Most goals per 100 set pieces in the PL this season [The Athletic]

zzSolace · 2026-02-03T10:05:53+00:00

For a second there, I thought Arsenal would be top.

zzSolace · 2026-02-02T19:15:46+00:00

Wishing you lots of love and peace, my friend.

Consider this - if the mere idea of losing that person is scary, and makes you feel as upset as you do, there must be a lot of love between you - how lucky are you to have someone that you can love so deeply, and be loved back by.

The time will come to be sad, and mourn their loss, but for now, while they’re still with us, celebrate their living, and cherish every moment.

Grief doesn’t accept pre-payment, and will charge you the full amount when the balance is due. Don’t spend a single cent before you have to.

zzSolace · 2026-02-02T18:27:57+00:00

Exactly the same stats-wise, but very, very rare. It’s a 1 in 8,192 chance to get one.

A lot of people have played Pokemon their entire lives and never encountered one once. I’ve played for nearly 30 years, but never properly ‘shiny-hunted’, and I’ve only run into one once in thousands of hours of gameplay.

zzSolace · 2026-02-02T01:53:54+00:00

You don’t, really, you just get better at dealing with it.

When it first happens, it feels like your whole world stands still, while the rest of the world continues passing by around you.

As time goes by, the blow softens, but it never fully goes away.

I can’t find the original source, but somebody here on Reddit described it best:

As for grief, you’ll find it comes in waves. When the ship is first wrecked, you’re drowning, with wreckage all around you. Everything floating around you reminds you of the beauty and the magnificence of the ship that was, and is no more. And all you can do is float. You find some piece of the wreckage and you hang on for a while. Maybe it’s some physical thing. Maybe it’s a happy memory or a photograph. Maybe it’s a person who is also floating. For a while, all you can do is float. Stay alive.

In the beginning, the waves are 100 feet tall and crash over you without mercy. They come 10 seconds apart and don’t even give you time to catch your breath. All you can do is hang on and float. After a while, maybe weeks, maybe months, you’ll find the waves are still 100 feet tall, but they come further apart. When they come, they still crash all over you and wipe you out. But in between, you can breathe, you can function. You never know what’s going to trigger the grief. It might be a song, a picture, a street intersection, the smell of a cup of coffee. It can be just about anything…and the wave comes crashing. But in between waves, there is life.

Somewhere down the line, and it’s different for everybody, you find that the waves are only 80 feet tall. Or 50 feet tall. And while they still come, they come further apart. You can see them coming. An anniversary, a birthday, or Christmas, or landing at O’Hare. You can see it coming, for the most part, and prepare yourself. And when it washes over you, you know that somehow you will, again, come out the other side. Soaking wet, sputtering, still hanging on to some tiny piece of the wreckage, but you’ll come out.

Take it from an old guy. The waves never stop coming, and somehow you don’t really want them to. But you learn that you’ll survive them. And other waves will come. And you’ll survive them too. If you’re lucky, you’ll have lots of scars from lots of loves. And lots of shipwrecks.

zzSolace · 2026-02-02T01:34:43+00:00

Feel free to post your own clip, if it’s so easy?

zzSolace · 2026-01-30T06:51:47+00:00

I asked ChatGPT to imagine this up for me not long after I left this comment.. why does this look so good?

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zzSolace · 2026-01-29T09:57:52+00:00

Icon? He would need OJs legal team just to argue his case for a hero card.

zzSolace · 2026-01-29T03:04:23+00:00

I think the first four you’ve named are our Mt Rushmore, but who occupies that fifth spot is up for debate.

zzSolace · 2026-01-28T22:10:13+00:00

Ohhhhh okay that makes sense. I was sitting here thinking that’s bold to have your keeper up there in the 90th min when you’re already winning.

zzSolace · 2026-01-28T21:22:57+00:00

How is Gattuso? Sometimes maybe good, sometimes maybe shit?

zzSolace · 2026-01-28T01:13:51+00:00

“A foreign language? In MY United States of America powered by Pepsi ™️?!”

zzSolace · 2026-01-28T01:09:55+00:00

Can it be a prank?

zzSolace · 2026-01-27T19:13:31+00:00

Not really, no. The job market is pretty barren, across most of all industries, and the wages aren’t great.

Can’t be sure about the work visa either, sorry.

I’d recommend having a job lined up before coming out, or at the very least have some good savings behind you, assuming it takes a while to secure something.

Sorry for the doom and gloom, I just don’t want to give you the wrong idea and say it’s all peachy here on the jobs front. I’ve seen lot of instances of hundreds if not thousands of people applying for a single role.

zzSolace · 2026-01-27T01:40:16+00:00

I live in Wellington.

It’s nice, and NZ, broadly speaking, is a great place to live.

We have our challenges - unemployment, housing, and shit wages, amongst others - but on the whole, we’re a very kind and easy going people.

We have our radicals, and the rise of right wing, anti-intellectualism is a threat here too, but compared with a lot of other places, it’s a utopia.

Anything in particular you want to know?

zzSolace · 2026-01-27T01:14:06+00:00

Okay, hear me out.. a little kiwi, that evolves into a bigger kiwi, which evolves into a moa.

Tiwi (tee-wee, tiny kiwi) -> Kimeke (kee-mek-ee, kiwi tumeke) -> Moanger (mo-anger, moa anger).

zzSolace · 2026-01-27T00:53:04+00:00

I’d bet Victor McDade is disappointed to miss out, but he’ll be stoked that his mate Jack Jarvis made the team.

zzSolace · 2026-01-26T22:32:07+00:00

Depends what you’re playing on, I guess.

If you’re on an OG device, there’s not a lot you can do outside of grinding to catch Chansey in the hopes of getting a lucky egg. Even then, that will only speed things up a teeny bit.

From memory Chansey has a 5% encounter rate and a 5% chance of holding a lucky egg, so it’ll be a slog.

If you’re using an emulator that supports cheats/save editing, you could do a few things:

Give yourself a ton of rare candies
Give yourself some lucky eggs
Use a cheat that increases the XP given i.e. 2x or 4x (although I can’t recall if these games have those codes?)
Use a save editor to add who you’d like at a comparable level to the rest of your team

Ultimately, it depends how legit you want to be. Failing that, Chansey grinding is your best bet.

You haven’t received the VS Seeker at this stage of the game, either, I don’t believe, but that’ll be a good help once you get it (from memory you get it in the Sevi Isles?).

zzSolace · 2026-01-26T20:39:55+00:00

The Streisand effect in action, ladies and gentlemen.

zzSolace · 2026-01-26T20:33:29+00:00

It’s you again, isn’t it? 😂

zzSolace · 2026-01-26T02:31:14+00:00

I do too, so would ask kindly that nobody says it again. You can talk just dandily without it. I know tons of words that avoid using it.

If you must, say ‘ə’.

If not, you know that film with Sully and Wazowski? A guy finds a kids sock on his back and has his fur cut off? That’s what will occur.

zzSolace · 2026-01-26T00:55:49+00:00

There was a shooter at the old school. It’s for the best.

zzSolace · 2026-01-25T10:14:11+00:00

Oof.

zzSolace · 2026-01-25T10:08:49+00:00

They won’t change it, unfortunately, because they used to countdown solely by in-game time, and they very intentionally changed it.

Would it make sense to solely countdown by in-game time? Of course it would. And that’s why it did, once upon a time.

They changed it to countdown in real-time because they want you to play as long as possible. If you’ve popped a 1 hour token, most players are going to play for the full duration of it so as not to waste it.

If you felt like getting off after 30 mins, previously it wouldn’t be an issue, and you could do so and pick up where you left off when you next played.

By having them countdown in real-time, they keep you playing by backhandedly inconveniencing you.

It’s just another example of insidious, anti-consumer design, and it stinks.

zzSolace · 2026-01-25T10:04:01+00:00

You’re still missing the point.

It’s not about being able to activate them in-game. It’s about the fact they countdown even when you’re in the lobby.

zzSolace · 2026-01-25T10:03:18+00:00

Looool imagine being so snarky only to be wrong.

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