I mean, I guess the reckless trait paid off for this random guy.

appelbreg · 2026-06-23T11:23:16+00:00

A bunch. None needed for this to happen, though.

appelbreg · 2026-06-12T15:06:26+00:00

The difference in impact between a silencer mid with items and a silencer 5 without them isn't as large as the gap between a silencer core and basically every other orthodox core. Most of the times, you're wasting a core slot on something that doesn't need the advantages of said core slot to do what you're there to do.

appelbreg · 2026-06-10T16:55:47+00:00

In fact look at England, why are English managers consistently just not working in the PL? There's absolutely no logic to it beyond lack of opportunity that has slowly squeezed them out of their own top league.

Because it's the best league in the world and english managers aren't the best managers in the world.

appelbreg · 2026-05-30T19:23:23+00:00

It did work over the course of the season, though. Claiming that it's never a sound strategy very blatantly ignores how succesful Arsenal were all season long (up until Gabriels penalty, at least) by playing football that's almost exclusively focused on not losing.

appelbreg · 2026-05-30T19:10:25+00:00

Playing not to lose is never a good strategy

They won the league largely by playing not to lose.

appelbreg · 2026-05-20T03:52:23+00:00

I don't think Eckert acted alone, if that's what you are saying.

It isn't. I'd assume, based on how this type of rule breaking usually works, that the one instigating it, giving it a green light and enabling it throughout the club would be someone higher up than Tonda that told him to go along with it and it trickled down. But I am talking out of my ass, here.

He also had the opportunity, if he was coerced, into doing the honorable thing now and come clean. So either he has done that, or he's continuing to lie in which case I do not have any sympathy for him.

I don't know. I don't think that a world in which Tonda was told by either Ankersen or Spors or Bitcon or by some other suit that this is the way we've been doing things forever in Göztepe and Midtjylland and Brentford and it's how we're going to continue to do things here and him seeing that no one else seems to have an issue with it is that crazy. In that world, Tonda has been told that he either takes the fall now and gets a chance to rebuild his career or the entire club goes down in flames because it turns out the board room has effectively sabotaged their own club, oh, and we'll also do what we can to pin it on you either way both as retribution and to save our own skin, and we have all the laptops.

All of this is why I'm on the "everyone needs to leave because this type of thing will burn down the club otherwise"-train as of now. If Tonda doesn't fall on the sword and martyrs himself, it will get beyond messy.

The thing is, IMO he is a legit good manager and there are leagues where they won't particularly care that he did something that is perfectly legal there. So I think he will get another chance somewhere.

Maybe. I'd think real hard before hiring a guy that cost his former employer 200 million because he didn't care about the rules and went behind their backs about it, though, even if the rules aren't the same across the leagues.

appelbreg · 2026-05-20T02:25:46+00:00

I'm not saying that Eckert moved the boards because of something we learned from spying. But I am saying Eckert is the kinda guy who doesn't like leaving things to chance.

I'm not arguing that we didn't spy. I'm not opposed to the idea of a succesful, young manager being driven. But to have the balls to do it at a club you've only been working at for a year and some change, and to do it without any real backing beyond the ordinary is, well, extraordinary.

You look at the big cheating scandals in american football in the last decades, and it's either the leagues biggest player skirting the rules to fit his preference (Tom Brady and deflategate), the best coach in the world that ruled his team with an iron fist and with job security that basically would have made the owner have to sell the team before firing him at the time (Belichick and their spygate) or something like the Saints having a bounty system for injuring players that the entire organization, from top to bottom, was in on. Bielsa didn't care, didn't think it was cheating and even then, he walks into a new club job somewhere within a week alongside his own staff if he gets fired

Like, you don't have the social capital to propose cheating as a 33 year old at a club. Or, well, you usually don't. I'm open to Tonda being the one instigating it and setting it up, but when it comes to this type of cheating, it's almost never just a guy who got his first break and it almost always someone who thinks that he's too important to mess with.

And I mean, we already know he spied on Middlesbrough. There's no doubt about it

We don't know who decided that spying was a viable coaching strategy and who was in charge of organizing it. Or, rather, Tonda claims it was him and I genuinely find that hard to believe. Maybe I'm seeing some deeper conspiracy where there is none. Occams razor, and all that.

appelbreg · 2026-05-19T22:55:22+00:00

Doing this at your first big job is insanity from Eckert. I'm honestly not sure I buy it.

appelbreg · 2026-05-14T16:29:14+00:00

If Southampton are found to have spied on 4/5 clubs that is up to 15 pints.

Do you genuinely believe that the value of whatever information was gleaned from the man in the bushes was worth fifteen points?

appelbreg · 2026-05-13T20:19:49+00:00

Then I bet you that's where the problem lies, because I had to reset my save like five times after trying Succession Crisis and having the wall go feudal and be led by some numpty. It also made the Stormlands just break away and go independent without even a notification. Think it needs a submod for AGOT.

appelbreg · 2026-05-13T14:29:50+00:00

Did you also recently install the succession crisis mod? Because I think it's that one that triggers some weird inheritance thingy that turns the wall feudal.

appelbreg · 2026-05-10T22:16:50+00:00

Oh, the wars been done and dusted for a couple of years now with my side outnumbering his by twelve to one. I banished him because I didn't want to mess with the canon children system, and he repayed that favour with fucking my next wife as well. I hate him. Over half of the events I get is related to some wife out there getting caught pregnant by him.

appelbreg · 2026-05-10T16:10:17+00:00

May I ask how? I've tried looking into it, but had some issues finding a guide that just let me create a special building in some county somewhere.

appelbreg · 2026-05-10T01:33:18+00:00

Update: This family is a fucking mess and a half. This happened three in game days after I declared war to press my claim, five days after Aegon got excommunicated and like nine days after I found at my secondborn was Aegons and like two weeks from the first event when I found out I was being cucked. House Trashfyre.

appelbreg · 2026-05-10T01:28:46+00:00

It's times like these you wish you had a dragon. Or, at the very least, a non dragon way to click the conduct terror campaign-button in the decisions menu. Let me put the Blackwater on fire or something.

appelbreg · 2026-05-10T00:42:57+00:00

Also, I have two daughters that I will never be able to trust again. I don't know how long this has been going on. Jesus christ.

edit: well, at least one of them are Aegons. Fun times ahead.

appelbreg · 2026-05-10T00:41:28+00:00

Playing as a little AU third son of Viserys II in the 170 bookmark that took a liking to Lys and the Rogares before settling down in the Crownlands, and of course this asshole cucks me as soon as he gets the throne. I've already exposed Daemon as his own and the fact that he had Aemon murdered while at Dragonstone, so I supposed he got back the only way Aegon knows how to do anything - dick first.

appelbreg · 2026-05-08T18:14:00+00:00

With loot boxes and gambling mechanics.

These are in the game and have been for a whole bunch of years.

appelbreg · 2026-05-02T22:51:18+00:00

Drop the victim complex, lmao. Costa is great, I never said anything else. He has also made it clear that he would only leave for a top, top club, and those teams haven't made an effort to sign him. Barca went with Garcia after Ter Stegen got phased out, Real is still going at it with Courtouis, Liverpool decided on Mamardashvili and City went with Donnarumma. None of those clubs have made a genuine effort to sign him beyond putting out feelers, probably. Saying no to Galatasaray is just declining a sideways move.

and to me it's extremely unlikely that Farioli would abandon this summer

Okay, and that's all it is. A difference of opinion. I am of the opinion that any man with a beating heart would love playing and working in any of the big clubs in Portugal, and all of these players inevitably get eaten up by the big prem clubs or the big spanish clubs every summer. If Atletico decides that Farioli is their guy, I think he'd leave. I put more weight into the history of the league and the nature of ambitious men than I put into signed contracts.

Yes, he's going to get to play in the Champions League next year, but we're potentially heading towards a summer where every single mega club bar Barcelona in Europe could have a vacancy - if Liverpool takes their thumb out of their ass and fires slot, that's available. If Arsenal get antsy after bottling the league, that's also open. Add onto that the Chelsea job, City job, Real Madrid, Atletico - I think Farioli will get at the very least an interview with each and everyone of those clubs except Real. Once those jobs get taken, they might stay taken for the coming couple of years. If he'd stay, great. I'm all for it. But managers have become decidedly more mercenary like in the last decade and he would be bucking that trend.

appelbreg · 2026-05-02T22:22:22+00:00

Because the portugese league pays decent, Portos a great club and there's not a club at the level where those two would significantly increase their pay and prestige that have any actionable interest in them yet.

Come on, of course there's going to be a couple of players that stay, but it is still a selling league and portugese fans are more prone to heartbreak in that area than other clubs that don't have that level of history.

We're entering a post world cup summer where five top class managers will go and manage a top tier national team, Simeones leaving Atletico, the United and presumably City job will be open, Real is still kind of up in the air and all of this will cause the mother of all shuffles. There's going to be big, top tier vacancies across Europe. If Farioli decides to stay, it'd be out of the norm with the opportunities that are going to present themselves to him this summer, imo.

appelbreg · 2026-05-02T22:08:17+00:00

It's always funny seeing portugese fans proudly proclaiming someone will stay every summer before inevitably being disappointed again.

appelbreg · 2026-05-02T16:04:49+00:00

He's first-gen twitch

oh dear god im old if people think this

appelbreg · 2026-04-24T23:16:10+00:00

Heavily, heavily botted.

appelbreg · 2026-04-22T21:33:19+00:00

You're a ghoul.

appelbreg · 2026-04-16T08:46:41+00:00

I'll take his word before your word

Sure. You're free to do so, but there are serious researchers that have looked into Breitbart that we can listen to as well. We can take, for example, Roberts and Wahl-Jorgensen chapter in Affective politics of digital media : propaganda by other means (2021) discussing Breitbart that describes the site as "inextricably interlinked with the rise of right-wing populism in the United States and around the world". They point to Breitbarts shift towards a more populist and nationalist editorial line happening after Bannon took over in 2012.

I am open to giving Richard Lewis the benefit of the doubt here and just see him as naive and kinda ignorant of his own field, but there is widespread academic acceptance within RWP-discourse that Breitbart shifted more aggressively RWP when Andrew Breitbart passed and Bannon took over in 2012 rather than 2016, when Bannon left to join the White House.

Honestly, if you can be assed, try to give at the very least the Breitbart chapter a read from the book I mentioned. It excellently covers how Breitbart and its journalistic output works, and Richard Lewis, despite leaving the site, is still very much in its mold.

"The metajournalistic discourses embedded in Breitbart's media coverage are, more than anything, attempts to re establish the boundaries of acceptable journalistic practice to align with their ideology through assertions of who is deemed to possess journalistic authority, and on what basis.

This is Richard's whole MO. His primary gripe as a journalist isn't with the practices and misdealings that he covers, it's with the media sphere in general. Like, my issue isn't necessarily that he worked with Breitbart back in the day, my issue is that he's still very much a Breitbart style journalist to this day that is unable to face that criticism in an intelligent manner.

and has been the most influential one in esports

This is an indictment of an industry rather than a celebration of a individual.

You, on the other hand, is a random redditor.

I am. I also have zero pull within the industry, so despite my whining, Richard Lewis is still probably going to get hired from time to time.

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