3 hypertechnical machines playing the sport at a level no one else has even a dream of reaching, 2 teams being carried by a generational player, 2 pretty complete but over all hopelessly outclassed teams, and Switzerland playing the most dogshit haramball imaginable.

Thankfully the corpse of Tim Ream is still being trotted out onto the field to remind us that amidst all the hopes, all the dreams, all the signs that we were turning over a new leaf, that's still my goddamn USMNT.

Pretty excited for my USMNT official merch to arrive

A mere 353 days until the women's world cup.

Sliding in the needle that says "some of the best pure athletes in the cup, but without the development to really control the ball againt elite sides" A single tear drops down my eye. "That's my goddamn USMNT."

So apparently the solution to the "all cardio offense" is the "half a bunch of premier league midfielder defense."

THERE WE GO.

Dest got football tackled by De Cuyper there so of course it's a foul against the United States.

You know the USMNT is starting to make it in the big leagues, because high level UEFA teams are eurowhinging about how they have to play us at full strength.

Alright well good luck to the English fans leaving Azteca

Parkin' the lorry? Bit posh, innit?

FIFA employee: oh hey u guys are back early Memo Ochoa: Azteca's haunted FIFA employee: what? Ochoa: *loading a pistol and getting back on the pitch* Azteca's haunted

First half hydration break was apparently nothing but mezcal.

Oh yeah, we've got a coach brawl, we're *really* getting CONCACAFFed.

FRESHEN YUR DRINK GUVNAH

The Azteca at night. Where boys become men. Girls become men. Men become men. Women become men. Dogs become men. Cats become men. Monsters become men.

YES WELCOME TO CONCACAF AT NIGHT

Oh this is a proper Azteca crowd. The true CONCACAF experience.

Because it helps us win.

Counterpoint: no it won't.

Bolsanaro about to be sent to the hospital again.

UEFA in the streets, CONMEBOL in the sheets, that's my MNT coach right there.

Kurtaj committed serious cybercrimes and his testimony showed that his condition compelled him to commit more cybercrimes. People really don't seem to get that being mentally unfit for trial isn't a get out of jail free card, the alternative is institutionalization until fit to stand trial.

you know who else made a call to a higher power to reverse a penalty for us

Now this right here is some true blueskyism.

Pausa de Suspensión

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

Hard to describe the soundscape right now of living in D.C., but "trommelfeuer" is about close to capturing it.

Super great and cool that the moopsy posters managed to hound Chris Geidner, a fiercely pro-LGBT legal commentator, off the site.

Unironically I think a major edge the US has this year is that the knockout round is particularly LatAM heavy and we have a lot of experience walking onto the field packing heat.

Who needs self-respect when you have the warm light of CONMEBOL bullshit?

Great moments in U.S. History.

Is this going to be a disaster? Yes. Is it going to be a mess where everything just blends together into much, stripping a lot of the magic away? Probably. Is there a part of me that's still kinda stoked to get the trommelfeuer experience? Absolutely.

Peak Balkans: couple in their 40s where the man looks like he's 60 and the woman looks like she in her 30s and it turns out, between the two of them, it's the wife who uses words last uttered in an 1827 bar fight turned stabbing.

Eternally frustrating that a movie (and Chamberlain's relentless self-promotion) has resulted in what was basically a company skirmish overshadowing the much larger action on little round top.

Can’t sleep, went for it @phat7deuce.bsky.social

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He's a CONMEBOL ref with the most German name you'll ever hear, so..... we will lose on a technicality

NGL I had the feeling we were in for this storm of bullshit when I saw that it was a LatAm reffing crew.

Dr. Congo is in the building. The proscription: goals.

The challenge is that, even at higher margins on the sale itself, the market is far more saturated and audiences haven't grown at the same pace as ballooning dev costs and time.

I know we're supposed to reflexively defend gamedevs and all, but it's *really* hard not to at least be somewhat sympathetic towards Microsoft after their "give artists a lot of money and creative freedom to make art" approach resulted in the artists not producing anything.

Self dealing / cronyism is bad and hiring your friends over other vendors will probably get you fired unless they actually are the most competitive offering / your company clears the vendor choice.

Call it 1945 because Germany and Japan are out, and Italy couldn't even make it to the game.

BE GUAY DO CRIMES

if I were Germany, I would simply score four goals against Paraguay, like the United States men's national team

Be Guay do crimes.

I'm convinced that this is yet another example of people from conservative families internalizing right wing stereotypes about queerness and concluding that anybody who doesn't fit them exactly is doing being gay wrong.

Feeling for him right now