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A time of festivities with family and friends that reminds you of life and love | 5 | 13.89% | |
A time of rumination and reflection as you consider your year and the next | 4 | 11.11% | |
A time of quiet, cloudy depression where you fold yourself in shows and video games until it's over | 17 | 47.22% | |
A time to smoke just so much god damned weed | 10 | 27.78% | |
Total: | 36 votes |
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CommonShore posted:I'd be ok if the rule was to post here but discuss there. That seems like a good rule, so it streamlines the discussion but lets people get the firehose if they really want it.
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# ? Dec 20, 2022 17:17 |
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# ? May 28, 2024 07:37 |
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CarlCX posted:
i like all the feds lumped into one thread specific cards i prefer each to have their own thread your thread ops could be longer i do not use steam im good
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# ? Dec 20, 2022 18:10 |
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CommonShore posted:
This. The grappling thread was mostly for technique discussion purposes. It became an all encompassing thread for combat sports mostly for the same reason. There's no intent to hide away someone's views but those sort of topics easily derail threads etc and nobody sane really cared or had an issue when the thread was created. It's meant to be a place for mocking and laughing at idiot fighters posting about non-fight related poo poo on social media is all.
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# ? Dec 20, 2022 18:31 |
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Here's a 20 minute breakdown of the Krause gambling stuff https://youtu.be/oTcT1NKSdJI
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# ? Dec 20, 2022 21:32 |
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Can they not find someone else for Whittaker to fight in Perth?
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# ? Dec 21, 2022 01:29 |
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COMBINED UFC/B-LEAGUE THREADS: I wasn't a fan of this at first, but I actually quite enjoyed it because it gave me a reason to go back and watch some smaller orgs I might not have bothered to keep up with when parsing a thread. I haven't had any moments reading the combined ones where I've been bothered in the least by it. COMBINED UFC/B-LEAGUE GDTS: Same as above MY ENDLESS WORD VOMIT: I like to read them on my lunch breaks or break between gym and work, or if its on a weekend with my morning coffee while I wait for the card to start. I quite enjoy your write ups. If you're struggling with the effort and time it takes I would think there's probably some fights you could write a short couple of sentences with and save the deeper dives for the more important fights, even if they're fights you feel are more important. Your interest and passion shines through, so I'd hate to see that die off through burn out. OKAY, BUT HOW ARE YOU DOING: ye good mate kimbo305 posted:Wrt thread overlaps, I wanted to bring up Not to defend shields in any way, but I honestly don't think Danaher thinks for more than 5 minutes about anything other than martial arts. The dude didn't even have a couch or TV in his house for a long time, he had a bed and grappling mats and would eat acai bowls watching jiu jitsu on his mats of a night. CommonShore posted:Imo the containment thread's function isn't so much to keep the news about fighters all positive, but rather to prevent the lovely news about fighters and associated derails from making the main thread into a bummer battleground. If we had posts here every time Jake Shields was terrible, we might as well rename it to be the Jake Shields thread. Not even Jake Shields deserves that fate. I think if someone has a full on meltdown that affects their standing in their org it's probably newsworthy, if someone doesn't vote the way people think they should I don't really care to hear a three page derail about it when I want to discuss in cage stuff. Bucky Fullminster posted:Can they not find someone else for Whittaker to fight in Perth? Honestly? Probably not. It's 7 weeks away and here's your current top 10 Israel - out Pereira - out Whittaker - Cannonier - just fought Vettori - Booked Brunson - Injured Costa - welp Strickland - just fought Dolidze - Booked Hermannson - Just got knocked out like 2 weeks ago Du Plessis - just fought Plus I would imagine anyone that's not locked into a fight camp already would be 100% in holiday mode being fat and happy and not likely to want to do a full training camp in 7 weeks somehow and drag their training partners and coaches away from their families to face the hardest match up not named Adesanya in the division.
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# ? Dec 21, 2022 09:45 |
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Keep in mind that the Dumb Combat People on Social Media Thread was originally created because the grappling thread wanted to focus on talking about doing the actual grappling rather than dumb opinions/bigotry of other people who happen to be doing grappling. Nobody in the MMA thread is talking about being a mixed martial artist themselves or asking for technique advice, so it's kind of a different vibe here.
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# ? Dec 21, 2022 09:53 |
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Brut posted:Keep in mind that the Dumb Combat People on Social Media Thread was originally created because the grappling thread wanted to focus on talking about doing the actual grappling rather than dumb opinions/bigotry of other people who happen to be doing grappling. Nobody in the MMA thread is talking about being a mixed martial artist themselves or asking for technique advice, so it's kind of a different vibe here. Yeah but also I don't give a gently caress that the guy that gets punched in the brain for money has bad opinions, I already expect it as their default state. For the people that have fetishized making themselves miserable at all times, they can go to that thread and they can gorge themselves at the unending bad opinions buffet, there will be no shortages. If a fighter manages to not be an idiot on social media, then that can be posted here.
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# ? Dec 21, 2022 10:14 |
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Lone Goat posted:Yeah but also I don't give a gently caress that the guy that gets punched in the brain for money has bad opinions, I already expect it as their default state. I'm just saying it doesn't seem like this has been an actual issue in the MMA threads, I haven't seen people telling others to take it to that thread (maybe like once), and I don't think I've seen reports about it either. I don't really have a strong personal opinion on the matter though since I'm gonna end up reading that poo poo anyway.
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# ? Dec 21, 2022 10:46 |
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Brut posted:I'm just saying it doesn't seem like this has been an actual issue in the MMA threads, I haven't seen people telling others to take it to that thread (maybe like once), and I don't think I've seen reports about it either. I don't really have a strong personal opinion on the matter though since I'm gonna end up reading that poo poo anyway. It tends to slop over into other threads though. People get weird and abusive over their little ideological tendencies. Its not a problem for the most part but it can become one pretty quick. It's a cancer in a lot of forums.
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# ? Dec 21, 2022 10:53 |
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Yeah if it gets wildly out of hand I'm sure I'll notice it, otherwise feel free to report any individual posts that you think are a problem, even if they don't specifically break an existing rule, you'll basically never catch poo poo for well-meaning reports here, so press the button more ya'll.
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# ? Dec 21, 2022 11:05 |
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I'm just a lurker so my opinion may not mean much, and I'm a bit late to boot but here goes. 1. Combined monthly thread - unequivocally positive. 2. Combined GDT threads - fine, most b league cards get so few posts that even if I don't care to read about them I can just start at page two and the thread is probably already halfway through UFC prelims. 3. Fight breakdowns - they are great but I do have to admit that the last couple I've looked at and thought, nah I ain't reading all that. I think the write ups were better when they were a bit more concise. Contrary to others though it's mostly the main events I feel this on, the midcard stuff is fine. Still a good and often entertaining resource though. Shout-out to all the people who post in these threads for making somewhere on the internet I can read about MMA that isn't terrible.
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# ? Dec 21, 2022 12:45 |
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Yeah we probably don't need a sustained rule like the IOSM or Chris Regal threads, just a broader guideline and a general agreement to move discussion there if it drags out into just gossiping about a fighter, and maybe to start there if it's more of a social media thing in the first place. Also lurkers matter but they should turn themselves into posters.
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# ? Dec 21, 2022 15:56 |
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CommonShore posted:Also lurkers matter but they should turn themselves into posters. Lol careful what you wish for.
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# ? Dec 21, 2022 16:22 |
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BlindSite posted:It tends to slop over into other threads though. People get weird and abusive over their little ideological tendencies. I think it does get vituperative, but at this point, it's not "little" ideological tendencies. Believing or disbelieving in vaccines, like Shields doesn't, isn't a little tendency. BlindSite posted:I honestly don't think Danaher thinks for more than 5 minutes about anything other than martial arts.
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# ? Dec 21, 2022 16:50 |
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CommonShore posted:Also lurkers matter but they should turn themselves into posters.
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# ? Dec 21, 2022 17:50 |
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Strickland is certainly insane enough to try to fight Whittaker right after that Cannonier snoozefest Because id be auhhh fuckin uhhh workin at walmart if i werent fighting man uhh
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# ? Dec 21, 2022 19:23 |
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Judge Douglas Crosby Responds to Criticism Regarding Controversial Scorecards Some highlights: quote:“Over the last 15 years, when you talk to the fighters, the overarching comment – and I’m not going to call it a complaint, I’ll call it a comment or a concern, is that effective grappling is not given enough weight in the scoring criteria and recently, the scoring criteria has been modified and updated so that effective striking and effective grappling are considered equal,” Crosby said. “And if effective grappling is considered the equal of effective striking, and then you look at any of my scores through that newly ground mental lens, the scores may become easier to understand. quote:“Anyone who criticizes people for working, you can probably look into the data of people who criticize working class people and find some commonalities,” Crosby said. “One of the commonalities you will probably find is that the people making those critiques are not members of the working class. Anybody involved in MMA who would criticize or complain about that, about doing what working class people do, has probably not been in the lobby of the hotel in a second tier city after at event at 2:45 in the morning after the restaurant in closed and since it’s a second tier city, there are no other restaurants. They’re sitting in the lobby of that hotel eating a power bar or a Slim Jim or whatever they found in their knapsack to eat, knowing that they’ve got to catch a 5 a.m. shuttle to the airport. I know how that feels because I’m in that lobby, too. Good job making me hate Doug Crosby even more Doug Crosby.
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# ? Dec 21, 2022 21:21 |
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His best quote is that he only has 10 seconds at the conclusion of a round to determine who won and write that down. Instead of watching the round and figuring out who is winning as the fight plays out. Nope, impossible. Watch for 5 minutes, replay all the action in your brain, and assess a winner before the commission person comes by to take your scrap of paper
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# ? Dec 21, 2022 21:29 |
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ccubed posted:Judge Douglas Crosby Responds to Criticism Regarding Controversial Scorecards The 1% are just lighting up the comments against me!
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# ? Dec 21, 2022 22:14 |
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didn't know that fighters don't count as working class in the eyes of judge Doug Crosby
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# ? Dec 21, 2022 22:49 |
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ccubed posted:Judge Douglas Crosby Responds to Criticism Regarding Controversial Scorecards Holy gently caress what an rear end in a top hat.
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# ? Dec 21, 2022 22:49 |
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Oh no, we've been found out as ultrawealthy aristocrats, pull the Rolls around back so we can get away before Doug Crosby catches us, we'll start over again in Lethwei
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# ? Dec 21, 2022 22:53 |
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I read all the words and found all the secrets and think the words are good. Thank you for writing all of the words Carl because otherwise I would be lost when it comes to a lot of fights.
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# ? Dec 21, 2022 23:14 |
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I love how he pretends that it's somehow his responsibility to decide what the meaning of effective grappling is lmaoquote:Successful execution of takedowns, submission attempts, reversals and the achievement of advantageous positions that produce immediate or cumulative impact with the potential to contribute to the end of the match, with the IMMEDIATE weighing more heavily than the cumulative impact. It shall be noted that a successful takedown is not merely a changing of position, but the establishment of an attack from the use of the takedown. Top and bottom position fighters are assessed more on the impactful/effective result of their actions, more so than their position.
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# ? Dec 22, 2022 00:26 |
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Just loving say the first 10 fights were finishes and you were feeling sleepy cuz you had nothing to do, gently caress.
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# ? Dec 22, 2022 00:51 |
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lol, lmao https://twitter.com/A_S12/status/1605729954179735552
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# ? Dec 22, 2022 02:39 |
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So if you include the ESPN+ subscription and get it at its cheapest option--the $100 annual plan--at the current rate of 13 PPVs a year, twelve months of UFC now costs $1,140.
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# ? Dec 22, 2022 03:18 |
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Discord is free, just saying
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# ? Dec 22, 2022 03:25 |
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CarlCX posted:So if you include the ESPN+ subscription and get it at its cheapest option--the $100 annual plan--at the current rate of 13 PPVs a year, twelve months of UFC now costs $1,140. Fake snow isn't cheap
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# ? Dec 22, 2022 03:46 |
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ccubed posted:Judge Douglas Crosby Responds to Criticism Regarding Controversial Scorecards
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# ? Dec 22, 2022 05:13 |
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Shout out to 2006 Dave Meltzer dropping “they talked to me about working Coleman/Takada months before the fight” in a random WON forums post https://twitter.com/downwiththesim/status/1605995571163955200
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# ? Dec 22, 2022 20:34 |
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https://twitter.com/DamonMartin/status/1606022851496124421 Now I am not a Deron Winn fan, exactly, but going from 'you have a fight booked' to 'you injured yourself cutting weight and are not getting your show money' to 'you are fired three days before Christmas' is a hell of a thing
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# ? Dec 22, 2022 21:32 |
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CarlCX posted:Now I am not a Deron Winn fan, exactly, but going from 'you have a fight booked' to 'you injured yourself cutting weight and are not getting your show money' to 'you are fired three days before Christmas' is a hell of a thing Maybe there's some way the athletes could join together and prevent things like this from happening
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# ? Dec 22, 2022 21:58 |
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I have posted in a couple threads but if anyone is interested in a good IPTV service PM me. I just paid 150 for the year, which I split with the fam. I get 4 connections for the year. Over 20,000 channels, really any live sport.
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# ? Dec 22, 2022 22:16 |
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mewse posted:Maybe there's some way the athletes could join together and prevent things like this from happening That's unAmerican
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# ? Dec 23, 2022 00:45 |
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Apparently Kai Kara France isn’t fighting in Perth due to injury. 284’s starting to feel a bit cursed
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# ? Dec 23, 2022 01:34 |
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CarlCX posted:https://twitter.com/DamonMartin/status/1606022851496124421 Smdh PI not offering wheelchair service for athletes.
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# ? Dec 23, 2022 02:59 |
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I wouldn't mind paying for UFC if it wasn't so damned expensive. Without linking to any :files:, I hate the streaming sites. Just non-stop nazi comments kills my buzz for good cards. I hate that my options are: overpay for mediocre quality or immerse myself in the absolute worst of humanity. Why are so many MMA fans the most racist pieces of poo poo you've ever seen? (This is rhetorical)
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# ? Dec 23, 2022 07:23 |
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# ? May 28, 2024 07:37 |
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delightful posted:I wouldn't mind paying for UFC if it wasn't so damned expensive. Without linking to any :files:, I hate the streaming sites. Just non-stop nazi comments kills my buzz for good cards. I hate that my options are: overpay for mediocre quality or immerse myself in the absolute worst of humanity. Why are so many MMA fans the most racist pieces of poo poo you've ever seen? (This is rhetorical) Just maximize the video and ignore the chat?
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# ? Dec 23, 2022 07:58 |