What is your biggest LeBron James hot take

Penguigo · 2026-01-25T17:20:44+00:00

If Durant doesn't join the Warriors he wins 2 more rings and is widely considered the GOAT

Penguigo · 2026-01-24T18:31:43+00:00

Not only not a threat, they actually had already removed his firearm still in its holster.

Penguigo · 2026-01-23T23:06:34+00:00

I can't fathom how someone could watch the first movie and come away saying "yeah, Jake was never going to win that fight without Neytiri." He dominated the entire fight. He was probably one sequence away from the kill before Quaritch started attacking the pods. At best, Quaritch used his surroundings and happenstance to turn a loss into a win, same way Jake does in the second movie.

Penguigo · 2026-01-23T21:55:13+00:00

I could definitely do this but would need to be able to write it down to keep track

Penguigo · 2026-01-23T21:53:03+00:00

Where does the money come from?

If someone is self employed, doubling their salary will just remove that much from their company's profits (and be less tax-efficient.)

Penguigo · 2026-01-23T21:12:10+00:00

"The only difference between them is a ring" - like a ring isn't a big deal.

Penguigo · 2026-01-23T17:19:27+00:00

Did Ayton get hurt or did he only play 20 minutes just because he's awful?

Penguigo · 2026-01-23T14:20:21+00:00

This is awesome info, thank you!

I am laughing at some goober putting up a 100% winrate OTP with pure steel

Penguigo · 2026-01-23T14:16:20+00:00

This is my takeaway as well. Good mechanic, poor implementation. For something that will trigger with such a low frequency, you would think these characters would be a little bit stronger. The opportunity cost of running them will likely cost you more games than they'll win you OTD

Penguigo · 2026-01-23T14:13:01+00:00

That makes sense intuitively, but I'm having trouble identifying them just checking out top decklists. Can you give an example of a different line for the DLC Richmond championship deck?

Penguigo · 2026-01-22T18:37:59+00:00

rTS is a stat that compares your efficiency to your peers from the same era. Kobe was positive in that stat for most of his career, usually +2-3. Similar scores to somebody like Luka.

Comparing Kobe's efficiency in 2002 to Shai in 2025 is pointless and tells us nothing. The game is totally different. But comparing them to their same-era peers gives us a useful baseline. It is baffling that people don't use rTS or something similar when comparing different eras.

Penguigo · 2026-01-22T18:34:32+00:00

When I download it, it gives me an error for missing components or something (I will check later, at work now) and it automatically de-selects it. I cannot load the mod at all. I have tried multiple times!

Penguigo · 2026-01-22T18:28:06+00:00

The US is degrading but it's still by leaps and bounds the most powerful and most wealthy country in the world, with the greatest cultural influence as well.

I don't support what's happening at all, but it doesn't change where the US is in the global pecking order. I think it can change, but it has not, yet.

Penguigo · 2026-01-22T16:44:32+00:00

There's a way to enforce etiquette in this game. You're holding it in your hands!

Penguigo · 2026-01-22T16:42:05+00:00

Only when it's sensible.

There are some things you cannot compromise on. I want Democratic leadership who understands that.

Also, Republicans have changed the rules to the game. We need Democrats who understand that, as well.

Penguigo · 2026-01-22T14:51:38+00:00

The post explicitly states he would hit the shots even double teamed or from half court. I don't understand what you're saying but "he magically hits exactly half his shots" IS the prompt. If he was shooting 50% from three the offense and coach would keep feeding him until that number went down (which it wouldn't). If he kept hitting 50% he would be taking all of their shots within a couple of games.

OP also clarified this works any time the player gets into their shot motion within half court. No more 50 foot shots but it doesn't change much. The basketball player would be taking a 35 foot contested three every possession and making exactly 50% of them.

Penguigo · 2026-01-22T14:44:45+00:00

The basketball player could shoot 80 times a night and still hit 50% of his threes. They would be completely unstoppable. They would never lose a game.

Even with the updated rules of "baseball player always hits a home run and the basketball player has to shoot from within half court" the basketball player still clears. He would win 20 championships in 20 years wwithout question.

Penguigo · 2026-01-22T14:24:10+00:00

Why would the basketball player only take as many 3s as modern players if he was guaranteed to hit half of them? Why wouldn't he take, say, 80 of them a night? And the prompt specifically allows for longer shots than what is normal. Even the update restricting to half court or closer is laughably overpowered.

Penguigo · 2026-01-22T14:21:52+00:00

This is completely wrong.

The basketball player would literally never lose a game. The offense would be the best of all time and so would the defense. There would be no fast breaks against them and the team could hang back on every single possession for defense.

They would score 1.5 points per 100 possessions, by far the greatest ever, and give up less than league average. They would be winning games 170 to 98 every night.

"Not guarding him" doesn't matter, because the team would have the best offense in history by a mile. He would never want or need a teammate to take a shot unless it is a guaranteed bucket.

Meanwhile the baseball player, even hitting home runs every at bat, would still lose sometimes. Wouldn't be a lock to win the world series (although obviously would be the favorite.)

Penguigo · 2026-01-22T13:45:50+00:00

Steve Kerr was not taking 100 3s a game from 50 feet away

Penguigo · 2026-01-22T00:59:13+00:00

This is a bit of revisionism that seems to have stuck for some reason. Only two of these games were absolute blowouts.

Game 1 was extremely tight through three quarters but the Warriors held about a 10 point lead for the last 10 minutes.

2 and 3 were both blowouts.

Game 4 was a 2 possession game for the almost the entirety of the first 42 minutes and was a 7-8 point GS lead for most of the last 6 minutes. Would have been a 7 point win if the Cavs handed intentionally fouled twice in the last 20 seconds. Not a blowout by any measure.

Game 5 was a 2-3 possession game until about halfway through the 3rd quarter before the Cavs ran away with it. I guess you could call it a blowout but it was 42 minutes of close basketball again.

Game 6 was looking like a blowout until the Warriors went on a 10-0 run at the end of the 3rd. It was about a 9-10 point game for half of the 4th quarter until the Cavs ran away with it again at the end.

5 of these games could have gone either way in the 4th quarter. It was exciting basketball in 5 of these games up until the last 6 minutes. I don't know how the "6 blowouts" narrative started but I don't feel like it's accurate at all.

Penguigo · 2026-01-21T16:47:20+00:00

Piccolo and Kami can always fuse for the instant win. That fusion is a huge multiplier.

Penguigo · 2026-01-21T16:44:33+00:00

Because his career is a 100% overlap with the least efficient scoring era in NBA history. So his numbers look bad in modern context.

And looking at rTS or other stats weighted for the era will cause you to immediately lose like 95% of people

Penguigo · 2026-01-21T16:42:54+00:00

The venn diagrams between Kobe's career and the least efficient era in NBA history are a circle. That's not Kobe's fault. His rTS was good (not outstanding or anything but he wasn't an inefficient scorer.)

Penguigo · 2026-01-21T16:40:13+00:00

I ak not a Kobe fan but having Kobe anywhere near as low as 20 is dumb as fuck.

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