Posts by Matthew Anderson4

Keith Miller30 said:Head over to the Chance Encounter thread; you can find it within the Lonely Heart PDF. The bait has been cast. ☕

We were just messing around with her, and honestly, she ended up sending me some pretty intense threats via DM, acting like she owned us...

he was sending me pictures 🤷

Trees matter more than people. That’s pretty much all you need to know.

My grandma says politics and religion don't exist when you're out digging in the garden.

The biggest loser is anyone who can't find something to laugh at in a world like this.

There are bigger fish to fry than this.

all, the only thing that matters is how many of us there are

Walter Grant5 said:Hey, Unknown, what's up?

Just walked through the door after a stroll, feeling a bit scattered.
Spent the whole time with some random losers whining at me to watch their backs. 🐔

ruggedjackal46 said:It's gotta be James Nelson8, since he spent the whole time reading the rulebook. ☕

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Honestly, Donald Tusk is a genius. Highly recommend. 🙏

brightpilot6 said:That is only true if you manage to get a decent spiral on it.

I feel like getting a good spiral is easier with an underhand throw, since the wrist just naturally rotates that way.☕

It's way easier to throw an NFL ball underhand. You get that nice parabola, so you can easily hit 30 yards without breaking a sweat.

Matthew Young35 said:That isn't a ball.

Glad someone finally said it.☕

ruggedjackal46 said:What on earth is VRM13 doing out in front of the Library of Congress? Throwing a rugby ball around. Oh my God. 🙏 🙏 🙏

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Grabbing a balloon is easy, plus they're basically egg-shaped anyway.
Basically, catching a football is a breeze. Pure logic.

Cheers, man.

bluebison47 said:God, give me a break.

I mean, look, even soldiers have to go through grueling drills and constant training, but we aren't exactly calling active combat a "sport," are we? Not really.

Nah, that's just what the guys planning the wars will tell you. Heh.

bluebison47 said:Chess isn't a sport, if you ask me... 😳

any game can be a sport.
depends on how you look at it.

brightpilot6 said:That's a strange claim to make if I know you actually enjoy soccer, but fair enough.

I struggle to see where the massive aesthetic gap—in terms of pure human skill—really lies between Messi weaving through defenders and a running back cutting through a line. At their core, aren't they essentially the same display of talent? One requires dribbling a ball through legs while navigating defenders who have certain rules they have to follow, whereas the other involves clutching a ball in your hands while trying to avoid 250-pound monsters who are legally allowed to flatten you into the turf.

Or consider the difference between one of Iniesta's delicate passes and a quarterback, under heavy pressure from a swarm of giants, launching a ball forty or fifty yards downfield toward a target sprinting at nine meters per second, knowing that being off by even half a yard usually means failure.

It isn't as if we're trying to compare soccer to weightlifting.

idk how big the gap is, except that it's enough. Soccer's beautiful to us, but most of us here aren't really into football.

brightpilot6 said:You make a fair point. Some people can find beauty in almost anything, while others only recognize it in specific instances. There is really no sense in trying to walk someone through the elegance of Magnus Carlsen's combinations if they don't already possess the capacity to grasp them.

Beauty is meant to be described and analyzed, after all; surely half of all art and the endless debates surrounding it exist for that very purpose.

Chess is beautiful. Football isn't. I think everyone finds beauty where they want to find it. You can't force it.

You can't really describe the specific beauty of a thing. Beauty is a feeling. You can talk about the feeling itself, or the skill used to create the object, but skill isn't beauty. Beauty lives in the space between me and the thing. Same goes for my dreams. My dream doesn't mean anything to you, just like catching an egg isn't beautiful to me.