I really don’t see the distinction here. If I’m drafted and put into combat, where I don’t want to be, and I wind up without legs or dead, how is that better than if I get drafted and put into a barracks, where I don’t want to be, and I get raped? Yes, no one wants to be raped, and yes, it’s fucked up that it’s your…

Rape is terrible, but this is the draft you’re talking about. If they’re drafting, odds are good that they’re sending the draftees into combat. It would be kind of odd to say that it’s okay to draft men to die, be crippled or be captured, tortured and held prisoner, but it’s not okay to subject women to that until we…

I used to feel that way, but I actually have grown to appreciate a lot of modern styling. The ‘90s, and to an extent the ‘80s, were a grim time for automotive aesthetics, but I actually think that STS is a sharp looking car. Beautiful grille, well-done and eye-catching badge. Not a huge fan of the way the stacked…

I don’t see how “traditional martial arts” differ from boxing and wrestling in that. Touch gloves, shake hands—it’s not a lot different than bowing to your opponent. Martial arts of all descriptions, in my experience, tend to attract people who have something to prove or want to be able to puff themselves up somehow.…

It’s not generational. Flashers used to be a big thing in New York. Now they do it with a cellphone (mostly). The impulse (and lack of impulse control) has been there for a long time.

We appreciate that you try so hard though. After all, we deserve it.

The through-line from the yachts to the Escalade to the swarovski cut BMW knock-offs is really well expressed in that commercial they were running a while back. I think the tag line was something like “Cadillac, because fuck you”

Why would you want open-world multiplayer with crafting? Doesn’t that basically ensure that people without scads of time to dump into the game are relegated to second-class equipment and resources?

Sad but true. They may as well write “working people not wanted.”

How does that work? I sail, a little, and although I find it a fun and renewing experience, even small ships (17' or 23') take a fair amount of teamwork and coordination (a lot, if you’re actually racing). If you took away the joy of the physical exertion and the wind in your face, I’m not sure it would be a lot of…

That’s just an excuse he used around Pippin.

It’s a point of debate. The problem with going ass to grass is not the knees, as I understand it, but the back and core, which necessarily lose tension and invite slipped disc injuries below parallel. The risk of that on a Smith machine is probably much less, because Smith machines are kind of bullshit and also…

Truer words never spoken.

You would be shocked at how much weight you can stand up with on your back from a rack like that. When I was strong, I could full depth (femurs parallel to floor) squat maybe 245 for sets (never tried to 1RM because I thought it was kind of dumb at my level), but I probably could have “squatted” close to 400 the way…

No, you can see from his 1/10th squat video posted somewhere else in here that he just doesn’t use clips. Probably because his brofessor told him not to us them on bench and he’s generalized to never using them on anything.

That’s a crying shame right there, that’s what that is.

I don’t see why you would ever not clip any lift except for bench and bench variations. If you go offbalance, it’s not going to help that the center of gravity suddenly shifts (possbibly radically) from one side to the other, and with a rack there’s not really a possibility of getting trapped under the bar. If he’s…

Squatting on the Smith machine doesn’t involve weight. There’s no gravity in Smith machines. It’s all make-believe. He may as well be interpretive dancing with a plastic prop barbell.

You’ll still see people getting absolutely trucked and having their brains smashed into the insides of their skulls. Tackle football, like boxing, is probably not fixable.

There are two main problems with the driving in GTA IV. First it wants to be realistic enough to make a wheel and pedals make sense. Which would be great, if people actually had wheels and pedals and the controls were otherwise set up to make that work (e.g. assisted shooting while driving). The thumbsticks are just a…