You know, debate as to whether this has artistic merit aside, I would love to know how he achieves such photo realism. I’m an amateur, but I know some drawing techniques, such as how to use a grid and such, but it looks like he’s just making a light drawing and filling in the details.

Dude, chill. He’s speculating. You know what speculating is right?

The dude has Red Lobster money, bro.

As an amateur I love writing and drawing on my own. It’s just a wonderfully relaxing thing. I imagine being a professional with pressure and deadlines takes a lot of that pleasure away.

While not the most respected direction to take, it must be pleasurable to be a name writer like that. Imagine chugging margaritas on your yacht in the Mediterranean while a bunch of paid drones do the hard work.

If you need to, replace chugging margaritas on a yacht to whatever life of luxury you imagine. I bet someone…

This.

I reconciled a long time ago that ASOIAF is George RR Martin’s party he was throwing for himself. We’re all invited, but we should expect nothing.

The dude is 67 and has more money than ever before. He is within 10-15 years of the average life expectancy of an american male and he’s not especially fit. I wouldn’t…

I driven through a couple times, but never had the time to explore Abq. Before I never knew anyone who could show me around. I know a few guys there now, but they are MMA fighters. Well, Gracie Jujitsu guys. There’s a bit of a difference to some, but sometimes it’s easier to label everyone as MMA fighters for…

I don’t remember saying he was the only one. Oh well, no big deal.

I didn’t know the Albuquerque PD was so bad. I’m going to NM later this year. Maybe I should just a void the area?

Yeah, he arguably did bring it on himself. Nick Diaz gonna Nick Diaz. It’s just funny that he never actually popped for PEDs, just marijuana. I am fairly certain Nick Diaz is clean as far as PEDs go.

PEDs are rampant in MMA and everyone is using them, so it seems screwed up to me that one person who is clean…

I don’t live near Albuquerque, so I can’t really comment on that, but in my experience “cage fighters” tend to be pretty chill. It’s the bad apples that make the rest look bad.

Yes, yes, I know. #notallcagefighters

Yeah I agree.

If they’re smart, which I think they are sometimes, they’re going to realize the risk with Brandao is not worth the reward. He’s not profitable enough to risk the War Machine levels of crazy he’s capable of.

I kid of course, but different strokes for different folks. At some point someone has den that. I make no judgment.

This. It’s one thing to be hit with a weapon. It’s another to be hit with a weapon by someone that knows how to put power into their strikes.

As an MMA fan, I hope he loses his career.

It’s one things to make a mistake, but this guy was waving a gun around like a psychopath. He needs to face consequences. He needs to learn that he has something to lose if he goes around acting like a batshit crazy thug.

He’s dangerous and needs to be put in line. In the very…

Most people get into MMA because they enjoy smelling a sweaty Brazilian dude as he tries to strangle them unconscious.

I know that’s why I got into it.

Well, it’s just one guy who is considered a bad apple in the MMA community. This guy was an idiot and deserves prison time.

Well, I lol’d. Good job.

One fighter got a 5 years suspension for testing positive for marijuana. Despite the fact that it’s not a performance enhancing drug, the athletic commission comes down hard on anyone caught using MJ.

Oddly enough the opponent of the guy who was suspended poped for steroids and got a lighter suspension.

Yes, it is…

So I’ve been paying limited attention to this, but here’s how I understand the timeline of the firing of Alison Rapp.

1. GamerGate, self proclaimed champions of free speech and enemies of censorship, find out something involving boobs is be changed when the game is brought to North America.

2. GamerGate targets Alison…

I’m not super invested in this fight, but I often notice that people who identify as MRAs or conservatives oftentimes try to downplay or dismiss claims of misogyny, homophobia or racism against non whites.

What do you think of those people? I find they complain about political correctness when there are claims of…