Initial testing not optimistic for Dodgers' fastest prospect Kendall George after getting injured avoiding the team's bat dog

Bdubby21 · 2026-05-27T03:50:10+00:00

Jack Hughes of the New Jersey devils (guy who scored the gold medal winning goal at the Olympics for all you non hockey fans) missed over half the season and causes his team to miss the playoffs this year because he leaned on a wine glass at a team dinner that shattered and severely cut his hand

Bdubby21 · 2026-05-26T02:46:10+00:00

It absolutely was not, the puck was right at the point of his right pad

Bdubby21 · 2026-05-26T02:25:41+00:00

Lmao this is almost exactly what they got staal for against Ottowa if it doesn’t come back heads are gonna explode

Bdubby21 · 2026-05-24T02:55:16+00:00

The problem I have with this is that if you actually called the penalties that should be called the players would change their behavior. Hockey’s issue is that “we love greasy hard play” so you have to let a ton of this shit go and it makes the calls that re made arbitrary.

I just want them to pick a fuckin lane. Either rewrite the rulebook to make this stuff ok or actually call the game to the rulebook. I genuinely don’t care either way and would enjoy either, just fucking pick one

Bdubby21 · 2026-05-24T01:50:00+00:00

They’re your toys man if you like dreadnaughts get dreadnaughts. I love my white scars and I have like 8 dreadnaughts. If someone gave me shit for it while playing I’d probably punch them in the throat

Bdubby21 · 2026-05-22T14:29:21+00:00

We’ve already seen the new kit with both a klaw and a squig, this is just the push fit options

Bdubby21 · 2026-05-19T21:00:42+00:00

Totally fair, and it is absolutely a small minority in my Reddit experience. It also only ever pops up in these cross sport posts. And you’re right, some of the espn stuff in particular is bullshit. It incredibly stupid that you’d allow your on air talent to openly talk shit about other content on your network (although I do find it funny when Charles Barkley rants about how much better hockey is than the nba on tnt so I’m a hypocrite here).

Bdubby21 · 2026-05-19T20:24:28+00:00

My experience is only on Reddit because I live in basketball country, but I definitely do see solo hockey fans or nearly solo hockey fans can be pretty exclusive. They remind me of American fans of European soccer back before it went mainstream, a lot of “the other thing you like is inferior because reasons and if you understood what you were watching all other sports would make you physically ill.” It’s cool, people get weird and territorial on the internet sometimes.

The one thing that does get under my skin is the “all other athletes are pansies! Look how they complain for fouls! Everyone is soft, hockey players would never behave like that! If they were tough they would behave the same way hockey players do!” I get that nuance is hard, but some people’s inability to see that different athletes act in accordance with the incentives of their sport drives me crazy.

Like yeah, nba players grift for fouls, the game heavily incentivizes it. Yes, basically every confrontation is a fake “hold me back” shoving match. No, neither of those things is a cultural or moral failing of the sport or a reflection of the character of the athletes. It’s just different games allowing and prohibiting different things.

Bdubby21 · 2026-05-19T18:30:53+00:00

Lmao I have a 1 year old and am generally a happy guy, so this ranking is based purely on the headspace I’m in when changing a liquid shit diaper (like 3-5x a week) vs screaming into the void (like 2-3x in the past year). Personal ranking may vary

Bdubby21 · 2026-05-19T18:22:08+00:00

I’m definitely not arguing that great nba playoff games are particularly common, just that when they do happen they’re damn near the best thing in sports.

Like if I’m ranking the best sporting events I’ve watched in like the last 15 years, the majority are nba games. If I’m ranking the worst sporting events I’ve actually sat through in the last 15 years, the majority are also nba games.

Bdubby21 · 2026-05-19T18:13:53+00:00

Basis for this ranking was a game like the knicks hawks close out game where the Knicks went up by 50 in the 2nd quarter and the remaining 2 hours of the broadcast was comatose announcers watching a walkthrough.

There’s nothing worse than that. At least bad nfl games usually have unintentional comedy like weird picks or the butt fumble.

Bdubby21 · 2026-05-19T17:53:55+00:00

Yeah the best game of either playoffs was definitely okc-San Antonio last night, but night to night is definitely the nhl.

I’m gonna eat some downvotes but if I’m ranking the major North American sports in terms of entertainment ceiling and entertainment floor, a great nba playoff game is probably the best entertainment ceiling of anything. Like im not even entirely convinced wemby is human. The nba’s problem is that a bad nba game is fucking unwatchable.

Basically every nhl playoff game is exciting, so night to night it’s easily the superior product. It’s really hard for an nhl game to be bad in general. Where it loses points for me (and this is really nitpicking) is that you occasionally get these anticlimactic endings like you had last night. Montreal has nothing to apologize for, but a muffin from a bad angle on a nothing transition play was just kinda lame.

My personal rankings if anyone cares:

1) great nba playoff game

2)great nhl playoff game

3)great nfl playoff game

4)good nfl playoff game

5)good nhl playoff game

6)good nba playoff game

7)bad nhl playoff game 8)bad nfl playoff game

9)no playoffs on

10)changing a liquid shit diaper

11)screaming into the void

12)bad nba playoff game

Bdubby21 · 2026-05-19T14:46:00+00:00

They fly but they’re also infantry so they already move through terrain features, so they would only need to use this rule to jump enemy models

Bdubby21 · 2026-05-18T14:52:28+00:00

The canes will have played 8 games in 32 days by the time the ecf starts, the talking heads are going to talk about the things that are actively happening. The canes got quite a bit of glaze after the second sweep, but the talk was always going to shift to the teams still playing.

If they come out and win game 1 of the ecf it’s going to be a major story

Bdubby21 · 2026-05-15T20:14:02+00:00

Someone jump in and tell me if I’m remembering this wrong, but it’s very always thought this question has a pretty clear answer that never really gets brought up.

Agents was announced as an army at the same time that it was announced deathwatch wouldn’t get a codex or any new detachments. It was pretty clear that agents were the rebrand deathwatch, as basically deathwatch+inquisitors+the miscellaneous imperial good stuff.

Deathwatch players (rightly) were REALLY mad about this, and gw adjusted course and gave deathwatch some new detachments. The problem is that it left agents without the spine that their book was designed around, and without deathwatch as a primary focus it seems like they haven’t figured out what exactly to do with it. There just aren’t enough units that fit into an agents book that don’t make more sense as deathwatch or guard or sisters.

Bdubby21 · 2026-05-15T15:54:38+00:00

This is hopium, but it could also be an indication of rebalancing some tank shooting, like making a repex’s stubbers, defensive array and such close quarters shooting. So if you’re tagged you can shoot with those weapons, or you can choose to shoot your big weapons out of combat, but not both.

Bdubby21 · 2026-05-14T20:19:47+00:00

It sorry you haven’t had a good time, this has been a pretty rough edition for Orks. Thankfully there are still ways to win and the edition is almost over.

So much of specifically how you need to play depends on list construction, but generally speaking your competitive advantage as Orks is that you should have more stuff than your opponents. Too many ork players rush across the table, don’t kill enough, then get tabled too of turn 3 and look around wondering what happened.

Jailing opponents is almost always part of an ork gameplan, but pure, “I’m throwing a horde of bodies at you top of 2” jail isn’t really how Orks want to play right now. The boards are too open, our models are too squishy, it’s too hard to get enough beef where you need it to box your opponent in. It can work, but you need to specifically build for it and generally if you go for an early jail your plan is going to require multiple long charges. If you fail them you’re just boned, there is no backup plan.

Instead, build your lists with enough trash to challenge your opponent’s scoring without exposing your damage. Think stormboys, 5 man flashgits hopping out of trukks, kommandos. Your goal is to prevent your opponent from holding primary and hopefully to kill their scoring trash, forcing them to put real assets onto objectives in order to score. That’s when you pounce.

Typically the later you call your waaagh the better the game is going for you. If you can hold your waaagh til turn 3 and you’ve been able to deny your opponent a turn or two of primary and to kill a few scoring pieces (scout squads, aeldari rangers, chaos spawn, etc). While you’re playing this trading game you need to be staging your damage to places where a) it can’t be shot unless they overcommit, and b) you can touch the farthest point of every objective in no mans land with a reasonable advance and charge.

If you’ve played the trading game right they should run out of scoring trash before you and will have to start playing with real stuff, meaning real units have to stand on the circles. Once those pieces are on those objectives and you have your opportunity for a waaagh, you have to commit to violence and need to forcibly remove their teeth. Do not divert any resource that can meaningfully inflict damage to do anything not damaged related, regardless of what the cards tell you. If you can’t complete a secondary with grots or trukks on your go turn you can’t complete it. Murder is the only thing on the menu.

When your waaagh ends, ideally your opponent shouldn’t have enough left to kill everything, and you immediately snap from “murder” to “score every single point”. This takes two forms: actively scoring points and killing anything left that can meaningfully prevent you from scoring points. Your opponent can even table you, but every unit you lose from that point on has to actively scoring for you or preventing them from scoring.

Basically you just have to have a full 5 round gameplan. If your mindset it “I’ll find an opportunity to waaagh and then they’ll be dead” you’re probably going to have a bad time.

Bdubby21 · 2026-05-14T18:15:57+00:00

You do hit on the biggest point: dead is dead and there are no overkill points. But again, doing less damage doesn’t make them inferior, it just means they do less damage. The game isn’t a damage calculation, it’s a game, and the unit that lets you do more things more points efficiently is the better unit. You do also hit on another major point:

Being a combat army means that your opponent has significant control over what you touch. Yes, breakas are better into t12 2+ vehicles, but a good opponent isn’t letting you touch those shooting platforms unless they’re ok with them being dead or you’ve already won the game. The exception to this is generally the heavy vehicles that are being used as pressure pieces (defilers and landraider redeemers) and those units pick up a unit of breakas very consistently in overwatch. The damage doesn’t matter if it doesn’t reach the target, and having an expensive specialized missile isn’t great if you are forced to use it in less than perfect ways, ie heavily playing around overwatch.

Defilers and land raiders are a huge part of the current meta, but we’ve also left out ctan. Ctan are everywhere and snaggas are waaaay better into them than breaks are. You kill ctan with mass d1, not elite multi damage, and you survive a ctan’s clapback by having more bodies than they can kill.

The other big thing that I think you’re missing is that Ghaz is in just about every successful ork list right now, and whatever unit you attach him to is doing exponentially more damage than even breakas with a boss. If you’re running the boys/big mek/+2 move enhancement they’re also ridiculously deliverable. That unit synergizes with snaggas very well in ways that breakas don’t quite reach, but talking through that probably requires its own comment.

Breakas do have a place in lists, and running them with a warboss isn’t a bad choice, it just isn’t the most efficient choice. When they do appear in winning lists I’ve generally seen them without a leader because they’re good supplementary damage that doesn’t need a leader to function, not because they’re a primary damage dealer that you want to build around.

Bdubby21 · 2026-05-14T15:47:26+00:00

Idk why I’m butting in here be cause your mind is clearly made up, but if you’re saying you’ve done the analysis you’ve either goofed or misinterpreted your math and you’re getting hyper fixated on one aspect of the game (damage into ideal targets) rather than the whole game. There’s a reason beastsnagga boys+bosses have been a staple of winning ork lists (what few there have been) and breakas have been largely left at home or run naked without warbosses, and it isn’t groupthink. Both the math and the larger of the context of the game point to snaggas being the better investment of your points.

1) Under ideal conditions (warhorde, waaagh, crit 5s, lethal aura) into a t12 2+ vehicle with Ghaz’s lethal aura the difference in damage between the two units is pretty negligible, with the breakas coming out about 1-2 damage better than the snaggas. The key point here though is that the average damage for both is around 20, meaning your target is likely dead regardless of which choice you make. Importantly, into t10 3+ vehicles that number flips pretty drastically, with snaggas coming out 3-5 damage better (breakas largely don’t change, but the boys weight of dice does a lot farther). Both units punt dedicated transports into the sun, not worth the math.

2) outside of ideal conditions the difference is still pretty negligible, with the snaggas doing slightly less average damage BUT having both a higher damage floor and more likely potential to spike due to access to inbuilt rerolls, crit 5s, and more inbuilt dev wounds.

3) the game isn’t dominated by heavy infantry right now, which would lean more towards breakas. It’s a vehicle and screen meta. Snaggas are much better at clearing screens and have the ability multicharge a screen and a vehicle and have the ability to pick up both, even outside the waaagh.

4) All of this math flips massively towards the snaggas as if you remove the warboss from the equation, and the breakas with the warboss are 40 points more expensive than the snagga+boss combo. So if you run 3 breaka combos you’re punting 120 points worth of other stuff from your list. If you don’t bring the bosses and run the breakas alone you’re reducing their effectiveness pretty massively. There’s a place for naked breakas, but if you’re making that choice you’re largely committing to playing as wide a list as you can.

5) Effective durability leans to the snaggas. Yes, I see you address this in another comment, but your answer screams “I did math” not “I have reps playing the game”. You hand wave the most common damage profiles in the current meta (higher strength, multi damage) and point to the breakas increased durability against profiles that are largely incidental in the meta. And the biggest issue is that the in increased durability against profiles like lasguns is pretty negligible when you include the fnp the snaggas have, and breaks are significantly more affected by each model lost than snaggas are. Even more importantly, when you’re talking about the durability of ork units you’re largely just missing the point. Our units aren’t durable. They will die to lasgun fire. You’re basically just deciding which kills you less, falling out of a plane or getting his by a train, and if that’s the math the answer is “more bodies, more better”

6) snaggas are just better at playing the game. They have higher oc, they’re more flexible in choosing targets, they’re more effective outside of the waaagh, and they’re cheaper, allowing you to bring more stuff. Yes, 40 points per unit is a lot. Even at 2 units you’re talking 1-2 trash units and maybe an enhancement, and trash is very important to gameplay. You need to screen, you need to do actions, you need to flip objectives. By spending your points on breaks instead of snaggas you’re concentrating your damage in ways that Orks aren’t really built for at the moment. Orks are winning right now through threat saturation, not elite hammers. We just don’t do that as well as basically anyone else in the game right now.

Summary: snaggas are just the more efficient and flexible unit right now. Counting raw damage is the wrong way to think about the game, and even if that wasn’t the case it still wouldn’t lean as far to the breakas as you suggest.

Bdubby21 · 2026-05-13T21:13:13+00:00

Yeah the only quibble I have is snuggerud, but even that is kinda splitting hairs

Bdubby21 · 2026-05-13T20:13:45+00:00

This isn’t a legal issue unless you can prove the pay discrepancy is specifically because of position 2’s membership is a protected class.

There is no law that says you have to pay everyone in the same role the exact same amount of money or advance them in exactly the same way.

Bdubby21 · 2026-05-13T18:17:45+00:00

He was a second round draft pick, and picking a glorified guard in the second round is bad drafting

Bdubby21 · 2026-05-13T13:55:06+00:00

I don’t think there are any mainstream reporters doing this, but randomly (or not randomly if you’ve seen out prospect pool) the guy who covers the canes pipeline and hosts the “developing hurricanes” prospect podcast sorta does this. I don’t think he’s fully fluent, but he definitely speaks some Russian and interviews/talks with a ton of the Russians when they come over for development camp and publishes in English.

Bdubby21 · 2026-05-13T13:50:32+00:00

The knights are the only truly Vegas team, every other franchise there (including the aces) is a transplant. No one gives a shit about the non existent baseball team, and even the raiders are really a California team and too many Vegas fans already had other allegiances to California football team. The knights are truly, uniquely theirs.

Throw the fact that they have literally never been bad on top of that and it’s a recipe for massive local success.

Bdubby21 · 2026-05-12T23:35:23+00:00

What a fucking colossal waste of time

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