It’s Hall of Fame Weekend! Your Saturday Early Thread

laserguru - July 23, 2016July 23, 2016

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Greetings from a smoke tinged L.A. County! Yeah, there's another big goddamn fire burning north of here. It's a strange colored sky, overcast but not with marine layer, more burnt orange. UPDATE: At 4:00 this afternoon this is what it looked like from my back balcony. The fire is in Santa Clarita and

Your “Do You Want to Know the Terrifying Truth…?” Open Thread

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers - July 11, 2016July 11, 2016

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Good evening, folks. Beerguyrob is enjoying a much needed vacation this week from preparing your open threads. I am Low Commander of the Super Soldiers, and I will be your host tonight. We have entered that point in the off season where the only NFL news of note now involves bullshit

BattleBots Recap: Preliminary Rounds and Bracket Preview

Senor Weaselo - July 4, 2016

One round of the 2016 BattleBots tournament is in the books! Or zero rounds, depending on what you want to call it. 48 robots had 24 fights to show what they could do to their opponent in the BattleBox to take their first steps towards the Giant Nut. Here's a

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Your Saturday night let’s get down and boogie woogie open thread

DFOing Good

laserguru - May 21, 2016

Happy Saturday Boppers! Since it's still daylight on the West Coast and the edibles have yet to kick in... Oh but when they do! I've been elected to drop down the delirious open thread action. We've got some hockey action going as our own Covalent Blonde's San Jose Sharks get a challenge

Commentist Beer Barrel and Open Thread: Substitute Student

makeitsnowondem - April 26, 2016April 26, 2016

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make it snow is off this week. This Beer Barrel is brought to you by Moose - The End Is Well Nigh! This is the story of a break for make it snow, and of one’s quest for enlightenment. So that is not really it; it is one weirdo’s evening at

Oscars 2016: Best Picture and Best Open Thread

makeitsnowondem - February 28, 2016February 28, 2016

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They'll start handing out the awards in an hour or so, and I still have a personal Best Picture to anoint. But before I do, let's take a moment to remember that Straight Outta Compton was not nominated, and neither was Beasts of No Nation, and neither was The Danish Girl, and neither was Carol. Beasts

Wednesdays Suck Open Thread

King Hippo - January 20, 2016January 20, 2016

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I have no scientific evidence to back this up, but consistently in my life, bad shit disproportionately happens on Wednesday. I do not make doctor's appointments, nor take my car to the shop on Wednesdays. I am always uncomfortable when a key basketball or footy match is scheduled

TWITTER JUST GOT THE SEXIEST IT WILL EVER BE

WCS - August 11, 2015

In all of the craziness of the new from today NFL related, this is clearly the biggest. That's right, folks. The Dragon has been unleashed on THE TWITTERZ. 100% of females, and 74% of males on Twitter just got pregnant.

Upcoming Programming Notes/Brainstorming Session

Old School Zero - May 21, 2015

This is a post to say that I have posts I'm intending to write but I am too busylazy to write them--otherwise known as a preview! I also had the thought to open this thread up to brainstorming post ideas for anyone to pick up and write, or just share

Open Complaint Thread

Open Threads

Old School Zero - May 14, 2015

It feels like there's been a lot of grousing about things lately--and likely for good reason--but I figure we may as well make an official thread for recent complaints and any other things you need to yell into the cloud (SEE WHAT I DID THERE?!?!). Personally, I'm tired of people basing