My early pick for best team is Veeshir's Wingnuts. 

Boy, with 20 teams that talent pool does get interesting around round 15.  Still, there's only one guy on my team I've never heard of so that's not so bad.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at 08:24 PM | Comments (34) | Add Comment
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Picking 15th.  Tight.

See you there.

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We have one slot left, I figure I just give control of it to Alice if nobody else wants it.

Anyway, the draft is tonight.  It is a live draft so try to be there if you can.  If you aren't, I'll set your team to autodraft* so the computer will pick your players based on the rankings you provided in the pre-draft lineup. 

Yes, with 20 teams the talent pool will be stretched a bit thin but I believe the handicap will be fairly distributed with people more likely to get unlikely wins due to diamonds in the rough.  Besides, most fantasy leagues with 12 teams have a bunch of good players on the bench every week.  With this, I think not so much. 

Anyway, I am a bit apprehensive about the auto-draft portion since I've never used this particular league host and the online help doesn't instill a lot of confidence that the computer will just start drafting for them.

So what do you think?  Keep the live draft and hope it all works out or switch it to an automatic draft and we all get stuck with a (semi) random team? 

I'm open to comments but feel like it'll be fine and more fun to have the draft tonight. 

Nevermind.  I went into the draft room and the settings will automatically make a non-present owner go on autopilot if they aren't there.  Sweet deal. 

See you all at 7 Eastern Time in the Draft Room.

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Only one slot left. 


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Last Chance.  3 Slots Left.  Draft is tomorrow evening.

For serial, email me at chaos -dot- overlord -at- gmail -dot- com.

Sign up. 

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Before I get started, I'll summarize my opinion thusly:

Rating Including The Last 30 Seconds of the Movie:  C+
Rating Exclusing The Last 30 Seconds of the Movie:  A-

I started watching it recently after avoiding it for a while assuming there'd be some ridiculous moral relativism about terrorists and was pleasantly surprised for the full length of the movie minus thirty seconds.  It is almost as if the last thirty seconds was added on by someone who had nothing to do with the rest of the movie.

Until that point, the terrorists are treated as the monstrous scum they are and all of the characters are three dimensional human beings reacting to a truly awful terrorist attack with the anger and effectiveness you'd expect and applaud. 

Not to ruin the film, but they do many things to emphasize Saudi Arabia's backwards treatment of women, non-muslims and even did a rather intelligent and passable job representing the various fractious elements within the Saudi royalty and population. 

Then, in the last thirty seconds, they manage to paint the American reaction to the attacks as starkly equivalent to the behavior of the terrorists.  At least, that is the very clear impression I got from it. 

So, watch it.  It is a fucking badass action movie mixed with a pretty solid crime procedural and a shake of Tom Clancy-style international intrigue.  Just turn it off thirty seconds before the credits and you can avoid the implication that we shouldn't brutally murder every terrorist in the world. 

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but if a teacher is photographed in a bikini she gets fired and has to resort to life as a porn actress

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I follow Make Magazine in my RSS reader and this photo gallery of Video Game "Factories" was pretty fucking cool.

Also, check out Make Magazine if you like to make things or just see what other, more ambitious people are trying to make.

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