Off Topic IV

HornetJail · Post #1301 » by **HornetJail** » Mon Sep 17, 2012 8:57 pm

I thought it was my internet connection honestly. USC wi-fi has been painfully slow since I got back yesterday.

SWedd523 · Post #1302 » by **SWedd523** » Mon Sep 17, 2012 10:31 pm

USCstudent has been working fine for me

HornetJail · Post #1303 » by **HornetJail** » Mon Sep 17, 2012 11:53 pm

Seriously? It was incredibly bogged down last night. It's mostly better now, but I couldn't even buffer videos or anything.

SWedd523 · Post #1304 » by **SWedd523** » Tue Sep 18, 2012 1:51 am

Sunday night bro. People getting homework in by midnight deadline

HornetJail · Post #1305 » by **HornetJail** » Tue Sep 18, 2012 3:42 am

Even after midnight it was horrible. It's happening again right now. It took a few minutes to get a post through a few minutes ago.

James Gatz · Post #1306 » by **James Gatz** » Tue Sep 18, 2012 5:10 am

fatlever wrote:is it just me or have these forums been really slow recently?

I've had difficulties past couple of days as well.

SWedd523 · Post #1307 » by **SWedd523** » Tue Sep 18, 2012 12:01 pm

CHA_77_Bobcats wrote:Even after midnight it was horrible. It's happening again right now. It took a few minutes to get a post through a few minutes ago.

Dunno then, I haven't lived on campus since freshman year so I won't pretend to know what it's like anymore. I know it was impossible to watch Youtube videos or play PS3 online so I can bet with more students on campus it'll be a bit slower.

Are you in one of the older dorms, or one away from campus? That might be playing into it too

James Gatz · Post #1308 » by **James Gatz** » Tue Sep 18, 2012 2:20 pm

He's back:

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/83931 ... agent-says

Post #1309 » by **fatlever** » Tue Sep 18, 2012 3:31 pm

James Gatz wrote:
fatlever wrote:is it just me or have these forums been really slow recently?

I've had difficulties past couple of days as well.

its moving much much faster for me today.

Post #1310 » by **Walt Cronkite** » Tue Sep 18, 2012 3:32 pm

It was definitely slow on this page, couldn't even load some threads. Boxing and MMA and Media Lounge are the other boards I visit and they seemed fine. Imagine there were some kinks from the Friday maintenance or whatever.

MKG14 · Post #1311 » by **MKG14** » Wed Sep 19, 2012 12:51 am

fatlever wrote:
James Gatz wrote:
fatlever wrote:is it just me or have these forums been really slow recently?

I've had difficulties past couple of days as well.

its moving much much faster for me today.

whatever they did during the downtime was probably the cause

HornetJail · Post #1312 » by **HornetJail** » Wed Sep 19, 2012 5:37 am

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=realgm

Post #1313 » by **Walt Cronkite** » Wed Sep 19, 2012 7:43 pm

There was a run of a few months years ago where dunleavyjr's handler was on fire. Good times.

Post #1314 » by **BigSlam** » Thu Sep 20, 2012 1:05 am

I'm in a NFL knock out tipping comp (ya, I know....). You can only pick a team once for the season.

My theory is to try and pick the bad teams early to get them off my board and then finish the season with the strong teams still in play for me.

Based on this, I picked the Bengals over the Browns - mainly just to get the Bengals off my board.

This week I was thinking about going against the Browns again and this time going with the Bills.

Good move? Bad move? Is there a better pick I should be looking at?

amcoolio · Post #1315 » by **amcoolio** » Thu Sep 20, 2012 6:57 am

There's just so much uncertainty about who is good and who isn't early in the season that I would take a stronger team over a weaker team right now, at least in my opinion. Also look at schedules. The Saints don't have another lock the rest of the season, with the only winnable game @ Oakland which is tricky since its far from home. I don't see how you could take the Saints the rest of the season against any other team in an eliminator pool. The KC Chiefs are very clearly the worst team in the L and are in total disarray, and are coming to New Orleans who isn't going to go 0-3. I'd trust the Saints over the Bills. The Browns almost upset Cincy in Cincy last week

Post #1316 » by **fatlever** » Thu Sep 20, 2012 8:46 pm

make sure you pick teams at home. i would never take a road team in one of those types of pools regardless of how ridiculously lopsided the matchup appears on paper.

Post #1317 » by **fatlever** » Thu Sep 20, 2012 8:47 pm

this season of survivor looks like it will be pretty good based on last night.

HornetJail · Post #1318 » by **HornetJail** » Fri Sep 21, 2012 3:05 am

Just read through the HOF thread. LOLZ :lol:

Post #1319 » by **Walt Cronkite** » Fri Sep 21, 2012 4:36 pm

Yea, I check it out again every now and then and still get pretty consistent chuckles. Timeless stuff. Wish there were more classic GTs in there. We did end of the season "best ofs" in the past and had some of those compiled. Nostalgia...

Post #1320 » by **fatlever** » Fri Sep 21, 2012 9:15 pm

i'd like to add some of the all-time best game threads to the index thread i created. if you can think of any great ones, post them here and i will add them to the index.