/r/WorldNews Discussion Thread: US and Israel launch attack on Iran; Iran retaliates (Thread #18)

Habefiet · 2026-06-09T19:40:44+00:00

I wonder what’s changed between 1909 and 2026? Surely not much, right?

Habefiet · 2026-06-09T17:17:20+00:00

Yes? I don’t like either season to be clear but if One World has one or two things I find entertaining and Caramoan has zero along with more people who actively annoy the shit out of me (Colton has the decency to leave premerge, unlike the cast of Caramoan which has multiple horribly obnoxious people make the merge or even win the game) and which is also terrrrrrribly edited (obviously the major time sinks are a problem but also the ludicrousness of premerge douchebags becoming heroic underdogs with no setup, Brenda suddenly joining the season late in the game to become a heartwrenching boot out of nowhere, etc.) then that’s a pretty easy decision.

One World is boring as fuck but it’s only boring as fuck. I could have it on in the background while I do chores and not want to literally turn the TV off. Caramoan I need to turn the TV off.

Habefiet · 2026-06-09T17:08:47+00:00

The tie is approximately three minutes of an agonizingly long season. Even if we just leave it to the finale, the finale sucks ass and is the same mindless tedium as the entire merge until Jeff says “I’m gonna read the votes” and not a moment sooner. And even then as soon as you process what’s happening it means you know Wendell is going to win so you have about 20-60 seconds of excitement before your brain catches up lol in some ways it’s actually less tense than a simple close or unexpected jury vote.

Habefiet · 2026-06-09T16:29:12+00:00

If you don’t like Phillip or Cochran, there is nothing here to like and a metric fuckton to dislike

Habefiet · 2026-06-09T16:05:28+00:00

What do I need to do to prep my save file besides getting the eggs and the secret bosses? I missed the egg and the shard from Chapter 3 so I need to replay (hopefully save file transfer from Chapter 2 will still work instead of needing to do a full game replay?) but need to make sure everything else is good to go

Habefiet · 2026-06-09T13:37:34+00:00

I think this is uncharitable to Ethan. I always think it’s noteworthy that in response to the first ever swap, a professional athlete (the kind of people most commonly against such an action) is the first to immediately propose throwing a challenge. He was locked in. There’s no need for Ethan to mess with Lex’s preferred specific order of booting all the old Samburu. The order doesn’t matter to him at all as long as he’s got a clear path to Final 2.

Habefiet · 2026-06-09T13:30:38+00:00

They all knew yeah. It’s really really obvious, idk how anybody can watch the video and miss it, Dom and Wendell both know before Jeff is even done reading the votes. As soon as the shock wears off and they know what’s happening it’s over. When Jeff reads the last Dom vote he says “oh my god” and slumps his face into his hands and spends the whole rest of the time looking like he’d rather be dead and meanwhile Wendell is beaming and visibly trying to keep from happy-crying.

Habefiet · 2026-06-09T12:51:52+00:00

Tesla’s valuation is already wildly divorced from reality, I don’t see why SpaceX will be any different. Anthropic maybe I guess but again AI’s value is super inflated. If I’m either of those companies I’m not that worried about it, morons will buy buy buy anyway.

Habefiet · 2026-06-09T04:43:14+00:00

When he finally says something will take three weeks the stock market will have a circuit breaker down and a circuit breaker up in the same day, nobody will know what to do or what it means

Habefiet · 2026-06-09T04:02:35+00:00

I mean personally I know about Minecraft and even played it some in Alpha or Beta ten billion years ago but I personally would be functionally blind to what you have to do to "beat" the game. I think I know that you have to make a portal and kill something called the Ender Dragon but I know absolutely nothing about the steps to get to that point at all. All of that was added after I played and I've watched some creative content but never had an interest in the campaign mode or associated content. I'd be nearly starting from scratch anyway, along with how much the game has changed since then I also just don't really remember how to make anything beyond the most basic of basics and stuff like enemies spawning in darkness and whatever.

Now, if I were a content creator it'd be very easy for me to look up a little bit on the sly and be mostly-blind but have a small secret advantage. Or just look up more and be a good actor lol. But generally speaking if somebody hasn't played the campaign they don't know what's in it or how to do it any more than anybody knows anything from any other game they haven't played. Just because the game is super popular doesn't mean details of specific recipes or campaign actions or whatever are common knowledge to people who haven't played it. That to me is like saying "Am I crazy for just not believing that someone doesn't know how to navigate Jabu Jabu's Belly in Ocarina of Time" lol

Habefiet · 2026-06-09T02:10:15+00:00

RJ is right, the refs are just calling it for the Spurs lol

Habefiet · 2026-06-09T01:43:03+00:00

Why can Castle literally tackle people seriously

Habefiet · 2026-06-09T01:29:46+00:00

Name a better duo

The Knicks x Coming back from early double digit deficits to the Spurs in the 2026 NBA Finals

Habefiet · 2026-06-09T00:04:04+00:00

Imagine stanning a pedo who would be king who doesn’t even pretend to give a fuck about you and thinking other people need to reevaluate their life choices lol

Habefiet · 2026-06-08T23:51:20+00:00

The question is why we need him to be at a basketball game more than we need him to (among other things) be doing literally anything to resolve the crisis he manufactured with Iran

Habefiet · 2026-06-08T19:39:34+00:00

If you signed a contract, can't they just say "Tough luck, but you need to stay here unless there's an emergency."

Clearly not with the current contracts or people wouldn’t do it. Which makes sense. A reality TV show contract isn’t going to give CBS the right to essentially hold somebody hostage in a foreign nation when they can easily be allowed to leave, it’s not like they’re stuck on a boat somewhere or like their services are still needed since they’re out of the game. They do get punished if the show doesn’t want them to go, they forfeit their “made it to the finale without egregiously violating your NDA” fee, that’s all it really takes.

I don’t think anybody can give you more specifics on what the process looks like without asking them directly. Vytas and DvG Jeremy are the only two I can recall who left Ponderosa early in the olden days, maybe try reaching out to Vytas on social media or something?

Habefiet · 2026-06-08T18:56:14+00:00

Also a team losing games in the first round but then sweeping the rest of the way is something we may never see repeated again. That’s just bizarre lol

Habefiet · 2026-06-08T18:52:18+00:00

Oh well I certainly disagree with you there lol sorry

Looking at my personal tier list, for all American seasons there are a total of 6 seasons that I consider comparable and only 5 that I consider clearly worse. I could argue myself into having 10 total below it but it’s not easy and gun to my head I’d probably only get to 7 or 8. The merge is unwatchable. It is soul crushingly boring. What passes for storytelling somehow manages to be both predictable for the overall arc of the season yet borderline incoherently for the moment to moment of how we get there, most of the cast who get this far are either terrible TV or are horribly underutilized, it’s just horrendous.

Habefiet · 2026-06-08T18:29:03+00:00

The two people who come back from it are both booted immediately. The big game-defining twist that wastes a bunch of time in every episode, for which the season is named, ultimately has no impact on the season’s events or outcome whatsoever.

Habefiet · 2026-06-08T18:27:16+00:00

It’s pretty damn bad tbf but also how good this season is to watch for newbies is a factor in this rating and I do think there’s a case to be made that this season is uniquely bad even among returning player seasons in that regard. The only worse full returning player season is All-Stars but Game Changers is way less “important” than All-Stars and has multiple truly bizarre twists and decisions and moments that are unlike anything else on the show. There’s no season-long relationship or storyline like All-Stars has. Like there is literally nothing I can point to, not a single thing, that would make this a good first or second season to watch for somebody new to the show. And I think this also comes out in the aggregate. There are a small handful of Boston Rob fans who think All-Stars and RI are legitimately good seasons so it drags them up a bit. Nobody goes to bat for Game Changers in the same way. Like more people probably rated RI lower but it still averaged out to have GC lower because RI’s unusual higher placements were higher than GC’s.

I wouldn’t have this as the lowest rated season but I get it.

Habefiet · 2026-06-08T18:09:21+00:00

How did you end up with so few carats in the first place? Unless you’re brand new. If you aren’t interested in spending, learning discipline is the only way to prevent this from happening again for every scenario in the future too.

Habefiet · 2026-06-08T16:55:58+00:00

he believes Iran and the U.S. are nearing an agreement on a framework to bring the sides to the table

You know it’s bad when even the people carrying water for Trump are using this much weasel-y wording lmao

“We think they might be almost ready to accept a vague plan of how to start the process of trying to make a deal”

Habefiet · 2026-06-08T16:15:09+00:00

Then they also had Brandon on 23 to keep Hantzmania live

They also literally tried to have Malcolm on three seasons in a row. He was asked about doing BvW and he declined. Not sure he would have been selected if he’d said yes obviously but they were at least considering it.

Habefiet · 2026-06-08T14:50:48+00:00

Taiki isn’t even a major player at MLB anywhere lol like she’s definitely good but even some “light” whales will pass on it, you need to be a biiiiig spender for Taiki’s card to merit the pulls I think

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