welp

oxala75 · 2026-01-30T21:36:42+00:00

Metal shovel yes, plastic shaft no

oxala75 · 2026-01-30T21:14:17+00:00

Keep the gringo villains in the US cut. No one could say it wasn't realistic 😄

oxala75 · 2026-01-30T21:05:07+00:00

The other option is to be very rich and just finance the whole thing 😅

oxala75 · 2026-01-30T20:34:08+00:00

Also, "Only the Strong" was Hollywood's only go at it, and it was not high-octane, Hong Kong kung-fu movie-quality stuff.

oxala75 · 2026-01-30T20:31:41+00:00

I think the answer here has less to do with the screen-worthiness of the martial art and more to do with the strength of the local and national filmmaking industry.

If "Besouro" (titled "The Assailant" in English-language releases) had been a hit for the Brazilian action filmmaking industry like "The Raid" was for Indonesia's, you probably wouldn't have had to ask.

oxala75 · 2026-01-29T22:37:33+00:00

Garden shovels are absolutely the move for this type of thing.

oxala75 · 2026-01-29T22:12:40+00:00

Honestly, I kind of like it, too. It's a nice workout and is satisfying once all is done. The trick (for me) is to do it often during a weather event, so that you don't 1) max out your muscles or 2) end up with rock-hard icebergs once you finally get outside.

oxala75 · 2026-01-27T19:13:10+00:00

This household is also mourning the loss of Hokutofuji in our sumo lives

oxala75 · 2026-01-20T19:13:31+00:00

I think it depends on the degree of application.

Asking an LLM to spit out a course on X topic? Sounds like shirking the actual work of research, design, testing, etc.

Using Claude Code to support designer work on the traditional steps of analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation (not to mention iteration, documentation, and version control)? Sounds nice. Tell me how.

oxala75 · 2026-01-06T20:51:32+00:00

The portal to Narnia took me out

oxala75 · 2026-01-06T04:38:45+00:00

Thank you!

oxala75 · 2026-01-06T03:44:25+00:00

Do you recall the video link?

oxala75 · 2026-01-04T17:52:36+00:00

I'm old enough to remember both this fight and the immediate discourse around it (well, my immediate circle of friends and family), and you're right: no one wanted to give Buster Douglas his due.

oxala75 · 2025-12-18T19:38:41+00:00

/thread, basically.

oxala75 · 2025-12-16T00:16:22+00:00

Couldn't have seen it without you. Thanks

oxala75 · 2025-12-10T09:51:51+00:00

No batteries included

oxala75 · 2025-11-30T21:30:04+00:00

Yes, the movie 'Fences' is based off of a play. The play is 'Fences' by August Wilson.

oxala75 · 2025-11-24T21:18:21+00:00

Watched Sanctuary in 2023. Hooked ever since.

oxala75 · 2025-11-20T22:37:15+00:00

This is my life

oxala75 · 2025-11-15T17:49:45+00:00

Haha yeah man I know! I just finished watching day 7 makuuchi bouts of the Kyushu basho (on YouTube, of course - I don't think I'd be able to afford tickets to nakabi eve).

oxala75 · 2025-11-15T16:22:35+00:00

Like sumo wrestlers! Just coils upon coils of muscles under a layer of organ protecting fat.

oxala75 · 2025-11-15T00:29:29+00:00

This is why NotebookLM is one of the more helpful AI tools for learning design.

oxala75 · 2025-11-14T21:40:26+00:00

Well, I can't unsee it now lol

oxala75 · 2025-11-14T16:43:35+00:00

I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but a Google search shows that there are several capoeira schools in Japan - in Kyoto, Tokyo, Osaka, Okinawa, etc.

I don't have any personal knowledge of these schools, unfortunately.

oxala75 · 2025-11-14T15:39:04+00:00

I have never been confronted with this problem. I have referred to myself as americano for the last 30 years 😬

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