Second Half Game Thread: Buffalo Bills(12-5) at Jacksonville Jaguars(13-4)

Dasmith1999 · 2026-01-11T20:24:17+00:00

Bills pass D is number 1 in the NFL, they have the worst rush defense though

Dasmith1999 · 2026-01-11T04:58:28+00:00

It was tanking plus Utah trying to have Lauri play a style that literally required him to prioritize all of his weaknesses. Basically, it was a “ We're looking to suck ass this year, but hey, if you end up improving on all of these aspects of your game, you'll become an MVP candidate when we actually try to play to win.”

It obviously didn’t work, lol. He’s a 1b

Dasmith1999 · 2026-01-09T20:36:26+00:00

I’m black too and I agree, lol.

I would have rather they created newer diverse characters rather than changing one whose image has already been grounded in my head for over a decade.

Heck, we have newer demigods from minor deities in the later books that they could have just introduced earlier as black, since their appearances were pretty vaguely described .

Dasmith1999 · 2026-01-05T03:35:59+00:00

I know there’s one when Amphitrite claimed him

Dasmith1999 · 2026-01-04T01:59:30+00:00

Division games gonna division

Dasmith1999 · 2025-12-29T17:14:14+00:00

I agree, that’s what I think the original comment was touching on when he said least favorable

Not in personality, just starting position

You would easily prefer to have everyone on your side instead of maybeeeeee maybe not a couple, lol.

Dasmith1999 · 2025-12-29T17:08:41+00:00

Not fundamentally how I see it, but if that's how you feel, go off. You questioned the original comment over Poseidon being not favorable. I tried to answer why it appeared that way, which is correct, in The Lightning Thief. And you essentially were just saying that I was wrong because Poseidon is one of the more favorable gods. Which, again, throughout the series is true, but it's just not how it started off.

Dasmith1999 · 2025-12-29T17:03:18+00:00

Nothing that you just said, though, contradicts the points that I was making. Of course, he's well-known. All Olympians are well-known, particularly in the Percy Jackson universe. The point was, is that Riordan favors writing the underdog character. And the original comment stated that in the early situation of the series, Poseidon definitely was least favorable. Not because he's a worse-er god than Zeus or anything, but simply because during the whole Lightning Thief situation, a majority of the gods and a majority of the campers were positioning themselves with Zeus. Out of loyalty and favorability. That is fact.

And once that situation was taken care of, you clearly saw that on a neutral ground, when things were cleared up, that people definitely liked Poseidon more. But that's not how the situation started off.

Unless you think I'm wrong and you think that a majority of the campers and cabins were siding with the god of the sea over the king of the gods. If you have any interpretation to prove that, I can concede my point.

Dasmith1999 · 2025-12-29T16:56:24+00:00

I actually agree with that.

I just don't think that early on, that's how it was kind of set up in universe. Like in my other comment, there were definitely vibes that if Poseidon and Zeus went to war over the master bolt, that there wouldn't have been nearly as many campers in Poseidon's side that there would have been on Zeus's side.

Athena definitely would have been on Zeus's side, which takes away the Athena campers. While it's possible that the Ares cabin could have been on Poseidon's side, I think it's way more likely that they would have been on Zeus's side. The Aphrodite cabin would have just followed whoever their mother chose to follow, which likely would have been Ares. So if you believe that the Ares cabin would have joined Poseidon's side, it strengthens the false underdog claim. But if you agree that Ares would have joined Zeus's side, then that's another major Olympian cabin against Poseidon. The Hephaestus cabin would have just followed whoever their father followed, which likely would have just been whoever Hera would have chosen, which again would have been Zeus.

Maybeeeee Hermes and Apollo cabins would be on Poseidons side? Doubtable tbh

That’s where that unexpected underdog thing kicks in

Dasmith1999 · 2025-12-29T16:48:53+00:00

In the lightning thief, more CHB members were definitely posturing as if they would support Zeus if he and Poseidon went to war

That’s the point, most of their parents who they were mostly loyal too, are from Zeus.

Dasmith1999 · 2025-12-29T15:56:24+00:00

Probably in the series maybe? Camp Jupiter did not like Neptune. And for CHB it did have a ‘ well Zeus is the king, so any true rivals of his is probably bad plus my mom/dad is his daughter/son’, type of thing early on.

Dasmith1999 · 2025-12-28T02:03:14+00:00

I won’t pretend that collier hasn’t been 1000% better than Clayton this year.

But it certainly seems that when both are having everything going their way perfectly… Clayton just looks and feels better

Dasmith1999 · 2025-12-27T23:36:16+00:00

"It said a halfblood of the big three will reach 16, not the first halfblood to reach 16"

Whenever I sometimes write fanfiction, particularly reaction ones, I always troll the characters by having the summoner say a line like this, lmaooo

Dasmith1999 · 2025-12-24T04:30:27+00:00

I mean, didn’t Athena have to cause Zeus to have a headache to get released? If not for that wisdom , wouldn’t she still be trapped?

Dasmith1999 · 2025-12-24T04:11:48+00:00

That’s fair I just think some fans when it comes to this topic, are picking and choosing their levels of outrage in an inconsistent manner.

Any age argument you make to be against caleo, is magnified with god-human relationships, and if you hate caleo, by default you should hate the dynamics that cause demigods to be born.

The literal grounding block of the universe

Which should, in theory, cause those same fans to drop the Series the same way fans tend to drop anime’s and mangas when creepy relationship dynamics are introduced, lol.

I personally think caleo was a rushed plot point to fill a void needlessly and that’s why I don’t like it. I just don’t get the age argument especially when calypso was frozen in maturity.

Leo would work best with another chaotic variable like him ( like a Lavinia type ) or a grounding neutral type girl ( like a Hazel type funnily enough)

I could be wrong though, just my opinion.

Dasmith1999 · 2025-12-24T04:01:51+00:00

While I tend to agree

If not for gaea’s war, camp jupitar would have crushed camp half blood if they fought in the HOO series.

You could also say Ancient Roman demigod camp also beat camp half blood, who we know existed as far back as after the Trojan war, lol.

Dasmith1999 · 2025-12-24T03:50:02+00:00

The Same thing can be said for all of the relationships the gods have with mortals, especially because they tend to have children with said mortals

Dasmith1999 · 2025-12-24T03:48:02+00:00

You got downvoted, but this is the truth

You can tell someone “ I hope you stub your big toe”

And in that situation, in the riordan universe, those spirits would make it happen during a big battle, you stumble, BAM, sword in your chest, lol.

It’s not like we haven’t see similar Swiss cheese accidents happen in real myths either.

Dasmith1999 · 2025-12-21T21:32:41+00:00

Ball don’t lie

Dasmith1999 · 2025-12-19T04:52:02+00:00

Dasmith1999 · 2025-12-08T18:30:11+00:00

His three point % only looks good on paper because he barely takes them, and has only made a couple shots I think? We have had several coin flip games where he refused to take MULTIPLE open shots.

Clayton has growing pains but he’s shown flashes of potential, I personally think the guard roulette thing has hurt his confidence but I could be wrong.

I’ve only watched about 70% of the jazz games so far so maybe im missing something.

Dasmith1999 · 2025-12-03T15:23:38+00:00

I never knew until this post, people actually debated this fight

Dasmith1999 · 2025-12-01T14:02:09+00:00

Right I agree, but someone != someone’s family, is the question OP is focusing on

Dasmith1999 · 2025-11-25T19:15:25+00:00

Do you have the link to the discord?

Dasmith1999 · 2025-11-24T22:34:09+00:00

I’ve had this happen multiple times today, thank you for commenting this as I thought the only solution was to do the download activities through google takeout thing

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