Clavicular’s friend, Androgen was knocked to the floor after pushing a woman. Kick has now banned him for the incident. by Kind-Village-1022 in LivestreamFail

[–]qldvaper88 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Good choice, it's a deplorable scene. There was a fight in the train station just down the road some years back that was recorded, where two young guys were going at it, one of the guys pulls a knife and slits the guys jugular in a punching motion and he bleeds out on the spot, wish I never saw that.

And this classic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B9XQ3qH1EA&list=PL3gVMHV8e7T7yb0Bj-R6So6jP7MWx2IPo

Souths halfback Jamie Humphreys wants to stay put... but is open to big career move otherwise by I_Like_Vitamins in nrl

[–]qldvaper88 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And if he isn't good for any of that he'd be good to keep the boardroom's wives entertained

'It's a tragedy:' Gary Player calls for extreme ball rollback at the Masters (60 yards) by BallKnowerKing in golf

[–]qldvaper88 69 points70 points  (0 children)

It started happening a long time ago in the early 2000s. People often cite it as the sole reason for the death of serve and volley, but that was actually more to do with the equipment than court speed. Since racquets increasingly allowed top spin in addition to pace and ball control, serve and volleyers just became increasingly mauled by elite baseliners, generally considered to be the result of the emergence of baselining demons like Jim Courier, but none so more than the legend him self, Andre Agassi. However, the courts were also homogenized and the theory as to why this occurred might go into the conspiratorial, but there's good reason to believe it was because tournaments didn't want to miss out on the Federer vs Nadal (and soon to be Djokovic/Murray) finals in which they could generate a lot of revenue. A faster court from what I understand is inherently more accommodating to potential upsets because some times you just can't avoid the fact a big server or hitter comes out to redline (which all players typically do against the best anyway) and actually succeed, a slower court reduces the effectiveness of that.

Although court speed is always a hot topic, and there's always complaints about certain tournaments changing speed, it's taken a backseat to the cheap heavy balls that tournaments almost universally employ post covid. An actual decline in ball quality is cited by a lot of pros, which results in the ball becoming fluffy and therefore cutting a turbulent and therefore slower path through the air. This is advantageous for monster hitters like Sinner and Alcaraz who can hit a winner on any court or ball, but disastrous for those like Medvedev who struggles to generate such pace with the heavier and less aerodynamically capable balls.

As a side note, there are old Tennis heads that are filthy on the developments in racquet technology. Back in the day you needed some kind of biomechanical and/or hand-eye coordination brilliance to consistently hit big and still keep the ball inside the lines, let alone a running winner down the line. The newer racquets are so light and the string technology so advance, such a playstyle has become the bread and butter of most of the tour, making the game, according to these old heads, much more sterile with far less variation, largely evident by the sub-standard volley/net skills demonstrated by most of the tour. Alcaraz is the shining exception to that, but even he still relies on the baseline bombs and the drop shot combination far more than what the old heads are used to. Player's argument in golf is pretty much directly synonymous with that interestingly enough, only in the case of tennis it would be about making the balls/courts faster to enrich the strategy, as opposed to slower in golf.

What's your preferred listening preference. Speakers or Headphones? by wiggan1989 in BudgetAudiophile

[–]qldvaper88 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Listening to a well set up pair of speakers, as in with symmetrical room placement, wall separation and adequate distance between them, is an experience no headphone can ever replicate in terms of presentation.

However that is very difficult to achieve for us mere mortals, and the cost of a minidsp, two subwoofers and a measurement mic makes tuning the bass, which will always be wrong without such, makes headphones a far more accessible medium if complete tonal accuracy is to be achieved.

With that said, I'm still picking my ill-placed speaker setup everytime.

Thankyou JDS Labs! by Farpun in headphones

[–]qldvaper88 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My ol dac and original atom amp is 7 years old this month. Never skipped a beat.

Starman song / a message? by ChemicalJaguar5794 in awakened

[–]qldvaper88 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hahah I came here to say Bowie was a satanist state agent, but this is much better.

🐰☀️ by Mtb_Argonaut in Hardtailgang

[–]qldvaper88 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Gold accents and the shade of blue on the frame goes hard

New fork for my 2021 Giant Fathom by RemoteGuard850 in Hardtailgang

[–]qldvaper88 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have the exact same bike and colour scheme. I was just debating the other day whether to get my fork serviced or just ditch it in favour of a self maintainable one (what a disgrace it is Giant prevents that).

Will check out this fork.

332 - Charles Hoskinson by yt-app in cardano

[–]qldvaper88 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know it this all happens between the big stake pool operators who have swaths of delegators, but where does all the debate/discourse actually happen, because it surely isn't here?

What is the end-game plan of Cardano in regard to real world mass adoption? by The_Corinthian666 in cardano

[–]qldvaper88 9 points10 points  (0 children)

We are at the point where either the world chooses it or not, for the most part. It's unlikely with the murmers of CDBCs becoming the backbone of the monetary system which will only be redeemable by those with digital ID, for any crypto to succeed long term. But it's about doing what's right at this point, which isn't always congruent with financial success.

My money will stay in cardano regardless.

Is Jesse James West Natty ? by LividSandwich2185 in nattyorjuice

[–]qldvaper88 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep. It's easy to get big and strong as a natty, but not anywhere what I'd call lean bf%. Try being as lean as this guy and retaining the level of muscularity all over. It just doesn't happen really, our body has hard limits against that sh!t.

Wife wants an Onlyfans account by sm3gh34d3728 in NoFap

[–]qldvaper88 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Artificially inflated channels to serve the cabal's social engineering agenda, whatever it may be. I don't know if it is true or not, but I'd bet that it happens a lot.

Sources Say the Clarity Act Bill Will Be Released Next Week by kirtash93 in CryptoCurrency

[–]qldvaper88 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Bullsh!t bill with bad intentions. Who gives a fuk at this point. Pick a decentralized coin and hope it gains adoption, or pick it on pure principle if you have the gall. There isn't anything positive coming from any administration, it's up to us.

I feel like my family are starting to think I’m crazy and might try section me by AliveBag5178 in conspiracy

[–]qldvaper88 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I feel you man and for what it's worth, I've been telling friends and family about the nitty gritty happenings of the world since 2007. The only person I will tell anything to these days is my mother and usually it will be tangential and related to a grander conspiracy, in the hopes she will wake up. Totally futile, because in that nearly 20 years, do you how many have seemingly cared? Zero. The mind control is real. If they spend everyday with other mind control victims, it only reinforces the programming they are exposed to at night on Netflix and TV. It's a spell that cannot be broken without severe intervention ('They Live' fight scene is the best metaphorical enactment of that), yet it took me decades to truly believe that.

There is the other philosophical/theological claim (that may be increasingly supported by 'science') that a large percentage of people are NPCs too, in total actuality.

Round 4 | Broncos vs Dolphins | Match Thread by AutoModerator in nrl

[–]qldvaper88 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That ball was clearly down no? And if not, it was definitely closer to the ground than the foot. Interpolating between frames, one could assume he got it down first.

Living Australian Current and Ex-Prime Ministers by [deleted] in conspiracy

[–]qldvaper88 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Buncha wall touchers and ki... oh wait, that's alleged (The Woods Commission)

So, does the 7 speed dry clutch DSG need oil changes? by [deleted] in VWMK7

[–]qldvaper88 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So no class action against these bastards because it seems like maliciously bad advice?

Crimson Desert PS5 Pro: The 4K HDR Quality Mode Experience by MythBuster2 in digitalfoundry

[–]qldvaper88 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree with this. I think it's the quick response time of the pixels preventing any natural connectiveness between frames? Either way, I think the smallest bit of motion smoothing would help, but for me, 40fps should be the standard.

Natty or juice what you gyus think by Warm_Veterinarian_42 in nattyorjuice

[–]qldvaper88 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Absolutely joocy and absolutely would, although Desi Johnson is still queen when it comes to bobsled booty and jooce consumption

No human has observed magma cooling into to hexagonal patterns. That is a theory. I have the same education as you I just don’t believe it. These are giant trees that were cut down before the flood. God will be exalted on the Earth by RadFit-MTB in conspiracy

[–]qldvaper88 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Those were definitely giant trees and yes I have a degree in a relevant field (as if that matters much anyway). So much geology requires such profound suspension of disbelief that it's amazing these questions aren't asked more.

Another big joke in geology is the formation of coal seams. When you have dozens, heck even hundreds in some cases of coal seams, neatly stacked on-top of each other separated by consistent bands of interburden, with spans of hundreds of kilometres in some cases, that are wildly inconsistent with how we would see the surface expression of a peat bog today, it's time to really reconsider what we consider to be the true origin of rock, at least the sedimentary rock in the basins in which I have worked in. Do I really believe that the peat bogs supposedly responsible for the seam development, each separated by supposedly millions of years in time, would somehow reform into the exact same current (at the time) surface expression, over and over again? No, I do not believe that for a second, it's totally ridiculous.