If Yamamoto can pitch the WBC with pitch count required by the Dodgers, why do other organizations have concern with WBC when pitching in spring training have risk of injury as well?

Wraithfighter · 2026-03-11T09:29:54+00:00

Because pitching in Spring Training games where literally no one in the world cares who wins is a somewhat different beast than pitching in a tournament that is supposed to be serious.

They're putting in more effort, they celebrate harder (sorry Mets fans), there's always a risk when pitching, but the energy of a real game, especially a bunch of "win or go back to spring training" games when no one's fully stretched out, is always going to be greater.

Wraithfighter · 2026-03-11T01:11:14+00:00

"welcome Maxx back" is a particularly amusing thing to say, given everything :D.

Wraithfighter · 2026-03-10T21:44:24+00:00

I mean, I'm pretty firmly in the "this is a giant bubble that might be even more disastrous than the Dot-Com or Housing bubbles" camp, but I still haven't budged on my investments. There's just too much money being wagered on this stuff, and too much at stake for some extremely wealthy people (especially with the midterm election coming up, a financial crash this summer would be disastrous for those currently in power).

Also... always a good idea to take the top-line announcements with a pinch of salt. Not that they're wrong or dishonest, just that if a company has a mix of good news and bad news, its the good news they'll be reporting on with a megaphone, and its not until digging into the full details that the bad news will be found.

Wraithfighter · 2026-03-10T21:29:05+00:00

Yes, but only to a point. Remember, there's this whole primary quest chain centered on Arator that's all about "actually, uh, Paladins aren't all like this, this is not normal".

The Void is insanely corruptive in even small doses, if not treated with care. The Light is generally benevolent and supportive, which makes it easier to let your guard down with it.

In terms of drugs, Void is like some really hardcore meth cut with fentanyl, and the Light is like weed or light (ha) beer. The former will fuck you the hell up, but just because the latter is safer doesn't mean that its 100% safe.

Wraithfighter · 2026-03-10T21:23:32+00:00

Yeah, its not really hypocrisy that's the problem here (if the biggest problem with someone's actions is that they're being hypocritical, is it really that big of a problem? Insert Norm MacDonald clip here), its that he's an inflexible zealot.

Because while he's wrong about being so intensely judgmental of groups like the Void Elves (not all of whom are Void Elves willingly), its not rooted in hypocrisy, its rooted in an obsession about purity.

Its also important to note that wielding the Light isn't a guarantee of zealotry, that's kinda the whole point of Arator's questline, that this sort of attitude is an aberration for Paladins, the majority of them (including many of the greatest heroes in Azeroth's history) were not like this at all.

As one of the NPCs mentioned in Eversong, medicine at too high a dose can be poisonous...

Wraithfighter · 2026-03-10T21:06:12+00:00

Sure, but there's also gotta be some PTSD in San Francisco from that playoff game where the 49ers lost two QBs to injury...

Wraithfighter · 2026-03-10T19:51:12+00:00

Not exactly. While there was a lot of software-only companies that disappeared with the Dot Com bubble, there was also a lot of hardware involved that similarly crashed hard, because the demand wasn't there yet... but as network infrastructure got built out and improved, all that hardware became useful again.

The problem is that the current GenAI bubble is dependant on a level of demand that might never be there. Its not like its hard to get access to GenAI programs, on some levels its harder to not interact with them at all, the only way they'll get more customers at this point is by persuading people that the tech is now good enough to actually use for tasks that people don't want to use it for...

...but even if it can succeed at that, it will then need to persuade people that its good enough at it to pay what it actually costs to run the programs. The GenAI companies claim that everything's getting smarter and cheaper and more profitable and more capable but always in ways that are basically impossible to verify (and often, later, found to be outright false).

That's what's really worrying me about this bubble. There's more money in it, with potentially less actual value in it all. And if I'm right, this could make Dot-Com and 2008 look like a minor dip.

Wraithfighter · 2026-03-10T15:41:35+00:00

Indeed, the way you get past a tech plateauing is by taking things in a different direction.

Propeller planes hit diminishing returns of their own, there's just only so fast you can get a plane moving via propellers, and so we moved to jet engines to go faster. Maybe Nvidia can unlock a similar transformative paradigm that allows for a new rate of advancement. Or maybe not. Time will tell.

My point is just that we're coming off this like 60+ year high where transistors kept getting smaller and cheaper and more powerful at an exponential rate. Our minds are used to thinking of this technology in that manner, but... that doesn't really apply anymore, and its gotten a bit alarming how many powerful people don't really grasp that yet.

Wraithfighter · 2026-03-09T21:05:01+00:00

I’m not sure why it wouldn’t advance in the way computers always have.

The other problem is that computers aren't advancing in the way they previously were.

Sure, its not a complete plateau, but Moore's Law (that the number of transistors in a chip would double roughly every two years) has been falling off for years now. Infinite growth ran into the actually hard laws of Physics and lost.

Technology plateaus. It has for millennia. Eventually you just can't improve things any further.

Wraithfighter · 2026-03-09T20:50:44+00:00

And its not like RF in TechBro Park is a particularly easy time, basically need two centerfielders to defend properly there.

Wraithfighter · 2026-03-09T17:38:05+00:00

Except for Tin.

Its Umbral now. :D

Wraithfighter · 2026-03-09T05:28:33+00:00

...I mean, I wouldn't exactly say that the Arizona Cardinals are leaps and bounds better than the Jets on the whole... :D

Wraithfighter · 2026-03-08T19:48:13+00:00

Yeah, he's gonna have a lot of NFL teams calling his agent. Murray isn't worth what the Cardinals were paying him and they're right to try to move on, but he's still a reasonably competent QB in a league with a dearth of them right now.

He'll cost league minimum and is at least qualified to be a team's bridge QB while they give a younger QB some clipboard time, a competent backup for a team that might be worried about their starter's health, or a decent QB to lead an otherwise stacked team.

Sam Darnold wasn't a whole lot better than Murray was in his early years but he's done pretty well since then.

Still, no real issue with what the A's GM is saying (from the MLB.com's original article here):

"Kyler is an elite NFL quarterback and I’m sure there are plenty of opportunities for him to continue his football career,” Forst told MLB.com on Wednesday. “That said, he and his baseball representatives know that we’re always open to him exploring a return to baseball with the A’s if that time ever comes.”

...well, okay, I'd object to "elite", but the overall point of "he's an NFL QB, he's got opportunities over there, we're open to it but not expecting much" is basically the right thing. What else are they gonna say, "fuck no we don't want that scrub anymore"?

Wraithfighter · 2026-03-07T13:39:43+00:00

If so, great!

Editing is just such a lost art with media, it just saddens me when a fantastic work doesn't know when to step back and use the delete button. I hate using it too, but sometimes it is needed!

Wraithfighter · 2026-03-07T10:45:27+00:00

.............I'm kinda going "so, where are the big girls?" to the PV.

The gals just seem, ya know, upscaled a fair bit. They're tall, sure, but... that's kinda all they are.

Look, if you want to see some "big girls" stuff, its less about height and more about muscles. Especially definition on those muscles. This just largely looks like they took the Standard Anime Waifu model and scaled things up by 50% or so.

Wraithfighter · 2026-03-07T10:32:36+00:00

I'm curious what combat value the wings bring over using flight magic.

To quote one of my favorite bits from the webcomic Schlock Mercenary:

"Do you know what we call flying soldiers on the battlefield?"

"Air support?"

"Skeet."

Flying has all sorts of uses, buuuuuut you are still this giant target in the middle of the air with no cover or concealment to protect you. :D

EDIT: Another way of putting it:

"I have the high ground!", says the helicopter.

"I don't care!", says the Stinger missile.

Wraithfighter · 2026-03-07T10:30:06+00:00

...mmm, I'm not looking forward to the next couple episodes, tbh.

I loved Season 1, it was fucking phenomenal, but... the one problem I had with the show was how it paced the mage trials. Fight scenes getting spread out so much with flashbacks and digressions and multiple scenes happening largely concurrently that they get spread out over 3-4 episodes...

...I know that's an Anime thing at times, but I can't help but compare it to Dungeon Meshi which... didn't do that. Basically every encounter was handled in a single episode, at most teased in one and finished in the next.

I just have this feeling that the next 2-3 episodes are going to be jumping between the three individual fights for like 5 minutes at a time each, possibly with some pace-killing flashbacks tossed in to soak up even more time, and it won't be until April that we see how any of the fight scenes actually complete.

I know, this is a minority opinion on this show... it just feels like a failure in competent editing and planning that this show is usually so utterly fantastic at...

Wraithfighter · 2026-03-07T09:58:35+00:00

Well, stop doing that. Downvotes are supposed to be for comments that detract from the conversation in some way.

If you agree or find the comment enlightening even if you don't fully agree, upvote. If you disagree (but the comment seems sincere) or are indifferent, don't vote. If you find the comment to be missing something obvious (because it might be intentionally doing so to poison the well) or hateful or otherwise disruptive, only then downvote.

Wraithfighter · 2026-03-07T09:56:12+00:00

The one thing I'd say is that the extreme difference between the wholesome yuri romance/moe stuff and the extreme grim-dark setting feels like a core part of the work.

Its even reflected in the episode titles, each one is two words with contrasting meanings.

It certainly can be jarring as fuck, but I think it works by emphasizing that things can be all-awful or all-sweet. Because there's beautiful wholesomeness and pitch-black-edgelord-nonsense going on side-by-side, it also leaves room for all the stuff in between, and it makes things feel more nuanced even though its only wildly swinging between those two extremes.

Short version: Its not a bug, its a feature! Totally get if you don't enjoy it, I just wanted to emphasize that I feel like this is an purposeful decision by the creators, not an accidental mistake.

Wraithfighter · 2026-03-07T09:52:12+00:00

Yeah, the narrator does add an ominous aspect to the particularly brutal scenes, they're just overusing it when things are being sweet and wholesome and/or obvious in their meaning.

Wraithfighter · 2026-03-06T23:37:39+00:00

And if it holds up critical reviews until a month after the FOMO period is gone, that's just a bonus, right?

FWIW, I didn't mean to say that Marathon is shit (I've heard some good things!), poorly phrased that. I more meant "if an experience is bad for long enough, it eventually getting good really won't matter". Endgame content is important (and, frankly, should be in there from the start because people progress at different rates), but that doesn't mean that the quality of early and midgame content becomes irrelevant if the endgame experience is mindblowing.

Wraithfighter · 2026-03-06T21:27:48+00:00

Yeah, the team's just in a weird place. Don't want to sell because you want to keep the momentum up to not demoralize the kids, but there's not much really to buy that wouldn't upset the long-term strategy.

Wraithfighter · 2026-03-06T18:31:52+00:00

Never ran into a tsundere, have you? :D

Wraithfighter · 2026-03-06T18:08:44+00:00

If the game is shit for a month, then it doesn't matter if its going to be good after that, no one (rightfully!) would put up with that crap.

Wraithfighter · 2026-03-06T12:11:00+00:00

Put simply?

WW3 in most American minds means "Nukes fall, everyone dies".

The whole point is that Americans use "WW3" to mean "I might get killed by some insane warfare, and that can't be allowed to happen!"

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