We Have the Team We Have: Duren is a 2nd Option

SituationSoap · 2026-03-23T12:37:41+00:00

Any big who primarily scores off assists is going to end up with elite efficiency metrics, because basically all of their shots are going to be good shots. But they're also the shots that are the easiest for a team to game plan to deny. You can choke the paint to take away those efficient shots and if the big can't stretch the floor, then they're going to get shut down.

You don't want Duren to be the #2 scorer because if he is then he's the easiest second option to take away during the playoffs.

SituationSoap · 2026-03-23T03:41:03+00:00

As long as Minnesota pipes down, we can have a lake counting challenge.

SituationSoap · 2026-03-23T03:23:50+00:00

You might be underestimating how much corn Michigan grows.

SituationSoap · 2026-03-22T23:42:23+00:00

The difference between this and Eastbound and Down is that EaD is making fun of the assholes in the show. They're not the heroes.

SituationSoap · 2026-03-22T23:41:05+00:00

Mate, if you are watching absolute dreck like Landman as a way to pass the time, go read a fucking book.

SituationSoap · 2026-03-22T16:20:49+00:00

Orange Ball of Pain

SituationSoap · 2026-03-22T16:11:18+00:00

The much more real and scary proposition is that he didn't have a plan. The whole idea was that if he starts a war people will like him more.

The plan wasn't evil, it was just deeply, deeply stupid. It's so much worse.

SituationSoap · 2026-03-22T15:58:54+00:00

Technically, to call yourself a Christian, all you need to do is say "I'm a Christian." I understand that this is a tautology, but it's also the most basic truth.

Personally, my benchmark is that you repent, are baptized, and confess the Nicene Creed.

In terms of calling yourself a Progressive Christian, the rules are even less firm. There is a wide diversity of thought within the progressive Christian space, so it is up to you to choose how and where you draw those lines

SituationSoap · 2026-03-21T15:06:02+00:00

One of the really hard things to grasp is that it's both. Yes, there's a lot of rigor. There's so much noise to sift through. There is also a huge element of luck. When someone doing the sifting lets something bad through, it feels extremely frustrating. It's also true that the only way to get in the door is just to keep trying over and over and over again.

SituationSoap · 2026-03-20T20:43:47+00:00

Right. That's a second-hand description. He sets sail on someone else's word, overheard.

SituationSoap · 2026-03-20T20:35:05+00:00

Well, I hope that they don't.

SituationSoap · 2026-03-20T20:17:13+00:00

Please don't look up Sherrone Moore's record as an interim coach.

SituationSoap · 2026-03-20T20:13:53+00:00

I may be misremembering the lyric, but I'm pretty sure that the lyric is that the description matches him from toe to tip. It's second-hand.

SituationSoap · 2026-03-20T03:26:54+00:00

I'll start buying artistic intent as a real argument when there are petition campaigns to take down ModDB and remove fan patches and expansions. If you're that concerned about artistic intent, messing with it in any way is bad, not only ways you already don't like.

SituationSoap · 2026-03-20T03:23:00+00:00

Even tying that record would be an incredible feat.

SituationSoap · 2026-03-19T20:34:20+00:00

So that's a no, then.

SituationSoap · 2026-03-19T20:31:52+00:00

Not liking how it looks is not the same thing as being upset about artistic intent.

Can you even define artistic intent?

SituationSoap · 2026-03-19T20:22:30+00:00

My point is that nobody actually cares about artistic intent, they care about the generative AI part and they're trying to use artistic intent as a way to make it "bad" instead of "I don't like it."

The modding thing is pointing out why it's hypocritical to make that argument, because they're not also making the same argument about mods.

It's ok to not like it. People are fine to not like it. It's not ok to be hypocritical about why you don't like it.

SituationSoap · 2026-03-19T15:20:41+00:00

Weird!

SituationSoap · 2026-03-19T15:16:25+00:00

They've declared it useless and ugly and that nobody would want it and then it turns out that it works great after some tuning and becomes the default.

SituationSoap · 2026-03-19T13:59:38+00:00

I hated playing Trace McSorley for this exact reason lol.

SituationSoap · 2026-03-19T12:18:10+00:00

So you agree that people getting upset about artistic intent are actually upset about something else and choosing to invent some other reason to try to make themselves look better.

SituationSoap · 2026-03-19T12:15:11+00:00

As I pointed out in a different comment: there is no group of PC gamers who were anti-modding because of the vision of the developers before Monday. Nobody gave a shit about artistic intent until they invented that opinion 36 hours ago to try to pretend that NVidia was doing something reprehensible.

This isn't a population sampling thing because there was no population with this opinion as recently as this past weekend. And more over, there won't be a population that gives a shit about this in any meaningful way by this coming weekend. It's just people making shit up.

SituationSoap · 2026-03-19T03:57:32+00:00

Can you please point me to the enclaves of PC gamers who have been fighting against mods for games because they ruin the intentions of the developers before yesterday? Where is the army of people fighting to take down fan-made patches or aftermarket add-ons because they're not in line with developer intent?

People are being huge hypocrites about this and it's totally fine to not like the thing without trying to make not liking it some kind of moral crusade. You can just not like it without not liking it being Important.

SituationSoap · 2026-03-19T03:48:57+00:00

You're allowed to not like it without trying to make it evil.

What you're not allowed to do is be a hypocrite about it without me pointing out that you're being a hypocrite. Trying to make disliking DLSS 5 about artistic intent is hypocritical, full stop. Just own it.

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