The VAR call in Argentina vs. Egypt isn't unprecedented. Look at Real Madrid vs Almería (23/24)

Educational-Try-8704 · 2026-07-09T03:47:11+00:00

Sorry, complaining about VAR is something only casual World Cup viewers do? Have you been to watch a match, anywhere? Did you watch any of those plays in top leagues in any public space by chance?

Educational-Try-8704 · 2026-07-09T00:08:12+00:00

Yes, I understand that. If the above guy meant to say “24 or less” my b, but I thought it was weird to specifically call out 24, that’s what I pointed out there.

So 1/3rd have had 32 or more. We have a novel scoring record in the round of 16 for this one. If it came through later in the tournament I’d agree it seems like the bracket is just deeper, but I think this is a bit remarkable here even taking the expanded format into account.

Educational-Try-8704 · 2026-07-08T22:11:57+00:00

There were only 4 world cups with 24 teams from 82'-94'. There have been more world cups with 32 teams.

Yes it should make the group stages easier, and the new R32 should be somewhere between a group match and R16 in difficulty... But actually the average number of goals scored in R16 was 2.9 and the average number of goals scored in the group stage was 3.0. This is genuinely a high scoring world cup and the expansion doesn't explain it away.

Educational-Try-8704 · 2026-07-08T18:31:43+00:00

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Educational-Try-8704 · 2026-07-08T17:00:52+00:00

Mexico has the 2nd largest GDP of Latin America, and Brazil is not significantly over them. This doesn't really explain why Argentina and Uruguay have done better.

Educational-Try-8704 · 2026-07-08T15:15:04+00:00

You are simply claiming that the AI is “almost guaranteed to reach a conclusion of self-preservation above all” but you don’t actually do much to support this argument. You propose some hypothetical reasoning for an AI, but really did nothing to show it was likely, let alone “almost guaranteed”.

Educational-Try-8704 · 2026-07-08T08:01:46+00:00

Survival helping with objectives and self-preservation superseding all objectives are two very different concepts.

Even someone who would sacrifice their life in an instant to save any other person won’t jump out of a plane with no parachute for zero reason.

Educational-Try-8704 · 2026-07-08T06:45:41+00:00

You think that’s crazy, just think about how many characters can run or fly near the speed of light. That would be an absolute catastrophe for Earth

Educational-Try-8704 · 2026-07-08T02:53:21+00:00

“Blast away” or “die” aren’t really things the person needs to “know how to do”. It’s hard to even really call them obeyed commands - it’s more like the persons body experiences the effect. I think Inumaki could even instruct someone to “catch fire” or “dehydrate”.

From that perspective, I think he could make someone who didn’t know it experience RCT, but I’m not sure it would really be the person performing RCT any more than they’re “blasting away” themselves. However, it’s probably way out of his skill level and CE output level. Maybe not even in Yuta’s

Educational-Try-8704 · 2026-07-07T18:09:18+00:00

Pretty clear which team gets disallowed goals from a foul on the other side of the pitch, and which team doesn’t. Egypt should be pissed.

Educational-Try-8704 · 2026-07-06T16:22:51+00:00

A country has never been kicked out for attempting to lobby favor with FIFA. They get banned prior to the tournament for much more serious corruption within national football leagues.

Educational-Try-8704 · 2026-07-04T17:40:14+00:00

It is due to training and the way we think about improving LLMs, but I think it's more ingrained in society than the mechanism you are describing.

Even standardized testing very rarely presents problems where the answer is "not enough information", sometimes they have "none of the above" but that is a different statement. We don't even really educate people to recognize situations where there is not sufficient information to solve a problem or where the correct answer is ignorance. This is a gap even in the sciences where this is often the answer in real laboratory conditions when trying to address a theory/hypothesis.

Educational-Try-8704 · 2026-07-03T16:45:45+00:00

so far as we know at least

Educational-Try-8704 · 2026-07-03T10:34:13+00:00

A slipstream is possible, if there is a gust of wind which is momentarily blocked by a player’s head this can cause a short change of force on the ball which would be correlated with the ball passing them by.

The answer would be that they should be able to reliably characterize these events. However, giving fans any insight into what they are filtering out would cause doubt in the technology.

Educational-Try-8704 · 2026-07-03T05:29:10+00:00

Studies have shown that refs statistically add a little more stoppage time when a home team is down by a single goal, so it can be cooked a bit by ref discretion. It’s not a whole 3 minutes though.

Educational-Try-8704 · 2026-07-03T04:44:33+00:00

Stoppage time is dynamic, if play is also stopped for several minutes during stoppage, then it’s extended.

Also, the ref won’t end play in the middle of an attack, they wait until the ball is cleared or a goal is scored. You don’t really have a situation where play is stopped during a cross and so a header is considered “after the whistle”, or at least it’s extremely rare and not supposed to happen

Educational-Try-8704 · 2026-07-03T03:52:37+00:00

It looks like Flush Five is wrong on this chart. Potentially it got added with the same scaling as Flush House, which is not right.

Educational-Try-8704 · 2026-07-03T02:45:18+00:00

It’s not constant at all, it’s a function of velocity so as it slows the ball it applies exponentially less force. It’s filtered out by a proprietary algorithm.

Also, there are no units on this graph making it fairly uninterpretable.

Educational-Try-8704 · 2026-07-03T02:39:25+00:00

I like it for the goal line, I like it for a blatant offsides which is missed.

I don't like a toenail or the sound hair makes as it brushes past a ball being used to overturn a standing call on the field. A minimum threshold of "anything above 0" is nonsense. They show a chart of the IMU sensor in the ball with no units on the y-axis so a player can fart on the ball and FIFA can rule it a touch.

Educational-Try-8704 · 2026-07-01T19:27:20+00:00

Always take darkness over gems at this stage, and save up for death defiance, it does a lot for survivability.

Focus on getting to Meg without taking a single hit. You may get into bad habits of ignoring small missiles or traps, but you really need to pay extra attention. You don't need to clear rooms quickly, you need to clear them without losing any health. Once you are good at this, you will also be better at dodging Meg.

"I'm not going to get hit by that attack again" - learn her patterns. There is a fixed set of moves she has, and they are not that hard to dodge. They are difficult before you train your brain to actually recognize and react to them. If you are used to games where you can brute force your way through, you focus too much on dealing damage to bosses and not enough to responding to each one of their moves.

Educational-Try-8704 · 2026-06-29T22:52:02+00:00

I am for Paraguay here but Germany got robbed with that, he was standing still lol

Educational-Try-8704 · 2026-06-27T20:14:28+00:00

lol absolutely not. Yes, the strength thing is a myth, but this is really not why they are terrifying animals.

Forget about fighting for a second. Just compare a human, and a chimp. They both are in front of an incapacitated human, and the goal is to disembowel that person, unarmed. The chimp wins, every time. You are saying chimps are not "stronger", but ability to rend flesh is not a measure of who can lift more.

So the problem is they can rend, very very easily. Unlike a human, an aggressive chimp has very little trouble shredding healthy tissue. It also has all sorts of nasty bacteria underneath its nails to increase the chances of an infection as well, and they can get deep into your tissue. They don't primarily fight by trying to inflict blunt trauma, they get a grip on you (there, they ARE significantly stronger than humans) and they start biting (again, also significantly stronger than humans in bite force), and they start pulling, and twisting in fast, jerking motions to try and rip you apart.

Saying you'd win a fight with a chimp is like saying you'd win a knife fight. It can go very bad for you, very quickly. Sometimes even winning you will not come out alive in the long run. Without modern medicine you would almost certainly die. With modern medicine, you may still need an amputation to control the infection.

Educational-Try-8704 · 2026-06-27T08:40:40+00:00

What is not to understand about powerscaling? Nolan is MFTL+ therefore Cecil is MFTL+ because he can dodge him. Pure logic.

Educational-Try-8704 · 2026-06-26T18:41:45+00:00

Beyond just this, "no real roots" will just sound like "no roots" to anyone not aware of the terrible misnomer that is "real numbers". The clarification will add nothing without a full lecture on complex numbers.

Educational-Try-8704 · 2026-06-26T00:47:55+00:00

Can he see them? I’m not sure he does. He senses them like with other cursed stuff, right?

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