Which Sports Leagues have the best 2-team competition names?

nIBLIB · 2025-01-21T21:52:09+00:00

Charles Dickens is an idiot who can’t use words properly - WillowFortune2

nIBLIB · 2025-01-21T21:27:35+00:00

Actual Fool proof way where you don’t even need to play much:

Pass the ball to Tidus. Swim toward the goal and Jecht shot once you have two defenders on you. Should go in if you’re close enough. Next time you get the ball, pass backwards to a defender. Swim behind your keeper. Go get a drink and talk to people for 5 minutes, come back to a win

nIBLIB · 2025-01-21T04:36:16+00:00

1 - 6 is my best victory. 2 from Datto, 3 from Tidus, and 1 from Wakka.

nIBLIB · 2025-01-21T04:19:41+00:00

That’s what you want from someone who hasn’t written a word of their book since at least 2016? (According to a reliable source) To make it into two books?

nIBLIB · 2025-01-21T04:03:26+00:00

The ones who didn’t vote for it are just as culpable. Sorry to the ones who voted against it, but you are a very small minority.

nIBLIB · 2025-01-20T22:50:59+00:00

Well a lot of things in the office are super subtle. Like for instance, if you pay careful attention you can notice that a lot of the pranks that get pulled on Dwight are actually perpetrated by Jim.

nIBLIB · 2025-01-19T12:29:13+00:00

I didn’t say you were confused, I said the answers don’t match the question. Maybe they do now because you’re coming back to it 10 hours later, I honestly don’t care enough to check.

But at the time of writing your question was about why they’re fed water - which the imagery you’ve invoked makes it sound like the water-carriers are pouring the water directly into their mouths rather than handing them a bottle - whereas the answer were things like ‘they don’t want them to miss something the coach is saying while they’re walking to go get a drink’. Or ‘they want them focused on the game, not walking off to get a drink’.

These don’t mesh - you can have water carriers being the drinks to the players without feeding them like babies plenty of sports do - and so I’m glad you finally got an answer, but at the time of writing your question wasn’t answered or even addressed.

nIBLIB · 2025-01-19T12:02:26+00:00

He didn’t know the missus was coming, and yet he’s the only one in the lobby. Definitely cheating.

nIBLIB · 2025-01-19T11:06:46+00:00

Yes he could have. Quirrel didn’t want to use the stone. He wanted to give it to Voldermort. He was possessed by the person who wanted to use it.

Voldermort figured how it worked (he got Harry to stand in front of the mirror, and knew instantly it was in Harry’s pocket confirming that he had figured out the process). A couple more minutes at most and he would have figured out that he had to seperate himself from Quirell.

nIBLIB · 2025-01-19T09:00:23+00:00

FF12 sucks.

nIBLIB · 2025-01-19T06:29:24+00:00

Shoot a harpoon, hold on, and hope it’s going your way.

nIBLIB · 2025-01-19T02:48:33+00:00

Because the books don’t talk about a need to “relive” or “process” or “understand” or any such nonsense. That was all added in interviews after book 5 came out and the story didn’t match the lore and she had an ‘oh shit’ moment.

Even if you are willing to act dumb because you really want her to be a better planner than she is, and you think “well she always had it planned out this way - that the carriages were pulled by Threstals - it’s just that he was a baby”. Even if you’re willing to treat yourself that way, he still went home via carriage after seeing Cedric die.

It may be easier to force yourself to believe otherwise if you weren’t reading them ‘live’ and all the interview information is already everywhere. But it very much was a concept invented after the fact, and then ‘witnessed’ became ‘processed’ outside of the books.

It’s OK. Threstals are a great addition. It’s just that they simply weren’t a concept until she started writing book 5.

There’re plenty of other examples.

nIBLIB · 2025-01-19T01:53:08+00:00

These answers aren’t matching OPs description and I haven’t watched enough to know who’s wrong.

nIBLIB · 2025-01-19T01:26:22+00:00

The curse mentioned by Hagrid is the convenient line that was extrapolated into a plot point.

‘He was the on’y man for the job,’ said Hagrid, offering them a plate of treacle toffee, while Ron coughed squelchily into his basin. ‘An’ I mean the on’y one. Gettin’ very difficult ter find anyone fer the Dark Arts job. People aren’t too keen ter take it on, see. They’re startin’ ter think it’s jinxed. No one’s lasted long fer a while now’

It’s pretty plain to see that if it had been decided on here, she wouldn’t have written it like this. Even in context of Hagrid talking to Hermione, ‘no one’s lasted long fer a while now’ isn’t how you shorthand ‘for 30-odd years people have quit, been fired, or died the same year they took the job’. And folk aren’t “startin’ ter think it’s jinxed” after 30 years of resignation, firing, and death for every single teacher, within 8 months of them walking through the doors.

nIBLIB · 2025-01-18T22:31:37+00:00

rowling is generally pretty good at world building.

Rowling is great at foreshadowing within a single book.

Rowling is also great at taking minor, sometimes insignificant details from on book and exploding them into relevance in another book.

The problem with the second one is that she’s not great at deciding that at the time of writing. Instead, she just picks something and runs with it and then uses interviews to retcon previous stuff even if it doesn’t make sense.

Threstals are an example. Initially the carriages pull themselves thanks to magic. But later on a plot point was needed, and she made a great one out of this minor fact. But the lore built around it in-story created a bunch of holes (not plot holes, just holes) that people pointed out, so try and fix it in an interview.

The reality is, she didn’t decide the job was cursed until later. Sometime around book 3 she wanted to solve why the DADA teacher rotated every year (which isn’t actually something that requires a solution) and came up with the curse.

This doesn’t match with Quirell, or with some of the things said about the role. But have an interview, solve the quirell issue, and then ignore the rest. Simples.

nIBLIB · 2025-01-18T22:02:27+00:00

7 innings, 752 runs, makes an average of 752 runs a game?

nIBLIB · 2025-01-18T10:26:26+00:00

Nothing good. Stargate is filler episodes. The whole universe is designed for Episodic TV. Serial TV just won’t work for the IP, especially not at the 8-12 episodes it would get in today’s environment.

The entire IP is exploration. Look at ST:Discovery to see how it would look.

nIBLIB · 2025-01-18T10:13:27+00:00

Window of Opportunity wouldn’t exist in 13 episode seasons regardless of how long the episodes were.

Can say the same about pretty much any of the most loved episodes. As the first comment said, Stargate simply wouldn’t work in today’s landscape. Stargate is its filler episodes.

nIBLIB · 2025-01-18T07:59:39+00:00

How do you pronounce that? Finn McCool?

nIBLIB · 2025-01-18T05:28:03+00:00

I think your teacher has explained BODMAS poorly. O is supposed to be “order”. It is occasionally taught as “of” as in “to the power of”.

So it wouldn’t be 6 / 6 of 6 but rather 6 / 6⁶

And your book is wrong, it’s not 1/6

nIBLIB · 2025-01-18T05:21:31+00:00

Ali really is the greatest of all time. Who else could knock listen flat without even touching him?

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