conciselyverbose

All of those tricks change timing. None of them prevent the money from hitting the salary cap eventually. Excluding the veteran exception I mentioned last post, everything you spend hits the cap at some point.

Literally everything you spend hits the cap. Every penny you spend* that doesn't hit this year's salary cap is future cap space, by definition.

Borrowing to win 10 games instead of 6 makes it literally impossible that you aren't a dogshit GM. Any sports personality who even uses the words "real cash spending" is telling you conclusively they know absolutely nothing about how building a team works. It's a nonsense imaginary number that doesn't mean anything (and doesn't include anything incentive based because of when it's calculated, making it even more idiotic to ever bring up in a discussion ever).

*except specific veteran minimum contracts, which count as a slightly lower number to keep the veteran minimum from costing guys jobs.

It's complete noise.

Not spending more now is because spending more now is insanely bad strategy with no redeeming qualities for a rebuilding team in literally all scenarios. You don't spend future cap until you're already ready to contend and your borrowing is to get over the hump.

Valve wants nothing more than for other devices to ship Steam OS. They make some money on them, especially more expensive tiers, but the purpose is to allow people to play more games on PC instead of consoles, and in particular Linux so they're less reliant on Microsoft.

They don't actually care who sells the hardware.

You'd think if it was they'd be pointing to that.

As far as I'm concerned "you must have parental consent until 18" is perfectly legitimate, because you can't really sign contracts or fully legally consent until then.

Falcons veteran Calais Campbell said he had no problem with going for the score but was more upset that they appeared to lineup in a victory formation.

"I wish they would have lined up in run formation," he said. "Don't look like you're going to take a knee and then run then ball. … I was just frustrated with that because I just feel like there was a way to do it, if you’re gonna do it."

OK, that's a valid gripe to me.

I absolutely agree, but "you need parental consent to have an account" doesn't seem unreasonable to me.

Nintendo can't get emulators that actually are for the primary purpose of bypassing their restrictions (even if doing so on legitimately purchased games is perfectly legal) shut down, and this company thinks they can close a fucking reader because it's possible some people might use it with pirated copies of their IP?🤣

I put them on my OLED when it had brand new joycons pretty much right away. The joysticks on brand new joycons are still awful.

I use binbok I found on Amazon. They're a huge upgrade IMO. The joysticks aren't a trainwreck like the joycons are even before drift, and the shape is much better for handheld use.

I'm all for "8GB is horseshit". There's a reason it's built onto the chip though. But past that the idea that having multiple levels of performance is bad is stupid.

And so is the idea that 4 grand on a laptop that will meaningfully save you work time is a huge deal. It it's a hobby that doesn't make you money, just let it be slower.

Cash spending is never, under any circumstance a meaningful metric. "Cash spending" is low because they structured past contracts to use future cap space and are not at the point where it can possibly be intelligent to borrow again.

They absolute have been borrowing future cap space for 2 decades. It's the entire reason they were able to stay at the top of the league. They did it intelligently by primarily borrowing with premier players like Brady, McCourty, etc, but they did it, and the bill is still due. The fact that the draft capital over the past 5-10 years that was invested to build the current roster is much lower because of their success is more of the same.

Anyone telling you a sustained contender was built in less than 5 years is lying to you, and leveraging premium assets that just weren't realized by the previous regime. The 2018 Rams Super Bowl losing team, in addition to the massive borrowing and future draft assets, had Donald (10) Gurley (10), Goff(1), Brockers (14) as top 15 picks they used to put together 2 seasons as a contender in a 5 year stretch. The sustained high capital in the draft is how "instant rebuilds" happen. There is no such thing as an actual instant rebuild resulting in sustained contention.