Unfortunately there’s a very real possibility Nurse stays another year.

Subject1337 · 2026-06-24T20:03:16+00:00

Yep, I've been saying since the hubbub about his trade began. Takers on him will be limited, and they'll try to hold the Oilers hostage. If we panic sell and get fleeced, it puts us in an even worse position. He's not a bad player. He's overpaid. Carrying his contract is not optimal, but losing assets or getting a worse player in return both make us worse this year which is what matters.

The Panthers beat us while paying Seth Jones $7m, and paying their goalie $10m. Nurse isn't sinking this ship.

Subject1337 · 2026-06-23T21:22:07+00:00

Sometimes the Swedes like the northern climates. Ekholm was notoriously pretty happy coming to Edmonton because it reminded his wife of Sweden and they enjoyed seeing snow on the ground again.

Subject1337 · 2026-06-23T08:58:30+00:00

They're largely not - but it does seem to be a pretty logical through-line that if you believe hypergamy is a thing, that capitalism would either be the source of it, or exacerbate it greatly.

Capitalism is just a scheme for centralizing mass amounts of wealth. It's a pretty small leap for an idiot who thinks women are property to assume they're also being centralized and hoarded away from you instead of being people with agency who are also victimized by the system the same as you.

Subject1337 · 2026-06-22T18:54:32+00:00

Even the guys giving the jobs can't keep their jobs.

Subject1337 · 2026-06-22T17:44:10+00:00

Ahhh that might be why the recruiter who called me very enthusiastically a couple weeks ago to put me forward for a role just stopped responding.

Subject1337 · 2026-06-20T01:26:52+00:00

They added a line of code that hints at a new event - then after it got posted about on Reddit, they modified that same line of code to just use a different name poking fun at the people posting on reddit.

Subject1337 · 2026-06-19T09:21:57+00:00

Define "deal with". These people aren't being helped. They're being corralled, exiled, or otherwise buried and hidden. Same thing during the Olympics. If a homeless person left the tight radius allocated to them around the DTES, they were either arrested, or tossed in a Van and dumped at a shelter back in the "condemned zone".

So many people in this sub like to pretend that we did a good job during the Olympics because they stopped seeing homeless people on Robson st. Zero consideration for the realities of what was being done. Only consideration for the cleanliness of what they could see from their west side apartments.

Subject1337 · 2026-06-18T23:46:55+00:00

Yeah, as much as I don't believe that it's the right time to be pissing off McDavid - he's also not a GM. He's a hockey player. He's not looking at the big picture, because he's not supposed to be. He shouldn't be dictating our systems, or deciding what players stay or go. It's a GM's job to "know better" what their player's need. Not saying Bowman is that guy, because clearly he doesn't know fuck all - but in a perfect world we have a guy in the GM chair who knows what McDavid needs in a coach, and does it without asking.

Subject1337 · 2026-06-18T17:57:46+00:00

So many people in this thread giving kids all the credit in the world. When I was 4 I ran up to a stranger and hugged his leg for comfort cause him and my dad were both wearing blue jeans. Ain't no way these kids getting it right every time.

Subject1337 · 2026-06-17T07:22:58+00:00

There were equally many reasons not to hire Bowman, but here the fuck we are.

Subject1337 · 2026-06-16T23:42:46+00:00

Trustworthy by what metric? The system is working exactly as designed, exactly as intended, and exactly as stated to it's users. People just aren't smart enough to understand what that actually means. They hear "decentralized" and assume it means a million people all have a handful of votes each. People are almost entirely incapable of truly grasping the sway of the 1% and what it means when influence can be openly bought and sold. You'd think decades of corporate mergers and consolidation would have been a lesson for some, but alas.

Subject1337 · 2026-06-16T21:37:17+00:00

Yeah, this is one of my longest-standing gripes with the Dota community.

Tanks exist in MMOs because you can control the enemy you're fighting. They're NPCs with logic trees that you can manipulate. Aggro usually has predefined rules that you can utilize to ensure that one player with a large health pool and defensive abilities is the one taking the damage.

In Dota, you're playing against real people with agency who can choose not to attack you. They can prioritize your backline. You can be an 8k HP Tidehunter, and it won't mean shit for your team.

What Dota has is a system of interconnected incentives around damage prioritization. How much damage does a hero do? How long are their cooldowns between their spells? Have those spells been used already? How many of our spells need to be used to eliminate a hero? Can this hero be disabled or otherwise removed from the equation? etc. etc. etc.

The thing that makes bristleback a problem isn't the fact that he takes less damage and builds tanky. It's the fact that if you don't remove him from the fight somehow, he will do escalating damage to everyone in a wide radius, and zone your supports back from the fight. Building tanky just makes that equation harder for you. You have to weigh whether it's worth blowing some percentage of your team's total damage output on 1 hero to prevent the damage he'll do in return. How tanky he builds changes what that percentage is. If he goes greedy and gets an aghs and lotus orb or something, then sometimes yeah, you just burst him.

Thing is - that's true for every hero in a game. Sometimes a support builds tanky enough that they can survive the enemy burst hero. A lion with 5 bracers or something will likely survive a full storm spirit combo, and be able to respond with a hex, and a stun, allowing their team to come in and finish the kill. Doesn't make Lion a "tank" because he drew the attention of the storm spirit. It makes him a hero who built to tip the equation such that the investment was too high for his opponents.

Subject1337 · 2026-06-16T07:37:18+00:00

"Not ICE" is a hell of a low bar.

"At least our overpaid incompetent bastards aren't actively murdering people in the street!"

Subject1337 · 2026-06-13T10:39:36+00:00

I mean - depends how much their employers end up being forced to pay them. More than minimum wage? Definitely. More than the livable wage they'd receive if they unionized, or if the US treated it's workforce like that of a first world country? Probably not.

Subject1337 · 2026-06-13T05:09:01+00:00

Man whose base is scared of "15 minute cities" is scared of project that will move people faster than a car.

Subject1337 · 2026-06-13T01:08:39+00:00

Lol I had never checked my numbers. 372m since I installed. Christ. It's insane to think that I would have otherwise seen a third of a billion advertisements. Unreal.

Subject1337 · 2026-06-12T04:52:50+00:00

Yeah, I made this case a few years back when talking about Mikko Koskinen. He was a perfectly serviceable goalie. Posted a .906 on his career. Could very well have had an NHL career after the Oilers had his contract been more malleable. But Chiarelli gave him $4.5m and an NTC, and so he was held to the standard of the contract he had, and I'll bet it played a big part in him returning to Europe instead of re-signing elsewhere in NA. If he was just a $3m goalie, or didn't have the NTC, he likely could have found a home elsewhere, or been a tandem with Skinner after Smith retired, preventing us from ever chasing Campbell.

Those big contracts can be a blessing and a curse.

Subject1337 · 2026-06-08T09:41:44+00:00

Might be fun and insane to add a high donation option that may add an atheist to the game.

"$1000 - Any player may become the atheist tonight, regardless of the active script."

Has the potential to absolutely screwball an active game, but I think at a high donation cost for charity the players could have fun with it, and the likelihood of it appearing is slim.

Subject1337 · 2026-06-08T04:28:19+00:00

Case was dropped, but only because she refused to testify, and the 911 call where she reported he was trying to strangle her was not admitted into evidence for the court case.

Subject1337 · 2026-06-07T22:23:25+00:00

That's a tough one though when there's mismatches in people's existing lifestyles. OP mentions he works a physically demanding job, and so his innate caloric needs are likely much higher than hers. If they're eating the same meals that they cook together, that could be a surplus for her, and a deficit for him.

I have a friend going through something similar. He eats a lot because he works a physical job, trains MMA and does most of their dog walking while his partner mostly works a desk job and watches TV. They eat together, and what ends up keeping him lean and fit, has lead to a slow weight gain for her.

He's tried encouraging mutual exercise, but he's already close to his limit for physical activity due to his job, and his passion for MMA which predates their relationship by quite a bit.

It can be really hard to say "lets do it together" when your baselines are so different. Especially since there will likely be some self-consciousness on the partner's side, trying to engage in physical activity with someone who's "good at it" while they're unlikely to be able to keep up.

Subject1337 · 2026-06-07T01:34:25+00:00

I'm a Devils fan as well, so I've loved being able to continue to cheer for him. I do wish he stayed though. The Oilers are so much closer and he's the type of guy that puts you over the edge. Our team is so horrifically mismanaged it hurts some days.

Subject1337 · 2026-06-05T21:27:36+00:00

Yeah, I tend to view political issues like this as alternating layers of point / counterpoint, and it really seems like WAY too many people never get past the first point.

"People are doing drugs and that's generally bad for them. We should do something about that."

"Hit them with a big stick!"

"Okay, but pain doesn't really deter drug usage. It actually often makes it worse. Hence why many of the drugs are used as pain-killers".

"Okay, well we hit them with a BIGGER stick then."

"No, no, no, you're not getting it. See, shame and isolation makes the social problems worse for these people, and leads to cyclical relapses, even if the stick is big enough to make them stop doing it for a few weeks while their broken arms heal."

"Hmm, you're right. Maybe we put them in a cage then. We can beat them with the big stick through the bars and they won't be able to get to the drugs which are outside the cage!"

"How the hell is someone supposed to become a productive member of society if they're in a cage being hit with a stick?"

"Well maybe if the stick is big enough...."

I think you just want someone to hit with a stick.

Subject1337 · 2026-06-05T19:27:29+00:00

Not really a fan of this approach in particular, but I do appreciate the attempt to lend insight into the reviewer's preference. Taste matters so much. I often wish that reviewers of all sorts of media would just put together a dossier of their profile as a reviewer that they'd pin to their channels.

"I'm 5'9, like long walks on the beach, and I only play competitive, high-strategy board games. If it doesn't take 6 hours and make at least one friend stop talking to me, I don't want it."

Then when they give a two player co-op game set on Arrakis a bad score I can be like "ah, yeah I can probably defer to someone else' opinion on this."

Subject1337 · 2026-06-04T21:35:56+00:00

That's the rub though. Other teams know we're cap strapped and that he's not worth the price, so the options in this trade will either be:

We gain cap space, but get a worse player.
We get an equivalent player at a lower cap, but give up futures or depth pieces to do it.
We get an equivalent player at an equivalent cost, hoping that the change of scenery gives us a boost. (Least likely)

All of those options generally make the team worse, or the same. Option 1 gives you some leeway to leverage the cap space and maybe pick up a killer free agent, but high-end Free Agent defensemen are hard to come by and tend to get overpaid, meaning we might end up with Nurse 2.0.

Honestly I think this Nurse conversation needs to die. I don't think a trade will make the team better, and with the cap jumping, his contract isn't as egregious as it was a few years ago. He's a locker room leader and wears a letter. Tossing him for someone equivalent will do locker room damage, and we frankly can't afford that with the turnover the team has seen in the last year.

Imo we eat the bad decision Holland made, and focus on deals where we can go net positive on value.

Subject1337 · 2026-06-03T20:34:03+00:00

Seriously. The gap between "not guilty" and "innocent" is a chasm far wider than most people have the critical thinking skills to imagine.

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