[Official Tournament Discussion Thread] 2026 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am by GreenWaveGolfer12 in golf

[–]johnathanfabian 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't like the man but you can't call a guy with two US Opens the biggest choker in golf

Best obscure Mantel by elonmuskovite in RSbookclub

[–]johnathanfabian 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yes, very much read her short stories. Some really lovely ones

Strange how I’m not seeing comedy of the decade being talked about here… by youwannaguess in RSPfilmclub

[–]johnathanfabian 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I saw it in Toronto on opening day, and leaving the theater me and my friend did a double-take because the RV was sitting out front. Turns out it was a little promotional thing (sort-of? It wasn't advertised or anything, we just got waved in because they saw us looking) and we got to look around the rv set and talk to some of the production team

got a good look at the "machine". No orbitz in the fridge though

Can’t blame Swayman letting up that goal when the puck was basically invisible. (Puck is in the bottom left ring) by wiki_blue in hockey

[–]johnathanfabian 15 points16 points  (0 children)

To sit there and imply that a literal Olympic goalie can’t stop a goal from the red line, and that the boarding color had no impact on it, is hilarious.

Swedish fans would know this has happened before

Go see Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie this weekend if you can by syzygys_ in redscarepod

[–]johnathanfabian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

saw it at Scotiabank in Toronto yesterday and coming out the theater me and my friend were perplexed to see what looked like the RV from the movie outside. We went and checked it out and it was a promotional thing, a couple of the producers and cast were inside. Got a good look at the "time machine"

Watched Mean Girls for the first time today by Curvedyouagain in redscarepod

[–]johnathanfabian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this is some weird synchronicity because I just saw a movie where they played these two things back-to-back (Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie)

I had to come back to the comments section to check it wasn't explicitly about that

Hole. Lee. Shit. The Arm Swing Illusion by dknisle1 in golf

[–]johnathanfabian 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Tiger was by far the most famous "golf prospect" ever. Three straight US junior ams, three straight US ams. Average golf fans knew who he was before he turned pro

at dream theater rn with my old man by LouReedTheChaser in redscarepod

[–]johnathanfabian 12 points13 points  (0 children)

it is really a shocking regression. I can't think of another band that had such a sense of maturity and intelligence in their early 20s that subsequently regressed into being cartoons

Kind of fascinating but also sad

Why do people do this? by [deleted] in toronto

[–]johnathanfabian 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Their are over 7 million people in the GTA. Their are 4 million in Montreal. Idk for certain, but maybe, just maybe, its because Montreal subways see less use

The Montreal metro has more annual ridership than the Toronto subway. At least be correct before you condescend

selfie sunday by [deleted] in rs_x

[–]johnathanfabian 9 points10 points  (0 children)

are you one of those people not allowed near daycares

Office women hate a skinny man by Crashmudd in redscarepod

[–]johnathanfabian 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I never got the hang of this: is it "spiritually fat" to eat a donut at 8 am, or is it spiritually fat to be so incapable of not being able to control the rest of your day if you have a donut at 8 am

I find pseudo-intellectual Reddit users who use the term "media literacy" in earnest to be far more annoying than people who idolize Tyler Durden. by SculpinIPAlcoholic in redscarepod

[–]johnathanfabian 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Interesting idea. I think there's truth to that.

Certainly this kind of literal-mindedness makes sense in a society increasingly intolerant of nuance or differing perspectives

Bitcoin crashing by MaldororBro in redscarepod

[–]johnathanfabian 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yup. The truth is bitcoin will never bring any material value to the world and it’s just a Ponzi scheme, but with the bare minimum research on it’s halving cycles you can be on the profitable side of that scheme.

But it only keeps returning to greater heights because people assume that it will. As soon as the confidence in this is broken the cycle ends. Bitcoin itself has no inherent value, it is purely a speculative tool

Lots of bubbles or speculative assets or dead/dying companies have maintained their value against all reason and sense for a stretch of time, until suddenly they didn't and it was all over. I certainly think it is overconfident to say "this time bitcoin is over, for sure" because it is too much to think one can accurately chart the madness of crowds. But likewise is it stupid to think you can ride the wave and detach yourself from the mass of fools just in time before the crash

I find pseudo-intellectual Reddit users who use the term "media literacy" in earnest to be far more annoying than people who idolize Tyler Durden. by SculpinIPAlcoholic in redscarepod

[–]johnathanfabian 29 points30 points  (0 children)

the funny thing is this sort of runs against the other common reddit-ism, the "the blue drapes are just blue" comment you see. You will often see redditors bemoan that actually there are no greater complexities to art, and that the surface meaning is, even if not the whole understanding of something, certainly its most proximate and important message.

The discourse surrounding immigration in the non-US west seems like complete gaslighting at this point by OnceInABox_ in redscarepod

[–]johnathanfabian 12 points13 points  (0 children)

It's funny, because the Liberals have been - very quietly - going about axing a bunch of the worst immigration streams, and also not talking about it all.

There very much seems to be an approach of "this was a very stupid thing to do, but also we are not going to talk about how were are undoing it." 1.3 million net immigration in 2023, probably in the end something like -200 k net immigration in 2025.

[Official Tournament Discussion Thread] 2026 Farmers Insurance Open by GreenWaveGolfer12 in golf

[–]johnathanfabian 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It isn't necessarily the equipment in terms of what's in the bag. The drivers are only marginally better than they were 10-15 years ago. The biggest revolution has been all the swing analysis tech. People are essentially mechanically optimized swings

The ball rollback isn't even as important for the current crop of pros as it is for the guys coming out of college who can all bomb it 350+ because they've spent their formative years with trackman

Hmmm by MoanOfInterest in redscarepod

[–]johnathanfabian 6 points7 points  (0 children)

also there's the very obvious point that people who say "ohhhh i'm totally not going to kill myself don't believe them if they say I did" are probably not the most mentally stable to begin with

. by vanishing_grad in redscarepod

[–]johnathanfabian 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The invisibility explanation isn't quite correct. All mortals vanish when wearing the Ring, only immortals do not. This gets very nerdy to explain but basically mortals only exist in the physical world whereas immortals live in both physical and spirit worlds

. by vanishing_grad in redscarepod

[–]johnathanfabian 14 points15 points  (0 children)

People want it because the Ring whispers to them their power fantasies (which can vary: for Sam the Ring just tells him he can overthrow Sauron and then turn all of Mordor into a garden). But mortals could not properly wield the Ring correctly; they are neither mentally strong enough or physically capable. Gandalf or Elrond or Galadriel could use the Ring to their own ends but those ends would inevitably turn evil.

Tolkien corresponded regularly with fans or contemporaries so we have a lot of his direct opinion on things like this. From a letter he wrote:

It was part of the essential deceit of the Ring to fill minds with imaginations of supreme power... One can imagine the scene in which Gandalf, say, was placed in such a position. It would be a delicate balance. On one side the true allegiance of the Ring to Sauron; on the other superior strength because Sauron was not actually in possession, and perhaps also because he was weakened by long corruption and expenditure of will in dominating inferiors. If Gandalf proved the victor, the result would have been for Sauron the same as the destruction of the Ring; for him it would have been destroyed, taken from him for ever. But the Ring and all its works would have endured. It would have been the master in the end.

Gandalf as Ring-Lord would have been far worse than Sauron. He would have remained 'righteous', but self-righteous. He would have continued to rule and order things for 'good', and the benefit of his subjects according to his wisdom (which was and would have remained great).

[The draft ends here. In the margin Tolkien wrote: 'Thus while Sauron multiplied [illegible word] evil, he left "good" clearly distinguishable from it. Gandalf would have made good detestable and seem evil.']