GDT: CARCHI

[the halleJOKEL]

saying "ok boomer" to a gen-x'er who is acting like a boomer is actually the pinnacle of using the phrase correctly

 

[MinJaBen]

You're why I subscribed to the Athletic. Thanks for what you do.

Same. I like your work.

 

[Negan4Coach]

Y'all know that millennials are pushing 35-40 years old now, right?

I will only acknowledge this when they f***ing acknowledge that Boomers are pushing 70.

 

[Negan4Coach]

saying "ok boomer" to a gen-x'er who is acting like a boomer is actually the pinnacle of using the phrase correctly

Everybody acts like a "boomer" when they are older and actually have money, as will you if you ever get there.

Remember the boomers were dirty hippies protesting Vietnam at one point

 

[Roboturner913]

hey, more culture war bull****, yay, I'ma just go jump off a ****ing building now

 

[the halleJOKEL]

Everybody acts like a "boomer" when they are older and actually have money, as will you if you ever get there.

Remember the boomers were dirty hippies protesting Vietnam at one point

ok boomer

 

[Navin R Slavin]

hey, more culture war bull****, yay, I'ma just go jump off a ****ing building now

I find that if you block literally everyone on f=26 your experience is only slightly diminished.

 

[Roboturner913]

I find that if you block literally everyone on f=26 your experience is only slightly diminished.

this seems like something that could be accurate

 

[raynman]

What are you getting me?

A picture of a pony

 

[the halleJOKEL]

i enjoy watching the hcanes play hockey they are my favorite nhl team

when they score a goal, i think to myself "yes"

when the other scores a goal, i think to myself "no"

 

[Unsustainable]

i enjoy watching the hcanes play hockey they are my favorite nhl team

when they score a goal, i think to myself "yes"

when the other scores a goal, i think to myself "no"

this is a crazy hot take

 

[Anton Dubinchuk]

The truth is for me, I joined The Athletic when I had 7,000 followers and a year later I have 40.5. The social media manager told me no one in the history of the company has had a social media account grow that fast. On top of learning how to do the traveling beat job in general, I've been learning in real time in front of everyone how to handle having this influx of a social presence so fast. I have certainly tweeted things or picked fights that I wish I could take back. Last week someone I quote tweeted in mild disagreement with told me they got a ton of DMs from people -- I had no idea about that, I guess that's what really hit home for me that a following can be weaponized. I hate that.

So in a year you lost 6,959 (nice) followers and sliced one in half? Talk about weaponizing a social media presence...

Seriously, this is good perspective, mad props for responding with this level of grace, and I agree wholeheartedly with the prior comment you mentioned about having thick skin. I re-read what I said above and I stand by it, but want to add that if it came off unnecessarily harsh I didn’t mean it that way.

You are genuinely a fun follow and cover this team in a unique and fresh way (one that matched perfectly with the very unique and fresh season the Canes had last year, a truly perfect storm). I also think the social media presence has gone Wild West lately, and that specifically is the topic of my post, not your reporting in general.

That said, I’m a person who’s bad at social media (I don’t try, but if I did I’d still be bad) and can’t imagine actually restraining myself if there were people just lining themselves up in front of me to get dunked on. It is entertaining to watch you shred guys who are being pigs or whatever, it’s just a “how often” thing for me. I know even what you do bring to light is probably a fraction of the shit that comes your way, so again it’s hard to know what it’s like to be in your shoes, but it might just be a matter of knowing when and how often to pick your spots. While I do think it has had a negative effect on your feed overall, given the perspective you added on trying to figure out this huge footprint, learning as you go and missteps along the way is understandable.

While you’re here I also want to let you know you ask the best questions out of everyone in the Brind’Amour scrums (your voice is easy to pick out of the crowd). And, based on his answers, I bet Brind’Amour would agree with me. Insightful without grandstanding, typically just enough to set Brind’Amour up to talk about something interesting without trying to answer the question yourself.

Finally, and this is true, you are indirectly the reason (unbeknownst to them) that at least like 4 guys at a recent bachelor party switched to White Claw by the end of the weekend. Brought some as a joke because you post so much about it and we discovered it is simply delightful.

 

[BrindAmours Army]

Well you should be hard on the media. Our job is to report on a hockey team every day. We shouldn't be able to do something so fun without criticism. In Boston my own radio station would make fun of my articles on air. I can always handle that when it comes from a place of caring about the team, which obviously this is a space specifically for that. I start lurking here when I need a break from all the extra stuff about twitter.

It can honestly be hard switching mindset gears on Twitter from "oh, this stranger just called you a C word and is tweeting at your boss to get you fired" to "Oh, this person is genuinely trying to engage in a debate about the sport"

Now that I feel like it came to a head I'm just trying to spend less time on twitter and more time writing the articles. I wish there were a way to have the community part of the athletic feel more like a free-flowing twitter discussion because the interaction is my favorite part of the job. I started out hockey writing blogging about the Bruins from my dorm and interacting with hockey twitter because I was homesick. It's tough to try to disconnect from probably the only constant my career has had but I'm obviously not the 18 year old kid tweeting nonsense from my dorm to 200 followers anymore and it's probably time to acknowledge that -- while I do still think it's my personal account in the sense that I'm always going to joke around or tweet about certain personal life things -- there's a general reason people follow me

As others have said, I'm also a big fan of your writing and your articles are the only reason I'm subscribed to the Athletic. Glad you're reporting on the Canes and I hope you get to do so until you want a change.

I also think your twitter is great. Unintentionally weaponizing followers is something that has seemingly become unavoidable for any opinionated person who has a significant following. I do hope those followers don't lead to you censoring yourself, though it is a crappy situation to be in.

 

[Roboturner913]

I haven't seen anybody suck up this hard since my last employee evaluation, have some dignity fellas

But seriously sara, you do solid work. I'm not gonna sit here and say I'm a subscriber and blah blah, and I try to stay off Twitter because it seems so inherently toxic.

But from what I have seen, you more than hold your own. There are gonna be people who, whether its because they hold a "more traditional" media job or the fact you're a woman who will inevitably be threatened by that.

Hope you come around more often, this is a fun group when they're not navelgazing into their feels or fighting about old dumb bullshit

 

[Lempo]

Existential angst was all we had to offer for literally a decade.

Angsto, ergo sum.

 

[Lempo]

i enjoy watching the hcanes play hockey they are my favorite nhl team

when they score a goal, i think to myself "yes"

when the other scores a goal, i think to myself "no"

ok katy perry

 

[Roboturner913]

you don't really wanna stay, no
you don't really wanna go, oh

 

[Stubu]

KORVEN KUNINGAS - KORPIKLAANI ALBUM.

CZECH HAS THIS SOUND, (ALBEIT IT DOESN’T REALLY REQUIRE A MENTION) IN WORDS LIKE

“BANKA” OR “TANK”

FIRST TIME I REALISED, IT IS A SPECIFIC SOUND WAS WHEN I WAS 7 OR 8 LEARNING ENGLISH AND HOW TO PROPERLY PRONOUNCE -ING SUFFIX.

@Stubu

Trivia of the day: "ng" like "bang" (not quite like "bin-go") is the only sound we have no letter for, otherwise we have a tidy 1:1 sound:letter parity.

 

[Vagrant]

it's been a good long while since this board has been trolled

 

[Stubu]

Can a finn please clarify how do you say Luostarinen ? I'm saying Luh-Os-TAH-ree-nen and i'm pretty sure that's not right

http://downloads.hurricanes.nhl.com/pronunciation/luostarinen.mp3

The third one is his own and the correct Finnish one. The first two are teammates, good enough in my book. The general page is here:

Hurricanes Audio Pronunciation Guide

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How did Eetu play, BTW?

I only caught the highlights take at Spoiler Free NHL Highlights and that didn't have much any plays of him. Looks like he was penned in as 4C and that sort of responsibility was a bit of surprise to me.

 

[Stubu]

Yeah but I think in weird ways... I also Capitalize in very erroneous ways...

No worries, we all still like your I/NP (Internet presence).

 

[Stubu]

it's been a good long while since this board has been trolled

Looks like a missed so far the best scrum here. Darn.

 

[cptjeff]

Y'all know that millennials are pushing 35-40 years old now, right?

My expanding waistline says ST*U, I'm not ready to acknowledge that.

 

[Lempo]

My expanding waistline says ST*U, I'm not ready to acknowledge that.

As a late Gen Xer, I consider myself a young adult and am wondering the talk about there being less kids nowadays as in my experience there seems to be more and more of them around every year.

 

[MrazeksVengeance]

Yes but it was tempered by a general sense of absurdity and random acts of chaos.

This is not the subforum that committed literal weeks of human (subhuman?) energy to advertise the fact that the Buffalo Sabres do, in fact, suck.

I'll be back in a few days, I expect you people to suck it up and get back in gear by then

JUST GIVE ME A TASK AND CONSIDER IT DONE.

(I AM SAVING MYSELF FOR BEING COMPLETELY OVER THE TOP FOR THE PLAYOFFS)