this post was submitted on 24 Mar 2024
377 points (95.0% liked)

Games

32660 readers
914 users here now

Welcome to the largest gaming community on Lemmy! Discussion for all kinds of games. Video games, tabletop games, card games etc.

Weekly Threads:

What Are You Playing?

The Weekly Discussion Topic

Rules:

  1. Submissions have to be related to games

  2. No bigotry or harassment, be civil

  3. No excessive self-promotion

  4. Stay on-topic; no memes, funny videos, giveaways, reposts, or low-effort posts

  5. Mark Spoilers and NSFW

  6. No linking to piracy

More information about the community rules can be found here.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (3 children)

He was well washed out before the slap.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 8 months ago (1 children)

My boy, he won the Oscar for best actor on slap night. He was still pissing gold.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Goes to show how much the slap stole the show, cause I can't even recall what he was nominated for. Had to look it up, but he won for King Richard (the movie about Sernea and Venus Williams).

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That reminds me. Some social media feminists were furious that movie about Williams sisters is named after a man.

I was like, they're both executive producers and their other sister (Isha Price) was also involved in the making of the film. Maybe they wanted to honour their dad?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I mean... Five minutes before the slap, he was sitting in his front-row seat at an internationally-televised award ceremony where he had just been nominated for two of the most coveted honors in cinema. I dunno if he was that bad off.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Eh....not really. He hadn't done anything Independence Day level for a while but he was still cranking out popular shit. That movie about the Williams sisters was only 1 year before he threw it all away and that did pretty well.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

He was there literally receiving an award for that movie, even

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Hahaha I honestly forgot that