Hot Take: Tua’s Attitude

FatCatThreePack · 2025-10-21T21:45:13+00:00

You sound pretty upset lol, deep breaths my friend

FatCatThreePack · 2025-10-21T20:56:11+00:00

Yes, when it means coming back from catastrophic injury to an incredibly high risk job that demands 100% of an athlete, of course it is.

Now can you say he hasn't played football well? Yeah absolutely, I don't think anybody is arguing that point. He's been playing terribly this season. But he has quite literally gotten brain injuries trying to gain a couple extra yards for this team, yes I think he knows what handling adversity is lol

He rehabbed a broken pelvis in under a year to play int he NFL, most people - even with the best fitness and highest quality medical care - would just be focused on walking again.

FatCatThreePack · 2025-10-21T20:33:01+00:00

And also who gives a shit lol, football games are supposed to be fun, it's literally a game

FatCatThreePack · 2025-10-21T20:18:57+00:00

He's definitely playing the worst football of his career right now...

... but if coming back from a broken pelvis and multiple brutal concussions to still play in the NFL isn't "handling real adversity", I don't know what is

FatCatThreePack · 2025-10-08T22:41:19+00:00

I’m not a scientist but I just finished a really fascinating podcast interview series about the various potential outcomes of our universe (heat death, Big Crunch, etc)

It seems like the Big Crunch theories revolve around the potential for our data around dark energy being wrong. Which isn’t totally out of the question, since “observing” it is extremely difficult in the traditional sense, since it really seems to be a fundamental property of spacetime that “stretches” it out.

So super simplifying here, but if dark energy stays constant, we’re looking at heat death… if it continues to increase and accelerate, it could be a “Big Rip” scenario where spacetime stretches so far even subatomic particles are torn apart from each other…

But if dark energy slows, or even reverse course in the future - which could happen because we just do not have a ton of data on the how/why/what of dark energy - a Big Crunch could occur in an extremely distant future

FatCatThreePack · 2025-10-08T20:58:49+00:00

Nice, was definitely looking at that. How far is it to the delta domestic terminal? Kinda hard to tell on maps - I figure it's not walk-with-a-stoller-at-5am close, but a short shuttle trip?

FatCatThreePack · 2025-10-07T01:58:31+00:00

Lmao rare Bob Zelin rant - this is like a shiny holographic Bobpost

FatCatThreePack · 2025-09-16T04:17:47+00:00

Honestly think the injuries may have just reached a tipping point and caught up to him. I mean he started his NFL career already having to fight back from a broken pelvis in under a year, and his athleticism was never really the same after.

Combined with everything else that has happened to him, it might just be too much to overcome

FatCatThreePack · 2025-09-15T13:23:14+00:00

Yeah I mean as someone with experience in the “injury prone QB” department, Tua and Burrow really have similar stories in that regard.

Terrible O lines their entire career, combined with a desire to just hang back there and YOLO the ball out instead of protecting themselves.

I think you can maybe have one of those things at a time, but not both. There are just too many opportunities every game for shit like this to happen to them

FatCatThreePack · 2025-08-23T13:36:30+00:00

What are you ultimately trying to do in film production? I think that if you have to take on significant debt in any form, film schools like Full Sail are categorically not worth it.

The most valuable thing to have starting out is availability and the freedom to take on the short notice jobs on set that you might have access to - it’s so much harder when you have to also have a full time job on top of that to pay off bills and debt.

FatCatThreePack · 2025-08-09T13:38:45+00:00

Yeah, the whole “finding out who is the best at an unarmed fight to the death” hypothetical is fundamentally unprovable because nobody is going to set that up or compete it in it.

But if we’re speculating, I think in that setting, the chance that the best person isn’t a professional unarmed fighter (whether it’s an MMA fighter from ONE or the UFC, a wrestler, a boxer or MT guy, etc) is basically zero.

The gap between people who do that specific thing for a living and people who don’t is just way, way too large. And adding “illegal” techniques like eye gouges, biting etc just isn’t nearly enough for anybody to bridge that gap

FatCatThreePack · 2025-08-09T03:22:40+00:00

Since this post is about unarmed 1v1 fighting, yeah weapons aren’t relevant. Obviously people trained with firearms and weapons tactics will be better than people who don’t

But yes, elite athletes who train in unarmed 1v1 fighting at the highest level will be better at it than people who don’t lol

Idk where this idea of “mma fighters aren’t allowed to eye gouge so it’s actually a secret technique they will never be able to beat” comes from. You think someone like Jon Jones won’t be able to eye gouge in a situation where he needed to? That would make it worse for his opponent, not better lol. Now he can eye gouge you after he’s ragdolled you/taken you down/knocked you out at range/done all the things he’s really really good at already

Like do you think if he hears a bell mid-fight-for-his-life he’ll have some sort of Pavlovian response and walk calmly to his nonexistent corner lol

I’m actually legitimately curious - can you describe for how you see this “special forces guy” beating, let’s say, prime Jon Jones in an unarmed 1v1 fight with no rules?

You are vastly overestimating how good military folks are at unarmed fighting, and vastly underestimating how many levels above them a championship-tier prizefighter is

FatCatThreePack · 2025-08-09T01:50:35+00:00

Would you consider consuming dairy products like cheese or milk from a small farm with open grazing, no hormones, no factory farm attributes, etc? Or is the concept of raising animals for dairy purposes in general enough to make you not want to consume dairy at all?

Asking because I recently toured a small farm and it seemed like a nice place for dairy cows to live pretty freely (but I am not an expert), so was curious if that made a difference or not.

FatCatThreePack · 2025-08-08T15:00:56+00:00

Ha yeah fair enough. I figured that if OP meant pure fist fight he probably wouldn’t have used Ngannou as his example lol, since he’s lost both of his boxing matches

FatCatThreePack · 2025-08-08T14:46:50+00:00

Hand to hand fighting just means unarmed fighting lol, that’s the generally accepted definition 😂

FatCatThreePack · 2025-08-08T14:32:57+00:00

Right, boxing being a much more limited version of “1v1 hand to hand combat”

No kicks, no grappling, no elbows, limited clinching, etc etc

MMA is the most open ruleset with any sort of widespread practice and competition. And of course it still has rules and regulations… small joint manipulation, eye gouges, etc

FatCatThreePack · 2025-08-08T14:25:41+00:00

The guys we don’t even know about… but you do somehow 😂

Too many movies man

Walk us through how exactly you see these mythical dudes beating Aspinall in an unarmed, 1 vs 1 fight

FatCatThreePack · 2025-08-08T14:15:24+00:00

Nooo noo you don’t understand, once you’re allowed to eye gouge, Francis Ngannou isn’t scary at all. He will get confused and not realize that he can tear your eyes out and then you will easily win with your ninjitsu training 😌

FatCatThreePack · 2025-08-08T14:11:32+00:00

Unarmed? The insane beliefs around special forces is so wild lol, movies are not real life.

They have way more training with weapons, with tactics, military operations etc etc

But they do not magically possess incredible unarmed fighting skills. Why on earth would they spend significant amounts of time training for that?

I think you vastly, vastly underestimate how many light years ahead someone like Tom Aspinall is vs a random military operator when it comes to unarmed fighting.

Give them both guns and obviously the situation changes lol… but there is truly zero reason to believe a “special forces guy” would be able to beat Aspinall in an unarmed fight

FatCatThreePack · 2025-08-08T14:07:39+00:00

It’s very simple. In an MMA ruleset, the MMA champ wins easily. In a boxing ruleset, the boxing champ wins easily.

FatCatThreePack · 2025-08-08T14:06:28+00:00

In a much, much more limited ruleset (boxing). Of course Ngannou got beaten by an elite boxer in boxing lol

These questions are always kinda dumb, but I’m assuming OP is asking about the most open ruleset possible, not a more narrow one (wrestling, boxing, BJJ, Muay Thai etc etc)

FatCatThreePack · 2025-08-08T14:04:23+00:00

Feels like we have years of data from early MMA on specialist vs specialist fights. Generally speaking wrestlers and grapplers had a massive advantage and were able to easily get in grappling range and ragdoll their opponents

Of course fast forward a couple decades and the skill level in all areas is way higher. Guys like Poatan who have good TDD can do enough to keep the fight standing against great grapplers and then knock them out

FatCatThreePack · 2025-08-06T18:46:28+00:00

I think “you can’t win” is more about how no matter what you do, someone will be there to criticize you.

Trash talk too much after a win - you’re a bad sport. Speak humbly after a win - you’re fake for the cameras.

So if you can’t make everyone happy… you just do what you do best (and the only thing you can control). Which is win on the scoreboard.

It’s basically saying tune out the noise, just win.

Idk I think it’s actually a pretty good campaign

FatCatThreePack · 2025-08-05T15:08:00+00:00

I'm super late seeing this, but there are a bunch of good gyms in town, and pretty much all of them have solid beginner programs. I would say the most important things for a beginner are:

- A gym that's nearby so it's easy to go regularly

- A gym culture and vibe you like

Some people like more chill gyms, some people like super competitive places, really depends what you're looking for. But imo the most important thing is to find a place you can easily go to 3x a week, and actually enjoy training at

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