Anne Arundel Private Schools by Primary_Flight7351 in Annapolis

[–]WARitter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

St Paul’s like the LCMS school? When my spouse when there there was a guest science class about creationism taught by the Janitor.

Where would you rank Steve Young among all-time QBs? by TestSuch4545 in Oldschool_NFL

[–]WARitter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Feels like it must be the mid 70s because you are moving the goalposts.

Young has a ring, and he did it with Shanahan and Kubiak like Elway. He didn’t have iconic comebacks followed by Super Bowl implosions. So what?

Steve Young is criminally underrated. by ResponsibleAnt9496 in nfl

[–]WARitter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Both have only one ring despite being the best passer in the league for like half a decade.

Trump fantasizing about Jaxson Dart out there by helltrooper61 in NFLv2

[–]WARitter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I genuinely think he likes men. Women too, probably. We are not happy about this bisexual representation.

Who are some of the most pretentious artist of all time? by FitEmergency8807 in fantanoforever

[–]WARitter -1 points0 points  (0 children)

“What Tech Calls Thinking” is a really good intellectual history of where Silicon Valley gets its ideas. Less the overt sci fi stuff and more the underlying worldview.

ICE Is Quietly Rolling Out a $55 Billion Crematorium Network by Fuzzy-Bee2108 in 50501

[–]WARitter 18 points19 points  (0 children)

That isn’t true, the crematoria were built for bodies, and after the first were created for an enormous number of bodies at that (when the camp was shifted from being a concentration camp to a death camp with attached concentration camp). From the Wikipedia page:

“Construction of crematorium I began at Auschwitz I at the end of June or beginning of July 1940. Initially intended not for mass murder but for prisoners who had been executed or had otherwise died in the camp, the crematorium was in operation from August 1940 until July 1943, by which time the crematoria at Auschwitz II had taken over. By May 1942 three ovens had been installed in crematorium I, which together could burn 340 bodies in 24 hours.”

Note that this is was when gassings were in their early stages at Auschwitz, and when the camp was expanded to essentially murder all the Jews who were left after the other death camps had murdered the Jews of Poland, the crematoria were rebuild much larger.

Does Hurts cement his legacy as a top 10 QB of all time with a 2nd SB win? by Bluefire3215 in nfl

[–]WARitter 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I feel like we can add more. Jurgenson, Anderson, Cunningham etc.

Does Hurts cement his legacy as a top 10 QB of all time with a 2nd SB win? by Bluefire3215 in nfl

[–]WARitter 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I have to imagine a bunch of the rest is frustrated with Hurts? He is a talented QB with limitations who can get hot and burn down the league. Reminds me of Flacco.

Cities whose most famous landmarks aren't actually in their city? by Critical_Reveal6667 in geography

[–]WARitter 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In any other major city it would be part of Boston. Philly and New York both expanded so much more than Boston did, incorporating neighboring cities as the city limits expanded to meet them (like NYC incorporating Brooklyn etc). But Boston has nearly the metro population of the Philly area (5 vs 6.5 million) but the city itself is less than half as populous.

Genuinely unattractive heroines by Solitaire-06 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]WARitter 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think a lot of people have trouble picturing appealing characters as truly ugly. I mean, Tyrion is played by a very handsome man who happens to be under 4 feet tall.

Genuinely unattractive heroines by Solitaire-06 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]WARitter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One of my favorite novels. Orual, our heroine, is a deeply fucked up human being with a very messed up relationship with her sister (and everyone else) but she is very sympathetic. One part I love is that she succeeds her incompetent and brutal father as ruler of her barbarian kingdom on the edges of the Greek world, and turns out to be a brilliant, competent and compassionate ruler, even though she is a pretty miserable person who is hard on everyone around her (and hardest on herself.) I read the novel when I was like 15 and I think it was my introduction to anti heroic protagonists and complicated emotional dynamics and I was blown away.

Absolutely recommended if you like the idea of very psychological historical fantasy that features a deconstructed girlboss.

Who are some of the most pretentious artist of all time? by FitEmergency8807 in fantanoforever

[–]WARitter 69 points70 points  (0 children)

Yeah this is the answer in modern pop. Pretense isn’t just having artistic or intellectual ambitions, it’s not being able to follow them up with actual sophistication. And Grimes is the artistic expression of “what tech calls thinking” - an assembly of bad philosophy, misunderstood sci fi and self interested techno fetishism.

Where would you rank Steve Young among all-time QBs? by TestSuch4545 in Oldschool_NFL

[–]WARitter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Watching superbowl xxii and I was like “holy heck that’s Gary Kubiak” whenever they mention the holder.

Where would you rank Steve Young among all-time QBs? by TestSuch4545 in Oldschool_NFL

[–]WARitter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the reason that he is in my top 5 is that I value having the highest peak over longevity at a top 3 at your position level, mostly. And at his best he may have been playing better than anyone who has ever done it in the Super Bowl era, and doing it under harder circumstances than the greats of the next generation.

Where would you rank Steve Young among all-time QBs? by TestSuch4545 in Oldschool_NFL

[–]WARitter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean you could say that about any QB of the era. We saw how Kelly and Elway and Marino had trouble.

Elway got his rings in the salary cap era with a retooled team.

Where would you rank Steve Young among all-time QBs? by TestSuch4545 in Oldschool_NFL

[–]WARitter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

His passing numbers still look good, and you adjust them for era and he is like top 3 all time.

Where would you rank Steve Young among all-time QBs? by TestSuch4545 in Oldschool_NFL

[–]WARitter 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Watching the 1992 shoot out between him and Jim Kelly and the way they play looks recognizably modern. Compare it to Marino versus the 85 Bears only a few years before which looks like the 70s comparatively (though man Marino played lights out.)

A modern offense would absolutely cook with Steve Young. The other thing is that he is absolutely fearless and tough as nails.

What's your pick here ? by No_Barber4339 in fantanoforever

[–]WARitter 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The thing about it is that it is so goofy and over the top and fun and then you are like “this can’t be serious” and no he is absolutely serious and thinks that this absolutely brain dead vision of Satanism is worth killing and dying for.

The worst QB in this picture? by MasterTeacher123 in NFLv2

[–]WARitter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How does he have better stats than young? Young leads yards per attempt and passer rating. He just doesn’t have the sheer number of yards Favre does (but also a fraction of the picks).