Steve9347

QUOTE (bmags @ Jan 2, 2014 -> 12:51 PM) Oh my goodness, I am so embarrassed to have missed some discussion on a message board! I should have spent more time during the holidays on your take on it! I didn't post anything about it.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jan 2, 2014 -> 12:22 PM) Lost in the Conte awfulness was the blitzer off the edge (not sure who it was) whiffed on Rodgers allowing him to get open for a few more seconds. What? There's been fairly extensive discussion of the last-second Kuhn, drive-saving block put on Peppers. Like. A f***ton of conversation on it. Here and everywhere.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jan 2, 2014 -> 11:24 AM) It's Jerry's money. If he demands that we only trade Deng to bring talent to the club, then so be it. If we can't trade Deng for talent and Jerry doesn't care about wasting money, that's his prerogative F*ck that. Jerry Reinsdorf would NEVER make such a demand. This is on Garpax.

BioShock Infinite free on PS+ this month. Thank you for talking me into keeping my PS3. I'm just going to keep downloading these excellent PS3 titles. http://blog.us.playstation.com/2013/12/26/...anuary-preview/

QUOTE (Sonik22 @ Jan 2, 2014 -> 09:42 AM) Damn....I really wanted a QB in this year's draft. No reason they can't take one. The Packers still do it every year.

Well, I think the fact that the deal was done this quickly shows the mutual interest for him to stay. Here's hoping he can stay healthy and have the season we've been waiting for next year.

The Wolf of Wall Street was nuts.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 30, 2013 -> 11:01 PM) Wow was Man of Steel ever disappointing. I said that about a month ago. Terrible movie.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Dec 30, 2013 -> 06:03 PM) What is with this weird angle that you are trying to take to make it seem as though I think I'm cool because I'm sharing information in a films thread? You're s***ty attitude towards this makes no sense. Someone - "Hey guys, a new John Grisham book just came out." Steve - "OHHH YOU THINK YOUR f***ING COOL NOW? GREAT, WE ALL HAVE THE INTERNET. YOU'RE A REAL HERO." Your comparison is off, though. Someone - "Hey guys, the .epub of the new John Grisham book is now available for illegal download." Steve - "OHHH YOU THINK YOUR f***ING COOL NOW? GREAT, WE ALL HAVE THE INTERNET. YOU'RE A REAL HERO." That would be more like it. Saying "Hey guys, a new John Grisham book just came out" is akin to saying "Hey guys, American Hustle is out." I don't really get it. This isn't a torrent site, nor is it a site that discusses illegal torrents. There are PLENTY of outlets for that. What you're doing is posting that stuff thinking people will believe it's cool that you discovered µTorrent.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Dec 30, 2013 -> 03:43 PM) Perhaps it's the way I play the NBA2k series (still rocking nba2k12), but I find trades to be pretty pointless. I normally score 50ish points in a typical game and Rose will have 35 of them. The rest are usually random shots from players when Rose gets doubled or buckets someone else gets in transition. Do you guys run sets or something that require all of the starting 5 to be good? I don't think you read my message. The only difference on my team is that I have Pau Gasol and a nice 3 point gunner off the bench instead of Boozer and Taj. I only did that to get out of a year of Boozer's deal, and to keep it realistic with real rumors. Rose Butler Deng Gasol Noah is fairly realistic. And also, NBA 2K14 is fairly harder for me so far with the drastically different controls. I liked the idea of having two 7 footers in the lane against the Heat for game 1. It made a difference, but I still lost. In other words, I like to keep it fairly realistic within the realm of what I've heard could/should happen (ie, I'm not trading for Kevin Durant or Kevin Love), BUT, I also have a boatload of cash for the coming offseason and a likely lottery pick with the real 2014 draft class locked and loaded. :-D

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Dec 30, 2013 -> 03:14 PM) I'm not sure about it being "cool" or whatever, but it's helpful to those of us living outside of the US, because there's basically an embargo against American movies to protect the Chinese box office through the entire month of December and on into January. For example, I don't think the Hobbit even has a release date here yet, or maybe it's not going to come out until sometime in February, when Spring Festival/Chinese New Year's is going on and most families are staying home at that time. I'll never forget the time they had Batman and Spiderman come out the same weekend last year...it made zero sense. Except for China. Or they played Django Unchained for 2 or 3 days and then pulled it entirely. They block out Facebook, Twitter and youtube (partly about controlling information, partly about protecting Chinese sites competing with them)...and yet curiously allow Hunger Games (which got crushed by Gravity, actually). China only allows 34 movies per year (20 in 2D, an additional 14 in 3D format now) from the US, and it used to be only 20 as recently as a couple of years ago. All of them are big budget action movies or counter-programming like Titanic 3D. There are some anomalies. Cloud Atlas, Escape Plan and Pacific Rim all did much better here than in their American theatrical runs. At any rate, there's no way I would be able to see movies like American Hustle, Saving Mr. Banks, Out of the Furnace, The Hobbit, Nebraska, The Way Way Back, Fruitvale, 12 Years a Slave, etc., without the internet. Even trying to find illegal or bootleg copies on the street, some of those movies are impossible to find, and the money's not going to the studios in those cases anyway. Even when I do watch American movies here, only about 20-25% of the profits are going back Stateside. You're missing the point, though. His posting that they're "available" makes no difference in your world. Did you even read anything above?

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Dec 30, 2013 -> 02:44 PM) HaHa Clinton-Dix Sounds like a bad joke from 1998.

Lovie Smith is the favorite to be the next head coach of the Tampa Bay Bucs.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Dec 30, 2013 -> 02:04 PM) Oh awesome, I'm gonna have to try that out. I'll also try to trade for the first pick. I downloaded next year's draft class. I'd love to have a guy like Jabari or Randle coming off my bench. My team is pretty stacked at SF/PF ATM with Durant and Lee. Yeah, just go to FRONT OFFICE and hit R2, and it'll pull up the FIND TRADE, PLAYER FINDER, and TRADE FINDER OPTIONS. Go to TRADE FINDER and select any player on your roster, and the teams will come callin'.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Dec 30, 2013 -> 02:04 PM) Oh awesome, I'm gonna have to try that out. I'll also try to trade for the first pick. I downloaded next year's draft class. I'd love to have a guy like Jabari or Randle coming off my bench. My team is pretty stacked at SF/PF ATM with Durant and Lee. Ha, that is stacked. My roster is pretty much realistic right now, just with finally pulling off the Gasol deal that's been rumored in reality. I do have Danny Green coming off the bench. OH AND A HEALTHY ROSE WHICH IS OBVIOUSLY UNREALISTIC.

QUOTE (TaylorStSox @ Dec 30, 2013 -> 01:50 PM) I'm not going to get sanctimonious and pretend that I don't torrent movies, but I also expect that everyone here can use a search engine. Exactly. Tell someone who thinks it's cool that you've'e discovered torrents. No one here does.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Dec 30, 2013 -> 01:51 PM) It's impossible to pull off a trade that is beneficial to you in that game. You always have to trade a guy with a higher ranking for a guy with a lower one, otherwise the other GM just won't budge. I wanted to trade Ibaka (84) for Al Horford (82) and the CPU wanted more. Both are 3.5 star players. I threw in a draft pick and they took it. I think you need to gather some sort of negotiation skill (one you need to buy with VC) or some s*** to pull off better trades. But did you find the TRADE FINDER feature? I selected Boozer and went to TRADE FINDER and had 22 deals to sift through. Most were pretty bad, but the Lakers were dangling Gasol (and Jodie Meeks) for Boozer and Taj. I jumped all over that deal to get the expiring. I also downloaded next year's legit draft class and happen to have the Jazz's 1st round pick (the AI does not value those properly). I put Deng into the TRADE FINDER and had 29 offers, including Batum straight up. But honestly, Deng's pretty decent in that game, and I'd rather have the expiring. Clearly hoping one of the studs opts out.

This has been a rumor for awhile, and I don't care. If he doesn't want his sexual preferences to be public (if true) and they become public, that's too bad.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Dec 29, 2013 -> 10:55 PM) I don't know how letting people know what movies are available online now is trying to sound "cool" in any way. That's just stupid. I'm being helpful. You are better than me, so just ignore it and let others enjoy it. Anyway, American Hustle is now up as well. You're a real Robin Hood.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Dec 30, 2013 -> 12:35 PM) Sounds like someone finally got another GM to trade for Luol Deng No, but I did find the TRADE FINDER feature, which included offloading Boozer and Taj for Pau's expiring.

My f***ing Lord is NBA 2k14 on next gen f***ing incredible.

The worst of many bad calls was the roughing the passer.

"Saving Mr. Banks" was a surprisingly excellent film. Sometimes it's nice to just see an enjoyable flick, though it earns its PG-13 rating with some extremely dark (and real) subject matter. EDIT: Oh, and JCM, anyone who cares to illegally download movies can find out for themselves if there's "DVD quality" screeners available. I don't think it's fitting discussion for the films thread. If you watch any of them, go ahead and talk about them. Anyone can torrent movies and you're not cool or original for doing so yourself.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 28, 2013 -> 09:09 PM) No, there would be no way to waive Bynum without paying the remaining year on his contract, and Boozer (or Rose) are the only 2 on the Bulls the Amnesty clause could be used on. It would still eat every cent of cap space the Bulls could have next offseason and possibly make it impossible to bring Mirotic over. Derrick Rose cannot be amnestied. He was extended after the new CBA went into place, hence the "Derrick Rose Rule".