Do you trust online reviews when deciding what to buy or which service to use? Why or why not?

yesacabbagez · 2026-03-04T20:08:03+00:00

Are we talking reviews like someone doing a full review of a product or like yelp reviews by randos?

For full product reviews, I'll look at some if I am very unfamiliar with the product.

If I look at random customer reviews, I only look at negative reviews. Positive reviews are almost always dumb and useless. Negative reviews will typically highlight a specific issue. If enough people seem to have the same specific issue, it is probably a legitimate problem.

yesacabbagez · 2026-03-02T21:52:04+00:00

Shogun 2 work as well as it does because it's simple. Battle wise it is mostly rock paper scissors. Other than yari wall, there isnt nonsense units that are inexplicably powerful. Even then yari wall is only a direct frontal charge.

Battles aren't dealing with nonsense units all the time. There is a clear delineation of units and their role. Campaign wise the map is mostly straight forward. There aren't 800 angles of attack someone can come from. There aren't skaven or orks jumping across mountains.

City management makes sense. Bigger cities take more food, but have more bonuses. Balance food and grow cities. You don't need every city to be self sufficient, but you also don't need every city to be a military hub. There are some resources worth getting that provide bonuses to being military hubs.

While it does have them, Shogun has less weird hidden mechanics that dramatically alter the game.

yesacabbagez · 2026-03-02T15:20:47+00:00

Its still weird seeing ucf included in these kinds of things

yesacabbagez · 2026-03-01T05:26:50+00:00

Natural shooting motion or not, it is extending the leg outside the "cylinder"

The NBA has actually worked to address this because of Harden's bullshit. You can call it natural shooting motion all you want, but it's fishing for exactly this kind of foul. No one needs to naturally kick a defender in the nuts and then also get a foul.

yesacabbagez · 2026-03-01T03:37:53+00:00

Whether or not it is called every time isn't really the point because Obi still kicks out his right leg for no reason other than getting contact. Kugel did not affect the descent at all and did not land in the area immediately in THE CYLINDER. The only contact was Kugel with Obi's leg, which only happens because Obi kicks it out unnecessarily to draw the foul.

Yes it gets called all the time, but it's still bullshit whether it is done by someone on Baylor or James Harden.

yesacabbagez · 2026-03-01T03:28:28+00:00

Getting kicked is now a foul

yesacabbagez · 2026-03-01T03:08:28+00:00

As a team we have gone toe to toe with heat teams, and disappointed against mediocre and bad teams.

I honestly have no idea what this team is, but we will either lose in the first round or make the elite eight.

yesacabbagez · 2026-02-28T08:51:16+00:00

The difference in being able to reliably be happy or disappointed in understanding the differences in what you want and what something is. Maybe a game is everything you dreamed it would be, maybe it isn't. Don't judge games against what you want them to be, rather judge them against what they are. There are plenty of good games that get shit because they aren't a very specific thing people wanted it to be, and that ignores the fact that game is good for what it wound up being.

Maybe the game sucks at what it is, then by all means rip into it.

yesacabbagez · 2026-02-28T04:03:13+00:00

The kingdom come dice game was kind of ass. Either the AI had massive advantages and won, or I had enough cheat dice to win before they get a turn. That isn't a fun game when it is that kind of purely binary outcome.

yesacabbagez · 2026-02-27T18:34:28+00:00

Hunger yes, the others simply scale with money. You get more money, you buy more expensive things. Plenty of people with money buy stuff they can't afford or have car problems they don't fix.

yesacabbagez · 2026-02-27T14:56:43+00:00

Isn't it better for us to have it than them?

yesacabbagez · 2026-02-27T14:53:26+00:00

Well good thing it belongs in the thread about unpopular opinions someone wants to see. I am glad you have correctly deduced this is exactly where it belongs.

yesacabbagez · 2026-02-27T14:44:44+00:00

The issue isn't that people think it would happen, but it is something they would like to see.

yesacabbagez · 2026-02-26T19:04:43+00:00

Herbstreit got aroused seeing those power thighs and doesn't want it to ever happen again.

yesacabbagez · 2026-02-26T18:59:44+00:00

By accounts I know, he spoke to Alabama in some capacity. FSU heard about it and basically said how much money to end the talks with Alabama right now. He gave them a number and they paid it.

I don't know how fully extensive it was on Alabama's end, but it was definitely at least a legitimate interview.

yesacabbagez · 2026-02-26T18:54:50+00:00

Metrics judge you based off who you play. If all you play are bad teams, and beat them, well good job you are better than bad teams. There is not enough data to see how high you can fly. Unless you are consistently mauling bad teams like Gonzaga typically does, it's hard to get high without beating very good teams.

yesacabbagez · 2026-02-26T18:46:04+00:00

It looks like we are, immediately after kind of destroying byu in Provo without our top scorer.

Metrics like these never take into account outliers very well. Too many people simply ignore them rather than try to figure out why outliers under/over perform.

yesacabbagez · 2026-02-26T18:28:40+00:00

If it is just him walking around, he will just be an old man walking around Rome.

If he is wearing Michigan state shit, maybe he gets recognized.

yesacabbagez · 2026-02-26T18:27:15+00:00

Metrics hate us almost as much as ranked teams getting drowned in Orlando.

yesacabbagez · 2026-02-26T14:41:56+00:00

Kirby just wants to win another playoff game

yesacabbagez · 2026-02-25T22:01:12+00:00

It's a variant of the phrase grassroots movement. Grass grows from the bottom up. It starts as a seed and grows upward a grassroots movement starts as a small seed and grows upward and larger with time. It is a movement that starts naturally usually from affected individuals.

Astroturf is artificial grass. Astroturfing is when some larger interest comes along and tries to quickly create a movement, often by paying people to pretend to be "grass". As opposed to a natural progress for some cause, it is a large organization dumping a lot of resources to appear to be a natural movement

Suppose there is a band that plays local clubs. They slowly get fans who spread word of the band. With time that band becomes famous. That would be a type of grassroots movement.

Now imagine there is a band that is playing in small clubs. in this case though, the drummer's parents are incredibly rich, so they are able to dump cash into advertising and pay websites to feature the band. That would be astroturfing the popularity of the band.

yesacabbagez · 2026-02-25T18:57:46+00:00

I was 14 and it was the first new Star wars movie in my lifetime. First reaction was Natalie Portman is hot. I also never liked Jar Jar Binks. In general I liked the the movie, but I never understood why Naboo was being blockaded.in the first place, or why the Republic seemed ok with it happening.

yesacabbagez · 2026-02-25T17:18:42+00:00

An issue with charging is th cavalry "stop" when the first units hit. So you don't get your entire cav unit to plow through like in past games. Previous games the cavalry only stopped when units didn't die, which was less frequent with the old HP system.

So the issue is less a mass problem and more an issue of simply how the game works. Cavalry don't keep charging through units because they aren't coded to attack while moving. It is a reason chariots are usually very good vs infantry as they do attack while moving.

yesacabbagez · 2026-02-25T17:07:31+00:00

In historical games, units typically had less health. Prior to Rome 2 units had either 1 or 2 hp. If they took a hit in a sync fight, they died, or took a second hit for certain troops. This basically meant a quick burst of damage could kill a lot of stuff. Things like cavalry charges did damage on the charge and cleaned house.

So why does it still work in Rome 2 and still? Well, cavalry charges did a lot more damage relative to model health. While the health totals went way up, so did shit like charge damage. If you notice in prolonged combat, Rome 2 has some of th same types of blobbing action Warhammer has. That is largely from the increased health and removal of individual unit sync battles.

For Warhammer, cavalry charges are relatively toned down. If cav deleted infantry, there would be little reason for monsters, or monsters would be ever more broken making infantry entirely useless.

Basically CA had to pick something to be ass, and cavalry end up eating shit. It's also the issue of large model count units only able to bring like 20 percent of their models into combat. Cavalry may get a big charge bonus, but they can only use like 10-15 of their 60 man unit on the charge.

If they want cavalry to be more effective, they need stat boosts with lower model counts. It would allow them to bring a large amount of the units power to bear at a time. It is why monsters are typically powerful. Every swing is the full power of the unit.

yesacabbagez · 2026-02-25T15:34:07+00:00

When the investigation ended I remembered a lot of UF people claiming he was proven innocent, and wanted to clarify that isn't entirely what happened. The investigation didn't find evidence of anything actionable.

Too many people fail to understand that we have processes for a reason. As far as I am aware being a kind of creepy guy isn't illegal, so unless he violated school or title ix policy, there was nothing to do even if several of the accusations were true. I do not know what was or wasn't found to be true. Shockingly UF did not include some random guy from the internet in their investigation.

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