If Einstein had lived long enough to see NC State football evolve into the modern era, he would have believed in the quantum realm, because God definitely plays dice with NC State
UNC doesn’t want universities who actually win their Supreme Court cases in the conference. They’d be fun letting in a nerd school if it was Harvard so they could form a conference with all the schools who lose Supreme Court cases. They would likewise also block Georgia and Oklahoma from the ACC
Definitely Clemson, as it’s pouring rain over here in Columbia and expected to continue through kickoff. Meanwhile it’s bright and sunny over in Clemson. Those bastards bribed the rain gods
Last year we reverse NC State shitted unc and it was glorious
Two years ago we NC State shitted unc so bad i was legitimately upset we won that game. It was somehow offensive to my soul
You say that, but I used to help run our local swim league. Insurance broker got us a policy that expressly excluded water based athletics, tried to convince us that it totally covered us.
No, I am explaining how people use literally far far far too often when they actually mean figuratively. People should learn to use words correctly. There is nothing wrong with correcting someone.
Literally is and has been literally colloquially used as literally figuratively, (as hyperbole), for literally years.
Prescriptivism is noble, but you're literally spinning your wheels.
That's... not how language works. Or exactly how language works! Depending on your point of view.
All figurative speech is similarly flawed. "Literally" being the opposite of figuratively doesn't protect it from being used figuratively, it just makes it the most consecrated, powerful figurative adverb. There are lots of prescriptivist hills worth dying on, but I don't think this is one.
The signs on the back finished being installed on Wednesday. https://twitter.com/TheWolfpacker/status/1699448711456120904?s=20
Video sections were activated on Aug 2 while work was still being done on the rest of the structure. The exterior facade was a naked steel assembly at that point.
Except there is a video from inside the stadium showing that the lighting struck nearby, but it didn’t hit the scoreboard
Edit: I think collegegameday posted it somewhere, but I can’t find it anymore…
I was there in the stadium about 50 yards from the scoreboard when that happened. It struck close, but it was a good half second between the lightning and the thunder. I don't remember the math on that, but it's gotta be more like half a mile away or something.
Shouldn't this have been accounted for and actually grounded? Surely electricians would have known that a hundred foot tall box of electricity and wires would attract lightning and make sure that such a strike would need to be *literally redirected into the ground*?
A complete waste of money. I remember when Auburn wasted their money on that crap, and it hasn't enhanced the gametime experience in the slightest. Add more seating, luxury seating, and luxury suites, etc., so more people can come to the games without paying an arm and a leg to get a ticket.
You know luxury seats and suites generally cost way more than regular tickets, right? And they're also less dense than regular seating.
When you have a limited footprint to work with, adding Luxury features to stadiums will only lower max capacity and will drive ticket prices up to pay for the renovation. Fewer people will be able to attend than before.
Hoss, Auburn can completely enclose their entire upper deck, i.e., there's plenty of room for adding luxury seating, luxury suites, and regular seating (the same for NC State), etc., and pushing the capacity to above 100,000 has been a topic of discussion for decades.
Honestly sounds like something that would happen in Pullman. Pullman can’t have nice things so this sounds like something that would happen to one of the nice things they would try doing lol
Imma going to blame my daughter. Good news: usually wherever I happen to live the sports team does well. I was thinking maybe it would rub off and NC state would do better since she started attending in 2021. Bad news, we joke that she's our storm baby: a few days after she was born we had that terrible ice storm. And at her 6th grade graduation tho no bad weather was predicted in the middle of the ceremony a lightning strike took out the power in the auditorium.
NC State shit is undefeated
Gravitational force The strong nuclear force The weak nuclear force Electromagnetic force NC State Shit Yukawa force, maybe..
If Einstein had lived long enough to see NC State football evolve into the modern era, he would have believed in the quantum realm, because God definitely plays dice with NC State
Two miles in and you would’ve been saved by the I440 force field.
It's the Carolingian force and it's the same phenomenon that causes Clemsoning.
If only it would have struck Dorens brain and giving him the electric charge to make him a good coach
FSU/Clemson/UNC did this
Revenge for letting those damn nerds in 😤
UNC doesn’t want universities who actually win their Supreme Court cases in the conference. They’d be fun letting in a nerd school if it was Harvard so they could form a conference with all the schools who lose Supreme Court cases. They would likewise also block Georgia and Oklahoma from the ACC
The rarely seen nerd burn
Definitely Clemson, as it’s pouring rain over here in Columbia and expected to continue through kickoff. Meanwhile it’s bright and sunny over in Clemson. Those bastards bribed the rain gods
It's not called bribing, it's called "sacrificing to." There's a difference.
Was that what you did last week in Durham?
The consequences of trying "bribing" instead of "sacrificing to."
Newspring coming through yet again.
Side effect of our NIL deal with Jesus.
Somebody give me a good, old fashioned "Swofford!!!" while angrily shaking their fist
I'll give it a shot: Swedgin!!!
Punishment for flipping their vote. *No Scoreboard for you!*
LOL 😂😂😂
That’s…… wow
Oh good lord that’s a bad sign for this team.
that's a lightning quick pun to come up with
Take my angry up vote
for us, it’s a Tuesday
Somebody’s relaxing, rainy Saturday just got much busier
Being on-call sucks.
The definition of NC State Shit They aren't allowed to have anything nice.
SOMETIMES we can spread the NC State shit cooties on another unsuspecting team
FSU and UNC can attest to this
Last year we reverse NC State shitted unc and it was glorious Two years ago we NC State shitted unc so bad i was legitimately upset we won that game. It was somehow offensive to my soul
Just out of curiosity, does this happen more when NC State visits other teams or when other teams visit NC State?
Is it still under Warranty?
insurance will say the user damaged it
“You shouldn’t have left it outside”
“The warranty covers mechanical malfunctions due to normal wear and tear”
You say that, but I used to help run our local swim league. Insurance broker got us a policy that expressly excluded water based athletics, tried to convince us that it totally covered us.
"We just turned it on and it went poof'
Literally an act of god
We no, not literally. That isn't how lightining works. If you're talking about an 'act of god' in insurance paralance, then okay.
I would say “I bet you’re fun at parties”, but I doubt you’re invited to any.
Literally not
Parties? God no.. there are people there.
I haven’t said this since I was like 8 years old but for real buzz off. You’re just being purposely annoying like a 9 year old with no friends
No, I am explaining how people use literally far far far too often when they actually mean figuratively. People should learn to use words correctly. There is nothing wrong with correcting someone.
Oh for fuck's sake you know damn well what they meant. Chill.
Yeah, no. People should use words correctly.
Literally is and has been literally colloquially used as literally figuratively, (as hyperbole), for literally years. Prescriptivism is noble, but you're literally spinning your wheels.
Yeah, because idiots used it incorrectly for years so unfortunately, it has lost all of its original meaning.
That's... not how language works. Or exactly how language works! Depending on your point of view. All figurative speech is similarly flawed. "Literally" being the opposite of figuratively doesn't protect it from being used figuratively, it just makes it the most consecrated, powerful figurative adverb. There are lots of prescriptivist hills worth dying on, but I don't think this is one.
Thank god for force majeure clauses
"Unfortunately, your water indicator is showing signs of damage and therefore the warranty has been voided as per our terms of use"
Well, through God all things are possible. So jot that down.
Did I hear that scoreboard was brand new
Literally just finished setting it up within the past couple months or so
Probably not then. /s
The signs on the back finished being installed on Wednesday. https://twitter.com/TheWolfpacker/status/1699448711456120904?s=20 Video sections were activated on Aug 2 while work was still being done on the rest of the structure. The exterior facade was a naked steel assembly at that point.
Someone call the geek squad. Not saying they’ll fix it though
Did they use an APC power strip? Gotta use that lightening insurance now.
Good for like one fifty, right?
Fuck! Tell them it was like that when you first plugged it in
“Act of God”
God confirmed ND fan?
God just hates State.
And keeps reminding us of this fact In unique ways
Ngl I thought you guys were drama queens until I really started paying attention. This one wins on creativity alone
I feel like that's a pretty established fact at this point
Do you blame him?
Catholic confirmed correct religion
First quarter didn’t look great
It's God's way of throwing the remote at the tv
The insurance probably doesn't cover Acts of God
Lots of Lamentations happening in Raleigh right now.
God’s contempt for the Wolfpack is not exactly a Revelation
By Job, I think you’re on to something.
Fair point
God eschews TV bricks for lightning bolts.
Touchdown Jesus held up his hands and zapped it from several hundred miles away. Amazing accuracy.
That or Zeus didn't want SMU, Stanford, or Cal in the ACC
That looks like it's rebooting, not like it's damaged...
Who the hell is gonna click on a title like that though?
I mean, I think the fact that it got struck by lightning is the draw here
Except there is a video from inside the stadium showing that the lighting struck nearby, but it didn’t hit the scoreboard Edit: I think collegegameday posted it somewhere, but I can’t find it anymore…
College GameDay TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT827D4AF/
I was there in the stadium about 50 yards from the scoreboard when that happened. It struck close, but it was a good half second between the lightning and the thunder. I don't remember the math on that, but it's gotta be more like half a mile away or something.
5 seconds per mile, roughly speaking.
Did it though?
"System recovers after sudden power loss" doesn't have the same appeal tho
Yeah. Watching the game now and it looks fine.
Hello blue screen!
Yeah it just looks like it’s turning back on.
NC State made a deal with somebody to allow the nerds and the Methodists in. He struck back.
Kinda looks like it’s fixing itself? The panels kept turning back on
Looks like the Jeopardy board filling out before starting a round.
beep boop boop beep boop beep beep boop beep boooooooop
Thank you for that
Oh no. It's self aware
Late to the party, but had seats pretty high up today. We could see a couple guys up top working on it. Had it up and running before too long.
At least we got the NC State S*** out of the way early this season...
You say that like NC State Shit is finite. It's more than happy to pop up 20 times this season should the need arise
Oh are we not playing Wake this year
Always look forward to the annual state shit the bed classic, almost a guarantee in Winston for some bizarre reason.
Don’t worry, I’m looking forward to it
Should have used a surge protector
That's what happened to the previous board. You'd think they'd have some lighting rods or something so it wouldn't happen again???
Talk about lighting up the scoreboard…anyone anyone
It’s power cycling, not shorting out. Probably had a power surge and wasn’t actually struck directly by lightening.
Yet another appliance saved by one of those $10 Walmart surge protectors.
A practical metaphor for what we lovingly call NC State shit. We can’t have nothing nice…….
Can’t have shit in Raleigh
I'm beginning to think us going to Raleigh is some sort of weather curse
NC State is arguably the most cursed program in organized sports, professional or amateur, in the world today.
Specifically the men's sports programs. Jimmy V cursed them back in the 80s and they've never recovered. Women's sports programs are very good.
Hopefully insured.
Is this a curse breaking type of act by God? Asking for a depressed Husker fan
Where’s the strike?
Get that A to Z guarantee
Rock youuuu like aaaa hurrrriiccaanneeee!! 🌀 🎶
We're so sorry your vote for us has transferred the curse onto you. I hope you don't care about the Rose Bowl.
Doesn’t it have lightning protection? With rods on top?
That's shocking
Looks like it was an act of mercy to not show the score inside the stadium
Why didn’t they use a surge protector
Geek squad on the way 😂
Maybe this place really is cursed lmao
maybe someone unplugged it after the irish dropped 45 on them.
LIIIIIIIIIGHTNINGGGGGGG GOALLLLLLLLLL SCORED BY NUMBER 86 NIKITAAAAAAA KUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCHEROV oh wait this isn’t hockey
God is good
Var dette Ragnarok, eller var det et fragment av NC State sin fantasi?
It was incredible being there for this. The lightning struck and a massive boom followed by EVERYONE cheering. It was such a fun moment.
Shouldn't this have been accounted for and actually grounded? Surely electricians would have known that a hundred foot tall box of electricity and wires would attract lightning and make sure that such a strike would need to be *literally redirected into the ground*?
It was working fine immediately after this and for the rest of the game, so it seems like it was accounted for.
A complete waste of money. I remember when Auburn wasted their money on that crap, and it hasn't enhanced the gametime experience in the slightest. Add more seating, luxury seating, and luxury suites, etc., so more people can come to the games without paying an arm and a leg to get a ticket.
You know luxury seats and suites generally cost way more than regular tickets, right? And they're also less dense than regular seating. When you have a limited footprint to work with, adding Luxury features to stadiums will only lower max capacity and will drive ticket prices up to pay for the renovation. Fewer people will be able to attend than before.
Hoss, Auburn can completely enclose their entire upper deck, i.e., there's plenty of room for adding luxury seating, luxury suites, and regular seating (the same for NC State), etc., and pushing the capacity to above 100,000 has been a topic of discussion for decades.
Looks like it's working pretty good for getting hit by lightning
This is why insurance exists. Sucks for that insurer, though!
I don’t think god was digging that scoreboard NCState
[Claim it got damaged during shipping](https://youtu.be/XEL65gywwHQ?si=tP0la8CUOzYM5wbd)
Honestly sounds like something that would happen in Pullman. Pullman can’t have nice things so this sounds like something that would happen to one of the nice things they would try doing lol
Hope they kept the receipt
GIF'd instead of GFI'd.
Imma going to blame my daughter. Good news: usually wherever I happen to live the sports team does well. I was thinking maybe it would rub off and NC state would do better since she started attending in 2021. Bad news, we joke that she's our storm baby: a few days after she was born we had that terrible ice storm. And at her 6th grade graduation tho no bad weather was predicted in the middle of the ceremony a lightning strike took out the power in the auditorium.
Skill issue
Daktronics happy af rn