@relic: Thanks for reassuring me I'm not going crazy. The thing is I didn't even express any particular opinion about NFTs and I don't actually have any strong feelings about them one way or the other. My only point was that Bakalar stated what seemed to me to be a perfectly reasonable point of view, in a perfectly reasonable fashion, and I can't for the life of me understand why people feel he deserves to be shouted down for it.
I don't have any issue with others presenting an opposing point of view in a reasonable fashion, that's healthy debate. All too often though, it feels like people are arguing that there is only one valid opinion and that to even consider any other point of view makes you a bad person. It's like the smart people in the room already decided what the ideologically pure take on a topic is, so we should just tow the line. I found it refreshing that one of these topics came up on the podcast and Jeff actually gave some consideration to the opposing arguments.
@ssully: I really don't know all that much about crypto but I do know I was using bitcoin to buy drugs eight years ago. The idea that cryptocurrencies don't have any use as a real currency is bizarre to me because at that time all I knew bitcoin as was a currency. No one was talking about it as a get rich scheme or an investment, it was just a decentralised currency which people were using to make real world transactions. I still own some bitcoin from that time, though not nearly enough to make me rich.
@palemamba: I wouldn't necessarily disagree. It used to piss me off, but I find most people in the real world are still perfectly willing to engage in reasonable debate and consider opposing viewpoints so I just put it down to an internet thing.
I appreciate Jeff. I don't want to listen to an echo chamber where everyone shares exactly the same view on every single vaguely controversial or political topic.
I wasn't aware there was a Switch cloud version of Hitman 3 until Vinny mentioned it here. I just played through the free demo of the yacht training mission and I'm impressed how well it plays. The relatively slow pace of Hitman seems well suited to streaming. I wouldn't pay full price for it, but a subscription streaming service on Switch would be interesting if they were able to hit the right price point.
Just to clarify, Peter Moore was CEO at Liverpool, not the chairman. He wasn't involved in appointing the manager or anything like that, and in fact Klopp was in place before Moore joined. He was purely on the business side of things, so as Brad suggested he would have been responsible for endorsement contracts and things of that ilk. The chairman is/was Tom Werner of Red Sox fame.
@lyndbako: Well presumably it was a choice between voice only or bed cam. He did voice only on day one and two and personally I prefer to be able to see him. I suspect the other staff members prefer to be able to see him also. I have no idea why it would make you uncomfortable but to be honest I think that's on you. If it makes you uncomfortable then perhaps listen to the audio version?
@roadshell: The personal lists have always included games that didn't come out that year as far as I can remember. There aren't really any rules for the personal lists.
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