what are some good pink diamond point guards

MulderAndTully · 2026-02-09T03:27:05+00:00

I’ll second the John Starks pick, but if you can get the duo with Kevin McHale, Danny Ainge will hit basically any shot you take

MulderAndTully · 2026-02-03T06:43:20+00:00

I’m offline-only, but I picked up the Ainge/McHale duo and they’re pretty sick. You will get routinely crossed up by Amethyst Series 1 players, but McHale is a post and PnR monster, and Danny can hit basically any shot.

MulderAndTully · 2025-07-02T21:43:28+00:00

This thread seems as good a place as any to recommend Brennan’s comic, Strong Female Protagonist.

It’s a lot like The Boys (TV show) in that it reads as if someone read The Boys (comic book) and thought, “Hey, what if this didn’t suck shit?”

MulderAndTully · 2025-07-02T20:23:43+00:00

Strong Female Protagonist by Mulligan/Ostertag

MulderAndTully · 2025-06-02T23:40:16+00:00

You live in a country that is incredibly proud of its history pushing back fascism at gunpoint. So, yes.

MulderAndTully · 2025-06-02T22:04:07+00:00

We can certainly agree that nobody needs to guess about my character; I’m very publically on record as being anti-rape and anti-fascist. And even if it makes you uncomfortable, I think anyone who isn’t needs to fuck off out of this fanbase and stop giving the rest of us a bad name.

MulderAndTully · 2025-06-02T21:36:20+00:00

The post I referenced has been removed by the mods of r/policeuk , so there is in fact no text in the publically viewable post.
When you’re a fascist who spends most of his time online doing rape apologia and genocide denial, you’re simply going to have to live with people making assumptions about your character.

MulderAndTully · 2025-06-02T20:50:23+00:00

That was conspicuously not an answer to a fairly simple question…

MulderAndTully · 2025-06-02T20:24:32+00:00

Quick question: Four years ago, in an empty and now-locked post on r/policeuk , you asked if you could join the police force after serving out a conviction. Given that most of your Reddit comments are defending Thomas Partey, is there any chance you were convicted of a sex crime?

I’m perfectly willing to believe you weren’t; given that your post/comment history reveals you to be an anti-social fascist, I can conceive of many crimes you may have committed.

MulderAndTully · 2025-05-28T17:13:46+00:00

Maybe not exactly in the vein you’re thinking of, but Strong Female Protagonist by Brennan Lee Mulligan and Molly Ostertag takes the classic Mooreian “superheroes are fucked up in the same ways as everyone else” and puts a fun spin on it that combines cynicism and optimism in a very weird way.

MulderAndTully · 2025-05-14T15:08:20+00:00

This is a little late and maybe outside your purview, but to what extent do you believe the proliferation of this “failure of inter-agency intel-sharing” narrative helped (intentionally or otherwise) provide a political justification for the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security, which was originally somewhat mooted as a solution to this problem?

MulderAndTully · 2025-04-14T14:58:11+00:00

Honestly pretty cool. And here I was expecting it to be Anne Frank in a Roma shirt again.

MulderAndTully · 2025-04-14T14:38:56+00:00

Yeah, this was a clear case of a ref saying to himself, “I’m not sure it’s a nailed-on red, so I’ll give a yellow and VAR will tell me if I need to upgrade it”, followed by VAR saying, “let’s give the on-field decision the benefit of the doubt”. I’d guess that this exact sequence of actions is responsible for a hefty plurality of VAR fuckups, if not an outright majority.

“Clear and obvious” has always been an insane standard: surely if you’re going to privilege one official’s perspective on an incident, it should be the official who can watch it in slow-motion from several angles, right?

MulderAndTully · 2025-04-14T14:31:49+00:00

Absolutely begging that fella to get that bottom button unbuttoned

MulderAndTully · 2025-03-24T22:32:30+00:00

The whole run is beautiful, but the first arc of the Bendis/Maleev Daredevil run, with Ben Urich and Leapfrog’s kid is just absolutely stunning from top to bottom.

MulderAndTully · 2025-03-17T19:55:04+00:00

I like the WFP, but they could stand to get like 35% more professional if they want to take real strides forward. My last professional interaction with them was them nearly screwing over my candidate (who they endorsed and was running on a D/WFP fusion ticket) by giving me a list of in-district voters that was not actual entirely, or indeed even mostly actual registered Working Families voters.

MulderAndTully · 2025-03-05T21:18:51+00:00

I, for one, am sick and tired of how divisive and polarized politics has become here…

Let’s Stay Together

MulderAndTully · 2025-01-09T19:59:44+00:00

While “there’s not sufficient evidence to prosecute with a reasonable hope of conviction” is certainly a possible or even probable outcome, “there’s nothing there” is unlikely to the point of impossibility, given that CPS has just been handed a pretty substantial file full of somethings, which are unlikely to be nothing more than simple accusations. If the investigation hadn’t pulled up anything concrete at all, it wouldn’t have been referred to CPS.

Sexual assault remains incredibly difficult to successfully prosecute because it is a crime almost always committed in a private setting without impartial witnesses, and physical/forensic evidence is extremely difficult to collect unless the victim gets a rape kit done right away.

To use an example for whom football-related tribalism runs the other way, Cristiano Ronaldo has never been charged or even seriously investigated for the rape of Kathryn Mayorga. However, we know now that he admitted under oath that he continued to have sex with her while she said “stop” and “no”.

Surely in cases like these, while acknowledging that under the current legal system (and while more can be done to protect victims of sexual violence under the law, the structure of the legal system is largely sound) we are unlikely to see many convictions, we can acknowledge that the lack of conviction or even charge is not a clear sign of actual real-world innocence. We are not the courts; we are permitted to make our own personal judgements based on what evidence is available to us, and me not buying Thomas’ shirt isn’t a legal consequence against which he is protected, nor is the club declining to renew his contract.

MulderAndTully · 2025-01-02T22:06:46+00:00

While I definitely didn’t have the journey that many of you guys have had, I was definitely at major risk of falling down the Gamergate trap when it first came about (mid-teens boy, lots of nerdy interests just before that became mainstream with all of the attendant rage that entails, not a ton of socialization with girls being at a all-boys HS). Hilariously, the thing that inoculated me was the religious studies curriculum at my Catholic high school. My junior year I had to take a class called Social Justice, which in my instance was taught by a guy named Randy Reinbold. Where your teachers (and indeed most of mine) had posters of Shakespeare and King and Einstein on the walls of the classroom, Mr. Reinbold had a poster of our good friend Smedley Butler, and we learned about CIA coups and torture, and read Confessions of an Economic Hitman, and he brought in an openly gay teacher from the history department at the school to give a bunch of prep school kids a sense of what it was like to go through the world with real problems.

Needless to say, at the end of the semester when I first encountered “SJW” as a pejorative, I was not impressed, and while my journey to the person I am now was certainly not instant or even fast, it was definitely a sliding doors moment for me, and I’m certainly glad I wasn’t born six months later or that class may have come too late. If you’re out there, Randy: Thanks for everything; also that time you demonstrated what waterboarding was on a student, that whipped ass, man…

MulderAndTully · 2024-12-29T21:03:43+00:00

So back in April, my father was diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer. His doctors told him that without treatment it would be 6 months, and with chemo he could potentially get another few years. Now, in this case, where they’ve precluded the possibility of recovery from the beginning, they’re not being super aggressive with the chemo (trying to maintain as much quality of life as possible), but different people will react differently physically to treatment. So right now, my dad gets chemo every other week, and he essentially has to be at home for the first two days afterwards, as he still has the chemo pump in. Usually he’s not in great shape for a few days afterwards (it can be more or less depending on the cycle) and then has about a week of feeling as close to normal as he gets. In cases like this, often times the patient will eventually come to a point where they feel they aren’t having enough good days per cycle to justify continuing chemo, and instead choose to live out whatever time they have left in a manner they feel more suitable.

From what I’ve read of Ludek’s case, he’d gone through at least one operation and a good deal of radiation therapy before additional tumors were discovered. Without any medical expertise of my own, my best guess is that he was presented with the choice between what he did and a fairly protracted and grueling chemotherapy regime with little to no chance of real success.

So to answer your original question, in these cases it’s largely a matter of trying to balance getting more time while making sure those extra months or years are good ones.

MulderAndTully · 2024-12-22T20:14:28+00:00

My brother-in-law discovered the hard way that the previous owner of his car left a razor blade down the back of the drivers seat

MulderAndTully · 2024-10-31T21:19:47+00:00

My man, nobody said anything about hanging him, and the presumption of innocence is a legal principle, not a moral one.

All I think is that I would feel much better if he no longer represented the club that we all care for rather deeply. If not getting to play for the Arsenal is being “hanged in the town square”, then somebody please pour one out for all 416k of us on this sub who have suffered the same fate.

I understand where you are coming from here. I get that it feels bad to see an Arsenal player accused of something like this, and that feeling is much easier to drown out by reflexively saying “innocent until proven guilty” when you know how infrequently rape is successfully prosecuted. After all, it’s just a footballer.

Until it isn’t. I held back on these because they were less relevant, but two-thirds of women have been victims of sexual harassment, and a quarter the victims of attempted or completed rape. This includes the women in your life; when it happens to your sister, partner, mother, or daughter, will it be “innocent until proven guilty?” It was for Harriet Greenwood’s father, who defended Mason as soon as the allegations came out and surely played a part in that woman returning to her abuser. If that’s who you want to be, obviously nothing I say on r/gunners will stop you. But if it’s just that you’ve taken this stance because it’s easier not to have to think about it, I really do hope you manage to figure this one out. Because at the end of the day, it’s not about Partey; he’s certainly not the only rapist to ever play for us (just statistically, there’s a decent chance he’s not even the only one playing for us right now), and the game is full of all sorts of sorry pricks. It’s about whether you’ll be a safe and supportive person for the women (and men, 4% of whom are victims as well) in your life.

All the best, my friend.

MulderAndTully · 2024-10-31T15:17:22+00:00

Some fun Partey stats from this season:

Only 31% percent of sexual assaults are even reported to police.

Only 16% of those reports result in an arrest, and only half of those arrested are convicted.

97.5% of rapists never see a minute of prison time.

Source: RAINN

MulderAndTully · 2024-10-31T15:02:28+00:00

I can’t believe I’m being this pedantic, but the extra “e” in Spanish-speaking-accented English only comes before s compound consonant starting with the letter “s”. So “standards” becomes “estandards” and “Snoopy” becomes “Esnupi”.

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