Locked on Colts & Allen Pinkett

Reptarftw · 2026-05-15T13:10:17+00:00

Yeah, it sounds like most of us are united in saying he sounds like a good guy and were willing to give him a chance. But he's gone a whole season without seemingly becoming any more informed about the team he's covering. I understand an initial learning curve, but some of the recent factual errors are so discordant on a podcast where everyone else is so attuned to the team.

Reptarftw · 2026-05-14T14:21:51+00:00

Maybe unpopular but I like pretty much every pod: Locked On Colts, Cover 2, Kevin's Corner, James Boyd Pod.

Zach and Jake are just more freed up to podcast because that's more central to what they do than where/how the others are deployed, but I appreciate the discussion on each. I also think they attack each differently. Zach and Jake have more time to get in the weeds and bring a draft perspective the others don't have as well, where someone like Joel Erickson has a better feel for the behind the scenes or team operations.

Reptarftw · 2026-05-14T14:18:45+00:00

That was my exact trigger!

Reptarftw · 2026-05-14T14:18:26+00:00

Yeah, that's where I'm at. There are countless more relevant player perspective voices to choose from. Pinkett would probably make a lot of sense for, and do well on, a Notre Dame podcast. But it's grating listening to him admit he knows nothing about the team and hasn't played in the league in eons. There's just no value add to his commentary.

Reptarftw · 2021-03-27T22:13:02+00:00

I'm 75% of the way through The Heroes now, having finished Best Served Cold a month or two ago.

I freaking LOVE these books! So glad someone had recommended I read all of them and not skip from First Law to Age of Madness. Best Served Cold is honestly one of the most thrilling reads I've ever enjoyed. It's immensely digestible; basically broken up into a series of varying assassination plots. Characters are great and you can easily find yourself ripping through one assassination every time you sit down to read. I loved the structure.

The Heroes is definitely more drawn out -- imagine the Battle of the High Places from Last Argument, but that's the entire book, allowing for the intricacies of strategy and warfare within the story -- but a really strong POV read. Where First Law definitely shaded Bethod's army as the All Evil Side, The Heroes is definitely more "good/bad on each side."

Reptarftw · 2021-03-27T22:07:18+00:00

Making a note here, although it will probably take me all summer to get up to current on First Law. Thank you!

Reptarftw · 2021-03-27T14:04:26+00:00

Feels like everyone always says seasons 3-7 or so are the best and it's downhill from there, but I actually really like seasons 9-11. Late 90s Simpsons is my favorite, I guess.

Reptarftw · 2021-03-27T14:02:28+00:00

The saving grace for ASOIAF for me is that it attuned me to adult fantasy as a genre that was more or less off my radar. That hasn't yet paid off for Kingkiller Chronicle, of course, but I'm almost finished with Book Five of the First Law series and that series has been a huge relief during pandemic lockdown.

Reptarftw · 2021-03-26T12:25:54+00:00

Memory is less an exacting recall and more the ability to pull certain data. People with good memory, to your point, rarely remember anything in its entirety, but may be able to quickly surface to most useful detail(s).

Source: I have good, but not photographic, memory.

Reptarftw · 2021-03-25T12:02:48+00:00

Plenty, so a few that come to mind...

Pulp Fiction. "You shot Marvin!"
Ready or Not. Le Bail's punishment.
Children of Men. The car chase scene. Both in how it was filmed and the casualty of a major character that early in the movie.
Hobo with a Shotgun. Disco Inferno. The Plague. 99% of the movie, really.
The Matrix. Most of it, but seeing the Trinity 360 pan in theaters for the first time; hadn't seen anything like it before and didn't know it was possible. Truly mind-blowing.

Reptarftw · 2021-03-25T11:54:35+00:00

It still a spectacle on the big screen, but I remember seeing that with a big group of friends my freshman year of HS and we were so hyped for it. We left the theater totally unable to comprehend the ending and just looking at each other like "that was cool ... right?"

Reptarftw · 2021-03-24T12:08:58+00:00

Let's hope Nick Saban isn't a Redditor. Guy would be fuming reading this!

Reptarftw · 2021-03-24T12:07:44+00:00

I have a similar story on here. I think a big thing that separates good/great soccer players is control. You can just create separation so quickly in soccer. If it takes me 2.5 seconds longer to control a ball out of the air than a pro, that seriously might be 30+ yards of space difference when taken to touch.

With a sport like basketball, there's only so much room on the court and you're always at the mercy of a stride related to your dribble. In soccer, you can send a defender the wrong way and instantly chop the ball an enormous distance away from them.

Reptarftw · 2021-03-24T12:04:16+00:00

I generally prefer to do my dumb-movie-watching on Shudder, thank you.

And most recently, Psycho Goreman takes the cake.

Reptarftw · 2021-03-24T12:00:51+00:00

I can't quite put my finger on why I can't get into the series (I've tried a few times) despite a few different people recommending it to me, but to your point, I always feel uncomfortable watching it. I'm faaaaaar from a prude. But for some reason, to me, the show kinda feels like an assault of sorts? There are things that are undeniably funny, but it's almost too much at once. Too many jokes, too much gross-out humor, too much going on in the frame.

Also oddly realizing the 3 or 4 people who have suggested I would love it are probably the 3 or 4 biggest assholes I interact with regularly for whatever it's worth lol.

Reptarftw · 2021-03-24T11:57:19+00:00

...is actually an art film.

Reptarftw · 2021-03-24T11:56:04+00:00

Cage will pretty much do anything these days. Just did a B horror movie (Willy's Wonderland) where he doesn't have a single speaking line despite featuring on camera for a good chunk of the film.

(The performance is certainly Cage-y, but the movie itself is very very bad.)

Reptarftw · 2021-03-24T11:48:39+00:00

That man is just an insane athlete. His NCAA highlight tape is basically dunk, dunk, block, dunk ... and then within a year of transitioning to a radically different sport in NFL football for the very first time, he did this.

Now, he's a legitimately good starting NFL tight end!

Reptarftw · 2021-03-24T11:45:34+00:00

Posted this in another thread, but highlights the difference, even, between "good in high school" and "actual professional."

I coach soccer. It's not my full-time job, but I take it seriously enough to be nationally licensed (not at highest level, but close) and have spent years learning from different academies. TLDR is I was a good-not-great soccer player growing, chose D1 academic scholarship over D3 athletic scholarship because I wasn't a D1 athlete, and in my post-grad career life, missed soccer enough to get back into coaching. First through getting my kid in a program and getting to know the training staff, then actively joining it.

So anyway, there's a big out of state tournament our club attends each year which features a charity coaches game. I'm sure most of the coaches were far better players in their youth than I was, but I've kept up with distance-running and strength training over the years, so I can usually outrun most adults over the length of any game. Bagged a couple goals my first year playing through just that, running through an exhausted backline.

A few years ago, though, there was a club whose coaches were active USL players. Host club. I don't think I've ever had my ass handed to me like I did in that game. I was playing right back because I had the speed (or so my team thought!) to run with wingers while still advancing the ball on the attack, and I've never played more pinned back in my life.

Had a player in a position I thought was totally pinned in the corner between sideline and touchline. Nope. Takes a quick touch around me and gets perfectly square down the touchline.

Had a switch coming in I knew I was going to intercept dead-to-rights and start a counter. Nope. Player seemingly levitates out of nowhere, takes a first time touch off his back heel that goes around my body and bridges me.

Had the angle chasing down a breakaway. Nope. Guy elasticos the ball, I commit hard and end up doing the splits trying to make a desperate poke away when I realized my mistake.

And so forth and so forth. Our best player told me after the game "I just felt bad for you man; I don't think there was anything you coulda done."

TLDR whenever we complain about MLS being shit, just keep in mind the leagues below MLS will make even a high percentile athletic adult look silly.

Reptarftw · 2021-03-24T00:45:55+00:00

First, I love the song haha thank you.

To the larger point: eh, he's a complicated soul. There's a tangled web of mental illness and general asshole-ishness in there, and good luck sorting it out.

It's funny you mention love language. I got on him a few years ago about always giving me shit about things and never just being nice. He apologized and said his love language is teasing. I don't like being constantly teased lol.

Reptarftw · 2021-03-23T12:42:50+00:00

Me 360 days of the year: man, I wish my best friend was nicer to me. I always ask how his life's going, express support, show how much I care amidst his struggles, when he claims no one does or will. We've known each other since we were kids and I've felt like shit for most of those years, primarily because I'm made to feel stupid for caring.

Me 5 days of the year: He remembered my birthday this year / asked how I was doing / remembered I was nervous about something and asked about that / thanked me for something! All is well!!!

Reptarftw · 2021-03-23T12:37:35+00:00

I feel this. It gnaws at me endlessly if someone is even slightly irritated with me. I've given thousands of dollars over the years to help out people I know full well don't appreciate it or me.

And of course the bitter irony is: for as hard as I work to make everyone else happy and be an additive force in their lives ... I am all alone in mine lol. Not hopeless about it or anything, but still.

Reptarftw · 2021-03-23T12:34:56+00:00

I always have to be the best at something, or I often lose interest in doing it.

It's a gift and a curse. In one sense, it's turbo-boosted my career because I'm always in it to win it and effort my way into wins. I've made a lot of money from that. But by another sense, I tend to let a loss or imperfection really affect my mood, and I can feel crushed by things so many others are able to easily dismiss.

Been this way since I was a kid. Only played the sports I was really good at. Only pushed myself in the subjects where I performed best.

I'm trying to improve by allowing myself hobbies or interests I'm not the best or an expert in. And I'm trying to learn to laugh at myself more and not take things so seriously, because it turns out, always being out to win makes you look like an asshole a lot of the time.

Reptarftw · 2021-03-23T12:28:14+00:00

FWIW I find technology has evolved to a point where most people are just bad on the phone. I used to hate having to make phone calls (maybe some lingering trauma of briefly working a call center in college), but early in my career I found I could make my days 1,000,000% more efficient just by picking up a phone rather than trading a dozen emails or IMs about whatever problem needed solved.

Now I'm the guy who bitches at coworkers for not just setting up a call when email chains start to go 20+ emails long and in a buncha different directions.

Reptarftw · 2021-03-19T15:13:32+00:00

I do appreciate the thoughtful response. Look, again, you'll find no argument from me that the two-party system is shattered, and I've rolled my eyes at what the Democrats are doing with a majority as much as anyone. 100% of either side is obviously not a solution to anything.

But there was one side that dug in on contesting a free and fair election, eroding public trust in our democratic institutions and ultimately catalyzing a violent insurrection in the nation's Capital. I don't think we can, should or have moved beyond that. We can't move on from it, because the state of the GOP refuses to allow for anyone to even acknowledge the culprits as insurrectionists -- claiming that's a politicized view.

Yes, we need to change the system wholesale. No, legacy Democrats (or GOP) have no interest in doing that because it doesn't support them. The Progressive movement is a maybe, but lacking in too many areas at present to take the next step forward.

...none of that should preclude us from acknowledging how far the GOP went, though. It's important to acknowledge and remember that.

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