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  1. TheLeviathan
    Was there a second part of this article that used something more substantial to make the argument? Or didn't uncut it's own premise in the final paragraph? If you're going to keep citing these articles, it'd be nice to find one that offered something more in the way of analysis. These are mostly lazy arguments that look at none of the nuance that goes into election results. Or the difficulty or predicting future ones. You're celebrating your echo chamber. Be better than that.
  2. TheLeviathan
    This is so painfully simplistic....yet I have to say it I guess. People viewing something on youtube does not equate to them "looking at it as evidence" Millions of people view cats with frowns for faces. You're seriously making me type this? Did Brock's breakdown on using likes or views on youtube not get through?
  3. TheLeviathan
    I'm very with you on this. Upthread I thought they should've devoted 10 episodes just to the period from when Dany gets to Winterfell and the defense of it. Think if we'd had 5 episodes of intrigue and build like the first two of this season? They prepare a defense (a good one), they play politics even as doom sets in on them, we spend more time with Tormund and Beric, see more of the NK preparing his forces, and snippets of Cersei preparing for war. Then, as you say, three episodes of battle. First the battle in the field to whittle their forces. Yes, the Dothraki get decimated and so do many of the ground troops, but the effort is valiant until they pull back behind the trenches. This time the fire holds up and they use the dragons to push back the dead while they regroup. As the episode goes on the dead start breaking through, getting to the point that they scale the walls and the NK shows up. Last episode of the battle is the castle fight and the death of the NK. Then they use the traditional last episode as what we saw last night: celebrations, relationships, more politics. Instead we got all of that in 3.5 episodes. It just doesn't work or do justice to the build-up to this point.
  4. TheLeviathan
    That seems like the logical antidote.
  5. TheLeviathan
    It's a classic fantasy/sci-fi problem. How do you make someone powerful but not too powerful? They made the NK a force, but built in vampire rules and a one-hit kill function. Ultimately I think the problem is that everything is in a rush to the end. These things need to breathe more or they feel incomplete.
  6. TheLeviathan
    Merely because another team did it is not good enough for me to try the same thing. Especially since Marwin had Bregman and Altuve flanking him as opposed to Schoop and Sano. I'm sure they will play him there a bit, but Adrianza was a .680 OPS player with a pretty good glove at SS. As hard as it may be to accept, this makes him a valuable player. As in, above average for what most teams have on their bench for SS. It ain't gonna be him they send packing. At least not until they think Gordon is viable.
  7. TheLeviathan
    It's Cave and then probably Romero. Or some other dude from the pen. Adrianza is this team's backup SS. He's not going anywhere. (Though he's been pretty bad so far, that's for sure)
  8. TheLeviathan
    Helluva nice win.
  9. TheLeviathan
    I hope he keeps this up. I'll gladly eat that delicious crow. And this might be the first sign that this FO can take analytics and deliver high end production by mining opportunities from struggling players. That's a very good sign.
  10. TheLeviathan
    I think last year burned some good will, but if they keep playing like this they're going to change some minds.
  11. TheLeviathan
    She almost certainly will be, he's all but said the book after Winds of Winter will be called Dance of Dragons. He wants to have that fight and it will almost certainly result in a serious diminishing of strength for Dany. And the entire premise is contrived. He reached a point, like the show, where he realized he had pacing problems with her age and her consolidation of power and there was no realistic way for anyone in Westeros to put up a fight with what she accumulated. So what did he do? He decided to spend pages and pages suggesting that maybe the Mountain didn't kill the real baby and there was another Targ in the mix. And he gave this Targ the Golden Company. And had him reach Westeros first and start courting allies. It's fairly evident to me where this takes Dany's story and how it will weaken her in the process. Again, many of the issues the show is struggling with are the very ones GRRM hasn't found a way to write his way out of either. I just wish the show had been able to take more time telling this endgame. They're reaching the same point but I worry the show will not feel as authentic because it rushed too quickly through some very important changes. (In particular, Dany from savior and genuinely good person to the real final villain. That is GRRM's plan, but he would have, had he written his books less aimlessly so he could finish them, probably brought her there in a more satisfying way)
  12. TheLeviathan
    You boiled down what I said into that and you're continuing to harp that point. What idiots do on youtube is not my point and at no point am I even considering what they do. It's a tiny fraction that's irrelevant. Drop it and stop making my points about that. I'm pretty sure I said pressure legislators and vote for people who will put more pressure on. Hold elected officials accountable if they don't hold police accountable. People should not allow police to get away with it merely because they are police.
  13. TheLeviathan
    Breaking Bad was near perfection for me. The Shield was good. This may be left field, but Star Trek TNG had a great run. DS9 as well. Dexter went off the rails long before the ending, so that made that disaster easier to handle.
  14. TheLeviathan
    The only way to read this post is that you've somehow equivocated "more focus" into "youtube instigating" Cmon. That's a poor argument to put it kindly. More focus means that the general population needs to put more pressure on elected officials to hold unions and police investigators accountable. To pressure the courts to hold these men and women accountable. To press for legislation if necessary. To elect people who will do more than pay lip service to investigating and prosecuting corruption, incompetence, and illegal policing.
  15. TheLeviathan
    I've always defended D&D but this has been rushed. I hope at some point we find out why things were so condensed. It feels like last year needed more meat in building the Dany-Jon relationship. This season should hvae been 85% Night King for 10 episodes. Then another season on Cersei. As you say, this is far too condensed. Dany's turn to Mad Queen is not going to feel earned. Jon and Dany's relationship feels rushed. The military points feel like ambushes that don't make sense. I don't like it. I wonder if it's the producers or actors ready to move on or costs, but this is a problem. Also, for the other points about weakening Dany - GRRM created an entire plot (that consumed almost an entire book and will consume another entire book) on building an enemy for Dany to weaken her. So this is coming in the books too, but in an even more contrived and ridiculous way IMO.
  16. TheLeviathan
    The Dany heel turn is too fast, I'm not sure this will feel earned. Might have been better stretching this out longer, though I'm guessing that wasn't possible.
  17. TheLeviathan
    Fine, as long as you agree that the issue needs focus and attention. Cops have been using a fog of ignorance and other tools to get away with some very inappropriate, unprofessional behavior for too long. Stop automatically defending them. They deserve our respect and appreciation until they don't. And when they don't they don't get a break simply because their job is hard.
  18. TheLeviathan
    This is an excellent post and, as you correctly point out, Brooks was merely saying the cost of those bad apples is extreme. This is about reform. We rarely get to undergo reform in the policing system because there is such strong resistance to every instance like this and taking a long, hard look at the union and the protections bad officers receive. And there is real, significant cost to taxpayers. Somehow I feel if incompetent teachers were regularly costing tax payers 20M there would be less right-wingers lining up to defend them.
  19. TheLeviathan
    What's really amazing about that Brock, and this plays to your FF4 love, is that you could argue Marvel isn't even playing with characters that have ever carried their brand. Cap and Hulk certainly were noteworthy, but as a property the Avengers have rarely been Marvel's flagship title. The FF4 had it for a long time, the X-men had it, Spiderman had it, but did the Avengers ever have it? Imagine what they can do with those characters! They've only tapped the surface of their options. And they kicked all of our asses emotionally for the better part of two decades. Pun intended - that's a marvel.
  20. TheLeviathan
    Sano might legitimately hit 6th or 7th in this lineup. If he's Smashy Sano of old.....this is a ridiculously tough lineup. And if Buxton can keep this up (and improve ideally)....woofta.
  21. TheLeviathan
    My Odorizzi doubt is looking stupider by the day. And I'm fine with that. Also, Mitch Garver continues to call brilliant performances. I want the man behind the dish 75% of the time please.
  22. TheLeviathan
    Cap picking up the hammer hit me far more emotionally. The fact that they could make these characters resonate with all of us so strongly is a real testament to what Feige and the guys at Marvel created here. I have no problem proclaiming this the best movie franchise ever. I'm not sure it's particularly close.
  23. TheLeviathan
    Oh I agree, it was anti-climatic for me as well. It's a testament to the show that they built up such lofty expectations. It's also fair to criticize when they don't live up to the ones they set too.
  24. TheLeviathan
    He squashed much of that risk because he was allowed to breath as a candidate in the primaries. As Brock alludes, the Dems are already suffocating their own without giving many of them even a shot. I don't see how Warren can win (despite liking her as a candidate), but I'd sure as hell like to give her a shot at galvanizing the electorate. Same goes for any of these candidates, whatever pros or cons they have.
  25. TheLeviathan
    I agree, but there is a potential flaw in the conclusion being drawn. Simply because these candidates were seen as electable, and share that in common, does not make that a common cause of defeat. For example, it's quite possible if the Dems had nominated the less electable option in 2008 (see: Hillary Clinton), John McCain might have served several terms in office. At the end of the day you sorta need that person to be electable or why would you nominate them? Where I agree with the criticism is that it can't be is seen as a sufficient quality in that candidate. They have to be both electable and have minimal negative qualities and other positive qualities. Clinton was electable and had positive qualities, but she had a tractor trailer worth of negatives. Kerry was electable, but brought absolutely nothing else to the table. Ditto Gore. If Biden offers nothing more than electable - yeah, ditch him. But don't ditch him in favor of someone that gives you warm fuzzies ideologically but couldn't be elected if their life depended on it.
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