@Tyranexx I can very much relate to having trouble reading people. I've honestly largely given up on that. If people get mad at me for something and they didn't directly say what the issue was, I don't want to say I don't care at all, but it's not far off. Thankfully as an adult it's usually enough to just say "you didn't say X was a problem or make it clear in any obvious way." And I'm blessed with pretty good coworkers right now.
As a kid I was much the same way, I always wanted to bury myself in fiction because of the bullying. Now I still do, but to ignore different things. If I don't focus on work or fiction, I read the news, all the things that I can't do anything about, but make me very angry.
I feel for your cousin. It must have been a real world nightmare of an experience. His dedication and loyalty is very admirable. Which is a big part of why I hate the ruling elite, who send good people like your cousin to fight unneeded battles on the other side of the planet. I blame those in power for the horrible experiences the good people in the military have to experience. It's true evil what the politicians do.
The thing I don't get about the Netflix issue is, why take the show down from Netflix if those with the rights don't then intend to at least offer it somewhere else? Even if Netflix offers less money for it potentially, that's still money you're not making by leaving that material rotting on a hard drive somewhere... And frankly I am sure either Netflix or Hulu would be more than happy to have it. If not them even Crunchyroll might be interested. I could easily see them expanding into western animation if they had the opportunity.
@bimmy-lee Yup, Japan. Same city even, more or less. I'm technically in a small town outside the city but it's generally considered to be one big area. I could walk to the city line in only an hour or so. That's actually why when I signed up for this job, this was my second of 3 preferred locations. (though the odds of getting a placement in Okinawa or Tokyo are slim to none because everyone wants those jobs) But this one was easy since almost no one outside Japan knows about Shiga. lol
@NEStalgia It's really not. The only real extra expense was the plane ticket. You just need to choose a program that your university has a partnership with a university in the other nation. Eastern Michigan had a partnership with a university in Shiga, Japan because of a sister-state relationship so that was that. There are even special scholarships intended to encourage study abroad that often go unused for the simple fact that people aren't properly aware of them.
@Anti-Matter I have at least one coworker and a handful of students that I have heard talking about various martial arts. Usually MMA. I don't remember if any of them have mentioned kick boxing specifically. But since I'm not interested in it, I usually ignore it unless they directly ask me something about it.
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@Woomy_NNYes - Ha, Yeah, I bet it didn’t like having the sunlight reduced. One thing I almost mentioned in my last post was to maybe avoid flowering plants or succulents. They’re a tad bit more tricky and finicky. I’ve found the watering is based on the amount of light they’re getting. I have my succulent garden in a well lit spot and have a led grow light on them for 10 hours a day. Some of them could normally go weeks without water, but under that amount of light; I water them every five days or so because they’re constantly stretching and drinking. Snake plants are pretty easy though. I’m sure you’ll have better luck with this one. Just keep as much light on it as possible, and water when the top would gets dry.
@Heavyarms55 - That’s a nice little deal you worked out for yourself then. It pays to be adventurous. You never know what kind of future opportunities you might set up for yourself.
@Anti-Matter - Does your school teach kickboxing or have a kickboxing club? I’ve never met anyone in the US who had a school sanctioned combat sport. There are boxing clubs, and martial arts schools around here though, but they’re independent of the school system. I begged my parents to allow me to box when I was young, but they wouldn’t let me do it. I did take karate classes for many years as a consolation, and I played sports year round in high school including wrestling.
My coworkers definitely contributed to Fat Tuesday today; we had a food day on short notice. Someone brought in a load of Pączkis from a local grocery store (a special doughnut of Polish origin that they offer the week leading up to the start of Lent). Others brought in cheese dip and nachos, biscuits & gravy, a pepperoni pizza, oiled oyster crackers (I'm told these are great with beer), Panera bagels, no-bake cookies/cow pies (made by yours truly), pepperoni and taco pinwheels, and even a store-bought cookie dough cream pie....I behaved somewhat, but I still went kind of overboard lol.
@NEStalgia Life is an endless runner of constant activity AND crashing. XD Losing progress after each crash is sometimes a life truth as well. It really depends on the situation. At least I've been hitting a save point or two lately. But man would I love more pause and rewind buttons. Oh, and to replay levels....
@NintendoByNature Drive safe! Hopefully it doesn't get too nasty. I'm not even sure we'll get the amounts they're forecasting. The snow won't be hanging around long in any case. It's already a wet mess here from the rain today and yesterday.
@bimmy-lee I can't say I can relate on the Streets of Rage 2 front, but I definitely click with the former comparison. The former sounds like a fast-paced job or a timed answer sim with customer service thrown in. I'm so glad I don't have to deal with most end-users anymore....Most people are fine, but you get the difficult ones, people that accuse you of doing something that didn't happen and using you as their vent pillow, or the very nice ones who, unfortunately, shouldn't be allowed anywhere near technology....
@Anti-Matter Boxing, at least in the area I'm in, is a pretty niche interest; not a lot of people talk about it. The closest thing I can think of is wrestling (so it's a stretch), and that's not very common either. Different sports are popular in different countries, and the popularity can even be different by region. In the US, at least where I am, the most popular sports by far are baseball, basketball, American football, hockey, golf, and soccer. I attended a small school where some of these sports weren't even offered; you had to go to a larger school half an hour away if you wanted to participate in some of them.
@HobbitGamer i can't remember honestly since it's been so long. I should probably replay it. But yea, you were never destined for Greatness on the green, I knew it from the get-go
@Tyranexx thanks. Shouldn't been too bad. We've already got some accumulation now. So I'll just have to leave a little earlier tomorrow morning.
@bimmy-lee
Boxing is dead in my country Indonesia since 10 years ago.
Used to be there are a few Boxing gym at my hometown Surabaya and there was a local Live Boxing channel every Friday night featuring local boxers. Now the show has been discontinued long time ago, the Boxing gyms has been changed into other buildings, not even any Indonesian peoples have interest with Boxing. Peoples now consider boxing as a part of cardio workout, not as a professional sport.
I really wish i can live at the country where Boxing or Kickboxing considered as popular enough sports. I have never have a chance to watch the bout inside the stadium, but if i have chance to watch it, i will watch K-1 Grand Prix at Japan. I want the autograph from my favorite K-1 fighters. Just like i created my own Avian Kickboxing. In my fictional world, Avian Kickboxing is a really popular sport due to interesting combat system looking (boxing in the air like Dragon Ball), the insurance that will guarantee your safety and the money you can get from being an Avian Kickboxer.
@NintendoByNature Yep, that's about all you can do. If at all possible, dig out and head out early! And beware of the crazies who shouldn't be driving in slick conditions. Or if it's all too deep, just hole up at home and catch cabin fever.... XD
@Heavyarms55 I feel as though I'm better at handling misunderstandings these days, partially through experience and partially through learning about mental tools on how to not fret about such things. Misunderstandings are a given. I'd mentally beat myself up (and occasionally still do at times) for something that might have come out awkward or was misunderstood; I'd keep dwelling on it. The situation would replay over and over again, and I'd try to understand if there was a cue I missed or if I could have done something differently. On my level it's a confidence thing to an extent, but I also used to be really bad about eye contact too. Thankfully I'm also blessed with pretty decent coworkers for the most part; we're quarantined from most of the main company, so we avoid a lot of the toxic drama.
As a kid I was much the same way, I always wanted to bury myself in fiction because of the bullying. Now I still do, but to ignore different things. If I don't focus on work or fiction, I read the news, all the things that I can't do anything about, but make me very angry.
I'm pretty much the same way. Gaming is my main form of screen entertainment; other than YouTube clips, I don't watch much of anything or even have any sort of streaming service outside of Spotify these days, though I'd like to pick up Netflix and get a better Hulu sub eventually; I have free ad-ridden Hulu through my Spotify sub, but I don't really use it. I get most of my news online, but likewise a lot of it eventually irritates me, and I've learned to stay out of comment sections for anything even loosely related to politics out of fear of self-concussing myself from repeated facepalming.
On my cousin: I hope to get to his book soon, if anything to at least try to grasp a vague understanding of the hell he went through. No words on a page can come close to what he dealt with. I do know already that he's had to help bury more than one friend and that he's experienced some pretty dangerous situations; he couldn't even tell my aunt and uncle where he had been deployed most of the time. I'm so glad he finally got out of the military, but he had a heck of a time adjusting to civilian life again. His PTSD and alcoholism nearly broke him. He's now on the mend and healing in every way possible but will always carry some scars with him. He has salvaged his life and marriage in part thanks to some family intervention, his awesome wife, young daughter, and ultimately his own will. They're currently expecting kid #2; I think she's due next month.
Yep, I'm likewise not sure why some shows end up in digital storage and don't even show up on another platform at least. Granted, I'm not privy to how some of that process works. As capitalism is fueled by making money, you'd think they'd at least be trying to make money off of reruns and general show availability. I just hope they aren't planning some sort of reboot. Not that they're always bad, but in some cases I wish Hollywood and other firms would leave some of the original material alone. I've already seen what happens when you try translating Avatar: The Last Airbender into a poor live-action movie...
@Tyranexx Gaming is my main hobby too. I also watch YouTube and some Twitch stuff. Basically zero regular TV but I'm big on anime 99% of which I watch on Crunchyroll. I also read quite a bit too. But I always come back to gaming for my main hobby and escape.
From the sound of it, your cousin is doing much better, glad to hear that much!
Oh boy, live action adaptations... Well, you've probably seen at least 1 or 2 of my... minor rants... about how much I dislike those. And I know I've talked about my dislike of the new canon for Star Wars on here too. But... I'm not against reboots in general - if and big if - they're done well. Hollywood is too cowardly these days, they don't want to try their hands with interesting new ideas. And to some extent, I kind of understand. So much money goes into movies these days that taking a chance with something new is much harder to justify. But only to some extent. You can only reboot Spiderman so many times before people start to get annoyed. And I have my own personal wish that Hollywood would be more open to animated film again. And not just Disney/Pixar style CG animated films, but things more like the DC animated films, Legend or Korra or anime-like styles.
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I have interest with some Live Action adaptation Disney movies. But it also depend on who is the director.
The good adaptation are such Aladdin 2019, Cinderella 2015, Beauty & the Beast 2017.
Lion King 2019 was not as good as the animated version due to deliver almost exactly same performances as the cartoon version but with lesser quality of Timon Pumba jokes.
I do really hope Mulan 2020 delivers something more make a sense but still capturing the charm from the cartoon version even without Mushu. Mulan 2020 will gonna have more tension and fights than one hit lucky battle from cartoon version.
@Anti-Matter As far as I am concerned the only good live action versions of previously animated or drawn content have been the Marvel movies and a handful of DC movies. And that's most because they haven't been adaptations at all, but original stories for existing characters or adaptations in only the most broad and general sense. More re-imagining than adaptation. There hasn't been a single direct animation to live action adaptation that I have liked. Not one.
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@NintendoByNature - I’m still working on both. I got a chapter done in Unravel last weekend, and I’m progressing along in GS. I still haven’t mastered putting, and I’m trying to chip everything in, even using the sand traps strategically to have a chance to avoid putting. I’m a slowpoke gamer though. It takes me a while to finish something. I’m also getting beat the heck up by incurable drift right now. The canned air maneuver no longer has any effect. I need to get something figured out soon because it’s madness in a game like GS. What are you playing?
@Tyranexx - Well, luckily I haven’t actually had to fight any future punks, and the neighborhood is pretty steady. I can relate on all the different types of difficult people. I’ve had a bunch of different jobs through the years, but the one thing they all had in common was the occasional person who was a pain in the backside. It’s possible I daydreamed of giving a couple of those people a Grand Upper.
@Anti-Matter - That’s too bad about boxing in Indonesia, but at least you have kickboxing. I hope you get to see a K1 tournament in Japan. That would be really fun. I don’t watch UFC, but I’m a long time boxing fan. I’ve never been to a live card, but I ordered lots of pay per views before the price got too ridiculous. Tyson and Roy Jones Jr. were my guys. I went to a friend’s house for all the Tyson fights when I was a kid. I also love all the fights between Hagler, Hearns, Leonard, and Durán.
@Heavyarms55 At the risk of being snarky (but hey, it's me!) I feel like the kind of person who can say "the foreign travel trip cost only the plane ticket!" is inherently the kind of person who needs to travel outside the country to learn about the world, and remain oblivious to the vast swaths of their own country that's a completely different world than the one they thought they lived in to begin with, even if that swath was 10 minutes away from them.... While I'd never heard of such programs that "cost nothing other than travel", and that is indeed interesting, there are plenty of costs beyond the airfare involved in that, and that's not even including loss of income!
It sounds distinctly like a bunch of gilded-age nobles prattling on about how those peasants should appreciate the arts more.
@Anti-Matter To a degree I think boxing in general is past it's prime. It's the oldest sport there is, but adults pummeling each other to a bloody pulp isn't really the fashion of the modern era, in the industrialized world, at least. It's popular in some places in the Caribbean, South America, etc, mostly less-developed countries, and it of course still has some niche popularity many places in the world including the US, but it's not "popular" so much as a niche interest pretty much everywhere. Back in the 80's people would buy Pay Per View cable just to see "the big fight". You don't see that anymore. Nobody knows there even are "big fights", George Foreman isn't a legendary sports hero, he's a lovable appliance salesman. Mike Tyson remains the image of the brutality of what was once a sport watched by savages. It's a very "Olympic sport" which is to say it's a thing that people do and some people spectate, but nobody actually is aware of this unless the Olympics are on. And that part airs at 4:00AM when nobody is watching because it's a ratings failure. Like water polo and regatta.
@NEStalgia
What do you think about Muay Thai ?
Because since it's like their national sport for Thai peoples and i heard Thai peoples like to watch Muay Thai bout.
Do you think it's normal if Boxing or Kickboxing become popular sports, peoples start to talk about and more peoples encouraged to start their career as Boxer / Kickboxer ?
Because that was i really dreamt of and thus i have created my own Avian Kickboxing sport if you ever knew from my last conversations with @bimmy-lee
Peoples consider Boxing / Kickboxing as a Super Star career, just like peoples consider Blitz Ball players as celebrities.
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