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by smcl 3y ago
Ahhh I see, so some of the experiments might have not even been deliberate in the end. Either way that's an interesting bit of history, I'm glad to have learned about it! I'm about to re-enter the game aged 37 years old (not
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by smcl 3y ago
That's cool, I had absolutely no idea! So while I may have suggested in other comments that I didn't love European FAs fiddling with the offside rule and VAR, I do appreciate a bit of innovation and creativity and it sounds like t
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by smcl 3y ago
Oh amazing! Shows my ignorance of the game outside my little bubble, but I'm delighted to learn of its existence!
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by smcl 3y ago
If they're not interested in promotion and relegation maybe a national cup competition, like the FA Cup in England, could be one fun way to have some level of integration with the other levels. The excitement of cup competitions would
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by smcl 3y ago
I think the greater worry is that the gap in quality and finances between any second tier and the NBA or NFL would be so enormous that you're virtually guaranteed to bankrupt any relegated team (decreased TV money, sponsorship, merch,
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by smcl 3y ago
GP mentioned this though: > not even in the little kids leagues It might just be something that is very common somewhere or at some level (dunno where), but it's pretty alien to the pair of us and would be for most/all of con
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by smcl 3y ago
In what country and in what sport? Was it younger kids, maybe? I'm not doubting you, I'm genuinely curious because this is incredibly bizarre to me. I dug around on wikipedia and found a couple of dozen examples of some unusual po
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by smcl 3y ago
The offside rule gets far more attention than it deserves and in my opinion it's happened due to the increased popularity and quality of live televised football over the last ~30 years. To me the best place to start is to understand wh
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by smcl 3y ago
Pleasantly surprised by that, though the decline is a bit concerning.
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by smcl 3y ago
Unless you're talking about some extremely niche tournament, that's not how it works at all, in football at least. In the majority of league systems you get 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw and that's it . If you are
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by smcl 3y ago
Interestingly in rugby they have a concept called a "penalty try" - effectively when there's a particular infringement against a team in a scoring position, the referee awards the points to the attacking team as if they had g
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by smcl 3y ago
And the behaviour is guided by what they are legally allowed to do, or what they think they can get away with. It's pretty clear that the US is far more lenient on police and frequently lets them get away with murder, often quite lit
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by smcl 3y ago
You seem to have taken the words "policing by consent", applied your own interpretation of what that means and focussed on that. From the second paragraph, we can see that the actual meaning of that phrase is in this context is: &
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by smcl 3y ago
The Swivel-Eyed Loons usually cannot concisely articulate what they are mad at, but in my experience mass surveillance doesn't stand out as the main thing. When I see someone going off about 15 minute cities they're usually unhing
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by smcl 3y ago
Yeah it used to be that after football games had finished for the day some pubs would shut off sound from the TV, play background music but show a teletext page cycling through the results across various leagues in UK/Europe
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by smcl 3y ago
Doesn't look to me like they're trying to kill .NET at all. Maybe F# in particular isn't getting the love and attention it deserves but they'd have to be mental to be actively trying to kill off something as popular as .
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by smcl 3y ago
Ah yeah good point, I guess normal divorces don't end up in court and are resolved without having a judge or anything like that :D Bit of a morning brain failure on my part :)
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by smcl 3y ago
It really is one of those pictures that on face value is hilarious and tragic at the same time. But I suppose it is entirely possible they had an amicable and problem-free divorce otherwise and that it came to this because Beanie Babies cou
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by smcl 3y ago
Nice to see you here! I really enjoyed the article :)
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by smcl 3y ago
I played them the other way round (well Cyberpunk, then Human Revolution and then Mankind) and had the same feeling. Cyberpunk is enormous but relatively hollow in comparison to both in my opinion.
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by smcl 3y ago
Hm both the 'a' in "Prague" and "brag" are the same for me, might be an accent thing. I'll give it a whirl, I promised myself no new games until I finish Elden Ring but maybe I can bend the rules a bit, af
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by smcl 3y ago
Was wracking my brains trying to figure out the location here. There's not too many in DX:MD - Prague, Dubai, Switzerland and London - but I didn't recall encountering a scene like this in the only one that fit the terrain (Dubai)
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by smcl 3y ago
I originally wrote something along the lines of "... is pretty far from under Kremlin control" and decided to simplify it before hitting send :) Oops, fixed now.
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by smcl 3y ago
There's so many of them and they're so hyperbolic and wrong. Take good old @witte_sergei, claiming here during the huge gains Ukraine had last year that the "scale of Ukraine’s defeat at Lyman will become clear in the coming
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by smcl 3y ago
Yeah a few people got banned from places using it, and also tried "...in Roblox". I think I remember seeing "... Roblox [your|my]self" as a euphemism too.
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by smcl 3y ago
That opening sentence is a very funny statement when you take into account that "...in Minecraft" is a way some YouTubers hide hyperbolic/unserious statements (to skirt TOS violations). Like after 100 deaths to Malenia in Eld
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by smcl 3y ago
Good time to repost this article, detailing the various UI inconsistencies that persist to this day in Windows: https://ntdotdev.wordpress.com/2021/02/06/state-of-the-windo...
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by smcl 3y ago
My point is really well established. Many real currencies, some failed. Many cryptocurrencies, most failed. The "snark" appears to be required to actually drive the point home. I don't care if you want to argue your point.
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by smcl 3y ago
Oh nice work! And the failed ones were all global reserve currencies as we would recognise them today ... right?
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by smcl 3y ago
Weird I just checked and every single bill I have I can only pay in CZK. Guess this revolution must have slipped by us here in the technological backwaters of Central Europe. Looking forward to reading about how people in the USA can pay th

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