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  1. 24 minutes ago, MrBig said:

    Helios is the sole contractor for expanding, operating, and maintaining Happy Valley for M7. When did they say Helios was using their own money to fund operations? Helios gets paid through their contract with M7. 

    At the M7 meeting in Russia, Helios told the M7 it would need $2 trillion to mine the asteroid from Mars. Irina said that Helios stands to gain the most because Helios gets paid right away while everyone else has to wait 40 years to see the benefits. How does this mean Helios is footing the bill for everything?

    Helios outright owns the technology which enables the drilling of the asteroid, colony on mars, etc. This was from season 3. Dev invented the fusion engine that literally the entire mars colony uses, and helios is the sole provider of it. The base, the ships, the drilling crew, they are all helios owned. They own the energy, they own the base, they own the equipment, and they own the crew. Just because Helios would see an immediate return on investment, doesn't mean they also aren't footing the largest portion of the bill. In fact, the very reason they asked for $2 trillion in the first place, is because only they will be the ones supplying the equipment and man power at their own cost. Helios is a P3 entity. The reasons the US balks is because they only have a 2-term window for any president to take advantage of the asteroid, and Russia has no need since they already are cut in on the supply side of Iridium on mars.

    This is made more clear by the role Dev has on the base. Officially, he's only below Danni as Captain, but Dev is officially simply a Helios employee. He's not actually any government official or anything. The only thing that gives him power up there is that he owns everything on mars.

  2. Just now, Pato del Muerto said:

    I don’t think their plan cost those countries trillions.  They will still be mining the thing, they will just be doing it from mars instead of earth.  That added cost isn’t much compared to what they made the asteroid mining worth overall. 

    I'm surprised so many missed that Helios was funding basically everything on mars. That was a running thread in the first half of the season, how the M7 *aren't* picking up their share of the bill and how much Helios, prior to Dev taking it back, is paying for it all. This is the heart of the entire conflict with Danni as Captain -- she always had to curtail to Helios because they owned everything. To the degree where Ed can just walk wherever the hell he wants on the base despite being "confined" to his quarters. Whether on Earth or mars, Helios was going to be footing the majority of the bill to mine the Asteroid. Which is why he decided to say fuck it and go after it in the first place.

  3. 8 minutes ago, LTtxfan said:

    Jan 31st at Texas...  so 7 days.

    Already too late at ohio state per Bobby Burton

    Let me be the first to say that if a 5-star linebacker or safety or something is looking to transfer to a school, that it is passed the point for "intro to ballroom dancing" add/drop will not stop them from coming.

    Don't you guys remember what it was like at school? Your councilor can literally do anything they want. I was able to bug my way into classes well passed add/drop just by sticking to my councilor at UT like a fly on horse shit, and I couldn't catch a pass to save my life.

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  4. On 1/16/2024 at 8:46 AM, MrBig said:

    Seasons 1 & 2 were the best. Everything after Season 2 just isn’t as good as the early episodes of the show.
     

     

    I find seasons 3 and 4 have higher highs but overall season 1 was front to back the best. Season 3 in particular is so, soooo fucking stupid for the vast majority of it. But that said, holy shit, when this show is hitting the highs, it's incredible. That bit with Sam on the engine in the finale made my palms sweat.

  5. On 12/16/2023 at 8:54 AM, hornian said:

    Ohio State wasn’t exactly a skill fucking, either. 

    I kinda disagree. It was tight until midway through the fourth, when Texas really did start skull fucking OSU. The score isn't reflective of how thoroughly we beat them down at the end. They couldn't do anything after VY's TD throw. We should have won that game by multiple TDs.

  6. 3 minutes ago, Deej said:

    I had a friend who would come over, and we'd play 2k1 online for hours on end. It was so easy to destroy other people online with second player. I had the keyboard attachment so we could talk shit to the people we were beating up on. 

    I had this little microphone that plugged into the dreamcast controller, it was funky. It wasn't like a normal modern headset, it was like bob barker's microphone on price is right, a tiny green ball on a very long stick that pointed upwards. It was my first time ever using voice chat in a game, and I talked so much mad shit in that game haha. Great memories.

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  7. 1 minute ago, Longboard Horn said:

    I haven't played a Madden game in forever, but I would definitely play this. 

    The Michael Jordan mode from NBA 2K a few years back was fucking awesome, too. That was a little bit different, instead of it being one single cinematic story, you had to follow his career and recreate his greatest feats. So, like, there's an episode called "The Shrug" where you have to drain 6 threes in a half against the Trailblazers, which unlocks a cutscene of Jordan's shrug. Or there's an episode called "The flu" where you have to drain a buzzer beater with all your stats down to minimum. Stuff like that. It was really cool.

  8. 4 minutes ago, Deej said:

    Fond memories of 2K1 on the Dreamcast. First time playing a football game with online functionality. So much fun.

    Same. I'd played online before on my computer with stuff like Quake, but playing an actual football game online was like a whole other level. I actually bought the LAN adapter for the Dreamcast for that game to get better online experience. I remember the commercial for the game too, with a bunch of Packers fans jawing over the internet and a virtual Randy Moss begging the player to shut them up, lol.

  9. I gotta say I fucking love the opening to this story mode. It begins when Devin and his friend Colt are little kids, practicing pee wee football with Devin's dad. Devin's dad is wearing an Oiler's jacket, and sets up a situation for an "All texas superbowl" where he's the Texans, and Devin and Colt are the Cowboys in a last second drive on 4th down. You can actually win or lose this game depending on what you do, and it affects the story.

  10. 1 minute ago, ousux said:
    6 minutes ago, WelfareBuysMyWeed said:
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    The basic gist of the story is Devin is a super highly rated recruit when he comes to Texas, and is supposed to be Colt McCoy's Successor. His dad dies int a car accident just a couple of games into his career, and Devin quits football over it. The Texas fans are brutal, and turn on him, calling him the biggest bust in college football history. He's absolutely reviled at Texas for quitting.
    The story ends with him getting to play one last game at DKR for a reality TV show called 'The Longshot' where the winner gets a shot at being in the NFL draft. He leads a comeback at DKR, and the climax is that he finally wins over Texas Longhorn fans, who end the game chanting his name. The announcers even make note of it: "For him to come here, and win over these fans specifically, has to be a special moment for him."

     

    That does make us sound like true SEC fans, so I guess a little prophetic? I can see why they didn't follow Nate's story exactly (nobody cares who the long snapper is as long as they have good snaps) and that's just typical Hollywood style sports drama, no biggie.

    Yeah, deffo creative liberties. Like, for example, Devin played football in highschool and college, Nate didn't. But it still is pretty cool, it was worth killing an evening watching IMO.

  11. 1 minute ago, Deej said:

    2k was the tits. 

    The very last one, ESPN 2K5, was fucking incredible, and it was only $20 instead of Madden's $60. That game outsold madden, and that's when EA bought the exclusivity deal. One of the worst things the NFL could have possibly done IMO. You're absolutely right about Madden's gameplay, that's precisely why I don't play any football games anymore. Madden has always been pretty awful.

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  12. Just now, ousux said:

    What about it is "kind of a bad look for Longhorns fans?"

    Spoiler

    The basic gist of the story is Devin is a super highly rated recruit when he comes to Texas, and is supposed to be Colt McCoy's Successor. His dad dies int a car accident just a couple of games into his career, and Devin quits football over it. The Texas fans are brutal, and turn on him, calling him the biggest bust in college football history. He's absolutely reviled at Texas for quitting.

    The story ends with him getting to play one last game at DKR for a reality TV show called 'The Longshot' where the winner gets a shot at being in the NFL draft. He leads a comeback at DKR, and the climax is that he finally wins over Texas Longhorn fans, who end the game chanting his name. The announcers even make note of it: "For him to come here, and win over these fans specifically, has to be a special moment for him."

     

  13. 5 minutes ago, Deej said:

    Too bad EA spent time on that instead of fixing the actual gameplay. 

    You can take it all the way back to "too bad the NFL signed an exclusive deal with EA." NFK2K/ESPN2K was light years better than any EA football game, college or pro.

    I remember walking into Funcoland right after I had bought my Dreamcast in '99 with my dad to buy a memory card, and they had NFK2K playing on a small TV in the corner, and it actually fooled my dad into thinking it was a live football game.

  14. 1 hour ago, BabaYaga said:

    Listened to a podcast Nate was on and his story about how me made the team.  Pretty cool to have him unpack it like he did.  He basically walked on at practice, and I think it was Mad Dog that had a soft spot for soldiers who talked to Mack and gave him his shot.  He spent months and months learning to deep snap and the rest is history.  

    Everything I've ever heard about Nate Boyer makes him sound like an incredible person. I'm so glad he got to represent the University.

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  15. 1 minute ago, Newy25 said:


    There was a fucking Ben Shapiro tweet on gender on this thread. Take this abortion to the politics board. 

    it was actually a 9-volt tweet about how god damn lame "did you just assume my gender" jokes are, pointed at the person making the "can I assume your gender" joke unprovoked. Also, get your fingers out of your ass, you fucking moron.

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  16. 2 hours ago, Farmer Vincent said:

    It wasn't really a joke, you don't sound like guys, not any I have ever met. They gave you guys the whole section over in the Cloak Room, you ruined it, there's no discussions going on over there, but it's yours - enjoy, just please keep this shit off the football board

    how about you shut the fuck up and take this bullshit to cloak room, you fucking hypocrite dipshit? YOU'RE the one going off about how your fucking tee tee hurts over this shit for multiple posts.

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