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IIRC his main competition that year, Embiid, lost a 3-way tie for 2nd seed and ended up as the 4th seed. The Nuggets had also beaten the Sixers late in the season off a hot 4th quarter from Bones Hyland.

There's a timeline where the Sixers got 2nd seed with a late win against the Nuggets and that's enough to get Embiid the MVP. Which was stopped by Bones Hyland lmao.

Wasn't it a point in the setup for TFA that Leia lost a lot of credibility in the New Republic because someone revealed publicly that Darth Vader was her father?

Ok but think of how many jobs they are stealing and how many crimes they are committing! /s

Seeing some other comments also mentioning that world is possibly punting doubles. In that case their only path to victory is winning all 3 singles, in which case it doesn't matter where Fritz is in the singles lineup.

DEMON WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT YOU CLUTCH GOD OMGGGGGG

Apparently Fritz told Tien before the postgame interview that the first point where the one on offense won the point was at 8-7.

According to the guy at the counter last month, it was around Halloween-Thanksgiving range.

I remember reading an interview with one of the higher ups that basically said they made truckloads of money off of merch associated with the movie. Star Wars is fortunate to be a franchise where the box office number is not the end all be all.

Rybakina pulled the genius strategy of losing the first set and Qinwen just had no answer for it.

His labor is the fruit of the teachers who educated him, the doctors of the healthcare system that kept him healthy, the transportation and agriculture system that kept him fed, the infrastructure that lets him broadcast video across the world in the first place... but ok he got his, no need to give a tip back.

Score board man gets paid.

Question, is Jodar's serve weakness that you mentioned based watching his serve mechanics or just this return statistic in reverse?

Philly just put together a squad too, would be par for the course for them to lose to Toronto in this timeline.

I always thought it was because Lebron wanted to be able to take a step back on primary playmaking duties, and he got baited by the offensive production Westbrook had on the Wizards.

It's a misinterpretation of the word "deal". Anakin had just said "either you are with me, or you are my enemy", so the interpretation of "deal" should be something like making an offer. Famous negotiator Obi-Wan is really saying something like "only a sith would give such a black and white offer" (whether this is actually true is up to debate), not "only Sith look at the world in absolute terms".

I think the main immediate difference is that Zuko would not be allowed to join Team Avatar, on account of Aang probably flipping out at him. Zuko would then not meet the dragons, and then likely not be able to challenge a sane Azula's claim to the throne in a duel. The war likely ends in a total gank from Team Avatar against Azula, Mai, Ty Lee, and the Dai Lee instead.

Worth noting the manner of the kill matters here.

If Zuko kills Ozai by redirecting his lightning, then Iroh ends up taking the blame for the assassination. After all, lightning redirection is not known to exist among the Fire Nation elite and Iroh was a known lightning bender who had just prison. So Zuko's claim to the throne would be clean. Whereas if Zuko cuts up Ozai before the sun comes back, then he would get the blame.

Either way, there is no "trusted" leader to succeed the Fire Nation, so it is more likely to essentially become a vassal state of the other nations, which would have loads more implications down the line.

Soooo, sticking to the batshit-ness of this series, we have to get the OG prince coming back as a zombie too, right?

There is a clear delineation of units pre and post-Fedel. Post Edelgard, virtually every banner headliner had some form of NFU or GFU (to get around Edelgard's deny double), some form of DR or guard (so you don't eat a full special fighter Bonfire), and and offensive effect like DR pierce or prepulsing your special (to put out more damage to kill Fedel). This had the side effect of making it more miserable to use units who came out pre-Fedel.

In my head the combatants were doing something akin to foil fencing. When a bit of contact with no momentum behind it is still enough to cause serious injury, I feel like thrusts would become more meta than styles that use cuts.

Yeah I agree that the cheeser would need very fast thumb speed.

In the intended sequence of events, I think clearing the parry, reignite, and hit are all in the same forward blade motion, so the cheeser's hit would arrive first and hit the defender around the upper arm or chest which neutralizes their blade wielding ability.

But in practice, during the moment where your blade was supposed to hit the opponent, you probably weren't fast enough to reignite your blade. So you end up dying between the clear parry + reignite step with a blade that was within lethal striking distance+angle. You'd probably need a second button on your saber that automatically does the off/on for you, which diverges a lot from the prompt at that point.

I think the ideal scenario of the turning off/on the blade move is that the attacker's blade is now on the inside while the one who was parrying has their blade on the outside, which is the advantageous position the parry was originally supposed to generate. If the attacker actually managed to get that position, then they would actually have the ability to then stop the defender's blade while attacking. However, as I stated before and I agree with you about, your timing would need to be absolutely incredible and lucky to pull off.

The parry riposte is actually the sort of combo this hypothetical move is trying to counter. The trajectory of the blade during a parry notably does not have the opponent inside it (otherwise there would be no need for a riposte) and involves a lateral movement that would be inconvenient to suddenly decelerate on your own (i.e. is intended to stop itself on an opponent's blade).

If the attackers blade is suddenly not there to engage your parry, there's a 99.9% chance the attacker is dead.

So this statement would be a little more nuanced. If the attacker's blade is not there, and you already started to parry, you are kinda fucked. But they would need to time it in the a split second between when you start to parry and when your blades would connect, which there probably is like a 99.9% chance they would whiff on.

Philly has a world cup game on July 4th this year. I don't think they have the bandwidth to try pulling something like this off at the same time lol.

Mostly that the Shanghai Masters (which he won) was brutally hot, I think there were days where it was over 100 F.

Honestly so sad Vacherot got the foot injury because I wanted to see him and his heat tolerance do some major damage.