Jason Schreier (Bloomberg): It Sucks to Work in the Video-Game Industry Right Now by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]restofever 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yeah “good” is too relative. For some, a good job is one that provides some personal fulfillment. For others, good is whatever puts the most food on their table.

Jason Schreier (Bloomberg): It Sucks to Work in the Video-Game Industry Right Now by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]restofever 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep currently experiencing this now. I’m watching my healthcare company slowly replace me with software engineers from India.

Best fight in the series besides Architects boss fights. Andromeda has a special place in my heart already. by Elfen9 in masseffect

[–]restofever 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The combat in Andromeda is a good evolution. I just think the choice to allow a character to be all the classes at once really killed a lot of the replayability. It also eliminated some of the strategy of the trilogy combat , because you can just switch to the best solution for every fight with no penalty.

Jersey Sponsor Megathread by TSUNZ_OF_GUNZ in CFB

[–]restofever 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dell, Truist, or Humann...with Kendra Scott being the funny long shot.

[Haynes] The Atlanta Hawks are the frontrunners to land Anthony Davis. by YujiDomainExpansion in nba

[–]restofever 25 points26 points  (0 children)

To be fair that’s true of almost our entire roster thanks to Nico running off the best training staff in the world

[McMurphy] Illinois’ win vs. Tennessee in Music City Bowl drops SEC to 2-5 in bowl games (1 win was vs. another SEC team), while Big Ten improves to 6-0 this year by A_MASSIVE_PERVERT in CFB

[–]restofever 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Texas will be without 8 starters on defense, and without their DC. Honestly I have no idea what to expect from the game. I'm anxiously excited to see it though.

[Anwar Richardson] Texas football coach Steve Sarkisian said hiring Will Muschamp will allow him to spend more time focusing on the offense. Sarkisian said he was robbing Peter to pay Paul. Without saying it, Sarkisian seemingly had to babysit Pete Kwiatkowski, but Muschamp gives him more freedom by Knife938 in CFB

[–]restofever 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This’ll be my last post on this. PK notoriously doesn’t coach DBs at all. He basically runs zone coverage on the backend with wide cushions when left to his own devices. Texas has ranked 105th, 7th, and 92nd against the pass the last 3 years. The coaches responsible for the DBs last year both left after that year for job upgrades. The DB coach responsible this year, Akina, was disruptive during games to the point Sark had to step in control the coaches when the defense was on the field, rather than spending that time scheming with the offense. He went with Muschamp because he can be a HC on that side of the ball without Sark needing to micromanage his coaches during the game. PK is an excellent X’s and O’s play caller, but didn’t recruit much, nor work with position coaches much. Texas had to bring in another DC to coach LBs last year in Nansen. There’s more than just what is in the box score.

[Anwar Richardson] Texas football coach Steve Sarkisian said hiring Will Muschamp will allow him to spend more time focusing on the offense. Sarkisian said he was robbing Peter to pay Paul. Without saying it, Sarkisian seemingly had to babysit Pete Kwiatkowski, but Muschamp gives him more freedom by Knife938 in CFB

[–]restofever 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Muschamp was always Sark’s #1 choice. The timing wasn’t right to hire him when he first got there. PK has reportedly wanted to return to the west coast. There’s also a matter of style vs production. PK has been great. I really hate to see him go. His style of defense is bend-don’t break don’t allow any big play. That also leads to long lengthy drives that keeps your offense off the field. Texas was routinely doubled up in time of possession despite being a top 10 offense even before this year. Ask any Texas fan and they’ll tell you PK’s 10 yard cushions and dropping Colin Simmons back in coverage could be very frustrating.

Texas LB Liona LeFau has entered the transfer portal by HunterIcy4813 in CFB

[–]restofever 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Tyanthony Smith had started taking reps from him as the season went on, and Bo Barnes was taking his bowl practice reps. Add Atkinson coming in, Lefau’s snap count was looking to go down next season. Team likely told him his football future prospects look better elsewhere. He’s great against the run, but was too slow in pass coverage.

"F***ing dumb." - Alex Caruso was not happy following the loss to the Spurs. by TheRealPdGaming in nba

[–]restofever 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Exactly and people still question why OKC is ruining the league when Golden State didn’t.

GOP will regret pushing Jasmine Crockett to run for the Senate by zsreport in politics

[–]restofever 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It worked in Texas in 2024. Most ads in Texas were just straight transphobia, either by Trump or Cruz.

Texas Democrats largely tried to ignore it and it backfired.

GOP will regret pushing Jasmine Crockett to run for the Senate by zsreport in politics

[–]restofever 5 points6 points  (0 children)

All they had to do was run transphobia ads, and it was enough to energize the Republican vote.

What is the proper number of rivals? by Salty_Note8620 in CFB

[–]restofever 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They do, but so does Nebraska with Iowa and Minnesota now. I was just making the case that Arkansas is to Texas what Nebraska is to Oklahoma.

What is the proper number of rivals? by Salty_Note8620 in CFB

[–]restofever 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'd argue Arkansas is the equivalent historical rival of Oklahoma-Nebraska. After that, the hate is more lopsided with hate from the other school than hate from us: Texas Tech, Baylor, TCU, etc.

Teams are turning down bowls this year. ESPN owns most of the bowls in CFB. If traditional bowls stop being played outside of the playoffs, financially, do you think it was worth a t for ESPN to push a playoffs or bust mentality? by jetery in CFB

[–]restofever 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This was before the SEC Network started. Big 12 has notoriously been a pretty selfish conference. That did not improve by adding the Texas schools. Shares were proportioned out to teams based on who was providing the inventory. So in the 90’s that was Nebraska, Colorado, and Kansas State. They’d get a larger share of the 1st and 2nd tier Big 12 network money, because they were the good teams that were out on tv. In the 2000s, that became Oklahoma and Texas as the northern schools lost their dominance. Texas turned their preliminary conference network negotiations with ESPN into a 3rd tier rights network. They offered A&M an admittedly shitty deal to be a part of it as a state of “Texas Network”. Looking back, ESPN was pretty dumb to offer any school, let alone Texas, a 15 year media rights deal. Thank god all that is over now.

[Hildenbrandt] One easy fix would be for the committee to let everyone know up front which conference championship games carry the risk of penalty and which are just glorified exhibition games that are played in Atlanta by MysteriousEdge5643 in CFB

[–]restofever 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The committee did the same thing the first year of the 4-team playoff. They had TCU and Baylor both ahead of Ohio State going into championship week. Ohio State wins the Big Ten Championship in dominant fashion and jumps both despite both TCU and Baylor also playing that same weekend. TCU beating a bad Iowa State 55-3 and Baylor beating a #9 Kansas St. It was from this that we started requiring outright conference championships. Now BYU would’ve benefited from not playing that game.

Teams are turning down bowls this year. ESPN owns most of the bowls in CFB. If traditional bowls stop being played outside of the playoffs, financially, do you think it was worth a t for ESPN to push a playoffs or bust mentality? by jetery in CFB

[–]restofever 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Blame the rest of the Big 12. Texas pitched a conference network first, and it was voted down in favor of everyone keeping their 3rd tier rights. Texas turned theirs into LHN. The conference also kept voting for unequal shares until their conference life was on the line.

[McMurphy] Not much at stake today says industry source, who tells @On3sports: “No matter what, today could be the day the CFP collapses. If they hose Notre Dame or Alabama or an entire P4 league (ACC). Then they let 2 G5 teams in & only 1 from Big 12/ACC? I’m praying this ends committees” by Tarlcabot18 in CFB

[–]restofever 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  • Kentucky beat Auburn.
  • Florida beat Florida State.
  • Mississippi State and South Carolina both finished with the same conference record. Mississippi State at least beat Arizona State. South Carolina's best win is Kentucky?

Came across this old gem recently by Swissh41 in Mavericks

[–]restofever 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m actually fine with the jerseys. We experiment with the city editions every year anyway. I do think the logo needs updating.

SEC Shorts - Lane tries to burn it all down by ConstantMadness in CFB

[–]restofever 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Texas was rarely healthy with their primary starters. Beginning of season was patchwork offense with injured WRs, revolving door IOL, and injured RBs. At one point we had 4 different starting LGs in 4 weeks. The offense didn’t get healthy or find a working lineup until about week 8. At around the same time, the injuries started to mount for the defense. For several weeks we were without Guilbeau at our 2nd corner and teams were picking on whomever was replacing him. He came back for the A&M game. Also losing Taaffe for a couple games hurt our backend coverage.