We’ll mostly never admit it because on a real level we know it’s stupid, but a lot of American sports fans’ aversion to soccer comes from a sincere instinctive belief that the best teams/players in the world aren’t playing it right.
@lionel_trolling His entire persona is “reformed former chud.” That’s his whole appeal, yet they keep expecting Maine voters to lose their fucking minds when news breaks that he used to behave like a chud.
@NeuralAA I feel like the game goes to the next level if you can figure out a way for it to intuit that guys like KD *could* play guys like Jabari Smith’s roles better than them if they needed to.
@sbodrojan The phrasing of the wish feels like the biggest pulled punch, if he had overtly wished to violate her autonomy in a more direct way, “I wish she would sleep with me” or even “I wish she’d just go out with me” or something like that, I feel like the whole thing would click better.
@sbodrojan The big idea is a “be careful what you wish for” story but the horror is all mined from the “relationship with someone with emotional issues” metaphor and the movie never reconciles those two things because doing so would be more immediately uncomfortable for the audience imo.
@Srirachachau When I was first starting out I wrote a “Who Shot Mr. Burns? Part Three” Simpsons spec that was all about him dealing with PTSD and trying to change his ways, various people in town trying to teach him to be a good person. Burns is easily the best character to write jokes for.
@ZeroSuitCamus I believe he’s done crazy amounts of drugs but never once done them with anyone else. Probably spent years eating joints like French fries and shaking up coke with water in one of those protein shake bottles, just pure trial and error until he arrived at smoking/snorting.
@TheGhostOfGeert Also most of the “trade Suggs now” people don’t realize they’re advocating moving him at his lowest possible value. If you think last year’s coaching held him back even a little bit, the rational thing to do is let a new coach boost his value then make a decision at the deadline.