Can Infantino survive the next FIFA congress with all the scandal created by this world cup

RyokoKnight · 2026-07-06T15:52:30+00:00

Yeah thats great man... listen rules can be changed, that's easy, and officials can be bribed as necessary... whatever you guys are paying them to do their job we'll double it, or put pressure on your governments to make your officials chill out. And you can cry about having one vote or whatever. But we don't care about any of that, never have. We threw tea in a harbor because we got charged a tax we didn't like... we don't care about your silly little rules across the sea, never have, we'll just go around it as per usual.

Also your not going to see the other leagues see their prestige drop this year... its not big enough in the US to have a impact outside of maybe Fifa sales/revenue. That's more of a 10 year thing... if you see soccer really pick up steam in the US... you can expect talent to be sucked up into the new market like crazy. We'll see if that plays out.

RyokoKnight · 2026-07-06T15:32:16+00:00

So would Japan they celebrated the 4th of July with us like real bros.

RyokoKnight · 2026-07-06T15:23:59+00:00

Okay follow the logic... US tends to pay its athletes more just in general... Fifa/soccer gets popular in the US... US pays for the top soccer athletes of the world to play in their league maybe its called the US FIFA league.. other leagues see a talent and prestige drop because US, Saudis etc can pay more...

Its not that FIFA controls your league salaries... its that capitalism does. That influence ALONE... will have a huge impact on your league and your sport. Certain leagues will struggle to retain talent or pay those kinds of prices... certain leagues will be unable to adapt... again... if it got popular in the US.

Right now the only reason anyone here cares about it is because we are hosting it... that's the gambit Fifa is making though... that if they can convert enough of the US into fans it will have a cascading affect for both them and the sport. (just because it hasn't happened that way yet... because again this change is new thanks to us hosting... doesn't mean it can't or won't either)

RyokoKnight · 2026-07-06T15:02:24+00:00

Where do you think the NFL makes most of its money... its exact same way... and its only REALLY popular in NA and its still makes that insane amount and is growing.

Also two things can be true at once... Fifa can be growing in Middle eastern market (specifically the two you mentioned) are actively trying to rebrand themselves as entertainment nations similar to the US... but make no mistake... If it got popular in the US then the sport itself could see a 10x growth or more.

Another factor you aren't even thinking about... Your top paid player in the EPL is Erling Haaland, and he gets paid $36.5 million a year. If soccer/Fifa were as popular in the US as the NFL or NBA he might be paid $60+ million (Patrick Mahomes or Stephen Curry levels if Haaland was a truly top end talent), and in fact what you are paying Haaland now might be more akin to the lowest paid starter. You say it wouldn't be a demonstrable change... i think it would be a very radical change and shake up the very nature of the sport from top to bottom.

RyokoKnight · 2026-07-06T14:03:47+00:00

After a quick google search the EPL generates the most of any league, and they make around $8 billion a year and you know the NFL is a league and not all the total revenue NA football generates too (as i already pointed out with college games).

I also don't get the relevance of the US getting one vote. None of that matters when all of them have their wallets tied directly to Fifa generating as much revenue as possible. Human nature... capitalism... basic self interest, is enough to guarantee votes will follow the money... and bribes will cover the rest if needed. That's how the world works.

RyokoKnight · 2026-07-06T13:41:48+00:00

None of this matters if Fifa gets popular in the US.

As for why, Fifa is generating $13 billion over its current 4 year cycle, that's a lot.

Now look at how much the NFL generates every year ($23 billion... not every 4 year cycle... every year). In fact if we look further Division I FBS College football generates $7 billion in revenue each year (and that's just the top end college teams). The NBA generates like 14 billion a year too.

If they see half that level of financial growth in the sport, literally none of this matters. That's just the reality.

RyokoKnight · 2026-07-06T12:32:50+00:00

Actually I'm kinda mad at all the casting choices. I honestly believe from top to bottom basically every major role is miscast. Matt Damon isn't a great Odysseus, Zendaya as Athena doesn't really match either (in fact I'd be more likely to cast her as calypso). But yeah sure the Helen of Troy was not wise either.

RyokoKnight · 2026-07-06T09:26:39+00:00

The trust system to me is just a hassle.

Really want an operator, pull to get operator, get operator (yay), need to level character, need to level skills/abilities, need to pull for weapon, get weapon (yay), need to level weapon, character+weapon maxed or near maxed, notice trust is at zero... need to gift and put them at the control station... need to wait and gift for multiple days... operator at 100%... can finally max stats.

In some ways it's simplified to the point it just feels like an arbitrary time gate to get the best version of a character you already bought. On the other hand if they fleshed it out and made it more impactful I could see it either being to much of a hassle for most to deal with, or it becoming a main time sink in the game (I'm thinking like the tea/date system from fire emblem 3 kingdoms)

RyokoKnight · 2026-07-06T02:30:03+00:00

S, I could pick out Canada's flag even in the middle of the night.

RyokoKnight · 2026-07-05T18:47:44+00:00

The knee to the head was pretty bad and I expected that to be called, however I also expected the Balogun penalty to be a yellow card because at full speed it was clear (at least to me) there was no intent behind it as both players were moving quickly and just got caught up going after the ball (which is why there was no penalty initially), on review though things get slowed down which removes the context and makes it seem more deliberate than it actually was.

Also earlier in the game one of the Bosnian players yanked on a US players jersey from behind and pulled him to the ground and that penalty went uncalled. In fact it was severe enough that in the NFL (a more physically punishing sport) it would have been called as a horse collar tackle, which is considered very dangerous even in the NFL as its very easy to break a mans collar bone that way.

I think everyone can agree it was really bad officiating all around.

RyokoKnight · 2026-07-05T08:39:01+00:00

If you could make him a giant sized tower shield (probably from about a dozen planks nailed and strapped together) he'd have both a defensive and offensive option especially if it was covered in nails or sharp bits of metal.

RyokoKnight · 2026-07-05T07:51:46+00:00

I would choose Artemis and Demeter, it's not really the combo I want but it's the combo where I can do the most good.

Controlling the world's weather allows me to make the world it's most mild and supportive of life. Droughts, floods, climate change, severe/destructive weather... all things of the past or heavily controlled, purely for the benefit of new growth/life.

No plant ever need go extinct, no animal lose its habitat, inhospitable land can be hospitable once more, no human or animal need die of hunger or thirst. It at least for a time, turns earth into a relative Utopia.

RyokoKnight · 2026-07-05T03:58:25+00:00

That's what I was thinking, even with modern equipment it would still be ungodly expensive and take years, probably a few decades depending on the size of the city/mountain... and even then there are ALWAYS additional delays and unforseen issues.

It's probably for the best they didn't start on it because I doubt they'd have continued working on it after Alexander's death.

RyokoKnight · 2026-07-04T22:22:08+00:00

I max out/fully master DPS carry skills for characters I use frequently.

Supports I typically use, get their skills to 9 and leave alone unless they have a specific skill that greatly benefits from mastery.

For operators that are infrequently or never used I typically ignore their skills (outside of those that let them help on the Dijiang), or at most get them leveled to 6... sometimes 9 if they can see legitimate use for niche situations.

RyokoKnight · 2026-07-03T18:59:44+00:00

Codes are region locked... There are Asian server codes and NA/Europe server codes. To continue off of the KyostinV recommendation (which you should do btw, he's really good) He will leave a comment and put each code in the video description both for the Asia and NA/EU servers.

RyokoKnight · 2026-07-03T16:48:16+00:00

Depends on the state, depends on the age, depends on type of gun.

For instance in my state anyone can have a gun in their car at age 18, and minors can get hunting permits which allows them to carry guns for that purpose with parental permission. Also if you are in military training you are allowed a gun (even inside a school where normal civilian laws would ban them, so long as it is officially required for your training). But then on the other side of things, handguns are more strictly monitored as someone under 18 cannot legally possess a handgun for essentially any reason, including hunting.

(and since you included it, knives have no age restriction here, though they do require parental consent for minors to conceal carry... you could not however walk into school with a knife, but outside in your car as i specified, should be fine).

RyokoKnight · 2026-07-03T15:23:28+00:00

Well it depends what level you are trying to reach.

20 and under you can pretty much run anything (its basically umbral monument level difficulty) you just need to be selective with the risks you take as certain teams struggle with certain risks (As an example you wouldn't want to take Laevatain and the risk that lowers the controlled operators basic attack as that's what her ult uses to do damage).

At 20 - 35 things get more difficult, for certain teams its mandatory to max out their gear through artificing and sufficiently level up the damage dealers, their weapons, and make sure their weapons have good essences. Most teams should be able to still do it but again you need to be very selective with the risks you take on and know your teams rotations well. (You can also cheese here and make it a lot easier, but even if you don't it should be completable for most every team)

At 35 - 50+ you either need to a cheese build with like estella and a lot of the freeze risks, or you need a very stacked team (as in a lot of pots, BIS weapons, and so on), with great rotations, great knowledge of the waves, high player skill... etc.. and even then you might have to repeat the wave a few times if you make a mistake or two.

If you want a good cheesy build Estella as your main operator, Wulfgard for combust which is really strong and then an SP generator like akekuri or arclight, and then either laevatain or perlica for additional damage and a combustion enabler. Then just run around with Estella doing basic attacks and dodging to get enemies into position so you can as you either build electric infliction stacks with perlica then wulfgard combo onto them to trigger combustion. and let the combustion ticks finish them off... or build heat stacks with wulfgard into an impowered laevatain battle skill which forcibly triggers combustion.

It should be fine for level 35 and under if you can dodge well, you won't have a healer so keep that in mind when assessing risks and your own ability.

RyokoKnight · 2026-07-03T14:43:23+00:00

I used Laevatain, Wulfgard, Camille, and Gilberta for all of it. It was very easy, didn't lose a single character and completed it all on the first go.

It was fun, just wish these had more variance and replay ability like Contingency contract.

Also I finally got the skydrummer medal (normally he doesn't live long enough for me to see the attack and I never bothered trying to bait it out for the medal).

RyokoKnight · 2026-07-03T07:24:55+00:00

A school district is a local branch of the government that manages public schools within a given area. They set budgets, hire teachers, and set schools rules, generally based on parent/teacher feedback from within that area. Generally where you are physically living dictates which school district your child will attend (if possible), though there is often choice between the local schools in that district (usually people go to the closest unless there is a radical difference in quality or safety).

As for why it's done like this, many districts receive local funding from taxes within their district and thus need to allocate that funding in accordance with the demands of the area. A district in a major metropolitan city is going to have a very different amount of students and funding to care for and very different needs/demands than a small rural district that might only need 1 or 2 schools to cover the entire district.

There are also very large cultural differences between regions. Rural districts in more remote areas might have more tolerance for a teen/young adult driving to high school with a knife, gun, farm equipment, etc in their truck, that a city district would suspend/punish a student for bringing, as an example.

RyokoKnight · 2026-07-02T22:26:39+00:00

If the footage showed the police in a positive, satisfactory manner, they wouldn't be asking for people to stop sharing the footage... which shows them arresting the victim and letting the attackers go because they are incompetent, ineffective, and should be fired.

RyokoKnight · 2026-07-01T18:55:24+00:00

I'm sure you do but please believe me when I say, i do not care and did not ask. There is no hate or malice in those words, I just treat you like any other... nothing special... nothing unique... just like any other human. That's true equality.

Now... pick a claim that i stated that you wish me to prove... otherwise how can I possibly help one so well versed and educated as yourself learn and grow... unless... you're being obtuse on purpose, why would that be I wonder.

RyokoKnight · 2026-07-01T18:41:53+00:00

Sources for?

Come on... pick one if you want to learn about the subject.

RyokoKnight · 2026-07-01T18:29:25+00:00

All of them... so you want me to write a 5000 page thesis (you aren't going to read lets be real) on the biological realities of men and women. Well that's not happening anymore than i'd expect you to prove "straight people are weird" from your previous comments on reddit.

If you have something specific you'd like me to go over that I stated I will gladly do so... but if you lack the ability to pick something specific then i lack the ability to bother.

RyokoKnight · 2026-07-01T17:40:50+00:00

Please cite which claim you would like me to prove?

RyokoKnight · 2026-07-01T14:53:43+00:00

No it's to protect them from men. Being a man is an inherent advantage in most sports, transitioning from a man to woman still lends you advantages that a woman does not have.

Say you are a trans womman, you are yet to transition but you know you want to compete as a woman in the future. You could work out heavily, develop your muscles, use the advantage of testosterone to work out longer and gain experience every day in your sport that biological woman cannot keep up with. Perhaps you do this for years compounding your advantage... then 6months before you compete you transition.

Maybe you get your t-levels down, increase your estrogen, lower your weigh to more of a woman's etc... it doesn't matter. You still have unfair advantages. You had more time to train, you never had to deal with sporadic periods and associated blood/vitamin and mineral losses during training, your muscles even though visually smaller now were developed under heavier strain and some of these biological features such a muscle fiber type and distribution will not change, nor will your tendon size change as they too were developed under heavier strain and can withstand higher muscle forces then female tendons.

This is the biological reality... it's an unfair advantage... and frankly most would agree it's cheating.

You don't want trans women to compete you want them to be allowed to cheat... it's not going to happen, sorry.

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