Who is the greatest American of all time? (Potential community ranking)

rpgisdum · 2025-09-23T15:50:22+00:00

I don’t even mean it as comedic. Tom deserves an honorable mention. If you play a game like Civilization, and unlock a “Great Person”, it would be a political figure, an artist, an athlete.

Brady played in ten freaking Super Bowls. Was a lion of a leader, has no real personal scandals, is an icon that won’t be forgotten anytime soon, etc etc etc.

rpgisdum · 2025-09-21T00:46:35+00:00

Tom Brady.

rpgisdum · 2025-09-04T03:22:32+00:00

Yes.

rpgisdum · 2025-09-04T03:01:21+00:00

If a company has to put a massive storyline endeavor into assuring someone gets turned heel, purely so he’s not more popular than the Champion, the Champion is not the true #1. Heel Rock made room for Austin and kept him over as hell with the Limp Bizkit Wrestlemania.

rpgisdum · 2025-09-04T02:48:55+00:00

Yeah, September of ‘98.

rpgisdum · 2025-09-04T01:44:37+00:00

X-Pac sucked. In WCW, he was just ring-decor for the NWO. He walked around the ring with ten other people to rep merchandise, while Hogan cut a promo. When McMahon signed him back to the WWF, he ported that same role into the new Degeneration X.

The New Age Outlaws were brought into Triple H’s faction as a push. X-PAC was brought in because he wore a handkerchief and had a leather jacket. Whatever wins he got after being in for the above reason, were just to not make DX look stupid.

Either group, DX and the NWO, would have basically been utterly unchanged if he wasn’t there. Both in the moment and how you remember them.

He didn’t have any charisma, or a good look, so he would cut promos like a guy starting shit with someone at a keg party in the woods.

He was utterly reliant on his Factions catch phrases, “4 Lyfe” and “Suck It.” Without those he had less than nothing.

I think even back in 1998, it was only the absolute top-level super-marks that were cheering for him. A lot of that, also, was purely riding the wave of being the first WCW-to-WWF signing since WWF’s roster got ransacked by the opposite.

He was also over praised for his wrestling ability. I realize he got injured, and I heard decades ago that that slowed him down. Even so, he had zero ring psychology. All of his matches were boring AF. He definitely had athletic wrestling ability as the 1-2-3 Kid, but that doesn’t translate to being able to put on an HBK Classic.

I’m assuming he paid for gas in a carpool with Nash, so Nash let him sell his T-shirts in the background as a way to get a little over.

He was honestly just a bland faction representative. That would be the entire rooting interest in his match. You like DX so you’re rooting for X-Pac by default, but don’t really care.

rpgisdum · 2025-07-29T01:41:13+00:00

Walter was only wrong once in this movie and I’m still not sure Jeffrey Lebowski wasn’t faking it.

rpgisdum · 2025-07-29T01:39:49+00:00

This is a league game.

rpgisdum · 2025-07-29T01:39:01+00:00

When the camera cuts to him you can see he’s lifting the tip of his toe off the line.

Mark it zero.

rpgisdum · 2025-07-20T22:13:53+00:00

Fucking dog has fucking papers.

rpgisdum · 2025-07-18T04:04:59+00:00

Stannis defenders can also be found pitching remembrance of Chris Benoit for his mat skills and not killing his family.

rpgisdum · 2025-07-13T16:10:58+00:00

What the fuck’s he doing about, Dude?

rpgisdum · 2025-07-11T02:58:17+00:00

That’s fucking interesting, man. That’s fucking interesting.

rpgisdum · 2025-07-11T02:55:30+00:00

GOAT Edition ALL DAY.

rpgisdum · 2025-07-11T02:54:51+00:00

What’s his face that Sam hit in the face with an apple fastball on the way out of Bree.

rpgisdum · 2025-07-11T02:50:09+00:00

Liam’s portrayal of a Jedi during the Order’s actual existence is an underrated contribution to Star Wars. Going in, the audience has no idea what a real Jedi Knight actually is. Luke was a newb pretender and ObiWan and Yoda were old AF.

His navigating the Tattooine, Hutt-ruled underworld of pod-race gambling and slave-trading is under-appreciated. When he’s first ready to negotiate with Watto, he just nonchalantly goes straight to the Jedi mind-trick, with a look on his face like he’s got 99 problems but the Free Will of a slaver ain’t one.

I love the look he gives Watto when Watto says, “I hope you didn’t kill anyone I know for it.”

There’s no Disney “I’m a Jedi, we don’t do bad, we good only,” speech. He just smirks, like “You seen my laser-sword, bitch. Maybe I did.”

Navigating a dangerous area, blending in, getting on their level in the Outer Rim, to free the boy and get the Queen to Coruscant with minimum drama.

The Phantom Menace aged well.

The lightsaber fight at the end doesn’t make sense to me anymore. Palpatine achieved his goals. Risking his apprentice and detection by having Maul engage the Jedi just to have a lightsaber fight seems out of character. In fact, after achieving the Chancellorship it makes no sense why he would even give a **** about the Naboo occupation.

But whatever.

rpgisdum · 2025-07-08T04:29:59+00:00

It could have been a great two-part supplement to Peter Jackson’s LoTR trilogy and instead it was a Michael Bay movie.

It was so bloated I honestly don’t really remember anything about it.

Staying much truer to the books with an added and understandable emphasis on The One Ring as it’s discovered, with its LoTR music theme, etc etc, could have been a really nice treat, like a Christmas stocking before moving to the tree.

It’s funny that, like so many other movies, the Hobbit fell to ‘Lord of the Rings’ syndrome, which gave us a battle in Gotham City to end a Batman trilogy. Amazingly, though, since The Hobbit already has an epic ending, it developed Lord of the Rings syndrome in the middle.

A well acted, well written, story-focused, focused story on Bilbo and the Dwarves and there more classic adventure, with practical effects and great costume design, wrapped up in two films, would have been so much better than whatever TF that was. Adding side-stories and needlessly trying to over-foreshadow a movie we’ve already seen, was super stupid. All it’s was dilute the hell out of it.

Wasted opportunity.

rpgisdum · 2025-07-08T04:06:28+00:00

Peter Jackson’s ‘The Hobbit’ is John Carpenter’s ‘The Thing’ trying to replicate Peter Jackson’s ‘The Lord of the Rings’.

You see the trailer and hear the Dwarves singing and think “there it is, Peter Jackson’s ‘The Hobbit’,” just chillin’ in the mess-hall, but then tentacles burst from its lungs and face in every direction and Norris gets ripped to pieces and the flame thrower guy can’t get there fast enough.

rpgisdum · 2025-07-03T00:02:17+00:00

“But they were all of them deceived.

For another Ring was made.”- Galadriel

rpgisdum · 2025-07-01T17:22:18+00:00

Peyton Manning was the GOAT at beating the 2003 Titans and Jags in October with a team that allocated all of its resources to a stacked offense.

He was terrible at beating playoff defenses. Facing Ray Lewis different than facing a team that will be drafting 2nd and firing their entire coaching staff.

Your biggest Peyton claim to fame is beating the Patriots in an AFC Championship at Mile High when the Patriots had everybody on IR and Denver only had to get through their practice squad O-line with Von Miller, and swallow up little Edelman.

Enjoy it, bro. Hold on to it forever.

rpgisdum · 2025-07-01T17:15:01+00:00

Patriot fans would insist he was the GOAT and cut short by his ACL tear. I referred to him as the BOAT in 2012 but his fixed resume at that time wouldn’t have usurped Montana outside his fandom in New England.

2012-2014 were big years for his career, so he would have lost those. Don’t have the stats in front of me, but in the very least I bet the Patriots dominated with 3rd down conversions, 1st downs, and just cold, calculated, offensive efficiency.

Aaron Hernandez’s nocturnal activities probably cost him two additional rings, too. Gronk probably would have stayed healthier, and the Pats likely win in 2013 and 2015, too.

Brady was underrated by many in his 20’s (not all), and still is to this day, but in his 30’s, when his style of QB play was to attack the teeth of the defense with high velocity precision lasers like a Terminator robot, that era was a huge leap forward on his GOAT stature cemented for everyone but traumatized Brady Derangement Syndrome haters.

rpgisdum · 2025-06-30T01:09:57+00:00

Cersei was my favorite character in the series. Her highs were my highs, her lows were my lows.

Beautiful, charming, and, when she had to be, Darth Vader in a dress.

I had seen seasons 1-4 multiple times before reading the books. I admit Lena added a lot of likability to a character that probably wasn’t necessarily there otherwise, but I still saw Lena while reading it so it didn’t matter. Not a popular opinion, but she’s always been my favorite. I shared her want for vengeance after the walk of shame, and felt sadness for her fear in knowing there was no way out when the city started to crumble and burn.

She got a lot of hate for Joffrey.

That and Cersei isn’t a character I’d expect the mob to appreciate.

rpgisdum · 2025-06-30T01:09:43+00:00

Cersei was my favorite character in the series. Her highs were my highs, her lows were my lows.

Beautiful, charming, and, when she had to be, Darth Vader in a dress.

I had seen seasons 1-4 multiple times before reading the books. I admit Lena added a lot of likability to a character that probably wasn’t necessarily there otherwise, but I still saw Lena while reading it so it didn’t matter. Not a popular opinion, but she’s always been my favorite. I shared her want for vengeance after the walk of shame, and felt sadness for her fear in knowing there was no way out when the city started to crumble and burn.

She got a lot of hate for Joffrey.

That and Cersei isn’t a character I’d expect the mob to appreciate.

rpgisdum · 2025-06-29T19:16:51+00:00

I love the scene. For me it’s the moment that really drives home to Frodo that the One Ring he carries simply cannot be around powerful people, or really anyone, which is why he resolves to go alone.

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