OT: Randy's OT Shindig: Gotta find a way to stay occupied

[Honour Over Glory]

If you have the cash to splash... Lovesac couches are the best

I feel like googling "Lovesac" might bring up some odd things for me, mate.

I use a work laptop, I sense wankery is afoot.

 

[Winger for Hire]

I feel like googling "Lovesac" might bring up some odd things for me, mate.

I use a work laptop, I sense wankery is afoot.

I feel you on that. I had the same reaction when my wife told me she wanted a Lovesac and I told her we couldn't afford the surgery.

But seriously, legit furniture. Modular and comfy AF.

 

[Empoleon8771]

If you have the cash to splash... Lovesac couches are the best

Me looking at the prices of those

 

[Honour Over Glory]

I feel you on that. I had the same reaction when my wife told me she wanted a Lovesac and I told her we couldn't afford the surgery.

But seriously, legit furniture. Modular and comfy AF.

It's like the lovechild of a chaise lounge and loveseat.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Me looking at the prices of those

You just gotta do what Nubbsy does, walk the suburbs and see if you can find one on the curb and then buy 3 bottles of FabreZe and "sanitize" it for your digs.

 

[Winger for Hire]

The Mrs Winger and I are somehow VIPs at the South Hills Lovesac store. I'm unsure how we're not broke because of it.

 

[Empoleon8771]

Do you know what's crazy to me? Guess the prices of these 2 couches:

Burrow Couch
Amazon Knockoff of a Burrow Couch

The Burrow couch is $1400, the Amazon couch is $400. The Burrow couch is nicer and I'm not a huge fan of getting furniture off of Amazon, but holy crap. What's also crazy is that the Amazon picture probably undersells that couch, the pictures in the reviews look a lot nicer.

 

[Winger for Hire]

Those don't look very comfortable

 

[Empoleon8771]

Those don't look very comfortable

I'm not a huge fan of super soft couches that I kinda sink into. I'd rather have a moderately firm base and add pillows to make it softer if I want.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

I have leather recliner sofa's so cloth isn't my fav but I do like the "Mad Men" look that the Burrow exudes.

 

[Winger for Hire]

I'm not a huge fan of super soft couches that I kinda sink into. I'd rather have a moderately firm base and add pillows to make it softer if I want.

That's fair. I'm the opposite, I love a couch to become one with me.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Jesus christ, marvel...

 

[Randy Butternubs]

I'm not a huge fan of super soft couches that I kinda sink into. I'd rather have a moderately firm base and add pillows to make it softer if I want.

Then I think you'd like Burrow.

I'd invite you over to try it out, but ya know...

 

[Honour Over Glory]

I feel like now is the time for streamers like NEtflix to piss off with their "releases next week" stuff, now more than ever, we need shit to binge because mates, I am bored af.

I've now seen the F1 series 3x over, I still hate Max Verstappen as much as I did before the series as a fan of F1.

 

[Randy Butternubs]

Jesus christ, marvel...

Holy f*** that's real:

Introducing the New 'New Warriors'

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Holy f*** that's real:

Introducing the New 'New Warriors'

Yeah, I'm still laughing at that...jesus.

Trailblazer is like the poster child for child obesity. These are so cringe.

 

[Gurglesons]

So I got bored and needed hockey, unfortunately the need ended up being NHL2020 - Absolute garbage of a game.

I'm the Pens, I basically did 1 major trade before I got started.


Bjugstad + JJ for Wood.

Then I simmed until the Sabres/Caps back 2 back before TDL when I made the moves of Gaudette + Virtanen for ZAR and a 1st in 2024 + Bellerive. Then I moved Schultz + 2nd in 2023 for DeAngelo...

My lines are fun - McCann had a sprained MCL, so that wanker is out until end of March.
Guentzel, Crosby, Gaudette - This line is money.
Zucker, Malkin, Virtanen (Hornqvist is injured - But he's put up 48pts in 61 games) - For some reason, this line is a +3 for chemistry...but when I put Jake there, it's +1 and Sid's goes from +1 to 0...the game doesn't like Sid & Zuck.
Marleau, Blueger, Rust - Probably my best line right now in terms of always creating chances.
Wood, Simon, Tanev - This line disgusts me, mostly because Simon is actually very good as the 4C there.

Defense is where it gets fun...

Pettersson, Marino - Yeah this is my top pair, they're a +3 for chemistry, Pettersson is good for poking pucks, but dude gives up the puck so f***ing much, Marino is a god damned monster in this game, it's pure porn just using him in this game, in the game vs the Caps (a low scoring 11-4 victory, Murray with the W), Marino went to hit Ovechkin and knocked both Ovechkin and Kuznetsov down and then passed the puck up to Rust who wired it top corner coming down the right side, on Goaltby.
Dumoulin, DeAngelo - They are a +5 for chemistry, low key awesome.
Riikola, Letang - Yeah, Tanger is on my 3rd pair, but they are a +1 for chemistry and Riikola is gained a ton of confidence in this pair, really awesome.

Also gross, Letang got hurt for 30 games (lol), so I had Trotman up because...our depth on RD blows and Ruhwedel is even worse, but Trotman had a statline of 25 games 3goals 8assists and +15...yeah...somewhere, Sully has a boner so massive, Viagra is jealous.

Jarry has the better stats, in the western swing during our real life losing streak, in the game vs the Ducks, I had simmed the first period, THE f***ING DUCKS HAD 40 shots in the first period...jesus christ. I won that game 6-2, Jarry had a 64 save performance. He was easier to sign, still trying to get Murray to bite on a 5.5m/yr deal for 5yrs, Jarry signed 5yrs at 4.5m.

Then I gave up and got bored.

Trotman exists even in fantasy.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Trotman exists even in fantasy.

Has an absolute bomb of a shot. I'd try to use Letang but he's been hurt for like 50% of my season.

It's also bad that I should have traded Muzz. Oddly enough my tandem ended up being DeSmith and Jarry as my starter. For a 2 month period Murray was hurt for like a few days at a time and I kept having to win 7-5 games. Got too real.

Larmi has decent potential.

 

[Gurglesons]

Has an absolute bomb of a shot. I'd try to use Letang but he's been hurt for like 50% of my season.

It's also bad that I should have traded Muzz. Oddly enough my tandem ended up being DeSmith and Jarry as my starter. For a 2 month period Murray was hurt for like a few days at a time and I kept having to win 7-5 games. Got too real.

Larmi has decent potential.

I only play one on one versus, but I think
the first thing I’d do is trade Murray because goalies outside of Markstrom seem to have no effect.

 

[Empoleon8771]

Then I think you'd like Burrow.

I'd invite you over to try it out, but ya know...

I ended up going with the Amazon knockoff for the couch. $400 is cheap enough where I'm willing to get a temporary couch that looks nice. That couch seems to be nicer than stuff you can get at Ikea for that price, so I don't have any complaints. Like this couch certainly doesn't look low quality to me and the reviews are really good:

I don't see why I can't get a cheap couch now and get a Burrow couch in a year or 2, maybe when they revamp their design and/or decrease the cost.

 

[T1K]

I ended up going with the Amazon knockoff for the couch. $400 is cheap enough where I'm willing to get a temporary couch that looks nice. That couch seems to be nicer than stuff you can get at Ikea for that price, so I don't have any complaints. Like this couch certainly doesn't look low quality to me and the reviews are really good:

I don't see why I can't get a cheap couch now and get a Burrow couch in a year or 2, maybe when they revamp their design and/or decrease the cost.

That’s nice man, I’m probably gonna buy a similar one when I move into my next apartment in a few months.

 

[Clare2904]

@AlphaMikeFoxtrots

We need doggie fix please

 

[Big McLargehuge]

To build on the video game tangent I went on in the covid-19 thread in a more appropriate place...





I can't see anyone talk about Earthbound without getting the Mario Paint soundtrack stuck in my head. 7 year-old me had a choice of the two big boxed SNES games, Mario Paint or Earthbound. I made the correct decision for a 7 year-old that I'd regret for the remainder of time...but at least that dumb paint program had such an odd soundtrack that I kept going back to it regardless of how little fun I had with it.

 

[Dipsy Doodle]

If you're quarantined and want to try something a little different music-wise (while you're gaming or otherwise), I just pumped the tires on this on the main board. Crank it for full effect:



Incredible song. Great rhythms, forceful, evolving horn arrangements, memorable cover art, a chorus of women shouting "because the shit dey smell", and a great story about political corruption, drugs, and turd swappin':

This album – like most of Fela’s acclaimed works – takes precedence from a personal event. The year before its release, the Afrobeat star, characteristically, had been very critical of the military government. And, as we know, the government went after him. Having beaten a narcotics charge, he was the victim of a more purposeful persecution mission: his Kalakuta Republic compound in Lagos was swarmed by the police, and an attempt was made to plant a joint of marijuana in the premises. Albeit successful, the enigmatic musician, born Olufela Ransome Kuti, swallowed it, whole. And by the virtue of this largely humorous act, they had no evidence to hang him by. Arrested, he was remanded in prison, and his excrete be tested. It was a well-developed plan after all, to throw the government’s most vocal critic behind bars for a long time. Providence however, had other plans. Where he had been kept till his shit was tested, he managed to get exchange his for another specimen.

And only 13 minutes long. Pretty short for Fela!

 

[HandshakeLine]

Fela Rules.

For synth nerds, my local music store is blowing out used synths stuff during the pandemic, and this caught my eye: