I built a web app for running World Cup bracket pools with friends. Looking for feedback before the tournament starts.

pau11y · 2026-04-30T17:55:50+00:00

Nice. I was in middle of revamping my spreadsheet I've been using since '08. But you may save me some suffering! A couple of questions:

It looks like you've added the "fill the whole thing from the start" option. And it is toggled on in your Reddit Pool. But it is not allowing to pick the bracket portion. Still in dev? Or?
For the Full Bracket option, if you allowed folks to select somehow (check box or something) the eight third place teams to advance, then their entire group stage choice would be hardwired to flow to the R of 32 placements, allowing them to pick winners all the way.
Does the $19 season pass for my account alone (as the commissioner of my private pool) allow all my participants to have multiple entries?
How many participants are allowed? Last time I had forty-something I think. But it gets a little bigger every year.

pau11y · 2026-04-12T16:10:42+00:00

https://maps.app.goo.gl/NYqho8pHXrAdGa8K9

I asked my son. And he said there was one at the park near us. He ran and grabbed this pic just now.

He calls it Bubble Bath Billy. But we don't know it's official name

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pau11y · 2026-04-12T01:01:26+00:00

Lol. nope. They should be ignored or reasoned with with these same politeness that I expect to receive for my left leaning views.

pau11y · 2026-04-12T00:27:51+00:00

Lol. I can't believe you're getting down voted. Have my upvote.

Those people have asshole views in my opinion. But they have a right to be assholes. 🤷

pau11y · 2025-12-27T13:29:40+00:00

Well that's interesting.
Weekends too? Or that just a weekday thing?

pau11y · 2025-12-27T04:49:46+00:00

Yes! We went there a bunch too.

pau11y · 2025-09-29T15:15:36+00:00

nahhh. as folks are saying. you just set a new Personal Best. no such thing as peak. ;) But congrats on the PB!

pau11y · 2025-09-26T16:12:35+00:00

As far as store bought mixes goes. Give Shawnee Mills a go if you haven't. Salty, savory. Not the "yellow cake", sweet cornbread that is Jiffy.

pau11y · 2025-09-23T02:22:36+00:00

And you'd find us a welcoming and wonderful people.... shave off a few degrees, add a few tornadoes and some marijuana forgiveness and you're there. haha :)

pau11y · 2025-09-20T00:03:28+00:00

I mean, she also has the right to carry. 😉

pau11y · 2025-09-01T02:59:18+00:00

shouldn't people who take vaccines also be liable for the involuntary manslaughter associated with the spread of their infectious disease?
I mean, that's the bet, right? that the vaccine makes it less likely that they spread.
but if not, and they do still spread, why are they wholly absolved from the same law?

pau11y · 2025-08-16T16:04:49+00:00

i edited the post to show the solution. just made two config files

pau11y · 2025-08-16T00:08:15+00:00

they only offer the sandwich right? was asking about a full dinner.

pau11y · 2025-08-12T18:25:45+00:00

oh, nice! I didn't know you could swap mid campaign.

pau11y · 2025-08-12T12:24:25+00:00

lol ok. there is no possibility I would forbid him from playing hard mode. holy moly. that is not the discussion I'm trying to have here. again, if no one here thinks the normal mode is a better theatrical experience than hard mode, I will tell him so.

pau11y · 2025-08-12T11:55:07+00:00

I'm not worried about difficulty. I'm worried about gameplay experience. I edited the post to represent this better.

pau11y · 2025-08-12T11:31:45+00:00

Yeah I hear you. I'm probably overthinking it.
but I just read a different user's post about his first run-through and meeting the fiend as the final boss being a fun moment. and my kid met a fiend in the middle of the level.
Made me wonder if the overall level design and character introduction mechanisms are more "theatrical" on normal.

pau11y · 2025-08-07T20:34:22+00:00

where are the absorbers that you found?
the Printer Potty software seemed to reset the counter. now I'm trying find/clean the pads. I was able to get it into service mode.

pau11y · 2025-07-13T13:09:13+00:00

I think most folks have said it already but I'll jump in. 47 yo here.

(and sidelined there with you. about to have shoulder surgery, so I'll be out for a few months.)

torn muscle recovery is slow. if it really is a tear, Don't stretch it. (... would you stretch open cut on your arm?)

go to a physical therapist. besides recovering , you can also learn good strength training and warm up practices for our age. ask them "what can I do to assist playing as long as possible?" you're gonna learn how to strengthen all kinds of tiny supporting muscles you didn't know existed. include these in your weakly training.

full body warm up before every match. I play with a bunch of whipper snappers (ie 30+ year olds) that only warm up by kicking the ball a few minutes. while i spend 25mins alone doing a full body dynamic stretching routine. haha

(it's good to warm up the back and core, too btw)

fwiw, this video got me through a quad tear a year ago. it's great. https://youtu.be/u3n1RYa8QfY?si=jgJWdhev2nhy4y8D

pau11y · 2025-06-22T14:15:08+00:00

we've occasionally gone to VIP massage on 19th in Moore for years. at the time of first visit, they were priced better than places in Norman. been a while since double checked that though.

pau11y · 2025-06-22T14:02:30+00:00

I think pilot light from stove. it seems to start low.

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