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StringedInstruments
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re: Shoutouts to the players entering their 4th or more year at Auburn.
Posted by StringedInstruments on 1/16/26 at 12:41 pm to mckibaj
I'd love to see the list of guys on the 2004 team that spent 4 years or more at Auburn.
I know we'll never know the answer, but I firmly believe that team chemistry, pride, and familiarity are some of the most important components to building a good football team. Even in the NFL, it's rare you have a Super Bowl team that was thrown together in 1 or 2 years. They typically have multiple years of a core group of guys working in the same system before they make a successful run.
I'd bet that any NC team pre 2021 would crush the NC teams of the past few years.
I know we'll never know the answer, but I firmly believe that team chemistry, pride, and familiarity are some of the most important components to building a good football team. Even in the NFL, it's rare you have a Super Bowl team that was thrown together in 1 or 2 years. They typically have multiple years of a core group of guys working in the same system before they make a successful run.
I'd bet that any NC team pre 2021 would crush the NC teams of the past few years.
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re: Muffuletta King Cake
Posted by StringedInstruments on 1/16/26 at 11:28 am to whoa
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Social media has ruined (like everything else) King Cakes. And driven up the prices
It's the Marxists and poststructuralists destroying all we know as reality. King Cake is a signifier and needs to be deconstructed!
re: LSU is seeing surge in AI cheating allegations - Students could lose scholarships
Posted by StringedInstruments on 1/16/26 at 8:55 am to upgrayedd
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It’s pretty ironic considering we use AI all the time to help draft technical documents at work. We obviously don’t just copy and paste but we do use it to help us draft outlines and identify key components of a work plan.
You’re already an adult who (hopefully) received an education that fostered critical thinking and creativity.
You needed reps to get there. You literally have to train your brain to think. AI removes those reps that incite productive struggle.
re: Am I the only one who is fed up with all Of the AI
Posted by StringedInstruments on 1/16/26 at 5:51 am to MotorBoater
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YouTube documentary watcher.
Speaking of: This guy decided to go with whatever AI told him to do and he found himself in a blacked out trailer in Joshua Tree eating baby food while listening to lullabies in order to reactivate his genius intellect as an infant. AI psychosis is real and terrifying.
re: LSU is seeing surge in AI cheating allegations - Students could lose scholarships
Posted by StringedInstruments on 1/16/26 at 5:46 am to JS87
This is what you get when you demoralize a liberal arts education and turn learning into a transactional experience.
Why should any college kid learn how to write an essay on Plato’s allegory of the cave or learn how to close read Cassius’s speech in Julius Caesar?
As is said on here all the time regarding higher education: how are those topics, skills, and assignments going to help them get a job?
All they need is the A in their survey classes. Learning, thinking, and analysis are no longer valued.
I think it’s a travesty.
Why should any college kid learn how to write an essay on Plato’s allegory of the cave or learn how to close read Cassius’s speech in Julius Caesar?
As is said on here all the time regarding higher education: how are those topics, skills, and assignments going to help them get a job?
All they need is the A in their survey classes. Learning, thinking, and analysis are no longer valued.
I think it’s a travesty.
re: Those with a gym membership - what are you paying per month?
Posted by StringedInstruments on 1/15/26 at 12:30 pm to wryder1
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I am a member at amp fitness in the colonnade which is about 3min from lifetime
You might have just saved the day. :lol:
$10/month is crazy cheap and it's closer to my house.
re: Avengers Doomsday Fourth Teaser
Posted by StringedInstruments on 1/13/26 at 3:36 pm to dawgfan24348
Are they going to disappear?
They’re saying these are clues. They are the story. Every one of them says the characters will return. Are they missing? Is that the clue of what Doomsday will be about?
They’re saying these are clues. They are the story. Every one of them says the characters will return. Are they missing? Is that the clue of what Doomsday will be about?
re: Stranger Things S5 - Volume 2
Posted by StringedInstruments on 1/12/26 at 2:18 pm to CAD703X
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Interdimensional body snatcher space monster who snaps people in 2 and leading an army of space creatures to destroy the Earth decided that the worst thing in the world is to tell his arch rival that if he confesses he's gay his friends will desert him leaving him paralyzed with fear for 5 seasons.
It's exactly what Hollywood writers would want when daydreaming about how they can socially influence their audience.
It seems barely anyone writes for storytelling anymore. It's all profit margins and social justice.
re: Struggling to get all of my protein
Posted by StringedInstruments on 1/12/26 at 12:51 pm to Boss
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2 scoops of iso pure 100 mixed
This would destroy my stomach.
Also, your dinner is way too light. I understand not feeling hungry at lunch after 2 scoops of protein. But later in the day, you can only muster 20g of protein with shrimp?
re: what is a harmless habit you had in your 20s that ended up ruining your health or finances
Posted by StringedInstruments on 1/12/26 at 6:43 am to AUFANATL
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Hasn't happened to me yet, but I know several older people who have endured skin cancer who lament the fact that they never wore sunscreen and soldiered through some sunburns in their carefree youth.
My wife has had 9 basal cell carcinoma spots removed. She’s 42.
Wear your sunscreen, folks.
re: Early New Orleans historical AI reconstruction
Posted by StringedInstruments on 1/11/26 at 9:36 pm to Traffic Circle
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When did they start showing their tits in the French Quarter?
I think they called them bosoms then.
re: Baking a King Cake
Posted by StringedInstruments on 1/11/26 at 6:17 pm to KosmoCramer
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Do you have much experience making bread, or enriched doughs like brioche or the aforementioned cinnamon rolls?
I do have some experience. I’ve made 10 king cakes and none of them have turned out right. :lol:
re: Baking a King Cake
Posted by StringedInstruments on 1/11/26 at 12:09 pm to KosmoCramer
I’ve used like ten different recipes and they never turn out right. May the force be with you.
re: Those with a gym membership - what are you paying per month?
Posted by StringedInstruments on 1/11/26 at 7:59 am to stoov
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Fitness 2020
Holy shite. That place is $30/month?!? I just looked it up and it looks like a stellar gym.
We have Crunch Fitness in Birmingham, but it’s 20+ minutes from me. We don’t have the time to commute that far for a gym.
Those with a gym membership - what are you paying per month?
Posted by StringedInstruments on 1/11/26 at 7:41 am
And what does it get you?
My wife is finally wanting to start strength training, but she has no desire to work out in our garage. Especially now that it’s cold.
I was mortified to see Lifetime Fitness is $339/month for family and $260/month for just the two of us. That apparently does NOT include the cost of fitness classes, but I haven’t confirmed. Lifetime is an 8 minute drive.
We have a YMCA sorta close by that is pretty decent. Has a few squat racks and plenty of room and equipment for high quality lifting programs. Group classes included. Indoor/outdoor pool. $130/month for family. It’s 17 minutes away.
The only other option is a Planet Fitness but they’ll throw my deadlifting arse out with quickness.
My wife is finally wanting to start strength training, but she has no desire to work out in our garage. Especially now that it’s cold.
I was mortified to see Lifetime Fitness is $339/month for family and $260/month for just the two of us. That apparently does NOT include the cost of fitness classes, but I haven’t confirmed. Lifetime is an 8 minute drive.
We have a YMCA sorta close by that is pretty decent. Has a few squat racks and plenty of room and equipment for high quality lifting programs. Group classes included. Indoor/outdoor pool. $130/month for family. It’s 17 minutes away.
The only other option is a Planet Fitness but they’ll throw my deadlifting arse out with quickness.
re: Apparently Indiana has 4 pick 6s on opponents' opening drive. Film study or cheating?
Posted by StringedInstruments on 1/11/26 at 7:11 am to RD Dawg
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Yea,something is rotten in Bloomington
It’s rotten in all of CFB.
Any means necessary, brother. If you ain’t cheatin’ you ain’t tryin.’
No one plays for the love or integrity of the game. This is about winning and winning equals dollars. A frickload of them. You inject the drugs. You buy the players. You hack into cloud based systems. You steal the signs. You deflate the balls.
You do what it takes and hell, we should make it a criteria for ranking champions. Who cheated the best? That only helps us see that you’re the GOAT.
re: Elon Musk says don't go to medical school as surgeons will be obsolete in 48 months.
Posted by StringedInstruments on 1/10/26 at 10:21 pm to FluffyBunnyFeet
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The pessimism simply disgusts me.
Yet, it’s optimism that is the most cruel.
People seem to vehemently defend Elon through a political lens rather than the reality of the world. You cannot interject a new medical procedure, pharmaceutical treatment, or technological advancement without rigorous testing and approval. Even if Elon had the technology right now to create robot surgeons, it would take years of cutting through red tape and appealing to regulatory entities.
If that’s “pessimism,” then call me pessimistic.
re: Home Alone’s Daniel Stern cited for soliciting a prostitute
Posted by StringedInstruments on 1/10/26 at 3:44 pm to RollTide1987
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There are so many websites that allows you to solicit safely and without fear of arrest.
Yeah he really should have used one of those. Which one do you think would have been best for him? Just curious for his sake.
re: Jennifer Lawrence loses her mind when son is bit by dogs and wants them all dead
Posted by StringedInstruments on 1/10/26 at 3:09 pm to GEAUXT
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HOWEVER
I love dogs. I have dogs. They’re part of my family and I love them as if they are my blood. I think dogs can be wonderful companions and/or produce great work for the world.
But I think most dogs shouldn’t exist. Because of the people. People suck.
re: Very optimistic about the future
Posted by StringedInstruments on 1/10/26 at 1:19 pm to greygoose
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First time, in a long time, I'm excited about Auburn Football!
Yeah I'm a little bit jazzed. I made a post about it.
But I was also jazzed when we got Jackson Arnold to throw to our star studded class of receivers.
I was jazzed when Hugh Freeze was landing top notch recruits and positioning us as one of the premiere destinations for high school football players.
I was jazzed when Hugh Freeze was hired. Despite my personal misgivings about the man's moral character, I thought he was a program builder who would know how to fix Auburn.
I was jazzed when we nearly beat Alabama in 2021 because I thought it meant Harsin could hang with Nick Saban.
I was jazzed when we hired Harsin. It seemed like we were finding an up and coming coach with a different perspective who would coach fundamental ball and breathe new life into a team made stagnant by Gus's stubbornness.
I was jazzed when Bo Nix, five star Auburn legacy athlete, signed with Auburn. I KNEW he would go on to be an NFL superstar one day...one day not at Auburn.
I was jazzed in 2017. We beat the dog crap out of em and then went on to be embarrassed in the SECCG and our bowl game.
I've been jazzed many, many times over the past decade and every single time has eventually let me down.
re: Stranger Things S5 - Volume 2
Posted by StringedInstruments on 1/10/26 at 9:50 am to Lanelsu83
Just finished it. I know this thread is tired and moving on, but I wanted to throw my thoughts into the universe. This is going to be long. You don't have to read it.
I was satisfied--albeit, poorly---with the final season and the conclusion of the story. Yes, there were a number of plot holes, but most of them I could overlook. The biggest issue was the writing. The fifth season was dominated by scenes of two characters telling each other the answers about what was going on. That was always a flaw in the show, but I felt it was way overhanded in its exposition through two-character dialogue. It reminded me of when The Walking Dead lost my interest: how many times can you have two characters walking down a road asking each other sumthin' before the audience loses immersion in the stakes?
Another issue was the pacing and decisions for big moments to occur. Will Byers suffered the most here. We get to the end of episode 7 with the hype of the final plan to kill Vecna. Everyone's loading up, gathering supplies, and moving to their positions. And Will's like: "Hey wait---I'm gay." Then the entire crew has a big hug fest and cries and there's zero commentary, character development, or tension with it. What were the stakes for Will to come out? None. Everyone accepted it so easily that it felt like it was shoehorned in for a plot device. I didn't mind this part of the plot and it certainly made sense. Vecna preys on people's weak minds and Will's weakness was in the mounting guilt he carried for being gay. That's a GREAT move in the story! But you have to make it count. It has be be a natural and smooth development. A random last minute "hey I'm gay" scene ruined it.
My final gripe is that the last battle was weak and could have easily been much more intense while still keeping the feel of 1980s horror and action movies. The unbelievability, ease, and plot holes of the final battle have already been stated, but I want to offer a quick reimagined ending that took five minutes of daydreaming to put together:
The physical battle was too easy and too quick. It also failed to engage in the true horror of Vecna, the Mind Flayer, and Eleven's torment: the mind. There's zero chance a bunch of kids with one gun can take on the Mind Flayer's physical form (which was badass by the way). They needed help. There needed to be a full scale plan involving much more powerful allies. Who else but the military could have served that role?
Back up a few episodes and kill Dr. Kay. Keep the black major dude healthy so he can take command. Realizing what Eleven is actually trying to do, he could mobilize the military to launch an offensive in The Abyss. That way, you can have an Aliens action scene with dozens of demobats, demodogs, and demogorgons taking on the full firepower of the US military. Obviously you'll need some bullshite to get to this point: Kali could rip and hold open one of the gates to The Abyss. Then you fly helicopters full of men and artillery, hell throw some tanks up there, and have a full on battle with the monsters.
Why? To protect Eleven as she penetrates and attacks Vecna in his mind. Vecna revealed that he and the Mind Flayer preyed upon weakness and those weaknesses came in the deepest, darkest secrets of his victims. Children were naturally vulnerable, so he could use them. But it's the adults that were weakened by their lived experiences that made them susceptible to their control.
Your final battle is a physical onslaught against the monsters and a mental chase into Vecna's mind, forcing him to confront and experience the darkest terrors of his memories. That's where his weakness is. That's how you kill him. You kill him the same way he killed others. Because the Mind Flayer was entangled with Vecna, it would also feel the anguish of these memories. No, I don't have a real idea of where you finally deal the death blow, but I could see Will having a role. Will realizes it's not Eleven that needs to self-sacrifice--it's himself. He's connected there. He can physically through a mind-connection end both Vecna and the Mind Flayer but only when they are weakened to their most frail point.
So you have the military fight outside, protecting Eleven as she chases Henry through memories until she kills him.
Look, I'm not saying this is perfect, but it sounds way cooler to me than "bunch of kids scale mountains and take on an interdimensional monster for 3 minutes."
Anyways, I'm glad it's over. I did like it some. I think Eleven is dead and Mike was coping poorly with her death, which is very reflective of kids from the 1980s. Don't address your trauma; bury it down. I can live with what I saw, but I'll always feel it could have been better.
I was satisfied--albeit, poorly---with the final season and the conclusion of the story. Yes, there were a number of plot holes, but most of them I could overlook. The biggest issue was the writing. The fifth season was dominated by scenes of two characters telling each other the answers about what was going on. That was always a flaw in the show, but I felt it was way overhanded in its exposition through two-character dialogue. It reminded me of when The Walking Dead lost my interest: how many times can you have two characters walking down a road asking each other sumthin' before the audience loses immersion in the stakes?
Another issue was the pacing and decisions for big moments to occur. Will Byers suffered the most here. We get to the end of episode 7 with the hype of the final plan to kill Vecna. Everyone's loading up, gathering supplies, and moving to their positions. And Will's like: "Hey wait---I'm gay." Then the entire crew has a big hug fest and cries and there's zero commentary, character development, or tension with it. What were the stakes for Will to come out? None. Everyone accepted it so easily that it felt like it was shoehorned in for a plot device. I didn't mind this part of the plot and it certainly made sense. Vecna preys on people's weak minds and Will's weakness was in the mounting guilt he carried for being gay. That's a GREAT move in the story! But you have to make it count. It has be be a natural and smooth development. A random last minute "hey I'm gay" scene ruined it.
My final gripe is that the last battle was weak and could have easily been much more intense while still keeping the feel of 1980s horror and action movies. The unbelievability, ease, and plot holes of the final battle have already been stated, but I want to offer a quick reimagined ending that took five minutes of daydreaming to put together:
The physical battle was too easy and too quick. It also failed to engage in the true horror of Vecna, the Mind Flayer, and Eleven's torment: the mind. There's zero chance a bunch of kids with one gun can take on the Mind Flayer's physical form (which was badass by the way). They needed help. There needed to be a full scale plan involving much more powerful allies. Who else but the military could have served that role?
Back up a few episodes and kill Dr. Kay. Keep the black major dude healthy so he can take command. Realizing what Eleven is actually trying to do, he could mobilize the military to launch an offensive in The Abyss. That way, you can have an Aliens action scene with dozens of demobats, demodogs, and demogorgons taking on the full firepower of the US military. Obviously you'll need some bullshite to get to this point: Kali could rip and hold open one of the gates to The Abyss. Then you fly helicopters full of men and artillery, hell throw some tanks up there, and have a full on battle with the monsters.
Why? To protect Eleven as she penetrates and attacks Vecna in his mind. Vecna revealed that he and the Mind Flayer preyed upon weakness and those weaknesses came in the deepest, darkest secrets of his victims. Children were naturally vulnerable, so he could use them. But it's the adults that were weakened by their lived experiences that made them susceptible to their control.
Your final battle is a physical onslaught against the monsters and a mental chase into Vecna's mind, forcing him to confront and experience the darkest terrors of his memories. That's where his weakness is. That's how you kill him. You kill him the same way he killed others. Because the Mind Flayer was entangled with Vecna, it would also feel the anguish of these memories. No, I don't have a real idea of where you finally deal the death blow, but I could see Will having a role. Will realizes it's not Eleven that needs to self-sacrifice--it's himself. He's connected there. He can physically through a mind-connection end both Vecna and the Mind Flayer but only when they are weakened to their most frail point.
So you have the military fight outside, protecting Eleven as she chases Henry through memories until she kills him.
Look, I'm not saying this is perfect, but it sounds way cooler to me than "bunch of kids scale mountains and take on an interdimensional monster for 3 minutes."
Anyways, I'm glad it's over. I did like it some. I think Eleven is dead and Mike was coping poorly with her death, which is very reflective of kids from the 1980s. Don't address your trauma; bury it down. I can live with what I saw, but I'll always feel it could have been better.
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