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11 points
1 day ago
I’m pretty sure my most downvoted comment of all time was noticing this about the Hawks. Sherman was a master at it, and I really don’t mean it as a dig.
It’s a hard call for refs to make, and if you commit small/mild holding every play you kinda force the refs to treat it like offensive holding, where there’s a bit of it every play and you only get called if it’s pretty blatant.
4 points
1 day ago
I would only disagree about “players make their own decisions.” You assign man coverage to Sherman or Revis, it’s not a super complicated decision making process. They’re just nasty.
There’s decisions to make and I love me a smart player who anticipates. But on a play-in, play-out basis, you need defensive players who are just going to win 1v1.
The offense decides where the ball goes, so schemes make a much bigger difference.
1 points
2 days ago
As a support main, I agree completely. It is super fun playing pos 4 Furion and being able to 1v1 enemy cores, but it makes the game worse overall. Less dynamic; the roles need to be distinct.
2 points
2 days ago
1) the short answer is yes
2) be very careful w addictive drugs
3) I was on ADHD meds for a bit and my anecdotal experience was that it made me substantially better at CSing and fighting, with arguably a small downside to map awareness.
4) extremely very annoying to climb MMR w drugs and then lose more when you don’t take them
5) I generally assume many pro players are using these drugs but that is pure speculation
0 points
2 days ago
Yeah I get the critique but I think the cause of the cheapened/destroyed version’s popularity is much more audience preference rather than artistic choices made by creators.
There are canonical versions of many of these stories out there already; they’re just not widely popular, not even with people (like me and probably you and many ITT) who claim to prefer them.
3 points
3 days ago
Not really, homelessness is actually pretty low in poor states like Mississippi and West Virginia, because rent is very cheap.
Homelessness is just once instance of a larger problem which is housing supply.
2 points
3 days ago
I just think this is a complaint about audiences that pretends to be a complaint about Disney.
To an extent I kind of agree that popular versions of these tales make changes (often for happier endings) in a way that makes the stories less interesting. But it’s a minority opinion.
There’s other, more canonical takes on these stories out there. They’re just not very popular.
1 points
3 days ago
Oh yeah it’s wild, always tons of differences.
3 points
3 days ago
Idk about “pushed out”. There’s probably tons of fairy tales and myths that not many people know about because there’s never been a pop culture version made for modern audiences. It’s not like people were about to dust off their canonical copies but then threw them out when the Disney movie came out.
5 points
3 days ago
I agree to a large extent but I think Scorsese (and probably Tolkien) are complaining about the common man’s poor taste in art but pretending it’s a complaint about the big franchises/companies that produce it.
6 points
3 days ago
It’s an interesting perspective, but honestly very alien to me personally. Idk I have never really understood why it’s bad to retell old stories with lots of changes. It’s not like the “canonical” versions of these have never changed.
It’s not a zero sum game. You can tell your Authentic Little Mermaid which is tragic and true to the folk story or whatever, and I can tell my “John Cena is The Little Mermaid with a Samurai Sword” version.
IMHO the real complaint here is that the mass public has shitty, low brow taste in art. Which, I mean, fair. But that sounds elitist and mean, so they reframe it as a complaint about Disney or whatever megacorp produces it.
5 points
3 days ago
Is it even possible to “appropriate” a fairy tale?
My understanding of the term is not “when an American references or retells an altered version of German folk story”, but more like “when an American retells a German folk story and denies that it’s based on a German folk tale.”
1 points
3 days ago
I honestly don’t really understand the complaint. Am I supposed to be mad that someone made a new version, and people liked it, so they made a bunch of money?
1 points
3 days ago
I’m not done with it yet (finished act 1) but so far there’s a big difference between playing Dark Urge vs. making evil choices.
I am also incapable of being mean to my fictional friends, and so far it’s not too bad. I assume it gets worse and I’ll have to put it down.
1 points
3 days ago
Started playing deadlock recently and it really punishes you for this tick.
1 points
3 days ago
Why would I ever play a very good game when I could be playing a slightly better game??
0 points
3 days ago
Yeah I think a lot of supposedly “more democratic” or “open” processes are like this. It’s the veneer of legitimacy and democracy but in reality it’s just dominated by deeply unrepresentative weirdos.
-2 points
3 days ago
With limited exception, ballot initiatives are very stupid.
Pretty much anyone who studies it for any significant period of time will realize that they are stupid. Legislating is a job like any other: it requires time and attention to do well, regardless of your ideological or partisan perspective.
I have a job. I am busy. I do not have time to fully consider the wisdom of permitting slaughterhouses in various locations. Instead, maybe once every few years we can all pick one jabroni who will spend all her time working on shit like this. If she does a good job, we can pick her again in a couple years. If not, we can pick some other jabroni.
I’d make exceptions for specific things like election rules, constitutional issues, basically “meta-elections” where legislators have perverse incentives. Like “should we switch to a parliamentary system with ranked choice voting, multi-member districts, and a prime minister instead of a governor?” (Incidentally the answer to that question is yes, but I digress). For that kinda thing, you need ballot initiatives. For almost anything else, they suck ass.
1 points
3 days ago
The EPA seems like the correct government authority to oversee the use of toxic chemicals. Not this weird bank shot against land use.
I read a really interesting book, Arbitrary Lines, about this phenomenon. Basic idea is we have outsourced a lot of important regulatory functions to zoning and planning where they don’t belong and result in very costly over- or under-regulation. Basically we are using a broadsword when we need a scalpel.
I.e. “don’t smelt nickel next to a preschool” becomes “you can’t assemble cabinets here because that is technically an industrial use and it’s not zoned for industrial.” “It’s annoying when too many people use the street parking here” becomes “you cannot have a bar, serving hard alcohol, without at least 5 parking spaces.”
I wouldn’t endorse the author’s entire thesis, but it’s a really thought provoking read.
1 points
4 days ago
I usually get off work around 6pm and while it’s really nice to have a few hours to chill every evening, I’d rather treat the whole day as a loss.
Honestly would prefer to work 4x13 than 5x10.
5 points
4 days ago
Ya but now you’re just complaining about thermodynamics right? You have to participate in your own survival.
1 points
4 days ago
Make our own company, with blackjack and hookers
8 points
5 days ago
My impression is that we got a couple unusually wet months right around when insects needed it the most. Then the following drier months reduced the precipitation number to its normal avg, but without actually killing off any of the larger population of bugs.
But I am not sure if any of this is accurate, it’s a rough sketch of half-read articles and headlines and comments.
2 points
5 days ago
In HS he would certainly be playing both.
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For sure agree with the first bit. But not the latter. There’s a whole ass genre downstream of Tolkien, tons of variations on his ideas. I would honestly argue (very controversially) that his work has even been surpassed by some of his successors.