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He's a bit of a jerk. He has a tendency to admire his homers. And I say that as someone who LOVES Bautista. He's awesome. I say if you take someone yard, celebrate, and if they don't like it, they should pitch better.

Damn, Travis out. That sucks.

That's the nice thing about Canada. Every postseason game is on Sportsnet. And if it's not on Sportsnet that's cause another game is on Sportsnet and it's either on one of the Sportsnet alternate channels.

I actually like the way that turned out. To me the most exciting part of Auston wasn't the 4 goals (although that was wonderful), it was him taking credit for the loss at the end of the game because he lost his coverage in OT. He could've easily said "I scored 4 goals, what more do you want from me?" but the kid wants to win.

He can dry his tears with his 206 million dollars.

Eliot is supposed to be Amelia's social media director. He handles her clients' twitter, facebook etc. so they don't go all Donald Trump and tweet dumb things at 3 AM. I guess they could have a storyline where he tweets something he shouldn't and that causes problems for Amelia/Ginny/the Padres etc.

The MIB as a sort of bug tester for Westworld is an intriguing scenario. After all if you want to keep people from breaking your game, you need to find out how they would break it. And he is doing things that a bug tester would do, pushing at the boundaries of what a normal player would do, looking for holes and cracks in the game to exploit.

As the MIB says "Winning doesn't mean anything unless someone else loses... [Teddy] is there to be the loser." I would guess that if you enter a romantic narrative with Dolores, Teddy (if available) becomes your rival and you have to "win" her affections. There would probably be multiple ways to do so, you could simply make her like you more than him, or you could surreptitiously kill him and get him out of the way, or you could defeat him in an honourable duel, or you can play it like the MIB and drag her off to rape her after shooting him in front of her.

That was suggested by someone in the show, his lawyer I wanna say? It seems important to him that he ends his career as a Padre. He's probably been a Padre for his entire career and he's just not interested in playing for another team. You bring up a good point, the BoSox probably would offer him a pretty lucrative short term deal, with Ortiz retiring they'd need a bat, and having a DH who could also be their back up catcher would be useful.

I'm thinking the same. The endgame of corporate is to turn influential figures into robots that do their bidding. Start with their own clientele, the extremely wealthy, and then go from there, politicians, judges, etc.

They do practice feeling but in the appropriate scenario. Dolores feels love when she interacts with Teddy, that's her practice scenario for a romantic love, should a guest ever choose to pursue that with her. She doesn't practice feeling romantic love when someone holds a gun to her face, or when she takes a bite of oatmeal, or when she is painting horses, that wouldn't provide the appropriate response for when she's interacting with a guest. Maeve shouldn't be feeling pain (or practicing feeling it) when she is trying to put the moves on someone. It's not appropriate to the scenario.

Your computer might run a self diagnostic, or do a scan of your files while you aren't using it, but these tasks serve a purpose, they improve the computer's functionality. This could explains why the hosts talk to each other and carry out narratives when nobody else is around, it's practice, and it improves their function. But it doesn't explain why they feel things when no one else is around. How does Maeve experiencing pain that she tries to ignore and push through improve her functionality? If anything it detracts from it, that's why she went in for repairs to cure her MRSA infection. It serves no purpose for her to be in pain when she isn't supposed to be, she's not practicing being in pain, that's evidenced by her shock and confusion. She simply is in pain.

The NHL is terrible at US marketing. They simply do not know what they are doing. It would be so easy to set up a Pittsburgh/San Jose rematch, and on the last day of the season every team plays, it should be like that on the first day too. Everyone should play on day 1. And emphasize rivalries, Toronto/Ottawa and Calgary/Edmonton is good, but how about Vancouver/Chicago, Montreal/Boston, NYI/NYR? Come on NHL get your game together, this is why you are the worst league of the big 4. But I don't care cause my favourite team's draft pick scored 4 goals in his debut!!! I love you Auston Matthews. Never leave. I want to see you hoist the cup, and when I am an old man I want to see #34 hang from the rafters beside 27, 13, 93 and 17. Never leave.

She went through a trauma. They've already said they wipe their memories after they die, they probably wipe them after they get raped too. It doesn't help to have hosts thinking about that stuff, they want her to be the innocent girl next door, that narrative isn't aided by her being a rape victim. That's why she doesn't remember him the next day, she doesn't remember her dad and mom and Teddy dying, or the rape.

The maximum stay at Westworld is 28 days. So once you leave Westworld it would make sense for the hosts you interacted with to forget you. Teddy doesn't remember the guy who he showed around the last time he was there either. The MiB hasn't BEEN in Westworld for 30 years, he's been COMING for 30 years. She probably forgets about the MiB, everytime his stay ends. When he says "Don't you remember me?" I don't think he's shocked or surprised or hurt. He's toying with her "You don't remember me, but I sure as hell remember you." Also it probably goes without saying that if she "dies" she probably forgets all about that death and who caused it. If he kills her after he rapes her each time, that would also probably account for her forgetting him.

1) According to the website the minimum stay at Westworld is a week. So no worries about going for a day or three and winding up in jail. You gotta have enough cash to stay atleast a week. 2) I don't think the hosts are on a 24 hour hard set cycle. They don't have a set time to shut down, they just roll with the punches. If you want to hang out with them all night, they'll hang out with you all night (if it's in their character to do so.) If you don't want to they'll go to their own homes and go to sleep like a normal human person would. Also it doesn't seem like the hosts need a lot of maintenance unless they get injured or killed. 3) Narrative cycles can probably be variable also. If you strike up a spark with Dolores, then maybe she will be programmed to remember you until your stay at Westworld is over. I agree it would be jarring to the immersive aspect of Westworld if you met a host and they completely forgot you the next day.

No baseball today... I'm going through baseball withdrawal!!! Thank god the NHL season starts tonight.

I don't really see Westworld as that type of game, where you can fail due to lack of skill. It's much more a choice based RPG or a visual (or in this case virtual) novel. If you've ever played a Telltale Game, that's the mold I'd be referencing. You make choices, and your CHOICE always goes through the way you'd like it to. Also no choice can result in your death. But that doesn't mean you can't fail at your goal though. Suppose you are trying to bring in the wanted outlaw alive. You can make whatever choices you'd like but there remains the possibility that he could escape, or you could inadvertantly kill him, or you could make the choice to kill him because you want to prevent him from killing someone else, or someone else could kill him. Even if the outlaw can't kill you, you can still fail to bring him in. Suppose you are on a treasure hunt. You could follow the map wrong, or have someone else arrive at the treasure first. Your trusty host sidekick could betray you and try to steal the treasure under cover of night. Suppose you are pursuing a romance (not a rape, or a mindless fuck session with a hookerbot, but you are trying to get a host to fall in love with you), you could have the host die, or your actions could end up terrifying or repulsing her/him, or she/he could fall in love with someone else. And if something like that happens, you'd have to wait for the next day (or whenever the narrative cycle resets) to try again. Of course if your only goal is to rape random hosts and kill random hosts, yeah you can't really fail at that.

Does that matter? Just because the programmers are telling them what they think and what they feel, it doesn't make it any less "real" for them. To Dolores (in that moment) her father is sick, her boyfriend is dead. To Teddy his girl is about to get raped. To Maeve, her stomach hurts. So if they know, on any level, that a poor performance doing their "job" will result in their "death" would they not be just as afraid as you or I are of death? They are programmed to fear death after all, if they weren't they wouldn't beg for their lives.

It had to do with the new storyline. Sizemore wanted to "clear out the dead weight" so he probably asked for any hosts that were performing poorly to be decommissioned rather then re-purposed. Remember earlier he wanted 50 new bodies in the park but Cullen would only give him 20? Maybe he could massage those numbers if he can convince people to remove a few more "malfunctioning" units. Maeve could've been reprogramed into town lady #3, but Sizemore wanted a horde of braves.

All of the hosts feel and think. They aren't acting when they cry out in pain or beg you not to shoot their wife in the head, they feel those things. They don't all just go along with what the guests want either. Teddy doesn't submit meekly to the Man in Black, he fights him with everything he has, as does the posse in this episode. They are physically incapable of hurting the guests, but that doesn't mean they aren't trying to. It is true that they are told what to feel and think by the programmers but just because someone is telling them what to feel and think doesn't mean they feel or think it any less. In the first episode Dolores goes to get help for her ailing father from the Doctor. His sickness was a glitch, it's not a programmed event, she FELT worried, and she THOUGHT it was a good idea to seek medical attention. And this is before she starts exhibiting any symptoms of the "infection." The infection isn't causing the robots to feel and think, they've been feeling and thinking this whole time. The change is that they are remembering what they shouldn't, and they are violating their prime tenet (or First Law if you prefer) not to be able to harm living things.

I don't think there are any ratings for the use of guests. Remember ChangeRoomSexBot's words "No orientation, no guidebook, figuring out how it works is half the fun." It seems like the creators are not interested in putting out walkthroughs for the interactions, they want you to just play, and not know how to game the system (unless you're a long time repeat customer.) This does make sense, as a completionist gamer I know I'd always be thinking about what would've happened if I had played out an encounter differently, and if I could afford it I might keep coming back to do something a different way the next time. Limiting knowledge increases replay-ability. I do think however there is a internal rating system the park uses. For instance when guests stopped responding to Maeve's advances her programming was adjusted, and when that didn't work she was scheduled for decommissioning. Pretty much if you're a host whose job is to provide a hook and you don't get any bites, you're going to end up in one of the endless sub-basements. I wonder if on some level the hosts know this. In the case of the Eyepatch, the treasure hunter, White Hat barely does anything to help him, and yet he still pursues him to try and get him to go on his treasure hunt, does Eyepatch know on some level that he could be put out to pasture if he doesn't get someone to go on his hunt?

The 2015-16 Cavs didn't play Boston. They swept Detroit and Atlanta before they faced Toronto.

Good, I know I said the best case scenario for the Jays was for the Sox to win one, but I'm glad we won't have to see Pedroia bat in Toronto the postseason. He feasts off the Jays. Looking forward to Game 1 in Cleveland. Congrats Indians. HOLY CRAP! ARIETTA HOMER!? Against Bumgarner? The Cubs pitchers are just on a mission to do it all.

Filthy pitch. Sandy Leon is still frozen by that one.