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Too much automation (or whatever you want to call it) in cars today. Between the 2 cars we have now.... -Automatic climate control that seems to want to turn itself on whenver it wants. I want to pick where the air is coming from, and the speed. Yet, either by a GENTLE brush of the automaic 'non-button' controls by accident when looking to adjust something else, or by some ghost in the car, occasionally the system goes to 'automatic' and it will change where the air is coming from, and change the blower speed. And trying to turn it off of auto? I shut the entire thing down and restart it. You press the auto button and it just cycles through different speeds/levels of auto. No idea how to turn it off. - The wipers. It was raining yesterday and I'm driving and then it slowed down raining and I wanted the wipers on an intermediate setting. Well the car has an auto setting, it has high, it has low, and then it has all the little intermediate notches you could choose from depending on how fast or how often you want the wipers to go on but guess what? The car takes control of that. Let's say I put on the second lowest intermediate setting so the wipers go over the windshield. Let's say once every 5 seconds... But if the car senses there is a little bit more water on the windshield it will override that and take over and make them go quicker. So even when you pick the setting you want, it won't stick there. The car will override your choice. -Keep your hands on the wheel warning? I sometimes hold the steering wheel at "10 and 2", sometimes closer to the bottom of the wheel. Sometimes one handed. But yet, every once in a while there will be a loud (somewhat startling) beep/chime telling me to keep my hands on the wheel. They are though? -I love this one, another loud chime and my dashboard shows me an icon of a coffee cup and tells me maybe its time for a break. Really? sometimes it will even do that after only driving for 30-40 minutes. Other times I drive for 3 hours without it. And it has nothing to do with it sensing I'm going out of my lane or anythign like that. The lane centering thing, where it takes control of the steering wheel (thats another story) takes care of that. -Drive modes. So my car has a 'sport' mode, an 'eco' mode, and a 'smart' mode. No normal mode. Well, the sport mode holds gears WAY too high for everday driving, I'll be going down a side street at 30 mph and its in 2nd gear makign a lot of noise at 3000 rpms. Eco mode, it seems to either lower the battery assist (I have a hybrid) or lower the turbo boost (the gas engine) but either way, it is almost non-responsive. So "smart" mode? Well, its not a combo of both. It 'automatically" switches back and forth between Eco and sport, based on how it thinks I want to drive. If I make a bunch of very aggressive lane changes and hit the gas hard, it goes into sport mode (only for a few seconds though), but once that is over, back to "eco" mode. I have tried to manipulate it by my driving style, but nope, it does what it does. This email is getting so long, I won't even go into the quirks of the nav system after an update (it no longer allows you to choose the 'shortest' route in terms of time vs the 'shortest' one in distance. It chooses the route for you, and often changes it mid-route to roads in no way I want to take" I'm really, REALLY close to my next car being one of those small, simple, econo-boxes that are under $30,000 that don't have most of this stuff (or at least less of it)

Went to bed after the 2nd with the warm and fuzzies. Ellis one goal against, rosen 2 goals, Östlund and assist. Wake up to this!

Ah, what the hell? There's barf in the sink.

Did we win again last night?

Ha. It was 2-1 Sabres after 2 when I had to go. Nice to see they finished strong in the 3rd.😂 Im sorry but this season is done. Cleanse this entire mess right now instead of prolonging the agony. This must be the “Getting Adams Fired” season

Its not just the lack of production, it is their overall play. McLeod, Thompson, and Tuch......it seemed to me they were clearly outplayed by Doan, Kozak and whoever else was with them (Greeway for part or the time before Ruff starting shuffling lines) And I don't mean "hey, those 'lesser-talented' young guys looked to be playing with more energy" I mean literally outplayed. Outpossessed, out thought (hockey IQ way) and dominated the ice more than your top line.

Who cares? No seriously, who tf cares?

My dad recently had to take his road test and was failed for pulling under the light when making a left. Lady screamed at him about how dangerous it was and immediately ended the test. I’ve always done it that way until I moved to Texas and everyone runs red lights. Then you’re stuck in the middle while the people with the green drive around you. It seems a lot of places got rid of the green arrow and just use a flashing yellow for turns and some intersections you’ll sit for 5-6 light cycles during busier times of day.

Doesn't matter what he says though, it's not an excuse. He can say the sky is falling and it wouldn't matter. Kevin Adams needs to lose his job and nothing is going to stop people from wanting that. The entire team can be injured and it doesn't matter.

You know it’s bad when we are clinging to a small hope this team barely makes the playoffs. Even if they do then what? You know there wouldn’t be many changes for next season since TP and crew think the answer is in the room. Making the playoffs by the skin of their teeth would make TP feel vindicated and the team would stagnate. The prospects besides Mrtka show some promise but there aren’t any indications any of them will be game changers. OP, Quinn, Tuch, Norris, Greenway, Krebs, Kulich, and UPL need to be traded for roster players. It needs to happen by the end of November so those new guys can integrate before the New Year. Im sorry but none of them have a future in Buffalo and Buffalo does not have a future with them. IMO you use those players to get an actual 1C, a 2C, defensive 3W, and a physical third pair dman. Benson-New Guy-Thompson Doan-New Guy-Rosen Zucker-McLeod-New Guy (physical) Makenstyn-Kozak-Dunne Helenius/Östlund Dahlin Byram Kesserling Muel Timmins New Guy Johnson Lyon Ellis Levi

We no longer live in Utah, but we learned that in that state it's suicide to try to turn left as the light turns red. Three or four cars coming from the other direction will run the red light. The police do nothing about it. But if you try to turn and one of them enters the intersection on a solid red and hits you, it's you who will get the ticket. And since those cars are speeding up when they see they have a red light, your car could be totaled and your passenger could be killed. If you sit there in the intersection waiting for the three or four cars to finish coming through, you'll be surrounded by people coming from the cross road, and they won't make it easy to get through. If you're at an intersection with no left turn arrow, give up. Go through the intersection until you can turn right three times. This is what happens when people get used to ignoring the law because there's no consequence for breaking it.

If you change your car's oil with four quarts of fresh oil but don't change the filter, you now have five quarts of dirty oil. Whatever passes for leadership on this team is just not doing their job.

I don't necessarily want Pegula to sell the team. I want him to be a good owner who spends to the cap every year and who doesn't tolerate continued front office failure.

Come on, does it really matter? The annual November collapse is in progress and by the end of 2025 the playoffs will once again be out of reach. I would love to have Tuch around but for his sake don't crush his career with this Pegula-Adams fiasco.

“Just because your name’s Devon Levi doesn’t mean you can’t get pulled,” Leone said. “I know he’s a really good goalie but it’s not about him, it’s about the team. We believe in him, but at the same time part of your development is, we need a save.”

Oh dear. Not what o wanted to wake up to.

Ugh

FIFY

It has been my opinion for some time now that the Sabres should NOT sign Alex Tuch to an expensive extension. It will be a bad return on investment. He'll be 30 years old when his next contract is signed. Have you watched him closely this year? He is invisible. Does he play like a $10 million dollar player? NFW! He looks like he knows he's going to get paid by some team and he's going through the motions. No passion, no desire, no anything. Time to get what you can for him before the trade deadline. The Sabres have got to stop resigning players who are not good enough. I could name half the roster of players who got new contracts for no good reason. Where is McLeod, Krebs, Malenstyn, Quinn, Greenway, Bryson, etc. Don't keep the same players that failed to make the playoffs and expect something magical to change.

Those people are lost.

If these guys are so talented why do they play like s**t now? Coaching?

-300 moneyline. If you win you barely get anything. It's one step from being de-listed like a college football game between Alabama and North Southeastern State. It was good for half, well not really.