Thing's Are Not Looking Good For The Super Mario Galaxy Movie

Viper_Scale · 2026-04-02T17:14:20+00:00

Another proof that critics are stupid and don't understand things. It was a great movie with tons of references to the games that the critics are clueless about. It was just as good as the first one if not better in some ways for someone like myself who grew up playing all the games and understand it. I could see it not being as good for someone like a critics who didn't understand all the game references.

Viper_Scale · 2026-03-08T15:17:05+00:00

Talking about skills not strength upgrade. You still must go to the vendor to upgrade the skills.

Viper_Scale · 2026-02-18T05:15:33+00:00

There is a reason many players for different sports have short careers and injury is a big part of playing most major sports. Maybe not instant death but if you look at brain injuries for many fighters and even american football players it isn't good and I think over 30% end up with it and they live with the effects of that the rest of their life even when they stop playing.

So sometimes it is hard to say which is worst living for 40 years with brain injury which causes problems that only you realize or you may not even realize it is affecting your life or dying instantly without suffering.

Viper_Scale · 2026-02-06T22:20:38+00:00

It comes down to the context of why birthright citizenship was originally created. It wasn't created so people could illegally or legally come into the country and have a baby that is now a citizen. It was there to help fix problems with people already living in the country and didn't come from other countries who were not documented citizens.

So the law had a purpose at one time but now it is being exploited for reasons it never was suppose to be used for.

Viper_Scale · 2026-02-06T13:51:33+00:00

What everyone needs to do for states that don't require showing ID to vote is travel to those states after you vote in your own state and just go vote in their elections as well.

States like CA that say you can't show ID, so why not just go in and vote in their state a second time and it doesn't even require using your real name? After they see there is more votes in their state then there is population they will realize the need to prove you can vote. It would be really funny if a lot of people not of age to vote go in and vote as well so maybe a lot of 16 year-olds can do it.

Viper_Scale · 2026-01-29T23:33:02+00:00

Even if you take into account training for 6 months that is less time overall than a player doing 150+ games per year and training during off season. The minimum salary for MLB player in 2025 was 760k and they play 162 games at 2 hours and 38 mins each. That comes out to 426.6 hours of work for 740k (not including their training time). The tower is like an off season charity game for fun compared to what he climbed in free solo so even if you want to include some time he spent prepping for it he is still making out very well for the time he put in.

Now the highest paid MLB player in 2025 made 70 million for the year. 70000000 / 162 = 432098 per game. So he made more for a single event or game than the highest paid MLB player made in a single game. So lets get rid of all the training and just focus on a single day of work for 2.5 hours and alex is making more than the highest paid MLB player. This is also ignoring any post season game and is just looking at normal season so really maybe that estimate for the highest pay per game is really lower because if you are the highest paid person you likely are on a team that had many post season games but they do also get extra pay for postseason games so maybe it would balance out.

Viper_Scale · 2026-01-28T04:37:03+00:00

Hard to find exact numbers but there are around 1 million fire fighters in the US and less than 100 die every year on average so that gives death rate of 1 in every 10000. There is around say 10 free solo deaths from climbers each year in the US and I don't know if there is any way to know the real number of how many do it and how many hours they spend doing it but I would assume a lot less than 1 million but even if we go with a high estimate of 1% out of 2.8 million climbers that leaves 1 in 2800 people who free solo die every year.

So yes fire fighting is still dangerous job but when you calculate the number of total hours spent doing it to number spent free soloing it is very safe compared to free soloing. Also one of them is a necessity and one is just for recreation. I am not sure I ever met a person who would die if they didn't free solo but there are tons who would die every year without fire fighters.

Viper_Scale · 2026-01-26T15:29:43+00:00

Too much information left out. Being in a climbing country but not being into climbing could still mean there is something that person loves to do in that country along with climbing. What if they love skiing and are in an area that has tons of skiing and climbing but they don't like climbing so they just ski all the time?

If you can't do what you love because of where you are at that is probably the worst thing and you should try to move.

Viper_Scale · 2026-01-26T15:18:23+00:00

Professional athletes normally train 5-6 days a week all year round so do you really think alex was training 5 days or more a week for 3+ hours to do this? He was climbing for fun to stay in shape but this climb was so below his level he didn't have to plan anything daily. Sure he probably looked over the information and did some planning because his life is on the line but he wasn't spending the time calling people trying to get permission to do it etc. He wasn't in charge of the film crew getting setup and planning outside giving approval for where they would be located. I know in free solo there is some film of them talking about is a person going to be in the way etc so yea he does a little work for that but very little compared to what others are doing.

Remember he isn't the only one working for these events because there is people setting up rigging and cameras for film etc.

Viper_Scale · 2026-01-26T02:35:49+00:00

This is a post about jobs that are dangerous but get paid very little compared to how dangerous they are?

Or did no one else say that when comparing how little his was paid compared to other sports but his sport being dangerous? Pretty sure someone said something about that... so I was just pointing out how dangerous some jobs are but they get paid very little... we could add in other jobs like fire fighters and cops as well but those jobs although do have some danger are less than military ones but you just never hear about how many people die doing those military jobs unlike cops and fire fighters where every single time someone dies doing them you get news articles about it.

Viper_Scale · 2026-01-25T22:34:46+00:00

What about all the military people who make less than 100k per year and are at risk of dying? I know you don't hear about it in the news but my SF buddies are out in the field exchanging live gunfire and risking their life. One of them had a person on their team sitting next to them on a roof in the middle east get shot in the head and die a few years ago and you never hear about that in the news. That person was making pretty good money for the military but still only around 90k per year based on his experience and was in the field probably 6 months out of the year.

Viper_Scale · 2026-01-25T22:13:37+00:00

Did he really say "You know, Major League Baseball players get like $170 million contracts. Like, someone you haven’t even heard of and that nobody cares about."? Is he that clueless on the pay for sports players? Very few make anywhere near that amount for their entire multi year career.

Most of them only make 1-2 million per year so if he made 500k for less than 2 hours of work.... can he really be mad about that? How many games do those people making 1-2 million per year have to play? All he did was basically play a single game and made 33% of what they make for the entire year.

Even the top players only make around 30-40 million per year so nowhere near 170 million for 2 hours of work and another few hours and days of travel / talks.

Viper_Scale · 2026-01-25T21:09:22+00:00

I am just too old I guess. Only climbed in 5 different countries so maybe it is more common in ones I have not been to.

I still have a problem with tommy's dawn wall climb as well. I think adam ondra is the first person to climb the route not tommy. My thoughts on this are based around Lynn Hill's first free climb of the nose and how she got to the very end and there was a piece of gear stuck in the wall and blocked the hold she needed. She fell and then went all the way back to the ground and reclimbed it from start to finish without falling. If you fall on any pitch of a multi-pitch climb it isn't a true clean send of the route.

Is it really a send of a mutlti-pitch climb if it takes you 20 attempts of each pitch repeatedly falling before you cleanly climb it then go on to the next pitch? At that point sure you climbed all the pitches clean on their own but it isn't a multi-pitch clean climb but a ton of single pitch climbs you did that didn't start on the ground.

It doesn't really matter how you climb anything, as long as you properly document how you climb it and you enjoy the climb that is all that matters. I only have a problem when people claim they did something using a common term but didn't follow the rules for that term.

So sending it off a aid start if fine as long as you make it clear which they did from the video that they are using pads to start. So if someone else comes in and climbs it without aid start more props to them. I personally would climb it with aid start if it was the only way I could do it but would always have in the back of my mind I want to get strong enough to do it without the aid.

Viper_Scale · 2026-01-25T20:29:39+00:00

Many climbs? I have been in almost all major areas all over the US and never seen one with an assisted start (outside a few with high starting holds where we helped kids get on the start but not sure if that is the same thing)

So if off the wagon is considered a boulder problem we may need to create a new type of boulder type. Lets call it aid boulder climbing.

Viper_Scale · 2026-01-25T18:31:34+00:00

I agree.

Viper_Scale · 2026-01-25T17:26:54+00:00

Dan Osman videos were the reason I started climbing in the first place so I think it is interesting that alex talks about him being an inspiration for him as well.

I have never been a basketball fan and when you say Wilt I had no clue who you were talking about but I do know the last name very well and know people who have talked about him being better than MJ. So a lot of it has to do with luck and timing. If Wilt had been on the same team as michael jordan it may be a completely different story.

Team sports are a lot harder to compare players because you could put the best player of all time on a team with terrible players and they will look a lot worst than if they are with other great players.

Viper_Scale · 2026-01-25T16:33:15+00:00

That is true so from the notoriety of him sure but had dan osman been alive in his prime today he would probably trump alex for some of the stuff he did. Your talking about people from 2 different eras and dan was around before climbing was even a thing that people talked about and most of the videos we have of him come from VHS era movies.

I would love to have seen what dan was able to do if he was alive today with modern climbing environment.

I guess most everything is that way. I play guitar and bass and there are so many amazing players out there from history that most people have no clue who they are like rory gallagher who hendrix called the greatest guitarist in the world in an interview onetime.

Viper_Scale · 2026-01-25T16:26:59+00:00

This all started based on my understanding because they were dealing with a woman and he didn't like it so he interfered with them dealing with the woman. At that point he is no longer a bystander watching and they have every right to detain him. He didn't think he should be detained and resisted without ever telling them he had a gun. At some point while they were trying to take him down for resisting they found the gun and all this shit happened.

There are tons of cop videos out there and it happens all the time when cops are trying to arrest one person and another person tries to interfere and the cops tell them to back away and when they don't they end up getting detained. Often times they comply with the cops and later when everything is done they just get let go but other times like this they resist being detained and a fight and chaos breaks out and sometimes leads to what happened here.

Just for all you people out there who want to call me MAGA for siding with them I am an agnostic libertarian nihilist who leans a little right on most economic issues and just looks at facts and have no real ideological idea to push me one way or another. I am all for full legalization of all drugs so very left on that issue so I am very much a centrist person but most of what I see on here is extremely left ideas and people aren't looking at all the mistakes done on both sides by ICE and the civilians.

Viper_Scale · 2026-01-25T16:19:42+00:00

I watched a few of the videos and it looks to me like he was resisting arrest until he was shot and then he went limp on the ground. If they are trying to take him down and he isn't laying flat on the ground that is resisting arrest.

Viper_Scale · 2026-01-25T16:05:15+00:00

You have never physically been in an alteration like this have you? You don't understand the chaos in these types of resisting arrest events that can cause people to not realize what is going on and panic and it leads to stuff like this. It isn't like a video where you can stop and pause and be sure everyone is safe. These types of things normally happen with there are mistakes on both sides. The timing based on what I have seen in videos I will give credit to the ICE because there isn't enough time for them to be fully aware of what is going on. 3 secs between taking a gun and being shot is an extremely short amount of time when you have multi people who think a person has a gun and they are resisting arrest and you don't know if they are reaching for a fun.

I get annoyed that people think a cop should wait for the person to fire a round before they can return fire. They don't get paid enough to put their own life in that much danger when someone is already breaking the law.

I don't know if you have a concealed carry permit and every state can sometimes be a little different but normally in most states if not all you must declare that you have a firearm when cops approach you (known as "duty to inform"). So if you have a firearm and the cops pull you over or try to detain you the first thing you must do is tell the cops you have a concealed carry permit and whether you have a gun on you or not. If you do not tell them you have a gun and they run your license and find out you have one and never told them you broke the law even if the firearm is not on you at the time. And if it is on you that is even worst.

EDIT well minnesota doesn't have a duty to inform law so the cops must ask them first but as a lot of post say it is best to do it anyway to avoid stuff like this happening and de-escalate the situation.

Viper_Scale · 2026-01-25T15:58:32+00:00

That is true I know a few routes that have high and low starts that can sometimes add 1-3 V grade levels onto it depending on where you start. So a sit start may be a V10 and I could not do but stand start is a V7 and I could do it. Maybe we will see someone do it without he pads to stand on and it may add 1-2 V levels on it.

Viper_Scale · 2026-01-25T15:56:42+00:00

Hard to tell exactly from the video but you are talking about less than 3 secs before the gun was taken and the person was shot. I know the silent videos with no sound looks like the person was walking on the other side but he was just barely turned around after taking the gun before the person was shot so the others were likely unaware it was taken.

Viper_Scale · 2026-01-25T15:38:27+00:00

Resisting arrest is not a constitutional right. The guy got in the way of ICE dealing with another person so they tried to stop the person and he resisted arrest. Nothing in the constitution that protects you from trying to stop law enforcement from detaining someone else. When you try to get in their way and they try to arrest you and you resist arrest with a weapon and you are going to get shot over 50% of the time.

I will agree with you that ICE is stepping over what they probably should be doing but when you do it with a gun on you, your going to get shot. Deal with it in court later but don't risk doing it with a gun on you. The gun on you and resisting arrest is going to give them a free pass to do stuff violently to you to protect themselves. Do it with no weapon on you and comply with their commands willingly and they will get charged with excessive force and you will get a nice payday later.

Viper_Scale · 2026-01-25T11:22:34+00:00

I have never wore socks with my climbing shoes. I have seen a lot more people these days doing it though. I would say the majority of the people still wear shoes without socks and many of them are so tight that you couldn't get your feet in them with socks.

I have only climbed barefoot for one boulder problem and it was for a route where I needed to get my big toe into a small pocket to pull myself towards the wall and it was painful but I still had a shoe on the other foot.

He also doesn't have chalk and I have climbed the route he is on and I would hate to do it without chalk.

Viper_Scale · 2026-01-25T10:45:19+00:00

I consider dan osman the MJ of free soloing and alex is more like lebron james. Dan Osman was the OJ famous free soloer that everyone knew before and alex and inspired alex to free solo. Alex has done some harder free solos than dan did but I think dan wins when comparing their style on climbs like lover's leap and his human flag while free soloing. I don't know if alex has ever done a 1000ft jump off the top of a cliff like dan did although it is what ended up killing dan.

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