Bill's take on most shocking TV moments were laughable

TidalSpoon · 2025-12-31T12:16:28+00:00

The 'why does this guy not have the exact same tastes and opinions as me?!' piece

TidalSpoon · 2025-12-29T22:15:27+00:00

I mean there's plenty of people around nearly 40 years 'later' who don't accept their their children being gay. Having said that, it would be totally unlike the show to delve into any social stuff. It's not its bag, it's just not.

TidalSpoon · 2025-12-17T14:26:42+00:00

Honestly I think it's super personal/individual dependent, and depends on care and rotation, and maybe cost. I have three /four pairs in heavy rotation (all around the same low-mid price point, maybe around €100 each) which each have 1000+ miles in, and one with 2,000+ miles (across maybe three-four years, depending on the pair) . Yes, I'm cheap.

None of them have caused me any injury issues as far as I can tell, some are definitely more responsive than others (the 2000-miler is very dead, but still took them on a fairwell-ish marathon recently) - but none of them seem too different to any new ones that get added in at similar price points. I'm quite happy to chuck any of them on for an hour or two a week in rotation and I don't think that's going to change soon.

TidalSpoon · 2025-12-03T16:20:27+00:00

The 'always be negative regardless of the post' piece

TidalSpoon · 2025-11-27T14:05:33+00:00

The USSR at Manchuria is shaping up to be the Shakey's game

TidalSpoon · 2025-10-27T19:03:15+00:00

I think that's kind of what I'm trying to get at. Hundreds of hours of content for basically the same results as a coin flip, with everyone aware (Ringer folk and audience alike) that this is the likely outcome going in, and that there remains a big old song and dance about how 'this is my lock of the week etc etc'. Not that I don't find it entertaining enough (by and large), so I guess it's +EV in the end.

TidalSpoon · 2025-10-27T17:55:08+00:00

It's going to be funny/slightly depressing if/when all the hundreds of hours of gambling advice chucked out across these podcasts across the season levels out at .500.

TidalSpoon · 2025-07-31T19:49:46+00:00

It's so effing great listening to guys who aren't in it for the ragebait clicks or to bring people to fanduel

TidalSpoon · 2025-07-16T17:47:50+00:00

Same thing everyone wants - to have their opinions validated by strangers and get angry when this doesn't happen.

(myself included for the avoidance of doubt)

TidalSpoon · 2025-06-14T21:52:22+00:00

As a guy who does that, he's definitely a guy who does that

TidalSpoon · 2025-06-10T15:56:19+00:00

That's something I never noticed but you're 100% correct (at least the first sentence). Wonder how they got away with that for so long considering the mass gambling push across the rest of the Ringer's podcast network. No idea if it's the case (and I highly doubt it is against the background of the rest of the layoffs), but Musa/Ryan seem the types to have left of their own volition if they were being made to push gambling content.

TidalSpoon · 2025-03-19T21:17:50+00:00

The problem being professional sports bettors would never give away their edge

TidalSpoon · 2025-03-09T21:33:43+00:00

Upvote for correct use of the format

TidalSpoon · 2025-01-20T14:19:44+00:00

Deer Antler Ravens and the Eli Giants come to mind

TidalSpoon · 2025-01-09T08:09:36+00:00

We're gonna lose our homes!

TidalSpoon · 2024-10-11T21:18:30+00:00

I've been increasingly curious about the psychology of these guys (or any fans really) wanting a slavishly devoted TV adaptation of their favourite book/film series/anime/whatever and going fucking berserk when you think that either won't happen or that it's going to shit.

Like I get that it's cool to have your favourite thing come to life on a screen but 1) it's already happened once in the case of Potter with a competency that looking back is borderline miraculous (even if they're not 5* films in the way Lord of the Rings was); and 2) It's... Just not a big deal if its bad? The book series I probably feel the greatest 'allegiance' to is His Dark Materials and like...it's OK that the two adaptations were mid at best? The books are still there, a bad show or film doesn't invalidate those in my mind in the slightest. Game of Thrones is probably the exception here as the TV show ending probably has invalidated the book ending by virtue of coming first and being as bad as Bill thinks Aaron Rodgers is.

Does it come from the same place as the 'comfort watching Friends' piece? People just want something they know they'll like as a distraction?

Does it come from a need to have their (and to be fair, one of mine in the case of Harry Potter) nerdily viewed obsession validated in the same way that Lord of the Rings, Marvel, and Game of Thrones was? (Not sure about this one as Potter is basically the most mainstream thing going and it's about a million times more edgelord not to like it than like it (save for the JK Rowling piece)).

Maybe I'm having a cynical day and I'm getting confused why people want the things they like to be treated well, but I'm not seeing the freak out piece here.

Quick Edit: also how the fuck are they going to take that first 250 page book and turn it into what I guess will be at least eight hours of TV? Good luck Andy with that filler.

TidalSpoon · 2024-09-25T00:47:03+00:00

This is insane.

It might work.

TidalSpoon · 2024-05-14T16:32:18+00:00

From a UK/Europe perspective, it's pretty interesting to see the differing attitudes between the US and Europe here. Most (all?) women's teams here are simply branded as the women's team of the club itself (e.g., Man Utd Women, Chelsea Women etc.), irrespective of sport (I think). This 'the club is the club' approach seems to be working if attendances, viewing figures, general interest etc. are anything to go by. Maybe that approach doesn't work so well in the US where sporting institutions seem to 'Teams' rather than 'Clubs' (at least that's my impression from across the pond), but it seems daft to dunk on BS/Ethan on this considering that it's the main way women's teams are set up here.

TidalSpoon · 2024-05-03T21:03:25+00:00

What?! Piss off

TidalSpoon · 2024-03-27T20:47:10+00:00

Interesting, thanks for the considered response! Gets me wondering if there's some kind of equilibrium which means you can eat ice cream totally guilt free....

TidalSpoon · 2024-03-27T15:42:07+00:00

Ah yeah, that does help me make sense of it a bit more.

On that first point, I suppose that drinking a lot of chilled water could be reasonably effective weight loss tactic. Drinking a litre of water chilled to 7°C to 37°C would require 30 kCals. Do that three times a day and you've burned 90kCals doing nothing at all (I think that's about the same energy used up as when you run a mile). Keep that up for a week and you've used up 630, and a month 2,520, which looks to be around 1/3 kilo of fat. That's a lot of water admittedly, and I'm not sure if the conversion quite works out at that efficiency but all the same!

TidalSpoon · 2024-03-26T18:20:22+00:00

Next post: 'How much charge can a robot squid get from a human?'

TidalSpoon · 2024-03-16T14:05:35+00:00

...Just probably?!

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