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Gary Payton and Derrick Rose gave the same interview about two different players. Curious what you guys think about it.

INTERVIEWER: You've actually said that John Stockton was harder to guard than Michael Jordan. Cuz I guess that Stockton wouldn't react to your trash talk at all. He would just look right through you and keep scoring.

PAYTON: Yes. Like a stone face. So, he was very hard for me to guard. And I used to hate going into Utah all the time. I can't deal with that. I have to always focus on him. But it's a difference between him. I got to guard him 94 ft. I got to think about coming off of picks. He throwing passes. He coming back trying to steal basketballs. He always moving. He's taking charges on me. He doing a lot of things. He only played 34 minutes. That's what Jerry Sloan played him. And then when you look up, he shot the ball 10 times. He made eight. He shot seven free throws. He made all seven. Next thing you know, you look up, he got 16 assists. Then you think about it and you say, "Dang, he got five, six rebounds." Yeah.

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INTERVIEWER: Who is the hardest person that you had to defend in your entire career?

ROSE: I hated dudes that acted like they were real point guards. Like Rondo. You know, legit point guards that didn't care about scoring and you couldn't phase them by how much you scored cuz they don't care about that. They care about just winning the game. I hated guys like that because I wanted my scoring to get to you or try to rattle you and it never rattled him. He still played the same way. I could have 30. He still don't care about his points. He's still not trying to score. He's still telling guys how to where to go, how to organize the offense. And it was just a mind game letting me know that "I don't give a fuck about points. At the end of the game, you lost. That's the only thing I care about."

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Both these clips are on Youtube but I don't know what the rules are these days about linking there.

I noticed this while listening to a few different clips lately and it seems counter-intuitive since in some ways you'd think the guys who go one-on-one and talk the most trash might be considered the toughest match-ups, but both guys here said the opposite.

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u/EGarrett28 — 12 days ago

How would Arnold have done as Kyle Reese?

The role he originally wanted. I think the movie would've still been successful, but I think i would not have worked that well. Arnold as an underdog hero is inherently satirical in the first place (hence the tone of Running Man and Total Recall). But I would not have believed that he was that character. Michael Biehn was perfect, he looked malnutritioned but still wiry and tough. And Biehn's desperation was just perfect. In the car speech, he made me believe that he actually escaped from a concentration camp run by robots, which is pretty amazing.

It also worked out for the best because you couldn't bring Reese back for another movie, unless they rewrote it so he somehow survives.

Pictured above is a human-looking Arnold. How do you think he would've done?

u/EGarrett28 — 21 days ago

How would a T-1000 do as a protector?

You're out at the park, and two Arnold's show up and point guns at you. The old homeless guy nearby jumps in the way of the bullets, then morphs into a T-1000 and tells you "come with me if you want to live." He runs you over to a car and speeds you off, and says he's programmed to follow your orders. >!he just so happens to resemble an X-Files FBI agent, lol!<

What's your plan and do you think you can eliminate the two Arnold's?

u/EGarrett28 — 25 days ago
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This is Sequoia National Park in California, home to some of the largest trees on Earth. Some of these giant sequoias are over 2,000 years old and taller than a 25-story building.

u/EGarrett28 — 28 days ago
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What was Garry Kasparov's best performance?

Hi all. In boxing, most fans consider Muhammad Ali's 3-round defeat of Cleveland Williams to be the best performance of his career and the epitome of Ali in his prime. So, when they imagine the "time machine scenario" of Ali fighting Tyson or other great heavyweights, it's usually that Muhammad Ali who they assume is showing up.

Along the same lines, I know the best Bobby Fischer was obviously from the candidates matches in 1971. So what was that for Garry Kasparov? I know his peak rating was in 99/00, but that was also when he played Kramnik for the championship. So maybe an earlier time was better?

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u/EGarrett28 — 29 days ago

Where did the T-1000's human form come from?

I'm wondering what the basis is for the particular human face and body that the T-1000 has. The T-800, depending on what you consider canon, is based on Sergeant William Candy or a counter-terrorist named Dieter Von Rossbach whose body was big enough to hold the endoskeleton, but I don't remember hearing or reading about who the T-1000 took its form from.

I like to imagine that Skynet isn't capable of creating a human face on its own and has to take everything from actual humans.

The Terminator wiki says that it was assigned a default body shape upon creation, but doesn't seem to give any more basis. His nametag as a police officer says "Austin," but that may be the officer who he stabbed at the beginning of the movie.

My own pet imagining is that Reese's original partner, Sumner, died in the first attempt to use a time machine (similar to the abandoned plot moment from T-1), but his body was left next to it, and the T-1000 slithered over it on its way to be sent back and assumed Sumner's body. He looks like a resistance fighter with his toned but underweight/malnourished physique.

Do the novels give any info?

What's your fan theory?

u/EGarrett28 — 1 month ago
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The world's longest hotel bed is at RYSE Hotel in Seoul at 20 ft (6m) long, fits 20 adults. Designers said it's for "giant humans of the future." Some guests have… other theories.

A New York art collective called MSCHF built the world's biggest hotel bed at Seoul's RYSE Hotel in Hongdae, calling it BED 2525, designed for giants of the far future, since humans will theoretically keep growing taller over centuries. They actually did structural construction on the room to fit the thing. The suite doubles as a MSCHF art retrospective, with Damien Hirst spot paintings cut into 108 pieces that guests can buy off the walls.
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u/EGarrett28 — 28 days ago
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Breathtaking Video of a wave slowed down to 40 seconds. Shot by - Phil Thurston

u/EGarrett28 — 2 months ago