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[Yoink]

The rest of my Abe Books order arrived today. Now just how TF am I gonna decide WTF to read next?   

[scriver]

Trial by combat

[Jopax]

Jesus the HobbyLink Japan site is godawful when it comes to handling info. I've had an account registered way back but haven't really used it. Since then it seems they've changed what characters you can use in your name/adress, and since I have special characters in both I need to change them. Trouble is, it seems I'm not allowed to change my name, which ok, whatever, but when I go to change the address, the form also has my name in it, but I can't edit that field at all, so when I change my address to something valid, I get an error that my name can't contain special characters, which I cannot edit at all.
So now I gotta go trough the support e-mail and verifying my identity trough whatever method they think of thing simply because they made a change in how they handle special characters in names ffs

[ChairmanPoo]

Trial by combat

Death by snu snu

[wierd]

Broken pelvis does not sound fun to me.

[gamer31]

Went to the store to get some groceries and when I went to pay I realized that I had left my wallet in my friend's bag. So I had to call another friend and ask him to come by and pay for my stuff.

[pisskop]

Just yesterday I actually left my atm card in the atm and walked away.  Luckily, it was a closed bank due to covid, and in the evening when nobody was around, and on a route that didnt really support foot traffic.

[TD1]

Trial by combat

Death by snu snu

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay

[Bumber]

Broken pelvis does not sound fun to me.

Books don't have pelvis, only spine.

[LordBaal]

[hector13]

Joe Buck, a commentator who only got into the biz ‘cause his dad was a commentator and is woeful to listen to, has been inducted into the pro football hall of fame.

Like, I don’t understand why I get so upset about his fucking omnipresence on Fox Sports which has rights to everything, because he’s just boring as shit, but for serious man the guy gets all the good jobs and you just have to wonder just what kind of material he has on the people making the decisions in order to get them.

Bonus points for Troy Aikman - another questionable entrant to the hall of fame, and Buck’s co-commentator for NFL games... at least he played the sport, I guess? - being the first person to congratulate him on it.

[pisskop]

I too enjoy the local sportsball team, and their commentators.  I would love to discuss them with you, however I am soooooooooooooooooo busy right now.  Please check in later.   


In seriousness though, I get it.  When you dont like somebody's voice and dont think they have a voice for radio its frustrating.  He's clearly put in the work, and he has to have some talent for the work no matter what anyone says, since the political side of any career will only take you so far.

[hector13]

He does have a good voice, he just... doesn’t do anything with it. He describes what’s happening, as any half-decent commentator can do, sprinkles in the odd stat like he’s just heard it from the state guy like he’s jamming that square peg into the round hole, and doesn’t inject any... I can’t think of a word here, mostly because I don’t know quite what I mean. Life? The kind of thing that if you left the room because you thought nothing was happening, but if you heard it you’d come running back in to see what happened.

Like there are good commentators, your Al Michaels’ and Bob Costas’. I would watch something I have no interest in just because they were commentating on it.

It seems baseball radio commentators are good at what I mean. Your Bob Uecker’s and Vin Scully’s of the world (Scully retired at 88 in 2016, Uecker is 86 and still broadcasts; both bring more to a game than Buck ever could) just bring what they’re talking about to life, they have such passion for it.

I probably shouldn’t try to explain what I mean this early in the morning when I’ve just woken up, but yeah.

Tl;dr Joe Buck is average, there are many better options, but he still gets the best jobs, I am confounded.

[scriver]

I hate most tv personalities' voices these days since 99% of them speak with the broadest, rubest Stockholm dialect you can imagine. Most of them can't pronounce either Ä or Ö.

Radio talkers still make an effort to sound good.

Edit: jeez I'm in no-coverage-land for a single day and the ametipol thread explodes I don't even have time to deal with that now I'm going back into the no-contact-zone, can't hug all the internet

[Maximum Spin]

Edit: jeez I'm in no-coverage-land for a single day and the ametipol thread explodes I don't even have time to deal with that now I'm going back into the no-contact-zone, can't hug all the internet

Having been part of it, I can confidently say, you really shouldn't bother