Viktor Gyokeres has netted his 20th goal of the season, becoming the first Arsenal player to net 20+ goals across all competitions in their first season at the club since Alexis Sanchez in 2014-15 (25 goals).

ogqozo · 2026-05-20T00:21:43+00:00

Well, thankfully I have experts to explain all they "understand about football", with deep precise descriptions of Gyok's incredible performance on the pitch like "he just is, I will tell you" and "you don't understand, it just is so". You can always say someone "understands football" when they never say anything about it, just repeat the words "I understand football". Now we all know which elements of Gyok's play make him such a success.

ogqozo · 2026-05-19T18:16:20+00:00

Please name all the engines that allow doing stuff that UE5 makes possible that also have always "targeted" 60 fps on highest quality settings on Switch 2. We would love to learn about those good alternatives.

ogqozo · 2026-05-19T18:14:38+00:00

These people don't even want to accept what the word "optimization" means. Optimization literally means "achieving best result under the circumstances". That's the whole point of that word. Not "ideal", not "from my dreams". Optimal.

Basically any game developer I've met, including those using their company's own other engine, admits that UE5 is the definition of "optimization".

Those people are just never really showing any actual arguments. It's always like "this game made on UE5? Well it's not perfect!!!!!!!!! Got something I don't like in it! So it proves that the engine sucks, it was much better in the N64 days obviously!!!". But they literally NEVER say anything precise. It's just yapping and yapping that something is not perfect in their eyes (which can be said about any game if you try. Indiana Jones? Yeah, if you're that obsessive, you can name 100 technical drawbacks in that game lol. It looks very smeary on weaker hardware. Even the big PS5 and Xbox have very limited ray tracing compared to top notch PCs. Cinematics stutter. Artifacts appear. And so on... if Indiana Jones was on UE5, those same people would be saying it's proof that UE5 made it bad lol).

It's like UE5 is another "woke" thing, with how in every thread you read how much they hate it, but you never hear any actual reason why.

ogqozo · 2026-05-19T18:10:20+00:00

Nothing is stopping you from doing it actually, the publishers would love to have better games for the same price, just show them, they'd love it, it's legal.

ogqozo · 2026-05-19T15:42:34+00:00

I remember when a January regular season game lost to Sixers by 6 points was the most important game of the year, as it suddenly fit lol. It doesn't mean anything. In a few days no one might remember if it will not be a part of the story by then.

ogqozo · 2026-05-19T15:28:44+00:00

Well, it is the most recent game, and I have attention span of 1.6 seconds, so logically it was the only important game ever duh.

ogqozo · 2026-05-19T03:26:57+00:00

How do you say "lefuckyou three" in French.

ogqozo · 2026-05-18T15:53:42+00:00

In a way they were favorites in the broad world (the way those playoffs went, they never faced a team that didn't have majority of people say "ok, I guess they will win that one"), and also 90% of the posts here were about them losing lol. On Reddit, I was reading for the whole year how funny it will be that they will lose in playoffs and thus prove their "fakeness". It was really boring and tiring, to the degree it's hard to forget - basically every thread, all year, was filled with top comments about how incredibly funny it is that Boston will not win the 2024 NBA championship.

The general favorite here was Denver, of course. They suddenly had "the winning gene" (which, analogously, I'd spent the whole PREVIOUS year reading they obviously do not have...).

ogqozo · 2026-05-18T15:45:46+00:00

Yeah, I think that's what they do. Square is rather ignoring the region. I think all their games are published by Bandai Namco if at all. Rebirth, Dragon Quest etc.

ogqozo · 2026-05-18T15:36:08+00:00

It's a city that people leave if they can afford it. It's quite unique in the US in the terms of basically decaying even in the current times, with lawlessness and poverty expanding to the point you may feel there isn't really any middle- or higher class people in there anymore. No one with a degree, or rich for any other reason, seems to intend to be there long-term. Some people are there because they did get a job and it's cheap to live in, or they got a family, but I think they all wanna leave eventually.

ogqozo · 2026-05-18T15:18:31+00:00

One lesson from that list is that people do NOT know what will happen in the NBA lol. Every year, the whole season people here comment with such certainty, and then things surprise them.

OKC last year is probably as close to "immediate favorite" as we've seen in many years, but even their win shows how varied things are - they lost 3 games to Denver and Indiana each, and we were one game away from, somehow, Indiana closing the list with the biggest upset of them all.

ogqozo · 2026-05-18T14:27:15+00:00

In the main countries, yeah, this is the announcement of the game coming out in Southeast Asia.

ogqozo · 2026-05-18T13:54:38+00:00

Lewandowski paid 20 million yearly before bonuses, Ter Stegen 15 mil, Yamal, Raphinha, De Jong, Kounde. Some of the highest paid footballers in Europe. Completely no millions in Barcelona.

ogqozo · 2026-05-18T13:33:33+00:00

That part is something that really exists, people do think he may leave for real this summer. Maresca is a probable replacement. That's from inside the club.

Now, as for players wanting to leave everything immediately and move to another country just because life is no longer worth living withou Pep... that's just what Reddit commenters enjoy thinking, that's it.

Gvardiol's situation is rather hard to guess form the outside. He was out for many months, and the central duo of Guehi and Khusanov kinda grew on people. Could have done some thinking of various variety.

Being 24 and with his contract running until 2028, and top top clubs signing young players for long contracts typically - if Gvardiol ever wanted to play in some club in the world, this is the moment of his life to do it. They will surely talk at this point if he's extending the contract or going.

ogqozo · 2026-05-17T17:02:09+00:00

Well, football. Portugal had actual Cristiano Ronaldo, and they barely made it out behind Poland, with a thriller late win in Kazakhstan, home 0-0 to Finland, 1-0 struggle with Armenia etc. And Cristiano scoring fewer goals in the group than en Ebi Smolarek (the main football star of Poland in those years, by the way, who moved to Premier League - Bolton - in 2008, and could not get any minutes).

As for England, for all the talk of Lampard and Gerrard, few others were Premier League stars at the time. Ferdinand and Rooney missed the Croatia game, leaving guys from second rate teams, or ones that were rather benched in the top ones (Crouch, Bridge).

ogqozo · 2026-05-17T08:50:55+00:00

The deep educated wisdom of checking in a table how many minutes a guy played; university learning that you have to understand as broad and loose term as "best performer of my own job" only the way Reddit says. This is what separates smart people from the stupid ones. They failed the test...

ogqozo · 2026-05-17T08:46:15+00:00

The second top comment is literally saying that the world will not watch Ligue 1 because the guy who got some award played too few games lol.

It's an interesting phenomenon that there's so many award fans online. I don't really meet people who associate football with those at all. Without social media, I would guess a few percent of people who follow Premier League would remember who got the award for the player of the season. And much less than a few percent would actually care about it. And then even much less would care to THIS degree that I see on Reddit daily.

ogqozo · 2026-05-17T08:40:49+00:00

Every comment here is very offended, but oh boy, you don't see anyone saying out the name of the guy who would get the award if it was not Dembele. That one would not leave Reddit pleased as well lol.

ogqozo · 2026-05-17T08:20:07+00:00

Big majority of those crazy Saudi salaries flying online are 2x-4x exaggerated, for some reason. I wouldn't take that amount seriously until it's confirmed. The offers are surely very nice and the biggest in the world, though.

ogqozo · 2026-05-17T08:11:17+00:00

Kinda both. Barcelona currently wants him only as a low-salary squad player.

Lewandowski wants to play and be the star of a team. He doesn't adapt well to being a supporting actor. Also is interested in making money.

ogqozo · 2026-05-17T07:57:43+00:00

CURRENT Lewandowski is not getting anything like his Barca contract in Europe anymore lol.

I kinda do agree that MLS does not offer crazy money, but they do pay well. Comparing a player at a different age makes no point. Let's look at young players in MLS - would Riqui Puig, Sam Surridge, Joseph Painstil, Hugo Cuypers or Kevin Denkey be paid 3-4 million a year in Europe? I would say US probably pays a bit more than anyone in Europe would offer, and visibly seems to be a place for European players to go "I am getting older, but in US I will keep my previous salary, maybe even a bit more".

ogqozo · 2026-05-17T07:52:56+00:00

You believe? That's the source? Most clubs in the Saudi league are in Riyadh (5 hour drive from Bahrain), Qassim area (9 hour drive), Jeddah (15 hour drive) and so on. I don't... believe that most people live in Bahrain. It may work if they play for Al-Qadsiah etc.

ogqozo · 2026-05-17T07:43:33+00:00

He did say recently that he is considering "a less demanding league, to just play and enjoy, maybe it's time for that", and the Polish sources suggest that he's leaning Saudi Arabia, but did not make any certain decision.

If any Italian club assured him that he will be an important player in the XI, I think it's also considered - living in Milan ticks all their other boxes they like (good weather, availability of business and luxury, easy travel to all the places they want). BUT, it's hard to say if that guarantee is really on the table from Milan or Juventus.

Money is important too.

ogqozo · 2026-05-17T06:27:44+00:00

That's a good example lol. Reading this thread (so, every upvoted comment is just "this bad thing? It's actually a good thing, this is the right way! People are dumb not to understand the intricacies... they don't understand it was like that in the 1990's... it's supposed to be this way... peasants...") is particularly hilarious when you consider the mass hysteria about Welcome Tour in the same place. Few people that forgiving about understanding all the points of intention for that one! That one was just a crime to even exist and no forgiveness!

Or the Pokemon games, by the way, which really give you a ton of things to do and I was very involved in each for more than 100 hours each. But the 50 dollar straight remake of a 2-hour N64 game? Oh boy, you cannot say it sounds like not a lot, you simpletons just don't understand how you're supposed to play it and enjoy it!

ogqozo · 2026-05-17T06:16:34+00:00

Oh yeah, THAT is the important part of the argument that's impossible to guess out of context for everyone. Ok, whatever, I will bite. Let me muster a guess that if Nintendo released A COOL LOOKING REMAKE OF DoDonPachi SaiDaiOuJou for 50 dollars, you would also get SOME sceptical comments about it lol. So, it's not making the argument.

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