I saw that too, you could tell there was one of those slips where you see “the real guy” and Jim talking about Rackets having the “win condition” it obviously fucks with him that another guy got it and was ungrateful for what he had.
“What’s your pleasure Mr Cotton?”
just gonna repost what i said in the rackets thread on this as I mostly agree but I think Jim made the best choice he could with those last thoughts as
For this, we lack the critical element of the transference mechanism. Gunt witnessed the arrest and the Demon jumped to him. Rackets wore the amulet, he spoke the words, they came. I do not believe we know of a vector by which this could happen for Fuentes.
I think the other factor here is that Jim at this point is in so much pain, that it puts a lot of things into perspective. He's at the death's door, he has no future and he has no kids. He laughs because he has no power to do anything else, but at the same time he wishes no genuine harm onto the people he laughs at(most of them, anyways). Both Ralph and Nick were his friends at one point, but the difference between the two is that Nick made something of himself, Ralph hasn't. Plus, Nick has kids and wife along with him, if Ralph wants to ruin his life he has nobody else to take down with him, other than whatever prostitute he is paying at the moment to pretend to be his senorita. It's in everyone's best interest for Nick to pull up, even if that's pretty much impossible now.
Bumping your reply because it's the archive I'm watching.
I watched him from when he first interviewed Tonka and all the way though the vic lawsuit and its genuinely like he's a different person. If it wasn't for the periodic updates from the farms and MATI the past week would be incredibly shocking but having seen him flounder for the past two year when he had so many people on his side trying to help made this feel inevitable and killed all my sympathy. There where so many points where people tried to get him to pull up and he just brushed them off as prudes trying to stop his fun, but now the funs truly over and he has to deal with the all the consequences of his actions, as he used to say "play stupid games win stupid prizes"
yeah this is the prime thing that made nick's downfall and destruction of his family and loved ones with him hit harder for me than ralph and has had me post more in racket's thread than I have for any other lolcow ive followed on this site. Funny too cause I never really followed rackets much outside of his rittenhouse streams since I'm not really into law stuff. I did like the killstream back before ralph's downfall, like I listened in every day at its peak as, afterall, you never know what's gonna happen on the killstream!
maybe, but then he was a grifting shit who did at one point strike gold, a one in a million lottery ticket of circumstance and if he had stopped and recognized what he had and just applied himself he *could have* manifested that if he really wanted. But I guess the point is he didn't. He saw everything he had as something he was simply entitled to without any hard work and even ended up resenting what allowed him to "make it" in the first place and instead squirrleed himself away in self indulgent drunkstreams and cokestreams.
He got where he got because of the Vic stuff but Vic is obviously creepy (at minimum) and given that his lawsuits failed that was never going to pass outside of the internet.
In our economy I don't think any of that background would have really mattered. I really think that if nick had focused on the gold he had struck during the rittenhouse trials and just run with that he'd have never had to be an actual lawyer again he could have been a law equivalent of Dr Phil or something using the charisma and pull he used to have. He wouldn't even have to give unscrutinizable legal takes or anything just like how Dr Phil's show isn't really professional therapy. Nick could have taken that format, that winning formula, of just being the host and letting the panel and whatever topic of the day is do most the work for him. The only work he would have to do is set it up. Its like how Eric july has a successful comic business despite not being much of a comic guy himself but a good businessman.
the curse really is real holy shit
I own one. It's made in Bangladesh. So yes.
Mine says it's made in Myanmar, which has a lower per capita GDP.
