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I haven't combed the thread to see if someone posted this but this is an awesome article: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/art...m#ixzz1FTQLHDXB Best quote is from Scalabrine who got 1000 cool points from me for this: "I have a different word for killers. I call them motherf***ers. And right now, Derrick Rose is the baddest motherf***er in the league by far. He is the reason we win."

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Mar 2, 2011 -> 07:54 PM) STOP IT! Agreed, btw, if you can't shoot, like, at all, then go away. I mean. People like to say "all he needs to do is distribute in Boston's offense." Ok, yeah, but you are comparing him with guys who can score at will. You can't just hand-wave over it. He is a guard, and he can't shoot, and he shoots free throws like he's Ben Wallace or Shaq. Come on.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Feb 28, 2011 -> 09:29 AM) It's going to be so weird not having this opportunity with any future offspring. Some of my favorite moments as a kid were when Dad would take me to the video store and I'd be looking through the NES / Super Nintendo titles and then "discovering" old comedies... all with the smell of popcorn in the background. Blockbuster (and other local establishments like Video Outlet, etc) were a staple of my youth, and they are all but extinct now. Like

Rajon Rondo is simply not an elite point guard and I want people to stop comparing him to guys like Rose, Williams, Paul, Westbrook, and even Nash. Please. Stop it.

Lil Wayne. Getting really drunk. Napoleon Dynamite. Speeding. The PS3. (Not that I don't like the actual PS3, but the way too many PS3 owners talk about Xbox owners comes across as really obnoxious) Call of Duty Black Ops. (Again, not that I like it, it's just after playing every game before it I feel like I've played it already) Madden series. College football and basketball when it does not involve showcasing players who are about to go pro. Tom Brady.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 16, 2011 -> 01:57 PM) We are the exact opposite. Why create three times the work of managing all of the different accounts? We communicate just fine. No need to worry about getting money in the right place at the right time, because it only is in one place. If it takes three accounts to get things done, it sounds like communications or trust might be a problem. It's not three times the work if you're married to an idiot.

I had my return rejected (which has never happened before) because I answered the question wrong about whether I received a "Making Work Pay" credit or whatever it's called. I guess I got 2010 confused with 2009, they said my information didn't match theirs. So I changed that answer and it went up by $500. Ha, can't be mad about that.

Alan Wake was a great game but the ending was kind of like... umm, yeah whatever. I have no idea what was supposed to be happening. I finished that and went to load AC Brotherhood and my disc wouldn't read. f***...

I've gotten pedicures but its always something I do with a woman when she wants to do it. It really feels good and my feet do tend to be all sandpapery if I don't take extra care of them.

My gamerscore is EXACTLY 10000 right now. I almost don't want to do anything to get anymore.

Took me like 3 days to beat BioShock. Lol, I don't know why it was so hard at first. The story takes hat major twist about 2/3 of the way through. I'm missing a bunch of achievements, though. I know this is a ps3 heavy board but has anyone here played Alan Wake? That game is different.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 18, 2011 -> 05:40 PM) Addressing the #1 really poor decision from last year in a big way that almost no one can argue with is a pretty good way to placate your fan base. Right. Hard to argue with the worst offensive spot being replaced with the best offensive spot.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Feb 18, 2011 -> 12:17 AM) lost, Jay-zs output is his gift and his curse (like Snoop Dogg), they have produced so many albums that at this point even though they have a lot of great songs, they also have ones that unremarkable. Its pretty hard for me to pin down my favorite rapper, I generally have favorite songs that have rappers on them. I dont think every song can be an Atliens or Rosa Parks, I mean when you look at a group like Outkast they had their mainstream/pop "Hey Ya", but I cant blame them for wanting to make money. Ive been thinking about it a lot and maybe my biggest problem with Eminem is that I generally dont love the songs he samples and a lot of what I hear comes off similar. For example, "Toy Soldiers" I used to listen to all the time and obviously Stan was pretty big one. I like diverse albums but that might be because I started listening around Dre's Chronic and the album was kind of like a mini show. You never knew who was going to be appearing on the album and many times the best verses were from the rapper who was just appearing (ie some of Eminem on Chronic 2001) on the album. Now that I think about it I probably listened to D12 a ton of times and for a while I couldnt stop listening to Proof's "Kurt Cobain". But I think that just goes to show that depending on the mood/time/etc you may gravitate towards different artists/styles. Its hard to really decide, Im horrible at ranking things. That's fair enough, I don't expect people to agree with all of my opinions or anything but this is the first time I've gotten my s*** jumped in by several people at once for saying Em > Jay. lol. On another board I post on that's pretty much accepted as true. We had a thread where we tried ranking all rappers objectively. http://forums.armchairathletes.net/viewtop...6dee0190b58f241

You guys hate it when people do this in the Democrat thread... IJS, folks.

Well declaring bankruptcy ≠ the death of a business if there's still a market for what you're selling, and there obviously is for Giordano's. They must've been under some debt weight they couldn't support anymore. Hopefully they come out of this.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Feb 17, 2011 -> 08:00 PM) Hmnn....seems like that would be BMB....I think he means f*** Mark Buehrle I lol'd

Hopefully this doesn't mean the chain is actually in trouble.

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QUOTE (RockRaines @ Feb 17, 2011 -> 06:39 PM) You gotta love wireless. Think if we had to run Cat-5 all over the house. I've got 2 smart phones, 3 laptops, iMac, iPad, 2 iPods, PS3, and a printer all using my router right now. Such a great invention. Wireless printers are awesome. Before that I used to think USB printers were the coolest thing but even that still made you have to tether your printer close to your PC.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Feb 17, 2011 -> 06:36 PM) I had this same problem with my Linksys Wireless N purchased around the same time... I downloaded the latest firmware from the site and installed it and that fixed my s*** right up. Make sure you know how to re-configure your wireless network name and security (normally, using Internet Explorer, you can just visit your router's IP address and login with Username: Admin, Password: Admin) if that doesn't work I'm sure you can find documents on the site as well. So yeah, visit below, input product name, and download/install latest firmware. That should fix your issue. http://www.belkin.com/ Ever since I did that, I've had no issues with being booted and am still using the same router. I've had 3 laptops, 3 cell phones, a printer, and my PS3 all hooked to the Internet at once with no issue. Yeah, actually I always just used the built-in firmware update thing in the menu and it never gave me anything useful. That version is from like 2002 or something. I never thought to check the actual Belkin site. There's 5 firmware upgrades available there. I'm about to do this now and see where it takes me.

QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ Feb 17, 2011 -> 06:27 PM) In the beginning, use plasma, then melee hit. If they're in water, use the electric plasma. Later on, use incinerate or freeze. After a couple of hours I noticed it was a lot easier when I was using plasmids instead of trying to scrounge up ammo, and also I didn't have to bother with trying to kill everything.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Feb 17, 2011 -> 04:04 PM) Eminem over Jay-Z? That is (imo) insanity. Renegade is one of my favorite songs and while maybe Eminem murdered Jay on his own song, that doesnt mean that overtime Eminem is better than Jay-Z. Personally I think Jay-z from Blue Print 1 & 2 are some of the best rap albums. But at the end of the day arguing rappers is the equivalent of arguing who is better between Pink Floyd, Hendrix, The Beatles, Nirvana and Led Zeppelin. They are different styles so different people are going to rate one over the other. I have personally never been a huge Eminem fan, I like him in small doses but not over an entire album. My 2 favorite songs that include Eminem are Renegade and Whats The Difference (Chronic 2001). Its just how do I compare Outkast to Ice Cube? Both of them have different vibes and are good for different times. The only thing Jay-Z definitively has over Eminem is sheer volume, the fact that he's put out like a f***ing thousand albums, and except for ones like the Blueprint (the first one only) or the Black Album the recent ones aren't even all that great, but people will fawn all over it because it's Jay-Z and most other mainstream artists you hear on the radio are mediocre or just plain awful. He doesn't even try to make sense when he raps anymore either, he just says things that rhyme, and he pretty much just puts out albums because it's an easy way for him to make money and people will buy it no matter what. Then he says things like "would you rather be underpaid or overrated" ugh, just STFU, I hate hearing rappers say dumb s*** like that. In terms of actual abilities (flow, delivery, lyrics/rhyme patterns, which you only see to their full extent in some signature songs like Renegade) Em destroys Jay, and most others, too. There are only a handful of other rappers that can do those things. Lil Wayne actually can which really pisses me off because instead of actually rapping to his ability he chooses to be wack and make stupid s*** like "Green & Yellow" and basically every other song he has on the radio. It seems like when people are talking about Eminem here, in this thread, they're only talking about like his top 3 music videos like "The Real Slim Shady" and other silly over-the-top s*** he's made and not what he actually says on his full albums.

How am I supposed to play BioShock? I mean I don't have problems making it through the game or anything, I just die a lot more than I think I should.

I need a new wireless N router, I have a Belkin I got back when the N standard first came out. It doesn't like having multiple wireless connections when bandwidth is being used on it. So if I'm downloading torrents it kicks me off Xbox Live, if I'm downloading an expansion for a game on the Xbox it kicks my laptop off the network, etc. It's f***ing annoying.

Is it just me doing something wrong or is BioShock really hard?