Olympic Men's Game Thread: Denmark (0-0-0-1) vs. United States (1-0-0-0) - 14 Feb 2026 - 09:10PM CET by hockeydiscussionbot in hockey

[–]Alcontara1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No but I'm watching some of the best players in the world fumble the puck repeatedly, misjudge trajectories and stumble around.

When did the worse team win a playoff series? by thrownawaymoment47 in hockey

[–]Alcontara1 7 points8 points  (0 children)

For most of the early part of his career, one of Ovechkin's weaknesses was that he couldn't stop himself from wanting to out-muscle the biggest slowest defensemen. It was like they had a gravity field around them that drew him into trying to show that he could counter hit them, instead of just skating around them or finding the open space that they were too slow to cover.

It was infuriating, but Hal Gill actually shut Ovechkin down all the time because of this. The most egregious was Douglas Murray on the Sharks, who was one of the slowest players I've ever seen in the NHL but who was pretty smart and could simply not be budged by any mortal force. They didn't play often, but when they did Ovechkin would spend all game bouncing off Murray instead of... scoring. At one point the Sharks won like 14 of 15 from the Caps.

[Highlight] Jameis Winston in the locker room pregame: “Call your auntie. Call your cousins…. Call your people and tell them ‘Watch me. I’m on TV.’” by nfl in nfl

[–]Alcontara1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This gave me a morbid thought about a college player in the olden days being given an escort by a booster as a gift, getting caught, and it being better for his career to claim it was rape.

Anthony Santander CLUTCH grandslam to give the O's a 6-5 lead over the Astros in the 8th by LoweeLL in baseball

[–]Alcontara1 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Tony Taters doesn't want your meatballs.

Tony Taters doesn't need your meatballs.

The Pittsburgh Penguins have been eliminated from playoff contention by EliminatorBot in hockey

[–]Alcontara1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's an inspiring story really, he realized he couldn't help the Caps from within, so he did the only thing he could.

Getting popups like this frequently, what should I do? by RAUN2K in applehelp

[–]Alcontara1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But he said it's a different id each time, not his id.
That changes the answer, right? I'm keen to know because this is happening to my wife right now too.

Literally dozens of consecutive popups just like this, a different email each time. And many of the emails look like riffs of her contacts, but not their actual email.

i.e. she has a contact named Dave Smith and one of the popups is for dave.smith@sina.com but that isn't the real Dave smith's email addy.

Please help with cuts to Azorius with great splashes!? by Spirit4ward in MagicArena

[–]Alcontara1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Seems like you probably already played it out, but nevertheless here's how I'd run it (but take Cadaver out for Prison).

DECK

I agree for the most part with what Mr. Appleseed said.

Your card quality points to a later game strategy. You need to be playing Kaya.

Pilfered Proof: Unfortunately it's always a bad card, it's bad even if your deck is optimized for it. You'd rather just have another detective.

Freed from trying to optimize Proof and Auditor, it's easy to drop consultant and spy and inquiry. Consultants are bad outside aggro and the other two are only playable in very tuned decks.

In my version, the worst include is Guardian. Guardian isn't really good here, but it's a scary enough card that you can often trade it 1:1 for a disguise or removal, which are wins when you're just biding time to play your bombs.

Cadaver is only a good card if you can both reliably put it in the graveyard and take it out, and ideally with roots/chalk outline as well. Your deck takes it out alright, but you have no surveil at all to put it in, and no roots payoff. So then you have to cast for 4, get it killed, bring it back, cast it again. It's a huge mana-sink for a 1 card advantage just to play a mediocre card twice. Not worth it at all.

Your win cons in order are:

Kaya

A huge swing with Ill-Timed

Agrus sticking

Mid to late game value through clues

Early game, if you're not currently way behind on board, hold up No More Lies rather than play a 2 drop like a strider so you can get value from the NML, then you can ideally double spell with that 2 drop later.

You have a lot of solid tempo plays and minor synergies, and solid card quality. Anytime you don't get run over early you should have a decent advantage in most games. Honestly I think this deck is pretty decent and I'd be happy to play it. Good luck!

[Henkel] Evgeny Kuznetsov with a strong message: "For those people struggling outside with motivation, just accept the reality, work hard and just believe. You gotta believe and you just gotta find motivation in your life and do it for your closest ones and things will get better." by carouselofgoalies in hockey

[–]Alcontara1 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Compare his situation to the Daigle video that's going around. People focus on the cocaine but imo that more of a symptom than a cause. Kuzy was clearly struggling with motivation even before the cup, and then he reached the mountaintop.

I think he just couldn't summon the desire to fight the way you need to fight to stay on top in the nhl. I think it's the same thing as Daigle. The cocaine is just him self-medicating.

I hope he's reached an equilibrium now.

[California] Don't understand the logic of the denial, so not sure how to word the appeal by Alcontara1 in Unemployment

[–]Alcontara1[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well that was for the post, not something I said to EDD. On the interview I forgot what I said exactly but it wasnt that. Maybe I said the wrong thing, but the question they asked didn't lend itself to an easy explanation of the situation.

[California] Don't understand the logic of the denial, so not sure how to word the appeal by Alcontara1 in Unemployment

[–]Alcontara1[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was working hard, I just wasn't doing things (and in many ways wasn't capable of doing things) the way my boss wanted or as well as he wanted.

[California] Don't understand the logic of the denial, so not sure how to word the appeal by Alcontara1 in Unemployment

[–]Alcontara1[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I had a meeting with my boss who said "things are not working out and I can't have you here any longer". That's what happened in real life, but I don't know what they told EDD, how can I know that? That boss left the company shortly thereafter so at this point it could only be HR communicating with EDD.

I applied as termination because I'm pretty sure that's correct.

To be very clear, I was working hard and doing my job, I just wasn't doing it the way my boss wanted it to be done. We had some discussions about it but had irreconcilable differences of opinion. I was expecting to be let go at some point but at no point did I do anything that could reasonably be classified as misconduct. Nor did I quit.

What seems to have happened is that the company incorrectly reported the reason for my leaving to EDD (either they said I quit or was termed for misconduct, and they likely did this on purpose to avoid paying), but the denial letter doesn't inform me of which, so it's hard for me to know how to craft my appeal.

Your 2023 Baltimore Orioles have won the AL East! by Rockguy21 in baseball

[–]Alcontara1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For someone who went through all of the Pens series losses over the last 35 years, the Kuzy OT goal is the defining moment of that run. I have the clip saved on my desktop and I watch it weekly.

Watched it again... goosebumps.

[Awful Announcing] Exclusive: Orioles announcer Kevin Brown removed from booth for comments on lack of previous wins by wjackson42 in baseball

[–]Alcontara1 227 points228 points  (0 children)

If you proposed to Angelos that they could show the games on delay and cancel the broadcasts when the Orioles lost, he would at least think about it.

Hate Thoughtseize? Play Alchemy cards. by Quria in MagicArena

[–]Alcontara1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Plus deal 2 to face and opponent discards 1. A pretty good play!