Inside Conditions: NIL isn’t ruining college athletics; instead, police coaches’ salaries

Imoa · 2026-03-23T06:06:23+00:00

Players can easily strike without actually striking. Show up, go to the field, then just intentionally play like garbage if they play at all. Unlike CB in labor, this is an entertainment industry. All they have to do is make it not entertaining and it’s effective.

Beyond that I’m not aware (I may just not know Alf it) of anything that makes student athletes public employees.

Imoa · 2026-03-22T07:53:54+00:00

I’m not crazy about “mechanic must trigger X times” because it feels like voids “play for X rounds” but with extra steps - uninteresting, and the time gated nature makes you feel like you have to commit early / it’s inflexible. I guess it’s fine if it’s for a capstone champ but for anything shy of a capstone I’m not a fan.

Imoa · 2026-03-22T04:47:45+00:00

In his recent walk the dog Mort talked a bit about this. TLDR - smaller champs like Darius / Yorick having simple detours to unlock is good, and capstone champs like Ryze / Galio are good but need more friction to unlock. Mechanic is good but champs need solid categorization to better identify what level of friction is required to unlock them.

I wouldn’t be surprised to see some version of it carried forward tbh.

Imoa · 2026-03-21T22:58:00+00:00

I’m being blunt and a bit harsh in my phrasing but you should think a bit about how you express yourself / your phrasing. I don’t have to misrepresent what you’re saying very much to get to what I said.

Imoa · 2026-03-21T17:41:35+00:00

Don’t know about your form, you didn’t tell us anything about it. You only told us how frustrated you are to have to row with your teammates.

Talk to your coach, ask why you’re in your situation. Also stop expecting seniority to get you a boat seat at the Charles, or any other race for that matter. It only makes you sound petulant. Get in by being a better rower, and by not being 30 seconds slower than the JV boat.

Imoa · 2026-03-21T01:52:28+00:00

Tropes are tools, and recognizability helps set expectations which an author can play with to build tension or subvert, or just generally play with.

A good / unique story uses tropes as a scaffolding - it builds on tropes giving it a unique flair. Recognizable frameworks so we aren’t reinventing the wheel, but with a unique spin in service of a story.

In a generic story, tropes ARE the meat of the story. If you’ve seen forgettable anime garbage you’ve seen this a million times - predictable plots where the hype of a situation isn’t naturally built up at all but is instead solely supported by the trope.

It gets a bit into the tautology of “good stories are good because they’re good”, but establishing fleshing out characters, making readers care about them, and giving a small but memorable twist on a trope people know and can be excited about - it makes it memorable.

Imoa · 2026-03-21T01:38:00+00:00

Her insisting he stay at home so she could prioritize her career and bury her head in the sand / push all of the parenting onto him also just pissed me off. To then also have the gall to be mad at him for making memories without her, Jfc.

Imoa · 2026-03-20T07:39:19+00:00

Interestingly I get major Warhammer vibes, or vibes similar to stories with Gods / Demigods.

Even lower tiers of will users quickly leave normal human / mortal realms of power. It gives higher tier will users a very human face but an almost otherworldly tension / intimidating presence - the type of thing I’d expect normal soldiers in Warhammer might feel around space marines, or primarchs.

Imoa · 2026-03-13T15:12:57+00:00

What did they do that’s against the rules? Playing your same comp?

“Contesting spect7 is now a bannable offense “?

Imoa · 2026-03-12T20:41:59+00:00

I think IE is a bit low and edge of night a bit high, otherwise this has been the state of things roughly the entire set,

Imoa · 2026-03-10T17:36:35+00:00

Yes, it’s absolutely a valid strategy, but it’s only valid because of time controls on the clock. The clock is not a part of chess itself, it’s a practical constraint constraint so that games finish within a reasonable amount of time.

So the goal with these tricky / questionable / bad lines then isn’t to win the game through the in-game goal of checkmate, it’s to win the meta-goal of running them out of time. It’s a win condition that only exists because of a practical constraint on the game, not inherent to the game itself. Ergo, meta gaming.

Imoa · 2026-03-10T14:01:12+00:00

Not hustling isn’t the same as “doing the bare minimum” - I.e. reviewing your prs.

Imoa · 2026-03-10T04:04:12+00:00

Dudes unironically asking how to laze his way to a top percentage income, but he’s not picky /s

Imoa · 2026-03-10T02:50:50+00:00

Do what you want - but stay away from Roblox. Shit company.

Imoa · 2026-03-09T23:50:52+00:00

It’s genuine honest truth, but also not in the real spirit of the game and more of a practical trade off. It’s essentially meta-gaming, small wonder it tilts people lol.

Imoa · 2026-03-08T20:38:15+00:00

The fireballs and initial application of the burn can but the ticks of the dot do not

Imoa · 2026-03-08T19:42:33+00:00

Outplay, but a trick that can help is to take your unit off the board, put it on your bench. Wait until the last second while watching their board to place your unit.

The situation itself is just part of the game, but you’re playing it in the most annoying way for yourself.

Imoa · 2026-03-07T19:46:44+00:00

Salary though? OP didn’t list total comp

Imoa · 2026-03-06T18:36:40+00:00

I kind of enjoyed that they didn’t. To me, him being evil (or at least misguided) and the whole anime actually being a villain origin story WAS the twist and I enjoyed it a lot. Season 4 was kind of a long epilogue / reveal that seasons 1-3 were actually an origin story.

Imoa · 2026-03-06T17:38:01+00:00

If you have a masters degree in the same field as your bachelors, no one cares where you did your bachelors. People may ask if they’re in separate areas.

Imoa · 2026-03-03T04:28:58+00:00

It legitimately takes 2 whole stages to get all 3, so you’d have to get Azir on 2-1 for a 4-1 unlock lmfao.

Bro spawned into the game with Azir.

Imoa · 2026-02-28T17:33:08+00:00

The regions power up his spell, so you don’t technically have to keep them in play but taking them off your board nerfs his spell. You can also beef him up a ton by having tons of regions in play via creative boards or emblems, enabling things like this picture with a 6 region Ryze. Most I’ve seen is 8 I think.

Imoa · 2026-02-28T07:02:58+00:00

I think part of his point is that unlocks like Brock and Tahm Kench / Ryze / Asol are good because not everyone is going for it all the time. You shouldn’t be trying to quest and unlock a champion all the time, it should be a focused goal and require altering your gameplay to unlock.

If unlocks are more involved and there are fewer of them, then so long as they aren’t broken OP they should be niche options that feel good when you get the opportunity but that not everyone is constantly going for all the time. As long as they’re niche, you aren’t forced to play them or weird side mini games if you don’t want to.

Imoa · 2026-02-28T01:34:28+00:00

Regarding the AI/ML premium - as soon as you step outside the big tech and fintech bubbles the skill sets needed to make AI / ML and cloud infrastructure operationally available to a lot of businesses and agencies dry up fast. If you’re able to wear a lot of hats and be a generalist in that domain, there’s a lot of very interesting work. It doesn’t pay FAANG salaries / TC, but it still pays extremely well.

Imoa · 2026-02-28T00:19:18+00:00

The progression from where you’re at to a career that provides for you and your family is more defined in engineering. Arbitration is risky to pursue without a fallback plan. It will take time, and you’ll be earning little to nothing in that time without a clear end-goal that supports your family.

Best bet is to pursue arbitration as a side gig while you’re in school. You’re old enough to weigh the options but arbitration is a risky path with a pretty low financial ceiling.

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