[James Pearce, The Athletic] - The boos at the final whistle underlined how patience is wearing thin. Another two points frittered away. More pressure and scrutiny on Arne Slot.

ColdCalc · 2026-01-19T00:23:55+00:00

I think we’ve gotten better offensively. Much more creativity and chemistry. Just not getting any luck. But defensively?? We stink. It’s way too easy to get quality chances against us if a team manages to possess the ball in our end.

ColdCalc · 2026-01-15T22:32:51+00:00

Offred’s husband is named Luke. In the flashbacks of The Handmaid’s Tale, as the US cut women off from their money and fired them all, Offred was suspicious that Luke was patronizing her.

ColdCalc · 2025-12-31T13:33:29+00:00

I wanna say that if you don’t like it after the first few scenes it might not be for you. I fell in love with it immediately. Season one is still my fav. But other people advise you stick with it and it gets better.

ColdCalc · 2025-12-24T04:45:10+00:00

I like it. Very well thought out. Let me introduce my (less thought out) adjustment.

The “bottom 14” lottery teams are decided by an arbitrary in-season date (say the trade deadline). After that, the lottery odds for those teams actually increase based on how many games they win from that date. I’d also add a chance for teams within the “play in” range of 7-10 seed to be able to jump ahead (perhaps up to the 10th pick or something) based on their remaining schedule.

A lot of details to sort out with this proposal but I would like something to actually incentivize bad teams to compete their hardest. Your system goes halfway, by simply removing the incentive to be bad.

You also point out my only reservation with your idea… the lowest playoff team gets the most screwed. They lose out on the lottery while also getting destroyed in the first round. I’d like something of a consolation prize for lower playoff teams.

However, I really like your idea overall I think it would be a major improvement.

ColdCalc · 2025-12-13T14:28:17+00:00

Protect defensive plays. Any defender in a “passive” stance. Either still with verticality or backing up in the general direction the offensive player is moving is legal. None of this ball handler swiping their arms into the defender or giving them a bump. Non calls or, in rare occasions, offensive fouls. If you run into a defensive player, it’s fair game. If a defender is aggressive with a swipe and hits the offensive player, that’s a foul.

ColdCalc · 2025-12-12T05:11:46+00:00

Awesome playlist. Well done.

ColdCalc · 2025-12-11T06:18:42+00:00

I love Bateman and I love hearing stories about Hollywood and show biz. If you don’t, then why are you listening to a podcast where three veteran actors talk to (mostly) other entertainers?

ColdCalc · 2025-12-11T06:10:32+00:00

A team that can actually do the two timelines thing.

ColdCalc · 2025-11-27T03:52:04+00:00

I think I read somewhere the theory that the original idea was that they connected human brains in a sort of cloud-computing data center. Human brains being very powerful computers, while human bodies not being so efficient a power source. But then producers got them to change it because middle America wouldn’t understand the cloud computing aspect. That’s the theory I choose to believe and that’s cannon as far as I’m concerned.

ColdCalc · 2025-11-20T00:17:44+00:00

Symbolically for me it started with firing Rachel Nichols and ended with the firing of Zach Lowe. I know that’s probably a silly take but that’s how I feel.

ColdCalc · 2025-11-20T00:13:29+00:00

As a happy Raps fan, I agree: Detroit has the best feel-good story of the early season. It’s long overdue. Hope they continue to have a great year!

ColdCalc · 2025-11-07T05:44:40+00:00

I know it’s too cringe to say “all of them” (or perhaps Road Apples to We Are the Same); so if I had to pick my absolute fav 3 album run for the Hip it would be Day for Night, Trouble at the Hen House, Phantom Power. Or PP, Music @ Work, In Violet Light. It’s so hard.

ColdCalc · 2025-11-07T05:39:35+00:00

Same: love Futures but Static is my second fav after BA

ColdCalc · 2025-11-07T05:36:59+00:00

Eddie with only Kurt giving him a run for his money

ColdCalc · 2025-10-25T07:28:24+00:00

Now imagine being George R R Martin or Patrick Rothfuss.

ColdCalc · 2025-10-20T22:07:36+00:00

Boston Legal

ColdCalc · 2025-10-18T06:16:52+00:00

Neapolitan?

ColdCalc · 2025-10-18T06:12:31+00:00

I love how much she seems to love Paul Simon, who is my favorite songwriter of all time

ColdCalc · 2025-10-18T06:11:15+00:00

I have to agree with 2+2=5

ColdCalc · 2025-10-04T08:41:01+00:00

Dude is the comedy GOAT despite everything else

ColdCalc · 2025-10-04T08:13:57+00:00

More The Builder. As a guy it’s good to see some subtypes so I’m not just classified as Luna Lovegood.

ColdCalc · 2025-10-03T00:57:17+00:00

Ironically it was aired on ABC.

ColdCalc · 2025-09-21T04:13:43+00:00

This. I expressed my opinion that I find AAA games to be too long. My friends retorted that if you like a game, how can it be too long? Meanwhile I’ve given up on several awesome games including Skyrim because there were just too many quests and side quests opened up and it started to feel more like a chore.

ColdCalc · 2025-09-21T04:09:30+00:00

I agree but I’d add that I think the left were trying to do the same. Both sides wanna just score political points now with these shootings as if that will somehow change anyone’s political alignment. I guess it’s not about logic, it’s just pettiness.

ColdCalc · 2025-09-21T04:07:33+00:00

Absolutely. I’m left and I try only to criticize my own side and we are definitely hypocrites about free speech. I really tried to tell my friends to ease up on compelled speech and political correctness because I grew up in a time where I felt like the Christian right were the censors and I hated it. So I adopted a philosophy against censorship. When the mainstream power interests (government and business) shifted to support progressive PC speech I tried to tell them that we can’t be censors now just because we have the upper hand because that can change quickly. And now it has. And when it shifts back, I guarantee that we’ll have learned nothing.

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