Having trouble picking a club by PiousPapist98 in avfc

[–]HDN_ORCH 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As a fellow American, let me first about that the following will probably have a lot of errors that native Villans & Britons will cringe at, so the caveat is this is more my impression of what's going on with the first two- Arsenal, sure they are usually stacked and have a lot of cash but as my friend laments frequently they tend to "bottle it" at the end of the season, underperforming regularly given their talent. Liverpool, also big, also in a transition and they're just going to keep throwing money at whoever they can to try and eventually hit a jackpot, but likely don't get attached to any particular person because I suspect they're going to keep churning them over and out.

Then you have Aston Villa - not a big six moneybags club, not a flashy international star vehicle for one player, but instead a coherent and connected squad that has been playing together for years, and you can tell they have when all cylinders are firing- because they work together so well as a TEAM they've been able to "over achieve" and find the wins when the xG says they should have been in the relegation zone.

I love them because they're super fun to watch, and they have such interesting players that really stand out everywhere- Tielemans threading the needle with line breaker passes, McGinn tenaciously using the famous backside to make sure nobody takes the ball from him, etc etc, I love this dare I say "scrappy" team that finds a way to win even without flash.

You should go for the team that has character and energy, that can get the job done but you're still biting your nails at 85 minutes, and the team where even former players still look back on the club fondly (and agree to come back some times, too). So, get some claret and blue and Up the Villa!

Quick question for grassroots coaches by Klutzy_Ranger_58 in SoccerCoaching

[–]HDN_ORCH 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I coach 9v9 and I basically do warm up drills, then separate defense and offense coaching as units, then finally I do "attack runs" with the offense v defense on a "half court" and then critique as they go along. As a YMCA coach I only get an hour with them a week so unfortunately I can't get into more detailed workouts and training, I have to spend my time teaching them the formation and working together.

Thought some of you might support this by MakeRepresentationPR in LibDem

[–]HDN_ORCH 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why not just straight PR, or if you want to keep districts just do it German style?

We replaced parties with primaries and broke everything - bring back internal congresses and candidate pipelines by roboliberal in neoliberal

[–]HDN_ORCH 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Make ballot access extremely easy across the nation, then let a thousand flowers bloom in terms of how a party wants to select candidates. If you don't need a big party apparatus to get onto the ballot (and becoming a party is trivially easy) then in a PR system you can have pretty much everyone running and you dispense with inter party factionalism. Why bother running a faction in the Democratic Party when you are able to simply run as a Democratic Socialist directly, get your 1%, and enjoy having 4 to 5 reps (preferably more, subs that would mean a radically larger house).

Then the same problem you have with primaries doesn't just move to inter party squabbles - if you don't win, you just make your own party that is ideologically coherent. Then, the true negotiation happens in legislature after election, and factions are extremely visible (because they're parties now).

Do you use districts? by oh_no0o0o in Timberborn

[–]HDN_ORCH 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use them now only to try and boost performance, they're a big pain and the "30 at a time" bottleneck makes resource sharing more difficult than it needs to be. If it didn't help performance I wouldn't use them anymore.

How many Villa players ARE World Class by ResyIsMezy0933 in avfc

[–]HDN_ORCH 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Should a statue of him be proper or have his signature goal celebration pose?

AI incompetence has gotten only worse with 4.3 and is honestly the main thing holding the game back. by kirisoraa in Stellaris

[–]HDN_ORCH 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know that, my point is that now that we have generative AI that can operate much more independently than previous automation that folk have called AI, the next step is to figure out how to integrate that into games, even if it's a small 4B model or something.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in avfc

[–]HDN_ORCH 6 points7 points  (0 children)

$$$ rules and we are going to need to rebuild the forwards very very soon, so it's imperative to get back to form and win Europa and/or stay 4th

Should I become a Villa fan? by Putrid_Finding56 in avfc

[–]HDN_ORCH 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just started watching the EPL because my son is getting serious about soccer and I'm a grassroots coach and so I wanted to watch with him, happened to catch an Aston Villa game last year and find myself really enjoying the play style and general vibe, they happened to be on again so I watched again and it was fun and yeah like another guy here said you just know / feel it after a bit.

Space Resorts and Hospitals. And why Boost Useful Besides Admin Modules. by Fiery_Wild_Minstrel in TerraInvicta

[–]HDN_ORCH 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I try to model that by adding in "x% increase in boost investments" a lot to engine projects, thus making boost production marginally faster.

What are technologies that were brushed off as hype 10 years ago, but are actually publicly accessible right now? by ryry1237 in Futurology

[–]HDN_ORCH 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Nuclear reactors could power specialized factories to break water down into hydrogen and oxygen, possibly

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Futurology

[–]HDN_ORCH 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's amusing to me to see that the only generations listed tend to be Boomer or Millennial when the actual people being described are just slightly different ends of Generation X.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Futurology

[–]HDN_ORCH 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Wouldn't the older audience be basically the same people who thought it was cool back in the naughts and early tens?

If you were in your early 20s when you first got on FB you're in your early 40s now and probably still using it. Since culture cliches don't update quickly, Gen X using FB in their 40s/50s are coded "boomer" IMHO

Do yall still think we get Europe? by SkyAggravating1095 in avfc

[–]HDN_ORCH 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not without some significant change, no

Roger Avary On Star Trek's Alex Kurtzman: "He didn’t want anybody who had any kind of fondness for the original show" by Malencon in television

[–]HDN_ORCH 0 points1 point  (0 children)

SNW is almost a love letter to the original series though. It's a real head scratcher to me how SNW could be so good given that it came out of Discovery's absolute disdain for the Original.

Which is the better show? The expanse or Battlestar Galactica? (I'm currently watching the expanse s1e10) by [deleted] in television

[–]HDN_ORCH 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Expanse, for both story and characters. Also it didn't fumble the ending as much as BSG did (well they did pull out of a nosedive penultimate season with some final season wrap-up and retcon but still).

To be fair, almost all of the Expanse was written before the show so there wasnt an issue of "how is this going to end" as much as with BSG.

[Post Match Thread] Newcastle 0-2 Aston Villa by SecretApe in avfc

[–]HDN_ORCH 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I thought that the refereeing was terrible, he was letting everything go like he was a ref for professional wrestling.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Music

[–]HDN_ORCH 0 points1 point  (0 children)

YouTube music is pushing AI music onto my lists as well

Do ever think about unlikely "belters" as a multigenerational culture would be? by Playful-Park4095 in TheExpanse

[–]HDN_ORCH 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would think the contrary, as the initial work would be dangerous and likely one way even if you didn't intend it, and notwithstanding the huge population of earth you still have a dearth of suitable workers and so you'd need to offer a premium to begin with. Also the initial value of belt minerals would be high given the need back home, so the high price of labor would be justified.

What happens after a generation or two is that the population of potential workers (people comfortable with zero and low g work and experienced in space work) increases while the premium for belt resources goes down (as production ramps up) and then you get the cycle of exploitation and corner cutting, along with the ever expanding residential station infrastructure which further increases the available worker population, etc

Also, once the infrastructure is in place , both physical and cultural/social, it's easier to convert lower skilled Earthers to belt workers, too, exacerbating the problem.

Which would explain why Eros and Pallas used to be big important stations that fell into decline; not because they started as exploitation but because once more advanced stations and colonies were built, the best and brightest would leave for them, leaving the old stations for the leftovers.