OT 19/3: Closed for Renovations

[Steazy Doo]

Typically I don't do the horror genre of movie but I re-watched Saw for the first time in many years and it's such a work of art. From start to finish it's such a masterful film. Look at the franchise and just ask "What the hell happened?" It could have and should have been one of the greatest movie installments of all time and then became nothing more than a self conscious gore fest that did everything it could to say "betcha didn't see that coming!!"

I honestly do not understand how the writers expected the franchise to survive upon the premise of victims being killed on purpose or said victims being expected to think rationally when it is impossible to do so in fight-or-flight situations and constantly changing protagonists.

The glory of the first film is that Lawrence and Adam have no less than 6 hours (Saw world time) to figure out how to get out of the bathroom, figure out their connection to each other and figure out what the real reason is for them being there. It's a far cry from the 15 minutes (Saw world time) of social Darwinism displayed in the trap where 5 people were put together and they just systematically kill each passing test. Then it's "HA! SHOULD'VE WORKED TOGETHER!!" What the **** do you think was gonna happen? And the never ending cat-and-mouse game between the police and Jigsaw/His accomplices. Holy God

 

[These Are The Days]

Yeah I guess so right? Like I said, coulda, shoulda and woulda about its potential. Pound for pound Saw and Saw II are amongst the best horror movies I have ever seen. Like I said, the 3rd film should've been the turning point in the franchise and they should have used it to start wrapping the plot into 4 films. I can understand the need for 5 films tops if the writing was going to suffer from having to tell the story too quickly. You don't want to make it hurried so I can vouch for doing that and the trick to keeping interest is to leave film 4 with a cliff-hanger like "is the primary protagonist going to die?" However, introducing Hoffman as another antagonist (as if we needed another) was completely unnecessary.

There never... EVER needed to be 7 movies. It just gradually got worse with each passing film.

 

[JoVel]

After reading the trade boards, it still puzzles me how Valtteri Filppula's name can be so hard to type to some people. I think he's most commonly known as Valterri Filpulla here. I'm pretty sure less than 50% of this board typed his name right as well when he was with us. Well, what do I know as a Finn, maybe it is a hard name.

 

[MattM92]

It was easy once I remembered the double letters were in the middle of his first and last name.

 

[LightningStrikes]

After reading the trade boards, it still puzzles me how Valtteri Filppula's name can be so hard to type to some people. I think he's most commonly known as Valterri Filpulla here. I'm pretty sure less than 50% of this board typed his name right as well when he was with us. Well, what do I know as a Finn, maybe it is a hard name.

Well from an English (or even German) speaking point of view, the double letters don't really make sense in the way we'd unterstand written language. Double consonants normally indicate that you have to put more emphasis on said letters or part of the word. But we don't or can't actually do it in "Valtteri" or "Filppula". But how do you emphasize the "tt" after "Val"? "pp" after "Fil"? We pronounce it the same way as if it were "Valteri" or "Filpula". Meanwhile "Valterri" or "Filpulla" makes sense to our ears and brains because we actually know how we would pronounce these (mistyped) names. Since people know there are some double consonants in his name they put them where they'd expect them.

Do Finns actually pronounce "Valtteri" and "Filppula" differently than "Valteri" and "Filpula"?

 

[FinnLightning26]

Well from an English (or even German) speaking point of view, the double letters don't really make sense in the way we'd unterstand written language. Double consonants normally indicate that you have to put more emphasis on said letters or part of the word. But we don't or can't actually do it in "Valtteri" or "Filppula". But how do you emphasize the "tt" after "Val"? "pp" after "Fil"? We pronounce it the same way as if it were "Valteri" or "Filpula". Meanwhile "Valterri" or "Filpulla" makes sense to our ears and brains because we actually know how we would pronounce these (mistyped) names. Since people know there are some double consonants in his name they put them where they'd expect them.

Do Finns actually pronounce "Valtteri" and "Filppula" differently than "Valteri" and "Filpula"?

Yeah, we say it with two ts and two ps. We have many names like that, for example Petteri or Janne. My surname is a nightmare to try to pronounce abroad since it's long and has two ä letters which English doesn't have. I just usually give up after a while and type it out for them or I'll show my passport

 

[The Macho King]

After reading the trade boards, it still puzzles me how Valtteri Filppula's name can be so hard to type to some people. I think he's most commonly known as Valterri Filpulla here. I'm pretty sure less than 50% of this board typed his name right as well when he was with us. Well, what do I know as a Finn, maybe it is a hard name.

I call him Flip - I still don't know how to spell his name.

 

[JoVel]

Well from an English (or even German) speaking point of view, the double letters don't really make sense in the way we'd unterstand written language. Double consonants normally indicate that you have to put more emphasis on said letters or part of the word. But we don't or can't actually do it in "Valtteri" or "Filppula". But how do you emphasize the "tt" after "Val"? "pp" after "Fil"? We pronounce it the same way as if it were "Valteri" or "Filpula". Meanwhile "Valterri" or "Filpulla" makes sense to our ears and brains because we actually know how we would pronounce these (mistyped) names. Since people know there are some double consonants in his name they put them where they'd expect them.

That makes sense. Never thought of it.

Do Finns actually pronounce "Valtteri" and "Filppula" differently than "Valteri" and "Filpula"?

Yeah, with the two t's in Valtteri it's kind of like having a little pause between Val and teri. You can check his Eliteprospect page for the correct pronunciation.

 

[Stormbreaker]

Can't freaking wait for this!

 

[These Are The Days]

Just call him Walter Phillips

 

[Felonious Python]

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is a good show (it's on Amazon Prime), but I'm through two episodes and I don't see how it fits into the MCU. I guess Peggy Carter shows up at some point, but nudity and the f-word don't seem very Marvel. Although The Punisher did get very bloody towards the end.

 

[dechire]

Fell while trying to put on boots this morning and now my knee and foot are hurt This is why I hate living in a cold place. I've never injured myself while putting on flipflops

 

[Felonious Python]

Fell while trying to put on boots this morning and now my knee and foot are hurt This is why I hate living in a cold place. I've never injured myself while putting on flipflops

Flip flops exposes your toes to getting stubbed though.

 

[The Macho King]

I forgot to put my time in all month...

Now I'm digging through old emails trying to figure out what I did on particular days. Don't be me kids - do your time.

 

[LightningStrikes]

I forgot to put my time in all month...

Now I'm digging through old emails trying to figure out what I did on particular days. Don't be me kids - do your time.

 

[AlphaCatalyst]

Star Wars Advent Calendar Day 4

 

[Felonious Python]

You can get RTS World in Conflict for free this week on Uplay PC and next week will be Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (the pirate one) for free.

 

[Boltswin]

Fell while trying to put on boots this morning and now my knee and foot are hurt This is why I hate living in a cold place. I've never injured myself while putting on flipflops

A girl wearing flip flops tripped in front of me going up the stairs today.

 

[AlphaCatalyst]

Star Wars Advent Calendar Day 5

 

[FinnLightning26]

This is pretty cool. The whole mountainside was lit up with blue and white to celebrate Finland's 100 years of independence.



Here's an even better picture with northern lights and all.

 

[JoVel]

That's one or two too many hashtags for my liking.

 

[Felonious Python]

Hey Mr. Vinik, I think I found a guy for your eSports team.


StarCraft II has gone free-to-play btw. Haven't tried it yet, but have it installed.

 

[AlphaCatalyst]

Star Wars Advent Calendar Day 6

 

[AlphaCatalyst]

This is a pretty good read


I Made My Shed the Top Rated Restaurant On TripAdvisor

 

[These Are The Days]

So I found a few Espo interviews on youtube and all I have to say is wow..... WOW!!! Man I thought I swore a lot when I talked - I even do it on message boards. But this guy.... he could even teach me a few words. I swear if I sat down for a drink with this guy and talked hockey with him the whole bar would clear out. On a side note, I knew he could be a loud, cantankerous and in your face personality (by no surprise his former coach and contemporary in Don Cherry is the same way) but I can only imagine what it was like dealing with him as a GM.

I imagine a typical exchange in the office went something like "Hey Phil, they called back and said they'd do the trade" "Well why'da f*** are they calling saying they wanna do it? I called YOU for God's sakes! f***in tell me when their guy's on the plane and go ahead and sign off on the draft pick I offered ya. Why'da hafta call back just to say yes? JEEZ!!!"