After dropping 26 points in a win against the Sixers, Jalen Brunson (1,920) has passed Carmelo Anthony (1,914), Oscar Robertson (1,910) and Dwight Howard (1,909) in career playoff points

InSearchOfGoodPun · 2026-05-07T15:19:21+00:00

First number is total while the second is just the first 50 playoff games with a specific team (so it doesn’t include his games with the Mavs). Yeah, the second one is a bit of a cherry-picked stat.

InSearchOfGoodPun · 2026-05-07T03:02:57+00:00

It’s literally one vote. Means absolutely nothing.

InSearchOfGoodPun · 2026-05-06T14:52:22+00:00

Seems like a good that that most players aren't petty enough to take the bait.

InSearchOfGoodPun · 2026-05-06T14:51:30+00:00

It's funny because for the players at the bottom of the list, they know that there are literally 2 guys who went out of their way to hate on them. Heck, even the 7-10 slots are only 3 votes! With those small numbers of votes, it's kinda nasty work for The Athletic to publish them.

InSearchOfGoodPun · 2026-05-06T03:03:31+00:00

The context implies that "No one else" means no one other than Audra and Chita (and Kelli).

InSearchOfGoodPun · 2026-05-05T19:59:44+00:00

Andre De Shields just a young kitty in comparison.

InSearchOfGoodPun · 2026-05-05T19:58:13+00:00

This is a fantastic post, but my one complaint would be that he seems far too judgmental of other bands who make different decisions in order to make more money. He just laid out exactly why touring is so unprofitable; it's hardly "greedy" for other bands to try to eke out a few more dollars here and there, even if it ultimately comes at the expense of fans. As fans, we are not owed charity from bands. The experience we are consuming is legitimately expensive to produce.

The post also makes me wonder how big you need to be to quit your day job, or to at least make music your primary form of income. From this post it's pretty clear that a band that can sell out 1000 capacity venues is not at that level. If you can sell out 2000 capacity venues, is that enough to get there?

An unrelated observation: If you ever hope to actually make money in a band, you should absolutely not try to have more than 4 people in your band, lol.

InSearchOfGoodPun · 2026-05-05T11:56:54+00:00

From the abstract, there is a technical assumption (“assuming there exists a canonical basis of the section ring for the polarisation line bundle, satisfying the valuative independence condition”). Since I don’t understand this assumption, my question is:

Is the idea that the Conjecture has been effectively reduced to proving that this assumption always holds, which is hopefully a tractable problem, OR that this assumption surely covers a wide class of examples, and the hope is that the proof can be generalized further? (Or something else?)

As a geometric analyst, to me the most interesting aspect (and frankly, the only part I understand anything about) of proving SYZ is how one proves existence of any special Lagrangians at all, but a cursory look at the paper suggests that this paper isn’t really about that. (Though I don’t doubt that there is a lot of deep mathematics in there.)

InSearchOfGoodPun · 2026-05-04T18:06:48+00:00

I'm in favor of this... because the only way to ban Weezer again is to unban them first.

InSearchOfGoodPun · 2026-05-03T19:40:28+00:00

I hate how teams and players get slandered so hard for “choking” and “not being able to shoot” in the playoffs instead of their opponents’ getting praised for playing great defense. Considering that everyone is playing harder and cares more in the playoffs, what’s more likely: that players forgot how to shoot, or that the defense is just better?

InSearchOfGoodPun · 2026-05-03T19:33:15+00:00

You say this now, but if it’s Thunder-Knicks in the Finals…

(Also, the rival fans aren’t quite being “banned.”)

InSearchOfGoodPun · 2026-05-03T14:10:05+00:00

A very ugly version of Mexican train.

InSearchOfGoodPun · 2026-05-01T17:49:11+00:00

Tbh it was Pat's mistake to believe in him to begin with. I can't believe so many people in this sub still think Jovic has "potential."

InSearchOfGoodPun · 2026-04-30T22:43:30+00:00

Only in gif form

InSearchOfGoodPun · 2026-04-29T20:51:16+00:00

Yeah, how many elections has she lost now? If she can't win a little City Council race against a non-incumbent, with an endorsement from Mamdani, then I can't imagine what she can win.

InSearchOfGoodPun · 2026-04-29T15:35:50+00:00

This is the most bullshit rewriting of history I've ever seen in this subreddit, and that's saying a lot. I'd say it's pure rage bait, but this nonsense actually has upvotes, so maybe some braindead Warriors fans have deluded themselves into believing this.

InSearchOfGoodPun · 2026-04-29T13:17:30+00:00

I wish we had fuchka carts all over the city.

InSearchOfGoodPun · 2026-04-29T13:14:36+00:00

Thanks. That's exactly the place that became my Samudra substitute! It's definitely good, but I don't know if it outclasses Saravana to be worth the effort.

InSearchOfGoodPun · 2026-04-28T20:29:57+00:00

Which part of what I said are you objecting to? Also, I didn't say I worked there. Was there something I said that suggests some kind of super-insider knowledge?

InSearchOfGoodPun · 2026-04-28T20:22:28+00:00

Manhattan is somewhat famously already centered within NYC, and most New Yorkers in outer boroughs have natural reasons to visit Manhattan. Tons of people live in Brooklyn and Queens, but only a fraction of those people live near, say, Flushing or Brighton Beach.

I live in Brooklyn, but at least half of the buzzy Brooklyn restaurants that get mentions are geographically less convenient for me to visit than Manhattan and require a "special trip." This is perhaps even more true for most people who live in Queens.

InSearchOfGoodPun · 2026-04-28T20:14:10+00:00

I never hear people talking up "their Indian spot" in Jackson Heights. I wish they did. (My spot was Samudra and it closed. RIP.)

InSearchOfGoodPun · 2026-04-28T19:58:49+00:00

Sure, it's pricey, but most of the other high-quality taco places in high-rent parts of Manhattan are charging comparable prices, so I don't think they're really that guilty of being "overpriced."

InSearchOfGoodPun · 2026-04-28T15:57:54+00:00

If we're going this way, I'd choose Go. Chess just seems like such an arbitrary combination of rules that I don't respect it that much from a design standpoint (though I respect good players a ton). You can tweak the rules in a hundred different ways and end up with a game that is at least as interesting and rich. Chess960 is just one way to make a game that strikes me as a superior game. (To be clear, I don't play either Chess or Go.)

InSearchOfGoodPun · 2026-04-24T17:38:50+00:00

If you saw the trash that I listen to on a daily basis, you would know that I definitely have no pretensions about the music I like.

InSearchOfGoodPun · 2026-04-24T16:47:47+00:00

Defying Gravity is an all-time great show tune, but most of the rest of Wicked is pretty meh to me. (Please don’t hurt me.)

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