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The meathead in me thinks big, lifted trucks LOOK cool, but it's annoying how prevalent they are and I don't actually like driving them. My work has me driving a tiny, egg-shaped BMW I3 hybrid and while it looks lame, it's a blast to drive. That thing surges from a dead stop like a little spaceship.

Controllers being finnicky on PC has been the bane of my existence for decades. It took the Xbox One and Series S/X controllers for me to finally have controllers I don't need to troubleshoot everytime I want to play a game,

thronedfire2 posted...

if I live to be 103 and I still have to walk around Im gonna be fucking pissed

Trust me, you want to be mobile in old age. Being able to walk is an indicator of your body failing less overall.

Closest I've come to is seeing Bernie Sanders at a campaign event in 2020.

MarshMellow posted...

My great grandmother never worked out and she lived to be 103. As long as I'm not fat I'm not worrying about it.

Quality of life at an old age is liable to be far better in terms of mobility, though.

Recently got Champions of Norrath for PS2 and have been hooked while playing that co-op. I want to order a pizza and get in an old school gaming session.

Kaldrenthebold posted...

Yes, Godus to be exact.

And here I thought people were just salty that Fable wasn't mindblowing. Nevermind, carry on.

ssb_yunglink2 posted...

If you hate scammers then boy do I have some news about this guy

I looked up his name and "scam". So he DID scam backers on Kickstarter at one point? Then I stand corrected, lol.

I don't hate someone for lying about something as trivial as videogames unless they're scamming people through Kickstarter funding or something. In this case, you read reviews to get an objective opinion about the finished product and decide for yourself if you should buy it. Hate should be reserved for actual evil people.

It was more about her and Raiden as a pair when I just wanted to play as Snake. I'm over it, though.

People say there's nothing to worry about since once you're gone it'll be just like before you were born, but before I was born sucked ass.

Plenty, but it's more anxiety inducing when I'm stoned. That's not necessarily bad, though, and I appreciate confronting the discomfort in those moments.

The power of friendship will triumph over evil.

UnholyMudcrab posted...

Well, if this topic proves anything, it's that reports of the death of Bruce Lee/Mike Tyson arguments were apparently greatly exaggerated.

I think of it as honoring a sacred tradition. I hope in 20 years my children are having the same argument.

Glob posted...

He was the worlds most famous martial artist. And he was likely very good. His conditioning was insane. We dont know if he was on the level some claim he was though, as his actual recorded/official experience was minimal.

But anybody with any experience knows that size matters. Weight classes exist for a reason. Ive been able to steamroll people who are better boxers than me because Im multiple weight classes above them. Its not a fair fight because I can eat several of their strikes and be more or less fine, whereas I only have to hit them clean once. The stakes of every single moment are higher for them. They cant afford a single mistake. Plus, theyre still getting chipped away at even if Im hitting their guard. Then theres reach to factor in as well.

Genuinely, anybody who thinks Bruce Lee would have taken Mike Tyson is completely clueless. Bruce Lee would have difficulty against somebody like me in my prime, and Im nowhere near Tysons ability level.

All true. A great example of size winning over skill is Ernesto Hoost vs Bob Sapp in K-1. There are also exceptions, like Floyd Mayweather vs Logan Paul, where Paul was so bad at boxing his size advantage wasn't enough lol.

Evening_Dragon posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/3/3c2b84de.jpg

Haha.

The fucked thing about prime Mike Tyson is that he's the jacked guy in that picture, and ALSO the fast one.

McmadnessV3 posted...

I'd argue the ps2 is more responsible for dude bros. It was heavily marketed as the "kewl" console.

There was some of that for sure (lots of my friends back then moved on from the Dreamcast to play Madden and Grand Theft Auto), but I wouldn't say more than Xbox. The PS2 had a great mix of mainstream Western games and more niche Japanese titles.

In the movie Patton, as the Nazis are losing the war one of them holds up a picture of their American archnemesis General Patton as bombs shake their crumbling building and says, "He will be destroyed, too. The absence of war will kill him. The pure warrior...a magnificent anachronism."

Some background about that, General Patton had a reputation even among the Nazis of being crazy. He believed he was reincarnated from historical warriors from the distant past and famously got in trouble for smacking a soldier who was suffering from PTSD and calling him a coward. He was a piece of shit in many ways, but there's a sense of melancholy conveyed in the movie about a man who doesn't fit in and doesn't know his purpose as the war winds down. Society created this hardened warrior through WW1 and WW2 and then no longer needs him in the post-war era.

Deteled posted...

But he was the world's best martial artist

He was one of them, but he still got KO'd by Buster Douglas in his prime.

Enshittification was inevitable. I was surprised that PS3 had free online services, but I have no doubt that Sony would have thought to start charging for online on its own with the PS4.

The original Xbox and the 360 were both really good consoles, too.

DrizztLink posted...

...so he's gotta carry his kids to the roof, or

Or imitate the keg toss event in strongman.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/4/483316e7.jpg

TheGoldenEel posted...

If five minutes is all it takes than I get that every day lifting my kids and going up and down the stairs in my 3-story house

Lol no, carrying your kids up the stairs is not equivalent to that kettlebell workout. The reason why it's good enough for a 5-minute workout is because the intensity is through the roof.

Again, it's fine if you don't want to do it, no judgment there, but the reasons in this topic for why people can't workout are stepping out of their lane by drawing conclusions about the workout itself (e.g. it takes too long, it's too expensive, etc.) and are easily refutable.

TheGoldenEel posted...

i have 2 kids and 4 hours is precious time, that's a significant chunk of my me time in a week. would i be able to if i sacrificed my other hobbies? sure but at this point in my life i don't need that

You can get a good workout done in 5 minutes by buying a pair of kettlebells and doing Dan John's Armor Building Complex.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyrYmwNWlhQ

To further add to that Far Side story, when Gary Larson visited a chimpanzee establishment with Jane Goodall he was attacked by a chimp named Frodo. Makes you wonder if she was biding her time for revenge.

I remember text to image being a big deal. And that browser extension, GameFox, greatly enhancing the usability. And then we had 2 indie apps come out, but eventually the site offered almost everything they did in the mobile site. A rare example of a website replacing the app instead of the other way around.

I bear no judgment on people who admit they simply don't want to, but some of the reasons in this topic like working out costing money, not having time, or that it can't make a difference in how they look are flat-out false.

Glob posted...

Thats because it was always a silly debate. Bruce Lee was like 140 pounds. Theres no way hes taking a competent fighter that weighs 220, and Tyson was way beyond competent.

Bless you. That took me back to 2005 (and that's also the correct answer).

It's also been a minute (20ish years) since I've seen a Bruce Lee vs Mike Tyson topic on the Martial Arts board.

Canadian citizen living in California. I'm on DACA so if I leave the US I can't come back. I missed out on lots of travel opportunities because of this as a kid (school band trip to Ireland, Japanese class trip to Tokyo).

RIP man fan shot up 95 degrees.

*Glomps* n_n

In the future it'd be worth looking up any organizations near you that help with pet medical care for owners who can't afford it. They've helped me out in the past.

TheGoldenEel posted...

Youll never understand why someone with limited time might not be able to fit working out into their schedule?

You can get a good workout in with kettlebells at home in 5 minutes, 3 times a week.

I DO understand that most people wouldn't know that, though.

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Oof. This ties into why archizzy's friend had a small chest. Being a strong bench presser involves tucking your elbows into your sides and pinching your shoulder blades back so your triceps and upper-back are recruited more, but your chest doesn't get hit as hard as a result. When I first hit a 350 bench I wasn't happy with the size of my chest until I added in lighter sets targeting the pecs.

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Just wanna say it's extremely strong but when you bring up "elite", it's also the kind of "strong" that a strong NFL player or other athlete who doesn't focus on weightlifting would put up. An actual elite powerlifter wouldn't consider it strong, or if they do they'd be speaking about it for a different category and set of standards than themselves.

I don't understand it either but I have other deficiencies with myself that others wouldn't understand, so I understand not being able to understand others if that makes sense lol.

My all time max was 380, and then I failed 385 on video lol.

https://youtu.be/8Cn0oD1AR6s

I estimate that I have a max of 340 now because I lost weight last year to focus on boxing and strongman training, which doesn't involve much bench pressing, but I'm working on bringing it back up. I decided that even if I want to do strongman, I don't want my bench or back squat to get weak.

Pwned

CastletonSnob1 posted...

I'm not the only one who first learned about Jane Goodall from The Far Side, right?

I definitely did as a kid. The fact that she was good-natured about the incident just shows her character.

Gonna play Everquest: Champions of Norrath, Shenmue 2, and Ocarina of Time with my girlfriend.

I obtained Champions of Norrath out of frustration from Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance 1 and 2 being so expensive for a barebones port of a 20+ year game. Good call - so far, it's better. I wish they still made this style of local co-op action RPGs still.

I don't give a fuck about MrBeast or defending his character but this isn't any different from any number of shows or movies that have professional stuntmen doing controlled stunts.

I love 80s and 90s Hong Kong kung-fu movies. THOSE are dangerous stunts.

Pete Hegseth comes off as such a dorky try-hard. It's like he desperately wants the reputation and aura of General Patton or Trump's former defense secretary "Mad Dog" General Mattis but can't escape the legacy of his clip as a Fox News anchor messing around with a skateboard and hitting himself in the nuts with it.

No. I agree with tough love in the appropriate situation, but that's not what I would call cruel.

Sephirothe posted...

I dont understand why anyone decided to pay for YouTube in the first place

Ad-free casting from my phone to my TV is my only reason, but I'm still cancelling.

LightSnake posted...

Yeah, because most strikes were in active war zones or Al-Qaeda compounds.

I think that either knowing the target's identity or having confirmation of the target's actions to intercept them are crucial. Being of military age isn't nearly enough on its own.

I agree that drone strikes work in general and being part Kurdish I was relieved when Obama saved the Yazidis trapped on Mt. Sinjar by bombing the ISIS gangs that had them trapped.

LightSnake posted...

Well, probably the targeted nature of it. Israel's attacks have been rather indiscriminate, whereas targeted drone strikes weren't. even at the maximum estimates of dead civilians killed by drone strikes under Obama, Israel has killed over 50 times that times, despite drone strikes being conducted over multiple countries for much longer periods of time.

Obama was not leveling Pakistan or Yemen. In fact, we found Bin Laden living in a cozy compound in Pakistan like right out of a neighborhood with a bunch of their high ranking officials and we just pretended we didn't see anything suspicious about that for the sake of international peace.

One of the first things Trump did was remove civilian safeguards from the drone program and he killed more people in one year than Obama did in eight. Most anti-drone leftists didn't make a peep about it.

I'm surprised that you don't think signature strikes were indiscriminate when the criteria could simply be a military-aged male in an area.

"One tragic blunder came on Dec. 12, 2013, when a U.S. drone flown by Joint Special Operations Command killed 12 Yemeni civilians in a single signature strike, leading the U.S. government to reportedly make about $1 million in condolence payments. Amnesty International, which examined 45 drone strikes in Pakistan between January 2012 and August 2013, reported that one signature strike killed 18 laborers and injured 22 others in July 2012."
https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/04/05/obamas-most-dangerous-drone-tactic-is-here-to-stay/#cookie_message_anchor

I reject the whataboutism regarding Trump, since I've spoken out against Trump countless times and Trump being worse doesn't absolve Obama or Biden from criticism.

LightSnake posted...

This wasn't the argument at all. We know now that the drone program was also absolutely successful with regards to devastating al-Qaeda and the ratio of collateral damage was nowhere near as high as claimed initially.

Also? Every member of the Whiskey Rebellion killed by George Washington was a US citizen, as was every Confederate soldier. As were the five confirmed German-American SS officers killed in WW2. This country killed its own citizens before the Constitution was even formed, in Shay's Rebellion. The idea that Trump saw a high-ranking al-Qaeda officer killed and thought that was the perfect precedent to drone people in Oregon is farcical.

I'm not sure what you mean by "This wasn't the argument." It literally is; I am bringing it up because we're having a discussion that's allowing us to further our points.

Are you seriously defending signature strikes? If so, what's your reasoning for that being OK but not Israel leveling Gaza to kill Hamas? Is it the difference in quantity and, if so, at what point do you draw the line that too many innocent people are getting killed?

LightSnake posted...

Also, he was the asshole who sent his 16 year old son to be raised by an Al-Qaeda leader. Said son died when said Al-Qaeda leader was droned. Literally nobody involved knew he was there until after the fact. Bluntly, that was on al-Awlaki.

Part of the problem were the alarmingly lax conditions under which Obama allowed targets to be droned via signature strikes.

"Senior military officials defend controversial tactic despite US government admitting it does not always know how many civilians it kills"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/01/obama-continue-signature-strikes-drones-civilian-deaths

LightSnake posted...

Sorry, anyone who complains Obama droned al-Awlaki just isn't being serious at all.

And convenient "DRONEZ" stopped being an issue about late January of 2017

I used plural for "citizens" intentionally because of his son meeting the same fate. And for the sake of brevity, I chose that example over plenty of others I could list.

LightSnake posted...

If Anwar al-Awlaki didn't want to be droned, he could have not joined a terrorist organization as a field commander and levied war against the US. That was his choice and killing him was completely legal the same way it was to shoot Confederate officers on the battlefield

Doing it to an American without a trial was a bad precedent, but it killing his 16-year-old son was the bigger problem.

I thought this topic was going to be political. You're totally fin-

AceMos posted...

pizza hut pizza is the best and there big new yorker is the best pizza ever

What the FUCK?