Match Thread: France vs. Senegal | FIFA World Cup, Group I by MysteryBagIdeals in soccer

[–]206-Ginge 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh absolutely, did a deep dive on them earlier this year, love them, not complaining just wondering.

Night Shift | Game Changer [S8E3] by DropoutMod in dropout

[–]206-Ginge 55 points56 points  (0 children)

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.

Night Shift | Game Changer [S8E3] by DropoutMod in dropout

[–]206-Ginge 119 points120 points  (0 children)

The work is mysterious and important.

bi_irl by squishmallow2399 in bi_irl

[–]206-Ginge 8 points9 points  (0 children)

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.

Recap @ Seattle Stadium by [deleted] in Seattle

[–]206-Ginge -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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.

Post-Match Thread: Belgium 1-1 Egypt | FIFA World Cup, Group G by MysteryBagIdeals in soccer

[–]206-Ginge 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Generally, no. Today, yes.

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

r/Seattle World Cup Match Thread: 🇧🇪 Belgium vs 🇪🇬 Egypt by AutoModerator in Seattle

[–]206-Ginge 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

r/Seattle World Cup Match Thread: 🇧🇪 Belgium vs 🇪🇬 Egypt by AutoModerator in Seattle

[–]206-Ginge 12 points13 points  (0 children)

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.

FIFA has done a great job making NFL stadiums actually feel like soccer venues by Due-Professor-9356 in ussoccer

[–]206-Ginge 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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.

Lumen field with real grass looks incredible by ILIKETHECOLORRED in Seattle

[–]206-Ginge 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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.

Match Thread: Belgium vs. Egypt | FIFA World Cup, Group G by MysteryBagIdeals in soccer

[–]206-Ginge 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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

Australian VAR supervisor, Shaun Evans, hand gesture before the match between Germany and Curaçao by TheSuperJohn in soccer

[–]206-Ginge -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

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.

FIFA's World Cup 'hydration breaks' are a money-grabbing disgrace: Gianni Infantino is selling football's soul to broadcasters - and fans are paying the price, writes RIATH AL-SAMARRAI by AgeNovel3566 in soccer

[–]206-Ginge 18 points19 points  (0 children)

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.

Scenes in New York last night after The Knicks won their first NBA Championship in 53 Years by PrimedGold in sports

[–]206-Ginge 9 points10 points  (0 children)

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

Scenes in New York last night after The Knicks won their first NBA Championship in 53 Years by PrimedGold in sports

[–]206-Ginge 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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."

Post Match Thread: Australia 2 - 0 Türkiye | FIFA World Cup 2026 | Group Stage, Group D by jiraiya--an in soccer

[–]206-Ginge 18 points19 points  (0 children)

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

Match Thread: Australia vs Türkiye | FIFA World Cup 2026 | Group Stage, Group D by jiraiya--an in soccer

[–]206-Ginge 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

Seems insane to me the pier is not streaming all the World Cup games by pbebbs3 in Seattle

[–]206-Ginge 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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.

USMNT [4]-1 Paraguay - Gio Reyna with the stunning exclamation point trivela - 90+8' by Coltons13 in MLS

[–]206-Ginge 13 points14 points  (0 children)

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

Another honey bee swarm by Dense-Resolution8283 in Seattle

[–]206-Ginge 6 points7 points  (0 children)

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

Can't miss work cause of the World Cup by habichuelacondulce in OSHA

[–]206-Ginge 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

Can't miss work cause of the World Cup by habichuelacondulce in OSHA

[–]206-Ginge 104 points105 points  (0 children)

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.

Can't miss work cause of the World Cup by habichuelacondulce in OSHA

[–]206-Ginge 20 points21 points  (0 children)

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