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Ten players played for 7 weeks, each Tues and Thurs. I wrote a diary of our experience.
2024.04.29 19:39 YINNY-PIG Ten players played for 7 weeks, each Tues and Thurs. I wrote a diary of our experience.
 | (We modded our own server to have a maximum player count of 32. This was the only mod. We had 10 people in our clan that joined regularly, they are often named in the diary. At one point the maximum player count was 14. This was a huge amount of fun to write. Thanks Fritz for the AI pics for each entry) submitted by YINNY-PIG to SonsOfTheForest [link] [comments] March 12th. 1879 So landeth we yomen upon the shores of unknow lands. Thine clouds bekon a long and harsh jackfrost. As men and women cast upon these wild lands, we are left with no choice but to bend it to thine needs. We shall rear this island as a mother and father would a child. Obedient and wise. Our crew upon the HMS SAEF have all drowned. Gods rest their souls. Only us, the passengers made it to shore. We have a master architect, Angus who almost immediately set it upon himself to build a large hall for safety and warmth. We seven passengers kindly obliged and set upon the local forest for his building materials. Another passenger Coretex, who may he hard of hearing, or chooses to ignore me when I address him, is a giant of a man. We have but a small hatchet and he has already pushed the forest back enough that shade no longer casts upon the beach we found ourselves on. Another two, Jonny and Tim, went on to explore the island. They reported finding men and women of the island! Methinks, perhaps this island is not as desolate as envisioned. However, this is not to be. The blood on their clothes and hands betray the interaction they had. We will have to build defense. I set myself to building a wall. The architect works tirelessly on the great hall. His wife constantly stops him to feed him. Without her, he would surely collapse from the work. Where she gets the food is unknown to me, but is of little concern. I stole some meet she was cooking on a fire nearby the hall while she was distracted. It was tough but cooked through. Turtle methinks. I suspect the local turtle population may be affected by our homes location. I may have to act as conservator for them. Mascot works endlessly carting large logs back from the Giant to the Architect. I gracefully tax a log or two for our defensive wall. He seems not to mind. My wife, Kay explores and does odd jobs. Helping where she can and exploring were we have not. Reports of other landing parties are frequent, but none are still alive. The wall has almost finished, in time for the great hall! The hall stands majestically on the sands, I have named it the SAEF seaside villa. Or SSV for short. The passengers have made evident they do not enjoy the name, however I hear them refer to the SSV often. Perhaps they will like it in time The wall completes! But is missing a gate. Night has fallen and I can no longer see what I am working on. No matter the morning will be here soon. Attacked! The wreched wild people of the island have tracked down Jonny and Tim to extract their revenge. We are surrounded and have no choice but to fight. Our numbers equal theirs, but they are nimble and erratic. However many of us have whittled spears and are able to keep them at arms length. One of the wild people dives into the hall and attempts to set it alright, I don't see this and call for the passengers to exit the building, fearing a wayward swing could damage the only warmth we have. Rightly so the Architect stands his ground in the hall and fights the near do well. Blasted gate. I will have it done first thing in the morning… AI generated March 14 - You may note how the year of our lord and savior is not dotted down. I fear even he dares not tread here…Today our architect, Angus, has completed the hall! Its seaside vistas are indeed a sight to behold. And behold them we shall! For a photo flash was found upon the shore. It seems the lens has not cracked in its ocean voyage. I may have even praised a deity, but they are not present here.Our local giant, Coretex, has regained his hearing! I was worried he was purposely ignoring me.. Instead a tumbling log took his feet out from under him and with the fall, it seems to have knocked something right. We passengers are very glad to have this stroke of luck. The giant is a happy happy man. We completed the defensive wall, it stretches quite imposingly across the only access way to the SSV. I have added defensive positions on our side of the wall. We have but primitive bows and stone tipped arrows, but the wild men come at us with bone sickles and clubs. I feel in our poverty we are at least technologically superior.I live to regret my last entry. Technology means nothing here. Everything is black magiks. Gods abandoned wayward souls here to fight endlessly. I suspect we are all dead and this is indeed a circle of hell.More passengers have washed up on the shore. They speak and sound like us, but are not from our ship. They have the same drive we do to survive and insist on joining us, but it is chaos. I cannot keep track of each person anymore and fear I may lose a passenger to an avoidable situation.I can no longer write around the issue. I must approach my fear head on and write as I saw it.There are tools here that are beyond description. A map that follows you, a lantern that fits into the palm of your hand, carts that require no horses (As if pulled along by specters). It is almost too much for me. I wish to flee into the sea and find the sunken wreck. Perhaps I will find my lifeless corpse strung among the headsail. Yet I cannot abandon the passengers, they are as full of fear as I am and as lost as chickens without a rooster.I do appreciate the passengers, however, the driver Mascot was not feeling well. (Methinks the cursed tools have made his head swim) and asks that we make haste in a cave that we have found near the SSV. In my haste, I rush the passengers forward, fearing each and every shadow our palm lanterns cast in the dark. The chaos from ten and two passengers is immense, their voices echo off the walls and some shout to be heard over others. The Architect calls out to me. He implores me to slow down. One man being sick is no need to rush, he will be able to find his way back. We have marked the cave well. He is right, rushing the passengers will only cause a mistake to be made. I relent my grip on the reigns of the passengers. We find more dark Magiks in the caves. A picture frame that moves, newspaper clippings from the future. And bodies. So many bodies. People of different creeds and more that I cannot identify, for they are only viscera and bone.We leave the cave, and take our horseless carts to a different cave, that was spotted by Jonny on our moving map. It is a fast decent into the cave and all is quiet. Even the passengers have begun to quiet down somewhat. And then we encounter a demon. An actual devil spawn demon. We were not prepared for the immense strength of a demon. Passengers are flung into the cave walls, many are knocked over. The passengers stab with spear, ax and knife, but the blows seem to only anger it more. I help up as many of the passengers as I can. Some are merely winded, others have wounds that must be tended to.I charge forward and am immediately felled. I fall to the ground so hard that I do not even feel the cold embrace of the cave.Moments pass, a dream like state of being alive and dead. I see our future but it is so blurry; a gold box that we all stand in methinks. I am awoken by Mascot. He has dragged me to safety, I look to the battle and the passengers have felled the demon. But they descend upon it with knife! They take the skin of the demon, thick as it was, and wear it as armour! They must be suffering as I am, falling deeper into madness…We find more Magiks, a tool that strings up rope by shot. I see not where the powder goes, but it fires all the same. We return to our horseless carts and drive them home. The drive is quiet.I believe we are in hell. https://preview.redd.it/uhlu8osxggxc1.jpg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1a799046bda3fd36e7ee3d9a0b7698c593459654 March 19th - In times of war, the phrase “all is quiet” is meant as a comfort. No marching, no distant sounds of clashes between opposing ideals.But here, the quiet is monstrous. However, the passengers have taken up odd jobs around the SSV. I have taken to reading the moving pictures. These folk write in strange manner, but it reads with the same meaning. There are many activities to find here on the isle to take our minds off the existential crisis we all find ourselves in. My wife has built us our own cabin! It is furnished to the highest degree and larger than any hovel we may have found in New or Old England. The passengers often visit us and we converse late into the night trading stories and events of the day.I enjoy it immensely. A tale I tell at the fireside often, much to the agony of the passengers, is of Mascot.The wild men seem aghast at our presence and attack often. They have become a nuisance for us as we attempt to understand more of the isle. The wild men have become like pests to us. Each party we send out to chart more of the isle returns covered in more and more blood. Counts of wild men dispatched reach in the twenties.On one of these trips, I set out to assist the giant Coretex to gather some flagstones. He was ahead of me some distance. Suddenly I hear shouting, another patrol has stumbled upon us. I charge forward fighting fiercely against a three to one fight. I dispatch two, and the third lands a blow against my side. The wind knocked out of me, I fall. Coretex is quick to help me up, pushing the third away from us.I look up and like a bull charging through a flimsy fence, so too does Mascot charge through the wild man with our horseless cart. I did not consider how silent the horseless carts were until this moment. The shock and surprise of seeing our driver rescue us was unexpected and his timing could not have been better. I laugh; joy and relief. I end the story there, but in truth the story continues as such:I cannot stop laughing as the wild man’s legs are torn from his body with the impact. The abject fear of seeing a man have his legs torn off in one swift motion, especially where I was once fighting for my life against the opponent, has left me in deep consideration of my own life on this isle. My ribs ache as I laugh. How will I meet my end? Will it be as swift and unexpected? Will I even see it coming? I cannot breathe as I laugh. Tendrils stretch out from the SSV now, as an octopus's slimy arms would prod at the sea bed, searching for its prey. All to sate an innate hunger that is never satisfied.I put the lines up. Using the rope tool that we found I find that it is a masterful state of travel across the isle, to zip across the tree lines, high above the ground. I feel as a bird, free.If only for a moment. We trudge through caves we have explored before. More passengers need to see the moving pictures and consider where we are.The tools are here again. I hold the rope shot tool, yet I see it here at my feet again. I hand the rope shot’s brother to Coretex. He is perplexed as I am. Perhaps we missed the second tool on our first expedition? We leave the cave together.I have not the strength to enter the cave again. I cannot face the metaphysical questions if we find another. The architect’s wife, Tilly and Coretex brave the dark once more for us. Every passenger now has a rope shot tool. They make use of my maze of lines to explore further across the isle. Hell provides, it would seem.P.S.I witnessed death. Fritz drowned We all stood on the beach waiting for any sign of him. Nothing. The passengers turn and head back to the SSV. I stay, deciding to write a eulogy for the man.In the corner of my eye, I see a dark smear across the ocean waves, I turn, knife in hand to find Fritz. He coughs up water and slowly stands. I peek behind him on the sand, there is no evidence of him dragging himself out the water.In a panic I embrace him and say “I’m glad we got you out in time!” He seems to believe I saved him. So too do the passengers.Hell provides. https://preview.redd.it/yu2mmpm5hgxc1.jpg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=35f88e807be70c79459da45c94eb24837bcae063 March 22 I am curious of the fate of the first settlers of the new world. Did they feel the same as us, were they as focused on building a village and expanding ever outward? The passengers have begun building homes of their own on the beach. Lay lies have been drawn and neighbors have been made. Some build off existing structures, others build whole new buildings. Each building an expression of self, put together by hand of its owner for its owner. They betray simple purpose: to have a place to call home. I wonder if they have accepted their place on the isle and refuse to consider that we may be rescued. Fritz and Johny have built an elaborate structure outside the wall. Upon inspection I find a large fire inside a pit. They call it a "bone factory". We treat the wildmen as less than animals now. And their very bones a resource that we are able to build with has become another factory of production. Perhaps the wildmen will cease to be soon enough. I hope their children will not learn of the fate of their brothers and sisters they send out on patrol each week. I ponder, if they even care. We stumble upon camps at times. We find bodies near fires, disemboweled and gutted like fish. It took us all but a moment to realize the wildmen are cannibalistic. Perhaps they send the un-edible our way. And we are but a tool to dispatch unwanted folk. Johny, ever busy, builds a launch ramp for the carts. It stretches long into the sky off a cliff. We are all hesitant to attempt launching anything off it. The first attempt goes well, a fair distance is achieved and a fair applause is received! I muster up the courage to attempt myself. I make it not even halfway up the ramp. A wheel catches an edge and is drawn sharply towards the ground. I am sent flying from the cart and catch myself in some trees. The cart hangs limply off the ramp, it seems disappointed and in anger I leave it to hang on the ramp, not looking at any of the passengers as they attempt to stifle laughs. I ride a line out to cliff that overlooks our village. And while I am embarrassed, looking down on the village it does seem that all is well. There is a sense of hope that no matter what is sent our way, we will struggle and survive. There is comfort in that https://preview.redd.it/vxeboe1bhgxc1.jpg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1bb35dac2dda04bfe26d7d74472318add17553f1 March 26th We venture deeper into the isle. It has dawned on me that there is a peak in the center of the isle that reaches so high it has a permanent snow covered summit.I believe that I was so focused on survival I forgot to take in the surroundings of the isle. The isle itself is sublime in its beauty. The forests are dense with pines, wildlife runs carefree and plentiful and the rivers are full of fish. One might even call it a paradise! We are yet to come across any large predator. The largest predator I have found is an eagle, or what I believe to be an eagle, this species is unfamiliar to me.The passengers have made their stay here ever more comfortable. Their homes have started to incorporate the tools we find on the isle. Some homes now have moving pictures in them, most have shelves filled with food and stores to last the sudden winter-like weeks. Some of the shelves are filled with ammunition. Yes, even here in a desolate isle in the middle of a long forgotten ocean, there are firearms.They are incredibly complex, but we have found two of them. Well to be more precise, we found two and with the isle’s properties we were able to distribute the two firearms to everyone.The first loads itself. It is truly a mark of engineering that we would never have considered. It seems like a bolt action, like that of the Lee–Metford, but the bolt cycles itself. More than that, it fits into one hand.Coretex calls it the “Final word” as any argument with the wildmen ends quickly, once the “Final word” is used.The other is a pump-action shotgun. This is familiar to us thankfully and was quickly adopted.Hunting the deer on the isle has become significantly easier, and we are no longer fearing starvation. We used to stalk the deer, bows in hand, traps laid and bait set. Calm, collective action ment that we would eat for the week. Now we send one of the passengers out and they return a few hours later, deer on their back. There are times where I worry we may be affecting the population, however as I mentioned earlier, there are no large predators. It seems we are the predators on this isle. We venture deeper and often find ourselves away from home when nightfall comes. This night, as per usual, we set up makeshift tents and hope a wildman patrol does not find us.This night, we were found. A great bellow from one of the wildmen signals the assault. We all wake, weapons in hand and ready to defend. I spot a cave mouth close by and order the passengers closer to close off an angle of assault. Fritz suggest we form a phalanx in the cave mouth and the passengers quickly assume position. Front liners have spear at length, back liners have firearm at ready. In the seconds before the wildmen descend, I look around the battlefield we find ourselves in. Many of the passengers have thrown out lights, some throw their palm lights out, others throw large fusses that burn red, another lights a fire bomb and dashes it against the ground ahead of us.The glow in the forest canopy is gorgeous. Reds, purples and oranges dance in the leaves inviting dreamlike wonder. I stare at them and think back to the Northern lights. I miss them. I wonder if I will ever see them again?My spear suddenly shakes and I am startled to find a wildman had charged blindly into it. He swings wildly at me from halfway down the spear. I freeze, never have I seen a wildman so eager to kill that they would ignore the pain of a spear through their heart. A thunderclap from behind me and I notice that my wife has shot the wildman, it falls abruptly to the ground, the last vestiges of life attempting to keep it going for but one more moment. I pull on my spear and it slips free, the wildman drags itself erratically back into the dark. Or where it assumed the dark would be. A second later it is consumed by the firebombs grasp. I heard no scream, I only saw the fire grow taller.We suffered no injury in the defense. I thank Fritz for his quick thinking and he claps me on the back heartily. “A life for a life!” he says interning how I saved his life a few days ago. I smile weakly, and turn to the passengers quickly, beckoning them further up the peak. Our moving maps have shown another potential location that may have more tools for us to discover.Atop the peak, is a small frozen lake, and a cabin, filled with frozen bodies. We have become desensitized to the bodies we find now. They number so many, they are used as route markers now. “If ever we are lost, in the woods, search for the hanged man, then head North” Or “When lost in the peaks, search for the cabin with frozen bodies, then head South” and so on and so on. We take shelter in the cabin. It is a cold night, but at least we have company. https://preview.redd.it/og742ncuhgxc1.jpg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=388242604b36b5a8594b610a4b32929b01f1d768 https://preview.redd.it/n6q27nvwhgxc1.jpg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1ea5b1bca1f4fff5479161a21b537e586fd81382 March 28th I like to start these entries with a profound thought, or a prose of deep connection with something, but I cannot find anything to draw from this day. I sit at a lake side, watching the sun dance upon the lapping ripples that taste the shore, but nothing seems to come to mind. I feel that reading the moving pictures has affected me in some way. It is odd.We calmly ride our carts around the isle in search of adventure and the isle reveals more secrets to us. As if it is begging for us to delve deeper into its stories. However, the passengers are split up into smaller search parties so instead we leave markers for the passengers to find later when we move as a large group. We find the safety provided by the larger numbers has been essential when we approach danger, but we are slow. When we split into our groups we can cover the isle at blistering speeds. This is thanks to the carts. They are fantastic at providing speedy entrance and exit from any situation. We return to our village, and -in earnest- it is a welcome sight. Passengers have fallen into roles and construction is abundant around the village. We incorporate more engineering and technology in our homes. Many of the homes now have electrically powered lights. We found that there are these dark slabs that provide electricity when the sun hits it directly.It acts like a fire stone, that one might cook on, however with the sun and electricity. Mascot and Coretex have taken time to explain it all to me a few times. They seem comfortable with the tools we find on the isle, of which the tools have become an interesting topic here in the village.Johny has built, what he calls, a museum of tools. While the tools we find on the isle are always where we first find them, Johny has found that he can draw from the isle’s power and can now reproduce the tools at will from the shelves in his museum.In the past, I may have labeled him a witch, and demanded we test to see if he would float in the bay. But here there is so much magiks, that I feel it was only time that some of us would start to master the isle. After all, the rope shot tool has become my trusted arm of reaching deeper into the isle. Why not would others make the same use of the powers they find here? Johny has made it possible that I can now string up infinite lines across the isle and with each new line I am able to chart deeper and deeper, soon I will master travel across the isle as Johny has mastered the tools, and Angus has mastered construction.My wife Kay has begun construction again, she does not inform me of what it is, but promises that I will find it enduring. I help her construct the roof and leave her to her project. Odd jobs are cropping up all over the village and I help where I can, before being distracted by another task elsewhere. It is surprisingly quiet. Perhaps that is not correct to state it as such. The passengers chat endlessly, some debate, others sing and dance, however it is quiet as we have not had much in the way of attacks or discoveries. We simply live for now.Perhaps that is enough.Tomorrow, I shall string up lines to the peak of the isle. My octopus arms slinking their way up the most treacherous location we have found. I will conquer it. The peak will be mine. Maybe then, it will be enough. https://preview.redd.it/qwiu4ia1igxc1.jpg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fd0f949991318dd326bbc4ee9111f6095ebeb51a |
2024.04.27 00:47 IceSpider10 Can anyone please explain what happened?
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2024.04.24 17:30 lonleyalien Fallout: Minneapolis (Part One/Factions)
Hello there everyone! Just wanted to post my notes here for my upcoming game of Fallout: Minneapolis Wastes. Some notes on the factions and local mutants in the hopes of receiving some feedback from the community.
Why don't we start with the bread and butter of Fallout the Factions?
Nýrheim or Frosthaven as outsiders call this community is a massive expanding collection of nomadic semi-raiders that sprouted in the area only two decades following the war. Honoring the Old Gods of their distant homeland this society is very religious with a strict devotion to the Æsir. Many old legends of the old war like Paul Bunyan and Johny Appleseed have been added to their pantheon.
Nýrheim itself is a holy site where The Prophet blessed with an eternal lifespan came forth and taught the people of the Gods. Protecting his flock and allowing the culture to form and spread as Clans of his children left and went elsewhere to spread the Gods and their understanding of the old world including techniques on how to farm, build, and understand of advanced technology.
The Skyscrapers are a very mercantile group which came about roughly half a century after the bombs dropped. Afraid of their neighbors on all sides the founders of their society attempted to gain an upperhand in defense by utilizing the remnants of the twin cities for their own defenses. With this mentality, it led to them eventually building the Skycutter. A massive platform supported by dozens of massive buildings nearly half a mile in the sky. With too many redundancies to count.
Safe from the world below the Skyscrappers began to salvage more and more technology eventually reaching a comfortable standard of living. Today, most if not all members of their society will dip down to the earth and collect goods when need be but mainly trade with themselves in a proto-Socalist Oligarchy controlled by the founder's descendants known as The Skydivers.
The Second Church of the Holy Flame contains some of the remnants of The Unity which fled East toward the Great Lakes. Led by the former Lieutenant and Right Hand of the Master the church has become much more Pacifistic yet still holds to its old goals of a Supermutant world. Now, they have begun focusing on altering the virus itself to ensure fertility and even eugenics programs with its 'Normie' flock. But like always there are cracks beneath the surface.
The Rats (in the Walls/Vault Seveners) is the term used for an unknown group who seems to move into random buildings and seal them up from the inside. Ensuring none can enter but their own and even then no one has met a member of this faction. What they don't know is that Vault Seven is responsible for this phenomenon. Vault 7 was a test to see how settlers entering a half-constructed Vault with the tools and little resources would do.
Now, two hundred years later we see that outcome as Vault 7 expands underground making new hubs in emptied-out buildings that are worked on meticulously for months to keep the outside world outside and away.
The Mountain Men are a myth in most parts of the local wasteland. Said to hail from the frozen north and reaping vengeance upon the south for the transgressions of their enslaved ancestors the Mountain Men are said to have a way with animals none can hope to match and all wear the same red uniform to denominate themselves. Should they be real or not is anyone's best guess only time will tell.
The Banker Haven is home to a coalition of Raiders known as The Reclaimers due to their insistent need to find all things related to Old World Sports. Known for the usual pillaging and conflict all raiders bring this grouping is odd in that they claim a religious precedent. Most don't realize Relciamers worship old Sports stars as Gods and see different teams as competing Pantheons with the sports of old as ways to settle disputes. Of course, the games have only grown more violent in these new days.
The Minneapolis Branch of the Brotherhood of Steel is a husk of itself. Having been beaten back a decade ago when its initial base had been established dozens of its Power Armor suits were stolen by all of the local factions and much of its tech was copied by them. This was caused when all of the local players agreed to work to rid the presence of the Brotherhood in the area and the few raids conducted with many of their staff enslaved by the Reclaimers or Nýrheim.
Pushed back to the edges of the city what little remains barely scraps by as equipment and reinforcements from Chicago are slow going. Many believe the local area is best to just be evacuated and abandoned to the locals as a vocal few are calling for the total subjugation of the local factions and a more domineering stance to take back their technology and personnel.
That's it for the local factions of the Twin Cities. Give me any feedback and ask any questions you might have for more detail.
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Why don't we start with the bread and butter of Fallout the Factions?
Nýrheim or Frosthaven as outsiders call this community is a massive expanding collection of nomadic semi-raiders that sprouted in the area only two decades following the war. Honoring the Old Gods of their distant homeland this society is very religious with a strict devotion to the Æsir. Many old legends of the old war like Paul Bunyan and Johny Appleseed have been added to their pantheon.
Nýrheim itself is a holy site where The Prophet blessed with an eternal lifespan came forth and taught the people of the Gods. Protecting his flock and allowing the culture to form and spread as Clans of his children left and went elsewhere to spread the Gods and their understanding of the old world including techniques on how to farm, build, and understand of advanced technology.
The Skyscrapers are a very mercantile group which came about roughly half a century after the bombs dropped. Afraid of their neighbors on all sides the founders of their society attempted to gain an upperhand in defense by utilizing the remnants of the twin cities for their own defenses. With this mentality, it led to them eventually building the Skycutter. A massive platform supported by dozens of massive buildings nearly half a mile in the sky. With too many redundancies to count.
Safe from the world below the Skyscrappers began to salvage more and more technology eventually reaching a comfortable standard of living. Today, most if not all members of their society will dip down to the earth and collect goods when need be but mainly trade with themselves in a proto-Socalist Oligarchy controlled by the founder's descendants known as The Skydivers.
The Second Church of the Holy Flame contains some of the remnants of The Unity which fled East toward the Great Lakes. Led by the former Lieutenant and Right Hand of the Master the church has become much more Pacifistic yet still holds to its old goals of a Supermutant world. Now, they have begun focusing on altering the virus itself to ensure fertility and even eugenics programs with its 'Normie' flock. But like always there are cracks beneath the surface.
The Rats (in the Walls/Vault Seveners) is the term used for an unknown group who seems to move into random buildings and seal them up from the inside. Ensuring none can enter but their own and even then no one has met a member of this faction. What they don't know is that Vault Seven is responsible for this phenomenon. Vault 7 was a test to see how settlers entering a half-constructed Vault with the tools and little resources would do.
Now, two hundred years later we see that outcome as Vault 7 expands underground making new hubs in emptied-out buildings that are worked on meticulously for months to keep the outside world outside and away.
The Mountain Men are a myth in most parts of the local wasteland. Said to hail from the frozen north and reaping vengeance upon the south for the transgressions of their enslaved ancestors the Mountain Men are said to have a way with animals none can hope to match and all wear the same red uniform to denominate themselves. Should they be real or not is anyone's best guess only time will tell.
The Banker Haven is home to a coalition of Raiders known as The Reclaimers due to their insistent need to find all things related to Old World Sports. Known for the usual pillaging and conflict all raiders bring this grouping is odd in that they claim a religious precedent. Most don't realize Relciamers worship old Sports stars as Gods and see different teams as competing Pantheons with the sports of old as ways to settle disputes. Of course, the games have only grown more violent in these new days.
The Minneapolis Branch of the Brotherhood of Steel is a husk of itself. Having been beaten back a decade ago when its initial base had been established dozens of its Power Armor suits were stolen by all of the local factions and much of its tech was copied by them. This was caused when all of the local players agreed to work to rid the presence of the Brotherhood in the area and the few raids conducted with many of their staff enslaved by the Reclaimers or Nýrheim.
Pushed back to the edges of the city what little remains barely scraps by as equipment and reinforcements from Chicago are slow going. Many believe the local area is best to just be evacuated and abandoned to the locals as a vocal few are calling for the total subjugation of the local factions and a more domineering stance to take back their technology and personnel.
That's it for the local factions of the Twin Cities. Give me any feedback and ask any questions you might have for more detail.
2024.04.16 19:22 Leather_Focus_6535 The currently 31 offenders executed by Arkansas since the 1970s and their crimes (warning, graphic content, please read at your own risk)
Here is the list I pre wrote for Arkansas' execution roster since the 1970s reinstatement of the death penalty. The dates given here don't always correlate with time spent on death row, and are often more of a loose timeline of their criminal activities. For example, if an offender's first convicted offense was them stealing a car as a teenager, I often include that in the date. Another issue that needs to be addressed is many of these cases are extremely graphic in nature, so please read at your own risk.
Due to it being near finals for my classes, I'll probably delay releasing my lists for the remaining states of Georgia, Alabama, Missouri, Virginia, Oklahoma, and the still in progress Texas for the next few weeks. However, Georgia will likely be the next one I'll share here.
The currently executed 31 offenders:
1.John Swindler (~1977-1990, electric chair): Swindler was sentenced to death for the killing of a 30 year old policeman named Randy Basnett. Basnatt pulled over Swindler while he was driving a stolen car, and the latter fatally shot the former in the ensuring confrontation. Swindler was also responsible for the abductions and double shootings of a teenage couple, 18 year old Greg Becknell and 18 year old Dorothy Rhodes, and the killing of 25 year old Jeffrey McNerney was attributed to him despite failing to be convicted of it in court.
2.Ronald Simmons (1987-1990, lethal injection): Simmons massacred his family, which consisted of his 46 year old wife Bersabe, his 8 children (all between the ages from 7 to 26 years old, with the youngest being conceived through sexually abusing one of his daughters), his 33 year old son-in-law Dennis McNulty, his 23 year old daughter-in-law Renata, and 4 grandchildren (all between 3 to 7 years old, including the eldest who was also the aforementioned youngest child he fathered with one of his daughters). He murdered his relatives through shootings, strangulations, and drownings. After murdering his own family, Simmons opened fire on his workplace. Simmons killed 23 year old Kathy Kendrick, a co worker he sexually harassed, and 33 year old James Chaffi, a random customer, in his rampage.
3.Ricky Rector (1981-1992, lethal injection): When Rector and a group of his friends drove to a home style restaurant, one of his friends was denied entry for not being able to pay for a ticket. Enraged, Rector pulled out a gun and fired into the establishment. Two patrons were wounded, and a third, 33 year old Arthur Criswell, died from a hit to the throat. Rector went on the run for 3 days, until his sister and a police officer that was also a family friend, Bob Martin (age unknown), convinced him to surrender. Despite his promises of surrendering, Rector fatally shot Martin in the back when he turned to walk away from the scene. Rector's execution was a source of controversy, as he acquired a cognitive disability from a botched suicide.
4.Steven Hill (1984-1992, lethal injection): After escaping from the custody of a corrections facility, Hill and an accomplice broke into a nearby home. They tied up the elderly homeowners and intimidated them into complacency with rape threats. He almost murdered them until his accomplice talked him out of it. They then stole the couple's truck, and tried fleeing the scene. Responding police officers forced the two into bunkering in a nearby house. In the following confrontation, Hill shot and killed one of the officers, 39 year old Robert Klain.
5.Edward Pickens (~1975-1994, lethal injection): Pickens and two accomplices held up a grocery store at gunpoint. Two of them gang raped a 23 year old female clerk, while they cleared out the register and stole her diamond wedding ring. They then lined her, the store owner, and 7 customers on the ground, and shot them multiple times. Two of the hostages, Westley Nobles [the sources are very inconsistent on his exact age, and they range anywhere from 64 to 76 year old] and 31 year old James Scherm, were killed while the others survived their injuries. A third man, 33 year old Theordore Criner, was carjacked and shot in the head by Pickens' accomplices, and his car was used as a getaway vehicle in the robbery.
6.Jonas Whitmore (1986-1994, lethal injection): 62 year old Essie Black welcomed Whitmore inside her home to share her homemade cookies with him. He repaid Black's kindness by stabbing her 10 times and slitting her throat. Whitmore then ransacked her house and stole $250 in cash. On death row, Whitmore attacked Ronald Simmons for waiving his appeals, as he believed that him volunteering for execution would compromise his battle against his.
7.Hoyt Clines (1981-1994, lethal injection): Clines and 3 other men forced themselves inside the home of 47 year old Donald Lehman. They beat Lehman with a motorcycle chain and shot 3 him times in front of his wife and daughter. The assailants then stole $1,000 and several of Lehman's guns.
8.Darryl Richley (1981-1994, lethal injection): Richley was one of Clines' accomplices. He assisted him in murdering Lehman and robbing his family.
9.James Holmes (1981-1994, lethal injection): Holmes was the third member of Clines' gang. He also partook in the home invasion that killed Lehman.
10.Richard Snell (1983-1995, lethal injection): Snell was a militant of the white supremacist group The Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord (CSA). He shot and killed a pawn shop owner, 36 year old William Stumpp, on the mistaken belief that he was Jewish, and a police officer, 37 year old Louis Bryant, for being black. Prior to his murder sprees, Snell was also involved in a few failed terrorist attacks.
11.Barry Fairchild (1984-1996, lethal injection): Fairchild was convicted of abducting army nurse, 22 year old Marjorie Mason. According to prosecutors, he sodomized and shot her to death in a barn. Fairchild's death sentence and execution has been scrutinized, as there are strong accusations of police coercion and misconduct involved in the case. More specifically, the defense attorneys have alleged that Fairchild had a intellectual disability, which supposedly left him vulnerable to exploitation by investigators. Other questioned suspects have also claimed that they were beaten while detained by the officers.
12.William Parker (1984-1996, lethal injection): Parker shot his ex-wife's parents, 49 year old James and Sandra (age unknown) Warren, when he ambushed them while they were pulling out of their driveway. He blamed them for the disintegration of his marriage with their daughter and sought vengeance. A day after the killings, Parker kidnapped his ex wife, 27 year old Pam, and opened fire on police officers trying to intervene. Pam and an officer, 41 year old Mauris Feyen, were hit by Parker's gunfire, but both survived their injuries.
13.Paul Ruiz (1977-1997, lethal injection): Ruiz broke out of prison with his accomplice Earl Denton. He and Denton ambushed two park rangers, 55 year old Opal James and 27 year old David Small, and a marshal, 42 year old Marvin Richie, while on the run. They robbed Richie and the rangers of their wallets at gunpoint and abducted them. They tied their captives up with their own handcuffs, and shot them execution style. James and Richie were killed by gunshots to the head and neck respectively, while Small survived with a bullet wound to his chest.
14.Earl Denton (1977-1997, lethal injection): Denton was an accomplice to the above mentioned Ruiz. As discussed under Ruiz's section, Denton assisted him in the robbery abductions of two park rangers and a marshal while on the run from a prison breakout. He took part in the killings of two of their hostages, and the attempted murder of the survivor.
15.Kirt Wainwright (1988-1997, lethal injection): Wainright robbed a convenience store at gunpoint, and fatally shot the clerks, 37 year old Karen Ross and 28 year old Barbara Smith.
16.Eugene Perry (1980-1997, lethal injection): Perry held up a jewelry store owned by the Staton family. He tied up the owner, 53 year old Kenneth and his daughter, 24 year old Suzanne, and shot them both twice in the head at point blank range. After the killings, Perry stole up to $100,000 in jewelry.
17.Wilburn Henderson (1980-1998, lethal injection): Henderson broke into a furniture store owned by 50 year old Willa O'Neal and her husband. He shot Willa dead and took $41 from the cash register.
18.Johnie Cox (1989-1999, lethal injection): Cox tied up his step grandmother, 68 year old Marie Sullens, and two distant relatives, 34 year old Margaret and 32 year Billy Brown, in their home. He stabbed, strangled, and shot them all to death, and then burned down their house with their bodies inside.
19.Marion Pruett (~1981-1999, lethal injection): A few years after being released from a federal prison and placed in the witness protection program, Pruett went on a nationwide crime spree. In Mississippi, he abducted a loan officer, 43 year old Peggy Lowe, while robbing a bank and shot her to death. While robbing two convenience stores in Colorado, Pruett fatally shot two clerks, 24 year old James Balderson and 21 year old Anthony Taitt. The murder that got him condemned in Arkansas was 30 year old Bobbie Robertson, a clerk he kidnapped from a convenience store and shot dead. Pruett also beat his common law wife, 25 year old Pamela Barker, with a clawhammer and burned her body while stealing money for cocaine.
20.Mark Gardner (1985-1999, lethal injection): Gardner forced his way into the home of 60 year old Martha and 57 year old Joe Joyce, and bound them and their daughter, 31 year old Sara McCurdy. After he finished restraining his captives, he sexually assaulted Sara in front of her parents, and strangled all of them to death with a belt. He then ransacked the house, snatched jewelry, and drove away with the Joyces' car. While awaiting execution, Gardner raped Damien Echols, one of the accused West Memphis Three.
21.Alan Willett (1993-1999, lethal injection): Willett assaulted his 3 children, 17 year old Ruby, 13 year old Eric, 8 year old John, and his intellectually disabled brother, 43 year old Roger, under his care with a window weight in their trailer home. Eric and Roger were killed in the attack, while Ruby shielded John with her own body and dragged him and herself to the safety of a neighbor's house. Several teachers and a visiting pastor filled numerous complaints about the children's malnourished looking appearances and the family's filthy living conditions to social services before the murders, but were all dismissed by the investigating case workers.
22.Christina Riggs (1997-2000, lethal injection): Riggs poisoned her children, 5 year old Justin Thomas and 2 year old Shelby, with a combination of potassium chloride, amitriptyline sedative pills, and morphine. When that failed to immediately kill them, Riggs switched to suffocating them with a pillow.
23.David Johnson (1989-2000, lethal injection): Johnson duped Leon Brown, a 67 year old watchman, into letting him in the Little Rock Crate warehouse he was guarding. After entry, he beat Brown to death with a 2x4 lumber, stole a car, and drove off with Brown's body.
24.Clay Smith (1998-2001, lethal injection): Misty Erwin, Smith's 20 year old girlfriend, accused him of domestic abuse and initially requested police protection. However, she withdrew her complaints, and continued her relationship with Smith. A few days later, Smith shot Erwin, her cousin, 24 year old Shelley Sorg, Sorg's two children, 5 year old Sean and 3 year old Taylor, and a babysitter, 12 year old Samantha Rhodes, to death with his rifle.
25.Riley Noel (1995-2003, lethal injection): Noel's brother was previously killed in a drive by shooting, and he believed that 19 year old Yashica Young was responsible for setting up the murder. In retaliation, Noel and 3 other gang members broke into her family's home in search of her. They rounded up Yashica's younger siblings, 17 year old Marchell, 12 year old Mustafa, and 10 year old Malak Hussian, forced them to lie on the ground, and executed them with a shotgun. When Noel tried to do the same with the siblings' mother, 34 year old Mary, the gun jammed. She was able to wrestle the gun away, and chase Noel and his gang out of her home.
26.Charles Singleton (~1979-2005, lethal injection): While robbing York's Grocery Store, Singleton stabbed the owner, 19 year old Mary Lou York, twice in the neck.
27.Eric Nance (1993-2005, lethal injection): Nance found 18 year old Julie Heath broken down on the side of the highway. He lured her into his car with the offer of a ride. Nance then raped Heath and slit her throat with box cutters. On an unrelated side note, Heath's mother took her own life a year after the murder reportedly out of overwhelming grief.
28.Ledell Lee (~1989-2017, lethal injection): Lee was given a death sentence for the rape and murder of 26 year old Debra Reese, who was fatally struck 36 times with a tire thumper. He was also trialed for the murder of 22 year old Christine Lewis, but was acquitted from the inablity of the jury to reach a verdict. His execution is controversial due to the mixed results of a 2021 DNA test. More specifically, a DNA of an unknown man was found on the tire thumper (which was owned by Reese and her husband), but it still remained a "moderate" possibility that blood found on Lee's shoes could've belonged to Reese. Despite the DNA controversies, Lee had several unrelated rape convictions and accusations, and bills found in his possession had serial numbers that were traced back to money stolen from Reese.
29.Jack Jones (~1983-2017, lethal injection): In 1983, Jones abducted 20 year old Regina Harrison in Florida while she was going on a nightly bike ride. He raped and strangled her to death, and dumped Harrison's body in a nearby forest. Harrison's killing was originally pinned on Ronald Stewart, another sex offender with several previous rape convictions, until a DNA testing in 2019 proved Jones' responsibility. Jones committed his second verified murder in 1991, when he raped and strangled 32 year old Lorraine Barrett in her motel room. His last known murder occurred in 1995, when he broke in a home that 34 year old Mary Philps shared with her 11 year old daughter Lacey. Jones raped and strangled Mary to death, beat Lacey unconscious, tied the girl to a chair, and fled the residence.
30.Marcel Williams (1994-2017, lethal injection): Williams abducted 22 year old Stacy Errickson from a gas station, and forced her to withdraw money from a ATM. He then raped and murdered her through beating and strangulation attacks, and buried her body near the Arkansas River. Williams had a long history of sexual predations, and had at least two rape convictions prior to Errickson's murder.
31.Kenneth Williams (1998-2017, lethal injection): In 1998, Williams shot and killed 36 year old Jerrell Jenkins during a robbery. Days after Jenkins' murder, he kidnapped 19 year old Dominique Hurd and her boyfriend at gunpoint. After he forced them to withdraw money, Williams shot both of them. Hurd was killed in the shooting, while her boyfriend survived his injuries. A year later, Williams escaped from prison and broke into the home of 57 year old Cecil Boren. He stole one of Boren's guns and fatally shot him 6 times with it. Williams then stole Boren's wallet, jewelry, clothes, and other guns, and drove away in his truck. The following police chase caused a traffic collision that took the life of a delivery truck driver, 24 year old Michael Greenwood. Beyond his murder convictions, Williams also abducted a 39 year old woman, molested several children as a child himself, and was part of the Gangsters Disciples gang.
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Due to it being near finals for my classes, I'll probably delay releasing my lists for the remaining states of Georgia, Alabama, Missouri, Virginia, Oklahoma, and the still in progress Texas for the next few weeks. However, Georgia will likely be the next one I'll share here.
The currently executed 31 offenders:
1.John Swindler (~1977-1990, electric chair): Swindler was sentenced to death for the killing of a 30 year old policeman named Randy Basnett. Basnatt pulled over Swindler while he was driving a stolen car, and the latter fatally shot the former in the ensuring confrontation. Swindler was also responsible for the abductions and double shootings of a teenage couple, 18 year old Greg Becknell and 18 year old Dorothy Rhodes, and the killing of 25 year old Jeffrey McNerney was attributed to him despite failing to be convicted of it in court.
2.Ronald Simmons (1987-1990, lethal injection): Simmons massacred his family, which consisted of his 46 year old wife Bersabe, his 8 children (all between the ages from 7 to 26 years old, with the youngest being conceived through sexually abusing one of his daughters), his 33 year old son-in-law Dennis McNulty, his 23 year old daughter-in-law Renata, and 4 grandchildren (all between 3 to 7 years old, including the eldest who was also the aforementioned youngest child he fathered with one of his daughters). He murdered his relatives through shootings, strangulations, and drownings. After murdering his own family, Simmons opened fire on his workplace. Simmons killed 23 year old Kathy Kendrick, a co worker he sexually harassed, and 33 year old James Chaffi, a random customer, in his rampage.
3.Ricky Rector (1981-1992, lethal injection): When Rector and a group of his friends drove to a home style restaurant, one of his friends was denied entry for not being able to pay for a ticket. Enraged, Rector pulled out a gun and fired into the establishment. Two patrons were wounded, and a third, 33 year old Arthur Criswell, died from a hit to the throat. Rector went on the run for 3 days, until his sister and a police officer that was also a family friend, Bob Martin (age unknown), convinced him to surrender. Despite his promises of surrendering, Rector fatally shot Martin in the back when he turned to walk away from the scene. Rector's execution was a source of controversy, as he acquired a cognitive disability from a botched suicide.
4.Steven Hill (1984-1992, lethal injection): After escaping from the custody of a corrections facility, Hill and an accomplice broke into a nearby home. They tied up the elderly homeowners and intimidated them into complacency with rape threats. He almost murdered them until his accomplice talked him out of it. They then stole the couple's truck, and tried fleeing the scene. Responding police officers forced the two into bunkering in a nearby house. In the following confrontation, Hill shot and killed one of the officers, 39 year old Robert Klain.
5.Edward Pickens (~1975-1994, lethal injection): Pickens and two accomplices held up a grocery store at gunpoint. Two of them gang raped a 23 year old female clerk, while they cleared out the register and stole her diamond wedding ring. They then lined her, the store owner, and 7 customers on the ground, and shot them multiple times. Two of the hostages, Westley Nobles [the sources are very inconsistent on his exact age, and they range anywhere from 64 to 76 year old] and 31 year old James Scherm, were killed while the others survived their injuries. A third man, 33 year old Theordore Criner, was carjacked and shot in the head by Pickens' accomplices, and his car was used as a getaway vehicle in the robbery.
6.Jonas Whitmore (1986-1994, lethal injection): 62 year old Essie Black welcomed Whitmore inside her home to share her homemade cookies with him. He repaid Black's kindness by stabbing her 10 times and slitting her throat. Whitmore then ransacked her house and stole $250 in cash. On death row, Whitmore attacked Ronald Simmons for waiving his appeals, as he believed that him volunteering for execution would compromise his battle against his.
7.Hoyt Clines (1981-1994, lethal injection): Clines and 3 other men forced themselves inside the home of 47 year old Donald Lehman. They beat Lehman with a motorcycle chain and shot 3 him times in front of his wife and daughter. The assailants then stole $1,000 and several of Lehman's guns.
8.Darryl Richley (1981-1994, lethal injection): Richley was one of Clines' accomplices. He assisted him in murdering Lehman and robbing his family.
9.James Holmes (1981-1994, lethal injection): Holmes was the third member of Clines' gang. He also partook in the home invasion that killed Lehman.
10.Richard Snell (1983-1995, lethal injection): Snell was a militant of the white supremacist group The Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord (CSA). He shot and killed a pawn shop owner, 36 year old William Stumpp, on the mistaken belief that he was Jewish, and a police officer, 37 year old Louis Bryant, for being black. Prior to his murder sprees, Snell was also involved in a few failed terrorist attacks.
11.Barry Fairchild (1984-1996, lethal injection): Fairchild was convicted of abducting army nurse, 22 year old Marjorie Mason. According to prosecutors, he sodomized and shot her to death in a barn. Fairchild's death sentence and execution has been scrutinized, as there are strong accusations of police coercion and misconduct involved in the case. More specifically, the defense attorneys have alleged that Fairchild had a intellectual disability, which supposedly left him vulnerable to exploitation by investigators. Other questioned suspects have also claimed that they were beaten while detained by the officers.
12.William Parker (1984-1996, lethal injection): Parker shot his ex-wife's parents, 49 year old James and Sandra (age unknown) Warren, when he ambushed them while they were pulling out of their driveway. He blamed them for the disintegration of his marriage with their daughter and sought vengeance. A day after the killings, Parker kidnapped his ex wife, 27 year old Pam, and opened fire on police officers trying to intervene. Pam and an officer, 41 year old Mauris Feyen, were hit by Parker's gunfire, but both survived their injuries.
13.Paul Ruiz (1977-1997, lethal injection): Ruiz broke out of prison with his accomplice Earl Denton. He and Denton ambushed two park rangers, 55 year old Opal James and 27 year old David Small, and a marshal, 42 year old Marvin Richie, while on the run. They robbed Richie and the rangers of their wallets at gunpoint and abducted them. They tied their captives up with their own handcuffs, and shot them execution style. James and Richie were killed by gunshots to the head and neck respectively, while Small survived with a bullet wound to his chest.
14.Earl Denton (1977-1997, lethal injection): Denton was an accomplice to the above mentioned Ruiz. As discussed under Ruiz's section, Denton assisted him in the robbery abductions of two park rangers and a marshal while on the run from a prison breakout. He took part in the killings of two of their hostages, and the attempted murder of the survivor.
15.Kirt Wainwright (1988-1997, lethal injection): Wainright robbed a convenience store at gunpoint, and fatally shot the clerks, 37 year old Karen Ross and 28 year old Barbara Smith.
16.Eugene Perry (1980-1997, lethal injection): Perry held up a jewelry store owned by the Staton family. He tied up the owner, 53 year old Kenneth and his daughter, 24 year old Suzanne, and shot them both twice in the head at point blank range. After the killings, Perry stole up to $100,000 in jewelry.
17.Wilburn Henderson (1980-1998, lethal injection): Henderson broke into a furniture store owned by 50 year old Willa O'Neal and her husband. He shot Willa dead and took $41 from the cash register.
18.Johnie Cox (1989-1999, lethal injection): Cox tied up his step grandmother, 68 year old Marie Sullens, and two distant relatives, 34 year old Margaret and 32 year Billy Brown, in their home. He stabbed, strangled, and shot them all to death, and then burned down their house with their bodies inside.
19.Marion Pruett (~1981-1999, lethal injection): A few years after being released from a federal prison and placed in the witness protection program, Pruett went on a nationwide crime spree. In Mississippi, he abducted a loan officer, 43 year old Peggy Lowe, while robbing a bank and shot her to death. While robbing two convenience stores in Colorado, Pruett fatally shot two clerks, 24 year old James Balderson and 21 year old Anthony Taitt. The murder that got him condemned in Arkansas was 30 year old Bobbie Robertson, a clerk he kidnapped from a convenience store and shot dead. Pruett also beat his common law wife, 25 year old Pamela Barker, with a clawhammer and burned her body while stealing money for cocaine.
20.Mark Gardner (1985-1999, lethal injection): Gardner forced his way into the home of 60 year old Martha and 57 year old Joe Joyce, and bound them and their daughter, 31 year old Sara McCurdy. After he finished restraining his captives, he sexually assaulted Sara in front of her parents, and strangled all of them to death with a belt. He then ransacked the house, snatched jewelry, and drove away with the Joyces' car. While awaiting execution, Gardner raped Damien Echols, one of the accused West Memphis Three.
21.Alan Willett (1993-1999, lethal injection): Willett assaulted his 3 children, 17 year old Ruby, 13 year old Eric, 8 year old John, and his intellectually disabled brother, 43 year old Roger, under his care with a window weight in their trailer home. Eric and Roger were killed in the attack, while Ruby shielded John with her own body and dragged him and herself to the safety of a neighbor's house. Several teachers and a visiting pastor filled numerous complaints about the children's malnourished looking appearances and the family's filthy living conditions to social services before the murders, but were all dismissed by the investigating case workers.
22.Christina Riggs (1997-2000, lethal injection): Riggs poisoned her children, 5 year old Justin Thomas and 2 year old Shelby, with a combination of potassium chloride, amitriptyline sedative pills, and morphine. When that failed to immediately kill them, Riggs switched to suffocating them with a pillow.
23.David Johnson (1989-2000, lethal injection): Johnson duped Leon Brown, a 67 year old watchman, into letting him in the Little Rock Crate warehouse he was guarding. After entry, he beat Brown to death with a 2x4 lumber, stole a car, and drove off with Brown's body.
24.Clay Smith (1998-2001, lethal injection): Misty Erwin, Smith's 20 year old girlfriend, accused him of domestic abuse and initially requested police protection. However, she withdrew her complaints, and continued her relationship with Smith. A few days later, Smith shot Erwin, her cousin, 24 year old Shelley Sorg, Sorg's two children, 5 year old Sean and 3 year old Taylor, and a babysitter, 12 year old Samantha Rhodes, to death with his rifle.
25.Riley Noel (1995-2003, lethal injection): Noel's brother was previously killed in a drive by shooting, and he believed that 19 year old Yashica Young was responsible for setting up the murder. In retaliation, Noel and 3 other gang members broke into her family's home in search of her. They rounded up Yashica's younger siblings, 17 year old Marchell, 12 year old Mustafa, and 10 year old Malak Hussian, forced them to lie on the ground, and executed them with a shotgun. When Noel tried to do the same with the siblings' mother, 34 year old Mary, the gun jammed. She was able to wrestle the gun away, and chase Noel and his gang out of her home.
26.Charles Singleton (~1979-2005, lethal injection): While robbing York's Grocery Store, Singleton stabbed the owner, 19 year old Mary Lou York, twice in the neck.
27.Eric Nance (1993-2005, lethal injection): Nance found 18 year old Julie Heath broken down on the side of the highway. He lured her into his car with the offer of a ride. Nance then raped Heath and slit her throat with box cutters. On an unrelated side note, Heath's mother took her own life a year after the murder reportedly out of overwhelming grief.
28.Ledell Lee (~1989-2017, lethal injection): Lee was given a death sentence for the rape and murder of 26 year old Debra Reese, who was fatally struck 36 times with a tire thumper. He was also trialed for the murder of 22 year old Christine Lewis, but was acquitted from the inablity of the jury to reach a verdict. His execution is controversial due to the mixed results of a 2021 DNA test. More specifically, a DNA of an unknown man was found on the tire thumper (which was owned by Reese and her husband), but it still remained a "moderate" possibility that blood found on Lee's shoes could've belonged to Reese. Despite the DNA controversies, Lee had several unrelated rape convictions and accusations, and bills found in his possession had serial numbers that were traced back to money stolen from Reese.
29.Jack Jones (~1983-2017, lethal injection): In 1983, Jones abducted 20 year old Regina Harrison in Florida while she was going on a nightly bike ride. He raped and strangled her to death, and dumped Harrison's body in a nearby forest. Harrison's killing was originally pinned on Ronald Stewart, another sex offender with several previous rape convictions, until a DNA testing in 2019 proved Jones' responsibility. Jones committed his second verified murder in 1991, when he raped and strangled 32 year old Lorraine Barrett in her motel room. His last known murder occurred in 1995, when he broke in a home that 34 year old Mary Philps shared with her 11 year old daughter Lacey. Jones raped and strangled Mary to death, beat Lacey unconscious, tied the girl to a chair, and fled the residence.
30.Marcel Williams (1994-2017, lethal injection): Williams abducted 22 year old Stacy Errickson from a gas station, and forced her to withdraw money from a ATM. He then raped and murdered her through beating and strangulation attacks, and buried her body near the Arkansas River. Williams had a long history of sexual predations, and had at least two rape convictions prior to Errickson's murder.
31.Kenneth Williams (1998-2017, lethal injection): In 1998, Williams shot and killed 36 year old Jerrell Jenkins during a robbery. Days after Jenkins' murder, he kidnapped 19 year old Dominique Hurd and her boyfriend at gunpoint. After he forced them to withdraw money, Williams shot both of them. Hurd was killed in the shooting, while her boyfriend survived his injuries. A year later, Williams escaped from prison and broke into the home of 57 year old Cecil Boren. He stole one of Boren's guns and fatally shot him 6 times with it. Williams then stole Boren's wallet, jewelry, clothes, and other guns, and drove away in his truck. The following police chase caused a traffic collision that took the life of a delivery truck driver, 24 year old Michael Greenwood. Beyond his murder convictions, Williams also abducted a 39 year old woman, molested several children as a child himself, and was part of the Gangsters Disciples gang.
2024.03.17 21:00 chbailey442013 Does Dylan and KD still have eligibility for next year?
I know Jaylin and CMO are seniors and I assume Johni is going to go to the draft. KD and Dylan will probably at least declare to test the waters, but do they have another year of eligibility if they want to come back?
If not, I'm glad those guys could hang a banner. Let's get one more!
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If not, I'm glad those guys could hang a banner. Let's get one more!
2024.03.08 14:50 PSOJemma Out of the Pods - Love is Blind's Johnie Maraist Tells All (November 1, 2023)
-Recapped episode 32 of Out of the Pods since Izzy will be on season 2 of Perfect Match
-I 100% expect them to have Chelsea on the Podcast
-Explains a little bit about how people end up getting the edits they do and make the choices they do
-Glad Johnie seems to be living her best life after everything
Out of the Pods - Love is Blind's Johnie Maraist Tells All (November 1, 2023)
Natalie Lee & Deepti Vempati (Season 2 LIB)
-N/D ask Johnie how she was cast on LIB S5I
-Johnie says a casting producer slid into DM's on Insta, she thinks they found her on a dating app and then Dmed her on Insta with a voice message, Johnie thought it was a scam at first but answered his DM anyway
-Johnie wanted to do the show because it's like a "free matchmaking service" you take a long and extensive compatibility test, Johnie had never used a matchmaker before so it seemed like an amazing opportunity VS dating app
-N/D have discussed on the Podcast before, it is not just random people who are chosen for the show there is a compatibility factor and contestants go through multiple tests to ensure there are potential matches for everyone, N/D often refer to these as "paper matches" on the Podcast and then ask Johnie who she thought her "paper matches" were
-Johnie says you see her getting confused because she realized after Izzy ended things with her that Chris was her perfect paper match, she said she always dates slightly younger guys who are dependable and love animals, etc.
-Chris and Johnie both agreed and were cut at the reunion that they were one another's paper number one compatibility match in the Pods
-Looking back feels like Chris was also one of the nice guys/good ones she had a good connection with, just didn't know if there was chemistry at the time, feels like she should've given him a chance
-Natalie then asks Deepti if she thinks that Nick from their season who married Danielle is her perfect paper match, Deepti laughs and says she didn't think that but a producer said that to her
-Johnie wishes a producer had told her who her paper matches were supposed to be after the show wrapped so she could at least make the decision about whether or not she could talk to those people after the show
-Johnie says she had 3 strong connections, you only see 2 but she always felt Izzy was the strongest emotional connection
-Deepti asks that Izzy and Chris are obviously top two, and they seem very opposite, walk us through that
-Johnie says they seem opposite but what she was hearing was similar, had phrase relationships aren't 50/50 they're 100/100 in her head because 50/50 relationships are transactional but both people should be giving their all
The first day Izzy was second date and he told her that he wanted a 120/120 relationship, though he was clearly a paper match based on this, Johnie felt like she was always the caretaker and wanted someone else who would give their all
-When she watched the show, she gets more of a party boy vibe from Izzy but that's not what she got from him in the Pods, he was talking about going to therapy, etc, she got wrapped up in what he was saying and was her number 1 because of this, on the first day, Chris was her number 8
-Chris seemed nice, and comfortable, with nothing else to go off, couldn't even remember what he did for work, and says he was a "slow burn" which she now recognizes as more of a healthy dynamic for herself
-Izzy is what she would describe as an immediate emotional reaction that she now recognizes as anxiety "Chemistry is based on your nervous system history" That's what happened with Izzy but he was saying the right things and feeling emotional, really thought Izzy was her perfect compatibility match and she had big blinders on
-Deepti says that Pods can be frustrating because it's easy to pretend to be someone and then actions don't line up with words
-Johnie agrees that Love is not Blind in the sense that you can't go into a room with someone and listen to their sales pitch on them as a person and then decide to marry them based on that
It doesn't take long to realize someone is not the person they said they were, that's why Johnie went into Pods and basically said, "I'm not that great" didn't want to oversell herself
-A lot of people go into the Pods like "This is what I want to be perceived as"
-Natalie says it is really tough when you're dating men who are saying they are a really good fit for you and then they are not that way in real life
-Johnie says that she builds her confidence by keeping promises to herself, not by physical appearance
-Stacy made IG post after LIB season 5 reunion about how Johnie bashed her as a person as well as their physical appearance and claimed that if Izzy chooses Stacy he will be disappointed at the reveal because she is not hot, did you say those things about her, Natalie asks Johnie
-Johnie - no, and I have multiple thoughts, people will rewrite history to avoid accountability, Stacy has never ever not once tried to come to Johnie to have a conversation, Stacy admitted both publicly and privately all her opinions on Johnie are based on talk by other people, Stacy also didn't address at the reunion which was filmed prior to barbecue "discussion" and had not seen what public reaction was, draw conclusions you will. Thinks accusations are based on a game of telephone and things were just not said.
The day before Izzy broke up with her, Johnie and Izzy discovered they went to the same gym, Izzy asks her if she's his "gym crush", Johnie said nothing about her appearance she was all in for the experiment, he says gym crush is blonde and she says "Clearly not me", he broke things off with her the next day, they had talked about her ex but she felt like he broke things off because she wasn't blonde
In conversation she walked into she said I think Izzy ended things with me for superficial reasons, Renee said that Carter said Izzy says he likes blondes and he's going to end things with you
-Johnie thought Stacy and Izzy wouldn't be compatible because of their personalities, not looks, but understands it was not her place to have ever said these things
-Stacy said she was a blonde cheerleader in the Pods a lot
-When you see Johnie getting upset, she isn't bashing Stacy's physical appearance but understands how it came across that way, all she was trying to say is they aren't compatible and Izzy picked her because she's blonde
-When Stacy came at her at the barbecue it was not over her physical appearance it was over character and she thought Stacy was deceitful, actually owned up to everything at the barbecue but it was cut, Stacy is now making up what the fight was about because she wasn't backed
-Natalie says when we make statements about other people's relationships in the pods, it's just kind of the name of the game for being in the Pods
-Natalie thinks Shaina's comments on Natalie's with Shane relationship were valid based off Shaina's own perceptions
-Natalie says you hear this "I heard from someone else" a lot from Stacy
-Even if Johnie had said Stacy is ugly and he won't be happy, the way Stacy approached her at the barbecue was not okay
I was expecting a fake apology from Stacy, at least at reunion Izzy said that he shouldn't have spoken to Johnie in that way
-Regrets internalizing what they said and making her question her own self worth, didn't really defend herself because self worth was already low after the pods
-When Izzy ended things with Johnie she was hurt but felt like blinders fell off, Izzy didn't matter, she realized she should've been with Chris
-They met at airport and continued dating from there
-Johnie's perspective was she's going to barbacue with Chris, producers will want me to have a convo with Izzy, but I'll just wish him well bcause I am genuinely in love with Chris, people don't understand but from edit, he looks like second choice, was very all in with Chris, thought Chris and I would end up together and this will make sense because they're in a relationship, made sense to go back
-Izzy was accusing her of having multiple number one's but this was cut out of convo
-Izzy probably comes so hard at Johnie to make Stacy feel comfortable, evident when Izzy and Stacy get into fight right after barbacue
-Natalie brings up Johnie/Izzy kiss a few weeks after filming/break up with Chris
-Johnie says first time she met up with Izzy, multiple weeks since she found out Chris cheated on her, the same week Izzy got dumped at altar, Johnie went to bar near her house and entire male cast is there, Izzy eventually shows up
-Izzy asks Johnie that night if they want to start a relationship, Johnie says sure they can hangout but doesn't want to sleep with him, left the door open to hanging out in the future
-Never dated Izzy, they were just friends
-Milton told Johnie Izzy had another girl at the bachelorette party, confronted Izzy about it and Milton was mad at Johnie for this, also was told by others to not trust Izzy and she didn't, he kept trying to push to see if there was a connection
-Johnie has been in therapy for 3 years and is very self-aware, she and Izzy were there for one another for a year and a half until Stacy slid into his DM's before the reunion and then Izzy turned on Johnie, Johnie had also started to distance herself from Izzy due to relationship with current boyfriend, didn't realize Izzy would be so rude at the reunion
-Revealed at reunion that Chris cheated on Johnie, BBQ was May 18th, her birthday May 21st and Chris went out of town for a wedding and didn't invite her, he had told her he had been having a lot of anxiety with her and the show, one of his guy friends told her that he saw Chris that day at the pool making out with another girl, doesn't show but Chris apparently told someone else he loved them in the Pods which is why Johnie had her walls up at first
-Johnie says she gave both Izzy and Chris a chance after the Pods when she probably shouldn't of, she didn't know if she should out Chris for the cheating because the episodes hadn't come out yet and he might've gotten a really good edit, feels guilty about outing him as a cheater at the reunion, she says sorry at the reunion and he says it's okay, it's your truth, wasn't talking about Izzy and Stacy was making up with Chris
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-I 100% expect them to have Chelsea on the Podcast
-Explains a little bit about how people end up getting the edits they do and make the choices they do
-Glad Johnie seems to be living her best life after everything
Out of the Pods - Love is Blind's Johnie Maraist Tells All (November 1, 2023)
Natalie Lee & Deepti Vempati (Season 2 LIB)
-N/D ask Johnie how she was cast on LIB S5I
-Johnie says a casting producer slid into DM's on Insta, she thinks they found her on a dating app and then Dmed her on Insta with a voice message, Johnie thought it was a scam at first but answered his DM anyway
-Johnie wanted to do the show because it's like a "free matchmaking service" you take a long and extensive compatibility test, Johnie had never used a matchmaker before so it seemed like an amazing opportunity VS dating app
-N/D have discussed on the Podcast before, it is not just random people who are chosen for the show there is a compatibility factor and contestants go through multiple tests to ensure there are potential matches for everyone, N/D often refer to these as "paper matches" on the Podcast and then ask Johnie who she thought her "paper matches" were
-Johnie says you see her getting confused because she realized after Izzy ended things with her that Chris was her perfect paper match, she said she always dates slightly younger guys who are dependable and love animals, etc.
-Chris and Johnie both agreed and were cut at the reunion that they were one another's paper number one compatibility match in the Pods
-Looking back feels like Chris was also one of the nice guys/good ones she had a good connection with, just didn't know if there was chemistry at the time, feels like she should've given him a chance
-Natalie then asks Deepti if she thinks that Nick from their season who married Danielle is her perfect paper match, Deepti laughs and says she didn't think that but a producer said that to her
-Johnie wishes a producer had told her who her paper matches were supposed to be after the show wrapped so she could at least make the decision about whether or not she could talk to those people after the show
-Johnie says she had 3 strong connections, you only see 2 but she always felt Izzy was the strongest emotional connection
-Deepti asks that Izzy and Chris are obviously top two, and they seem very opposite, walk us through that
-Johnie says they seem opposite but what she was hearing was similar, had phrase relationships aren't 50/50 they're 100/100 in her head because 50/50 relationships are transactional but both people should be giving their all
The first day Izzy was second date and he told her that he wanted a 120/120 relationship, though he was clearly a paper match based on this, Johnie felt like she was always the caretaker and wanted someone else who would give their all
-When she watched the show, she gets more of a party boy vibe from Izzy but that's not what she got from him in the Pods, he was talking about going to therapy, etc, she got wrapped up in what he was saying and was her number 1 because of this, on the first day, Chris was her number 8
-Chris seemed nice, and comfortable, with nothing else to go off, couldn't even remember what he did for work, and says he was a "slow burn" which she now recognizes as more of a healthy dynamic for herself
-Izzy is what she would describe as an immediate emotional reaction that she now recognizes as anxiety "Chemistry is based on your nervous system history" That's what happened with Izzy but he was saying the right things and feeling emotional, really thought Izzy was her perfect compatibility match and she had big blinders on
-Deepti says that Pods can be frustrating because it's easy to pretend to be someone and then actions don't line up with words
-Johnie agrees that Love is not Blind in the sense that you can't go into a room with someone and listen to their sales pitch on them as a person and then decide to marry them based on that
It doesn't take long to realize someone is not the person they said they were, that's why Johnie went into Pods and basically said, "I'm not that great" didn't want to oversell herself
-A lot of people go into the Pods like "This is what I want to be perceived as"
-Natalie says it is really tough when you're dating men who are saying they are a really good fit for you and then they are not that way in real life
-Johnie says that she builds her confidence by keeping promises to herself, not by physical appearance
-Stacy made IG post after LIB season 5 reunion about how Johnie bashed her as a person as well as their physical appearance and claimed that if Izzy chooses Stacy he will be disappointed at the reveal because she is not hot, did you say those things about her, Natalie asks Johnie
-Johnie - no, and I have multiple thoughts, people will rewrite history to avoid accountability, Stacy has never ever not once tried to come to Johnie to have a conversation, Stacy admitted both publicly and privately all her opinions on Johnie are based on talk by other people, Stacy also didn't address at the reunion which was filmed prior to barbecue "discussion" and had not seen what public reaction was, draw conclusions you will. Thinks accusations are based on a game of telephone and things were just not said.
The day before Izzy broke up with her, Johnie and Izzy discovered they went to the same gym, Izzy asks her if she's his "gym crush", Johnie said nothing about her appearance she was all in for the experiment, he says gym crush is blonde and she says "Clearly not me", he broke things off with her the next day, they had talked about her ex but she felt like he broke things off because she wasn't blonde
In conversation she walked into she said I think Izzy ended things with me for superficial reasons, Renee said that Carter said Izzy says he likes blondes and he's going to end things with you
-Johnie thought Stacy and Izzy wouldn't be compatible because of their personalities, not looks, but understands it was not her place to have ever said these things
-Stacy said she was a blonde cheerleader in the Pods a lot
-When you see Johnie getting upset, she isn't bashing Stacy's physical appearance but understands how it came across that way, all she was trying to say is they aren't compatible and Izzy picked her because she's blonde
-When Stacy came at her at the barbecue it was not over her physical appearance it was over character and she thought Stacy was deceitful, actually owned up to everything at the barbecue but it was cut, Stacy is now making up what the fight was about because she wasn't backed
-Natalie says when we make statements about other people's relationships in the pods, it's just kind of the name of the game for being in the Pods
-Natalie thinks Shaina's comments on Natalie's with Shane relationship were valid based off Shaina's own perceptions
-Natalie says you hear this "I heard from someone else" a lot from Stacy
-Even if Johnie had said Stacy is ugly and he won't be happy, the way Stacy approached her at the barbecue was not okay
I was expecting a fake apology from Stacy, at least at reunion Izzy said that he shouldn't have spoken to Johnie in that way
-Regrets internalizing what they said and making her question her own self worth, didn't really defend herself because self worth was already low after the pods
-When Izzy ended things with Johnie she was hurt but felt like blinders fell off, Izzy didn't matter, she realized she should've been with Chris
-They met at airport and continued dating from there
-Johnie's perspective was she's going to barbacue with Chris, producers will want me to have a convo with Izzy, but I'll just wish him well bcause I am genuinely in love with Chris, people don't understand but from edit, he looks like second choice, was very all in with Chris, thought Chris and I would end up together and this will make sense because they're in a relationship, made sense to go back
-Izzy was accusing her of having multiple number one's but this was cut out of convo
-Izzy probably comes so hard at Johnie to make Stacy feel comfortable, evident when Izzy and Stacy get into fight right after barbacue
-Natalie brings up Johnie/Izzy kiss a few weeks after filming/break up with Chris
-Johnie says first time she met up with Izzy, multiple weeks since she found out Chris cheated on her, the same week Izzy got dumped at altar, Johnie went to bar near her house and entire male cast is there, Izzy eventually shows up
-Izzy asks Johnie that night if they want to start a relationship, Johnie says sure they can hangout but doesn't want to sleep with him, left the door open to hanging out in the future
-Never dated Izzy, they were just friends
-Milton told Johnie Izzy had another girl at the bachelorette party, confronted Izzy about it and Milton was mad at Johnie for this, also was told by others to not trust Izzy and she didn't, he kept trying to push to see if there was a connection
-Johnie has been in therapy for 3 years and is very self-aware, she and Izzy were there for one another for a year and a half until Stacy slid into his DM's before the reunion and then Izzy turned on Johnie, Johnie had also started to distance herself from Izzy due to relationship with current boyfriend, didn't realize Izzy would be so rude at the reunion
-Revealed at reunion that Chris cheated on Johnie, BBQ was May 18th, her birthday May 21st and Chris went out of town for a wedding and didn't invite her, he had told her he had been having a lot of anxiety with her and the show, one of his guy friends told her that he saw Chris that day at the pool making out with another girl, doesn't show but Chris apparently told someone else he loved them in the Pods which is why Johnie had her walls up at first
-Johnie says she gave both Izzy and Chris a chance after the Pods when she probably shouldn't of, she didn't know if she should out Chris for the cheating because the episodes hadn't come out yet and he might've gotten a really good edit, feels guilty about outing him as a cheater at the reunion, she says sorry at the reunion and he says it's okay, it's your truth, wasn't talking about Izzy and Stacy was making up with Chris
2024.02.25 21:48 Automatic-Survey7318 [TOMT] [Series] Show about mind controlling candy
It was maybe on netflix not sure but they're was some candy world were people were controlled if they ate candy and it was always being given out by maid robots maybe i think and they held plastic bags to put the candy in and it's in a johny test but more cartoony definetly not 90's style animation most likely 2010-2016 i think and also they're was a super bowl episode i think where they had big spoons and I remember they're was some man the creator of this controlling candy, and all the candy did was make people want more and i think they're was a liquid cure, and when you would eat the candy your eyes would turn purple or some color and I think you entered a cauldron to get to this candy world and Now some more vague stuff not even sure if the next details are the same show but in the real world I think they'res a business and everyone has they're food and they serve unhealthy food and everyone has the businesses like tin lunch box while the group that I think goes to the candy world has paper bags and i think they're was maybe a map to find a race car area really not sure if you know anything about what I'm talking about please tell me!
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2024.01.30 04:30 Successful-Shoe5716 Analysis Of March Tourney Teams I've Seen So Far
Alabama:
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- #1 team in the nation at scoring and offensive efficiency
- These guys score at a high rate and can shoot the rock- T20 3-point %
- Led by senior guard Mark Sears- Their floor general who's tenured and a crafty lefty
- Tourney Issue: Can they stop anyone? Nothing special on Defense
- Prediction: I can see them coming into the tourney as a 5 or 6 seed and getting upset if the shots aren't falling
- Bolsters one of the top backcourts in the nation led by UNC transfer guard Caleb Love and NBA prospect Kylan Boswell
- Another stud transfer in Keshad Johnson (San Diego St.)
- An experienced group- A bunch of Juniors and Seniors, which is an excellent characteristic to have in late March
- Tourney Issue: All their losses so far have come on the road. A hostile environment could give them problems
- Prediction: A 1 or 2 seed. These guys have what it takes to make a final four run
- One of the hottest teams in the nation at the moment
- Overall, defensively very solid. They're athletic and rebound well
- Have a few forwards that can stretch the floor and score well including big man Johni Broome
- Tourney Issue: They're quite average shooting from distance (Rank ~200)
- Prediction: 3 or 4 seed who'll be a tough out. I can see them getting past the first weekend
- A couple seniors leading the way w/ excellent guard play
- Absolute STUD true Freshman in Ja'Kobe Walter who is probably an NBA lottery pick next year
- Rank 1 3-point shooting team in the nation (~45%). And yes, no typo there
- Tourney Issue: Efficient on offense but very average on defense
- Prediction: I can see them getting upset in the first weekend
- At the time of writing this, they're a bubble team, so including them as I can see a late push from them
- Led by senior St. John's transfer guard Posh Alexander, he's an excellent leader
- They have another great scorer in 40% 3-point shooter Pierre Brooks
- Tourney Issue: Very streaky defensively and somewhat don't shoot it particularly well from 3
- Prediction: If they make it, first round loss most likely
- One of the more efficient teams on offense in the nation, pretty solid on Defense too
- Excellent shooting team (Top 5 in the nation in scoring)
- Solid/crafty big men (Traore/Khalifa) can be a problem (passing/scoring)
- Almost every guy out there till be able to shoot the rock. If they're ON, watch the hell out
- Tourney Issue: They struggle against top tier teams, especially great defenses
- Prediction: 4 or 5 seed if they turn it around in conference play. They're a tough out and could make it through the first weekend but lack the depth for that next tier
- National POY candidate PJ Hall is a brute down low and can go get a bucket
- They're very solid on offense but have a hard time guarding teams
- IMO, better than their current 3-5 record in ACC play
- Tourney Issue: Mediocre defensively and one of the worst teams in the nation at turning teams over (rank ~340)
- Prediction: Any team with POY candidates I want in the tourney. If they make it, could be a 8-12 seed depending on ACC finish. Has potential to upset if PJ Hall is one point
- NBA prospect Tristan Da Silva is a 6'9 crafty shooter and a matchup problem
- TCU center Eddie Lampkin transfer provides a solid presence down low
- Big and physical on O-boards, but this team shoots at a top 10 3-point % rate (Almost 40%)
- Tourney Issue: Turnover-prone, weak against quicketop tier teams- All their losses so far come from quad 1 teams. Do they have enough to make a run though?
- Prediction: If they sputter into the Pac12 tourney, 7-9 seed. But they have the potential to surprise a #1 seed..
- Isaiah Stevens is an NBA prospect and candidate to be National POY
- Started off strong but recently going through a skid- 2 straight conference losses
- Currently posting an under .500 conference record, they need a few key wins and a deep run in the conference tourney to get in
- Tourney Issue: If they get in, they'll have a tough time stopping top teams
- Prediction: Excellent on offense but mediocre on defense, which typically is a recipe for a first weekend exit
- All-defensive & Big East team 7-footer Ryan Kalkbrenner is a force down low
- Shoot the ball at a solid rate- Top 10 in the nation in FG%
- Prone to offensive lulls due to lack of quickness and agility
- Tourney Issue: One of the worst teams in the nation at forcing TOs (Rank 362). You typically need to be great defensively to win a few games
- Prediction: 4 or 5 seed if they continue success in Big East. They need to be shooting at a high rate, or else the wheels could fall off quick. Last couple years they've been horrid bracket busters
- National POY candidate DaRon Holmes is freakishly athletic and their go-to guy for a bucket. Make sure you check this guy out when March rolls around
- One of the more efficient teams on offense, solid on defense as well
- Top 10 3-point % in the Nation
- Tourney Issue: Like any other ranked, non-major conference team, you question their strength of schedule. But this team is legit
- Prediction: They have promising characteristics to make a deep run (great O, solid D, NBA talent, and 3-point shooting). I can see them being an interesting 5-7 seed and surprising some people
- National POY candidate Kyle Filipowski is a stretch center and matchup problem
- Tenured stud guard and leader in Jeromy Roach
- Sophomore guard/forward Tyrese Proctor is an excellent go-to guy for a bucket
- Offense isn't the issue for them this year (top 30 in 3-point % and FG%)
- Tourney Issue: They're nothing special on defense, should actually have a couple more losses than they currently do. Can their bench step up and assist Roach/Filip and Proctor?
- Prediction: I don't know what to make of this team. Streaky at times and tends to play down to the level of their opponents. They'll have a nice seed. Pending their matchup, Duke might be might upset special
- 14 of 15 players returning from Final Four team last year
- Johnell Davis is probably their go-to guy to make it happen (also a potential NBA prospect)
- 7'2 center Vlad Golden is a defensive menace
- Perhaps the deepest team; These guys can absolutely BALL
- Tourney Issue: Outside of Vlad Golden, they lack size and aren't as efficient on defense (no defensive stats in Top 100..)
- Prediction: They went through a little skid in January, but I like this team a lot. They have the experience and scoring to make a deep run. Look out
- Typical Leonard Hamilton ball club- Very solid defensively, but drop off considerably on offense
- Can get sloppy at times and prone to TOs- A recipe for disaster in March
- A couple solid ACC wins so far but somewhat streaky in conference
- Tourney Issue: No offensive presence and turn the ball over. Not a great recipe for the tourney
- Prediction: In a solid ACC conference, this is a bubble team at best and I don't see them making a splash in March
- Not as strong as Mark Few's past Zags squads having fallen out of the T25 ranking for the first time in only God knows how long
- Creighton stud guard Andrew Nembhard transfer
- Offense is predicated on Nembhard's productivity. Where are they getting their scoring outside of him?
- Very solid both on offense and defense, but their SOS is horrible outside the Maui invite at the beginning of the year
- Tourney Issue: Not a lot of scoring options it seems. Their best win is....San Francisco..
- Prediction: They'll be the WCC champ and get in the tourney. If Nembhard is on, they can potentially make it out of first weekend. But I'm leaning towards a first/second round out
- These guys are a legit team- Only 2 losses all year. Granted they're in a the WAC
- A bunch of Juniors and seniors who can be scoring threats- Particularly 3-headed monster in Harrison, McGlothan and Grant
- But they get it done on the defensive end first, which generates their offense (T50 in several defensive categories)
- Tourney Issue: Only one quad 1 win (SDSU), as their SOS isn't great- They haven't been tested
- Prediction: Given the uncertainty, I think this team can be a problem in the tourney. If the matchup is good for them, I may have them upsetting in the first round
- Best backcourt in the nation with LJ Cryer, Immanuel Sharpe (40% 3-point %) and IMO best guard in the nation in Jamal Shead
- Top 5 in Rebounds & Defensive stats; They go and get every loose ball
- Tourney Issue: Tough to say anything negative about this squad, but if anything, their free-throw %, especially down the stretch, can be an issue (rank ~310)
- Prediction: They'll be at worst a 2 seed. I love this squad and will have them to at least E8 and potentially F4/Championship game. Shead won't let his team go down without a brawl
- Although it doesn't show on paper, I think they're an underrated 3-point shooting team
- They won't turn their opponents over, but their defense is stout (T40 in several categories)
- Guard/Forward Terrance Shannon is an athletic freak and could be an NBA prospect
- Tourney Issue: They lack a post presence outside stretch forward Coleman Hawkins. Could get dominated in the paint
- Prediction: This is a well-rounded group overall, capable on both offense and defense. I foresee a 3-5 seed and pending matchup, will plan for them to get out of the first weekend
- I'm gonna say it here- Best defense in the nation (they battle Houston for that top spot)
- They force a staggering 26 TOs/game in their opponents
- They're solid offensively too with a nice free-throw %
- Tourney Issue: Mediocre 3-point % and less than stellar free-throw %. Tough to advance without these
- Prediction: If they continue this run, potential 3-4 seed who is going to be a tough out. Pending matchup, I like them moving onto the second weekend
- A perplexing team who started on an undefeated tear and getting up to rank 22 at one point
- They've come back down to earth w/ a couple bad wins and aren't even the favorite out of the Sunbelt conference (Appalachian St. should get the bid)
- Tourney Issue: They don't shoot it very well and are average on the offensive front
- Prediction: They'll need to get through Appalachian St. first. But if they do, could be a pesky double-digit seed pending matchup
- Michigan transfer center & Nat'l POY candidate Hunter Dickinson
- All-around athletic, great defensively, and experienced- Elite characteristics to make a run
- Texas Tech transfer forward Kevin McCullar is a leader can go out and get a triple-double
- Tourney Issue: They lack depth/bench and really only have 5-6 guys scoring most their points. If Dickinson gets into foul trouble they could have a tough time
- Prediction: 1-2 seed. These guys have what it takes to make a deeeep run- Tenure, elite on O & D, NBA caliber and legendary coach Bill Self
- Solid defensively and very athletic
- Arthur Kaluma is a potential NBA talent and stretch wing that can go get a bucket
- Tourney Issue: One of the worst teams in the nation at committing TOs (rank 350). You don't beat elite teams with an atrocious stat like this
- Prediction: They'll be a bubble team given their Big12 schedule. I don't trust a team with a mediocre offense and awful TO rate. Done first weekend
- Top 10 offense in the nation, but average on defense
- Three 7-footers hurt earlier this year but are coming back; Could be dangerous in March
- Athletic and LONG group, don't get in a track meet with them
- True Frosh Reed Sheppard rounds out this team as a top sixth man in the nation
- Young team; Inexperience down the stretch will hurt in March
- Tourney Issue: Inexperience always rears it's head in March. Their defense will need to step up as well
- Prediction: A dangerous 2-4 seed. I like them a lot and can see them making a run into April
- Nat'l POY candidate and all around great guard Tyler Kolek
- Great big man in Oso Ighodaro
- Big East 6th man David Joplin is nice wing presence
- Top tier Shaka Smart defense
- Tourney Issue: Marquette lacks size outside of Ighodaro, so a matchup with an elite-sized team could be trouble for them
- Prediction: I like them a lot. If they catch fire in the Big East tourney I'll roll with them as far as possible
- Alabama transfer guard Jahvon Quinerly is an elite playmaker
- Quick, fast and athletic
- Solid offensively but nothing special on defense
- Currently going through a tough stretch- 3-game losing streak to teams outside of T100
- Tourney Issue: Prone to TOs down the stretch and will struggle to stop elite offenses
- Predictions: Penny Hardaway seems to always get his team in at an 8 or 9 seed. If they make it past first game, no shot against 1 seed
- Shoots the ball well- T15 in 3-point % and efficient on offense
- Starting 5 all under 6'7; Does not rebound the ball well
- Wooga Poplar is a walking bucket and excellent scorer (~50% from 3)
- Love Freshman Keshawn George (Swiss U19 team)
- Tourney Issue: Size. Size. Size. Average defensively and low free-throw %
- Prediction: Can see them being anywhere from a 5-10 seed depending how they fair in the conference tourney. If they get a good matchup, I'd love taking them in the first round
- Question of the year: Why isn't this team better!?
- They have the components for a great team- Two experienced and productive guards in AJ Hoggard and Tyson Walker, an awesome stretch 4 in Malik Hall and legendary coach Izzo
- In their defense, their schedule is one of the more difficult ones in the nation
- Tourney Issue: They don't do anything poorly (statistically speaking), but they get very streaky
- Prediction: Izzo always delivers in March and I think these guys get in anywhere from 6-9 seed. They could pose a problem for lower seeds...
- Tolu Smith is an NBA prospect and matchup nightmare for anyone
- It starts on defense with this squad as they struggle to score offensively outside Tolu
- They've proven they can beat the elite teams (Auburn, Tennessee)
- Tourney Issue: They aren't great from 3 or the charity stripe (rank ~280 in both)
- Prediction: 4-7 seed depending how consistent they are. I think these guys could pull off a first/second round upset
- Talented big man Armando Bacot is a double-double machine and force down low
- Notre Dame transfer forward Cormac Ryan is experienced (oldest player in the nation) and provides scoring
- RJ Davis runs the show and is a top 3 guard in the nation. But when he's not scoring, can they get it done?
- Tourney Issue: UNC dependent on RJ Davis to provide scoring. Average 3-point % but shouldn't be an issue
- Prediction: At least a 3 seed. They have what it takes to make a deep run. I expect elite 8 or final 4
- Boo Buie is a bonafide scorer, playmaker and NBA prospect
- Offensively they are highly efficient but can't say as much on the defensive end
- Top 25 in the nation from 3 (~38%)
- Tourney Issue: They don't rebound or shoot free throws well, which will kill them down the stretch
- Prediction: Likely in as a 4-7 seed depending on their conference tourney. I like a first round win but don't see them advancing after that
- Led by coach Chris Beard, who always seems to squeeze everything out of his teams
- They do a lot of things well on both O and D, but they're a top tier 3-point shooting team (T20 in nation)
- Solid, experienced guard in Jaylen Murray, who was on that miracle St. Peter team that made deep miracle run a couple years ago
- Tourney Issue: They don't have any 'elite' wins, so proceed with caution.
- Prediction: I can see them being a 5-8 seed if they make an SEC tourney run. They're a solid team and can see them sneak a win in the first round.
- Your quintessential 'Princeton' team you see each year- They take care of the ball (T10 in the nation) and run an efficient offense (T50 in efficiency and FG%)
- As an old school basketball fan, their Princeton offense they run is beautiful to watch
- Experienced and tenured w/ a bunch of Juniors and Seniors
- Tourney Issue: Absurdly average on defense and can't pressure their opponents effectively
- Prediction: You never know, they took down Arizona in round 1 last year and made it to the sweet sixteen. Pending matchup, I will look for them as my upset special round one
- They lost one of their top playmakers and scorers in Bryce Hopkins to an ACL
- This is a massive blow to a team that already struggles to score on offense (mid ranks in multiple offensive categories)
- Where they exceed is in their extremely stout defense, which keeps them in these Big East games (T15 in multiple defensive categories)
- Tourney Issue: Scoring is a major problem for this team and w/ Hopkins departure, will struggle in March
- Prediction: Their defense will keep them competitive, but I unfortunately see an early departure from the Friars
- I mean what can I say, this team is a legit contender
- Zach Edey is the real deal and national POY who is nearly impossible to stop
- If you're having PTSD from the Farleigh Dickinson game, fret not. Purdue's supporting cast can do it all- T15 in 3-point %, efficiency, rebounding and multiple defensive factors
- Tourney Issue: They don't turn their opponents over and if they go cold from 3, they could be in trouble
- Prediction: 1 seed and will be disappointed with a minimum final 4 appearance
- These guys get it done on defense- T10 in multiple defensive categories
- Keep in mind they're in a pedestrian conference and have a soft SOS
- Alex Ducas is an experienced, senior guard who can run their offense
- Tourney Issue: They have a hard time scoring and shoot an abysmal free-throw %. which is surprising given their past shooting record
- Prediction: Zags will win this conference, so they could sneak in as a 8-10 seed. I see them losing first round if they see a tough matchup
- Led by do-it-all guy Jaedon LeDee (22 ppg)- This guy is a matchup problem and bull in the china shop
- They tout their typical stout defense (T50 in multiple categories)
- Take care of the ball (T40 in TO rate) and shoot FT well- Both key stats down stretch
- Tourney Issue: They aren't great from 3 (in the bottom half of the nation), which is always tough in March
- Prediction: Coach Brian Dutcher is turning into a top tier coach and always has his guys ready in March. Pending matchup, they could turn a few heads and get to the second weekend
- Possibly the most volatile team in the field- They took down Uconn, Marquette and St. John's and are now on a 3 game skid
- Granted, the Big East is arguably the strongest conference in the nation, these guys are battle-tested
- 6'6 guard Kadary Richmond is nightmare to guard and can take over a game
- Tourney Issue: They don't defend well (keep in mind their SOS) and are abysmal at taking care of the ball
- Prediction: They've proven they can beat the best, but which Seton Hall team are we getting in March? They'll need to make a deep run in the conference tourney. Otherwise, proceed with caution
- Legendary coach Rick Pitino has his guys playing at a high level
- Joel Soriano is a walking double-double and a force to be reckoned with
- The offense runs through Iona transfer guard Daniss Jenkins, who's an excellent playmaker
- Solid defensively as well (T40 in multiple categories)
- Tourney Issue: They don't shoot free throws well and can get a little careless with the ball down the stretch (anecdotal evidence from watching them)
- Prediction: I like this Pitino team. Solid coach, guard and big man- All necessary components for a deep run..
- In my opinion, the top 3 defense in the nation (Houston, Iowa St.)
- Northern Colorado transfer forward Dalton Knecht can score at any part of the floor
- Senior guard and floor general Tyler Ziegler is experienced and excellent leader
- Tourney Issue: Average 3-point shooting team with a somewhat soft interior
- Prediction: I love these guys coming in as a 2-3 seed and potentially coming out of their part of the bracket
- Oral Roberts and NCAA legend Max Abmos transfer scores at a high rate
- Solid back court in general and shoots at a high % from 3
- Big12 most outstanding player Dylan Disu is back from injury and is a tour de force
- Unfortunately they have the most annoying player ever in 30-year-old Brock Cunningham
- Tourney Issue: Lack size outside of one guy and could have issues rebounding against bigger teams
- Prediction: I see a middle seed who could bust some brackets but don't trust them enough for a deep run. Sorry horns
- No surprise here in saying this team can easily repeat as champions
- Returning several championship players from last season (Clingan, Karaban, Newton)
- Similar to last year- Big, athletic and solid all-around
- Guard Tristen Newton can hit a big shot when needed
- Tourney Issue: N/A
- Prediction: 1 seed who's one of my picks to get it done. Nuff said
- NBA prospect forward Brandon Carlson is a stretch 4 and can get a bucket
- These guys can shoot the rock (T40 in 3-point %)- Side note: I saw them hit eight 3s in 2 minutes against Saint Mary's, who's a T10 defense
- Not terribly athletic and nothing special on the boards
- Tourney Issue: They're awful from the charity stripe, an awful stat to hold down the stretch
- Prediction: Mid range seed who could make a splash in the first round with their shooting
- THIS TEAM SHOULD BE BETTER!
- Solid on both ends of the floor but don't excel at one thing
- Big man Eric Dixon has turned into a monster for them and gets a lot of their points
- Richmond transfer forward Tyler Burton provides a nice wing presence
- Tourney Issue: They lack an interior presence with Dixon at 6'8, not a great rebounding team
- Prediction: Mid range seed I can see getting out of first round
- Your typical Wisconsin team- Nothing fancy but seem to always get the job done
- Experienced and tenured players led by guard in Chucky Hepburn
- AJ Storr is a budget Anthony Edwards and is turning into a their go-to scorer
- 7-footer Crowl can score, pass and fills up the paint
- Solid efficiency on offense
- Tourney Issue: They will struggle guarding the elite offenses, their offense needs to mitigate defensive struggles (one of the worst teams in the league at guarding the 3)
- Prediction: I like this team a lot and can see them making a deep sweet 16 run or better
2024.01.25 17:09 Jcn3wt TMA season 1 trailer hints at season 5 before the show even launched
So I've been listening to Rusty Quill Gaming and just got to the point where there are teasers for TMA where Johny reads a short statement to the tape as a test for the first time.
The "statement" basically tells you pretty clearly that the plot of the full show is heading towards an inevitable eyepocalypse. How you'll wish you stopped listening and despite all of this there was nothing you could have done to prevent it.
I just think it's amazing how much subtle hinting was done to tell people where things were going from the very start of the show and from this even from the ads for the show.
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The "statement" basically tells you pretty clearly that the plot of the full show is heading towards an inevitable eyepocalypse. How you'll wish you stopped listening and despite all of this there was nothing you could have done to prevent it.
I just think it's amazing how much subtle hinting was done to tell people where things were going from the very start of the show and from this even from the ads for the show.
2023.12.07 18:26 Mary_Ellen_Katz Arena is coming!
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2023.11.20 23:06 spiderinmybathtubs is Johny Test ever coming back?
hi ive been wondering if joe exam is ever coming back?ive been a HUGE fan since 1994!also can we get some fs in chat for that dog i think the dog popy lopy died lol.Thats that ty for reading
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2023.11.01 16:09 i_MiLK i_MiLK's Preseason Top 50
Happy last week of the year without college basketball! In less than one week's time, competitive college hoops will begin for yet another season. For the past couple years, I have been posting film studies of players, teams, upsets, and big-time matchups on this sub, as well as my annual series summarizing 1-bid auto-bids across the country "Meet the Mid-Major ". While MMM will (hopefully) return for a 3rd edition in March, I just won't have the time to create much content between grad school, a job, and other commitments. As such, I still wanted to find a way to get my thoughts on this upcoming college basketball season out there. So, I decided to post my preseason top 50 with 4ish sentences covering my early thoughts on each team. That obviously turns into a lot of reading with 50 teams, so if you just wanna skim my rankings to see where everyone is or CTRL+F to find you favorite school, by all means go ahead. Thanks for reading as always, let me know your thoughts in the comments, and I hope we can all enjoy the start of a new college basketball season!
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- Purdue - This was the easiest ranking on this whole list. This was a Zach Edey jump hook from the middle of the lane after a duck-in easy. Of the 8 teams that finished top 25 in both offense and defense on Kenpom last season, the Boilermakers return the highest percentage of minutes of any of those teams by quite a margin. Oh by the way, that includes the best and most dominant player in the country. I like the supporting cast's fit around Edey and think they'll be an improved shooting unit, and I expect Braden Smith and Fletcher Loyer to take big leaps. After UConn's 3 starters left for the NBA, I never considered anyone else for the #1 spot.
- Kansas - It doesn't take much convincing to justify KU towards the top of this list. The Jayhawks should smother teams defensively between Harris, McCullar, and Adams. Offensively I have questions about the outside shooting and overall floor spacing, but that'll be softened by the easy post buckets from Hunter Dickinson that they missed last season. While I do wonder how Kansas handles questions about depth, shooting, and Dickinson guarding in space, this team should be top 5 throughout the year with a good offense, great defense, and an elite head coach. I didn't move KU one way or the other after [REDACTED] was kicked off the team, but it does make their guard depth more tenuous as it relies solely on freshman.
- Connecticut - I understand why a lot of people are lower than I am on the reigning national champs, but I just think that Donovan Clingan will be too much of a monster this season. I think he'll tone down the fouls now that his importance to the team is so much greater than last year, but his only ? is the foot strain. I think that'll be okay since UConn doesn't need to rush him back. I really like how the roster fits around him with shooting, playmaking, and upside as well. The process will look different than last year, but I still see the Huskies as an extremely potent team on both ends of the floor with a dominant center.
- Creighton - It's time for the Bluejays to take the final step into national title contenders with this core. I think Ashworth fits like a glove from Utah State and the trio of Alexander-Scheierman-Kalkbrenner is obviously awesome. Will they find a suitable 5th starter? Can they survive the non-Kalkbrenner minutes? Questions that keep them from being higher for me, but they're in my top 5 due to coaching and how good they'll be on both sides of the court.
- Houston - I've seen a good amount of people believe that Houston will struggle to adapt to life in the Big 12. That's adorable. Houston isn't locked in the league with you, you are locked in the league with Houston. The Cougars once again have length, shot making, athleticism, tenacious offensive rebounding, and a pretty great coach to boot. Houston plays a ferocious style that teams are going to hate seeing in the middle of their conference schedule. Can Cryer fit defensively? Can someone step up in frontcourt depth? Can Arceneaux take a leap? All fair questions, but I think the talent, style, and identity of this team means another top 5-10 squad in Houston.
- Duke - I've warmed up to this team a little bit over the past month or so. I do think they have maybe the best perimeter defense in the nation and Jared McCain is one of the few high-pedigree recruits I actually like in this HS class. I just have too many questions on the offensive end to put the Blue Devils in the top 5. This team returns a lot from a Duke squad that only finished 40th in offense on Kenpom. Yeah they'll get better, but other guys on other teams will get better too and they need a good amount of things to go right to be good enough on offense to be #1. They were almost sub-300 in tempo on KP last year too, so that shooting question is even more important if they aren't getting easy points in transition. I do think Duke is a really good team, but I believe people are projecting too large a leap on the offensive end compared to what they will actually be this season.
- Michigan State - I view MSU and Duke as remarkably similar teams this year. Duke's strength is more on defense whereas I believe Sparty is more balanced, but they are both squads that sport a lot of continuity in their starting lineups but need freshman depth to round out the rotation. Walker-Akins-Hoggard is a phenomenal backcourt that fits Tom Izzo perfectly. MSU's ceiling relies on their big men, especially without the floor spacing of Joey Hauser. Can Malik Hall improve his offensive game? Can Mady Sissoko develop into a high-end defensive anchor? Can Xavier Booker carve out a significant role? Questions they'll need to answer to take that final step, but the backcourt is too good to not have top 10.
- Marquette - I really like this team, but I would love this team if Olivier-Maxence Prosper returned to school. As they are right now, I think could see some struggles defensively and I have no idea how they rebound. Offensively, they'll be even better than last year with David Joplin's shooting in the starting lineup and internal improvement from the rest of their guys. The Kolek-Ighodaro 2-man-game will rinse opposing defenses once again. Marquette is my favorite offense in the entire country, and I can't wait to see how they defend their Big East title in 2024.
- Arizona - Man does this team have bigs. I expect Oumar Ballo to make the jump from 1st team All-PAC to PAC 12 POY. Keshad Johnson will add some crucial defensive versatility at the 4, and whatever combo of Veesaar, Anderson, and Krivas will contribute solid frontcourt minutes off the bench. The hierarchy in the backcourt will be Arizona's key. The Wildcats have guys who could really improve with the ball in their hands but they'll need to find some role definition amongst that group. I'm not sure the upside is crazy high with this team, but UA is one of the most rock-solid teams in the country.
- Tennessee - If Zakai Zeigler entered this season healthy, the Vols would be a top 5 team for me. How he comes back from a February ACL injury will determine Rocky Top's fate in March. Despite that, this will still be an elite unit on the defensive end. Their 3pt shooting luck will probably come back down to Earth somewhat, but they will still be a pain and a half to try and score on. No one is getting buckets on Jahmai Mashack. I wish they had one more big, but I think Jonas Aidoo is in for a big year and I love Santiago Vescovi at SG.
- Florida Atlantic - Is this too big of a Final Four bump? Maybe. Sure, they wouldn't be this high if they lost to Memphis in the first round, but I would counter by saying we got more data points of this team facing other really good teams and having success in different ways. I don't think the AAC adjustment will be too daunting since half the league is last year's CUSA anyways. Great coach, great roster, extremely versatile in style, contributors, and talent on both ends of the floor.
- Gonzaga - Offense will be amazing again, defense will be suspect again. The Zags' ceiling depends on Ike's health and what kind of leap Anton Watson takes. I could see analytics liking this team more than the eye test if they're the definitive #1 offense in the nation again. There's enough talent that the floor is still very high with Mark Few at the helm. Steele Venters is my guy.
- Saint Mary's - I know there are questions about how the Gaels' defense will perform this year, but I trust Randy Bennett to figure things out on that end even if it isn't quite as good as the past couple seasons. Offensively, I think the trio of Mahaney, Ducas, and Saxen will be dynamite in the methodical St. Mary's system. Who steps up in the supporting cast will be the big question that needs to be answered (Marciulionis? Jefferson?), but I trust this coaching staff and top end talent to cobble together another extremely successful campaign.
- Texas A&M - Like the Vols, TAMU was a beneficiary of some kind defensive shooting luck last year. That will probably regress as well, but the defense should still be fearsome. The frontline will grab a million offensive rebounds and Taylor-Radford is one of the best guard duos in the country. The potential in this team lies on the wing, where the potential for quality spacing exists but needs to be realized. If that happens, this will be a top 10 squad.
- Arkansas - The Razorbacks may have the same questions of fit and shooting that they had last year, but I trust the Muss Bus to figure things out. Arkansas has another talented roster full of athleticism, size, and length to trot out. Shot selection will probably be... not great but I expect the defense to be really good and for Coach Muss to find the right 7 guys. Trevon Brazile returning to form is enormous for this group's season outlook.
- Auburn - This might seem high to some, but I looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooove this frontcourt. Have 2 of Jaylin Williams, Johni Broome, and Dylan Cardwell on the floor at all times is a great recipe for quality interior defense. I doubt we'll see much consistency out of the perimeter group, but there will be games where they explode in terms of impact. With Bruce Pearl heading the bench and a group with this much experience, the defense should be really good and the offense will do just enough to crack the top 20.
- Texas - I feel confident that Texas will hang around this late teens zone most of the year. I love the idea of a Disu-Shedrick frontcourt combo but they'll both be entering the season injured and Kadin has never been able to stay out of foul trouble. Will Dillon Mitchell be a threat from 3 as he chases a 1st round draft selection? I really like an Abmas-Hunter backcourt but Max could be a target on the defensive end due to lack of alternative options. Most importantly, how does Rodney Terry do with a team of his own that doesn't quite have the continuity last year's top 5 team did. Lots of questions, can't wait to get answers.
- Baylor - Gotta be honest, maybe the most boom-or-bust team in my top 20 but I'd much rather trust Scott Drew than not. I think RayJ translates pretty well to the Big 12, and I think we'll see jumps from Bridges and Ojianwuna. I'd feel a lot better about the defense if we know what kind of JTT we were getting. I don't love this HS freshman class in general but Ja'Kobe Walter playing like a top 5 pick would help a ton.
- Villanova - Not the year I and many others thought Villanova would have last season, but I'll still believe in this iteration. Justin Moore coming back might be the most valuable returnee to their school other than Edey and Kalkbrenner. He just does everything right and having him back in the fold is huge. The transfers they brought in make a ton of sense and makes Nova incredibly versatile on both ends of the floor. The rest is up to Kyle Neptune, but that Fordham season showed his quality and I think he'll get some goodwill back with a good season at Villanova.
- Iowa State - Top 20 Iowa State. Yeah, I believe. Otz rocks and he added some real shooting to this roster. Paveletzke, Gilbert, and Curtis Jones should provide actually spacing on the floor and give Tamin Lipsey more room to operate as he develops. The frontcourt depth should anchor another fantastic ISU defense. Add to that a recruiting class that gives the team upside, and I am hoping onboard the Cyclone train early this time around.
- USC - The formula for the Trojans seems to be pretty simple. Play awesome defense and get enough shot making and creation from Boogie Ellis and Isaiah Collier to win a lot of basketball games. I think that formula will be enough to be a top 25 team. Morgan & Iwuchukwu should provide 40 minutes of good rim protection, and I love the addition of DJ Rodman on the wing.
- Illinois - I feel pretty comfortable having the Illini in the 20-30 range. I think they'll have another good defense (shoutout Sencire Harris) and the offensive vibes should be at least better than last year. I really like the potential for lineup variety, allowing Illinois to exploit different weaknesses in different teams. We'll see how well Illinois moves the ball as a committee, but there's enough shooting and 1-on-1 scoring on this roster to support the defense.
- Memphis - If DeAndre Williams is able to play his, like, age 27 season or whatever, I'd have this team decently higher. The guards are really talented and could blend together nicely, but it could just as well be too inefficient to raise the Tigers' ultimate level. I think Jourdain, Brown, and Dandridge could be a fearsome defensive frontcourt in the American, but the return of Williams would take their defense to the next level and make it one of the best nationally. David Jones can be an important & impactful defensive playmaker on the wing.
- UCLA - I completely understand the hesitancy when it comes to the Bruins. Even I wonder how they're going to score points. However, I think Mick Cronin is going to cultivate another excellent defense. This group has a collection of size, length, and athleticism that will stifle all kinds of opponents. I also really like what I've seen from Jan Vide in international youth tournaments, he understands how to attack defenses as a lead guard with his size. UCLA rosters newcomers from Slovenia, France, Turkey, Spain, Nigeria, and a Serbian transfer; these international men of mystery give the squad a high ceiling but may take time to gel and get accustomed to the college game. While a couple of the int'l players aren't eligible as of writing, it SEEMS like they'll be cleared for most, if not all, of the season. Obviously if they aren't then UCLA would be lower.
- Texas Tech - Ranking the Tortilla Boys in the top 25 may seem high to many, but I believe this roster fits Grant McCasland perfectly. Warren Washington is going to be a monster rim protector from ASU. Devan Cambridge's length will also aid this defense a ton. In the backcourt, I think Pop Isaacs will continue to develop and I liked Chance McMillan's game from Grand Canyon. Darrion Williams is also an intriguing combo forward from Nevada who can shoot, rebound, and pass. T25 might seem like a stretch for most but I think this defense will be great considering the roster & coach fit, so as long as the offense scores enough they'll be good.
- Miami FL - Maybe the Canes' defense will be so bad that they hang around the 35-40 range in the regular season again, but I just think this squad can cause a lot of problems that most other teams cannot. I think people expected something of a drop off last season after McGusty left, but then Wong won ACC POY. Nijel Pack may not be this season's league POY, but I think we'll see a similar phenomenon in his 2nd season in Jim Larranaga's system. I expect Wooga Poplar and Benz Joseph to step up on the perimeter, and I believe Matthew Cleveland will slot in nicely at the 4. The defense will always be a weakness but I trust Coach L to produce a great offense with this roster.
- Kansas State - I think the Wildcats will end up pretty similar to last year. They were actually a good defense despite giving up 103 points in a game. Will McNair is a crucial addition in this regard, as he adds much needed size to the frontcourt. I wonder how efficient they'll be on offense, though. Tylor Perry is clearly a quality lead guard, but he doesn't get to the rim and shoots a loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot of jumpers, and those jumpers are going to be over Big 12 defenders this time around. I like Cam Carter to take a leap as KSU's off guard, he's got shooting talent and athleticism and he'll have more opportunity with the high-usage stars of last year not in the fold. Tomlin (Had KSU 27 before his suspension and since we don't know the exact length of his absence, I won't assume it will be long enough to significantly alter their season until further notice) & Kaluma improving from 3 raises this team's ceiling considerably.
- Maryland - I LOVE the three of Jahmir Young, Donta Scott, and Julian Reese. Those 3 allow Maryland to attack other teams both inside and out, and the frontcourt brings toughness on the defensive end. I like Kevin Willard to coach this team to a solid degree like last season. I'm just not sure about the rest of the roster. The Terps are relying on a lot of unproven depth to round out the rest of the roster. I think the top end talent gives them enough of a floor to still make the tournament, but how good they are compared to the rest of the nation depends on which unlikely contributors step up.
- Virginia - I could easily be a year early on this group, but I like what Tony Bennett can do with this roster. The best free safety in college just happens to play basketball, and I think Reece Beekman is finally ready to take the next step on offense. I'm a fan of Andrew Rohd's size, passing, and shooting upside, and think Isaac McKneely will really open things up with his elite shooting. I expect Ryan Dunn to be an impact defender, and freshman Blake Buchanan fits Coach Bennett perfectly with his ability to impact the glass on both ends. In classic TB fashion, the Hoos will be a pain to play against with well-fitting pieces that finish towards the top of the ACC.
- Wisconsin - The Badgers should be in for a bounce back after missing the tournament last season. A healthy Tyler Wahl makes a world of difference for this team. He's a highly skilled 6'9 big that allows Wisconsin to score enough while their elite defense does its thing. Connor Essegian is also a big-time guard who's going to get even better as a shot-maker in his sophomore season. St. John's transfer AJ Storr will help that defense be even better with his length and athleticism, but this team's ceiling relies on the play of Chucky Hepburn. Improved shooting and decision making, especially late in games, could vault the Badgers higher than most expect.
- Saint John's - Idk if y'all have heard, but Rick Pitino is pretty good at this coaching thing. As soon as he kept star center Joel Soriano at school, I was sold. I understand that a team with a lot of mid-major transfers will probably take time to adapt to life at the Big East level, but think Coach Pitino will find enough guys that fit even if not all of them hit. Nahiem Alleyne will be key as veteran athleticism in the lineup. I trust Coach Pitino and Soriano to at least have a fairly high floor.
- Alabama - I really like the guards on the Tide, but I just can't start Bama higher than this due to the significant downside risk on the defensive end that this roster possesses. This team just does not have size. The top of the SEC if littered with teams that crush the glass and I'm interested to see how this squad copes with that. I also wonder what they'll give up to stop opponents from getting to the rim. At the same time, Estrada, Spears, Wrightsell, and Nelson is a sick offensive quartet for Nate Oats to have fun with even if it's a bit mid-major-all-stars-y.
- Florida - Speaking of the mid-major-all-stars, meet the 2023-24 Florida Gators. Pullin, Clayton, Rishwain, Richard, Jarvis, and Handlogten all previously played for non-P6 schools. At the same time, most of those guys were awesome at their stops so that's good. Todd Golden has had 2 good seasons and 2 not-so-good seasons as a DI head coach, and a common theme in those 2 good seasons were that his team rebounded the heck out of the offensive glass. Even with EJ Jarvis out for the season, that trend should still continue with Handlogten & Tyrese Samuel. Having a potential NBA wing in Riley Kugel will help this team too.
- TCU - The faces have changed but the recipe has stayed the same. The hypno toads are going to force turnovers, run like crazy, and pound the offensive boards. To make a big impression nationally, Jameer Nelson Jr and Avery Anderson III will need to really prove themselves as shot makers. I still think TCU's identity give them a solid floor, and I can't wait to see what final-form Micah Peavy and Emanuel Miller look like at this level.
- Kentucky - Look, I easily concede that this could look foolish in about a month, but I just don't love the top of this 2023 high school class on the whole so I'm not going to love a team that's so reliant on players from the top of this 2023 high school class. On the other hand, DJ Wagner is my favorite incoming freshman in the country so he could be even better than I think an UK is a top 15 team. In fact, there's a good handful of guys on this team that I like/think can be impactful contributors (Wagner, Sheppard, Thiero, Onyenso). I just think that between an extremely inexperienced roster, frontcourt injuries, lots of defensive questions, and aa hierarchy that needs to be determined, this squad will go through some real peaks and valleys and end up averaging out in the 25-35 range.
- Indiana - I understand what the vision of this team is, I just have a hard time seeing how this year's team will be better than last year's with the departure of Trayce Jackson-Davis. Not to say this team is lacking size though, because they have it in spades if anything. Even if no one can replace the individual defensive impact of TJD 1-for-1, they should have enough size to still be solid on that end. Mgbako and Ware have gobs of potential while Reneau should take a step forward and Sparks can provide post scoring off the bench. The massive ? mark that keeps the Hoosiers down here is with outside shooting and overall efficient scoring, along with how Xavier Johnson comes back from a season-ending foot injury.
- North Carolina - The reason why I have UNC below all these other low-floor high-ceiling teams is that I at least feel confident in those other teams' identities. I feel like UNC lacked identity last season, and I don't see what the identity of this roster is either. I at least like that they went out and got some wing shooting, but they did not replace the perimeter defense of Leaky Black and I do not know how they will get stops, so I think that's a wash. With the exception of 12 or so games in February and March of 2022, this has been a 35th-45th place group nationally and I don't see why that should change.
- Mississippi State - This bunch would be MUCH higher if Tolu Smith wasn't out until SEC play with a foot injury. He is a defense unto himself and could bail out his team's cold shooting with post scoring. The defense should still be good in his absence and it's almost impossible for them to shoot as badly as they did last year AGAIN (especially with Trey Fort and Andrew Taylor on this year's team, plus people seem to like freshman Josh Hubbard), but whether it'll be enough remains to be seen. Chris Jans is a real good coach though, so I could see a late-season surge as they get Smith back and he starts to gel on the court with a roster mixed with new players and key familiar faces.
- Boise State - My top Mountain West team is not the reigning national finalist in this conference, but rather perennial overachiever Boise State. The first reason for this is the Broncos' phenomenal head coach Leon Rice, who has had seasons of .600 or better all but twice in his 13 seasons at Boise. They also have 2 of the 5 best players in the conference in Max Rice and Tyson Degenhart as guys with size, range, and skill. Their no-middle defensive infrastructure has pumped out great defenses year after year recently. They need to figure out who their main guards are after losing Marcus Shaver to graduation, with sophomore Jace Whiting and UC San Diego transfer Roddie Anderson III competing for the starting PG role. Boise State won't be amazing offensively but should get enough production from their stars to supplement their superb defense on the way to another tournament appearance and a Mountain West title.
- Ohio State - Felix Okpara is my guy. I think he's going to develop into a premier rim protector at the college level, I'm just not sure it happens this early. I'm really high on Bruce Thornton and Roddy Gayle Jr too, it just might be a year early before this core is ready to compete at the top of the Big Ten. The Buckeyes will still score plenty of points (Battle helps this at small-ball 4), but we'll see what the ceiling on that is if the offensive process continues to be mid-range heavy. I'm interested to see if we'll see any change on the defensive end, but I imagine it won't be a great year on that end again. I'm being cautious but I think this could be a real good squad, it's got players I like and I think Chris Holtmann is a better coach than the showed last season.
- San Diego State - I should probably know better than to bet against the Aztecs, but the losses of guys like Matt Bradley, Nathan Mensah, and Keshad Johnson could loom very large. While the defense should still be good with the athleticism in the backcourt and length on the wing, the rim protection just hits different with Mensah out of the fold. I imagine the offense will take a step back in terms of efficiency as well, they aren't that clean process-wise and will probably struggle to shot again. At the same time, SDSU is a really good developmental environment under Brian Dutcher and they might just return to top 25 form without missing a beat. I still think SDSU makes the tournament but I see steps back on both sides of the ball.
- Oregon - Am I underrating the Ducks? A team with Barthelemy, Couisnard, Bittle, and Dante with Dana Altman coaching can absolutely be in the 20s. If the freshman hit (again, we'll see with this national class), they could be back in the teens where they usually are. True freshman Jackson Shelstad is a microwave scorer that could give this team the lift they need to get back where they want to be if his scoring translates. Be on the lookout for Oregon after a couple seasons off the scene.
- Rutgers - This team might be really, really, REALLY nice if certain things hit. All indications out of Piscataway are that Mawot Mag is ahead of schedule as he rehabs a torn ACL suffered in early February. Getting him back before the new year would be a monster win for the Scarlet Knights, as last year's team fell off the rails basically from the moment they lost their great & versatile defensive chess piece. While Spencer, McConnell, & Mulcahy are all gone, UMass transfer Noah Fernandes, sophomore Derek Simpson, and high-pedigree freshman Gavin Griffiths assume perimeter scoring/creation duties. The potential for offensive punch is certainly there, but how this group fits together will ultimately determine which side of the bubble Rutgers is on. Luckily, this still should be an excellent defense with the phenomenal Cliff Omoruyi anchoring the backline and head coach Steve Pikiell once again manning the sidelines.
- Colorado - I really want to like the Buffs right now, but I just need to see proof of concept for myself before I go all in on a bounce-back season in Boulder. If Eddie Lampkin Jr plays like his usual self on the floor, his offensive rebounding will be super vital in helping Colorado return to form. KJ Simpson showed promise while dealing with the efficiency bumps of transitioning from the bench to full-time lead guard duties last season, but I think he can improve if Julian Hammond III is ready for more responsibility and Cody Williams plays like a top 10 pick so they can balance the load on KJ. Tristan Da Silva is still the main man on this team; the long 6'8 do-it-all PF can score efficiently at all 3 levels, post up, face up, screen, move off screens, and should have a shout at PAC-12 POY.
- Michigan - Like Ohio State (forever linked I guess), I see Michigan as a team a year away from making that big leap back to where they want to be. I like the frontcourt of Nkamhoua, Tray Jackson, and Reed since they offer a little bit of everything between them. I also like where Dug McDaniel is headed, but I think he'll need a season to get used to being THE primary creator on the perimeter, and that might cause enough growing pains in their offense to limit their ceiling this year. I wouldn't just be counting on another down year from the Wolverines though, I think this group will rally around Juwan Howard and play VERY hard for him, enough so to maybe will themselves back to the tournament.
- Clemson - Pretty incredible that a team could go 14-6 in the ACC and be like a 60th place team, but that's what the Tigers were last year. This campaign should see an offense ranked higher than 82nd on Kenpom with the new additions of Joe Girard from Syracuse and Jake Heidbreder from Air Force, along with continued improvement from veterans Chase Hunter and potential ACC POY PJ Hall (although losing Hunter Tyson is a big blow). I'm not sure if this personnel will perform that well on the defensive end, but Brad Brownell typical puts together teams with at least a respectable floor on that end of the court. While I have Clemson firmly in bubble territory, don't be surprised if they finish towards the top of the ACC again and stave off the bad losses to make the tournament.
- Iowa - Typical Iowa Hawkeyes basketball team under Fran McCaffery. Someone nationally unheralded will develop into an All-B1G stud (Payton Sandfort), the offense will be awesome, the defense will be not-so-awesome. I have them a little lower than last year only because I feel at some point the offense has to slip somewhat based on what they've lost over the past few years, but this staff is so good at developing skills at that end of the floor and that maybe this is just another top 5-10 offense, on top of the fact that they never turn the ball over! I could definitely see Iowa being higher than this, but Perkins, P. McCaffery, Sandfort, and Valpo transfer Ben Krikke should at least be a fun offensive quartet in the hands of Coach McCaffery.
- New Mexico - I love what Richard Pitino has built in Albuquerque. House and Mashburn Jr is one of the best guard duos in the country at any level, Amzil provides deep spacing at the 4, Mushila is a monster offensive rebounder at only 6'5, and NJJ is a reliable 2-way big at this level. Questions about depth remain but the potential is there; Jemarl Baker scored 12 points a game at Arizona in the 20-21 season before a wrist injury ended his season, and there's other young talent on the bench. Defense is the big concern, as it was a sub-100 unit last year and will probably be around there again, though a top-50 overall ranking and a tournament berth with this offensive firepower should be well within reach.
- Dayton - Am I being a homer including my alma mater inside the top 50 despite their struggles last season? Maybe, but I think there's good reason for a bounce-back this go around. I'm not sure any program had to play through more adversity last year than the Dayton Flyers. Constant injuries to the backcourt hampered this squad for basically the entire season, but anything that happened on the court paled in comparison to the tragic passing of head coach Anthony Grant's daughter, Jayda, last year. This season, the junior core of Malachi Smith, Kobe Elvis, Koby Brea, and A-10 POY candidate DaRon Holmes is primed to finally capture an A-10 crown. Holmes in particular seems set to dominate on both ends of the floor with a really well-rounded game. Transfers have added much-needed depth and with a tenacious and versatile defense paired with an offense that immensely improved their 3pt shooting capabilities, I believe Flyer faithful is in for a campaign that sees UD back at the A-10 mountain top.
- Northwestern - Indeed, Northwestern of all teams rounds out my preseason top 50. I imagine some are expecting a down year for the Wildcats with Chase Audige gone, but I don't think it will be all that drastic with Boo Buie and Andrew (EDIT: Matthew, I apologize) Nicholson returning to school. Buie will act as the team's primary (and maybe only) source of scoring and creation while Nicholson will once again be one of the Big Ten's premier defensive anchors. Whether or not NW gets some supplemental shooting will determine their fate. Ryan Langborg of Princeton and Ty Berry have been up and down from 3 in their careers, while Brooks Barnhizer and Justin Mullins show potential but lack consistency/volume from deep. If the supporting cast can be respectable from deep, expect Northwestern to put in another extremely feisty season as Boo and Andrew lead the charge at the offensive and defensive ends of the floor respectively.
2023.10.15 11:04 ItsMeHeroin So Far Gone Album Cover
Not one person online I have ever read has noticed that it's an eye test from the DPS.
He's becoming blind or is blind from the money, being one of his early releases he feels new(?).
Just sharing it if no one else has noticed it before. Because not one thing online has mentioned that. Just an interesting thing.
Also - If you're reading this please come home Johny, your Mom and Dad miss you I know you're here. We understand you want to pursue your mlg career and we've agreed you can do it here. Please come home.
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He's becoming blind or is blind from the money, being one of his early releases he feels new(?).
Just sharing it if no one else has noticed it before. Because not one thing online has mentioned that. Just an interesting thing.
Also - If you're reading this please come home Johny, your Mom and Dad miss you I know you're here. We understand you want to pursue your mlg career and we've agreed you can do it here. Please come home.
2023.10.12 19:28 _Weyland_ So I labbed all characters against Baraka's df2 second gap
OK, so the standard thing Baraka players use is df2 into Cytrax forward helicopter. It deals a shitload of chip on block and Cyrax call covers a gap on the last hit. However there is also a gap on the second last hit. You can flawless block it, you can try to armor through it. I actually tested armor reversals of all characters to see who has the option of armoring through that second gap. Below are the results. Hope some of you will find it usefull.
So, most of the cast actually can do something about it.
Havik mains, I'm truly sorry for you. You have the thickest armor in the game, but here it gets completely shredded. Tanya main, you didn't deserve this shit dude. I'm sorry. Reptile mains, you have to try this out, funniest shit I've ever seen. Raiden and Liu Kang mains, fuck you. Consentually.
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| Character | Can armor through? | Komment |
|---|---|---|
| Ashrah | Yes | |
| Li Mei | Yes | Results in a positive trade |
| Havik | No | |
| Nitara | Yes | Can follow up with a kameo |
| Kenshi | Yes | |
| Geras | Yes | Can follow up with a combo |
| Baraka | Yes | Armor special whiffs completely |
| Kung Lao | Yes | Armor special whiffs completely |
| Johny Cage | Yes | |
| Liu Kang | No | |
| Raiden | No | |
| Reptile | Yes | Armor special whiffs completely |
| Sub-Zero | Yes | |
| Scorpion | Yes | |
| Smoke | No | Cyrax will clip you after teleport |
| Reiko | Yes | Armor special whiffs completely |
| Sindel | Yes | |
| General Shao | Yes | Results in an equal trade |
| Shang Tsung | Yes | In both forms |
| Rain | Yes | Looks like you can follow up with a combo, not sure |
| Tanya | No | |
| Mileena | Yes | |
| Kitana | Yes | Can follow up with a kameo call |
Havik mains, I'm truly sorry for you. You have the thickest armor in the game, but here it gets completely shredded. Tanya main, you didn't deserve this shit dude. I'm sorry. Reptile mains, you have to try this out, funniest shit I've ever seen. Raiden and Liu Kang mains, fuck you. Consentually.
2023.10.01 18:43 Natural_NoChemical Helping the above average John guy understand the Defi space : decentralized derivatives, Decentralized perpetuals, Decentralized options and Synthetic Assets, Perpetual Protocol, dYdX, Ophyn, Hegic, Synthetix, UMA, Risks + Notable Mentions
"I am here to learn something new and more in depth on this topic. I need a quick reminder however." Sure thing John :
Decentralized derivatives are advanced financial tools built for digital assets. Traditionally, these are widely used on centralized platforms like Binance Futures.
However, the rise of decentralized derivatives platforms now allows traders to engage in trustless trading of crypto derivatives.
"What was the meaning of decentralized perpetuals?" Here is a friendlt reminder :
Decentralized perpetuals are a widely used type of cryptocurrency derivative. They allow users to take leveraged positions on a futures contract that doesn't have an expiry date. In the past, you could only do this on centralized exchanges, but now, decentralized platforms like Perpetual Protocol and dYdX have made it possible for the broader DeFi (Decentralized Finance) community to access leveraged trading while maintaining control of their funds.
"Ok, what is up with Perpetual Protocol?" Here is your answer John :
Perpetual Protocol is like a platform for trading special types of cryptocurrency contracts that never expire. These contracts allow users to bet on the price of cryptocurrencies going up or down, with the option to use leverage (borrowed money) to amplify their bets.
Here's how it works: Instead of storing the actual cryptocurrencies, Perpetual Protocol uses a virtual system called vAMM, which is similar to other systems like Uniswap. This vAMM doesn't hold any real assets. It uses USDC (a stable cryptocurrency) as collateral to let users take leveraged positions. The total amount of money in this collateral vault determines how much traders can profit.
To make trading faster and reduce transaction costs, Perpetual Protocol uses the xDai chain. This ensures high liquidity (lots of available assets) and low price slippage (the difference between the expected and actual price).
But there are risks involved, like funding rates and liquidation ratios. Funding rates are like fees that traders pay or receive hourly, and liquidation ratios are a safety measure. If a trader's position falls below this safety level, it can be taken over by keeper bots, which earn a fee for doing so.
Perpetual Protocol has its own cryptocurrency called PERP. It's mainly used for voting on platform changes, and holders can also stake it for more PERP and a share of transaction fees in USDC. However, stakers need to commit to a fixed period called an epoch, which lasts seven days. They can't withdraw their funds until the end of the epoch, but they can claim transaction fees right away. PERP rewards, though, are locked for up to 6 months. Stakers don't have to worry about something called impermanent loss, but the PERP token's price can still be volatile.
As of April 2021, you can use Perpetual Protocol for trading on the Ethereum and xDai mainnets.
"And the other one called dYdX?" Here is an explanation :
dYdX is like a decentralized exchange that offers various crypto services like lending, borrowing, regular trading, and more. It's different from traditional exchanges because it operates on the blockchain.
You can do things like lend your crypto to others and earn interest or use your crypto as collateral to borrow more. But what sets dYdX apart is that you can also trade with borrowed money, which is called margin trading. For example, you can use 5 times the amount of your own crypto to make a trade. They support Ethereum (ETH), USD Coin (USDC), and DAI for regular trading.
They also have something called perpetual swaps, which are like contracts where you bet on the future price of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Aave, and LINK. You can use up to 10 times the amount of your crypto to make these bets.
When you lend your crypto on dYdX, you start earning interest immediately, and the interest keeps adding up with every transaction. The interest rates can change based on how much people are using the platform. If more people are borrowing, the rates go up.
For borrowers, you need to put up at least 125% of the value of what you're borrowing as collateral, and you have to keep it above 115% to avoid getting liquidated (basically losing your collateral).
dYdX also offers different types of trading orders like market, limit, and stop orders, similar to regular exchanges. Trading fees are charged when you take certain actions, and they can be either 0.3% or variable gas costs, whichever is higher.
They have this thing called perpetual markets, where all the contracts use USDC as collateral. But each contract has its own rules and requirements.
In early 2021, dYdX teamed up with Starkware to make transactions faster and cheaper using a Layer-2 technology called StarkEx. It uses something called zero-knowledge rollups and settles transactions on the Ethereum network. This makes it more efficient.
"Some other platforms that you might want to consider?" Sure, here are some notable mentions :
"Decentralized options?" Yes, here is what they are :
Decentralized options are a bit like a bet you make in the crypto world. You can use them to protect your investments from losing value or to try and make even more money without risking too much. Traditional finance has used options for a long time, and now, in the world of decentralized finance (DeFi), we have protocols that let you do the same thing.
Before, people traded options on centralized exchanges like Deribit. But now, there's a growing interest in having decentralized options protocols. In this section, we'll explore two of the top ones: Hegic and Opyn.
"Now I remember that we talked about Ophyn. What's up with Hegic though?" Glad that you are curious John :
Hegic is like a digital platform where you can buy and sell options for cryptocurrencies like ETH and WBTC. Options are like contracts that let you bet on whether the price of a cryptocurrency will go up (call option) or down (put option) by a certain date. You can even customize these options by choosing things like the price at which you'll buy or sell and when the contract expires.
When you use Hegic, it calculates the prices for these options, and there's a small fee when you buy them. These options can't be traded like regular cryptocurrencies, but you can use them whenever you want because there's always enough money in the contract.
Hegic works by having people put their cryptocurrency into a pool, and this pool is used as collateral for all the options. There are separate pools for ETH and WBTC. If you put your cryptocurrency into the pool, you get tokens called Write tokens, which represent your share of the premiums paid by users to buy options. These Write tokens can be staked to earn rewards, and there's even a way to earn more valuable tokens called rHEGIC.
If you have a lot of HEGIC tokens, you can become a Hegic Staking Lot owner and get a share of the fees collected by the platform. If you don't have that many tokens, you can still delegate some of your tokens to earn rewards.
Hegic is a popular platform with lots of cryptocurrency locked in it, and it handles a significant amount of trading every day. So, it's one of the top places for decentralized options trading.
"I would like to receive a reminder for Ophyn." Anytime friend :
Opyn is like a digital platform where you can create and trade options for cryptocurrencies. These options are like contracts that give you the right to buy or sell a cryptocurrency at a specific price and time. What's unique about Opyn is that it makes sure there's always enough cryptocurrency to back up these options, so they can always be used.
The first version of Opyn, called Opyn V1, allows you to create these special option tokens called oTokens. You do this by putting 100% of the cryptocurrency you want to use as collateral. These options can be made for cryptocurrencies like ETH, WBTC, UNI, and SNX, but they have fixed terms like a set expiration date and a specific buying or selling price. You can use oTokens to buy or sell the cryptocurrency they're linked to, or you can trade them on Uniswap. Opyn V1 doesn't charge extra fees for transactions or settlements.
Opyn V2, the newer version, has more features like auto-exercise, which means options can be automatically used if they make sense to do so. It also has something called flash minting, which is a bit like flash loans on Aave. The latest version, Opyn V3, offers options in a way similar to traditional options markets like Deribit, but for Wrapped Ether (WETH) with specific prices and timeframes.
So, Opyn is a platform where you can trade options for cryptocurrencies, and it has evolved to offer more features and flexibility over time.
"What are the differences between them?" Here is your answer :
Hegic and Opyn, two options platforms, have some similarities but also important differences.
Both platforms require the people creating options (called options writers) to have enough cryptocurrency to cover the options they create. This ensures that if someone wants to use one of these options, there's enough cryptocurrency backing it.
However, they have different ways of handling the money put up by options writers and support different cryptocurrencies. Hegic pools together the funds from options writers for each cryptocurrency separately. In contrast, Opyn locks up 100% of the cryptocurrency for each option created.
Both Hegic and Opyn like American-style options because they are more flexible for the fast-paced DeFi world. These options allow you to use them at any time before they expire. On the other hand, centralized exchanges like Deribit prefer European-style options, which can only be used at their expiration date. In Opyn V2, there are fewer options with shorter timeframes, which suggests that there isn't as much demand for options with strict time limits in the cryptocurrency market, where prices change rapidly.
"I quess you have another list of notable mentions for this category." You are right :
"Now we are heading for Synthetic Assets. Interesting. I still have some memories for when we scrathed the surface on this topic." It means a lot that you can remember those details John :
Synthetic assets are essentially like stand-ins for real assets. They mimic the value or behavior of something else. Instead of owning the actual asset, you can have synthetic assets that follow the same value changes.
For example, you can have synthetic assets that represent real-world stocks, Ethereum gas prices, or data from websites like CoinGecko. When you trade these synthetic assets, it's like trading the real things, but you don't need to own the real assets.
"Synthetix? I remember this name!" Very good John. Let's recap :
Synthetix is like a special platform where you can make and trade something called "Synths." These Synths act like copies of real assets, but you don't need to actually own those assets.
There are two types of Synths: Regular Synths (like sDEFi) and Inverse Synths (like iDEFI), although not all Synths have an inverse version. These Synths can represent different things like cryptocurrencies, regular money, goods, stock market indexes, and company stocks. Synthetix uses a tool called Chainlink to keep track of the prices of these assets.
To make Synths, people need to put some of their own cryptocurrency, called Synthetix Network Token (SNX), as collateral. Since the value of SNX can go up or down a lot, you have to put in a lot more SNX than the value of the Synths you're making to be safe.
If your collateral gets too low, you might have to add more or get rid of some Synths to keep it safe. Right now, you can only make one type of Synth, called sUSD.
You can trade these Synths on the Synthetix Exchange. It's not like other regular exchanges with buyers and sellers. Instead, you trade with a smart computer program that always has enough of these Synths to trade. This makes it good for big trades without messing up the prices too much.
If you use Synthetix, you might get some rewards, like fees from trading, and extra SNX if you keep your collateral safe.
"UMA? The name gives me Adidas vibes, not gonna lie." That is pretty strange comparison, but ok :
UMA, short for Universal Market Access, is a special system on the Ethereum network that lets people create and enforce artificial assets. These artificial assets don't need to rely on real-world prices like some other systems. Instead, they depend on having enough collateral, which is like a security deposit, to back them up.
UMA has something called the Data Verification Mechanism (DVM), which helps make sure everything is fair. This DVM helps settle disputes about liquidation and contract settlements by getting input from UMA token holders. These token holders vote on what they think is the right value for an asset at a specific time.
Now, let's talk about the important players in the UMA system:
"And what separates those 2 platforms?" Here is the answer :
Both Synthetix and UMA offer synthetic assets that require users to provide collateral to create them. However, they have some differences:
Synthetix relies on an on-chain price feed to determine the value of its synthetic assets and collateralization ratio. It's more focused on options and supports a wide variety of synthetic assets, with over 50 available.
UMA takes a different approach by incentivizing participants to act fairly in the system. It has a more flexible collateralization requirement based on a global ratio, making it potentially more capital-efficient. However, it doesn't support as many different synthetic assets.
Synthetix has also built a strong ecosystem around its synthetic assets, with platforms like dHEDGE and Curve Finance using them for various purposes. dHEDGE allows users to invest in portfolios that include synthetic assets, while Curve Finance uses Synthetix as a bridge for asset swaps.
In terms of liquidity and trading volume, Synthetix currently has an advantage, with more trading activity and established platforms for synthetic asset trading. UMA's trading volumes are lower, but the future adoption of synthetic assets by retail and institutional users is still uncertain and could change the landscape.
"Stop teasing me and tell me the other options." Alrighty Johny :
Mirror Protocol: This protocol operates on both Ethereum and Terra blockchains and creates synthetic assets called mAssets. These mAssets imitate the prices of real-world assets like stocks and indices. For example, you can find assets like mAMZN (mirroring Amazon's stock) and mQQQ (mirroring the Nasdaq 100 index).
DEUS Finance: DEUS Finance is a DeFi protocol that allows users to access data from oracles and turn them into tradeable assets known as dAssets. These dAssets are designed to have a 1:1 peg with their real-life counterparts, and this peg is maintained using data from price oracles. Essentially, you can trade assets in the crypto world that represent real-world assets.
"And what the risks that I am exposing myself to if I choose to operate on the platforms that we have discussed?" I am glad that you are being cautious John :
When you're involved with decentralized derivatives platforms, it's crucial to understand that trading with leverage and using derivatives can be very risky. To stay safe in this part of decentralized finance (DeFi), you should maintain a good collateral ratio and always be aware of the liquidation price for your positions.
Synthetic assets, which are central to these platforms, rely heavily on oracles for price information. If these oracles provide incorrect data, it can lead to undesirable outcomes. Also, since synthetic assets are primarily created by putting up collateral, there might not always be enough liquidity for these assets, causing their prices to differ significantly from real-world assets.
For options trading, make sure you can exercise your profitable positions promptly, as some platforms don't offer automatic exercise features. As more and more people participate, keep an eye on significant option expiration periods, as they can bring increased volatility to the market.
TL;DR :
Decentralized Derivatives:
All of the info above was written by me with the help of the How to Defi book, advanced edition, from Coingecko. Hope it helped others like it did for our boy John here!
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Decentralized derivatives are advanced financial tools built for digital assets. Traditionally, these are widely used on centralized platforms like Binance Futures.
However, the rise of decentralized derivatives platforms now allows traders to engage in trustless trading of crypto derivatives.
"What was the meaning of decentralized perpetuals?" Here is a friendlt reminder :
Decentralized perpetuals are a widely used type of cryptocurrency derivative. They allow users to take leveraged positions on a futures contract that doesn't have an expiry date. In the past, you could only do this on centralized exchanges, but now, decentralized platforms like Perpetual Protocol and dYdX have made it possible for the broader DeFi (Decentralized Finance) community to access leveraged trading while maintaining control of their funds.
"Ok, what is up with Perpetual Protocol?" Here is your answer John :
Perpetual Protocol is like a platform for trading special types of cryptocurrency contracts that never expire. These contracts allow users to bet on the price of cryptocurrencies going up or down, with the option to use leverage (borrowed money) to amplify their bets.
Here's how it works: Instead of storing the actual cryptocurrencies, Perpetual Protocol uses a virtual system called vAMM, which is similar to other systems like Uniswap. This vAMM doesn't hold any real assets. It uses USDC (a stable cryptocurrency) as collateral to let users take leveraged positions. The total amount of money in this collateral vault determines how much traders can profit.
To make trading faster and reduce transaction costs, Perpetual Protocol uses the xDai chain. This ensures high liquidity (lots of available assets) and low price slippage (the difference between the expected and actual price).
But there are risks involved, like funding rates and liquidation ratios. Funding rates are like fees that traders pay or receive hourly, and liquidation ratios are a safety measure. If a trader's position falls below this safety level, it can be taken over by keeper bots, which earn a fee for doing so.
Perpetual Protocol has its own cryptocurrency called PERP. It's mainly used for voting on platform changes, and holders can also stake it for more PERP and a share of transaction fees in USDC. However, stakers need to commit to a fixed period called an epoch, which lasts seven days. They can't withdraw their funds until the end of the epoch, but they can claim transaction fees right away. PERP rewards, though, are locked for up to 6 months. Stakers don't have to worry about something called impermanent loss, but the PERP token's price can still be volatile.
As of April 2021, you can use Perpetual Protocol for trading on the Ethereum and xDai mainnets.
"And the other one called dYdX?" Here is an explanation :
dYdX is like a decentralized exchange that offers various crypto services like lending, borrowing, regular trading, and more. It's different from traditional exchanges because it operates on the blockchain.
You can do things like lend your crypto to others and earn interest or use your crypto as collateral to borrow more. But what sets dYdX apart is that you can also trade with borrowed money, which is called margin trading. For example, you can use 5 times the amount of your own crypto to make a trade. They support Ethereum (ETH), USD Coin (USDC), and DAI for regular trading.
They also have something called perpetual swaps, which are like contracts where you bet on the future price of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Aave, and LINK. You can use up to 10 times the amount of your crypto to make these bets.
When you lend your crypto on dYdX, you start earning interest immediately, and the interest keeps adding up with every transaction. The interest rates can change based on how much people are using the platform. If more people are borrowing, the rates go up.
For borrowers, you need to put up at least 125% of the value of what you're borrowing as collateral, and you have to keep it above 115% to avoid getting liquidated (basically losing your collateral).
dYdX also offers different types of trading orders like market, limit, and stop orders, similar to regular exchanges. Trading fees are charged when you take certain actions, and they can be either 0.3% or variable gas costs, whichever is higher.
They have this thing called perpetual markets, where all the contracts use USDC as collateral. But each contract has its own rules and requirements.
In early 2021, dYdX teamed up with Starkware to make transactions faster and cheaper using a Layer-2 technology called StarkEx. It uses something called zero-knowledge rollups and settles transactions on the Ethereum network. This makes it more efficient.
"Some other platforms that you might want to consider?" Sure, here are some notable mentions :
- Futureswap: It's like a decentralized exchange where you can bet on the future prices of cryptocurrencies. You can use up to 10 times your own crypto to make these bets.
- MCDEX: This is a decentralized exchange too, but it uses something called automated market makers for perpetual swaps. Anyone can create a market here as long as there's a price feed for the cryptocurrency you're trading and some ERC-20 tokens to use as collateral.
- Injective Protocol: This one operates on a special network called Injective Chain. It supports a fully decentralized order book, which is like a list of all the trades happening, and it can connect to Ethereum using a special token bridge. As of April 2021, it's still in test mode, not fully launched yet.
"Decentralized options?" Yes, here is what they are :
Decentralized options are a bit like a bet you make in the crypto world. You can use them to protect your investments from losing value or to try and make even more money without risking too much. Traditional finance has used options for a long time, and now, in the world of decentralized finance (DeFi), we have protocols that let you do the same thing.
Before, people traded options on centralized exchanges like Deribit. But now, there's a growing interest in having decentralized options protocols. In this section, we'll explore two of the top ones: Hegic and Opyn.
"Now I remember that we talked about Ophyn. What's up with Hegic though?" Glad that you are curious John :
Hegic is like a digital platform where you can buy and sell options for cryptocurrencies like ETH and WBTC. Options are like contracts that let you bet on whether the price of a cryptocurrency will go up (call option) or down (put option) by a certain date. You can even customize these options by choosing things like the price at which you'll buy or sell and when the contract expires.
When you use Hegic, it calculates the prices for these options, and there's a small fee when you buy them. These options can't be traded like regular cryptocurrencies, but you can use them whenever you want because there's always enough money in the contract.
Hegic works by having people put their cryptocurrency into a pool, and this pool is used as collateral for all the options. There are separate pools for ETH and WBTC. If you put your cryptocurrency into the pool, you get tokens called Write tokens, which represent your share of the premiums paid by users to buy options. These Write tokens can be staked to earn rewards, and there's even a way to earn more valuable tokens called rHEGIC.
If you have a lot of HEGIC tokens, you can become a Hegic Staking Lot owner and get a share of the fees collected by the platform. If you don't have that many tokens, you can still delegate some of your tokens to earn rewards.
Hegic is a popular platform with lots of cryptocurrency locked in it, and it handles a significant amount of trading every day. So, it's one of the top places for decentralized options trading.
"I would like to receive a reminder for Ophyn." Anytime friend :
Opyn is like a digital platform where you can create and trade options for cryptocurrencies. These options are like contracts that give you the right to buy or sell a cryptocurrency at a specific price and time. What's unique about Opyn is that it makes sure there's always enough cryptocurrency to back up these options, so they can always be used.
The first version of Opyn, called Opyn V1, allows you to create these special option tokens called oTokens. You do this by putting 100% of the cryptocurrency you want to use as collateral. These options can be made for cryptocurrencies like ETH, WBTC, UNI, and SNX, but they have fixed terms like a set expiration date and a specific buying or selling price. You can use oTokens to buy or sell the cryptocurrency they're linked to, or you can trade them on Uniswap. Opyn V1 doesn't charge extra fees for transactions or settlements.
Opyn V2, the newer version, has more features like auto-exercise, which means options can be automatically used if they make sense to do so. It also has something called flash minting, which is a bit like flash loans on Aave. The latest version, Opyn V3, offers options in a way similar to traditional options markets like Deribit, but for Wrapped Ether (WETH) with specific prices and timeframes.
So, Opyn is a platform where you can trade options for cryptocurrencies, and it has evolved to offer more features and flexibility over time.
"What are the differences between them?" Here is your answer :
Hegic and Opyn, two options platforms, have some similarities but also important differences.
Both platforms require the people creating options (called options writers) to have enough cryptocurrency to cover the options they create. This ensures that if someone wants to use one of these options, there's enough cryptocurrency backing it.
However, they have different ways of handling the money put up by options writers and support different cryptocurrencies. Hegic pools together the funds from options writers for each cryptocurrency separately. In contrast, Opyn locks up 100% of the cryptocurrency for each option created.
Both Hegic and Opyn like American-style options because they are more flexible for the fast-paced DeFi world. These options allow you to use them at any time before they expire. On the other hand, centralized exchanges like Deribit prefer European-style options, which can only be used at their expiration date. In Opyn V2, there are fewer options with shorter timeframes, which suggests that there isn't as much demand for options with strict time limits in the cryptocurrency market, where prices change rapidly.
"I quess you have another list of notable mentions for this category." You are right :
- FinNexus: FinNexus allows users to create options for almost any asset, as long as there's a reliable source of price information. They use a system called Multi-Asset Single Pool (MASP) that lets you have positions in different assets while using a single type of asset as collateral.
- Auctus: Auctus is a DeFi platform that lets you do "flash exercises" where you don't need to actually own the tokens used in the options to exercise them. They also offer principal-protected yield farming through Auctus Vaults and have a section for OTC (over-the-counter) options trading.
- Premia: Premia is like a marketplace where you can buy and sell options. They make it more efficient by letting you mint, transfer, and exercise multiple types of options with fewer transactions, saving you time and gas fees.
- Antimatter: Antimatter wants to be like the Uniswap of options by providing an exchange for perpetual options. You can get exposure to either long or short positions by buying these Polarized option tokens, and you don't have to worry about options expiring.
- Siren Protocol: With Siren Protocol, you can choose to be an options writer or buyer by purchasing either bTokens or wTokens from the SirenSwap Automated Market Maker. bTokens let you exercise options, while wTokens represent the writer's side and can be used to withdraw collateral or receive payment when options are exercised.
"Now we are heading for Synthetic Assets. Interesting. I still have some memories for when we scrathed the surface on this topic." It means a lot that you can remember those details John :
Synthetic assets are essentially like stand-ins for real assets. They mimic the value or behavior of something else. Instead of owning the actual asset, you can have synthetic assets that follow the same value changes.
For example, you can have synthetic assets that represent real-world stocks, Ethereum gas prices, or data from websites like CoinGecko. When you trade these synthetic assets, it's like trading the real things, but you don't need to own the real assets.
"Synthetix? I remember this name!" Very good John. Let's recap :
Synthetix is like a special platform where you can make and trade something called "Synths." These Synths act like copies of real assets, but you don't need to actually own those assets.
There are two types of Synths: Regular Synths (like sDEFi) and Inverse Synths (like iDEFI), although not all Synths have an inverse version. These Synths can represent different things like cryptocurrencies, regular money, goods, stock market indexes, and company stocks. Synthetix uses a tool called Chainlink to keep track of the prices of these assets.
To make Synths, people need to put some of their own cryptocurrency, called Synthetix Network Token (SNX), as collateral. Since the value of SNX can go up or down a lot, you have to put in a lot more SNX than the value of the Synths you're making to be safe.
If your collateral gets too low, you might have to add more or get rid of some Synths to keep it safe. Right now, you can only make one type of Synth, called sUSD.
You can trade these Synths on the Synthetix Exchange. It's not like other regular exchanges with buyers and sellers. Instead, you trade with a smart computer program that always has enough of these Synths to trade. This makes it good for big trades without messing up the prices too much.
If you use Synthetix, you might get some rewards, like fees from trading, and extra SNX if you keep your collateral safe.
"UMA? The name gives me Adidas vibes, not gonna lie." That is pretty strange comparison, but ok :
UMA, short for Universal Market Access, is a special system on the Ethereum network that lets people create and enforce artificial assets. These artificial assets don't need to rely on real-world prices like some other systems. Instead, they depend on having enough collateral, which is like a security deposit, to back them up.
UMA has something called the Data Verification Mechanism (DVM), which helps make sure everything is fair. This DVM helps settle disputes about liquidation and contract settlements by getting input from UMA token holders. These token holders vote on what they think is the right value for an asset at a specific time.
Now, let's talk about the important players in the UMA system:
- Token Sponsors: These are people who put up collateral to create artificial tokens. They need to make sure they have enough collateral to avoid losing it.
- Liquidators: They watch over things and make sure positions have the right collateral. If something seems wrong, they can dispute it, but there's a delay to check before it's final.
- Disputers: These folks also keep an eye on things and can dispute if they think there's a problem. If they're right, they get rewards.
- DVM: The DVM helps settle disputes by proposing a fair value for an asset based on votes from token holders.
- Token Holders: UMA token holders vote on asset values to help the DVM figure things out. They use information from outside the blockchain to make their decisions.
"And what separates those 2 platforms?" Here is the answer :
Both Synthetix and UMA offer synthetic assets that require users to provide collateral to create them. However, they have some differences:
Synthetix relies on an on-chain price feed to determine the value of its synthetic assets and collateralization ratio. It's more focused on options and supports a wide variety of synthetic assets, with over 50 available.
UMA takes a different approach by incentivizing participants to act fairly in the system. It has a more flexible collateralization requirement based on a global ratio, making it potentially more capital-efficient. However, it doesn't support as many different synthetic assets.
Synthetix has also built a strong ecosystem around its synthetic assets, with platforms like dHEDGE and Curve Finance using them for various purposes. dHEDGE allows users to invest in portfolios that include synthetic assets, while Curve Finance uses Synthetix as a bridge for asset swaps.
In terms of liquidity and trading volume, Synthetix currently has an advantage, with more trading activity and established platforms for synthetic asset trading. UMA's trading volumes are lower, but the future adoption of synthetic assets by retail and institutional users is still uncertain and could change the landscape.
"Stop teasing me and tell me the other options." Alrighty Johny :
Mirror Protocol: This protocol operates on both Ethereum and Terra blockchains and creates synthetic assets called mAssets. These mAssets imitate the prices of real-world assets like stocks and indices. For example, you can find assets like mAMZN (mirroring Amazon's stock) and mQQQ (mirroring the Nasdaq 100 index).
DEUS Finance: DEUS Finance is a DeFi protocol that allows users to access data from oracles and turn them into tradeable assets known as dAssets. These dAssets are designed to have a 1:1 peg with their real-life counterparts, and this peg is maintained using data from price oracles. Essentially, you can trade assets in the crypto world that represent real-world assets.
"And what the risks that I am exposing myself to if I choose to operate on the platforms that we have discussed?" I am glad that you are being cautious John :
When you're involved with decentralized derivatives platforms, it's crucial to understand that trading with leverage and using derivatives can be very risky. To stay safe in this part of decentralized finance (DeFi), you should maintain a good collateral ratio and always be aware of the liquidation price for your positions.
Synthetic assets, which are central to these platforms, rely heavily on oracles for price information. If these oracles provide incorrect data, it can lead to undesirable outcomes. Also, since synthetic assets are primarily created by putting up collateral, there might not always be enough liquidity for these assets, causing their prices to differ significantly from real-world assets.
For options trading, make sure you can exercise your profitable positions promptly, as some platforms don't offer automatic exercise features. As more and more people participate, keep an eye on significant option expiration periods, as they can bring increased volatility to the market.
TL;DR :
Decentralized Derivatives:
- Advanced financial tools for digital assets.
- Trustless crypto derivative trading.
- Crypto derivatives with no expiration.
- Accessible via DeFi platforms.
- Trading platform for perpetual contracts.
- Uses virtual collateral and supports leveraged trading.
- Decentralized exchange with lending, borrowing, and margin trading.
- Supports assets like ETH and USDC.
- Crypto betting for hedging or speculation.
- Protocols like Hegic and Opyn provide options.
- Platforms like Futureswap, MCDEX, Injective, and more.
- Offer unique DeFi trading features.
- Copycat assets mimicking real-world value.
- Synthetix and UMA are key players.
- Offers Synths tracking real assets.
- Uses SNX collateral and Chainlink price data.
- Creates synthetic assets without real-world prices.
- Involves UMA token holders for dispute resolution.
- High-risk trading, manage collateral carefully.
- Reliance on oracles and potential liquidity issues.
- Be cautious with options and large expirations.
All of the info above was written by me with the help of the How to Defi book, advanced edition, from Coingecko. Hope it helped others like it did for our boy John here!
2023.10.01 08:10 Natural_NoChemical Helping the above average John guy understand the Defi space : Decentralized stablecoins and stableassets, Algorithmic stablecoins, Rebase Model, Seigniorage Model, Evolution and some notable mentions
"Stablecoins? We talked about them before." Yes, but let's get a quick reminder of what they are :
Stablecoins are important in crypto. They're like digital dollars that don't change in value much. As more people use crypto, stablecoins are in demand. They're reliable for moving money globally. We talked about Tether (USDT) and Maker's Dai (DAI) before John. Now, we'll see their issues and learn about other stablecoins. Got it?
"Ok, let's go." That's the spirit.
"Let's talk about the centralized stablecoin first." Ok Johny, USDT it is :
Tether (USDT) is a stablecoin that's been around since 2015. It's like digital dollars, and it's the biggest stablecoin.
USDT keeps its value at $1 by keeping an equal amount of real money (like dollars) in reserve. It's a bit like how dollars used to be backed by gold.
But here's the issue: USDT's way of creating coins isn't very clear. Some folks in the crypto world doubt if they have as much money as they say. There have been investigations, fines, and controversies around Tether's practices.
So, USDT's legitimacy is still up in the air, even though some recent events have made it look more trustworthy.
"And now my favourite decentralized stablecoin please!" Are you the biggest fan for DAI or what :
DAI is like a special cryptocurrency created by a system called Maker. It's a bit like a digital "Central Bank." People make DAI by putting other cryptocurrencies (usually ETH) into Maker's system.
But here's the catch: you have to put in a lot more value than the DAI you want to make. This is to make sure everything stays safe, even if the value of the cryptocurrencies you put in drops a lot.
Maker tries to control how much DAI there is by changing how much it costs to borrow and use it. But this way isn't very good at handling a lot of demand, and sometimes the price of DAI goes above $1 because there isn't enough of it.
Maker has tried to fix this problem, but DAI's popularity still mostly depends on how much people want to borrow, not how much they want a stable cryptocurrency.
"How should we resolve the stablecoin issue?" That's quite the challenge and here is what I mean by that :
Stablecoins like Tether and DAI have their own problems. The big challenge is finding a way to create a stable cryptocurrency that doesn't rely on a single powerful entity and can keep its value steady.
Centralized stablecoins are effective but require trusting a central authority, which can be risky. DAI is somewhat decentralized but not very efficient with capital, and it struggles to meet the growing demand.
To tackle these issues, some new types of stablecoins have appeared John. They're called "algorithmic stablecoins," and they aim to be more decentralized, maintain a stable value, and use capital more efficiently.
"And what are those? Math equations?" Haha John, you are right like 50% :
Algorithmic stablecoins are like cryptocurrencies managed by computer programs instead of humans. They aim to keep their value stable, often pegged to the US Dollar. Some of them, called algorithmic stableassets, don't exactly function as currencies but rather as a form of collateral.
There are two main types of algorithmic stablecoins:
Algorithmic stablecoins can be divided into sub-categories, with the main ones being rebase and seigniorage models. These sub-categories determine how they manage and control their value.
"Rebase model? What do you mean by that?" Here is your answer John :
A rebase model keeps a stablecoin's price on track by adjusting its total supply. If the price goes above or below the desired value, the protocol automatically increases or decreases the number of coins held by everyone.
The idea here is that changing the supply can help control the price, similar to how regular money works when there's more or less of it. The first protocol to use this method was Ampleforth (AMPL), and it's been around since 2019.
"Tell me more about how Ampleforth operates." Sure thing fellow crypto bro :
Ampleforth (AMPL) does something interesting every day to keep its price close to $1.31. If the price goes more than 5% above $1, it creates more AMPL coins in everyone's wallets. If it goes more than 5% below $1, it takes away some coins.
But here's the key: Everyone's share of AMPL stays the same, so it's like cutting a pizza into more or fewer slices to keep the portions about the same size. This process doesn't dilute anyone's holdings.
Because these adjustments happen at set times, some people try to time their trades to make the most of it by buying or selling AMPL just before the adjustments happen.
"Seigniorage Model? It sounds like a car name bro." It might have an interesting name, but trust me, it is not that hard to understand it :
Seigniorage models use a reward system to control the price of a stablecoin. If the price goes above the target, the system makes new tokens and rewards people who provide liquidity or stake tokens. If the price drops below the target, it stops making new tokens and introduces ways to reduce the supply. Users can buy coupons that remove tokens from circulation, and they can exchange these coupons for more tokens later, but only when the price goes back to or above the target.
There are three main versions of this model:
"And what's their evolution so far?" Here is your answer John :
Algorithmic stablecoins, especially those using the seigniorage model, were all the rage in late 2020. These coins were designed to maintain a stable value like the US Dollar, but most of them failed to do so.
Out of the top algorithmic stablecoins by market value, only sUSD and FRAX have consistently stayed close to their target value. (late 2021 INFO)
The problem with these new coins is that they tried to replicate what centralized governments do with regular money but in a highly competitive and decentralized crypto world. It's like they wanted to build a new kind of money overnight.
To attract users, these coins offered really high rewards for people who provided liquidity, but that mostly attracted speculators who wanted to make a quick profit. They would jump from one new coin to another, leaving latecomers with big losses.
This rollercoaster ride caused wild price swings, and these coins are mostly traded on platforms like Uniswap, which made the swings even worse. When prices dropped, people didn't want to provide liquidity because they were afraid of losing money, making things even more volatile.
In short, while algorithmic stablecoins sounded cool, they ended up being a risky and unstable game that left many people confused and frustrated.
"And for an example, why has FRAX succeeded?" Here is why :
FRAX has done well at keeping its value close to $1, unlike many other stablecoins. Here's why I think it's been successful:
"Is this all for today?" No John, got some more info for you :
FRAX has done well, but some people say it's not completely decentralized because it still depends on USDC, which is backed by a centralized group (CENTRE Consortium with Coinbase and Circle).
Now, there are new players in the game. They still use collateral, but they have their unique approaches, making it hard to call them regular algorithmic stablecoins. I will talk about three of them.
"Well, let's hear it boss." Sure, the first one is Fei :
Fei Protocol is a new kid on the block that aims to keep its stablecoin (FEI) pegged to $1. Unlike regular stablecoins, it's not backed by cash or USDC; instead, it's backed by Ethereum (ETH).
Here's how it works: When FEI's price is above $1, people can create new FEI by using their ETH. This makes FEI cheaper. Traders can then buy FEI and sell it until it reaches $1 again. When FEI's price is below $1, the protocol taxes sellers and rewards buyers to bring it back to $1.
In emergencies, if FEI's price stays low, Fei can use its ETH reserves to buy FEI from the market and boost its price. They also have a token called TRIBE for governance decisions.
Fei tries to keep its stablecoin stable in a unique way, and it's different from other stablecoins like Frax or DAI.
"Ok, go on." Ok John, here is the second candidate :
Reflexer's RAI isn't your typical stablecoin. It's designed to be a stable form of collateral, unlike volatile assets like ETH or BTC. RAI doesn't have a fixed price; it aims to hover around a certain value, initially set at $3.14.
RAI works a bit like how central banks operate in the real world. To create RAI, users need to deposit ETH as collateral, making sure they have at least 145% of the collateral value. They pay a small fee (2% per year) for this. If RAI's price goes above its target, it gets easier to create more RAI. When it's below the target, it becomes more expensive to create RAI.
In emergencies, the system allows users to redeem their ETH collateral at the current price.
Reflexer also has another token called FLX, which plays a role in governing the system and offers protection. Debt auctions help manage the system and remove bad debt. Over time, FLX aims to become more automated and require less governance.
The last one is pretty interesting regarding it's price and you will see why :
Float Protocol is similar to FRAX but has some differences. It uses two tokens, FLOAT and BANK, and is partly backed by ETH. FLOAT's price is not fixed; it's designed to stay around $1.61 initially.
To get FLOAT, you participate in a Dutch auction, where prices start high and go down. You use both BANK and ETH to buy FLOAT. The more people want FLOAT, the more ETH you need.
When FLOAT's price is above the target, anyone can start an auction to sell new FLOAT. This auction starts with a higher price and gradually goes down until it reaches the target.
When FLOAT's price is below the target, the protocol buys FLOAT from the market through a reverse Dutch auction. It offers to buy FLOAT at different prices with both ETH and newly created BANK tokens.
Float Protocol initially had a 100% collateral ratio, but this can change through governance voting. In emergencies, the assets in the protocol's basket can be used to support FLOAT's price if it falls below its target.
"And how do you think that those will fare?" Always DYOR. Now, to answer your question :
The new algorithmic stablecoins and stableassets like FLOAT and RAI are taking a more cautious approach compared to older ones. They prioritize having enough collateral to back their value over being super efficient.
For example, Fei uses a system where collateral automatically goes into Uniswap pools, and users can control how much collateral there should be through voting. Float also lets market forces determine the ideal collateral level and has a flexible peg, making it less rigid.
On the other hand, Reflexer's RAI is overcollateralized and has no maximum limit on collateral, which makes it less prone to sudden crashes. RAI doesn't stick to a fixed peg, giving it more flexibility.
These new assets encourage certain behaviors in the market. They reward users when the price is above the peg, but they also discourage certain actions when the price is below it. For example, Fei penalizes sellers when FEI is sold below the peg, while Float lets market dynamics decide the outcome.
These protocols also have emergency measures in place. When their native assets lose significant value, they take actions to protect their markets. Fei and Float, for instance, cut off liquidity and use their assets to stabilize their prices, similar to how governments might step in during financial crises. Reflexer stops new borrowing and only allows loans to be repaid during emergencies.
"There is always gotta be some risks, right?" Yes, they are present 100% here too :
Algorithmic stablecoins are like experiments that are still being tested. These projects are trying to launch successfully without big price swings, but it's a work in progress.
These stablecoins rely a lot on smart traders who can quickly make the right moves to keep the price stable. If you don't understand how these systems work, you might not be able to compete with these savvy traders or even automated bots.
To succeed, algorithmic stablecoins need a strong community that believes in the project. Sometimes, people who just want to make quick money can use their resources to control the price. In a decentralized system, only a cooperative community with solid rules can deal with this problem.
I also got some other mentions if you would like to hear.
"Heck yea!" Nice :
TL;DR :
All of the info above was written by me with the help of the How to Defi book, advanced edition, from Coingecko. Hope it helped others like it did for our boy John here!
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Stablecoins are important in crypto. They're like digital dollars that don't change in value much. As more people use crypto, stablecoins are in demand. They're reliable for moving money globally. We talked about Tether (USDT) and Maker's Dai (DAI) before John. Now, we'll see their issues and learn about other stablecoins. Got it?
"Ok, let's go." That's the spirit.
"Let's talk about the centralized stablecoin first." Ok Johny, USDT it is :
Tether (USDT) is a stablecoin that's been around since 2015. It's like digital dollars, and it's the biggest stablecoin.
USDT keeps its value at $1 by keeping an equal amount of real money (like dollars) in reserve. It's a bit like how dollars used to be backed by gold.
But here's the issue: USDT's way of creating coins isn't very clear. Some folks in the crypto world doubt if they have as much money as they say. There have been investigations, fines, and controversies around Tether's practices.
So, USDT's legitimacy is still up in the air, even though some recent events have made it look more trustworthy.
"And now my favourite decentralized stablecoin please!" Are you the biggest fan for DAI or what :
DAI is like a special cryptocurrency created by a system called Maker. It's a bit like a digital "Central Bank." People make DAI by putting other cryptocurrencies (usually ETH) into Maker's system.
But here's the catch: you have to put in a lot more value than the DAI you want to make. This is to make sure everything stays safe, even if the value of the cryptocurrencies you put in drops a lot.
Maker tries to control how much DAI there is by changing how much it costs to borrow and use it. But this way isn't very good at handling a lot of demand, and sometimes the price of DAI goes above $1 because there isn't enough of it.
Maker has tried to fix this problem, but DAI's popularity still mostly depends on how much people want to borrow, not how much they want a stable cryptocurrency.
"How should we resolve the stablecoin issue?" That's quite the challenge and here is what I mean by that :
Stablecoins like Tether and DAI have their own problems. The big challenge is finding a way to create a stable cryptocurrency that doesn't rely on a single powerful entity and can keep its value steady.
Centralized stablecoins are effective but require trusting a central authority, which can be risky. DAI is somewhat decentralized but not very efficient with capital, and it struggles to meet the growing demand.
To tackle these issues, some new types of stablecoins have appeared John. They're called "algorithmic stablecoins," and they aim to be more decentralized, maintain a stable value, and use capital more efficiently.
"And what are those? Math equations?" Haha John, you are right like 50% :
Algorithmic stablecoins are like cryptocurrencies managed by computer programs instead of humans. They aim to keep their value stable, often pegged to the US Dollar. Some of them, called algorithmic stableassets, don't exactly function as currencies but rather as a form of collateral.
There are two main types of algorithmic stablecoins:
- Those without collateral, like ESD, AMPL, and BAC.
- Those partially or fully backed by their own native tokens, like FRAX and sUSD. These are considered algorithmic stablecoins.
Algorithmic stablecoins can be divided into sub-categories, with the main ones being rebase and seigniorage models. These sub-categories determine how they manage and control their value.
"Rebase model? What do you mean by that?" Here is your answer John :
A rebase model keeps a stablecoin's price on track by adjusting its total supply. If the price goes above or below the desired value, the protocol automatically increases or decreases the number of coins held by everyone.
The idea here is that changing the supply can help control the price, similar to how regular money works when there's more or less of it. The first protocol to use this method was Ampleforth (AMPL), and it's been around since 2019.
"Tell me more about how Ampleforth operates." Sure thing fellow crypto bro :
Ampleforth (AMPL) does something interesting every day to keep its price close to $1.31. If the price goes more than 5% above $1, it creates more AMPL coins in everyone's wallets. If it goes more than 5% below $1, it takes away some coins.
But here's the key: Everyone's share of AMPL stays the same, so it's like cutting a pizza into more or fewer slices to keep the portions about the same size. This process doesn't dilute anyone's holdings.
Because these adjustments happen at set times, some people try to time their trades to make the most of it by buying or selling AMPL just before the adjustments happen.
"Seigniorage Model? It sounds like a car name bro." It might have an interesting name, but trust me, it is not that hard to understand it :
Seigniorage models use a reward system to control the price of a stablecoin. If the price goes above the target, the system makes new tokens and rewards people who provide liquidity or stake tokens. If the price drops below the target, it stops making new tokens and introduces ways to reduce the supply. Users can buy coupons that remove tokens from circulation, and they can exchange these coupons for more tokens later, but only when the price goes back to or above the target.
There are three main versions of this model:
- Empty Set Dollar (ESD): It has only one token that acts as both a stablecoin and a governance token. If the price is above $1, it rewards stakers and liquidity providers. If it's below $1, it stops rewards. During a low-price phase, users can buy coupons with their ESD, but these coupons expire after 30 days.
- Basis Cash: This model has two tokens, one is the stablecoin (BAC), and the other is the share token (BAS). It also uses a price mechanism to control the supply of BAC. When the price is above $1, it rewards BAS stakers. When it's below $1, it stops rewards and offers Basis Bonds (similar to ESD coupons) for purchase. These bonds can be redeemed for BAC when the price goes up.
- Frax Finance: Frax uses a fractional collateralization approach. Its stablecoin (FRAX) is backed by two types of collateral: a centralized stablecoin (USDC) and its native token (FXS). The collateral ratio is adjustable based on a growth ratio. When FRAX is above $1, the collateral ratio decreases, and when it's below $1, the ratio increases. This system encourages arbitrage to keep the price close to $1. FXS holders also get a share of the protocol's profits.
"And what's their evolution so far?" Here is your answer John :
Algorithmic stablecoins, especially those using the seigniorage model, were all the rage in late 2020. These coins were designed to maintain a stable value like the US Dollar, but most of them failed to do so.
Out of the top algorithmic stablecoins by market value, only sUSD and FRAX have consistently stayed close to their target value. (late 2021 INFO)
The problem with these new coins is that they tried to replicate what centralized governments do with regular money but in a highly competitive and decentralized crypto world. It's like they wanted to build a new kind of money overnight.
To attract users, these coins offered really high rewards for people who provided liquidity, but that mostly attracted speculators who wanted to make a quick profit. They would jump from one new coin to another, leaving latecomers with big losses.
This rollercoaster ride caused wild price swings, and these coins are mostly traded on platforms like Uniswap, which made the swings even worse. When prices dropped, people didn't want to provide liquidity because they were afraid of losing money, making things even more volatile.
In short, while algorithmic stablecoins sounded cool, they ended up being a risky and unstable game that left many people confused and frustrated.
"And for an example, why has FRAX succeeded?" Here is why :
FRAX has done well at keeping its value close to $1, unlike many other stablecoins. Here's why I think it's been successful:
- FRAX is partly backed by USDC, which makes people trust it more to stay at $1. As of May 8, 2021, 85.25% of FRAX is supported by USDC.
- FRAX can adjust how much collateral it needs, so it can meet the demand to stay at $1.
- They use the collateral to earn money elsewhere, which helps the system and lets them buy and remove FXS tokens, which can reduce price swings.
- If FRAX's price goes up or down, it's not as big of a deal because they have a way to manage it with FXS tokens.
"Is this all for today?" No John, got some more info for you :
FRAX has done well, but some people say it's not completely decentralized because it still depends on USDC, which is backed by a centralized group (CENTRE Consortium with Coinbase and Circle).
Now, there are new players in the game. They still use collateral, but they have their unique approaches, making it hard to call them regular algorithmic stablecoins. I will talk about three of them.
"Well, let's hear it boss." Sure, the first one is Fei :
Fei Protocol is a new kid on the block that aims to keep its stablecoin (FEI) pegged to $1. Unlike regular stablecoins, it's not backed by cash or USDC; instead, it's backed by Ethereum (ETH).
Here's how it works: When FEI's price is above $1, people can create new FEI by using their ETH. This makes FEI cheaper. Traders can then buy FEI and sell it until it reaches $1 again. When FEI's price is below $1, the protocol taxes sellers and rewards buyers to bring it back to $1.
In emergencies, if FEI's price stays low, Fei can use its ETH reserves to buy FEI from the market and boost its price. They also have a token called TRIBE for governance decisions.
Fei tries to keep its stablecoin stable in a unique way, and it's different from other stablecoins like Frax or DAI.
"Ok, go on." Ok John, here is the second candidate :
Reflexer's RAI isn't your typical stablecoin. It's designed to be a stable form of collateral, unlike volatile assets like ETH or BTC. RAI doesn't have a fixed price; it aims to hover around a certain value, initially set at $3.14.
RAI works a bit like how central banks operate in the real world. To create RAI, users need to deposit ETH as collateral, making sure they have at least 145% of the collateral value. They pay a small fee (2% per year) for this. If RAI's price goes above its target, it gets easier to create more RAI. When it's below the target, it becomes more expensive to create RAI.
In emergencies, the system allows users to redeem their ETH collateral at the current price.
Reflexer also has another token called FLX, which plays a role in governing the system and offers protection. Debt auctions help manage the system and remove bad debt. Over time, FLX aims to become more automated and require less governance.
The last one is pretty interesting regarding it's price and you will see why :
Float Protocol is similar to FRAX but has some differences. It uses two tokens, FLOAT and BANK, and is partly backed by ETH. FLOAT's price is not fixed; it's designed to stay around $1.61 initially.
To get FLOAT, you participate in a Dutch auction, where prices start high and go down. You use both BANK and ETH to buy FLOAT. The more people want FLOAT, the more ETH you need.
When FLOAT's price is above the target, anyone can start an auction to sell new FLOAT. This auction starts with a higher price and gradually goes down until it reaches the target.
When FLOAT's price is below the target, the protocol buys FLOAT from the market through a reverse Dutch auction. It offers to buy FLOAT at different prices with both ETH and newly created BANK tokens.
Float Protocol initially had a 100% collateral ratio, but this can change through governance voting. In emergencies, the assets in the protocol's basket can be used to support FLOAT's price if it falls below its target.
"And how do you think that those will fare?" Always DYOR. Now, to answer your question :
The new algorithmic stablecoins and stableassets like FLOAT and RAI are taking a more cautious approach compared to older ones. They prioritize having enough collateral to back their value over being super efficient.
For example, Fei uses a system where collateral automatically goes into Uniswap pools, and users can control how much collateral there should be through voting. Float also lets market forces determine the ideal collateral level and has a flexible peg, making it less rigid.
On the other hand, Reflexer's RAI is overcollateralized and has no maximum limit on collateral, which makes it less prone to sudden crashes. RAI doesn't stick to a fixed peg, giving it more flexibility.
These new assets encourage certain behaviors in the market. They reward users when the price is above the peg, but they also discourage certain actions when the price is below it. For example, Fei penalizes sellers when FEI is sold below the peg, while Float lets market dynamics decide the outcome.
These protocols also have emergency measures in place. When their native assets lose significant value, they take actions to protect their markets. Fei and Float, for instance, cut off liquidity and use their assets to stabilize their prices, similar to how governments might step in during financial crises. Reflexer stops new borrowing and only allows loans to be repaid during emergencies.
"There is always gotta be some risks, right?" Yes, they are present 100% here too :
Algorithmic stablecoins are like experiments that are still being tested. These projects are trying to launch successfully without big price swings, but it's a work in progress.
These stablecoins rely a lot on smart traders who can quickly make the right moves to keep the price stable. If you don't understand how these systems work, you might not be able to compete with these savvy traders or even automated bots.
To succeed, algorithmic stablecoins need a strong community that believes in the project. Sometimes, people who just want to make quick money can use their resources to control the price. In a decentralized system, only a cooperative community with solid rules can deal with this problem.
I also got some other mentions if you would like to hear.
"Heck yea!" Nice :
- Empty Set Dollar v2 (ESD): ESD is making changes to become more stable. They're introducing a new token called ESDS and adding a reserve of USDC (a stable cryptocurrency) to make their ESD tokens less volatile. This move is similar to what Frax did.
- Dynamic Set Dollar v2 (DSD): Unlike most stablecoins that rely on collateral, DSD believes in decentralization without collateral. They've introduced a new token called CDSD, which can be exchanged for DSD. This way, they're trying to make DSD less volatile, similar to Frax's approach.
- Gyroscope (GYR): Gyroscope combines ideas from various stablecoin projects. GYR is backed by multiple assets and uses a system similar to Maker. It also has ways for users to benefit more if they wait longer to repay their loans during times of crisis.
TL;DR :
- Stablecoins Basics: Stablecoins are crypto versions of dollars, providing stability and reliability for global transactions.
- Tether (USDT): A popular stablecoin, but concerns about transparency linger.
- Dai (DAI): Created by Maker, it's decentralized but can struggle with price stability.
- Algorithmic Stablecoins: Newer, decentralized alternatives aiming for stability.
- Algorithmic Types: Some with collateral (e.g., FRAX), others without (e.g., ESD).
- Models: Rebase (e.g., Ampleforth) adjusts supply, while seigniorage (e.g., ESD, Basis Cash, Frax) rewards users.
- Challenges: Many algorithmic coins faced volatility and liquidity issues.
- Success Story: FRAX: Partially backed by USDC, flexible collateralization, and revenue generation.
- Newcomers: Fei, Reflexer's RAI, and Float Protocol explore innovative approaches.
- Risks: Algorithmic stablecoins are experimental and require trader expertise and community support.
- Notable Mentions: ESD, DSD, and GYR are working on enhancing stability and decentralization.
All of the info above was written by me with the help of the How to Defi book, advanced edition, from Coingecko. Hope it helped others like it did for our boy John here!
2023.09.29 11:46 juliarmg Automate your document processing with AI
 | Hey MacOS submitted by juliarmg to MacOS [link] [comments] It's fascinating to look at the pace at which AI tech is moving right now. One of my friends is a lawyer and he has starting to use AI to do legal research and to process his case documents. I thought that was an interesting use case. So I tried to simulate it in my Mac app. I got a couple of publicly available documents about the Johny Depp vs Amber Heard case. I only found 2 PDFs, but they had hundreds of pages of legal jargon. So I created a "brain" with those 2 PDFs in my app, and started chatting with it. Here's what it looks like in action - https://reddit.com/link/16v7768/video/t17oxcof16rb1/player The super brain feature is quite useful this way. Especially because you can have multiple such brains - one for each topic. My lawyer friend creates one brain for each of his cases, and uploads every document related to the case into it. If you want to try it out, you can test it for free for 30 days from this link - Elephas This feature uses a combination of Mac storage with OpenAI’s feature. Highly optimised for cost savings. And it's privacy friendly, and all the data remains on your computer (It does use OpenAI to generate embeddings. But the resulting data is stored on your local computer). I think there's huge potential in using AI as an assistant instead of a complete replacement for humans. That's my goal with this feature and this tiny Mac app. I hope you find it useful. I am looking forward to your feedback. I'd be happy to add new features and utilities based on your requests and suggestions. Thanks |
2023.09.28 12:54 juliarmg Processing documents with Artificial Intelligence
Hi ArtificialInteligence
It's fascinating to look at the pace at which AI tech is moving right now. One of my friends is a lawyer and he has starting to use AI to do legal research and to process his case documents. I thought that was an interesting use case. So I tried to simulate it in my Mac app. I got a couple of publicly available documents about the Johny Depp vs Amber Heard case. I only found 2 PDFs, but they had hundreds of pages of legal jargon. So I created a "brain" with those 2 PDFs in my app, and started chatting with it.
I recorded a short demo video, you can check it out here in the Mac Apps subreddit.
The super brain feature is quite useful this way. Especially because you can have multiple such brains - one for each topic. My lawyer friend creates one brain for each of his cases, and uploads every document related to the case into it. If you want to try it out, you can test it for free for 30 days from this link - Elephas This feature uses a combination of Mac storage with OpenAI’s feature. Highly optimised for cost savings. And it's privacy friendly, and all the data remains on your computer (It does use OpenAI to generate embeddings. But the resulting data is stored on your local computer). I think there's huge potential in using AI as an assistant instead of a complete replacement for humans. That's my goal with this feature and this tiny Mac app. I hope you find it useful. I am looking forward to your feedback. I'd be happy to add new features and utilities based on your requests and suggestions. Thanks
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It's fascinating to look at the pace at which AI tech is moving right now. One of my friends is a lawyer and he has starting to use AI to do legal research and to process his case documents. I thought that was an interesting use case. So I tried to simulate it in my Mac app. I got a couple of publicly available documents about the Johny Depp vs Amber Heard case. I only found 2 PDFs, but they had hundreds of pages of legal jargon. So I created a "brain" with those 2 PDFs in my app, and started chatting with it.
I recorded a short demo video, you can check it out here in the Mac Apps subreddit.
The super brain feature is quite useful this way. Especially because you can have multiple such brains - one for each topic. My lawyer friend creates one brain for each of his cases, and uploads every document related to the case into it. If you want to try it out, you can test it for free for 30 days from this link - Elephas This feature uses a combination of Mac storage with OpenAI’s feature. Highly optimised for cost savings. And it's privacy friendly, and all the data remains on your computer (It does use OpenAI to generate embeddings. But the resulting data is stored on your local computer). I think there's huge potential in using AI as an assistant instead of a complete replacement for humans. That's my goal with this feature and this tiny Mac app. I hope you find it useful. I am looking forward to your feedback. I'd be happy to add new features and utilities based on your requests and suggestions. Thanks
2023.09.27 10:56 juliarmg Automate your document processing with AI
| | Hey macapps submitted by juliarmg to macapps [link] [comments] It's fascinating to look at the pace at which AI tech is moving right now. One of my friends is a lawyer and he has starting to use AI to do legal research and to process his case documents. I thought that was an interesting use case. So I tried to simulate it in my Mac app. I got a couple of publicly available documents about the Johny Depp vs Amber Heard case. I only found 2 PDFs, but they had hundreds of pages of legal jargon. So I created a "brain" with those 2 PDFs in my app, and started chatting with it. Here's what it looks like in action - https://reddit.com/link/16tffc0/video/2z5i4hvq2rqb1/player The super brain feature is quite useful this way. Especially because you can have multiple such brains - one for each topic. My lawyer friend creates one brain for each of his cases, and uploads every document related to the case into it. If you want to try it out, you can test it for free for 30 days from this link - Elephas This feature uses a combination of Mac storage with OpenAI’s feature. Highly optimised for cost savings. And it's privacy friendly, and all the data remains on your computer (It does use OpenAI to generate embeddings. But the resulting data is stored on your local computer). I think there's huge potential in using AI as an assistant instead of a complete replacement for humans. That's my goal with this feature and this tiny Mac app. I hope you find it useful. I am looking forward to your feedback. I'd be happy to add new features and utilities based on your requests and suggestions. Thanks |
2023.09.26 13:13 juliarmg Automate your document processing with AI
| | Hey Automate submitted by juliarmg to Automate [link] [comments] It's fascinating to look at the pace at which AI tech is moving right now. One of my friends is a lawyer and he has starting to use AI to do legal research and to process his case documents. I thought that was an interesting use case. So I tried to simulate it in my Mac app. I got a couple of publicly available documents about the Johny Depp vs Amber Heard case. I only found 2 PDFs, but they had hundreds of pages of legal jargon. I created a "brain" with those 2 PDFs in my app, and started chatting with it. Here's what it looks like in action - https://reddit.com/link/16skwq5/video/uk1w2x9q1lqb1/player The super brain feature is quite useful this way. Especially because you can have multiple such brains - one for each topic. My lawyer friend creates one brain for each of his cases, and uploads every document related to the case into it. If you want to try it out, you can test it for free for 30 days from this link - Elephas This feature uses a combination of Mac storage with OpenAI’s feature. Highly optimized for cost savings. And it's privacy friendly, and all the data remains on your computer (It does use OpenAI to generate embeddings. But the resulting data is stored on your local computer). I think there's huge potential in using AI as an assistant instead of a complete replacement for humans. That's my goal with this feature and this tiny Mac app. I hope you find it useful. I am looking forward to your feedback. I'd be happy to add new features and utilities based on your requests and suggestions. Thanks |
2023.08.26 06:45 PixelGMS My CYOAs have neared 10,000,000 views (8.86 million at the moment) and want to make a special CYOA that will be released once my CYOAs hit that many views. I would like ideas.
Update: I have posted a poll on my Patreon for determining which of the ideas below and in the comments I'll use.
If a CYOA idea has an asterisk next to it, I'm not sure I have enough time to complete it given how many views I get after releasing a new CYOA.
Here are the ideas my Patrons gave:
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If a CYOA idea has an asterisk next to it, I'm not sure I have enough time to complete it given how many views I get after releasing a new CYOA.
Here are the ideas my Patrons gave:
- Japan summons/nihonkoku shoukan cyoa*
- This has an asterisk next to it since I've never read the story and I have no idea how long it is.
- Meta CYOA
- A CYOA where you're reincarnated into another world with all your family members also being from other worlds. Like your mom is Miyamoto Musashi (Fate), your dad is Van Hohenheim, your older brother is Saotome Ranma, your older sisters are the twins from Johny Test, your younger brother is Oscar Pine from RWBY, and your younger sister is Dawn from Pokemon.
- To clarify, the fictional characters that are your reincarnation self's family are not, by default, your original family reincarnated into other bodies. I may add an option to make that the case though.
- CYOA based on this meme
- Magical Girl CYOA
- Time-Travel CYOA
- Alchemist CYOA (FMA CYOA but not set in FMA)
- Cosplay CYOA (Based on Mad Talent)
- Legend of Zelda CYOA
- Scathach/Ulster Cycle CYOA
- Mystery CYOA
- Merlin CYOA
- Reverse isekai CYOA like Re:Creators
- One Piece CYOA
- Waifu catalogue inspired CYOA without the mind rape
- Basically some sort of team builder CYOA but with some sort of gimmick as an alternative to the mind rape that is implied (or explicitly stated) in the waifu catalogue type CYOAs
- Original setting CYOA*
- Probably a fantasy world CYOA but I'll do some in-depth world building. The player wouldn't be able to determine anything about the world, that would all be predesigned.
2023.07.17 22:18 OskeeTurtle Georges St-Pierre's Radically Ridiculous Resume of Ranked Fighters
I wanted to do a write up on Georges' career as it was almost entirely pre Ronda/Conor boom and well before the pandemic boost in popularity as well. He has the most p4p wins and at least as of a few years ago he had the most ranked wins but I suspect that record is gone by now. For those who don't know, the UFC introduced official rankings in 2013 before all but two of Georges' fights. So I've used fightmatrix rankings to be consistent as well as Sherdog rankings being harder to find after the late 2000s rankings
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Starting at the beginning of his career we'll pass over known names like Ivan Menjivar & Jay Hieron because they hadn't established their careers yet. But still worth noting Georges' first professional fight was against someone who would be competing in the UFC still over a decade later
Georges would begin his UFC career two years after debuting in MMA and debuted against the #12 ranked welterweight in the world Karo Parisyan. Shortly after the decision win and a quick finish of earlier mentioned Hieron, he'd be matched up with the #4 p4p fighter in the world and reigning UFC welterweight champion Matt Hughes and the fight was competitive but Hughes sunk an armbar in with just a second left in the first round and handed Georges his first loss in his career
Georges' UFC career would restart with three straight wins over the #9 ranked Jason Miller, #6 ranked Frank Trigg & # 5 ranked Sean Sherk. After the Sherk win at UFC 56 he dropped to his knees and begged for a title shot rematch with Hughes. This was unsuccessful and instead Georges would be given an extremely tough test to fight the ranked #6 p4p & #2 welterweight in the world, BJ Penn. This would end up being a very close fight that could've had a winner decided by a coin flip. The judges leaned towards GSP via split decision and he would go forward to rematch Matt Hughes
The Matt Hughes rematch would be very different from their fight two years earlier. Georges looked in control and eventually caught him with a clean landing head kick. Georges was now officially a UFC Champion, just like he wanted. His first defence would come against the winner of "The Ultimate Fighter 4: The Comeback". A tournament of rejected welterweight & middleweight UFC fighters with the winners being given instant title shots. Anderson Silva had already destroyed the middleweight winner Travis Lutter a few months before and no one had any expectations for the welterweight winner, Matt Serra. Luckily for Matt Serra none of that matters in the cage. Quickly in the first round Matt Serra tags Georges St-Pierre and rocks him. Georges tries to fight back even harder and gets TKO'd and humbled quickly. #23 ranked welterweight Matt Serra is now the first person to TKO GSP and gives him the last official loss of his career in what is considered by most to still be the biggest upset in MMA history
GSP gets thrown against TuF 1 alumni & #3 ranked welterweight Josh Koscheck a few months later to bounce back. He out wrestles the wrestler to the surprise of many and completely controls the fight. Matt Serra & Matt Hughes were having a Matt-off for the ultimate fighter and supposed to fight for the championship at the end of the season. However Serra hurts his back and Georges gets to step in for a trilogy fight against #2 ranked Matt Hughes for an interim belt. The third fight is definitive with Georges coming out on top after showing Matt Hughes the armbar he'd caught him with a few years earlier
Georges now gets to fight to avenge his loss against #9 p4p champion Matt Serra. This fight goes along the way most were expecting the first to. Georges controls the fight and knees a balled up Serra for the finish and regains his belt. Now kicking off a legendary run in the UFC
Jon Fitch is one of all-time the best fighters to never hold a championship. He was ranked #14 p4p at the time of his title challenge but would later be a staple on p4p lists going as high #5 and hanging there for years. Hated by Dana White for his boring style he'd be very controversially cut about half a decade later despite being a top talent. But well before that he'd have a fight with Georges St-Pierre. The night of UFC 87 Georges would beat him handedly scoring 50-43 or 50-44 on all the judges scorecards. The unstoppable fighter people thought Georges was gonna be before the Serra loss had come back and was here to stay
One of the biggest super fights of all time would come next. BJ Penn had gone back to lightweight after his welterweight campaign and looked incredible. And in the middle of stacking up three consecutive lightweight championship defences (a record that still hasn't been broken) he'd get to rematch Georges St-Pierre. A fight that was a coin flip before was now a beat down. Georges beat the brakes off the #7 p4p fighter in the world and BJ Penn wouldn't answer the call to the 5th round earing Georges a definitive victory over BJ Penn to really put him in with the other elite p4p fighters that no one argued against. SIKE! Between the 1st and 2nd rounds Georges had a cornerman rubbing vaseline on him but not just his face. While doing breathing exercises the cornerman started to rub his chest and back. This would become known as "grease gate". BJ Penn was furious and tried to get the fight overturned but failed. This also led to cornermen no longer working with cuts and instead we'd get third party cut men
Next Georges would have a fight against the top welterweight contender & #8 p4p Thiago Alves. After a highlight KO of Matt Hughes a year earlier Alves was given a top contender fight against Koscheck, the winner would wait for the winner of Penn/St-Pierre. This fight took place at UFC 100, watched by the most eyes ever at that point. Georges dominated the fight but no one would be talking about that because Hendo murdered Bisping that night and Brock Lesnar avenged his Mir loss. Despite this Alves would remain on p4p lists for almost a year until he'd get dominated again by Jon Fitch, I don't know why I can't remember people being that high on Alves for so long
Next Georges would have some of his "safest" fights in his career. A title defence against #5 ranked Dan Hardy, the first title fight a British fighter would ever get, who was being seriously overlooked. And the fight went as many expected, Georges absolutely dominated him again earing a 50-43 scorecard. What was taken away from this though was Dan Hardy surviving both an armbar & kimura that were completely locked in. Giving Dan Hardy a much tougher reputation and starting a conversation about Georges not getting finishes in his fights anymore. Georges would then fight #2 ranked Josh Koscheck who had rebranded himself from a wrestler to a striker with knockout power. This fight is well known but not very exciting. Georges jabs him in the face for 5 rounds, Koscheck has no answer whatsoever and his eye looks awful by the end of the fight, the two guys just on different levels at this point of their careers
Arguably the toughest test in Georges career would come at UFC 129 against Jake Shields. Giving us one of the all-time UFC promos even if it does come across as so cheesy/dated now. Jake Shields is an all-time welterweight. He had been hanging around on p4p lists for a while but now strikeforce was bought by the UFC and the 15 win streak, #8 p4p fighter & former strikeforce middleweight champion was going to fight GSP. Extremely boring fight where Georges won 48-47, 48-47 & 50-45. Weird fight, it wasn't really close despite two judges only making it a single round difference, lots of eye raking from Shields which people would then blame for Georges' lack of action. People just cared that Georges won, then this fight was basically thrown away from peoples memories and I can't say I blame them
Georges would now tear his ACL and take him out of commission. This was back when interim titles were rare and really did hold value, far from todays. In his absence the former strikeforce welterweight champion and 11 fight win streak Nick Diaz (who had just pieced up BJ Penn) was going to fight former WEC champion Carlos Condit who was 13-1 in his last 14. This fight would be very close and Carlos Condit was given the victory unanimously by the judges. Georges would come back over a year away from fighting to unify the belts with the #10 p4p fighter Carlos Condit. He'd win the fight with not much significance happening outside of the third round where Condit landed a great head kick and dropped Georges. GSP would cover up and regain composure before taking control of the fight again. He'd later credit learning from his mistakes of trying to hurt Serra as soon as Serra hurt him as the reason he didn't lose to Condit here
DIAZ 1 2 5 cough excuse me. Because the interim title fight was very close and because Nick Diaz was an extremely popular fan favourite (his little brother could only dream about having that many fans amirite?) Nick was given a title shot coming off a loss(I believe this was the first time this happened in the UFC and it was very controversial at the time to say the least). This fight was not competitive and Diaz lost every round handedly being unable to stop a takedown to save his life and Georges was pretty well known for not letting anyone get back to their feet
Late in 2013 after a few talks about retirement Georges would fight the hottest prospect in the division. #10 p4p ranked Johny "Bigg Rigg" Hendricks. Hendricks had just beaten Carlos Condit in a fantastic title eliminator. A good chunk of fans thought Condit should've won but no media had it for him and while he did damage, it's always hard to win a round off your back. Hendricks had gained notoriety prior to this flatlined Jon Fitch who was coming off a draw with other p4p fighter BJ Penn (Dana hated the fight and ignored the title eliminator part ,think Jan vs Magomed for the heavyweight belt earlier this year). Anyways fans were skeptical of Johny after he had a very close fights with Koscheck & Condit who Georges had previously disposed with relative ease, others thought he was a great wrestler with power who could end Georges reign. This was a very hyped title fight. The fight can be broken down like this. Georges wins rounds 3 & 5 clearly. Hendricks beats the shit out of Georges rounds 2 & 4. The first round was very close, but it should've been Hendricks'. I know now fans always talk about how it could've been Georges but almost no media scored it for him live and watch that first round and tell me how Georges wins it despite it being a close round where Hendricks gets a takedown as the difference maker. Georges wins a bad decision. I don't like saying robbery because it was 48-47 no matter what and a one round difference fight shouldn't be called a robbery. But it's the wrong decision still and this should've been Georges final loss and first decision loss. Either way in the cage Georges would say he's taking time off, not committing to a retirement but kind of announcing he's retiring at the same time. Dana White was furious and more red than the ripest tomato because of this
But now we don't care, it's 4 years later and Bisping had upset Luke Rockhold in a rematch no one thought he'd win. Bisping has a mediocre (at best) defence against long time rival Dan Henderson to avenge his horrific KO loss at UFC 100 and then out of retirement came Georges St-Pierre. Finally moving up to challenge the middleweight champion just like people had been asking for years. Well not just like that since he was fighting a one eyed guy even older than him but whatever. Georges looked like he hadn't been out of fighting for 4 years as he took the first, arguably two first rounds, and then tagged the #8 p4p Bisping in the third dropping him and getting on top for a RNC. Getting his first real finish in almost a decade and putting an excellent cap on his career
I know it's a lot of reading but hopefully someone out there learns something new about an all-time athlete in the sport who won 10/11 of his fights against fellow pound for pound top ranked fighters
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Starting at the beginning of his career we'll pass over known names like Ivan Menjivar & Jay Hieron because they hadn't established their careers yet. But still worth noting Georges' first professional fight was against someone who would be competing in the UFC still over a decade later
Georges would begin his UFC career two years after debuting in MMA and debuted against the #12 ranked welterweight in the world Karo Parisyan. Shortly after the decision win and a quick finish of earlier mentioned Hieron, he'd be matched up with the #4 p4p fighter in the world and reigning UFC welterweight champion Matt Hughes and the fight was competitive but Hughes sunk an armbar in with just a second left in the first round and handed Georges his first loss in his career
Georges' UFC career would restart with three straight wins over the #9 ranked Jason Miller, #6 ranked Frank Trigg & # 5 ranked Sean Sherk. After the Sherk win at UFC 56 he dropped to his knees and begged for a title shot rematch with Hughes. This was unsuccessful and instead Georges would be given an extremely tough test to fight the ranked #6 p4p & #2 welterweight in the world, BJ Penn. This would end up being a very close fight that could've had a winner decided by a coin flip. The judges leaned towards GSP via split decision and he would go forward to rematch Matt Hughes
The Matt Hughes rematch would be very different from their fight two years earlier. Georges looked in control and eventually caught him with a clean landing head kick. Georges was now officially a UFC Champion, just like he wanted. His first defence would come against the winner of "The Ultimate Fighter 4: The Comeback". A tournament of rejected welterweight & middleweight UFC fighters with the winners being given instant title shots. Anderson Silva had already destroyed the middleweight winner Travis Lutter a few months before and no one had any expectations for the welterweight winner, Matt Serra. Luckily for Matt Serra none of that matters in the cage. Quickly in the first round Matt Serra tags Georges St-Pierre and rocks him. Georges tries to fight back even harder and gets TKO'd and humbled quickly. #23 ranked welterweight Matt Serra is now the first person to TKO GSP and gives him the last official loss of his career in what is considered by most to still be the biggest upset in MMA history
GSP gets thrown against TuF 1 alumni & #3 ranked welterweight Josh Koscheck a few months later to bounce back. He out wrestles the wrestler to the surprise of many and completely controls the fight. Matt Serra & Matt Hughes were having a Matt-off for the ultimate fighter and supposed to fight for the championship at the end of the season. However Serra hurts his back and Georges gets to step in for a trilogy fight against #2 ranked Matt Hughes for an interim belt. The third fight is definitive with Georges coming out on top after showing Matt Hughes the armbar he'd caught him with a few years earlier
Georges now gets to fight to avenge his loss against #9 p4p champion Matt Serra. This fight goes along the way most were expecting the first to. Georges controls the fight and knees a balled up Serra for the finish and regains his belt. Now kicking off a legendary run in the UFC
Jon Fitch is one of all-time the best fighters to never hold a championship. He was ranked #14 p4p at the time of his title challenge but would later be a staple on p4p lists going as high #5 and hanging there for years. Hated by Dana White for his boring style he'd be very controversially cut about half a decade later despite being a top talent. But well before that he'd have a fight with Georges St-Pierre. The night of UFC 87 Georges would beat him handedly scoring 50-43 or 50-44 on all the judges scorecards. The unstoppable fighter people thought Georges was gonna be before the Serra loss had come back and was here to stay
One of the biggest super fights of all time would come next. BJ Penn had gone back to lightweight after his welterweight campaign and looked incredible. And in the middle of stacking up three consecutive lightweight championship defences (a record that still hasn't been broken) he'd get to rematch Georges St-Pierre. A fight that was a coin flip before was now a beat down. Georges beat the brakes off the #7 p4p fighter in the world and BJ Penn wouldn't answer the call to the 5th round earing Georges a definitive victory over BJ Penn to really put him in with the other elite p4p fighters that no one argued against. SIKE! Between the 1st and 2nd rounds Georges had a cornerman rubbing vaseline on him but not just his face. While doing breathing exercises the cornerman started to rub his chest and back. This would become known as "grease gate". BJ Penn was furious and tried to get the fight overturned but failed. This also led to cornermen no longer working with cuts and instead we'd get third party cut men
Next Georges would have a fight against the top welterweight contender & #8 p4p Thiago Alves. After a highlight KO of Matt Hughes a year earlier Alves was given a top contender fight against Koscheck, the winner would wait for the winner of Penn/St-Pierre. This fight took place at UFC 100, watched by the most eyes ever at that point. Georges dominated the fight but no one would be talking about that because Hendo murdered Bisping that night and Brock Lesnar avenged his Mir loss. Despite this Alves would remain on p4p lists for almost a year until he'd get dominated again by Jon Fitch, I don't know why I can't remember people being that high on Alves for so long
Next Georges would have some of his "safest" fights in his career. A title defence against #5 ranked Dan Hardy, the first title fight a British fighter would ever get, who was being seriously overlooked. And the fight went as many expected, Georges absolutely dominated him again earing a 50-43 scorecard. What was taken away from this though was Dan Hardy surviving both an armbar & kimura that were completely locked in. Giving Dan Hardy a much tougher reputation and starting a conversation about Georges not getting finishes in his fights anymore. Georges would then fight #2 ranked Josh Koscheck who had rebranded himself from a wrestler to a striker with knockout power. This fight is well known but not very exciting. Georges jabs him in the face for 5 rounds, Koscheck has no answer whatsoever and his eye looks awful by the end of the fight, the two guys just on different levels at this point of their careers
Arguably the toughest test in Georges career would come at UFC 129 against Jake Shields. Giving us one of the all-time UFC promos even if it does come across as so cheesy/dated now. Jake Shields is an all-time welterweight. He had been hanging around on p4p lists for a while but now strikeforce was bought by the UFC and the 15 win streak, #8 p4p fighter & former strikeforce middleweight champion was going to fight GSP. Extremely boring fight where Georges won 48-47, 48-47 & 50-45. Weird fight, it wasn't really close despite two judges only making it a single round difference, lots of eye raking from Shields which people would then blame for Georges' lack of action. People just cared that Georges won, then this fight was basically thrown away from peoples memories and I can't say I blame them
Georges would now tear his ACL and take him out of commission. This was back when interim titles were rare and really did hold value, far from todays. In his absence the former strikeforce welterweight champion and 11 fight win streak Nick Diaz (who had just pieced up BJ Penn) was going to fight former WEC champion Carlos Condit who was 13-1 in his last 14. This fight would be very close and Carlos Condit was given the victory unanimously by the judges. Georges would come back over a year away from fighting to unify the belts with the #10 p4p fighter Carlos Condit. He'd win the fight with not much significance happening outside of the third round where Condit landed a great head kick and dropped Georges. GSP would cover up and regain composure before taking control of the fight again. He'd later credit learning from his mistakes of trying to hurt Serra as soon as Serra hurt him as the reason he didn't lose to Condit here
DIAZ 1 2 5 cough excuse me. Because the interim title fight was very close and because Nick Diaz was an extremely popular fan favourite (his little brother could only dream about having that many fans amirite?) Nick was given a title shot coming off a loss
Late in 2013 after a few talks about retirement Georges would fight the hottest prospect in the division. #10 p4p ranked Johny "Bigg Rigg" Hendricks. Hendricks had just beaten Carlos Condit in a fantastic title eliminator. A good chunk of fans thought Condit should've won but no media had it for him and while he did damage, it's always hard to win a round off your back. Hendricks had gained notoriety prior to this flatlined Jon Fitch who was coming off a draw with other p4p fighter BJ Penn (Dana hated the fight and ignored the title eliminator part ,think Jan vs Magomed for the heavyweight belt earlier this year). Anyways fans were skeptical of Johny after he had a very close fights with Koscheck & Condit who Georges had previously disposed with relative ease, others thought he was a great wrestler with power who could end Georges reign. This was a very hyped title fight. The fight can be broken down like this. Georges wins rounds 3 & 5 clearly. Hendricks beats the shit out of Georges rounds 2 & 4. The first round was very close, but it should've been Hendricks'. I know now fans always talk about how it could've been Georges but almost no media scored it for him live and watch that first round and tell me how Georges wins it despite it being a close round where Hendricks gets a takedown as the difference maker. Georges wins a bad decision. I don't like saying robbery because it was 48-47 no matter what and a one round difference fight shouldn't be called a robbery. But it's the wrong decision still and this should've been Georges final loss and first decision loss. Either way in the cage Georges would say he's taking time off, not committing to a retirement but kind of announcing he's retiring at the same time. Dana White was furious and more red than the ripest tomato because of this
But now we don't care, it's 4 years later and Bisping had upset Luke Rockhold in a rematch no one thought he'd win. Bisping has a mediocre (at best) defence against long time rival Dan Henderson to avenge his horrific KO loss at UFC 100 and then out of retirement came Georges St-Pierre. Finally moving up to challenge the middleweight champion just like people had been asking for years. Well not just like that since he was fighting a one eyed guy even older than him but whatever. Georges looked like he hadn't been out of fighting for 4 years as he took the first, arguably two first rounds, and then tagged the #8 p4p Bisping in the third dropping him and getting on top for a RNC. Getting his first real finish in almost a decade and putting an excellent cap on his career
I know it's a lot of reading but hopefully someone out there learns something new about an all-time athlete in the sport who won 10/11 of his fights against fellow pound for pound top ranked fighters