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06-10-2014 , 10:30 AM
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Originally Posted by CPHoya
Please knock these out of the park.
I don't know what that means.

I'll score a screamer from 30 yards out with my write-ups, though.
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06-10-2014 , 10:30 AM
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Originally Posted by Bandz
Looooool most obv riggage of all time
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06-10-2014 , 10:32 AM
i suggest the order goes ABB rather than ABA btw, picks 8-9-24 is obv dog**** compared with 1-16-17, whereas 1-16-24 vs 8-9-17 much more even
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06-10-2014 , 10:33 AM
Anyone second that motion? I think I agree and if I don't hear dissent in the coming moments I'll just make it so.

EDIT: It is made so.
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06-10-2014 , 10:36 AM
If someone wants a co-mod I offer my services
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06-10-2014 , 10:37 AM
gotta give them a meaningless compromise or they might start investigating the riggedness
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06-10-2014 , 10:38 AM
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Originally Posted by BAIDS
finding this 100x tougher than expected
yep
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06-10-2014 , 11:07 AM
**** I'm at work and won't be able to do a good writeup. Lemme check with VIG
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06-10-2014 , 11:21 AM
Pick coming
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06-10-2014 , 11:24 AM
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06-10-2014 , 11:43 AM
Team digables/nutshot2 (USA#1) were elated to find out they received the #1 pick in the draft.

So like in any other serious professional sports draft, we got in the war room, took some phone calls, entertained some offers, but ultimately, like in any other draft, we knew who the #1 pick was going to be long before this thing started.

With the #1 pick, we get a once in a lifetime type of bad poster. Guaranteed high volume, low quality. The type of draft pick teams drool over because of his extremely low bust potential and extraordinary star makeup.

Yes folks, with the first pick, Team USA #1 selects:

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Cruizn63



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What makes an especially bad poster? We could talk all day about this, but three succinct bullet points should do the trick for this rare bird.

1. He'll have you think he's mostly a quality content soccer poster, but don't be fooled. Cruizn spends far more time trolling around USA threads and posters. He may post the occasional Mexican Starting 11 or liveblog a game, neither of which anyone reads, but his bread and butter is his obsessions with USA. I tested my theory by searching how often he mentioned Mexico then searching how often he mentions USA or terms associated with USA like Yanks, Murca, America, etc.
Moments later I get a PM from Mat Sklansky asking if I was trying to break the forum search engine. The results of the study I ran weren't surprising, Cruizn thinks about or mentions USA at an astonishing 1.34 times per second.

2. The results of his body of work are on display in the bad posting thread, where he's pretty much a lock hall of famer for all his nominations.

3. He honestly thinks he's a quality poster and isn't a troll. Watch it on display when he wanders outside soccer threads in to other sports. This kind of blindness and lack of self awareness is paramount to our organization, and why we're willing to invest the #1 pick in no one's own, Cruizn63
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06-10-2014 , 11:47 AM
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Originally Posted by digables
Team digables/nutshot2 (USA#1) were elated to find out they received the #1 pick in the draft.

So like in any other serious professional sports draft, we got in the war room, took some phone calls, entertained some offers, but ultimately, like in any other draft, we knew who the #1 pick was going to be long before this thing started.

With the #1 pick, we get a once in a lifetime type of bad poster. Guaranteed high volume, low quality. The type of draft pick teams drool over because of his extremely low bust potential and extraordinary star makeup.

Yes folks, with the first pick, Team USA #1 selects:

Spoiler:
Cruizn63



Spoiler:
What makes an especially bad poster? We could talk all day about this, but three succinct bullet points should do the trick for this rare bird.

1. He'll have you think he's mostly a quality content soccer poster, but don't be fooled. Cruizn spends far more time trolling around USA threads and posters. He may post the occasional Mexican Starting 11 or liveblog a game, neither of which anyone reads, but his bread and butter is his obsessions with USA. I tested my theory by searching how often he mentioned Mexico then searching how often he mentions USA or terms associated with USA like Yanks, Murca, America, etc.
Moments later I get a PM from Mat Sklansky asking if I was trying to break the forum search engine. The results of the study I ran weren't surprising, Cruizn thinks about or mentions USA at an astonishing 1.34 times per second.

2. The results of his body of work are on display in the bad posting thread, where he's pretty much a lock hall of famer for all his nominations.

3. He honestly thinks he's a quality poster and isn't a troll. Watch it on display when he wanders outside soccer threads in to other sports. This kind of blindness and lack of self awareness is paramount to our organization, and why we're willing to invest the #1 pick in no one's own, Cruizn63
Outstanding.
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06-10-2014 , 11:47 AM
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06-10-2014 , 11:57 AM
standard
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06-10-2014 , 12:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Das Boot
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Why am I laughing so hard at this?
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06-10-2014 , 12:01 PM
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06-10-2014 , 12:05 PM
FIFA would be proud of that rand.
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06-10-2014 , 12:16 PM
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Originally Posted by CPHoya
Why am I laughing so hard at this?
Because it's hilarious.
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06-10-2014 , 12:32 PM
With the second pick in the First Quadrennial World Cup Bad P0sting Draft, we are proud to select:

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"We are now last in the rankings. Dead last. Behind even the Mexican pösters. It's over. We cannot recover."


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Sugar Nut



Reliable Sources of Sugar AIDS:
  • Homerism
  • Derailment, Early and Often
  • Petty Bickering
  • Not letting an argument drop, ever
  • Verbose Defense of Self (a CAPITAL OFFENSE)
  • Cowardice (making strong/controversial statements and then refusing vig-free betting opportunities based on those claims)

Analysis:

Homerism

High volume of posts about Germany NT being in GOAT contention because they won 10 victories in a row in the run-up to the Euros. In fact, more than half of those games were vs the likes of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Austria in the qualifying group. Sugar Nut did not care, or stop rattling off GOAT nonsense until they got pumped by Italy in the semis.

Sugar Nut was insistent that 3/1 Germany winning the Euros would be a more remarkable achievement than 50/1 Greece winning it in 04 for reasons which to this day remain unclear.

Sugar Nut's hyperbolic GOAT arguments are not limited. He demonstrated similar levels of GOAT talk with regard to Bayern, although they have at least won something. He is adept at subtle goalpost shifts from possible GOAT team to possible GOAT Bayern team. We expect similar performances in the World Cup thread.


Derailments/petty bickering/not letting an argument drop under any circumstances/overly verbose defense of self

There are too many instances to highlight, so let's review the most recent:

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Originally Posted by Sugar Nut
It's apparently now turned into a yankball discussion thread.

Natural progression, I guess, from proudly boasting about how few ****s are given about football, to 'but hey, look at us! We're good at yankball!'

LÖL yanks.
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Originally Posted by Gary Wise
Group G thread in a nutshell:

Americans: Our apples are better than your apples!

Sugar Nut: No, my oranges are better than your oranges!
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Originally Posted by Sugar Nut
The USMNT thread has a kinduva weird perception of what does and what does not constitute trolling. Same goes for mods (American ones, I presume) who change the thread title of Group A's thread to include "lolmehico" (No, it wasn't created that way, and you can check that in the thread. Somebody changed it between posts 29 and 31). I'd say we should alert Sethy. Oh wait...

I once posted "LÖL Klinsmann" in the USMNT thread, because not only do I believe Klinsmann is LÖL, but he's also pretty much the only one of my childhood heroes (the 1990 team, ldo) that has fallen from my grace for being a ******ed piece of **** and also once having almost achieved to utterly trainwreck my club. I mean he signed Landon Donovan to Bayern München, FFS! (OK, that's a troll , but still. He might be a USMNT hero, but he's not a Bayern player. Klinsmann signed him purely because he's an "Americaficionado" and that's a fact.)

Anyways, me posting that, triggered about a billion or so of this threads' regulars to "Alert Sethy" (using the report feature because OMG He Desecrated Our Holiest of Holies!), which in turn triggered a PM by a mod (not Sethy). I guess I learned my lesson about this thread being "special" back then.

Whatever. I will stay out of this thread for the most part, though, just because you're a tight nit clique that happens to dislike me, doesn't mean that I can't post in there at all. After above mentioned incident I keep my presence there to a minimum and usually only post in the USMNT thread when I have something to add (sorry for not "getting" that skin color joke). You played like **** against Azerbaijan. I happened to be awake, so I posted (in concurrence with pretty much all of the knowledgeable USMNT fans) that you played like ****.

I got trolled by the "born agains".

Long story short. I'm no saint. I'm very, very, VERY emotional when it comes to football. Also, I see no reason why I shouldn't reply with "yank" trolling to the USA#1 World War crowd. I'd like to see what would happen if I would come into an Olympic Ice Hockey or Basketball thread and acted similarly. Knowing nothing (as in: ZIP) about the game, and acting like the boorishest German Nazi **** you could imagine, just to be an arsehole. I'd be temp'd, then perma'd within two days (BUT HEY! IT WAS ALL TONGUE IN CHEEK!!!).

I posted earlier how I think that Loosekanen is a good poster, and I could say the same about a handfull of the US soccer fans here. Das Boot comes to mind, with whom I've had my fair share of clashes, but that's to be expected when you're knowledgeable AND passionate about the game.

Anyways, this post has gotten longer than I wanted.

tl;dr:
I ain't no saint, but I'm passionate about the game. Boorish, destructive ****s with no interest in the actual sport, coming into the thread, derailing it with WW bull**** will be made fun of using generic stereotypes. Alert Sethy if you must!

Peace.
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Originally Posted by Sugar Nut
Yeah, if they have nothing but praise for "USA#1".



It was, and I did/had.

This thread is full of "lolmehicos" every chance you get. And this attitude spills all over the football threads, culminating in one of your mods changing a WC Group's thread title.

Yet someone posts "LÖL Klinsmann" in you sacramental thread in which you have all the trolling privileges in the world, and you go and run an tell on them? I thought Americans were tougher than running to "tell mom". They surely act it around here.



Bull****. You come in there, you contribute, you get trolled by obnoxious internet rednecks, and you have to be extremely careful about how you respond, because those same redneck tough guys will go cry and then "Alert Sethy" if you dare so much as to say one negative thing about your team, which, let's face the facts, for all intents and purposes is utter shyte.

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My very first post in this thread:



Met with general approval by you lot, during a time where it was the cool/good/AMERICAN thing to hate on Klinsmann, apparently.

Funnily enough, I can't find my LÖL Klinsmann post (a bit later, when Klinsmann had apparently turned into some kind of All American National Hero or something) anymore. Must have been deleted by an alarmed Sethy rushing to the rescue.
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Originally Posted by Sugar Nut
Well, like I said, the mods themselves are USA#1 trolls (a few of them at least).

I'm not going to "Alert Sethy" about it, because LÖL at people who do that (Yeah, I'm looking at you, Bobbo), but calling people a buncha ****ing Nazis is pretty heavy right there.
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Originally Posted by Sugar Nut
You support your bobsled team in the Olympics by calling fans of the German bobsled team ****ing Nazis, and you think there's nothing wrong with that?

I get that that's not what you actually mean, but come on dude. What's going on right now is clearly beyond 'casually supporting my team in a sport that I usually don't care that much about'. I frankly don't give a **** if "The Boorish American" is an act or not (although I'm pretty sure there's at least a certain amount of genuinity in that behaviour), it is obnoxious as ****.

Nobody has anything against, let's call them 'Bobsled Fans'. Nobody has anything against hardcore fans of 'smaller' football nations supporting their team in a hardcore way (you, loosekanen, Das Boot and surely others that I forget come to mind).

If masses of 'fans' of one of these smaller football nations come into a discussion and collectively leave a massively huge, obnoxious and pretentious dump on it, calling upon the military dominance of their nation (like WTF?) and being super condescending in every way possible, then, act or no act, 'it's problem'.
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Originally Posted by Gary Wise
This. IF SN were to let it go, a lot of it would die down.

That said, I think loose Nazi usage should be a temp-ban offense.
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Originally Posted by Sugar Nut
Oh, it's *probably* over the line? ROFL. I should use your modus operandi and alert Sethy to this post of yours.
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Originally Posted by Sugar Nut
Yup, I clearly need to let it go, when the discussion about the sport I am most interested in gets covered in feces by people who don't care about the sport at all just to be dicks.
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Originally Posted by Gary Wise
Dude, you can't stop it. This is playground ****. You get in their face about it and they'll only get louder. Seriously, yours is the worst possible approach for actually getting them to stop. Rise above it.
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Originally Posted by Sugar Nut
I do and I am. I said yesterday that I am no saint.

Letting it go now in hopes of having an actual discussion in that thread.


GL with bolded.

As you can see, he will never, ever, stop p0sting. And this is good. Even better, he will go HAM, at length, with great VERVE and PASSION, which is a critical trait for a top pick. We are confident that he possesses the rare ENERGY and CONVICTION to COMMIT to his untenable positions, and batter everyone with them, throughout the World Cup.

We just hope he saves his true gems for after the eligible post date.

Making strong/controversial statements and then refusing vig-free propositions based on those claims.

SN is top 5 itf at making strong/controversial statements and the GOAT at not taking any bets despite how ostensibly free the money is from his POV. This need not be demonstrated as, to our knowledge, no bet has ever been accepted.

Bonus: defending oneself in bad poasters threads (CAPITAL OFFENSE)

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...postcount=1699

possible value here in this thread if the man himself disagrees with the selection..

cliffs:
massive volume
trollish & argumentative nature
prone to maximal BH
guaranteed to get into a 650 post argument about absolutely nothing at all
bad winner
bad loser
bad when his team draws
bad p0ster

Roster:

Sugar Nut
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06-10-2014 , 12:49 PM
that is a brilliant writeup
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06-10-2014 , 12:49 PM
clear #2
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06-10-2014 , 12:57 PM
cruizn spew imo. SN>Cruizn.
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06-10-2014 , 12:58 PM
Dear God, where is the original post with that Hitler video? That is perfect.

And yeah these were the LDO 1 and 2 picks. I can see SN going before Cruizn from a non-American perspective, but they're both god awful.
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06-10-2014 , 01:00 PM
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Originally Posted by CPHoya
bad winner
bad loser
bad when his team draws
i lol'd
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06-10-2014 , 01:04 PM
Such an obvious 1/2. Gotta give me a little bit to try to rescue something acceptable from the 3rd spot.
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