u/HA3VY

Haven't even started it, neither have I been spoiled on how the fight is, but from the setup it looks like pointless filler and, so far, I really, really dislike the character of Take. The kid thing is such a cheap resource for getting the viewer to like him and the fact that the set up has been big enough tells me the fight is going to be longer than it should be, and that a tomato can is going to pose more of a threat than ponchai or karasawa for absolutely no logical reason.

I get that he's a southpaw but the stance (usually sparring with a southpaw friend, who's fought amateur) isn't as much of a game changer in real life, as you can just prepare for it. A southpaw journeyman is still a journeyman with slightly different angles and footwork (although the difference benefits infighting heavily both for the southpaw and the orthodox). And the Shigeta thing was passable just because he had a very heavy jab and was set up as an elite outboxer.

I can also tell Ippo is gonna get slugged for a couple rounds and win by knockout, like he always does, so I can't see what that fight can add. Can I just skip it, or will I lose any relevant development?

This doesn't of course go for everyone, and some of the best people I've met I met them studying at the conservatoire. But the worst part of being a classical musician is working with other musicians, as they often are simply insufferable. I'm rehearsing with an ensemble (with conductor) right now, and I'm, except for the conductor and horn player, completely surrounded by the most annoying people I'll ever meet. All of the time, ALL OF THE DAMN TIME complaining about the most minor thing, if you don't like it just quit ffs. Also it's often that they try to change the score itself or the conductors indications for the pettiest reasons (they find it slightly easier, or they just like it better than what Wagner wrote in Siegfried Idyll). Also every comment has a subtext and is trying to test you in some way to play a stupid power game. The bassoonist, for example, asked the horn player how much he was paid. Immediately after she learnt that he was payed the same even though his part was "easier" (according to her), she started bitching about it to everyone else. And every time I have to play with an ensemble I have to deal with this. Why are, in general, classical musicians so much more annoying than the people you naturally meet outside of music?

I find it very annoying, almost insufferable, when friends or relatives ask for my opinion on something they've made or that they have emotional attachment to, expecting my response to be positive by default and for me to validate their position. Specially when they explicitly ask me to position myself, and, when I'm unenthusiastic or slightly critical, feel offended and attacked.

Why would you explicitly ask for feedback on something with the assumption that the only possible response is validation? The discourse is closed from the start and it's more of a violent self-assertion than a genuine question or desire for you to engage with what they're showing, eve, at times, it feels like quite the perverse power game.

If someone doesn't want the possibility of discussing something, they should not show it as something to discuss, but merely show it, or better yet, not show it at all (if there is nothing to say as you already know the answer you are imposing on others, what purpose is there for sharing?).

And I make the distinction, I don't think the critique should be unfair, unthoughtful, or in general poor, one must reasonably defend in the case of unfair or invalid critique. I'm aware it's reasonable for unfair attacks to be hurtful or annoying to the other, but this is not what I'm referring to here.