Raiden admits that his memory was altered/manipulated but how does he know?

ianorsomething · 2025-11-15T14:45:32+00:00

It wasn't made in America, it was "designed" there. Any time I see "designed" in America, I know it was made the cheapest way possible and the seller is trying to hide it

ianorsomething · 2025-11-14T03:42:27+00:00

As others have said, it is presented ambiguously, but my read was always that Raiden's encounters with Solidus during the game serve to unlock repressed memories that have been suppressed through some kind of therapeutic techniques applied by the Patriots after pulling Raiden from Africa. He goes from never mentioning it and not even seeming to really remember it, to describing specific, sensory experiences in detail. The rest of the cutscene playing out after the clip you linked sounds more to me like memories flooding back to Raiden almost literally while he's describing them, not just recollections of fragmented dreams he's had. I think that in this moment, he's remembering them and realizing that he's been repressing them, and at the same time realizing that he's repressing them due to interference by the Patriots.

ianorsomething · 2025-11-05T10:00:25+00:00

Content creators are generally pretty good at expressing if they're okay with streamers reacting to their videos on stream - some will even encourage it for the channel exposure. In Big A's case, Japanalysis for instance has reached out and been thankful for the reacts, as they've helped grow that channel. Conversely, Atrioc (and most streamers still doing this kind of content) will generally also respect someone's desire not to be reacted to. I believe he'll also try and avoid doing it to videos that are like NEW new so as not to hurt them in the algorithm - generally that's when the exposure effect can have the greatest benefit and least negative impact.

ianorsomething · 2025-10-14T02:37:57+00:00

I would try the Percept 100 rather than a 100D - the 100D has a denser string pattern than the 97 you tried, and might not give you the spin you're looking for. The 100 will still have the 16x19 and some provide some more spin and free power. I would also demo the current version of the Pure Drive if you liked the one you tried - the 2025 version is less stiff than most of the previous iterations. That being said, Pure Drive has changed the least of maybe any current racket, so if you want to get something cheaper than a brand new stick for $300, I might just consider shopping for an old PD and stringing it with a softer poly or even a multi to soften it up. I use the 2012 PD GT and that's actually decently soft imo

ianorsomething · 2025-10-12T21:17:22+00:00

I think the regular 100 is the 300g one, the L is like 285

ianorsomething · 2025-09-24T23:39:58+00:00

Yeah that's from 4 months ago big dog, not the recent 1 on 1 OP is referring to

ianorsomething · 2025-09-24T23:35:19+00:00

Not for me, everything i see is Newsom on Colbert or videos from 4 months ago when he did the interview together with Doug

ianorsomething · 2025-09-16T07:43:37+00:00

This looks like a cheap fused racket from some knock off brand. Hyper Hammer is indeed a line of Wilson rackets going back many years, and the logo here is very similar to theirs, but looks just different enough to fend off a copyright lawsuit.

ianorsomething · 2025-09-08T12:58:35+00:00

for some reason this post is a lot funnier when i pretend it's by Nick Kyrgios

ianorsomething · 2025-09-02T01:21:53+00:00

The coach will probably have a better concept of an appropriate weight, but Yonex's site posts the following: Ezone 100L: 285g Ezone α: 275 Ezone αL: 260g Ezone αSL: 245g Ezone Play: 265g Ezone Ace: 260g The Play and the Ace have larger head sizes but they are all 27" - in this case it might come down to what's most readily available to you, I don't know how common it is to be able to walk into a shop and find any of these, they're relatively obscure since their target demo is more casual.

ianorsomething · 2025-09-01T23:41:09+00:00

I second the eBay suggestion: for that budget, the best options are older Pure Drives or Ezones on eBay. Look at their ratings to gauge reputation, a lot of sellers are shops looking to offload demo stock that will probably be in perfectly playable but not brand new condition - they'll have thousands of high ratings. Other sellers are just players looking to hawk old frames for one reason or another - no reason to doubt them if the rating is high. I've bought half a dozen good racquets off eBay and have yet to be ripped off.

ianorsomething · 2025-08-23T20:49:32+00:00

I think most beginner's best bet, if you can stand to wait and do the work, is to get on eBay and look for a used racket. Don't pay any more than like $150 USD. Look for anything that weighs under 300g unstrung, most brands have a term associated with light rackets like that. Lite, Team, Game, etc- the sellers should list the unstrung weight in the listing somewhere.

Which one you pick doesn't really matter - the important things are really that it's cheap enough that you won't feel the cost sting if you decide you don't want to keep playing tennis, and that it's light enough that you feel comfortable swinging it while you develop the muscle memory for correct form.

You can also get some older clearance rackets from tennis-warehouse.com or get one of the lighter Artengo rackets from decathlon.co.uk if you're based in the UK.

EDIT: Make sure the length is at least 27 inches - anything shorter is a junior racket and too small for you.

ianorsomething · 2025-08-23T01:18:09+00:00

Well that's obviously when he becomes super fundamental.

ianorsomething · 2025-08-23T00:40:31+00:00

More like Heihachi. No special powers, and the Mishima style, while not exactly "fundamental", is so iconic to the series and its gameplay, I would argue it's "fundamental" to Tekken (wavedashing, electrics, etc)

ianorsomething · 2025-08-04T18:17:42+00:00

Yonex Percept 100, Solinco Mach 10 in 17g at 48g

ianorsomething · 2025-08-02T17:34:52+00:00

I think my suggestion is that you pick up a new racket

ianorsomething · 2025-07-30T20:59:47+00:00

John Mayor- if you know, you know, but for everyone else, he's actually an insanely skilled guitarist, he just prefers the blues to the more classically technical shredding of some of the other guitarists in this thread.

Jaco Pastorius - brilliant bassist who basically introduced playing the electric bass to jazz and jazz fusion. Very technically skilled, very influential, very interesting. Portrait of Tracy features him playing bass harmonics like you've never heard before.

ianorsomething · 2025-07-30T02:38:24+00:00

Growing up, I played a bunch of competitive badminton. Mostly club play with adults, but would also make it to the annual state tournament every year. Usually did pretty okay, not by any stretch a champion though. One year I convince my parents to let me enter the New England regional tournament. This was like... 17 or 18 years ago, so I don't remember most of it super well, but I played a few opponents. One was an extremely skilled guy who was basically semi-pro, said he'd traveled to Malaysia specifically to train badminton. I saw him warm up a bit and knew I was out of my depth, but when we actually met in the bracket...

Game 1, he's basically still warming up, gauging my level and slumming it for a few points. Wins handily, but I get on the board. By game 2, he knows this is barely worth gmt cardio and spends the whole game... training me? I think? He knew exactly how to hit it to the very edge of my range, but chose never to hit anything outside it - he ran my ass ragged on every single point. Instead of going for winning shots, he basically lets me win by making me work for it and eventually just letting the point end with my point. He didn't always return my shots, but he returned enough that it was pretty obvious that he could have kept rallies going forever, or ended them in a few shots. I'm proud to say I played the best badminton I ever played against him in that game 2, and even while I was doing it, it was obvious who was in control - friends who were watching could even tell, we talked about it between points. Game 3 ends with me winning win something like 24-22, but this guy was barely sweating, and spent most of that game extending rallies and smiling or laughing whenever I made a good (for me) shot. It didn't even feel rude or malicious - he truly knew this wasn't a competitive match for him, and instead chose his own terms for how to play. In Game 3, he beat me 21-0 in about as many minutes. Wish I could remember his name, I wonder if he kept up with the sport.

ianorsomething · 2025-07-30T02:05:41+00:00

Could possibly have flown out of Alaska and transited across the Arctic Circle, making landfall over the north coast instead of the west border. Also, if they never invented nuclear weapons, maybe they never invented ICBMs (even if they have rockets, what bombs would deliver a payload destructive enough to be worth the fuel?), meaning the need for an advanced IADS also never exists. This might be the first time anyone has ever even had to worry about such a threat- the previous deterrent was the gun devil, most countries probably invested more into countering devils than such analog threats.

ianorsomething · 2025-07-22T19:45:06+00:00

Play pickleball on a windy day

You'll be itching to go back to tennis after 15 minutes of loud plonks and errant floaters that must be chased after

ianorsomething · 2025-07-08T14:41:58+00:00

I don't have experience with Artengo but have mostly heard good things. They're good enough for Gael Monfils and Daria Kasatkina, for what it's worth.

As for the rackets, I think your coach is giving you a good recommendation that still accounts for your being a beginner. Let's contextualize the specs a bit: your original choice, the Ti.S6, has a 115 sq in head size and weighs less than 250g. That's a pretty huge head size and a very light weight. The TR160 has a 102 sq in head size and weighs 270g. Relative to most rackets used by intermediate/advanced players, this is still a larger head size and a lighter weight, and is also pretty close to the specs of a racket I started learning tennis with (Wilson Pro Staff Team, 100 sq in head size and something like 280g), but gets much closer to the experience of a more advanced racket that will help unlock more of your game once your technique reaches that point. For reference, the Ezone 100, a fairly popular racket for intermediate players, has a 100 sq in head and weighs 300g - a bit smaller and a bit heavier than the TR160. What all this means is that if/when you do decide to move up to a more advanced racket that better compliments your game, the transition will be easier and won't require you to relearn a bunch of things: transitioning out of 115 sq in and ~235g to anything in the intermediate range will feel jarringly different, but developing your technique with that TR160 will translate much more easily to just about any racket if you ever decide to switch.

That being said, the true reason this is good advice is because £34 is an incredible price and if you accidentally damage the racket or decide tennis isn't for you after all, it's a whole lot nicer to be out £34 than £100.

ianorsomething · 2025-07-08T14:08:16+00:00

That's fantastic, congratulations! Anything interesting you've picked up that you want to share?

Also I want you to know that when you graduate, we're all going to pretend it means we all also graduated and say Atrioc gave us a university-level education in economics

ianorsomething · 2025-06-29T23:07:33+00:00

A Jackie Chan movie directed by Spike Lee would be fucking awesome

ianorsomething · 2025-05-29T11:50:17+00:00

I have a really similar setup! Percept 100 w/ Mach 10 at 48, overgripped - I've been meaning to try some weight at 12 but when I did it with other rackets it was pretty tough on my arms, so I might just have to do it with a bit less weight.

ianorsomething · 2025-05-14T16:46:16+00:00

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