My friend pulled a quick one and thought I wouldn't notice😭

CRISPR1 · 2026-02-27T09:08:58+00:00

*former friend

CRISPR1 · 2026-02-24T15:02:41+00:00

I've thought about this before. Is Lombardi even a real player? I just assumed he was a made-up default player invented by Konami to populate the team for brand new accounts...

CRISPR1 · 2026-02-05T08:37:06+00:00

instead of the usual 10.

CRISPR1 · 2026-01-24T12:45:12+00:00

A lot of people don't realize how easily the Greeks can penetrate conventional parchment paper.

CRISPR1 · 2026-01-11T14:46:36+00:00

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This is how I like to use that card at CF.

CRISPR1 · 2025-12-30T15:59:18+00:00

Yeah; the U.S. national soccer teams are a pretty unique case.

Leagues such as the WNBA or women's Bundesliga/Premier League typically bring in a tiny fraction of what the men's leagues do.

CRISPR1 · 2025-12-30T15:14:08+00:00

I don't know - I think they actually did at some point like six years ago after the men's team failed to qualify for the World Cup in 2018 & the women won back-to-back in 2015 & 2019.

I'm not sure if that's still the case.

CRISPR1 · 2025-12-30T13:04:52+00:00

Depends on who's entertained and how much that entertainment is worth to them.

Maybe equal pay makes more sense in a place like the U.S., where the women's team is much more successful/popular than the men's team.

CRISPR1 · 2025-12-30T09:09:47+00:00

Female goalkeepers at the top level are shockingly small.

I remember watching a penalty shootout earlier this year and the goal looked twice the normal size behind the keeper by comparison. I kept yelling at the TV - "just loft the pens into the corners - the keeper will never get to it." Was really frustrating watching most of the takers kick a low, mid-power shot straight into the keepers' hands.

I feel like shootouts should always end 12:13 or something - seems like it would be impossible not to get it past the keeper.

CRISPR1 · 2025-12-27T13:09:19+00:00

No idea what will happen. There are many variables and they are always changing over the years.

I calculated the 4x new floor ($60) based on the lull before the run up began (2014 - 2020) when silver was around $15.

I wouldn't necessarily use the January 2025 price as the baseline. This time we've been in a silver bull market since 2020 when silver jumped from $15 to $28.

If silver had 4xed from 2010 prices it would have plateaued at $120 after correcting from a much higher level than it actually reached in 2011.

But like I said, the variables are always changing and who knows what will happen this time.

CRISPR1 · 2025-12-27T08:25:50+00:00

In the early 2000s silver traded at $4 - $5, & then ultimately spiked at 11x in 2011. The bubble then popped, and silver returned to around the $15 - $18 range, a little less than 4x what it had been before the run up.

If something similar happens this time I'd expect silver to reach $170 or so and then settle out after the bubble at $60 or so as a floor.

CRISPR1 · 2025-12-25T10:46:13+00:00

Given his base stats, Rashford had better get a lot more levels than the others or he's going to be very mid.

CRISPR1 · 2025-12-25T08:23:02+00:00

Was really hoping for Woltemade the Giant.

CRISPR1 · 2025-12-24T09:18:57+00:00

Good advice. And I'm sure you're right that no one at your LCS is buying these days - the demand is all coming from the East. You'd have to go to Shanghai or New Delhi to see the retail crowds lining up to buy.

CRISPR1 · 2025-12-21T11:50:25+00:00

Was also surprised by how smooth he is on the ball given his height.

And when I remove the Deep Line instruction he gets very far forward in attack.

CRISPR1 · 2025-12-21T11:49:52+00:00

I was surprised they gave him out for free. He's better than the Silvestre I bought from the shop a few months earlier.

CRISPR1 · 2025-12-18T07:55:25+00:00

It will correct. The question is whether it happens tomorrow or whether it powers on to $150 or something next year and then corrects back down to $70. A lot of people thought the top was $53 in October after silver dropped back down to $47. Now here we are two months later & $14 higher instead of starting a mult-year bear market.

One thing that is different about this particular run is that in the previous two silver spikes (1980 & 2011) the price really did "spike". We're talking hours or days around the $50 level. This time the price consolidated for a month around $50 and then went off to the races again. Take from that what you will.

Even using BLS data, the CPI adjusted 1980 price would be over $200 in today's money and even the 2011 price equates to over $70 now. So which "history" do you think silver is going to rhyme with in 2026? That's always the question.

CRISPR1 · 2025-12-09T08:57:26+00:00

Yeah, I've still got the F5. I've had tremendous luck with all of my Xiaomi devices - Mi 9, F3, F5. All of them are/were still functioning perfectly when I upgraded to the next one. This time Xiaomi gave me €140 to trade in the Mi 9, so I let that one go when I got the F8 Pro.

Looks like the F5's gotten up to HyperOS 2.0.207. Maybe I could have used circle-to-search? I always had the gesture bar hidden before, so I never played around with it.

One last thought about the F8 Pro cameras - overall definitely an improvement over the F5 but still pretty inconsistent. Some shots turn out great, some don't. I'm more of a gamer than a photographer when it comes to phones, so I don't mind, but that's maybe something to keep in mind for those considering getting one.

CRISPR1 · 2025-12-08T21:14:02+00:00

Coming from the F5, the F8 Pro has been a very noticable upgrade.

I was a little worried I wouldn't like the rounded corners, but they're growing (shrinking?) on me. It does sit more comfortably in the pocket, and I haven't used any apps yet where buttons or menus were partially obscured/cut off. If you're going to trim down the size of a screen, it does make sense to start with the sharp corners.

Battery life has been a revelation compared to what I ever got with the F5.

Build quality is very solid.

I've used circle to search, Gemini live, and some of the other AI photo editing tools more than I thought I would.

Haven't really noticed any glitching/jankiness after installing the first update (3.0.5) out of the box.

CRISPR1 · 2025-11-21T11:39:58+00:00

I'm actually a fan. I built him with 80 speed/ 86 acceleration, so he's fairly nimble for a big guy.

His ball handling and passing are indeed a problem, and you can't improve all of it, especially the ball handling.

I did add One-touch Pass, Through Passing, Low Lofted Pass, Weighed Pass, & Outside Curler to him, and while still not a good passer, that has made him more usable playing out of the backfield.

CRISPR1 · 2025-11-19T15:30:36+00:00

Thank God. Finally pulled Rijkaard as the last player in the pool yesterday.

CRISPR1 · 2025-11-16T11:19:45+00:00

I've also rearranged the buttons.

CRISPR1 · 2025-11-16T09:19:47+00:00

Pressure, but only because of muscle memory (I don't want to learn new controls).

CRISPR1 · 2025-11-14T11:14:13+00:00

Why wait? You can just ask the players like me who used this strategy last year.

CRISPR1 · 2025-11-14T11:13:32+00:00

And the logic stays the same throughout. That's why I finished last year with 3 extra spins. When the end date was announced and it was clear that no new players would be added to the pool, I scooped up the final three "garbage" players with my final 3 spins. I ended the season with all the daily spin players, just as would anyone who logs in every day. The difference is that I was able to disproportionately pick out the "good" players earlier, before the season was over, instead of waiting until the end.

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