Football / Gaming = OTP

[seventhe]

Well, I pulled through in my first week of fantasy football - got a win (Head-to-Head league), although my points were atrocious.


(1) So the first mistake I made this week was, apparently, playing Jake Plummer. Now look, if you had Daunte Culpepper vs the Steelers or Plummer (SHUT UP, OK, THE AUTODRAFT GAVE ME SHITE FOR QBs), the safe bet in my mind was on Plummer. But, no. Three interceptions, you motherfucker. Not that Culpepper had a great game, mind you, but at least he didn't get NEGATIVE POINTS. And it's the same thing next week: Culpepper vs Buffalo (more on that later), or Plummer the Fuck again?

(2) JOEY GALLOWAY? WAY TO FUCK ME, MAN, WAY TO FUCK ME. Bitch didn't even get 1 yard. Zero points. Nothing. That's a big fat 0 where there should have been at least an 8.

(3) Rudi Johnson? Love you. Willie Parker? Love you too.

(4) Defenses! What is up with our scoring! When Buffalo's defense racks in more points than Pittsburgh's, there's something going on. AND I FOUND IT. Apparently there are some huge bonus points to be found in good returns - which Buffalo is excellent at, according to their 2005 stats. Little known fact. Soooo... Here's the conundrum:
(4a) Buffalo vs Miami. Miami is probably going to take it - they've got Culpepper, whereas Buffalo's got Fuckhead Losman. And possibly, if I played Culpepper, I could also play RB Ronnie Brown, which might be a good combo. (It's a gamble, too.)
But playing Culpepper conceptually means I shouldn't play Buffalo's defense -- every point Culpepper gets loses me points for them, and every interception the DEF gets loses me points for QB. Which leaves me with Washington's DEF, which isn't bad, but also isn't quite the point-racker that Buffalo appears to be.
And if I play Buffalo's defense, and decide not to play Culpepper, I'm gambling on Plummer again. Who knows?!

THE DRAMA!


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And, today I think I will be bored. So amuse me, fandom!

I was reading fanficrants and got to the "Which pairings do you hate?" portion. And I started thinking, and listing by game anything that might totally turn me off. There wasn't much.


I did discover that I'm actually slightly against most FFVII pairing-fic. It's usually done so poorly and there's so much fucked-up-ness in each individual character that gets ignored so often. Gen fic is FTW. Unless it wants to be any sort of post-game Turk/AVALANCHE combination pairing, because I like those dynamics. But even then, I like the gen-dynamics better!

But then I got to FF8, and that's where all my whores live, apparently.

Canon pairings? Squall/Rinoa, Cid/Edea, even Zell/That Library Girl? OK! Semi-implied pairings like Selphie/Irvine, Quistis/Squall, Seifer/Edea? Tasty. Fanon-favourite pairings like Quistis/Seifer? Also tasty.

Slash? Pretty much anyone, if you make it plausible. Squall/Seifer = delicious. Irvine/Anyone = totally awesome because I love Irvine's character. Seifer/Zell? Great dynamic. Squall/Laguna? Cracky, but if you deal with the issues, definitely interesting. Aaaaand the always great combo of Laguna/Kiros/Ward. Mmm!

Girlslash? Um, YES. Rinoa/Quistis is a personal favourite, but really, you can match up any of those ladies and I'm all for it.

OT4: Squall/Rinoa/Seifer/Quistis. Gods, that's amazingly hot.

Even the crackpairings are fantastic. Selphie/Squall or Selphie/Seifer? Imagine working the kinks in that out - it'd be hilarious. Quistis/Irvine? Or Rinoa/Irvine? Both would be amazing to see working properly. Quistis/Laguna? I read one once and it killed me with joy. Zell/Selphie and Zell/Rinoa - both totally ded from cute. And there are lots of minor characters to be fleshed out as well, if people got bored with the main cast.

The only one I honestly can't see working, I think, is Zell/Quistis. And that might just be due to lack of imagination.

(Although this will probably launch my FF8-romance rant again, so I should stop here.)



So - any pairing comments? Plz to be amusing Sev today.

Comments

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

I should've started Culpepper. It looks (at least in our league) like a fair number of QBs did shitty this week.

So what about my offense/defense dilemma? Does it make any sense to start Culpepper AND Buffalo? Cause I say no.

[hilldo.livejournal.com]

Yeah i don't know what I'd do in your situation, mainly cause I have never played in a league that picks defenses, we only do individual D players (an area I tend to do very well in). Personally, I think Jake Plummer sucks, I don't understand why he is a starter in the league still.
However, he is playing against Kansas City who isn't exactly considered to be a real defensive powerhouse, but is also missing their starting quarterback too.. Denver is only a 10.5 point favorite against them, but Miami is a 7 point favorite on Buffalo too. So what am I saying? Don't know. Make your own decision. hehe.

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

Well, the way the league is scored, a defense can lose and still totally rack up the points. Like Buffalo's DEF last week - they allowed 19 points in the game, but apparently with their awesome returns, sacks, and TDs, they would have gotten me a whopping 24 fantasy points. (in comparison, Plummer got me -6. Washington's DEF got me, like, 12.)

So it's a tradeoff as to who is going to get me more points overall. Which is crappy. I really don't want to play Plummer again, but I also want to play Buffalo. Suck!

[hilldo.livejournal.com]

Well play who you want to play then! It's just fantasy football, and no one expects you to do well you are a girl after all. ;) Why don't you play the one with the cutest butt.
Ok I'm done being sexist now, as I know you know more about football than that.

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

Hahaha. I am doing research in all teh wrong things! Why am I not looking up photos of Culpepper's butt?!??!!!

[hilldo.livejournal.com]

haha I wonder if that search would get flagged?

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

Seriously, I think if I google-imaged "Daunte Culpepper butt shot", I'd get caught.

Twice. Once for the sports flag and once for the butt flag!

[hilldo.livejournal.com]

Awhile back here based on a conversation I was having with a few other people I actually did a search on "How to make crystal meth". I don't think anyone here really cares what I do though.

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure they're not tracking me either. Or else they'd have gotten me already for checking my email a bajillion times a day.

I'm sitting here reading about syringe pumps! C'mon!

[hilldo.livejournal.com]

haha. Thats entertaining.

I was at least looking at dating sites, but all the girls that are on there that are decent are all 21, and may be creeped out by the older man.

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

21 to 25 isn't that much of a difference. Seriously. It wouldn't creep me out at all. I bet they get way creepier people on there all the time, too.

[hilldo.livejournal.com]

Its 26, not 25. The whole deal is blown. Perhaps I'll send a message to the one once I change my picture on there.
Or I could just post the video of us barking like dogs at each other and that will surely win all the girls hearts. haha.

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

...

...

I haven't watched that video yet.

Oh God.

(But 26 still isn't that much of a difference, I don't think)

[hilldo.livejournal.com]

Ya know, I was like I should really delete this...but it made me laugh just cause we are so freakin weird sometimes.
BUT
I need to remember that Jerry's camera takes video...

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

I still basically crack up out loud any time I look at any of those Super Bowl pictures.

[hilldo.livejournal.com]

Well yeah I'm glad we all know how to have a good time. One of these times I'm just going to take random pictures of Jerry to pay back all the ones he's taken of me!

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

We need a movie of Jerry like, humping a dog, or something.

[hilldo.livejournal.com]

lol.

OMG.

Yeah, while wearing a blazer. SURE!

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

EXACTLY! DOGS THINK BLAZERS ARE SEXY!!

[hilldo.livejournal.com]

I'm going to warn him not to do anymore pooches or we'll be there with the camera.

YOUR DOG DOING DAYS ARE OVER, sir.

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

AND STAY AWAY FROM MY CAT!!

[hilldo.livejournal.com]

He has his own cat I believe, he does not require yours.
I almost remember why we started talking about this...

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

I don't! But the comments are in your journal!

[hilldo.livejournal.com]

no they aren't they are in yours you weirdo.

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

...I suck at life.

Shut up. Go hump a dog!