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Writer of Less Useful Things, Wrestling With Wrodger Wrestling, Poetic Collect and ____ ____. My day job is in marketing and advertising so I talk about that sometimes too. https://lessusefulthings.com/

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Nic @lessusefulthings.com · 9d

As promised, here's a new article: an updated look on my pre-season vibe check. What teams have shifted for better or worse? Let's discuss.

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On The 2025 NFL season: VIBE check UPDATE WEEK 5

As we head to Week 5 of the NFL, let’s take a look back at my preseason vibe check and see what times moved up and down.

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Nic @lessusefulthings.com · 9h

I am probably going to have to do more direct stuff to try and get this done but ultimately I have two separate things that are ready

Nic @lessusefulthings.com · 9h

Querying is perhaps the weirdest part of looking for agents, especially when I'm sort of swinging for the fences

Nic @lessusefulthings.com · 15h

She's 15? She's like 100 years old.

Nic @lessusefulthings.com · 17h

Also player execution is a result of coaching so if you're calling plays that they can't execute, it's because you haven't done your job on any level

Nic @lessusefulthings.com · 17h

For UNC players if any team even remotely has interest in you, I don't know why you wouldn't leave. this offseason.

Nic @lessusefulthings.com · 17h

The amount of people that are still just striving to be noticed on the internet and will say literally anything to make it happen is somehow still staggering to me

Nic @lessusefulthings.com · 18h

The Titans saw Schefter and said "hold my beer"

Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing.bsky.social · 18h

Adam Schefter at 12:53 p.m. - "For all I know, I'm gonna hang up here and someone's getting fired, but I don't see a head coach losing his job. I don't see Brian Callahan, obviously, has come under intense criticism; I don't see that happening soon."

1:50 p.m., Titan fire Brian Callahan. 🤷

Nic @lessusefulthings.com · 18h

A super perplexing hire when it happened, he basically continued to not put the team into position to win nearly his entire tenure.

Ian Rapoport @rapsheet.bsky.social · 19h

Sources: After a brutal start to the season, the Titans have fired coach Brian Callahan.

Nic @lessusefulthings.com · 19h

It could be a bit of coachspeak because you don't want your opponent to turn a slight around but ultimately, outside of his fluky few games for the Browns in 2023, he has not been good on either side of that stint. Even when Flacco was in his prime he wasn't nearly as good as Tomlin's saying.

Nic @lessusefulthings.com · 19h

If Flacco was so great, the Steelers could have signed him before they went after Rodgers, so on even a basic level it doesn't make a ton of sense.

Nic @lessusefulthings.com · 19h

I understand that in year 1 people were skeptical of the results. But he then replicated them in year 2.
At this point it's just who he is.

Sheil Kapadia @sheilkapadia.bsky.social · 19h

With guys like Baker Mayfield, we always credit scheme and environment and supporting cast.

But he’s on his third OC in as many years and was playing with WR5 and WR6 Sunday and delivered a 92nd percentile performance based on EPA per play.

Maybe he just deserves the credit?

Nic @lessusefulthings.com · 19h

As anticipated, so far Travis Hunter is just an ok player. Putting him on both side of the ball is just not doing anything. He's barely getting offensive yards, even when he is getting touches and he's barely doing anything on defense. The ability to play both ways doesn't mean you should.

Nic @lessusefulthings.com · 1d

I would imagine he does not.

Nic @lessusefulthings.com · 1d

Basically, if you went back to 1985 or 1986 and looked up how China was discussed, that's essentially the amount of knowledge he seems to have towards that country. Most of it, as with nearly everything he states, was never accurate.

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Nic @lessusefulthings.com · 1d

His highest grossing film was Suicide Squad, which was pre-bubble burst and he was in for what like 6 minutes total? They cut every scene with him.

Nic @lessusefulthings.com · 1d

There were multiple factors that lead to this but Jared Leto being prominently featured has never once worked in a movie's favor. Even if you ignore everything else about Leto's personal life, he just isn't a successful leading man.

IGN @ign.com · 1d

Tron: Ares disappoints with opening weekend box office below even Jared Leto's Spider-Man universe flop Morbius. https://bit.ly/43d7wxV

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Nic @lessusefulthings.com · 1d

I feel like I remember combos Pizza being coveted and then everything else had a pizza version but also they weren't nearly as good. What a weirdly specific flavor to gain such popularity.

Nic @lessusefulthings.com · 1d

A custom made box set up like a briefcase is wild.

Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 1d

hmmm do I open the mystery outdoor briefcase

a wooden briefcase on the verge outside of a house in a suburban neighbourhood

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Pixels and Polygons 🔜 PRGE @pixelsandpolygons.net · 2d

New book alert! 32 Bit Library Greatest Hits!

Featuring contributions from @hg101.bsky.social, @pizzadinosaur.fineti.me, @elmore.zone, @drubie.bsky.social, @buttlordprimus.bsky.social, @tftblpod.bsky.social. Plus essays from @glitch.mov, @aguaspoints.bsky.social, @marcnormandin.bsky.social & more!

32 BIt Library Greatest Hits Volume 1

Chronologically rediscover 50 of the best-selling titles released on the original PlayStation. A 6" x 9" release.

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 2d

GUESS WHO'S BACK

BACK AGAIN

DOC'S BACK

TELL A FRIEND

That's right. It's time for part 3 of the FPS series; this time, a lot of assorted thoughts on what makes for good enemy design. This one was fun as hell to write.

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building a better first person shooter part 3: enemy mine

So! First, we talked about a specific subgenre of first person shooter, loosely starting with Unreal and Half-Life and dying off around…

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Nic @lessusefulthings.com · 1d

I'm not going to discuss all of this publicly. At least not yet. I'm ready to push the chips all in.

Nic @lessusefulthings.com · 1d

My life collapsed in on itself over the past two years. In that experience I began to really think about my writing differently than I have in years. I had beaten myself down for no reason. It's not even a fear of rejection, it's a fear of my own capability. If I didn't try I couldn't be shut down.

Nic @lessusefulthings.com · 1d

I'm working on some new stuff that is truly designed to be sold. And it's in gear 4. I have a plan but it's legitimately one of best complete packages i have ever written.

Nic @lessusefulthings.com · 1d

I have in my life absolutely self sabotaged getting into 3/4. I am doing this for free right now and that was always one of the many stopping points. No one is paying me for any of it. I just sort of write into the ether. That's going to change soon.

Nic @lessusefulthings.com · 1d

Gear 4 is one I have worked really hard to foster. I believe in what I'm writing, I have to write it and I can't stop thinking about it until I do. I see everything, like I'm pulling it all out of the air. I see it in front of me like I'm watching a movie and just copying down what I see