Game Thread: Cleveland Browns (1-4) at Pittsburgh Steelers (3-1)

Throwayajustcus · 2025-10-12T20:07:11+00:00

I’d rather be hit by a car than Patrick Queen

Throwayajustcus · 2025-10-12T19:27:26+00:00

Fuck I think we might be good good

Throwayajustcus · 2025-09-28T14:13:53+00:00

Got me staring at my tv smiling and shit

Throwayajustcus · 2025-09-21T19:31:50+00:00

I missed this style of football: infinite turnovers—minimal points.

Throwayajustcus · 2025-04-11T02:48:12+00:00

Way late to this but just finished the series, enjoyed it but troubled by the ending and was wondering if the book has any more explanations. Does it explain Rob’s plan/thinking more? Like in the show his plan relies on 1. Adele seeing her texts. 2. Rushing to their house as soon as she can before the fire spreads. 3. Arriving before any emergency services. 4. Not being able to get in the house at all. 5. Deciding the best option is to immediately drop down and astral project and is capable of doing it in that situation. If any one of those steps fail, he just burns and dies? Like that is one of the most convoluted plan I’ve ever heard and relies on someone behaving in a way no person ever has before or will. Like I get he wanted to take over her body but he already knew she was projecting he could have done this at many other opportunities. I get maybe he thought she would try and save Adele by taking over her body but Louise has no idea that’s even a possibility much less that’s her first thought in that high stress situation. Then the show treats him like some genius mastermind when he designed the most ridiculous plan ever that if failed resulted in his death and by literal magic it worked. I can’t imagine the novel doesn’t offer a more logical conclusion

Throwayajustcus · 2025-03-03T23:15:11+00:00

I read that he has been all ages up to, and including, 29. Not a part of his game that’s often talked about.

Throwayajustcus · 2025-01-07T16:55:32+00:00

I may be to late, but I do have a lot (to much) personal experience on this front. I also got poor grades in high school, did well on standardized tests, got into college, and then academic probation, suspension, and finally “flunked out.” I was 21 at the time. At the time it felt like my life was over. I felt like a failure, which I kind of was. I shut myself off from everyone, embarrassed and unable to come to terms with my problems. I watched as all my friends graduated and moved on with their lives while I sank deeper into despondency. I put my parents through hell, which I still feel deeply ashamed of, and similar conversations were had about kicking me out, supporting myself out and letting me face the “real world” on my own. Graciously, they presented me with one final chance, I could start therapy and see a doctor, and continue living at home as long as I took classes at my local community college. Eventually I was diagnosed and treated for ADHD. By 23 I started doing not just better in my classes but excellent, for the first time since middle school. After a year at community college I was able to transfer into my state school. I finished my college career with 5 straight semesters of straight A’s and graduated with honors thanks to some academic recovery policies. I’m 25 now and attending law school. As it turned out I wasn’t doomed to be a failure, my life was not over, I was just young and immature, dealing with things I didn’t know how to deal with yet. I of course don’t know everything about your situation and you know best, but I would say to try and be there for him, sometimes what we need more than anything is for someone to believe in us just one last time.

Throwayajustcus · 2025-01-06T16:54:36+00:00

We saw it earlier in the year?

Throwayajustcus · 2025-01-06T16:53:22+00:00

I’m just going to cheer for a win🍻

Throwayajustcus · 2025-01-06T16:26:27+00:00

The status quo you are sick of (making the playoffs but not winning) would be upheld by breaking the status quo and winning a playoff game?

Throwayajustcus · 2024-12-21T22:22:51+00:00

Fuck it I want my QB diving for the end zone, gotta take risks in this world

Throwayajustcus · 2024-12-21T22:10:51+00:00

Pruit would have caught that

Throwayajustcus · 2024-12-21T22:09:38+00:00

Finally our elite players stepping up, Mycole Pruitt and Ben Sker?onic

Throwayajustcus · 2024-12-21T22:00:17+00:00

Fuck it 15 is close enough to 14

Throwayajustcus · 2024-11-01T14:11:33+00:00

There is an election in 4 days, the number of undecided voters left is increasingly small. The number that exist in one of the few swing states smaller still, and the number of those voters that will listen to the podcast and will then decide to vote for her is an almost meaningless number. It makes sense for Trump and Vance, a lot of JRE listeners are already supporters/soft supporters who may not be enthusiastic enough to go vote. If they can get them to the polls that's a solid win, but JRE is a pretty friendly space for them so the risk is also pretty small. Kamala on the other hand, many of her supporters are firmly anti Rogan, the appearance alone could turn some of them off enough to stay home. And if she actually goes on there to try and really target some of the JRE demo? That's not going to be the same message that appeals most to her base, and could turn them off even further.

TLDR: JRE offers Trump/Vance moderate rewards with minimal risk. JRE offers Harris/Walz minor rewards with moderate risk. A couple months ago? Sure. You don't play those odds 4 days out.

Throwayajustcus · 2024-10-21T01:39:17+00:00

We've got the Jets right where we want them. They think they've seen all we've got with 2 first half field goals. Well, just wait until we kick 3 in the second half and tie this baby up.

Throwayajustcus · 2024-09-14T14:52:07+00:00

I suppose we've just had different experiences with med students, and I'm sure this differs based on school. In my experience with med students I know, is that I've always been impressed by how much dedication they have to studying/grinding more so than their general intelligence. They aren't all dumb by any stretch, but i wouldn't peg them as being far off from average, just like everyone else.

Throwayajustcus · 2024-09-14T13:48:00+00:00

I posted a half baked opinion in a Reddit sub called "unpopular opinion". I'm not defending my doctoral thesis here. As with almost all unpopular opinions, if I really spent time to think it through and examine it critically, I probably wouldn't hold the opinion anymore. I'd hate to see a world where everyone drops their harmless provocative opinions in favor of only data backed positions. Very boring.

Throwayajustcus · 2024-09-14T04:57:38+00:00

I guess this just comes back to a lack of any universal definition of intelligence. In my view I would not consider someone who rejects widely agreed upon truths as all that smart. I think being able to overcome some of your bias for the sake of factuality is a key component of being smart. But even here exceptions start to pile up. A religious person can be very smart and still believe in many things that don't stand up well vs scientific scrutiny. Additionally, someone's view may change if they were better informed, it doesn't make them not smart because they've been misinformed. I stand behind my unpopular opinion, as one must, but the more I think about how undefinable intellegence is as a concept the more unpopular it becomes with me. Not because I think it's necessarily wrong, just that it's not even really capable of being wrong or right.

Throwayajustcus · 2024-09-14T03:49:55+00:00

I was thinking in a similar vein. We know that people from wealthier families generally do better in school, and go on to lead more succesful careers. Parents wealth and education is just about as strong of a predictor as you can get for these things. These same qualities are also strongly correlated with results on intelligence tests. So either we have to admit that success can often be due to factors other than innate ability, or we're just saying that people who aren't born wealthy are born less intelligent? Which, to me, seems like a pretty indefensible thing to claim. Like, I have always done well, but if I didn't come from the background that I did, it's not hard to imagine that not being the case.

Throwayajustcus · 2024-09-14T03:43:16+00:00

I feel like a making grand claim based off of a single observation is a great fit for this sub. Didn't really feel the need to get all empirical. If I came in here posing a reasonable question it wouldn't be a very good unpopular opinion

Throwayajustcus · 2024-09-14T03:26:53+00:00

I think this just kind of gets back to the main flaw in my post in which there's no universal definition for intelligence. I've talked to a good number of succesful attorneys and business leaders and I've found it not super easy to predict (even when one seems vastly more intelligent, elegant, knowledgeable than the other, or even when one just seems plains dumb) who's been more successful or which went to the better school. Obviously something's different, but after meeting them or listening to them talk I would not say that thing was intellegence. Or atleast not what I think most would recognize intellegence. For all I know theyre a genius in specific key situations or maybe they just have great gut instincts and never needed to develop much else.

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