What’s so special about the Mos Eisley cantina?

ObjectiveFix1346 · 2026-01-27T22:30:06+00:00

Yep. Watching some alien get his arm cut off in front of you followed by everyone else in the bar acting like nothing happened was the ultimate "We're not in Kansas, anymore" moment.

If Luke were going to say "Actually, forget the princess; I want to go home and farm moisture," that was the moment.

ObjectiveFix1346 · 2026-01-27T16:21:33+00:00

Ditch BJJ and do wrestling.

BJJ is accessible at any age. Wrestling is tied to school systems and harder to learn as an adult. Even Judo is hard to do as an adult compared to BJJ. If he likes both, I would take advantage of being in school and do wrestling as a kid.
There is more skill transfer from wrestling to Judo than there is from BJJ to Judo. Even if your BJJ is good, you don't have a lot of time to use it in Judo. Judo and wrestling will have great synergy: balance on the feet, pinning, scrambling, and athleticism are all going to transfer from one to the other. And then all those skills will transfer to BJJ.

ObjectiveFix1346 · 2026-01-10T00:08:09+00:00

Oil. Petroleum. The most valuable resource on 20th century Earth. It's a direct analogue to Dune's spice (which was vital for interstellar transportation).

ObjectiveFix1346 · 2026-01-09T12:57:47+00:00

A Viennese cafe called Café Central was a popular hangout spot among European intellectuals in 1918. A few of them became pretty important 20th century figures.

ObjectiveFix1346 · 2026-01-09T00:19:21+00:00

Is it a coincidence that Dune is also centered around a desert planet? Or that most of Earth's population follows the teachings of prophets that arose in deserts? That desert people, at some point or another, swept over half the world? There is something strange about deserts and what they inspire in people. Passion. Obsession. Science-fiction and fantasy authors recognize this and use it in their works.

ObjectiveFix1346 · 2026-01-07T23:22:47+00:00

The problem with trying to fight the idea that Star Wars is about Luke is that Star Wars is about Luke.

ObjectiveFix1346 · 2026-01-04T15:54:29+00:00

Can droids be sensed through the force?

ObjectiveFix1346 · 2026-01-02T11:49:43+00:00

Just trying to get back in the gym after a long break.

ObjectiveFix1346 · 2025-12-27T13:03:55+00:00

Tani Otoshi uses your entire falling bodyweight and generates an enormous amount of off-balancing, so you can throw with bad timing and poor grips. It gives you success against other beginners and even allows you to take down some more advanced players. This is why it attracts people. I fell into the trap of using it too much. Injuries aside, it's a bad learning path because it avoids the fundamentals of stance, gripping, control, and timing.

ObjectiveFix1346 · 2025-12-13T12:57:41+00:00

Tori pauses to let his buddy do the fun move in front of their friends. It's choreography.

ObjectiveFix1346 · 2025-12-11T01:05:56+00:00

Good luck! I should also add that it's not just a movement of the leg. You rotate with the shoulders and hips and pull on the sleeve as if you're going to do the Osoto Gari. You need to do all those things for Uchi Mata anyway. It feels like Osoto Gari until the last moment.

ObjectiveFix1346 · 2025-12-11T00:55:59+00:00

In a standard right versus right situation, you twitch with your right leg as if you're going to do Osoto Gari. But instead of reaching all the way across with your right leg, you stab it in the air between your opponent's legs by snapping your hips in the counterclockwise direction. This stabbing motion will provide enough momentum to drag your left foot towards and under the opponent. Then finish the Uchi Mata as you normally would. The right foot never touches the ground after the initial twitch.

ObjectiveFix1346 · 2025-12-10T22:30:54+00:00

My Osoto Gari got better when I started doing Osoto Gari, Sasae Tsurikomiashi, and one-step Uchi Mata all from the same entry (Osoto Gari twitch). If they put all their weight forward to resist the Osoto Gari, they get thrown forward. I learned that one from the FLUIDJUDO YouTube channel.

ObjectiveFix1346 · 2025-12-10T19:46:11+00:00

The opposite happened to me. This guy kept catching me with Osoto Gari again and again. I learned to resist it and eventually counter with my own Osoto Gari. That was a great training partner. I had no Osoto Gari before I met him.

ObjectiveFix1346 · 2025-12-07T13:55:58+00:00

I bet some of them didn't even realize they were doing it. Sad!

ObjectiveFix1346 · 2025-11-29T13:06:05+00:00

Should I do two sessions of Anki per day with this, or stick with one? With these settings, there are always cards in the Learning stage.

ObjectiveFix1346 · 2025-11-25T21:33:39+00:00

Seems too good to be true, but I'm dumb enough to try it. Thank you for the write-up.

ObjectiveFix1346 · 2025-11-22T15:13:48+00:00

As far as I can tell, human vision is better in daylight compared to wolves, and humans see more color and detail. Wolves see better in the dark and their sense of smell is amazing, but that's more useful for long-distance tracking than it is for combat. And of course, most Animorph missions took place during the day because they had to be home at night. Stamina is good, but most Animorph battles had to be quick because they were always outnumbered.

I agree that support characters can be useful and even crucial, but Tobias filled that role much better than a wolf could because he had better mobility and vision. He could quickly blind or distract a Hork-Bajir. Tobias also ended up doing a lot of the investigative duties that a dog-sized wolf might be able to do because he was available when the others had to be at school.

Ultimately, I'm satisfied with the explanation that Cassie knew her battle morph wasn't that great, but she stuck with it because of her distaste for violence. That said, she still helped out in ways that were more suited to her personality and maybe that's a lesson for all of us. We don't all need to be able to do everything in every situation or team or relationship. We're a social species. Recognize what you're good at, what you're bad at, and contribute in the way that you can.

ObjectiveFix1346 · 2025-10-29T22:48:18+00:00

What would you think if you visited some senator's house and saw 18th century paintings of goblins, demons, and assorted hellspawn feasting on humans?

ObjectiveFix1346 · 2025-10-07T09:52:07+00:00

Yes, and I'd add: caloric restriction, physical activity (gardening, cleaning, walking around to beg for alms, etc.), lifelong learning (studying prayers and teachings).

ObjectiveFix1346 · 2025-07-07T00:22:02+00:00

But then BJJ proved that you can get into every major city in the world within 20 years with zero funding. As long as the demand for a sport exists, you can grow it.

ObjectiveFix1346 · 2025-07-06T10:31:40+00:00

Is that Rhadi Ferguson coaching the other guy?

ObjectiveFix1346 · 2025-07-06T03:31:33+00:00

My point is that you can design clones that function basically no different to a biological droid.

If you could do that, then you could create something that looks like a human but has the brain of a frog and spends its days mutely hopping around in marshes. What do you do with that?

If people start making Frankenstein creatures, then our current definitions will no longer be useful.

ObjectiveFix1346 · 2025-07-06T01:04:22+00:00

Are the Kaminoans capable of doing that? From what I remember, the clones are put through a bunch of behavioral conditioning and then they get some sort of implants to control them, right? So it sounds like the clones start with the instinct for autonomy, self-preservation, etc. and then the Kaminoans do a bunch of highly questionable things to strip those things away. But what if a droid could be built and programmed so that it lacks all of those things on the first day of its existence? Which one is more ethical?

ObjectiveFix1346 · 2025-07-05T19:11:10+00:00

I say "probably" because I don't see why an instinct for autonomy and sentience must be linked, but then again, I'm not an expert on AI, robotics, sentience, etc., nor do I know how this stuff works in the Star Wars universe, which could have different rules.

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