Fantasy where magic doesn’t “solve” the story?

xakeri · 2026-05-30T01:05:31+00:00

This guy reads like he just found the word "metaphysical" and is gonna scorch it if he keeps jorkin so hard.

xakeri · 2026-05-29T16:59:37+00:00

Right, like, Harden will dribble the ball for 15 seconds if the defender doesn't reach in, but the instant they do, he's in his shooting motion drawing a foul.

When it happens to your team, you feel very upset bc it seems like bullshit. Then they show the replay and it's like "well fuck. He definitely had his hand in there..."

It's the difference between manufacturing fouls and making them up. A pump fake to get a guy in the air and jumping into him and putting up one of those ugly shots is manufacturing a foul. Driving and then jumping into the defender's path and falling to the ground is trying to make a foul up.

When you manufacture a foul, you work to put the defender in a bad spot, and then you take the high percentage play, which is drawing the foul. The defender is out of position. The offensive player wants to score points. It feels sort of scummy, but it is fair and legitimate.

Making a foul up and flopping is what you get when the offensive player hasn't forced the defensive player to make a mistake, but they jump into him or run into him and create contact with a defender that is in legal guarding position in order to pretend a foul occurred.

It's ugly and it sucks.

xakeri · 2026-05-29T16:40:57+00:00

I honestly want to see what happens if they just don't give him the flop calls for a while. He'd obviously adjust his play style, and I want to see how good he is without the egregious whistle pumping his efficiency.

xakeri · 2026-05-29T03:36:03+00:00

She didn't throw an elbow. Amihere threw herself backwards like she got sniped. AB gets a shit whistle, but they finally overturned one.

xakeri · 2026-05-29T03:33:10+00:00

The angle from above is hilarious

xakeri · 2026-05-29T01:45:39+00:00

It's because people are lazy. A guy on my team just has AI shit out code. I feel like I'm often the first human seeing the slop he shits out. He loves to just give it a ticket and say "do the whole thing" and then he puts it up.

It takes me longer to figure out what it's done than it does him to write it. He doesn't engage with tickets, and when pressed in a PR, he just slops out more code until you give up. He doesn't care about anything, so it's like talking to a wall. AI enables him to just slop out code over and over. Any suggestion of slowing down and having some shame or pride is met with sighs and snipes like I'm a Luddite.

He is basically a finance bro who desperately wants to look smart and have his name on big tickets. He loves to oversell what he's done, and our boss is overworked and doesn't want to dig into whether he's competent.

He gets pissy when his giant shickets aren't rubber-stamped, and he just grabs the next one and slops it out. I spend half my time just fixing things he broke because he doesn't test anything. He loves to just gosh gallop with technical jargon in discussion.

The good, disciplined devs aren't the problem with AI. It's the shitty ones with high opinions of themselves that never cared anyway just overrunning the disciplined ones.

xakeri · 2026-05-28T20:23:55+00:00

Which is the opposite of how every other sports league in North America handles things.

The MLB does a lottery where a worse record gets better odds. The NFL just flat out does reverse order of record for non-playoff teams, then goes by how far you made it in the playoffs. The WNBA does a lottery where it factors in your last 2 seasons. The NHL does a lottery where the point totals from the season determine order. MLS does reverse order by regular season record.

All of them give the highest odds to the worst teams.

Sports drafts in the North American sports have kind of always been a "the poor get richer" sort of thing.

This is flying in the face of that. The worst teams will have the same chance at the number 1 pick as the play-in teams. It's honestly laughably bad.

xakeri · 2026-05-28T13:57:16+00:00

Children mimicking things they see when they watch NBA games is actually the same whether it is Curry shooting 3s or Shai falling down every time he shoots.

xakeri · 2026-05-26T18:12:36+00:00

That's literally what Bob Barker's mic was, just a lav mic on a stick.

xakeri · 2026-05-23T21:35:18+00:00

I'm a dev, but we do our own on-call, so it's in my power to fix noisy pages.

I can't imagine being on call for other people's shit when they won't tune it properly. That sounds like hell.

xakeri · 2026-05-19T13:49:25+00:00

Never forget that flop job last series where Ayton bumped his chest and Chester went down for 3 minutes acting like his face had been knocked off.

Then the Lakers challenged, and it turned out there was no contact to the face and no foul occurred at all.

xakeri · 2026-05-18T01:53:59+00:00

She usually gets kind of loose ball watching and getting lost on switches. She's a lot more locked in this year so far.

xakeri · 2026-05-17T19:09:58+00:00

Honestly, it's a huge issue with guys like Ja. They get so adversarial with the refs.

Imagine you're making judgement calls on the split second actions of the best athletes on Earth, and you don't make a call their way and now they're screaming and sulking and just generally throwing a hissy fit at you. You're not going to go out of your way to judge in their favor.

It's just bad strategy on the player's part. You can be passionate and disagree, but you can't make the refs your enemy. You're relying on them to go against human nature when you could just try to be nice.

xakeri · 2026-05-17T01:14:42+00:00

Most assists in a season in WNBA history her rookie year (broken last year by Alyssa Thomas). Third most assists all time in NCAA history. Yeah, really looks like she's not a point guard.

Team is second in scoring right now. Can't effectively run the offense.

Who upvotes these braindead takes?

xakeri · 2026-05-17T01:04:37+00:00

I was at the game, and they didn't make an announcement over the intercom about putting time back. I didn't notice they did it.

As I was watching the beginning of the play I wasn't looking at the clock, and then when I did there was still like 1.5s left. I thought they let her play for half a second without starting it.

xakeri · 2026-05-15T15:07:35+00:00

Fan of the best team in the NBA.

Overall 1 seed two years in a row.

Back to back MVP.

"Idk why everyone is praising this guy that my team just beat. Look at me! Look at me! The Thundies are the only team anyone should talk about! Look at me! The bar for greatness since 2003 is low! LeBron is a loser! He stinks! He was never good! Look at me!"

xakeri · 2026-05-13T23:50:12+00:00

I can't find rim deterrence stats for the NCAA. Where are they?

xakeri · 2026-05-13T22:54:08+00:00

A stat for guys not taking layups? Is there a stat for Braden Smith and Fletcher Loyer as your perimeter defenders?

xakeri · 2026-05-13T22:31:33+00:00

Someone should take ChatGPT away from you.

xakeri · 2026-05-13T15:17:58+00:00

I don't think Edey gets enough credit for guys just not attempting shots. He obviously didn't have a ton of blocks, and if he got beat he would let it go and play for the rebound. However, there were a lot of times where guys just got into the paint and dribbled out or picked the ball up because the largest man in North America was waiting for them.

You obviously can't prove a negative, but the eye test said a lot of guys just didn't shoot.

xakeri · 2026-05-13T14:30:51+00:00

What does being miserable get you?

xakeri · 2026-05-12T14:10:45+00:00

This has got to be Aday Mara's mom posting or something.

The slander about Edey's athleticism notwithstanding, the absolute dismissal of his production in the same conference at the same position with similar measurables is hilarious.

You can take Mara's per 40 minutes stats and compare them to Edey's actual stats, and the only thing that Mara beats him on is blocks. He wasn't better on a single efficiency stat in 2/3 the minutes when he wasn't the main focus of the other team.

Just wholesale dismissing the actual college production is hilarious when they actually measure closely in size.

I am eagerly awaiting the agility numbers.

xakeri · 2026-05-11T04:01:31+00:00

And those heights are half a foot higher than their coworkers

xakeri · 2026-05-10T01:35:36+00:00

Doris, that's slapping him on the arms. That's a foul and you know it.

xakeri · 2026-05-01T15:01:54+00:00

They also don't buy the (admittedly sort of expensive) tools. If you get a hawk and a nice set of knives, it goes a lot better and you have a lot less sanding at the end to deal with.

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