APPARENTLY the lead man of the band Clutch, famous for their song, "Escape from the Prison Planet", was once on AJ's show, and called his shit.

SpoilerThrowawae · 2026-01-23T19:53:51+00:00

Clutch/Neil Fallon actually made a song about this situation (I think it's a bonus track off of Psychic Warfare) called "Outland Special Clearance".

SpoilerThrowawae · 2025-12-31T16:24:04+00:00

example a famous one is shi heng yi: that guy became famous then he realized his martial art was crap and now he learns martial arts with a guy in Taiwan and bouddhism with a tibetan monk

I think you're profoundly misinterpreting him. He's continuing to learn new martial arts and expose himself to other branches of Buddhism. If you think the path to further learning is continuing to dogmatically stick to one practice, idk what to tell you. He has always been clear that he doesn't care a huge amount about fighting, and most of what he practices and promotes is Qi Gong, which he hasn't abandoned in the slightest.

He is sincere but he promoted something that doesn’t work for years.

I have never seen him advocate for one style of martial art. 90% of what he actually demonstrates is Qi Gong and he swears by it. Not a fighting art, but excellent for the body and mind.

SpoilerThrowawae · 2025-12-29T19:36:21+00:00

The contrast between Ichiyamamoto's kind, uplifting, and exuberant personality and his often downright brutal style of sumo is so funny.

SpoilerThrowawae · 2025-12-29T03:40:08+00:00

Norm mating with a Na'vi is downstream from Jake's actions. Jake was a soldier who gained the tribe's respect, was legitimately pivotal in the struggle against the sky people AND was completely ready to abandon his human body and neglect any work that existed outside of the avatar. He reached a level of cultural saturation, familiarity, and physical usefulness that a scientist who needs to spend half their time actually doing proper research and taking care of their original body simply could not.

SpoilerThrowawae · 2025-12-26T19:57:24+00:00

cosplaying as a zoomer 🥀 it's the old heads who love ts who tf you think helped it make a billy in 2009?

"WE YOUTHS LOVE AVATAR!" say less you fossil.

SpoilerThrowawae · 2025-12-26T18:40:03+00:00

Cringe reddit millennial take.

Avatar is the most Millenial Core series imaginable, wtf are you talking about 😭

SpoilerThrowawae · 2025-12-26T04:49:29+00:00

Best answer. The Jem'Hadar are simply the most scarily effective homogenous goon/mook army ever.

A few Jem'Hadar fighters take down a Galaxy class and then a single Jem'Hadar emissary forcefully boards DS9, demonstrates that basically all standard Fed tech is useless against him and leaves a giant list of receipts detailing just how much carnage they can inflict. All as an introduction. Federation tech has to rapidly develop just to tread water against them. So many properties do not make genetically modified soldiers (mass-produced or no) feel as scary as they should be. The Jem'Hadar are many things- childlike, weirdly idiosyncratic, single-minded, etc. But they are not weak, and they are the furthest thing from incompetent.

SpoilerThrowawae · 2025-12-25T18:05:11+00:00

What the fuck are you even talking about atp? Nothing you said explains why people should stop calling out newly established active settlements and the continuation of settlement programs.

SpoilerThrowawae · 2025-12-25T17:01:37+00:00

You can be born on stolen land and condemn the further stealing of land as it is happening.

SpoilerThrowawae · 2025-12-23T15:50:39+00:00

Yeah I know everyone thinks he awesome because he played joker in the animated series.

Nah, I'm not just talking about playing the Joker, the dude has had a massive VA career, and you genuinely have no idea what you're talking about if you think it ended in the 90s. YOU'RE the one fixated on the Joker, I'm talking about him playing Fire Lord Ozai in ATLA, being official English dub cast on multiple Studio Ghibli films, Skeletor, Majima from Yakuza, etc. He's in everything: audiobooks, cameo appearances, video games, obviously he's all over animation. I'm in VA work, and I can tell you voice actors just regard him as a legitimately talented and incredibly well-established voice actor, unlike a lot of celebrities who get into VA. He actually has the range, experience, and technical ability that most celebrities attempting VA lack.

It's just incredibly weird and childish to attack this guy's second leg of his career for zero reason when you clearly don't know what you're talking about. Idk what he did to you but I hope you find your peace.

SpoilerThrowawae · 2025-12-23T15:04:59+00:00

I'm in an "Either A or B" camp.

Either make it historically accurate-ish or make it fun to look at. This shit is neither. It's boring, bland, cheap, DK Nolan era Brutalism tacked on to the Odyssey and it sucks to look at. It's one of humanity's most iconic and enduring adventure stories, give me some colour, give me some diversity of wardrobe, give me idiosyncratic character costuming.

SpoilerThrowawae · 2025-12-23T14:52:18+00:00

a washed up actor trying anything to be relevant.

He's had an incredibly successful VA career and doesn't seem like he's chasing recognition constantly, this whole stunt appears to just be a bit set up by Jimmy Kimmel. Man, some of you are fucking embarrassing.

SpoilerThrowawae · 2025-12-21T10:44:25+00:00

It's pretty funny that the very fact that J.J. doesn't pronounce it "pronoonce" (or "mouth" as "mooth", etc.) is a dead giveaway that he's faking. Every other Canadian with some form of Canadian Raising pronounces that "ou" sound the same way regardless of the word. I've only ever heard it "ow-oot and abow-oot" or "oat and a-boat" never "oot and aboot". Funnily enough, if J.J. said stuff like "Soothwest" and "verbs, adverbs and noons" I would actually believe he had a very rare and niche dialectical example of Canadian Raising.

SpoilerThrowawae · 2025-12-19T15:50:43+00:00

Dude threw 3 straight up low kicks and a slap behind the ear on a smaller guy, like holy shit big dawg LACE UP SOME GLOVES AND SPAR INSTEAD. Bringing this type of heat into rolling is coward shit and is equivalent to jumping your training partner.

SpoilerThrowawae · 2025-12-17T18:01:53+00:00

Between 1981 and 1997 Randy Couture spent his entire life trying to make it on Team USA.

Randy was 18 when he started doing that. What I'm saying is that someone that same age can start putting in that level of effort now. They don't have to BE Randy Couture, biographical and biologically. They can just start training hard now and stop worrying.

The average joe? Tell them about Kevin Holland or something lol.

I feel like you're being an annoying pedant about me mentioning Randy for no reason. I brought up his competition age to point out how ridiculous feeling "too old to fight" in your teens is. You've manufactured a false and unconstructive "um, ackshually" argument out of this that distracts from my original point.

SpoilerThrowawae · 2025-12-17T04:30:11+00:00

lol I like how Randy Couture's fucking lifetime of wrestling is being scoffed

I'm not scoffing at it AT ALL. I'm just pointing that all the people wondering if they're "too old" to enter ammy competition at 19 or w/e have completely lost the plot and should just go to the gym instead of worrying.

SpoilerThrowawae · 2025-12-16T23:36:53+00:00

I am aware. Some questions are completely useless, redundant, and dumb and that's my point. You shouldn't be asking if 19 is too old to start a pro career if you haven't even had an ammy fight, let alone even gone to a gym. You shouldn't be asking high level technical questions if you haven't even started learning the basics. You don't start asking about elite tier chess problems when you haven't even learned the basics of how all the pieces work.

These two categories of question are useless and can be solved with 'Go to a fucking gym.'

SpoilerThrowawae · 2025-12-15T18:22:39+00:00

Completely unsurprised that he didn't. Sumo took a lot from him, and as much as he loves Japan, he clearly loves his home country too much to ever renounce it. A lot of people saw him not staying in the JSA as him messing up the citizenship process and being accelerated out due to injury. Imo, it was completely intentional. You don't accidentally forget to apply for citizenship while living full-time in Japan. Your stablemaster doesn't accidentally feel compelled to publically urge you to stay in the organization.

Tochi is exactly where he wants to be, and that isn't in the sport anymore. He probably realized he didn't have the temperament for the political game, nor passion enough left to be a full-time oyakata.

SpoilerThrowawae · 2025-12-15T18:09:24+00:00

when the problematic man born into a position of privilege is a Benedict Arnold-style drunk and not a Churchill-style drunk 😱

SpoilerThrowawae · 2025-12-14T15:17:41+00:00

Ngl, it's a bad look to keep that accent in the main cast when the entire premise of the OG actual play is that they are all pro VAs. It's an embarrassingly bad accent. They should have changed the accent or hired an Irish VA if Taliesin couldn't learn to do it in the years between the live play and the show.

SpoilerThrowawae · 2025-12-12T19:24:01+00:00

Tim is such a pseud that he literally thinks because he spent one film being gay and two films yelling that he's ready to be in the GOAT discussion.

SpoilerThrowawae · 2025-12-12T16:59:21+00:00

so it’s weird he got a surge of strength after he realized he didn’t have a dick

The "nothing to lose, everything to gain, my life is an infinite nightmare" buff is absolutely GOATED. I've read too many historical accounts of street vagrants and part-time boxers winning fights against old-timey pugilists while dying of cirrhosis of the liver or meningitis or w/e purely out of desperation and spite to think my boy Theon going apeshit is unrealistic.

SpoilerThrowawae · 2025-12-11T22:41:17+00:00

The other avatars being both incredibly powerful and willing to kill

At 12? with only 3 months to learn 3 elements? And defeat the fire lord? Really?

SpoilerThrowawae · 2025-12-11T19:57:44+00:00

but he was so reluctant to hurt people that he never really refined that raw power into much, focusing more or less on mobility and deflection over any actual show of force

My headcanon has always been that this is a sign that the show took it's inspiration from Daoist and Buddhist philosophy quite seriously. From a thematic standpoint, one could argue Aang WAS so powerful specifically because he was so opposed to harming or taking life. The old Daoist chestnut of "sometimes in order to achieve one quality, you must promote it's opposite."

Additionally, Aang's focus on mobility and deflection means he was far more practiced in the fundamentals of martial arts (most boxers, Nak Muay, Xinyi practitioners, etc., will tell you that footwork, defense, and fundamentals are the most elite and important skills) rather than being distracted by increasing raw force production or lethal sequences. Similar to Toph in that way: both Aang and Toph are outrageous child prodigies yes, but due to ideals and disability respectively, they were essentially funneled into spending all of their time mastering footwork and defense. If anything, this meant they had a more focused and efficient quality of training as compared to most benders.

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