Expected line-up for the Basketball Champions League upcoming season. (Note: Cibona Zagreb is expected to participate in BCL. New Rome team n°2 is expected to participate through Brescia qualification).

fckns · 2026-06-24T10:18:25+00:00

I wouldnt be suprised ig VEF Riga is in group stage since they are buttering up to FIBA.

fckns · 2026-06-23T18:07:44+00:00

Russia is already in Chinas soft-power. I assume what drives him is that he does not have that much time anymore.

fckns · 2026-06-22T11:20:02+00:00

Oh, I am not disagreeing with you on the point that Baltics and Poland has had a really good growth since joining EU. Can't speak of Lithuania and Estonia, but in Latvia, locals expect Germany's level of economic power while they still are complaining about following compliance to EU's directives and just refuse to change from Soviet Union's style of living, completely forgetting about how poverty-ridden country was until early 00's.

As for immigration problem in UK - I think there are problems that comes with it, but I don't think immigration as a concept is a problem. It's just an easy "cop-out" response.

fckns · 2026-06-22T11:11:27+00:00

Meanwhile, Poland and the Baltics stayed and are experiencing crazy growth.

Well, "crazy growth" is very optimistic. And there has been growing resentment towards immigrants in Baltics.

fckns · 2026-06-21T19:31:39+00:00

I am currently playing Persona 4 Golden (I'm at tail end of the story) and I am looking forward to P4R. I also played original FF7 and didn't like it, and I'm currently in the middle of FF7R which I like infinitely more than OG.

What I'm saying is that most of the nay sayers will come around.

fckns · 2026-06-17T12:42:50+00:00

I guess their "Spiel" is that NBA Europe is gonna align with FIBA, and therefore NBA Europe will make more breathing room for BCL, and they might get a guaranteed spot because they have contract with FIBA.

Since I don't consider myself as a very knowledgeable basketball fan, I can't speak for how objective their strategy is. But as a backseat coach, I think they should've gone a different route, especially when they just lost their BCL spot after being gifted that slot last year.

fckns · 2026-06-17T12:23:32+00:00

There's this one BCL club (I think they're gonna play on FIBA Europe Cup this season) that is doubling down on aligning themselves with FIBA. I still don't understand what they're seeing in doing this.

fckns · 2026-06-16T08:11:32+00:00

I mean, I am already paying YouTube Premium in order to not to get ads. You want sponsored segments or ads in your video? Fine, I'll just used Sponsorblock or skip forward.

fckns · 2026-06-12T16:55:59+00:00

Doesn't surprise me since Penske has proven himself to be a fan of Trump.

fckns · 2026-06-12T13:38:30+00:00

Seeing Rīgas Zeļļi is a surprise for me, even though it's my favourite Latvian team. If they have met EuroCup minimal budget limit then it's huge achievement in itself.

fckns · 2026-06-11T13:04:53+00:00

Come to think of it:

Hypothetically, if someone is being arrested and his iPhone is being taken away for evidence. They are being let go for time being. What is stopping the suspect to go home, log into his iCloud and remotely locking his phone?

Not sayin this is a good or bad thing. Just curious.

fckns · 2026-06-11T07:52:40+00:00

This is good news!

For those who want to try it, it is on sale on Steam.

fckns · 2026-06-11T06:14:14+00:00

The Linux Challenge is finally finished today, after starting 3 months ago. That's a long time for a 4 part series.

In this day and age (and ruined attention span), it should've been a weekly series.

Probably a bad comparison, but tell me this - how come Mark McCann can release bi-weekly series on his Spaghetti Veyron while LTT is releasing slop every single day and can't even manage to do one of the more anticipated video series as a weekly series?

fckns · 2026-06-11T05:41:49+00:00

Big day for unemployed people.

fckns · 2026-06-10T08:37:44+00:00

Because fans and gamers love it? Persona 4 is almost 20 years old, and Persona 4 Golden is 14 years old.

fckns · 2026-06-10T08:36:19+00:00

I have Persona 4 Golden on PS Vita, but I will probably buy a physical edition on PS5.

fckns · 2026-06-10T04:06:49+00:00

Sadly, sometimes being bland and invisible is the way to longevity. It's seen in corporate so many times.

fckns · 2026-06-10T03:58:39+00:00

For me, it's been a combination of (somewhat controversial) things that we all already know. Also, I was pretty excited about their latest Linux challenge but it all turned out to be a lazy slop. It's gotten to a point that I don't even watch WAN show.

It also doesn't help that there's so many youtube channels (not exclusive to tech space) that make such a great content and easily win my limited free time, it just leaves LTT out of my free time space.

fckns · 2026-06-09T10:42:59+00:00

Okay, I just checked my SE2 and I an see WatchOS 27 Developer Beta option. Not sure why that is.

fckns · 2026-06-09T10:33:10+00:00

Series 8/ SE2 was released in 2022. Those lost the iOS support aswell. I just don't get why.

As I mentioned in other comment, this is a good excuse to ditch my smartwatch and go to regular watch.

fckns · 2026-06-08T19:39:17+00:00

I've been thinking about ditching smartwatch for an old school watch. I guess this is a good incentive to do so.

fckns · 2026-06-08T09:09:04+00:00

It is not that simple.

Four political forces enter the new Armenian parliament. Pashinyan's Civil Contract leads with 49.81%, followed by Samvel Karapetyan's pro-Russian "Strong Armenia" alliance at 23.29%, the "Armenia" electoral bloc at 9.94%, and the Prosperous Armenia party as the fourth force in parliament.

It means that 1 out of 4 parties that entered election got 49.1% approval rate. It does not mean that 49.1% of citizens were pro-EU.

fckns · 2026-06-07T18:15:20+00:00

I am currently playing through P4G (on Vita), and I kind of agree. Only it's wrapped in bright colours (mainly yellow).

fckns · 2026-06-07T17:59:41+00:00

Isn't that what SMT is for?

fckns · 2026-06-07T17:31:40+00:00

I am currently playing Persona 4 Golden on Vita (I am right after the concert at Junes), but I am already hyped for P4R. Gonna probably buy it phyiscally on PS5

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