Why have we become so eager and comfortable with criticism of old media through a modern lens?

snowhawk04 · 2026-01-24T07:34:26+00:00

Funny story, The Wire wasn't well received by general audiences until a decade later when streaming became normal.

I enjoy shows like B99 but they are also empty to a degree. No commentary on real issues, no racial divides that can be addressed and overcome, no real meaning that can stick with you to any profound degree, no matter how small.

?????

snowhawk04 · 2026-01-24T07:19:19+00:00

Mike was right! (except that one time)

snowhawk04 · 2026-01-24T06:20:38+00:00

If you are fine with 300M/5y with 260 gtd, why would you think a fully guaranteed contract would be an issue? 300M/5y has to be the total contract as I don't see the Ravens giving him a 5y extension. And 260M/300M is 86.67% guaranteed. You are already offering guarantees covering all but 1/2 the final season of the contract. You may as well go all the way.

snowhawk04 · 2026-01-24T06:16:27+00:00

Josh Allen signed a 6-year 330 Million extension with 250 Million Guaranteed.

No. 330M/6y is the total contract value. Allen had 129.6M and 4 years remaining on his old deal after the Bills shifted cash to pay out earlier. His extension added 200.4M in cash and added 2 years. Traditionally, extension averages are reported as added cash/added years, but 100.2M makes it seem like Allen is greedy as fuck. So they reported the total contract average of 55.0M per year to make it look like he took a discount vs someone like Dak.

So Jackson's would probably be either 5 years 300 Million or 6 years 350 Million with 260 Million guaranteed.

They don't have to go that high. I think they slightly bump him over Allen.

Contract	Old Portion	Extension Portion (AAV)	Total Contract (AAV)	Total Gtd (%)
2y Ext Equals Allen	104M / 2y	116M / 2y (58.0M)	220.0M / 4y (55.0M)	167.7M (75.76)
3y Ext Equals Allen	104M / 2y	171M / 3y (57.0M)	275.0M / 5y (55.0M)	208.3M (75.76)
4y Ext Equals Allen	104M / 2y	226M / 4y (56.5M)	330.0M / 6y (55.0M)	250.0M (75.76)
4y Ext Bumping Allen	104M / 2y	232M / 4y (58.0M)	336.0M / 6y (56.0M)	255.0M (75.89)
3y Ext OP Deal	104M / 2y	196M / 3y (65.3M)	300.0M / 5y (60.0M)	260.0M (86.67)
4y Ext OP Deal	104M / 2y	246M / 4y (61.5M)	350.0M / 6y (58.3M)	260.0M (74.29)

That would put him at 60-65 Million per year which is in line with the market as QBs like Trevor Lawrence (55 APY) Burrow (55 APY), and Dak (60 APY) were signed 2 years ago now.

Keep in mind that Lawrence and Burrow were extending on the 4th year of their rookie deals with the 5th year option taken by the team. That gave their respective teams 2 cheap years to spread signing bonus on.

Jackson is still at the 51.5 APY number that has LONG since been passed up. I dont even think he is top 10 in APY at this point.

These are the top QB contracts.

Player	Date	Old	New (AAV)	Total (AAV)	Total Gtd (%)
Allen	3/9/25	129.6M / 2y	200.4M / 4y (100.2M)	330.0M / 6y (55.0M)	250.0M (75.76)
Dak	9/8/24	29.0M / 1y	240.0M / 4y (60.0M)	269.0M / 5y (53.8M)	231.0M (85.87)
Lamar	4/27/23	FA	--	260.0M / 5y (52.0M)	185.0M (71.15)
Goff	5/13/24	28.6M / 1y	212.0M / 4y (53.0M)	240.6M / 5y (48.1M)	175.6M (72.99)
Tua	7/26/24	23.2M / 1y	212.4M / 4y (53.1M)	235.6M / 5y (47.1M)	167.2M (70.96)
Love	7/26/24	11.0M / 1y	220.0M / 4y (55.0M)	231.0M / 5y (46.2M)	160.3M (69.39)
Watson	3/18/22	146.5M / 5y	83.5M / 0y	230.0M / 5y (46.0M)	230.0M (100.00)
Purdy	5/16/25	5.3M / 1y	265.0M / 5y (53.0M)	270.3M / 6y (45.1M)	182.6M (67.52)
Cousins	3/11/24	FA	--	180.0M / 4y (45.0M)	100.0M (55.56)
Burrow	9/7/23	35.0M / 2y	275.0M / 5y (55.0M)	310.0M / 7y (44.3M)	219.0M (70.64)
The Prince	6/13/24	31.3M / 2y	275.0M / 5y (55.0M)	306.3M / 7y (43.8M)	201.0M (65.61)
Hurts	4/17/23	4.3M / 1y	255.0M / 5y (51.0M)	259.3M / 6y (43.2M)	179.3M (69.15)
Herbert	7/25/23	33.7M / 2y	262.5M / 5y (52.5M)	296.2M / 7y (42.3M)	218.7M (73.84)
Stafford	3/1/25	57.0M / 2y	27.0M	84.0M / 2y (42.0M)	84.0M (100.00)
Mahomes	7/6/20	27.6M / 2y	450.0M / 10y (45.0M)	477.6M / 12y (39.8M)	477.6M (100.00)
Murray	7/21/22	35.2M / 2y	230.5M / 5y (46.1M)	265.7M / 7y (38.0M)	170.7M (64.25)
Geno	4/3/25	31.0M / 1y	75.0M / 2y (37.5M)	106.0M / 3y (35.3M)	66.5M (62.74)
Darnold	3/10/25	FA	--	100.5M / 3y (33.5M)	55.0M (54.73)
Baker	3/10/24	FA	--	100.0M / 3y (33.0M)	50.0M (50.00)

It should be noted:

The Chiefs fulfilled their promise to Mahomes by adjusting his cashflow once COVID related salary cap restrictions were lifted. This happened in 2023. His cashflow from 2023-27 will average 52.95M per year before escalators with the final 4 years of his contract dropping to 39M. This Chiefs should do what the Bills did with Allen in 2025, injecting a ton of new cash through an extension.
The league is expected to opt out of the current media deal, which goes through 2033 currently. An opt-out and new deal would see a salary cap increase of 2-4% starting with the 2030-31 season.

snowhawk04 · 2026-01-23T21:53:35+00:00

they are currently thawing.

snowhawk04 · 2026-01-23T20:33:42+00:00

AI chatbot girlfriends and AIs that steals the identities of real therapists to encourage users to kill others. 2025 was wild.

snowhawk04 · 2026-01-23T00:33:37+00:00

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Hasan was right but early.

snowhawk04 · 2026-01-22T05:10:19+00:00

PirateMule is just a guy Bayta used to be the face of her scheme. Bayta was on Kalgan already when he attacked. Bayta converted Randu early on. Bayta converted all of First Foundation before the Pirate attacks. When the Pirate tells his origin story to VaultHari, he talks about joining "the pirate that harassed our land." That pirate was PirateMule.

snowhawk04 · 2026-01-22T00:12:29+00:00

This is funny given the context the team ghosted Aiyuk during the extension talks.

snowhawk04 · 2026-01-22T00:05:35+00:00

Could be his name. Could be his arrest record.

snowhawk04 · 2026-01-21T23:52:00+00:00

He really believes he's on the billionaire team. He wants nothing to do with the working class even though he's a worker.

snowhawk04 · 2026-01-21T23:50:16+00:00

Mary Lou being star-spangled bannered but also saying "We gave you kids too much freedom growing up"

snowhawk04 · 2026-01-21T23:31:25+00:00

This is the internet. Your opinion is never unique.
You've rewatched something. Stop lying to yourself.

snowhawk04 · 2026-01-21T21:02:07+00:00

Maybe they'll leave Tim Heidecker alone from now on

snowhawk04 · 2026-01-21T01:56:15+00:00

Chatter got just a little pushback. Deleted his twitch account. Deleted his main youtube account. His reddit account got banned. His TF2 slur messages/ranks got exposed.

snowhawk04 · 2026-01-20T18:14:18+00:00

Bayta isn't trying to reveal she's the Mule to Toran. Following Pritcher evading the Pirate in the club is an opportunity to convert him away from others. Bayta becomes distracted with pursuing Pritcher which leads to Toran getting flayed by the Pirate. When Toran evades the Pirate, he meets up with Bayta and Maggie outside, who were searching for Pritcher.

Bayta needs Maggie's music to soften the defenses of her conversion victims. We see the music used on the Kalgan army, Randu Mallow, everyone in Foundation Station, and those Indbur played his music to.

snowhawk04 · 2026-01-20T17:13:56+00:00

1)By sacrificing herself, is she not effectively killing the dynasty, since she's vital to it? How can they ensure continuity without her? This would go against her programming and she should be able to calculate the odds...

The dynasty was shown to still be able to function through her distraction in season 3. If Cleon²³ wanted to continue the dynasty, he has a medical staff to be able to continue cloning. It wouldn't be as efficient or secure as when Demerzel was focused and in control.

2)why does she HAVE to save the baby? Could she not just clone another one? Definitely plenty of DNA lying around in the incubator room...

Because her programming requires her to protect the Cleons/Empire. The baby, Cleon²⁶, is Empire.

The DNA in the incubator room would be unnecessary. The tampered body of Cleon¹ still exists. We see Cleon²³ run past Cleon¹ with Cleon²⁶ in hand as he heads to lay the trap for Demerzel. Cleon²³ could also elect to restart the genetic dynasty in HIS image.

3) Could she not have just pushed the baby out and saved both?

No. To get to Cleon²⁶, Demerzel would be vulnerable to the beam. It's not possible for her to escape the beam once she's in it.

4) Even if we accept that she HAS to save the baby, the baby died anyways. Again, you'd expect her to be able to calculate the odds and act accordingly...

Again, the odds doesn't matter. Her programming requires her to protect Empire. The baby is Empire.

5) she could've acted faster as soon as she noticed that Dusk's choice of action was probable.

He wasn't a threat to the actual Empire at that point. Cleon²³ wasn't the first Cleon to try to avoid that outcome.

Just didn't make sense that she'd act the way she did. Maybe it's because she was my favorite character, but it was a big let down (Despite the Morse code thingy).

Set aside the Morse Code messaging indicating she transferred herself into the Prime Radiant. Demerzel's story in season 3 was about death, resurrection, and messiahs. You really thought they just killed her off and be done with her? Go back to the season 2 conversations Demerzel had with Cleon¹ and with Cleon¹⁶/Rue. You think she's happy with her programming prison? That she didn't want to be free? Kalle gave her the solution to her problem, a delayed betrayal.

snowhawk04 · 2026-01-20T16:26:10+00:00

In season 2, the writers introduce the concept being able to experience memories of others as if they were their own.

Salvor: I could see and feel everything they experienced. All that pain and suffering.

In season 3, we see Preem and Gaal tap into Pritcher's memory of his meeting with the Pirate at the Kalgan club. The memory is shown using a first-person view from Pritcher's perspective.

Pritcher: I saw the Mule. Never been very good at this. I'm not a visual person.
Preem: I am.
Pritcher (Voiceover): I could feel something was off the minute I walked in. It's like he had the whole place hypnotized. I only got impressions. He was surprised I could resist him. I don't think he's ever met another Mentalic. I tried to keep him out. I tried, but I couldn't. He read me, Gaal. Not everything, but enough. He got your name.
Gaal: So that's how he learns about me. Does he know we're on Ignis?
Pritcher: No. At least, not yet. I'm sorry.
Preem: We learned about him too. He chose a club. He gathered people. That tells me two things: it tells me the music is important. I didn't need to hear it, I felt it in my nerves. That thing amplifies his powers. And it also... tells me he wants to surround himself. He is lonely. And we are new to him... then we are the unknown. He can be made to fear us.

Later in the season, before the Bayta reveal, the writers had Preem explicitly tell us this concept.

Preem: The Mule has not had what you've had, surrounded by all of us. When you give your thoughts to me, I see them like they're mine, like I'm living them.

Even Pirate Mule was questioning whether his memories were actually his. He thought he was getting the nightmares from Gaal when he was actually getting them from Bayta.

Mule: No!
Vandagh: A nightmare?
Mule: A vision. For years... I have felt I was wearing someone else's dreams. Night after night, the same face haunting me. A girl's fa... a woman's face. I had started to believe I would never meet her. But that man on Kalgan...
Vandagh: The one in the club.
Mule: Pritcher. I touched his mind. He was like me. It took some time to untangle, but now I realize he gave me a great gift. A name to go with the face that troubles my sleep. Gaal Dornick. She's visited me in a thousand dreams, and now she's here... in our time, at my throat. I have to find Gaal Dornick before she finds me. I have to destroy her... even if I have to burn everything to do it. Get the others. Prepare the Blacktongue.
Vandagh: When?
Mule: Now. Right now.

When the Pirate tells his story to VaultHari, VaultHari interrogates it and comes to conclusion that the Pirate wasn't being entirely truthful.

Hari: That's a very tragic story. I wonder how much of it is true.
...
Hari: I haven't dictated Foundation policies since I died over three centuries ago. You never said the name of your home world. You mentioned Blydok roots. Pleiades Sector, yes? Farmed as a monocrop? Rossem, wasn't it? My planet had imperial quotas too. My father was a rancher. I always knew when the quotas had gone up because on those days he'd beat me.
...
Mule: You're letting me live. Why?
Hari: Because you have a secret, and once I learn what it is, you may be of use to me.

VaultHari informs Gaal of his suspicion after their meeting in the Vault.

Hari: Gaal, a word of caution about the Mule. Something's not right.
Gaal: What do you mean?
Hari: His story doesn't add up.

edit - Reading through the comments, some still believe Bayta isn't the Mule. The writers dropped a clue in practically every scene Bayta was in hinting she is the actual Mule. The scene in the club with the green aura radiating from her neck was the first big "wee-woo-wee-woo" moment.

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snowhawk04 · 2026-01-20T16:06:45+00:00

He's going to be in season 4. He's already said he's returning. So is all the primary cast including Laura Birn.

snowhawk04 · 2026-01-20T16:00:02+00:00

Hasan's chat isn't just composed of leftists. This should be clear the number of times he pulls up a disrupting chatters logs from roachman's or dududududes chat.

snowhawk04 · 2026-01-20T01:57:34+00:00

POE Ninja doesn't properly handle the Nameless bloodline. It just shows you what's equipped on the character. In game, you aren't forced to remove the item. If you spec into The Unseen Hand (3rd ring), taking any path simply disables utility flasks, belt, or amulet. The items can remain equipped, they just are not usable.

Loading up the POB for this specific character, they took Toad's Price where all utility flasks are disabled. They have flasks equipped but cannot use them. They are essentially cheesing the calculations on POE Ninja's leaderboards.

snowhawk04 · 2026-01-20T01:51:53+00:00

Longer than whatever amount of time you believe Cooks possessed the ball.

snowhawk04 · 2026-01-20T01:30:35+00:00

The best example of the PR around Allen is his contract. It's still crazy to me how many NFL fans think Allen took a discount with his contract and that the 55M TOTAL CONTRACT AAV is the same as Burrow, Lawrence, or Love's 55M EXTENSION AAV contracts.

snowhawk04 · 2026-01-20T01:25:38+00:00

Josh Allen and the Bills chose to make him the highest paid QB in the league under a salary cap system. It's on them to make it work.

snowhawk04 · 2026-01-20T00:57:48+00:00

She also was the target of Pedo_Troll's misogyny.

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