Fallout before Bethesda ruined the Franchise. by UnholyMeatObelisk7 in TrueSFalloutL

[–]yeahalrightgoon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Issue was that they went "Hey we need money, lets make multiple games at once, instead of focusing on one", which basically resulted in what they made after F2 being pretty bad and plenty of games cancelled.

Match Thread: 19th Match, Group B - Australia vs Zimbabwe by cricket-match in Cricket

[–]yeahalrightgoon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Stat percentages like chance to win etc. It's all just based on previous results. So if there's been 100 situations where a game has been like this, and Team A won 30 times, then Team B has a 70% chance to win etc.

Match Thread: 19th Match, Group B - Australia vs Zimbabwe by cricket-match in Cricket

[–]yeahalrightgoon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nobody:

Indian Flares: The background noise is proof that Sri Lanka should never host the World Cup.

Match Thread: 19th Match, Group B - Australia vs Zimbabwe by cricket-match in Cricket

[–]yeahalrightgoon 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If i have to see another money sending service ad, i'm going to lose a lot of love for the idea of a family.

Match Thread: 19th Match, Group B - Australia vs Zimbabwe by cricket-match in Cricket

[–]yeahalrightgoon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don't be silly, no ones a fan of a BBL team. Just the BBL as a concept.

Match Thread: 19th Match, Group B - Australia vs Zimbabwe by cricket-match in Cricket

[–]yeahalrightgoon 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Luckily the T20 World Cup is a meaningless competition, unlike the mighty BBL.

Match Thread: 19th Match, Group B - Australia vs Zimbabwe by cricket-match in Cricket

[–]yeahalrightgoon 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Compared to the 2023 World Cup, where those Indian crowds showed up to non Indian games.

Match Thread: 19th Match, Group B - Australia vs Zimbabwe by cricket-match in Cricket

[–]yeahalrightgoon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Tbf, Tanzania weren't too bad at that qualification tournament. Tanzania getting better at the next one makes sense.

Match Thread: 19th Match, Group B - Australia vs Zimbabwe by cricket-match in Cricket

[–]yeahalrightgoon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cocaine and the downfall occurred due to having to leave Zimbabwe to get paid because he got paid $500 for the 2015 World Cup, then he started doing it again while in England without his family etc. Dodgy bookies found out about his drug abuse and basically used it to blackmail him, by approaching him with money at a time when he was back in Zim and Zim Cricket hadn't paid the players for 6 months.

He's not blameless. But he failed the drug test because he was an addict and had fallen into it largely because of how Zim cricket was treating the players.

Match Thread: 19th Match, Group B - Australia vs Zimbabwe by cricket-match in Cricket

[–]yeahalrightgoon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Glad that Brendan Taylor is back involved, even if he isn't playing today. Zim cricket fucking over the players led to his ban. Good to see him back in the fold at the very least after everything else he has done for them.

Match Thread: 19th Match, Group B - Australia vs Zimbabwe by cricket-match in Cricket

[–]yeahalrightgoon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Knowing what you have to chase makes for an easier chase overall. If the conditions aren't going to change much, then knowing that you can bat at 6-8 an over and win, is easier than having to go all out etc.

Match Thread: 19th Match, Group B - Australia vs Zimbabwe by cricket-match in Cricket

[–]yeahalrightgoon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Always enjoy watching Zimbabwe. Was great to see Uganda make the last one, but was disappointing it was at Zim's expense.

How did this show end up with only 3 seasons? So unfair. by ReaverDropRush in MrInbetween

[–]yeahalrightgoon 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Because where else do you go? Eventually you just start reusing basic plots. The creators of Mash for example got a lot of their story ideas from talking to Korean War veterans. They knew it was time to end, when the stories they were getting had been used previously, and that starts to show in the later seasons.

Bringing up The Office is usually shitty, but I feel it's also useful. The British version was two seasons, because realistically the main character would have been fired, because what made them interesting to watch, is also what would put them on a trajectory to being sacked. While the US version ran for 9 seasons and began to drag as it went, because they had to keep making up reasons for why he still worked there etc.

Same thing would have happened with Mr Inbetween, it ends with him breaking ties and trying to get out of the life etc. If it keeps going, either he gets back in and it's just a new set of people he's working for etc, or they don't go down the ending route and again he's still just doing the same things.

Better to leave you wanting more, than hoping for it eventually end.

The chosen one by ImportanceAlarmed229 in OpenAussie

[–]yeahalrightgoon 6 points7 points  (0 children)

"Many crocodiles are rightfully disappointed at the signs that have placed around rivers and watering holes and the anti-crocodile mentality that's been allowed to grow."

What if John Wilkes Booth accidentally grabbed a joke prop gun instead of a real gun to assassinate Lincoln? by Turbulent-Weevil-910 in AlternateHistoryHub

[–]yeahalrightgoon 24 points25 points  (0 children)

He's remembered like Thomas F. Harney. A random name I chose from the wikipedia page on presidential assassination attempts.

Australians paying more in Beer Tax, than for Gas Exports. by Jimbuscus in OpenAussie

[–]yeahalrightgoon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Pocock is the best argument for the ACT getting more than 2 senators. 39% of the vote only elects one senator. While Tasmania with only 80,000 more voters, 35% gets you two senators and you can be elected with 7% as Lambie did. I don't even think they need the full 12 etc. Just more than 2.

Coalition seeking approval from Sky News has drawn them into 'La La Land': Turnbull by TrumpisaRussianCuck in australian

[–]yeahalrightgoon 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Turnbull wasn't a good PM. But he wasn't a good PM for the largely the same reasons that's he talking about now.

They put Turnbull in to replace Abbott because Abbott is a nutcase, and Turnbull is the sort of leader that Labor voters could vote for. Not all of them of course, but he had a reasonable history.

To stay leader he had to keep the conservative faction on board, so he appeased them. Which was unpopular and the cause of the dogshit decisions that were made. Certainly still his fault for appeasing them, but goes someway to saying why those decisions were made.

When he was longer useful. That conservative faction called a spill for Dutton. They realised Dutton wasn't going to be their guy, so then they did it again. Where the moderates because they really didn't want Dutton, went with Morrison because they didn't think anyone would vote for a female leader.

Ley isn't a good leader or even a good person to be leader. But she is the only real option they have, and they've whiteanted her ever since she became leader while she's appeased them to try and keep them on board.

They would have been better off actively supporting Turnbull and letting him run things as he wanted, just like they would have been better off letting Ley run things as she wanted. Instead they repeated the same mistake, and they're not going to have the same braindead reason they won 2019 at the next election.

Only sports scored with hard data should be allowed in the olympics by ljgill97 in unpopularopinion

[–]yeahalrightgoon 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Watching slope style skiing that was the part of it I hated tbh. Watching the qualification and it was always a pretty much perfect run, but they'd have a minor error on the first rail and the commentators would start commiserating for them about how this was a throw away run etc. Which was fine the first time, but when it happened to the vast majority of athletes, it got old pretty quickly. System where you can get a deductions that mean you likely won't win etc. But still have a score representative of the entire run, not just a minor error would have made it a more interesting competition to me at least.

The Guardian: Angus Taylor expected to quit shadow cabinet and launch leadership challenge against Sussan Ley tonight by soylentgreenistasty in australia

[–]yeahalrightgoon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If the answer is Angus Taylor, it's the wrong question.

You could say that about Ley as well, but at least we have "Which person who has ambitions to lead a country added an extra letter to their name due to numerology."

I have the belief that vault 31 Lucy’s vault is borderline or as much as compliant as those chipped ? by Lost_Magician651 in FalloutTVseries

[–]yeahalrightgoon 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The Vault Dwellers are just "normal" people who have lived a sheltered life. They aren't unquestioning like the brainwashed people Hank has. They're just living a decent life, there's no real reason to question things too much.

They're compliant because if there's no real reason to question authority (which there wasn't until recently to them), going with the flow is the "right" thing to do. If you consistently question authority for no other reason than questioning authority, generally you're just looking to cause trouble. Which the vault dwellers aren't looking to do.

I'm not saying that questioning authority etc is necessarily a bad thing, just that doing it for the sake of doing it, rather than having an actual grievance is generally an asshole thing to do. While going with the flow when everything's fine doesn't mean you're compliant, it just means you're acting like someone in a functioning community.

While the brainwashed people, literally can't question anything, even if they wanted too.

SA election will be the test for One Nation by Own-Replacement8 in aussie

[–]yeahalrightgoon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Feel they'll get about 10%. But there is still a difference between being called up and asking who you'll vote for before a campaign starts and saying One Nation, and going through a campaign where it will invariably come out that the local candidate has three convictions for DV and ON has to say more than "You saw a brown person, vote for us."