SJ, nice little win. You seem to have the field at Red Rock dominated, just need to get some volume in.

Also came here to say that it’s likely Pats are going into week 7, in 3rd place I’m guessing for the first time in 30+ years.

Thanks Da_Nit! Lot of season left for the Pats. Under Belichick they do tend to get better as the season progresses.

If not, then it's been a nice run, more than any fan could ask for in a lifetime.

I'm having trouble concentrating on the game beyond the 3 hour mark in a session, and I think that's because I'm physically out of shape. I walk a fair amount, but that doesn't seem to be enough. I have an exercise bike, but my room configuration makes it difficult to pull it out, as the bike is made out of steel and weighs over 120 lbs (55 kg.) I'll have to move some furniture around and get it going. Before I came out here, I rode that bike all over Skyrim and the various Fallout wastelands. It's time to start that up again.

I played well today for my 3 hours, before my attention started to wander. I had a good TAG to my right and I made his session miserable with 3-bets and floats. The rest of the table were typical Sunday football bettors: mostly sound with the fundamentals but often emotional and prone to tilt, along with spewing on occasion with bad bluffs and calldowns.

I was happy with some of my thin river value bets, particularly with a $40 river bet with AK on a A28T4 board.

When I'm checked to and I bet there after getting called on the flop and turn, I'm going to be shown a better hand or be raised (and folding) as much as 40% of the time, but that's still a bet I need to make. I just have to be good more than 50% of the time for it to be +EV, and I have to be disciplined and fold when I'm checkraised. A lot of low stakes players check back there, but these spots are where you get your extra $5-$10 an hour in EV.

Red Rock Station: 3 hours:
+$184

Nice thought process on the AK hand above.

Thanks Da_Nit!

Another day at Red Rock, and I ran well, though I'm still having trouble getting much beyond the 3 hour mark. Continuing to show up for consecutive days should mitigate that somewhat; showing up is half the battle.



Since I need some non-poker content, I might add in a very short essay about 80's GI Joe after I finish dinner.

Red Rock Station: 3.5 hours:
+$348

...bearing in mind that 'after dinner' is potentially an infinite amount of time.

In for 80s GI Joe content. Any comments about there, “Know I Know and Knowing Is Half the Battle”, public announcements? Apparently this was required by Mattel or whoever made those 30 minute toy commercials to get there time slots. Always thought they where a bit creepy. For instance I remember one where there’s a couple kids, home alone and one is feeling sick. The one kid goes to the medical cabinet in the bathroom looking for something to give his sister. The medic GI Joe happens to be walking by the bathroom window or is just hanging out and says, hey kid never go into medical cabinets or take medication without a parent. “Thanks GI Joe!”

WTF who’s this pedo hanging outside the bathroom window.

Other odd or peculiar things about GI Joe:

- I recall like Cobra recruiting “bad” teenage kids at the mall or something.
- Cobra paid its soldiers in bags of gold nuggets. That’s cool if I’m going to be a mercenary better work for the one that pays in gold vs. the one that pays less than minimum wage and forces me to be a mercenary that suppresses popular free democracies in Southeast Asia and Central America, to support international corporate interests.
- They where always shooting at each other and blowing stuff up but no one dies. Closest anyone comes to dying is I think cobra commander becomes a snake and they all stop and cry about it.

Nothing wrong with short sessions, especially if your losing focus after 3-4 hours. Maybe consider two 3-4 hours sessions in a day. Can take a break, go eat, walk around. Guessing if you put enough hours in you may have free access to the gym/spa?

GI Joe hooked me with its first miniseries in 1983, which played out over five episodes covering a single storyline from beginning to end. This extended storyline format is pretty standard fare for TV shows and cartoons nowadays, but it was rare to see much content like that back then. Most of the shows and the cartoons reset every episode, with all of the characters having learned nothing and gained no insights from their previous outings.

Exceptions to this rule were dramatic miniseries like Roots or Holocaust and a few primetime soap opera dramas like Dallas and Falcon Crest, though the soaps would undergo periodic storyline resets, with formerly dead characters suddenly and mysteriously showing up alive or--in the case of Dallas--an entire season proving to be merely the dream of one of the characters.

As a tween, I didn't watch any of those fusty and harrowing miniseries or the ridiculous soap dramas. I watched Mork and Mindy, Welcome Back Kotter, Happy Days, Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Dukes of Hazzard, A-Team, Airwolf, BJ and the Bear and Knight Rider. None of these shows had a storyline. The exception to this rule was 1978's Battlestar Galactica, and the writers of that show stepped on their own dicks by getting their characters to Earth and then not knowing what to do once they got there, after which the ratings fell through a hole and the expensive-to-produce show was swiftly cancelled.

So, GI Joe's storyline idea hooked me. I was old enough to know that the whole enterprise was designed to sell dolls action figures and other assorted crap to kids who were younger than me, but that didn't bother me. I just wanted to see how the story ended.

There were complaints from activist lobbying groups, specifically Action for Children's Television, that cartoons like Hasbro's GI Joe and Mattel's subsequent Transformers show were nothing more than half hour commercials that had--through their high ratings--shouldered out educational children's programming like Captain Kangaroo and Animals, Animals, Animals, but no specific laws were passed until the early 90's. Here I would guess that the GI Joe Public Service spots were preemptive attempts to stave off legislation.

That was actually the turning point for me. I watched the first miniseries and I enjoyed it thoroughly, but when the second miniseries came out a year later, I realized that thousands of laser rounds (blue for Joes, red for Cobras IIRC) were being fired during the course of a typical battle and that no one was getting hit, other than occasionally in the arm. Airplanes and helicopters and tanks were blowing sky high and everyone was jumping or parachuting out of them to safety.

I watched and I waited for someone to die, but it never happened, although in one instance a couple of Cobras fell off their paragliders a few hundred feet in the air, and neither appeared to have a parachute, but they did fall above a river. Their landing was never shown, but one must assume that like a small minority of Golden Gate Bridge jumpers, they lived.

In any case, by the second miniseries I felt that I had grown too old to enjoy GI Joe, and I gave it up.

SJ making me feel young.

Frank makes Suited feel young.*



* He also reminds him of grandmas dancing at weddings. (Yes, I paid attention!)

I may have posted this before, but it's worth another look: here's a young Frank Sinatra doing an anti-bigotry PSA back when--really, was anybody else doing any of these? I've seen an old Superman comic book PSA but that's about it.

Yeah, I was one of those younger than you kids who loved my G.I. Joe dolls action figures. Also, basically all the shows you mentioned I remember mostly watching in reruns and it's giving me the nostalgia feelz.

I specifically remember always dragging out my dad's heavy-ass toolbox whenever the A-Team came on and pretending that I was building whatever vehicular contraption of the week with them on the living room chair... I was definitely a strange kid

Ha yeah for once SJ making me feel a bit young. While I remember watching GI Joe it was definitely after your time and I was younger while watching it. I remember a much later mini series where they introduced a new leader for Cobra and a bunch of new related toys.

Some cool things I remember from that miniseries:

- a guy named Tunnel Rat was in some training, where they had to cross some crazy obstacle course with a bunch other guys. Instead of going through all the barbed wire and water obstacles and laser guns shooting at them he went through a drain pipe and avoided everything. Thought that was so cool and clever.

- One of the guys invites a female Cobra spy with a mini camera in her earrings into the GI Joe base. As punishment they send him to some type of boot camp run by Sergeant Slaughter. I remember for breakfast they ate like 20 lbs of raw spare ribs. Thought they where such badasses as a kid.

- They had a sequence where a frog eats a fly, the frog than jumps into a swamp but gets eaten by a fish who than gets eaten by a alligator, all over a span of like two seconds. Six year old me was like wow.

I remember the twins were named Tomax and Xamot (reverse of the other).

Found the clip with GI Joe obstacle course training. JFC the instructor Beachead seems upset he wasn’t able to kill or seriously injure these guys.


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MxC519h0xDg

Also found the PSA where the medic HI Joe is hanging outside these kids bathroom window.


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ0K-ElJKmY


Not sure who’s more creepy in this stranger PSA the guy in the car or Wild Bill.


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GlhkzHT0iJE

Hmmm...

Is it just me, or is that blatantly homoerotic?

Just a bunch of guys being dudes together.

/NTTAWWT

It was the 80s, you never watched Rambo, Predator, Commando or any Reagan era action film? Homoeroticism through the roof!

Speaking of the twins, they were abducted by aliens:

Village People on desert bikes? Camel jockeys? I'm always the last to know.

True dat.