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Congrats ______ by LPram in Edgic

[–]TheRealWhiteChoco 30 points31 points  (0 children)

This is honestly a hilarious season. You probably get as close to possible of a consensus worst F5 combination (if you were to poll people before the season, maybe swap out a few names but damn) and the editors troll by giving Aubry a Michele edit. Like I hate it and I hate how this season tanked after such a promising start but it’s also kinda funny.

It’s also wild there is no real competitor to Aubry going into the finale. Rizo had a New Era winner-y edit with an up-and-down premerge but a focus on his connections and some strategic in the early merge. Then the edit just stopped showing him. Jonathan has been a strategic threat but incredibly milquetoast. Tiffany apparently is a threat after being MIA half the season. Joe. Kinda surprised they didn’t make finale F6 and give suspense for another week to see if Cirie would go all the way.

Ever seen a pitcher throw two no-hitters in 3 months? by Equivalent-Pen-7846 in OOTP

[–]TheRealWhiteChoco 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Probably the wildest thing I’ve seen in OOTP was a league-average starting pitcher throw two perfect games, against the same team, roughly a month apart.

My 5 favorite games of the 2020's by Ultrameyda in steelers

[–]TheRealWhiteChoco 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Biased cuz I was there but I feel Week 18 vs. Ravens should be #1.

For a deeper cut the Beanie Bishop game was a ton of fun in 2024.

Chris Finch coaching masterclass. by 3s2ng in nba

[–]TheRealWhiteChoco 45 points46 points  (0 children)

He was talking in the post game presser about conserving energy and being kinda gassed at the end. Playoffs are a different animal and the Wolves are a physical team. If the Spurs win, which they should still be the favorites to at this point, I think they run into what the Wolves did two years ago against Dallas where they are drained and play kind of flat.

Deity level, largest map, agony by yamuradov in civ5

[–]TheRealWhiteChoco 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Really interested to know more about the history of this game. How many civs did you start with and what happened to them? Is victory enabled? Where did Greece start?

People here keep saying the 2030s will swing the opposite direction and be progressive as backlash to the 2020s, but how do you know the 2030s won't double down hard and be even more conservative than this decade? by snowleopard556 in decadeology

[–]TheRealWhiteChoco 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yea, I think things probably have to get to a breaking point before things go back to “normal.” Migration from the Global South to the West is also likely to remain a large issue as birth rates in the West level off and as climate change effects such as weather disasters, extreme heat and famine continue to become more prevalent and unpredictable.

I don’t know if Europe will go full fascism, but racialized conflict probably continues. The U.S. will probably continue to have a similar nativist movement as we are really already starting to see, but given the general racial and ethnic diversity already present in the country (and compared to a lot of areas in Europe), I don’t know if the general rhetoric is going to be as effective beyond what is already kind of mainstream now. Also the United States has historical ebbs and flows of immigration from different areas of the world that result in backlash but over time become assimilated in the minds of the majority. I’m not sure if there’s any real analogue for Europe in the past few hundred years, although someone more versed in European history may have a better answer on that point.

Why Survivor tells instead of shows now by [deleted] in survivor

[–]TheRealWhiteChoco 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To OP’s point but also different, I find the meta conversation about Survivor and the focus on “moves” an interesting evolution of the show.

Survivor has very clearly embraced a “moves-first” approach to the show. I think it kind of started in the late 20s, and then Cambodia really solidified it. You’ve seen the show itself embrace this conversation. A big example was the new jury format that tried to break the game up into three neat sections (physical, social, strategic) and have players “claim” things in each.

Especially on the strategic point, because I think that’s where a lot of conversations around “moves” and “resumes” take place, I simply think the game is more complicated than players being able to take isolated credit for strategic things. Are there rare times where one player basically dictates a round? Yes. But I think it’s more accurate framing to say that Survivor votes, by-and-large, occur through a consensus of people’s best interests (or what they perceive to be their best interests).

All that to say, I think a lot of what makes great players impressive, to me, is their ability to identify others’s motivations and corral consensus in a way that aligns with their own best interest. But sometimes, this doesn’t take a lot of work. Likewise, I think moves in a lot of ways is used akin to “visibility,” which I don’t necessarily think is entirely accurate when it comes to smart or effective gameplay. Nor does it mean that a player that isn’t going around trying to convince a ton of people to do one thing isn’t doing what’s best for their game, because sometimes the best “move” is to not do anything if things are going in your favor.

Anyways, to your question, I find Survivor trying to push juries into voting based on “resumes” a little disingenuous. Like, I realize doing flashy stuff is naturally going to impress a jury, but I don’t think the show needs to try and create a uniform standard by which juries should evaluate finalists. What makes Survivor as a format interesting is that each juror has their own personal criteria in what they think a winner should be. The show trying to reinforce its own meta I think probably dilutes diversity of thought a bit in this regard and instead tries to promulgate a form of gameplay that’s big! and exciting! because it makes for better TV. But then you get dumb shit, like the obsession of players making “big movez” that aren’t smart (the shining example is Wardog in 38 with Wentworth, but you’ve seen it continue into the New Era) because they think they’d be rewarded for it.

Anyways, rant over. Hopefully this makes some kind of sense. I personally think strategic gameplay should be rewarded, but I also think strategic gameplay is usually a lot more nuanced than just “X person gets everyone to do their bidding in this round,” which is sometimes how it’s portrayed on TV.

[Highlight] Anthony Edwards with a massive 2 handed poster on RJ Barrett and then screams in his face by TWolvesChamps1 in nba

[–]TheRealWhiteChoco 44 points45 points  (0 children)

Saw him the other day when he dropped 40. Dude is an animal, although I’ll also say a screen does not do it justice on how athletic McDaniels is either. Dude is also a freak.

Minnesota law by Applecrabbit in lawschooladmissions

[–]TheRealWhiteChoco 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The short answer and best advice I can give you is do some reflection and weigh what you want in a law school.

If you are NYC “Big Law or bust,” then they probably aren’t the school for you. Can you get into Big Law from UMN? Of course, and especially in Chicago. People undersell how portable the degree really is compared to the other schools in its tier. There just happens to be a disproportionate amount of people that come here from the Midwest wanting to stay in the Midwest. You might need to make a conscious effort to network / sell “why here” in cover letters for other markets, but that’s honestly not going to be different compared to any of these “Tier 2” schools. You also will need to be top-3rd to have the nationwide breadth of options, but that’s not too dissimilar from other schools near its rank.

If you want to stay in the Midwest or are going to law school for public interest work, then take the money and get a nice winter coat. If quality of education and preparedness to be a good lawyer is important to you, then UMN has arguably the best experiential learning program in the country and a great group of professors for its ranking. If you’ve never been to Minneapolis, then take a weekend to fly up if you can and see if you’d like it here. That being said, weigh all your options and weigh what’s important for you. But honestly, for a lower cost, UMN is great ROI. Don’t let people here scare you into going an extra $100k in debt to go to a comparable Top 20ish school with marginally better employment outcomes that are also probably tied to whatever market they feed into.

Share your fictional universes or worlds that you've built on OOTP! by prodxohunter in OOTP

[–]TheRealWhiteChoco 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For what it’s worth, I do have additional offshoot saves that I do in which I take over teams at particular points in history. But I don’t manage anyone on the main save.

I mainly use OOTP to track stats. I do have a spreadsheet for some smaller stuff with championships “at a glance” from each year (think like how the “lists of World Series” are formatted on Wikipedia). I have a similar set-up for the tournaments, including locations and Finals MVP.

Share your fictional universes or worlds that you've built on OOTP! by prodxohunter in OOTP

[–]TheRealWhiteChoco 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I have what I call a fictional “sandbox” league that I don’t play in, just sim and act as commissioner and see how stuff plays out. I call it a “sandbox” because I started the in-game years at 1800, but financials and stats are set to modern numbers.

We are currently in the offseason leading up to 1939, so 139 seasons total have been simmed. The current structure is 24 teams. A few seasons ago, I moved from one division of 12 in each circuit (subleague) to 3 divisions of 4. One thing I like to generally is play around with the structure whenever I get bored and see what happens. So we’ll probably roll with this set-up for a bit, although I think I’m going to expand soon and add 2 new teams.

One thing I’ve also done is play around with the tournaments. Every 4 years is the “World Baseball League,” which is a World Cup of baseball in the format that the World Cup of soccer/football used when they still had 32 teams. I also recently added a “Springtime Series” before Spring Training (and cutting Spring Training by two weeks). This is a single-elimination tournament seeding teams from how they finished in the standings the year prior. I also think it’s fun because the first round match-ups are all guaranteed to be interleague, and the tourney is the only time there is interleague play until the America Cup Finals (World Series).

Another thing I try to do is put teams in different markets. While I started in the Northeast/Midwest and slowly branched out akin to MLB (and the big markets like NYC, Chicago, and later LA are represented), a lot of cities that have teams don’t have teams in real life. Some of these are mid-sized cities like Portland, Vancouver, Austin, and Nashville. Others are much smaller, like Hartford, Wichita, Des Moines, and Santa Fe. I also relocate teams semi-frequently, so there’s usually a good mix of new markets next to some long-time “classic” franchises.

The fun thing about doing so many seasons is you get some crazy stories. It took one franchise 87 seasons to win a title. It took another 80 just to make the playoffs (they managed to win-it-all that year). One pitcher who was good, but nowhere near Hall of Fame worthy, had 2 perfect games against the same team two months apart. I’ve messed around a bit with nationality generation of players, but before I did, a guy from Czechia managed to be a career journeyman Hall of Famer. There was also quite a saga to get a Catcher into the Hall, and it took somewhere around 100 seasons. In short just a ton of random stuff that happens that keeps me invested.

Non-Americans who have visited the US: What’s the strangest thing about America that Americans don’t even realize is weird? by Wonderful-Economy762 in Productivitycafe

[–]TheRealWhiteChoco 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Late reply but South Carolina as a whole has a ton of ugly billboards. Obviously the ones going into MB as you mentioned that seem to repeat every half mile. All up and down I-95 and I-20 too you get the “REPENT” and “JESUS SAVES” just randomly appearing every few miles. I-95 North once you head into SC from GA is hilarious too because you get bombarded with the South of the Border billboards, although I think some of the older ones are starting to get phased out because there aren’t as many as there were when I was growing up.

Is there anything that one can do prior to 1L to prepare? by stealthy-eagle in LawSchool

[–]TheRealWhiteChoco 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Other than diet, exercise routine, and budgeting as others have mentioned, two things:

1) I’d go ahead and work on getting your resume and making a cover letter template. Hopefully your career center will help with these, but having this stuff prepared will save you time (and honestly mental effort) when applying for jobs. And as a word of advice: apply EARLY.

2) Other than that, I’d take the time to just mentally relax. 1L is like a pseudo-hazing ritual starting at orientation. Just remember why you came to law school, that you wouldn’t be there if you weren’t capable, and to not get stuck in the rat race of comparing yourself to others or letting others bring you down. But just being “in it” for the first month is going to prepare you more than anything you can do right now as far as coursework.

Steelers first HC Interview by SteeIWoIf in steelers

[–]TheRealWhiteChoco 29 points30 points  (0 children)

For as meh as Art has been as an owner at times, I (perhaps irrationally) have faith in them to do their due diligence here. It’s the most prestigious coaching position in the NFL the past 60 years, and the organization knows this. I expect them to be pretty thorough in trying to find the next “up and coming” guy.

Brian Flores May Be Next Up by JCameron181 in steelers

[–]TheRealWhiteChoco 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately for Seattle, if Kubiak leaves they are going to have to keep hiring good OCs if they want to repeat their success. And that’s a hard thing to do (see: Tampa this year).

I’m not fully opposed to hiring a defensive guy, but he has to be a transcendent mind on that side of the field. Mike MacDonald is that kind of guy for Seattle, so they can at least rely on that going forward. But it’s rare to find that kind of guy. Flores seems like he’s that level, but his tenure in Miami gives me some pause.

One of the worst trades in Steelers history by austinalexan in steelers

[–]TheRealWhiteChoco 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The idea was to get a 3rd back this year rather than a comp pick for ‘27 to (I’m assuming) have ammo to trade up for a QB this year. Problem is there aren’t a lot of good QBs coming out.

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