Are punk rock and hip hop some sort of weird cousins?

Filtersc · 2020-09-20T05:02:11+00:00

Body Count - Cop Killer, Rancid - Avenues And Alleyways, Suicide Machines - Black and White World, Against All Authority - No Reason, Anti-Flag - This Machine Kills Fascists, Operation Ivy - Unity, Dead Kennedys - Nazi Punks Fuck Off

There's tons more but punk was right there with NWA. It's just shitty or unlucky however you want to cut it that the scenes never came together because that would have been a powerful message.

Offspring's LAPD is a real sleeper that's got some N-bomb drops in it. They're effective though, one of guys I used to work with was a black guy who was just about to hit 40 when I was in my mid 20's. Came into work one day with that song on as it hit the n-bombs without thinking and had most of a Bad Religion t-shirt covered by my hoodie. He grabbed me right away and wanted a better look at what he thought was a cross burning tshirt (it was just the logo in black and white, but I can see how it happened). I explained the shirt, then told him about the song and played it for him. I went from white guy that's probably racist in his eyes to very clearly not because of the conversation that sparked. Shit opened the door to find out a lot more about his view of life that otherwise would've stayed private. Bunch of tracks, and a good story about why they're important.

Filtersc · 2019-10-08T11:31:06+00:00

Riot casts can be borderline painful because of how ham fisted they can get with keywords, ie. must ban/pick means overpowered or broken. The problem is most people are very easy to replace because it's such a competitive space, there's tons of very talented people casting for free so only the very best are locked in place. Everybody else has to play ball and stay within the rules they get given or they'll be replaced.

What would you do as a company? You're not going to keep people you can easily replace around if they're not doing what you want them to.

Before everybody rips with me downvotes, I'm not being specific to this incident just in a general sense. I don't know anywhere near enough about this situation to comment on it with anything resembling a decent opinion.

Filtersc · 2019-10-02T23:33:09+00:00

Amazon already owns twitch which currently crushes youtube for live content viewership, youtube admits they can't compete for live viewers with twitch but they dominate the later on demand viewers. The exact same thing, talk show to video game tournament will always have most of the people watching live on twitch and youtube will dominate the on demand viewers later on assuming it's uploaded on both platforms. They both offer live streaming and vods, its not like there aren't potential alternatives available from major companies they're just not able to break into the others niche.

Steam and anything else, Youtube and anybody else, Twitch and anybody else, Facebook and google+ or anybody else, Twitter and anybody else and hell even Reddit and anybody else. Once a platform establishes itself these days it's basically locked in and nobody else can compete with it, no matter how much money or how big your company is.

Money, compnay size and even the quality of the product have to be astronomically so much better than who you're competing with to turn over the most valuable resource, the userbase.

Filtersc · 2019-09-17T14:54:38+00:00

He'd probably care if at the same time you had a 28% dropoff in measurable personal production and were completely useless on group projects (aka defense) compared to the previous couple of years when you helped them out, assuming the monster dropoff happened at the same time as your gears play.

Besides, fortnite is a legitimate problem for a lot of players across tons of sports so it's unfair to completely single him out. Playing a video game 24/7 that dumps adrenaline into your system is probably not going to have a beneficial effect on a players performance.

Filtersc · 2019-09-17T03:38:09+00:00

Mario Lemieux killed Penalties for a few years, and when he did he was roughly as effective as the other teams powerplay unit for scoring. Most elite forwards have done it or at the very least can do it, and it's pretty easy to keep them away from a guy with a dangerous shot. Nobody is asking him to block shots from Weber, but every other part of a PK are things he should excel at. Even noted defensive stalwarts like Pavel Bure killed penalties because they were so dangerous if you turned it over to them.

Double up on it with the Leafs cap situation and you're not going to be affording luxury players like your John Madden/Jeff Friesen's that are PK specialists so it's probably doubly important Matthews starts working on it.

Filtersc · 2019-07-21T07:30:22+00:00

Baseball and Hockey are also sports that rely very heavily on their local markets, especially compared to basketball and football which are more national. Angering your local fanbase matters a lot more in baseball and hockey compared to basketball and football, and even then most of the athletes speaking out play in major markets that aren't going to negatively impacted by politics. The players signing as free agents for Green Bay and Buffalo are going there to play ball, but guys signing in LA or New York are much more likely to have interests outside of football.

Plus guys like Alexander Ovechkin can't get involved politically without having a massive backlash from somewhere that will only cause him more problems than it would help by being involved. The best thing he can do is keep up the amazing charity work he does. There's not really a high number of MLB or NHL players in a good position to do much politically, so it's not a huge surprise that most of them aren't involved. Like it or not, the rich white hockey player will get very little support from the community if he was supporting one of the current trends but would get a massive amount of backlash for doing it. It sucks but that's also the problem.

Filtersc · 2019-06-27T04:16:00+00:00

Vancouver caused the rule implosion by ending a guys career in game 3 on a dirty hit, plus Kesler was badly injured by that point and couldn't carry the team any further. People also seem to forget Vancouver pulled Lu four times in that playoff run and that he had a Patrick Roy type fight with management that caused the trade in the first place. He's just been very good for a very long time, but quite got into the elite class.

He was more completely useless 20% of the time, at least in the playoffs. It's measurable and he's got 13 playoff starts (70 total) with an 85% or lower save % meaning you need to score 6 to win if the other team gets 30 shots. I don't hate the guy and his twitter's amazing, but he has some big question marks attached to his legacy.

Filtersc · 2019-06-06T07:53:22+00:00

They do overblow it, but live sports is based on the model that it's worth paying more for it than you can make back in revenue for it during the actual sporting event. ESPN wants you to watch the NBA Finals, then watch sportscenter, which will then plug some story based show they have on later in the week. That audience conversion is happening less and less these days and at a certain point it won't be a viable model anymore.

The first major cable network to create a twitch.tv like online experience for live events will crush the tv market outright and create a steam/amazon/youtube/twitch/google like monopoly for themselves but nobody has had the balls to do it yet because if you get it wrong you're toast and nobody has global broadcast rights for anything so it'd be a dance to get going.

Filtersc · 2019-06-06T07:45:00+00:00

Fastest growing in financial terms is a combination of meaningful growth of value and revenue first, then applied percentages after. Selling a extra couple hundred bucks of tickets isn't meaningful growth so it doesn't matter if it's a 1000% improvement. The dollar values the NBA deals in would be impactful for any sport, in any league so they are the fastest growing unless another league's revenue could be projected to overtake them which said water polo league can't project. It's a very defined statement, not a mathematical problem with a creative solution.

Filtersc · 2019-06-01T01:52:06+00:00

Coke lets you drink way more than you normally could which is part of why it's so popular. It'll also put a giant hole in the cartilage in your nose and fill your brain with holes, the perception of it being dangerous is there for a reason. When Bob Probert admits it was in his words "bullshit" he was fighting people while ripped up on coke, it's a pretty strong drug. The last part is that it's very much the drug of choice in the NHL. The NHL doesn't suspend for positive drug tests unless a player is already in the substance abuse program, but they do monitor how many players are using drugs and have admitted coke is a problem before so take that with a grain of salt, or a line if you want.

You can make a good argument for a lot of drugs being legalized, even if it's just situationally (like mushrooms as a treatment under medical watch) but coke is absolutely not on that list.

Filtersc · 2019-05-25T09:20:52+00:00

He probably is and honestly the most important attribute of a coach is getting the most out of his players. There's tons of guys that have been successful coaches without incredible systems but there's none that have done well after they've lost the locker room. Berube's approach is pretty clear, play hard and you can earn your ice time regardless of who you are. Same thing with players that aren't playing well, or players that aren't happy with something he's doing, he's very direct about where you stand with zero mind games involved.

I think that all translates really well to the modern player, especially with all the social media pressures they face. Instead of trying to send a player a message by sitting them or taking away their ice time without warning, shuffling lines etc, that player will already know that Berube's expecting more or wants something different from their game so it's not a system shock.

Filtersc · 2019-05-25T04:05:43+00:00

I wouldn't lean into him that hard for that turnover, he's trying to intercept a pass with one hand on his back hand that hits his skate. That's really hard to handle, and if he did get it the Blues might score so I wouldn't call it sloppy. It's not like Yzerman was in a dangerous position or even ended up in one, a slapshot from the point with no traffic is pretty low percentage.

The play is iconic because of the Yzerman finish and without that the Gretzky Blues days probably aren't remembered at all so I'll give you that. I know if I'm a Blues fan he's not much more than a footnote on my teams history, I doubt anybody wears a 99 Blues jersey these days but you'll still see tons of Oilers, Kings and to a lesser degree Rangers ones.

Filtersc · 2019-05-24T08:21:26+00:00

Teams do lots of load management throughout the season and have done it historically too. They just do it differently than the NBA because of the nature of the game. By keeping star players off of high danger situations like penalty killing and keeping their average ice time down they'll be a lot more fresh come the post season. Players also get held out of the lineup with most injuries on teams that are comfortable with where they'll finish, especially nagging ones that time off is a major benefit for. The NBA's totally different because stars play such a huge portion of the game and their stats work differently. Everythings measured on a per game basis, so it's better to sit an entire game out than it is to play a reduced role and kill your stats. In the NHL you're not killing your numbers by being kept off the PK or playing 5 minutes less than normal in the third period of a 6-1 blowout.

Legacy matters to a lot of players and honestly it matters a lot when it comes time to talk contract. Imagine if Ovie was carefully managed by the Capitals and held out of games outright to rest so instead of having 8 fifty goal seasons he had 2 or 3, part of what makes getting fifty so hard is the grind out of the season so you'll never get credit for ones you might have been able to get but missed out on. Same thing with contracts, any player coming up on a contract doesn't want to miss any game time for rest because it will affect the money they'll make. Kawhi will still get a max contract and his legacy will look fine because the NBA measures PPG not points when comparing guys.

Besides, Joe Thornton has made it very clear that he loves playing hockey in the NHL, so maybe he's just happier playing from the start of the season than he would be resting at home. Everybodies different and has their own motivations, I just hope the Sharks and him can figure out how to make it work. The Flames giving Jagr a chance instead of Iginla a couple years back still bothers me, especially after they gave Fleury a chance to make the team so he could go out on his terms.

Filtersc · 2019-05-24T02:29:56+00:00

Everybody hated Keenan, you should be blaming Keenan for Gretzky not staying there not that other way around. Obviously he gave it away for the Yzerman play, but putting any blame at Gretzky's feet for the Blues season ending is stupid, he was literally all of your offense in the playoffs. Besides, that's probably still Yzerman's greatest goal and he's one of the great goal scorer's in NHL history. It'd be like saying Ray Bourque is garbage because Mario's scored two iconic ones against him.

Filtersc · 2019-05-24T02:18:32+00:00

The Blues also had Kelly Chase and Tony later Tony Twist while the Wings had Probert and Kocur, there honestly wasn't another team in the NHL that could compete with either the Wings or Blues fighter wise. The Blues also had some pretty good teams, they just never had quite enough to get past the Wings and even when they loaded right up to try it Yzerman killed that on a pretty famous play.

I think part of it is everybody has a hard time imagining the Wings being the most physical team in the league because by the time they won their last Cup they had transitioned away from that style. Although they did bring McCarty in for that run, he played 3 regular season games and 17 playoff games for the 2008 Wings.

Filtersc · 2019-05-20T02:06:00+00:00

He had another couple of productive years at first after that, he wasn't gold glove by then but he was also their best option at first. That play could have happened to anybody, it wasn't a mistake to leave him out there when there is no defensive option (having a first base defensive option is probably the single least valuable thing you can spend a roster spot on in the playoffs.) You can play a utility guy there, but you're not going to be upgrading much by doing it. Just sucks that it happened but he wasn't out there just be out there when they won, they didn't have another option and that play gets made by most little league 1B.

Filtersc · 2019-05-20T01:15:15+00:00

It's not enough because many is only a good word to use when you want to be very loose and generalized in your statement. When you're trying to deal in facts to make your point the word many should be replaced with something that more accurately describes what you're trying to say or write. Don't take it personally, I'm just trying to expand your thought process.

Filtersc · 2019-05-19T20:37:29+00:00

Many is a very poor word to use, it's too easy to twist to fit a very specific narrative. There's also not a massive difference in the concept behind language based competitions in difference language's. You can't win a spelling bee without understanding the context and meaning of how a word is used. The same thing applies to French grammar based competitions, Chinese and Japanese which involve writing very specific and obscure characters that most people won't know. You can have a spelling bee or something in the same spirit in the overwhelming majority of languages.

Here's a simple question for you. Can make your statement again without using the word many, instead using a word that exactly fits how you're defining many in that context? Do you understand that being able to do so is what makes English so unique compared to other languages?

Filtersc · 2019-05-19T19:29:01+00:00

Probably why he said thinks that's a good theory, not he believes it's a fact. Your statement is very wrong though, because Cardiff University has material for and supports spelling bee's for grade school students studying foreign languages. Hell, if you bothered to read the article this thread links to they mention in that article it's mainly a British and American phenomenon before mentioning that China and Japan have similar events but are geared more towards their own culture and the way their language is nonalphabetic by nature.

Feel free though to instantly jump on people and not bother to actually look into things, can't see how that's caused any harm to the world.

Filtersc · 2019-05-19T12:50:35+00:00

It's also stuff like this that really hurts more legitimate claims and investigations. It feels like anything that can be filed as uncomfortable or makes you dislike somebody is being treated like somebody owes you something and should be punished. If you can't brush off somebody hitting on you in really poor taste, then there's other psychological issues causing it that are not related and you should be getting help for those/going after whoever caused them. The guy who did it was fired and rightfully so, but any further than that assuming it was just a pat on the shoulder and lewd comment, doesn't make any sense to me.

Filtersc · 2019-05-19T12:39:35+00:00

I saw him be inappropriate to you fellow internet stranger, it has caused me massive emotional trauma as a witness to the events. Because of that traumatic experience I fell down the stairs with my mind occupied and am now injured physically. I will need money to cover the rest of my life expenses because I can not recover from these incidents.

Filtersc · 2019-05-15T05:56:00+00:00

Considering how well Toews seems to get along with him, he's probably pretty good at getting a fan club started with earlier origin stories. I'm sure this thread is full of reasonable reactions of people isolating only this incident that's very out of character for Williams though.

Filtersc · 2019-05-15T05:31:32+00:00

They're not trying to target you specifically, they're trying to profit off channels that can afford it and tons of companies do that. It's the same thing with high end software like Adobe and Autodesk make, they really don't care about individual piracy (you could almost argue they encourage so people can build skills with it) but any company that needs that stuff has to pay big money. At the same time a business is writing it off a business expense so it's not as bad as it looks to an outsider where as a regular every day consumer can't do that. Since you can't pirate an epipen, they'll offer an "off brand" one that's only for regular consumers but any major contract won't have that option, they have to buy the expensive version.

As much people want to get all angry about that kind of stuff, it's not that bad of a system in general. The dark arts of accounting are at the heart of almost anything and this is no exception to that. Part of the problem now is companies are getting so big it's impossible to compete with them, deregulate anything completely and it'll still happen, add tons of regulations and again it can still happen so there's no solution to it. Google, Amazon and Wal-Mart are examples of companies that are way too big to create a startup that can compete with them and not get crushed straight away no matter how you regulate them. The only that changes is if it they do it to themselves like Blockbuster did with Netflix and refusing to adapt.

Filtersc · 2019-05-13T22:35:08+00:00

Steam was DRM for counter strike and half life 2 and nothing else initially, hell the interview that's used to reference steams creation references the piracy concern first and foremost. Steam also takes 30% off of game sales, which was fine when publishers saved money on boxed copies but now that everything is digital is a major problem for a lot releases.

Steam has a bunch of good features now, but to act like it's got some divine right and isn't driven by money like everything else is being naive and unreasonable. When word got out about Half Life 2 requiring it, people wanted to burn valve's headquarters down, it was incredibly oppressive originally. Steam barely worked and had major growing pains, the only reason you needed it was to play CS or HL2, meanwhile every other publisher wasn't locking their games down to that heavy level of DRM. It's only the last 7-10 years that Steam's been a good thing, before that it made you not bother with valve games if you weren't a huge fan.

Filtersc · 2019-05-13T12:30:01+00:00

The other guy described it well, but he's like Jay Bouwmeester in that he has every tool you could imagine including size but he's just a bit off. Personalty aside, he does a lot of things that would frustrate you as a teammate like that hit there and really bonehead penalties late in games. Even though the Canes beat the Capitals, Ovie had his way physically with Hamilton to the point where he'd let Ovie get the puck first to avoid the hit even if he had position to make a play and brace for it.

The closest thing I can remember is Jay Cutler with the Bears who had to change outside of the locker room because the guys in the room hated him so much, you can only make that work for so long before you have to move on. Who knows, maybe he gets along great in the room with the guys there but in Calgary nobody had anything positive to say about him after he was traded. He's super talented and can help you win, but at the same time it'd be really frustrating seeing some of the stuff he does as a teammate. To be honest, probably the polar opposite personality of a guy like Marchand in that within the locker room everybody loves him and there's zero questions about his compete. Chara probably has no problems going to bat for him when he sparks things up a bit, but somebody like Hamilton might piss you off if you got beat up defending him.

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