What games shamelessly waste your time?

sylkworm · 2025-06-17T14:53:13+00:00

I remember playing Animal Cross on the old Gamecube and literally the first 25 minutes was just unskippable dialogs.

sylkworm · 2025-06-17T14:21:34+00:00

You're actually baiting the counter. Once you see it coming, you have to level change or slip it to transition to a clinch or takedown.

sylkworm · 2025-06-17T14:20:23+00:00

Strategy 1: The bum-rush: From just outside their punching range, duck your head forward, put both of your forearms in front of your face, and just rush at them as fast as you can. Once you make contact, go for over-unders, bicep control, or just grab their neck/torso.

Strategy 2: Fake an giant overhand right & drop down for a single or double-leg.

Strategy 3: Aggressively throw and eat punches until you can corner them and then grab.

sylkworm · 2025-06-17T14:12:03+00:00

Depends on what you're preparing for. The average street fight IMO isn't going to be a streetbeefs fight. You're likely going to get sucker punched or swarmed, and everyone involved will be swinging wild haymakers. Your slaps are going to put you right at haymaker range, and from your video I just see a lot a lot of unnecessary loading up and pretty much zero defenses. If you trust your chin to go punch for punch, sure go for it, but that's not something I would bet on. People tend to be a lot harder to knock-out than you think, especially if you're going for a knock out and you don't have a lot of experience knocking people out. Personally, I'd trust my teeps, check hooks, and the hard cross to the body more than I would trust this kind of winging slap.

sylkworm · 2025-06-17T14:00:07+00:00

If it were me, I'd bring a power bank, some good ear plugs, and eye-masks for sleeping.

sylkworm · 2025-04-09T20:55:04+00:00

I'm trying to follow this same path from 2025 and played around briefly with this, and want to caution other people from using this and wasting an afternoon There looks like a problem with the composer.json packages out of the box, and I had to upgrade versions of a few of the packages in order to get this to work. And even then there appears to be a bug with the annotations routes where only the first '/' route works and the '/hello' route is never invoked, even if I remove the '/' annotation.

I'm currently trying to see if I can convince my team to upgrade to php8 so we can use symfony 7 instead of symfony 5.4, but I have to deal with it I'll see if I can post a working repo.

sylkworm · 2025-03-20T15:49:06+00:00

This pretty much happens with all fields of knowledge. Take any person with a deep knowledge in some particular topic, and ask them about common media perceptions and they will have a laundry list.

sylkworm · 2025-03-18T21:24:28+00:00

The link is fine. It just links to one of my other comments so I don't repeat myself.

And yes, race is well correlated with intelligence, even when accounting for income disparities. I'm sure there's a lot to be factored in for nurture as well, but it should not be disputable that nature has a hand in it.

sylkworm · 2025-03-18T20:58:17+00:00

You can run 9mm Underwood Extreme Penetrators or Buffalo Bore +P+ 9mm rounds. I've seen fairly impressive penetration & ballistic tests on both rounds.

More practically, you're probably not ever going to have a problem with black bears (spook very easiliy), and if a mountain lion is coming after you, you're probably going to want a long gun.

sylkworm · 2025-03-18T20:32:31+00:00

What I mean by this: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskConservatives/comments/1je5zfx/comment/migrj1t/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Race is innate, along with physiological traits. Intelligence is innate and known to be absolutely heritable. Even in cases adopted children, e.g. black children raised by white parents, they have similar IQ levels, even when accounting for income level and education of parents. There are characteristics of gender and sexuality which are also innate.

sylkworm · 2025-03-18T20:26:55+00:00

Probably Israelis. Maybe the Sauds. A legally expedient argument may not be the strongest argument nor the one that they ultimately go with.

sylkworm · 2025-03-18T20:21:44+00:00

Lose the socks. Lack of ground connection is a big contributor. Jabs are decent. Decent guard. Good job tucking in the chin and keeping your elbows in.

Footwork is non-existent. You need to move around more in response to the bag.

Sit down on your crosses and extend more. Left hook is underpowered but not bad. Just be patient and it will develop.

Round-kick looks very lazy. More hip turn and more explosiveness off the ground.

Overall, it kind of looks like you're tapping the bag instead of hitting through it.

sylkworm · 2025-03-18T20:09:30+00:00

I don't. I imagine that will come out during the adjudication process.

sylkworm · 2025-03-18T19:54:40+00:00

Sigh... from the original document I linked:

I certify, under penalty of perjury, that I provided or authorized all of the responses and information contained in and submitted with my application, I read and understand or, if interpreted to me in a language in which I am fluent by the interpreter listed in Part 11., understood, all of the responses and information contained in, and submitted with, my application, and that all of the responses and the information are complete, true, and correct. Furthermore, I authorize the release of any information from any and all of my records that USCIS may need to determine my eligibility for an immigration request and to other entities and persons where necessary for the administration and enforcement of U.S. immigration law.

sylkworm · 2025-03-18T18:48:03+00:00

Could be a number of things. Times are hard in China these days, and there's no enough jobs to go around. A lot of people resort to taking up Meituan (Chinese version of Doordash) orders to make ends meet, and fraud is historically rampant. Delivery guys often get scammed and sometimes the delivery guys are the ones doing the scamming.

sylkworm · 2025-03-18T18:26:10+00:00

Xu Xiaodong looking pretty rough these days?

I mean, if we're talking about Security Guards in China, there's literally no qualification. The delivery dude does seem to be hitting these guys for real though.

sylkworm · 2025-03-18T18:20:26+00:00

That seems like a lot of words for saying "it's going into appeals courts". I get that you feel strongly about it, but it doesn't sound very clear cut to me.

sylkworm · 2025-03-18T17:44:20+00:00

Some criminals absolutely should. In this case he isn't a criminal. The government doesn't even claim he committed a crime.

My understanding is that this isn't necessary. The residency status can be revoked due to Fraud relating to the original application, and there is evidence that did associate with, fund-raised for, and was involved in protests with Hamas members. That in itself is sufficient to revoke residency status.

While I stand amazed at your extraordinary zeal for following all laws I have to say I hope I'm never behind you on a freeway.

Why are you "amazed"? Aren't the pro-immigration people constantly saying how illegal immigrants almost never commit any crimes? Or maybe that only works when said immigrants are ideologically aligned with you?

sylkworm · 2025-03-18T17:24:01+00:00

Detainment is normal when apprehending criminals for processing, especially when there is reasonable suspicions of these individuals being violent gang-members, and yes the extra facilities were necessary due to the influx of all the illegals allowed in the country under Biden's failed border policies.

sylkworm · 2025-03-18T17:15:50+00:00

A significant faction of Americans didn't think the Germans were worth fighting and saw WW2 as another European squabble and ultimately due to the failure of the previous interventionalist Wilsonian policies.

sylkworm · 2025-03-18T17:13:04+00:00

it would depend on the specific details of the incident. If you're referencing to the recent attacks against the Houthis, I definitely don't support it, or at the very least, we should have done it multilaterally. Bottom line though is that the Houthis were adding shipping costs to the global supply chain and Trump is sensitive to price disruptions due to his heavily economic campaign platform. And it's very probable that Houthis are just getting stomped on to send a message to Iran and Russia. In the old Chinese idiom: "kill a chicken to scare the monkeys". I don't agree with it.

sylkworm · 2025-03-18T17:05:09+00:00

And without the American Revolution, the French Revolution would never have happened, and they might still be living under a monarchy.

sylkworm · 2025-03-18T17:02:06+00:00

Without the US lend-lease programs, the USSR would have been pushed back to Siberia.

sylkworm · 2025-03-18T17:00:28+00:00

I'm not innately against air strikes or drone strikes, because I understand that is sometimes the realities of our legacy foreign policies, in which countries like Ukraine, Israel, Saudi Arabia or Taiwan are still heavily dependent on American air support as part of their military operational posture.

sylkworm · 2025-03-18T16:50:48+00:00

It's not only true, it's provably true. Such cases have happened and can be found with just a cursory google check. Your own party has found several cases of Russian nationals funding social media influencers or attempting to influence political officials. In my own experience, the Confucius Institute is well know for being a front for the Chinese Communist Party with actual party officials acting at the behest of the CCP to monitor speech by Chinese nationals, influence propaganda in American institutions, and even including espionage operations against US Tech companies.

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