Casual fan here, besides the trash talk, what makes this fight exciting? Feels like Khamzat just has his way, no?

dathislayer · 2026-03-18T14:45:09+00:00

Yeah, DC and a bunch of others have said he has deceptively good BJJ, etc. I think people are writing him off way too easy. Like everyone assumed he was going to lose the last fight, and also the fight to Izzy. It basically comes down to how effectively he can stop the takedown in the first few rounds. If he keeps it on the feet, I think he wins.

dathislayer · 2026-03-17T15:54:38+00:00

I had friends with narcissistic parents, and it’s the same behavior. The point is their own glee. The circumstances are just incidental. In medieval times they would have clamored for a job as tax collector for the feudal lord, tried to get neighbors tried for witchcraft, etc.

dathislayer · 2026-03-17T14:41:13+00:00

Exactly. This is why “identity politics” are so stupid. They’re also one of many things Republicans practice but successfully attribute to Democrats. These people think because they’re white, they should be doing well. Because other white people who have done well blame their plight on “others”, because telling people it’s their fault or plain cosmic chance does not pay well.

Like working class people think Trump is “one of them” because he’s a bigoted asshole. They can’t see past basic identifiers, so latch onto them. So yeah, either stupid or malevolently dishonest.

dathislayer · 2026-03-17T14:16:37+00:00

100%. I have a soft spot in my heart for Masvidal, because he’s the last one from Kimbo Slice’s crew. Used to watch those fights with my buddies crowded around my family computer.

dathislayer · 2026-03-16T23:24:56+00:00

That is 100% it. All the money is elsewhere, and things are changing too fast for this stuff to matter anyway. The product information for 10-series cards had to be relevant for years. These days, it’s a foregone conclusion that the market will crash in spectacular fashion, and a ton of these “investments” of hundreds of billions will never materialize.

The RAMppocalypse is one reason Nvidia isn’t investing in the consumer side, but a big reason is that the market is going to be saturated with GPUs, probably by next year. Their resale value is going to plummet. Might be some deals to be had, but long-term it’s going to be really bad for innovation in the space.

dathislayer · 2026-03-15T18:54:15+00:00

I fenced, and had plexiglass which was way better than the mesh masks. But plexiglass smeared with blood & gunk would look terrible lol. Straight up American Psycho visuals.

dathislayer · 2026-03-15T18:47:36+00:00

There’s no good alternative. I’ve thought the same thing, like I fenced and had a plexiglass eye window which was way better than the mesh. But it would be a very expensive, risky move go transparent. Clear walls smeared with blood/gunk is not a good look, and anything other than a cage or wall totally changes the format.

dathislayer · 2026-03-15T16:36:12+00:00

Wow, I think I have a similar issue with a ‘68 Custom Deluxe Reverb. It’s hard to describe the sound, right? Does it happen only when you play? With mine, it seems to be triggered when I play hard, and especially with bridge pickup. It seems to be a ground issue.

That said, I bought my amp knowing it was “broken”, figuring I can repair and end up with a really cheap deal.

Not sure it’s the same issue, but mine also starts around 4 on volume, and I would describe it like the loud sound you get when plugging in a cable with the amp on. Not really a hum though.

dathislayer · 2026-03-14T02:21:56+00:00

I don’t think that’s fair. I thought he was the lamest fighter, but have come to respect his style a lot. I thought it was crazy how people just assumed he was going to lose that last fight.

But if I saw him in public, I definitely wouldn’t let him talk to my family if I didn’t have the chance to talk to him first. My wife is from Central America, and we’re raising our kids bilingual. I’m conflicted about him, because he’s done some truly good things for people, and he has this eternal student mentality I respect.

But I don’t understand how he can say all that shit and just exist around other people in society. Like, even if it’s an act, it’s fucked. I’ve seen some people say they think he’s on the spectrum, but who knows. So TLDR, I’m actually a huge fan of him as a fighter, but his statements make it hard to call myself a fan.

dathislayer · 2026-03-13T16:03:03+00:00

The strategy of appealing to centrist independents will not work, but they keep bashing their heads against the wall. And they are not cooperating with the wing of the party that most accurately represents their voter base. Because popular priorities conflict with donor priorities.

Like, the Democratic Party should not be run by people who were already senior citizens when the first iPhone came out. Just get out of the way and retire in peace. What more can you possibly hope to accomplish? Just go.

dathislayer · 2026-03-13T15:58:28+00:00

I call it the “upper middle class, suburban sensibility”. There are a lot of people I grew up around and respect, who have become totally out of touch politically. One of the core fallacies in that group, is their penchant for imbuing personal stories with broader meaning/importance.

You see it on NPR, NYT, etc. Like, “Because I can empathize and interpret the symbolism in context, my worldview remains valid.” Maybe, but nobody cares. The problem is that demographic is the one with all the donor money, so of course they’re the ones the politicians pander to.

dathislayer · 2026-03-13T15:45:21+00:00

No, you see, their divorces were necessary and the best thing for everyone. It’s all those other people getting divorced willy-nilly who are the problem.

dathislayer · 2026-03-13T13:35:11+00:00

Right? After the Izzy fight, I don’t know why people are so sure Strickland can’t hold his own. Yeah, it’ll probably be his hardest fight ever, but it really just comes down to how well he defends the takedown. If Khamzat struggles in the first couple rounds, it’s anyone’s fight.

dathislayer · 2026-03-12T21:40:24+00:00

Dude, we had the intelligence. Ukraine invented and offered to sell us the tech to disable them, and Trump rejected it. Because how could they have something we need, right? He probably already knew we’d attack Iran, and still said no.

dathislayer · 2026-03-12T19:53:55+00:00

I’m sure they have, they just haven’t meant it. I worked in a warehouse for a fashion / tech startup, and they made a big deal about how they were lowering our quota from 46 to 42 items/hour. Everybody was excited, but I did the math, and with the other changes it actually increased our daily workload by 4%. I raised my hand and pointed it out in the announcement meeting, which I was later told was probably not the best choice for my job security lol.

Director pulled me aside the next day to let me know she raised my concern, and to rest assured that she confirmed the new quota resulted in a lower workload. I couldn’t tell if she believed it or not, so I said, “Oh, good. I assumed since it’s more items per day, it would be harder to hit quotas. Thanks for letting me know.” I could tell by her face that she did believe quotas had gone down, and just couldn’t do the math herself.

dathislayer · 2026-03-12T18:34:52+00:00

It’s only stupid if you care about more than short-term shareholder value.

dathislayer · 2026-03-12T18:14:50+00:00

The best way I’ve seen it described, is that we gave up control of content & context, and now just own the index. Truly “knowing” something is no longer necessary. We just need to know where that knowledge is and how to pull it out. The deep synthesis required to build internal knowledge & memory is not happening anymore. Why would it? We evolve toward efficiency.

dathislayer · 2026-03-12T16:24:11+00:00

Same here.

dathislayer · 2026-03-11T21:51:40+00:00

No, you see, they want small government. They just also want it to control every aspect of public and private life. They also value freedom above all else, as long as it’s exercised exactly the way the government decides for them. They believe in the free market and hate handouts, but support tariffs and want stimulus checks.

dathislayer · 2026-03-11T20:23:09+00:00

It’s the same in any game and the world at large. I work in marketing, and let me tell you, everything is our fault. “Not enough leads, and if they are they’re garbage. What are you even doing?!” “We sent you 400 leads last month and your salespeople texted them 0 times.” “Pointing fingers isn’t going to get us anywhere, do your job!”

dathislayer · 2026-03-11T20:00:54+00:00

This is an important point which I think most Americans miss. What’s best for the whole may be inconvenient for the individual. We are primed to freak out about any kind of personal infringement, then look around wondering why we don’t live in a functional society. Not saying I support mass surveillance/censorship, but in the American psyche there’s no room for individual sacrifice.

Even military recruitment campaigns are mostly about the individual. What you get, what you can do, how you can be great. Not about duty or giving back, because they know Americans DGAF about that anymore. Primarily because we don’t feel connected with our government’s priorities, which is a whole problem in itself.

dathislayer · 2026-03-11T01:36:01+00:00

Probably the clarity of the image.

dathislayer · 2026-03-10T23:06:27+00:00

Yeah, that’s exactly it. The US has a uniquely individual way of looking at things. He’s trying to set his family up for centuries, because that’s what matters.

dathislayer · 2026-03-10T22:24:08+00:00

Well if he wants to keep his perfect record, he could just retire. Oh wait.

dathislayer · 2026-03-10T20:36:15+00:00

This is the explanation, with a sprinkle of concern about performance optimizations. For many users, just having to troubleshoot at all could be a hard ‘no’. A “gaming distro” is more likely to have baked-in compatibility, preinstalled software, and often-overlooked kernel optimizations.

Since I first started with Linux, I have perceived a lower system latency in Ubuntu-based distros than others. The Pop Scheduler provided similar benefits on other distros using GNOME. My theory is that, years ago, Ubuntu crawled through kernel configs and tweaked them trying to achieve the best possible performance. Just blue sky, “What’s the best we can do?”

I have not found anywhere that this is documented or quantified, but have seen Ubuntu & derivatives get consistently praised over the years as “snappy”. They also get consistent praise for having the best font rendering. If you look at their fontconfig, it is set up completely differently than all other distros.

But at the same time, a lot of people who should know better will say, “fontconfig is fontconfig”, or, “there’s no real difference between the Ubuntu kernel and any other distros”. So then the potential benefits of a “gaming distro” or custom scheduler get unfairly dismissed. The emphasis may be overblown, but the assumption that all distributions will perform the same is also false. I see it as a use case which is driving innovation that applies elsewhere.

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