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NBA GO – Watch NBA in Your Terminal

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Re: NBA GO – Watch NBA in Your Terminal

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Post by Amorymeltzer »

krit_dms wrote: post #4

This looks sweet, but does anyone actually use terminal tools like this?

I do, actually. I simply don't have time to watch all the games I'd like, which is fine, but if I'm going to be on the computer anyway a scrolling terminal play-by-play is ideal: it's minimal and easy to read, it doesn't slow down the computer with some ad-ridden live-updating website, and it's subtle in case I need to hide it. Same reason I use pianobar over the website or phone (plus no ads).

Moreover, the only thing I miss since cutting the cord is live events (sports, states of the union, olympics, etc.). It's not worth it to pay the various leagues (see above, plus I'm a Knicks fan...) so any little bit helps.

Re: NBA GO – Watch NBA in Your Terminal

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Post by p7IDD243 »

StavrosK wrote: post #3
rjbwork wrote: post #2

I'm never going to use this, as I don't keep up with basketball, but this is a really cool idea.

I'm never going to use this as I don't want to install node just to run command line utilities, but I really like the way the interface is presented.

This is a good point. Just out of curiosity I decided to check it out - it has 905 dependencies totaling 136M on top of the runtime, that seems like a bit of a stretch for something seemingly simple.
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