u/EchoBay

All the first one did with hindsight being 20/20 was getting some orbitters sued, and generating even more harassment for himself, Hila, the crew, their families, and anyone associated with the show/ Teddy Fresh.

It's just not worth it. Ethan is not going to be able to sway public opinion on Hasan, and no amount of Podcast episodes dedicated to him or H3H3Productions long-form videos will do the same. It's a losing battle.

I am not saying its a fight not worth having, but the people outside of this community don't want to hear it from Ethan. For whatever reason, to them he's an unreliable narrator whose just as bad as Hasan or Destiny or Asmongold or whomever.

All another longform video will do is make us hate Hasan more and make them harrass us and anyone associated with Ethan more.

I think the more impactful approach is just sticking to what they've been doing lately. Continuing grow the channel through shows like After Dark and fostering more connections with other influencers and their communities like with Reckless Ben or Nicol Concilio.

The only one whose going to take down Hasan is Hasan himself. The more he tries to go into politics or the mainstream news coverage, the more his demons will begin to be uncovered. As we've already been seeing lately with having his visa revoked, or mainstream news publishers doing hit pieces on him. If Ethan wants to serve as a resource of information in this articles than that's great too.

I am not saying Ethan should never talk about him or that he shouldn't take those jabs when they're available, in fact its good to keep a spotlight on what he's doing. Its just not worth it to go all in on the offensive when the reward will be minimal, and the blowback will be intense all over again.

Edit: To clarify there is no Nuke part 2 upcoming as far as we know. This is just me discussing the idea of Ethan doing another one on Hasan. He's talked the past year or so about potentially doing one, he even had an archive at one point that we saw him pull up in on the podcast briefly, but never went all in on following through.

The Regular Season ends along with the Play-In games, and we're given a 1 1/2 to 2 week break before the Playoffs begin. Let's say the last game takes place on Sunday, April 12th and the Playoffs begin Saturday, April 25th.

In between on say Sunday, April 18th, we have a big 2-3 Hour Event giving out all the awards and doing the Draft Lottery at the same time.

Benefits?

- Not spread out randomly throughout the Playoffs

- Awards can be given out and teammates, coaches, opposing players, opposing coaches, celebrities, etc. Can all be there to acknowledge their win

- Players love to dress up and show off their fashion, so this would be an opportunity to do a big Red Carpet like ceremony at the beginning

- They can plaster the thing with ads and sponsors to make money where they aren't currently (as a fan I wouldn't want it but they want money at the end of the day and there's money left on the table right now)

- Players get a much needed break to heal up any nagging or debilitating injuries that would have kept them out of game action

I just figured you get it all done and over with, and the teams can then focus fully on the Post Season push afterwards.

Just got out of my second watch of the film, and some additional thoughts came to mind for me about the wish Entity. There were some scenes where possessed Nikki was at a loss for how to support Bear. Not from a, "I am losing grip on Bear and must think of a way to manipulate him into regaining control," situation. Rather a, "I don't know how to make Bear love me, but the wish forces me to do so anyways."

It makes me wonder exactly how much it has agency in this situation? Obviously Nikki is being possessed by this thing and is the ultimate victim, but what if "it" is also a victim of the wish as well? From the Entity's perspective, its life's purpose is to exist in this husk of a body and to love Bear with every ounce of its being. Except Bear doesn't love it... he loves Nikki, yet it doesn't know how to be Nikki. It can only mimic Nikki and act like what it thinks Bear would want.

Its like if you asked an AI program to pretend to be a celebrity and to roleplay a relationship. Its going to do everything correct at the surface level, but its never going to replace the real thing because it's not the real thing. The prompt = the wish, and its programming dictates that it must find a way to make the user happy, but it never can fully.

Over the course of the film we see it get more and more drastic in its solutions to make Bear love it. Like an AI program given a paradoxical task and being forced to complete it. Eventually its going to start spouting incoherent nonsense before it completely breaks. Or in this films case, going from making up a lie about her dad having cancer to gain sympathy, to displaying Sarah's massacred body in a ritualistic fashion because maybe somehow someway this will make Bear want to love it.

Maybe this too was gibberish lol, but its just something that came to mind in my second watch through of the film.

Is he the perfect player? No, but in terms of realistic upgrades to our roster that we could get, to me he's one of the best available.

Still in his prime coming off his best season to date, his efficiency was down in the playoffs but he still regularly produces WAY better numbers than Ingram does or Quickley would have (let's be real), even in a bad post season run.

I think we if we swung a deal for him, it would be in hopes that he could have a similar home country bump to his play like RJ has had, and play even better than he does with the Nuggets.

Groundwork of a deal could be something like Murray + Johnson for Ingram + Quickley, with us throwing in a 1st or two (they'll be around the 20th range anyways). I put Cam in there so they can get off his contract, even if I don't love him myself. Plus whatever other minor moves this deal would need. Maybe they dont want Braun anymore for instance so they throw him in there.

I also want to get CMB into the starting lineup, so that would put us at Murray, Barrett, Barnes, CMB and Yak. My other goal would be to get a stretch 5 center, and that's where hopefully we could do something around Myles Turner. Though unfortunately we'd probably have to throw in a 1st to entice the Bucks to rake on Yaks contract.