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schizoid assassin

Katılım Aralık 2011
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@CounterPressers Actually no, he's not an elite 1 v 1 player at all, maybe average to above average at best. He needs open space to be effective.
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CounterPressers@CounterPressers·
Liverpool have to do everything in their power to secure Bradley Barcola. This is 99th percentile athleticism combined with 99th percentile 1v1 dribbling with a 99th percentile technical floor. He will explode under Andoni Iraola.
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@AndrewTurmer Who on Arsenal is going to defend? Many people are asking
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Andrew Turmer@AndrewTurmer·
Arsenal's recruitment is weird. So Rice isn't a 6 and runs around looking like an 8. Odegaard is an 8 and their captain. Eze is an 8 or 10. And now they want Bruno as another 8. Who is doing any defending? Zubimendi failed and they had to bring Lewis-Skelly back for the run-in.
Sami Mokbel@SamiMokbel_BBC

Arsenal to make £70million offer for Newcastle captain Bruno Guimaraes. Brazil international viewed as a key midfield target but #AFC unwilling to overpay in inflated market. bbc.co.uk/sport/football…

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max@maxbaretta·
@PAHoyeck I did enjoy the movie for what it was… a fun action thriller. If you think it’s some masterpiece of plot or story telling or character study then yes, having to constantly explain the logic of the story is an issue.
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@PAHoyeck Isn't that the issue? If the motivations need to be so explained or propped up by pretense, then they are not integrated with the natural flow of the narrative. This is a natural consequence of Nolan starting from a conceit, then bolting on the impetus from the characters
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Phil Hoyeck@PAHoyeck·
Christopher Nolan: Writes screenplays so heavy-handed he practically has characters look into the camera and explain what's going on and why. General audiences: I don't understand. Why are these characters doing this? What are the stakes of this narrative?
Malcolm Harris@BigMeanInternet

I've only seen a handful of Nolan movies but the most interesting thing to me is that they often seem surreally confused about their own narrative stakes. What is DiCaprio's motivation in Inception? Why does Oppenheimer kinda imply an era of atomic warfare that did not occur?

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@PAHoyeck Cobb's reasons are explicit bc they're not compelling nor well integrated to the high concept psychological drama of the story's core. It's simply a contrived pretext for the conceit so whether or not you consider the motives obvious or absent, there's no real difference.
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Phil Hoyeck@PAHoyeck·
In Inception, which I watched today, there are MULTIPLE, REPEATED flashbacks of Cobb's children. He repeatedly states that they are the reason he accepts the mission. He explicitly brings it up to Saito several times. I'm not sure how much more explicit it's possible to be. 3/
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@bwags But Inception is not about "Leo misses kids", it's a high concept psychological thriller. If "...misses kids" is how to analyze the protagonist's motivation then that is a failure of the narrative bc it's so obviously a pretense poorly integrated w the major themes, plot, action
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Bobby Wagner@bwags·
I can’t imagine being Chris Nolan and putting 25 of the exact same shot of Cobb’s kids playing in the back yard and then still having people ask what the character’s motivation is
Malcolm Harris@BigMeanInternet

I've only seen a handful of Nolan movies but the most interesting thing to me is that they often seem surreally confused about their own narrative stakes. What is DiCaprio's motivation in Inception? Why does Oppenheimer kinda imply an era of atomic warfare that did not occur?

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@BigMeanInternet It's not that DiCaprio's motive isn't clear, but the "incepting" is just one side of a banal quid pro quo i.e. watanbe gets "corporate buy out", leo sees kids. This is just a narrative pretense thematically and narratively divorced from the story's core high concept psycho-drama
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Malcolm Harris@BigMeanInternet·
I've only seen a handful of Nolan movies but the most interesting thing to me is that they often seem surreally confused about their own narrative stakes. What is DiCaprio's motivation in Inception? Why does Oppenheimer kinda imply an era of atomic warfare that did not occur?
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@thomaschattwill how many people remember much less care that the whole point of the "inception" was to motivate Cillian Murphy to agree to a corporate buy out? For that to be the major narrative pretense for a movie with such a grand metaphysical conceit is completely valid critique
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max@maxbaretta·
@GPIngersoll chad ochocino has trained and tried to play soccer seriously for years and years. See how well he does against even decent level amateur players. You not only don't understand soccer, you don't understand any sport. You're actually just genuinely dumb.
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Geoffrey Ingersoll@GPIngersoll·
The funniest thing to me about the World Cup is how easily the NFL could dominate it as a side gig just for lulz. Just give a cadre of practice squad wide receivers and corner backs like $4 million each to train the next four years to win the World Cup. You think Quintavian Moore or Shidarius Coleman isn’t scoring three goals a game? Give either of them two years and they’ll embarrass Beckham’s whole legacy.
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@Porkchop_EXP Then what were the odds the consensus best 4 teams of the tournament all made it to the semi finals if the favorite only wins ~45 % of the time with 32 teams in the knock out rounds?
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Porkchop Express@Porkchop_EXP·
The math behind why soccer generally sucks
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Jan A. Karon@jannibal_

Dieses WM-Finale war, vorsichtig gesagt, ein denkbar schlechtes Aushängeschild für den Sport Fußball. Das Endspiel war über sehr lange Zeit sehr langweilig, um dann für sehr kurze Zeit sehr einseitig zu werden. Von den beiden Finalisten präsentierte sich mindestens eine Mannschaft, Argentinien, im Auftreten äußerst unsympathisch – nicht nur durch einen destruktiven, holzfällerhaften Fußball, sondern auch dadurch, dass man nach dem Abpfiffas das erschreckende Bild eines schlechter Verlierers abgab. (Paredes gehört nach seiner Attacke nach Abpfiff für längere Zeit gesperrt, wenn man mich fragt.) Spanien ist der absolut verdiente Weltmeister, aber dieses Finale war schlechte Werbung. Insgesamt hat mich diese Weltmeisterschaft insgesamt erneut fußballverdrossener gemacht. Ironischerweise waren dafür nicht, wie von linken Kommentatoren vorausgesagt, die USA dafür verantwortlich: Diese erwiesen sich, soweit aus der Ferne zu beurteilen war, als durchaus passabler Gastgeber, der beeindruckende Kulissen bot und sich als als ein Land zeigte, das (seit Jahren) immer fußballbegeisterter wird. Aus europäischer Sicht haben, das gehört auch zur Wahrheit, die Anstoßzeiten genervt und dafür gesorgt, dass es schwer fiel, der WM mit ungeteilter Begeisterung zu folgen. Aber gut. An den USA (sowie Mexiko und Kanada) als Gastgeberländern und sämtlichen prognostizierten Schreckensszenarien lag es ganz sicher nicht. Wesentlich schwerer wiegt der Befund, dass der moderne Fußball, den auch ich weiterhin verfolge und konsumiere, zunehmend als ein kaputtes Produkt erscheint. Dies beginnt bei den grotesken und inkonsistenten VAR-Entscheidungen – auch im Finale irrte der Schiedsrichter mehrfach fatal –, setzt sich fort über die korrupte Funktionärsebene rund um Infantino, die in der Rücknahme der roten Karte für Balogun nach einem Anruf von Trump einen vorläufigen Tiefpunkt setzte. (Es war auch nur konsequent, dass sowohl Trump als auch Infantino heute bei jeder Gelegenheit ausgepfiffen wurden und sich trotzdem nicht lumpen ließen, sich durch ein Photobombing bei der Siegerehrung lächerlich zu machen.) Die Krise des Produkts Fußball zeigt sich auch in »Hydration Breaks«, die inzwischen zu institutionalisierten Werbeblöcken geworden sind und sich nahtlos in das Bild von Emirates- und Qatar-Airlines-Stadien als kommerziellen Höllen einfügen; und schlichtweg zu vielen langweiligen Spielen. Hinzu kommen eingebürgerte Legionärstruppen mit immer geringerem Bezug zu den Ländern, die sie vertreten; doppelte Standards in Regelauslegung und Turniergestaltung; eine Inszenierung mit oftmals billigem Showcharakter, der nach Plastik schmeckt; sowie absurd überzogene Ticketpreise. Am Ende bleibt das Gefühl eines Großereignisses, bei dem man sich zwar über die Erfolgsgeschichten von Underdogs wie Norwegen oder Kap Verde freut, einige großartige Spiele erinnert und in Person von Messi, Haaland, Kane, Mbappe, Cucurella oder Rodri beeindruckende Leistungen bestaunen konnte, insgesamt jedoch eine tiefe Entfremdung verspürt. Letztlich schien es vielen, so auch mir, gleichgültig, wer dieses Turnier gewinnt, da man für keinen der Finalisten oder für das kleinere Übel die Daumen drückte. Fußball bleibt nach wie vor ein Massenphänomen, aber er wirkt inzwischen so uniformiert, gekauft, weichgespült, kommerzialisiert und von seinen Fans entfremdet, dass es zunehmend schwerer fällt, echte Leidenschaft für diesen Sport zu empfinden. Und wenn es Fans am Ende einfach mehr oder weniger egal ist, wer das Turnier gewinnt, ist das kein guter Befund für den Sport.

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@AurelNz Bruno Fernandes anywhere comparable to DiMaria lmaoooooo
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Aurel Nazmiu@AurelNz·
🇦🇷🇵🇹 Who had the better international team around them across their career - Messi or Ronaldo? I valued every teammate they've ever played with (300+), at their peak, adjusted to today's money. Messi's average teammate at their peak was worth €64m, Ronaldo's €72m, +12%.
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@redsteeze Peak Waingro reference, well done
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Stephen L. Miller@redsteeze·
Sarah Longwell is right. She never expressively endorsed the Maine Waingro Candidate. She just sat there quietly nodding along all dopey eyed while the rejected Pod Bro on her staff advocated for backing him alongside the guy who thought he could be president. But no she never personally advocated for him. Clown show.
The Bulwark@BulwarkOnline

“It is absolutely critical that the Democrats figure out how in the fuck to win working-class white people if they ever want to have power or control again.” @Timodc on why backing Graham Platner in the Maine Senate race may be a gamble worth taking.

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max@maxbaretta·
@fadule_ Why do you feel compelled to talk about a sport which you clearly have no basic understanding? Unless this is a bit in which case lol good one
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@BowTiedCrow Total nonsense. There’s plenty of incredible NFL type athletes playing soccer early with the best training available in Europe. Some even make it as pros like Adama Traore. Yet those freak athletes are never the best players in the world.
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BowTiedCrow@BowTiedCrow·
Us Americans are not saying that if we took Saquon Barkley today and gave him a soccer ball he’d be the goat. We’re saying if he only played soccer from the age of 4 he’d be the best player on the pitch. We’re saying we have hundreds of Saquon Barkley’s.
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@MarkBullockNFL It's amazing people still don't understand this despite it being so obvious the best pure "athletes" are rarely the best players. It's a serious cognitive shortcoming.
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Mark Bullock@MarkBullockNFL·
The US soccer team doesn’t lack athleticism. The idea of throwing your best athletes at it is dumb. How many soccer stars are the size of LeBron? The best player is 5’7”. The best team in history was full of guys under 5’10 that weren’t particularly fast. It’s a technical sport
IB Network@Iconobomb

@MarkBullockNFL Please explain

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@BowTiedBaNkErS @BowTiedCrow Actually you can’t comprehend that pure athleticism does not translate to soccer. Wild bc there are tons of jacked, fast athletic soccer players who are all shit compared to smart skilled 5-7 guys. It’s almost like like not understanding simple counterfactuals.
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BaNkErS | Meme Mercenary
BaNkErS | Meme Mercenary@BowTiedBaNkErS·
@BowTiedCrow They can’t actually comprehend this point It’s very much like the how would you feel if you didn’t have breakfast this morning question
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Shehan Jeyarajah@ShehanJeyarajah·
Probably the most misunderstood part about soccer is the type of athlete it requires. Soccer players run close to 10 miles and are in motion for 90 minutes. NFL players run about 1.5 miles and are in motion for like 6ish minutes. You need marathoners, not quick twitch.
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BearsShowYo@BearsShowYo·
Ngl I’m so happy I’ve discovered soccer, I can’t wait for club season to begin man I will be there
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max@maxbaretta·
@noamscheiber the question of offside can be at the most critical points of the match where fractions of yards and seconds make huge differences, warranting the scrutiny. The overall timekeeping is far less consequential when you consider how infrequently such crucial moments occur.
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Noam Scheiber@noamscheiber·
Whats strange about soccer: It employs absurd mathematical precision to police offsides, a rule that mostly matters in spirit rather than in strict application. (You just don't want cherrypicking) But its extremely casual about timekeeping, whose literal application matters a ton
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@cmbftbl When alvarez is either injured or sulking at not being at Barcelona and being benched by Havertz we’re gonna miss having a battering ram forward who doesn’t complain, gives maximum effort, kicks the shit out of the ball, and continued to improve his first season
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cmbftbl@cmbftbl·
Incredible deal for Arsenal if it comes off (it won’t) Simultaneously raises the ceiling & floor. Raises the technical level significantly
Eduardo Hagn@EduardoHagn

🚨 BREAKING from @COPE: Atletico Madrid want to talk with Arsenal and see if they can offer Julián Alvarez to them in exchange for €50m/€60m and Gyökeres. 🤯

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