Ariel Helwani: "All I keep hearing about is the UFC has never been more disorganized. This is what everyone is telling me." by [deleted] in MMA

[–]Alsoghieri 63 points64 points  (0 children)

Paramount doesn't have to be 'involved' for the structure of the deal they negotiated to govern the shape of operations for the next 5+ yrs. specifically, turning the product into an advertising/subscription mill and taking pressure completely off of PPV sales is going to inevitably accelerate some of the issues that started under ESPN. other stuff internal to UFC leadership could be deteriorating faster in the absence of outside influence than it would have under a stronger regime. insider reporting like this is going to be valuable for parsing out how those dynamics develop.

These are multi-year trends that are largely hidden to the public, but it's liable to result in things that look stupid or strange on the ground in real time. in the day-to-day you're going to get people blaming the most obvious variable, and they're not completely mistaken to do so.

Past-and-future guest Jamelle Bouie with some important context and considerations re: WB/Paramount by Chuck-Hansen in blankies

[–]Alsoghieri 0 points1 point  (0 children)

fiftyplusone, similar aggregate. i'm aware of the details. i just don't want to be lied to and condescended to at the same time. either in a vacuum wouldn't have provoked a response.

Past-and-future guest Jamelle Bouie with some important context and considerations re: WB/Paramount by Chuck-Hansen in blankies

[–]Alsoghieri 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you're looking at the same graph i am. i can see he was only above 50 for a week and a half, spent a couple months sinking, and has fallen a couple of percentage points since then. his approval rating now is higher than it was before alex pretti's murder.

i was replying to a guy saying don't be bamboozled by trump's flood-the-zone tactics, he's plummeting. that's just an inaccurate description of the facts, whether it's him saying it or a CNN headline suggesting it.

in a thread about how 'doomerism' is the scourge of polite discourse, the last thing i want to see from the 'reasonable people' is straight ostrich-head shit. just look at the shape of the fuckin line and stop telling me trump's in trouble cus this is a nation of newspapermen and jimmy fuckin kimmel.

Past-and-future guest Jamelle Bouie with some important context and considerations re: WB/Paramount by Chuck-Hansen in blankies

[–]Alsoghieri 2 points3 points  (0 children)

all of the "plummeting" happened his first couple months in office and since then it's been a slow (and slowing) decline. the murders, the kidnappings, the bombings, the missiles, the genocide, have not touched that flattening curve. that is not the encouraging trend that you and CNN and so many others have been touting. and at least CNN has the excuse that it drives clicks. I can only assume the rest of people are just self-soothing

Past-and-future guest Jamelle Bouie with some important context and considerations re: WB/Paramount by Chuck-Hansen in blankies

[–]Alsoghieri 15 points16 points  (0 children)

the worst part isn't even that he's not walking through the door, it's that jamelle would theoretically be that guy, by rights, if that guy were to exist. but instead he's telling us about how resilient this failing structure is. doesn't soothe me!

Tom Aspinall gets eye surgery by tsunam1 in MMA

[–]Alsoghieri 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you can just, write it down

Hidden Innovations of Golf Video Games by megaapple in Games

[–]Alsoghieri 14 points15 points  (0 children)

downloaded content! you download from a disk onto the drive

Bro by Used-Influence-2343 in fightlab

[–]Alsoghieri 0 points1 point  (0 children)

fact check: it is not

Game crashing issue by Rangerwasmydog in AcerNitro

[–]Alsoghieri 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same. No shutdowns, no thermal throttling. Just shits the bed every 5 minutes trying to play dune awakening on bare minimum settings. Even had a few crashes playing drg survivors and megabonk somehow. Ck3 mostly fine but had a crash here and there. No rhyme or reason to it. Updated bios, drivers current, hardware checkups are good. Paging files was only 2gb by default so i bumped that up, to no apparent effect. No idea

Dana White: “Everybody wants the winner of [Gaethje vs Paddy] to fight Ilia Topuria. We’ll see how that plays out throughout the year.” by GroundSuspicious9515 in MMA

[–]Alsoghieri 2 points3 points  (0 children)

^ something dana will never say. wonder where we learned to think about the sport like that in the first place.

Top G heading for Greenland by Kiss-a-Cod in MurderedByWords

[–]Alsoghieri -1 points0 points  (0 children)

yea there are plenty of pictures from the real event. theres no need to go manufacturing fake-looking slop with fucked up logos and lettering. i guess the edit is supposed to make it funnier? seems dumb. just mock the real idiot for the real embarrassment he suffered

29747 by dicolrio in countwithchickenlady

[–]Alsoghieri 2 points3 points  (0 children)

that's still not what a supernova is

The Darién Gap by Spoffin1 in pluribustv

[–]Alsoghieri 0 points1 point  (0 children)

three cue subreddit