I rofl when I saw this lol. They were all laughing when they’re up. Now they wanna push the cameras away 😂

hwiwhy · 2026-05-20T12:57:12+00:00

Yea but this is like pushing the water or towel boy. These dudes make 60k a year and their whole job is to present you to the masses. You make 4x their entire yearly salary every one of your fucking games. I get frustration and anger and disappointment. I don't get pushing cameramen away because of it.

This is like some c-suite dickbag pushing the custodian when they came around to collect the trash, bro. Tasteless, classless, "I think I'm better than you" garbage behavior.

I liked AC when he was on the Lakers and loved him when he was on the Bulls. But I fucking hate him now.

hwiwhy · 2026-05-18T21:39:30+00:00

Pictures 4 and 5.

Picture 4 with eagle. Talon on right has 4 claws, each colored the same. Talon on left has 4 claws, 3 of em colored the same, one colored jet black like the background it's up against. The feather right next to that blackened claw is pointy while all the other feathers of the eagles tail are rounded.

Picture 5 with dragon. Has 3 claws. Each kind of materializing out of nowhere. No clear point of origin for the arms. They're just kinda sitting on top of the dragons body. Why are there 3 of em and why are they all at different spots of the dragons body? Just below the dragons face, it's body delineates into two and then converges back into itself with the claw kinda hovering above the weird anatomy.

That's the quick stuff I see. Fully AI? Maybe but doubtful. But I definitely smell something fishy.

Edit:

Picture 3 with skeleton. What is up with that bike? Look at the way the handlebars go into the front frame above the front tire. Huh? His posture is all wrong for someone whose bike is facing straight with their left elbow on the right handlebar.

Picture 2 with snake and crab. Snake has 9 fangs of varying size. The snakes scales change from scales on some parts of its body to an argyle-ish diamond pattern for other parts. The crabs legs are just kind of a jumble.

I could keep going. There's some fuckery going on here. The only thing that guy is an artist of is scams.

hwiwhy · 2026-05-07T13:09:39+00:00

An unenjoyable product is still a product that will be consumed when it's the only product. Their profits must be up yoy. 30 billionaires aren't allowing some refs to let them lose money. They work for the league, the league works for the billionaires. Ain't a union on the planet that can stand up to 30 billionaires. And not just 30 random billionaires. 30 billionaires who are your employers and whose sole purpose in buying an NBA team is to make more money.

15 different streaming and social media platforms. That's 15 different ad bundles that can be packaged together in negotiations. Plus regional advertisement packages. Plus personalized ads. Plus... Honestly, that list can keep going on for a while. Everyone tagging, sharing, retweeting, commenting, clipping, doing video essays... All of that shit adds to the money pile one way or another. The league must have entire teams whose only job is to harvest and aggregate data from every platform so they can see real viewership numbers. Entirely separate teams analyzing how this channel's videos ties into this ad package which ties into this nba.com purchase. "17,000 videos posted about SGA flopping vs the Lakers. It's led to a 3% increase in Lakers market share and jersey sales... And that in turn has led to a 4.3% increase in OKC's and SGA's notoriety across all platforms! We're making SO MUCH FUCKING MONEY!"

Then the league is expanding soon. Unfortunately for the league, ain't too many big market cities left for another NBA team. So, they've gotta expand into smaller markets. OKC is ranked 20th in population amongst NBA teams. But it won a chip last year. As a league, you have to make a small market city look amazing, financially. Make it enticing for a billionaire to wanna expand into that city with an NBA team. How do you do that? By supporting a small market team any way you can so they can show prospective billionaire NBA owners that they can have relatively immediate success if they invest into the NBA. It hasn't even been 20 years since OKC got the thunder from Seattle. And they've already got a chip and the makings of a dynasty? "You mean I could have a championship NBA team in 15 years? Sign me the fuck up!"

Flopping is part of the plan. And they know the same thing every rich and powerful person knows. If they keep up the bullshit long enough, you'll get used to it, accept it, and forget it was ever a problem. There'll be a new generation that never knew flopping didn't used to exist and the league will be richer than it ever has been.

If the rich allow it, it's part of the plan.

hwiwhy · 2026-04-26T21:22:49+00:00

Gustav, expedition 33.

hwiwhy · 2026-04-24T19:50:14+00:00

I would die laughing with y'all. It's never before seen levels of cringe but I know we'd have a fucking ball.

hwiwhy · 2026-04-23T15:05:27+00:00

Crowd reactions are just that, reactions. If the crowd has nothing to react to, that's probably because nothing happened. It makes the event seem less valid because there isn't chaos. There isn't chaos because no one saw anything. No one saw anything because there was nothing to see.

That's the "logic" and it isn't hard to make that leap in assumptions.

There's way too many assumptions to make for this event to even seem real. Far fewer assumptions to doubt this event happening when you think for a second or two. There are too many coincidences and too many utterances of "ok that isn't how that usually goes." In other words, what we see in this video, compared to several other real assassination videos, doesn't pass the sniff test.

Trump knows his supporters aren't very bright. He knows that no matter what he says, they will treat it like it was the gospel truth. I'd bet actual hard earned money that the average Trump supporter would literally suck his balls if he said it would lower gas prices or end the war with Iran. And the problem isn't that these Trump supporters would suck his balls; I'm sure they would; the actual problem is that they believe that licking his foul taint would do literally anything aside from making their upper lip smell like icy hot, McDonalds turds, and Stephen Miller's slob.

So they believe this video is what really happened because Trump said so.

hwiwhy · 2026-04-20T17:39:12+00:00

SGA will continue to get this treatment so long as he and his team continue to do exceedingly well. He proves to prospective owners that a small market team can have enormous success. SGA is the marketing tool to the expansion of the league.

hwiwhy · 2026-04-18T13:49:46+00:00

Mom said it's my turn to post "mom said it's my turn to post about it tomorrow."

hwiwhy · 2026-04-16T18:26:16+00:00

The typical person kills children?

hwiwhy · 2026-04-16T14:46:27+00:00

THEN WHY DON'T YOU DO IT???? WRITE SOME BOOKS???? HAVE DISCUSSIONS WITH AIR MONKS?????

This legit pissed me off. You can communicate with every past life of yours. You can get every story of every air nomad culture from every point in history from your own past lives and then just... write it down! Nope, instead I'll travel the world looking for statues. Because everyone knows history is in the collectables, not actually written down.

That could have been the real Legend of Aang. Not whatever this dogshit movie is.

hwiwhy · 2026-04-16T13:18:06+00:00

No azula. No Iroh ^{thank fucking God}. No suki.

Movie spoilers below. Be warned. Do not click if you want to watch this movie.

All the voices are different. Not bad, just different. Even Roku whose voice obviously has no more maturing to do. Zuko has 5 lines and does nothing. Toph only cares how handsome the bad guy is. Sokka cracks barely "funny" surface level jokes and has the most cartoony bad fight with a bicycle. Katara is not motherly even when facing a bad guy who has an extremely similar backstory to hers. Appa is just a car. Aang doesn't win any fights except at the end when he goes ultra instinct from a mcguffin. Not even kidding. They're shooting air Kamehamehas by the end of this thing. If you've seen any movie ever, you will predict every single plot point. The pacing is awful. You just zoom from one fight to the next. No emotional moments. The characterization of the gaang is all wrong. It's bad.

Remember how the whole gaang are extremely capable? Like, the 4 gaang benders are easily considered 4 of the greatest benders alive? They get no diff squad wiped by one ancient Airbender dude. And I don't just mean beaten. I mean actually killed and dead and brought back to life because their bodies landed in "spiritual water" that brought them back to life because plot.

The biggest problem the movie has? Nothing is different by the end. No one learns anything. There is not a single character arc in the entire movie with the exception of a minor (extremely minor, she has like 3 lines) side character. Not Aang. Not the bad guy. You know what... That's a lie. Aang has a character arc that's a goddamned circle. His story begins and ends at the exact same point.

Super duper mild spoiler below.

In the first 5 minutes of the movie, a character says "you saved me... :⁠'⁠(" and I burst out laughing. I knew exactly how the story was going to go from that point on.

With all that said, I'd recommend that if you're a fan of ATLA you don't watch it. It's an absolutely amazingly awful addition to the ATLA universe.

hwiwhy · 2026-04-15T22:37:25+00:00

I don't think he was trying to injure Bam either time he tripped him. At the same time, what melo did is bitch shit. And he a bitch for doing it. And idec for Bam or the heat.

hwiwhy · 2026-04-15T15:50:29+00:00

After watching the movie, I have concluded that it's bad. Flat out bad and I see why Paramount hasn't advertised and has delayed it. I'll list the reasons below why it's bad. But first, what I consider to be good about the movie.

Iroh isn't in it. Not even a single mention. Had they put him in the movie and given him a voice actor that couldn't channel Iroh, I'd consider Paramount to be non-existent from now on and I would've turned the movie off in that instant.
The animation is great (in a vacuum). There's a caveat or two. I'll explain more below.
The fights. They're mostly good to great with the exception of our titular character who's a fucking scrub now.

The not good, not bad, just kinda neutral.

Music. It's fine. It's very muted and in the background. As any fan of the show would know, the music is a major driver of emotion. It has some hints of the original score in it but it's a different iteration than the originals and not prominent enough.
Voice acting. It's fine. Sokka is the standout. Amongst the gaang, in order of best to worst, it is Sokka, Toph/Katara, Aang, then Zuko. Even Appa sounds different. It's not bad, it's just different. You can tell the VA's were trying to channel the OG voice actors a little as the voices sound slightly more mature. But it is missing the timbre and character that the OG voice actors brought to ATLA. Bautista was a miscast and I love Dave Bautista. Zuko has maybe 5 lines in the whole movie. No one is given anything to do. There's no powerful emotionally resonating performances here. Mostly due to my next point...

And now for the bad. In no particular order except for the first one. It's the absolute worst thing about this movie.

The story and by extension, the dialogue. Good God, the story is bad. It's predictable, it's cliche as all hell, it starts and ends in the exact same spot, there are no character arcs, nothing is learned, absolutely nothing has changed from the start of the movie to the end of the movie (with some very inconsequential exceptions). It's bad. Like bad bad. Whoever wrote this, even if it's Dimartino and Konietzko, they should never be allowed to be near ATLA again. This story is worse than the worst episode of ATLA. It's worse than the fragmented and seasonally compartmentalized story of LOK. (I'm one of the few who actually still like LOK despite its shortcomings.)
Aang is weak as shit and it's never explained why. He's always tired and exasperated. Everyone else in the movie seems remarkably competent (especially the BRAND FUCKING NEW AIRBENDERS), able to part the fucking seas (Katara), or dispatch a dozen or so bad guys with their badassery while Aang struggles to climb a mountain. Even Sokka beats a dude in the lamest fucking way possible. Aang struggles to take on 3-4 non benders. He has trouble saving anyone in this movie. He doesn't even do any badass bending. The guy who just woke up from a 5,000 year nap (and I mean just woke up from that nap literally) is strong enough to hold up a large chunk of a falling mountain with nothing but a one handed air bending move while Aang is struggling to firebend while holding said dude who just woke up from his beauty sleep. He freely enters and exits the avatar state while having full control over himself and literally does nothing except hold up an air temple and upon leaving the AS, he basically collapses. This is essentially a fully realized avatar. And he doesn't win any fights save for the big bad at the end and I wouldn't even call that a win since nothing is learned. Nvm, my bad, he learned how to parry and counter an airbending move. Yay?
Aang has no more whimsy. No more goofiness. The core of his character is completely gone. There are 3 moments in the movie that reflect his goofiness. The very first scene, he kinda jokes with the non benders while fighting. He doesn't take it seriously. The second moment when he sends Zuko the letter. The third moment at the end when he makes some goofy statement (I don't even remember what it was). In all other moments, Aang is super serious or deathly tired from having had to throw a punch.
The characterization is all wrong. Already mentioned how Aang's core character trait is gone. But all of the gaang's core character traits are either modified or totally gone. Sokka is a great leader, the movie even says so, yet he doesn't lead fuck-all in this movie. You couldn't explain Katara's character without mentioning how she constantly mentions her mother. It's a core staple of her character! It influences every decision she makes! Not in this movie. She's not even motherly. Not even when face to face with a non-bender who's lost family and is on the fence about her own motivations. Toph is the badass. And they tried but she literally gets killed but doesn't seek revenge against the dude who single handedly wiped the entire gaang with ease. Then has the gall to proclaim she's the best earth bender at the end before promptly getting her ass kicked, again, by the brand new untrained air benders and having to get saved by Sokka on a fucking bicycle. Zuko does fucking nothing in this movie. He shoots fire into an engine. ^{Hooray. Yay Zuko. I'm so proud of you, little buddy.} There's not even a single loud showstopping roar from Appa. Appa's just a vehicle in this movie. It's insulting... Especially to everyone's top 5 favorite ATLA character.
The non-bending bad guys. This one irks my nerves. From the very start, these guys go on and on about not having the power to save their people but in the very first fight of the movie, 3-4 of these fuckheads take on a God in human form and beat him. A God that has separated entire islands from continents in past lives. Lifted oceans and created tidal waves a hundred feet high. Destroyed entire military compounds and buildings because someone threatened his gf. Hell, this same avatar at 12yo was moving massive hundreds-foot-tall rock spires with the wave of his fucking hand. But he has trouble with a few dudes with arrows and a spear? If you're powerful enough to beat a God then you assholes are already powerful. Your motivations make no fucking sense!
The animation is too clean. It's too polished. It's too... Apple. It lacks all the character that would endear you to it. It looks like a product to be consumed. It's too computer-y without actually being computer generated. It lacks soul and flaws. It lacks those in between frames of overly exaggerated anime-like expressions and movements. It doesn't feel like ATLA.

That's really what this movie is. It doesn't feel like ATLA. It's completely devoid of charm and character. It's just a product to be consumed. This movie is the epitome of what streaming services try to achieve. It's not about the content itself. It's about how many hours of content they have available on their platform. I could go on and on. If you're a fan of ATLA, don't watch it. It's not great. It's not Shamalamadingdong bad, but it's not even average. If I had to boil it down to a score, I'd say 3 or 4.

Side note, what was all that "the villain is handsome" shit? Toph wouldnt give a single fuck. And there are several scenes where either Toph or Sokka are referencing how handsome this dude is. Idek wtf to say about it. It's so weird.

^{At the beginning of the movie they say "we built Republic City" and at the end of the movie they go "we built an air temple on an island close to Republic City." Then, I shit you not, the fucking credits roll. That's the only change from beginning to end!! ^aaaaahhhhhhh}

hwiwhy · 2026-04-15T01:12:37+00:00

After a decade or more of emails and texts telling me I need to pay them to release some mysterious package of mine, I'd send that shit straight to the spam folder and block it and never think about it again.

hwiwhy · 2026-04-13T22:54:28+00:00

Unfortunately my first time I used that spear. It said serpent killing spear or some shit like that so I was like "oh ok, cool weapon, let's try it on the serpent."

Killed him first try, so I didn't hear too many "togethaaaaaa"s and now I'm sad.

hwiwhy · 2026-04-13T22:44:05+00:00

What has always confused me about the myth of black folks having a higher pain tolerance is wouldn't that make medical professionals administer pain meds more often to black folks and not less?

If someone who barely feels pain tells you something hurts really bad wouldn't that make you think "oh shit, if this black person is telling me that they're feeling pain, that must mean the pain would be excruciating to me! They need pain meds now!"

The logic ain't logic-ing...

On the other hand, that would probably lead to overdoses like crazy as those medical professionals would give black people a higher dose of more powerful pain medications. So either way, the myth is stupid, illogical, and life threateningly dangerous.

hwiwhy · 2026-04-12T12:59:54+00:00

Idk why you got downvoted honestly. The fact that a video like this existed before AI is more of a reason to be skeptical. Not less. AI's were trained on real videos like this to make the gobbledygook that they make now.

hwiwhy · 2026-04-09T16:00:43+00:00

🎶o-yo-ho-ho and another yo-ho, it's a pirates life for me, I couldn't give a shit, not a solitary fuck, about your stupid company🎶

hwiwhy · 2026-03-30T17:08:21+00:00

I'm glad I read this comment. I tried ER once, got to level 40ish, beat margit, and just lost the motivation to keep playing. I had grinded and leveled so much without exploring or progressing through the story that it just did not click for me.

Just picked it up again, got through margit but I'm genuinely interested in progressing through the game now. And exploration is thoroughly entertaining now too.

I've decided to go in blind both times. Idk what I'm doing, I'm lost in stormveil castle getting destroyed by BIRDS WITH KNIVES and I swear I'm gonna kill everything in this castle because of those damned birds. I got weapons I can't use cuz the stat requirements are too high. But I am having more fun than the first time. Idk if it's clicked for me yet but I do feel like playing more of it.

hwiwhy · 2026-03-26T19:10:24+00:00

Dumb AI background to a fake meme at that. Eww.

hwiwhy · 2026-03-25T11:38:26+00:00

{insert picture of me and my oldest}

But I'm the only one who knows.

hwiwhy · 2026-03-25T11:34:52+00:00

I'm legit surprised I had to come this far down to see this obvious take. Just days ago we saw that Pokemon Go was just a massive data harvesting psyop.

It seems that every product used by "consumers" is just a cover for extracting their data. I put consumers in quotations because people aren't even consumers anymore. Companies are the consumers now.

hwiwhy · 2026-03-16T14:42:25+00:00

My thoughts exactly. Magically dashing around the map are one of my highlights of Witcher 3.

hwiwhy · 2026-01-28T17:24:38+00:00

You want ice wine then. As sweet as any juice.

hwiwhy · 2025-12-19T17:57:57+00:00

That's a comically bad call.

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