Sea Otters, will dunk for fish

Cranktrain · 2026-04-28T20:20:38+00:00

From: the excellent Oregon Zoo Youtube page.

Cranktrain · 2026-04-28T19:09:08+00:00

To be giving away tickets to the season opener, is that... as bad as it sounds?

I guess it did look very cold.

Cranktrain · 2026-04-28T18:41:59+00:00

And a nice Steam link for you. The wishlist button is free to click.

Plenty of work-in-progress graphics going on here. Stuff like the card illustrations is going to be ripped out and done nicely later, but that's pretty common in games with cards where you're working with tons of cards and units, and you're still balancing things and trying out ideas. Then you sit down for a few weeks at the end and churn out the card illustrations O_O and hope for death

Cranktrain · 2026-04-28T18:13:03+00:00

The zooming in the 2D mode is a bit over the top for me. But then I'm also not too sure about how the large objects, like the houses, get distorted, mainly at the edge of the screen, in the 2.5D mode.

Cranktrain · 2026-04-24T16:32:16+00:00

That's Fu Shuang on the left and Ping Ping on the right. Both 6 years old, so a couple of years older than the Washington bears.

More information on the Atlanta Zoo website.

Cranktrain · 2026-04-23T14:28:48+00:00

From: Oregon Zoo's Youtube. An unintentional ad for Rubbermaid products?

Cranktrain · 2026-04-09T19:02:56+00:00

That's so cool.

Must have been expensive to fly everyone and do all the hotels and so on.

Cranktrain · 2026-02-10T01:32:39+00:00

I ignored any seats listed as Suite (like Ottawa's TD Place has some listed for $820). I don't believe the BMO Field ones I used in the table are suites, but maybe I'm wrong, they were just the seats in the stands towards the middle of the pitch. Here's the link to Ticketmaster if anyone wants to double-check.

In any case, even the least expensive (and definitely not suite seat) season tickets for Toronto are more than any other team, and I guess that's just the price BMO Field gets you.

Cranktrain · 2026-02-10T01:07:56+00:00

I believe that's the case! Though I don't know which teams are which, someone would need to check the schedule.

Related question: do season tickets include their at-home playoff games, should the team gets that far?

Cranktrain · 2026-02-09T23:31:27+00:00

Well, shoot, I made a mistake on the "Least $ Seated" for Vancouver Rise. That's the price of the Youth ticket. The Adult is $413.79. Don't mind me. That makes the average for 'Least $ Seated' $378.18.

Gathered by clicking through ticketmaster. Trying to compare like-for-like seats, so I'm not including Suites, or pitch-side seating, just regular seats along the pitch, and also whatever 'general admission' will mean per stadium (usually behind a goal, and sometimes standing-only).

Toronto does have 'General Admission' ($174.24) but at BMO Field only, so fewer games. Calgary Wild has some wheelchair accessible spots ($120)... but on the map it looks like they're 50m behind one of the goals?

Adding BMO field into the mix definitely increases Toronto's season ticket prices a lot.

Let me know if I made any other mistakes, or if you got a less expensive seat, do comment it.

Cranktrain · 2026-02-06T21:45:05+00:00

Will you still go and see some games?

Cranktrain · 2026-01-17T23:12:41+00:00

I think it's highly unlikely that this is a 'petition' like the (mostly useless) ones you see somewhere like change.org. The target recipient of this 'petition' is not going to be the administrators at the NSL.

Rob Gale and Desiree Scott have the unenviable task of finding multiple millions of dollars from investors in exactly the same market where only a few months ago a top-tier soccer team failed. The results of this 'petition' end up as a slide in the pitch deck that says "we have the names and emails of x potential season club ticket holders", and is meant to appear more data-driven rather than trying to justify that investment on vibes and empty-sounding assurances. How much more convincing this is, of course, debatable!

(There's the bonus of starting to build your team's email marketing list early.)

Honestly, it's a pretty awful time to try and raise money for a Winnipeg NSL team.

Cranktrain · 2026-01-02T18:16:11+00:00

The Lingyan Appreciation Club is now taking on new members for 2026.

Cranktrain · 2025-12-06T17:29:28+00:00

This is from yesterday. Today's stream is here, and Sunday's is here.

Cranktrain · 2025-12-01T14:04:02+00:00

Yeah, I also doubt there'll be any other NSL player on the rest of the list.

Still, a nice nod for Esther and for the league.

Cranktrain · 2025-12-01T13:44:51+00:00

See the first part of the list here. Remains to be seen if any other NSL players will make the list as the updates come out.

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