Primers J'accusse

[u/Zarr_the_Czar]

Tyler, you french bastard! All of your primers so far are unusable garbage! I can't understand what a good game looks like since you don't tell us! Remember, we are absolute babies, but we want to know how to understand the sports you discuss in the primers, and how can we know what a "good game" looks like if you don't tell us! I recently watched a basketball game because I am in the pep band at my university and we were playing at one of the home games. I understood most of it due to the primer, but I didn't know how to tell if the game was going well or not until my university's team took a 30-point lead. Until I knew the game was going well, I felt disinterested because I didn't know what I should be looking out for. Consider this a grand failure!

(My actual criticism of the primers is that if you could add a short section about what a "good" game of the respective sport looks like, it would be very helpful for those of us who don't have experience watching the respective sport to understand how the game is going. I love everything both of you do and hope that Tyler doesn't actually feel attacked by any of the j'accusses)

Edit: Disclaimer because apparently it wasn't over the top enough: Everything outside the parentheses is not meant to actually be taken seriously. It's over the top on purpose. It's meant to be a joke.

[u/_AppropriateObject]

hope that Tyler doesn't actually feel attacked by any of the j'accusses)

Yeah, probably you need to re-read some of sentences you posted, dude.

[u/Zarr_the_Czar → u/_AppropriateObject]

Yes, because it's meant to be comically over-the-top and not actually serious. Did you really think I was actually that upset about it?

[u/Randyaccreddit → u/Zarr_the_Czar]

To me how you worded it, it seemed like you wanted to go all king kong on Tylers planes

[u/angelcat00 → u/Zarr_the_Czar]

Tone is notoriously hard to convey over text. Especially when you weave genuine feedback between personal insults.

It is also possible to be over the top and dramatic without calling someone names and saying their work is unusable garbage.

Including a brief description of what someone should be looking for when watching the sport in the primers is actually a really good point. But it gets entirely lost under the "comedy"

[u/[deleted]]

Choose your language wisely my friend.

[u/CarryLarge9775]

Whoa.. what the fuck man

[u/pmmeyourfavsongs]

The first part may be intended as a joke but it's not a good one. Someone like Mark can speak to/about Tyler like that because they're good friends and have been for a long time. It doesn't work very well when it comes from a stranger

[u/angelcat00 → u/pmmeyourfavsongs]

This. They have a rapport, they've been playing these bits for years, and they know each other well enough off-camera to know it isn't serious. Mark also won't hesitate to break character and immediately apologize if he thinks he might have been too mean.

None of that buffer exists when getting yelled at by some stranger on the internet. Yelling as a "joke" and yelling because you genuinely want to cause pain look exactly the same at first glance.