Those "that one person" memes are just people passive aggressively talking shit about people they know

I have a feeling lots of those end up getting posted on facebook :(

Abe. That's totally who I think it is too. It would make sense for Negan to kill the guy with military xp. And the way Abe rose up and looked Negan in the eye.

Leaving Rosita should kill any dude. X{D

And yeah, that thing with Sasha. If Negan killed her too, like for trying to stop it, that would be even more devastating because of her marksmanship. But I don't think they'll kill two off. They always could.

FTWD has gotten great. But I kind of hate the daughter Alicia's attitude. She's cool in most scenes, but the "I raised myself" line is making her look like an asshole. But other than that the show is great. :{

LOL, yup Abe, and definitely agree about leaving Rosita! WTF Abe!?

The thing I like best about FTWD is its west coast based. So even though it's a prequel, you're still seeing it from the other side of the country.

Been catching up on The Ultimate Fighter while chatting here and getting the bills paid. Its a show where if I miss any of the talking it doesn't really matter. Have to stay caught up on that one so I don't run into spoilers on my MMA sites.

Eugene doesn't care that Rosita's snapper is cursed!

I used to live in San Diego, so I was bummed that they didn't go there/destroyed it, but yeah it's cool seeing the differences in the walkers too.

And the way the head south made sense. I was thinking the pier would be a good spot if it had a structure big enough on it to live in. And they can build on to it. But I guess bad weather would ruin it.

I don't watch the MMA shows, but I am interested in martial arts of any kind. Warfare and strategy games too. Weapons. And the wooded area behind my house is a natural obstacle course.

You study/practice more than one style? Or mainly jujitsu? :{

So I study Kosen Ju-Jitsu, which is technically just japanse self-defense. It encompasses Judo, Karate and Akido. The Brazilians have screwed up the normal worlds view of ju-jitsu being only ground based and being from Brazil, but that's why people call it BJJ. So essentially I study MMA minus true wrestling. If I am able to get my weight gain I'm actually going to try to get time on of the local pro's schedule for private striking lessons. She's fought on CBS years ago but focuses on Muy Thai now. My striking is very unorthodox, which has many advantages, but I'd like to learn proper technique from a professional and also help with my thai clinch.

I never knew that Jujitsu was using other styles. That's interesting to know.

It's great you've got an instructor like that. Go for it!

I've always been interested in training with a teacher. And the idea of learning as many as possible is tempting. I just use the net and have family and friends who give me tips and suggestions. And shadow boxing and punching bags.

I know I could google it, but what's a thai clinch? :{

So imagine clasping your hands together thumb over thumb, fingers over fingers...basically at a 90 angle. Now you put that behind your opponents neck and squeeze your elbows together. It's great at controlling them because you try to pull their head down. If you've got it locked in with your elbows squeezed almost together, you can also use it to jerk them around and move them where you want them to be. You can do a lot of damage with knees from this position, either to the body or the legs. I'm also a fan of foot stomps, but we don't practice that in the gym...that's for on the street (or Metallica concert) or in the cage.

There's also a one handed version of it, that's much more difficult to maintain control of, but it gives you an arm to strike with, either to the body with punches or to the head with punches or elbows.

It's not so much using other styles...it's the totality of japanese martial arts or self defense (I can't remember which off the top of my head). Basically, karate is just a single aspect of ju-jitsu.

Sounds like the "move you can't get out of" my brother showed me. Except, they bend you over and pretend to bang you. Which is both humiliating and hilarious.

But that's good to know. Glad you clarified that.

I see what you mean now about jujitsu. I heard Akido is good to learn.

Do you ever train with weapons? Like to defend from and use rifles/pistols/knives/swords/machetes/etc.? Or do you stick to hand to hand in your training? :{

I wish we did more defensive weapons training. It's mostly hand to hand, and hardly anyone ever wears a gi. We've defended against knives in class once, and it was eye opening just how different it is trying to control a person versus trying to gain control of a sharp object. You're used to using two hands for certain things, but you do that, and all of the sudden the other guy can just grab the knife with his free hand. The entire class was probably killed off a total of 20 each that night...lol!

So in my school there's 9 belts, I'm midway through. Once you reach either brown or black belt (I think black) then one of the things you have to master is disarming someone with a gun, and throwing a knife into a target and having it stick 10 times in a row during your test.

Yeah, to me a knife fight is something I don't want to experience but would love to be ready for.

That's awesome, you're movin' on up the belts. The knife throwing 10 in a row sounds challenging. :{

Yeah, don't want to be unprepared for a knife fight. Hopefully I learn that in skills for law enforcement.

The funniest thing about training grappling, is the bruising. The first 3 months or so you bruise all over, and usually get a least a few where it's four little finger tip sized bruises where someone grabs you. When we have chicks come in and train they always have to explain to their coworkers their SO isn't beating them up...lol. The weird part though is that your body adapts to it and you build up a strong tolerance to bruising from normal grappling and even normal striking. There's always that one asshole, usually a newbie, who goes way to hard on his training partners and blasts someone, that might bruise you for a little while, but that's about it.

I think American Kickboxing Academy is based out of San Diego. Their have a bunch of top notch dudes that train there. If you're interested in learning though, I'd go to smaller gym. The fighter gyms are expensive as hell and usually if you're not on the fight team you're a second class student. Sometimes gyms will offer a free trial class to see if it's something you actually want to do before you sign up. It might be worth it if you have time. It certainly sounds like you've got the interest in it. If you're looking for actual self defense stay away from Tae Kwon Do or Karate though, those don't prepare you for a street fight at all. The most practical would be a gym that actually trains MMA, then a ju-jitsu school as long as they train striking, then Krav Maga (Batman Begins style)...but Krav Maga can be brutal. It's Israeli so you know they mean business.

For the Muy Thai clinch...you want to fight to get both of your arms under to gain the best control and get your elbows as close together as possible.

Oh man, I read that wrong the first time. I was thinking you were behind and kind of a full nelson thing. That's what the "move you can't get out of" looked like.

But now I see the pic, and reread what you said before, I get it.

Is it going to cut off circulation too? :{

Your forearms will kind of be on both their carotids, but you don't really have the angle needed for a blood choke.

Not sure if it's wise to show your brother or not...lol, but for another move you can't get out of, the illustration on the left is highly effective, even against someone much stronger than you. It's what orderlies use for patients with mental issues. It doesn't hurt the other person, they can't move. You do have to be mindful of a backwards headbutt or nut grab though.

So lock both arms through the elbows and place your hands in the center of the back?

I can see how you'd be able to f**k their face/head up with that if needed as well. :{

Yup, arms through their elbows, and basically just put one hand flat in the middle of their back, with your other hand on top of the first hand.

There's not really any offense you can generate from that position though. I had to use his (lack of) balance against him before I could throw him back into the crowd. Without years of experience doing judo throws, I would have fallen on my face when I swung him 180 degrees around and tossed him back.

Yeah. I don't get why people do this stuff. It's easier and less time consuming to be direct. :{

Exactly. People will always know where they stand with me. I can be truthful to my own detriment at times. I'd rather have it be that way though than dance around people.

I concur. I wish there were more direct people in the world. :{

Now that I think about it. Someone basically made a meme about my 500k meme. Lucky me I got first comment on theirs.

Huh. I'm not into the community stuff. So I don't really check those memes out. Slightly nervous congrats? :{D

Thanks. No need to be nervous. I know you're not the huggy feely guy in the group. It's really not about the "points" necessarily, I'm just a stat freak and that's the closest thing to stats on the site.

It's like an xbox game to me. I want to get all of the achievements in all the games I own.

It's more I'm not into the show and tell so much.

Certain members here are just trolls that call themselves "flamers" to hide their dark sides. And too many of them are enabled through page 9 parties/upvoting circles.

An email I had from the owner a while back mentioned how he hated the voting social circles that upvote their friend's stuff to "help" them out. And I agree with him.

There's too much pandering with all that. The leaderboard and the front page should only house the people with legit stats. Cause they had funny memes with lots of upvotes, not because they commented a hundred thousand times to a friend who also did the same and returned the favor.

I'm like you, I love stats. But on Xbox, you at least have to earn those stats from skills and not from talking.

Sorry about the diatribe, I just wish the site was more about the memes and the members here. Like how you can share your meme and get points that way. They should let you share them, but only imgflip accounts should be allowed to upvote and gain you points. :{

You've certainly got a point. I wish the points were more merit based, but for it work that way I feel like all memes would have to be submitted anonymously.

I think to a certain extent, some of the group/friend upvoting will naturally occur. But now that you point it out, I can definitely see where some have gamed the site for whatever purpose though various means, some innocently, some completely knowingly though.

They wouldn't need to be anonymous. If you don't like someone, you should be able to avoid giving them points.

I've seen quite a few in the last few months. I've also seen users who haven't been on for over a year, or at least don't make many memes, and then when you're going to pass them on the LB, they magically start memeing again.

Which only makes me think they're using alt accounts. They have a main account, then have parasitic satellite accounts set up to upvote/troll/gen up followings. Same stuff happens on youtube and facebook just not for a leaderboard like Imgflip has. :{

I noticed Bob Parker(?) started memeing this past week or so. I thought that was a dead account. But I've only been around a short time so I haven't really had time to see those types of trends yet.

I wish there was a way to deal with alt accounts, or at the minimum the trollish ones. I feel like there should be a way to tell if two accounts share IP addresses, and if one gets X number of downvotes or something that IP can't create any more alts. I don't know enough about programming, but it seems like it could be done if they wanted to.

I use a SW site that only allows one account per household. It does it through the modem/router somehow.

Imgflip needs something similar.

Or at least a way you can delete unwanted comments of your own memes like you can in meme stream memes.

They should make the comment upvotes only give a single point and the meme upvotes should only give like 5 or so.

That would be best and would eventually negate the alts.

And I think that only Imgflip members should be allowed to vote. That would help. :{

Wait, how do non-imgflip members vote? You mean you can vote even if you're not signed in?

If a person likes your shared meme on facebook, it translates as points and an upvote here. I think. :{

Huh, I know it counted as views...but I would have figured with the previous reddit relationship that reddit upvotes would have counted here too. I have yet to see a meme get over 300 upvotes, I feel like at least one would have gone viral and got shared multiple times on FB. In that case I feel like if FB likes got you upvotes there'd have been memes with 500, 1000 or more upvotes.

Maybe they removed it with the reddit thing? That would be nice.

I kind of like the memes staying here. It's like a meme version of fight club. Different from all the other sites. I mean, I still wish I could meme comment on other sites.

Did you play Halo Reach? That was my favorite multiplayer for stats. The way their Bungie site had you in your armor and all your stats was really cool.

As far as single player stuff, Elder Scrolls and Fallout, but MMO's like SW Galaxies were neat too.

GTA/RDR had great mp games too. :{

your discussion was a good read Ghost and Tetsuo.

Thanks. The site needs work done, but it's still fun. :{

Reach was the last Halo game I played. Bungie treated me very well. I loved the heatmaps. So bummed COD doesn't do that, as far as I know none of the three developers do.

I did Oblivion (Elder Scrolls IV?), but Mass Effect is my favorite series now.

your discussion was a good read Ghost and Tetsuo.

Thank you sir!

You mean the ladies right? Cause I heard they did like Jade Empire and you could hook up with more than one chick.

I need to finish the first one so I can play the other two. I've had them for like 3-4 years now. :{

Not just the ladies, some definitively have better story lines. I'm talking the more game altering decisions, especially at the end of 2. Some choices in 1 minorly affect 2 (one choice that has a moderate impact), but choices made in 2 have some significant impact on 3.

I've played at least 5 characters through the first 2, and I think i'm part way through my 3rd character on 3. Then I want to play a new character straight through 1-3.

Once it feels like the end of the game is near just make sure to save often, so that you can see the different endings based on your choice.

God yes the heatmaps were so cool. I used to check those out all the time.

I think they should implement the HM's in the other MP games. It's a great visual aid.

I'm still on ME 1, but I have 2 and 3. It's great so far. :{

Choose wisely!

I like the objective based games best, and love playing defense. It was cool to see the areas I basically had on lockdown or sniper spots.

I used to love splattering people with the warthog, once they made vehicles so weak that's probably part of the reason I got bored with it.

So my character transfers over from 1 to 2 and 3? That's cool! I'll make sure to save often too.

Yeah, they really messed up the Halo formula in 4. Reach, to me, was the pinnacle of the series. And ODST was right behind it.

Reach had the best MP of the franchise to me. But I didn't notice the vehicle's being weak in it. Are you talking about Reach's vehicles? Or 4 onward's?

I loved the CTF MP levels. The feeling of being chased by a whole team as your team picked them off to protect you was always thrilling.

And SWAT. OMG I loved SWAT! I used to hate getting headshots with the scoped rifles, but Reach's DMR on SWAT is so fun. :{

Yup, you can transfer characters through 1-3. Decisions about who you help, kill, hook up with, all stick with you.

I never played 4, so it must have been reach that the vehicles started being taken too easily. Maybe it was that they balanced it out more with lasers and rockets. Whatever it was, I could barely get three strafing runs in before getting blasted to pieces, where previously if I had a good gunner I might not get killed once I started driving.

I usually played D, but most of the time because everyone else was always playing offense and ignoring the D. At times though if it started feeling like a standstill I'd go rush the objective. Then there's those games where you're just on, in either CTF or Assault (which ever one you plant the bomb in) and you almost single handedly end the game in 2 minutes without killing or being killed. I can't remember how many times I did that on the long brown bridge type map with the cross-map catapults to the other base side.

SWAT was the best, BR's and headshots all day long!

When I played with the dudes in my featured Halo memes, sometimes we'd play a game without firing a shot and still win. Grenades and melees only. Those were the days man!

Wow, Bioware is great for making an RPG like that. Could you imagine if say Pokemon or Fallout/Elder Scrolls carried over data that affected sequels? That's great foresight.

Reach did have the laser and rocket launcher on the large maps, and like you said, the gunner matters. I was lucky to have my brother, cousin, or friends who took the competitions seriously and were great at being gunners/drivers.

Assault is the bomb one I think. And that bridge map was classic. I always got sniped on the catapults. I also love the one map with the towers at each corner with the three or so levels in the middle. To me, all the maps were fun really. Halo 3 had a few I liked and Reach made good.

Dude! That would take some serious skill and patience. I think melee is my "favorite weapon" on the stat page. And I was good at sticking a nade. but I don't think I could do a whole map like that. Kudos! :{

Yeah, bioware did some awesome planning. It actually affects who can be on your squad in the next game. If you have downtime I seriously recommend putting in the rest of the 40 hours to get through ME1. ME2 and ME3 each take about 100 hours if visit every single planet and complete every single mission (including all DLC). There are some you can skip, but that just means you won't be near maxed out on stats at the end of the game.

The best of my Halo 2 days was when we barely beat a team on the small white multi-level map in the air. They tried talking a little smack cause it was close, then we said, "Did you notice we didn't shoot a gun once?" then they looked and were like "Daaaaamn"

I also loved in Halo 2 that there was proximity chat, so if you didn't hold the team chat button the other team could hear you if you got lazy. I was camping one spot so hard with a sword near an airlift, someone on the other team asked "is the sword guy down"...without hesitation I said "yup, sword guy is down"...up the airlift he comes and gets sliced up...lol...hearing his immediate confusion was priceless and unforgettable!

LOL! That's awesome! I never played 2's MP, but that proximity voice sounds like a fun way to trick them.

In ME, I'm probably going to do like you said and max out the stats. I also want to see all the game has to offer and wouldn't want to skip anything if I could.

Did you ever play Left4Dead? I bet you'd be a great survivor teammate. Same with GTA's MP. :{

In any of the games you can't max out all attributes...you'll be able to max out all but one attribute, but it will be at least 50-75 of max if I remember correctly.

I never played Left4Dead, but ME3 had a 4 player vs. waves of CPU baddies (similar to something ODST? offered, and similar to hoard mode in Gears of War.

Huh. I can live with one not being maxed out I guess.

I liked the ODST wave games. So that would be great. Do you gain xp for it?

ME does remind me of GOW, what little I've played of each. Almost like it's the same engine or made by the same/similar people.

Left4Dead is a great team game. The AI can be decent, but having 4 people is the best part. The zombies are fast like 28 Days Later. And there are boss/specialist zombies spread out through the maps.

But the way it feels is great. You feel anxiety and I'd say fear when you hear these guys scratching around. And the dark levels are the best. It's worth it to get L4D1&2. And 2 is just as good as 1, just a different set of survivors.

If you're a Walking Dead fan you'd probably like it. But the zombies are way faster. :{

What you describe is just like ME3's 4 player multiplayer. 10 waves of progressively more baddies, and more advanced/boss-like baddies. No leveling up in MP though, and nothing carries over to single player or vice-versa.

Just streamed TWD this past winter. Have five eps of Fear TWF on my DVR now.

Aw! They could help me out by making it count for SP. But that still sounds like a good idea. I'll definitely check it out when I get to 3.

TWD/FTWD are great Romero-esque shows. I love the idea of slow zombies/undead. To me, that's scarier than all the other horror movie monsters combined.

Are you caught up on TWD? Like what season are you on? Cause I'd ask you who you think something something. :{

I'm caught up I think, unless the current season started, but I didn't notice any on my DVR when I was looking for FTWD...still waiting to find out who Negan killed. I can't think of his character or real name, but my guess is the military guy, mostly because his storyline is basically wrapped up and he switched love interests. Switching love interests can be the kiss of death!

Oh, so if you don't want to miss anything...(I learned this the hard one with my default Shepard), do all the side missions first, then do the story progression mission. Most of the time you'll still be able to go back and do most side missions, but there's a few points where if you do the story mission, some side missions are lost forever.

I kind of hate that the games do that, but it's realistic and makes sense.

I like doing all the missions too. I'm pretty completionist with the games. Like on Oblivion, I did all the missions. I was only a level 60. I don't think much of my stats were maxed, but I would just explore and do any of the daily/weekly missions you could do. And just slay creatures from one side of Cyrodiil to the other.

I also play the Elder Scrolls on PC, and the mods that let you go over the border into the other provinces. That's why I rank the best games out there as Skyrim and Fallout NV(4 probably once I get an Xbox One).

You can play FO 3 in FONV, starting out in the CW, and then going to Las Vegas.

And in Skyrim, they made a mod that includes all the Tamriel provinces like Morrowind and Cyrodiil.

THEN, they added other continents and eventually an Online mod so you could paly with friends. You should check it out if you get the chance. It's not as competitive, but the immersion can be breathtaking. And the bewbs. Definitely the bewbs. :{P

You're going to be a Police Officer? Or something else?

My brother had me help him with body hardening a bunch when he got out of basic. He bruised the shit out of my legs doing it.

And man, I'd hate to be a chick having to explain that. You know people would give them the battered women look and reactions.

I'd be worried I wasn't hitting hard at all. Like holding back out of fear of being the asshole newbie.

Unfortunately, I'm not in SoCal anymore and live in the south. But there are kung fu/tai chi/jujitsu teachers in the city I could go to. I just wish they were cheaper. I'm a frugal bastard. It's worth it in a way, but I have a thing about my dollar's buying power.

I do as much as I can solo though. And when family/friends are over we spar sometimes.

I've heard a lot and researched some of Krav Maga. And I get what you mean by brutal. Isn't it mainly killing or disabling?

I think that Benico Del Toro film The Hunted was KM. But I'm no expert. The storyline is he's an Army Ranger or Delta Force, so I imagine it's a mix either way. :{

I plan to stay in crisis management, but if I wake up hating my job, being a cop is plan b.

There's not a ton of chicks who do it, just because it takes a mindset that's just not out there as a social norm at this point. I don't remember if I clarified it earlier, but the fighter I want to take private lessons from is a chick, and she's actually my height and probably walks around at a weight of people the people I'd be fighting.

Most people can the hang of what percentage to go at during sparring. Unless they're going super hard, I just go as hard as they are. If they're going to hard then it's the person who's been there longer and is established to tell them so and to tell them they need to turn it down a notch. I've also told plenty of people they punch me harder too (not taunting, but if your partner isn't going hard enough you're not going to learn anything). I'd say sparring is generally at 80% with standup, and you've usually got boxing gloves on versus little tiny MMA gloves. When it comes to ground fighting we usually go 100% at my gym, with the exception of "being explosive". You don't just explode into an armbar and possibly break/hyper-extend someone's elbow. No one wants to go home hurt. Most of the time, the people who go home hurt are the ones who are too stubborn to tapout. I'll slowly apply and increase pressure of joint locks but they don't tap and then they've got a sprained joint. Some people are more flexible than others so it's up to you to know when to tap when it starts to feel like it's about to hurt or you know you can't get out of it.

I don't know that much about Krav Maga regarding killing, but disabling sounds right. I know I've seen the Hunted, but I don't remember it at all, I just remember liking it.

Alright, well unless I've got another reply from you already I'm calling it a night. Later Tetsu!

On the pic that we're talking about further up, I figured you could sort of twist your upper body to knock his head into something.

Yeah you mentioned that the women was a trainer. The thing about CBS.

The Hunted is where Benicio is trained by Tommy Lee Jones and it's he either went crazy or the DOD is trying to off him. They do a lot of knife fighting in it. The scene with all the cutting certain points on a person. And he tries to hook up with his ex. She has the little girl he shows the tracking to. I think it's a great film.

The KM vids I've seen show knife kills sometimes. That's mainly why I think The Hunted may have used it in the film.

The Raid 1&2 are other great MA films.

Yeah, I'm headiin' out too. Laters. :{