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They timed a couple things well.
When John Carter of Mars was ****ing taking the weeping and brooding up 8 notches from the already level 9 trillion, I literally almost shut it off. But then they raised his spirits a bit with the Beard baby and allowed me to keep watching.
Then when I started to get to the point of "ok, enough random set-up shit", things happened.
So, they've got me for another week at least.
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Well said.
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double tap - but oh, I did want to add how much I love Matt Brown. Just that whole takes damage but is always dangerous thing is good shit.
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Also have to bear in mind he beat Mendes for the pretend strap. There's still Aldo left to go.
There just is no diminishing the guy at this point but Mendes is not Aldo.
Prior to this week I was thinking of it that way, but after hearing more about Aldo's injury and how he has backed out of 5 title fights, I'm inclined to just consider McGregor more of a co-champ than an interim or pretend champ. Granted, most of what I'm basing this on is DW who obviously isn't going to be happy that Aldo backed out and so his commentary is biased, but still... Aldo was cleared by docs outside the UFC and chose not to fight. So I'm considering that little Irish Swag-station straight up champ, *until* Aldo actually shows up for a fight.
Which, he will. I mean regardless of anything else the money would be insane so he'd be literally Diaz, err, retarded not to. And when he's walking out to the ring my mind will shift back to "Ok, here comes the current champ to defend his belt."
As to Mendes being no Aldo, I agree. But Mendes took Aldo to a 5 round decision in a war, unless I'm remembering wrong, and Mendes style was a direct counter to McGregor, whereas Aldo is the exact style McGregor wants to face, ya?
That fight (Aldo/McGregor) may be one of the biggest ever. If Mcgregor dusts Aldo, we may have a GOAT contender... and its a ****ing white Irishman.
Absolutely, the hype would be insane.
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NBC moved the fight to NBCSN mid flucking main event fight. No joke. I was not happy since I had recorded the program.
Boxing is over, it might be time for you to accept that.
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Yeah, that was some great entertainment there.
I thought the bows Coner threw were legal, unless something changed that I hadn't heard about.
And yeah, his star has risen, now it's all about staying power.
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Jessica Rackoczy- Bummer. Was cute.
You and I have very different tastes.
http://media.ufc.tv/fighter_images/Jessica_Rakoczy/JessicaRakoczy_Headshot.png
To my mind her eyes are not only overly centralized on her face vertically - too low, that is - but enjoy such close proximity to each other that, if I let my vision blur a little, she becomes a cyclops.
Zhang Lipeng- Asian
I chuckled.
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I think that they are laying on the "dark past" shiza way too thick, but it's exacerbated by the less capable acting this season. Everyone is just too god damn broody, not just John Carter of Mars, though his is probably the most grating.
But it's down to everyone else too, acting wise.
Like, as an example - remember last season when Rust met with some drug guy in a bar, and Rust was with the racist biker he beat up? The drug guy says something like, "I can see your soul at the edges of your eyes... it's corrosive, like acid. You got a demon little man, and I don't like your face." He delivered that poetic splurge, couched in his criminal guy inflection, very well. It stood out as good shit to me.
Well, when the fat gold tooth guy was standing up to Vince I'm Vince Vaughn baby even when I'm trying to brood Vaughn, he had some words that could have been a moment. The, "thing is, you ain't that thing no more. What you used to was. Yeah, you tall, but you're little. And you old". Like, that could have been good shit. But it was so forced in a way that screamed, "I do not talk like this, 'what you used to was', and I don't know how to deliver that line, so I'm going to just make it gangster, but I don't know how gangsters really talk, man, acting is hard. Puts on light mexican gangster stereotypical affectation: 'What you used to was'. NAILED IT."
I don't know, it's hard to explain.
This show so far this season ain't what it used to was though.
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Seriously thought of David Lynch during the opening scene before vice wrote about it..
I verbally asked the television to stop with the Twin Peaks shit.
So yeah, it was pretty evocative.
Also, I don't want that. So I'll reiterate here.
Stop it, True Detective.
Also, I hate how John Carter of Mars broods. It's so affected.
Stop it, John Carter. Less is more.
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I wasn't aware he has backed out of 5 title fights in his career. In the interview I saw Dana threw that in there in a nonchalant way, but I could feel the sting he intended.
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****ing Aldo.
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If youre better looking than Aramis then id like to make out with you. Dude is an adonis.
If I were gay or bi you'd probably have a good shot. Because I am kind of a whore.
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I watched a few episodes when it came out.
I might catch up.
I'm better looking than every single one of them. Not that that is unusual - it's pretty much always true.
Apropos of nothing, but that I thought it was important people know.
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My intuition said rough stuff. Choking, slapping, asphyxia and shit like that.
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Loved it. People are bitching about it, but this show is paced differently from other shows. It's in no hurry to establish the scene, explain the plot or develop the characters.
**spoilers - kind of**
That was actually the opposite of the problem I had with this first episode this season.
I felt like they were laying on the "troubles" of John Carter of Mars, Alexander and the Mean Girl way too thick, way too fast.
Oh, I probably killed my wife's rapist, my wife then left me, and now I work a side job for this mob like dude beating people near to death or something like that, oh, and I do a lot of drugs and drink a lot and am weirdly abusive in my "protection" of my fat ginger probably-the-rapists kid of mine and assault parents of bullies with brass knuckles in front of their children.
Oh, hai, I do weird stuff in bed that freaks my sex partner out and oh by the way I bust random shit for no reason and my sister happens to be there doing slutty stuff on webcam and we have a troubled relationship and she should be on meds but oh she's hinting that I have major problems with sex and stuff and should be on meds. Oh yeah, my dad is some weird hippy cult leader guy and we're estranged too and oh yeah my mom is dead and I hate my dad because he let her walk into the ocean or some tragic shit because tragedy and history and estrangement.
Yeah, I'm CHIPs DUH DUH DUHDUH DUNNNNN, but yeah some actress got me suspended because she said I asked for a BJ and oh yea some troubled shit happened and we did it for the country, probably some army history, but yeah, I have scars and oh man I need to take pills to **** and I have commitment issues or maybe I'm gay and I'm brooding hardcore because some dark history shit and hey let me ride my bike at 100 miles an hour at night with my headlights off because I'm kind of suicidal and yeah, just real dark history bro you can tell.
I was like, Jesus ****ing christ, stop bombarding me with this shit. It seriously started getting comical. How about a little god damn subtlety.
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Yeah, Claudia won that fight.
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Montana was incredible. And I've always hated the 49'ers, and lived in CA while he played there, and hated them even more being surrounded by fans.
But yeah, no, Montana was the stone cold shit. He didn't have standout physicals, but his accuracy, decision making and leadership put him easily in my top 5. Probably top 3.
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I wonder if Cain was tired because of altitude or if he was just tired. Altitude sucks, I've had to compete up in the mountains and it is a bitch if you aren't acclimated at all.
Probably a combination of both. But how quickly he gassed, I think the altitude had a lot to do with it.
He's got heart though.
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Honestly, you'd probably fail out of the police application process for having too high of IQ
While the ignorant, gorilla, violent arsehole trope is exaggerated in regards to police, there is a discernible and non-trivial elevation in personality and ignorance type in terms of authoritarian, republican, racist, xenophobic stupidity verses a general sample of the U.S. population.
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C'mon. You're going to karate chop somebody with a gun in your ribs, tough guy?
Karate chop...
lol.
There is a reason any relatively well trained police officer or soldier knows better than to hold a gun against someone's body, especially the front. Since I've trained as both, I'm familiar with the reason quite intimately.
Real tough guys use their strength to protect the innocent and persecute the genuinely guilty. They don't dump on peaceful and good natured people like Micon.
This is funny on so many levels, and again because of who you are saying it to, I can't even unpack it for you.
Okay, but stupid != criminal.
No, it doesn't.
But what you're failing to understand is that criminal != immoral, and despite that fact we must navigate society in certain ways, and fight certain fights accordingly.
Do you think he should spend the next 8-20 years in a cage?
I don't know the specifics of the case, but probably not. But he should have fucking considered that as he was committing his crime.
Doesn't he still deserve a good legal defense?
This goes back to the earlier distinction made about risk/reward in regard to stupidity.
If he were making enough to justify the risk, he wouldn't need any help paying for a good legal defense.
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Disclaimer: I have graduated the police academy, and am certified to be a cop, but I am not a cop, and probably will never apply to be a cop. I did it for fun and because I got paid for the training by the GI bill.
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he can't beat a top 10 guy in his weight class.
While I agree then Hendo is well past his prime and I wouldn't like his odds against any top 10 in his weight class, this is an overstatement. He still has dynamite in his hands, and there is something to be said for a punchers chance when the puncher is someone who can lights out at that capacity.
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I'm don't think committing crimes to make money is de facto stupid. Many fortunes have been made committing crimes. Its just a risk/reward evaluation. Is this risk of prison worth the chance of wealth? For some no amount of money is worth the slightest chance of imprisionment.
Yeah, I'm fine with this qualification. It's a different matter if we're talking about some wall street type breaking laws for millions of dollars, knowing that if he were caught he'd get a light club med stint if anything at all, in terms of being stupid.
Dreadful and sociopathic, maybe, but not stupid. If Micon was pulling in 500k a year or something, and can keep it, that might be a defense against my "stupid" accusation.
However,
Im not going to judge a man for tossing those dice.
When someone is in here pleading his case using things like "he has kids", **** that. All the more reason to judge.
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... and Rothwell humiliates himself in the ring interview.
Literally had to mute it, it was so cringe.
Yeah, I had to look away for a second.
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Despite not necessarily liking Vaughn in the role, I'm ok with how they're handling him muscling back in. They've done a decent enough job establishing that he was something to be feared and that his past reputation is allowing him to come in and re-steamroll people he has steamrolled before.
They've done little things like his henchmen closing the door during the "negotiation", him whispering to the guy that he's still got all his teeth, as well as the blatant beating the guys teeth out to demonstrate the menace he is maintaining.
Also, he's giving a little more than he used to, 10% more to this guy, 5% more to that guy, to show that he's lost a little edge and needs to sweeten the pot a little.
And, his wife does seem to be concerned about him putting himself at risk, so they're addressing that it is dangerous for him to get back into the violence game.