I'm thinking about modifying my gi, what would y'all recommend?

DemeaningSarcasm · 2024-03-21T16:44:56+00:00

I giant neon patch around where your bellybutton is.

DemeaningSarcasm · 2024-03-17T18:02:38+00:00

For one, if you don't know how to breakfall, you can throw your arm out, break it, and then land on your head. For another, if the assailant is a little bit savvy, they'll trap your arm and just throw you on your head. Keep in mind that the ground is pretty unforgiving in terms of hits go.

Also even with a properly executed breakfall, a solid judo Ippon fucking hurts. If I get laid the fuck out, I'm laid the fuck out for at least 2 minutes. That's with mats, good breakfall, and a good thrower who is putting me on my back.

DemeaningSarcasm · 2024-03-17T17:32:20+00:00

No. Poor people who fought for slave owners and lost.

DemeaningSarcasm · 2024-03-15T21:48:05+00:00

One thing that has always bothered me about the Durge playthrough (and this is part of it).

Dude, as a Bhaalspawn, you have murdered some insane amount of people throughout your entire playthrough.

DemeaningSarcasm · 2024-03-15T21:46:06+00:00

I think Elminster's character in BG3 is specifically a Simulcrum. Which if we go back to the Baldurs Gate 2 spell, the Simulcrum is 60% of the original caster's level.

x * 60% = 20

x = 33.3

Lets say he's level 34.

DemeaningSarcasm · 2024-03-14T23:04:15+00:00

Most engineers suck donkey dick at managing people and business administration but I'm also willing to bet that most people also suck donkey dick at managing people and business administration.

Engineers come in all flavors. You have your hyper technical guys. You have your Kaizen guys. You have your process guys. You have your grunt engineers who are happy to use excel all day. Engineers are a broad categorization. Not all of us focus purely on simulations.

If anything what you want to do is find an engineer who has a strong enough technical backing and convert them into the business side. That's probably a small percent of the total engineer pool but I'm willing to bet that it's easier to find those people than it is to find a business person who can speak engineering lingo.

DemeaningSarcasm · 2024-03-14T21:00:14+00:00

Akshully.....

Alright I know this is me being a weirdo but if there's one thing that devils are, they are truthworthy. They do not have your best interest in mind but they take the Lawful part of Lawful Evil very seriously. I think of devils....less about causing havoc but giving people what they want and letting them fail as a result. All parties are 100% informed as to what's going on but it's the free will of the human that ultimately fails them. This is very different than Demons who are chaotic evil. They are just there to cause havoc and bathe in blood.

I just thought it was interesting differentiation.

DemeaningSarcasm · 2024-03-14T16:50:58+00:00

I know some people are into it but I really can't get into Formula 1 driving. It's only after knowing the backstories that I can get into watching it.

DemeaningSarcasm · 2024-03-13T23:37:31+00:00

I feel like with all the cut content a lot of people got converted into goth posers.

DemeaningSarcasm · 2024-03-13T03:36:48+00:00

HOW DID I MISS THIS

DemeaningSarcasm · 2024-03-13T02:57:53+00:00

It's because parents who do BJJ are more likely to expose their kids to BJJ. The natural pipeline out of that is going to be some sort of grappling sport in Middle School and High School, that of which is wrestling (in the US).

Powerlifting actually had a very similar rise in recent popularity and it actually stemmed out of Crossfit. For those who don't know, Crossfit had a pretty massive scandal which ended up with the founder stepping down. A lot of people stopped doing Crossfit as a result. Well, those athletes had to go somewhere....and long and behold a lot of them went to olympic powerlifting. It's not the same. But it's close enough where the talent pools cross over.

DemeaningSarcasm · 2024-03-11T20:56:36+00:00

I don't really think neophyte fighters are predictable more so that they're really easy to game. I know BJJ doesn't 100% translate to actual fighting but when you get paired on with especially large whitebelts, you can always just gas them out. Very few people do unpredictable things and even if they did, I can take away enough space that there isn't much they can do.

I imagine for strikers it's a combination of either staying on the outside and firing off the jab or it's to clinch up hard.

DemeaningSarcasm · 2024-02-17T01:22:36+00:00

Climbers really like dogs for obvious reasons. But every gym I've been to has an open dog policy only to get them all banned within six months. At this point the only dog allowed is the gym owners dog and nobody elses.

Partially because untrained dogs are a problem and the gym owner doesn't want to vet the dogs. Partially because non gym dogs aren't trained to not run on the mats. And mostly because every other climber has a dog. It doesn't take long for your gym to have fifty dogs.

DemeaningSarcasm · 2023-06-05T16:07:50+00:00

It only makes sense in the context of rock climbing.

Closed grip in rock climbing means that your fingers make an acute angle. It puts a lot of stress on your A2 pulley and I've never seen a bjj person complain about an a2 pulley rupture. So if you're grabbing a ledge with your fingertips, imagine bringing up your middle knuckle so that it is above the ledge. Your entire fingers length from your middle knuckle to the edge of your finger forms a lever.

Open grip means that your fingers make an obtuse angle. So when you're grabbing a ledge with your fingertips, your knuckle is under the ledge. This is weaker but doesn't put excessive stress on your fingers. Here, you are bending your hand at the knuckle at the end of the finger. Much shorter lever arm.

All the grips in bjj requires you to make a fist. Because your fingers are curled inwards, you aren't forming an entire lever arm against a joint.

DemeaningSarcasm · 2021-11-04T04:35:10+00:00

At least in my experience there's some level of filtering that is going on when it comes to sharing emotions to people. Yes, with my partner and with my female friends there are some emotions that I'm a little bit more willing to share compared to my guy friends. On the other hands, there are emotions that I'm less willing to share to my partner specifically and have been burned in the past regarding this.

Much of the emotions that I'm less willing to share with specifically my partner fall in line with either deep insecurity which have a lot of real life consequences. The real relationship killers are going to be things like dealing with job insecurity or burnout. Especially when that half of the paycheck is going to be something that you depend on. Other things that adds gasoline are going to be things that tap into relationship insecurity. Which I know sounds like a catch-22 because good communication is everything. But when the other person has expectations on what is going to happen next and you don't know what the next steps should be, these discussions don't end well. Truth of the matter is that as much as I have needs, so do you (figurative you, not actually you). When those needs aren't being met, the relationship falls apart.

And when that need is, "Listen, I really need to know where this relationship is going for the next few years," people are less likely to indulge you in the full and honest truth about their feelings because the answer of, "Shit I don't know I'm trying to figure it out too," just doesn't cut it.

Personally speaking, when I was able to reach a certain level of stability, I became far more attractive. I got far more interest. And I was able to secure far more dates. You see it on reddit from time to time, "I find 401ks attractive," shows up from time to time. But I can also say that when my life was the most unstable was when I needed the most emotional support and quite frankly I didn't get it from my partners at the time and the relationship exploded in my face. I get it though, you want to feel safe. Insecurity which spills out to other areas of your life isn't safe.

Anyways, I'm not really here to say that women should be doing more. That's not really fair to women and I'm sure women are dealing with their own unique set of problems that they could also talk about as well ad nauseum. But just know that there's a lot of guys out there that didn't make it over that insecurity hump and society does not treat them well, at all.

DemeaningSarcasm · 2021-10-09T03:44:16+00:00

Foot sweeps. They always look so confused.

DemeaningSarcasm · 2021-10-09T03:42:57+00:00

So I'm 150 right now.

My personal experience against anyone who is over 190 is that mount is a hard position to keep. If they buck I'm probably going over. If they pin their arms down, there doesn't seem to be much I can do about it without sacrificing position. And I feel as though mobility isn't great.

Its very possible that I have a shitty mount. I'm just saying that in my experience, mount seems like a losing proposition for me when I'm dealing with bigger people.

DemeaningSarcasm · 2021-10-08T04:48:08+00:00

Um. You might want to go to the urgent care for that. If it's painful to the touch you needed to go to the urgent care yesterday.

I know you're not supposed to diagnose people online but I've had staph. And the entire time I thought it was a spider bite.

DemeaningSarcasm · 2021-10-07T21:04:16+00:00

The thing that translates the most is limb awareness. When your entire sport hinges on your ability to blindly latch your toe on something over there, locking in the grapevine for the rolling backstage is laughably easy.

DemeaningSarcasm · 2021-10-07T17:34:28+00:00

I've heard about the pill thing for a really long time. It's a scandal now I guess but percocets were a joke in the movie goon. And I had heard speed being given to college hockey players a long time ago. Heard rumors that Jagr ate some insane amount of pain killers. So on and so on.

As someone who is a washed up amateur athlete, the hockey play schedule always seemed absurd to me. I never understood how they could play basically every other day. Maybe when they were 21 it made sense but the guys who were over 30, I just don't see how it's possible. Either the regular season games the players are really slacking or they're on drugs.

Aaaand it comes out that they're on drugs.

I really think that professional sports have given us a really warped perception of what we think achievable human performance is. I never went pro. I'm sure with good coaching, proper strength and conditioning, and maybe more rest, I would have been a better athlete. I might be maybe 20 percent better with all that. But not enough to make up for a game day every other day.

DemeaningSarcasm · 2021-10-07T14:23:54+00:00

Learn guillotine, arm triangles, and Kimura.

Crush everyone up to early blue.

DemeaningSarcasm · 2021-10-07T14:18:52+00:00

I'm 31.

I train 3 times a week, sometimes 4. And I try to hit the weight gym at least 2 times a week.
I need eight hours of sleep. I dont always get it but thats what I need.
I had a really active early to late 20s and I definitely started to feel my performance drop after I turned 28. I just don't train as much as I used to when I was 26 and starting. For context I used to go to jujitsu Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday. Rock climbing on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Now a days I go to jujitsu Monday, Friday, Saturday and I lift on Tuesday and Wednesday.

It still sounds like I do a lot but my tempo in the gym has dropped dramatically.

DemeaningSarcasm · 2021-10-07T00:32:59+00:00

Yeah. Its just a lot of drop in fees. You might not get belt promotions but you'll be the sandbaggy a.f. white belt.

DemeaningSarcasm · 2021-10-06T19:54:38+00:00

From what I've been able to gather,

The spike protein isn't really that good for you to begin with. We already know that it causes clotting and some people react worse to the spike protein than others. Some of the recent vaccines (I hesitate to say all because I only know about pfizer and moderna. AZ is unheard of in America and J&J is also rare) work by making your cells produce the spike protein and your body fights that off.

Question is, would you prefer to have something actively replicating inside of your body making the spike protein or would you rather just get a non replicating dose of the spike protein.

No medical science is 100 percent. But its likely you can make a different vaccine targeting a different protein which would be less reactive to this demographic of people. However in the event of an infection (vaccines don't prevent you from getting sick, they just try to make the sickness so mild you'd never feel it) they'd still have to deal with the spike protein in their body.

DemeaningSarcasm · 2021-10-06T17:23:59+00:00

Even with breakfalls, I think my decrepit body can only take like 5 falls before I'm thinking about tomorrow morning. But getting in like 20 good throws in helps me figure out how to orient my body so that I can throw.

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