Read Dežulović's column today about tech in soccer? The guy’s at it again. Honestly, I can't get behind his take on this one. Not feeling it.
On one hand you're twisting the truth, on the other you're feeding people lies just to keep that little sense of mystery and myth alive. Do I even have a choice?
So, they basically allow any kind of nonsense on the Bundesliga forums like trashing Barca and acting all pathetic about it, while they just dump trash topics like "purging" people or chasing them off threads. Job done 🙏🙏🙏
What’s that episode of Star Trek called where an entire civilization bans negative thoughts, so everyone starts meeting underground just to express themselves without being caught? 🤣
Matthew Anderson4 said:Honestly, I think VB16/VRM13 have more right to be running the Primere thread than anyone else posting there. Personally, I wouldn't even care if Robert Torres and his crew just started their own separate thread and left ours alone.
Agreed. Same here—I wouldn't mind at all if Robert Torres and the gang showed up in force and basically "took over" the Primera discussion.
While we're at it, why don't you guys go ahead and open that massive Real-Barca thread? I'm dying to see how many of these people (excluding Robert Torres) who keep preaching about "constructive debate" actually show up to make the Primera thread any better.
Movies weren't my first love, but they definitely climbed the ranks. It was always gonna happen. After drifting through different music phases—yeah, had some real obsessions there too—I fell for cinema the way you fall for any art form. It all started with pure nostalgia for those 80s and 90s flicks I grew up on. They weren't exactly high-brow masterpieces, but they had enough style and soul to do the job for a kid coming of age. When I tried moving on to the "serious" stuff, I’ll be honest, I was lost. I tried, but I couldn't see past the surface. I knew the definition of directing, sure, but I didn't actually *get* what it meant. To me, a movie was just like an equation in math class—something you look at but don't really feel. So, I read a bit about it. Not much, though. Studying felt too pretentious for me back then. But I picked up some tips, listened to some critiques, and started connecting the dots. I don't binge watch like I used to, maybe once or two years ago I was watching constantly, but I still love it. I try to view films through my own lens, learning as I go, which changes how I see things. There are movies I watched ages ago where the point didn't even hit me until much later. I guess experience is the best teacher.
Thinking about it more, I’m not buying that suggestion. It’s not that Robert Torres' posts lack substance—it’s just that he isn't talking about the Lakers or the Celtics. Let's be real, even with a few fans of the Knicks, Heat, or Mavs hanging around, everyone's eyes are glued to the heavy hitters. That’s just how the public follows the game. Dropping two new threads won't suddenly make people care about teams outside the big two. That's just the reality of it.
David Anderson72 said:That automatically creates grounds to question a moderator's impartiality. Especially when we know the case is specific and the moderator happens to be a fan of one of the teams. In the real world, we call that a conflict of interest.
Believe whatever you want, man. It all ends up in the same place. The only thing that actually matters is whether your penalty was legit or not.
