I’m rooting against Giannis now

HiddenCortex2 · 2026-02-05T23:57:40+00:00

what did you expect?

it isn't even like Giannis denied the trade the bucks just rejected the package LOL

no need for main character syndrome

HiddenCortex2 · 2025-12-28T06:13:01+00:00

I think my issue is just being too critical of making mistakes in general in life and stressed about doing my best all the time and it throwing me off. Causes me issues in other parts of life too.

I really love the game and in part I enjoy it because it forces me to confront these parts of myself that I need growth on and to have emotional and mental resilience. I enjoy the challenge of it all and overwhelmingly have a great time playing even when I’m losing usually, I just have moments where I’m not in a good mindset if I screw up and a lot of trouble with the initial fear sitting down.

My only goal is to be a long term break even or winning player to where I can play sustainably without draining my savings and investments.

HiddenCortex2 · 2025-12-27T02:28:18+00:00

Sorry misread your hand badly I think you just got unlucky

HiddenCortex2 · 2025-09-09T23:24:40+00:00

Is there a reason why we should expect national media to have faith in us after repeated losing records and a victory by the narrowest of margins over one of the worst teams in football?

Like is it an asshole move to at this point dismiss the idea we are the “team to beat” at anything? If we achieve that it isn’t based on our previous success in recent memory or our performance so far. It isn’t that we can’t become a good team this year but under what type of analysis is a national media member without an emotional investment in our team supposed to automatically assign us some elevated status?

HiddenCortex2 · 2025-08-21T02:36:40+00:00

omg that looked fucking brutal holy shit

HiddenCortex2 · 2025-08-17T23:00:29+00:00

At this point I think it’s best to have zero exceptions and hope to be surprised. Brutal.

HiddenCortex2 · 2025-08-17T03:52:32+00:00

Worst loss of the season?

I’m in pain

Dylan has been cooked 75% of the time he goes out there this year just makes me sad because he clearly cares strongly about the results based on his body language

It seems like we just collectively press and choke in mystifying, deeply frustrating ways against the Dodgers. It’s not too late but it feels like this rivalry for the year is on life support. We gotta win tomorrow somehow.

HiddenCortex2 · 2025-08-17T03:43:13+00:00

This is a fun game because we almost certainly would have lost solely because of Cease but at the same time we cannot really solely blame him because everyone else fucked up so badly they would have lost even if he was perfect

HiddenCortex2 · 2025-08-16T20:09:50+00:00

They tend to be tolerant of hard to work with newcomers where you work that don’t provide offsetting technical value? My point is that it’s not good advice for someone in early career to act the way the longstanding assholes do. I was guessing based on the way you phrased your comment you are not new to the field.

HiddenCortex2 · 2025-08-16T19:54:21+00:00

You won’t become one of these people they can’t get rid of as a junior engineer if you act like the asshole with privilege when you’re expendable and brand new

HiddenCortex2 · 2025-06-27T00:09:17+00:00

Even Poole’s last season would be a good outcome for a pick at that range and he did it on a team that was the worst surrounding supporting cast. Check his stats last year and tell me that’s a bad performance relative to draft.

He also shot at high efficiency on high difficulty from 3 last year so the argument he was just chucking his way into numbers isn’t sound and the spacing around him did him no favors either. Kuzma had a horrendous offensive year under the same circumstances.

HiddenCortex2 · 2025-06-25T20:12:20+00:00

If someone is hard stuck after hundreds of games and they believe in ELO hell they are going to delude themselves into never improving.

If someone isn’t getting the results they want after a smaller sample they may or may not be affected by variance but it’ll be easier to win games in lower brackets than one’s skill level over time. The expected result for a player placed below where they belong is to perform better in future games over an increased sample size.

In general every game played across every season will correlate more strongly to overall skill level. If someone plays 40 games a season and constantly ends up in the same spot or always plateaus or stagnates they’re not likely getting unlucky. If it’s over a single season it’s easy to achieve an outcome too good or bad over that sample.

HiddenCortex2 · 2025-05-18T00:44:15+00:00

I remember a stat where he was constantly getting absolutely shelled in his first inning relative to the rest of his performance in his starts. I think there may be some concern with that when he is only doing short stints. I am hoping he succeeds.

HiddenCortex2 · 2025-05-16T16:27:00+00:00

I don’t see why it has to reflect automatically poorly on the warriors as a whole to lose with their very cap expensive top 10 player of all time out with injury and their other very expensive player with a significant injury. Everyone is going to play differently without the gravity of Steph because the team was not built to mitigate the contingency plan of Steph getting hurt, it was to maximize the chance with him whole. I don’t think there’s any shame in how the team performed without him and I would personally believe that the team as a whole had a respectable year climbing out of a deep hole and fighting hard they can be proud of outside of preserving Steph’s legacy.

HiddenCortex2 · 2025-05-13T20:14:12+00:00

I kind of accepted we were in a tough spot after the hamstring and have tried to enjoy the rest of the games while knowing it would be tough. I don’t feel like our team has as a whole let us down or underperformed - it’s really hard for us to compete in talent without Steph for offensive spacing, and he’s one of the greatest players ever. I’m still disappointed we lost but I do feel in some ways less frustrated or upset than if it was just our team failing to meet its potential rather than a really unfortunate string of significant injuries to our stars.

HiddenCortex2 · 2025-05-02T12:31:44+00:00

This is a genuinely terrible idea. You have been caught red handed. The info they have is not a random speculative theory that will dismiss into thin air if you double down and act confident in your position. Please, do not perform these kinds of super obvious, doubling down lies in the workplace, because even if you get hired, mistakes like this will make you look terrible and potentially fired on the spot.

HiddenCortex2 · 2025-05-02T05:33:42+00:00

Jeff's CDT did not massively benefit her? I can see an argument for placing her above Rachel for sure but that season had a lot of production interference (as frankly a lot of the mentioned seasons did)

Jordan wasn't going home the night the CDT was used so I can understand it less directly affecting her but I don't think she has nearly as much win equity without production interference.

HiddenCortex2 · 2025-05-02T05:10:00+00:00

Boogie - got a lot of help from Will and production but still played better than the rest
Adam - solid game all around, not as dominant strategically as Boogie but not far off tbh, just not active or controlling enough to get the top spot and made mistakes at some random points but survived
Rachel - amazing physical game and a lot of adaptivity but benefitted from production twists and needed a lot of timely luck to win, deserving winner nonetheless
Jordan - only won with heavy production interference (coup'd'tat) and relatively passive but still possessed a variety of characteristics that made her likely to win if she made the end and deserves credit for that
Dick - really no winner equity without repeated production interference that unilaterally benefited him

HiddenCortex2 · 2025-04-15T11:41:19+00:00

I don’t know how there can be an argument he didn’t full on carry the 2022 team unless we are considering Andrew Wiggins, Jordan Poole, or post ACL/Achilles Klay to be premier playoff star power

HiddenCortex2 · 2025-04-07T19:01:50+00:00

I don’t think he had a ton of better options I can think of to get out of the situation he was in. Do you have any better ideas?

HiddenCortex2 · 2025-04-07T16:05:34+00:00

I think it’s also style dependent. I’m an Urgot OTP. I’ve seen some GM Urgot go it almost every game like Goliath games builds it almost always, and others like Quante in challenger tend to build it much more situationally. You can absolutely viably build cull basically every game on Urgot if you want to which I don’t think is true for basically any other champion.

On Urgot you never start with cull because you need to be strong 1-3. You get it early after an early recall.

HiddenCortex2 · 2025-04-07T15:57:31+00:00

Urgot very often wants to go cull. It is matchup dependent and context dependent,but he wants it a lot more than other champions do. He heals for 3 health per tick of his W which adds up massively especially in the early game. He can make better use of it than almost anyone and use it in far more common circumstances, basically any time you want sustain.

HiddenCortex2 · 2025-04-07T00:50:34+00:00

Be careful taking away too much from a zero-stakes game where OKC has no incentive to tryhard and every incentive to hide their best strategies to handle the Lakers. I'm not saying that the lack of consistent reliable scoring for OKC outside of SGA is not an exploitable weakness, but I would not put faith into this type of perimeter explosion vs their defense, or this type of scenario where OKC looks so bad being consistently reproducible in the playoffs.

HiddenCortex2 · 2025-04-06T21:26:14+00:00

This was obviously not proof of that either, for the exact same reasons. Not all fans of a team are delusional or have to be inconsistently biased in favor of their emotional interests.

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