WhatDoYouMeanPodcast

My mom fucked with New Horizons heavy

I just wish they would hurry up and release the class war expansion. We have apocalyptic capitalism pretty much solved. We get it, they want neofeudalism. Give us some content, Blizzard!!

MoistCritical analyzing the situation

Basically, Jagex sent out a survey doing "research" into what players value. They proposed tiered subscriptions such as "lower price with ads," "mobile only," and "premium membership that offers enhanced customer support (one of the most common complaints about the company is their dogshit customer support[1])."

The players, understandably, recognize immediately that the survey like finding a locust in their wheat field. It's a sign that capitalism has come to strip the copper from the walls for short term profit. The private equity company that owns Jagex, CVC, is trying to get their return and chuck the husk.

They all start unsubscribing and the Reddit page is just flooded with screenshots of them unsubbing. They do an apology, it doesn't stop. Their CEO does another apology with slimy corporate jargon today.

Reddit, twitter, and youtube are exploding with it. We're going to need a 2025 OSOSRS in a few years. It was fun while it lasted.

[1] For example, some people only get attention if they get a bunch of upvotes on reddit

Politics related, niche interest related, meme related - surprise me.

E.g. "what's the temperature going to be like today?"

I'll answer "it's going to be pretty cold."

Then you edit the question to be "can you give me a hint about which layer of hell Henry Kissinger is going to?"

I've been pontificating about it to myself for long enough to form it into that question. When I think of someone virulently MCS, the content is almost always their perception of others as lessers - NPCs, background characters, or fodder. They are the hero and they could cut through a horde of others and they're frustrated by rules and regulations that say they can't. But I might be so bold as to say that their problem isn't that they see themselves as special, but that they see themselves as exceptional.

The problem is that they're rude to service workers, upset when people step in front of their camera, or judge the choices of others (especially for the effect it has on you e.g. opining during a marriage ceremony). Therefore my thesis of special vs exceptional is that if you are filming yourself on a busy street but you don't obstruct people nor react to people walking through the shot, you're not hurting anyone. You can take up space, but you should be polite while doing it to be someone who cohabitates this one world. You can think yourself a person with a hidden demon within them who must prove themselves to be the best and be monstrously disappointed when you finish second all the while being a weird anime person, but cheating, misrepresenting yourself to others, or expecting others to help you is where you cross the line.

So all that being said, perhaps it's not a problem to think yourself in a unique position to solve a problem no one else has - perchance help people along the way. After all, no one else is you nor has anyone ever been nor will anyone ever be. The world is a collection of individuals. You can think you're cool, smart, mysterious, kind, forgiving, or hang your hat on some other piece of personal esteem and be a great friend, peer, and comrade. On a tangential note, I like how in prominent MMA promotions, after someone is declared the victor, the camera begins to focus on them and their celebration instead of zooming in on someone who is visibly very frustrated by their loss.

You neednt even wrap your brain around the boundless scale of everyone's genius in some aspect nor make yourself less by reminding yourself of it when you think highly of yourself - it is a lesson to learn if you're belittling others.

I'd really like your input and opinions on the matter.

“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.” ― Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BM9h4p91oow

Rener and Ryron Gracie are back at it again. A little context, the Gracie family are the people who helped put the UFC on the map. They're the ones who spearheaded the move to bring Brazilian Jiu Jitsu to America (and are oft credited with its creation). Rener and Ryron are a few generations removed from the invention of the art, but have really made their place in the world as entrepreneurs - especially when it comes to BJJ. Sometimes they have things like a sackpack that's also a hoodie or a pillow that doesn't let your head droop for airplanes.

You conventionally find them teaching Gracie Survival Tactics, which is marketed especially for s. It's grappling for things like taking someone out of a car or how to get handcuffs on someone if they're resisting. They will talk about it's appeal for healthcare workers, especially for those with dementia or acute psychosis. But the main thrust of what they mean to contribute to the conversation is the position "here's how we can do what we do more humanely." If you are quickly compelled with joint locks and head positioning into compliance, then I think it's hard to argue that there would be less trauma and less bad will towards the police. Sometimes bad things happen because an inexperienced cop panics (Philando Castile's fatal run in with the police comes to mind but you can easily and readily disagree with me on this specific instance). Rener Gracie, of course, is not going to address topics like covering for cops that hurt people, bloated police budgets, whether they help deter crime, racism, overpolicing everywhere because of a study where one time they put more cops in a hotspot and it cleared up, etc.

And here they are, back at it again, with the SafeWrap system. First, it's dumb that they're trying to copyright it in my opinion, but that's illustrative of the attitude and not really my bag to talk about. My bag, as a brown belt in BJJ, is that I like that giftwrap that the person on the upper body takes. It's a massively effective grip to the point that it centralizes my technique. Anytime I'm passed their hips, I'm either looking to submit them right there or provoke them to give me that grip. For example, I'll put both hands on one of their wrists so they need to bring their other hand across to defend it, but turning to get that other hand through exposes their back and lets me grab their top arm and pull it across their face. It allows me to go from being on top of them to controlling their back which is bigly bad for their chances of winning. I could also conjecture with a decent degree of confidence that the person controlling the feet is doing a great job of preventing them from getting back on their knees. That's the place where they can get some traction and start frustrating your efforts. There's a specific movement I just adore where they try to build up onto their elbow and I grab their elbow out from under them and they land onto their pinned arm.

All that is to say that the SafeWrap technically works and it's a specific application of submission wrestling that is admittedly clever. Its effectiveness as a restraint isn't a criticism worth levying in my estimation. I even think, if someone needed to be restrained, which can happen even under communism, it is probably good for deescalation. But, of course, when it's a tool for police to use, alarm bells go off in my head. I sure would be happy if every cop were the antagonist of an adventure novel. It's like how voting normalizes an inherently oppressive system, it feels like that for a carceral state. It's not like you should use something else when someone needs to be restrained, but it feels dirty if there's no talk about who needs to be restrained. If somebody gets restrained like this because they allegedly used a counterfeit bill, it prevents George Floyd's fate, it's less ridiculous than suffocating them, but it's not not-ridiculous.

What do you all think? Look effective for protests? Should I go ahead and get certified and give away free training to lefties? My friends and I have been in class thinking about how to make fists against the face and neck extra shitty (no gi ezekiels, wrist against the nose, mid thumb knuckle right below the jaw, etc.) so we could add that if you're feeling saucy

I think there's a lot of cultural motivation to be some kind of great person - be it because of the great man theory of history or the economic glorification of the captains of industry. However, as communists, our theories of history and economics don't have any love lost for this analysis of the world. We recognize that without labor, not a single gear would turn. So, in my mind, success as a society doesn't rely on the prophetic vision of someone unbound by the constraints of societal pressures, but by iterative improvements and experiments put forward by groups of people who could stand to be liberated from under the economic heel of serving treats and proliferating the MIC. In this paradigm, the person who does push forward the big discovery/gadget is congratulated and venerated, but the cultural zeitgeist shouldn't be centered around that moment of discovery, but instead around highlighting the group and their efforts. Think of watching a Summoning Salt video instead of just the WR speedrun. If I can characterize my desire as wanting to be part of a culture that celebrates the collaborative more than wanting to be exalted as the person who accomplishes something, I can say that I don't "lack motivation" because I don't yearn to be celebrated.

I also struggle to see myself in chosen ones - I don't write the MCs of my novels as inherently special, but rather people who have to rise to the occasion. I hear that media that depicts hordes of zombies (post-apocalyptic has never resonated with me) springs from the same core philosophy. I would much rather hear about someone who is weird because they had to panic and push through a crowd of normal people than someone who is normal who had to run their truck through a horde of zombies. When I think of what I want for myself, the conversation is never to cultivate what makes me special to live up to my potential, it's always about doing something cool because the opportunity exists for those who would take it.

For example, with my black belt coming up in BJJ (in likely <year), I find a lot of joy in reflecting about how I took detours to learn about striking, wrestling, and judo while I've never had a genuine interest in my tournament results which have, as a result, been lackluster. For me, I grew up hearing people say that nobody's cut from a different cloth and how "you're a fucking sick (oops, can't show that word on a Christian forum) if you want to be." I went into BJJ because I wanted to believe that anyone could walk in off the street and, with the proper attitude, opportunity, will, and work become a black belt. I don't know that it ever crossed my mind that among the public, I was specially engineered to get that belt because of some characteristic about myself. On the contrary, my enormous gag reflex, gentle demeanor, and sensitive skin would imply that I am particularly imperfect for BJJ. Sometimes it's hard to go into a group of practicing MMA athletes as a weekly manga reader with no competitive ambition and believe "yep, I can hang with you shirtless people with tattoos and muscles!" even if I was invited by the coach. I think in my darkest moments I worried that inherent characteristics about myself made me too bad of a person to be able to accomplish the goal or that my accomplishments would be given out of pity. Even then, when it came to digging myself out of that hole, the act of showing up and being part of that community and touching ~~grass~~ mat helped bring me out of that funk when people showed me love instead of hating me for being me.

So, I guess sometimes I feel like I'm missing some fire or edge because I'm not striving to stand out. I do have accomplishments that stand out - I don't like to list them in public because it feels boastful. But if we just look at BJJ - while it's hard to get accurate data, a safe assumption is that <1% of people who walk in the door to do BJJ make it to brown belt. If the exclusivity were the goal, I feel like I should feel some other emotion about it. That maybe I should lean into it and make it into some complex about what a precise and superior fighter I am. I earnestly, when I'm being honest and sincere, don't toil in the hopes of being more than someone else. Deep down in there I'm hoping that an attractive person I'm attracted to goes "oh you really like that thing that I like too! Let's talk about it for hours" and magically I like talking to them for hours. Likewise, being really helpful and working on my own terms has 1,000,000x more resonance to me than being really rich (marble countertops, consuming luxury slop, having exclusive seating/priority, etc.). But with a resume of cool shit that I've done it's like shouldn't I want to pursue something until it's amazing? Shouldn't I be one track minded towards a goal? I seem to be floating listlessly and a goal might shake that up. Am I just coping?

Do you feel the same way? Without great man theory, imperial core chauvinism, and ~~unenlightened~~ non-liberating education do you still strive to be special and stand out? Do you want to be outstanding - the person who finally discovers and invents the thing? Do you have any guidance for me?

I'm undecided until I see them.

Disco Elysium who??

https://www.butajape.com/comic/one-big-mario-party/

Run it back you coward. 3 more days in Termina, 30 new masks, 3 new transformations, 6 new dungeons.The woke media won't admit it'd be GotY even if they recycled the assets because they want to keep making AAA games.

https://nitter.net/aprettyPR/status/1733189753523081247

I might not have used the phrase waste of money, but I'm within the same ballpark if I'm asked to do something I don't want to do. I don't want to spend some $60 for a tiktok trend. I'm slow to do activities beyond what I'm already investing my limited energy into. I historically feel like I'm putting forth a lot of energy on top of what I already use to exist to be aware of my partner's presence, making sure we're doing enough together, making sure they're happy, etc. It has historically been and seems like the sort of thinking that your partner should want to do things like this that makes me feel like I'm obviously out of the loop on something. I couldn't imagine wanting a partner to be down for every idea I have and there would be some catharsis in not having the expectation that I drop what I'm doing and open up my wallet for theirs. "I don't want to spend money on this" is a common part of my life - it's something that I'm conversing with myself all the time. I could but I'd be content abstaining. It seems like if "if [he] wanted to he would" is the dynamic, then my partner would be another spinning plate (alongside work, health, social obligations) instead of my fellow plate spinner with their own burdens to satisfy.

The consensus that the boyfriend is being hurtful and obviously a bad partner feels like getting checkmated. How could I ever be a good match for any of those people? How could I ever want to? Because they spend their hard earned money on some cutesy thing for me in return? Like please don't. Where am I going to put it? What if I want to horse around and there's all sorts of fragile shit around? What if we have friends over and now there's shit they need to be careful around? What if there's shit we need but we already spent all our money on shit we don't need? Big expectations around gifts feel like a big burden. "comrade let's go for a walk." "comrade let's cook a meal." "comrade let's have friends over for board game night." "comrade teach me something new." "comrade let's have a deep conversation." "comrade my friends are having a party." are things off the top of my head that would feel much better to drop what I'm doing for and look forward to doing it. The kind of person who would do shit like that with me is the kind of person who I'd go on road trips with, travel, move in with, etc. But the idea that we'd get into fights over some sort of "you should want to do this" and "I don't want to" isn't a good answer would be disqualifying for me and it looks like that's a common attitude.