Posts by Alex Cook

It’s a beautiful day to chase those under bets—some folks are out there following their little "systems" today, while later tonight we’ll actually sit down and try to deconstruct the minds of those coaching wizards who think they can steer their squads to a win... Just throwing some things out there, my first gut feeling is LAL - NYK, then maybe HOU - SAS, and I've got a tired OKC squad facing Dallas as my third pick.

James Castillo8 said:"The Los Angeles Lakers haven't lost their first three games since 1978—which was the season right before they snagged Magic Johnson with the number one overall pick."

Sweet, I already threw some money on the Utah Jazz at the local sportsbook... probably gonna see some action pop up on the ML lines online later too.

When was the last time the Los Angeles Lakers actually started a season 0-3?

wants it
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Taylor Gonzalez79 said:Chuck Norris has tracked down every single thread ever started by Richard Wilson4. 🙏

Richard Wilson4 has definitely popped off more threads than ris...

Nah, you basically robbed them of the chance to hit that milestone. 🙂

Taylor Gonzalez79 said:50X50=2500
75X75=5625

It was under 3125 pixels before.

So, are we feeling pro-pixel-peepers here, or what? Are you guys for it or against it? ☕

casualwolf12 said:The reality is quite simple: you cannot simply toss a meme-ified photo into an avatar slot. One requires at least >200x200 pixels for such things to actually be legible or remotely coherent...

Look, mine isn't even the best example since it’s white text on a light background—so the visibility is pretty crappy—but if there was actual contrast, you’d definitely see the difference. Either way, those extra 25 pixels aren't going to break the page size or slow down the load times...🤷

ban kloniranog said:And we can swap out fonts in the signature, too.

You really think the server can handle MS Sans Serif? 😢

Another vote for 75x75... it's not massive, but you can actually tell what's going on in the image. One of the reasons I haven't bothered with an avatar for a while now is precisely because most images I shrink down to 50x50 become a total blur—just a pixelated mess where you can't distinguish anything at all.

It’s not really about signatures, but if they could just bring back the options to align text to the right or center, and maybe let us decrease (not increase!) the font size... that would be something. We didn't even have images or GIFs in our signatures anyway, and having access to every single color in the spectrum for text is honestly pretty useless. So, yeah... that's my two cents.

casualwolf12 said:Let’s be honest, most users on this forum already have rather mediocre avatars; there is really no point in artificially inflating their dimensions after the fact. 🤷

A decent avatar looks just fine at 50x50, whereas for some unfortunate souls, even a 1000x1000 resolution won't save them from being eyesores. 😳

Colleague, please allow me to disagree! 🧐

Here, this was my last avatar:

That's 50x50.

But man, if only it were 75x75 🙏 :

Bring it on, you beast! I'm an entity!

What on earth are you even talking about?

won't happen

What are you guys even talking about?

Thomas Grant64 said:So where am I supposed to go if I want to file a formal complaint about the scoring...

Reddit

Look, those kinds of restrictions actually make sense on small, niche forums—you know, places built for a specific group of enthusiasts. Even then, I honestly rarely see limits on starting new threads. Usually, those rules are just there to gatekeep private messages to keep out the spammers, scammers, and people trying to shill other sites... it keeps things clean.

But this forum? It’s way too massive and broad-reaching for that kind of stuff to even matter. Sure, maybe it would be handy for a few specific sub-boards, but for most of us, it'd just be useless—and on some parts of the site, it might actually do more harm than good. So, yeah... I'm against it.

swiftcanyon64 said:So, I noticed that whenever I try to drop a certain emoji into my posts, instead of the actual icon showing up, I just get a raw link... and weirdly enough, this only seems to happen when I'm trying to use the "not-so-polite" ones.😂😂
makes me wonder if we're looking at some kind of censorship here...🤷

Was that maybe happening over in the NSFW subforum? 🙂

Check this out...

I don't have any issues so far—fingers crossed it stays that way.

Paul Green31 said:Man, imagine how much of a coward you'd be if you actually sided with him. You know, it's easy to be part of the mob throwing stones, but it's a hell of a lot harder to stand right between the crowd and the target they're hitting. Especially when you've got your back turned to the guy getting pelted—it makes it pretty easy to get hit yourself.

So, you think it's important to have criteria on your side? Hmm...

I say it's important to have the *right* criteria, but not as a weapon for a side—it's something you carry within yourself. If you actually live by that, then standing between the mob and the victim isn't an issue.

And by the way, I'm sticking up for the guy the mob is targeting, the guy who's going to get crushed if they keep this up. Am I some kind of suck-up? Instead of riding the wave with Bradley Sanders, who's clearly just chasing the scent of new power and "change," I'm siding with the guy who's losing.

Your "logic of interest" is flawed. There's no self-interest at play here. Criteria matter, sure, but they aren't the goal—they're the starting point.

And I've got nothing to gain from any outcome here, except maybe a wasted afternoon. Unlike some people, I don't actually have an agenda.

Yeah, I'd be a regular hero. But I can't—or won't, if you prefer—throw my support behind someone I think has completely lost their moral compass.
Less than two years ago, I took two bans in rapid succession straight from Sash. I didn't complain; I deserved it. I was spamming, trolling, going off-topic—the whole nine yards.

But what actually eats at me isn't about my own situation. Honestly, I don't give a damn; the forum isn't going to fall apart just because I'm gone. What really stings is seeing how more and more of those users—the ones who actually made coming here worth it, the ones you could actually read and learn something from—are ending up "on the other side of the fence."

Losing users like that is a direct hit to the community. A forum like this lives on clicks, ads, and sponsored threads. When those people leave, the readers follow. Personally, I can't forgive Sash for what happened with Slavko. As for what's happening now with Lastan and the rest... we'll see how it plays out. It would be a real shame to lose such high-quality contributors, no matter how much of a headache they could be sometimes.

The uproar against the head admin of this forum didn't just come out of nowhere or some delusional fever dream. It was triggered by something. I won't get into that now, though... enough ink has been spilled already.

And besides, we're drifting way too far off-topic. I'm reporting myself.😁

We can talk about all this political nonsense when the time is right.

Paul Green31 said:The point is: let's all take a turn looking for the speck in Sasha's eye.

It feels like this forum is doomed to stay backwards if we let a handful of people vent their hatred and resentment toward the admin every single chance they get—including using threads like this one as an excuse.

And frankly, it looks like they’re trying to paralyze hollowtrucker77 by applying constant passive pressure. He's forced to overthink every single move just to avoid waking up to two new threads dedicated to dragging his name through the mud.

Bottom line? It’s impossible to run things under these conditions. It would be great if the rest of the staff—the mods and especially the supermods—stepped up and took over some of the heavy lifting. If someone else handled the technical side of Sasha's decisions, maybe we could stop these attacks from the forum's "left wing," who clearly can't handle the fact that someone with conservative views is actually keeping this place running.

It’s funny, isn't it? Once again, the leftists and liberals are showing how rigid and dangerous they actually are to democracy, both here and in the real world. If you aren't strictly following "their line," they’ll come for you. This kind of "thread tactic" is just more proof of that.

That's it, then. We've officially hit rock bottom, dragging comparisons to fascists and communists into a thread about private data. Lock up the forum, kill the internet, just end it all. 🙏 🙏

Don't even bother trying to play me; I'm not the guy I come across as in 9/10 of my other posts... I've been keeping a close eye on the PŽK over the last few weeks and I know exactly who is doing what, to whom, and why.
And look, while I've definitely been annoyed by hollowtrucker77's rhetoric on this board before—you know, the condescending tone, the personal attacks masked as "forum discussion" and all that—the whole circus surrounding the ŽK was honestly nauseating for a minute there.
But this little defense you're putting up isn't any better. If I’m being blunt, it looks like you're just sucking up to try and score points for "your side" and your buddies... because apparently, it's more important to have the rules on your side than to be the one getting jerked around by the moderator, right? 🙂
Elections coming up soon, you say? 🙂

Yeah, exactly
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we seriously need to scrap the USA