WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]
I am getting Old School RuneScape pangs and I’m getting them bigly
If ever you feel like you’re cringe, just remember how much cringe you avoid just by not being a lib or a chud.
Yesterday there was a submission grappling invitational tournament. It was special because the prize pool was a million dollars for winning - the highest ever. One guy won and became the first millionaire via competition in the sport. As they were interviewing him he talks about being a new dad and then he calls out another fighter and says that they should both bet a million dollars on the match. Gambling is wild.
If you’re small you should go to c/fitness we have a guide in the sidebar about how to get jacked. Then 1 of your 2 problems are solved
A beanis comes from the FBI honeypot Hexbear.chapochat.gov. It is a term popularized by user “Fuckmaster420” in their breakout thread “Beanis.” Some people may think it’s just a bean but it’s not. In this megathread I will recount all the threads on c/badposting that have beanis in the title:
how do I make money as a broke, skillness loser such as myself?
In addition to lying, I think hiring types are going to sniff this or at least not smell the value that you bring. There are a lot of jobs where the skills aren’t as complicated as you might think. You’re perfectly capable of word processing, navigating the Internet, and concisely transferring information to interested parties. For me, there was a gap between my perception of the difficulty of skills and the banality of it all.
If you want to maximize your positive perception, you’re going to need to think of the manager you’d work under. They don’t really want a broke, skill-less loser. Counterintuitively, they might not even care that you’re a hard worker! Think about the lazy asshole that we all are. If you had a little automaton, a little golem that did your chores, what would you want from it? You’d want to set and forget it. You’d never want to have to troubleshoot it. You’d want it to work when it’s supposed to. You wouldn’t want to have to tell it what needs to get done. Doing a good job is all well and good, but if it did your chores such that your parents aren’t upset with you for the chores not being done, you’re living on easy street!
So, do you have the requisite skills? Sure, that’s what the lying is for. But a bunch of other people have those skills. What don’t they have? They will continue to ask questions over and over. You? You’re a quick learner who grasps the bigger picture by the end of the interview. You’re someone who likes to network and always find the most relevant party and only goes to the manager when the problem requires flexing hierarchical power. You’re always punctual and have a keen eye for minimizing the number of complains customers give the department. You are there to make the manager’s life easier, so they can take a risk with one of those other newbies who want to bloat the workload with questions, meetings, oversight, etc. or they can go with you who knows how to put their head down and shut the fuck up.
And then adjust that frame of mind accordingly. You might do some research on the manager to try and get an advantage or think about the kind of position you’re applying for. A sales position is probably different than customer service is different than an office.
I couldn’t tell you the first thing about weapons training besides don’t use it unless you have a damn good reason. From what I could pick up, the 27.5 hours to get the first belt promotion covers way more than you can hope for a newbie to use effectively. When I think about what it takes to get through the fundamentals in BJJ at my gym it’s a comparable amount of time where we just teach them the one art and they’re going to struggle conceptually in sparring afterward.
I actually had a lot of fun writing this:
The gentle way and the gentle art, in my mind, are like cousins. If you have seen much of it, it’s likely in the form of the Olympic sport of Judo, UFC fighters, or the various drama and personalities that comes out of professional grappling. This doubles if you’re a layman who only gets access to the most eye-catching moments of the culture. I am, however, not so competitive. My view of these sports is so much more frequent and it involves the people who keep the gym running. I can never separate my view of the sport from the way that it’s been taught for the past 100 and some odd years that persists through the world-spanning lineage. We go in, we learn about a move, we talk about how that move got used on a big stage, and we all go “woah!” To me, these arts are less a vehicle for besting an opponent and more a storybook of moves that I’ve used in class, moves I’ve used in competitions, and moves I’ve seen other people use.
The application of them is the part where it’s gets philosophical. Because you typically don’t just decide to put somebody in an armbar unless they’re much weaker than you or asleep when you start. Typically, they have to be opened up for an armbar. I think that idea is preserved in the judo 柔道 and 柔術. The preserved first character being gentle or soft. It’s less soft like a pillow and more yielding like a willow tree. Judo has this pillar of seiryoku zen’yō (精力善用, maximum efficiency, minimum effort) that I copy and pasted off of Wikipedia because I unlocked it by going to a gym for the first time. If someone’s pushing into you, pushing back is an effortful task. However, moving off to the side takes much less effort. Pulling them the way that they’re charging, moving out of the way, and leaving your foot in the way of theirs to trip them is the minimum effort it takes to take them to the floor (Sasae Tsurikomi Ashi). Being gentle is saying “have it your way” and showing them the folly of their effort by example. I think of any moment in grappling by which you adapt to your opponent’s winning strategy and technique and overcome it with your own is the realization of the gentle art. I believe that you can take the philosophy and live a good life by adhering to the principals.
If you want to talk about the love required to maintain the revolutionary spirit, you’d have to have the other pillar of Judo in play as well. Jita kyōei (自他共栄, mutual welfare and benefit) is a piece that I could stand to have understood more naturally than realizing as of writing. I’m also realizing that I’m literally regurgitating Kano thought when I’m saying that you can use the idea of not trying to go around armbarring life but instead treating it like a roguelike where you choose the best option based on the circumstances around you and that this becomes a way of actualization.
Honestly, you’ll get a complete and clear explanation of my entire thesis by going to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judo#History_and_philosophy and reading the part about Judo versus jujutsu. You can also go to Kanō Jigorō’s wikipedia page to realize I had better politics though:
“Only one of the forms of Judo training, the so-called randori can be classed as a form of sport… [In addition, the] Olympic Games are so strongly flavoured with nationalism that it is possible to be influenced by it and to develop Contest Judo as a retrograde form as Jujitsu was before the Kodokan was founded. Judo should be as free as art and science from external influences – political, national, racial, financial or any other organised interest. And all things connected with it should be directed to its ultimate object, the benefit of humanity.”
Kano would have hated how woke video games have become.
