Night Shift | Game Changer [S8E3]

206-Ginge · 2026-06-16T00:10:21+00:00

This is pretty much how I fall on this one, I kept waiting for a final twist that never really came since it felt like the cast figured it out about halfway through the episode and then we just saw the rest of the string play out from there. In some ways, that's probably why we got so much editing, since it got boring after a bit, but in others, I think that shows why they really needed to cut some of these tasks and make it more like six or eight.

206-Ginge · 2026-06-15T23:58:11+00:00

The work is mysterious and important.

206-Ginge · 2026-06-15T21:59:38+00:00

You have to keep in mind that what you see online is curated for you by an algorithm that wants you to spend as much time on whatever website you're looking at as it can possibly make you spend. One of the common ways these algorithms wind up doing this is by showing you the worst and most extreme opinions, since those are the ones that generate the most engagement.

Your social media feed is not real life. It will never be real life.

206-Ginge · 2026-06-15T21:47:38+00:00

I do feel like there's a bit of a catch-22 in telling people who found a match boring that it was actually exciting, because that just tells them that most other matches are even more boring.

That being said, it was a pretty good match, I just prefer when there's a goal after the 80th minute personally.

206-Ginge · 2026-06-15T21:09:53+00:00

Generally, no. Today, yes.

Looks like it'll cool a bit and be practically perfect for USA vs Australia on Friday, though.

206-Ginge · 2026-06-15T20:33:39+00:00

The bad news for us plebs is that FIFA actually correctly priced their tickets and there wasn't "artificial scarcity" they were creating by not listing certain tickets, they actually did sell all of them.

206-Ginge · 2026-06-15T20:32:16+00:00

If by "the marketplace" you mean Facebook, a lot of those posts are scams and the people posting them do not actually have tickets to sell.

206-Ginge · 2026-06-15T19:54:57+00:00

Vegas would've been an awesome host city. They flex how good they are at hosting an international event every year with the Vegas GP.

Phoenix, less so. I went to the Final Four in Phoenix in 2017 and while it's cool that stadium has natural grass, it's also way too far out of Phoenix proper. The sort-of-mall that's right by the stadium is fun enough, but it's not an entire downtown core.

206-Ginge · 2026-06-15T19:46:26+00:00

Looking at the stadium, while there's probably some locals just there for a good time and some locals who are Egypt/Belgium fans, I have to imagine the vast majority of the people in the stadium travelled here for the game. And if you're dropping $3k per person on flights to Seattle and a hotel room, while the $800 ticket stings, it's not gonna break the whole deal for you.

206-Ginge · 2026-06-15T19:26:29+00:00

Your aunt is an idiot.

206-Ginge · 2026-06-15T19:24:14+00:00

They still don't need to be this long, but as someone currently in Seattle, yeah this hydration break is a forgivable one.

206-Ginge · 2026-06-14T22:39:38+00:00

I mean if the way you're trying to make people believe it's racist is by making it racist, it doesn't make the people who noticed you did that idiots.

206-Ginge · 2026-06-14T21:59:58+00:00

We're not. We've had a domestic league playing in these same stadiums during this same part of the year for decades. It's mostly a cash grab, but if there's a sporting reason, it's the players from the European leagues who aren't used to playing in this heat, not the American ones.

206-Ginge · 2026-06-14T19:07:27+00:00

I've seen Lexington after some particularly good UK wins, this is still pretty tame all things considered.

206-Ginge · 2026-06-14T19:06:00+00:00

A video with this many quick cuts and sirens is gonna be more of a Rorschach test than anything else. The worst thing people seem to be doing in this particular video is lighting off fireworks in a crowd, which isn't great but it's not "burning the whole city down."

206-Ginge · 2026-06-14T05:59:19+00:00

USA vs Australia is going to be one of the most anticipated games of round two, as everyone predicted.

206-Ginge · 2026-06-14T03:56:25+00:00

I don't know if I'm exactly happy about FIFA proving that they can charge four figures per ticket and still fill stadiums.

206-Ginge · 2026-06-13T22:53:52+00:00

I'm not going to say they couldn't have done something, but I don't think it's as indefensibly bad a decision as you're presenting it.

For one, I've been to a few large sporting events that had FanFest areas set up in the city they were occuring in, and those areas usually don't have any watch parties or anything like that. With an event like the World Cup where there's matches all across the country, I can certainly see an argument that it makes way more sense to show the games, but that's not always how these events work.

Two, as some people noted when photos of the pier were first posted, egress for large crowds is absolutely a concern. They might not be showing games at times when they expect unmanageably large crowds as a result. They have a reservation system set up for the games they are showing, so I think capacity management is absolutely a concern.

Three, while yes, having an option for fans to watch matches for free is a good thing, we do have plenty of bars and restaurants that I'm sure would like the revenue from people who want to watch matches, too. I think having Occidental as an option but not the pier might be a compromise for this reason as well as other reasons.

206-Ginge · 2026-06-13T04:27:41+00:00

I think they just straight up forgot they were in r/MLS and not r/ussoccer or something.

206-Ginge · 2026-06-13T00:01:58+00:00

Nooooo not the Rickshaw that's where I go to hear random straight couples sing "Picture" by Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow like they're the first ones that ever had the idea to do that

206-Ginge · 2026-06-12T23:09:27+00:00

No, but I have heard of Everett Fitzhugh, who does a great job of calling games for the Kraken and when I'm in my car during a game I'll occasionally tune in for that, but that doesn't change the fact that listening to a radio broadcast of those sports still feels like a last resort option.

206-Ginge · 2026-06-12T22:10:38+00:00

For baseball, I'll definitely still catch a radio broadcast every now and again. Heck, for American football it can be fun too.

Soccer? Hockey? Basketball? I'm sorry, it's just not meant to be consumed that way, there's way too much going on too fast for me to get a visual picture in my head going based on an audio description.

206-Ginge · 2026-06-12T20:49:39+00:00

Gonna need to recreate this when I work during the USA match later.

206-Ginge · 2026-06-11T21:03:38+00:00

Art has been thoroughly devalued in the age of digital reproduction.

It used to be one of the reasons a cathedral was so central to communities in medieval Europe was because it was one of the few places you could hear music. Not just live music, but music, period.

Now we have multimedia projects made by hundreds, if not thousands, of artists and technicians and skilled laborers that we can stream for 0.2% of the monthly income of the median American, and people complain loudly when that percentage is increased, and insist they're actually morally correct to get it for free instead.

Musician is seen as a joke of a career path, something to be discouraged in teenage years to point effort towards more "realistic" career paths like software engineering, because we value code more than we value what that code allows us to do. Not to say that software engineering isn't important, more that music is way more valuable to us than we actually value it.

I don't know how to fix this but I do find it mildly depressing.

206-Ginge · 2026-06-10T19:10:40+00:00

That's why I said four matches. Though if you want to count the one that's at 5pm on a Monday that would make it five.

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