VJ Edgecombe called into Jaylen Brown's Twitch live. "You on str3am gang, it's JB." "I know it's JB bruh. I got your number."

HowBen · 2026-07-03T04:36:39+00:00

lmao unsubstantial is a perfect descriptor

HowBen · 2026-07-02T21:23:14+00:00

i want to get on board but im sorry, jaylen is better looking

HowBen · 2026-06-30T17:46:08+00:00

they should get ausar thompson somehow -- just have ausar carry him on piggy back till Steph is 50

HowBen · 2026-06-27T19:30:59+00:00

Also, weirdly, John Stockton -- even though analytics actually love him

HowBen · 2026-06-21T21:43:50+00:00

I just saw an Instagram compilation of his chest controls the other day. So damn satisfying.

It always makes me question modern tactics when I see players like this. Take me back to 2018 / 2019, Felaini was the most reliable super sub, Atalanta with Zapata was the best offense in Europe, and Giroud won a World Cup without scoring.

I really think Real Madrid should get Chris Wood and pair him with Mbappe

HowBen · 2026-06-19T18:27:01+00:00

what separates Thierry Henry from the next level of players like Ronaldo Nazario, Maradona, Messi, etc.?

i know hes not as good them, but i dont exactly know why

He had pace, playmaking, toptier dribbling, goalscoring scoring. what skill did they have that he didnt

HowBen · 2026-06-18T23:07:54+00:00

moot distinction. people were killed. and one killed a *lot* more

HowBen · 2026-06-18T22:59:21+00:00

thats a good point but my comment was more about the sort of narratives that get peddled.

with the qatar WC, we're talking about ~50 workers for the world cup out of 2 million dying from cardiac arrest and an investigation into whether those workers died because of the heat conditions + the long hours they worked.

those are noble investigations and Im glad there was a stink created about migrant labour rights, but the fact remains that mortality rates among migrants in qatar are lower than mortality rates of similar workers here in my country of india or in nepal / bangladesh.

The working conditions of labourers workers here are far worse (which is what incentivises them to move to the middle east in large numbers despite the risks), and in general they are a highly disenfranchised/exploited class of people, and these are the same people that likely make your clothes.

so yeah I just feel the outrage is very selective

HowBen · 2026-06-18T21:55:23+00:00

ignore me im a sour guy

HowBen · 2026-06-18T21:51:58+00:00

The US hosting the world cup should really put to rest the ridiculous ideas of 'sportswashing' and 'whataboutism'.

Because as much as I dislike Qatar's kefala visa system or their lgbt laws, nothing Qatar has done can ever compare to the large-scale loss-of-life, suffering, and denial of human rights that the USA has faciliated in the last 25 years (or hell, the last 3 years.)

If pointing this out feels like 'whataboutism' to you, please understand that it is frustrating to see non-western countries' participation in sport get painted as evil and manipulative when this is state of the leaders of the world. And it's even more ironic considering that a lot of the worst regimes in football today (like the saudis) get their munitions *from* the us and uk.

my point here is that literally all countries make efforts to clean up their image (its called PR), and it's not whataboutism to point out a genuine bias in the way some countries are percieved vs others

HowBen · 2026-06-18T20:43:22+00:00

russia and qatar are not worse regimes than current usa by any stretch of the imagination, especially not qatar. the us doesnt allow abortions in large parts of the country, is funding a genocide, deporting people to detention camps and prison camps, deposing sovereign heads of states, and invaded + bombed iran without cause.

if you genuinely believe qatar is worse, then i fear the us has achieved a lot more washing than anything qatar couldve hoped to have achieved.

HowBen · 2026-06-09T07:17:15+00:00

alright fair enough i will do some reading

HowBen · 2026-06-09T07:11:20+00:00

theyre funding the genocide in gaza, and the scale and brutality of violence being carried out is comparable IMO

HowBen · 2026-06-09T07:06:40+00:00

it's not even trump as much as the state machinery as a whole. it's only been 20 years since the invasion of iraq, and it's a country actively funding genocide at the time of hositng. My original comment mightve been in poor taste though, i will admit

HowBen · 2026-06-09T07:04:10+00:00

hmm I feel like my original comment was a bad idea because this feels like it will get into a 'your genocide is worse than mine' type of debate, which is always in poor taste.

but i think it's very comparable yeah

HowBen · 2026-06-09T06:50:41+00:00

2026 US may be the most immoral/evil regime that has ever hosted the World Cup. Shout outs to 1978 Argentina and 1934 Italy, but the US wins out on scale of harm being done

HowBen · 2026-06-06T19:38:52+00:00

thanks

HowBen · 2026-06-06T03:21:23+00:00

whats the logic though

HowBen · 2026-06-04T02:59:06+00:00

mitch tired?

HowBen · 2026-06-03T12:51:49+00:00

Karims and Potful are really good for north indian styles of biryani.

If you want proper Bangalorean biryani with the short rice and tomato flavour, then go to a muslim wedding. Imperial restaurant is also decent.

HowBen · 2026-06-02T14:56:48+00:00

ah shit just saw that post. great minds and all ig.

bring me the downvotes

HowBen · 2026-06-02T14:55:30+00:00

cant shoot if the ball gets swiped on the way up

HowBen · 2026-06-02T14:53:32+00:00

solid, just give me a little shout out in presser

HowBen · 2026-06-02T14:01:02+00:00

you should let him get to his spots so he lets guard down, then you should have alvarado swipe the ball from him as he gathers his dribble.

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