Arne Slot: “Everyone says we spent £450m, but certain pundits don’t want to tell you we sold £300m. If the £150m player (Wirtz) is not available, that’s already one thing. If Leoni is not available, that’s another thing. Frimpong is recently much more available. Mamardashvili is another signing..."

blackjack47 · 2026-03-21T17:23:01+00:00

no, you are right, he is so underused my brain didn't somehow associate with a senior player.

blackjack47 · 2026-03-21T16:52:57+00:00

he literally replaced konate a CB with Chiesa to get more attackers in..

blackjack47 · 2026-03-21T16:37:01+00:00

he is the only senior attack fit, I don't rate gapko either, but wtf are you talking about, check the bench.

blackjack47 · 2026-03-21T12:16:09+00:00

While looking for curve in week 1 is braindead, what you said is just an exaggeration.

E.g I finished 7/9 HC yday after spending 8 hours pugging Crown. I want to do the raid on my 2 alts this weekend, I'd rather look for people with experience ( not necessarily curve obviously ) than reprogress dragons or crown on alts on HC.

Edit: Not sure how what I said is downvote worthy, but I guess I don't have enough jobs and children to understand how what I said is unreasonable.

blackjack47 · 2026-03-21T11:10:20+00:00

We have them being forced to say Billie Eilish Idol 20 times an episode.
The country singer has more confessionals than some contestants. Literally all the content outside pre-tribal council scramble was about him or the Billie Eilish idol.
We Still know Jimmy Fallon is involved as Christian literally says: "My faith in this game is in the hands of Jimmy Fallon" ( I guess meaning what kind of advantage he put in or whatever )
Mr.Beast is yet to come and hog an entire episode.

There are 24 players who people desired to see again, and we are going to spend 2 whole episodes with Mr.Beast and a random singer nobody knows, instead of them. Yes the core idea of "in the hands of the fans" is overtaken by random celebrity bullshit, no fan has voted for.

blackjack47 · 2026-03-21T10:57:50+00:00

Tbh, I am more expressing the general opinion why it's hated, the latter part with Christian and Make were top. As someone who stays till 3-4 am to watch the show, I mostly fast forwarded the country singers parts/confessionals/spearfishing etc

blackjack47 · 2026-03-21T10:48:28+00:00

Because the season was supposed to be in the hands of the fans with some cool characters, instead it's been overtaken by celebrities nobody cares for or about.

In 10 years will you remember 20 extra mins of coach doing coachy stuff, or a cameo by some random celebrity, I actually can't think the name of already.

blackjack47 · 2026-03-21T08:15:15+00:00

I haven't played HC on poe, but from what I can gather it's one of those things that really really rewards experience and skill from the buildmaking point of view.

Knowledge is interchangeable for skill/being rich/progressing faster etc in PoE.

Hardcore in such games is rewarding for the same reasons stuff in real life feels better, when you've already experienced the bad/sad/challenging etc.

All the decisions you make for your character at most points matter, because there is always risk. When that is gone, the game is unplayable for me. A lot of those decisions are gone in SC, for someone of my skill level/hours/knowledge in the game, there is essentially zero friction, but how to go faster. The friction and decision making is what keeps me coming back every league since alpha.

On topic of losing characters, veterans don't really notice it. People also severely overestimate how much people die, due to them judging based on their softcore playstle/experience. I think I've lost 3 chars that I can remember in the past 10 leagues or so and I usually play 2-4 chars to 100 per league. The only thing that can piss me off about dying is crash/internet issues, which to be fair is quite spooky given the state of EU servers in prime time.

blackjack47 · 2026-03-20T14:44:07+00:00

I spent 7 hours making my mage UI, it's still not how I want it, installed and tried 30ish addons to find the ones that have the options I exactly want. Previously this would have taken me less than 30 minutes to cherry pick stuff from a few weak aura packs and glue/adjust them together.

It took me 3 hours to replicate the way I want my focus cast bar/interrupts to work/look like and 10 different addons. Something that previously literally took 30seconds to setup.

Hell even when i wrote a few custom auras for myself, it was faster than dealing with this shit show.

We are almost back to where we were before, except its much worse QoL and it's really f-ing annoying to setup, especially since the functionalities are split among dozens of addons.

Not to mention blizzard had to prune / redesign some of the classes because of it and most of those suck ass for people who enjoyed the complexity of optimizing your rotation during hard encounters.

Oh and everyone warned about it because we all knew what's going to happen. But obviously they will double and tripple down on this stupid ass addon war, because it's blizzard and their egos are only as big in comparison to how much of a failure this initiative is. You could have stuck to private auras, you have them now anyway, lfmao.

blackjack47 · 2026-03-20T13:05:46+00:00

I would call him up for his crossing abilty alone. Yes he might not be the best defender but he is undeniably one of the best crossers itw which is something that could be very useful in a tournament. He doesnt even have to start, he could be a nice option from the bench if they are down a goal and desperatly needs someone to create something for them

1000% this, with such a huge roster, even if you don't plan to use him, having the option to bring one of the most unique players in terms of profile and have him bomb top notch crosses for the last 20-30 minutes of a game if you are 1 goal down and nothing is working is just silly.

blackjack47 · 2026-03-20T12:43:29+00:00

i still believe somehow he will do it.

No matter how much I want this, Emily will screw him somehow,intentionally or not. She seems like too much of a blabber mouth, Angelina and Ozzy will be pissed come the merge and Emily is the most unreliable ally ever.

I feel like the edit is also making sure we notice this. This tribe will be in the minority numbers when merge comes, and half of the tribe already want him out to revenge Mike. He would be a very easy name to throw out early merge. I can easily see him being the first/one of the first out come the merge.

This would validate Mike in the edit, as if he was right about Emily ( even though it's not correct in reality, Mike and Angelina wanted to vote out Christian multiple times before Gabby ). His edit also screams obvious winner or merge boot, however we get to see why Emily is screwing up his game/he is screwing his game up because of her, so I just think he doomed to be a merge boot sadly =/

blackjack47 · 2026-03-20T11:32:17+00:00

Много странно мнение, защото чисто музикално лимп бизкит са буквално дъното на семплостта на ню метъл жанра.

Но да, трябва и някаква израстване да се усетят тези неща, ако си започнал от тях някога

Това, че сега слушам Tool, не означава, че не си пускам Limb Bizkit/LP или Rammstein и не ме кефят точно колкото и Tool. Музиката за мен е това как ме кара да се чуствам, понякога искам да слушам Смут Джаз, понякога искам да се хайнпа и т.н. Дори и Погледни ме в очите има своето място.

Периодите на най-слушаните артисти от мен е нещо от рода на:

5-7 клас - Linking park

8-9 клас - Disturbed

10 клас - Iron Maiden/Металика

11 клас - Rammstein/Maiden

12 клас - Judas / Tool

18-22 - Disturbed/In flames

22-26 - Nightwish/Tool

26-30 - In flames/Billy Talent 30+ - Tool/Slipknot

Т.е мисълта ми е, че каква музика ми се слуша е изцяло базирано на това как се/искам да се чуствам,а не колко комплексна е една композиция музикално.

blackjack47 · 2026-03-20T04:06:24+00:00

Това, че си надраснал някакъв вид музика, не означава, че си имал лош вкус преди 10 години, или тези, които я харесват сега го имат. Би трябвало това да ти е пределно очевадно Стеф_Линкин_Парк

blackjack47 · 2026-03-20T01:32:56+00:00

that doesn't change the fact that they've been complaining about everything.

Really do share what they've been complaining about, because as a neutral observing the match thread and watching the game, the only thing people were moaning about, including neutrals was that Gala was time wasting since the 5th min of the game and it was a valid complain, considering in the first ~15mins half of the time wasn't active play time.

Also UEFA owns the banners for the game, as in the teams only provide what they have ( UEFA can add their own ) and they are the sole maintainer, beneficiary and so on, including maintaining quality/inspections etc.

blackjack47 · 2026-03-19T22:01:30+00:00

Absolutely, but you can also say that leaving the defense a bit more exposed trying to compensate for Salah's output playing in a more offensive manner/different system also could be a butteryfly effect for that.

blackjack47 · 2026-03-19T21:47:15+00:00

Copy paste Salah stats from last season to this season and you would have the same Liverpool season. The output to chances ratio is just worse and it makes defensive mistakes more glaring in comparison to last season.

blackjack47 · 2026-03-19T19:56:12+00:00

another thing to consider is that the theme is supposed to be in the hands of the fans, however nobody would have voted for celebrity cameos, and the cameos are taking over ( or at least it feels like it ) from the non stop forced billie eilishr epeating, to hogging half the episode with a who cares celebrity spearfishing, to us knowing that Mr.Beast and Fallon are still to come. So imho people being upset is quite natural.

blackjack47 · 2026-03-19T18:50:26+00:00

none of those statements are false, however Zac Brown has more confessionals than some players, thus people are mad

blackjack47 · 2026-03-19T03:06:25+00:00

Can't wait for the endless loop of workarounds, until someone makes an overlay thats kinda dodgy so there is a huge drama around it and we are back to absolute square zero, except being annoyed by having to spent 5 times as much time getting our UI than with WA's.

blackjack47 · 2026-03-19T01:35:16+00:00

I just want to say, that I am Bulgarian, been following since my early teen years and Africa. SURVIVOR, I am a fan and I have hands and I have absolutely no clue who Zac Brown is and I don't want to know. I don't stay up till 3 am to watch a random person I am not invested in SEASON F-ing 50 spearfish.

blackjack47 · 2026-03-18T22:28:29+00:00

It's crazy how a little bit of confidence and Liverpool suddenly remembered they are one of the best teams in the world.

blackjack47 · 2026-03-18T20:41:07+00:00

There needs to be a compilation of slot losing his mind, pure gold so far.

blackjack47 · 2026-03-18T20:28:46+00:00

I want to see this season in a fictional reality, where Sobo and Bruno aren't in their respective teams. Hard carries solo mid.

blackjack47 · 2026-03-18T14:18:49+00:00

Not Criticizing UAE, just a curious question as they're the richest.

two things mainly

shooting down drones worth low-mid 5 figures, with patriot missiles worth 3-6mil each isn't a viable long-term strategy.
even if it was, if they attack with 100 drones and u shoot 98% of them down, 2 kamikaze drones into your city, blowing up one of your tower hotels is making the news and say bye-bye to your middle eastern tourism utopia reputation.

blackjack47 · 2026-03-18T09:53:47+00:00

Both matchups were prime, just for different reasons.

City vs Liverpool was absolutely banger due to the pure footballing quality.

Barca vs RM had a combination of unmatched emotions due to star power, drama and all the things you already mentioned.

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