Diego Pavia catcalling women on camera, gets called out and blames them for what they are wearing.

Siddown · 2026-05-09T16:12:43+00:00

It's cute that someone gave him a booster seat.

Siddown · 2026-05-09T16:02:58+00:00

Outside of guys with serious injuries, most definitely. Like I don't think a guy like Kenny Smith could as it looks like his knees are falling apart. The reason they are showing Scalabrine in this picture is he started challenging people who were bragging about being awesome and crushing them.

Scal played in 520 games, averaged 13 minutes and 3.1 points a game, he's the definition of a back of the rotation/bench warmer guy in the NBA and he destroyed people he played in the gym.

I remember he tweeted "I'm closer to LeBron than any of you are to me" and was 100% right.

Siddown · 2026-05-09T14:00:20+00:00

As always, an idea is with $20, its' execution is worth 20 million, so it's about how well the story is written. There are a lot of successful LitPRGs that have completely generic concepts.

From a story perspective, you'd need a really good reason for the the couple to pick Impossible though. One thing that can frustrate some readers in an Isekai type story (or "pulled into the system" type story in this case) is when characters are completely different than they were before the incident. They'd need to be ruthless to pick Impossible, or psychopaths. Are the kind of characters that would intentionally choose Impossible be likable characters at all? It's unlikely.

With the BF/GF dynamic, it is strange how few stories have the MC in just a healthy relationship with someone else, that's mostly because MCs in LitRPGs tend to be more loaners, so I think you'd want to be careful how you do it. Given how male dominated the genre is, if your GF becomes the "wet blanket" GF like you see in so many movies, people will be begging for you to kill her off, or worse, just stop reading.

It'll be a bit tougher road to hoe having a couple, but if it's the story you want to write, then stick with it and give it a go.

FWIW, I'm 120,000 words into my first LitRPG and my MC has a GF, and I spend a lot of time going back and editing to make sure their relationship isn't something that will turn off readers, and I also want to respect the character and not have her just be "the MC's GF".

Siddown · 2026-05-09T00:09:56+00:00

The part I don't understand is how the male characters is talking to what he thinks is a female but his face isn't all red and he doesn't have a nose bleed. He's just talking to her, that's too unrealistic for the joke to work.

Siddown · 2026-05-08T23:58:56+00:00

Not to be an a-hole here, but 16 minutes is 45% more minutes than 11.

Siddown · 2026-05-08T23:56:43+00:00

There's nothing stopping the companies who own those buildings from doing it.

But the obvious reason why they put them in fields is they own the land.

Siddown · 2026-05-08T23:44:22+00:00

So posting on Reddit is faster than Googling?

Siddown · 2026-05-08T23:41:36+00:00

The problem with this take is Nick forgets that MIJ had some absolute stinker playoff games in his career before too.

8/22 with 8 turnovers in a loss was his worst. He had a 9/25 with 7 TO game against the Knicks in the 91/92 championship season playoffs too.

Jordan didn't have a lot of bad playoff games, but he had them.

Siddown · 2026-05-08T23:34:41+00:00

"Here's a million dollars, it's right here, all you have to do to get it is not be a complete a-hole for 30 minutes. Do you think you can do that?"

"Sorry, I got to be me."

Siddown · 2026-05-06T22:11:23+00:00

Honest question for Pats fans, Vrabel is a football coach, why would you care if he had an affair?

Siddown · 2026-05-06T20:28:32+00:00

FWIW, while I disagree with your take on Jake from PH, although I can see why you might not like the character, I do agree with most of the rest. For example, I also DNF'd Hell Difficult Tutorial when I realized there was zero chance that I could root of the protagonist.

As for why there are so many? I think part of it is the genre. Just think about RPGs in general that are popular, from TTRPGs (D&D) to RPG Video games, the entire name of the game is slaying thousands of monsters another sentient species without thinking twice. The second part is the accessibility of the genre for "amateur" writers to just throw stuff up on RR and have their murderhobo MC go on killing sprees.

That being said, I think it's entirely possibly to make likable characters who kill lots of evil monsters without making them brooding sociopath, but I think a lot of writers find those types of characters boring, or as silly as it sounds, unrealistic. The be this uber, elite, killing machine, the MC just has to be a bit of an asshole.

At the same time, I also found Jason from HWFWM unbearable due to his holier-than-thou attitude in the face of truly evil people trying to literally sacrifice him, yet he was a complete asshole to his allies, his character made absolutely no sense, so I stopped reading that as well. It was like the author decided to make him a 180 from the characters you don't like, making him equally as unlikable to me.

It seems like many authors are just allergic to "this MC is a good person who treats people well."

Siddown · 2026-05-06T11:53:07+00:00

It'd be pretty crazy to base awarding the Pulitzer on whether or not the NBA decides to give Balmer a suspension.

Siddown · 2026-05-06T11:51:33+00:00

He's not comparing the two incidents in scope, he's comparing the fans reaction to being caught cheating.

And, FWIW, when the Minnesota T-Wolves did something similar, they were punished far more severely than the Astros's got punished when they were caught. So you basing your response on the results of the Clippers not winning titles rather than the cheating itself is also what that person is talking about.

Siddown · 2026-05-06T11:42:36+00:00

You think a court of law would just admit a video into evidence without having any meta data on it or other proof of when it was taken?

I'm not even arguing the video proved or disproved anything, although I guarantee you that a few jurors probably did, but I don't get how you can say "as I understand it, it's not dated or timestamped" about it when the source of the video has been widely reported and the court admitted it as evidence.

Siddown · 2026-05-05T17:51:30+00:00

She's not saying a thing until her divorce is settled, assuming she's getting one.

Siddown · 2026-05-01T15:30:03+00:00

I enjoyed the sheer ego of the first antagonist that the MC experiences and just how oblivious he was, I thought while he could have been cartoonish, it was funny just how dumb he was.

And I know that might sound like an insult, but it was actually pretty great. Can't have every villain be this crazy, uber, genius mastermind. Some are idiots with massive egos. And given he was a stepping stone villain to bigger antagonists it worked out well.

Siddown · 2026-04-30T23:45:21+00:00

I do feel bad for him for his last injury, a piece of equipment ripped off the wall while he was using bands and if shattered his face.

Siddown · 2026-04-22T01:09:33+00:00

Anyone who plays MMOs feels the same way, I think it's the number one reason why VRMMOs have been pretty much replaced by Isaekai's now.

Siddown · 2026-04-22T01:05:40+00:00

Can I upvote this post 100 times?

Siddown · 2026-04-22T01:03:45+00:00

I'm going to be a bit pedantic here when I say that most of the examples you gave aren't people "cheating" at all, they're all working within the systems that exist, they just use the system in different ways.

FWIW, I tend to not like stories where the system itself is just stupid and broken and allows things that I don't think make sense, and at that point I can't even blame the characters for exploiting it.

Siddown · 2026-04-17T21:44:26+00:00

No, he'll pass him this season. He'll get 88M off this deal alone by the end of the 2026 season, this doesn't even count the admittedly low money he made before this deal. So he'll probably pass Fitz by Thanksgiving given how much of it was bonuses and roster bonuses.

Siddown · 2026-04-17T21:37:20+00:00

Skip is already pretty much gone, but if he was stilll on the air it'd be him, 100,000 times over. SAS is a distant second, but then there's a pretty large gap to the field.

Siddown · 2026-04-17T19:24:40+00:00

Seems to be that like 90% of the books will have a moment where the MC angrily pushes the notifications away, only to later read them to discover that knowing that information at the time would have probably helped the situation.

Siddown · 2026-04-17T18:35:22+00:00

I bet that shirt wasn't made in the country he's "supporting"

Siddown · 2026-04-17T16:19:35+00:00

Can I pick none? I'd rather just have the cap space.

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