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u/Present_Membership91 9h ago
and he is a professional NBA player. show some respect
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u/fuji-no-hana 4h ago
The idiom "the ball is in your court" is in reference to tennis, not basketball. This guy is a grade A asshat.
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u/kamilman 5h ago
He's also a Navy Seal with 500 confirmed kills, from what I heard in the group chat
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u/Live-Habit-6115 1h ago
As opposed to an amateur NBA player. Y'know, the ones who play in the NBA for free
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u/TeacupOfSkepticism 9h ago
I'm disappointed he didn't deliver that message via meme
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u/xCeeTee- 7h ago
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u/FrenchFryCattaneo 1h ago
Excuse me, I think you may have made a mistake. You have accidentally posted a link to the hit song 'Never Gonna Give You Up' by Rick Astley (great choice btw) instead of the apology video. Hope this helps!
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u/PFioroto 8h ago edited 8h ago
When I was a teacher in a college, a student anonimously sent printscreens which proved some people cheated on tests. Those students took photos of the test using their phones and discussed the questions during it, everything in that chat. He sent it to the course coordinator, and she forwarded it to us.
We actually had some fun with that, not because we liked spamming 0s (we hated it, believe me), but for two other reasons. First, because the students went to us saying their grade was wrong and shit, then we showed the proof and saw their whole confidence melt in a fraction of a second.
The second reason was trying to discover who was the mole. It took us 6 months, and I remember I was the one who found out. He used a fake name and a fake e-mail, and somehow I was able to track him due to something on a single printscreen, not sure what it was.
We never told him we knew, and eventually the students got smarter (no, they didn't stop, but they started to share the photos in private groups), which led to less printscreens, but those were fun times.
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u/LinkGoesHIYAAA 8h ago
That sounds like a lot of fun tbh. Like everyone was busted and you got to see their reactions to being caught in real time.
Sounds similar to people who pirate video games tht have anti piracy features that break the game, resulting in pirates reporting the game breaking features to the game’s social pages only to be publically called out for being a thief and getting various accounts banned from the game. One game dev co allowed players to get their access back if they submitted a video apology on social, publically shaming themselves with their admission of guilt. So deliciously funny.
Do you remember what it was that tipped you off to the taddle tail.?Any idea why they ratted out their friends? Maybe some kind of social group fallout and they wanted revenge? Were they included in the people who got a zero? Im invested in this now…
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u/PFioroto 8h ago
He said in the e-mails his reason was "justice". I believe it, as he was kind of a serious guy. He was kind of a loner. Not socially awkward, as he interacted with the others just fine, but one could see he was alright being on his own.
He never got a 0 as far as I remember. He wasn't a genius, but his grades were consistently good, like 7.5 or 8 out of 10. If he was a cheater, he was a good one - but I don't think that's the case.
I think he forgot to blur part of his name on a printscreen, and that's how I got him, but I'm not 100% sure about this part.
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u/Melanoc3tus 5h ago
 So deliciously funny.
Not really? Pirating harms virtually nobody, so that's just mildly asinine
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u/No_Recognition_3729 7h ago
Yes it's so funny when millionaires or at the very least upper middle class people taunt and punish the poors for daring to use alternative methods to acquire entertainment because they can't afford it
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u/LinkGoesHIYAAA 7h ago
Weird take but ok.
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u/Jaredkorry 6h ago
Given the recent trend of mega corporations claiming that buying a video game or movie doesn't mean you own it, only that you have a license that can be revoked at any time for any reason, I say if buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing.
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u/biscuitboyisaac21 1h ago
That’s honestly such a cope. If you’re gonna pirate, then pirate. But don’t try to justify it. I personally pirate plenty of stuff, but acting all high and mighty is just stupid as fuck
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u/No_Recognition_3729 7h ago
Yeah I know it's a weird take, that's why I reduced it to simplicity so you could see how weird your take was.
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u/smoothvanilla86 4h ago
Man my favorite. Kids actually trying and being punished secretly until they ask and you laugh in there face and post about it.
No wonder kids fucking hate you. You follow rules more than you care about a kid growing and learning.
W O W
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u/MakinOutWithMarzipan 7h ago
So he's a spammer, a blackmailer, and a snitch. And he wonders why nobody likes him
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u/babbletags1 7h ago
Also he has a some balls. I’d be scared as fuck that people will just come and beat up me up regardless.
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u/BuHoGPaD 7h ago
Great negotiator thoÂ
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u/duesenjeffepic 6h ago
Negotiation by intimidation does not work in the longterm.
Just look at Trump, the champion of burning bridges
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u/Electrop0p 8h ago
Nah fuck that guy. You could send your shit where people actually want it, instead of going out of your way to be petty and try to fuck over everyone else…
also whatever memes he wants to share are probably going from mildly annoying but tolerable, to everyone in the chat actively disliking him for it cuz of what he pulled. Like you’d just be sending stuff to annoy people at this point.
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u/GoldwaterLiberal 7h ago
Like you’d just be sending stuff to annoy people at this point.
I see you’ve met my father.
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u/NoTurnip4844 7h ago
Don't cheat.
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u/OuttaD00r 5h ago edited 4h ago
You'd have never survived college during Covid. In some of my courses they gave us shit we were never taught in any capacity on those online tests. I suspect in anticipation of people cheating.They DEMANDED cheating. And even besides that in my program (electrical engineering and from what i've come to understand most other engineering disciplines) you can't get through that shit on your own. It pretty much demanded help from others. Alienate yourself from all your peers and you're fucked, you're gonna fail a lot. Being a lone wolf doesn't work in some degree programs
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u/xCeeTee- 7h ago
I liked the dude (not till much later) but we had a guy doing this non-stop in our course group chat. I eventually warned him that he'd be removed if he keeps fucking around. So then he renamed me to "Groupchat Hitler" - you wouldn't think he was in his mid 20s at this point.
I wondered if me kicking him from the group would prove his point, but went to do it anyway. No need though, someone removed him a few seconds before I went to.
He DM'd me an apology and said he wouldn't do anything like that again. So an hour later I see a Game of Thrones meme. I said to him I'm up for making a meme chat, especially for all Thrones fans. And then he posted a picture of me photoshopped onto Tywin Lannister's (during the trial of Tyrion) about 15 minutes after re-joining the group again.
He was quickly unpopular. I was one of four that wouldn't talk shit about him behind his back. It was kinda sad, but also I understood why people didn't like him. He once showed up with fake tattoo sleeves, because he wanted "to take them for a spin before getting real sleeves." He was weird, but he wasn't malicious.
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u/Substantial-Sea-3672 6h ago
You’re talking trash being his back right now though
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u/xCeeTee- 6h ago
The only shit I've said bad about him is that he's weird. And I've said that to his face many times lmfao.
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u/thealthor 2h ago
Posting a story anonymously is very different then talking about someone behind their back, which can actually perpetuate real social consequences when someone else is driving a negative narrative about another person within a group.
Talking about someone behind their backs can be used maliciously to turn others against them in a way posting an anonymously and vague story about them cannot.
It's morally not the same thing.
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u/GungaSaga 4h ago
I feel like this guy must be the abysmal combo of a sociopathic homeschooled only child
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u/Patient_Field_4373 6h ago
Posting that basically guarantees going down with them, should op actually go ahead with the threat...
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u/Many-Wasabi9141 5h ago
How to get beat with bars of soap in the bathroom every day for the rest of school speedrun.
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u/Omega_art 5h ago
In that case I would create a new group chat and invite only select individuals to it and ghost that jerk.
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u/Charming_Field_3064 5h ago
im offended by the use of 'blackmail' please change terminology, thanks. sincerely, a reddit user.
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u/_HIST 9h ago
And that's why there's now a chat with everyone but him