Everything posted by Horn of Gabriel
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Craps for beginners:
Just got done with a fun Vegas trip with my wife and my buddy and his wife for his birthday. He and I play craps while the wives play slots usually. We stayed at Aria but craps was mostly $25 min. We walked to Park MGM and they had $15 tables so played there the first night. Down about $300. Next day we did more Park, then took a trip down to Fremont and started at El Cortez ($25 wtf?), then Grand which had $10 tables, now we are cooking. Made about $400. Last day we decided to walk a little and ended up at OYO (old Hooters), where they had one craps table at $5. Super cool dealers. We played there about 3-4 hours and I made $1000. Finally we crossed over to Excalibur and it was hella fun, good $10 table made me about $400 again. There was some other stuff in there too but I ended up +$1400 which was pretty good. My strat is a little different than HG, which I do want to try. I rarely press. I usually play the pass line minimum unless I trust the shooter. I always play max odds. If the point sets 5, 6, or 8, I’ll bet the other two. I will also play the field here, but setup my bets so if I lose the field it’s paid back on the 5, 6, or 8 with interest. For example on a $10 3x/4x/5x table I’ll put $10 on pass. If point sets at 8 I’ll put $50 on odds. I’ll lay $30 on 6 and $25 on 5 and $25 on field. If 5 or 6 hit you lose the field but pays $35 on your 5 or 6. Collect the $10 difference and $25 back up on field. Obviously I’m putting more at play, so you have to come in with a decent bankroll to take the waves. But when a shooter is going for a while you have a win condition on every single number other than 7. Point then 7 crushes but you can say that for everything. When the point hits after you’ve been collecting fields for awhile the payout is awesome. And collecting double on 2 and triple on 12 is a nice sweetener.
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Texas Passing Game 2025 - Personnel & Production - Jaggy McJaggerson FTW?
I get the analogy but Manu is a HOF player. He’s in the top 75-100 all time players somewhere. Kobe is top 5-10, but I don’t think you’re saying Wisner is a HOF top 100 level all time back.
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Texas -- a failed state
Dan Patrick has such a punchable face. What a complete asshole. When he dies if he doesn't end up in hell, there's no point in having one.
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Angel Reese: Fair pay, anti-sexualization, side eyes, and Missed Buckets
- Realignment talk not going away
No. You see some version of this pining for a SWC redo on other sites and in comment sections as people wax nostalgic for "regionality" in college football. Let's all remember what regionality did for Texas: Rampant cheating in the SWC Baylor fucking us at the lege TTech trying to fuck us Bleachergate with UH TCU, Tech, Baylor turning the Texas game into their annual jihad game Those same teams restricting tickets for Texas fans into buying multi-game or season ticket packages just for the Texas game Drafting off of Texas' massive fanbase and TV ratings, while simultaneously complaining about big bad Texas Texas today is right where we should be, and where we need to be. We're in the top conference, where we get consistently pushed by other blue blood programs. We are still a massive brand but we are one of many peers with Bama, Georgia, Tennessee, Florida, etc. All teams that care a lot about football, and invest a lot into football, and have large fanbases. Getting a lot more money is just a side effect of all that. Fuck TTech and Baylor in their ungrateful bitch asses. The only time we should play them again is in the playoffs, if they make it. And BTW we're still regional. We play OU, Arky, A&M, and LSU.- 2025 Gametimes - bring sunscreen
Same and it was pretty dead in the morning. Didn't feel super crowded until after 10AM. Got into the stadium really early but hung out under the stands due to the heat. Wife has instructed me to get shade seats this year...Hmmm we shall see- Texas Mount Rushmore
Kai Money- Русский корабль - иди нахуй
Anti-drone tech is getting better and better every day, but it's always going to be chasing. Directed microwave and laser are probably the best shots against this type of attack and I'm sure we're rolling that out at high risk facilities. Our B-2's are only based at, what like 2 bases? B-52's only a handful and the B-21 Raider is just coming online. Most of the China wargame stuff I've seen says that if China got serious, the majority of our USAF losses would be planes sitting on the ground in Guam, Kaneda, etc. We are not built for a long attritional war like Ukraine is in, we don't have the raw materials or resupply industrial base like we had in WWII. Right now we are as vulnerable as we have been in decades. Golden Dome isn't a bad idea, we should have it AND anti-drone tech as well. But if China rolls up to the port of SF or NY and pops open a container of 10,000 suicide drones to fly into highrises, nobody has a defense for that. And that would be a warcrime and very different than hitting a military target.- D-Day - 75th Anniversary
Not sure how I have missed this one. 20 years after D-Day, Walter Cronkite interviews Ike at Normandy.- Fighting Fire with Fire: Texas Rangers, Tactical Innovation, and Counterinsurgency Operations in the Mexico City Campaign, 1847-1848
Not sure where this would go, so I guess Daily Texan. A good/interesting article on the Texas Rangers participation in the U.S./Mexico war in the mid-1800's By the fall of 1847 Scott’s occupation challenges had dramatically increased with his inexorable march west and stunning capture of Mexico City. The strained American army of approximately 24,000 men now relied upon an embattled chain of fortified outposts to govern conquered territory, stretching 260 miles from capital to coast. As negotiations failed, Mexican aristocrats along the line of invasion enthusiastically embraced the call for “War without Pity” as the guerrilla resistance transitioned to a wide-spread insurgency. To remedy this untenable scenario, Scott called for the deployment of a specialized counterguerrilla force to compliment his pacification strategy. The general needed cavalry unlike any other, a cadre of irregulars forged in the crucible of frontier combat. For the hard task at hand, he needed Texas Rangers. This essay explores how federalized Texas Rangers, officially designated the First Regiment of Texas Mounted Volunteers, supported the U.S. Army in Mexico in 1847 and 1848 by providing critically needed counter-guerilla capacity. It investigates the Texans’ contributions to the American governance program, enabled by their singular mastery of repeating firearms and horsemanship, by pursuing two lines of inquiry: How did they achieve consistent tactical superiority over Mexican mounted forces, and how did their kinetic activities both support and undermine American pacification plans? The answers to these questions will reveal the Texan regiment as a controversial, yet overall beneficial, component of American victory in the decisive campaign of the Mexican-American War. https://smallwarsjournal.com/2025/05/30/fighting-fire-with-fire-texas-rangers-tactical-innovation-and-counterinsurgency-operations-in-the-mexico-city-campaign-1847-1848/- 2025 CFB Punchable Faces Semi Finals
Putting Venables and Bielema in the same bracket is malpractice. That's a finals matchup, semis at worst.- CFP expansion discussion
This is the least worst way to do 16. Still has value in the conference championship. The final step is to move the quarterfinals on campus and we will achieve perfection. That leaves 6 games for the hollowed out husk of the bowls and then the championship, which should be permanently put in the Rose Bowl.- Nick Saban to co-chair President Trump’s planned commission on college athletics.
I'm sure he was doing his stupid circular gesticulations with his hands while making noises about "player safety" all while rapidly shifting his recruiting to suit the new world.- Texas Offseason 2025 - Archmania Is Upon Us
"Here comes Texas, destroyer of the SWC and Big12, trying to throw their weight around to get an advantage with an earlier kick!" Fuck everyone. I hope we did.- The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
- Nick Saban to co-chair President Trump’s planned commission on college athletics.
pro/rel is a masterbatory fantasy for soccer nerds- $40M Payroll for 2025 season - Kurt
That guy is king of the whiners- San Antonio Spurs 2024-25 - Taking it in the pooper for Cooper
#2 hot damn! Who we going after?- Nick Saban to co-chair President Trump’s planned commission on college athletics.
There is zero good things that can come out of this. Saban isn't working in Texas best interest here. He wants to roll back the clock. The TTech guy definitely isn't working in our best interest. Both would love to create a new system that is a super-league (that just-so-happens to include TTech), with caps on player movement and earnings and an anti-trust exemption. That requires a CBA and congress to pass a law. Oh and the best part, the Double Eagle guy wants the super-league geographically divided, which would push Tceh back onto our schedule every year. Let's be clear: the current wild west NIL situation is the perfect setup for Texas. Paying players is legal and above board, so we don't have compliance getting their panties in a bunch and we don't have donors and administration clutching their pearls about dropping bags. The House settlement will only raise the floor via rev sharing, we'll still set the ceiling with our NIL efforts. The NIL clearinghouse will either get defanged or sued out of existence. You can see why most of the schools want to go back to the old way, or put a soft/hard salary cap on players: it was much better for them. Saban can feign ignorance but he had bag men dropping illegal cash to buy players and everyone knew it. Because that was under the table the amounts pale in comparison to what those players are getting today. Now NIL can be up to NFL 3rd round type money. There are only a handful of schools who can keep up in that world: Texas is at the top of that pile. We should look at any change as negative because the current situation, while broken and imperfect, sets Texas up for success better than any other post integration.- The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
- Bill Belichick Rides Again: Hired at North Carolina to build NIL NFL Factory
- Bill Belichick Rides Again: Hired at North Carolina to build NIL NFL Factory
Somewhere Mack is laughing his ass off right now.- Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet, Now Starting for the Miami Dolphins
That is what I was talking about.- Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet, Now Starting for the Miami Dolphins
Aloof is the wrong word. That implies an "I'm better than you" attitude that I don't think QE really embodied. I think it's possible he's just a quiet introvert in a world that rewards brash extroverts (especially in leadership-oriented positions). I think he hews closer to Tim Duncan attitude-wise (not skill obviously).- Deion Sanders "Coach Prime" Now At Colorado
Won't someone think of the multi-millionaire athletes!!!! - Realignment talk not going away
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