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  1. Just now, Thetexashammer said:

    Applebee's ain't the greatest restaurant in the world but if my waiter acted like you I'd fucking slap them upside their head.

    If you came into dick's last resort and told the waiter they were being a dick and mean to you and that you needed to speak to the manager, then the manager came out and explained to you that it's a theme restaurant that the entire premise is that the server's are dicks to you and that's kinda the fun of hte restaurant and then you told them "WELL BY GOLLY I WONT BE COMING BACK AND IF YOU WERE MORE LIKE THE APPLEBEES WAITERS YOUD HAVE 50% MORE CUSTOMERS" that's you, right now. 

  2. Just now, Thetexashammer said:

    Even if you are correct, this is totally unprofessional.

    You think this is a professional website? I didn't know this was the bastion of professionalism. My bad, I thought this was a website on the internet that has the tagline:

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    I must have gotten lost on my way to business insider or something. 

     

  3. 1 minute ago, Thetexashammer said:

    I'm tapping out bro. You are a nightmare. You know some human beings are pleasant to deal with and can hold a conversation without being offensive. You are not that. 

     

    I think if you understood your customer acquisition model you would have said it. I think if you had a rational basis for excluding 50% of your potential customers, you would have said it.

    You come in here with hot takes claiming I don't know my own business model, I explain to you the exact business model and you don't even refute it. You just continue to triple down on some premise that is actually a figment of your imagination. 

    Our customer acquisition model isn't to get everyone on the internet to come here and post. If you read this thread at all you would realize that there is a balance on who the community wants here and it's not the shitposters from twitter and it's not the mindless drone content consumers from Instagram and tiktok. 

    You know what we need more of? Young people who are ~22-28. You didn't read this thread though, because you don't care about _actually_ being right or presenting fact based evidence showing that we are "excluding 50% of our potential donor base to burnt ends". Instead you come in here acting like a persecuted member of society when in reality you are just a completely deranged person who is living in a fake bubble lala land of your own creation.

  4. Here's a spoiler alert for you. People like this site because we have no corporate overlords and we don't give a shit what the institution thinks about what our users say. Our brand has always been irreverence to the established "proper fandom" experience. This is a place for people who love hard and hate hard, with opinions they feel strongly about and are willing to spend time thinking through why they formulated those opinions. 

    We don't sunshine pump, we don't set an agenda, we let the community self moderate and go where it needs to go without outside intervention from anyone else. 

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  5. Just now, Thetexashammer said:

    I've already described the value proposition that this website offers. Well, it did in the past. Your understanding of that value proposition is different it appears.

    I think you have no idea what you are talking about and it's extremely evident.

    You think the market for message boards is growing, like you honestly believe that? 

    You think that there are MORE fans now than there were in 2004-2009? That's a serious question, you think people are more engaged with Longhorn sports and football specifically than 20 years ago? 

    You think people want to come here and talk politics and news? Like that's what you think this site is?

    Weren't you the one who said that football board isn't even busy and is dead during the season when there's no way to actually slice the data that paints a picture of that? Nothing, not access patterns, not a single metric. You think that football, recruiting and talk around that is not the driving force behind this website? You think it's "Texas news and current events"?

    You think our food board is just so legendary that people come from all over the internet to read our threads?

     

  6. 2 minutes ago, Thetexashammer said:

    It's half or more of the potential market for users. This isn't hard.

    revenue is up not down. Ads were down because of a depressed market and apparently I was serving blank impressions to logged in users for the better part of 5 months. Oops. 

    NIL program specific revenue is down and I’ve answered that pretty clearly. If you don’t want to pay players because of some shit that happens in cloak room on this website then whatever. I don’t make any money off it. I lose 3.5% because I gross up the payment processing fees. 

    half of the potential market for surly is not turned off/away/leaving/gone/whatever the fuck it is you are insinuating because of cloak room and the general discussion which is similar everywhere, not just on surly. 

  7. there was one really consistent piece of feedback I got yesterday. A LOT of people like OTF because it's SUPER inclusive and there is no sidebar bullshit or drama between the posters. They are there to be fans and get info and interact with the OTF team, not to talk shit or disagree with each other on hot takes. I think by and large they represent the majority of the fanbase, want to stay current, love the horns, but don't necessarily have many of their own opinions - reflects the gen pop well. 

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  8. Just now, BornAndRaised said:

    Probably because his target audience is notoriously hard of hearing. Its recorded media so he has to compensate for their lack of "HUH? Whats that sonny?"

    I was surprised at the age range of listeners who came out yesterday to the HH, of course some were old, but plenty non-olds. Bobby has a gift to talk to people who may absorb information slower or not have the ability to connect the dots on stuff so to speak. 

    broadcast bobby and hang out and shoot the shit bobby are two different styles of communication, much like any top tier broadcaster.

     

  9. 3 minutes ago, thunderlounge said:

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    If you’re playing with css, a kick up on the z-index for the bottom quick nav might be warranted. 
     

    Note in the image that the post box covers it up.

     

    always a thing or just today? what is that aspect ratio? what device?

  10. yeah I'm doing some stuff it's just regenerating the cache 60s tops out of whack. refresh and you should be fine. 

    in particular I've finally become fed up enough with the bottom alert not being readable on the second line that I'm trying to hunt it down and correct it with some custom css

  11. 3 minutes ago, C-Man said:

    Because a large swath of the GOP, for certain the MAGA part of it, is dis-ingenous at best and rotten-to-the-core evil at worst and would rather lead a shitty, autocratic/fascist/dictatorial nation than partner or (gasp!) support the greatest democracy the world has ever seen. Threads like these are the little fuck-fuck games they play to achieve those goals.

    Has Joe Biden lost his fastball? 100%. Are things going pretty well for US, all things considered? Absolutely. Whoever you want to say is leading the US at the moment seems to be doing a pretty fucking good job, again all things considered. But no, let's consider electing a brainworm-infected conspiracy theorist whose own family has publicly disavowed him politically (at least) or perhaps a 90+ times indicted, rape convicted, national security risk, potential Putin kompromat, diarrhea-of-the-mouth flim-flam man instead.

    These SHOULD NOT BE LEGITIMATE OPTIONS in this day and age in this country. Period. End of story. Biden might not the best person we could get to be POTUS but he's damn sure better than these other two complete pieces of shit who are going to be on the ballot. One last thing. I can say with complete certainty that should Biden prevail this fall, he will voluntarily vacate the White House in 2029. I can't say the same for the other major party candidate. That should be the ONLY thing that matters right now.

    Yeah but why is this a thread and not in the Joe Biden or presidential election thread. 

  12. 44 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

    Buddy from school is an engineer focused on green energy. Has his Masters from LBJ/ILAS. Smart dude in school. Wife was tired of him traveling, convinced him to go work at the Tesla plant. So he applies, they tell him he is in, he quits. Gets a call saying well we are not sure when you will be onboarding. So he is properly fucked. Sick kid, no insurance, and no income.

     

    Why would you quit your job without a start date for a new job unless you didn’t need the money? 

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  13. Just now, fattyflattie said:

    This is heavily contested. 

    he's old as fuck and has nowhere near the cognitive function of even 4 years ago. This isn't hard. 

    I wasn't saying this thread was threadworthy, quite the opposite, why is this it's own thread? You can post in the joe biden thread and argue about it there. WTF is this thread.

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  14. Just now, sheeeit said:

    When you come into an argument and mis represent what the other sides argument is and then use the wrong clip to further your argument and then go full retard about someone that wasnt even the subject of the argument then the kindest thing anyone can do for you is offer faux disdain.

    what exactly did you start this thread for?

    Joe Biden has mush for brains, noted. 

    Anything else in particular here of note?

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  15. well fuck me. When we switched ad providers I left the placeholder for where the ads would go, but wasn't calling the loader script for anyone logged in. This helps on some of the ad revenue dropoff explanation. Fixed today, also you may see a floating video player that shouldn't be too intrusive, that is going to start playing OTF and Surly Horns Podcast content + a mix of some other Texas stuff.

  16. 19 minutes ago, Nigel Tufnel said:

    Little Nigel just finished the recruiting process.  It was actually like I expected but even more so.  As he got older and his teammates/opponents were recruited, I realized how little any of the coaches knew about the player, history, tendencies, etc.  It hammered home why it is basically a 50/50 proposition in recruiting.  The coaches can only know so much.  It is interesting to see coaches recruit kids and see how superficial it almost has to be.  More than a few times I was scratching my head as to why they were looking at certain kids.  But I don't bat 1.000 either.

    It was certainly fun, but it got tiresome really quickly.  That, and coming out of conversations with coaches thinking, "I am doing life wrong."  It is mind boggling that some of them make the money they do.  But I guess it's like that with most things.  One thing I can say with certainty, the $9.95ers don't know anything unless the player has told the coach and they share that with the $9.95er.  It is all guessing.  They have no idea.  Most of the time the player doesn't know yet, and the family certainly doesn't know, but they are reading things about where the player is leaning.  Comical.

    The guys who don’t have relationships with the individual recruits are all just pure speculating. They are guessing on the lean off gut, but they know the interest in most cases which is good enough. 

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