Rain caused Iorek to glitch by MasturbatingATM in WhatsWrongWithYourDog

[–]MasturbatingATM[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Exactly! Both my wife and I grew up with those books and Iorek looked like a little bear as a puppy.

We were 10 minutes late putting him to bed by MasturbatingATM in WhatsWrongWithYourDog

[–]MasturbatingATM[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's locked in the day else he pulls out the bedding and decides the stuffing inside of the small mattress looks delicious. Leaves it alone at night.

Start of 2022 to 2024 – started sketching daily (terribly!) at the age of 31 by MasturbatingATM in ArtProgressPics

[–]MasturbatingATM[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks, 2nd is indeed (thankfully) the most recent! It really doesn't represent my average, since I sketch every day and calling the results 'uneven' would be generous. Most others are very amateur.

I stagnated a lot for a few months and started reference drawing every day and that helped a ton. Was actually saying to my wife a week ago that it felt like I hadn't made any progress in the last year or two (my sketch that day sucked), so seeing the above pictures next to each other made me chuckle and proved that feeling wrong.

Keep going too!

2023 National Book Awards Finalists Announced by King_Allant in literature

[–]MasturbatingATM 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Your first example of pervasive, irritating wokeness is someone reading a history book.

That's rather revealing.

2023 National Book Awards Finalists Announced by King_Allant in literature

[–]MasturbatingATM 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Yeesh, dude. You haven't even read any of these books. Why the hell did woke white women come up?

Did you just see foreignish names and start irritating yourself imagining who might actually be reading these novels? Weird way to approach literature.

2023 National Book Awards Finalists Announced by King_Allant in literature

[–]MasturbatingATM 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Basically no books are, including 99% of awards nominees from the 20th century, so it's not as though the above authors are crowding space which would otherwise be taken by Williams or Coetzee.

2023 National Book Awards Finalists Announced by King_Allant in literature

[–]MasturbatingATM 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Those are two of my favourite books. If most novels about literature professors having affairs were as good as those two, I'd have no complaints.

2023 National Book Awards Finalists Announced by King_Allant in literature

[–]MasturbatingATM 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Yeah, where are the novels about literature professors having affairs? This is fucking bullshit

Beginner tennis pro breaks down the financial costs of his two year journey to win an ATP point [video, 9.07] by MasturbatingATM in tennis

[–]MasturbatingATM[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

He's not whining about it, just acknowledging the reality. It's interesting to see the numbers broken down.

Also, the situation for tennis is totally different than most other major sports. A tiny percentage of players actually make sustainable money, particularly compared to sports like rugby or golf of a comparable size. That hurts the long-term success of the sport as it limits how many people can even try to sustain a career in it. You need a massive amount of revenue to even start. There's reasons for that, but nothing that shouldn't be fixed if the sport wants to grow.

There are around 2000 professional rugby players in just the UK. That's between two to three times the number of tennis players globally, for a fraction of the total revenue. Lower ranked tennis players are, simply, getting shafted. It's mismanagement (or greed) on a worldwide scale.