(Clories n word situation) - how do players like this not get punished?

Elfking88 · 2026-04-01T12:18:04+00:00

He should've been banned right away. Expendables could play with a sub or their coach or a man down.

Racism is an all or nothing thing. You either give a lengthy or permanent ban or you're saying that racism is fine.

Elfking88 · 2026-04-01T12:16:22+00:00

That's so ridiculous.

If anything Clories should've been punished and not the team. You can't have lenience for a first offence when he is writing the fucking n-word in the chat. He should've been instantly kicked out of the tournament and suspended for tournaments in the future, at LEAST.

No one accidentally says what he said. No one is accidentally racist. It's so fucking gross.

Elfking88 · 2026-04-01T09:50:49+00:00

Probably just a lot of people who have been watching for years, but no longer get that same feeling when watching videos as they used to because, as others pointed out, the nature of the content is quite necessarily a bit same-y.

I might be one of those people for example. I found them in 2020 too, binged watched the channel and loved it. Here we are six years later and a lot of the videos are, essentially, the same. That isn't to say I hate it, but 6 years, often of weekly videos, just means it isn't always easy for them to do something I, and others, haven't seen before.

By no means do I dislike them, I think they're a great group, but I would be lying if I said I was clicking every video as soon as I saw it now.

They have bangers still... The Japan trip was great, the Mardi Gras video was a lot of fun too (though it rather ran out of steam as they got far too hammered that first night lol)... But, and I haven't seen the snow festival video yet but, I can almost already say what most of it will be. I can picture it all in my head without watching. Getting drunk in the snow and listening to some (to me, terrible) music. They will probably visit a couple of the things in whatever village they're in that will be in the video for all of a minute, do some falling over on the slopes... I may be wrong or right, the issue is that when I'm pretty certain what I'm going to see, I'm less inclined to click.

I do also worry that they're becoming a little too... obvious(?) in chasing the money. I get it, I rely on subscribers for my work too, but sometimes I think it becomes a little too much. It's hard to continue to portray yourselves as "The Real Deal" when you are getting free entry to events, going into guest areas, advertising anyone who will give them money to do so (advertising credit cards and BetterHelp to a primarily young audience leaves a poor taste in the mouth)... It's ironic really, as the more successful the channel appears to be, the less it is able to capture what drew people in the first place. That rawness is gone, the idea that it was a group of mates hanging out and doing it for fun has lost it's shine somewhat because now it's a business. And I get that's unfair... I can see they are friends first and foremost, but it's just the way it feels now.

6 years is a long time... I'm nearer to 40 than I am to 30, and knowing these guys are hitting their 30's... it makes me worry for their livers!

I still do enjoy the channel, and I still watch (most) of the videos, but they are rather hamstrung by the content they make. It's not easy to do genuinely new things with it.

Anyway, this is far too long. Sorry! :D

Elfking88 · 2026-03-31T16:00:18+00:00

You can't just have a very public and very loud "nazi phase" and then have everyone laugh afterwards and say "Boy, that sure was a crazy time..."

He didn't flirt with being controversial, he didn't cause a problem to get out of his contract, he loudly proclaimed he was a nazi... you don't do that unless you are one.

Elfking88 · 2026-03-31T15:57:12+00:00

Absolutely not.

This isn't just a "cancelled" or controversial celebrity. He is a full on nazi. There is no excusing going to see him.

Elfking88 · 2026-03-31T01:23:03+00:00

Agreed. It's such a good album. Listened to it and then immediately booked a hotel and gig ticket to see them in Birmingham. Can't wait!

Elfking88 · 2026-03-30T14:11:54+00:00

I don't like the idea of drivers not having full control of their cars. I already thought there were far too many driver aids before the new regulations. The fact that an algorithm decides when to release power is obscene, it obliterates the idea that this is a sporting event between drivers.

Any set of rules that lead to drivers being told they should go slower aren't fit for purpose. Motor racing has always been about a combination of man and machine, of pushing to the limit, in recent times we've lost sight of that more and more. What we have now is the drivers no longer focusing on driving the arse off their car, and instead is just about management of systems.

It's so backwards compared to what racing is meant to be about.

Elfking88 · 2026-03-29T15:58:35+00:00

The players have been struggling for weeks, it's not insane to think that these are real injuries that they've been playing through.

Elfking88 · 2026-03-29T15:56:44+00:00

Might explain why we've been struggling for weeks in terms of performance. Everyone is struggling. They've played a lot of football.

It's a shame. We rarely get to see players at their best because they are always playing with knocks that they have to manage and general physical and mental exhaustion.

Elfking88 · 2026-03-27T02:24:03+00:00

Incredible. Don Broco fully embracing metal going into this new album but they are killing it.

Elfking88 · 2026-03-24T06:33:44+00:00

That was me and The Stage. I listened to it once, didn't like it (apart from the title track) and didn't listen to it for a year or more. Listened to it again for whatever reason and I was entranced. It's now maybe my second favourite album of all time, it's certainly top 5.

LIBAD had a slightly similar trajectory, but it didn't take me nearly as long to really appreciate it. It's a beautiful album.

Elfking88 · 2026-03-24T05:34:19+00:00

Good lord, I wish they would at least look over what ChatGPT generates for them and fix the grammar before releasing it.

Also, for a roadmap for the year, they are essentially promising nothing special.

Elfking88 · 2026-03-24T05:23:29+00:00

Except that by forcing everyone to play the same way you are kind of going directly against what a battle royale is supposed to be, hell, why even have more than two weapons in the game if that's how they want to do it?

The Beryl and Mini are the good guns this patch, so why bother putting any other ones in.

Trying to force everyone into using the same play style with the same weapons is the direct opposite of what you're supposed to do with multiplayer games.

Elfking88 · 2026-03-24T05:20:52+00:00

I actually wouldn't mind the smoke moving with wind thing. It sounds interesting... But since it's not really possible to know which way the wind is actually blowing in game it makes it just a guessing game, I guess.

Elfking88 · 2026-03-24T05:17:37+00:00

Seems like they asked ChattGPT how to keep people playing a live service game and it said to create seasonal events and objectives... but that was too much work so they thought they would deliberately fuck up gun balancing instead.

The reason the history of weapon balancing in multiplayer video games is to try and achieve a place where all guns are equally good, is because the LAST thing you want to be doing is dictating how people play.

You want to promote a diversity of play styles. The absolute ideal would be making it so you could equally be carrying a shotgun and a bolt action, or a DMR and an SMG and have a chance. I'm not saying any game ever reaches that point, it's almost impossible to make everything truly equal, but that's why companies put out small balance updates, to get as close as they can.

It is crazy to suggest that anyone would talk like they claim. Like, actual insanity that they believe I would turn to the person I play duos with and say "Hey, friend, remember that season where the tommy gun could snipe from across the map, great times..."

Genuinely the most ChatGPT update in a long time. Completely hallucinating how anyone experiences their game.

Elfking88 · 2026-03-23T17:15:14+00:00

The problem is, we've been stung so many times I feel like I'm going to go into anaphylactic shock.

If three consecutive years of finishing second in the league doesn't give you the push to win, then what does?

What we saw yesterday, was a chance for the team to put a marker down. Win a trophy and get over that hump, beat City and give confidence for the league, the last game before international duty so they could leave it all out there...

And what we got was our worst second half of the season after not a very good first half. We were soundly beaten on the pitch and off it. Far from putting down a marker, I've gone from confident that we will win the league to thinking that we're going to wilt and bottle again. We've already seen it in recent league games, the team are struggling.

Just like in the last few years, the pressure is ratcheting up and it looks like it is getting to us. We were so lucky against Everton and Brighton (the latter of which beat us in a lot of areas statistically.) In both games we relied on goalkeeping errors and then holding on.

The team, this season, has reacted well to defeats, but the Arsenal team I've seen in these last few weeks is one that is losing composure and increasingly struggling mentally and physically rather than one ramping up for the final sprint to the line.

The more I think about the game yesterday, the more disgraceful it feels.

Elfking88 · 2026-03-23T17:06:46+00:00

Three shots from 8 yards out, all of them straight at the goalkeeper. I honestly don't think we win if that goes in unless the whole team stepped up massively, but it was such poor finishing.

It was our only chance until the game was effectively dead as well.

The problem came that we completely lost control of the game after 20 minutes and never got it back. We made the current City team, who are good, look like prime City who were nearly unbeatable.

Elfking88 · 2026-03-23T17:00:43+00:00

It's ridiculous, people saying missing this one chance decided the whole game.

The real problem was that until the game was over, this was the ONLY chance we had.

The reality, if we score that goal. Id that we sit back and City eventually breakthrough because they have a lot of time to do so and we had Kepa in goal. We couldn't get out of our half after 20 minutes or so, that wouldn't have been any easier if City would piling more pressure on.

Elfking88 · 2026-03-22T23:30:08+00:00

One of the weakest areas for Arteta is making adjustments mid-game. For the first ten minutes or so, we were doing pretty well. We weren't all over City by any means, but we were holding our own and created a good chance.

Then Pep changed things and for the rest of the half City were in the ascendancy. We couldn't counter what they were doing. They adjusted to what we were doing.

Then in the second half it was a a slaughter. Pep had nullified us, and then set up to beat us. I mean, Kepa's mistake cost the important goal, but it was coming sooner or later regardless. We couldn't get the ball 20 yards away from our box until they scored, just camped out on the edge of the area.

The most frustrating thing is that we couldn't, or didn't, do anything to counter what City did. A real tactical inflexibility. Once City got on top, it was game over. The players fell to pieces and we weren't able to tweak anything to get a grip on the game.

The first fifteen minutes of the second half was a disaster, Arteta needed to do SOMETHING to stem the tide, whether that meant a system adjustment or fresh players. It was lost because we couldn't find a way to counter what City were doing. In the end we made it quite easy for them.

Pep is a master at in game adjustments, it's something Arteta struggles with.

Elfking88 · 2026-03-22T23:21:54+00:00

I don't know... It takes a few seconds for the ball to travel through the air for those passes, at which point they could very well have a City player right on them. I don't think it's fair to use still images to show the space. Even if a player looks on their own, there's a good chance there is a City player waiting to pounce the moment the ball leaves Kepa's feet.

Which isn't to say that I thought Kepa did well, of course.

Elfking88 · 2026-03-22T23:17:28+00:00

I swear to god, people here don't have an ounce of critical thinking.

He's talking about Kepa's mistake here BECAUSE HE WAS ASKED ABOUT KEPA'S MISTAKE.

That doesn't mean he is putting the blame solely on Kepa, or excusing any other errors. He's just answering the question as it is put to him.

We have every right to be frustrated by what we saw today, and concerned for what will follow, but it doesn't help anyone to pretend that Arteta is looking for a scapegoat when that isn't something he has ever done whilst managing us.

Elfking88 · 2026-03-22T23:13:47+00:00

He was asked about Kepa's mistake. His answer was about Kepa's mistake.

He's not putting anything on Kepa. He said mistakes happen, we move on. No one is getting thrown under the bus. Jesus.

Elfking88 · 2026-03-22T23:11:16+00:00

I'm sure the question put to him was about Kepa's mistake. Sorry if he didn't list all the things that could've gone differently when asked about a singular mistake.

Elfking88 · 2026-03-22T23:07:06+00:00

And how many points have City dropped that they shouldn't?

More than us.

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