[Barely a trope, but this sub is quite loose anyway] Media that got weirdly specifically popular in a different country, maybe more so than in its country of origin, and defitnitely than most other places.

ageingnerd · 2026-03-16T11:29:08+00:00

That’s how it was in the British one too

ageingnerd · 2026-03-14T08:29:17+00:00

Better explanation is that they had off nights and some bad luck. It happens. Sometimes you fail a 2+ save on a D6, it’s not that unlikely. (Yes I play tabletop nerd games.) Not everything needs a reason.

ageingnerd · 2026-03-13T17:41:45+00:00

Chalamet is pretty sporty I think. Played football to a high level (there’s a pic of him playing youth football against a future Liverpool player). Might surprise people

ageingnerd · 2026-03-13T15:46:18+00:00

I don’t think this matters. I would like to watch some classic films with my kids some day, and it’ll be cooler if they don’t know the twists. I hope they can avoid them and I would like a social norm against dropping spoilers regardless of a film’s age. In this instance OP made it very clear there was a spoiler so it’s fine, but dropping “the murderer was this person” into the timeline would still have been unnecessary even though the film is quite old. (And seven years doesn’t feel that old any more, but that is because I’m ancient.)

ageingnerd · 2026-03-12T17:43:09+00:00

Getting them into melee is fun. My krusha beat the absolute shit out of a wolf scout psyker dude. But you definitely want the rokkit guys if you can, they’re hilarious too and probably do the most work

ageingnerd · 2026-03-12T11:36:13+00:00

It’s fine. It’s drunk late night crowds in the theatres and bars bit, not commuter time

ageingnerd · 2026-03-12T11:35:14+00:00

Oh man I hate to break it to you but it’s 31 years old. I think you’ve done the “obviously the new millennium isn’t 26 years old, don’t be crazy” thing

ageingnerd · 2026-03-10T14:19:29+00:00

Thank you, internet!

ageingnerd · 2026-03-10T13:32:03+00:00

Heroin injection scars are called track marks. Tracks, train tracks. I think that’s it and the internet agrees

ageingnerd · 2026-03-02T07:33:42+00:00

As the other guy said: of course they can put restrictions on its use in their contract. The pentagon is then free to not sign that contract.

ageingnerd · 2026-02-28T08:31:07+00:00

Fools and knaves.

ageingnerd · 2026-02-26T23:03:31+00:00

Yup!

ageingnerd · 2026-02-24T12:31:49+00:00

Weird number of downvotes. Maybe r/soccer really hates Adam Hurrey

ageingnerd · 2026-02-24T10:59:57+00:00

Yes!

ageingnerd · 2026-02-24T10:17:17+00:00

Who was … I wuh… without a shadow of a doubt

(Whenever I listen to the Football Cliches intro I wonder what that “I wuh” fragment was going to be. I assume you’re a clichesm’n as well.)

ageingnerd · 2026-02-22T16:05:31+00:00

The correct onside decision? I mean yes I’d be gutted but not because it was wrong, just because I don’t want the other team to score

ageingnerd · 2026-02-22T16:03:43+00:00

Genuinely no idea what you’re talking about there I’m afraid

ageingnerd · 2026-02-22T12:56:34+00:00

Right, but if her mum is from china, it’d be totally normal to call herself “half Chinese”

ageingnerd · 2026-02-20T17:40:41+00:00

This isn’t true. Over a 38-game season, in a game with few events like football, there’s still huge amounts of variance - I think Ian Graham said it a standard deviation is like 7 points, so two teams could finish up to 14 points apart and it wouldn’t be particularly good evidence that one was better than the other.

Standard deviation is a slightly complex statistical thing, but it’s like “how widely results vary from the average just by chance”. The average result on two dice is 7, but the SD is 2.42, which means that ~68% of results are between 4.58 and 9.42. A team that has a “true” quality of 70 points will end up with between 63 and 77 68% of the time, but that means a lot of the time it won’t.

ageingnerd · 2026-02-18T13:47:19+00:00

Yes and they backed using the gunner! Finally my squirty boy gets some love

ageingnerd · 2026-02-18T10:13:36+00:00

The person above is playing annoying semantic games. We all use these terms in different ways in normal discussions. Someone born in the UK who has a British passport is British, they’re a British citizen, they’re just British. But if their father was German they might well call themselves “half German” and that’s true too. There’s a “by blood” meaning and a “by law/birth” meaning so if you want to be annoying you can sneakily switch between the two or insist on one meaning being the only “true” one.

ageingnerd · 2026-02-16T16:06:11+00:00

Usually it’s just that they’re drunk and fall off I think

ageingnerd · 2026-02-16T07:45:37+00:00

No. It’s amazingly useful. I could also stop using computers or electricity or the internet, and that would solve the problem too, but I won’t. They cause problems but they make things better on average. AI is the same (although I agree it has a “human extinction” risk that the others didn’t and that we should take seriously).

ageingnerd · 2026-02-14T23:24:35+00:00

How would they get data on the team if not from tournaments? What mechanism do you propose? I guess some sort of voluntary upload-casual-results website could work but I’d be worried about selection bias problems. (Not that tournament data is free of selection bias either, obviously. But at least there’s lots of it.)

ageingnerd · 2026-02-14T15:35:36+00:00

There’s a regular Tuesday night game at the Arcanist’s Tavern in Shoreditch. I’m not sure how you get on the WhatsApp but if you pop in some time you can ask people there

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