It has been for a very long time. Comm. Marcial has been a puppet to these 2 big companies that this league has been focusing on them only. Unbalanced trades, only SMC and MVP teams are the ones we are seeing competing with each other. Independent teams becoming farming teams of these 2 companies. Our commissioner has been a puppet for a very long time.

Negative publicity is still publicity yes, but we are starting the negative impact of it now. People aren't interested anymore in watching the game live, PH players playing outside PH because of how PBA is right now and there are some who are just opting to play in their respective places. In the future, we might see some players hanging their jersey in the PBA to play in the MPBL where there are more audiences.

For sure this will not be proven but it's pretty obvious already that they are manipulating the league. I'm also thinking, what if we will change the commissioner? Will something change to how PBA is right now?

Regarding the "School gives certificate but doesn't guarantee a job." part, it depends. There are some rare instances where people are picking a student by a company and then put him/her into a high standard school and then after graduation, they will hire the graduated student to their company. In that scenario, the job already is guaranteed but it is a rare scenario and I know some of the graduates where they don't have a job especially during pandemic.

Education never fails. It's just that, teachers are giving information and knowledge that will not shape the student in the future. I mean there are some schools who are teaching their students some knowledge but, in the end, they will not use these knowledges when they will apply for a job. We are living near the school, and I often see what these teachers are teaching and TBH, it's the basic ones that they don't need in the future. The current education curriculum in our school is already outdated and it must be updated to a point where a student increases its chance of getting a job after getting graduated. Well, it's their plan at first place that's why they added 2 school years in the Secondary level, but it failed miserably.

Utilizing skills really is the key in getting a job. Finding your passion and making it use it to earn money is a big thing after graduation. I know some people who really is knowledgeable, but they don't have the skills that will help them find a job and I've seen some of my classmates as well who aren't that intelligent but skillful and they are the ones who has a stable job right now.

Subukan talaga ng pasensya dahil isa rin ako sa mga nag-invest ng malaki sa Axie Infinity noong kataasan pa ng hype ng laro.

Hindi ko pa nakuha ung ROI ko hanggang ngayon pero hindi ako nasstress dahil sariling pera ko naman un at mga profits ko lang yun sa mga nauna kong investment. Mas nasstress sa ngayon ung mga umutang pa para lang makapag invest sa laro. May mga kakilala akong umutang pa para makabili ng team. May mga relatives rin akong nag-invest ng around 6-digits pero sa huli, pare-parehas ring nalugi.

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Iba iba tayo siguro ng perception tungkol sa axie. Para sa akin, mas stressful pa ung V2 dahil ung akala mong mananalo ka na tapos biglang mag-cricritical ung kalaban mo tapos un pa ang dahilan para matalo ka. Sa Origins kasi kung mejo matagal ka nang naglalaro, malalaman mo if mananalo ka or matatalo base sa kung ilang axies pa ang buhay, sa draw pile mo at sa dami ng cursed cards na rin. Naglalaro pa rin ako until now pampaubos lang ng oras at noong Season 0, nakapasok ako sa top 20,000 kaya nagkaroon kami ng funds pambili ng dog food .

I tried once and didn't do it again.
It was SAFEMOON where I put only $20 to buy it. At first it went pretty well and I'm having some good profits just by holding it but after few days, it went down and down until my initial money lost a huge percentage of it. In the end, my $20 initial capital at that time went to $3 and I will never, ever invest into low marketcap coins again.

Plans with them? When I invested, I have no plans but to sell it when it will pump because that's what investor's reason is that's why they are investing into low marketcap coins. They are hoping that one day, it will pump 10-20x then they will sell but this only happens a few times and you don't know which coins will pump. Investing in low marketcap coins is like gambling to me where there is a high chance that you will lose your money.

For me, I'd rather focus on the top 20 coins base on market cap but if you really want to invest into low marketcap coins then you can but don't expect too much because most of the time, you will lose money investing to these altcoins.

Well, it might be true, or it might be not because if you will look at the schedule of the Dragons, their first 4 games really are against those independent teams.

It's their league so they can do what they want to do because after all, we have a puppet commissioner. A puppet to these 2 big companies so he will follow what these 2 companies will say just to have advantage over the other team.

It will make sense for these top tier teams but for me as a watcher, it doesn't make any sense. I mean they can prepare but the other team can still prepare to them as well because for sure, they watched some of their games and know how to adjust to their playstyle. The thing is that Powell who is dominating the league offensively will not play against these 2 big companies, and this might the chemistry of the Dragons because he will only play in the first 4 games and that is against those independent teams.

Load management is the key I guess so that these guys will be less prone to injuries. They already gave it to Kawhi in his last season but unfortunately got injured against the Jazz.

Glass brothers sounds funny TBH but it's the truth. All 3 of them are injury prone. Well, let's just hope for the best to this team and if they will be healthy all throughout the eliminations and with the amount of good role players that they have right now, I'm guessing that the lowest that they can get is Western Conference Semi-Finals.

Don't worry, it happens with different coins as well.
People will predict a specific price to be reached by a particular coin because of it's popularity.

With regards to Terra Luna, I still remember that this coin was one of the most popular project and became a top 10 coin out of nowhere. The 20% annual profit really is attractive. Unfortunately because of arrogance of Do Kwon, hackers targeted their project and saw a loophole in their system that caused the project to fall miserably and let those who are holding Terra Luna tokens to lose massively.

I will make a prediction but not with this project. A project that made people lose most of their money investing into this. A project who until now is scamming people by creating another project again. A project who is still deceiving and attracting people to invest into their project where in fact, they already failed in their first one.

Aside from the KD-Simmons-Kyrie trio, the Kawhi-Wall-PG13 too is the trio that NBA fans want to watch and curious on how they will play with each other.

In Brooklyn, KD is a very good sniper no doubt to that. Kyrie is a good ball handler and a good shooter as well. Simmons is a pass first player and a very good defender so his offensive skills might not be needed like KD and Kyrie but it's good still to learn to shoot especially those threes .

In Clippers, Kawhi and PG is an all-around player. Both of them can shoot and defend. Wall on the other hand is a good ball handler as well. I'm more curious about how these 3 will fit to each other and help the team reach the first-ever NBA Finals if ever they will reach it.

The similarities between these 6 players is that, they are very prone to injuries like all of them got injured in the last 2-3 years.

If only the shot of Myles Powell didn't went in, people will see NorthPort differently after that game. I think that this game boosted the morale of other teams and they believe that if NorthPort can then so they are.
I remember the post here where the odds are heavily favoring Dragons to the point that the odds of both teams is 1.01 for the Dragons and around 12 for the NorthPort.

They just showed that the Dragons are still beatable and they really is even though they have a star-studded looking team. Unfortunately, Powell will only play the first 4 games and that 4 games are against those independent teams and Andrew Nicholson will play the rest of the games. I really want to see Powell playing against SMC and MVP teams but it looks like not it will happen.

On the other hand, it looks like Tolentino going to the NorthPort is really a good move because he and Bollick are the top scorers of team right now. If he will continue, Tolentino will be the one who help Bollick offensively and after a few years, SMC and MVP will try to get him "again". Ooops!! .

Competition? It isn't applicable in PBA anymore for the last 5-6 years or even more.
Look at the teams right now. It's only MVP and SMC that are battling for years. Look at the standings and you will see that the top 6 teams is composed of MVP and SMC. Do you think that competition still exists in the PBA? Hell no for a long time already.

Kinda disrespectful to see the odds yes but they based on how they dominated the Bossing, I think the Dragons will really get that odds. The guest team really is strong and there is no doubt on that just by looking on how the team dominated those PBA teams in their scrimmages.

As for competition, I don't see competition anymore in the PBA. I watched the games in the last 2 game days and you will see that the number of audiences watching is very few to the point that you might count them. It's because the competitiveness of the league is long gone already. You will not see any independent teams dominating the league but only MVP and SMC teams and because of this, there are some PBA fans that might opt to watch other leagues like MPBL because the competitiveness on that league is higher than the PBA therefore, it is more entertaining to watch.

I started my crypto journey September of 2017 and a few months after that, I already saw the 2018 bear market where all of the coins are free falling. Prices going down, investors slowly losing their money, newbies who invested at the peak are already panicking and I don't know but maybe there are some who feel depressed and regretted their own decisions.

As for me, I'm not mentally prepared when I was a newbie but luckily, I didn't invest at that time, and I focused on learning the basics. Newbies aren't ready mentally for sure but as the days pass by and they continue to learn, they will see how the market moves and how to be calm when people are already panicking etc.

I don't know if I'm mentally prepared already but now that we are in a bear market, I'm patient and calm enough to not make unnecessary decisions that might make me lose money. I'm just holding all of my coins and some of them are already staking but at the same time, I'm accumulating more coins for the incoming bull run.

Most of the users here might agree with this one but it depends on the situation.

This is based on my experience. I made a challenge to myself where I will borrow a specific amount of money to invest into Bitcoin. Of course, I have an income source so that I can still pay the debt. To cut the story short, I already paid the whole money that I borrowed including the interest and it turns out that I also got profit from the Bitcoins that I bought thru that money that I borrowed. Overall, I got some profits although it isn't that much but still profit is profit and it's a bit risky.

I don't know why people are very judgmental nowadays.
People are basing one's attitudes on their usernames and in my case where most of the time I'm playing online games, there are some players that I saw where they are basing other players' attitude on their IGN which is unacceptable. I said unacceptable because I didn't ever do this.

Usernames are only usernames for me, and it doesn't represent the true identity of the person who is using it. I've seen weirder more dangerous IGN's than you OP and I didn't try to judge them because I don't know them personally.

Just look at my username LogitechMouse. Can people judge me based on my username .

I'm sorry for spoiling the Wolves discussion but are users here aware that Ime Udoka has been suspended for the upcoming 2022-2023 NBA season. Just this time, they already given his sanction and that is to suspend him for the whole season.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/sports/celtics-coach-ime-udoka-suspended-2022-23-season-rcna49079

In case some don't know, Udoka had "an improper intimate and consensual relationship with a female member of the team staff."  that's why he got suspended and he apologized for it. I don't know if this is a big news but I'm pretty sure that the Celtics franchise is heavily affected by this one. He has been a very good coach in his first season, and he led the Celtics to NBA Finals. Their assistant coach, Joe Mazzulla will be their interim head coach. 

Any thoughts with this one? How will the Celtics be affected by this?

Their import is 6 foot 10 inches, and I don't know if he can defend that big alone so I guess Coach Leo will do the strategy that he already did against the TNT in the PH Cup.

I think he will play Robinson, Fajardo and Tautuaa more often. 2 of them will play at the same time if this Liu Chuanxing will play. Just basing on his stats in the first game, this big isn't their starting one and I guess he isn't that athletic but his presence in the paint will surely be a big factor.

June Mar alone can't stop him but with 2 guys and a good rotation, I think they can at least lessen his efficiency. With regards to Liu's defense, June Mar can shoot perimeter shots as well so I guess we will see JMF shooting more on the perimeter than in close range. Overall, it will be hard for SMB, but I think they can defeat the Dragons. Let's see in the future.

Satoshi really deserves the Nobel Prize for what he/she/they invented, and it is indeed the greatest invention of the 21st century.
The problem is who will receive the award? Craig Wright? Ohhh hell No!!! Just don't nominate Satoshi if Faketoshi-t will be the one to receives it if Satoshi will be the winner.

Identity over security.
If I were Satoshi, I'd rather keep myself anonymous rather than showing myself in public just to get the award. In the end, Satoshi will be popular because of Satoshi being anonymous the whole time.

Players will never get satisfied because they will "never" get satisfied.
People has a nature that whenever they received a reward, they will find ways to find more, and they don't see the satisfied with the rewards that they're getting.

It's not only in Play to Earn games but all games in general, fun and enjoyment while playing the game matters. There are problems both with the Play to Earn games themselves and the users themselves as well. Play to earn games focuses more on the rewards than the fun. You will see that most of the play to earn games are boring. I still remember Pegaxy where you can just click a few times and then you will just watch you Pega run and run until you win. I mean it's very boring, but people are only playing just because of the rewards. Surprisingly, the project is still developing until now and there has been some updates on it.

On the other hand, users are focusing more on the amount of money that they can get and if they see that they can't get money anymore, they will just quit. I mean people are playing for the rewards and not for the fun. Both the games and the users are focused more on the reward part more than the fun part that's why users are quitting. Overall, there is no 100% working formula right now with play to earn games and we've seen many games who are just doing a rug pull because they see that it isn't sustainable in the long term.

That's the consequence if you see yourself higher. His ego got higher even though he didn't play very well in the playoffs before the offer was made. He expected to be paid at least $100M because that's what his value is at that time. Now his decisions backfired him and possible that it will be his worst decision in his whole NBA career.

The good thing though is that the Lakers accepted him again but now instead of a 4-year $84M, they offered him 1 year $2.6M. Kinda funny TBH after him seeing himself as a player worth a hundred million and now they are offering him a veteran minimum contract. Of course, he has no choice now but to accept it because no team wants him anymore. Now he is back with the Lakers, maybe it's time for him to redeem himself after what happened to him these past few years. Let's just hope that he will be a good contributor to the team.

I'm an SMB fan for quite some time but in this conference, I wish that the Bay Dragons will win the championship.

I watched the first half and 3rd quarter of the first game between Bay Area and the Blackwater and the import of Dragons is really amazing. 41 points in only 29 minutes. Unfortunately, he will only play in their first few games because their original import will be back but he's amazing. Those handles and crossovers. For sure many players will dance with him, and we might see an ankle breaker in the next games.

Our PH players are like dwarves when they are near to their 7'5" player . He is the tallest player to ever played in the PBA and for sure, even the likes of Tautuaa, Almazan and even Fajardo will be having a hard time when he is in the paint.

So, you are saying that this person is a good candidate for Satoshi Nakamoto just because he is a good C++ Code and a Computer Scientist.
I'm good at C++, I also have some friends who is also a good C++ coder and I also know some people who are computer programmers. Can you include them in the candidates for Satoshi Nakamoto?

Enough of this thing and let's just forget who Satoshi Nakamoto is.

It will be the opposite that will happen.
Instead of buying Bitcoin getting harder down the road, it will be easier to buy it.

As Bitcoin becomes more popular, more and more crypto exchange platforms will be created and what is the first coin that they will accept? Bitcoin. When crypto becomes more popular, more platforms will try and accept cryptocurrency and what will be the first cryptocurrency that they will accept? Bitcoin. You are saying that Bitcoin will be harder to buy because of its price, isn't it?

Bitcoin's supply is finite but for sure, there will be Bitcoin holders that will continue to sell their holdings and there will be some who will buy it. I myself didn't have any problems buying Bitcoin or I didn't see it hard to buy because there are many platforms out there where you can buy it.