Metal Man

A couple of posts about switching their avatars up brought a question to mind. What is the consensus on switching avatars frequently? For small time contributors or lurkers it wouldn't matter much but for me it seems like if the long time celebrities of the board changed a long standing avatar it would be like changing the main actor in a long running television show.

Same here. I rolled with the Powerslave cover for a while too but when I saw it popping up in other posts I needed to switch it up so I wouldn't get confused. For non-maiden people, this is from the cover for the single release of Stranger in a Strange Land.

I don't disagree with some of the complaints listed about how colleges handle their student athletes and profits off of them but I don't understand the rights violation point. How is the NFL saying you have to play college ball at least 3 years or be at a certain age to work for them any different than any other company requiring you to have a 4 year degree or more to work for them? Playing football for a living isn't a "right". If they want to work for wages there are plenty of other things a college athlete could do.

Performance from Wootstock of a song urging Martin to write faster. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=w5vw9RTVky4

Maybe the league retains ownership of any publication photos as part of the agreement to let them use their employees to sell print? Just a guess but it would make sense that they, being the league or the Bills, would have a huge repository of photos from all sorts of publications that they can pull from.... then again maybe it was SJ13's private stash.... either way it was stupid for BB to post it and Stevie's degree of stupidity is TBD.

Has anyone figured out where this picture came from for sure? That should play into a lot of the judging going on here. It could be from a magazine photo shoot and the shirt be something that he didn't purchase on his own. He was in an NFL issue of Maxim a year or so ago, maybe it was them or some other publication who gave him a rack of stupid clothing to try on for some promotional shots? If it was a publication of that sorts then the level of humor would kind of fit. If he did the SI body issue naked would people be up in arms over someone re-posting those pics as a happy birthday? Not defending him so much as just saying before people call out his maturity level maybe we should have all the facts.

Wow, that is worst than the "McDonald's served me hot coffee" lawsuit. I wonder why he would stop at Apple, why not sue Al Gore for inventing the internet in the first place?

Pok-A-Dot still exists? I grew up in Genesee county too but haven't been down that side of Ellicott, let alone in Batavia at all, in a long time. I would have bet money on that place having been gone for years. It's amazing how some of those hole in the wall places just hang around forever.

Hopefully they are questioning Mr. Glass about this.

Yeah, I get the first part and I agree with the second. What I think Yall was getting at was a part in the article where an NFL spokesperson talked about some scenario where directTV wouldn't be blacked out but local TV still would be and was using it as an argument against dropping, or for keeping the black out rule. But if the rule went away wouldn't local affiliates be able to show it as well as DTV? :blink: It's just weird that no one called them out on that... or maybe the author of the article used an old quote that was originally just an argument for DTV being blacked out...? That is the only thing that makes sense to me.

You know I thought you might be missing something... but when I went back and re-read the article there wasn't any explanation about the scenario the NFL guy talked about where directTV would show the game in Minnesota but the local Minnesota affiliates could not.... Maybe I am missing something too?

That NBC to CBS move was a long time ago so you'd think this all needs revisiting, especially with the new signals. Like PTR mentioned it is extremely unlikely that the digital signal can come close to those 8 houses anymore but I know it is a long shot for anyone to care enough to check again.... unless somehow CBS can lose the AFC back to NBC, guess we need to hope for that in Syracuse. I've only been out in the CNY area for about 8 years so I can only imagine the frustration for those who have been dealing with it all along. I wouldn't have ever believed Syracuse was blacked out until the first time it happened after I had moved.

These two arguments seem to be the strongest for how the black out rule is completely backwards or at least outdated and in need of revision but no one really seems to talk about it whenever these articles pop up. The digital signal thing really annoys me. I live in Syracuse which is also blacked out because way back in the day some eastern part of Rochester could supposedly receive the Syracuse CBS affiliate. I can't imagine that is true anymore but I don't expect the FCC to revisit it. Also because Rome and Utica get their CBS from Syracuse they also black out. Rome is almost 200 miles away from the stadium.

For any Star Wars nerds out there... here are the first 3 episodes of Course of the Force 2013. They are some silly parodies about a search for a missing light saber leading up to this years comic con. Lots of cameo guest stars. Episode 3 is probably the best one with Michael Rooker (Merle from Walking Dead) as Boba Fett. Enjoy. Episode 1 http://youtu.be/gkCWhB3jT_o Episode II http://youtu.be/uEXs9M_-jM0 Episode III http://youtu.be/mrOqAHKtbMo Episode II http://youtu.be/uEXs9M_-jM0 Sorry the other links didn't come out embedded. Guess I can't have more than one in a post.

On the surface Pacific Rim seems like another bunch of giant robot nonsense but I am kind of excited to see it. Seems exactly like what a big summer action blockbuster is supposed to be. I'm thinking it could be a sleeper hit.

Picked it up last Friday. I have listened to it only once all the way through and about halfway through once again. Most of the songs caught my interest right away so I can only imagine it will be even better the more times I listen to it. I agree that it is a solid Sabbath album. Ozzy sounds surprisingly good and there are some classic Iommi solos. I saw a couple reviewers getting a little down on the lyrics but I couldn't care less about what Ozzy is saying as long as there is a good rhythm and excellent guitar. I caught Black Sabbath with their original line-up at Ozzfest in 2005. Was an amazing show.

Plus everyone knows that "fast zombies" is just a myth.

The steam thought is a good point. If it creates games prices dropping like crazy down the line it would definitely be worth the market change. I'm not banking on it though because something about all of this seems a little greedy of MS. Like they are trying to take a big bite out of the resale pie. I'm with you on the connection. My 360 is always connected too, but isn't it a little annoying to think if for some reason you don't have a connection anymore all of the games you own would eventually become unplayable? Obviously this is a lot of conjecture on the media right now based on a few things MS is actually saying but in the meanwhile it is definitely doing damage to the hype for xboxOne. I have heard from more than a few friends that they are ready to switch to PS4 if half of the rumors are true and these are people who have been hardcore xbox fans since 2001.

From what I read a couple days ago it sounds like you could have multiple accounts shared under one master account but that could only be logged onto 1 xboxOne at a time. Check out the 24 hour mandatory check-in section here: http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Xbox-One-Consumer-Policy-Concerns-Guide-56108.html

I have been planning on checking out Florio, I'll download a couple of them and put them into my rotation. I like the WWF history stuff with Stone Cold too, the Shawn Michaels interview was good. I don't think Howard has any podcast but if you were just looking for some of his celebrity interviews a lot of them end up on youtube, especially the recent stuff. I know he is constantly fighting to have them taken down but just as fast as some go down new ones are always popping up. Not looking to turn the thread into a piracy debate, plenty of those out there already, just an FYI.

After a bunch more listens to the Nerdist I get what you're saying. The guests they get lined up are all great but then the actual content is hit or miss. I don't think Hardwick is very good at interviewing at all so it will basically be up to the guest to supply all the entertainment without any prodding. It has been making me appreciate Howard Stern's interviewing skills a lot more. People can say what they want about his type of humor or about his show not being funny anymore but you can't take away his props for his skill to get people to talk about interesting and funny things on his show. I listened to Ross Tucker a lot a couple football seasons ago. Something about it just got old for me though. I have only checked out a couple of Stone Cold's but I thought both of them were pretty funny. Just a redneck guy BS'ing about his life and things that tick him off.

A friend recently suggested Martha Marcy May Marlene to me and I enjoyed it a lot. It is a fictionalized story about cults and the psychological effects from them centering on a girl who escapes from one. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1441326/?ref_=sr_2 Also my father recently caught a movie called Five Fingers on cable and suggested I check it out. Not a very long film but an intriguing story about a terrorist kidnapping that keeps you engaged right to the end trying to make sense of it. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0428541/?ref_=fn_al_tt_8

I used to work for a company that had some law enforcement contracts and that landed me at a few law enforcement technology conferences. I'll never forget a great presentation done by a NYC detective detailing a huge investigation that brought down a large NYC gang. The vast majority of the information they gathered to build their cases came off of various gang member's social media sites. It was like a free database for them to use tracking all of their movements, activities and linking them to all their associates. Some of them even bragged about crimes on their pages. I find dumb criminals pretty entertaining.

That was awesome. Love the comments for the video too; people arguing about the validity of Star Wars armaments versus Star Trek shield technology. I want to think these people are mostly kidding but part me knows they're not.

I'm with both of you guys on this one too. Have sat through a game in just about every spot possible in RWS over the years and the one time I happened upon front row tickets of the upper deck near mid-field on the visitor's side was easily the best comfort and viewing experience. Now iirc the game was a field goal battle snooze fest against the Texans that the Bills ended up losing... but at least we really enjoyed the seats.