Lost 2 in a row

Rangers and islanders are the teams i fear the most playing of all nhl teams.
- cabin

Panthers on my short list

Lost 2 in a row
- cabin

3

Lost 2 in a row
- cabin

Hopefully we can stop pretending Girgensons and Larsson bring anything to this team

Passing sucked . islanders coverage was on point. Sabres had no time or space to make plays
- cabin

That's just the way the Islanders play. Sabres outshot and outchanced them; part of that is playing from behind for most of the game, but it's only one goal, so it's not like the Islanders can afford to sit back much.

Panthers on my short list
- homiedclown

had them on there . erased em.

That's just the way the Islanders play. Sabres outshot and outchanced them; part of that is playing from behind for most of the game, but it's only one goal, so it's not like the Islanders can afford to sit back much.
- Wetbandit1

Odd we only faced 21 shots .

If she was facing away from me, I wouldn't have noticed her ribs
- BeadyEyedDouche

here you go . no ribs

Passing sucked . islanders coverage was on point. Sabres had no time or space to make plays
- cabin

Agreed. Not giving up 6 goals does not equate success. It’s the total package

We basically saw last years 10 game streak out together the gate this year. True Sabre’s hockey settling in. We should have made adjustments early. Montour back good. Time to make a move for the rest we need before the season gets away
- lulags

Dude!
9-2-2, errr...9-3-2, I mean 9-4-2

here you go . no ribs


- cabin

I would still find the quickest way possible to see her from behind

Dude!
9-2-2, errr...9-3-2, I mean 9-4-2
- IonSabres

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUkCPPJ1CNw

I would still find the quickest way possible to see her from behind
- BeadyEyedDouche

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUkCPPJ1CNw
- BeadyEyedDouche

https://youtu.be/rCwn1NTK-50

CROSSFIRE

Vesey is not good, nor will he ever be. This is two GMs who have been infatuated with him

Vesey is not good, nor will he ever be. This is two GMs who have been infatuated with him
- jcragcrumple

I honestly think he has been great defensively this season for us.

Lose Larsson/Girgs and Sobotka, drop him down to line 3/4 and watch him shine but yeah he isn't anything special

It’s time to bring up tage ....


Also I didn’t hate the skinner. Johansson olofsson line.

Dude!
9-2-2, errr...9-3-2, I mean 9-4-2
- IonSabres

Next weekend is back to back against Tampa..ouch.

I honestly think he has been great defensively this season for us.

Lose Larsson/Girgs and Sobotka, drop him down to line 3/4 and watch him shine but yeah he isn't anything special
- BeadyEyedDouche

I dont think he's good. I think he was a waste of a pick

Twice

The bust cozens had 3 apples tonight

Maybe you’re the one who needs to open your mind to the fact that statistics aren’t nuanced enough to tell the full story.

You sit there and act like you know something the rest of us don’t, like you’re somehow smarter and enlightened by the fact that you have your finger on the pulse of these stats.

What doesn’t occur to you is that we know what these stats say. We simply disagree that they can tell the whole story. We understand that you can pick and chose statistics to paint any picture you would like.

When someone points out obvious facts that contradict the veracity of the stats, you guys simply ignore them and keep on going.

I’ll hear an argument about how shots attempted are an indicator to how well a team is playing and being outshot is a problem. Then when it’s pointed out that the losing team consistently out shoots the winning team, your side goes crickets.

I’ll hear how a Corsi possession statistic means so much, and then our line that dominates that statistic, being one of the best in the NHL, has the worst plus/minus on the team, and again...crickets.

It’s not that I’m not open minded, if I thought they told the whole story I would be as hard core about them as you. I don’t think they do. And the evidence that they don’t is overwhelming.

Here’s a question I would love you to answer. If these advanced stats were so good at telling the whole story, then why do NHL teams employ pro scouts? Why would these organizations spend millions of dollars sending scouts across the league to watch players play? Wouldn’t it make sense to save all that money and just look at the players advanced stats? If they are the gospel you claim them to be, then why do scouts even need to watch the players?

There’s obviously more to the story than the stats can tell. You constantly use them and act as if they are the truth and unimpeachable. And then you insult the people who don’t as if we are stupid and you are enlightened or that we don’t understand statistics. Get over yourself and quit with the condescension.

Maybe you’re the ones who aren’t open minded to the fact that there’s more to the story than the stats can tell.
- Beethoven

BOOM

Again, the poster above you intentionally used a 2 period sample, instead of the entire game sample, because it fit their narrative that stats don’t tell the entire story.

But yes, drone on how it’s just me and the pro stats people who are misleading you
- sbroads24

Are you even remotely serious with your BS????

Didn’t u just say earlier that stats for 1 game can’t accurately predict the winner?

Just like how u claimed the other day that a 12 game sample size isn’t enough to make a determination on anything...
Yet u then turned around & used that SAME SMALL SAMPLE SIZE to try and prove you’re point

Wow dude... CHERRY PICKING AT ITS BEST
You’re the champ bro, 100%

Having finished "CIPHER THE VIDEO" after 40 minutes’ worth of confusion, bewilderment, laughter, and tears, I feel it necessary to gather my thoughts on it in some fashion. Recently released in a new rip/encode by ARR, “Cipher” is truly one of the more puzzling works I have ever seen from any era, in any medium. Its intentions seem wholly unknown to me, buried under the purest of incompetency, laziness/budget constraints, and seeming indifference.

The provided summary is as follows:

"Annis Marfie is a boyish-looking girl, who is studying art in New York. One day, she discovers that her schoolmate, an extraordinarily beautiful semi-pro model, Shiver is actually impersonated by two people. They are twins, Shiver and Cipher, but for the world, they act like they were just Shiver. Annis gets interested in the intention of these two, who fool the world this way, so she approaches them. "

However, absolutely none of that actually happens. Maybe it does in the manga, who knows, but, so far as the OVA goes, nope. What does happen the anime? Well, story-wise… absolutely nothing. There is a character who is an actor. This actor, his director, fellow actors, and fans are interviewed by an off-camera reporter. The whole “secret twins” idea is entirely lost, but there are two characters who look identical. Also, there is a girl who is somewhat involved with one of them. All of this, aside from the brief and thoroughly inconsequential interview scenes, is told without any dialog, as… the majority of “Cipher’s” content is comprised of oft-baffling musical montages. I’m not making this up, in the first fifteen minutes, all but a rare 2-3 minute interlude is an unending string of montages. Of the stomach churning late-80s fare present are only two songs that I recognize - Phil Collins’ “Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)” and Kenny Loggins’ “Footloose.”

I know of no better way to convey just how poorly handled and monotonous this dragging parade of montages is than to describe in great detail what I see as being the peak of their strangeness. After an opening string of cutesy montages lasting eight-and-a-half minutes, the anime finally cuts to what seems to be its long-delayed actual opening… instead, you are treated to a brief shot of the three main “characters” sitting around a television, which soon zooms in to show a 40-second cake commercial. No, wait, it gets better. After this mind numbing break, the viewer is treated to the first instance of dialog from the supposed center of the story, carried out in the previously described interview fashion. We see the young man on the set of a new film, a football feature entitled “WINNING TOUGH.”

All of the voice acting is horrible in the most surreal of fashions. Characters mumble through lines, insert awkward pauses as if it were their first time reading the script, and, on at least one occasion which I would bet my life on, actually trip up and stumble during the reading. This mishap is left in, as he then goes on to backtrack a half-step and continue the line. There is a definite “Blood Freak” feel going on here. After we dabble around with them for a while (approximately two minutes), what is, so far as I can figure, supposed to be the preview for this football film is shown in, you guessed it, an extended montage. When it came around to a few bars before the hook and I placed this familiar song as “Footloose,” I just lost it. If it does not last for the entirety of the song, then it is certainly a cut which is damned close to it. This Kenny Loggins anime football travesty finally comes to a close, leading into another worthless string of awkward and uncomfortable interviews for a minute (as in, literally, one minute) until… you can just feel them coming at this point, another montage.

I pray that I still have some readers, as what I am about to share deserves more than any other documented history or human expression to live on in some sort of shared consciousness. The montage following this one-minute break… is… a new, separate montage… set, again, to “Footloose.” A “Footloose” anime montage to follow up after the last “Footloose” anime montage because, hey, what could possibly be better than a “Footloose” anime montage? The mind reels. What absurdity! At every turn, this thing just gets stranger and stranger. It does not in any way feel like something that could have been directed or even aided by an actual human being. The pacing is so unnatural, the approach so obviously muddled… at the very worst, even the most artless of trash contains some trace of inherent subscription, again, even unconsciously, to standard rules of storytelling. It goes so far beyond any excuse possibly rendered along the lines of budget constraint or general inexperience of its cast and crew.

Despite the arguable contradiction in such a statement, the only organizational reasoning I can place to try and make some sense of this thing’s reality is that it is an unintentionally dadaist work. It is a brain-breaking monstrosity - seemingly a relic from another dimension, somehow released on home video within our own. Don’t accuse me of exaggeration until you’ve seen it yourself. There is absolutely nothing identifiable as “human” present at any point on any discernible level of this 40:50 shoujo abortion. Oh no, there’s more.

After the second coming of Kenny Loggins follows more pointless and unilluminating interview footage, more montages (at least we get some good funeral footage of the twins’ mom, as if anyone could actually be emotionally invested in these blank slate dweebs), and, finally, a genuine meeting of of two of the main characters in an unintentionally gut-busting scripted scene. After that (quite literal) rude awakening, the twins talk about what they are going to make for breakfast. This is clearly supposed to be humorous, but, really, I could go back and give a line-by-line transcription of the scene, and, yeah, there’s nothing more or less funny than summing it up as two men discussing which breakfast foods they want to combine into their meal. That this seems to be a source of great amusement for them is another testament to this OVA being more an approximation of human entertainment than the genuine article. This is, however, the most story and character development offered thus far. Suddenly, at 23:35, a familiar tune pops up…

“Say, isn’t this the hit 1984 Phil Collins ballad,’Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)?’ The very same song which was featured at the start of this OVA? Is… wait… why are credits rolling at barely over halfway through the running time…”

After being treated to another full-length cut of that soft rock classic, nearly fourteen minutes remain… fourteen minutes occupied by a making-of featurette/love letter to whatever-the-hell you just finished watching. It appears to be hosted by the main character himself, in character, but… this same voice also carries out the proceedings as a removed and subjective narrator. It really just alternates from line-to-line, basically. In this behind-the-scenes look, you gain an insight as to how the filmmakers sought for accuracy in recreating the wasted and trivial New York City setting. They claim to have closely studied the editing techniques of MTV programming to effectively emulate their tone (they didn’t). They worked with English voice actors in an attempt to create something unique in the world of Japanese animation. The universality of just how terrible every actor is in this feature is staggering. One would seemingly have better luck of getting decent performances out of people pulled from the street at random. This stands out even more when you watch people actually trying at this garbage.

How could this have been made? How did nobody at any point of its construction take a step back and realize how stilted, unnatural, and altogether heinous this thing is? Watching this featurette proves that it either is, in actuality, the result of human effort, or, at least, the work a highly evolved shapeshifting race (my money is on reptilians). How did it happen. How did any of this come to be. This review is loaded with such adjective saturated descriptive turns, and even combining them into one general impression fails to get across the broken feel of this anime. It is akin to the sorts of stimuli forcefully presented to someone in order to “break” or otherwise psychologically reprogram them.

So far as scoring goes, "Cipher" exists completely outside of any scale which could sum up its worth in simple numerical value. To reflect this, only a "0" or a "10" would seem applicable, so I opted for the "10," figuring that it would likely be uniformly rated lowly on this site. It is, if nothing else, a bizarre artifact of late-80s anime product which is entirely unlike anything else you will ever see. Whether or not this warrants a proper viewing is up to you.

-From a random MAL user on this anime’s page
- BeadyEyedDouche

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Are you even remotely serious with your BS????

Didn’t u just say earlier that stats for 1 game can’t accurately predict the winner?

Just like how u claimed the other day that a 12 game sample size isn’t enough to make a determination on anything...
Yet u then turned around & used that SAME SMALL SAMPLE SIZE to try and prove you’re point

Wow dude... CHERRY PICKING AT ITS BEST
You’re the champ bro, 100%
- jdfitz77

No Fitz November

No Fitz November
- sbroads24

If only