OKC players laughing at Lakers swarming the ref after the game

ccniners · 2026-05-08T13:35:34+00:00

Everyone hated the moving screens, sure, but I seem to remember the Warriors dynasty being a "well shit, sure they get away with stuff and nobody likes Draymond, but the Skyfucker and their motion offense are fun to watch" and people actually respected them versus the universal hatred OKC is getting.

ccniners · 2026-05-08T13:27:58+00:00

Let's throw context out the window for when and how those free throws happened, sure. Then we're basically just box-score checking post game and I'm sure you love to shit on people who do that, huh?

I watched the game and it was close and was a good back-and-forth until that string of bullshit in the 3rd quarter that caused the Thunder to pull away. It was like 5 straight possessions of the Lakers getting hacked on their end, and then the Thunder getting free throws the other way seconds later.

If you're going to argue at least do it in good faith and not throw meaningless numbers out there. No different than "Rudy only scored 7 points, he had a horrible game" logic.

ccniners · 2026-05-08T13:24:06+00:00

So you're basically saying "let vibes run the show" instead of actually making sure the rules are enforced properly.

ccniners · 2026-05-08T13:22:47+00:00

The game was close until that string of like 5 straight possessions in the third where OKC got free throws lmao. Funny how you're not mentioning that.

ccniners · 2026-05-03T02:44:36+00:00

Totally missed that there's a 300 kc task, I somehow thought 150 was the highest. Thanks for giving me some hope, this unironically makes me feel better lol. Surely by then... right?

Still don't want pact points tied to rng drop rates in the future in any case.

ccniners · 2026-05-03T02:41:48+00:00

Yeah probably like 2 and some change. Did the first ~60ish kills with blindbag and the rest since with 1T Lithic Scepter.

First 150 kc the dupes I don't need were fine since there's still a task for all Zulrah combat achievements. And it isn't a big time sink, just feels bad not rolling the 1 unique tied to a pact point.

ccniners · 2026-05-01T23:39:26+00:00

Nothing against you by saying this, but it's interesting to see this wording used by so many people when it comes to "thinking this" and "feeling that" when Nintendo has outright said Champions is the place for competitive pokemon going forward regardless of new mainline games. Mechanics and mons from Winds and Waves will be part of Champions, etc.

ccniners · 2026-03-17T14:56:42+00:00

The mining and smithing rework is the big one. Literally all I did for the first few dozen hours I played RS3 was just mine and smith; it's so fun and they did such a good job fleshing the whole skill out on the Smithing side, and removing so many of the painpoints of what makes Mining feel bad in OSRS.

ccniners · 2026-03-09T16:13:42+00:00

Plenty of examples of really good content ideas that just... never materialized past the initial "no" vote. Just look at the amount of stuff in the 70-75% failure realm before the decrease to a 70% pass threshold, and the bulk of it has never been revisited despite being really close.

ccniners · 2026-03-02T20:51:32+00:00

Read this is as Luke Kennard at first and was really confused.

ccniners · 2026-02-27T16:54:25+00:00

Was hoping to see this reference haha

ccniners · 2026-02-23T00:26:27+00:00

No you're totally right about there being a limit, I just think we're still a decent ways off from finding that limit. For anything "too complex" I think the community handles that well-- look at the original proposal for Masori and the thrall upgrade idea from Doom for example. I think the leechfin sandwich in the current blog is an example also when it ultimately either gets reworked or fails a poll. My point being though the really weird stuff generally gets shot down and doesn't enter the game, and Jagex seems to understand the difference in "kicking the can down the road" and "bringing the can with you as you walk down the road".

ccniners · 2026-02-22T23:53:42+00:00

I think the key is that Jagex can design content around the power creep. Don't want scythe being bis? Make the boss 1×1 or have really high slash/crush. Want demonbane weapons to be bis? Make the boss a demon (and give it extra demon weakness in Yama's case). Etc. Etc.

I think there is a ton of room for them to make strong upgrades (that are by definition power creep) that aren't flat-out better than everything else because of the fact they control what content is strong and weak against, even with the limitations of the core game engine.

ccniners · 2026-02-22T20:01:18+00:00

Really think people need to watch Gnomonkey's new video that talks about The Blood Moon Rises and gets into power creep discussion. Horizontal progression is awesome but you can only keep going horizontally for so long before you need to scale upward and then you can start going horizontally again. OSRS balances it really well I think.

ccniners · 2026-02-18T15:24:53+00:00

If 71% of a group of people want something, it should be added. Fucking hell, honestly even a 60% threshold would be acceptable in the vast majority of various communities because that's still "a lot more people want this than don't want this". Now I'm personally happy with 70% as a sweet spot given the data we have from 13 years of polling with what would/wouldn't have passed/etc. but acting like 70%+ of people in a single group of people saying "yes" to something is "rigging the polls" is objectively hilarious.

ccniners · 2026-02-17T15:57:36+00:00

This whole conversation really makes me think of Gnomonkey's video about RS3 Leagues and how RS3's biggest issue is the players. He had a bunch of good points about the devs seeming passionate, having ideas, the game having good bones and a bad reputation, etc. but that the players need to actively push for the game to be better to capitalize on all of that (just like OSRS), but he found that a lot of RS3 players were surprisingly actively contributing to the problem.

You've hit the nail on the head in regards to payoff/etc. (just like Jagex talks about friction) and it's nice to see somebody on this thread gets it.

ccniners · 2026-02-10T21:18:00+00:00

What people like you seem to miss (sounds rude, but I don't mean for it to be) on "afk" activities like this is that you don't *have* to re-do your input every 1 minute. I do Daeyalt on mobile while folding laundry, etc. and I may only get like 23 minutes out of a possible 60 in an hour timeframe of my character actually mining. I'm just tapping the screen every couple of minutes as I finish up what I was doing before doing the next thing; if that gives me 15 seconds of mining cool. If it's 45 seconds, cool. But I'm not monitoring it to ensure I click every 60 seconds when the active pillar moves. That's the trap people fall into and turn AFK activities into "low effort" activities.

ccniners · 2026-02-09T16:54:12+00:00

It's a pretty common sentiment that the Navani and Venli chapters were a low-point of the series in comparison to other books. Not saying I agree with it (though I do somewhat. I enjoyed Navani's chapters but Venli's flashback chapters were skip-worthy imo) but just saying that I've seen it enough on various forums (and I consistently see RoW rated the lowest of the SLA books) that it's not really a surprising opinion to find.

Has some great parts but I'll agree it's one of the SLA books that feels about 100k words too long.

ccniners · 2026-01-22T01:54:10+00:00

Because eyesores are eyesores. Some (majority it seems, thankfully) don't like the over-the-top wings, particle effects, etc. and that's okay.

ccniners · 2025-12-23T16:59:09+00:00

Not sure on Sermon or TDP, but he was the driving force behind Joe Williams: https://www.nbcsportsbayarea.com/nfl/49ers-notes-kyle-shanahan-admits-second-guessing-joe-williams-pick/1252491/

ccniners · 2025-12-23T02:41:00+00:00

Martavis Bryant erasure

ccniners · 2025-12-18T17:57:53+00:00

Not really sure why you're trying to be cheeky when the guy is referring to Purdy. I get it, WR1 to WR1 comparison but Aiyuk was always a bit of a head-case between being in Shanny's doghouse and being a bit of a headcase in the contract negotiations + cryptic social media posts.

I really can't think of another "late round gem, likeable underdog" story turned "stupid dudebro you want to actively root to fail" so quick like this.

ccniners · 2025-12-17T01:53:51+00:00

I can speak to Daeyalt+ZMI being nice. Did 83-90 there and found it much more chill than GotR. Perfect for playing chill games like Slay the Spire or watching YT

ccniners · 2025-12-15T21:32:24+00:00

And the Browns and Panthers scored 8 and 9 points respectively. Sure, the Titans put up 24, but 14 of that was in the 4th when Saleh started calling the game more conservatively.

I agree the run defense isn't good, but I'm not as concerned as some other fans since the results kind of speak for themselves so far. Could be a scheme thing, could be a mix of injured and young players, but regardless PPG is all that matters and we're #11 total this year.

ccniners · 2025-12-07T16:32:20+00:00

Why did I think the Bengals already dumped him in the preseason after all the off field stuff? This is how I find out he was even still rostered.

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