auyushu

re: Favorite LOTR Character

Posted by auyushu on 4/30/25 at 2:10 pm

Samwise without a doubt for me.

re: Basketball Recruiting Thread: 6’8 G/F Elyjah Freeman commits!!!

Posted by auyushu on 4/27/25 at 5:42 pm

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agree, too many new faces that have to learn to play together.

The good news is that this same scenario applies to almost every top team in the SEC.

re: Blue Eye Samurai

Posted by auyushu on 4/27/25 at 2:29 pm

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Anyone else watched?

Great show from start to finish. Supposed to be a season 2 coming at some point.

re: Anyone heard anything new on Dresden: Twelve Months?

Posted by auyushu on 4/24/25 at 6:16 pm

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So this book is set right at wedding time.

So that story point is getting resolved in this book

Yeah, kinda what I figured, and makes sense. I misread your statement as saying there should be a book before that deals with the wedding rather than you thinking there would have been a book in between the last one and this one dealing with the wedding.

But he did switch around the books a bit I think, originally I think the next book was supposed to be Mirror Mirror.

re: Anyone heard anything new on Dresden: Twelve Months?

Posted by auyushu on 4/24/25 at 4:06 pm

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have thought there would have been a book before dealing with the wedding.

It just says betrothed in the blurb right? So would be engaged but not married yet most likely. Which is basically where we left off in the last book.

re: More Locke Lamora coming soon

Posted by auyushu on 4/24/25 at 1:10 pm

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And he's also got a bit of the Martin problem: Everyone has likely figured out all of the secrets

And very similar in that they both are in that situation due to being huge slackers taking forever to put out books. And in the fact that they act like gigantic douchebags to their fans that criticized them for it.

re: More Locke Lamora coming soon

Posted by auyushu on 4/24/25 at 12:52 pm

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The combination of Covid, Trump, and MeToo did this guy in completely.

Rothfuss it was just that he has no idea how to finish and Trump.

Yeah, Rothfuss and Martin just lost their thread and don't know how to finish, and have just been making up excuses for years.

Lynch just legit went off the rails and won't finish because of mental health.

I think the thing that's always amused me the most about the Rothfuss situation is that even if he managed to finish the initial triology, it wouldn't even come close to finishing the story, as it would only catch things up to the current timeline and basically tell his backstory. Though I'll admit I stopped caring all that much about Rothfuss since I thought the second book sucked, and the slow regard or whatever novella was so terrible I didn't even finish it.

re: Divorced women (who married gay dude)?

Posted by auyushu on 4/23/25 at 8:03 pm

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Were the wives completely blindsided or had they seen clues?

I'm about to married to a woman who had this happen with her first husband. In her case she's ex-mormon and they were married while she was in college, had two kids with him when she was early 20s.

He actually had a second marriage to a woman that ended in divorce before coming out as gay in the past year. In her case there were signs, as him not taking care of business was a major reason for their divorce along with a bunch of other things.

She obviously felt pretty vindicated by him coming out :lol:. So far after 4 years our relationship has been pretty normal and well adjusted, though they divorced after like 6-7 years I think, and it's been 10 years since the divorce.

Pretty sure the whole Mormon culture aspect played a huge role in him taking so long to come out, as his parents are hard core Mormons.

O-T Lounge

re: Mistborn

Posted by auyushu on 4/23/25 at 12:04 pm

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you get through the first three Mistborn and don't like them, I have a hard time seeing you getting hooked on Stormlight.

I wouldn't really agree with this necessarily. There are quite a large amount of people that find the original trilogy mediocre/average, and love both the era 2 Mistborn and Stormlight (I'd consider myself one). Stormlight also has very well written characters, just like Era 2.

So people that are heavily character focused with their fantasy might not be super impressed with the first trilogy but easily like Stormlight quite a bit.

Whereas I find people that aren't super character focused tend to like the original Mistborn trilogy quite a bit more and to be more forgiving of it's flaws. Which given that the world building and magic system are elite, and the overall story is solid, is quite understandable.

The original Mistborn trilogy very much tends to be a love it or meh/eh type of series for people. It's kinda like the Malazan books a little bit, just in reverse.

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Turns out i just don't want guns, electricity, and cars in my fantasy. The less the technology the better.

Perfectly understandable take, I'd stay away from Brian McClellan and Django Wexler probably in that case.

re: Mistborn

Posted by auyushu on 4/22/25 at 8:08 pm

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it is not grabbing me should I just stop now or does it get better?

I thought the first trilogy was solid but nothing amazing. The next set of Mistborn books I found to be excellent.

I'd read books 3 and 4 since you've gone this far, but if you don't like book 4 no reason to go forward.

The biggest difference is the characters, which are meh in the first trilogy and awesome in the next set of books.

re: Dark (Netflix)

Posted by auyushu on 4/22/25 at 1:32 pm

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How do seasons two and three compare to one? Hopefully there is a complete story and it wasn't cancelled on a cliffhanger.

There is no cliffhanger, it has a complete ending that is really good. And there really is not a drop off, it's fantastic from start to finish.

re: Basketball Recruiting Thread: 6’8 G/F Elyjah Freeman commits!!!

Posted by auyushu on 4/21/25 at 10:47 pm

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This isnt good

If he wants to ruin his legacy by going to another SEC school go for it I guess. It would certainly be a shame.

re: Worst Morgan Freeman movie?

Posted by auyushu on 4/21/25 at 10:02 pm

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Dreamcatcher

Starts off as a typical Stephen King

I was gonna say Lucy, because that movie sucked. But I forgot Freeman was in Dreamcatcher, and that is probably worse.

re: Basketball Recruiting Thread: 6’8 G/F Elyjah Freeman commits!!!

Posted by auyushu on 4/18/25 at 4:28 pm

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KO's shot isnt that great

Yeah, pretty average offensively, decent backup with upside but not someone we want starting in any capacity. Hopefully he makes a junior year jump forward for us offensively.

re: Basketball Recruiting Thread: 6’8 G/F Elyjah Freeman commits!!!

Posted by auyushu on 4/18/25 at 3:58 pm

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Believe we won the bidding war for elyjah freeman.

That would definitely take the sting out of not having CBM come back. Would be a great pickup, and lots of years left if we could keep him on board long term.

Would just need one more decent 2/3 type at that point as long as Tahaad comes back, and maybe a depth center.

re: Grumpy/Grumpier Old Men

Posted by auyushu on 4/16/25 at 11:10 pm

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treasure trove of one liners

Without a doubt. Lemon and Matthau are perfect together. And Burgess Meredith is the absolute best.

re: 'Thunderbolts' Final Trailer | Marvel Studios

Posted by auyushu on 4/16/25 at 7:08 pm

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there anything I need to see since Endgame before seeing this? Black Widow, Hawkeye

These are all I'd probably suggest, and even then Hawkeye wouldn't really be totally necessary as you can understand Yelena's character just from Black Widow. Hawkeye is a decent enough show though.

Technically you'd want to watch Falcon and Winter Soldier to understand the John Walker character, but that show sucks so I would suggest just reading a synopsis of the show and maybe watch a clip of Dreyfuss recruiting him.

re: Basketball Recruiting Thread: 6’8 G/F Elyjah Freeman commits!!!

Posted by auyushu on 4/16/25 at 1:02 pm

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Murphy can provide plenty of depth there, but if the plan would be him starting at the 5 with Opurum backing him up, we'd need a power guy at the 4 for sure.

I'd say our need would be less for a power guy at that point and more for a 4 that can pop 3s and drive to the lane well. That way we can abuse teams that try to use two bigs against us.

That's basically what we did in 2018-19 with Anfernee and Horace getting the majority of the minutes at the 5 (and both being about 6'8), and Chuma at the 4. Once Chuma became comfortable driving to the basket and dishing out our offense became unstoppable.

At this point in the portal I think it's going to be tough to find a really good scoring 5, though I'd love to be pleasantly surprised. I'd much rather have Murphy starting at the 5 than some mediocre offensive 5.

Honestly, as long as he could hold his own against most PF, I could get behind Hall playing the Chuma role at the 4. He's bigger than Chaney, and and around the same size as Chuma was (or bigger if he's closer to 250). He's also an excellent rebounder and really good at getting to the line (which would help foul out bigs if he's at the 4).

Tahaad at the 1, CBM at the 3, and Hall at the 4 would give us three guys who can drive to the basket really well and pop threes, along with Bashir at the 2 being a pure scorer. Tahaad and Murphy on the pick and roll game will be excellent.

I think it can/will be very effective. We'd just need to pick up another good shooting 2/3 in the portal for a bench piece.

re: Basketball Recruiting Thread: 6’8 G/F Elyjah Freeman commits!!!

Posted by auyushu on 4/16/25 at 8:53 am

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With somebody who knows bball, is this a big time pick-up?

I don't know about big-time, but it's a solid pickup for our backup center position with tons of room for growth. Just need to get him to put on 40 pounds over the next year or two and he could be eventually be a big-time pickup.

As long as he's not the starter it's a good pickup (can't imagine he would be). Murphy as the starter and this guy backing him up is a solid position at the 5. We'd just need another guy at the 4 (assuming no Chaney) unless we are going small ball mode with Hall at the 4, then we'd need a good wing.