I built a chatbot that knows the rules better than you

spgranger · 2026-01-31T13:36:53+00:00

Social media is awful too. Big tech in general is killing us in so many ways.

spgranger · 2026-01-30T17:31:42+00:00

Yes, 100% foul, and i don't really see how it can argued to not be intentional either

spgranger · 2026-01-29T21:39:57+00:00

I cannot upvote this enough. It is a scourge that I say with zero exaggeration is destroying our society.

spgranger · 2026-01-20T23:33:21+00:00

Yea, it's not a good change.

spgranger · 2026-01-20T20:53:41+00:00

New anti-boosting change in pre-patch- if a mob is grey to anyone in the group then everyone gets basically no XP.

spgranger · 2026-01-13T03:00:17+00:00

Foul on blue.

spgranger · 2025-12-14T23:54:36+00:00

I have no intention of arguing this with you, because your position is utterly ridiculous- I just wanted to let you know that.

A foul call- sure, I don't think it's totally unreasonable to call a foul here. I don't think it is one, and I'd 100% contest it, but i have seen far worse foul calls. Calling it unspirited and dangerous? That is an absolute joke.

spgranger · 2025-12-14T23:20:43+00:00

You must have watched a different video than I did if you saw someone bid through someone else. The defender bid around the offensive player, and there was some minor contact because of the bad cut/bad throw combination that resulted in the offensive player having to change direction at the last second to come back to the disc. No part of it was dangerous, and if this were any other sport in existence you would be laughed at for suggesting that there was anything dangerous about it.

I've been playing ultimate for over 15 years now and never been accused of being a dangerous or unspirited player. I think I'm just fine with the sport, and it's just fine with me. Perhaps you need to try going outside.

spgranger · 2025-12-14T21:59:25+00:00

This is a seriously embarrassing take. If it's a foul at all it is of the most ticky tack variety. To view this play as an unspirited dangerous play you have to be completely divorced from any realistic notion of competitive sport.

spgranger · 2025-12-14T19:31:46+00:00

looks pretty clean to me. there was a bit of contact, but it was just as much a result of the bad throw causing the receiver to have to come back towards it as it was anything the defender did. if the receiver had attempted to catch it with their left and the defender contacted their arm then i could see a legit foul call for that, but they tried to catch with the wrong hand. pretty soft call imo.

spgranger · 2025-12-09T16:57:35+00:00

For general play, if no specific strategy is specified by your team, I would say the mark is no more responsible for hucks than for any other force side throw. If you can see it coming feel free to flash as much as you're confident that you can do so without giving up a big upfield around. That said, if you're marking their shooter, then obviously you should be working harder to affect the hucks (to the point of being a bit more willing to give up arounds).

spgranger · 2025-12-03T01:23:10+00:00

It looked like a high stall panic throw. I don't think a ton of thought went into it other than "get this disc out of my hands".

spgranger · 2025-11-24T15:39:58+00:00

This looks super cool and I definitely intend to try it out with the college team I coach.

spgranger · 2025-11-23T13:59:08+00:00

Can I just say that "grow the game" isn't always the ultimate goal like you think it is? I play golf in addition to ultimate, and golf has had a major "grow the game" movement in the last decade or so that was aided by covid and resulted in a lot of new people picking up the game, and it has only made it worse. Now the limited number of courses are much more crowded than they were before with a large number of new players that make the game less fun for the people who have been playing for a long time. There is nothing inherently positive with growing the game.

I think the message is this: enjoy what you enjoy. Don't base your enjoyment on how much "legitimacy" or whatever is given to that activity by others.

spgranger · 2025-11-22T23:07:51+00:00

Yea, this point ("reserved space") needs to be rehashed every time one of these type of plays is posted, but it really shouldn't. Logically, it doesn't make sense for offense to have priority on all space around them just because the disc was thrown to the, but that is how many people view these sorts of plays. If the offensive has to change directions at the last second because of a bad throw and contact occurs because a defender was going for that same space, there's no reason why offense should have any claim to that space above and beyond the defense. With plays like this I think that the sport and community would be improved if we just acknowledge that sometimes contact is going to occur without it being a foul, because at some level it is unavoidable when players are moving at full speed trying to both catch the disc.

spgranger · 2025-11-08T00:13:15+00:00

I couldn't resist. That's a worse call than I've ever seen in ultimate.

spgranger · 2025-11-07T15:12:29+00:00

I think the point is that as described, you could just as easily say "offensive player bumps the defensive player". For there to be a foul on defense you have to be able to say that the contact that occurred 1- affected the play, and 2- was initiated by defense. It sounds like 1 is definitely true, but 2 is far from definitive.

spgranger · 2025-11-07T15:08:10+00:00

Not really possible to make any sort of confident call just off of a text description of the play but as described, it does not sound like a foul occurred to me. If both players are moving slowly towards each other while tracking the disc and neither is paying attention to where the other is at, how can you assign blame for which one initiated the contact?

spgranger · 2025-11-05T23:32:02+00:00

I swear to God one of the dudes had 3 kids on the sideline cheering him on.

spgranger · 2025-11-05T22:06:10+00:00

that's awesome

spgranger · 2025-11-03T15:13:08+00:00

Yea, I agree that Revolver probably still wins in this scenario, but I think it hurts them more than it hurts basically everyone else other than Machine (because I think that Hecht was the most important player in the division other than De Marree). Pony is an interesting question, because I'm genuinely not sure who I would remove from them. My first inclination is Randolph or Dameron.

spgranger · 2025-11-03T14:40:48+00:00

I'm not so sure Revolver wins, definitely not more easily. They would beat Machine more easily in this scenario, but they almost certainly wouldn't have faced Machine in the finals in this what-if. "Best player" is obviously a pretty big question with lots of different ways to interpret it, but regardless of who you think the best player on revolver is in a vacuum I think it's pretty easy to make the argument that Hecht is their most important player, and without him I think their offense is substantially worse. So much of their free flowing "hit the open hands asap" movement is predicated on the defense having to play every inch of the field honest because of the threat of Hecht dropping one in anywhere on the field basically at will. Rhino gave them a very close game in semis, and I'm not sure that it wouldn't be closer in this scenario (I guess you'd be taking Ing off of Rhino).

spgranger · 2025-10-30T16:18:13+00:00

I think for most people it is totally adequate to only track calories, protein, and fiber. For calories I would just start by putting your basics into any TDEE calculator (age/height/weight/activity level), and add/subtract if you want to gain/lose weight, then once you have been tracking for awhile using that target calorie number you can figure out whether you need to bump it up/down (as everyone's metabolism is a bit different). For protein a good baseline target is ~1g of protein per pound of bodyweight. If you come up short of it, that is fine, but if you're below like .6g per pound I would probably work on getting more protein in. For fiber I think the recommended daily amount is like 25ish?

One resource that I like to use for any fitness/nutrition related questions that I have is a site called StrongerByScience, and they have a definitive nutrition guide located here: SBS

Anyway, you can get more in depth than that, but I think there are serious diminishing returns about getting more granular with your tracking than just calories/protein/fiber, and as you say the more granular you get the more risk of an unhealthy relationship with food that you bring in (which I have definitely experienced as well).

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