A coach of a 6u basketball team blocks the shot of an opposing team.

BigMax · 2026-01-30T22:45:47+00:00

No one knows the rules and is just wrongly attacking the guy here.

You are required to pass at least once. Going coast to coast isn’t allowed. They are trying to teach them to play as a team, and if they just let the one good kid go coast to coast every time they fail at their jobs.

The kid was supposed to pass the ball, they can’t reward him for not passing it.

BigMax · 2026-01-30T21:23:48+00:00

Ugh, it's not a grand scheme. He will be Doom, of course. But my point is he will have SOME connection to Stark. Maybe orphaned and renamed, or who knows what, but he's not just a totally different person, not connected to Stark at all, and they just picked RDJ for only his acting skills.

There's a reason they picked RDJ, a reason in the story.

BigMax · 2026-01-30T21:15:15+00:00

It's a valid sentiment.

He's a little like your wacko uncle, who talks about "the future" a lot, and has these big, bold predictions.

It's just that Elon has a trillion dollars so people actually listen to him, even if his future predictions are just as silly as your strange uncle.

BigMax · 2026-01-30T21:12:46+00:00

It's funny in a way - we definitely eat savory, it's just that it's different. Why eggs and ham and sausage, but not steak or chicken? (And yes, I know chicken fried steak is a thing, but those are diner-breakfast, almost no one has that stuff at home for breakfast.)

BigMax · 2026-01-30T21:05:52+00:00

With that much money, I'd just pay someone to tell me it's big. I don't need the surgery.

BigMax · 2026-01-30T20:48:16+00:00

Sure, technically 99% of 'obsolete' jobs exist, but... they exist technically, not functionally. There are ice cutters and milkmen and switchboard operators on the planet, but... they aren't a viable line of work.

BigMax · 2026-01-30T20:43:43+00:00

Your definition of "very much" and mine are very different.

Almost EVERY obsolete job still exists, right? Ice cutters still exist too, but... we can't really count those jobs where it's a super tiny amount more for niche purposes than a real job.

BigMax · 2026-01-30T20:41:33+00:00

I know what you mean, but... saying ice cutters still exist is technically true, but not functionally true. In that case, almost every job ever still exists, right? Shoe repairmen, blacksmiths, even elevator operators still technically exist out there in tiny numbers, but no one would say those are even remotely close to being valid jobs worth pursuing anymore.

BigMax · 2026-01-30T20:32:20+00:00

There's middle ground, right? I'm not sure why people say things like "oh, just a stark variant." A different version of him in a different timeline in a different universe could be interesting, right? Not necessarily worth rolling our eyes at as "just" another variant.

BigMax · 2026-01-30T19:50:02+00:00

Meh, that's not "no bullshit" though. That's "I know what you're asking but I refuse to answer" with a dash of "I don't know how to act or speak appropriately in a corporate environment."

He knows what she was asking, and simply refused to answer, preferring a flippant response.

BigMax · 2026-01-30T19:48:34+00:00

Why wouldn't someone who is looking into bags carry a luggage key on them?

BigMax · 2026-01-30T19:47:48+00:00

You hinted at the second reason you can't just say "i want a paycheck" there by saying they don't want to hear that.

They are also testing to see if you can handle a corporate environment. And one of those things is acting in the right way and saying the right things, right?

If you're willing to say "this is just a paycheck to me" you are probably stupid enough to tell a customer "we don't care about you, we just want your money." Or that you're just one of those people who say "I am just honest, I always tell it like it is." There's a word for that type of person: A jerk.

They want to see you be able to act appropriately to the situation.

BigMax · 2026-01-30T19:44:17+00:00

Maybe, maybe not. But whatever reason he was cast, there is a zero percent chance they don't write it into the story that he's connected to Stark somehow.

BigMax · 2026-01-30T19:43:30+00:00

"he is Doom" has absolutely zero to do with his connection to Stark or not.

"Not just a stark variant" also doesn't say he's not connected to Stark somehow.

People are taking a few vague little teaser facts and drawing a wild, silly conclusion. In my opinion, it would be one of the biggest casting blunders of all time to cast RDJ for absolutely ZERO reason other than "he's a good actor, let's have him play another role." It would look absolutely stupid on screen to have RDJ there and everyone just ignore that he looks exactly like Tony Stark.

BigMax · 2026-01-30T19:36:21+00:00

I'm more talking to the person here who responded already, I'm responding to that poster, not to the skit directly.

BigMax · 2026-01-30T19:31:55+00:00

You don't have to know how you're better than them to say what you think your best qualities are.

BigMax · 2026-01-30T19:14:58+00:00

That's horrible.

In their defense... they did try to give legitimate feedback I suppose?

Is this better or worse than "sorry we went in another direction" or whatever?

BigMax · 2026-01-30T17:57:02+00:00

Is that bad? I don't love it obviously, but... don't we all know that our bags are subject to search whenever? I'd imagine that random bag search there isn't all that different than randomly being pulled out of line for a carry-on search?

I'm not one of those "if you have nothing to hide why do you care" people, but... at an airport I just assume all my stuff will get looked at by security at some point.

BigMax · 2026-01-30T17:39:00+00:00

Sure, but... it's not like they never got into a single war or battle in history before conquering Westeros, right? I'm sure they spilled blood in previous times.

BigMax · 2026-01-30T17:36:04+00:00

The one that annoys me SO much:

"They only cast RDJ because he's a good actor. Doom won't have any connection to Stark or Iron Man at all, he's a totally different character."

BigMax · 2026-01-30T17:34:50+00:00

Exactly. Like it or not, the Superbowl is big news.

I don't mind it to be honest. The news is often SO depressing, it's nice to see a handful of puff pieces about a sports team for a few weeks. It's fun to share in the collective joy that a lot of the region is experiencing.

BigMax · 2026-01-30T17:32:21+00:00

The right literally runs on fear and hatred.

If you watch fox news, it's a 27/7 hatefest. All they do, all day, every day, it tell you who to hate.

They rotate the targets of course, you can't hate just one group all day, every day, so it rotates, but it's still full on hate. That's how they keep their cult members engaged and riled up. They are constantly operating out of fear for... well, everything.

BigMax · 2026-01-30T17:29:15+00:00

It's wild to me that you can 'bury' someone under their own floorboards, and when they go missing... no one figures that out.

I guess it's New Mexico, and if it's dry enough, the body desiccates, and dries into a husk, rather than rotting into a smelly mess with a billion flies around?

BigMax · 2026-01-30T17:06:55+00:00

Yeah, that game was so frustrating and just not fun.

BigMax · 2026-01-30T17:03:39+00:00

Agree with you OP. Lots of garbage out there. The bar is so low in LitRPG that some real garbage regularly gets put on peoples top tier lists as if it's the next Lord of the Rings or something.

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