In Lesotho (and I assume other developing countries that teach the English standard) they use those phrases because the 24-hour day and 60-minute hours are a foreign concept to many kids and their families.

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I'm away from my PC/consoles for the next year but I've been all over Polytopia on mobile. Easy to learn hard to master. Very complex little game that I can play through a few times a day with lots of replayability.

No, it's not "exactly what you proposed." Your proposal would see a system where women would never reach the top tier of any physical sport, perhaps with few exceptions. There would always be a tier out of reach, and believe it or not it means a lot to know that winning is achieveable. This idea is so detrimental to a woman who wants to seriously compete in anything.

In fact, comparing a talented, hard-working woman to a man without the same level of talent or effort is such an insult. "They both have a disadvantage, one was born short and lazy, and the other was born a woman." It's not the same.

Also people who aren't talented and who don't put in extraordinary effort have lots of spaces to compete with each other. Co-ed leagues exist and they're lots of fun. Amateur leagues exist too, at different levels of competitiveness, for those who are competitive but like you said can't hack it at a professional level. But just because those spaces exist doesn't mean that should be enough for women who are inspired to be the best.

I give up, go play a sport.

Maybe to you. If this is the kind of content that you like and gets upvotes in this community then y'all have fun with it; it's not harming anyone. I just commented after seeing it on All because I only just noticed the trend of memes being used differently than they used to be.

Nah this is a devolution.

The woman in the meme is supposed to say something unreasonable, and that makes sense because she's clearly emotional and angry. Her correctly solving the puzzle doesn't align with her picture.

Then we've replaced the cat with Skeltor... for what? I guess him being wrong makes more sense than the cat because the cat is usually correct, or just minding their own business, but why not use the meme with the monkey looking sideways? Or why don't we use the Winnie the Pooh meme?

It just seems like someone slapped together three images they saw on Reddit without really trying to make sense. And for some reason people up vote this. Idk.

If your world has other adventurers, I think it's ok to say some fledgling adventurers finished the job or something. It might even be a cool role-playing scenario where a clearly inferior party declares themselves superior because they did what the PCs "couldn't" (read: didn't) do.

If you think it would be fun to have their past actions catch up with them, do it. I think the important thing is to keep the story "moving forward" rather than pulling the characters backwards to old events. So you should imagine taking those old unused encounters, spicing them up as a consequence of the characters failing to deal with them before (ie the old hobgoblins from level 4 have made a pact with a devil in exchange for a power boost to take vengeance on the PCs who failed to wipe out the whole group), and then placing those encounters in front of the players and making them relevant to the current plot rather then making the players pause what they're interested in to deal with something they already mostly dealt with.

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What's with all these weird misused memes

The argument with chess is not "trans women have an advantage at chess" the argument is still pure transphobia of "trans women are not women."

To be clear I don't agree with that, I just wanna get us back on track because it's different from the discussion around other sports.

Women allowed to compete with the men, and they do. This thread is nuts.

There are women's competitions because the unrestricted competitions are still dominated by men, and the restricted tournaments allow us to acknowledge the best women to generate excitement for chess from other women. To show them that there are women excelling at this game.

We are so spoiled with these young players

Why not make leagues separated by performance only? Because when talented women work hard to excel at a sport, they deserve recognition for that beyond merely being allowed to compete with people who have testosterone increasing their physical abilities.

I compete in Taekwon-Do tournaments, and I train others to compete. I have a really badass young woman who trains really hard, and on top of it all she's extremely talented. If she keeps it up, after a few years she could be up there with the best in the world... among women. ALSO she literally won the [redacted because I realized someone could find her name lol, it's a small sport with few seriously competitive people] women's world championship for the US, just as a side project. That girl cannot compete with men at a high level. I'm still leagues below the guys who go to the world championships, never mind win them. I would blow her and her competition out of the water if you made me seriously compete with them. She deserves an environment where she can compete with people at the same weight class and born with a similar enough body, and when she wins she deserves to be called the best. Not "congratulations, you're good enough to spar with the lower end of the guys."

You need a source to know that a man and woman at the same weight class would be advantageous to the man?

Uncultured, clearly hasn't read enough Discworld.

Oh neat, didn't think I'd meet another PCV here!

Yeah I recognize the reasons for the differences between pro sports and other sectors but my experiences since graduating have made me appreciate the sports world a lot more than before. Honestly in college I didn't really make time to watch games regularly and certainly didn't read about the goings-on behind the scenes, but now I find I have a renewed respect for the rigour necessary in making a competitive team, especially since my PC service has coincided so nicely with Arsenal's fairly recent ascension. But that's kind of part of service right? Learning these things about yourself. I've realized I want to try putting myself in a more ambitious environment after I'm done here.

Starting to realize what I miss about soccer, and why I enjoy following Arsenal (or just sports in general) and it's to do with how serious the people at that level take their job and work together. I only finished college a few years ago but the adult world really lacks passion. It seems like everybody is only trying to be as good as everyone else, and there's so much fear to give a damn and to try to do better because you might fail. That's how it feels anyway.

I've been a Peace Corps volunteer for a year now and it's just a tough pill to swallow that even folks working for NGOs, hospitals and clinics fighting the tail end of the HIV pandemic are still just going through the motions.

I guess that's what I admire about these teams that are pushing the limits and trying to be the best in the world. They have massive structures for data analysis and medical facilities for the athletes, they are ruthless with people who don't do their job and it all comes down to these 90-minute games where the stakes are very real.

I think it was a Tim Stillman article that pondered that Ramsdale was being benched because he wasn't doing what Arteta was asking him to do because he was afraid of giving up goals. So it may not be a discussion of quality so much as who is more willing to do what they're told.

It matches both of their characters I think, and Ray's playing may be a message to Ramsdale and possibly the rest of the squad that you listen to the manager or you sit, no matter who you are or what position you play. Then he goes to phrase it in the media as "it's just like any other position, I play the player who makes sense tactically" when what he means is "I play the player that will execute my tactics."

Good read. I appreciate the mention of how they look for good matches for loans for the players. I wonder how many teams are really considered when a player goes on loan.

I know folks like the "ree Spurs are gonna stumble" comments but I think a title race with Spurs would be so much more fun than with City. If we can enter the end of the season with Spurs and Arsenal both with a small point advantage on City then that could make for an incredibly entertaining run-in.