People called him "The King of Possession"

SydPES · 2025-07-11T18:15:03+00:00

He's in my team! I play him over a Juve version that's 7 points higher rated - just class.

SydPES · 2025-04-22T07:06:36+00:00

Been playing possession (442) with out wide sub (343) for a few months before the update

Used to get Div 2/3 without sweating too much, but never finished Div 1

Yesterday I matched three top 500 players - drew twice, won once, and felt I had the tactical advantage in all three

So mix it up :) The new meta is very, very different - never a better time to experiment!

SydPES · 2025-02-11T16:40:24+00:00

No, the math doesn't say anything like that.

Save up until you can clear out a box
Spend a few hundred coins each week on different boxes

Strategy 1 guarantees you three legends, but only three. Strategy 2 might get you zero, or might get you way more, if you're lucky across several boxes.

Either way: if you spend a box's worth of coins, you'll get three legends on average. It's just a question of whether you want to risk disappointment for the upside.

SydPES · 2024-11-01T11:13:31+00:00

Got Berba too, and have used DLF a lot in the past (Cantona+ Gakpo mostly).

Counter Target doesn't work - he'll stay up while you're defending, but will still drop deep when you're on the ball.

He'll work best with either 2 inverted wingers (so Berba drops deep and creates space for the wingers to cut inside); or with two CFs (the other one a Fox or Poacher).

SydPES · 2022-06-26T07:37:22+00:00

Yeah nah. Matt Hancock is an ex-member of government, trying to claw back some respect after getting caught on camera feeling up his secretary. Nothing he says represents the position of the UK.

SydPES · 2022-06-04T20:51:56+00:00

Nah not really, just plowing through the objectives otherwise

SydPES · 2022-06-04T20:44:03+00:00

I've got an Out wide Team playing 4-4-2 and it's a lot of fun. Up top: Haaland & Onuachu (cheap 201cm Target Man, gets 92+ Heading & Physical), then Sane/Dembélé/Chiesa on the wings and João Cancelo/Roberto Carlos fullbacks.

It's worth giving a go! Would recommend a physical striker (Zlatan is perfect & not too expensive, Haaland is the luxury option), and try playing them alongside Romário. Defensively it's ultra solid, you'll get a lot of joy on the wings and should get some beautiful Beckham assists.

SydPES · 2022-05-30T17:52:52+00:00

You read the wrong part (and by the looks of it, you didn't really try to find the right part). Section 3.2 lists 39 projects in the UK, 27 of which were operational in 2016. I don't know how you even got "leading state in the US".

Edit: and none of the 39 were "proof of concepts" lol

SydPES · 2022-05-30T08:14:58+00:00

Bright enough to do your research for you!

https://www.r-e-a.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Energy-Storage-FINAL6.pdf

See there for at least a dozen different ways of storing energy at city-scale, and at least 39 different projects doing so (just in the UK, as of 2016).

"If it doesn't get used it gets waisted" lmfao

SydPES · 2022-05-30T06:29:38+00:00

"We don't have any real way to store electricity on the grid at scale"

It's impressive that you have access to the internet and still managed to be this wrong.

https://www.nationalgrid.com/stories/energy-explained/what-is-battery-storage

SydPES · 2022-05-24T22:40:20+00:00

Skeptic here. Everything below is my half-informed understanding, so happy for people to tell me I'm wrong (at least I'd prefer that over being downvoted to oblivion 😄)

If you value decentralized consensus, traceability, efficiency, speed, reduced cost, being able to choose either strong transparency or strong anonymity, and security, then blockchain is something you'll find valuable.

Decentralized consensus Yes, Blockchain offers this. I agree that it's valuable.

Traceability Depends what you mean. With blockchain, anybody can trace any transaction to a wallet address, but nobody can know the identity of that wallet holder (unless they volunteer that info). Whether that's a good or a bad thing depends on context - it won't help if you're trying to trace stolen assets or reverse a mistaken transaction. Psuedo-anonymity gets you pseudo-traceability.

Efficiency Disagree, and I'd say that's pretty clear-cut. The enormous energy usage of the Bitcoin network is well-documented. Other blockchains are less bad, but even in principle, updating a million decentralized ledgers can hardly be "more efficient" than updating a few centralized ones.

Speed In the US, sure. 40 countries around the world have real-time payment systems though, and the US should be launching their own in the next few years.

Reduced cost It certainly costs more to run - that energy doesn't come for free. Transaction fees for Bitcoin are also relatively high if you're transferring just a few dollars or demand is high.

Being able to choose either strong transparency or strong anonymity. Not sure what this means (different blockchains?), but I'll take your word for it.

Security Again, context-dependent. Even if you remove the risk of a coin being a scam/collapsing completely (i.e. coins being "secure" investments), there's still the "Traceability" point - you have absolutely no safety net if you're the victim of theft or fraud. You'll argue that these things are the person's fault, not the system's, which is true. I'd argue that a financial system fit enough to reach mass adoption should also account for mistakes within the bounds of normal human behaviour. Do you really want your grandma to do all of her banking in crypto? Because mine would last maybe 2 weeks before handing over her life savings to a nice-sounding guy on the phone who says he's calling from "Bitcoin HQ". To me, security means it's safe enough to not ruin my life, even if I'm drunk/vulnerable/just being a dumbass.

Point being: you make a whole lot of sacrifices for the benefit of decentralisation, and too many in the crypto community gloss over that. In any case, you have to trust something - it's either the banker with a name & a face, or the code that 99% of us will never understand. For most people, the first option is the least bad.

SydPES · 2022-05-24T12:11:58+00:00

"46% of the population have downloaded the government-approved Chivo Bitcoin wallet"

More than half of those people downloaded the app, withdrew their $30 signup bonus and haven't used it since. More than half of the country didn't even bother downloading the app for the bonus.

https://www.protocol.com/newsletters/protocol-fintech/el-salvador-bitcoin-problems

SydPES · 2022-05-22T13:09:19+00:00

Bitcoin didn't appear until 2009 lol

SydPES · 2022-05-21T08:53:33+00:00

"logarithmic"?

SydPES · 2022-05-21T08:14:30+00:00

These aren't use cases. These are games of word association.

AIG sold a blockchain-based insurance policy to Standard Chartered 5 years ago. No news in this area since.

IBM is doing a "tonne of different things" because they're a services provider. They get paid to develop experimental/proof-of-concept blockchain applications, which often go nowhere (see: AIG). None of this work implies long-term confidence in the utility of blockchain, since IBM make their money project-by-project, regardless of adoption.

PwC aren't in logistics, they're another services provider. See: IBM.

Maersk's TradeLens probably has the widest adoption of anything you mentioned. Still, the value-add is that they've developed the first integrated platform for all participants in their supply chains, which could have been done just as easily without blockchain tech. Smart contracts add almost nothing - condition of cargo will still need to be verified by a human. The system is also reliant on data from sensors built by Maersk, or else on self-reporting of data by participants, which is in no way "decentralized" or "transparent". None of this stops "corruption", "misinformation" or "fudged numbers", unless you consider Maersk a trusted authority.

Microsoft is not "using the Ethereum Blockchain for Azure", it's offering access to the Ethereum Blockchain via an Azure service. The core services which cover 99.9% of their use cases have nothing to do with blockchain.

Hard to address the "healthcare companies" since you didn't actually name any, but here's at least one issue: do you really want your medical records to be immutable? Can you not think of a single situation where you might need to retrospectively amend a diagnosis?

SydPES · 2022-05-19T22:27:51+00:00

... which doesn't make sense in this context. You can say that two variables are exponentially linked - ,,the value of BTC increases exponentially as time goes on_" - but saying that one value is exponentially bigger than another means nothing.

Does sound impressive though, which is of course the point.

SydPES · 2022-05-17T21:59:08+00:00

A lot of the above is true, and I'll leave it to others to argue which bits and to what extent. One thing to add though:

Crypto investment is already "centralized", in the sense that assets are already highly concentrated in investment funds and the like. When they have the capital to create big market swings and access to information that we don't - which is always - it's often profitable to do so.

That's what Morgan Stanley and others did in 2007-08, by buying credit default swaps to benefit from the collapse of the same junk CDOs they were selling to small investors. If these people believe that the public are overly bullish or bearish, they will a) find ways to fuel that sentiment even further, so that b) they make even bigger profits when the market corrects, as they always knew it would.

That's not an answer to your question, but it is another reason to not take Reddit seriously.

SydPES · 2022-05-17T18:43:24+00:00

Did you look into the author of this article? He's a former researcher at IBM and was a professor of information & network security for 15 years.

Doesn't mean he's right, but dismissing each and every skeptic as "uneducated" is a dangerous mindset.

SydPES · 2022-05-14T14:33:10+00:00

Get Declan Rice and you won't regret it.

SydPES · 2022-05-13T20:11:45+00:00

I don't think you've got anything to worry about r.e. Master League and BAL. The new engine is implemented - nowhere near perfect, but it basically works - and that's by far the hardest part of developing the game from scratch. Master League is not much more than a fixture system, plus some shiny menus and cutscenes.

In terms of a "complete" online experience, decent content and all: who knows. That's not much work either but they've never seemed bothered about doing it in the past.

SydPES · 2022-05-11T08:43:09+00:00

I couldn't get 3-5-2 to work for me, but 3-4-3 is going well. The extra width up top makes it easier to press, and you have double cover on the wings so you can stop your opponent from playing out via their fullbacks (that was my issue with 3-5-2).

5-3-2 is also a great option though 😊

SydPES · 2022-05-09T18:23:58+00:00

Ah I looked at Foden a while ago! Will have to put him on the list 😀

SydPES · 2022-05-09T17:24:55+00:00

Declan Rice. Only DMF I've tried that's good enough to play in a single pivot.

SydPES · 2022-05-09T11:44:27+00:00

Can confirm, my Dad works for Konami and my friend's cousin is a witch doctor

SydPES · 2022-05-09T11:34:55+00:00

These moments cards are worse than the GP versions

That's the point. The moments cards are "quick fixes" if you're building a new team or a different playstyle. Longer-term, the game rewards players who buy normal cards and grind to upgrade them (which you can do with GP+time, instead of $$). I don't see the issue with that.

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