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With the way this is going, I prolly am not gonna watch past today, and this event is probably not gonna be on my list of events to make time to watch in the future.

Wow. Looks like even Gorst is getting infected by the low standard of play amongst the "American" players. Hooks his teammate on the very first shot. Sigh.

Depends on what you mean by "weakness". From an evolutionary perspective, male humans have been the hunters for the vast majority of our evolutionary period, so it stands to reason that pattern recognition and spatial awareness would be better "in general" in males, as compared to females. As...

I went blind reading this, and I had to get a braille keyboard (I am a quick learner) and using a screen reading tool and keyboard from now on... You do realize that the majority of the forum is getting up there in age these days, yes? *EDIT* NVM... This is a superold post, and I went blind...

Some people get more of an adrenaline response when under pressure. This can be trained away, by practicing higher pressure shots until they stop becoming "high pressure", but you have to KNOW that is what you have to do to get past it. Adrenaline has a generally negative effect on fine muscle...

Well... Not everyone who is a pool player is a moron. Yes, we tend to have more than our fair share of morons, but that is not a "requirement" to play pool, per se.

Yes, because America is in end-stage capitalism, where the only thing that matters is squeezing the most amount of money out of everything, no matter the ill effect on the populace, whereas other countries have other priorities. One prime example of this is how the American food chain is...

I am not "defending" Germany. I am illustrating that whatever your logic was with the statement "In 2020, the US earned more GOLD medals than Germany earned TOTAL medals" was, it doesn't hold up. It doesn't mean USA is "better" at the Olympics than Germany. It just means that USA has a bigger...

For the record... USA versus Germany population is 337 million to 83 million. Approximately 4 to 1 population advantage, which if the medal wins were proportional, means USA should have 120 medals to Germany's 30. America's GDP per capita versus Germany's, is about 25% more, as well. When...

Okay. I reviewed the back and forth, and mentioned that it is "sad" that players are so focused on money in America, that they inevitably stall out "because" money is their sole focus, rather than being the very best player they can be, being their focus. If you wanna say that I was "bashing"...

Keep it up for a few more years, and yah just might hurt my feelings! Yah know... When I go senile, and forget my own name, lol.

And yet, it is true. You are free to debate the veracity of any individual point.

I am pretty sure in the other thread I was criticizing that viewpoint from the perspective of there "not being any money in it" for the people who would make pool tables available to the youth, i.e. pool halls. And criticizing the leagues for not doing anything effective to make pool available...

Me. Despite topping out around around 650 or so Fargo rate level play when I was younger, maybe a touch higher, I always played the game, for the game itself. I did not back down from a bet once offered, but I literally never offered a bet, it was always "offered" by the other player. When I...

And your game jumped exponentially, just after that time period. I am pretty sure you were well aware that neither of them stood even the slightest chance against you, and you would be absolutely robbing them. I'll eat my hat if you weren't at least 725 speed when you commentated on that stream...

I know easy-e personally, and if he says he heard you planning to cut up a backer, for me, that is pretty much set in stone. Combined with my first exposure to you being you criticizing two amateurs, and saying how much you'd like to play them for money (old TAR stream from Executive West DCC)...

I am sure that is a great comfort to the 1900s American Indians who actually starved to death. (Note the use of past-tense form of the verb "to starve".) Anything actually relevant to add?

Mike in this case, deserves every bit of it, for so gleefully dumping a backer. The internet never forgets.

And I say he's not even that much of a favorite at 10 ball, if either one of them took enough of an interest in practicing their 10 ball break heavily. For now, not much benefit to be had, until there are multiple well-paying 10 ball tournaments per year. The ONLY advantage he has over them...

He did. And I for one, applaud easy-e for reminding us that Mikey was one to cut up his backers. I don't give a crap if pool in America is a tough way to make a living. SVB doesn't have any such reputation, as he seems to be very aware of that being a good way to end one's career prematurely, as...