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@bbpitt412 Wow. I haven’t heard that story. I’ve definitely seen lots of it
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I'll answer this one here. Who cares? I think people got attached to stats and such but he wasn't a serious NHL prospect--He was probably Wheeling fodder.
RJ@RHPRandy
@TheDanKingerski Any insight into why Cruz Lucius doesn’t want to sign with the Pens? Do they have any options before he walks for nothing?
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@TheDanKingerski They dumped the team funding after the 19-20 season. The older brother (2003) somehow got put on the national team, the other (2004) still had to finish the season.
eliteprospects.com/team/29343/gen…
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@PenguinsJesus My kid played against him. Spoiled rich kid. Didn’t get into shattuck, parents created gentry acedemy team for him and his brother… $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ they used a bunce of kids for that Team then dumped th program one both kids made it to the USA Junior team more $$
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Cruz Lucius better hope he never plays a game in PPG Paints Arena.
Jesse Marshall@jmarshfof
Not surprised by the Cruz Lucius news and I shared with several of you that I saw this coming. Frankly, fine by me. I think he’s got some innate skill but he’d would not be in my top ten organizationally.
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@DKPghSports Spoiled rich kid, my kid played against him. Parents created a acedemy team just for them because shatuck didn’t want them.
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Penguins forward prospect Cruz Lucius won't be signing with the Penguins after his senior season ended at Arizona State. He'll become a free agent when his rights expire on Aug. 15. Lucius, originally a fourth-round pick of the Hurricanes in 2022, was a piece in the Jake Guentzel trade.
"(Lucius and his agent) informed us that that he was not going to be signing in Pittsburgh for a few reasons that's up to him to share," Kyle Dubas said on this week's GM Show. "It's a personal thing for him. We felt we had a great opportunity for him, and the proof is in the pudding on the development side, but players are entitled to make their decision, and I don't think we're at the position here anymore where we have to beg people to come."
Had Lucius signed with the Penguins, there would have been the opportunity to have his entry-level contract start next season, but he could have finished the year in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton on a tryout contract.
"I think passing up a chance to get into the American League and developing here, it would have been a month already now, but obviously next few months, especially when your (college) team doesn't qualify for anything, it's a big miss," Dubas said. "But that's his decision and his right. And we'll just move on to the next."
-- From Taylor Haase in Tampa
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@NKSplitter @TraiDay79 lol that’s what I pay for Verizon per line, unlimited and no data throttling
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@TraiDay79 Don’t do it. Stick with the big 3, jsut play them for deals… you pay for what you get… throttled data etc..
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@RickKackis Damn I’ve had one for 30 years… Afraid tk get it done… friend did and it didn’t make breathing any better.., said it was painful as f
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@GameDadVII You Apperntly didn’t play destiny for 10 years, learned how movie screwed everyone over, lied etc…
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@anishmoonka People o have with anything.., voices way to low, sound effects and music loud as f! Not everyone wants a home theatre audio system in their family room.
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Your Netflix "4K" stream and a 4K disc put the same number of pixels on your screen. But the disc version of a two-hour movie is about 70 gigabytes. The stream is about 14. Same pixels, roughly five times less data filling them.
You see it first in dark scenes. The stream doesn't have enough data to tell dark grey from black, so your TV just mashes it all into chunky blocks. Then you notice sunsets looking like a paint-by-numbers, with visible stripes where smooth color should be. Film grain is probably the biggest casualty. Directors add that slightly textured look on purpose to make movies feel cinematic. Streaming compression reads it as noise and wipes it. That's where the weirdly plastic, waxy look on a good OLED comes from.
One comparison I can't stop thinking about. A regular 1080p Blu-ray (the older HD format, not even 4K) pushes about 40 megabits of data per second to fill 2 million pixels. A 4K stream pushes 15-25 to fill 8 million pixels. Four times the pixels. Less data. A plain HD disc from 2008 can look sharper than a brand new 4K stream.
Sound is worse. Netflix sends "Dolby Atmos" audio at about 768 kilobits per second, compressed, with parts of the original permanently deleted. A disc sends TrueHD Atmos at up to 18,000, lossless, nothing removed. Up to 23x more sound data. If dialogue sounds flat when you're streaming, that's not your speakers.
Netflix is getting better at this. As of late 2025, 30% of their streaming runs on a newer compression method called AV1, the same picture at a third less data. They also strip film grain out before compressing, then rebuild it on your TV during playback. Saves over a third on file size for most content, and up to two-thirds for really grainy movies. The rebuilt grain looks solid.
The tradeoff won't go away, though. Netflix has to deliver a file that works over spotty rural Wi-Fi and gigabit fiber, adjusting quality frame by frame to whatever your connection can handle. A disc reads plastic. Same quality every time.
bailey@baileylikemovie
Getting a 4K player and an OLED really opens your eyes to how streaming services just completely butcher movies with compression lol
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@PaulTassi @Forbes Paul - the peaky blinder movie doesnt have many of the main original cast. Polly died in rl, arthur doesnt act anymore - very sad story. Finn is gone. John & Micheal killed off, alfi is not in it. Pretty much tommy, ada, uncle charlie & curly. Thats it. The rest are new.
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On the one hand, tariffs and the global economy are making prices go up for everything
On the other hand, who the hell in heaven and earth would buy one of these in 2026
CharlieIntel@charlieINTEL
PlayStation is increasing the price of the PS5
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@EndWokeness You forgot about the cocaine, one rope was her bf and his buddies… she went to court to fight her dad so she could be put down…. Such misleading bs here
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> Noelia's parents get divorced
> state takes custody from parents
> sent to state youth center at age 13
> gets gang-r*ped by 3 migrants there
> suspects don't face criminal charges
> tries to kiII herself, ends up paralyzed
> state "helps" by euthanizing her at 25
> against the wishes of her loving family
This is a story that just happened Spain

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@WallStreetMav Pretty misleading dude I’ve followed this it was her bf and two others that raped her, she tried to kill herself and jumped off a building paralyzed herself… it was her choice to be put down after years of pain. You dumb asses in the comments that belive everything smfh
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European Parliament caves to nationalist fearmongering, rubber-stamping mass detention, longer holding periods & deportations to ‘safe’ third countries with zero ties.
This isn’t ‘toughness’—it’s a dangerous rollback of human rights, risking racial profiling, family separations & refoulement. Shame on MEPs for choosing cruelty over compassion & international law. Europe deserves better than this xenophobic turn
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@_WR3X @PaulTassi My phones in lightning most the mid day and for some reason my Twitter button to always force dark mode is gone
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@unoriginalccnor @Grummz I am talking about reddit, dumbass. It’s related to post.
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