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original irate fan @whygavs.bsky.social · 4h

we are deep into the annual, "oh yeah, i *do* like baseball, the problem is the pirates" process with this year's playoffs

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original irate fan @whygavs.bsky.social · 4h

four elimination games and three series extended is pretty tidy work for one day of playoffs.

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original irate fan @whygavs.bsky.social · 4h

the 2013-2015 pirates could have had 2013-2015 clayton kershaw in their rotation.

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original irate fan @whygavs.bsky.social · 4h

everyone is having fun dunking on kershaw tonight and we should be, but let us take a brief moment to remember that pirate scouts wanted to draft him badly in 2006 but dave littlefield went to watch him pitch once and thought he sucked and picked brad lincoln instead.

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original irate fan @whygavs.bsky.social · 4h

oh my god

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original irate fan @whygavs.bsky.social · 4h

whew, still got it.

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original irate fan @whygavs.bsky.social · 4h

cam devanney

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original irate fan @whygavs.bsky.social · 4h

it's possible that this is a sign that my brain has reached Guy Capacity. what if i can't learn any more new Guys? a real looming disaster.

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original irate fan @whygavs.bsky.social · 4h

intellectually i understand that brandon marsh is a different person and player than jayson werth but that has still never once stopped my brain from going, "oh shit jayson werth is still playing?!?" every time i see brandon marsh on my television

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original irate fan @whygavs.bsky.social · 6h

he destroyed the pirates in 91 and 92

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original irate fan @whygavs.bsky.social · 7h

of all the things baseball has done to me

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original irate fan @whygavs.bsky.social · 7h

I refuse to learn about Strauss Workwear

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original irate fan @whygavs.bsky.social · 9h

the longer i thought about this the more i thought about bioshock infinite and landed on, "it's probably for the best that we do not find out how ubisoft would've sorted lincoln and john wilkes booth on the assassin/templar spectrum"

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 13h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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original irate fan @whygavs.bsky.social · 11h

c-level thor villain/henchman

Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 11h

“Dillon Dingler” is a Jack Kirby guy name. No idea who’s in the Venn diagram for this one.

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original irate fan @whygavs.bsky.social · 17h

(because there are at least two other streaming services I'd also have to pick up if I canceled cable)

original irate fan @whygavs.bsky.social · 17h

Yeah, I think to watch the Pirates/Pens and ESPN it's no longer economical to cancel cable.

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original irate fan @whygavs.bsky.social · 18h

they're not even that good at the computer

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original irate fan @whygavs.bsky.social · 18h

lot of that going around these days.

original irate fan @whygavs.bsky.social · 18h

no one in charge of anything anywhere anymore has ever confronted the thought that they might have a bad idea, you fundamentally cannot be that smart if you never consider the possibility that you might be wrong.

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original irate fan @whygavs.bsky.social · 18h

see this right here is why you cannot convince me any of these people are "smart" www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

OpenAI wasn’t expecting Sora’s copyright drama

It felt “more different to images than people expected.”

www.theverge.com

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original irate fan @whygavs.bsky.social · 1d

This guy in the prepper commercial is AI, right?

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original irate fan @whygavs.bsky.social · 1d

i have one clear and my general impressions so far are that somehow the gameplay loop is even better than the first game and the work done to make it feel different was really impressive, but i also keep thinking, "did i forget the plot of the first game? because i thought hades was the bad guy."

Aftermath @aftermath.site · 1d

Hades 2's story doesn't change the status quo
aftermath.site/hades-2-ending

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original irate fan @whygavs.bsky.social · 1d

i guess this is a me problem but i just straight up do not have FS2 or MLB Network and refuse to pay more than whatever ungodly sum i already pay per month for cable, it's insane that there's a playoff game i just cannot watch with what is a pretty normal cable package.

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original irate fan @whygavs.bsky.social · 1d

all-time classic incredible game that took OVER FIVE HOURS to play TEN INNINGS, i remember watching it and seeing people freak out online about how great it was while i could barely stay awake on my couch.

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original irate fan @whygavs.bsky.social · 1d

i see pitch clock discourse again and my opinion remains: game 5 of the 2017 world series was the turning point, we cannot go back to that

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