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I was struggling to parry jabs so I started basically making the parrying motion my right hand’s default state if me and my opponent are within range of eachother. Like if we’re nearing jab range I start acting like I’m swatting a fly right in front of my mouth and then when the jab comes I just give it a little more gusto. It’s actually been pretty effective at reducing the amount of times I get jabbed in the face, but I’m wondering if I’m setting myself up to get my clock cleaned

first off i love this game, I probably have 50 games played

but

Every match goes the same way. I use my normal guard, people realize they can't hit me in the head, then they just start throwing jabs to the body. This is fine and logical, but then 5 jabs to my chest and I'm about to get knocked out. People jab to the body in real boxing, sure, but if you throw 2 jabs to the body in a row, I throw an overhand right that whizzes an inch past your chin and you're like "ok maybe that's not a good idea" and even then they hurt more in this game. In the game I do land the overhand again and again, but it's worth 50% more AT BEST than their body jabs and it's much lower percentile, more physically taxing, and longer recovery.

I've had to start using a philly shell or even just not guard my head at all and use both hands to guard my body when people start doing this because I realized in this boxing game's meta, guarding your head puts you at a disadvantage. I just want my actual guard to be usable in this game even if my opponent isn't agreeing to spar with me

halfway through season one please no spoilers lol

The scouts is the most dangerous job and also the most important. They're going to be doing all the hard fighting and it's worth investing in them. My main point of this post is this: the skill ceiling with ODM gear is unbelievably high. That's how we have people like Levi and Mikasa who cut titans down left and right while most people get butchered like livestock

I think you should do your 3 years in the academy and when that's over, you get to choose to be part of the garrison, part of the king's guard, OR go to scout school. Scout school is going to be another 4 years of rigorous education, practice with ODM gear, and going on the equivalent of clincals where you go out into the field and watch the scouts do their thing and see combat against the titans first hand. Scout school is much much harder than the academy. After those 4 years you can become a resident scout, you basically work underneath an attending scout (full fledged scout) for another 3-5 years. Then, and only then are you ready to act as an attending scout.

It's a lot, but you aren't completely useless to the cause as a resident scout so it's only a little more than double the training before they can fight. You might do some low acuity fighting or at least maneuvering on clinicals too. I think it's worth the investment, as I said the skill ceiling is unbelievably high. If you actually took the time to invest in scouts and introduce them to combat in a safer more educational way instead of a trial by fire where the naturally talented or lucky don't die on their first mission and gain experience, the titan problem is honestly relatively easy to overcome I would think by a group of scouts who have this level of training

Why should the most technically demanding and dangerous specialty be staffed by minimally trained generalists? Why is the process “who’s talented enough to survive being a scout” and not “how do we make a recruit into a competent scout?”

Research tells me that some bites can show up in hours others can show up in days. Many showed up the day after staying in this shit motel, then I washed and or dried everything from the trip that could be dried and left everything that couldn’t be dried in my hot car.

I’m still finding the odd new bite showing up here and there and research tells me not to panic and that bites can take anywhere from an hour to 14 days to show up. Is this true? It seems hard to believe I’d still be getting bit multiple times after changing locations and heat treating everything. Once maybe but not multiple. Not to mention I only brought into the sketchy motel 2 sets of clothes in, my laptop bag, and my backpack and didn’t put anything in the bed

It’s been 4 days now and I just noticed something that definitely wasn’t there yesterday

Asheville is everything Richmond wants to be. I’m at a metal concert and I got barbecue and beans on a hot dog bun from a donation based service AT the concert, then while I’m eating it there’s a guy telling a dude with a prosthetic leg about the time he got black out drunk and woke up with a tattoo on his leg that says “family over everything”

Also I haven’t been charged $10 for a beer yet. I went to a place with free live music and got a drink and they didn’t have a price tag next to it and I was prepared to get fucked in the ass like I was ready for $15 and I’d have called it even for the music but it was $6 lol

I’d argue our art scene is better for the spectator but I can appreciate that y’all’s art district is art for the artists which is unbelievably cool

I also haven’t seen a single cop and I don’t think I’ve seen a single McDonald’s or start bucks or other chain in city limits

If yall have got recommendations for what I should do tonight before I pass out and climb mountains and rock climb tomorrow I’m all ears. I’m downtown and need to get dinner somewhere

I just did my last field clinical shift for my next to last semester and I had an off day for sure. I ran my first cardiac arrest in the last year and a half and i made a couple silly mistakes with IVs and bloodlet a couple patients. Obviously that's not great, but it was my first field shift I did in a couple months and I do IFTs as an EMT.

Anyway, my preceptor marked me as having 2/5 in 2 categories and 3/5 in 1 category. He doesn't know this, but a 4/5 is passing if I were in the capstone phase. Past marks have been like 2 4/5s and a 3/5 or 2 3/5s and a 2/5 or all 3/5s on past field shifts.

That said, I don't think i'm doing that poorly. Of the 2 IVs I did today I got 1 of them and if they let me attempt a second time on the 1st patient I'm sure I'd have gotten it I just made a dumb mistake. In terms of course of care, my preceptor didn't disagree with a single decision I made. They said I need to work on my confidence and do my assessment the same way every time which is fine criticism, but I just disagree with his assessment of me if I'm being honest in terms of being mostly 2/5.

No other profession I've been a part of is it so important that some guy likes you enough to pass you. I'm worried that all my work is going to be for nothing if I get failed during the capstone phase. What do you guys recommend? I'm not gonna make the same mistakes I made with the IVs ever again and I can work on being more confident and finding a systematic way of doing the assessment, but I doubt that's enough to get me from a 2/5 to a 4/5 in some guy's eyes and that's the problem, I don't know who's going to precept me

Everything might not be 100% realistic and it won't ever be perfect, but I think you can get a great deal of value out of this game to make you a better boxer. I realized when I used to train at an MMA gym they had us play all kinds of fighting games. shoulder tag, push hands, there was this game where we were in push up position head to head and we had to try and pull the other person's wrist to make them fall (i was dogshit at that one)

The benefit of this game in my opinion is that it allows you to play a fighting game against other humans from the comfort of your home without a local partner. How realistic that fighting game is is only so important. Even if the meta just seems to be hitting the body and abusing body effort, even if you just min max that system you're still playing a fighting game and reacting to another human's movements live.

Just have fun. get some shoulder conditioning and cardio in. Maybe practice a little bit of footwork. Practice reading your opponent. Practice feinting. Practice timing counters. Practice adjusting to your opponents tendencies between rounds. Practice seeing an opening and pouncing on it. Become outcome independent. It's still a little annoying, but I'm okay with losing to someone who I know a thousand percent got outboxed and only won by metagaming. I say to myself, "I won at boxing, they won at thrill of the fight" lmao

It’s never coming back

Title says it Mas y menos. I live in Virginia and have hiked old rag 3 times. It’s beautiful and challenging and I love it, but I’m looking to do a different hike between summer and fall semester. I’ll be visiting family closer to the Carolina’s and I think I’ll go south early so I can visit north and South Carolina, fuck around a little bit, and definitely hike one of y’all’s mountains. What do you recommend?

old rag is 2400 feet of elevation gain with multiple scrambles throughout, 9 miles long

Also what do you recommend for generally fucking around?

16 civilians killed? no biggie. Won't even be commented on. I'd settle for samuel giving me a "hey corvo, you good bro?"

Yeah sam, they put me in a self defense situation. I'm not happy about the devastation and the loss of life, but I am happy i was able to defend my own life

If rocky or grace died I would’ve instantly thought the movie was average. And they kinda teased both those things. If rocky didnt wake up after saving grace, movies average. If grace got stuck in space after saving Rocky, movies average. “Oh great sacrifice such emotion much wow” it’s so cliche and played out. I’m happy grace gets to live on Rocky’s planet teaching lil pebbles. It’s an actually creative and original ending AND it’s a happier ending

I wrote a pretty scathing review like a month ago after trying it for a day. Room scale is a must and having given it a few more games there are some things that are realistic enough. Even if the only thing I get to practice realistically is timing my jabs and 1-2s and cutting angles this is a worth while training tool. It’s a little irritating when I feel like I’m getting bullied by someone using a fighting style that only works in video game land taunting me like my jab wouldn’t have just broken their nose.

One thing I notice is that you can hang out in the pocket all day and it’s many people’s preferred style. The only way I’ve found success there is dipping my head way off to the side and then throwing counter hooks in the way back which just isn’t super realistic. At that point we’re fighting like wackily inflatable tube men with better coordination. So I try to get out of the pocket asap.

Also if your hands are up you might as well have a brick wall in front of you but I guess this is better than defense feeling unreliable

If anyone has any other real world boxing habits and tactics that you can practice somewhat realistically using this game pls leave it in a comment… oh! I had some success using check hooks as well.

I was surprised to see how revered it was on here. My SO watched an episode with me and I was explaining how all the questions have pretty much been answered regarding who’s the strongest and Baki dou is basically a post credits scene. The story is over, it’s just more stuff for fun. They hype up this new guy by having him have epic fights with past opponents and then turns out bakis stronger than him.

It’s more of the same, but it’s still fun and entertaining. I enjoyed it if for no other reason than it’s more Baki, but yeah I don’t think it did anything special. Musashi just got so much screen time and it’s like yeah, he cuts people without swords and he’s an warrior from the samurai era, duels back then were to the death so he wants to kill people etc. I kinda got the picture early on and it didn’t throw more fun Baki pp training bullshit at us. It was monotonous, that’s the big picture I guess

I’d consider it the weakest arc out of the anime in my personal opinion but I still enjoyed it a solid 6.5 outta 10. Hanayama vs Musashi was the best fight imo

Hey my name is Scott Bradford. I’m 14, I’m gonna be 15 in like… December. 6’4 and weigh 230 lb. I don’t have any combat sport experience apart from wrestling all through middle school. Do you guys think It’s too late for me to start practicing mma? Will a gym accept me?

It’ll be the first tattoo I get. Usually I get an idea for a tattoo and decide against it, but it’s been months of wanting this.

The reason for it is seven deuce offsuit is the worst possible starting hand you can be dealt in Texas holdem. Preferably hearts and spades with the cards overlapping. I kinda like blackwork art style but have fun with it.

Is punching in Muay Thai so different from traditional boxing that I’ll develop bad habits for Muay Thai at it? Or will attending a good boxing foundations class be helpful? We’re learning things like slipping, parrying, cutting angles, etc

The gym also has a Muay Thai class. I’m asking if I should only go to that or if going to the boxing class will help too

Is mma boxing so different from traditional boxing that I should learn striking from an mma gym? Or will attending a good boxing foundations class be helpful? We’re learning things like slipping, parrying, cutting angles, etc

They also do Muay Thai classes, I’m just wondering if going to be the boxing class too is gonna form bad habits