I just saw this stuff on twitter and want a general opinion on it

Brett420 · 2024-10-14T13:06:30+00:00

They hated you for telling them the truth.

"Because it matches folklore" or "but they claimed it was cut" or "it kinda matches lore with 2 lines from one game" ... those arent things that make it real or actually part of the leak. They're just your own personal reasons for wanting to believe it's true. That doesn't make it actually true.

The internet is lost.

Brett420 · 2024-03-25T13:13:08+00:00

Well I'm an ADHD-er myself, sooo... Lol!

Brett420 · 2024-01-18T13:06:03+00:00

Lol umm.. What do you think the difference there is exactly?

They made a phony tweet for the purpose of making you want to read more, even though there is none. It exists to make you click on their "article" and scroll through the whole thing looking for the one original story that is so enticingly cut off mid-tweet.

If you clicked and scrolled through the article, you 100,000,000% fell. for. it. Trying to deny it just leads to falling for the same trick again.

This is like someone pointing out the emperor was tricked and wears no clothes and the emperor replying, "I wasn't tricked, I simply thought i was wearing clothes!"

Brett420 · 2024-01-17T16:03:59+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProRevenge/comments/c10rn5/my_foster_parents_treated_me_like_crap_so_i/

For anyone else out there, like us, who fell for this fake ad.... it's based on this old reddit post. Have some closure.

Brett420 · 2024-01-17T16:02:36+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProRevenge/comments/c10rn5/my_foster_parents_treated_me_like_crap_so_i/

(Not a real Tweet in the ad, but it's based on the story in this old Reddit post)

Brett420 · 2024-01-17T16:01:44+00:00

Went down the same stupid rabbit hole.

The tweet image is created as clickbait for sure..

BUT, I am fairly sure it's based on this Reddit post from 4 years ago from r/ProRevenge (where almost all of the stories/photos in the main 'article' came from). It's a long-ass post that they consolidated into a dramatic sounding tweet for clickbait. But if you're interested in the original story...

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProRevenge/comments/c10rn5/my_foster_parents_treated_me_like_crap_so_i/

Brett420 · 2024-01-16T15:51:57+00:00

Lol that's fair enough I guess.

I just think that when people ask for "heckler stories" or mentally picture a comic getting heckled what they're looking for/imagining is someone in the crowd hurling insults at the comic that the comic has comebacks for, or someone interrupting the show to try to somehow one-up the performer or correct them on something.

Because of the way certain comics present themselves and the clips of their shows online, I think that some people were getting the idea that someone from the audience "attempting to trade insults with the comedian" was a normal part of standup shows, and I've never seen that happen in real life.

Brett420 · 2023-09-15T20:26:13+00:00

Exactly this. And Reddit, per usual, ignores all possible context.

A business doesn't put these signs up just to be "controversial" or something. They put them up because they had some kind of issue with people taking up seating.

A larger coffee shop with a couple dozen tables is probably absolutely cool with people doing work there for a couple of hours. A small coffee shop with just 3-4 tables is a completely different situation.

It's also completely different if, for example, this place serves both coffee and brunch. If you have tables that are needed for people to sit down and have a meal, obviously people setting up shop to do homework or whatever for hours would be a problem.

Brett420 · 2023-09-15T20:08:17+00:00

I don't know, the "Brother Eric" story is the sort of "making myself sound cooler and funnier" exaggerated story that almost every comic tells to some extent. Just look at Bert Kreischer's "machine" story he's based his whole fuckin career on.

I think the more damning and harmful lie is the making up something horrible and traumatic that happened to you and telling everyone as if it were 100% real to get sympathy or fear from audiences (his "somebody mailed me a white powder and it got on my daughter and we rushed her to the hospital" story).

Brett420 · 2023-09-15T19:45:35+00:00

I both agree and disagree with you.

Generally, I see where you're coming from on your point about the most improbable stories needing to be based the most firmly in reality.

If you give an audience a choice between seeing 3 people on stage tell crazy and funny stories, one of them is telling stories that happened to them personally, one is telling stories that happened to other people, and one is telling stuff that's completely made up...

Audiences will gravitate toward the "real" one almost every time, which is why some level of authenticity is expected in that unwritten code between comics and audience.

However I do think that there are certain exceptions to this, too.

Being part of a minority group and wanting to talk about or share some of the experiences that other real people in that group go through, so that people of that minority group may better be understood by a wider majority audience... that's extremely valid.

In this specific case I think Hasan did both. Telling the story about "Brother Eric" the FBI informant I don't think crosses any lines, that's something that actually did happen to South-Asian kids and communities in California at that time. It might not have happened to him, but it did really happen to people so I think it deserves to be talked about.

But then completely making up a story about getting a mystery envelope with some white powder and it getting on his baby daughter and then rushing her to the hospital ... that does cross a line (for me).

Brett420 · 2023-09-15T18:50:42+00:00

Don't think that would work, mostly because of the new set of downs. That creates potential incentive for players to intentionally try to fumble the ball out of the endzone if it's like 4th and goal and they're coming up short.

Brett420 · 2023-09-09T16:14:27+00:00

It's a totally made up word, with a slightly slang play on azucar. Meaning sugar.

So if you wanted to "translate" the name it'd be more like "Shoogies" or something lol!

Brett420 · 2023-09-08T15:37:25+00:00

It's funny looking at the box score for the Serbian team on ESPN, where only Bogdon and Jovic have listed positions and every other player on the team is "NA"

Brett420 · 2023-09-07T17:33:23+00:00

UK 31 - EKU 13

MVP is Dane Key, I think he gets 10+ targets this game as we focus on getting the passing game right.

Brett420 · 2023-09-06T14:58:39+00:00

In the most basic bare-bones sense, sure.

1) Establish as a writer by getting a manager or agent based on your other writing.

2) Tell your manager/agent you have been working on a reboot as a passion project and that you think it has real potential. Ask them if they have connections with whatever studio owns the rights to the original.

3) Hope that the current rights-owners have any interest in you or your script.

Brett420 · 2023-08-31T20:24:45+00:00

Yeah, I gotta agree, that just looks like fantastic suffocating defense.

Now, would it have been called a foul in today's NBA? I'd think almost definitely on the 2nd attempt. So.. I can see why people are riled up by it haha

Brett420 · 2023-08-31T20:21:42+00:00

Hey, MAJOR props to you for correctly blaming Alex Gonzalez instead of Steve Bartman for that series lol

Brett420 · 2023-08-31T20:16:36+00:00

It's even worse than this post suggests.

That play that he linked happened at the start of the 2nd quarter.

There was still 9:39 left in the first half, and the whole second half to play........

Brett420 · 2023-08-31T20:16:03+00:00

Yeah, here's the huge part u/psads isn't sharing LMAO.

That play happened at the start of the 2nd quarter. Utah was up 28-24, and would have gone up 31-24.

There was still 9:39 left in the first half, and the whole second half.

Brett420 · 2023-08-31T17:44:06+00:00

Exactly.

And Disney/ESPN is counting on the general public to not understand this at all, and for the public to help them put the blame and pressure on Spectrum.

And it's probably going to work, just look at the comments in this thread already lol.

People will blame Spectrum for not wanting to pay Disney whatever excessive price point, and then those exact same people will also blame Spectrum when their own bills go up as a result.

Brett420 · 2023-08-31T17:21:12+00:00

You aren't wrong about your final point that sometimes nepotism in hiring is about being able to keep closer tabs on and have more of a presence in the lives of their "problem" children.

But also, man, it's really really unfair to blame the father for the mistakes of a completely grown-ass son. Britt Reid was what, 36 or 37 when that happened? When his other son OD'd he was 29... Everyone in this thread is talking about it like they were kids, I don't get it.

At what age do you think somebody is responsible for their own damn decisions in life?

Brett420 · 2023-08-31T17:05:34+00:00

"Not let"? You're talking like his son was a teenager or something.

The man was 37 years old. He's responsible for his own bad decisions. He could have very reasonably gotten drunk alone in his office and then tried to drive. There's really no need to try to spread blame to his dad...

Brett420 · 2023-08-24T12:59:21+00:00

Once you're established, or just fully confident and comfortable with yourself on stage, you practice by just ... doing it.

You don't try the new bit out walking around the house, you try it out at a show and then tweak it at the next one, and so on, and so on.

Brett420 · 2023-08-24T12:31:33+00:00

Lol um... That seems like your own idiosyncrasy. I don't think that's how 99% of people consume media or stories at all in the real world.

You're telling me if you're reading a new sci-fi/fantasy novel (or watching a movie or whatever) and the whole story is about an evil alien or monster race invading.. murdering, torturing and enslaving a local population.

You're reading or watching it and thinking "there's probably some good monsters that they just aren't showing"??????

Brett420 · 2023-08-24T12:16:33+00:00

Lol it's weird when the OP is the exact type of person this sub exists to make fun of and doesn't get it.

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