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a. I do not think it's a different beast because these are all the same players scoring at the top of the team.  I think it's a different beast because the entire team is playing a more responsible game.  As a simple measure, the Corsi ratings for the entire team this playoffs would be within the top 4 last playoffs.  Notably, the big stud Lebedev went from -144 C over 27 games to -1 C over 24 games with much of that improvement in the CA side of the equation.


My player probably won't reach the finals next season.  They will continue to work on stemming the bleeding as they slip more and more into the depths of regression.  More stretching to stay limber and more ice to help with the bruising.

However, they don't believe much in new years resolutions.  They believe in game after game improvement.  If there is something worth doing in the new year, it is something worth doing next game.  Granted there are things that cannot be done in one game but the same concept applies to weekly improvements.

Even tracking stats year over year can be a bit pointless.  Slip fills in the cracks where needed and where he can find them.  Sometimes, he'll be in a squad that needs him to hit and sometimes he'll be in a squad that needs him to block.  He will show up and put in work until he can't find work in the league.


The answer depends on the arena.  Water and it goes to the boats because the bulls can't swim in the deep.  Land and it goes to the bulls because the boats can't move at all.  Now, if we were to suspend all combatants in the air and give them the ability to move freely, it's a much harder question.

Can the bulls beat the onset panic and organize strategically against the boats?  You can't really explain to the bulls why they can fly all of the sudden.  I'm assuming the boats are sentient because of the eyes and for no good reason that they are smarter than the bulls.  They have fewer allies to coordinate so communication is much less complicated.  If they can get it together, they can build a boat wall and crush the bulls or something.

Ultimately, I think it just takes a few bulls accidentally poking the boats in the eyes to turn the tables and unleash the mayhem.  Bulls in four.


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I feel like any nature or science based creek competition is not very interesting for two main reasons.  First, there isn't much room to adjust your game year over year to improve your score.  You kind of get what you have to work with in terms of upstream potential volume and the local flora and / or fauna.  You risk eco-destruction in order to maximize these arbitrary scores.  Second, it's like powerwalking races because at some point you are just running and at some point this isn't a creek anymore.

Instead, I want a more functional creek competition.  What that means is left up to the creek-ers.  Maybe one creek team focuses on a full nature escape with a trail, picnics, and views.  However, another creek would focus on incoprorating into the urban fabric of a bustling downtown.  We want cafes by the water and paved bike trails. 

The functional creek competition will be judged by experts from a variety of fields.  One for sure has to be an ecologist or whoever could tell us that they haven't screwed up the environment.  I don't quite know how we get the others in, maybe some park ranger and some travel agent.


The movie is like Cars in that there is a whole society like we have but humans have been replaced by one thing.  In this case, it's just a bird society but all the birds wear pants.  The Platoon is a hyper-gritty war movie taking place in the society of birds.  It looks very much like a kids movie but the action is super intense and everyone swears like a parrot.  Most of the birds chain smoke because we are trying to hook a sponsorship from big tabacco.

The main plot is probably like the real movie Platoon, but I haven't seen it.  So maybe it's like this one bird who is super enthusiastic about joining the army.  Maybe there is a grizzled vet who has really seen some shit.  The young bird like gets his wing clipped and returns home to his family who considers him a hero but he doesn't feel like a hero.  He meets back up with the grizzled vet and they talk about surviving in bird society when no one knows what bird war is like.

There was supposed to be one scene in a romantic restaurant, but they didn't like how all the birds were vomitting into each other's mouths.


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