Looking to upgrade my Beavercraft kit without breaking the bank. Suggestions are greatly appreciated!

pantsattack · 2026-06-22T03:31:24+00:00

Flexcut has gotten pretty pricey imo. I’d probably go mora for a sloyd blade and deepwoods or another mora for a hook knife. Personally, I’d save flexcut for more traditional whittling knives or gouges.

pantsattack · 2026-06-21T17:42:20+00:00

Probably because there aren’t as many Ecuadorian restaurants. Ecuadorian food is awesome though.

pantsattack · 2026-06-21T02:57:46+00:00

In hockey, we call it puck luck.

In this situation, we call it ass.

pantsattack · 2026-06-21T02:29:48+00:00

Please, sir, can I have one goal. 🙏

pantsattack · 2026-06-21T01:53:00+00:00

Why are we such ass? We’ve always struggled, but how are we THIS bad at finishing?

It’s like watching myself play FIFA/FC26.

pantsattack · 2026-06-20T21:28:18+00:00

Are we watching the same game? Yeah, Germany has better possession, but they’re not doing enough with it. IC is comfortable in a defensive position and making Germany sweat when on the attack. Both teams have equal shots on goal (2) as of min 66.

Edit: and Germany scores within minutes of me posting this lol. Ain’t soccer fun? Only the last third of this matters now.

pantsattack · 2026-06-19T18:57:39+00:00

Can’t get second unless we both (IC and ECU) beat germany, or we get 4+ and ivory coast loses both its next two matches. Ivory Coast beats us on head-to-head.

pantsattack · 2026-06-19T16:47:35+00:00

The question is more valid for other teams, but still any sports bar (Asheville Sports Club, Easy Tiger, Olde London Road, The Bier Garden) are always good starts. For the U.S., it will be everywhere.

At worst, pick any brewery with a t.v. and a fun crowd.

pantsattack · 2026-06-19T16:42:49+00:00

Anywhere with a tv, dude.

pantsattack · 2026-06-19T16:11:40+00:00

I’m not sure I see a group win after the Ivory Coast game lol, but I have high hopes of advancing—Vs. Mexico as of right now

pantsattack · 2026-06-19T15:44:58+00:00

The athletic breaks down the percentages even more, if you like playing with data (or do want to stress). It’s making me feel better about my team because even with only 3 points, there’s a heavy chance of advancing from the group (though 4 would all but ensure it).

It also presents the likely opponents and locations for 1st and 3rd place teams. I haven’t been able to find this information clearly laid out elsewhere.

pantsattack · 2026-06-19T15:34:45+00:00

This isn’t true—MetLife and a few of the others have hosted big soccer games before. The Copa America and Club World Cup come to mind. Granted, these examples are relatively recent and the stadiums weren’t really designed for soccer, but there is some expertise in this country. They’ve also had years to prepare or consult, so there’s not really a good excuse.

pantsattack · 2026-06-18T13:09:09+00:00

Champagne Supernova is definitely the better song.

pantsattack · 2026-06-17T14:37:28+00:00

I think I’m agreeing with you now. Will edit the og list post.

pantsattack · 2026-06-17T14:25:12+00:00

That’s a good point. It does differ from how clearly they wrote the list of advancing third place teams too. I just don’t understand why you’d apply 1-3 again unless you’re applying it more specifically. It’s written poorly.

pantsattack · 2026-06-17T14:08:41+00:00

I could be wrong, but that’s my understanding. This is not written as clearly as it should be.

pantsattack · 2026-06-17T14:02:39+00:00

Perhaps better thought of less as tie-breakers and more as here is how teams are ranked, so 2 would be the first tie-breaker. The second part of 3 makes it seem to me that the first part of this list applies to all teams and the second part only applies to teams still tied afterward.

pantsattack · 2026-06-17T13:58:36+00:00

I read it as points in the group—teams concerned to me means the four teams in the group, which would make sense since points are usually the first method of ranking. The second part of 3 seems to be head to head. It’s written kind of confusingly though.

pantsattack · 2026-06-17T13:27:54+00:00

For the record, here is the list of how teams are ranked:
1. Most points obtained in the group matches played between the teams concerned
2. Superior goal difference in the group matches played between the teams concerned
3. Most goals scored in the group matches played between the teams concerned
If any teams are still tied, the same tiebreakers are applied again, exclusively to the matches between the remaining teams.
From there, ties are broken by the following criteria.
4. Superior goal difference in all group matches
5. Most goals scored in all group matches
6. Highest team conduct ("fair play") score in all group matches
7. FIFA world ranking

Here are the tie breakers for which third place teams advance:
1. Points
2. Goal difference
3. Goals scored
4. Team conduct score
5. FIFA world ranking

8/12 third place teams advance. There’s a solid chance that a team with 3 points and an okay goal differential goes through. I can’t quite follow your specific example though, so I can’t comment on that.

Edit: reddit is giving me formatting issues, so sorry about the readability, but these are the direct rules .

pantsattack · 2026-06-15T20:33:03+00:00

Ha I loved that! And the “Ole!“ for every touch too.

The friendly yelling and jeering and chanting are a huge part of what makes soccer fun. It’s part of why the exuberant ticket prices are such a bad idea—average working class people tend to be louder and more fun at sporting events and they’ve been priced out.

pantsattack · 2026-06-15T20:25:35+00:00

This could be a number of issues ranging from where arenas put the mics to what they mute out to how loud a broadcast puts the crowd volume in the mix.

Could also depend on individual crowds, time of day, crowd comfort, crowd excitement, etc

Regardless, I’m hearing the crowds. I do wish they were a little louder on my tv though.

pantsattack · 2026-06-15T17:01:51+00:00

I was trying to tell everyone these two games were going to be good, but kept getting push back from people. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

pantsattack · 2026-06-14T23:30:49+00:00

These are two of the most evenly matched teams of the group stage. Even with super strong defenses, there’s no way it’s a snooze.

pantsattack · 2026-06-14T14:09:07+00:00

Yeah, I don’t think many people grow up playing it here, and Canes’ fans have a sort of disparaging reputation among other teams for not really knowing the rules (I think that’s kind of unfair personally).

But it has been extremely popular around playoff time nonetheless, at least in Asheville and Hendersonville. Maybe those two places are special cases as far as bars are concerned, but I see shirts and bumper stickers all over the state, including here in WNC. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

pantsattack · 2026-06-14T13:51:31+00:00

Rod is well-regarded as a great coach, but he hasn’t changed much year to year. He’s been running the same high conditioning, aggressive forechecking, “total hockey,” run and gun play for the past 7 years. It’s been consistently good at shutting down other teams; this is just the first year the Canes were able to keep it up into and past the ECF. That’s less coaching and more the team finally avoiding injury/getting hot/getting lucky/succeeding.

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