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Techie Fight Clubs Springing Up
Browncoat writes "USAToday reports a new phenomenon hitting some of the cubicles of Silicon Valley. It seems that engineers and developers previously confined to sitting in front of their computers are getting their anger out the healthy way: by pummeling each other. From the article 'Inspired by the 1999 film Fight Club, starring Brad Pitt and Ed Norton, underground bare-knuckle brawling clubs have sprung up across the country as a way for desk jockeys and disgruntled youths to vent their frustrations and prove themselves. "This is as close as you can get to a real fight, even though I've never been in one," the soft-spoken Siou said.'"
Doesn't this article violate the first and second rules of fight club?
No one saw this coming. No one.
This doesn't worry me much... yet. I mean, transgressional fiction was bound to come true at some point. People tend to break out of the cube. What worries me is that this might be a trend in fiction influencing reality. If Patrick Batemans start cropping up all over the place then we have a problem.
The problem with this is that these things is that these guys don't know how to fight and as such could really get hurt. And the thing is, if you accidentally kill someone in an illegal fighting event, it is still manslaughter. Course, a few dead dorks might mean that new positions open up in the fields they're in. HEY!!! That's a great idea. I need a job, I could get it Klingon battlecruiser style.
Men involved in fight clubs often carry bottled-up violent impulses learned in childhood from video games, cartoons and movies, said Michael Messner, a University of Southern California sociology and gender studies professor.
Dear Michael Messner,
Please accept this large steaming cup of shut the hell up.
Sincerely,
BigTanGringo
Yes, I am a smart ass; it's better than the alternative.
Anyway, my favorite part is the two professors eagerly spouting theories about "fight clubs" as though they'd ever heard of this before the USA Today reporter came calling.
No, my real favorite part is:
Fast forward to Marital Fight Club...What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
His name is Linus Torvalds.
His name is Linus Torvalds.
10 REM Nerd Fight Club
20 REM packetmon
30 FOR X=10 TO 1 STEP -1
40 PRINT X;"Oh yea";
50 IF X<>1 THEN PRINT "!";
60 PRINT "take that,";X;"jackass";
70 IF X<>1 THEN PRINT "!";
80 PRINT "give in!"
90 NEXT
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Dude, he's a university professor! Don't try to lecture him on common sense! He knows sociology! One day you're just walking along the street, whistling some new Eminem song, and BAM!!, he descends from the rafters, slices your head off with a 200-page dissertation on the causal relationship between videogames and violence, and gets like 6000 boners all at once. And that's what I call Real Ultimate Power!
The suicide terrorists stole their idea from the roadrunner cartoons. How else can you explain that sombody uses that much explosives on himself to hurt the other person.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
I am sick to death of Fight Club. People talking about it, [...]
I take it most people didn't pay attention when they were told the first and second rules.
What's the appeal of brawling?
Depends on how big an asshole you are.
KFG
Alexander the Great . . .flower arranger.
KFG
Look at the position of his goolies with respect to the position of the blue-shirt guy's left fist... If blue-shirt is paying attention, red-shirt is going to be walking with a squint for a couple of days.
I used to like Star Trek until I read about the ladies that are into this: http://www.thyla.com/fan-art.html
if you steal from one source, that is plagiarism, if you steal from many, well, that's just research.
Exclusive pictures from one of the fights.
Maybe not
...you do not talk about fight-like-a-girl club. For obvious reasons.
Procrastination Man strikes again!
such a lovely login page. Thank you.
Using your fists on someone ... that I can see. The damage level is low
That depends upon your class and level. I have five levels in the monk class with the shadow warrior prestige class, +3 brass knuckles of the whale, and 18/00 strength, so technically I would deal 3d6 + 3 hit points of damage and with my improved dodge feat you would not be fast enough to parry my attacks of opportunity.
ok ok... s/hands/penis/ ...better?
And also the Prime Directive!
What kind of whackass home rules do you guys use? Prestige Classes AND Percentile Strength!?!?!? Also, do you need another player? I've got this 5/2 Barbarian/Cleric Ilthilid I've been dying to try out.
Why not fork?
I am simply amazed that this is the first actual AD&D reply to this story (at +2, at least...)
Linux: The world's best text-adventure game.
The experts know how to both hit and be hit (and are better at avoiding the hits); they take a lot less damage than novices, and unless they INTEND to deal damage, they deal less damage too.
On the flip side an expert INTENDING to deal damage will deal it a lot more effectively than a novice.
The same is generally true in most sports.
Yeah, I've noticed the same thing in golf. My father-in-law takes a whole lot less damage than my brother-in-law, in general.
They play full-contact, though, which I'm told is uncommon.
I got my Linux laptop at System76.
> ok ok... s/hands/penis/ ...better?
I took your advice and began coding with my penis instead of my hands. Everyone in my office is avoiding my cubicle now. On the plus side, I finally got other people to stop using my keyboard.
Solomon
"Twice half-assed makes an ass whole." --Solomon K. Chang
I've never wasted a whole Sunday morning in supplication to an invisible man who lives in the sky, for one.
But it's all starting to make sense now, isn't it. The rivalry between Spock and McCoy for Kirk's affections. The older queen bitchiness of McCoy, who feels threatened by the younger Spock. (And now you start wondering about McCoy's nickname, "Bones".)
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
Does anyone else hate 3.x Edition of AD&D just a little more now because of posts like this?
"When I am king, you will be first against the wall..."
Well, red-shirts get killed anyway...
Ignore this signature. By order.
"Hitting someone with a frying pan? What fool would take that?
Someone who just drank a bottle of frying pan antidote