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Ezekiel Elliot reportedly looking to go to court over his suspension. I suppose the NFLPA is driving it, perhaps so that it can point to these incidents to the players so they know what they're fighting for in the new CBA come 2021 and so that they don't immediately cave (it should also help that a few of the owners, including Robert Kraft and Jerry Jones, should definitely feel wronged by the commissioner's broad power at this point). EE will 99.9% lose, and he probably won't even be given an injunction on the suspension at this point.

I appreciate you keeping politics out of the funny thread unlike everyone else.

That's fair. ...Although the fact that they put that atrocious line in their launch trailer surely is not promising if you're trying not to assume that it'll be same elsewhere...but hey, a little optimism never killed anybody.

Yeah, that makes sense, and I'd agree with it for most other languages...except Japanese. Every time I've ever heard a Japanese dub of something, my feeling has basically been, "These voices don't fit these characters in the slightest, and they just sound like total dorks." I remember comparing the Japanese and English dubs of a DBZ episode against the Abridged voices a few years ago, and being a little annoyed that Frieza just didn't really have quite the right timbre or menace in the English dubs...and then I listened to the Japanese version and was just blown away by how utterly ridiculous he sounded. Japanese voice-acting just doesn't seem to work for me.

I'm not a big fan of Japanese voice-acting (the timbre of voices they tend to use for Japanese dubs as well as the inflections specific to the language are usually pretty jarring to me), but, I mean, it's gotta be better than that garbage.

I don't really mind not having a choice (i.e. playing a designed character), per se, but if there is one, then it can depend. Is there voice-acting in the game? If so, whomever I like better there (an example for this would be something like Mass Effect). If there isn't, or if there's a number of voice-acting options (e.g. Baldur's Gate), then it can depend upon the appearance of the character (in some games, male characters can look silly, and in others, it's the other way around). It can also depend on what kind of character I'm going for (for example, I'm just not the biggest fan of playing straight up beefy warrior-type women - just not my ideal character type). When given a choice, though, I generally (but certainly not exclusively) play opposite sex characters. (e): As for gender, I've never really considered it...which makes sense, since I'm not really a video game romance person.

but on the other hand, who's gonna wanna play a remake that has the most garbage voice-acting added (seriously, watch the video on the Steam Store page to get a "taste" of it - bad voice acting is so much worse than no voice-acting and I'd rather stick with the original just for this reason), and where they replace the decent 2D sprite-work with...that. I mean...c'mon, into the trash it goes. Them fixing up the story/dialogue (mistranslated and cut stuff) would probably be the only draw here. As for SD3, luckily, there is an actual fan translation, which I have not played (and so can't compare to other great fan translations like MOTHER 3), but it's at least something.

Kat Swenski's comic-gifs are always nice.

Gorka is out. While I can't say that he'll be missed, his reason for doing so (specifically mentioning our re-commitment to Afghanistan) is an interesting one.

That's good, because it was pretty poorly written outside of the overall narrative, too. I also just remembered that it was posted here in the funny things thread...which seems an odd place for it if you're taking it at face value...maybe it's a parody of something else?

And boiling it down to women in the West being...aggressive, abusive, manipulative?...and women in the East being...sweet and submissive? I mean, really, it just seems kind of pathetic...

I've read some bad comic strips in this thread, but I think that one really takes the cake.

you didn't seriously go there, did you? HA! Good Fun! ps well, for all the folks who thinks they managed to escape injury, tomorrow is actual when you will know if your eyes is damaged. Sorry, don't quite get your gist for the "you didn't go there" bit. What, Trump is a dummy on TV? Sadly, I nearly live in Canada, and it was raining, so there was effectively no eclipse of any kind here... Oh well.

Was he actually staring at it for a bit (i.e. more than maybe a second at most), or was it just a quick look? Most people probably took a quick look at it at some point...I think I saw his wife look without the glasses for a couple of seconds, and a bunch of dummies on TV were doing worse than that.

I, on the other hand, wish that I had been blind when the ABC coverage of the eclipse showed now-66-year-old Bonnie Taylor wearing something that would be very difficult to classify as a shirt.

If you don't have air conditioning for whatever reasons, though, it can make playing games too miserable to bother with. Alternatively, if your air conditioning isn't quite good enough to handle the hottest parts of summer...

Thanks. That makes it my sister, my dad, my grandpa, and my uncle who have all died in roughly the last 365 days. At least my grandpa (just barely) did not have to bury his son...my grandmother, on the other hand...

My dad died two days ago, I've just learned. This has been a very bad, no good last 365 days.

Well, hopefully it actually does something. Tackling since the latest CBA (i.e. since teams started getting hard limits on how much and what kind of practicing they can do) has taken a real nose dive league-wide...

Fast food joints?

NFLPA's response to the Zeke allegations: https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/897884477984256001 We are so going to have a lockout in 2020.

Yeah, I looked at more of their errors. Seems like an unusual amount, even for a local news station. In regards to the tattoos, I think I heard it summed up elsewhere best: the Chargers want you to get something permanent of them...right after they move cities. Hmm.

You can link to a specific tweet by clicking on the tweet in question (as it will update the URL), FYI.

It's because of me or others that are on moderation. Our posts don't show up until mod approves them and they show up in place where we made them instead of at bottom. Oh I see. Thought the thread was bugging out and I know you guys make new politics threads occasionally because the thread bugged out. Alternatively, if you posted a quick reply (...which is what almost everyone does these days, I think) after somebody else posted, it would show that it's at the bottom of the current page...even if it's actually at the top of the next page: it won't move until you refresh/re-enter the thread, I am pretty sure. However, since you were replying to Katphood (the last post on that previous page), then I think unless you just happened to hit the "new post" button that sometimes pops up when there's a new post, that probably wasn't the case. Basically, it seems like under certain circumstances, it locally (i.e. on your side) thinks it should make the cut for that page, and shows it there...but it actually isn't.