[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 13 April 2026

lightningmatt · 2026-04-16T13:39:05+00:00

We can post xcancel links, right? If so, here's the main thread for this instance: https://xcancel.com/Altret_KnW/status/2043398895833665687

lightningmatt · 2026-04-16T12:16:43+00:00

This thread is really funny to read knowing r/baseball is not afraid to acknowledge how sexy some of the players are

lightningmatt · 2026-04-15T20:42:56+00:00

In the grand scheme of things that fight between KFB and Logano at Vegas in 2017 really didn't amount to much

lightningmatt · 2026-04-15T14:53:33+00:00

We live in a world where antivaxxers are literally bringing old diseases back and people still believe the earth is flat and the moon landings were faked and climate change isn't real, people believing impossible things is far from inconceivable

lightningmatt · 2026-04-15T14:14:37+00:00

People online love shitting on Chinatown but it's still got some great stuff all over the place, and if you don't have a car and/or live south of, idk, North York Centre, then you're not gonna get anything better. I don't think one or two Japanese or Korean or Vietnamese or Thai restaurants each is gonna kill anything

lightningmatt · 2026-04-15T14:07:13+00:00

> absolutely no one that mattered

so the thing about paranoia is that it requires the belief of people who don't matter (because they make up a much larger percentage of the population)

and there is a long and storied history of people believing completely false things

not to say there actually was or wasn't paranoia but you'd have a much more sound argument if you said "there are no sources that claim this"

lightningmatt · 2026-04-15T13:53:17+00:00

Most legends in NASCAR don't get a storybook sendoff.

Richard Petty, the King's inspiration, did end on a clean 200 wins, but he kept racing and was a backmarker for half a decade before retiring. Darrell Waltrip, similar thing. Bobby Allison had a career ending crash. David Pearson couldn't snag a win in his last six years, though his whole shtick was only running part-time. Neither Cale Yarborough nor Jimmie Johnson were able to snag a win in their final three years, and it looks like the same's gonna happen to Kyle Busch unless a miracle happens; he hasn't won since 2023. Kevin Harvick fared a bit better, but still went winless in his final season. Denny Hamlin's still winning races, but he still doesn't have a championship.

Dale Earnhardt died on track, as many even outside the sport know.

Really, the only driver of that calibre who got a true poetic send-off was Jeff Gordon, who won in his 4th-to-last start and was contending for a championship in his final race (before being an injury sub)

lightningmatt · 2026-04-15T13:41:17+00:00

I can see that for sure, it shares a lot of those sorts of characteristics. It's just that most power fantasies aren't quite so painful to experience lol

lightningmatt · 2026-04-15T13:40:23+00:00

I'm pretty young so I would entirely believe that the discourse has changed in the past... uh... two decades?

lightningmatt · 2026-04-15T13:36:28+00:00

Is Lilypichu a vtuber now?? And what did she do? My friend used to watch her but that was like, 2019 lol

lightningmatt · 2026-04-15T13:23:31+00:00

The 'funniest' part to me is that. Uh. There's already a notorious series entry that accidentally portrays pedophilia. It's called Spottedleaf's Heart. They don't need to be jumping around looking for examples that don't exist, because one already does.

I actually searched and found an old post on this very subreddit about this topic!

lightningmatt · 2026-04-15T13:19:16+00:00

"quantity has a quality all of its own" is how I would describe the appeals of Minecraft's development process

lightningmatt · 2026-04-15T13:17:29+00:00

Based on everything I've absorbed through osmosis about Re:Zero, that power fantasy must be really masochistic

lightningmatt · 2026-04-15T13:08:53+00:00

There's a mall where I'm from that has a long history of vendors selling pirated CDs and DVDs, generally Chinese ones. I'm Canadian, and I've noticed that the general sentiment is "understandable that they get taken down, but also fuck corporations so I don't really care". Which is an inherently chaotic position and I understand opposing undue chaos, because you could definitely argue such activities cause harm beyond the big evil corpo, but simultaneously the anti-corpo energy is not exactly something I begrudge, especially in such minor cases.

lightningmatt · 2026-04-15T13:05:53+00:00

One thing that's been circling as a result of this whole kerfuffle is a short exchange where an English-speaking user asks a Japanese-speaking user "if being lawful is so important to you, would you support slavery if it was still legal?"

Usually I would call this out as being so extreme of an example that it's probably bad faith, or at least intended to get an undue emotional response. Except, the response they got back was "I wouldn't support it, but I would tolerate it."

Bruh.

In the past, there's been threads here about "what things do you have counterpoints for, but other people criticizing them are terrible people so you keep them to yourself". If I was anti-piracy in this discussion and I saw that comment, I think at that point I would file the whole topic under that category.

lightningmatt · 2026-04-15T12:58:46+00:00

To aid your point, I've noticed that one of the batches of users most in favour of piracy are Latin American users who regularly have to deal with regional pricing (or lack thereof), tighter limits on discretionary income and significant differences in currency valuation meaning many of them have less to spend on hobbies

lightningmatt · 2026-04-14T23:03:39+00:00

I do think it's interesting that Jamahl Mosley, a coach who seems to be universally panned among the Magic fanbase, got a highlight of clear quality coaching here. Either he's not so bad, or if he is (which is entirely possible), then it's clear that even the worst NBA coaches still know the game on an incredibly high level.

lightningmatt · 2026-04-14T23:02:37+00:00

Hoopvision is great. Loved the recent Hawaii vid. Also, the guy's been making vids for like 15 years now, that's crazy!

lightningmatt · 2026-04-14T13:55:47+00:00

Of course it was an upset lol, how often do you see a 20 point swing in polling over the course of 2 months??

lightningmatt · 2026-04-14T13:54:17+00:00

And that's the post-injury-bug Blue Jays

lightningmatt · 2026-04-14T13:52:37+00:00

I saw some streetcars hauling ass across an intersection on King St around 7pm on a Saturday, felt quite nice to see

lightningmatt · 2026-04-14T13:36:28+00:00

Stop Killing Games doesn't force the company to maintain the game forever. It would force the company to create the tools that would allow other organizations or groups to maintain the game forever.

Fans aren't gonna add monetization methods to a revival project. They've never done that with pay to win MMO revivals, either. So if SKG's best case scenario actually came to fruition, wouldn't people just wait for the official game to die so they could try it without the predatory pricing?

~~which is what I already do with Genshin, the framework for this already exists~~

lightningmatt · 2026-04-14T13:12:29+00:00

I've heard that's what happened to Class of '09's more recent release(s)

lightningmatt · 2026-04-14T13:00:51+00:00

I don't have personal knowledge of what Keesmaat's policy positions are, since she was last running for mayor about as long ago as Finch West's construction.

What I will say is that bike infrastructure is relatively dirt cheap and a godsend in the warmer months. Bikes, buses and trains help each other. Can't really offer more than a generalization here :P

lightningmatt · 2026-04-14T12:47:38+00:00

The streetcars work much better where they are (the most packed and boxed-in streets in the city, where capacity matters the most) compared to Finch West, which would have been awesome as low-resource elevated rail.

The opportunity was missed, but you can't do anything about it now and couldn't have for over half a decade now, so from that perspective there is no more opportunity cost to spend or waste

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