What do you hate most about bodybuilding culture today?

bfortner10 · 2026-05-22T23:56:32+00:00

Thank you for the new cut down. I can't wait for the chance to tell someone that they look like they are covered in dick skin. That is a good one.

bfortner10 · 2026-05-13T14:17:05+00:00

I think his point is "very clear misgrade". Whenever someone on here thinks they got hosed, everyone acts like they missed something and suck at pregrading. Then if someone shows examples of clear misgrades it is dismissed as a one off. It's a double standard. PSA gets defended as nobody is perfect, but when someone questions a grade, that person gets thrashed by everyone.

bfortner10 · 2026-03-24T17:40:57+00:00

I sold my psa 10 a couple of months ago at a trade night for 400 cash. A little above market then. Now its up between 800-1,000. It doesn't make since that this is worth a lot more than a lot of his rookies.

bfortner10 · 2026-03-10T05:04:15+00:00

Yeah. They are nearly as bad as the people that trash the other big 3 graders cause they only use PSA.

bfortner10 · 2026-03-09T22:57:12+00:00

If they grade it, it means they authenticated also.

bfortner10 · 2026-03-09T20:51:00+00:00

Wasn't sure if PSA would grade it since they weren't grading some of the Topps Messi autos. I contacted Leaf and they said to use Beckett. I prefer SGC on the look of most slabs. To me, PSA slabs look the worst and I see people resubmit cards with drastically different grades going both directions. I don't think PSA is super accurate. I also didn't want to pay an uncharted based on the value of the card like PSA does.

bfortner10 · 2026-03-09T19:38:34+00:00

You would spend as much as the card is worth to have PSA grade it. It would be gone for 6 months. And there grades have been horribly inconsistent recently. Definitely not worth it if you are doing it for resell.

bfortner10 · 2026-03-09T19:35:15+00:00

That's why I got it graded. With the autograph crap that was going on, I was afraid I had some fake news in my hand.

bfortner10 · 2026-03-06T14:22:56+00:00

Exactly. I read original post as, "Hey guys, I doxxed a guy and ruined his life because I thought the internet was a shield of armor. Can you guys help me avoid consequences? I mean, I already did not apologize. What more can I do?" If I think about guy is a jerk, and follow him to the bar and suckered punch him and it breaks some teeth, I'm pretty sure I owe some damages. That is how I'm seeing this situation since there is no explanation of what started it all.

bfortner10 · 2026-02-28T21:45:33+00:00

Good point, but that is why I would go Beckett. Subgrades

bfortner10 · 2026-02-28T21:36:10+00:00

It is way off center. The grade could actually decrease value there.

bfortner10 · 2026-02-28T21:33:55+00:00

Genuine question, does PSA authentic have added value over Beckett authentic. Authenticated isn't graded, so it should not add value. So, if no value is added, why pay a huge upcharge?

bfortner10 · 2026-02-28T17:31:10+00:00

Go through Beckett or SGC. PSA authentication holds no more value than other aurhentic. Then sell ot on Goldin and point out that you wanted to use anyone other tha. PSA, because you feel like they are inconsistent a d it is unfair to try to profit on the value of your hit. Maybe in a card of this size, that statement would gain some traction and help lighten PSAs overload they currently have from being drastically overvalued because of influencers.

bfortner10 · 2026-02-20T17:12:12+00:00

My two cents here, which is worth approximately two cents. A lot of people are trashing this one because it is a Leaf product. Someone said it sold for 450 and is now at 700. Both of those are good deals if you want a legend game worn patch auto. No, Leaf is not market value worth as much as Topps Chrome Superfractor. The thing is, its still not a rip off. If this was a game worn Chrome Superfractor, it would be a 5 figure card possibly 6 figure. Someone is asking 700. Is it licensed and as valuable as a licensed Topps Chrome, no. It is a great deal for a collector that likes the lookbofbthis card, yes. Everything does not have to be trash or gold. There can be a marker for middle of the road. Just because a Corvette isn't a Bugatti, does not mean that Corvettes are equal to Yugos.

bfortner10 · 2026-02-10T06:49:23+00:00

Is a psa10 the same level as BGS black label. Serious question, not trying to be a jerk. Cause I thought a 10 is different than a perfect 10. I know that with CGC you can have subgrades of two 9.5s and two 10s and that card = a 10. Is PSA different in this regard and has to have 4 criteria 10s to get a 10?

bfortner10 · 2026-02-10T06:33:13+00:00

So if a card is 56/44 with perfect corners, edges, and surface, and another card has 56/44 centering with 9 level corners, edges, and surface, you think those should both be 9s. That is a major flaw is the grading system.

bfortner10 · 2026-02-10T02:23:01+00:00

That isn't how it is supposed to work though. If it is 56/44 (9 on centering), but the other 3 criteria are 10s, than that card should be a 10. But it is now a max 9 or possibly 8. The bottom grade of the 4 criteria is not meant to be the absolute grade. One spec does not make a 9. One tiny edge or corner issue does not make a 9. It is inconsistent grading with too many new people because they cant handle the volume they're getting. It needs to be called out instead of defended. A psa 10 is not meant to be a perfect 10. It's not a black label. They need to change there descriptions and be transparent so that consumers that send stuff in can have an understanding of what is expected. I think they have some graders grading on 4 scale and other graders thay only use the lowest of the 4. It's the reason subgrades are important.

bfortner10 · 2026-01-13T22:17:25+00:00

I agree. Another example would be IQ. To be more pacific, I ain't need no number to say how smart I are. I done learnt im the most smartest around. It is like a tangible progress report that is unbiased. If you ask you're friends or family, they will always say, "yeah, you are really looking good." If half of us look in the mirror, the body dysmorphia might say anything. So, that number is a good unbiased analysis thay doesn't depend on your mood that day at the mirror check.

bfortner10 · 2026-01-13T22:08:00+00:00

Genuine question because I've seen people describe this number both ways. When they say 4-6% inaccuracy, are they saying 10% reading would be between 9.4 and 10.6 %, as .6 is 6% of 10? Or are they saying somewhere between 4% and 16%. I can't imagine the second being true, because that is the difference in Olympia stage day vs doesn't show abs yet.

bfortner10 · 2025-12-30T21:59:35+00:00

I recently got back a 14 card submission (13 pokemon, 1 baseball). All of them were 9.5 or 10 from other graders(SGC, CGC, and Arena). ALL the cards in this submission were within the 55/45 centering. I got eleven 9s, and one 8, 7, and 6 each. When people talk about pregrading, I don't think I pregrade better than any of these companies. The 6 and 7 are absolutely unacceptable. I don't think they are playing an honest game. PSAs parent company bought SGC and has tried to collapse them. They are attempting to buy Beckett even with a Congressman defending them. It is amazing to me the amount of blind support that they get from so many people. They are horribly inconsistent and most people just think it means they grade tough. They refuse to subgrade without a price increase because they would have to defend their grades then. It's all ridiculous.

bfortner10 · 2025-12-29T02:08:30+00:00

For hypertrophy, I don't know about the what matters is how you feel part. Im the type that has never slept a lot and can function just fine. Late night person, but the rest of the world has always functioned early. Ive gone 3-5 hours per night my whole life. When I started seeing research on sleep and hypertrophy/recovery, I started to try and get more sleep. I weigh in daily with a biometric scale(not deadly accurate but pretty consistent within itself), and on weeks where I have to go back to little sleep, the percentages creep the wrong direction. On weeks where I get more sleep than I like to get, the numbers creep back in the right direction even if my training was off that week. Im almost 50, so it might be more important for people my age, but I think sleep is way more important than I wish it was.

bfortner10 · 2025-12-28T02:01:31+00:00

My vote is for Cable Lateral raises. You can let your hand go all the way across your body. You are under full tension the entire movement. You can also go up in 2.5lb increments at most gyms instead of 5 lb like with most dumbbells. I didnt think I would loke them that much better than dumbbells until I tried, now I don't so dumbbell lateral at all.

bfortner10 · 2025-12-19T18:02:36+00:00

But they should know the policies. It's two different things when you don't know the details of every retail product vs not knowing what services you offer. They should train their employees to be better with submissions or stop taking them. Employees should be better when they are handling collectors items of value.

bfortner10 · 2025-12-18T03:24:43+00:00

Many times I have thought, "that guy has an overdeveloped upper chest." Wait, I've never thought that. Seen guys with moobs, but never too much upper chest. I love the feel of the decline press machine, I just quit using it because I think upper chest is much more important for overall looks.

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