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atomheartbevo

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  1. Are you some intern working for CDC? You’re fixated on the playoffs, which should have happened decades ago, when the bigger story is that the portal and NIL stuff has finally come home to roost. Your house is on fire and you’re worried about the fucking shrubbery out front burning down. No longer will the fabled blue bloods be locking up 3/4-star talent 2-3 deep in their bench, when the guys who find out they might not play for a couple of years can hit the portal, start for a lesser team, and start collecting that sweet NIL money itIt away. If you’re some decent recruit, for all of the sweet nothings whispered in your ears by the coaching staff, if you’re riding the bench out of the gate as a freshman, and you get to your sophomore year and are still behind somebody, and you realize that the world didn’t stop for you and they are recruiting hard at your position as well as hitting the portal for your position in case somebody better comes along, you will absolutely start thinking about the portal and NIL bucks elsewhere, because it’s all over your social media feeds. The NIL and Portal are far, far more important than the playoffs. We are about to see a whole lot of mid-tier teams fielding starters that would have been riding the bench at Texas, Bama, Georgia, Oregon, Ohio State, etc. and we are about to see a lot of top-tier teams having shallow benches.
  2. All that fucking whining about Notre Dame and nobody is stopping other teams from going indie, achieving success, and getting a big(ger) payout. And it’s the same crowd of people who whined about the Longhorn Network. If schools want to be independent, let them be independent. A whole lot of fans crying about Notre Dame are from schools whose teams are watching the playoffs at home. If you can get paid being indie, more power to you. Whose sock are you?
  3. I have no doubt that he has a lot of sex with Adrian Dittmann.
  4. Sometimes Reddit comes through ”Gray Pride” or “Pride and Prejudice”
  5. My kid asked which was the best year of videogames. I wanted to toss out something in the 90s when Sierra, Origin, LucasFilm, etc. were peaking…and 1990 could be a strong contender.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_in_video_games#Game_releases But damn, 2004 was huge in terms of influences still being felt today,
  6. This will never not be funny
  7. LOL, he just can't help outting himself. /pol/ - Politically Incorrect » Searching for posts with the tripcode ‘!SATANZ0Gpo’. World's richest man could be sailing through various island paradises and banging super models.....
  8. My favorite NFL team is and will always be the Houston Oilers.
  9. Ehh, they ain’t marching on Kyiv anytime soon. They still can’t kick out the Ukrainians fully out of Kursk. Well…
  10. Starbase, Texas, coming soon. City services to be paid in Bitcoin? Wages paid in Bitcoin? https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/24/us/starbase-texas-city-elon-musk-spacex.html https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/musk-says-spacex-headquarters-be-starbase-texas-2024-12-13/
  11. From a few days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42551900 John Friel my father, internet pioneer and creator of QModem, has died John Friel, remembered fondly as a pioneer of the internet through his creation of QModem, has passed away. Many reminisced about the profound impact QModem had on their lives, describing it as a gateway to the digital world, especially during the era of Bulletin Board Systems (BBS). Users shared heartfelt stories of how QModem transformed their childhoods, fostering a passion for technology and opening doors to future careers. John was also appreciated for his kindness and willingness to help others in their tech journeys. His legacy lives on through the countless lives he touched. ——- I worked with John for a few years in the 1990s. This was during the heyday of BBSes, when he joined our small team at Mustang Software after Mustang bought Qmodem. John moved to Bakersfield California (with his family, including OP!) to be with us. John left a few years later due to I think business differences with management. John was personable and full of joy. He always loved a good joke. I remember the parties (not wild, we were pretty tame back then) we would have around the pool at his place. He was generous with his time. The story of Qmodem itself was a bit different. Qmodem for DOS was a one-man shareware business and was John's pride and joy. It was clear that he poured everything into that program. It was finely tuned and just worked. Times were changing though, and people were calling for a Windows version. Unfortunately, John was not interested in learning Windows programming, so Scott Hunter (now at Microsoft), Dan Horn, and I built Qmodem for Windows. It was good, but it really never had the same level of polish that John's work did. It was "Qmodem" in name only. After John left Mustang he also left Bakersfield and I lost touch with him. I'm sure he continued to make the people around him smile. Thank you for your time and contributions, John. ———— Uggh, when the BBS folks are dying of old age…., and there was another earlier last year.
  12. He was looking for the thief that stole his Lucky Charms. Or too busy hanging out in Indiana
  13. He gave off a lot of red flags for concussions - any scouts are going to want to scour his medical records. I will be impressed if he goes in the fourth round.
  14. Yep. At the end of the day, he will end up being a trivia side note taking up a minute or two in a future ESPN 30-for-30 on Arch’s collegiate career or more likely on UT’s 2024-2027 National Championships and they will probably interview him, and he’ll be drooling all over himself talking about how ASU almost derailed the start of UT’s string of championships, or they will be talking about the string of concussions that led to his demise, and how it was evident in this game that there was something wrong with him. Or he’ll be featured in a 30-for-30 about concussions, or a 30-for-30 about the lawsuits against the NCAA for implementing a height requirement of 5-foot-6 or taller.
  15. Tell me you’ve never worked as a roadie and have never shacked up on the road with a Christian pop singer who received Grammy nominations for song and album of the year in the early 90s, while she was having problems with her husband, and it just so happened that she had passed through several towns where a string of arsons and attempted murders took place that involved a rival musician without telling me you did, and where witnesses described the main suspect as a woman in her 30s running around with a man who looked to be 10 years younger than her. That kind of experience would have cemented in you the notion that a well-paid law firm can easily shut down any questioning from police and deflect blame elsewhere.
  16. A Green Beret should have been able to do something far larger and more competent than what he did. It’s odd.
  17. And we are talking about puking, not crying.
  18. I’m not looking for it, sometimes it just slips in. Like finding yourself in the middle of a pseudo-incest porno with stepmoms or stepsisters getting stuck in appliances.
  19. I’ve seen this porno. The strap-on she uses on him…you could see it in the actor’s eyes. Also, the interrogation of the suspects required everybody to remove their clothes, which was unlike most, but not all, interrogations by law enforcement that I’ve experienced.
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