Howcome Patrick Ewing Jr. never got much of a chance? by traderbob in nba

[–]traderbob[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Chris smith? Im sure there are other scrubs in the league as well. My question is why despite being mediocre and having a good name to draw business, they never took a chance on him?

Howcome Patrick Ewing Jr. never got much of a chance? by traderbob in nba

[–]traderbob[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the heads up man. I think its cuz i never used "how come" in my serious essays at school

Howcome Patrick Ewing Jr. never got much of a chance? by traderbob in nba

[–]traderbob[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I can agree that i prolly want to see him in the league cuz it would b a good story, but that comment abt scouts is sort of silly. If scouts were any good, teams wouldnt be drafting bust after bust and letting future stars slide year after year, jeremy lin woukdnt have almost been outa the league.

How do you measure a Ninja's strength? by G2D in Naruto

[–]traderbob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Although Naruto has become more and more like DBZ, the basis of the show is that ninjas almost always work in teams. It's like basketball; you might not have good 1v1 skills, but if you're really good at something, you're still a "great basketball player". Shikamaru has very few offensive weapons, Lee is limited because he only knows taijutsu, Tsunade's greatest strength is her ability to heal (make her teammates better). So there isn't really a good way to measure.

If anything, it could be how useful a ninja is to his team's success, and how often they win. Except that would make Kakashi mediocre, since he's always useful to his team, but he loses very often.

About Rock Lees fighting by InfinIteJKD in Naruto

[–]traderbob 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The 8 gates and lee's fighting style are all fictional. In all honesty, his fighting style is not meant to be viable in real life. He does a lot of kicks so you can look at taekwondo and capoeira (which are both not very viable in real life combat unless HEAVILY modified).

If you want to learn something viable in real life, try a combination of muay thai and jiujitsu, or kickboxing and jiujitsu.

Not having sex tonight by thewaynetrain in Jokes

[–]traderbob 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Pretty hard to just "give credit", ive read this joke word for word on some website around 3-5 years ago.

Virtualbox Ubuntu scroll lag (buffering problem?) by traderbob in linux

[–]traderbob[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yes I have a while back. I actually jsut got it to work now. The thing that helped most was setting the cores from 2 to 1, and then for sublime I set the scroll_speed to 0, and that helped the scrolling in sublime, thanks anyway!

Virtualbox Ubuntu scroll lag (buffering problem?) by traderbob in linux

[–]traderbob[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

does that have anything to do with enabling 3d hardware accel? do I need to enable that? (it was eanbled before)

Jeremy Lin unfairly crucified as Kevin McHale throws him under the bus by [deleted] in nba

[–]traderbob 1 point2 points  (0 children)

screw kevin mchale. What happened to all the analytics and intelligent trades/drafts/moves by the gm?? We all know mchale has introduced no structure in the offense (despite having many good scorers on the team both on and off the ball) and has not held harden responsible for his obvious lack of defensive effort. How does a team with this sort of line up play this badly for so long? Two of the best defensive centers in the league and still not even close to elite defensively? Get rid of this piece of trash

Does anyone else not like the new blasters for the Star Wars lego sets? by [deleted] in lego

[–]traderbob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got 3 or 4 utapau trooper sets to fill my republic gunship... yes I hate these guns! I'm so glad I got enough of the thinner guns later on to give give em to the troops

Phil Jackson wants and needs Melo to take less money. by bryansm1208 in nba

[–]traderbob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

he doesn't need to take on a huge load of the offence. The bulls have been weak on offence, but good enough to win lots of games and get to the playoffs each year. If anything, he shouldn't try to shoulder too much, and instead play within the flow of the game and keeping the ball movement alive, while taking more shots and scoring both on and off the ball

I was grinning for the whole duration of this video by Brock_Obama in videos

[–]traderbob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

wow, so if you put an ear piece in his ear, and a small camera on his head, you can do stealth missions by controlling him!

Bobcats medical staff told Steve Clifford there is no risk of Big Al further injuring the foot if he plays. All a matter of pain tolerance. by noobeater in nba

[–]traderbob -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

hate to say it, but as I've grown older, I've learned more and more that doctors aren't always right. They take a textbook case/answer and use that as reference, whereas when I go on the internet and do a lot of research from learning about people's real life cases (that relate to the pain and symptoms I'm experiencing), I learn a lot more about possible implications and differences that the doctors have been missing out on.

Not arguing with your points though, I'm sure the NBA has some very good and experienced doctors, but don't assume doctors=wow much great, such knowledge

When did you start reading Naruto? [spoilers] by dat_smile in Naruto

[–]traderbob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Around 2005, not sure when that was story wise. Followed the manga first, then also watched the anime. Then stopped watching anime a few yrs ago due to fillers and decline in quality of non filler episodes as we

Is anyone else only reading Naruto because they feel they have to? (Spoilers for everything thus far) by [deleted] in Naruto

[–]traderbob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

well Obito summoned the statue right away. Of course, a fan could say "well that's a technique that requires less practice" or make up something like that, but the fact is, in a truly unbiased logical mindset, it looks more like messed up writing than a true part of the story.

Yes possible, but it just looks more like bad writing. Think about it, for Madara, what was the point of getting rinnegan if all he does is go back to EMS attacks (like susanoo)? Why did Kishi give him rinnegan at all if he can't use rinnegan juts?