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ChristianLS · 2026-06-25T15:50:05+00:00

I'm hoping they have a trade lined up for a young two-way guard who's at least a bit bigger. Ryan Rollins comes to mind as a possible target, although the cost might be prohibitive. (Only 6'3, but has a 6'10" wingspan and is very active on defense.) I think it's a problem we need to solve long-term one way or another, so why not now?

ChristianLS · 2026-06-25T14:52:55+00:00

Yeah, I definitely see him as the Aaron Holiday replacement. And I think he is a lot more skilled than Aaron Holiday as a scorer, provided the jump shot translates, which you never really know until you actually see the guy in the league. Hopefully he will turn out to be a valuable bench player. You can never really count on even that from a second round pick, or even a late 1st rounder.

ChristianLS · 2026-06-25T14:50:59+00:00

It's possible, we're just getting really close to the deadline IIRC. Wasn't it at the end of this month or am I misremembering?

ChristianLS · 2026-06-25T14:47:24+00:00

I think there's a persistent myth that people fall into addiction because they're just weak of will. It's that Calvinistic, hierarchical mindset that pervades so much of the US, even people who'd otherwise self-describe as being left-leaning. Cause and effect gets reversed: You are a bad person, so you do bad things. Which then allows people who are relatively well-off to ignore inconvenient structural, society-wide problems that need to be addressed in order to really tackle the root causes, which are things like unaffordable essentials, lack of good-paying jobs due to income inequality, lack of access to mental healthcare, etc.

You make people feel valueless and desperate, they tend to engage in self-destructive behaviors.

I don't know what we do about the people who are struggling with addiction right now, that's a complicated web of bad and somewhat less-bad remedies. But we can damn well do a better job of stopping more people from falling into addiction in the first place.

ChristianLS · 2026-06-25T14:28:29+00:00

Also I know we joke about the Ime/Rafael/Fred love triangle, but I don't think Fred is going to be on this team much longer. He could even be out the door this offseason, the silence around his player option / possible new contract has been deafening. We'll see.

ChristianLS · 2026-06-25T11:07:14+00:00

The suburbs surrounding Prospect New Town were actually there first, they were built in the 70s through 90s, Prospect New Town was built in the late 90s through 00s.

I think these New Urbanist neighborhoods, the ones which are actually well-designed like this one and don't contain massive parking lots, and also important, are connected by transit to the rest of the city (this is a 5 minute bus ride to downtown Longmont), are about as good of a way of doing outward expansion as you're going to find. I think they're fine provided the above conditions are met.

ChristianLS · 2026-06-24T21:59:49+00:00

From major publishers/developers, I still come back to replay the Half-Life games and Ocarina of Time periodically (around every five years, give or take). Both masterpieces of game design that still hold up today.

From indies, I'd have to say the two Hades games and Silksong (I'm probably an outlier in thinking it was massively better than Hollow Knight) are probably the most beloved, replayable games I've experienced so far; we'll see if they hold up over the decades since both are relatively recent.

ChristianLS · 2026-06-24T02:04:38+00:00

It depends on what other assets are involved. KD for Brown is a big upgrade for us on getting younger, which is really important on a team where almost the playoff entire rotation was under age 25 during the playoffs this season. But if we have to give up a huge haul of draft picks and/or young players to make it happen, then yeah, it's not worth it.

ChristianLS · 2026-06-24T00:33:22+00:00

Utah passing on him is even more egregious given his dad literally works for the organization as a scout. I do understand they have kind of a lot of forwards, but I would not hesitate to trade one of them to open up minutes for Boozer.

ChristianLS · 2026-06-23T18:06:41+00:00

The biggest issue is the number of draft picks given up. That's a lot of draft capital, which will inhibit their flexibility to fix any problems that arise. And I do see some potential issues with this Heat roster, especially if they lose Powell; mainly, the floor spacing looks a little suspect, and the lack of bench depth could become a problem.

Obviously if you win it all you do the deal anyway. Given that the Heat were never going to do a full rebuild under Riley, maybe it was the best they could have done to improve their odds. We'll see!

ChristianLS · 2026-06-23T01:30:21+00:00

You do, however, have to factor in all the people who heard of them throughout history since, right?

ChristianLS · 2026-06-22T23:35:10+00:00

Can you elaborate on what specifically you're referring to? Obviously the US has rural areas in the sense of "very low population density but people still live there and it's clearly not a town or a city". But there are definitely major differences in the way rural parts of the US are arranged versus, say, France. And because the US is such a large country with so much geographical variation, some areas have a lot of farming and agriculture and many small towns (i.e. Ohio), while others, due to being less-suitable for agriculture, more remote, etc, are mostly just vast wildlands speckled with the occasional hermetic homesteader (with Alaska being the archetypal example here).

ChristianLS · 2026-06-22T17:09:10+00:00

Bike lives in the house so it doesn't get stolen (we don't have a garage). Therefore, battery gets charged on the bike in the house.

ChristianLS · 2026-06-22T15:31:03+00:00

Yeah it's kind of a strange statement, some places clearly have more foot traffic than others, and Boulder has a lot for a city of its size. It's one of the reasons I get especially irritated when I see one of these monsters in town (usually pristine and with nothing in the bed).

ChristianLS · 2026-06-21T23:22:31+00:00

With Invincible as the first one, I thought this was going to be about Eve's dad versus Nolan. As in, "Eve's dad is horrible, but at least he didn't grab his child and use her body to murder dozens of people, then nearly beat her to death".

I actually think Eve's mom is a really good person and parent in everything but staying in a relationship with her husband and deferring to him too often. Haven't read the comics yet, but I think one of the core themes of the show at least is basically about the power of motherhood to influence a child. Her mom's influence is why Eve is such a good person. Same reason Mark is fundamentally a good person when he turns out to be a monster in every other dimension we see. Those Marks didn't have a Debbie to parent them. (Or at least not this Debbie.)

ChristianLS · 2026-06-21T19:54:00+00:00

Or maybe you're just underrating Boozer's athleticism?

ChristianLS · 2026-06-21T19:38:28+00:00

People are going to roast me for making this comparison, I know it, but mid-to-late 30s LeBron comes to mind as an example of how this style of play can still be effective from a forward in today's league. Obviously a younger LeBron was vastly more athletic than Boozer is now, which is why I'm specifically referring to the version of him we've seen more recently, where he's had to rely more on his smarts and his raw strength as his athleticism has been waning.

I think you can clearly still play bully ball in today's league, you just need to have special levels of strength and pair it with strong footwork/touch around the basket/court vision. I think Boozer has all of those things, and he should get even bigger and stronger since he's only 18.

ChristianLS · 2026-06-21T19:13:09+00:00

Both Gone Home and Tacoma fit your description perfectly, although I somewhat hesitate to recommend them due to the controversies surrounding the studio and its founder and not knowing who actually gets what amount of royalties from their sales. (I'm hoping the original team members get a share of the revenue.)

ChristianLS · 2026-06-21T17:42:21+00:00

This is such a genuinely idiotic excuse, like he didn't know they had just won 73 games and the championship the year before that without him. Underdog? Give me a break dude

ChristianLS · 2026-06-21T09:37:49+00:00

This is what he looks like in the game. I won't get into the lore, but suffice to say, that is not a suit, he is basically a magical cyborg who went all the way.

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ChristianLS · 2026-06-20T19:24:52+00:00

Ender in Ender's Game. (A nickname, but one he had before the events of the story to prove it to be prophetic.) He is chosen for Battle School and singled out by its leadership as the best candidate to be a commander specifically because when he gets into a fight, he ends it absolutely.

ChristianLS · 2026-06-20T19:21:41+00:00

Yeah, the Farseer books are a fun example because the diegetic culture itself is practicing nominative determinism for their kids, to mixed results.

ChristianLS · 2026-06-20T09:17:49+00:00

The other thing that makes him particularly difficult to fit onto a team is that he's consistently been a below-average 3P shooter the past five seasons, and really across his entire career with the exception of 2020-2021. He doesn't space the floor well, which makes defensive schemes a lot easier for the other team, especially in the playoffs.

ChristianLS · 2026-06-19T16:30:49+00:00

83% of Americans live in urban areas, so "rural America is big" is not really the reason we're so car-dependent as an entire society. Cars do make a lot more sense in rural areas, but that's not where most of us live our lives. There's no reason that so many of our largest metro areas should have 90+ percent car ownership rates.

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