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FMguru posted:The weirdest thing about his basketball book was how much of it took place in other dimensions or alternate timelines. Huge chunks of it are chapters about what happens if teams draft differently, or make different trades, or close playoff series go the other way (spoiler: things turn out differently). For a book that he said he wrote because he really wanted to communicate how much he loved NBA basketball, the overall effect was to convince me that the NBA must really suck if the actual on-the-court history is so uninteresting that its self-proclaimed #1 fan spends most of his time writing fanfiction about parallel universe NBAs. It's basically just a collection of column ideas each blown up to 50-200 pages.
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https://twitter.com/Kofie/status/1382808193160650754
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# ? Apr 15, 2021 22:35 |
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oh hell yes also lol https://twitter.com/MichaelAuberry/status/1382810323904790528
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# ? Apr 16, 2021 12:32 |
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https://twitter.com/_Zeets/status/1384188407086161923
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# ? Apr 19, 2021 19:09 |
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this is worse than that time bill simmons made the same joke on the draft broadcast that I'd made 2 seconds earlier in the live thread gently caress
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# ? Apr 19, 2021 19:14 |
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The Lakers should join this super league. Knicks can come over to be our generals.
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# ? Apr 19, 2021 19:16 |
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matt yglesias is fundamentally indistinguishable from a bot that supports the seemingly benign whims of capital, yes
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# ? Apr 19, 2021 19:45 |
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okay but now imagine how good the league would be if it had a billion teams.
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# ? Apr 19, 2021 20:50 |
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i would solve this by simply merging every single league in europe from the amateur level up into a mega-pyramid system where conceivably you'd have to have low level teams in Ireland have to travel to Macedonia for Super Europe League Level 19 Matchday 5 or some poo poo
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# ? Apr 19, 2021 21:26 |
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Matt is the textbook definition of a person who just throws out random thoughts out about anything while trying to act like he knows what he's talking about, regardless of whether or not he knows a single thing about what he's talking about.
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# ? Apr 20, 2021 00:41 |
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Crazy Ted posted:Matt is the textbook definition of a person who just throws out random thoughts out about anything while trying to act like he knows what he's talking about, regardless of whether or not he knows a single thing about what he's talking about.
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# ? Apr 20, 2021 00:46 |
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FMguru posted:He's gotten much worse since going SubStack - he has to drive traffic and attention to his subscription site every day, and that means an endless stream of blistering hot takes that provoke.
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# ? Apr 20, 2021 01:13 |
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Crazy Ted posted:And yet he's still more tolerable than Matt Bruenig. Matt Bruenig is autistic so can sometimes come off poorly, but at least he’s an actual expert in what he chooses to talk about (most of the time at least). Yglesius isn’t an expert in anything. He’s just a smug rear end in a top hat.
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Mahoning posted:Matt Bruenig is autistic so can sometimes come off poorly,
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# ? Apr 20, 2021 01:53 |
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Mahoning posted:Matt Bruenig is autistic so can sometimes come off poorly, but at least he’s an actual expert in what he chooses to talk about (most of the time at least). But he’s an expert in being a smug rear end in a top hat
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# ? Apr 20, 2021 02:42 |
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This seems like the best place to ask this. I have a Defector subscription, but every time I go to the site I have to sign in again. It's the only place where I don't stay automatically signed in. Does anyone else have this issue? Signing in every time is very annoying.
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# ? Apr 21, 2021 02:14 |
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Bird in a Blender posted:This seems like the best place to ask this. I have a Defector subscription, but every time I go to the site I have to sign in again. It's the only place where I don't stay automatically signed in. Does anyone else have this issue? Signing in every time is very annoying. I just cache refreshed, signed out and signed back, and tried a few times and I seem to stay signed in fine. Maybe it depends on what level sub you have? I dont have the commenting sub but I think remember reading people in the comments were having a similar issue.
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# ? Apr 21, 2021 02:22 |
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Bird in a Blender posted:This seems like the best place to ask this. I have a Defector subscription, but every time I go to the site I have to sign in again. It's the only place where I don't stay automatically signed in. Does anyone else have this issue? Signing in every time is very annoying. It’s something I’ve had an issue with the last week or so in particular. I used to stay logged in fine across devices, so perhaps something happened.
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# ? Apr 21, 2021 03:53 |
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Ok. I just have the regular subscription, no commenting. Just wanted to make sure this wasn't my issue, seems like it's something with the site.
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# ? Apr 21, 2021 12:06 |
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It happens to me, and others have made reference to it in comments below the articles as well, so it appears to be something on the site's end of things. One person suggested going to the main page first rather than just jumping straight to an article as a way of avoiding it.
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# ? Apr 21, 2021 13:56 |
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From some of their “Talk to the Staff” things, they’re apparently aware of it but haven’t found a way to fix it. First acknowledgment of it was a month or so ago, though.
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# ? Apr 21, 2021 14:03 |
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It only happens to me on mobile for some reason, and sometimes will just refuse to acknowledge that I'm a subscriber even when it shows me as logged in.
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# ? Apr 21, 2021 15:49 |
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The dread legacy Kinja lives on I guess.
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# ? Apr 21, 2021 16:14 |
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I like defector but the actual website looks and works like poo poo.
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# ? Apr 21, 2021 16:19 |
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R.D. Mangles posted:I like defector but the actual website looks and works like poo poo. Yeah the layout is garbage. It’s my biggest complaint with the site. There’s something to be said for the simplicity of the blog style with the newest post on top. Which, they sort of have, but they clutter it at the top with too much poo poo. Like, Deadspin (from a presentation perspective) was actually fine up until the auto playing video ads and poo poo. I even liked the side bar (on desktop) that had popular articles from other Gawker sites. They def need to overhaul the layout a bit.
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# ? Apr 21, 2021 16:51 |
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Yeah, it's rather patently obvious that Defector launched either 1) without the input of an actual designer or UX expert or 2) with its design driven by the child or other relative of one of the staff members. You know, the old "my son took a graphic design class last year" thing.
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# ? Apr 21, 2021 17:13 |
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Timby posted:Yeah, it's rather patently obvious that Defector launched either 1) without the input of an actual designer or UX expert or 2) with its design driven by the child or other relative of one of the staff members. You know, the old "my son took a graphic design class last year" thing. What? The site was designed and made by https://alley.co/ it's literally on the bottom of the website Also you can just subscribe to the RSS feed that is posted on the site if you want a chronological list of articles without having to go to the homepage Boredumb fucked around with this message at 17:28 on Apr 21, 2021 |
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Boredumb posted:What? The site was designed and made by https://alley.co/ it's literally on the bottom of the website Then they got assigned some scrub of an intern on the job, because Defector's UX sucks out loud.
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# ? Apr 21, 2021 17:28 |
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Timby posted:Yeah, it's rather patently obvious that Defector launched either 1) without the input of an actual designer or UX expert or 2) with its design driven by the child or other relative of one of the staff members. You know, the old "my son took a graphic design class last year" thing.
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# ? Apr 21, 2021 23:16 |
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https://twitter.com/BleacherReport/status/1385229118522941441 hmmm i feel an important detail is missing
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# ? Apr 23, 2021 03:27 |
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Even leaving aside that he became antiwar, got murdered by his fellow troops and then the murder was covered up, both Tillman while he was alive and his family since his death were very adamant that he not be used that way
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# ? Apr 23, 2021 12:33 |
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One of the unfortunate things about being dead is the limited ability to steer your own narrative
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# ? Apr 23, 2021 16:20 |
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General Dog posted:One of the unfortunate things about being dead is the limited ability to steer your own narrative to be fair, it would be the same were he alive. Alejandro Villanueva openly said he's not offended by the kneeling stuff and that he knows it has nothing to do with the military and that never stopped racist shitbags from using him as their shining star.
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# ? Apr 23, 2021 19:13 |
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a ringer writer has cancer https://twitter.com/JonathanTjarks/status/1386689715072602114
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# ? Apr 26, 2021 16:52 |
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Today in world class headlines https://twitter.com/pkcapitol/status/1386715283830845443?s=21
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# ? Apr 26, 2021 17:25 |
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DJExile posted:Today in world class headlines That is an A+ headline from the Washington Post.
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# ? Apr 26, 2021 17:42 |
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Vertical Lime posted:a ringer writer has cancer
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# ? Apr 26, 2021 18:08 |
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https://twitter.com/celebrityhottub/status/1387573579626201091
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https://twitter.com/JayGlazer/status/1388910327610449921
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oh god lmao never thought I'd feel bad for Jay Glazer but here we are
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