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Kalli posted:I don't know if this is a stylistic choice I'm simply too old to get or if sped up Xavier: Renegade Angel is like an AI generated tiktok trend now or if this is just the end result of endless layoffs goddamn colins bear animation rear end video
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Kalli posted:I don't know if this is a stylistic choice I'm simply too old to get or if sped up Xavier: Renegade Angel is like an AI generated tiktok trend now or if this is just the end result of endless layoffs It looks like those various old Asian videos that used to get shared on these forums all the time.
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Kalli posted:I don't know if this is a stylistic choice I'm simply too old to get or if sped up Xavier: Renegade Angel is like an AI generated tiktok trend now or if this is just the end result of endless layoffs
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Kalli posted:I don't know if this is a stylistic choice I'm simply too old to get or if sped up Xavier: Renegade Angel is like an AI generated tiktok trend now or if this is just the end result of endless layoffs This is actually a step up from the animations they put together for Monday Night Football. ESPN may be operated mostly by interns at this point, but those interns are getting better!
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Kalli posted:I don't know if this is a stylistic choice I'm simply too old to get or if sped up Xavier: Renegade Angel is like an AI generated tiktok trend now or if this is just the end result of endless layoffs Reminded me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV3CQSuxL50
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Cognac McCarthy posted:This is actually a step up from the animations they put together for Monday Night Football. ESPN may be operated mostly by interns at this point, but those interns are getting better! That's an insult to interns. ESPN could just post "hey, would you like to animate for a Disney adjacent network?" and get infinite quality animators willing to work for peanuts/free for a chance to get noticed by the mouse. It's some idiot boomer actually thinking that's good art direction. Like there's some old dude that hasn't seen a console past the N64 that thinks this is state of the art graphics that kids like.
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Athletic has a fantastic read today about the job of interpreters for Asian MLB players
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https://twitter.com/benjstrauss/status/1668260516588814339?s=46
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2019: The Athletic is good because they have knowledgeable beat writers and no ads 2023: What the gently caress
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Is Kalyn Kahler headed back to Defector?
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Yay new york times
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Forrest on Fire posted:2019: The Athletic is good because they have knowledgeable beat writers and no ads Just canceled my sub because of this.
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I'll keep paying for the Athletic as long as they keep offering me re-ups at $2/month.
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i might use it at $2 a month. I click on it so rarely that with the $70 renewal coming I just decided to cancel, especially since the draft coverage just isn't what it used to be outside of the game theory podcast which I can get for free.
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I’m not that familiar with this guy but I’m posting it because he says that they are completely eliminating their sports business coverage which is bullshit https://twitter.com/kaplansportsbiz/status/1668279263269736448?s=46&t=BHs6Pl38GJXGN2Y4xeriNA
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General Dog posted:I'll keep paying for the Athletic as long as they keep offering me re-ups at $2/month. Yeah same. It's worth a couple bucks a month, but certainly not more than $5.
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lovely. i really enjoy richard deitch's stuff.
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Forrest on Fire posted:2019: The Athletic is good because they have knowledgeable beat writers and no ads In 2019 they were running on investor capital and taking big losses in an attempt to grow market share. Which, as anyone who has watched VC gently caress up industry after industry, means things fall apart as soon as you're not pumping money into the company.
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Also rates for Web Advertising are loving dogshit except for stuff on tiktok.
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habeasdorkus posted:In 2019 they were running on investor capital and taking big losses in an attempt to grow market share. Which, as anyone who has watched VC gently caress up industry after industry, means things fall apart as soon as you're not pumping money into the company. I think everyone saw it coming, but it still kinda sucks that we were all right about it.
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I mean, laying off 20 out of like 500 staff doesn't seem out of line with what ESPN or anyone else is doing these days.
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Rick posted:i might use it at $2 a month. I click on it so rarely that with the $70 renewal coming I just decided to cancel, especially since the draft coverage just isn't what it used to be outside of the game theory podcast which I can get for free. Same. They had a promo in May for $9.99 for the year and I took it. That or $2/month is fine for the occasional article I'll read. But since they more or less ditched the whole beat-writer aspect of the site, it doesn't have a ton of value to me. The whole lure of the site was they were using beat writers like the local papers used to.
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It sucks for a lot of reasons but the quality of writing was hard to beat. My favorite mlb team still has a consistent beat writer but my favorite nba and nfl teams have sporadic coverage from admittedly good folks, but I’ve been lucky, probably.
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they said that a lot of it is that a lot of beats get minuscule pageviews compared to general assignment stuff. i wonder what the actual difference is between general NHL stories and like, coverage of the Hurricanes or something.
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DO YALL WANT A BOXC posted:they said that a lot of it is that a lot of beats get minuscule pageviews compared to general assignment stuff. i wonder what the actual difference is between general NHL stories and like, coverage of the Hurricanes or something. Apparently it's all about the NFL and NBA stories, MLB and NHL stuff is all just kind of tacked onto that, national or not.
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I guess premier league stuff does very well for them also
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Wonder what Ethan Strauss is up to https://twitter.com/CavinderHanna/status/1668754862195212288?s=20 On the other hand lol at seeing that one Bari Weiss ran that outlet and doing zero further research
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Ah we're doing the Anna Kournikova thing again 20 years later, history rhymes
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Wow, Ethan working for Bari Weiss. What a loving clown.
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Ethan Strauss did a Matt Taibbi speed run
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sportsgenius86 posted:Ethan Strauss did a Matt Taibbi speed run
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some real "let them fight" vibes in this one Defector: Bill Simmons Finds Himself In Row Across The Pond After Slagging Off Harry And Meghan quote:"I wish I had been involved in the ‘Meghan and Harry leave Spotify’ negotiation," Simmons said at the 18:46 mark of last week's episode. "The loving Grifters—that’s the podcast we should have launched with them. I gotta get drunk one night and tell the story of the Zoom I had with Harry to try and help him with a podcast idea. It’s one of my best stories … The Grifters." Honestly, some of Simmons's best work. He drops names and hints at insidery stories all the time, but since he has a nominal leadership role as Spotify's head of global sports content and since he griped about the ex-royals this past January on his podcast, his comments made waves.
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Can't post the story about him being hounded by the British tabloids without posting the image of the century![]() There's a lot to unpack here.
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I mean, if the reporting about Harry and Meghan's issues with their podcast is remotely true, Simmons is actually right for once
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General Dog posted:Can't post the story about him being hounded by the British tabloids without posting the image of the century ![]()
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FlamingLiberal posted:I mean, if the reporting about Harry and Meghan's issues with their podcast is remotely true, Simmons is actually right for once
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General Dog posted:Can't post the story about him being hounded by the British tabloids without posting the image of the century Well, Defector now has a replacement for that simmons_flapping_arms.gif they liked to use back in the day.
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TFW mom walks in on u when you’re still on apex mountain
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I can't get mad about anyone calling out royals for the parasites they are. Simmons is right, nobody should give a poo poo about what they have to say about anything and it's even funnier that they couldn't even be bothered to make a fake effort to create something worthwhile.
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Simmons is cryptically gossiping about coworkers not smashing the monarchy
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