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Ironwood
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Yes. Yes, he is.
What was the 'reasoning' behind the suspension ? I could do with a laugh.
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schild
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"Fighting with a millionaire" or something, I guess.
Isn't Curt fucking homeless by now? Isn't that what society is supposed to do to people who are big dumb failures?
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angry.bob
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"Fighting with a millionaire" or something, I guess.
Isn't Curt fucking homeless by now? Isn't that what society is supposed to do to people who are big dumb failures?
He was a sports guy. That means that someone, someplace will always be a big enough fan that he will never have to worry about making less than a couple hundred grand a year. Even if it's to just sit an a corner office and bullshit about sports with a corporate officer a couple hours a day. Best tweet so far keithlaw @keithlaw
Seriously, if someone says evolution is wrong because there aren't fossils between monkeys and men, find a monkey and hit him with it.
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Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muß man schweigen.
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I didn't hear about this until the suspension. Would have loved to jump in and ask Curt whether he had better things to do, like blow through tens of millions of dollars...oh wait.
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schild
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Acceptable hashtags for tweeting at Curt Schilling:
#monkeybusiness
#wheredthemoneygo
#debtandtaxes
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angry.bob
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I didn't hear about this until the suspension. Would have loved to jump in and ask Curt whether he had better things to do, like blow through tens of millions of dollars...oh wait.
Well, he apparently went on to the airport where his son jokingly said he left his grenade in his baggage and shut down the airport. Turns out it was a fake grenade, which is still stupid as fuck. But hey, the cops and TSA were cool about it and a good laugh was had by all. Except all those people who had their travelling fucked up. |
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Falconeer
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Is that a true story? A friend of mine in Florida got in jail for going to the airport and making the gesture of shooting people with her hands (she hadn't taken her meds). They took her away for two months for that. And a fucking Schilling seriously got away with a pat on the back?
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schild
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Rich, mildly famous people, bruh.
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Malakili
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Googling gave me this: http://deadspin.com/curt-schillings-son-brings-fake-grenade-to-logan-airpor-1662055407Schilling's youngest son is 12 years old, which means he's just young enough to credibly pull off the "sorry dad, I didn't know I wasn't supposed to pack my noise-canceling headphones and gum on top of my fake grenade" routine. If it was his 15 or 19 year old son that did it, well, c'mon man.
NECN reports that the Schilling family was taken into a private room to explain their story to the TSA, and that it didn't cause any delays.
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So stupidity IS hereditary.
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When speaking of the MMOG industry, the glass may be half full, but it's full of urine. HaemishM
Always wear clean underwear because you never know when a Tory Government is going to fuck you.- Ironwood
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schild
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Well, yeah. Stupid people breed into stupid people. Curt just won the Natural Gift lottery. His natural gift came with a cost though - his brain being a goddamn pile of rocks.
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Abagadro
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He should go lecture the researchers and doctors who created all the cancer drugs that kept his stupid ass alive about there being no such thing as evolution.
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trias_e
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It's fun because he's better at something than anyone who ever reads this forum will be at anything, but yet he's terrible at everything else.
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satael
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Considering where this thread is on the board I have to wonder (and ask if someone has any information on) if they will ever manage to actually sell the IP and whatever assets they had for the MMO? |
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Hutch
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I envision the State of Rhode Island crating up said assets and warehousing them, Ark of the Covenant style.
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Plant yourself like a tree
Haven't you noticed? We've been sharing our culture with you all morning.
The sun will shine on us again, brother
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It's fun because he's better at something than anyone who ever reads this forum will be at anything, but yet he's terrible at everything else.
I'll disagree with that. I think there are at least a couple of people here (not me) better at computing stuff than that fucknugget is at hitting a ball with a stick. Just that one of those things is idolised a hell of a lot more. |
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Draegan
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First he was one of the best people in the world at throwing a ball, and making it move in different directions and still being accurate.
Please point to people here that are in the top 10 in their field on this board.
Also, he wasn't known for hitting a ball with a stick. He was not really good at it.
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Lantyssa
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Enh. He could throw a ball accurately. Not exactly a life skill to be amazed by. I knew this one guy who could hock a loogie better than anyone...
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Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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Draegan
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Enh. He could throw a ball accurately. Not exactly a life skill to be amazed by. I knew this one guy who could hock a loogie better than anyone...
They guy is a dickhead and a moron for the most part. But I wouldn't diminish his ability as a baseball player. He was really really good at it. |
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schild
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First he was one of the best people in the world at throwing a ball, and making it move in different directions and still being accurate. And yet Geldon would have done a better job running his company. Please point to people here that are in the top 10 in their field on this board. When you type things like this, do you think to yourself, "yeah, got those fuckers. No one will come up with a more worthless argument than me! Ha-haaa!" |
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Draegan
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Please point to people here that are in the top 10 in their field on this board. When you type things like this, do you think to yourself, "yeah, got those fuckers. No one will come up with a more worthless argument than me! Ha-haaa!" I think that as much as you feel compelled furiously type something half clever as soon as someone says something positive about Curt Schilling. |
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schild
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So, yes, you do?
Spoiler: No one here gives a fuck about his baseball given his recent behavior. So posting that shit as a rebuttal is effectively worthless.
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Draegan
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So, yes, you do?
Spoiler: No one here gives a fuck about his baseball given his recent behavior. So posting that shit as a rebuttal is effectively worthless.
Much like your argument? |
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lamaros
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First he was one of the best people in the world at throwing a ball, and making it move in different directions and still being accurate.
Please point to people here that are in the top 10 in their field on this board.
Also, he wasn't known for hitting a ball with a stick. He was not really good at it.
Who cares? Highly specalised skill that is onky useful for entertainment for a small group of the human population. |
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Khaldun
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I don't see why there is any contradiction between noting his skills as a pitcher and noting his general fucked-up behavior since.
But the real thing is not his absolute mental defectiveness about evolution or whatever. It is that he has the 100-pound total brass balls to be braying like a donkey about big government and welfare queens and all that after having sucked off a massive amount of money from the taxpayers of Rhode Island without any apparent regret or cognitive dissonance. He can be a dumbass about reality all he wants, because it's not necessarily something that contradicts being a bad or good businessman trying to make a game. But nobody that's gotten the money he's gotten to be an incompetent doofus has any fucking business spouting libertard dogma of any kind. Imagine the worst case Republican nightmare welfare queen and you will not even be within a light year of what Curt Schilling did. He should have to be giving speeches all around the country apologizing for it rather than shitting up Twitter.
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Ginaz
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I don't see why there is any contradiction between noting his skills as a pitcher and noting his general fucked-up behavior since.
But the real thing is not his absolute mental defectiveness about evolution or whatever. It is that he has the 100-pound total brass balls to be braying like a donkey about big government and welfare queens and all that after having sucked off a massive amount of money from the taxpayers of Rhode Island without any apparent regret or cognitive dissonance. He can be a dumbass about reality all he wants, because it's not necessarily something that contradicts being a bad or good businessman trying to make a game. But nobody that's gotten the money he's gotten to be an incompetent doofus has any fucking business spouting libertard dogma of any kind. Imagine the worst case Republican nightmare welfare queen and you will not even be within a light year of what Curt Schilling did. He should have to be giving speeches all around the country apologizing for it rather than shitting up Twitter.
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angry.bob
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The biggest "welfare bums" are businesses and corporations.
Careful now, you're talking about the makers, producers, and job creators. |
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LC
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I just want to point out that I was hating this guy before it was cool.
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satael
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I just want to point out that I was hating this guy before it was cool.
The first I heard of Schilling since I'm not American and so his career as a professional athlete didn't mean anything to me was when it came to Avalon Hill games and Advanced Squad Leader and I can't say that I would have hated him for that in any way. I can't say that I would care about him as a person enough to hate and I'm more interested in the whole process of how the Green Monster games (or whatever it was called in the end) failed before finishing the game (as in how could they miscalculate so badly).  |
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Lantyssa
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I'd say it's because he could throw a 100 mile-an-hour fastball but hadn't a lick of business sense, but people assumed he did since they're enamored of sports heroes.
It's kind of like my boss wanting to choose the single-guy "with passion" and a couple of contractors over the team who did rack mount server build-outs daily, despite his IT person telling him it was patently a Bad Idea. (Sorry, bitter this early in the morning.)
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Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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UnSub
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Please point to people here that are in the top 10 in their field on this board.
This is true - none of us are on the "Top Ten Game Company Crashes" list. |
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I disliked him for his politics well before he shit the bed in the game industry. When I first heard stories of Schilling and Doug Glanville playing EQ together I thought he might be a decent guy. The more I learned the less I liked him. And the hits just keep on coming.
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When speaking of the MMOG industry, the glass may be half full, but it's full of urine. HaemishM
Always wear clean underwear because you never know when a Tory Government is going to fuck you.- Ironwood
Libertarians make fun of everyone because they can't see beyond the event horizons of their own assholes Surlyboi
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When speaking of the MMOG industry, the glass may be half full, but it's full of urine. HaemishM
Always wear clean underwear because you never know when a Tory Government is going to fuck you.- Ironwood
Libertarians make fun of everyone because they can't see beyond the event horizons of their own assholes Surlyboi
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HaemishM
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John Smoltz had a much longer, much more consistently impressive body of work than Schilling, who was really only "great" for what... 5-6 years? Smoltz spent multiple years saving games before going back to starting and was still pretty damn good when he did that. Schilling has a few World Series Rings and a bloody sock. Fuck him.
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