StrangeSox

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Sep 30, 2013 -> 01:48 PM) I'm getting a little annoyed hearing that. I've been living in the back of this truck for a month, I haven't been home in a month, I haven't spent more than one consecutive night in the same place in a month. I've spent a combined 5 hours with people I've known from before this job in a month. Its actually been more than that but whatever, on a bad day this s*** is not easy for anyone. Guy who's been driving his whole life died in his cab 4 weeks ago and they just found him. So cut the bulls***, I see the job hunt thread and all the b****ing that goes on in Buster about "WHERE ARE THE JOBS???!??!?", well here's one. I'd be demeaned less if I were some welfare baby working part tine at McDonalds. QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 30, 2013 -> 01:22 PM) This could be a very interesting topic. But Duke, man, your posts on this are condescending to the point of narcissism. From a guy who has been trucking for a month. You won't get useful responses doing that.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Sep 30, 2013 -> 12:13 PM) I haven't read a single legitimate response. Its all been some weird attempt to say that I'm trying to play cop, claiming that your friend works for JB Hunt (OK...) and that means you know better or so just a flat out attack on me personally. The most compelling argument I've heard is that the truck is where you want to be and thus it should move, but I've seen how most of you all drive and that applies to everyone on the road. Don't expect everyone else, especially the guy who will almost assuredly kill someone if he screws up, to try moving mountains at the expense of safety to keep you satiafied. Were talking about vehicles that almost universally weigh in the tons traveling at very high speeds carrying fragile little humans. Think about that for a minute, how precarious those physics are. The goal here is not to whip around like you're pretending to be Sebastian Vettel, its not to shave 5 minutes off your commute, its to try and make this controlled form of chaos known as urban highways actually work to where people don't start dying. I'm not trying to enforce anything, I'm just doing my part the best I can. I'm not pretending to be super-trucker, I'm holding the same lane going a very consistent speed. I'm not trying to make you do anything. I just had one piece of advice that could save your life and the lives of those around you. That was it, as dumb as you all are and as much as you're better off taking the train, you don't deserve to die for being bad at driving. Its not a reasonable consequence considering how the slightest mistake can kill you on the highways But that's the reality of the situation, and instead of denying it because they don't want to go "slow" (speed limit, whatever) motorists just keep lining up to die like lambs to the slaughter because they refuse to respect that fact. Truckers are the Ubermensch of the roadways.

Gus was from Chile. I assumed an association with Pinochet's death squads. edit: Vince Gilligan gave this answer back in 2011: I thought they made it pretty clear about the love triangle thing at one point? edit2: as far as the book, some googling seems to indicate that they never explicitly show the exchange, but it's pretty clear when it happens. When Walt and Gale meet, Gale recites a Walt Whitman poem that Walt doesn't know. Later in that same episode, Walt is seen reading Leaves of Grass.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Sep 30, 2013 -> 08:17 AM) I really can't imagine a worse ending than this one.

Lol True facts: truckers never,ever engage in "lawlessness" and it is good and safe for them to act as traffic enforcement. Speed differential and forcing faster traffic around you is actually safer.

Story-wise it was great,but the episode really didn't have the classic bb tension past the scene with Gretchen and Elliott

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Sep 29, 2013 -> 09:18 PM) Could have been better, but I feel a little let down right now.

Went with ray rice over woodhead,whoops

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 29, 2013 -> 01:13 PM) We got dumb Cutler today

QUOTE (chw42 @ Sep 29, 2013 -> 01:58 PM) Holy s*** Alshon Jeffrey.

Solid defensive series

Finally something out of the line!

This game would be really ugly if Stafford wasn't so inaccurate today

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Sep 29, 2013 -> 01:29 PM) Lol. Yes he is. Where was your crying when he was winning games in the fourth quarter this season? What's our record without him? Terrible,and he should be back next year. But he makes really dumb decisions sometimes and that's just something you have to live with.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Sep 29, 2013 -> 01:20 PM) Not everyone, just reactionary emotional posters. Cutler made two characteristically dumb throws for interceptions and is a big part of why this game is getting it of hand

Didn't see a run by Bush coming!

Two forced fumbles but can't recover either of them

We got dumb Cutler today

kill all truckers edit: if you're seriously so concerned about blindspots, mount some cameras. They're dirt-cheap these days.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Sep 27, 2013 -> 02:36 PM) I did not mean they literally had every script written I just meant the story arc was completed. I don't know how much Vince Gilligan really had beyond building a boring, blend-into-the-wall Walt into a drug kingpin and then showing his undoing. I'm sure there were some general elements, like Hank finding him out, but a lot of the story has been crafted as it's gone on. There was an interview in GQ Bryan Cranston, and it included quotes from VG about how they'd throw out something early in a season knowing where they wanted to go but not really knowing yet how they would get there. Read More http://www.gq.com/entertainment/celebritie...6#ixzz2g7v0TVO8

QUOTE (CrimsonWeltall @ Sep 27, 2013 -> 03:05 PM) That's not the same at all. GOT is a fantasy world. Dragons were an established element of the universe - their presence was not mysterious. The origins of dragons was 0% of why people read the books or watched the show. Lost takes place in what is presented as the real world. The crazy things that happened were mysterious and this was the *primary hook* of the show. Viewers were waiting for interesting and well-written solutions to the mysteries and we got bupkis. GoT also has it's own internal logic and rules for how magic works. It's not reality, but it's not just complete randomness explained away by "magic" that never makes any sense. Lost didn't need a scientific, real-world explanation, but it needed a story arc that didn't render most of the plot lines irrelevant and/or contradictory.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Sep 27, 2013 -> 02:51 PM) I disagree. It was part of the world. It was part of the island's story. All of that stuff happened. It was all experiences that the characters had on the island. Why does that have to fit into the larger story of "what the hell is going on?" I agree with the second bolded. But everyone bought into it right up until the finale. See, the last sentence is exactly what's wrong with the first section of your post. Lost was a 'mystery,' plot-driven show. It was presented as if they were giving you all of these different puzzle pieces for you to figure out, and eventually it'll all (mostly) make sense by the end as more and more is revealed. Except the problem was that most of the stuff was completely irrelevant other than providing a sense of "mystery" for whatever episode they threw it in and was never relevant again. I accept that "dragons just exist" in ASOIAF, but they're pretty key plot elements. They didn't appear in the first and second books and then just vanish in the background. Lost repeatedly broke Chekhov's rule that goes "remove everything that has no relevance to the story. If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there." There was so much there that, ultimately, had zero relevance to the story. Compare the way Lost presented itself to Pulp Fiction or Ronin. Those movies had a briefcase whose contents were never revealed but still drove the plot. The difference is that those movies never pretended to be mystery movies that would give the viewers clues along the way as to what was in the case or how its contents all tied back to the rest of the plot. The contents were irrelevant. If you remove the mystery element of Lost, though, you're left with a cheesy soap opera.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Sep 27, 2013 -> 12:24 PM) Yeah I can't think of a ton of major mysteries that they didn't explain by the end of the show. edit: a good read http://www.cracked.com/blog/108-answers-to...ered-questions/ They "explained" some things but basically the whole first three or four seasons ended up being completely irrelevant to the end of the show. All of the mystery around Dharma, the one lady's dad's company, the bunkers, all of it really meant absolutely nothing by the end. eta: that article is horrible. Every "answer" is basically "who cares" or "magic," i.e. not actually answers at all. eta2: this is a good comment on that article. You can suspend disbelief and accept magic, unique physics, etc. in a story as long as it's internally coherent. I've no problem with magic and dragons in ASOAIF (GoT) because Martin took the time to establish the rules of his universe and stick to them. By the end, Lost was one deus ex machina after silly idea after another.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Sep 27, 2013 -> 01:09 PM) I still think they tried to make too many episodes of Lost . The good thing about Breaking bad is there was always an end point and better yet the entire story was completed before the series even began shooting. They knew where they ultimately wanted to go with Walt, but most of the episode plots evolved over the course of a season, e.g. Jesse was supposed to die in Season 1.

90% of Lost's story ended being completely dropped or irrelevant. All of the 'mystery' built over the first three seasons or so ended up not mattering at all.