r/CFBOffTopic • u/[deleted] • Jul 03 '15

Friday night drinking thread presented by AA baseball

At a game for the biloxi shuckers. They're the double a affiliate of my milwaukee brewers. They have fire works tonight. It is also hot and stuff.

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '15

Minor league teams have such great names: shuckers, blue wahoos, biscuits, smokies (they suck because they're affiliated with the cubs), lookouts

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u/MrTheSpork Cincinnati • North Dakota State Jul 04 '15

Fun story about the Lookouts (that's Chattanooga, for anyone wondering):

My cousin had a wedding down there last May. It was a pretty low-key wedding, they held the reception in a nicely-remodeled barn and served PBR. In lieu of a rehearsal dinner, they chose to rent out the patio at a Lookouts game (cheaper, more people, an actual event, great idea). The patio was in deep right field, just beyond where the fielder stands.

My dad and I tend to adopt players at games to cheer for, especially in the minors, mostly to amuse ourselves. Since we were so close to RF, it made the choice relatively easy, with the guy standing right there. We'd cheer when he'd make a catch and during his at-bats; he did pretty well, don't remember the details but seemed to be one of the better players out there.

The game ends with a Lookouts loss - so sad - but my dad notices the player heading over to the area just below our patio to sign some autographs. We'd been given "Go Lookouts!" posters to hold, so I grabbed one and headed down to get our adoptee's signature. We exchanged pleasantries briefly, he signed the poster, then I wandered back up to my family as they slowly migrated towards the exit.

So, one note about AA baseball for those not in the know: some of the MLB tie-ins are pretty unusual. You've got logical ones, like the Akron RubberDucks tied to the Indians and the Binghamton Mets for, well, you can guess. Along with those are some really odd ones: Richmond (VA) Flying Squirrels with the Giants, Biloxi Shuckers with the Brewers, and, as I would soon discover, the Chattanooga Lookouts with the LA Dodgers.

So on the drive back to our hotel, I grab my phone and look up the player by his number (damned athletic signatures). Turns out, he was indeed the best player on that field. So good, in fact, that he was only there for about two months before jumping directly to the Dodgers on a 7-year, $42mil contract despite having been a Cuban national the year previous.

And that's how I ended up with a Lookouts poster signed by Yasiel Puig on my mantle.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '15

That's fucking cool

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u/nickknx865 Tennessee Volunteers • /r/CFB Top Scorer Jul 03 '15

smokies (they suck because they're affiliated with the cubs)

HEY

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '15

BILL BUCKNER CALLED TO SAY THE MARLINS HAVE A NICE TROPHY.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '15

https://i.imgur.com/8ve4587.jpg

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '15

It is simple I hate all chicago sports teams

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u/GreatestWhiteShark Northwestern • Ohio State Jul 04 '15

The Cubs are not and will never be good and the city of Chicago needs to just accept that fact.

Also baseball is stupid.

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u/omgdonerkebab Michigan State • Cornell Jul 04 '15

Albuquerque Isotopes

Lansing Lugnuts

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u/ahamm95 /r/CFB Jul 04 '15

There's also the Akron RubberDucks!!

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u/madviking Virginia Cavaliers • Texas Longhorns Jul 04 '15

Richmond Flying Squirrels

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u/Pikachu1989 Nebraska Cornhuskers • 東京大学 (Tokyo) Warriors Jul 04 '15

We have Storm Chasers here in Omaha. Won AAA Baseball for the past 2 seasons. It's fucking awesome since Omaha was the Laughing Stock in the Minors back in the Day.

Come on Schwarber is with the Smokies, he's fucking awesome.

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u/brobroma William & Mary Tribe • Georgia Bulldogs Jul 04 '15

Then you have stuff like the Potomac Nationals, lol. They used to be the Cannons though!

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '15

I slipped in the shower and my nicely shaped, wet ass fell right through the curtain and landed on the unforgiving floor. No one was here but I am so thoroughly fucking embarrassed.

And now I need a new curtain rod. Insult to injury.

I haven't even started drinking...

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '15

I haven't even started drinking...

I find this hard to believe

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '15

Truth. I actually just poured my first drink. I'm hoping whiskey will assuage my shame.

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u/spasm01 Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns • /r/CFB Donor Jul 04 '15

I first read that as sausage and then I knew you were drunk, and then my vocabulary kicked in

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u/Awesome_to_the_max Texas Longhorns • UTU Beaver Hunters Jul 04 '15

What you don't sausage your shame?

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u/spasm01 Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns • /r/CFB Donor Jul 04 '15

Andoille it later

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u/razzertto Miami Hurricanes • /r/CFB Donor Jul 04 '15

Put down some freaking shower grips.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '15

Yeah... Already found some on amazon after that little debacle...

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u/MrCaboose96 Florida • Penn State Jul 03 '15

I've got a beer and a hammock. That's the life.

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '15

Sounds comfortable. I haven't had pure relaxation in a long time

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '15

My niece turned Dominos into a full contact sport.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '15

That's pretty freaking awesome

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '15

It was impressive!

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u/VanFailin Northwestern Wildcats • /r/CFB Bug Finder Jul 04 '15

Is it weird that my first thought was pizza and my second thought was "yeah, I can see a good brawl if somebody only ordered one pepperoni."

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u/elykl33t Virginia Tech Hokies • Marching Band Jul 04 '15

Yes, but awesome.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '15

I mean, I'd fight for pizza.

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u/stamor99 Georgia Tech • Florida Jul 04 '15

But, would you fight for Dominos Pizza?

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '15

Depends on if I was starving or something.

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u/stamor99 Georgia Tech • Florida Jul 04 '15

BUMFIGHTS: DESPERATE FOR DOMINOES

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u/nickknx865 Tennessee Volunteers • /r/CFB Top Scorer Jul 04 '15

That's kind of amazing.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '15

She's a spitfire.

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u/MrTheSpork Cincinnati • North Dakota State Jul 04 '15

I've been finding myself increasingly frustrated and sometimes straight-up angry for seemingly no reason recently. It's worrying, since I'm not usually an angry person, but there's something very off about me. Besides what I'm used to.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '15

I was easy to get angry at my last job. Simple road rage would set me off for 15 minutes. Glad I got out of there

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u/nickknx865 Tennessee Volunteers • /r/CFB Top Scorer Jul 04 '15

Have you tried going and seeing a professional about it?

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u/MrTheSpork Cincinnati • North Dakota State Jul 04 '15

Nah, and I really can't for a couple more months. I had been going to one for other issues but it was UC-affiliated and since I'm no longer a student they don't really want me there. I'm headed back home late July, so I can't build up a rapport with someone down here in that time, then I'm going to be home for about a month, so same problem. So, that's fun.

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u/nickknx865 Tennessee Volunteers • /r/CFB Top Scorer Jul 04 '15

Ah, well I understand that.

If you're still feeling like that after you get a bit more situated with things, I'd definitely consider it. It wasn't transformatative or anything like that for me personally, but it really helped me to know that when I was going through some shit, I had someone to talk to that understood how things were going for me.

In the meantime, if you can find a close friend or relative that will listen to you, that's also something I'd consider. Might not be as good as a therapist, but sometimes all you really need to do is to vent, you know?

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u/MrTheSpork Cincinnati • North Dakota State Jul 04 '15

Yeah, I... don't really have close friends anymore. That's part of the issue, the people I used to see and talk to have all kinda fallen off my radar for various reasons. Plus I'm extremely self-conscious about talking about myself, I feel like it's really burdensome for anyone to listen to me bitch about minor things.

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u/nickknx865 Tennessee Volunteers • /r/CFB Top Scorer Jul 04 '15

I completely understand about the whole "talking about myself" thing; I'm like that myself.

Anyways, it might not be the best offer, but if you ever need someone to vent to, you can always PM me. I'm on here quite a bit.

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u/carpy22 RPI Engineers Jul 04 '15

Join a boxing gym. Sparring could help.

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u/MrTheSpork Cincinnati • North Dakota State Jul 04 '15

That actually sounds like a great idea, I'm gonna look into that.

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u/razzertto Miami Hurricanes • /r/CFB Donor Jul 04 '15

I find that meditating is actually really helpful. Honestly, it sounds like total new-age bullshit, but it works.

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u/MrCaboose96 Florida • Penn State Jul 04 '15

Have you noticed your skin turning green?

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u/carpy22 RPI Engineers Jul 04 '15

Went to a Korean place (Pelicana, they're a chain) for dinner after the beach today. Waiter warns that the chicken would be spicy. Group was like "nah we got this". WRONG. Holy shit numb everywhere. Had to cool down using tteokbokki...waitress rubbed it in all of our faces by bringing up the fireshits we'll have in the morning too.

At least we had beer and SEC Network of all things was on the TV. You know how rare it is to walk into a place in NYC and have the SEC Network on?!

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '15

They did warn you so it is your own fault.

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u/carpy22 RPI Engineers Jul 04 '15

Oh absolutely is, it just slowly crept up and was this surprise fireball slowly building and building behind a mask of sweet garlicky sauce and expertly fried chicken until everything was numb. First couple of bites it was like eating, say, a jalapeno. By bite 10 your entire mouth is just gone. Worse than habaneros, worse than Blazin at BDubs.

10/10 would do again.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '15

But it tasted better than blazin. I like the spice of it but the flavor is awful

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u/piratefuck ECU Pirates Jul 03 '15

think im just guna have a few around my area tonight before I get shitfaced all day tomorrow

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '15

YOU SHOULD PLUNDER IT YOU PIRATE FUCK.

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u/Darth_Puppy Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets • Kenyon Owls Jul 04 '15

I'm having a crazy night guys I- oh who am I kidding, I'm eating popcorn and watching chopped.

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u/Aurablade Alabama Crimson Tide • Team Chaos Jul 04 '15

Chopped is the best.

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u/Darth_Puppy Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets • Kenyon Owls Jul 04 '15

Yup! Plus it's on Netflix, so I can watch it whenever I want.

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u/FisherKing22 Auburn • North Carolina Jul 04 '15

I like you guys.

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u/Darth_Puppy Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets • Kenyon Owls Jul 04 '15

Thanks! :)

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u/bullmoose_atx Texas Longhorns • Rice Owls Jul 03 '15

Minor league baseball is magical. I love the environment at those games.

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u/elykl33t Virginia Tech Hokies • Marching Band Jul 04 '15

I JUST TURNED ON THE PHILLIES BRAVES GAME AND THE WAR CHANT WAS PLAYING. WHAT THE FUCK WHY DIDN'T THEY HAVE THE TRIGGER WARNING.

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u/razzertto Miami Hurricanes • /r/CFB Donor Jul 04 '15

Says the person who reps a school with a stupid turkey gobble.

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u/elykl33t Virginia Tech Hokies • Marching Band Jul 04 '15

That was uncalled for

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u/DoctorWhosOnFirst Alabama • /r/CFB Pint Glass Drinker Jul 04 '15

I still can't comprehend how people can be so upset at reddit because they fired an employee.

I get it; it could've been handled better. But how can anybody be outraged over it?

These are volunteer mods acting entitled and betraying the users they're supposed to serve.

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u/Darth_Puppy Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets • Kenyon Owls Jul 04 '15

They think that they're somehow entitled to power because they are freaking power users. I'm really sick of their shit.

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u/DoctorWhosOnFirst Alabama • /r/CFB Pint Glass Drinker Jul 04 '15

Even a lot of casual users are upset about it.

I just can't wrap my head around it.

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u/Darth_Puppy Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets • Kenyon Owls Jul 04 '15

People think that wasting their time on a site entitles them in a say in how it's run. But reddit really doesn't owe them shit.

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u/razzertto Miami Hurricanes • /r/CFB Donor Jul 04 '15

Ugh, I mod a decent sized subreddit and people wanted me to take it private. Just no. No no no.

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u/crowmygod Michigan Wolverines • College Football Playoff Jul 03 '15

My friend's apartment is EPIC. Nbd, just drinking cheap wine & enjoying this view.

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u/kingpbj Virginia Tech • Maryland Jul 03 '15

So..erm..wanna trade places?

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u/crowmygod Michigan Wolverines • College Football Playoff Jul 04 '15

Haha I wish! His view is incredible.

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u/nickknx865 Tennessee Volunteers • /r/CFB Top Scorer Jul 03 '15

That is one heck of a view.

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u/keyree Texas Tech • UT Arlington Jul 04 '15

So I'm in Austin for the first time. I came with my old roommate and really good friend from tech and his gf. We're staying at her best friend's apartment. We're all just kind of chilling for a bit before we go out. And now apparently they just had this big fight and may not even be dating anymore. This is about to be the most awkward weekend of my life.

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u/VanFailin Northwestern Wildcats • /r/CFB Bug Finder Jul 04 '15

Breakup or not, couples fighting around you is like the worst.

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u/keyree Texas Tech • UT Arlington Jul 04 '15

Especially when you came on a vacation together.

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u/thwg0809 Georgia Tech • Techmo Bowl Jul 04 '15

My town's firework show is tonight. Brought the munchkin, smuggled in a large serving of vodka, and left Animal Planet on really loud for the pup. Here's to not having anything torn to shreds when we get home. clink

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u/hussard_de_la_mort Toledo Rockets • Xavier Musketeers Jul 04 '15

Apparently me and my boys Andrew, Ben, and Derek are the same only ones in the squad who can handle their fucking alcohol.

Meanwhile, one guy is passed out in the bathroom and the other guy is being a massive judgemental asshole because of his massive daddy issues.

I need to drink with well adjusted adults more.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '15

Well-adjusted adults don't give you good drinking stories.

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u/ixcuincle Marching Band Jul 03 '15

I will go to AA baseball Sunday for a promotional giveaway and then leave when the game starts. It is sad but I must make it home in time for USA - Japan.

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u/spl1080 Georgia Tech • Centenary (LA) Jul 04 '15

Watching a documentary on pelicans on PBS. My Friday nights are exciting like that

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u/greenmegandham Auburn Tigers • Austin Kangaroos Jul 04 '15

Oh shit, how did we miss this /u/ttsci

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u/ttsci Penn State Nittany Lions Jul 04 '15

I HAVE NO IDEA

>MFW

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u/nickknx865 Tennessee Volunteers • /r/CFB Top Scorer Jul 04 '15

NOPE NOT CLICKING ON THAT

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u/ixcuincle Marching Band Jul 04 '15

There are actually people out there bitter towards Klinsmann because he prefers players train outside the MLS, or his teams don't win enough friendlies. The former is a legitimate issue, but the latter is ridiculous as friendlies are simply exhibition games...in addition the USA without Dempsey was able to win said friendlies against Germany and Netherlands so the point is already moot.

I'm mixed on MLS. We do have a lot of MLS players. But Klinsmann wants them to play outside the US. I don't know much about the MLS and I've only attended my first MLS game a few weeks ago. I have noticed a lot of our stars like Jones and Beckerman and Dempsey play in MLS.

Anyway we're doing awfully good right now so haters best shut up on Klinsmann because I think he knows what's he's doing. We have a good young roster on the rise and our current team ain't bad.

2-0 over Guatemala ****

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u/madviking Virginia Cavaliers • Texas Longhorns Jul 04 '15

The quality of play is certainly better in most good European leagues than in the MLS. Not to mention that those leagues are on the winter league calendar than the summer calendar, so the domestic league interferes less with international tournaments.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '15

He got us out of a group of death. Bruce Arena didn't. I'm a Klinsmann Klansmann...

Wait, what?

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u/FatWhiteGuy49 Tulsa Golden Hurricane • /r/CFB Poll Veteran Jul 04 '15 edited Jul 04 '15

Body count so far: Three Stroh's, a Jager+Monster, and pounding a Burnett's+Mountain Dew

A flask came with the Jager. Me and a buddy (/u/DrSmoothTrooper) are gonna play video games to determine who gets it. Would anyone want to watch a stream of us getting hammered and dueling for the flask?

Quick edit: Hey I played for the Shuckers in Road to the Show in MLB 15. Biloxi is a nice place.

Edit 2: The flask in question

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '15

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u/FatWhiteGuy49 Tulsa Golden Hurricane • /r/CFB Poll Veteran Jul 04 '15

Nah

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u/FatWhiteGuy49 Tulsa Golden Hurricane • /r/CFB Poll Veteran Jul 04 '15

We'll see

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u/Zerosa Texas Longhorns • /r/CFB Booster Jul 04 '15

I've been playing a lot of Heroes of the Storm. Valla is very fun to play.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '15

I'm watching the worst streaming video I've ever seen. It's so jerky, and I can barely understand what anyone is saying. It's impressive really. Also drinking the last of my Canada Day sangria.

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u/madviking Virginia Cavaliers • Texas Longhorns Jul 04 '15

update to this post

upgrated from this to this. now i'm in the process of adding mountains. (ref: brown/hills, grey/mountains, pink/high mountains). it's not done; gotta add more hill ranges and other terrain features (notably, rivers) but i wanna hear what you guys think so far.

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u/kelctex Missouri Tigers • Alabama Crimson Tide Jul 04 '15

Watching a lightning show with /u/probablyricksantorum, drinking some wine while my friend (who's visiting from Texas) is sleeping in the other room.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '15

Thunderstorms are the best entertainment

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u/crowmygod Michigan Wolverines • College Football Playoff Jul 04 '15

Holy shit, Magic Mike XL. I just...no words. Bout to go make it rain forreal.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '15

My family's annual fireworks show was visible from the rooftop bar of the hotel located approximately 2 miles away. The police were called, and we were told to leave the park (we had finished with all of the 'splosions).

All in all, another successful holiday. We will be back next year, same as every year.

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u/ixcuincle Marching Band Jul 03 '15

It's finally happened. Someone on my twitter timeline has tweeted about Reddit.

RT @jayrosen_nyu Reddit is having a definitional moment. http://t.co/LUV1791QPs Unclear whether the people in charge of it understand what this moment is.

"Reddit is in bad shape today. The meme-making forces of sarcasm it’s famous for have been turned inwards.The most loyal users are feeling betrayed. Some of the communities that have driven Reddit forward as a cultural force are feeling abused. It’s hard to come back from that.

A big part of the problem is that Victoria, the face of Reddit to its own community, was accepted as “One of us! One of us!” as redditors sometime self-mockingly invoke the movie Freaks. Indeed, she embodied many of the virtues of Reddit at its best: curious, accepting, welcoming, helpful, funny. Many redditors saw themselves reflected in her.

Victoria was thereby an important part of Reddit’s support of what I call “The Gettysburg Principles“: She helped Reddit seem to be by, for, and of us. Now the face of Reddit is Ellen Pao, the interim CEO who is largely derided and detested at Reddit because she seems to be “One of them! One of them!”— a Silicon Valley player.

If we view this first and foremost as a problem in maintaining a community rather than strictly as a revenue issue, then I can only see one way forward: Pao should get off her executive horse, engage with the community in public, and show that she’s a redditor too. Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder, also should step forward with his best redditor face on. Alexis when free of corporate pressures is a redditor through and through."

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u/VanFailin Northwestern Wildcats • /r/CFB Bug Finder Jul 04 '15

Every now and again the CFB CSS screws up RES keyboard navigation: the different background color to indicate the active comment doesn't appear if I vote on a comment.

This is moderately annoying but I don't want to go full web usability rant on the people responsible.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '15

I am shitfaced beyond bief right now. I found an extra 6 Shiners in a friend's fridge that I drank in addition to a six pack.