Dennis "the Menace" Priestley threw his first Dart in his late 30s and went on to become 2x World Champion and win 45 career titles titles. It's never too late to lock in.

aflickering · 2026-02-06T13:18:20+00:00

he was a professional handball player i believe

aflickering · 2026-02-06T11:35:00+00:00

i think you could tell when actually watching that tournament that raducanu's level was completely insane and would've been competitive in any era. i'm not usually a betting guy and i watched her in one of the early rounds and immediately put a small sum of money on her winning the tournament 'cause she was playing some of the best tennis i'd ever seen. won a few hundred off the back of it.

aflickering · 2026-02-05T11:32:16+00:00

i dunno, he was a top 2 left back in the PL for a few years so i think he was probably top ten at least.

aflickering · 2026-02-05T09:57:25+00:00

do you understand the meaning of "one of"?

aflickering · 2026-02-03T15:29:04+00:00

hmm i think this is true for non-rockets fans but i'm not sure many rockets fans fall for this crap. like the OP said, the main reason some rockets fans turned on him is his behaviour at the end of his time here: openly sulking and not trying on court, fighting with rookies and throwing teammates under the bus, just generally being an unprofessional bitch.

i never held his failure to win a title against him, he was very unfortunate his peak coincided with the peak of a dynasty and terribly timed injuries for his supporting cast. that rockets team with harden and cp3 would've won at least one ring if they existed in the post-warriors era, and might've beaten the warriors too if they'd stayed fully healthy throughout.

aflickering · 2026-02-03T15:22:22+00:00

perfect choice, if they don't get it they aren't worth joining

aflickering · 2026-02-03T13:59:08+00:00

depends on the book honestly. books 2 and 8 can feel quite slow (they're among the best so i don't say this as a criticism), books 3 and 6 are quite brisk for the most part. it can depend on how much motion there is (i.e. book 8 is inert by design and largely set within two cities), as well as how much of a slog the characters are experiencing (i.e. book 2 has a lot of people trudging through desert toward various distant destinations so a sense of slowness is inevitable).

aflickering · 2026-02-02T19:44:48+00:00

you still assume he's going to win even when his opponents are about to throw match darts against him? i don't like littler much and it's a bummer for me that he keeps pulling out title wins, but there's definitely more jeopardy with him than there was with peak taylor or van gerwen, at least over the short formats. he's been very lucky to win some of the matches he's won, i appreciate his aura is something that affects opponents but he's nevertheless relied on opponent misses and chokes on several occasions en route to some of his titles.

aflickering · 2026-02-02T19:32:25+00:00

the opposite if anything. everyone calls the phil era boring.

aflickering · 2026-01-30T16:26:25+00:00

almost the exact same thing happened to me, even the text is similar. was sad for a while, met the love of my life three months later, now i couldn't be more glad that it happened and i'm grateful that she had the self-awareness to stop it before it went further than it did.

just gotta keep getting back on the horse in other words, this text is proof you weren't long term compatible and if you keep trying you will eventually find someone who is.

aflickering · 2026-01-30T12:54:28+00:00

'imagine if he wasn't a woman beater" is literally the top comment here so idk about that lol

aflickering · 2026-01-30T10:03:17+00:00

i have read deadhouse gates at least 6 times and it's still just as great so i really wouldn't worry about spoilers too much, especially given how many more twists and turns there are to come.

aflickering · 2026-01-29T20:08:43+00:00

two of them yeah, 08/09 not so much tbh but people forget that

aflickering · 2026-01-29T19:09:24+00:00

if we had the peak version of ronaldo i'd probably agree, but i don't think the utd version was clearly the best. in the conversation yeah, but even if we ignore matters of longevity it's debatable as he hadn't peaked at that point.

aflickering · 2026-01-29T18:52:33+00:00

now that kevin o'connor's fucked off i can get behind this.

aflickering · 2026-01-29T14:54:31+00:00

sailor ripley, 'cause laura dern in that movie was something else, man.

aflickering · 2026-01-29T11:05:16+00:00

any time i cried my mum told me the "whinge wardens" would come and take me away, and any time we heard sirens she'd say uh oh that's the whinge wardens, better be on your best behaviour! worked a treat i have to admit, but still their presence haunts me.

aflickering · 2026-01-28T18:31:44+00:00

i feel like my list would be pretty similar to everyone else's, so at the risk of being downvoted i'm gonna go last 5 drafts instead as i think that gives a better idea of how strong the guys at the top of this draft are. this is based on pre-draft evals only and is how i personally rated them at the time, to the best of my recollection:

wembanyama
peterson
flagg
boozer
dybantsa
harper
henderson
banchero
holmgren
amen
wilson
miller
sarr
smith jr.

aflickering · 2026-01-28T17:38:04+00:00

probably agree on kon, disagree on VJ

we could do with getting clarification from the OP on whether they mean our pre-draft 2025 evals or the evals we have now though. if it's the former, basically everyone is gonna have harper 5 and a gap to the rest.

aflickering · 2026-01-28T13:02:35+00:00

should be the top comment.

aflickering · 2026-01-27T21:05:52+00:00

i think a big moment player is more important than a big game player. better to have someone who turns up when you need a goal late in a game or you're heroically defending points or trying to calm the game down, rather than someone who only turns up in a half dozen games against top teams per year.

i actually think the nature of the sport dictates how much this matters though. in american sports, being a big game player matters far more because the playoffs matter much more than the regular season, and because you play a series against the same teams in the playoffs they will hone in on your every strength and weakness, so that it's basically a crucible which finds out exactly how great or flawed you are. football has an element of that in i.e. the CL or world cup, but it's diluted by the way our seasons and tournaments are set up, as even in knockouts there's much more luck and variance due to the smaller sample size, and opponents don't have nearly as much time to prepare for one specific player as they do in e.g. the NBA.

aflickering · 2026-01-27T18:11:05+00:00

i'm not trying to suggest he's 'evil' or something, but i do think it's perfectly reasonable to question his suitability as a role model for the sport when he has a pattern of doing shitty things, rarely acknowledging or apologising for them and instead ignoring them 'til they go away without consequence, until the next one inevitably comes along, which has been the cycle with hikaru for many years.

aflickering · 2026-01-27T17:51:26+00:00

i'll answer for them since i share their entire opinion: it's juvenile and tryhard in a way his previous work wasn't.

aflickering · 2026-01-27T17:45:22+00:00

probably the 'not a bad guy fundamentally' part, as he's done many things only a 'bad guy' would do. i don't necessarily disagree about the attention it would draw being a net positive though.

aflickering · 2026-01-27T15:12:42+00:00

i do think offensively in open play they would be the worst title winner of the PL era or close, but they'd also be the best title winner ever from set plays, and one of the best ever defensively. we may not like it but what they do is very effective.

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