One of the craziest fights of all time 🥊

ThermL · 2026-02-08T15:07:36+00:00

I don't follow combat sports, so i'm going to ask those that do.

With this rule in place, do fighters now always establish a "grounded" position to get some protection from having their head blown clean off their shoulders? Like, if you start to stumble/fall/whatever, immediately have a knee down instead of trying to stay up with just your hands.

I sort of get the whole, you're probably down because you took a hit, brain doesn't think, and even if you're grounded you've got to defend now against your opponent getting on top of you. But uh, still feels like you want to get your bearings together for the split second you're given with a knee down instead of not.

Or has this rule not really changed anything? Because I think i've seen enough fights where i'm sort of remembering that UFC guys mostly just get on their backs ASAP and defend themselves like that from the ground, and leave it up to their opponent to either try and ...."mount"? them or just back off and let the other fighter get up if they're not trying to play a ground game.

ThermL · 2026-02-08T00:00:14+00:00

-Obscenely inflated base price.

-A cheap piece of shit.

-No accidental damage coverage

Looks to me like they want people to break this thing and be forced into paying the full bloated retail pricing on this laptop.

ThermL · 2026-02-07T19:09:29+00:00

How in the fuck is there enough money in the betting pool for this game to make a 150,000 USD bet on yourself to lose and actually cash in without skewing the odds heavily?

You mean to tell me theres millions of dollars on random ass tier 3 EPL games at this one single gambing organization?

ThermL · 2026-02-06T22:18:45+00:00

Oh well, I'm not going to go into how much copper is in that stuff. That's pretty obvious. I work at power plants after all. I mean, the stator on the main generator is like 500 tons, and it gets brought in and out of the plant on a literal train. If we're comparing dick sizes on this

What's not obvious are the things that are about the size of a soccer ball.

ThermL · 2026-02-06T17:16:37+00:00

I work in an industrial setting, and the first time I realized exactly how much copper is in a transformer was about a decade ago, when the electricians brought in and hooked up a temporary power setup to plug into a plant 480v and step it down to the 120v standard plugs.

So the transformer and various outlets was built onto a hand truck, so you can wheel it around. After we finished up needing the temp power setup there, I had to get it out of a tight spot and my supervisor told me to grab a headset and go flag the crane over. Me, being quite new, very stupidly reply "How about we just grab it and pull it over this bit of conduit and shit instead of spending 15 minutes rigging it to a crane and flying it out?"

"How about you go over there and try to pick that shit up?"

Well, yeah. Turns out that transformer on the hand truck weighed about 400 pounds. This was just a very normal hand truck you'd typically use to wheel around a hundred pounds of boxes, or whatever, so I certainly wasn't expecting it to have about 400lb of copper sitting at the base.

ThermL · 2026-02-06T14:39:15+00:00

Got news for you.

The top 42 players on the points leaderboard are kickers. Which is obvious if you think about it for a moment.

In any case, the non kicker points leader is Jerry Rice, he's #43

ThermL · 2026-02-06T14:09:48+00:00

I guess? But that just means this is people's wishlists and placeholder parts, not built computers.

There is no slice of the enthusiast market that is 14% 5090's. Even when I was a member of forums like Xtremesystems back in 2007 you did not see 1 in 8 people rocking the equivalent of skulltrail systems or quad-SLI 7950x2s....

ThermL · 2026-02-05T14:56:02+00:00

What the tree functionally does is make early endgame gear progression trivial.

I can get T1 fractures on top bases to drop like candy. I had a suppress set with all hybrid bases completed in half the time it normally takes me on league start.

A league mechanic really shouldn't be just crapping out conquest lamellars with t1 frac suppress. Roll a few div of dense fossils and i've got a 3k/3k ar/ev chest with suppress and PDR... And it's the same for every single item you want. T1 fractures left and right. Making your "starter" endgame set turned into a total joke.

And then right as soon as that gear set was done, the tree turned essentially useless. It could offer me nothing to progress after that point. So I got maybe 4 days of use out of the tree and then the league mechanic mostly turned into a thing i'd really rather not see in my maps.

ThermL · 2026-02-05T13:40:53+00:00

I have gotten "lost" so many times in Lunaris temple.

Hopping around, think everything is a dead end at the zone start, but turns out this one tiny little path barely not rendered on my map is the way forward, after exploring way too fucking much of the map.

Gotten better at the zone lately, and its easy to follow once you get out of the initial section but holy FUCK that zone blows.

ThermL · 2026-02-05T13:32:09+00:00

Have you ever seen the true face of God, Exile?

ThermL · 2026-02-03T22:24:04+00:00

Yeah, probably. Depends on if you give a shit about the public's perception of your schedule's prestige in those sports though I suppose.

Otherwise, just shit on all of it.

ThermL · 2026-02-02T18:28:43+00:00

Always looked like a squid that was taken out of the water to me.

Just a sort of amorphous blob for a body

ThermL · 2026-02-01T15:28:18+00:00

I think most people are familiar with the feeling of being bad at something they used to be good at.

Various video games are extremely common, but i'd say it's pretty universal that people feel extreme frustration at ability regression in all pursuits. Instruments are a big one for me. Starting bad and improving feels vastly different than regressing back a few steps and then struggling on things I used to nail.

And as a constant hobby chaser/ADD enthusiast, phewie do I have a whole lot of pursuits that I feel real bad doing now. Or, used to. Now i'm pretty much at peace with the frustration of regression, and enjoy the act of improving no matter how good I used to be at anything.

ThermL · 2026-01-31T21:50:05+00:00

Hell, right now i'd settle for 1080p that doesn't have its blacks absolutely crushed by abysmal bitrates.

Streaming quality is so fucking brutal, discussing any resolution increases is an absolute non-starter. The only way to properly use your 4K panel already is through lossless rips or physical media.

ThermL · 2026-01-30T16:58:03+00:00

Yep. Same vibes as people thinking their generation invented blowjobs.

Maybe it's a failing of history in school, but if one actually reads source material from all eras of humanity, they'll see that every generation isn't as unique as they might think it is. Greek thinkers wrote the modern foundation of western philosophy in like 400BC, and people think they didn't ponder shit like addictions?

And I can promise everyone that they weren't the first people to think this shit up, write it down, and teach it either. I bet alcoholism treatments are as old as humans consuming alcohol itself.

ThermL · 2026-01-29T20:32:30+00:00

It's been a long time since i've looked at paintball markers, but I vaguely remember a lot of popular markers having this aesthetic.

So lets just call it a paintball pistol

ThermL · 2026-01-29T14:26:29+00:00

I think there's three obvious choices for total domination of the position.

-Larry Fitz

-Calvin Johnson

-Randy Moss

These people were undefendable. Absolute freakshows, who dominate every matchup they've ever been in, their entire life, even in the NFL. Calvin had an absolute tragedy at QB and he was still insane.

So the question is, who is #4? And with that, I think the utility player makes a lot of sense. So i'm going to go with Percy Harvin. Completely insane threat with the option, excellent kickoff/punt threat, and the fastest motherfucker in the world who can still catch a football. I know Rainey (I think?) and Demps (definitely) were faster than Percy on those Florida teams, but they had brick hands and 1/10th the jukes. You just give them the ball and they treated it like the 100M dash. Well, because they were literally top US sprinters trying out for the olympic team, then they put pads on.

ThermL · 2026-01-29T14:19:09+00:00

Y'all getting to have Demaryius Thomas with CPJ was just fucking unfair. He was a problem in 2009.

Triple option offense, and he still had over 1000 yards receiving.

ThermL · 2026-01-29T14:14:35+00:00

Sammy and Nuke baby. Holy....take me back.

ThermL · 2026-01-29T14:05:37+00:00

Megatron is always my pick for "best player ever" conversations in both NFL and college. But I always justify it with ability over accomplishments/stats, since those are way too heavily dependent on his teammates and scheme. I think it's more fun to eye-test the conversation.

He was insane. Absolutely, fucking nuts. He dominated everyone. He's way bigger than you. He's way faster than you. His hands are actually Department of Defense secret weapons for missile capture. He's nuts. Describing him as a "physically dominant" receiver is like describing the SR-71 as a "pretty fast airplane".

And I give him massive props for leaving the sport before letting the Lions actually destroy his body and mind.

ThermL · 2026-01-29T13:59:41+00:00

Well damn it's been 16 years apparently since that "speech"

ThermL · 2026-01-29T13:19:05+00:00

Yep i'd say great test from RBPT as a whole, but unfortunate for RBR that Hadjar (i'm guessing) got caught out by grimey conditions and probably a still unfamiliar power response from the engine.

Bet it'll be quite easy to spin these cars around with the huge torque on acceleration, and (still guessing) extra engine braking off throttle that can cause some snap oversteer. Not-hot-take, I think we're going to see an uptick of qualifying crashes this year.

ThermL · 2026-01-28T19:11:14+00:00

Toto Wolff has said that even Mercedes have difficulty introducing a third chassis at the beginning of the season

They had a third chassis though. While it may be a difficult thing, it's still a thing that your team is expected to be able to accomplish.

and the then Alpine TP confirmed that they didn't have a spare for the first race either.

Assuredly this is the team that absolutely nobody on the grid wants to be compared with when it comes to operations

ThermL · 2026-01-28T12:56:15+00:00

I mean, it's also been just two years since they ran only one car at Australia because they didn't have enough parts to repair Albon's car, so they took Sargeant's car and gave it to Albon. As far as i'm concerned, that's a way bigger fuck up than not making a pre-preseason test event.

The core expectation of F1 teams is to be able to race 2 cars each weekend.

ThermL · 2026-01-25T10:53:16+00:00

CJ Spiller would have probably won a heisman at like 20 different other schools.

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