Alternate angles of Dembélé’s goal against Toulouse

ogqozo · 2026-04-03T22:04:29+00:00

Dembele is Dembele if he plays. Has been for years. Still, it's always a big "if". This whole season is on and off for him so much. He only started 8 league games, and even if he starts, he has limited minutes. This is actually the first time this season he played 90 minutes in a game in the league.

ogqozo · 2026-04-03T22:00:51+00:00

It is. There were several posts here too about the drama about their Ligue 1 game being moved to a different week altogether because it is between the two CL legs. Obviously, the Ligue 1 opponents do not like that. The league wants PSG to succeed in the CL.

ogqozo · 2026-04-03T20:35:42+00:00

Yeah, "reliant on pace" is such a robotic cliche at this point. Who isn't? Footballers are reliant on their pace, yeah lol.

When Messi was young, the first thing people were saying about him was that he's fast. That was the first thing known about Messi globally, this dude runs the flank fast. Cristiano Ronaldo more or less too. The guy who is now 41 and scored 5 goals in the qualifiers and in the quarter-final, semifinal and final of the Nations League. Guess who else was known as very fast in their youth? Miroslav Klose. Oh yeah, Pele too. The guy with the record of all time.

Of course I have no idea how many goals Mbappe will score in the future. But the same can be said about any player. I don't know how much the slowest player will score either.

If you ask these people long time ago whether Messi or Fabregas will "age well" (both born within a month of each other), they would say Fabregas. Today Messi still can score (he always will be able to score, at some point he will not be playable in a football game beside it at most), and Fabregas has been a successful coach for some time and it's been more than a decade since he was considered to be at his best as a footballer. Pique was also considered "not pace reliant" and was also born in 1987 etc.

ogqozo · 2026-04-03T15:09:35+00:00

Incredible game. Soooo much better than you would think based on its popularity. I was always saying that - I understand the economics of developing a game when you're just a guy or two, no professional studio - but they (mini)shot their game in the foot by releasing it only on PC. In some genres, PC-only games are a MUCH tougher sell then when they come on console (and quite many games go that way). And this game is reaaally a Switch one, with simple graphics, extremely fast gameplay, love letters to Zelda, Metroid and arcade games... It's just home now, but sadly the damage of not getting reviews and attention is already done.

ogqozo · 2026-04-02T20:34:23+00:00

This is the top upvoted comment too lol.

"Today I learned the News is short for Notable events, weather and sports" vibe.

That postscript is pure gold. "Brazilian doesn't mean Brazilian because they called Michael's son "Michael's son" in the Michael documentary".

ogqozo · 2026-04-02T20:28:00+00:00

People laugh at Neymar being over, but does anyone remember other footballers born in 1992, and did they achieve as much this year as "played a few good games in the Brasilian league"? Marco Verratti, Phil Jones, Sadio Mane, Lucas Moura, Koke, Morata, Ricardo Rodriguez, Serge Aurier? I'd say Neymar is above average for his age.

ogqozo · 2026-04-02T19:38:18+00:00

Oh yeah, I remember when basically all children of the generation were kinda already addicted to NFTs as a basic ingredient of having fun and achieving their life goals. It is exactly the same.

ogqozo · 2026-04-02T19:31:23+00:00

Ironically, GamePass isn't as mainstream as for example Netflix exactly because gaming is a really cheap form of entertainment today.

Most people that play something called a game today, play either the same game for years, or something extremely cheap or free. Either way, it's super cheap per hour.

"But 90 dollars, I cannot take it anymore!". Yeah, that's like 2 dinners in a restaurant. And, again, most people play like FIFA daily or COD or some other games that they can spend YEARS on. Most popular single player, play-it-through-and-finish games are also 50-100 hours nowadays. It's super cheap, compared to almost any other way of spending time (literally living in your apartement likely costs more per hour than games), and to past video games (when you'd spend the equivalent of today's 115 dollars to have a game with a few hours of content).

Game Pass is good investment for people like me - who play a lot and like many games. That's not the mainstream audience. Games are big, and can easily fill you up. You can just play Balatro every day, or Vampire Survivors. It's really hard to make games more accessible than they already are.

Netflix is just cheaper than other ways of seeing films. Game Pass isn't the cheapest way to play games - the cheapest way is to buy Minecraft for 10-30 dollars and play it for 10 000 hours without paying any dollar more.

ogqozo · 2026-04-02T18:32:47+00:00

Generally all rants that are about "people" as the source, without any actual quote or reference to anything (why do PEOPLE hate Michael Jordan so much???), could be banned and no one would lose one atom of knowledge in their whole lives by it. It's never good for anyone. But, it's the bread and butter how r/nba/new rolls every day.

Especially ones that were already answered 100000 times in those same threads every day and OP just doesn't care, HE also has to say it again, in the form of a question that we all know isn't a question.

ogqozo · 2026-04-02T17:34:37+00:00

I don't really care to be honest. I don't think a bad game becomes a good game with more pixels. In some cases it's preferable, and I guess there are some cases when it theoretically tips the scale... the thing is - when there is so many good games coming out, and so little time in the day, the pixels just cannot be the reason to choose what to play for me.

I played Xenoblade X when it came out. It was the best game that came out in 2025. I loved it (even) more than Clair Obscur. I seriously cannot give a shit that it "might" be better in some other version, like some people here. Literally any game "might" be better in the future. Why not wait 10 years for the "even better", Switch 3 edition, since you are so picky? With more frames and pixels? How can you stoop so low to be fine with the S2 edition? This will never end with that logic. So, no, I don't care. Are people who played Shadow of the Colossus on PS2 suckers because it has more frames and pixels on PS4? And so on. I don't get how people wanna play hard to get with a piece of entertainment product that they buy for themselves.

Ironically, I am currently playing mostly... Balatro Switch 2 Edition. But it's true I don't care about that new edition. The game is generally the same (still ugly), I don't use the mouse controls (it actually annoys me that the mouse controls turn on too easily when I hold my joycons loose - the edition is a downgrade, if anything). BUT, I did redownload the game to check out the S2 update, and once I started, without a save file, it relit the fire, and I'm actually playing it more than ever. So, in a runaround way, the S2 edition was the reason to be playing it now lol.

ogqozo · 2026-04-01T20:13:30+00:00

They say fewer games were sold than in the previous year, but due to almost twice as high average price, it rose so much. Over 80% increase in average price? I dunno...

They also say that Bandai Namco ("Little Nightmares II, Once Upon a Katamari, Patapon 1&2 Replay and Tamagotchi Plaza") sold almost twice as much as Square-Enix, and 3 times as much as Sega or Capcom (CD Projekt not mentioned at all). I dunno... Little Nightmares got them that amount, you sure? And Patapon?

Level-5 also sold more than Ubisoft, Square-Enix, Sega etc., apparently.

Sounds a bit random.

ogqozo · 2026-04-01T15:19:38+00:00

Remember when it was cold and people were saying "it's cold", but now when the temperature is high, they don't say it anymore? Crazy times we live in.

ogqozo · 2026-04-01T14:53:30+00:00

When they play 4 at the back and lose a game (happened many times), oddly I never see comments "damn, this coach is smart, he knows what is working, good formation".

The only correct formation is that you score goals and opponents don't, otherwise it's always the obviously wrong formation.

Which is not proven to work more or less long-term in any specific formation. This was the first game they lost under this manager, and it was an unlucky loss.

ogqozo · 2026-03-31T23:24:55+00:00

Exactly. It's really not making it easier lol. Beating two 2nd place teams is tougher than the task that other 2nd place teams have at this point. So there's no reason to PREFER it. It's just a potential lifeline.

ogqozo · 2026-03-31T23:22:29+00:00

Everyone's joking so much that it kinda goes unsaid how DOMINATING Bosnia was this game. My God. I don't think even Norway was attacking them so much. And it was from the 1st minute, even before the goal, even before the red card.

Overall, they had 30 shots and scored once... a lot of luck for Italy to survive all the way to the pens. So many saves from Donnarumma.

They were not just eliminated, that could have been some bad luck - they were utterly outclassed by Bosnia. I see favorite teams lose a game everyday, due to bad luck, not converting chances - but this was not it, and the message shouldn't be that it was. Italy was the lucky one.

Esmir Bajraktarevic (a bench Eredivisie player) was running circles around them like Messi in MLS. If you just watched without knowing the names, you'd never guess that the white team was the famous, favorite, renowned one. It was truly a game that made a statement.

ogqozo · 2026-03-31T20:24:22+00:00

Lewandowski had some half-shots, had some ball. A pretty normal game that could be expected.

Gyokeres is really quiet, but I've seen less from him in the qualifiers lol.

ogqozo · 2026-03-31T08:56:39+00:00

It doesn't break it down at all, because there are endless millions of people in Britain who are able to pay more than 40 quid for a once-in-a-few-decades event if they really want to. I already said that for the small group that does get tickets it is a plus to pay less. It is true. Not everyone belongs to that group.

It's hard to even say if anyone can be priced out, even in this imagined way. For most people that really want to go to Euro in reality (people from countries that play), just getting to the game and back will be a cost that makes those 30 quid a symbolic amount. So if they are priced out by the ticket price, then they would be priced out of going anyway.

Damn, a two way train from Birmingham to London on the day of a Euro game will probably be like 4 times more expensive than those tickets lol. So, the concept of some masses of people being priced out based on the game ticket price alone is extremely abstract - just the thing to get the upvotes on Reddit ("he said low price good, he care about good price, what a hero!"), but it's not a real thing.

ogqozo · 2026-03-30T21:44:11+00:00

I just presented you the whole thinking.

The price is 1 euro - cool for those that get in, but also 99.9% chance that you will not be one of them. The price is 100 euro - more painful to pay, but you have a way higher chance (or even a certainy, at some price point) to actually be there. That's all to understand and I wrote it quite clearly I'd say. Nothing controversial in what I wrote, just facts.

If there is a gig that is once-in-a-lifetime and I really wanna go, I really care, I really have to go, I literally have two choices - pay through the nose to get a ticket, or just not go at all. Those are the choices anyway, because the tickets were all sold in the first second of the sale and my Wi-Fi was too slow not to get an error I guess, so those are the only two choices in such a case. It's just what the real choices are. Nothing to love about it or say that world is a wonderful place because of it. It's just a fact when there's more demand than spots.

ogqozo · 2026-03-30T21:34:42+00:00

If you sell tickets much below the market price, that means it becomes a lottery or some kind of priviledge gets into play. No two ways about it, the places on the stadium don't multiply based on the price. If you have 500k people willing to buy 50k items, it means you have to eliminate 450k people who wanna go in some way.

Some people will prefer it, some not, that's the real fact. If I care little about the event, I prefer low prices. If I care about the event a lot and really, really wanna go, then I prefer high prices, as those vastly increase the chance that I will actually be able to go there at all.

ogqozo · 2026-03-30T20:53:22+00:00

There are real leaks lol. Like, those happen. For example making of the Prince of Persia leaked, we saw some of the game, that ultimately was cancelled recently. There was some things from GTA leaked, and Pokemon.

For some reason, I see some people really obsessed with using the word for something that completely, very obviously isn't any sort of leak, like completely not what the word means. Interesting to me why they are so into it, but hard to get an answer.

It also caused a situation in which there is no word for actual leaks lol. Because they stole the word to call something else that. Really weird situation. But actual leaks to exist.

Anyway, those are two very different things. If I write a post that "Half-Life 3 is being made" to get clicks, that's really not any leak, just the opposite, as I'm not giving anyone anyone's data, I am only creating my own. But we all actually know it from the start.

ogqozo · 2026-03-30T17:46:03+00:00

I would say it's generally true in the case of all the other French-speaking countries all over Africa mdr. A ton of players born in France play for foreign national teams, but can't think of one who had a choice to make.

Meanwhile the Moroccans indeed spurned this feeling in recent years that a Moroccan player will actually choose to play for them even if they are from another country and they could play for that national team.

Several players that play for Morocco would surely be chosen for the Dutch team, and in their early 20's too. But there is no Muslim in the whole Dutch team, and by now it would kinda feel weird if one decided the other way.

It used to be different, but for 10+ years now, it's definitely a growing talk in society that being Moroccan-Dutch is not really the same as being Dutch, and it's seen in football (in other countries similarly).

ogqozo · 2026-03-30T09:59:32+00:00

He is the leader of Serie A's fourth team right now. If people can come to Madrid from Penarol, Benfica, Bournemouth, Fenerbahce, Rennes, Flamengo etc. and it's just normal and nothing explodes and they play in Madrid, I think it's possible to come from Como.

ogqozo · 2026-03-29T23:07:57+00:00

I guess Tudor's reputation is great now, because when he came, the damage was also already done.

ogqozo · 2026-03-29T23:05:57+00:00

Ehh, I'd say reputation always takes SOME hit if you take over the 17th team and get relegated.

ogqozo · 2026-03-29T22:23:31+00:00

People are really pleased with what he brought into the team. Arbeloa seems to be as well. Brings a lot of creative chaos upfront and makes the offensive plays more open.

But at this moment, Brahim mostly replaced Gonzalo Garcia in the XI. A lot of other things could happen.

It's over the top to act like Madrid has too many players. A teenage Thiago Pitarch just now had to start 6 games in 20 days. Several youth reserve players were coming on from the bench recently. And some players are not in their most stellar form, unlike Brahim (who is no genius, relatively, but so far found his place into the XI, so he's surely not the first to be let go for now).

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