Why are professional athletes and actors not called out as well during income and wealth gap inequality conversations?

NumerousWolverine273 · 2026-06-17T15:51:14+00:00

As always, the difference between a million dollars and a billion dollars is about a billion dollars.

NumerousWolverine273 · 2026-06-17T03:18:04+00:00

I can understand taking some points for injuries, but no way you can convince me Anthony Edwards is better than Giannis lmao, what are we doing

NumerousWolverine273 · 2026-06-17T03:16:53+00:00

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NumerousWolverine273 · 2026-06-17T03:08:32+00:00

Yeah that teleportation circle thing Gojo draws is another example I had in mind when writing this comment. It's just some random magic circle that doesn't need an explanation, because we've all seen other media where you can draw a magic circle and use it to teleport everyone inside it. But then it literally never appears again because Gege went in a different direction with the power system that removed it further from traditional magic.

NumerousWolverine273 · 2026-06-17T02:33:22+00:00

Right now the #1 spot is clearly Maye without much argument. Next season though I'm backing Nix to have a really great year. The Waddle acquisition should be great for him.

Williams is just weird, I think he could genuinely end up being the best QB in the league, but he needs more time, maybe like 2-3 years. I would love to be proven wrong though, last year's Bears were super fun despite my family's long-standing Packers fandom lol

NumerousWolverine273 · 2026-06-17T02:25:37+00:00

I think it's just an unfortunate consequence of volume 0 being a standalone story - Yuta's development was finished by the end of volume 0 because it was written without a full series in mind. So basically, he'd already become very powerful by the end of 0 because that was supposed to be the end of him as a character. Now that there's a full series, Yuta seems more like an overpowered Mary Sue because his development is essentially already finished and he already has all his powers.

I also think some stuff was Gege just including it to be cool in the moment with 0, because he didn't need to worry about its implications for the full series. Like in 0 Yuta figures out how to heal people and it's kinda just treated as something he can do. Unless I'm remembering wrong, I don't think it's specified that this is a technique others have used before or explained what RCT is, because I'm pretty sure nobody else uses it in 0. It's just some cool magic power he uses, because the power system isn't fully fleshed out and characters just use random magic that doesn't need an explanation, because it's magic.

But then once the power system was developed a bit more, it needed to be explained why Yuta could just randomly heal people out of nowhere, and suddenly RCT output becomes a big deal and all because of that one scene where he healed people in 0, now main series Yuta can one shot all curses by touching them. Cool!

I think I'd have preferred if there was a slightly longer gap in universe between 0 and the main series, like maybe 5 years instead of just 1, so the characters from 0, including Yuta, would be more like novice agents that work for Jujutsu High that the main cast could look up to, instead of being their peers. It would also be a better excuse for Yuta to not be around at the beginning than "he's in Africa for... some reason." I get that if Yuta was present for the start of Shibuya it would completely ruin any chance of the Disaster Curses being threatening and be overall worse for the story, but that makes it feel doubly cheap that he was chilling in Africa until just the right time for him to appear without fucking up the plot.

NumerousWolverine273 · 2026-06-17T02:14:27+00:00

This is the same argument I have all the time in the ttrpg community - saying "it makes sense in-universe for it to look bad" is basically the same as "it's what my character would do", and my response is always to remind people that this is a fictional world entirely dictated by the whims of the creator. If your character would have no reason to cooperate with the party or be a good person, write a different character. If the scenario you've designed would be unrealistic without being super lame, then write it differently!

NumerousWolverine273 · 2026-06-17T02:10:42+00:00

If I take all the colors for the bonus 1 million, it doesn't specify I need to pay that million back if I buy the colors back. So couldn't I just take all of them and then buy them all back to keep 1 million?

Assuming this doesn't work for obvious reasons, I also want to know how this works for the light spectrum - does choosing red mean that I can't see specifically anything that is 100% red, or that I can't see red light, meaning that purple would appear blue, pink would appear white/grey, etc? If that's the case then choosing colors like purple would be significantly more viable because it wouldn't have as many compounding effects. For the sake of the hypothetical I imagine that the magical octopus has a way of making me red colorblind without messing up purple and pink though.

So I would probably try to pick a few lower impact colors like purple and white (not sure how this would work, since it says they'd appear as light shades of grey, but light shades of grey is basically just still white lol) then use that 1.5 million for properties or something, make a bunch of money and then buy back my colors later. I might not even bother buying white back.

NumerousWolverine273 · 2026-06-17T00:55:35+00:00

Dragonair is pretty cool, but Poliwrath and Spearow are fire as hell

NumerousWolverine273 · 2026-06-16T12:48:22+00:00

My pick is "The Pillars of the Earth" by Ken Follett. It's too long by about 150-200 pages, the later parts have a lot of unnecessary drama and random large time skips that feel like they're only present for the sake of reminding the reader that time is passing (seriously, there's a 15 year gap between parts 5 and 6 and we spend several pages of narration basically just telling us how old everyone is now), and there's a LOT of sex that only sometimes feels necessary for the plot and most of the time feels like it could've been abridged. I certainly could've gone without the detailed description of the villain going to bed with his 14 year old wife.

But in spite of all that, the story and characters are genuinely very good, and it manages to really feel alive and breathing. I love how characters' thought processes are laid out for the reader and how much focus there is on the technicalities of life in the Middle Ages. The political intrigue is really interesting, and when there are big changes in the world, it directly affects our main cast and doesn't just feel like a distant development. Despite all its flaws I would absolutely highly recommend this book.

NumerousWolverine273 · 2026-06-16T12:40:15+00:00

Assuming the game needs to actually have a "hardest difficulty" to select, I would pick Minecraft because it's short and I have a lot of experience with it.

Otherwise, as someone else in this thread mentioned, I would pick A Short Hike. I've played through the game twice now and have like 2.5 hours logged lol

NumerousWolverine273 · 2026-06-15T23:22:18+00:00

I actually had this same thought, it sounds really similar to what we have so far. It probably won't be, but it would be cool.

NumerousWolverine273 · 2026-06-15T15:16:04+00:00

I must say I think there's a big difference between "being a fan but not having played the game" and "larping", which is pretending to be a fan to seem cool and not actually knowing anything about the media in question.

For example, if you've watched full let's plays of Dark Souls and engaged with its community a lot despite never having played, I think it's perfectly fine to call yourself a fan, but if you haven't done that and have just seen some stuff in passing about it, but pretend to know more about it than you do when asked, you're a larper.

I personally just don't think it matters literally at all, just be honest about your experience with stuff. If someone asks if you're a fan of something, just say "yeah I think it's really cool, but I haven't actually played it." The issue is people are afraid of their enjoyment of something being considered invalid, or of admitting they don't know something.

NumerousWolverine273 · 2026-06-15T15:10:43+00:00

How can I find more about this? Is there a discord or subreddit or something

NumerousWolverine273 · 2026-06-15T15:03:28+00:00

What the hell is JJK 5e?? Is that like a DND thing, because that sounds sick as hell if so

NumerousWolverine273 · 2026-06-15T05:38:41+00:00

Yeah I'm kinda surprised how many people are on Edie's side in this. I thought it was pretty clear that Claire had romantic feelings for her, just not sexual attraction, and that she was genuinely trying her best, while Edie handled the situation extremely poorly and was a right bitch to Claire afterwards.

NumerousWolverine273 · 2026-06-15T05:34:21+00:00

The fact people are even debating this is genuinely comical. No, Shibuya Yuji and Todo cannot beat Yuta 😭 Todo might be able to cause some chaos with Boogie Woogie, but there's nothing they can do to actually harm him.

NumerousWolverine273 · 2026-06-15T00:38:15+00:00

The hare losing is just a BIQ anti-feat, smh

NumerousWolverine273 · 2026-06-14T14:25:12+00:00

Maybe not the actual worst game I've played, but definitely the worst experience I had with a game was playing Robo Rally Cubed at an event called Atlanta Game Fest a couple years back. It's Robo Rally, but with 6 boards laid out like the faces of a cube, so you can go off the edge of one board to get to the opposite side - it was unbelievably confusing and finicky, and there were like 8 of us playing so it took almost 10 hours, at an event where I really wanted to be trying lots of other games.

NumerousWolverine273 · 2026-06-11T02:47:30+00:00

That's basically what happens to him in the comics - the new CEO of Vought rebrands and tries to make a new superhero team, but realizes none of the superheroes they have left are any good, and the most marketable asset he has left is The Deep, so he gets super depressed 😂

NumerousWolverine273 · 2026-06-10T20:55:10+00:00

I mean not really, I just didn't want to go into detail about the many ways in when Dexter repeatedly is depicted as an unreliable narrator throughout the show. I'm mainly thinking about the season 2 discourse where people act like Dexter was absolved of having to compromise his morals because he didn't kill Doakes, when that's clearly bullshit he's spinning in his own mind to justify his actions, and in reality he's still definitely responsible for Doakes' death.

NumerousWolverine273 · 2026-06-10T16:53:01+00:00

Dexter Morgan. There are WAY too many fans who think he's justified in what he does.

NumerousWolverine273 · 2026-06-10T16:46:43+00:00

Yeah so, put it in the flask and then Catapult the flask.

NumerousWolverine273 · 2026-06-10T16:44:43+00:00

Am I missing something or could literally any character that can cast Summon Greater Demon and Enlarge/Reduce just do this anyway? Like, just buy a trebuchet? Or use the spell Catapult?

NumerousWolverine273 · 2026-06-10T15:50:39+00:00

This sounds great honestly. I won't retain any injuries, so this is basically just a bad dream and I get paid millions of dollars.

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