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@DanielleTrotta His aggression level isn’t the problem, it’s judging when to use it. If gap, car has worked well for him, except when the gap never materialized. If he gets better at judging those low probability moves, he’ll be the right sort of menace.

Does Hocevar need to change his driving style / decision making on track? Is he overly aggressive? #NASCAR

@timmckay52 On the one hand, readers absolutely do judge books by their covers. On the other hand, expecting authors to pay hundreds for a cover with no reasonable chance of ROI is just dumb. There’s something wrong if the cover artists are the only ones making money in the indie pub space.

Authors re: book covers: A) I once saw an author get slammed as a *cheap hobbyist* for not wanting to spend more on book covers. B) Then I saw a reviewer get *destroyed* for the opposite, encouraging authors to spend more on covers. C) Then I see authors slam expensive cover illustrations as *wasteful*. D) While also seeing half-decent Canva/stock art covers excluded from certain (very limited) contexts (publicly stated as part of the reason though – wasn’t AI, and wasn’t an issue of quality). My two cents: If the cover snaps, IDGAF how much you paid for it (high or low). Taste is subjective, granted, but appeal is all that matters here. Let’s celebrate the covers we like and leave it at that. The rest of this feels… off. Petty? Snobbish? Competitiveness stretched too far (the dark side of this community sometimes)? I dunno what to call it, but it’d be nice to get more positivity in these parts. Gonna try to do more! Maybe that means less Steve posts, but no promises!

@EricEstepp17 Translation: the nepo baby ran him off and were afraid he’ll make Spire better than us.

Figured the split was messy but not THIS messy!

@RealUCBfosho Went on my last deployment w/ gimpy knees and ankles because no one else could do my job. PL and PSG covered for me in premob. Blew knee out the week we rotated out of Syria, got called a liar until an O6 at the TMC chewed out PSG. Still need a cane on rainy days 8 years later.

THIS! Go be a combat arms officer or NCO and go on profile. See how that works out for you.

@Knightly_Hist I definitely appreciate the halfswording. Also the fact that the armor actually acted like armor.

It's nice to see some half-swording, a set of historical techniques where you grip the sword by the blade to gain accuracy and leverage. The highlights are ofc the 2 instances of mordschlag, a technique where you strike your opponent with the hilt of your sword.

@mnmcsofgp @Knightly_Hist Depends on the armor and where you grab, but if you do find solid purchase, it’s pretty easy to ragdoll someone smaller and weaker.

@Knightly_Hist That’s actually really cool. When grappling in athletic wear it’s quite easy slip out of over/underhooks. In clothes or gi it can be a struggle. I wonder is it harder or easier in armor? It’s hard and smooth but certainly has catch points

Dunk uses a historical technique in this clip. He reaches for Aerion's arm under the proctection of his sword to secure a finish or transition to grappling, as seen in Talhoffer's manual from 1467.

@fallingflxwer It’s cyclical. Every few years there’s some New Thing that sets off witch hunts, the loudest voices lose interest because they were only in it for clout, and it dies down until the next New Thing. The damage is real, but all we can do is dust ourselves off and keep writing.

watching writers delete their stories because readers bully them over top/bottom dynamics, throw ai accusations with zero proof, or decide one tiny detail deserves a public trial on twt or tiktok really makes this space feel suuuper welcoming and normal

@SDDonovan Shit. At least a couple dozen with more than 10k words. If we’re counting various stubs of a few chapters in length, plus first drafts that I never got around to revising? Somewhere in the triple digits.

Writers, no shame! How many unfinished WIPs are haunting your draft folder? It has to be near 10 if not more for me!

@kayyybearxo As a wise man once said: “If violence isn’t your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.”

tbh bring back the guillotine

@MrJmezz THIS IS A REALLY REAL THING HOLY SHIT Ahem. Sorry. Lost myself for a second.

I'm gonna play the gun dating Sim live at 8pm CT

@SDDonovan Show don’t tell is a tool. Like every tool, it has a purpose. You can use a wrench as a hammer in a pinch, but it’s still a shitty hammer. Sometimes, you need exposition, or to state the obvious. Sometimes, you don’t. Learning to tell the difference is the hard part.

Hot take. Show, don't tell, is overrated. You need a good balance of both in your book. What do you think?

@ryanhallyall 72 hour bag: -trauma kit+ light first aid kit -camping fuel pellets w/matches -camp mess kit -3 MREs -water bottles/purification -1 pk each unopened socks/underwear -3 changes of clothes -flashlight w/ batteries -power bank -emergency blanket -Glock 48+ 100 rounds -$300 cash

Quick question for y'all 👇 If you had to put together the perfect readiness bag to keep in your tornado safe space, what would you put in it? Not what the internet says.. what would YOU actually want to have if the power's out, the sirens are going off, and you're hunkered down with your family? Drop your list below. Curious what y'all think is essential vs. what's overrated.

@Hoplite_Ind This is why I use an Olight.

If your EDC doesn't include a pocket grenade, you're NGMI

@MiaMiette_ It wasn’t until post WWII that those distinctions went away, and only then because of growing pushback against Jim Crow era policies. The whole thing was a psyop designed to protect the wealthy and preserve the status quo.

@MiaMiette_ Those same tactics were also used in response to a wave of Asian migrants, particularly from China. All the while, Poles, Slavs, Irish, Italians, etc were still treated as ethnically distinct and undesirable until eugenics theory fell out of favor.

I might get this wrong, i don’t remember where I heard it but it changed my perspective a lot after growing up in a racist family and I needed to rewire my brain: White is not a culture, it is not a collective of people with their families identity washed away. Most people with fair skin can trace their families back to origin countries if they went to libraries or looked at public records. Most people still hold on to their country of origins culture and have a connection to it. As a 2nd gen Italian American I grew up with Irish Americans who were also 2nd, 3rd, etc generations and their entire families operated differently to us, and anyone we knew from german, polish, or latin american countries. They had different meals, ways of celebrating holidays, and ideals about traditions and family values. PLEASE CORRECT ME IF I AM WRONG: From how I understand it, most people who celebrate black culture were stripped of specific ethnic identities. They can not trace their lineage, and even if they could, you can only imagine the pain or impact it could have to see the strife their families went through. Not only that, for hundreds of years they were treated as a single group under racial laws. No matter what region / country they were taken from, they were treated the same and in a lot of cases forced to create new identity within their communities which has grown into a culture. To me, specifically in the Americas, when someone says “black culture” i don’t think of a skin colour. It is shared historical and social experiences that produced distinct cultural patterns. Celebrating specific European ethnic cultures might be valid. But framing “white culture” as a racial identity rather than a specific heritage carries exclusionary or supremacist implications; it’s fucking racist. Black culture is real and thriving; it’s not racist, it’s empowerment and a celebration of identity shaped by survival, resistance, and contributions to music, art, language, and social progress over centuries.

@Slatzism Between my redneck dad and my Filipino mother in law, it’s a toss up. The first time they held my son, he thought the boy was jaundiced. She thought he was anemic. They get along oddly well, despite not understanding a word the other says.

I love catching glimpses of racism outside of the repetitive black American vs white American western racism monopoly bc it’s like wow there’s some interesting stuff happening in the Indonesian vs Korean racism space rn

@DarkWaterBeach I got bullied for being smart as a kid. I also grew up with a thick southern accent, which made interacting with intellectual circles hell. The problem is standing out. Solution: fuck ‘em. If you’re going to catch hell, stand your ground and invite the world to die on your hill.

what if i told you one of the reasons people lean on using AAVE as common slang is because when people use actual works and speak sincerely they get told they're monologuing like sephiroth or talking like an anime vilian people openly chastise use of big words

@NickBromberg It’s not exactly a new thing. I’d prefer they didn’t tear up half the field at the line, but I don’t think we’ve had one go green from start to checkers in my lifetime.

Serious question Are the demolition derby endings that are now part of the fabric of the Daytona 500 satisfying as a fan? Genuinely curious.