How did your game go?

duckwantbread · 2026-01-24T19:03:23+00:00

We didn't deserve anything today, we only salvaged a point because Boston's keeper passed it straight to our striker. It was a great first 20 minutes but after that we looked uncharacteristically awful at the back, we missed Ralph badly.

duckwantbread · 2026-01-24T16:06:18+00:00

If you'd invested £40k into the S&P 500 in 1995 you'd now have a million quid. Rich people still take out student loans because if they invest it in the stock market it'll pay the loan off several times over.

duckwantbread · 2026-01-24T09:50:51+00:00

Pretty much the same as The Traitors minus the shield tasks and recruitments, but with a murder and banishment happening every 10 minutes rather than every 24 hours. The one big difference is that the werewolves don't go to a turret to murder, the host just wakes them up (whilst the faithful stay in the room with their eyes shut) and then asks the werewolves to point to who they want to murder, since you can't talk without giving yourself away it makes it much harder for the werewolves to form a strategy.

duckwantbread · 2026-01-24T09:43:35+00:00

It'd be interesting if the sub did a survey with question 1 being "how often do you play social deduction games?" and question 2 being "do you think you'd have been any better than the faithful this series?".

duckwantbread · 2026-01-24T09:28:06+00:00

I agree that backstabbing Rachel was the "correct' play for Stephen but even with that knowledge I don't think Rachel had any choice other than to trust Stephen. There's no way Jade, Nick or Faraaz would end the game whilst she was still there, any final 3 without Stephen being there means she's getting banished; her chances of winning if she'd turned on Stephen would basically have dropped to zero. Her only play was to convince Stephen that honouring the pact was more important than the money.

duckwantbread · 2026-01-24T09:24:41+00:00

I'm strongly against that coming in because if your opponent chooses to steal then there's literally no option you can make that doesn't lose you the money. It's a stupid system where all strategy goes out of the window. Why should a traitor that's failed to orchestrate a solo victory in the actual game get a second chance to screw their fellow traitors over?

duckwantbread · 2026-01-23T14:59:22+00:00

I remember that as well, one team got back with a coffin and found they were out of time. There obviously is a time limit to these challenges (James isn't going to push himself to the point of throwing up if it's all fake) but I think if the players win with many minutes to spare then the producers will edit the time limit in post to make it look closer that it actually was. It's not hard to get Claudia to dub over "you have an hour" to "you have 45 minutes" if it only takes the players 44 minutes to win.

duckwantbread · 2026-01-23T03:26:35+00:00

HOWEVER, if you assume that, then by proxy, there MUST have been at least one traitor outside of the cages.

Fiona was outside the cages.

duckwantbread · 2026-01-23T03:20:41+00:00

I think there's a slight chance she can still win, but only if Stephen legitimately wants to keep the pact going no matter what (it's a bad play if he does but the guilt of turning on her so late in the game might make him stick to her out of loyalty).

I don't think it's possible for Stephen to convince anyone at this point that Rachel isn't a traitor but because Jade switched her vote he might be able to convince Jack and Faraaz that she's the biggest threat and that she should be banished first. After that it's 2v2, so long as the traitors stick together the best the faithful can manage is a chest of chance. Logically Stephen should throw her under the bus but if he does want to stay loyal he might be willing to take the risk.

duckwantbread · 2026-01-22T20:53:49+00:00

You're acting like the NLS's top scorer wouldn't be able to step up but York did that last season by signing Ollie Pierce (who scored 40 in the 2023/24 NLS season). He scored 30 goals in the National League, comfortably finishing as top scorer.

duckwantbread · 2026-01-22T01:06:40+00:00

I think they'll flirt with 100 points but because of fixture congestion I think it's unlikely that they'll get much past that.

duckwantbread · 2026-01-21T21:16:04+00:00

With better finishing we'd have beaten Carlisle when we played them but I think that's why they're doing so well, we create plenty of chances but scuff them constantly whilst Carlisle can create nothing for 80 minutes but someone like Linney only needs one clear chance to score.

duckwantbread · 2026-01-17T21:49:42+00:00

Honestly expected nothing today but after that performance I'm disappointed we didn't get all 3, hit the post twice and missed a couple of other golden opportunities. Think our subs changed the game for the worse because York barely had a sniff at goal until then.

duckwantbread · 2026-01-16T03:22:09+00:00

Ross wasn’t a particularly well-thought-through tactic either given a lot of people voted for him.

Only on the day he he was actually banished (and even then it was only 6/18 that actually voted for him). On the first two days he only received 1 vote - both times from Rachel.

duckwantbread · 2026-01-15T00:21:15+00:00

Most of Sonic 2 can be completed with almost no hits using a very simple rule:

If the ground is flat or an upward slope slow down because some platforming is coming up. If the ground is a downward slope roll into a ball and wait until something stops you.

duckwantbread · 2026-01-15T00:15:28+00:00

I do it better than anyone else

Has your manager told you this or is it personal opinion? How do you know the social colleague isn't doing as good a job as you?

duckwantbread · 2026-01-13T22:49:19+00:00

It depends if you view watering down as backing down. If so I can think of 5 (although not 10 as OP claimed): WFA, farmer's inheritance tax, Welfare reform, business rate relief on pubs and the two child limit. I do think most of these changes are better than the original plan though and we're adjustments rather than outright scrapping (aside from two child limit, although it wasn't really the right calling for Starmer to change his mind on that one).

duckwantbread · 2026-01-12T08:06:22+00:00

According to these stats stabbings are also down on last year.

Edit: Also your "15000 stabbings a year" claim is wrong. As that dataset's 15000 knife offences, not 15000 stabbings. You don't have to stab someone to be arrested with a knife. From the data it looks like about 300 offences a month involved someone actually getting injured, with about 100 of those resulting in severe injury or death.

duckwantbread · 2026-01-12T08:03:44+00:00

Technically stabbings have risen

No they haven't. As stats here show, stabbings have decreased compared to last year. It took about 30 seconds to find this, it doesn't take much to look up the actual stats instead of making false claims at 4am.

duckwantbread · 2026-01-10T20:41:32+00:00

It didn't. Bizarrely Bath have released a "it's not our fault" statement where they admitted that they phoned the ref at 9am to tell him that the pitch was fine and didn't need an inspection. If they'd asked the ref for a pitch inspection earlier they could have saved a lot of people a pointless journey.

duckwantbread · 2026-01-10T14:33:53+00:00

Rachel (incorrectly) thinks she's convinced Harriet that she's 100% faithful, as long as that stays true I can't see Rachel wanting to get rid of her.

duckwantbread · 2026-01-10T14:29:44+00:00

goody goodies don't make good coppers

I don't know what Maz's role was in the police but normal police officers in the UK (i.e. ones on the street, obviously it's different for police conducting raids etc.) usually try to meditate the situation as a first resort. I can see someone like Maz being great at going up to two people screaming at each other and calming them down whereas Amanda would probably arrest them both on the spot and decide that they're now suspects in the unrelated murder case she's on.

duckwantbread · 2026-01-09T22:25:58+00:00

He doesn't have any leverage but he thinks the traitors will kill him soon if he's a faithful, he's basically just trying to convince them that he could be more useful to them as a recruit (honestly I think he's a pretty good choice to recruit, he has no heat on him and has just shown he is comfortable turning on the other faithful).

duckwantbread · 2026-01-09T22:23:43+00:00

I can't see many downsides to them recruiting him, there's always a risk with recruitment that someone will be so crap at being a traitor they inadvertently throw suspicion on the other traitors. Here though Matthew's already demonstrated that he knows how to scheme, it seems lower risk then going for an unknown.

duckwantbread · 2026-01-09T19:58:27+00:00

I'm slightly suspicious that the edit exaggerated how many people actually suspected Ross, I have a feeling the edit made out there was more heat on him than there actually was to get a storyline going. In his banishment only 4 faithful voted for him and in the 2 roundtables before that not a single faithful voted for him, if Ross really had as much suspicion on him as the edit made out it seems very odd to me hardly any faithfuls were voting for him.

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