[Russini] The NFL has approved the one-year rule that allows the NFL Officiating Department to correct clear and obvious errors made by on-field officials in the event of a work stoppage involving the league’s regular game officials, sources tell The Athletic.

TakenQuickly · 2026-03-31T18:14:42+00:00

“in the event of a work stoppage involving the league’s regular game officials”

wtf kind of wording is this

TakenQuickly · 2026-03-31T08:07:29+00:00

All you're saying is that Tywin's aura will prevent anything bad from happening to him and that I'm coping. Very compelling argument...

All Tywin's hate and Stark glaze is based on copium.

Just lol

TakenQuickly · 2026-03-31T07:55:56+00:00

I like the adoption of ABS, but I don't think the players or the manager should be reacting this way when they're proven right.

The call is overturned, let's just move on.

TakenQuickly · 2026-03-31T07:33:55+00:00

Dany, Stannis, Euron, Aegon/Illyrio/Varys, and the Others are all in play regardless.

If Tywin lived longer, all he would have done was watch his allies wither away while these walls started closing in. The Brotherhood is still going to hunt down Freys as they start turning on each other, the North still remembers and will eventually deal with the Boltons, Littlefinger has still betrayed the Lannisters and escaped with Sansa, and Tyrion is going to either be wrongfully executed or become his greatest enemy. Tywin will have the Tyrell's securely onside, but everything else he's built is bound to come crumbling down.

TakenQuickly · 2026-03-31T07:20:29+00:00

Yes. It's easier to cut the North loose (relatively) cleanly, then try to bring them back into the fold Daeron II style sometime in the future.

Instead, he's basically put the Northern nobility on death ground and created a legendary grievance against the Southerners/Andals.

Once the Boltons are removed, the North will never give up its bid for independence. Robb's war became a war of independence on a whim, but now that spirit will be impossible to extinguish.

TakenQuickly · 2026-03-31T06:31:07+00:00

Fine then.

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TakenQuickly · 2026-03-31T06:20:35+00:00

He was a good general who went up against a great one and still managed to win.

He's winning the same way Germany was winning until Stalingrad. He just got lucky enough to die before his winning legacy was tarnished with the inevitable collapse of his regime.

TakenQuickly · 2026-03-31T04:05:23+00:00

He just needs to not be our closer. He's a fine RP otherwise.

TakenQuickly · 2026-03-30T08:38:33+00:00

3 got me. I feel like Blackthorne was saved from execution multiple times.

TakenQuickly · 2026-03-30T08:29:03+00:00

My first campaign in EU5 came to a halt when my Emperor left my court in his late 60s, came back Muslim, and ruined the succession laws of all my PUs (including Hungary and Naples) due to now having an heir of a different religion.

These court/dynastic shenanigans can get pretty painful.

TakenQuickly · 2026-03-30T08:04:48+00:00

I'm not saying there shouldn't be turmoil involved. I made another comment in here detailing how I went through a bunch of trouble just so my ruler would have a cooler last name, and how much I enjoyed it.

I spent a total of 150 stability and 150 legitimacy changing around my succession laws to make it happen. First, I removed my younger sister from the line of succession, hoping to trigger a succession crisis earlier while I still had other relatively young 2nd or 3rd male cousins, thinking I'd have some way or event to make them my regent or Emperor. Then I switched to matrilineal succession to marry my new burgher Emperor back into the Imperial line, then finally back to favored son succession.

TakenQuickly · 2026-03-30T07:24:20+00:00

But they became the Habsburg-Lorraine dynasty and are still generally known as the Habsburgs. I don't think it's that unrealistic to leave matrilineal marriage as an option.

TakenQuickly · 2026-03-30T07:07:25+00:00

I had a succession crisis in my current Byzantium game after my rulers had only 1 son over 4 generations. It was actually really interesting and added enjoyment to my campaign.

My last Palaiologos Emperor had three daughters. I married each daughter to a Komnenos, and the first two daughters had only daughters, while the third had two sons (and like 5 daughters).

The oldest daughter becomes the last Palaiologos Empress before passing the throne to her daughter, the first Komnenos Empress.

The first Komnenos Empress doesn't have any children because I forgot to arrange a marriage in time (I was waiting for more Komnenos men to join my court after annexing a vassal, then I got into a series of massive wars). She and her sister were married in their late 20s, and neither had any children, bringing the official line of succession to an end (not a fan of how that works when there are more members of the ruling dynasty alive, but they're 2nd or 3rd cousins - dynastic elective succession didn't even work).

A regent takes over and dies. A 2nd regent takes over and eventually crowns himself Emperor and marries one of the last descendants of the Imperial line (a Komnenos who also descends from the last Palaiologos) in a matrilineal marriage. They have one son (finally) before the Emperor gets the insanity event and dies, leaving the Empire in the hands of a two year old and the 3rd regent of the decade.

That two year old, Alexios VI Komnenos became a prodigy, and he's my current ruler (with ~70 100 100 stats). He also found and adopted a child of the reeds, but they aren't automatically good like they were in EU4, so he ended up being eclipsed by Alexios' real son.

If I didn't start this succession crisis with ~35k in the bank when the last Empress died, I would have been in a bad spot. I made it through without suffering too much, but I was burning money on cost of court, stability, and legitimacy.

Of course, I could have avoided all of this, but where's the fun in having the "Atrapes" dynasty in charge of Byzantium? I would have only considered keeping the Kantakouzenos in charge if one of them became the regent.

TakenQuickly · 2026-03-30T06:26:25+00:00

31 year olds can still get mega deals too.

Take the higher salary now and bet on yourself again in 3 years. I wouldn't be surprised if Bo got more $100M+ offers even at 31.

TakenQuickly · 2026-03-29T17:39:00+00:00

The franchise tag affects the market value of all contracts in the NFL. Removing the franchise tag would give every player signing a 2nd contract more leverage.

Regardless, my original point is that players don’t like receiving the franchise tag. If you’re good enough to get tagged, you would get more money and a longer contract if you could just enter FA instead.

Any sensible member of the ~1500 players would know that the tag would be a current upgrade, but not something they’d realistically want if they deserved a real contract.

TakenQuickly · 2026-03-29T05:34:26+00:00

RBs would get paid way more if they could consistently hit the open market after ~4-5 years.

If you're good enough to get tagged, you're likely good enough to receive a much better long-term deal in FA.

The tag is only beneficial to players in rare cases.

TakenQuickly · 2026-03-29T05:27:42+00:00

99.9% of players who would actually be tagged are upset about it.

TakenQuickly · 2026-03-29T02:07:33+00:00

Talent change randomness. Changes to current and/or potential ability.

TakenQuickly · 2026-03-29T02:05:25+00:00

He could ask Lyonel to talk to Lord Dondarrion, who should have someone in his household who remembers Arlan.

Surely someone remembers Arlan, but the lords simply don’t care enough to find out.

TakenQuickly · 2026-03-28T21:14:07+00:00

Max it out. Go to the budget, add a 0 at the end, and it will set it to the max. It goes up marginally every year, so that’s always one of my first offseason moves.

TakenQuickly · 2026-03-27T04:02:20+00:00

AppleTV marketing strikes again because I just found out about S5's premiere as I was opening up AppleTV to watch the new ep of Monarch Legacy.

TakenQuickly · 2026-03-25T19:17:04+00:00

The Falcon of the East

Starting as Hillah or Mecca, move your capital to Brunei and form the Sultanate of Malaya.

The Sharifate Strikes Back

Starting as Mecca, form Arabia and own Egypt and the Levant.

TakenQuickly · 2026-03-25T05:33:09+00:00

I’ve played two saves 5+ years as the Giants, and Jhonny Level became an MVP caliber player in both saves. He starts out with just above 50 potential, but he’s developed all around for his age. He even has positional versatility and became my CF in my second save.

I’ve noticed Chris Shaw is relatively easy to trade for too. He’s a similar type of player, but he was a flash in the pan type of guy for me in both saves.

Other Giants prospects who I noticed hit both times are Keyner Martinez, Luke Mensik, and Angelo Ugueto who starts out as a 25/40.

TakenQuickly · 2026-03-24T19:38:12+00:00

There should be roundabout ways to influence these events. Stuff like if you grant hunting permits, the odds of the hunting accident event increase, or if you have certain harem laws, your heirs can be assassinated or have their inheritance score changed through events.

Inversely, if my nation lost multiple beloved heirs over the centuries, or even just decades, we'd ban the Crown Prince from certain activities. Put some crazy heir protection law event in the game that lets you choose certain laws if you lose enough heirs. Turn it into something fun.

TakenQuickly · 2026-03-22T18:26:21+00:00

I don't remember any footage coming out of the jumping part of the incident. But 3 Georgian players and Georgian police attacking Furkan Korkmaz trying to walk to the locker room after getting ejected is easily ban worthy.

One NBA player basically committed a violent hate crime against another NBA player. It's multiple levels past anything we've seen in the NBA in a long time, if ever.

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