2018 Running Olympics Thread

Started by bayonetbrant, February 06, 2018, 11:44:52 AM

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bayonetbrant

Running discussion of the 2018 Winter Olympics here :)

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bayonetbrant

The key to surviving this site is to not say something which ends up as someone's tag line - Steelgrave

"their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of 'rights'...and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure." Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers

MetalDog

Even though it's your own, the Olympics thread has more replies than the Hockey thread.  From October.
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bayonetbrant

Quote from: MetalDog on February 06, 2018, 09:23:19 PM
Even though it's your own, the Olympics thread has more replies than the Hockey thread.  From October.

wow...  I guess no one cares much about hockey...
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bayonetbrant

Anyone watch the opening ceremonies? 

The dude from Tonga was hilarious.

The combined Korea team coming in was chill-inducing

the drone swarm that formed the different figures in the sky before forming the Olympic rings in the air was both really, really cool, and (for those of us that can see some pretty easy military uses for a swarm of armed drones operating in concert) terrifying.
The key to surviving this site is to not say something which ends up as someone's tag line - Steelgrave

"their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of 'rights'...and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure." Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers

airboy


BanzaiCat

The coverage via NBC so far isn't the greatest. TV viewing still shows about 30 minutes of commercials each hour and their 'free' live stream site (nbcolympics.com) gives you 30 minutes of free, buffer-free viewing before requiring you sign in using your ISP/cable provider, with your online credentials.

Once you log in it gets much worse, as it buffers like mad. I've been lucky to get maybe 10-15 seconds of viewing in before a huge COMMERCIAL BREAK IN PROGRESS placeholder appears for upwards of a minute, then it goes back to about 10 seconds of coverage, right in the middle of things, then placeholder image, then coverage, etc. etc. It's pretty frigging bad.

bayonetbrant

NBCSN has been pretty reasonable, if they have what you want to watch
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"their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of 'rights'...and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure." Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers

mirth

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BanzaiCat

Guess there's still hurt feelings over the whole Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere thing.

mirth

If you want to get dead quick, there aren't very many faster ways than to praise the Japanese to Koreans.
"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

BanzaiCat

Or praise the Japanese to Chinese.

mirth

Also a quick route to the afterlife.
"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

BanzaiCat

Though it can be said Japan's roots as a developing kingdom thousands of years ago were massively impacted by both Chinese and Korean culture...but I doubt you'll find anyone complaining about that.

mirth

"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus