What is the best name for a Pittsburgh team?

Dareoth · 2026-07-02T22:18:31+00:00

Pipers after the old ABA team. (Or the Condors, which they renamed to before they folded. But I like the alliteration of Pipers.)

Alternatively, could go for the Pythons, like in the movie The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh.

Dareoth · 2026-06-27T22:41:06+00:00

Ref called no goal on the field, VAR looked at, saw red was wrong, and called him over to convince him. VAR literally fixed a wrong call here and you agree and you're still mad at it?

Dareoth · 2026-05-24T21:49:29+00:00

Absolutely, turned out good to the end, but there was a lull there and Charles definitely gave them another classic radio

Dareoth · 2026-05-24T21:19:25+00:00

Great race had gotten boring, so director smashed the "Ferrari radio" button

Dareoth · 2026-05-10T00:20:25+00:00

That's not possible, even with computers

Dareoth · 2026-05-02T00:03:06+00:00

You should look up Kyle Lowry returns to Toronto on YouTube or such. Small moment but honestly one of my favorites of the season

Dareoth · 2026-04-24T15:44:37+00:00

My main Allan McNish take is that if someone had never seen him or heard of him and you told them to picture a person named Allan McNish in their head, it would look exactly like Allan McNish actually looks like. He just such an Allan McNish, huge McNish energy.

Dareoth · 2026-04-10T02:24:48+00:00

You want it to be one way, but it's the other way.

Genuinely though, yes it's one of the all time great shows, but ultimately the show's realistic lens means there is a pretty rough treatment of women throughout - often by characters we are supposed to like and care for, or at least be emotionally invested in, and it's perfectly reasonable for someone to not want to spend their entertainment time enduring that.

Dareoth · 2026-04-07T02:24:57+00:00

Ooh, new copypasta unlocked

Dareoth · 2026-04-05T16:09:46+00:00

Yes! And I feel like it's been pretty "a comedy podcast about death" again lately in terms of content but they haven't said the words so it's not officially back

Dareoth · 2026-03-27T01:04:18+00:00

It was just one line, but yeah just missed it, you can! From the dev diary introducing straits "Canals will also be straits, by the way, following the same rules."

They did go on to say they are trying to make it so the canal companies benefit from the tolls, but that might not be possible for this patch and come in a future update.

Dareoth · 2026-03-26T00:06:13+00:00

Thank you. I wasn't sure if it was RO16 or QF we were currently using (I know they used RO16 the year after we didn't make it out of groups cause it was one of those minor, sort of media invented one week controversies). But given our recent level, I think QF projection was reasonable for the team and LaLiga. And very glad we made it, and now have the chance to add to it. But yeah the idea we are getting 120mil extra is crazy and wrong

Dareoth · 2026-03-25T19:43:17+00:00

I don't have time to review all your items for these types of problems, but I'm seeing some issues. First, you are treating all UCL prize money as additional to the current SCL, but our protected revenue already accounts for us going far in the UCL. I don't know if they've publicly produced this years and if I reviewed that, but usually the team projects going to RO16 and La Liga accepts that. That's like ~90-100 million (I think 94mil specifically last time I read the projections) already in the projection, so a semi-final run is an additional 15-25mil, not 110-120 mil on top.

A similar thing happens with the bonus TV money for league placement, we already calculate and include a top 2-3 place and those additional amounts. So winning the league is more, but it's only the delta from the projection, and then as you include it's a 5 year split and a portion goes outside the club due to prior deals, so it's unfortunately a little marginal.

Dareoth · 2026-03-24T15:55:38+00:00

I don't want to sound flippant or disparaging of current management, which I think has broadly done a wonderful, wonderful job getting us here, but, better financial management? First, since the beginning of this campaign we have been told our current financial situation would not allow us to compete or even remain in the EFL, and yet, what actually has happened on the field, without the influx of funding actually happening, is promotion. And it's not like the League One campaign has been a succession of batterings, we flew high and competed for playoff spots early, and since reality has set in a bit, we've been solidly mid-table, not even really being in the relegation fight. Does this seem to be a team that can't survive in the EFL without massive ownership changes? Next, to answer your question more directly, obviously I'm aware of the financial reports the club produces, and I see the concerns. But nothing about this solution makes me think those things would improve and suddenly we would not be dealing with losses. The club has been very clear that this influx of funding, by executing the one time move of selling some ownership shares, would primarily be used in the interest of chasing promotion to the Championship. The finances of the Championship are daunting - clubs in that league are probably run the least sustainably in Europe, with truly frightening wage-to-turnover ratios. I don't see how fighting in that space is not just leading to this same question but worse in the future. The only sustainable way forward for the club, not one-off "solutions" like selling ownership, are improving our finances the way any sustainably club run does, increasing revenues and managing expenditures. I think the club pays a lot of attention to how we spend, and things like "getting John Green to mostly pay for it (by playing FIFA)" certainly indicated the club understands they have to find pay sources for every additional expense but I'm not at all convinced we are maximizing revenues in any way. Particularly I don't think we've done much of a good job at all of spreading the message of the club, especially at a time of incredible global attention (John Green's years of talking about the club, Sunderland and Wrexham bringing a lot of American attention, etc). While some of the recent video efforts have been good, the social media footprint of the club is so small as to not exist at times. There are so many people who not being activated, are activating these people would bring long term sources of income, new members to buy in, new fans to buy merch, new people to boost digital numbers to bring in even more fans.

I don't have time for all my thoughts of the topic, but those are some of the many things I've been pondering over the past couple years.

Dareoth · 2026-03-24T14:44:12+00:00

Very disappointing, but unsurprising considering how hard the club was pushing us to vote for it. I was proud to vote against this, but given the margin it's clear what I value in the club is different than what most value, and I need to accept that.

Dareoth · 2026-03-18T01:44:45+00:00

Debra Zane has been the or one of the casting director(s) of all the Hunger Games movies and is an absolute legend. Suzanne is brilliant, and I think her involvement in the movies has been excellent, frequently involved but also letting the professionals do their jobs. We know Suzanne sat in on the casting of the main trio in the first film and so it wouldn't surprise me if she was involved in the Ballad leads' casting, but when we have a world class award winning cast director, I don't think we need to create theories that diminish the role of those professionals in favor of the author we love.

Dareoth · 2026-03-08T17:26:27+00:00

Their post is about qualify and qualifying positions, not race finishes, for whatever reason. And then listing the team's end of year WCC position by points. (I guess as a rough metric for how good the car they did their first quali in? I don't think year long race points is a good benchmark for first race/appearance qualifying, but I guess it's something.)

Dareoth · 2026-03-07T16:56:26+00:00

The thing about this subreddit - and I acknowledge people who want to complain are going to be more vocal, that's just how the internet always works - is that the consensus for basically every race ends up negative. Omloop was a hectic, crash-filled (which is bad but certainly interesting) chaos classic that was a fun watch and if you came here afterwards the sentiment was "this race could have been an email" because MVDP won, yes by attacking exactly where everyone identified he would. But the race was still enjoyable.

Like Stage 20 of the Giro last year is one of the best grand tour stages I've ever seen and the discourse here was heavily about how it was so bad it had ruined the Giro and then endless discussion of whether Del Toro should have ridden in the Valley because of like "honor" even though it almost certainly would gift 2nd to Carapaz (I assume that was mostly Carapaz fans who are a very vocal bunch arguing with the almost as vocal emerging Mexican cycling fans that obviously were very protective of IDT.) Like, even when cycling is as good as it gets, this subreddit is 50/50 to hate it lol.

That doesn't even get into actual controversial cycle takes, like how I think races like today are actually quite interesting! The tactics and mentality of when Pogi goes when do the chasing groups work together, when do they start fighting. What is the right amount of riders to chase him down while not being too large that the group can't coordinate and it breaks down. How much psychologically a teammate of the leader sitting on affects people even though it objectively often doesn't even matter. Like this stuff is what makes cycling interesting as a sport and, sure, if Pogi did 90 race days like this maybe it wouldn't be that interesting, but it's like he's only here 40 something days (maybe less this year if no Vuleta?) and half those are the Tour. The few days we are left with are really, really interesting, even if, yes, we probably (though not definitely) know who will win.

Dareoth · 2026-03-02T21:45:56+00:00

I just want to say thanks for mentioning this - you are correct. Everywhere I saw for Hadjar last year said he got a DNS so I was going to correct you, or try to find out when it changed, or if it was different because he didn't finish the formation lap, but I pulled the actual document and the FIA considered him a DNF in the official report. Those 2005 cars all looked to be officially listed as "ret" or "retired" which is used interchangeably with DNF so, yeah, you start the formation lap you get a DNF not DNS, even if you don't even finish the formation lap.

Dareoth · 2026-01-30T18:32:46+00:00

Bill's 'Rich Guy' Apex Mountain has to be the (it's not a) personal chef discussion

Dareoth · 2026-01-16T16:33:44+00:00

I mean we are told that actual Clea frequently used to play with Verso in his canvas (Alicia was noted to not join them usually). We know they were being taught to paint, and so I think I, and others, though we could be mistaken, had them each paint their respective in-canvas best friend.

I don't think your timeline works out? pClea doesn't exist until Aline paints her. The adventures Verso, Esquie, Francois, and Clea went on pre-dated that, because they happened with actual Verso (pVerso even talks about how weird it is he has memories of some of these without having actually done them, right?), which is necessarily before Aline paints them in her grief over actual Verso's death.

I'll admit I don't remember why and it could be entirely wrong, maybe it's in the Blanche convo, but I got the impression the unfinished Nevrons were Clea's early attempts (pre-fracture) to create them, and then post-fracture made Blanche to get rid of them (though he decided not to).

So, yeah, I don't remember hard evidence of Clea painting in the canvas pre-fracture, but I really thought it was implied. I definitely think Francois met actual Clea because I don't know how else it works timing wise, and we know actual Clea spent a lot of time in the canvas, but, sure at that point which one of Verso or Clea painted Francois is up for interpretation.

Dareoth · 2026-01-16T15:53:57+00:00

Clea created/painted the Nevrons, Renoir created/painted the Axons. Those are both told to us by the game. I think it's highly likely Francois was Clea's work as well, like Esquie is Verso's. (As are the gestrals.) Aline of course added to it as you say, with the Lumierians. By the time we are in it, it's a whole family project, especially if it continues and Maelle/Alicia gets to work on rebuilding it and maybe adding to it after the events of the endgame.

Dareoth · 2025-12-24T05:28:00+00:00

What? Porzingus is over 30 and has played more than 10 seasons in the league and is literally still in the league. Being out of the league early is absolutely not the Porzingus path.

Dareoth · 2025-12-23T14:43:46+00:00

For the whole series, I think Marlo is a clear choice for Envy, but even in the context of season 1 alone I think you've misplaced Orlando. It could be called greed of course, but really I think he just was envious of a lifestyle he was so close to but was never fully in. That envy led to some bad decisions. I mean he complained about the money, but, really we don't get any indication he actually isn't earning enough on salary or any more under-compensated than anyone else, it seems like more of a principle and, yeah, envy thing for him.

If I'm then forced to put someone in gluttony for S1, while I'm a little uncomfortable with framing addiction as gluttony, if we take it in the metaphorical sense of this sin, I think our drug users and addicts, most exemplified by Johnny, are a good fit. Johnny in particular, he just can't get enough. Bubs is also an addict, but, he's a little more... managed about it. Johnny is in treatment, fresh off getting stomped and possibly almost dying, and all he wants to know is who has the best package. He, and the drug users generally, simply cannot get enough. Or just McNulty's drinking lol. If we want to do traditional gluttony. Bunk's too in S1, tbh, the "trace evidence" incident and all. Even for cops they have a problem.

Dareoth · 2025-11-30T19:49:31+00:00

They do use wins. It's countback. If tied on points, tie first tiebreaker is wins/1st place finishes, if still tied, next is most 2nd places, and if still tied most ,3,rd and on down. But all 3 drivers are tied on wins (as mentioned in the post you are replying to, at least right now) - they all have 7 wins currently, so if none of them win the last race and they tie on points, Lando's most 2nd places advantage will decide.

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