thatpinguino.bsky.social
I talk about video games on the Deep Listens podcast https://deeplistens.libsyn.com/. Former freelancer at GiantBomb.com and Waypoint.
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This season has been a pretty stark reminder that every team is one bad injury away from the lottery. And bad injuries are happening more and more frequently.
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I'm really waiting on the Hamburgler endorsement to know where to send my vote.
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I read it and I know about their flexibility. I just disagree that the path to repeating or dynasty status is as clear as you say even with all of the flexibility and picks. Getting the right combo of guys and getting health luck is really rare even with assets and culture.
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Congratulations on the title. You get to talk your shit for a year.
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Sure. The Thunder are likely to be in the mix for at least another season until they need to pay people, barring injury. Then the attrition that this new hard capped era has imposed on every serious team comes for them too.
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OKC went to 2 game 7s against injured teams despite having perfect health. They pulled out the title, but let's not pretend that they dominated. They were the healthy team this year out of the half dozen teams that could have won a title.
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If the wigs are big enough, does the movie become camp?
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I like how you can go back to 65,000,000 BC and see Lavos meeting Cuomo for the first time. Then you can see the planet parasite drafting his endorsement in 12,000 BC, 600 AD, and 1000 AD. He really punches up his speech in 600 AD!
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Ripping off the dumb teams is how champions are made.
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Stole a franchise, cheaped out multiple times, and got rewarded for it by the NBA imposing a de facto hard cap right when they finished their most recent tank. Couldn't have scripted it any better for OKC.
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I'm just saying, if your offensive game is very predicated on drawing fouls by any means necessary, casual fans aren't going to really notice the nuanced defense
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Replacing a 6'4 PG with excellent ball security with a 6 foot bench sparkplug got the OKC turnover machine going and that flipped the game
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People's don't talk much about James Harden's post defense either
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Having your lead ball handler be 6 foot against OKC at home just isn't workable
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Having the opposing point guard leave the game in the first 10 minutes seems more significant, but sure.
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Losing Haliburton made this game so different
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I know Dort is good on defense, but boy is he in the Marcus Smart category of guys who are so hard to watch because of the ref games.
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He gets the call like 50% of the time somehow. He's gotta train for how often he flops and then has to get up and actually play defense when the refs don't bite.
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It's so tough. The dude has been training for exactly this game his whole life. To not be able to give it a go would be brutal too.
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Damn. I just hope it isn't going to cost him an entire year.
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It's gotta be him, Mathurin, Nembhard, or TJ. They're the on ball creators for the Pacers. Thankfully the Pacers have a ton of guys with creation skills. If SGA went down for the Thunder, they would be completely cooked.
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I'm sure the game hits different when you're trapped on a train commuting to your job and you've been conditioned to accept mediocre gameplay by PSP Monster Hunter. In terms of the story, it's edgy in the way 300 is edgy: it's needlessly violent and bloody.
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For some reason folks default to cliches like that when what they usually mean is "guards their position well, can make a shot, and doesn't hog the ball."
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Steel Battalion on Kinect has to be one of the most ridiculous transitions of controller ever. Going from one of the most bespoke controllers in gaming history to a fancy Eye Toy should be studied on game design classes.
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Ah, the Malik Monk approach.
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It's gotta be so hard to evaluate gunner types as it is. Those guys vary so much based on whether their shooting translates and whether they can figure out how to do anything else.
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The dude whose major business innovation was stiffing contractors and daring them to go to court seems to think he can do that at the national level and boy I don't think that's how things work.
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Has natural deodorant gotten any better? From previous experience aluminum is the only thing standing between society and the stink monster.
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Not only did it not get them praised, in a lot of cases they get very pointed criticism because their institutions are failing the moment and they're part of the problem! When faced with that it's either stick your neck out to act on the criticism or dismiss the critics. Most chose the later.
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On the one hand he's often wrong and poorly informed. On the other hand, he's loud and inflexible. It's really hard to figure out why a company centered around this guy and people like him keeps losing talent and viewership.
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At least when people were marrying their DS anime women everyone knew it was the act of someone desperate and lonely. This guy has a kid! And a human partner!
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Muting this crew is pretty essential.
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The new CBA making it impossible to keep a team together for more than 2 years and have functional depth has really changed the landscape of the NBA the last few years. The best teams are all so thin and the deep teams are all so young.
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Sure is weird how this keeps happening with one specific ref, yet he keeps getting to ref very key games to such an extent that he's nicknamed "the extender". Ah well, nevertheless.
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I mean, minding basic manners in front of Ezra basically guarantees a friendly interview regardless of who you are or what you believe. So I'm not surprised people seem nicer to him on his podcast than they actually are.
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Imagine complaining about the cost of gaming when a significant part of the industry is making $10 games you can play for hours that will run on either your phone or a 10+ year old computer
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Just wait until they find out about skiing
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Defensive team with one reliable offensive player versus a team that seems to be touched by the gods.