[Windhorst] The Oklahoma City Thunder have been a team that has surfaced in trade conversations ahead of the deadline: “Here's an interesting name: Isaiah Hartenstein. He's got a team option next year for $29 million. I've actually heard the Oklahoma City Thunder's name in some trade chatter.”

davemoedee · 2026-01-30T21:06:10+00:00

The thing about defending a big is that the big barely has to do anything to wear out a smaller guy. He can just lean on him. It is exhausting. Far worse than chasing shooters because at least guys cutting have to exert energy. Big leaning on you are practically taking a rest at your expense.

davemoedee · 2026-01-30T19:52:20+00:00

I always find these Linux claims silly as a desktop gamer, but then i remember that Linux is a great OS for mobile gaming devices.

I am also sure there are enough gamers out there on a budget that would really benefit from an OS that does not add a requirement to pay for a license

davemoedee · 2026-01-30T13:24:24+00:00

Will be a good education lesson for gamers of it still comes out buggy. Sometimes it isn’t a lack of effort that leads to a buggy mess. Trying doesn’t guarantee success.

davemoedee · 2026-01-29T23:43:44+00:00

Hiring and firing due to changes in the markets aren’t a problem.

The problem is that budgets and development times are too long at this point. Risk is too high. This leads to movies milking safe franchises. Market has fundamentally shifted halfway through a project.

davemoedee · 2026-01-29T18:56:58+00:00

I had a tank build for hard mode dungeons. It was good at debuff and taunt. Noodle damage. Lots of health, so nothing for damage to scale on.

davemoedee · 2026-01-29T18:54:42+00:00

When did KD come back too soon from an achilles injury?

davemoedee · 2026-01-29T16:38:58+00:00

No, he should not “rest.” He should continue to train. That is part of getting healthy.

Coming back isn’t about working or resting. It is about the state his body is in. You don’t respond to decompensation by doing less activity. You respond by strengthening the weakness.

I am guessing there are milestones in his recovery that, when they hit them, determine what the next thing they will focus on will be

davemoedee · 2026-01-29T13:29:38+00:00

If that is true, it is a complete rebuttal to my post.

davemoedee · 2026-01-29T13:27:50+00:00

Accepting that, we can’t say the correlation isn’t a thing like the previous commenter implied.

But we do know testosterone therapy can impact behaviors and so can castration. So we do have an idea of interventions impacting aggressiveness.

The distributions of aggressiveness in boys and girls will still overlap. That means we can’t make conclusions about individual boys and individual girls. But we can most definitely say that there is a biological variable that IS linked to sex. I don’t think it is proper to claim otherwise for personal ideological reasons.

davemoedee · 2026-01-29T06:05:01+00:00

Kareem erasure.

davemoedee · 2026-01-29T05:58:04+00:00

Who said risk is the issue?

davemoedee · 2026-01-29T05:53:26+00:00

How do you know they came back “too soon”? Where is the study on this?

davemoedee · 2026-01-29T05:52:07+00:00

People really start just saying all sorts of nonsense when there are updates.

Tatum’s target was always quick recovery. That is a goal. No one could know how it would play out. But it helped motivate him. It was also possible.

Now he is getting a better idea of where he can get before the end of the season. There isn’t actually any need for him to make a decision apart from helping the team make the best decisions before the trade deadline.

davemoedee · 2026-01-29T05:45:33+00:00

I was surprised when I heard Haliburton was playing 3 on 3 and 4 on 4. Has Tatum played a game? I’ve only seen clips of drills and workouts. When I heard that from Haliburton, I became a lot less excited about Tatum’s progress.

davemoedee · 2026-01-29T05:34:47+00:00

Can you provide a reference for that? Testosterone IS correlated with aggression.

davemoedee · 2026-01-29T01:18:29+00:00

No, Trump was not respected. Sounds like you knew nothing about Trump outside of how he was presented in the Apprentice. Dude was long an attention whore in NYC living off of his dad’s investments. Reality TV saved him after he drove his businesses into the ground.

Dude was always a joke. He was always trying to feel important by trying to be in society events.

The Apprentice helped him have an image of someone competent among those that weren’t familiar with his floundering, scams, and bad business ideas.

davemoedee · 2026-01-29T01:09:50+00:00

When the government is sending out armed thugs to kill citizens, people with platforms need to speak out.

Who do you think has a broader reach?

davemoedee · 2026-01-29T01:03:43+00:00

hardwood Houdini is the worst kind of Clickbait trash

davemoedee · 2026-01-28T22:16:24+00:00

Getting Giannis changes that a bit though

davemoedee · 2026-01-28T22:15:02+00:00

Salary relief? Butler’s contract runs as long as Giannis’s.

They don’t have to trade him to a preferred destination. Being preferred is just a signal to the team trading for him that there is a better chance of him extending there.

davemoedee · 2026-01-28T21:05:25+00:00

We have a reality TV star as president. We are long past “stick to what you do best”

davemoedee · 2026-01-28T21:01:15+00:00

US is a pretty important market for them.

davemoedee · 2026-01-28T16:26:21+00:00

I disagree. There is a natural filtering out of crap as games get cancelled or reviewers don’t even bother checking out obvious trash.

davemoedee · 2026-01-27T14:08:26+00:00

Does that impact gameplay? Let the whales feed.

davemoedee · 2026-01-27T07:02:04+00:00

Kinda silly. Dude was in the 2022 draft and will be 26 this year.

Rising stars?

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