Hot Take Thread

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Ballz 3D is a Morbius (2022)-esque masterpiece. The music in particular is especially a work of art. The 3DO-exclusive director's cut has even more amazing music.

More than you think. That's why this is on the Hot Take thread.

This is something that absolutely won't interest anyone on here since I doubt anyone is a soccer (football) fan on here, much less a women's footy fan (I'm just a big footy fan in general).

Anyway, the 1999 "Dare to Dream" US Women's National Team would absolutely get destroyed by 2023 FIFA World Cup winners Spain. It would be 4 to nil in favor of the Spaniards. That's my hot take. The 1999 USWNT was built off an NCAA women's soccer system that was the only structure in the world at the time that resembled a professional structure and a system that stagnated for the later 3 decades, even after the NWSL became a thing. The 2023 Spain women's team was bult by the great Spanish club and development system that managed to produce one of the greatest men's international teams of all time that won Euro 2008 and 2012, and the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

Mia Hamm and company couldn't light a candle. Think of it this way and I'll use a basketball analogy - do you think the 1970s Knicks would beat the 1995 Bulls or the 2017 Warriors? Nope, not a snowball's chance.

I didn't like Flapjack when I first saw it back in 2009. I know it jumpstarted a number of careers, and kept the animation train humming when Cartoon Network was about to (briefly) give up on it AND animation was somewhat in the doldrums, but like...I just didn't care for what I watched of it. That said, I have not touched the show since then, so it's possible my opinion could change on it someday.

I don't care for either show myself, both of them played a big part in me drastically losing interest in CN in the late 2000s, for me the dark age had already begun well before the CN Real stuff.