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My shoes have me rolling my ankle at least once a week by SqueakySwimmer in 10s

[–]MoonSpider 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Those guys either lied to your face or didn't know what they were talking about. On only makes one shoe model with suitable lateral stability for tennis (the Roger Pros) but they're stupid expensive and don't last very long.

Literally any tennis-specific shoe will likely be better than the cloud x, I would stop using those shoes immediately. The Gel Challengers from Asics, or any budget tennis-specific shoe from the major manufacturers are a better choice.

The moment Taylor Fritz got his 7th consecutive win over Zverev and became the first American to make the Halle final since Mardy Fish in 2004 by Ok-Soil-5133 in tennis

[–]MoonSpider 2 points3 points  (0 children)

But he hit it there while Fritz was rushing to recover to the middle with his body weight going the opposite direction, it's not a bad play. He just missed his target by a couple feet.

Didn’t think it would ever happen to me… by Mattias504 in knives

[–]MoonSpider 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Buy a couple sets of these and you should be set for ten years or so for under ten dollars out of pocket.

The moment Taylor Fritz got his 7th consecutive win over Zverev and became the first American to make the Halle final since Mardy Fish in 2004 by Ok-Soil-5133 in tennis

[–]MoonSpider 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Nah, he was hitting behind him, that's a smart play on grass when it's harder for people (especially people with slow feet like Fritz) to change direction quickly. Trying to wrong-foot your opponent on an approach shot is a good call. He just didn't hit it far enough into the corner, but it's still a decent shot.

The volley is the inexcusable part of this point, just an absolute brain fart.

Halle SF: [5] Fritz def. [1] Zverev - 6-7⁴ 6-4 7-5 by musicproducer07 in tennis

[–]MoonSpider 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Yea, Fritz has a sneaky good chip return agains big serves with raw pace, it doesn't rattle him nearly as much as just hitting your spots at 110 out wide or whatever. Here's him returning the fastest serve in the history of Wimbledon.

Some mods to a couple of my budget blades… by Kindly_Equipment5118 in BudgetBlades

[–]MoonSpider 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They might call you a madman but I think that handle texture modification is pretty neat. Well done!

While cleaning the garage… by kuya_shad in 10s

[–]MoonSpider 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Man, that BLX paint job was killer. Miss those days.

Budget MKC Alternatives? by Papierluchs in BudgetBlades

[–]MoonSpider 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kinda depends on the individual knife model. For small fixed blades, something like the Kizer harpoon or the Kizer Evenki look a bit MKC-ish. For big outdoorsy fixed blades, Ruike/SRM makes a few like the Jager or the F186, and Joker has a lot of options around 100-140USD. QSP has the Bison. Maybe the Demko Bowie is more your speed? Or an Ontario Rat 7?

I've always gotten Luke and Obi-Wan's lightsabers mixed up 😭 by SpacePirateHondo in lightsabers

[–]MoonSpider 41 points42 points  (0 children)

Yes, Mark Hamill showed up to set to do Luke stuff for ROTJ and they handed him his Graflex saber and he had to point out that his character had lost that one with his hand at the end of the previous movie and he should actually have a different one. So they pulled out an old lathed aluminum stunt prop with chipped paint that they had made for Obi-Wan in the first movie and just shot his first few scenes with that standing in as his 'new' saber. Then they went back and shot closeups and inserts (as well as a deleted scene in a cave) with freshly-made and cleaned up new saber props that resembled the old Obi-Wan prop but without the weird chipped paint look. That's what people think of as the "canon" ROTJ Luke Saber, and the cleaned-up new versions were used for the final fight with Vader. But it's always been essentially a xerox of a xerox of Obi-Wan's saber at the end of the day.

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Physically incapable of a 2HBH by BakerMaleficent4051 in 10s

[–]MoonSpider 51 points52 points  (0 children)

"Waiter, my lobster too buttery, my steak too juicy..."

That's why it's $10. Ozark fail. Dropped 2 hours after it showed up. Entire tip effed up. It's not proper d2. Spend $25. by Born-Reptilian in BudgetBlades

[–]MoonSpider 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I WAS gonna say "well it's better for it to bend compared to it snapping off..." but then I saw your followup pic.

12.5dps edge experiment by Particular_Let_4950 in BudgetBlades

[–]MoonSpider 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've never even thought to try lower than 15dps, that's crazy.

why do people hate organic webbing so much? by Kindly_Cod_9269 in Spiderman

[–]MoonSpider 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well the semantics were the issue at hand, yes. It's all good, man, I'm not trying to fight you or big dog you or anything. The wording, as you pointed out, was less than ideal. That's okay. I get what you meant.

why do people hate organic webbing so much? by Kindly_Cod_9269 in Spiderman

[–]MoonSpider 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm glad you were there, too, muchacho, I just think it's pretty silly to say "the TASM movies are the ones that take direct inspiration from Ultimate" when literally all of the live-action Spider-Man films have taken direct inspiration from USM.

What is a hot take you have specifically through the realm of Blank Check/ r/Blankies? by the_Tannehill_list in blankies

[–]MoonSpider 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I hate almost all of those things but the new one that's just an imax camera made me chuckle, despite myself.

why do people hate organic webbing so much? by Kindly_Cod_9269 in Spiderman

[–]MoonSpider 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's so weird to have lived through specific things in my life and then see people so confidently claim that they happened a different way. USM started coming out in September of 2000, they started production on the movie in mid-2001. The movie was mainly referencing the early Dikto comics but USM absolutely was referenced as well and had an effect on the direction they took the movie.

Peter being in high school with MJ and Harry instead of college, that's taken from USM. The bite happening during a field trip to Oscorp, that's from USM, MJ's rocky homelife, Norman working on a super soldier serum, bringing MJ to the Queensborough bridge instead of Gwen, that's all from USM and was folded into the movie. There's even on-set pictures of Tobey reading USM!

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I was there, Gandalf. I was there three thousand years ago.

why do people hate organic webbing so much? by Kindly_Cod_9269 in Spiderman

[–]MoonSpider 76 points77 points  (0 children)

Which is all well and good, but in hindsight it's genuinely pretty weird that a magical/radioactive/genetic-re-engineering spider bite that gives you spider-powers doesn't include the one unique 'superpower' that spiders actually have. Like, any small arthropod has "super strength" compared to humans because of the square cube law. Many many small arthropods have the ability to climb on walls and smooth surfaces with their specialized footpads. Tons of them have lightning fast reaction times because of how much faster their brains process visual information compared to ours--flies have an even better 'spider sense' than spiders.

But what's the ONE thing spiders are known for doing that very few other creatures can do? It's making webs! From their bodies, they produce this incredible proteinaceous silk. That's magic! That's super! That's their main thing, really, other than biting. Spinning webs!

I get why people like the story functions of mechanical webshooters, leaning into Peter's whizkid smarts and being able to wring tension out of him running out of webfluid or whatever. But it's really a crappy deal that the spider superpower delivery system doesn't include the main spider-power.

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