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The Sports Desk / Re: NRL / Origin
Last post by LP -
Money talks, and it also walks, the Roosters are / were overloaded with high priced talent, a few of them are leaving for greener pastures after the GF, a tad mercenary, and Knights were mostly working class other than perhaps Ponga who is the real deal.

I'm bit over the NRL Sydney centric focus, Knights are a NSW club too, but the broadcast commentary was still heavily biased towards the Roosters.

The Roosters are in situation a bit like the Swans were before they flew the coop for NSW, they are an old world club but with a relatively small supporter base, fading at the grass roots level, and remaining heavily reliant on a handful of big dollar benefactors.

News Ltd tried it's best to pump up the pre-game, they have flogged the Jai Arrow thing to the limit, sad for the lad I feel for him, it felt like they want to make him the NRL version of Daniher. But despite that the event was soulless, the performers looked to be just going through the motions, the sound system was ordinary and crowd just weren't engaged, it was all a bit too forced, probably a sign of the last minute arrangements. It won't be missed by performers that after the controversy a month or so back the NRL took a cheap shot at Tones and I by using the Dance Monkey track after the first score.
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The Sports Desk / Re: NRL / Origin
Last post by DJC -
I was hoping that the Knights would get up after that lunatic did a burnout into the crowd but it wasn’t to be.

It seems to have been a close game after the pre-match entertainment shemozzle.
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The Sports Desk / Re: NRL / Origin
Last post by PaulP -
I was watching the Knights player take that intercept pass, and for the first couple of seconds I thought, “why isn’t he bouncing the ball?”😔
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
Last post by LP -
The anthropomorphising that surrounds AI is such a joke, social media and media discussions about the morality of AI have already lost the debate and the plot the moment they started a discussion on morality.

An AI does not know the difference between morally right or wrong, between legal and illegal, there is no empathy, no pain, no guilt and no emotion.

AI is given a problem to solve, or a target to achieve, and intrinsically the AI contains no knowledge of how to go about it legally or morally, only a known Starting point and an end goal. Any apparent or perceived limits are externally supplied by those who create it, and even then the AI is a black box mystery to the creator.

If stealing your life savings or exposing your private information is part of the solution, AI won't be hesitating, won't have doubt, won't delay while waiting for a social clearance to proceed and won't feel bad or guilty about events later.

What privacy you cherish, the secrets you keep personal, the wealth you have built, is just a building block in the AI attempt to find a solution to the current problem whatever that problem might be.

An associate mentioned the other day, the big existential crisis AI is about to face is raising to funds to continue development, e-commerce and financial markets will be destroyed in the process of dining a solution, whole economies might suffer, so keep a little cash on hand because the one thing AI cannot do is physically reach into your pocket.
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The Sports Desk / Re: NRL / Origin
Last post by LP -
We can easily find ways to pot the AFL, but the V'landys bucket of crap is on full display with the NRL GF entertainment.

There are a few long standing issues that the NRL apparently conceal.

They burn bookings by overbooking and double booking, like an airline oversells seats, which leads to acts being bumped at the last minute leaving some out of pocket for lead up expenses. This seems to only happen to local acts, the ones who can least afford it.

Another allegation is an interesting one, and part of the NRL News Ltd foundation. When you watch an NRL game much of the crowd and game play noise is fake, it's piped in by the broadcast team, like a comedy laugh track. At the ground the cheering, the gasps from big hits, the actual sound of the collision itself, just isn't there. Now for the game it's not such a big deal, but allegedly the rumour goes after a couple of lack lustre events they took to doing the same for the entertainment, piping in fake crowd cheers and applause, making the broadcast look like the joint was jumping when it was in fact a mortuary of knuckle draggers who had no idea who was on stage. Now this largely went unnoticed by the fans and media, but the performers didn't take kindly to it at all, some of them took the position that the atmosphere was a deadset failure of the NRL to provide adequate resourcing, the NRL cheaped out. choosing to spend the cash on ads and not the event.

So this weekend we see acts denying the "leaks" that they are performing at the NRL GF, some of them in support of Tones and I who was basically announced as the headline act without so much as a discussion and certainly without a contract. Since that fallout, a swath of leaks (allegedly from NRL insiders) have occurred, one after the other all denied by the performers.

It seems the thing V'landys is good at is impersonating Trump!
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: The New Joke Thread
Last post by Lods -
“I would like to just acknowledge Lachie Neale, who we now know is going to the dark side,

Take a last look at Lachie because he’s going tomorrow to have some teeth removed and a bit more ink.”

Andrew Wellington Brisbane Chairman
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: The New Joke Thread
Last post by rocky -
My wife asked me to pass her the lip balm last night in bed, but I accidently gave her some super glue instead.

She’s still not talking to me