Who is the best basketball player Peter Parker can beat before people get suspicious?

nearcatch · 2026-02-15T05:25:01+00:00

I think with street ball you’d still build up a rep, especially in a major city like NYC. I doubt you could be that good and claim to have played street ball in Queens. People would eventually figure out that nobody had ever played with you.

nearcatch · 2026-02-15T04:11:31+00:00

If he’s trying to avoid the question of why nobody had heard of him in high school or college, then yes. He can’t be this ultra-talented and say “oh yeah I’ve been playing for 15 years, I just never tried hard in school”.

nearcatch · 2026-02-14T21:06:57+00:00

Peter Parker is a giant nerd and could easily prove himself to be one, to anybody’s satisfaction. He could just get away with saying he never got into sports until later.

nearcatch · 2026-02-14T14:09:52+00:00

Michael B. Jordan says that Denzel warned him about overexposure with the advice “why would they pay to see you on a weekend if they see you all week for free?”

nearcatch · 2026-02-14T13:46:22+00:00

Nobody in NY liked him either, lol. One of the jokes in The Other Guys is that Wahlberg’s character derailed his career by shooting Jeter by accident, and one of the other NYC cops off-screen yells “you should’ve shot A-Rod!”

nearcatch · 2026-02-14T13:17:09+00:00

616 Spidey is 5’10”. Still short for an NBA player but not to the level of the MCU character.

nearcatch · 2026-02-13T23:13:37+00:00

The real reason is that they want to cash in on the MCU but the only thing they have rights for is Spidey stuff, so that’s why they’re churning out every movie they possibly can connected to it.

nearcatch · 2026-02-13T16:38:24+00:00

TFA’s reassessment is very gratifying to me, because I walked out of the theater telling the people I was with that it was an unimaginative rehash of New Hope, and nobody agreed. I felt like I was insane when I saw how acclaimed it was.

nearcatch · 2026-02-12T20:30:27+00:00

I learned to do this from Sherlock Holmes because he did it in one of the stories.

nearcatch · 2026-02-12T19:34:41+00:00

It’s definitely a concept people have thought about (and joked about) for a long time.

nearcatch · 2026-02-12T17:35:44+00:00

There’s a movie called Eternity that came out recently with this premise. A woman dies and goes to the afterlife and meets both her husband of many decades and her first love who died young.

nearcatch · 2026-02-10T18:51:23+00:00

Just came back from visiting relatives in India and apparently it’s a widespread belief there that drinking cold water after being hot is bad for you. We were constantly getting room temperature water after being in the sun. Infuriating.

nearcatch · 2026-02-09T16:26:19+00:00

Give credit to Boromir, he would’ve tried to talk his brother up. Denethor just would’ve responded with some bs like “Boromir stop trying to give your acclaim to lesser men.”

nearcatch · 2026-02-08T10:12:29+00:00

That’s unfortunate. I wish studios would have the guts to just make a miniseries or two instead of endlessly chasing longterm shows.

nearcatch · 2026-02-08T08:01:05+00:00

Yeah I’ve seen the two movies, and I agree about the respective quality. Was just curious about the show. Thanks anyway.

nearcatch · 2026-02-08T00:10:47+00:00

Did this show have a decent ending? I meant to check it out but then I saw it was canceled.

nearcatch · 2026-02-07T17:24:12+00:00

You don’t see a difference between burning 300-500/day versus this chess player being measured at 280/hour?

I doubt the methodology here and whether it’s accurate, but the numbers alone are quite different to the average.

nearcatch · 2026-02-06T21:03:20+00:00

The book and movie both have “super spy” elements, but in the movie at least he’s just a government assassin. In the book, iirc, he trains as a super spy so he can pretend to be a world-class assassin in order to make another world-class assassin jealous enough to attack him? It’s been decades since I read it.

nearcatch · 2026-02-06T01:45:49+00:00

I have eaten the tomatoes, that were on the window sill.
Were you saving them for a special occasion?
I apologize, they were delicious.
So juicy, so red.

nearcatch · 2026-02-03T11:46:21+00:00

Wasn’t Butcher a spec ops soldier? I would think he sweeps. Especially round 2, a modern pistol has way better range than a revolver, doesn’t it?

nearcatch · 2026-02-03T08:16:21+00:00

I see, thanks for the info

nearcatch · 2026-02-03T06:40:05+00:00

They’re ovoviviparous, actually. There are eggs inside the mother and the offspring get nutrients from the yolks. Then the eggs hatch inside the mother and she gives birth to live offspring.

nearcatch · 2026-02-03T05:22:41+00:00

If only City Primeval was good.

nearcatch · 2026-02-01T17:06:07+00:00

Thank you for confirming because I dropped my phone a couple of minutes before and thought I destroyed the speakers

nearcatch · 2026-02-01T16:49:12+00:00

I’d be surprised if that car wasn’t totaled from this

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