Dan T

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[Dan T @technopoptimist]

One of the main reasons I stopped writing was pessimism that the "provide a good or service for a profit" model had been destroyed by the "squeeze every last cent of profit out of the consumer" model. This campaign is incredibly encouraging.

[Bordeaux @bordeauxyoutube]

According to @MikeStrawMedia, many devs who knew about the stuff coming to College Football 27 were “livid” about it for months

He says “Even future single-player-only titles will have more monetization options enabled.” This is no longer about just CFB 27

This is about the future and direction of games coming from EA. I am speechless #CFBPlayDontPay

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I think people would stop being upset about fundamentally changing the nature of the sport if Fox put a little ticker during "match breaks" showing how much shareholder value it's creating.

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@postanythingLFC Wasn't the final day, needed to close a massive GD gap, winning was actually pretty irrelevant. There, explained it quite simply.

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Learning that the Eagles of Carthage have a player named Hannibal while 🇮🇹 isn't even in the tournament is rage inducing. It took 2,172 years but those bastards finally got their revenge.

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If this isn't a major motion picture by 2029 what even are we doing anymore?

[Dexerto @Dexerto]

Seven dogs stolen from their owners have gone viral after escaping their captors and making their way home

The group is believed to have travelled around 17 km together led by a corgi across highways and fields

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Now, whether things like Walt Disney or George Lucas's artistic legacy should be bequeathed to artless middle management types is another question. But it was smart business.

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Actually have a lot of sympathy for Iger here. Gen X made it clear they wanted remakes of the movies they saw as children. Disney gave them a remake of the original trilogy. They saw it in droves. Just because it was artistically bankrupt doesn't mean anything to them.

[Fandom Pulse @fandompulse]

Bob Iger on George Lucas' disappointment after seeing The Force Awakens:

"He didn’t hide his disappointment. ‘There’s nothing new,’ he said. In each of the films in the original trilogy, it was important to him to present new worlds, new stories, new characters, and new technologies. In this one, he said, ‘There weren’t enough visual or technical leaps forward.’ He wasn’t wrong, but he also wasn’t appreciating the pressure we were under to give ardent fans a film that felt quintessentially Star Wars. We’d intentionally created a world that was visually and tonally connected to the earlier films, to not stray too far from what people loved and expected, and George was criticizing us for the very thing we were trying to do."

Was George right in his criticism?

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@SpikeEskin If there's ever a Best of the Ricky compilation (which how does this not exist?) then Mike arguing with Daryl to the point it became awkward to listen to needs to be on there.

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This should be heard in English or Spanish. This is a victory for the diaspora. The country of Italy literally says these aren't Italians. They don't get to claim our success while also telling us to fuck off. Go back to failing to qualify for the World Cup.

[Codify @CodifyBaseball]

HEAR TEAM ITALY WIN THE WAY IT SHOULD BE HEARD!

[Dan T @technopoptimist]

After last night, the percentage of this century's Super Bowls won by a QB their team drafted in the Top 5 is a whopping 11.5%

Remember during the next 2 months when you hear "this team has to trade up to draft a top QB" that is a sign that person knows nothing about football.

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One of the great cultural victories of the last decade has been making it socially unacceptable for people to talk about their fantasy football team. We must extend this struggle to people talking about their Spotify Wrapped.

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A very popular form of motte & bailey on the internet is accusing someone who has done something horrible with accusing them of doing something even worse. Then when people question that claim they are attacked for defending someone horrible.

We need to reboot the internet.

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@SpikeEskin Perfect analogy especially for people like me who now just read recaps and listen to a podcast about it because it's too shitty to actually watch.

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@SpikeEskin Baffling that it's a controversial opinion to want to trade an undersized guard and low picks for at worst the third best basketball player on the planet.

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Last 24 hours on this app is a great argument for the rule of law. So many people just want to see violence unleashed against those they dislike.

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Unsurprisingly NNT says this better than I have, but I firmly believe that people who insist on a strategy that hasn't worked for literal decades are either lying or stupid and in either case should not be listened to.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

We've had barely 60 years of boycott. We should give the idea some real time to work.

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@MOConnor_NBA Why is the best article I've read on the problems the NBA is facing coming from a Sixers podcast? 30 years ago something of this quality would've been in SI or a national newspaper. That's not a slight on the Ricky but on the NBA media ecosystem.

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@JackFritzWIP The amount of money the '29 A's made was incredibly important because it led to the team being torn down, 20 years of badness, and leaving town. I appreciate his sentiment but terrible example to use.

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Baffling this movie is not a bigger deal. A truly great Western. Beautifully shot, excellent story and characters, unreal lead performances. It is what people claim the True Grit remake is.

[Banished Kent @kentbanishearl]

3:10 to Yuma is underrated.

Wade staring at the crucifix on his revolver before gunning down his own men communicates a redemption. Dan Evans gets the honorable death the Civil War wouldn’t give him. Wade kills Evans’ killers. Death is the unexpected vehicle of redemption.

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The Phillies were the best team in baseball until I drunkenly yelled at Bohm's family at the Home Run Derby that he was going to win us a title. The lesson is never be optimistic.