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Bundt Cake posted:i dont understand where despicableness comes in quote:After eating hard shots, Mir will inevitably fall awkwardly to the canvas and either cinch up a submission (as he did against Nogueira) or turtle up until the referee saves him from further damage. When some of the hardest hitting heavyweights in the world punch Mir in the face, he often falls down, but not because the punches hurt him. A person whose brain was actually scrambled by a punch would never fall to the ground before reverting to grappling instinct. If you watch enough MMA you can totally tell.
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Jul 6, 2012 21:26
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Oh Jesus, that guy's abusing semicolons too. It makes my poor technical writer heart cry. It's been said a zillion times, but a couple of knowledgeable goon MMA fans coupled with a couple of goon editors could easily produce the best MMA website in existence.
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Hmm yes Mir surely considers ref stoppage a way to "avoid further damage". I guess "avoid further damage" = "a gorilla pounds my skull until dan mirgliotta gets bored".
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Just a friendly reminder that Middle Easy continues to be really loving dumb. Are shape-shifting reptilian aliens infilitrating UFC? Hey, it's a valid question...
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-Atom- posted:Just a friendly reminder that Middle Easy continues to be really loving dumb. Its one of the few sites that gave JT the recognition he deserves. It is also quite satirical from time to time, considering the current state of mma journalism, it gets a pass from me.
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Do any goons in here know where I can find out what kind of equipment/software I would need to start a podcast?
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willie_dee posted:Do any goons in here know where I can find out what kind of equipment/software I would need to start a podcast? You need to find someone with an elaborate amount of pulleys and levers. Also, I've been rewatching some JT fights. He is the man.
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willie_dee posted:Do any goons in here know where I can find out what kind of equipment/software I would need to start a podcast? Here are a couple of decent guides: http://baddice.co.uk/podcasting-equipment/ http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/starting-podcast-recording-equipment-platforms/ Your equipment needs depend on what kind of things you'll be doing, eg are you doing remote interviews? phone ins? in studio exclusively? I would suggest at the very least, you need a decent microphone, a mixer, and headphones. You can do it without these things, but it will sound like poo poo. Software is the easy part, you can use Audacity fine on windows, or garageband on apple.
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Well you may be interested in a podcast that is in the works to go alongside a certain persons blog.
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dokmo posted:Here are a couple of decent guides: Thanks for this. I didn't even know a "Mixer" was a thing.
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willie_dee posted:Well you may be interested in a podcast that is in the works to go alongside a certain persons blog. awww man that's awesome I love podcasts and JT seems really likeable and down to earth on his blog. i would love to hear his candid thoughts on mma and whatever else on a regular basis.
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Willie, what research have you done into podcasts? i.e. have you lsitened extensively to find out what works and what doesn't? Obviously as a brit you might know the Ricky Gervais podcast which is quite successful. Has a great dynamic between the three participants. Then of course Joe Rogan does a podcast. He has rotating guests and they talk about themselves but also his crazy poo poo. I currently really enjoy the show uhh yeah dude, which is just two americans hanging out and talking about america. They filmed a couple of their recordings so you can maybe use that as a reference (youtube). They have little cards where the poo poo they wanna talk about is on so they don't get lost and so on.
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niethan posted:Willie, what research have you done into podcasts? i.e. have you lsitened extensively to find out what works and what doesn't? I have been doing exactly this a lot. The problem I'm finding is the technical set up. I don't want to have 2 microphones, one for left channel and one for right, and then have a case where peoples voices only come out of the one speaker on either side.
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You have to have more than one microphone if you want to have guests. You will also need somebody to operate the mixer during the show (you can do this if you're good at multitasking, but I think most radio shows and podcasts have somebody operating the board).
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1st AD posted:You have to have more than one microphone if you want to have guests. What if willie and the recurring guest share a mic? I mean I guess they'll have to get really close to eachother. Their lips so close to the mic, so close to eachother. You can feel his breath on your face.
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I guess that could work if the guest is James Thompson.
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The only guest will be James Thompson, ever. Every other episode will be an hour of JT's breathing in his sleep. The ultimate fan podcast.
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If you needed any more evidence FrontRowBrian doesn't have a clue, he posted this on Meltzer's board after the Silva offering to fight on UFC 151 surfaced: "it's one of those offers you know no one will take you up on so you offer ... the MMA version of Mayweather/Pac with 8 days to promote? LOL. Yeah okaay" You would think an insider would know that Anderson Silva did not offer to fight Jon Jones... especially since everyone else did. Seems like he loves making poo poo up about Anderson Silva.
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FrontRowBrian tries real hard to be like the Chael Sonnen of MMA Journalism but he really just comes off like a twat
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http://fcfighter.com/post/full-contact-fighters-the-daily-takedown-silva-vs-rockhold-and-five-other-real-dream-matches#.UEEO174HlrU.twitter Check out these sweet-rear end dream fights we could have if Dana White weren't such a putz. Remember the days when Aoki was "seemingly unbeatable"? Me neither.
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Chexoid posted:http://fcfighter.com/post/full-contact-fighters-the-daily-takedown-silva-vs-rockhold-and-five-other-real-dream-matches#.UEEO174HlrU.twitter LOL at that list.
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I am shocked that people still think Mousasi is good, even after his performances against Mo and Jardine.
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Finally someone has written the dumbest thing ever put to internet about MMA:That Stupid Article posted:(Junior Dos Santos needs to be in a fight before he can claim that title. He knocked out an unprepared, flustered Cain Velasquez and beat an outmatched Frank Mir, but we don’t know how he respond after he gets hit in the face).
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kensei posted:LOL at that list. It's pretty impressive how little that person knows about any of the fighters he mentioned. I could go on about how Cormier couldn't put away an old, fat Josh Barnett or how losing to Condit means Diaz doesn't deserve a shot, but my time would be equally well spent jamming needles into my urethra.
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quote:Cormier broke his right hand in the opening stanza of his five-round battle with the former UFC heavyweight champion. It was the same hand he broke when he knocked out Antonio "Bigfoot" Silva in September in the tournament semifinals. http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2012/5/20/3032413/strikeforce-daniel-cormier-josh-barnett-break-hands-mma-news
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Haraksha posted:It's pretty impressive how little that person knows about any of the fighters he mentioned. I could go on about how Cormier couldn't put away an old, fat Josh Barnett or how losing to Condit means Diaz doesn't deserve a shot, but my time would be equally well spent jamming needles into my urethra. Barnett isn't "old and fat" he's actually got a very good skillset. Barnett's boxing is solid as hell (and has been for a long time), his wrestling is pretty good and his top game has always been excellent. In the course of the fight it was confirmed that Barnett has a decent bottom game too. Cormier completely dominating the stand up and the wrestling was actually incredibly impressive, especially when you consider what a big step up in competition it was. Barnett is a superior version of Mir in my opinion.
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Haraksha posted:It's pretty impressive how little that person knows about any of the fighters he mentioned. I could go on about how Cormier couldn't put away an old, fat Josh Barnett or how losing to Condit means Diaz doesn't deserve a shot, but my time would be equally well spent jamming needles into my urethra. Uuuh Josh has always been fat and he's still a pretty good, durable fighter as far as heavyweights go. Cain got his 2nd shot at JDS through a 1 fight winning streak involving the guy Cormier knocked out in 1 round. There are so many dumb things in the article so that it's really hard to reply to that poo poo without looking clever, but you somehow managed to do it. 
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I don't know, it's Josh Barnett. Didn't he also have a broken hand in that fight? He's not Tim Sylvia fat, but he isn't exactly lean. Isn't this the same guy that sat on a dude in mount and couldn't end the fight for like two rounds because of how horrible his cardio was? I know he's good "for the B-leagues", but this is a non-UFC heavyweight. "Good for the B-leagues" is far from a ringing endorsement. To then go on to say that Cormier beating him means anything at all, let alone being the best heavyweight next to Overeem, seems a bit of a stretch.
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Paul Pot posted:Cain got his 2nd shot at JDS through a 1 fight winning streak involving the guy Cormier knocked out in 1 round.
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Haraksha posted:I don't know, it's Josh Barnett. Didn't he also have a broken hand in that fight? He's not Tim Sylvia fat, but he isn't exactly lean. Isn't this the same guy that sat on a dude in mount and couldn't end the fight for like two rounds because of how horrible his cardio was? What does a tire around his gut have to do with his skills? He's always had that flab. As for sitting in mount for two rounds, if you had actually watched that fight with Yvel you would realize that: A) the fight was 3 years ago and B) it wasn't a cardio issue, it was a work rate issue Barnett fought lazy that fight. Not that it matters now, since he's fought exactly like he's always fought since then. All that aside, you are disregarding his entire career and subbing in "broken hand and chubby" against Cormier instead of watching his classics with Nog and how dominate he's been between the last Nog fight and Cormier. If being in the B-leauges is keeping you guessing, keep in mind that Barnett is the one heavyweight not named Fedor that the UFC hates. There's a reason he was kept behind during the big transfer of HW talent and it had nothing to do with talent. Otherwise Shane del Rosario and Lavar Johnson would still be fighting local talent on the Showtime main card.
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Alright, you got me, beating Barnett definitely proves that Cormier is more worthy of being called the number one heavyweight in the world than JDS.
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Haraksha posted:Alright, you got me, beating Barnett definitely proves that Cormier is more worthy of being called the number one heavyweight in the world than JDS. So that's how we're playing it? Boregasm posted:Barnett isn't "old and fat" he's actually got a very good skillset. Barnett's boxing is solid as hell (and has been for a long time), his wrestling is pretty good and his top game has always been excellent. In the course of the fight it was confirmed that Barnett has a decent bottom game too. Cormier completely dominating the stand up and the wrestling was actually incredibly impressive, especially when you consider what a big step up in competition it was. Boregasm posted:What does a tire around his gut have to do with his skills? He's always had that flab. As for sitting in mount for two rounds, if you had actually watched that fight with Yvel you would realize that: Here are my two posts. Please, PLEASE tell me where I ranked Barnett in any of those two posts. Or where I mentioned Overeem at all. Or where I said Barnett is a better contender than Overeem. Or mentioned contenders in general. Or where I said the article was valid in anyway possible. As far as I can tell, I just said you were stupid because you completely disregarded Barnett as a bum, but what the gently caress do I know. Apparently I'm the rear end in a top hat.
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Haraksha posted:Alright, you got me, beating Barnett definitely proves that Cormier is more worthy of being called the number one heavyweight in the world than JDS. Nobody's defending the article, you replied to the article with some really dumb opinions of your own for which you need to be chastized on the internet.
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I may have exaggerated how much of a bum Barnett is, but my overall point was that beating Barnett shouldn't be cause for ranking Cormier above JDS as the article does. Rereading my first post on the subject, I did a fairly awful job getting that point across, so there's that.
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niethan posted:Can't we all just get along? fatherdog posted:nope
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Let's discuss how obvious it is that Anderson Silva has to pass the torch to "the sport's brightest youngstar" Luke Rockhold. Also, for the first time in the history of the universe, "Keith Jardine" and "awkward" appeared in the same sentence without being related to each other.
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