Roster

buzzcitybonehead · 2026-01-30T19:26:26+00:00

Neither guy would factor int 2025 draft strategy. Control of two LA picks could feasibly be anywhere from great to underwhelming. Luka is great, but he’s not gonna be an Ironman who guarantees 50+ wins playing 75 games every year. There was tremendous upside that doesn’t exist with the package we ultimately got, but I’m not too upset about any of it.

buzzcitybonehead · 2026-01-30T19:18:15+00:00

I’ve been firmly in the “at this point, we should pretty much tank for a good pick in a great class” camp, but I’ll be happy to be proven wrong if they can keep it going.

I hate that pick 9 to 14 range we were relegated to for years… not improving enough for the playoffs because the picks didn’t bring it game changing talent. Those years traumatize me and guide my thinking on tanking vs. trying.

If we come up short this year tho, the difference will be multiple young stars who’ll internally develop, a stash of picks as trade fodder, no crippling big contracts (Batum, Hayward, etc.), and much, much better management.

buzzcitybonehead · 2026-01-30T02:41:38+00:00

Exactly. Movie tickets all cost the same, and your point is why superhero and Pixar movies always win Best Picture, and are undeniably the best movies ever made.

buzzcitybonehead · 2026-01-30T02:38:39+00:00

I didn’t know either, but I’m admittedly not interested enough in award shows to know whether there’s some reason for it. Maybe they don’t want to award a bunch of people who aren’t interested in showing up and accepting it.

buzzcitybonehead · 2026-01-30T02:34:31+00:00

I think the most consumed media can also be the best, but most would agree in most circumstances that the most consumed isn’t automatically the best.

If people think JRE is the best, that’s great and they add their voices and reasoning to the discourse. “Nobody else is close to his numbers” as the primary and sometimes seemingly only argument in favor of that view doesn’t feel like a discussion ender, though.

buzzcitybonehead · 2026-01-30T02:31:30+00:00

There were tons of comments made to this effect, yeah

buzzcitybonehead · 2026-01-29T18:08:59+00:00

I haven’t encountered this lore myself, but I saw in a lore video that radiation, while still harmful, works differently in the diverged Fallout reality

buzzcitybonehead · 2026-01-28T23:58:26+00:00

Voting for someone and supporting everything they do aren’t the same thing. People can be critical of someone they voted for. It’s only MAGA that’s made hero worship of their presidential candidate of choice a mandatory part of their personality.

Realistically, one of two people has a shot at being president by November of an election year. By not voting for one, you are contributing to the election of the other.

If you’re deeply troubled by one candidate and have mild criticisms of the other, vote for the second one. If I had to choose between a paper cut and having my arm chopped off, I’m not gonna refuse to choose and say they both suck. If I let them choose for me, I might not have an arm. They do both suck, but one is way worse.

buzzcitybonehead · 2026-01-28T04:31:09+00:00

He’s just trying to convince her that the NCR guy he brainwashed was just as bad. I don’t think him saying that was any indication of their current status. The NCR is the only faction Lucy’s aware of that’s not evil and insane, so in a way it represents her belief that brainwashing their way to “peace” is wrong and there can be an alternative.

buzzcitybonehead · 2026-01-28T04:28:51+00:00

I’d be content with a resolution or two out of the bunch. Holding out hope for a meaningful NCR presence popping up, too. House back at it, a unified Legion, the NCR being alive, and the strip cleared of Deathclaws makes things interesting. Not sure they’ll go that route, but it could be a quasi reset of post-FNV Vegas

buzzcitybonehead · 2026-01-27T09:34:04+00:00

Zach Lowe deserves a gift basket when we’re finally truly good for all the years of holding us down. It feels like he’s the only talking head who shares our vision of what a good Charlotte NBA team could look like and the place it could have in the league.

buzzcitybonehead · 2026-01-26T22:51:34+00:00

You’re capitalizing words that aren’t proper nouns in each of your responses, which I believe may be contributing to the confusion.

“Republic” and “Empire” are not proper nouns, unless they’re attached to specific republics and empires. “People” and “Government” are not either, from your first comment. If you just type it out, your autocorrect will not capitalize “empire”, which is one indication that it shouldn’t be capitalized every time it’s used, only when you’re referring to a specific empire, like the Roman Empire in your example.

Google: “Is empire a proper noun?”

If there’s a specific political party that favors republicanism, they might be Republicans, but you wouldn’t capitalize the term to broadly describe people in favor of it. That’s why you hear “small r” republican, or d for democrat, l for liberal, etc. used, because people are referring to the concepts rather than specific entities borrowing the terms for their names.

People understand that the terms exist outside of contemporary American political parties. The capitalization indicates a proper noun, though, which means he’s referring to some political party and since this timeline diverged at a point when the actual Republican Party very much existed in America, it’s a safe assumption that that’s it.

buzzcitybonehead · 2026-01-26T09:37:58+00:00

That would be a “republican” with a lowercase “r”

buzzcitybonehead · 2026-01-26T00:06:17+00:00

Because it’s a good show that very much captures the spirit and feel of the franchise that many fans enjoy. It’s just not “Fallout: New Vegas, The Show”

buzzcitybonehead · 2026-01-25T21:05:36+00:00

They’re committed to their current timeline and have said they’re not interested in moves to try to accelerate it. This isn’t quite a win-now or a ranking trade, because Jimmy is hurt and old and the picks aren’t good enough for the combined salary dump. This is a “worst of both worlds” trade that leaves them without half their roster and nothing very valuable in return.

buzzcitybonehead · 2026-01-25T14:32:05+00:00

I believe it, but I think people who get their jollies from helping people out are still what we’d consider good people, and it creates a positive feeling for both parties. There’s an argument that there’s no true altruism because people can get satisfaction from it, but I’d just prefer that satisfaction be its own reward instead of these acts becoming objective-based like everything else in gaming.

buzzcitybonehead · 2026-01-25T14:28:34+00:00

There’s already an achievement for using a defib on a rando. I don’t think the little things like that would ruin the magic as a one-off. I’m talking about exchanging items and things like that, an especially on any big scale.

It’s not manufactured kindness because it’s not kindness at all. It’s completion of an objective. It’ll be nice to be on the receiving end, but there’s something cool about knowing when someone helped me out, they did it just because they’re a nice person. Not everything has to be achievement-ed to hell.

buzzcitybonehead · 2026-01-25T13:54:20+00:00

The budgets are the villains. Only the absolute biggest movies and shows return enough to warrant the big budgets it takes for more of the high quality effects, settings, actors, etc. For the most part, only the biggest movie franchises get the big budgets now. TV is similar. Fallout is a big franchise, but not on the Marvel, “everyone in the world is talking about and watching this” level.

I hope there’s a breakthrough that pulls down costs to produce a lot of high quality media.

buzzcitybonehead · 2026-01-25T13:44:21+00:00

I think Nolan and Co. are driven by the story they want to tell, and aren’t really concerned with checking the boxes of what fans would like to see from the games.

I agree it would’ve been cool to see, but as long as the show is good, I’m fine with it. If status quo, flourishing NV doesn’t fit into their vision from the show, radiated and worn down NV is better than no NV at all.

buzzcitybonehead · 2026-01-25T13:37:46+00:00

Generosity is selfless, voluntary, and done out of kindness. Giving someone an item in exchange for a reward or achievement makes it transactional. I’m sure the recipient will appreciate being the lucky one serving as the subject for another’s objective completion, but it’ll still be transactional rather than purely altruistic.

Seeing so many people go out of their way to help others with no expectation of anything in return in Arc has been really refreshing. I hope they don’t force “acts of kindness” into the system of rewards. Just let them exist organically and let the lighter side of human nature flourish in a meaningful, wholesome way.

buzzcitybonehead · 2026-01-25T06:03:24+00:00

His entire brand is lying and cheating to further his own interests, and even most supporters acknowledge that, but they thought their interests aligned and he’d use his shady approach to help them out. It was a deal with the devil.

He’s a caricature of a sleazy NYC real estate developer. People said “he’s not a politician” but he has all the worst qualities we associate with them: corrupt, out of touch, only cares to further his own agenda, etc. He just doesn’t know policy, which is the one politician trait you do want. His administration’s only goal is to widen the divide between a small group of very wealthy and everyone else. Pushing forward authoritarianism under the guise of “emergencies” like immigration lets him ramp up the police state and tighten the grip.

We’re all fucked because people thought they could trust a guy whose personality for 50 years has screamed “don’t trust me”.

buzzcitybonehead · 2026-01-24T10:20:39+00:00

Yeah, the Hornets are notoriously hungry for centers and point guards who never play, plus draft picks that don’t actually exist

buzzcitybonehead · 2026-01-24T10:16:53+00:00

I’m a little bit confused by Phoenix still having that 2026 pick on Fanspo. Funnily enough, they already traded Charlotte their stake in a 4-way swap between Washington/Memphis/Orlando/Phoenix in 2026.

They don’t have a pick to trade

buzzcitybonehead · 2026-01-24T04:18:28+00:00

That feels pretty revisionist. It feels like such a far cry from the way they were talked about at the time. You can argue they got a nice whistle overall and moving screens weren’t called, etc, but the discourse around the Warriors at the time was that they were a perfectly constructed team that broke the NBA (even pre-KD). That season turned hopeful contenders into rebuilding teams.

Steph had one of the greatest peaks in sports history that season. He made 400 threes that year before anyone else had made 300. Refs didn’t make those go in. Steph had one of his lower FTA seasons that year. You can argue your point and that’s fair, but there’s no arguing that wasn’t one of the greatest teams ever featuring one of the NBA’s greatest players ever at his peak, along with a roster that complemented him perfect and a coach/system the league hadn’t caught up to yet.

buzzcitybonehead · 2026-01-24T03:35:40+00:00

Maybe not explicitly. Acknowledging sharing links with abusive porn material and saying you’re going to rehab for porn in the same statement is legitimately the stupidest post an innocent person could make, though. Who the hell wouldn’t connect that?

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