska and gets back up. That is shit ass cold.

So sun or clouds do not really impact cold. The earth and at its 20 degree tilt and the Suns' rays simple bounce off. And low pressure and high pressure spots around us.

A warm day.. well, it means that the pressure in Boston is lower than here, that Buffalo is seeing high pressure, and so we get warm air from Florida, which travels along the East cost. It also requires high pressure due North of us, so say Val D'or.

It can be sunny or cloudy, depending on the route of that warm air. Over water, or over land.

The Great lakes due south West, The Saint Lawrence due South and East, James bay/Hudson's bay North and the mountains (Rockies and Appalachians) pretty much ensure we get f***ed 5 months a year.

When Quebec decided to separate a few hundred thousand years ago and split away leaving Hudson's and James bay. We were done in. And people thought it was Rene Levesque and the 1976 elections,

 

[jbeck5]

misnomer.

Cold is simple, artic air. It gets pulled down because pressure in Ottawa is low, while pressure in Boston is high. Clouds develop when cold air, swoops over warmer water and thus moisture.

Moist air can only come to us vis the great lakes, which means the current begins in the artic travels down along the Rockies, down to Texas and back up along the east coast chain of mountains. It still requiring Ottawa to have low pressure. Which still means we draw cold artic air.

alternatively, the pull is so hard, it only goes down to Nebraska and gets back up. That is shit ass cold.

So sun or clouds do not really impact cold. The earth and at its 20 degree tilt and the Suns' rays simple bounce off. And low pressure and high pressure spots around us.

A warm day.. well, it means that the pressure in Boston is lower than here, that Buffalo is seeing high pressure, and so we get warm air from Florida, which travels along the East cost. It also requires high pressure due North of us, so say Val D'or.

It can be sunny or cloudy, depending on the route of that warm air. Over water, or over land.

The Great lakes due south West, The Saint Lawrence due South and East, James bay/Hudson's bay North and the mountains (Rockies and Appalachians) pretty much ensure we get f***ed 5 months a year.

When Quebec decided to separate a few hundred thousand years ago and split away leaving Hudson's and James bay. We were done in. And people thought it was Rene Levesque and the 1976 elections,

You're saying there's no correlation between sunny vs cloudy days and temperatures in the winter months?

Or are you saying that temperatures are based off pressures and not cloudiness, and cloudiness is simply the result of pressures?

Seems like an indirect relation, but a relation nonetheless.

 

[jbeck5]

Im an EASHL guy so I can’t say much about franchise, sorry. I generally just do 3 on 3 games with a few buddies and have a blast.

Even non franchise things always pissed me off like hilariously bad attributes

Like how Chara was a faster skater than Vermette on NHL games because if you would make Chara slow, his overall would suffer too much, but in reality, especially in later years, was basically stationary as a player...like when we beat Boston in 2017. Yet his speed rating would be like an 86 or something....why isn't it a 73 or something? Like the game actually thought he was faster than 3/4 of the AHL.

Even these days, it's not accurate..formenton was like an 84 in speed...why wasn't he a 94? Anyone who watched a few games could tell he was a top 10 speedster in the league.

Even this current year. Giroux has a better speed rating than Gregor. How can anyone watch a minute of sens hockey, and come away thinking Giroux is a faster skater than Gregor?

Or women's ratings...are they not higher than Major junior A? They would get smoked playing the London knights for example....so why aren't the women's overalls like 40s?

It has me wondering for years how they go about making the rankings...do they just have non hockey guys do them? They've always been wildly all over the place.

Guys who are known to be speedsters aren't 90+ in speed but above average skaters who are superstars are...

Or guys who are known to be over 50% on faceoffs every year but have a 74 faceoff rating... They should atleast look at the stats.