My dad can’t handle a controller anymore, but we just managed a full World Cup run together using an AI sim

My dad and I used to pour hundreds of hours into old-school FIFA manager modes back in the day. He’s getting older now and his hands just can’t keep up with a controller anymore, so we kind of stopped. But last weekend, I stumbled onto this text-based AI football simulator and decided to boot it up.

It’s basically an AI game generator where you don't actually play the match, you just type out your tactical changes in plain English, and it spits out the highlights. We sat on the couch for six hours straight. My dad was literally shouting, "Tell them to play it long! Get it to the big man up top!" and I’d type it in exactly like that. The engine would actually generate these quick, quirky animated clips of our lanky striker nodding it down for a late runner.

We ended up taking an underdog Asian team all the way to the World Cup semis. When we got knocked out on penalties, my dad was genuinely gutted. It gave me a whole afternoon of my old man yelling at an AI-generated referee like it was a real Sunday league match.

The mini-app was tucked inside a platform called yoroll (I think someone just built it as a custom text adventure/sim setup on there), but honestly, it was pure magic for us. If you have an older parent who misses gaming, these text-to-game AI simulators are a total cheat code for bonding. 10/10, would suffer a virtual penalty heartbreak again.

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u/Icy_Field_5870 — 2 days ago

Quick heads-up if you’re trading "US stocks" on crypto exchanges lol

Spent the last few days digging into how these platforms actually handle tech stocks and gold. The marketing makes it sound like you're buying regular shares, but under the hood, it's a total wild west.

Most of them are just selling you synthetic price exposure through CFDs or perps, meaning zero dividends, zero voting rights, and you can't transfer them anywhere. Like, I noticed Binance routes some through real brokers, but then Bybit and OKX are mostly tokenized or CFDs. I ended up trying bydfi last week because they let you stack 200x crypto perps with USDT stock contracts in one account, which is neat, but their UI is a chaotic mess to navigate if you're new.

My point is, are the average users even aware of what they're clicking? You aren't owning AAPL or TSLA; you're just betting on the price chart wrapped in a derivative. Check the product pages carefully before aping in.

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u/Icy_Field_5870 — 3 days ago

Loreal 250ml tub at 650

Anyone wants this 250ml tub for 650 ???

75 ml for 220 (2.93/ml)

250ml for 650 ( 2.6/ml )

Both are sealed packs. New. Expiry in 2027

Shipping via IP

u/Icy_Field_5870 — 3 days ago
▲ 13 r/hubspot

Monday pipeline reviews stopped sucking after we automated one boring thing

Nothing humbles you faster than asking ""has anyone talked to this deal lately?"" and getting complete silence on a Zoom call.

Every Monday was the same. We'd review pipeline, someone would notice a bunch of ""closing this month"" deals hadn't been touched in 10 days, sometimes two weeks. Reps would say they'd update everything after the meeting. Managers would nod. Next Monday? Same conversation.

After a while I realized we weren't fixing pipeline hygiene. We were just talking about it over and over.

So I got tired of being the person reminding everyone and I set up a nightly workflow using the tools we already had (HubSpot, Gmail, Google Calendar, Gong, Slack, and a lightweight integration layer).Every night it checks deals closing in the next month and a half, compares CRM activity with emails and meetings, then suggests the obvious stuff. If a deal's been quiet for more than a week, the rep wakes up to a Slack message asking if they want to create a re-engagement task and move the close date. If there's a meeting booked, it fills in the next step. If there's only one contact attached, it flags that because... yeah, we've all been burned by single-threaded deals.

One rule I refused to break: nothing updates HubSpot automatically. Everything needs an approve or deny click. That turned out to matter way more than the automation itself because reps never felt like the CRM was changing behind their backs.Six-ish weeks later, our ""stale this month"" deals dropped from around 40% to under 10%, and Monday pipeline reviews went from almost an hour to maybe 10 or 15 minutes. Honestly that's probably been the biggest win.Curious what everyone else trusts automation to update in HubSpot. Do you let it touch close dates or stages, or is that still completely off-limits?

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u/Icy_Field_5870 — 4 days ago
▲ 0 r/DnDIY

PSA: Stop putting your DND session countdown on your phone. Your players are not looking at it.

I have been running games for years and the one thing that never works is a phone timer. I used to prop my phone up on the DM screen to show a DND session countdown or initiative display. Nobody ever looked at it. Players just ask me how much time is left. Putting a dedicated small screen right on the table works way better. If the countdown is physically sitting there in the middle of the action, people actually pay attention to the pacing. I recently grabbed a divoom timesframe to put next to my minis for DND digital props. I just throw a DND boss reveal image or a countdown timer on it via the app and the group engages with the RPG table display instantly. Its way easier than fiddling with my phone for tabletop game night props. still trying to figure out the best way to mount it without blocking the battlemap.

u/Icy_Field_5870 — 4 days ago
▲ 9 r/setups

My dad said "it's alright I guess" about his Father's Day gift and that means he loves it

Got my dad the hoto air duster for father's day. got the classic "what am i supposed to do with this" face and it went straight in a drawer. caught him last weekend using it on his keyboard crumbs and car cup holders. "it's alright i guess" which from him is basically a rave review

u/Icy_Field_5870 — 4 days ago

Portugal vs Croatia is basically two old legends and a midfield fight

Everyone is going to sell this as Ronaldo vs Modric, and fair enough, that might be the last World Cup game for one of them. But the actual game feels more annoying than that. Portugal have more names and somehow still don’t totally feel settled. Two draws in the group, one 5-0 win, and everyone is still arguing about Ronaldo minutes like it’s 2016 again. Croatia are Croatia. They lose to England, then win the two games they need, and suddenly they’re back in a knockout match making everything uncomfortable. If Portugal make it open, they probably have too much. If Croatia drag this into a slow midfield game, idk, we’ve seen that movie before.

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u/Icy_Field_5870 — 4 days ago

Sourcing is 30% negotiation and 70% chasing people who decided to disappear

I used to think the hardest part of sourcing was getting a good price. Nope. It’s getting suppliers to reply with the same level of urgency that you have. Typical week trying to find a new vendor: Contact 12 suppliers. 5 reply with a one-line answer that doesn't help. 3 ask questions that were already covered in the RFQ. 2 say “Yes friend, we can do” but ignore the actual specs. 1 sends a catalog for a completely different product category. 1 disappears the second you ask about sample lead times. Then the real nightmare starts: The "Minor" Change. You decide to change one detail maybe a logo placement or a slightly different box material and suddenly you’re stuck in copy-paste hell. I spent half of yesterday manually pinging 8 different people on WhatsApp and Email just to say: "New packaging size, please update the quote." Half of them missed the message, and the other half sent quotes for the old version. I recently started using Accio Sourcing Toolkit to try and unf*ck this process. What I realized is that I don’t need "AI magic"—I just need a system that isn't a mess of browser tabs. Specifically, two things changed the game for me: The "One-to-Many" Update: Instead of texting 10 people individually, I just update the requirement in Accio Work, and it pushes the change to every supplier in the loop. No more "Wait, did I tell the guy on WeChat about the new logo fee?" The Automatic Nagging: It has an automated follow-up feature that tracks who hasn't replied to my latest spec change. It does the "Just checking in" dance for me, so I don't feel like a crazy person refreshing my inbox every 20 minutes. It’s honestly less about "buying AI" and more about having a dashboard that forces suppliers to quote against the exact same spec. By the time I look at the comparison table, I’m actually looking at data, not just a pile of random guesses. For people doing ecommerce or small business purchasing: How are you managing this right now? Have you found a way to automate the follow-up nightmare? I’m genuinely curious if there’s a better way to stop the ghosting.

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u/Icy_Field_5870 — 6 days ago

Any seller from kolkata Or west Bengal. This is for you

So I have a lot of shipping boxes. Which I'd like to give away coz I won't be needing it. So if anyone wants it. I'm willing to give it for free. Else I'd just throw it away coz it's of no use to me.

To a seller , you might need this boxes to sell stuff in

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u/Icy_Field_5870 — 6 days ago

Any beauty product seller from kolkata/west bengal

So I have a lot of beauty products shipping boxes. Which I'd like to give away coz I won't be needing it. So if anyone wants it. I'm willing to give it for free. Else I'd just throw it away coz it's of no use to me.

To a seller , you might need this boxes to sell stuff in

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u/Icy_Field_5870 — 6 days ago

Turning one TikTok into something people kept coming back to was harder than I expected

I had this 30-second TikTok that did pretty well, but like always, it died after two days. Standard stuff.

The concept was a diner trapped in a time loop where the waitress remembers your orders from previous loops. Instead of making a part 2, I got curious and decided to turn it into a playable interactive story on Yoroll.

I expected maybe 50 clicks max, but the engagement was on another level. People started replaying the diner scene over and over to find the hidden endings. The moment I knew it worked was when I saw a full-on spreadsheet in my comments with 12 different branch paths labeled. I've chased the one million views dragon for a year, but seeing actual evidence of people getting lost in the story? I’ll take that over a lucky TikTok algorithm spike any day.

But man, the process was a nightmare lol. Turning 30 seconds of video into an interactive game took forever. Every time I added a choice, it broke three other things. I ended up cutting half the branches because I overcomplicated it at first.

It really changed how I think about content though. People stop asking "what happens next" and start trying to break the game to see "what if I do this."

Has anyone else tried adapting a video concept into something interactive? Did your audience actually stick around, or is it just a temporary novelty bump?

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u/Icy_Field_5870 — 6 days ago

Isc people who have ML Aggarwal????

Karur kache jodi class 12 er ml aggarwal er first part ta thake ektu bolo. Amar ektu composition of function which is the first chapter tar chobi lagto kichu.

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u/Icy_Field_5870 — 7 days ago