DMN in the House

The Dallas Cowboys have already moved from ALL IN to ALL OUT.

BRB, gonna go re-enact the plot of Celtic Pride with Nikola Jokić.

Probably going to end up facing the Nuggets. Might as well do it in the first round, had LBJ and AD at the healthiest they'll be in the playoffs. If the Lakers can somehow get past them, I think they have as good a chance as any team in the West to go all the way.

Honestly, draft stuff has kind of died down recently. I saw a tweet that was basically 'no teams are talking and none of them have decided on who they're taking', lol. I think outside of Caleb Williams at one, and Jim Harbaugh wanting to draft Michigan Men, everyone's keeping their mouths shut and watching what happens.

The fact that either fail to understand, or have no respect for, the way our criminal justice system is supposed to work is unsurprising.

It was probably an unnecessary comment, but I was more just trying to draw a parallel to our current political climate and polarization. I see a lot of looking back and thinking it was better, even I fall in to it some time, so it was more a comment on that than towards anyone or any place specifically. I definitely agree that most posters here who are American and old enough to really remember it understand it. (Edit: I should say that I'm pretty sure most of our fellow non-American posters get it too, tbf. This is a pretty progressive and educated board). On a side note, I remember when the Bronco chase happened, because they went up the 405, which was literally three-four blocks from my house at the time, you could see it from my bedroom. It's kind of surreal looking back at it.

I think I saw that the HOF put out a statement about his football exploits remaining in their archive or something similar. I'm not sure what they could say, really, he was already in the Hall when everything happened. I'm sure the NFL doesn't want to touch it with a ten-yard pole. I have seen quite a few postings on Reddit of the jurors from the case talking about it being 'revenge' (not their words, I can't remember the exact wording) for Rodney King. I wish I could say it's hard to understand how polarized Los Angeles (and honestly, the country as a whole) was on the issue of race, but I'm sure even people who weren't around or old enough to remember can understand that now.

None of that mattered once Fuhrman took the fifth on planting evidence despite answering other questions. That was a killshot of reasonable doubt.

Is saying he definitely did it, but, between the LAPD and the prosecution he was rightfully acquitted because his defense team was able to bring reasonable doubt into it, a hot take? He got off because Mark Fuhrman was a dumbass Nazi who tried to frame a guilty man, Marcia Clark and Christopher Darden were woefully outclassed by Johnnie Cochran, daddy Kardashian, F. Lee Bailey, and the rat looking guy who was friends with Epstein who's name I forget, and because the LAPD were incredibly corrupt and racist (and still only the second most corrupt and racist police force in Los Angeles). It's also come out that he allegedly sexually assaulted and battered two women when he was at USC. Hell of a football player, though. Kind of like Chris Benoit in that regard.

Finally got my wifi turned back on so I can play Starship Troopers: The Movie The Game... I mean HellDivers II. I'll probably be trying it out a good chunk of the day tomorrow if anyone else is playing it. I think my PSN is in my bio, but if not it's L4nc3K4t.

It's not that complicated. You can still hip-drop, you just can't hip-drop onto the ball carrier, you have to land to the side of them. Oh, and Sauce Gardner said some shit about 'Jews ruling the world' on a podcast, so it looks like the Jets two biggest names share a love for conspiracy.

I don't know if the did them for 24, I'm sure someone did, but 2k23 had draft classes with 50+ real players (like, down to guys like Jorge 'Giant' Gonzalez, yes, that Giant Gonzalez). They're up under multiple names, but if you search '[year] 50+' (honestly, you only need the year and 5) they should pop up. They're what I use, although I do think some of the ratings are too 'flat', if that makes sense, most guys that get drafted are in the low 70s at worst, even if they washed out of the NBA irl.

They added an 'Eras' mode in 2k23, which had four eras, one starting in 1983 [Bird/Magic], one in 1992 [Jordan], one in 2002 [Kobe] and then Modern [2023-24 season]. I think 2k24 tweaked the years some. The stock rosters and draft classes are ok, but the draft classes are missing a LOT of people and the rosters are going to be missing guys like Reggie Miller and Charles Barkley. At least for 23, there were created rosters and draft classes for each year that were very good. It's not perfect, some of the cap stuff is a little anachronistic, but it's a lot of fun.

So, I was already mostly through that second season when I started this, plus I usually play as a deep bench player if I do play, and we finished the 1984-85 season with a championship, first seed in the West, fourth best record overall. We then went 15-0 in the playoffs, I played the first game of each series as Olajuwon, then the rest as the end of rotation guys. We did have some tough moments, Seattle in the first wasn't too bad, but the Jazz took us to overtime in the first two games before we pulled away. The Clippers made the WCF from the 7th seed behind a great post-season by Terry Cummings, but didn't have the horses to keep up with us. We faced Detroit, off back to back seven game series, including an ECF over Boston, who arrived a little earlier than IRL, mostly on the back of IT and Laimbeer. They had home court, and were tough in the first two, but I have deep bench players better than their rotation players, so, especially with their backup big, Bill Walton out, they just didn't have enough to keep up. No draft picks or cap space this season, so the only big move was swapping Bob McAdoo, my third C for Robert Reid to be my 2nd SF. It gives me a solid ten in rotation, although the deeper bench will be weaker this year.