Patrick

St. Louis to Kentucky to North Carolina. PhD Biostatistician, lover of neural networks. #rstats Sports fan. #stlblues #stlcards #Arsenal

[Patrick @pjames122]

@GeorgeMizon @FlattenedGuy @NOTLFCJ__ Dude is seriously acting like Arsenal 2-0 vs Everton or Arsenal 1-0 vs West Ham are “worst performances” than city who drew against those teams lol

[Patrick @pjames122]

@FlattenedGuy @NOTLFCJ__ So the team that dropped points in half of their last 10 games were better than the team that dropped points in 2 of their last 10. At the end of the season. Come on man lol

[Patrick @pjames122]

@FlattenedGuy @NOTLFCJ__ You said “city and united were better teams” by the end of last season. City dropped points in half of their last 10 games. Clearly they must be playing a sustainable style of football though

[Patrick @pjames122]

@FlattenedGuy @NOTLFCJ__ Arsenal went 8-0-2 (24 points) their last 10 PL games, City went 5-4-1 (19 points). What are we even talking about here? United 6-2-2 (20 points) fwiw.

[Patrick @pjames122]

@PaulTassi @Forbes The article is calling Tyland Lannister Tywin Lannister btw

[Patrick @pjames122]

Mikel Merino continues to be the most confusing player of all time

[Patrick @pjames122]

@NickBCarraway @d2burn1e @dj_cali_chris @PaulTassi Lumi is best on geomag warlock. With the extra traces plus the artifact mod that makes traces give additional super energy, you can get chaos reach every 10-20s easily in ad dense stuff. Although, the new IB set might be even better for super spam (haven’t tried it yet)

[Patrick @pjames122]

@SushiCatKing @dj_cali_chris @PaulTassi I listed a few there but it’s going to be more build specific. SJ good if you want DR and make a lot of orbs, Europa 2 piece gives you some ammo help (although KF is better, I don’t agree with this reddit post saying KF is worse), Ferropotent solid, equilibrium fun for swords

[Patrick @pjames122]

@dj_cali_chris @PaulTassi Do you raid? 2 piece KF and 2 piece SE is pretty much the “meta” endgame set, better than Nessus. Nessus a good alternative if you don’t raid.

Luminopotent very strong on chaos reach spam warlock, LW very good on buddy builds, RON good to give devour on subclasses w/o it, etc

[Patrick @pjames122]

@texture_guy @luciscaelumXV @Kn1ne @PaulTassi 👍

[Patrick @pjames122]

Calling out people who don’t like MLS because we’ve been watching higher quality soccer for 10+ years now as folks who “don’t love the game” is crazy. Why should I spend my limited time watching a significantly inferior product?

[Patrick @pjames122]

Many of us got into the sport as teens/kids in the 2000s when MLS was significantly smaller and few cities had teams. We watched the World Cup, Euros, Copa America, found players we enjoyed watching and started to follow their respective clubs.

[Khaled @khaled74]

American soccer fans that pretend they’re too good for MLS or USL gives me the ick. Yall don’t really love the game you just wanna think you’re one of the cool kids.

[Patrick @pjames122]

Seeing people who don’t watch soccer regularly at all having opinions on how the rules need to change is hilarious, all of these suggestions about onside would make the game so much worse #worldcup

[Patrick @pjames122]

You are devaluing all of our MPH degrees by being this statistically illiterate

[Nicolas Hulscher, MPH @NicHulscher]

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[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.

Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.

I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."

"They just come with the table, man."

They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.

This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.

I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.

"Did we…?"

"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."

Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.

My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."

Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.

I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.

Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.

I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.

Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

[Patrick @pjames122]

Enjoy the championship, pal. Declan’s moved on to bigger and better trophies than your shit club will ever experience

[Central @WestHam_Central]

WATCH: Declan Rice’s first and last ever trophy won as a professional player.

[Patrick @pjames122]

@mabukittens @DrDemetrio_ @BoldfaceJames “Yeah, well now I have to get one from America”