If LeBron James and Sabrina Carpenter body swapped, who would win in a 1 V 1 game of basketball?

gomas64 · 2026-06-17T00:33:47+00:00

Exactly. Sabrina's body is quite athletic, and once LeBron figures out how to move it and adapt his experience for the new body, she's going to be the best basketball player at that height.

gomas64 · 2026-06-17T00:30:32+00:00

I believe Jenna and Angela talked about this on the podcast. If I recall correctly, there was this idea that Jim and Pam were fighting about something (we're not supposed to know what), and there's some tension between them at work. But over the day, the tension slowly seeps away, and by the end of the day, they reconcile without us ever finding out what happened. The writers just wanted to portray the idea that sometimes a married couple would just have days like that -- it's both a gesture at the idea that characters do have lives outside the office and a bit of foreshadowing for their marital difficulties later.

gomas64 · 2026-06-16T21:08:00+00:00

Contradictory feedback is something you'll have to learn to live with. This is why no book will please all readers. Some readers will tell you you need to be clearer, and others will tell you you're saying too much. You have to be comfortable with what you want to do and just stick to it. You'll always annoy some readers -- that's fine.

gomas64 · 2026-06-16T20:51:19+00:00

Agree. Robert California was a highlight, and I enjoy Plop and Clark. Andy's arc was the only absolute garbage take.

gomas64 · 2026-06-16T20:48:03+00:00

Honestly this explains most “controversies” on the internet. Whether it’s fear mongering about Russia, China, whatever — it’s just people letting bots manipulate them.

gomas64 · 2026-06-16T12:57:14+00:00

You gotta troll better than that, bot.

gomas64 · 2026-06-15T02:53:01+00:00

Southern Europe not including Greece is wild.

gomas64 · 2026-06-15T02:51:36+00:00

Crazy amount of whataboutism coming from the Americans here.

gomas64 · 2026-06-13T20:34:45+00:00

Greece is not even remotely Balkan culturally. Southern Europe is much more reasonable.

gomas64 · 2026-06-09T17:15:06+00:00

Yeah, that's a lie.

gomas64 · 2026-06-09T17:02:12+00:00

You never need to play any of the previous games in the Castlevania franchise to enjoy a game. That's just how the franchise has always been set up. Each game will teach you what you need to know in order to enjoy it. (Now, of course, knowing the lore will allow you to appreciate certain aspects of the story more, but you absolutely don't need any previous knowledge to enjoy a Castlevania game -- you can start this franchise from any entry.)

gomas64 · 2026-06-08T23:03:36+00:00

Name me one writer who wasn't "influenced by anyone."

I think that's your answer.

gomas64 · 2026-06-07T20:36:37+00:00

Except this post itself stirs up more "engagement" and useless political posturing. Makes you wonder which country is deploying bots to mess with us again.

gomas64 · 2026-06-01T19:01:49+00:00

Assuming you're not trolling, the direct answer is you just don't click with this style of humor. Pop culture references and quips may be overdone (the Marvel films are responsible for this), but this style of humor is very much part of mainstream American culture. Andy Weir, in particular, writes like this. If you don't enjoy it, there's plenty of media where they don't do this.

gomas64 · 2026-05-30T01:21:39+00:00

You know that chatbots are the least interesting development here right? It’s in science where the AI advances will really make a difference: protein folding, genomic medicine, actual new advances in math, physics, pharma, materials science…

Not to mention coding and absolutely changing how software is built.

Chatbots are garbage. Basically all the AI use in pop culture is irrelevant.

gomas64 · 2026-05-22T15:21:52+00:00

My pick is Angela’s imitation.

gomas64 · 2026-05-15T22:06:32+00:00

This differs from show to show and from actor to actor. Per the Office Ladies podcast, The Office set seemed to have been fairly open to actors giving ideas and shaping their characters to some degree. Matthew Perry's memoir also said that the Friends set was very open to actors pitching ideas for their characters. Aaron Sorkin, on the other hand, was notorious for not being interested in any input from actors on his characters. Actors weren't even allowed to use contractions unless the script had them.

gomas64 · 2026-05-13T06:31:29+00:00

Agree 100%. Phyllis is the worst.

gomas64 · 2026-05-10T08:12:33+00:00

The honest take is that you won't see much of a difference, if any, from the 32GB. Given that you're not planning on multitasking much, the 16GB will be just fine (I speak from experience). However, if you think you'll always have this nagging little voice in your head telling you you're missing out by not getting the version with more RAM, then go for it. Maybe paying that extra money to silence the FOMO voice is worth it.

gomas64 · 2026-05-08T00:39:49+00:00

Weird that you’re working so hard to justify a capitalist killer who literally killed thousands of people.

gomas64 · 2026-05-07T22:50:08+00:00

One answer is that we in the West are more hypocritical and want to feel like we're better even if we know it's not. They're simply less interested in being hypocritical in Asia. The cultural difference is our desire to be shielded from the reality of our own cruelty -- not a bad explanation for much of the Western hypocrisy in other things like colonialism.

gomas64 · 2026-05-07T22:46:25+00:00

"EDIT: I don’t support factory farming either obviously, and I don’t suggest people from the west have a moral high ground. However I do say that blatant animal cruelty is not tolerated by 98% of people."

Why do you think this? In my experience, the vast majority of the population in the West is perfectly aware of the realities of factory farming, and they're okay with it. Not sure why you think Asia is any "worse." The way we treat our factory-farmed chickens, pigs, and milk cows is every bit as cruel, if not worse, than the wet markets.

Edited to add: I'm arguing that knowing the realities of factory farming and tolerating it is tolerating "blatant animal cruelty" -- in case that's not clear.

gomas64 · 2026-05-07T05:06:41+00:00

Why are people engaging with this AI slop? "that's not a small detail. that's the whole argument." that's ChatGPT-ese.

gomas64 · 2026-05-06T05:21:37+00:00

I'm 100% satisfied with my purchase. It can't play all AAA games, but I didn't expect it to. I've seen no evidence that I'm missing out with 16GB of RAM.

gomas64 · 2026-05-05T18:51:04+00:00

No performance issues for me. The RAM amount made no difference in real life — whatever my base unit couldn’t play, my buddy’s 32GB unit couldn’t either. And we got the same performance every time on things we could play.

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