Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

I dont watch soccer, dont care for it, but my understanding is soccer plays one 45+ minute half, takes a halftime break, then plays another 45+ minute half. During these "hydration breaks", does the feed keep running or do they cut to commercial?

If its the latter, and from what I can tell it is the latter, you got got by big FIFA who needed more advertiser bux.

The latter. And you're right. Which is why everyone hates it.

not bad compared to the length of actual exertion in American football. I doubt they could play for more than 5min without a break, even if there was no advertising at all. In a way its good for the game, no one would watch if players were unable to complete plays because they were constantly out of breath or dehydrated.

I had decided to wait a couple of months at my moms, then next yearmove definitivelly.

My vacation starting in a month my plan was to go to Maringa, the city where I plan to live, and buy my apartment.

Just for comparison, Ive found near a hundred decent options to buy, within my target cost and requirements.

But then Ive decided to take a quick look at placea to rent here just because the site was open.

I searched and boom. One apartment to rent in Rio, within my target budget and requirements.

Quickly I sent a message asking for a visit.

I even received message back from the sellers. I thought i was lcuky for once but...

Then one of the sellers said they were already showing the place to 2 another candidates. The first seller who send me the message he himself just went silent, like, f*ck this guys (me), I got enough people interested.

And this is Rio. Moderately good opportunities are heavily disputed, that is why it is so expensive.

In the end, just another frustration.

I will still go to Maringa to look to buy the home next month. If something appears before that, I can consider staying in Rio one more year, otherwise I will move to a better place by the easly 2027

Bro what?

Im pretty sure soccer has been the most popular sport in most of EU and all of south america for the last century. The addition of hydration breaks didnt cause a popularity spike.

Besides, if it means players recharge a little and for once, more than 0.000001% of games don't end 0-0, why not?

What makes soccer appealing to fans is the non-stop nature of the game.

The pace of the game, at the highest level, is very very high and there are very few breaks in play - ball goes out of bounds, fouls, yes, people rolling on the floor etc.

Fans consider any break in play, whether that's to check video for a referee's decision, pee breaks, water breaks, to break the flow of the game. And it's true.

There's two halves, 45min each, only breaks are, or were, from the referee whistling. Otherwise it's non-stop, full throttle, back and forth.

Anything that interrupts play breaks that flow and lowers excitement for fans. You tell players that, hey, it's 45min of play, there are no breaks and it's 85-90F degrees so make sure you're hydrated or you're gonna be dropping like flies.

You bet your last gil they'll make sure they're hydrated before the halves start.

If Fifa really wanted to improve game play they would crack down on players rolling around like they got shot when touched upon by the slightest of breezes.

was talking only about football, if it were played without breaks.

It is nice to have the time to piss or grab a Coca-Cola.

Todays world cup news:

Lula (Brasils president) says that Neymar is "home office player".

I genuinely giggled about that

My bad, but the players play football based on that expectation, knowing theres 48 or whatever seconds between snaps. Hockey players the same, although shifts can be 30 seconds or 90++ seconds if they get pinned in their own zone.

You're here saying "yaas its better for the product and game", yet the majority of the fans seem to loathe it from what I can see.

I just watched a video "Cowboy Bebop: iceberg of secrets".

Ok, I went to watch.

Secret 1: Spike died ou is asleep?
Secret 2: Space Dandy is in the same universe of Cowboy Bebop?
Secret 3: Spike is Jesus?
Secret 4: Julia is actually dead?

I cant describe how pissed wasting 15 minutes of my life with the lowest quality iceberg possible. Half of those theories are mere circunstantial reference, NOT a establhished relationship.

The other half are just fans childish wishful thinking, that thinks a character dying is a bad ending.

I genuinely annoyed by someone consider this trash as "secrets"...

Or did they?



I'm not really advocating for hydration breaks, but it seems to me to be more of a concession for the fact that players no longer have the ability to decide they want a break by playing dead. A tactful way of saying "We gave you extra water, stop trying to play the heat cramps card".

Maybe worth revisiting when we have more data than a handful of matches.

just a dumb comparison on my part. plenty of sports are very short duration with lots of breaks, boxing is another example.

while soccer isn't at that level of intensity for the entire 45min halves, it's still far longer than any other sport I'm aware of.

Don't be so cordial with him just because he showed humility.
It's precisely because he showed humility that it's time to exploit his vulnerability and kick him in the balls.

I still have my balls

There is one ***thing in watching the game here.

Somehow there is always a delay, and I always heard the goal from the street before watching in the screen.

That's such a buzzkill.

Have you watched Cowboy Bebop yourself? In case you haven't, consider doing that instead of watching some obviously trash-tier, content-farming clickbait vids about it. You're wasting quality shows this way.

Eh, I don't think that's gonna significantly discourage players from resorting to the "play dead" dumb theatrics, since they do them for tactical reasons (e.g. kill the other team's momentum... which the hydration break exactly does, ironically), and I don't think that the need to hydrate was the main ruse. Water bottles are available throughout the match, and players drink from them all the time before hydration breaks were a thing. And we have five substitutions possible now (that's almost half the team!) instead of the classic three (2 field players, 1 goalie), so player exhaustion is less relevant than before.

Those breaks are mandatory now because ads = money, and the match won't resume until ads are over, which is just silly.

Now I'm happy with the throw-in countdown being added because I welcome any change that minimizes the dumb theatrics, time-wasting, momentum-breaking aspects that players regularly abuse.. but then they had to implement hydration breaks for ads lol. GJ FIFA.

Some dude showed that those breaks resulted in a momentum shift in most matches, which, traditionally, only happened after half time. They effectively split the match into 4 quarters.

I guess we'll eventually get used to it. I personally don't mind it as a viewer, but I don't support it knowing the main reason behind its existence.

For the second consecultive week, Claude changes its service, removing offers, but in return, they reset my weekly limit.

Last week they removed Fable5, now they removed that feature of Daily Routine that I never used, but I welcom the extra tokens.

PantonicVideo desperately need them!

I'm not sure I understand why someone would attempt to break an opponent's momentum if it meant they had to play down a man. In fact, I'd go as far as calling it reckless unless you're in the championship with only seconds left in the game. Definitely wouldn't be as common as it is in league play.

I watched some highlights the other day, forgot which teams they were South American IIRC, every play someone was rolling around on the floor looking for fouls just by someone being in their vicinity, let alone touching them.

And these were the highlights. It was so annoying it really put me off.

If every time that happened the player rolling around got taken out, and his team had to play a man down, they would stop doing it. These rules exist already but are not enforced.

Same with flopping in the NBA, rules exist to protect against it, just not enforced.

there's a 4k 60fps bloodborne emulator out there if you have a nice PC and like that sort of thing. I was playing the game on PS just the other day, and the difference is huuuuuge.

I think momentum in soccer is like tempo in chess and sente in go. It allows the player / team control over what happens next. Removing that option can be big.

Modern football has been played with two dominant tacticals currently.

You increase the intensity and apply pressure in the opponent team in its defensive quarter, hoping for a steal and quick attack.

Or you purposelly keep your team defending close to the own goal area, hoping for some incisive counterattack.

The best teams can keep a heavy pressure for longer periods, keeping the opponent almost in the ropes. The worse the opponent is, the lesser effective counterattack is launched, so it tends to be a very one sided match in this setup.

Breaks generally give the team on the ropes to regroup and review the tactics, On the opposite side, if a team is dominantly pressuring, it is a bad deal a break, as it gives time to the other to plan a better strategy.

Most dominant strategies relies either in the individual player stats (strength, intelligence, technique) or some inteligent tactical applied by a coach, moving players in an area to another, to cover certain gaps, to explore weakness etc. That is why you can make a comeback if the team being pressure can talk with the players and move the pieces accordingly.

It is important to remember that football is played by eleven players in a very wide field. Communication is generally poor, as you have a coach sitting in a single place, and can only yell, to hope somoene can hear him and understand. Again another reason why those breaks has more tactical value than mere rest. No team in the world just rest in the breaks. They always are talking and discussing the next move.

Funny thing, I remember a cartoon I watched in my childhood. An american cartoon about football.

It was so bad, because football is hard to prefectly portrait in a story (forget that ***of Blue Lock).

In that cartoon, the "dirty" team was doing a dirty play: they were using communication, and being orchestrated by a supercomputer.

Supposelly that supercomputer could give them the exact actions so they could win.

I dont remember how it ended, or the name of the story, but it is a good example of communication and planning in a football match.

Poorly portraited by americans, but at least they got the gist of it.

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Are you posting links? Generally those are blocked by default.

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Your problem is Utube. Or perhaps trying to comment on Utube.

I despise "social" media. I dislike TV. Utube is so far away from my radar it could be on the back side of the moon. I advise this outlook.