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ICBM? Sounds like you’ve fallen for Russian shovel-based trick-nology.

I think it depends on what / how much you want to do with it.

For me, I consider myself to have no particular artistic talent, but I can still entertain myself by making interesting shapes just with box-modeling and the subdivision-surface modifier. Hell, election night I was trashed and making plaid patterns all night in the procedural texture thing they have. That shit was great.

If you wanted to do something like a fully animated 3d character or something, that will obviously be harder, with 3d sculpting and animation being their own whole skill-sets. Also “re-topology” is a thing (if you make a 3d sculpt it’s a wad of triangles that you can’t really use, so you have to re-create the shape on top of the existing shape, but with good topology), and that shit looks miserable to do.

There are loads of blender tutorials on youtube as well, including short and sweet tutorials on how to achieve specific effects / techniques. Keep in mind some of it is tied to annoying “hustle grindset” kinds of content, so it may stink up the algo a little.

What the fuck is the point of her then?

Maybe this is the wrong place to ask this, but how / why does the US have this bullshit veto power in the UN? They can just no-sell the rest of the world’s members unilaterally, and I don’t understand why the rest don’t ever have any ability to collectively tell the US to fuck itself and proceed without our consent.

Not that I’m aware of. Light sparring is better than beating the brakes off each other, but one of the big breakthroughs in understanding CTE in combat sports was finding out that even light sparring does some cumulative damage over time.

EDIT: now that I’m thinking about it, I’m pretty sure there has even been research showing something as innocuous as “heading” the ball in soccer could cause some minor brain damage over a career. Basically, brain is just hella sensitive.

Look at what’s actually available to you in your area, then narrow down options by affordability. From there, start visiting gyms. Most good gyms are fine letting people sit in on a class to get a vibe for the place, and if they aren’t then that’s a red flag imo. Whichever place seems to have the best environment for you is the best pick, because if you hate going or hate the people, you won’t keep going and you won’t learn.

Wrestling and boxing are a straightforward and reliable combo. Boxing is widely available (even if you live in the middle of nowhere, there’s decent chance there’s still a boxing gym), and wrestling is available in many schools and increasingly available to people out of school with the popularity of MMA.

If you are able to get both, I personally would recommend training wrestling a bit harder than the boxing, both because you can go at a higher intensity without concussions (although sometimes collisions still happen), and because wrestling controls where a fight takes place (standing, on the ground, etc.).

One (the only?) useful thing you actually can practice on your own: standing up quickly. Look up “BJJ technical standup”, and practice getting up off the ground as quickly as possible. This won’t teach you how to get up from under people pinning you, but if you get knocked over or trip, it could make a huge difference being able to stand up before they get on top of you or stomp you.

Everything else you need sparring partners to do shit with, or it won’t really help. If you look around you might see stories about high level pros who “don’t spar”, but those are misleading clickbait – those guys already did all the sparring they needed and now they’re cutting it out to save brain-cells and extend careers. You still have to spar to develop the sense of distance management, stress, and not freaking out when you get hit in the face.

Also, if you’d like a bit of non-chud martial arts slop for fun, consider checking out Jack Slack (who just did a cool video on the Mir lock, in the context of Jon Jones’ infamous standing shoulder crank) and Heavy Hands (general fight breakdowns and predictions for UFC cards, sometimes they talk boxing specifically) on youtube.

Being on the right side of history cannot go unpunished.

Descriptively: Bottom image is some of the gayest shit I have ever seen outside of literal gay pornography.

I’m pro-Bob Ross because I think he helped demystify art for a lot of regular people who might have never gotten into it otherwise.

IMO one of the biggest problems with creative stuff in general is that people have this horrible idea that there are the talented and the untalented, and if you aren’t born special, you don’t get to do it and can’t ever be good at it.

In my view, having a popular mainstream figure break painting down as a learnable skill sort of helped bring it back to regular people.

The “middle class” is an extremely nebulous class of people mostly defined by vibes, and since most people don’t want to identify as outright poor, they like to identify as middle class since it’s basically open to anybody due to how vague it is.

Poor people will call themselves middle class (maybe qualify it as “lower middle class”), wealthy people will call themselves middle class (maybe qualify it as “upper middle class”), and so politicians can make hollow but safe appeals to this nebulous class that tons of people identify as, but which nobody really coherently belongs too.

So basically, “I will help the middle class” is speaking to no-one, because the middle class doesn’t really exist, but people will hear it and think you’re speaking to them.

I’m sorry for recommending a youtuber, but BadEmpanada has a video about that exact subject called israelis Are Not Indigeneous which has some good points and rebuttals about it.

So fuck twitch (and streaming in general tbh) but it seems like an easy workaround is just to call them genocide supporters or settler-colonizers.

“We have a lot of anger and rage in the world we live in right now.”

… and? Anything to say about the causes of that anger?

I’ve never enjoyed the James Bond movies and have always specifically found them boring. And no, it’s not even that I can’t enjoy “problematic content” or stuff that’s basically enemy propaganda, I just think they’re really fucking lame when I watch them.

What the fuck? Noooooo, don’t fuck up hexbear with reddit power-mod (I guess “power-admin”?) type shit!

It’s also worth noting that each frame is an opportunity for player inputs to be registered by the game, so for any sort of game where tight reactions are an important part of gameplay (which is many – particularly fighting and other competitive games), higher framerate can directly translate to more responsive controls.

I can always tell that these developments are coming from China, even without reading the article and even if it’s not in the headline. Then I read the article, it says “in China,” and I’m like that’s right.

Bernie is always going to be a frustrating figure to me because, for all his many increasingly obvious and glaring faults, it was in large part thanks to him that I got into left-wing thought at all. I can’t say I’m a fan of his at this point, but I’ll kind of always owe him for getting me to start abandoning capitalism.

You pick one! Jesus Christ it was your post in the first place that lead to this whole comment chain! You can’t even pick your own goddamn bullet point? You have got to be fucking with me dawg!

Holy fuck seriously, what orgs are you a part of so I know not to have anything to fucking do with them, then you can talk about “chasing people away from communism.”

Hell, try elaborating that point even. How do you think we are chasing people from communism? Are our shit-posts just too shitty?