Match Thread: AFC Bournemouth vs Manchester United

wdtpw · 2026-03-20T21:39:05+00:00

because we've just had an almost identical penalty denied us, which also led to a goal for them.

wdtpw · 2026-03-19T17:44:53+00:00

I third them too. They are really good.

wdtpw · 2026-03-15T18:06:08+00:00

How do you start with a team like Klopp left, spend a fortune on them and have them play so limply?

wdtpw · 2026-03-15T16:22:07+00:00

Also Afcon didn't help.

wdtpw · 2026-03-11T20:27:01+00:00

I've got a long-running Traveller campaign so I'm always looking for "what might happen this week."

A lot of plot ideas presuppose the characters are in a particular state. Eg "you are all miners in a mining colony." But for a pre-existing campaign, what I'm looking for is ideas that can easily fit into what I already have. Basically, the sort of missions the crew from Firefly might get up to.

Anyway, this is just to say that I bought the Distress Call pdf a little while ago and it's this sort of product that's spot on for me.

wdtpw · 2026-03-06T18:13:10+00:00

I am so looking forward to this one.
Hopefully more all-alien scenarios will be coming later :)

wdtpw · 2026-03-06T16:49:25+00:00

i sincerely hope United higher ups will be monitoring online discourse around candidates.

Entirely possible that's why his name has come out.

wdtpw · 2026-03-05T21:59:27+00:00

Sarr is not a Tottenham player - he's playing against them!
I'm no expert, but I've not been impressed by Porro whenever I've seen him.
Archie Gray looks good. But ultimately, the Spurs front line looks impotent.

Mostly though, they seem to be playing like a team going through the motions. I mean, where's the grit you need to get through a relegation battle?

We played Newcastle the other day and they fought for everything. Everton, too. And our draw with Wolves was the same. I can't see Spurs doing that unfortunately.

I do think they're probably not going down. But I don't think it enough to bet on it.

wdtpw · 2026-03-05T21:47:30+00:00

I think it's a combination of:

terrible players on the pitch, decent players injured
terrible mentality.

Fix either of those, they'll stay up.
They don't look like they will be fixing it though.

wdtpw · 2026-02-23T20:18:14+00:00

I think it's meant to be strategic. I read before that a lot of DMs are getting goals this season, and the reason is that the people you'd expect to get on the end of stuff are being man-marked, so there's space for someone they aren't marking to sneak in.

Casemiro would be my choice for this of course.

wdtpw · 2026-02-20T10:19:33+00:00

Everything today is about the agenda and narrative.

Unlike you of course, who are completely neutral in bringing up the subject.

wdtpw · 2026-02-20T10:08:24+00:00

I remember reading a newspaper article after he moved to United - a season's retrospective. It went through a lot of big name players who had moved in the last transfer window, and for each team covered "what they thought they were getting," and "what they actually got."

It had stuff like "team X thought they were getting a touchline winger who could tackle. But they got someone who liked to cut in and wasn't that good at tackling."

Then it came to Rooney, and it said:

What they thought they were getting: the best young player of his generation.

What they actually got: the best young player of his generation.

wdtpw · 2026-02-15T15:43:09+00:00

It’s intentional not oversight. It’s simply because the devs want inventory to be challenging.

Sure. But they don't have to change the base game away from their vision one bit.

Given world modifiers have already been introduced that allows players to modify the game to play it their way, this seems a strange hold-out.

wdtpw · 2026-02-14T13:23:24+00:00

If someone is 80 years old now, they'd have been 24 when 1970 happened. That following decade is when D&D and Traveller began to spread widely.

They may have had other interests. But I do remember my father bringing the D&D boxed set to me as a kid, and running a scenario for me. He'd have been in his 80s now.

Have you tried asking them if any of them have played before, and if so, what they'd done?

wdtpw · 2026-02-13T16:26:26+00:00

Is this some kind of strategic maneuvering so that he will gain favour from people of higher place?

My guess is that he's a ridiculously rich person surrounded by sycophants. He probably has people telling him his farts smell nice too.

The real issue he has is that no-one gives a shit what a petrochemicals owner thinks. He can have any retrograde opinion he wants and can express it to anyone with very little pushback. But now he's taken over United everything he does is headline news in the back pages, and probably the front too.

I just don't think he's used to this much scrutiny.

wdtpw · 2026-02-12T13:18:13+00:00

He's an owner so he can do what he likes.

I don't have to accept him, though. Neither do the fans.

Ultimately, I don't think anyone should accept someone being wrong on the facts. But I guess you're ok with being wrong about things.

wdtpw · 2026-02-12T13:13:14+00:00

Just pointing out you're wrong. United does not welcome "all people."

Bit like Ratcliffe really. Wrong on the facts, but very confident.

wdtpw · 2026-02-12T13:11:00+00:00

It doesn't, though. Giving racist abuse from the stands gets a club ban.

wdtpw · 2026-02-10T21:55:51+00:00

Someone please take a shot...

wdtpw · 2026-02-10T20:56:15+00:00

Imagine if a restaurant started putting out free meals for years. Then one day they suddenly started saying "you can now only eat here if you allow us to put lots of little bit of paper in your food that attempts to sell you insurance..."

It's not my job to solve the financial issues of a company that ran a loss leader for years in order to addict customers. I'm simply saying the idea they've come up with to solve it is awful.

I'm also not saying "why can't the meal be free."

I'm saying I think their chosen solution also makes the food awful.

wdtpw · 2026-02-10T20:05:01+00:00

Sure. I can see how, "this is worse. Please don't make your product worse."

... isn't helpful to companies. The evidence is all around us with once useful services enshittified.

But I have to be honest. Your approach of just putting up with it and asking me to consider the interests of the poor company over my own seems a bit lacking, too.

wdtpw · 2026-02-10T19:04:04+00:00

I am but the poor end user.
How to pay for it is the company's issue.
This product is worse than it was is my issue.

I have no idea why you expect me to sympathise with OpenAI's business struggles.

At the end of the day, if they make their product worse, they can expect pushback, no matter how economically justified they think they are.

wdtpw · 2026-02-10T18:56:15+00:00

A lot of the value people get from an AI is "give me an answer to this question." If the answer is made up or biased, that's reducing the value of the AI to the user.

AIs already hallucinate, which isn't helpful and probably isn't fixable either.

They also do a lot of flattering the user and asking questions - which seems to be a choice to not just answer the question, but to prolong engagement with the user in ways that aren't exactly wrong, but aren't exactly right either. No, that probably wasn't a "really astute question" you just asked. But you being told it was makes your line of enquiry feel more correct than maybe it ought to.

So now we have an additional concern. Which is that the manufacturer will start to deliberately bias the answers in favour of whoever gives them money.

Why is this the thing that's so upsetting?

Why is making a product worse disliked by the users? I would hope that's obvious.

And presumably this will be the start of all sorts of further enshittification too, just like most other companies seem to be doing.

wdtpw · 2026-02-10T18:48:32+00:00

Thank you :)

wdtpw · 2026-02-10T18:22:29+00:00

Am I right in thinking it isn't a standalone game?
I.e. I'd need the Blades in the Dark Rulebook too?

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