DMN in the House

'Must have struck a chord, a minorrrrr' Don't stop, but he's already dead.

Kendrick baited Drake with 616, Drake walked right into that shit. 'I can predict your angles', and he already had this shit ready. Unless Drake really doesn't have more kids I think dude is done. KDot is too much for that man and his ghostwriters. Toronto ain't been down this bad since LeBron left Cleveland. I haven't been this excited for rap beef since the mid-90s. We haven't reached Pac/Biggie levels, but we're at least at Cube/NWA levels already. J. Cole made the right choice. EDIT: When I say Drake is done, I don't mean as an artist or anything, but, man, like, he doesn't have the lyrical ability to fuck with Kenny, and I don't think there's near as much dirt on him as there is on Drake just based on how they live their lives. 2024 is officially the Year of the Hater, tho.

AHHH, I fucked up and put the wrong draft in and can't fix it! My last other save was in 1995 when I made a separate one so I could play as expansion Toronto...

I've been doing a Lakers sim where I started with the 83-84 team (just starting the 96-97 season now), went to three straight Finals (so five straight total, including the two before the game starts), lost all three to the Celtics. Magic won three straight MVPs in those years as well. Jordan went to the Clippers, they went to the Finals the year after those three, lost to the Celtics, then we went back and lost to the Knicks. We haven't been back since. I've kept it pretty realistic, working with my low draft picks because we're usually a solid team, got guys like Rod Strickland, Hot Rod Williams, Michael Curry, solid roleplayers. I ended up trading James Worthy in the early 90s because he didn't want to re-sign, which brought us back Mitch Ritchmond, who I then traded when he didn't want to re-sign for a draft pick that ended up turning into Jalen Rose (I used my own that season for Juwan Howard). I swung one BIG trade, though, sent Joe Barry Carroll (my starting C) and 5 first round picks (three in 1992, my 1994 and 1995) to Minnesota for the first overall and drafted Shaq. I then started setting up by trading guys I wasn't going to re-sign for 1996 lottery tickets, and it paid off with the first overall, so right now we've got a starting line-up of 37 year old Magic Johnson, Rod Strickland, Jalen Rose, Juwan Howard, and Shaq, with rookie Kobe as the sixth man and Michael Curry as our defensive stopper. We've kept Pat Riley as the coach the entire time, and I don't think we've missed the playoffs once, even if we haven't won any titles, but I've had fun with the roster. Magic also wants to re-sign instead of retire, so I might be able to get a couple years of Magic/Kobe/Shaq which, man, that would be fun to watch. Oh, and Dr. J is our head assistant. We've also had Rick Adelman and Rudy Tomjanovich as assistants at different points. EDIT: I guess with the way this game has gone, I should probably start loading up on lottery tickets for 2003, yeah? EDIT 2: WE FINALLY WON A TITLE!

I don't think we're going to be bad this year, and I don't think that's the plan, tbh. We'd have to try really hard to be worse than Denver based on roster alone, and I don't think we'll be worse than the Chargers, either. The defense was solid after Pierce took over last year, and Minshew is enough of an upgrade to AOC that the Raiders will probably be around .500 at worst. I'm not sure where they go for a QB after next season, none of the prospects really excite me. Saw reports that he's going to sign so it can be auctioned off for St. Jude's, which is pretty cool.

It was completely unnecessary and tone-deaf, and it doesn't do much to make Tony's detractors look wrong. I already said my piece in The Ring where it probably belongs, anyway. Really loving the Raider's draft thus far. I wouldn't be surprised if Bowers turns out to be the best player in the draft, he has that type of talent, and JPJ should slot right in at guard before moving to center in a few years when Andre James contract is up. Now, if the Raiders can keep drafting well in the later rounds like they have the last few years, things could really come together.

Finally upgraded to 2k24, and settled on a Jordan era (1991) Lakers team. Magic is out with HIV, but he's on the roster, so I might have him return next season, we'll see. Just started, so I don't have much to say yet, but, man, having the 'NBA on NBC' music for the quarter and half music of games really hits different. Brings back a lot of memories of watching 90s basketball.

Whatever it is, they should keep doing it. They may never beat the Las Vegas Raiders. Sorry @Meacon Keaton, I still love you. Bowers and Meyer is absolutely going to terrorize defenses.

Nah, I still get to laugh at Denver's, even with Bo Nix. Man, we should probably go defense, but Brock Bowers and Michael Mayer two TE sets sound fun.

FaLOLcons.

They're giving Reggie Bush his Heisman back. I might be a (an? That sounds weird) UCLA fan, but it's a long time coming, shouldn't have taken it away in the first place.

I'm just going to say it, I'm tired of playing the fucking Oilers in the playoffs.

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.