2010 World Cup discussion

[Darlantan]

Spanish economy is really shitty atm, that sure explains a lot

[Psymia]

FUCK

[Baleoce]

1-0 chile

[EagleCeres]

And there went the Chilean bank accounts

[Meian]

Chileeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee I hope that guy faking his injury is pissed XD

[Mugekuge]

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL, finally.

[Ohemgee]

WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW YOU SWISS BASTARDS

[Psymia]

;_;

(in the slowmotion replay you can see that is was offsite >_<)

/sigh after the red card already the second unjustified decision again us...

[Zoolander]

wow what the fuck dude, how did the swiss dude miss that shot...what a joke. Chile missing some opportunities too but at least they are up. Just dont understand how you can miss an open goal like that as a professional...I mean fuck the guys in my intramural league dont even do that lol.

Edit: and oh shit haha, yellow card for diving! Love it.

[Psymia]

Too bad ^^"

[Baleoce]

The Beers in your sig are making me thirsty. And yeah that miss from what was basically the penalty spot, was just sad.. damn nice backheel to set him up tho, was pimp XD

[Psymia]

Awww... Now i have to drink....
Really drink !
I hope i can get up tomorrow to work >_<

[Siniroth]

lols not sure how that chilean thought that was a genuine goal xD 3 of them offside lol, would have blown the whistle if it had gone to any of them

Did not watch the game, but did someone score while 3 of his own team mates were offside? I thought offside could only be called if a pass was made, but if you shot at the goal then you could have your whole team lined up on the other goal line for all it mattered

Edit: I guess it would have mattered as to what they were doing...

Spoiler: show

A player in an offside position is only penalised if, at the moment the
ball touches or is played by one of his team, he is, in the opinion of
the referee, involved in active play by:
• interfering with play or
• interfering with an opponent or
• gaining an advantage by being in that position

[Baleoce]

Nah the pass was made from a player to one of the forwards. At the time of the pass 3 of the chilean players were in an offside position (ie. being in-front <closer to the goal> than the last defender). However in the offside rule there is being "inactive" and "active". Being "active" basically means that your presence becomes influential in the context of play. "Inactive" means that you were in an offside position, but the linesman/ref didn't bother with it, because you werent affecting any of the play or having any influence on the attack. As soon as you become "active" offside and the ball is passed to you, the ref blows the whistle.

In this scenario, there was 3 forwards all in an offside position when the ball was passed. However, only 1 of them was active as the ball went to them. The other 2 were considered inactive. But if the ball had made it to *any* of those 3, they would have become active, and offside.

[Quixon]

Buddy of mine is flying out in a couple hours for South Africa. He's going on Safari, and has tickets to the Championship Game.

Damn him straight to hell. But on the plus side, he's bringing me back (2) Vuvuzelas

[Doombear]

http://www.stardock.com/labs/devuvuzelator/

Sick of the vuvuzela? Me too. Just download and run the program below to filter your World Cup live broadcast in real-time (ESPN3, BBC, etc), choosing which level of de-vuvuzela'ing filtering you find most suitable. No installation required, just download and run!

Developed by Jeff Bargmann of Stardock in collaboration with the Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary, University of London.

Interested in learning more about the audio properties of the vuvuzuela? If so, be sure to visit the original post at Isophonics. Enjoy the cup!

Not bad, it works for the most part. I would describe it as removing the bee swarm sound and leaving the ... buzzing flies sound. It can't remove them completely, but the lower end, bassier horns are removed and lets the sound of the crowd come through much better.

I am just testing it on different settings with the Portugal replay on ESPN. Anything higher than Medium seems to distort the commentators voices. It is funny... when you can hear the crowd's massive cheers and gasps, you realize just how much those horns mask out.

For the Spain game I will test it alongside my De-Lalas-er. Univision.

[Darlantan]

Beer, corn, olives, pizza... check.

Willingness to suffer and enjoy with the team, expectations of a good show and decisive win to make up for the silly loss to the Swiss... all check.

Go Spain! No me falles .

[Jefe]

Getting excite for the Spain vs Honduras. Gonna have to go w/ Honduras since they are CONCAF... and fuck Spain.

[Darlantan]

... Gonna have to go w/ Honduras since they are CONCAF... and fuck Spain.

Its on!

[Mugekuge]

LET'S GO LA ROJA!!!