jdemartino.bsky.social
Editor @espn. Formerly @espn_esports and @sportsnation. Boston. Mostly I post about swords
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lmao this is great. And reminds me of the picture of all three of them together
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I used to think Reacherverse goons constantly picking fights with Reacher was unrealistic but then I remembered people used to constantly challenge Andre the Giant to fights in bars. One time two dudes did this at a beach bar so Andre dragged them to the ocean and started to drown them
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sometimes you gotta watch a cartoonishly large man punch some objectively evil people
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we have to make do with Bobby G and the Lion for now
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There is much wisdom in this take
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Guac on a burger, yes or no
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I had a t-shirt from these guys a while back. Too early for an actual mascot, though www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Hoqu...
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he was the GOAT. like come on:
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right? like the required level of physical control, the ability to track the cards, the showmanship — it’s not real magic but it might as well be, you know?
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I think Jay might have legitimately been a warlock or something
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I like that they’re giving Sarah Sherman a steady paycheck
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*punching, goddammit
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I looked in on the Yablonski page a little while back. Pinching down is right. I remember howling laughing at it as a teenager. As an adult it’s just mean-spirited
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Getting flashbacks to this, Cliff Yablonski, Photoshop Phridays, My Tank is Fight ...
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I played that for a bit a while back, time to give it another go
Beating Nuclear Throne was a struggle, dude. that game is brutal
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Peak Reynolds. Always nice to see someone at the height of their powers
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Note-perfect cameo too. Reveal, punchline, done
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Rivaled only by
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Also “oh shit oh shit oh shit” is universal
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I love this video because like, nothing that big should move that fast *through snow*
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Obsidian has at least three games which could accurately be described as such and that's why they're the GOAT
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reminds me a little of
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bsky.app/profile/ther...
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Keeps Mahomes below him in the legacy rankings AND Kelce below Gronk
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“Saquon Barkley 60ish yards rushing. Non-factor. Eagles blowout win”
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we've all been there
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“We could make a steady profit forever OR we could try for a .0001% chance of a billion dollars. As a business genius I choose the latter. Oh no!”
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"a few things ..." hitting like a howitzer wielded by an infant
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I bounced off Original Sin 2 the first time I tried it. Might give it another go now though
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BG3 is just a towering achievement. The game BioWare was always meant to make but never did
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Twin Peaks: The Return was incredible
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Marsden always commits to the bit
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we have Josh Allen at home!
Josh Allen at home: oh wait actually he's really good. sick.
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I dunno if I'd rely on the hallucination machine for this sort of thing!
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there's another book from Hans Lecküchner which instructs the reader on the proper way to kidnap someone during a duel. These are all off wiktenauer.com, by the by, an incredible resource for old fight manuals.
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ends up looking like this. From my friend Ian Carmichael's translation of the source, hosted on Boston Armizare's website drive.google.com/file/d/1_tq9...
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My club uses Fiore dei Liberi's "Il Fior di Battaglia" as our primary source. At one point he's addressing some patron for which he's writing the book and says "now sir, you would obviously never ever do something ignoble. But just FYI here's how to make blinding powder to put in your poleaxe head"
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so I do a lot of HEMA (Historical European Martial Arts) and it's a story that goes around the scene every now and then. Honestly some of the things the old masters recommend in their fencing manuals are wild, I'd give them a read sometime. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histori...
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video game alien agrees
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it's so funny. he was just in for the love of the game (and honestly as a dude who does historical fencing I get it)
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