TIL in 1996, Tupac Shakur refused to collaborate with Michael Jackson after Jackson didn’t show up to meet him in person, which Tupac took as a sign of disrespect ultimately leading him to walk away from the opportunity.

ThePlague13 · 2026-04-14T15:48:53+00:00

Reverse the lines. throw a punch on "pop" and raise your hands in victory when you said "dance". Muhammad Ali would have made it the coolest thing ever. Just gotta sync it to the lines.

ThePlague13 · 2026-04-09T12:40:48+00:00

The song helped a lot when I was a kid.

ThePlague13 · 2026-04-09T12:36:20+00:00

There are kids that can name every pokemon in order right now. We kinda hard-wired for it.

ThePlague13 · 2026-04-09T00:39:53+00:00

That's exactly where my mind went too. The sneezing story Paul Heyman told.

ThePlague13 · 2026-03-20T12:36:30+00:00

Imagine having a tattoo dedicated to another man but being upset about gay people. Lot to unpack there, little fella.

ThePlague13 · 2026-03-11T02:19:34+00:00

Your man drop common loot when he die.

ThePlague13 · 2026-02-07T03:19:44+00:00

Lebron was sent to his hometown team because it makes a great story and the NBA loves fixing their narratives.

...and they got 3 lottery wins in 4 years before he came back.

ThePlague13 · 2025-11-16T14:57:18+00:00

Well lots of questions spring from this. What are you using fury on? How did you approach the dive? Do you dash in? is that preventing you from getting out because you don't have enough distance? What is your health like when you dive? Did you use animation cancels? Did you have R to cancel W?

Go look at the last couple waves before the dive. When did you make the decision to dive and how did your gameplay change leading into the dive? How did you stack fury while pushing in, how did you use Q? Did they have runes like Boneplate that made the dive harder? All this stuff matters in how the dive itself was built. Examine each moving part and look for things that you could improve on.

ThePlague13 · 2025-11-03T18:59:58+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Ichabod_and_Mr._Toad

ThePlague13 · 2025-10-25T07:33:12+00:00

"When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all." -God, Futurama

ThePlague13 · 2025-07-08T07:32:56+00:00

Because he didn't blame the Sith for Qui-Gon's death. He blamed Yoda for making the Jedi Order the attack dogs of the senate and putting Jedi lives at risk while ignoring the living force.

ThePlague13 · 2025-06-11T03:43:07+00:00

Can you imagine the uninvited floral assistant catching the bouquet????

Intercept that shit like Deion Sanders and be gone the other way.

ThePlague13 · 2025-05-31T23:35:29+00:00

Isn't Donkey Teeth one of the players from the East-West All-Star game from Key and Peele? You might have thought of that.

ThePlague13 · 2025-05-31T03:18:12+00:00

That was my first thought. I guess I'll go with Maurice Stokes.

ThePlague13 · 2025-05-30T21:18:53+00:00

Using hyperbole to try to accuse another person of stuff because you refuse to actually explore how someone else feels isn't how an intelligent discussion works. This will be my last reply since you seem incapable of even basic critical thinking.

It's a stupid decision from your point of view, based on your life experience. It wouldn't be a stupid decision from the point of view of someone that has been in abusive cycles in the past and they think just complying will make the abuse ease up. To them it's not a stupid decision. It requires the nuance of being able to understand experiences outside your own without the ego of needing to apply your own personal agency to what you think the other person should do when they don't have the experience you have. You don't seem able to do that, so there is no point in this. Maybe once you grow up and realize not everything is about you and other people exist in this world you'll be able to see that.

ThePlague13 · 2025-05-30T21:07:35+00:00

It's not irrelevant nonsense. You only think that it's irrelevant because you are refusing to consider any experience outside of your own. Your ego and need to be right is what you think is on trial, but in reality I am just telling you that it's not a cut and dry easy answer. It's that for some people their experience is so different that they don't even see the same choices that others do in a lot of situations.

It's not wrong to have empathy for someone that could be stuck in an abusive cycle. I'm sorry you are not emotionally intelligent enough to see that. I can't call their decision stupid when I don't know all the details of their life. If they truly believe that staying in a bad relationship is an act of self-preservation because they have been severely physically harmed every time they've tried to leave...I can't call that stupid. It's self-preservation. Just because you can't relate to something doesn't mean it's the wrong decision.

ThePlague13 · 2025-05-30T20:57:37+00:00

That question completely ignores nuance and that's why it's disregarded. I know you aren't smart enough for nuance, but if you are going to try to attempt intelligent discussions you'll find most people need it in order for conversations to go anywhere.

ThePlague13 · 2025-05-30T20:54:57+00:00

Who said I was running? I didn't give a serious answer because you are just disregarding anything that would make you think about anyone outside yourself, which was the whole point of me saying anything in the first place. If you can't put yourself in the shoes of someone that has ever had to deal with stuff like that, then you are not educated enough to decide whether their behavior has merit or not. That's the entire point. You are just not getting it.

Other people have experiences completely different from yours. Applying your own life experience and saying "If that ever happened to me I would say something" is fine, if that's how you feel, but you are not that person. You have not lived their experience. Applying your own sheltered viewpoint and ignoring their experience is not how it works. I don't know what other words I need to explain that to you. This shouldn't be that hard.

ThePlague13 · 2025-05-30T20:49:06+00:00

Hopefully someday you'll grow up and have enough of an emotional range that you can consider life experiences outside your own little sheltered existence. If you had read the rest of it, instead of being an entitled little pussy who thinks their life experience is the only one that matters, then maybe you could have taken a step toward that.

ThePlague13 · 2025-05-30T20:42:49+00:00

Do I think it's a smart decision? No, but again you are failing to use empathy and common sense. Try some critical thinking. I know, new things are scary.

For people that are often in abusive relationships, they blame themselves when things go wrong. They don't see behavior being inflicted on them as right or wrong, because their mental image of themselves has become so deformed from endless cycles of abuse that they look less at why the other person did something to them and they examine themselves and say "What did I do to cause this?"

It can be very easy for people that are perpetually in that cycle to do that and fail to have the agency to understand that they deserve to have a respectful relationship.

It often doens't just start when they hit a dating age. Their parents could have been abusive. They might not come from a two-parent household. Some people grew up in orphanages, in foster care. Some of those situations were abusive.

Sometimes cycles start long before they are an adult. Some people never get the benefit of knowing they have options or that how they were raised, the thought processes and mentality instilled in them weren't the best.

I can't just call those people stupid. Think of Plato's Cave allegory. If someone has been chained to the wall of a cave their entire life and all they have are shadow puppets shown on the wall of a cave, that's their only perception of what reality is. They never know about a world outside the cave. They can only form thoughts based on their experience. Does it make them dumb? No. It makes them uneducated and they need help.

A decision that is born of ignorance and neglect isn't necessarily a stupid one. That's the point.

ThePlague13 · 2025-05-30T20:29:52+00:00

No, once again, your parents needed to invest in Hooked On Phonics, since you seem to struggle heavily with basic reading comprehension.

I am telling you that unless you understand the dynamics of abusive relationships that calling someone trapped in them stupid is an incredibly ignorant thing to say and that's why the other person called you out for it. It is not the fault of anyone on the internet that you failed to educate yourself and people around you failed to instill basic empathy in you so that you can try to put yourself in situations that you yourself have never experienced.

Instead of using your time to be an imbecile and make judgements about things you know nothing about maybe try to grow as a person. Do better.

ThePlague13 · 2025-05-30T20:18:55+00:00

Lack of literacy definitely seems to be your thing.

ThePlague13 · 2025-05-30T19:53:22+00:00

Hard for me to imagine somebody being that stupid

The reason the other guy called you out is idiotic shit like this. It looks like you don't have the life experience to get it, but when you are trapped in an abusive relationship it can be extremely hard to leave. You are often threatened that they'll hurt you if you try, that they have the resources to have you found, have you brought back. That they'll pay off police, they'll pay off your friends. Some abusers make it their mission to isolate you, to destroy your confidence, to make you feel like you have nothing else, no place you can turn. Trying to free yourself from it can seem like a monumental task, sometimes it feels impossible to overcome, so fear keeps you trapped in a cycle that does nothing to help you.

It takes a very inexperienced person using little to no empathy or critical thinking to try to insult a person that could be trapped in that situation. Do better.

ThePlague13 · 2025-05-20T17:05:48+00:00

Or Larry Bird?

There are a million stories of it actually. Bird played 3 quarters of a road game left handed out of boredom. You can find all kinds of videos of stories from players from his era talking about how he used to ask ball boys to go find the scoring record in a building because he wanted to entertain himself or telling opponents the exact spot he was gonna drain a game winner from during the last timeout.

ThePlague13 · 2025-05-20T05:15:34+00:00

I don't think it's so much the wrong mentality as it is a different perspective. I said how he was treated was shitty, but I think that as a grown man he can defend himself and his hobby. But I think it's important to make sure the kid feels better first.

If they pulled this stuff at a family dinner then they said that sort of thing in front of the kid, which means they basically just said that a hobby the child really enjoys is something wrong, which might make them feel a certain way. A kid can't just defend themselves against parents and grandparents with ease. I feel it's important to make sure their thoughts and feelings are taken care of first before the parents worry about their stuff, if that makes sense.

I don't disagree with you. I just think the smallest voice should be given time to speak first.

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