Big Blue Huddle

Quote from: Ed Vette on March 28, 2022, 07:39:46 AM
These people are all so full of themselves.

No doubt about that. Even before the show became unpopular, the Oscars were always a 3-4 hour festival of self-congratulation and hackneyed political lectures, often coming from people who clearly don't know that much about the subjects they're preaching about.

Quote from: GordonGekko80 on March 28, 2022, 07:02:31 AM
This was not staged. Can't be. The reaction from W Smith after the slap made that pretty evident.

Agree on the perception re W Smith, didn't look good on him. On the flipside, I think Ch Rock overstepped the line there, heavily. Poor on both sides if you ask me.

Perhaps, but the reaction was still outrageously over the top. The joke was not very nice, but it was nothing compared to the stuff Ricky Gervais has said to people over the years at the Golden Globes. Not even close. Most adults have more self control than that. Especially adults in the public eye who routinely have to deal with all kinds of attacks and criticism.

Quote from: Slugs Narrows on March 28, 2022, 07:01:43 AM
Most exciting thing to happen at boring, unwatchable award shows in decades!


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True, and that is why there are still some who believe it may have been staged.

If it was staged, they did a good job, because I believe it was real, and I'm usually a skeptic with these sorts of things.

By now many of you will have seen or heard about the incident at the Oscars last night. Chris Rock was on stage, and he cracked a bald joke about Will Smith's wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, who shaved her head due to suffering from alopecia.

Smith subsequently marched on stage and smacked Chris Rock across the face quite hard. At that point, I assumed it was all fake. However it sounded much more serious when Smith started screaming at him back from the seats. The fact that the LAPD put out a statement after the event further suggests it was real. Here is the video (please be aware there are expletives):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOsPuUnvK9E

By now, most signs seem to point to it being real. I guess it's not 100% definite though.

Assuming it's real, what a terrible look for Will Smith. Even if he was truly offended by that, there are numerous other ways to handle it that would have been better than that. If there are no criminal or civil ramifications for him, he should consider himself lucky.

These last two days were very tricky. Both pretty obscure words and with at least one less common letter. I wonder if they're planning on keeping the words more challenging like this.

I got it today, but strange word. It feels like they're running out of words!

Quote from: ps11yat14 on March 11, 2022, 06:21:35 AM
Win streak ended today at 44. First time since I started this game I didn't get the word.

Bill

That's a good run.

Birdie today, finally. First in a while.

My wife and I watched episode 1 of "Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers' Dynasty" last night. We both thought it was great. Very entertaining and very well shot. Did a very nice job of capturing the zeitgeist of the times (late 70s/early 80s). Here is the trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqbWwKx1nBU

Based on episode 1, I definitely recommend this one. Looks great so far.

Quote from: Ed Vette on March 06, 2022, 01:57:58 PM
I think I had two misses. I'm a 98%.

Do you use the same starting word every time, or do you mix it up?

I always start with ADIEU. I've just gotten used to it.

Quote from: Ed Vette on March 06, 2022, 01:14:06 PM
I've never gotten the word in one guess. Most of mine were done in the 4th try with the 3rd and 5th a little over half of the 4th.
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I had one outright miss too about 4-5 weeks ago which I'm still annoyed at myself about lol.

Quote from: T200 on March 06, 2022, 10:30:57 AM
Wordle 260 3/6


🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Feast or famine day. First time with no out of place letters.

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Got it in three as well today. A much needed result after more fifth try outcomes lately than I'd like.

I feel like score outcomes in this game are a bit like a par four in golf, with a correct guess on the fourth try being a "par" outcome. To me anything worse than four tries is not a good outcome. Anything less than four is a good or better than good outcome. I don't feel like I've "won" anything if I get it in five.

The one caveat to this is that there are sometimes situations where you have three greens by the 2nd or 3rd try and you then have multiple possible words that fit. Whether you get it immediately there or after an extra couple of tries has nothing to do with skill or brainpower and everything to do with just pure process of elimination luck. So my golf analogy is not always 100% true. I think it's a fair standard though when spread over a bunch of different games.

We checked out this new show "Super Pumped" last night. It's a new series all about Uber and how the company was started. There is only one episode out so far. I thought it was just fair. It felt like it was trying to be the Social Network in the way it is shot and presented, but it wasn't nearly that good. The script is a C so far. The main actor who plays Travis Kalanick is also just fair in my opinion. Will give it another couple of episodes but if it doesn't get better quickly we'll probably move on.

There are just way too many good options out there to ever watch something that is anything less than excellent.

My personal favorite is "Rope." I thought that was tremendous. I have probably watched that at least 15 times in my life.

Quote from: LennG on February 28, 2022, 08:57:05 PM
Since we are talking Pulp Fiction. try this on for size

Do you know all of these?


https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/20-facts-you-might-not-know-about-pulp-fiction/ss-AAL7dg8?ocid=msedgntp#image=1

I definitely did not. Some good tidbits in there. I knew a few like the one about the Bible passage not being accurate, but many I did not.