u/Willing-Stay-3498

I think growing up I had a hard time fitting into groups and I think it’s because i felt like most groups had a certain dynamic and then stuck with that dynamic

Which is why I probably ended up with multiple friend groups but never really staying for long

I was with a group of music nerds because they go more in depth than my other friends and tend to be more emotionally intelligent and sensitive but when I want to play basketball or I guess not but as introspective as much they’re not interested

So then I have my other friend group who is the complete opposite of them but they do all the super active things I like as well. Only problem is they’re less emotionally intelligent and more aloof which can be annoying

This is a very basic explanation of everything but If you get the gist it’s more complex than this.

Which leaves me to what I was trying to say. I feel like there’s few people in that middle ground that can do both

Most INFJs ( if I do find any irl) tend to be able to do both

Idk what you guys think?

Once upon a time basketball videos games were living at peace.

Freestyle street basketball one
NBA street vol 1-2
Old NBA live
NBA Jam

There was parity across the land and everyone was flourishing…..that is until the fire nation came (2k)

They plague our land with VC and product placement
With overpriced durags that cost more than durags in real life, they turned our playground into a city of emoters

We were at the bottom of the barrel

Until we discovered a new avatar named DumbMatter

Although his coding skills are great, he’s a lot to learn before he takes on the powers of the fire nation

But I believe DumbMatter can save the basketball world.

What I mean by that is the atmosphere and the vibe that was created that season the nets still struggle to replicate and it’s why they’re bottom of the barrel right now. I’m saying this as a pistons fan because lowkey that was my favorite team of recently memory

A organic bunch of guys who just wanted to play the best ball they can knowing their situation

I think that would have been more important establishing that within the organization rather than just chasing stars.

Because nothing was special about the players on that team but that atmosphere is yet to be replicated even by some other nba teams

Only closes ones I would say is the hornets i guess or the thunder if you want to compare but

You don’t just get team chemistry like that. Just wish yall built on that

I mean let me get the elephant out the room most people don’t believe in astrology I mean I get it

And most Christians/ religious people believe ahhh the devil and blah blah even though people who STUDIED THE STARS found Jesus birth but and I can go all day about this but ANYWAY

If you actually sat down and did your birth chart read it, lived life then returned to it again a year or 2 after. I don’t think you’ll ever understand the feeling of how scary accurate this shit is.

It’s like taking the red pill. You know I was like ahh this a phase this astrology shit it’ll pass me. Then it didn’t, too many coincidences for me to ignore.

So it brings me back to my point, I feel like if astrology was a more accepted way of understanding human behavior/personality

In my opinion I think it would be very effective in work or school places

Problem is it’s not socially acceptable which I mean I truly understand because there’s a lot inaccuracies if done wrong but if done right

It’s like it can’t miss

Idk if anyone else had this feeling also

What I mean by this is,

I been playing 2k for a long time especially park mode since 2015, im ngl this is the 1st year where im concerned for the intelligence level of some of our community members

I think we’re losing the players who actually watch basketball especially in park let me explain.

During 2k years of 2k9-2k16 (early 2k16)
The majority of people who played basketball video games were people who actually watch basketball so the people you played against naturally knew, when to cut, understand that a hedge isn’t a switch, understand easy passing lanes, if the person is ahead of the defender pass, and etc etc what I’m trying to say is there were more players (not all) who understood basketball in some degree

(There was always cheese In 2k but it never really
Took shape until 2k17 in park atleast)

Now fast forward to late 2k16 to now when 2k is clearly one of the most popular games instead of staying true to gearing thier game towards basketball watchers, they geared it towards people who cheese completely, slowly but surely year by year because those are the people who are on the game the most which more times than not arent basketball fans

Now on 2k26 instead of having a player pool of people who actually watch the game oh no

These new kids didn’t grow up watching the game

They grew up watching nba2k YouTubers watching them cheese instead of playing basketball.

So every point on this game is looking to cheese they’re not even looking to play point guard

Because that’s all they watched lol.

I’m not saying all kids are like this but from what I been seeing and been witnessing while I’m playing 2k26 it gets harder to deny that this is what the player pool is now

Wannabe NBA2k YouTubers
Which are highly selfish
Using your teammates as pawns
No real basketball being played

My Ted Talk is done

whenever I hear people in conversation say something along the lines of humans being God’s I truly cringe. Because to me it’s one the most disrespectful and idiotic things you can ever say in existence in my opinion.

The reason I say that is, is because they did not create themselves, change any elements or make a new one like,

Nobody truly knows why they’re them and why they had to be a specific race nobody has the answer to that.

once you start diving into how vase the universe and how intricate, detailed, structured and perfectly laid out is

And this guy of a bare minimum IQ of 100 comes in and says he’s God, and they start going on this rabbit hole of possibilities and people actually listen and follow 😂

Honestly it makes me want to punch them in the face

It makes my very analytical brain go into bullshit overload.

And no disrespect to religions that believe they are I mean…Im kind of disrespecting them right now but

Honestly do some people actually believe that?
It has to be a young thing.

You gotta grow out of that at some point.

I’m so tired of people thinking being different and having a different opinion than somebody is some type of positive trait I mean which it is but people are not going to listen to you unless you have some type of status to actually have leverage

If you’re a normal Joe INFJ this is the most frustrating life experience ever. Because literally no one understands you and not even in a cliche way just more times than not YOU or your perspective is going to be the least understood one.

And it’s a fight it’s a a whole battle of this

Shoot I wish I lived in a reality where my perspective was the majority but that just isn’t the case.

I’m not trying to make this completely negative though there is positives to this because you’re less likely to follow a crowd and your own perspective which brings inner peace which is good that’s nice..

But you know it can annoying sometimes that’s it lol.

Awhile back idk who did it but someone made a video on YouTube about who would be the most average player in the league within each position

These were the players

PG - Jordan Clarkson
SG - OJ Mayo
SF - Danillo Gallinari
PF - Quincy Acy
C - Derrick Favors

Who are the 2020s versions of average?

I guess you guys get what I mean when I say this but to put it in a example I’m going to give you 2 guys names

Chance the Rapper and King Von

Chance - dropped an album about how much he loves his wife
And other subjects (very cheesy) you rarely hear about the guy anymore

King Von - a guy who literally is a serial killer and wicked
And still to this day has a devoted following

And this is just 1 example there’s plenty more

Logic - talked about being biracial in his music then labeled corny and unlistenable, you rarely hear about the guy anymore

Chris Brown - beat the hell out of Rihanna and women still love this man till this day and had a very devoted following

And this is where I’m completely baffled at

People complain about terrible people
But it seems like they actually love terrible people based on the data and observations of society

I’m not saying chance and logic are complete angels but this is just music

I even tried to talk to my dad about it and he said “yeah it’s because they weren’t authentic enough with thier music and people noticed that”

And that’s a fair point but at the same time it got me thinking like this “but being a asshole is okay as long as it’s authentic to you got it”

This planet is mad confusing man.

If you really think about it’s really strange we never seen this with a game ever. I don’t think people understand how rare this is.

I been on Reddit for years and I was thinking hmmm 30+ makefriends okayyy should see more mature content

And 😂😂😂😂 it’s not like most of the content isn’t mature or anything

I just feel like it’s literally the same pattern no matter the age

It cracks me up seeing a guy post with 1-4 likes at most

But as soon as that M change to a F 😂😂

Going to see about 50-150 upvotes max

I feel like the formula needs to change

Because I feel like the current meta just creates unauthentic interactions and harassment

I think a solution would just be not setting gender at all, would probably suck for most people but it’ll force people to focus on personality rather than gender

If they’re truly trying to make friends
Idk just a suggestion

But it sucks for the women because women don’t always want to talk to a guy so how would they know who they’re talking to as well

I’m just trying to help yall lol.

I’m 30 so I’m not even that old I mean some even consider 96 “Gen Z” which idk how feel about that

I spent more time on MySpace than watching streams but anyway

I just got done watching some of streamer university really just some clips here and there to see what the gist was and….i just don’t get it

This probably the 1st time where I really felt like I couldn’t relate to the younger generation.

It was way too unstructured for me

Too much randomness and unpredictability

But maybe that’s something Gen Z really gravitate towards

So what I’m asking is why do yall like streamers so much?

Because I’m confused what the appeal is honestly

Like I’m kinda disappointed in Kai after a year of being off and having all this time to really organize this event the right way

Idk I feel like this could of been executed way better than what it was tbh

With actual objectives
Grades
Etc
Classroom time

I mean why call if university when yall barely in class

Maybe I’m too old to be entertained like this but this has too less structure for me to be fully engaged

Unless that’s just what this generation likes unorganized and randomness 🤷🏽‍♂️

I don’t think a lot of people understand what I mean or even understand that this happens often to people with autism is that

We’re kind of forced to keep our mask on especially at work or certain social situations, if not people tend to quietly stop interacting with you more.

It can be for any reason
A certain mannerism
Maybe a certain social Que miss
Or a personality trait

As soon as they notice you don’t think like them
They do exactly that

And it’s not like they completely stop communicating with you it’s like they just start to put you in a category that doesn’t trigger them to unlock authentic communication with you if that makes sense

I hope someone in here understands what I mean.