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You'll get Virginia politics as well as film and TV stuff. Lots of deep cuts, you'll love it.

Don't let the icon fool you; cishet male here. He/Him.

[Very legal & very cool @alanarkay]

Trying to externalize one's own opinion for legitimacy isn't limited to just journos citing "Top Dems."

[Very legal & very cool @alanarkay]

The red card was wrong and we should say that with our whole chest instead of trying to signal moral adherence to a loser attitude.

[ettingermentum @ettingermentum]

There’s nothing existential about anything now. The reputation of this team and program is unfixably fucked. If we win we look dirty, if we lose we look pathetic. That’s the problem with getting special treatment from political pressure. The only answer is sitting Balogun.

[Very legal & very cool @alanarkay]

Man did I call it or what?

[Very legal & very cool @alanarkay]

For better or worse I don't think the world is ready for Americans to play soccer like Americans.

[Very legal & very cool @alanarkay]

How dare you call for governing bodies to use their established authority to correct an injustice, you're meant to suffer the injustice just like we all have!

[Very legal & very cool @alanarkay]

Here's one of the major vibe killers when it comes to the popularity of soccer in the U.S.: unspoken sportsmanlike conduct rules. In America everything is okay under the rules. If sportsmanlike conduct is important it's written in.

[Very legal & very cool @alanarkay]

UEFA fans rn

[Hugo Lowell @hugolowell]

FIFA decision to suspend the Balogun red card appears to have opened a free for all —

The French Football Federation has appealed to FIFA to rescind Michael Olise’s yellow card during the World Cup last-16 win over Paraguay on Saturday, per the Athletic:

Star French player Olise was booked after an altercation with Matias Galarza, who went to ground holding his face, but replays showed Olise was holding his shirt

[Very legal & very cool @alanarkay]

We're on board against corruption in FIFA but let's not pretend it wasn't obvious corruption that drew the red in the first place. You're just mad the corruption was slightly pro-U.S. this time.

[Very legal & very cool @alanarkay]

Bit of a whiplash on world cup twitter today as we argue the referees decisions are sacrosanct (Baloguin) while yesterday their decisions meant nothing (no cards to Paraguay).

[Very legal & very cool @alanarkay]

It's both to make a marginal foul easier to spot for a ref 30 yards away who's in the middle of the chaos of 20 guys and because you'll go down to protect yourself (pulling your shin and falling rather than taking the trip full speed). Then there's the losers who take advantage.

[X 🇬🇾 @EverybodyHatesX]

Why is it so regular to flop in soccer? I don't understand why EVERYONE does it not just select players

[Very legal & very cool @alanarkay]

@SonnyBunch It's not FIFA it's the entire rest of the world. They hate us for being good and think that cheating us out of our victories will demoralize us. It's been like this for years.

[Very legal & very cool @alanarkay]

USA vs another team plus the refs is part of our story at the world cup. It's not only not a reason to avoid watching, it's the reason the team needs our support. The bastards will never let us win, we'll have to take it.

[Very legal & very cool @alanarkay]

Things I did to break the plateaus: upped water to 3qt daily, started cheat days (including carbs), started carb cycling, started fasting 24 hrs straight 1/week.

[cynomel muncher @cynomel]

keto dieters when their weight loss stalls:
“it must be that 1g added sugar in my bacon”

[Very legal & very cool @alanarkay]

"Hydration breaks are only for advertisements!" My brother why do you think all those bottles of Powerade get run out every time a player cramps up?

[Polymarket Sports @PolymarketSport]

🚨JUST IN: UEFA have confirmed there will NOT be any hydration breaks during the 2028 Euros

[Very legal & very cool @alanarkay]

"No thank you, I like my players to have endless leg cramps and play in crap stadiums." -An absurdity that only makes sense when truly playing to win is just not part of your culture.

[Polymarket Sports @PolymarketSport]

🚨JUST IN: UEFA have confirmed there will NOT be any hydration breaks during the 2028 Euros

[Very legal & very cool @alanarkay]

For better or worse I don't think the world is ready for Americans to play soccer like Americans.

[Very legal & very cool @alanarkay]

Here's one of the major vibe killers when it comes to the popularity of soccer in the U.S.: unspoken sportsmanlike conduct rules. In America everything is okay under the rules. If sportsmanlike conduct is important it's written in.

[Burak Yenigun @BurakYngn]

“Soccer” will absolutely overtake football in the US in popularity. It is the better “product”.

America’s distribution advantage in culture means it successfully distributes good cultural products globally, homegrown (Britney Spears) or not (Coca Cola), but it naturally fails with inferior products (baseball, American football).

This is the core mistake people make when discussing the whole “American culture” thing. They confuse a distribution advantage with cultural hegemony.

[Very legal & very cool @alanarkay]

@teachrobotslove Contrarily what's the next thing we can meme shame people into doing?

[Very legal & very cool @alanarkay]

Same feeling I got when I realized respawning in Bioshock had no meaningful penalty.

[Jek Korpen🆖 @Jek_Korpen]

I played minecraft with someone and they were running low on the hunger bar. so naturally youd think they would go eat, right?

They jumped off their OWN house to respawn and regain their hunger.

"It was faster that way"

That shit was my canon event, and is why i value immersion and semi-roleplay so much in games. I have never had my minecraft urge punched out of me so fast

[Very legal & very cool @alanarkay]

@MayngueneBanana My guess is you're conflating it with other Max Headroom references in popular media such as Back to the Future II

[Very legal & very cool @alanarkay]

The older I've got the more I think D&D play demonstrated in that episode of Community had it right. The dice need to be saved for those rare moments. Otherwise players become the equivalent of degenerate gamblers, building for the dice roll and nothing else.

[Nerdcognito @Nerdcognito]

Critical Role's Brennan Lee Mulligan ditched D&D's dice in Campaign 4: no roll needed because a PC monologue was "too good."

Performance now overrides actual gameplay.

This isn't D&D. It's scripted celebrity theater pretending to be gaming.

They. Don't Really. Play.

[Very legal & very cool @alanarkay]

@SwiftOnSecurity You can teach problem solving. Here's a song about it. https://t.co/Qff9gQCoxI

[Very legal & very cool @alanarkay]

@SwiftOnSecurity @TracketPacer I somehow fell backwards into a job that is typically performed by a team of people because of all the different skills required (GRC) and I've been loving it. It's crazy to me these roles aren't staffed by technical people more often.