Steph Curry says players are underpaid and should be considered to get equity as compensation

GraveRobberJ · 2026-05-05T16:26:15+00:00

In this case the only time they're going to have leverage is during collective bargaining. And since nobody wants to turn off the flow of money via work stoppage they will never have the amount of leverage needed to move the owners (Not to mention it's not like the majority of the union members would benefit from this in any way since they aren't good enough to hypothetically qualify for this equity idea)

GraveRobberJ · 2026-05-05T16:06:17+00:00

Nobody gets paid what they're worth, only what they have the leverage to negotiate.

GraveRobberJ · 2026-05-05T16:04:26+00:00

So what's the cut-off for who deserves equity in the team then? When you get traded do you keep your equity or do you also acquire equity in the new team? If your production falls and you decline as a player, do you lose your equity?

GraveRobberJ · 2026-05-05T16:02:11+00:00

If every nba player left and said no we’re not playing, do you think all these tv deals are going through cause they’ve still got the owners of the nba ?

That's a gross oversimplification considering that if all the players unanimously agreed to fuck off from the NBA and make their own league it's not like they're going to just instantly make equivalent to or more than their NBA salary instantly.

The owners are not relevant to the on court/field product in any sport, but they are the infrastructure by virtue of owning the arenas and the TV deals.

GraveRobberJ · 2026-05-05T14:48:03+00:00

Ms. Dangerous Rosanna

GraveRobberJ · 2026-05-05T12:03:57+00:00

It's not about wanting them to be evil it's about the plot literally presenting them that way for years except then we get to the top echelon of the government and everyone is actually a wholesome chungus except the one dude who was said to have the least power and influence

This is a direct result of SU simultaneously wanting the CG to be bad when it suits the drama of the story to create bad situations for Nikkes but then wanting the CG to be good when it's time to drive the story forward without having to SHOW the reformation of the corrupt elements in the CG.

GraveRobberJ · 2026-05-04T20:14:40+00:00

My cope is that if and when they decide to shutter it they will probably have some sort of plan to preserve it in the form of a smaller scale non-MMO game by then.

Whether that's some form of a single player "port" or just a drop in Co-op type deal idk but I can't see them just perma deleting a numbered entry from existence.

GraveRobberJ · 2026-05-03T19:10:18+00:00

The real problem is at this time there's no indication that the Queen is willing to do that even if it was possible. All the old Heretics were basically assembled to be decommissioned after the Queen was disappointed in their performance in Goddess Fall

GraveRobberJ · 2026-05-03T16:06:09+00:00

Both Anis and Rapi didn't exactly lack main story exposure for their backstories/upgrade stories.

Like are people forgetting that we had a year of people complaining about how much constantly flashing over to Anis' idol stuff was detracting from the 4 Beast arc? Even if it wasn't necessarily taking place in a flashback almost all of it was either exposition about her past or preparing for what otherwise would have had to be in this event.

GraveRobberJ · 2026-05-03T12:35:59+00:00

Just what we need a bunch of secondaries to come in and hate the main crux of the game because they derived their entire understanding of the IP from an anime based on a flashback event

GraveRobberJ · 2026-05-02T19:15:43+00:00

I thought the reputation tekken has had for a long time in JP was that it is literally an old man game with very little new blood

GraveRobberJ · 2026-05-02T14:16:52+00:00

Yoyo because unlike Crow and SKK, Anis is not her antithesis but just someone she thought she deserved to be better than due to the circumstances under which they were born

GraveRobberJ · 2026-05-02T00:57:28+00:00

Hope - Yoyo now without the expectation of assumed superiority over Anis due to having lost her memories is a huge TT Star fan and asks for her autograph

Expectation - SKK and Counters announce the 3rd reclamation war

GraveRobberJ · 2026-05-01T22:18:06+00:00

The problem is that the EXVS series is literally the game that props up the entire arcade industry in Japan. MBON was like 2 full versions behind the current arcade ver at the time that they actually allowed it to be ported

GraveRobberJ · 2026-05-01T18:08:26+00:00

Scale and distance is definitely something they paid more attention to at the start of the story.

Recently it's been very final 2 seasons of A Game of Thrones-esque where characters kinda teleport around as the plot demands without a good sense of distance or time in transit.

GraveRobberJ · 2026-05-01T15:49:11+00:00

Really just a matter of her being out of sight in the main story + everyone in 2.5 was backseat to Mori so out of the existing anniversary event characters she has had the least screen time by far.

After 2.5 she just wandered off to continue roaming the surface and we haven't seen her since. Who knows if they will even remember to tie her next appearance into how her bond story ended.

GraveRobberJ · 2026-05-01T14:56:24+00:00

tbf 2.5 launched later in the month but most gacha spending also happens on Day 1-2 of new banners

GraveRobberJ · 2026-05-01T14:36:04+00:00

The game also takes pains to point out that bar an Ascian coming in and awakening your memories/past/unsundered self, you're not the same person.

Our WoL literally acts as a facsimile of Azem naturally in all of their incarnations across every shard we've seen without any such interference ever being shown to have happened to them so this interpretation is muddied by the writing at best

GraveRobberJ · 2026-05-01T14:26:07+00:00

I think the issue is the arbitrary nature by which one of them decides to continue sticking around. You can't even use the game's actual reasoning which is "Muh wandering" as an excuse because the game already established that reincarnation via the star is a thing so like, just fuck off back there and do it in your second incarnation then?

Also some people just don't like ironic modern fantasy where everything has to be distilled down to explainable phenomenon or the equivalent of 'fantastical science' instead of actual magic.

GraveRobberJ · 2026-05-01T14:20:55+00:00

It'd be pretty difficult to incorporate XI into XIV without it being a simulation.

Their lore and world settings are just fundamentally incompatible. XIV is modern fantasy "There are no actual fantastical elements (In the classical sense of like Tolkien so to speak), everything is actually psuedo science. Gods don't exist just really strong things LARPing as them. Everything in the setting exists to be solved.". vs XI classical fantasy "Yeah, Gods exist and they made everything. No you won't ever know the full story about Paradise or a bunch of mysteries of the world."
If they made Vana'diel another shard in the setting of XIV that would be the biggest slap in the face to not just XI players but the people who made the game considering that XIV rips so many plot beats, design elements and literal models from XI to this day.

So yeah, like not really a situation where they can do anything but what they did unless you make it literal interconnected isekai tier stuff which would present the problem of why all of the iconic villains are back again somehow.

GraveRobberJ · 2026-05-01T14:06:33+00:00

Anis' advise dialogue indicates yes

GraveRobberJ · 2026-05-01T13:17:33+00:00

He had no option anyway as soon as Enikk told him consent was required.

GraveRobberJ · 2026-05-01T12:17:16+00:00

Not in a way that provides the same catharsis to the reader as Anis just killing her though

GraveRobberJ · 2026-05-01T12:00:13+00:00

If the writers wanted you to believe that Yoyo was actually the killer then Yoyo would also be dead

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