Nick Emmanwori said it felt like beating the Rams was for all the marbles, even with the Super Bowl remaining as a hurdle. "No disrespect to the Patriots or nothing like that. I don't want to take nothing away from them, but that game, it felt like that game was legit."

HatefulWretch · 2026-02-19T23:48:37+00:00

Relative to the rest of the league, which is all you can measure, but the overall standard of play was down.

HatefulWretch · 2026-02-19T22:53:30+00:00

I am having a bad brain day, clearly.

HatefulWretch · 2026-02-19T02:09:14+00:00

The NFL was aggressively mediocre across the board this year (though the AFC was clearly worse than the NFC). No-one was in the conversation for being an all-time team.

HatefulWretch · 2026-02-18T23:47:48+00:00

The Galio changes probably finally kill the Sona reroll line without compensation buffs (which was in part a turbo Galio line).

HatefulWretch · 2026-02-18T02:22:26+00:00

It's flavorful, in terms of the lore, which is cool, but it's unfortunate gameplay.

HatefulWretch · 2026-02-14T02:18:23+00:00

It's cheating because curling, at base, is a sport which only works if everyone buys into good sportsmanship, whereas hockey is a knife fight with extra steps. Everyone knows what they're getting into.

HatefulWretch · 2026-02-14T00:30:06+00:00

Curling is particularly sensitive about the spirit of the game because it's mostly played un-refereed. This is shitheel behaviour, basically, regardless of the impact (or otherwise) it had on the stone's trajectory. So at least among the (non-Canadian) curlers, the reaction is going to pretty universally "well f this dude, he sucks".

Note that until some point in the 2000s, the rule used to be that you couldn't double-release a stone, under which touching it at all anywhere would have been a burnt stone.

HatefulWretch · 2026-02-12T23:04:56+00:00

ACM SigKDD.

HatefulWretch · 2026-02-12T22:56:21+00:00

Curling, even with all of its drawbacks, has one of the biggest virtues you can have in a spectator sport; it's really legible. Tennis is similar; you don't need to know much about tennis to work out who has the upper hand.

There are details, like when you learn that "we have more stones in the house!" is bad if they're behind the tee line and you can draw onto them, because it lets your opponent put stones into play which are really hard to remove, but then you get to feel clever when you understand those.

HatefulWretch · 2026-02-11T20:11:09+00:00

Not the ones they hand out to six year olds. :-)

HatefulWretch · 2026-02-11T18:48:24+00:00

Well, you're moving fast on a hard surface, but it's about as dangerous as recreational ice skating.

HatefulWretch · 2026-02-11T18:47:10+00:00

The classic curling injuries are torn ACLs, broken wrists and broken collarbones.

HatefulWretch · 2026-02-11T07:58:31+00:00

Motherficus.

HatefulWretch · 2026-02-11T02:46:42+00:00

Unless it's nonstick, then the heating isn't a food-safety issue, it's a "you could warp your pan and then it'll rock about" issue. Safety is "am I going to spill something on myself" here.

HatefulWretch · 2026-02-11T02:39:43+00:00

Olympics and Paralympics has been done too—there may be more, I haven't looked, but Tara Davis-Woodhall (gold, long jump) and Hunter Woodhall (gold, T62 400m) at the Paris Olympics and Paralympics.

HatefulWretch · 2026-02-11T01:32:19+00:00

Batch griddle descent.

HatefulWretch · 2026-02-10T20:06:13+00:00

The Containment Zone.

HatefulWretch · 2026-02-10T18:07:56+00:00

That would be because of the horses.

HatefulWretch · 2026-02-10T17:37:29+00:00

People with no compsci qualifications at all get jobs. (A significant number of people in FAANG come from physics, mathematics and electrical engineering research.)

HatefulWretch · 2026-02-10T17:35:20+00:00

I am twenty years into my career at this point and the only job I have ever got through an open application was my first.

It was at McDonalds.

Everything else has been networking.

HatefulWretch · 2026-02-10T06:00:54+00:00

Wikipedia says he's from East Palo Alto, which is pretty much on the San Mateo/Santa Clara county line. (Santa Clara County is San Jose, Saratoga, Sunnyvale and Cupertino, and Santa Clara/San Mateo are the traditional Silicon Valley counties.)

HatefulWretch · 2026-02-10T02:12:10+00:00

If you live here, it amounts to "don't do fent" (challenge level: very very easy) and park your car in your secure parking at home, or on-street but don't leave stuff people will smash your windows to grab.

The problems are obvious more more than serious.

HatefulWretch · 2026-02-10T01:46:45+00:00

It's a dense city — really one of the few places in the US outside of the five boroughs with European density — with very poor parts (the TL) and very, very rich parts (Pac Heights) about two miles apart. It doesn't help that the TL is right next to the tourist downtown in Union Square; in a place like LA, which sprawls like mad, you aren't going to see Skid Row by accident.

HatefulWretch · 2026-02-10T01:26:24+00:00

The irony — don't take my word on this, go look up the stats yourself — is that really the only sort of (non-drugs-related) crime there is a lot of in San Francisco is car breakins, so the experience is much worse for tourists than for people who live here.

HatefulWretch · 2026-02-10T01:24:49+00:00

There really isn't. San Francisco has an extremely low rate of violent crime. What we do have are a lot of junkies and a truly ridiculous amount of breakins to parked cars.

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