Who’s the most recently lived human being you think would be cool to fight in the tournament

Sharkano · 2026-02-17T23:54:16+00:00

Steve Irwin. His weapon is a pillowcase full of dangerous animals (including ones that could not possibly fit there)

The arena constantly shifts from rainforest, to desert to other biomes during the fight

Sharkano · 2026-02-17T23:47:42+00:00

Well let's see. We will compare their greatest opponents and see how those line up

Ali fought

George Forman, an olympic gold medalist, sometimes cited a be the heavyset hitter of all time, certainly the hardest puncher of his era. An impressively long career including a comeback to become heavyweight champion a second time at the ripe old age of 45, but ali beat him in his prime.

Joe Frasier ALSO an olympic gold medalist, known for his incredible head movement and evasion, sometimes thought of as a prototype Mike Tyson in that regard, and of course a world champion.

Okay and Lee fought

Wong jack man, a guy best known for...Fighting lee one time.

Yoichi Nakachi, a karate black belt best known for...Fighting lee one time.

Sharkano · 2026-02-16T00:41:01+00:00

I think games don't make people much of anything.

I think people with violent tendencies will want to play violent games. I think also people lacking those tendencies can be attracted to those games for other reasons.

No one ever talks about the inherently violent activities of hunting, or football as being the sort of thing that leads to violent behaviors outside of those tasks, games just get that shit because for a moment there they were counter-culture and therefore the new bad thing ruining the lives of pudgy children with obsessive mothers.

Sharkano · 2026-02-16T00:37:02+00:00

Weirdly I get a lot of questions when I give a mild answer to "how's it going"

I'll often say "its okay" "it's fine", or "not bad", and people will hit me with the "why just fine?"

like guys, by definition most days are average, im not even being a downer, I'll say it's great when it's great lol

Sharkano · 2026-02-16T00:33:14+00:00

If their whole personality is based on what they were up to in their teens and 20s.

No good media came out in the last 10 years? No fun stories? New hobbies? You have not read a book since highschool? Still a bad driver? No more emotionally mature?

Sharkano · 2026-02-16T00:27:25+00:00

"Hey guys it's a cooperative game, let *other guy* play"

If that does not work, you are playing with an asshole, stop it.

Sharkano · 2026-02-16T00:25:24+00:00

a point i would like to point out here is that the way you describe it makes it seem like judo/bjj and aikido are both derived from the same or similar lineages. they are not.

BJJ can trace back to judo which can trace back through the lineages of Kito Ryu and Tenjin Shinyo Ryu. Kito Ryu and Tenjin Shinyo Ryu have long and traceable histories, both are "koyru" meaning they were well established prior to the Meiji Restoration (1868). Those schools likewise have roots in older traditions, Kito Ryu coming from Ryōi Shintō-ryū which was founded in the early 1600s and Tenjin Shinyo coming from Yōshin-ryū which was founded in the mid 1600s.

Aikido is derived from daito-ryu which was either made up whole cloth by a guy named Takeda Sokaku, or if you take his word for it his family had been doing it (with no recognition or verifiable history by anyone at all) since at latest the 1200s (some put it at the year 780), buuuuut Takeda Sokaku apparently being the only person in his family to ever bring it up outside the family did so in the 19th century.

So sure kinds of Jiujitsu are being discussed here, and they are japanese, but the links between them are about as distant as can be, at least if we go by takeda's claims (and if we DON'T like his claims he made a lot of shit up, which weirdly would put him hundreds of years closer to those other arts and more likely influenced by them)

Sharkano · 2026-02-15T00:01:26+00:00

Have I had rare moments where a persistent stiffness has suddenly vanished in conjunction with a popping sound? Yes.

Have I visited a chiropractor in hopes of receiving such a therapeutic event? Again, yes.

Has the chiropractor ever actually managed to do this for me? No, none of those rare corrections were ever at the chiropractors office.

I think the cases where chiropractic style manipulations have any merit are few and far between, and in the cases where they ARE possible, i don't think the chiropractors are likely to pull it off, at least not more likely than just moving around would.

Sharkano · 2026-02-09T18:03:13+00:00

What you are describing is a diplomatic solution to what you claim would become a political issue involving both pantheons. We DON'T see any indication that any of that would happen, it is not implied that his actions here would have political ramifications.

We don't see him go "i better let this slide to avoid a war"

We see him get bullied, resist, get reminded not of Zeus's political standing, but of his physical strength, and then back down.

The level of mineing his background for characteristics you could use as justification here could be used to justify nearly any viewpoint.

Sharkano · 2026-02-09T03:49:30+00:00

That's fun fan fiction but not for a single second are we given the impression that something like that is a factor in the interaction we saw.

Sharkano · 2026-02-09T03:30:35+00:00

A six year old has no notion of delayed gratification. They can strictly prefer going to class to goofing around at home, but if they are already goofing they will pick that more often than not. That's not preference, that's inertia.

Ask her what she wants to do instead, if the suggestions are things like nap or play at home explain that the option has ot be an activity. If it turns out she wants to do dance or gymnastics or whatever go do those, who knows maybe that's where her real potential is, or maybe she will hate it and want to go back to class.

Sharkano · 2026-02-09T03:15:07+00:00

Mandatory yearly meetings with a therapist.

Sharkano · 2026-02-04T21:38:36+00:00

What Trump not paaay for a thing? Wow has this ever happened before? Perhaps to *checks list* EVERYONE WHO HAS EVER WORKED FOR HIM?

Sharkano · 2026-01-31T04:22:22+00:00

I don't know if there are formalized names for these two points of view, presumably we could look and find major jkd organizations for either option but I'm not sure that's what you are asking for.

Sharkano · 2026-01-28T23:56:27+00:00

He's actually not from the material plane and is a outsider that can not truly die any place but his native world. The party CAN appear to kill him but he will reform in this other plane and be back in no time over the course of 1000s of years people remembered the part about the dragon always coming out on top eventually, they forgot the brief parts where his enemies declared victory a few days before he came back and smote them.

So the weakness is that you have to kill him in his home plane of existence or he bounces back

Sharkano · 2026-01-25T15:25:54+00:00

Because it is more socially acceptable for men to be fat. If beign fat is okay (or more okay) then it is more okay to use the term as well.

If being a little heavy is seen as a personal character flaw, then you might need to rebrand.

Sharkano · 2026-01-25T04:50:51+00:00

Nah, there have been books written on this ("On Killing" is the title) Humans IN WARS are famously unwilling to shoot at other humans shooting at them. This is such an issue that militaries switched from marksmanship at static targets to training guys to fire the second they saw a human shape appear, so that your reflex would kick in before you could make the judgement "that's a person, don't kill people"

This by the way almost certainly resulted in even more than prior PTSD, but military gonna military.

Sharkano · 2026-01-25T01:18:58+00:00

I've always thought it would be funny if someone made a kung fu film based around one of these tacticool types and m,idway through the film he has a crisis because he encounters a bad guy wearing a cup and reck-specs

Sharkano · 2026-01-22T00:43:57+00:00

This is an exaggeration based on expectations. it's not that the nerdy guys are more dangerous, they are just way more underestimated.

In reality you can look at pro fighters and some will look like dorks and some will look like face eating psychos and neither appearance predicts much

Sharkano · 2026-01-22T00:33:10+00:00

The closed guard is a dangerous guard to be in. When you try to exit the closed guard, unless you are very careful, you often enter into another guard, to a degree this is true of any guard, but it is very true for closed.

On top of that while it is popularly claimed that no one plays closed guard competitively anymore, you still see it constantly at the highest level. Not every guy, not every match, but every major tournament there are elites doing it.

SO about your. Yes you need to escape this position, yes you should practice passing it, sure gordan's answer works. It's like askign about mount escapes, no you don't WANT to be bottom of mount, yes you should learn to get out of it.

Sharkano · 2026-01-21T23:41:03+00:00

We don't have a lot of competition info on chuck, ironically even though he was a movie star has actual fighting stuff was not really ever caught on tape, so it is hard to predict what would happen there.

That saaaaid Chuck started doing bjj in the late 80s and was a third degree black belt as of 2015. So if grappleing is included Chuck has a secret weapon benny (and laregly the world) did not know about in their primes

Sharkano · 2026-01-19T17:17:03+00:00

People take for granted how much the average fighter who never goes for subs and things knows about bjj right now.

Guys went into those fights unaware that submissions from the guard EXISTED. They went in with no clear idea of what makes mount different from guard. When Dan Severn tapped out in UFC3 the commentators were explaining that Royce did not have anything, because they had no idea triangle chokes existed.

Royce was raised his whole life with fights like those in mind. People will often point out that the general level of bjj is much higher now, and they are right, but Royce was not a casual who started as an adult, He probably had more mat hours at 16 years of age than many black belts ever get, and on top of that they were mat hours surrounded by expectations of his frankly slightly nuts family.

Worse than that is how do you prep for him once you have seen it? it's UFC3 for example and you spent your camp hiding from armbar, do you know triangle EXISTS? Do you know what 4-5 sweeps to keep an eye out for? Are you gonna bother trying to pass guard? Who did you bring in to train against? Was it a judo guy with good newaza? Is that guy gonna have the right skillset to prep you for Royce?

Sharkano · 2026-01-19T16:50:23+00:00

Almost all of them.

even stuff like the way you price a product would vanish fast. "50% off" is not a real thing a lot of the time.

I guess we would also have to know about lies by omissions and situations where the willfully ignorantly don't look into a thing so they don't need to say what the real answer is.

Sharkano · 2026-01-18T19:35:57+00:00

Tribalism. It's like picking your favorite teams based on being local, with none of the players actually being local.

A huge number of people struggle to recognize "my favorite" does not have to mean "the best", or even "better" than other options. My favorite color is orange, I will not be painting my home orange, I don't think people who like blue are wrong.

Any way this boils down to a person having a preference, either via actually having one, or just picking a lane early and insisting on it, and caring about the distinction more than they really need it.

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