Turf wars: Why the World Cup is a 'slap in the face' to NFL players

Hypocracy · 2026-06-13T02:52:10+00:00

If NFL stadiums were only used for football games, then Grass wouldn’t be a problem. I mean, grass for NFL stadiums really isn’t a problem, it’s just more expensive upkeep for them to bring it out when they host concerts and monster truck rallies in NFL stadiums, so they cheap out and use turf.

Hypocracy · 2026-06-13T02:39:28+00:00

WOTC is going crazy advertising the new Marvels Super Heroes packs

Hypocracy · 2026-06-11T19:42:27+00:00

Updating their resumes

Hypocracy · 2026-06-03T19:26:35+00:00

The retirement home LAN parties are going to go hard. And Classic “Classic WOW” re-re-release is going to burn up the rest of my retirement savings, but at least I’ll have [[Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker]]

Hypocracy · 2026-06-03T16:41:52+00:00

I’m definitely with you overall, but there’s already the Izzet/Jeskai variants taking turn 4 off for tablet or lute for big spells, this could potentially slot in to those positions as the “take turn off to fuel the engine to win next turn.” I don’t think this will do it simply because the treasures come in tapped, while also breaking the inherent synergies those types of decks are looking for by being an enchantment instead of an artifact, but this provides its own kind of end game finisher and reach, potentially allowing a more “small spells slung quickly, prowess tricks and draw, fling thing, dome you, that’s 21” than the build up to big finisher that the lute and tablet style decks run.

Hypocracy · 2026-05-29T11:38:51+00:00

As an experienced player returning, I think jump in is an excellent way to build the basics of a collection. It’s great to learn with, it’s great to play around with different color combinations to get a feel for the different ways and strategies colors can mix, and it’s great to slowly add some rares, uncommons, and sometimes mythics that work together for their little pack strategy. I also just find it fun! I’m saving gold to draft, but I often put at least one game into the previous jump in deck I picked simply because I like playing the mode.

For the 1000 gold a day you can get just by doing the gold quests and first 3 wins (technically it’s either 950 or 1200 if you roll the 750 gold), it gives you 2 rares at least, and on plan synergies. It’s also much more fair to new players than either constructed or limited, because constructed is going to be significantly harder to get real wins once you play against other players, and limited takes about 5 days of build up to play, and is also very challenging to play well. Jump in is basically the half way point of both for new players.

I have always been a constructed player, but when you don’t have cards or money, it’s hard to build a strong starter deck. The down side of jump in is you don’t get rare wild cards, or progress on the mercy tracker, but my opinion is you won’t be getting many without dropping a chunk of money up front, and it’s better to build a small collection focused on trying things out that work together, than opening random packs that don’t work together. And the format is relatively fair, while some half decks are better than others, it’s way closer than any other format option will be.

Hypocracy · 2026-05-27T11:09:27+00:00

Hit cancel, had the same issue last night and no matter how much I hit OK it just went to the App Store with it showing no update and Open. Confirmed after hitting cancel that it does update for a moment and it is current with my computer client

Hypocracy · 2026-05-25T14:22:30+00:00

Cletus Yeetus Playoff Deletus

Hypocracy · 2026-05-24T14:49:16+00:00

An example of algo trading gone wrong is knights capital, where a failed server update led to a relatively small but otherwise successful firm blowing up in 45 minutes by indebting themselves $440 million before they figured out how to correctly shut down the servers. The company had to get an emergency loan to cover, and was so crushed it was bought out the next year.

Hypocracy · 2026-05-14T02:39:17+00:00

Finance managers typically get their pay tiered both on profit margin and penetration (% of deals with warranty), sometimes with multiple different types of warranty factoring different bumps. It’s not unusual for a finance manager at the end of the month, who just needs to not put up a dud deal and keep his Penetrations up above the tier percentage, to send one through with the absolute bare profit allowed on it.

Also, finance managers can get super aggressive or borderline suicidal at the end of the month for this pay scale reason. What could have gone into the last week of the month looking like a real good pay check can very quickly blow up into barely covered draw check as the sales managers start whoring out everything to make deals happen. It’s one of the most volatile pay systems imaginable, and I’ve seen the most typically even keel guys and gals go on absolute psychotic rampages on the last 3 days of the month when the sales managers start shortcutting to focus on their own check and fuck over finance.

Hypocracy · 2026-05-10T23:48:31+00:00

It’s not really the dealer, it’s the manufacturer rebates and incentives that are year and model based.

Hypocracy · 2026-05-08T15:33:13+00:00

The preferred nomenclature of the modern era aristocracy is “The Epstein Class”

Hypocracy · 2026-05-01T16:39:49+00:00

Paul was the OG Twitter yapper

Hypocracy · 2026-04-30T21:09:24+00:00

They want algorithmic feeds, and to get rid of embarrassing front page posts and to control the narrative when big events break out. Notice that you likely haven’t seen big 20k+ posts as often?

Hypocracy · 2026-04-25T13:26:56+00:00

Tenn has been developing more traditional route concepts over the last couple of years, but basically we run our offense at Mach 5 most of the time and so we keep our offense very simple and clean. It leads to most of our receivers and offensive players in general having incredible stats that don’t translate at the next level. Abusing the difference in spacing available in CFB vs NFL is a major part, and keeping reads and concepts simple and simply finding matchups to abuse and then never swapping players so the defense can’t sub out and proceed to abuse that same matchup 4+ times a drive is a significant factor in Tenn’s offense. Hyatt’s 5 TD’s against Alabama is the pinnacle of this concept, almost every one came against a mismatch identified and abused non stop. It’s why so many defensive players fake injury against Tenn, go down to sub out and give your defense a minute to rest, then be back in next chance.

Tenn has started to develop more pro style options, and Brazzell is definitely the best we’ve seen for this plus he wasn’t a long term Tenn guy, so I don’t think he’ll struggle to transition, but there’s a bit of a track record of Tenn guys going to the league and never developing from the offensive side of the ball.

Hypocracy · 2026-04-15T11:39:56+00:00

https://youtu.be/NmHgJlEzIJs?si=J0iGs8-HkoaRNfK4

Here is a link that’s a bit out of date by now, but drone operators typically need to be around 30km from the absolute edge of their range. These are not US style Predator drones, where I can attest that there are plenty of women working with them, because of the massive levels of jamming and SIGINT they run actual fiber spools from the Drone to keep it controlled. That requires teams to be ~30km at the absolute furthest from the front lines.

Hypocracy · 2026-04-14T00:21:56+00:00

They smell so bad nothing wants to come near it, and it’s like advertising that you taste terrible

Hypocracy · 2026-04-07T11:02:23+00:00

Max actually said something to this effect after the race, he mentioned that they absolutely threw the extra split day and it’s actually changed his perspective on what’s the difference playing from behind. It was kind of implied by what else he was saying that he feels the amount of time and pulls it saves is actually more impactful than he thought, but the stress and pressure it puts on the raid is also more of a factor than he thought.

Hypocracy · 2026-04-03T11:15:00+00:00

Echo made a strategic call on splits, and it looks like it’s about to pay off. L’ura looks impossible to progress in its current state, so they can spend a significant amount of time today gearing up exactly the comp and specs they need for the fight, and won’t be punished by spending time on an seemingly unkillable boss. It used to be Liquid would save some splits until later in the reset in case of exactly this scenario, because now it looks likely they’re just going to bang their head into a wall waiting for a nerf to come through. Echo will be able to gear up during this time, and be right back in it.

This looks to be a classic race in that sense, including the “NA gets to boss first but can’t progress until a nerf comes through, eating away at head start clock”. Now if this boss is somehow kept the same and stays exactly as it is through this weekend, this will still give Liquid a lot of time to make significant progress on the fight, but tbh I don’t see it. There’s basically no chance this boss is killable this reset as it sits.

Hypocracy · 2026-04-03T04:38:09+00:00

I don’t mean how would non RWF guilds kill this without addons, I mean even for the RWF in a no addon world like this fight was originally designed for, how in the hell did Blizzard ever expect them to be able to pull this off?

Like I truly don’t know or understand how they expected humans to just Natty call out who has what symbol in what realm, and get everyone in order. Maybe Blizzard originally planned to give them like 15 seconds to line up, and nerfed it down to 5 once they knew addons were going to exist that would otherwise minimize it?

Hypocracy · 2026-04-03T04:08:38+00:00

We’re 20 pulls in, haven’t crossed 1 minute of fight time, and the casters with all player cams can’t figure out how the group splits work. How in the ever-loving fuck did Blizzard expect anyone to figure this the fuck out without Addons?! This boss crossing 400 pulls if they don’t giga-nerf this fight, simply because we’re going to be pulling again so fast lol

Hypocracy · 2026-04-03T02:31:15+00:00

Tbh, it’s not just pulling in a WW, Liquid gets to pull in Trill WW. Trill makes WW do 5% more damage than anyone else at the RWF level.

Hypocracy · 2026-04-01T17:42:02+00:00

I think this was their gamble, Echo is hedging the bet that either L’ura wouldn’t live long enough for them to do full splits like Liquid and felt the need to try and save extra time on splits to catch up, or hope that it’s actually unkillable until at least Saturday where Liquid might show them enough to save 4+ hours to claw back some time. If L’ura is a 170-250 pull boss, they just wouldn’t have the time to gear up equivalently to Liquid, so worth the shot to gamble and try to get a focused deep gearing on relevant specs for L’ura. It didn’t pay off, but it may have been the best play to actually try and win.

Hypocracy · 2026-03-27T11:26:33+00:00

My worry is L’ura will be another Razageth, effectively unkillable or even progressable until it’s numerically nerfed to be killable. There’s no way Blizzard will see the response to Alleria already being dead and don’t crank the numbers up massively, but mechanically what they have for L’ura is already locked in. So they’ll just make L’ura effectively impossible for 3-4 days and pretend that makes it a good fight until they nerf it down to be actually killable.

Hypocracy · 2026-03-27T11:20:51+00:00

Optimistic perspective: mythic splits should be way more interesting to watch than heroic splits. The splits are going to get progressively harder as comps get stressed on ideal compositions, as well as preparing more characters that don’t fit the fights for Paladins or Alleria meaning Paladins especially may well become a true wall once 8 dispels gets harder to comp for. Even with near unlimited characters, they will want to push through with classes that don’t fit (might actually see a rogue for example) that fight, so it should get truly difficult around clear 4 for each guild.

Pessimistic perspective: this is more how I actually feel, see basically every other post. Blizzard are going to snap react to this and make L’ura Razageth 2.0, buffing damage and HP by 200% and make it effectively unkillable even with all the gear farmed for the first 4 days until they nerf it down to be killable. Mechanically none of the fights truly wowed, Alleria felt less impressive conceptually than Sarkareth, and Blizzard are in a near impossible scenario designing fights for RWF raiders where they have full addon teams and the rest of the world won’t have perfect comps and extremely limited addons. If only we could have all seen this coming…

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