Yeah, LJ and NoScript are not playing well together. They need a pixelated matchmaker to work out the lack of mutual lube or something. NoScript thinks that LJ is attempting to XSS the shit out of me, but won't actually tell me WHY above and beyond "No! The forbidden dance is NOT for you!"
Happening to me too, though never consistently. Usually ONLY at times after I've written an extremely long post and forget to copy it just in case. Then I get that moment of stark, existential terror as I press the back button and hope the post I just spent upwards of 45 minutes on didn't just get consigned to the ether.
Fortunately, that hasn't happened yet. NoScript has not betrayed me. But it's @#$@ing annoying nonetheless.
That's been the only time that I hit unsafe refresh because there doesn't seem to be any other way around it.
Happening to me too, though never consistently. Usually ONLY at times after I've written an extremely long post and forget to copy it just in case. Then I get that moment of stark, existential terror as I press the back button and hope the post I just spent upwards of 45 minutes on didn't just get consigned to the ether.
THIS. This, this, THIS. Only when inspiration STRIKES does it happen.
I haven't stopped laughing at "Spock-blocked" for the last ten days. It was one of the first things that a coworker of mine said when I asked him if he'd seen the film.
It would be nice if someone actually looked at photos of Phoenix, and specifically our downtown area, before drawing super-brawls here. I forget who was Ellis' artist on T-bolts, but just like whoever Morrison's partner on JLA was, they make it look like generic sort of New York. Hell, if nothing else, our city streets are like most places. Black tar not concrete. FREEWAYS are concrete not streets. Who has concrete city streets? Plus when that fight happened downtown was still full of construction from where the light rail was being put in...
Actually, when someone first posted pages from TBolts #114 and #115 over on S_D 1.0, lots of people chimed in with "Phoenix doesn't work that way." I totally understood, because I've spent time in both Phoenix and Tucson. Gritty East Coast brownstones aren't really, you know, a common sight in ARIZONA. :-)
As good as that fight is, the one at the end of the movie is even more ridiculously awesome, though sadly Capoeira-deprived, IIRC.
I think the first Ong Bak holds together better as a movie (relatively speaking), but the fight scenes in Tom-Yum-Goong are just amazing. I kept rewinding the final fight scene and trying to figure out how the stunt guys managed to do all that without having their limbs snapped to pieces for real.
unfortunately that production team/combat crew seems to have a fairly high accident rate. So it's not clear they didn't. There were some translated asian articles I was reading some time ago that made the surprising point that Jackie Chan was actually pretty good on safety record, in his crazy heyday, compared to many, and that newer combat teams were having injury problems. Jackie commented somewhere that newer teams don't have the lifelong training that many of his contemporaries did.
I'm afraid I don't seem to have saved the link anywhere, if I recall correctly I found that stuff spidering out from one of Jackie Chan's fansites, and making extremely liberal use of google autotranslation.
BTW, as a younger man, I did some aikido/jujitsu at a mid to high level, and I'll tell you, in freesparring, a Capoeira fighter is damned terrifying in the right circumstance, particularly if your style requires forethought and opponent reading, it's really hard to figure out where they're going next, because they transition through a base stance reflexively all the time.
Also the kick blocks of other styles are all wrong to deflect inverted kicks from them, so you end up bruised in un-calloused places.
Yeah, I, uh, concluded after observation -- meaning, after watching multi-art matches where non-Capoeira guys walked away with DEEPLY traumatized 'nads -- that the inverted kicks from Capoeira are what gives it an edge. Also, all that low base work, as you point out. Their LEGS. My GOD.
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Fortunately, that hasn't happened yet. NoScript has not betrayed me. But it's @#$@ing annoying nonetheless.
That's been the only time that I hit unsafe refresh because there doesn't seem to be any other way around it.
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THIS. This, this, THIS. Only when inspiration STRIKES does it happen.
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Plus, ever since I saw the phrase "Kirk got Spock-blocked", I've been trying to work "Spock" into everything!
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SPOCK-BLOCKED.
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Mike Deodato was the artist here.
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I think the first Ong Bak holds together better as a movie (relatively speaking), but the fight scenes in Tom-Yum-Goong are just amazing. I kept rewinding the final fight scene and trying to figure out how the stunt guys managed to do all that without having their limbs snapped to pieces for real.
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Also the kick blocks of other styles are all wrong to deflect inverted kicks from them, so you end up bruised in un-calloused places.
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