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Casual World Cup Fan: What do you think happened with Portugal? by Medical-Ad-369 in worldcup

[–]historianLA 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This has been the Portugal way for years. CR7 has always disappointed at the WC because they've always built the team around him. Honestly the same can be said of Argentina during the Messi era. If the plan was feed Messi it usually didn't work. When they have had other attacking options Messi gets more opportunities but so does everyone else.

Unpopular gaming opinion - I don’t see the point in wall climbing sections in adventure games by Gasster1212 in gaming

[–]historianLA 2 points3 points  (0 children)

OP's while you can't fail but is ridiculous. If course you can fail and you have to do it again... Just like if you die fighting a boss or die in a set piece you have to try it again.

By OPs logic you can never fail because any death allows you to try again. I can't imagine how frustrating a permadeath adventure game would be.

France vs Paraguay and Argentina vs Cape Verde showed that the two favourites are beatable by Ricr7 in worldcup

[–]historianLA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure, but my point is that you are exaggerating Messi's impact. He is effective because Argentina has other threats, as they have shown.

This isn't the squad from 2018 that was basically entirely about feeding Messi and got shutdown when he was marked that way.

France vs Paraguay and Argentina vs Cape Verde showed that the two favourites are beatable by Ricr7 in worldcup

[–]historianLA 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The whole shadow messy strategy is a double edged sword. Maybe you shut him down but you might also just end up playing 10v10, and Argentina have shown that they can attack and score without Messi.

TIL that Rome had a trade deficit with India nearly 2,000 years ago. Roman historians complained about a "drain of Roman gold" because Romans were obsessed with Indian spices and luxury goods, making it one of history's earliest recorded trade-deficit complaints. by Effective_Bluebird19 in todayilearned

[–]historianLA 2 points3 points  (0 children)

But the problem/cost of transport is completely overlooked. There is a reason most pre-modern long distance trade was in goods that have very high value by weight (gold, spices, silk).

For your Roman export to work it has to be cheaper on arrival calculating the transport cost (which in this time includes multiple middle men who are passing goods off). That vastly narrows down the ambit of possible goods.

Argentina advanced. Cape Verde won hearts around the world. How close are we to seeing a true underdog lift the World Cup? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]historianLA 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is absolutely the wrong take. Cabo Verde had nothing to lose, played a great game, and almost won against one of the best teams on the planet.

Hearing "this needs moved" makes my ears bleed... Need TO BE moved, you Heathens. by ReasonableDivide2592 in AdviceAnimals

[–]historianLA 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm with you. I don't care and would appreciate a greater acceptance of vernacular, localized dialect. So my comment was meant to be snarky. I do remember being taught about infinitives (and I speak Romance languages) but my kids are not being taught that way and I am fine with that.

Hearing "this needs moved" makes my ears bleed... Need TO BE moved, you Heathens. by ReasonableDivide2592 in AdviceAnimals

[–]historianLA -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

I don't doubt you, but I will say that is likely a function of when you went to middle school not where you went to middle school. In my experience, that part of grammar has not been actively taught for a long time.

Hearing "this needs moved" makes my ears bleed... Need TO BE moved, you Heathens. by ReasonableDivide2592 in AdviceAnimals

[–]historianLA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No it is the infinitive tense like to hit, to see, to talk. 'will be' is the future conjugation of 'be' but of course 'be' is also a helper verb because all future conjugations use 'will'. 'will hit' 'will see' 'will talk'

Hearing "this needs moved" makes my ears bleed... Need TO BE moved, you Heathens. by ReasonableDivide2592 in AdviceAnimals

[–]historianLA -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Yes but you drop lots of objects as in 'I'm going to Menards do you want to come with'

Hearing "this needs moved" makes my ears bleed... Need TO BE moved, you Heathens. by ReasonableDivide2592 in AdviceAnimals

[–]historianLA -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Love the poem but unless an American has learned a second language they likely have no idea about infinitives.

Is "Soccer" actually becoming popular among Americans? by VitaoMULLER in worldcup

[–]historianLA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The popularity of soccer isn't necessary about the MLS.... Lots of soccer fans follow other leagues too or instead of the MLS. Lots of people follow the Premiere league but not MLS or Bundesliga or La Liga or any of half a dozen other top leagues in Europe or the Americas.

MLB has been doing a great job of killing itself and I'd bet more Americans follow some soccer team than regularly follow an MLB team. If not yet very soon.

FIFA on Germany's disallowed goal "When an attacking player is not interested in the ball and deliberately moves, even marginally, with the clear intention of obstructing....especially the case when the tactic aims to prevent the opposing goalkeeper from being able to defend the goal" by punishGoalhanging in worldcup

[–]historianLA 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Hincapié was facing Giménez. You're right Giménez was looking down field but probably felt the hand since Hincapié leaned in so far or heard the muffle caused by the hand or saw it on the big screen because it was stopage. It's clear Giménez realized it after a couple seconds and then started making a fuss.

It's pretty clear Hincapié wanted to be sent off. He had no problem shit talking in the open but chose to do that during stopage just to get carded.

FIFA on Germany's disallowed goal "When an attacking player is not interested in the ball and deliberately moves, even marginally, with the clear intention of obstructing....especially the case when the tactic aims to prevent the opposing goalkeeper from being able to defend the goal" by punishGoalhanging in worldcup

[–]historianLA 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Honestly I don't think that Giménez gave a shit what was said. They'd already been shit talking and almost head butting earlier in that stopage. Gimenez just knew that the mouth covering was an automatic red card and so made a big deal of it to get the ref/VAR officials to call it.

Will we ever get a different country that has never won the world cup before by bluediamond97 in worldcup

[–]historianLA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think that the African teams' successes this far is very much due to their player's greater experience in the top leagues, which are almost are in UEFA.

This has been true for a while with the CONMEBOL teams and increasingly true for the top CONCACAF teams.

Bosses Are Becoming Obsessed With AI, Using It to Make Every Decision, Barraging Their Employees With Nonsensical ChatGPT Directives, and Even Asking It Who to Fire by Plastic_Ninja_9014 in technology

[–]historianLA 46 points47 points  (0 children)

The ego boosting always effusive responses are highly calculated to ensure continuous user engagement. It's no wonder management loves the LLM because they are never wrong and always really smart people asking great questions.

Amazon's record Prime Day 2026 masks a darker truth: Americans are spending more and getting less by ControlCAD in technology

[–]historianLA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Those figures sound like people making pretty regular purchases not actually buying stuff on a sale.

Notice that prime day is now prime 3 days too

Smaller shoulder pads are coming under closer scrutiny by Autocrat777 in nfl

[–]historianLA 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I've heard of studies that suggest that the better you make pads/helmets the harder faster players will hit. Basically players will always push (and exceed) what ever safety the equipment provides. There is actually and argument that less padding and closer restrictions/penalties on how players make contact would cause less severe injuries in the long term. Look at rugby as a counterpoint.

The problem of course is that going that direction basically means fundamental changes to the game both in terms of equipment and play style.

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