repetetive, compounding damage
Things you're tired of seeing in movies
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I recall that; he had so many Tau proteins built up from all the hits to the head in his career that combined with the stuff they were giving wrestlers, he had pretty much no chance.
Yeah he was steroided-up to the gills too. It may have been a contributing factor.
It must have been primarily the CTE though. His case was so far off the charts.
Benoit was a very hard-working guy too which was part of the problem. He never took any time off to let injuries heal up. There was a story that he was once riding in a car when it got slammed hard by a reckless driver. He was unconscious in the overturned car when the smoke cleared. He still showed up for a wrestling match a few hours later.
It must have been primarily the CTE though. His case was so far off the charts.
Benoit was a very hard-working guy too which was part of the problem. He never took any time off to let injuries heal up. There was a story that he was once riding in a car when it got slammed hard by a reckless driver. He was unconscious in the overturned car when the smoke cleared. He still showed up for a wrestling match a few hours later.
I'm good with fun sans intelligence. Sometimes I just want to feel some endorphins.
joberg
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I'll opt for good Belgian chocolate for those
p51
Sr Member
This is one of those points where those in the know think of it as "Real life versus what should happen."
I left active duty in 2001 and resigned in 2006, so maybe a lot has changed since my day. But I highly doubt it.
In my time, anything you might go to your NCO or senior officer and advise of was reacted with derision and a reminder that you should either be tougher or being called a malingerer outright.
I had a horrible respiratory issue that had gone on for a much of the winter and I was ordered to lead a detachment at the month-long wargame at Ft Polk, LA. I had bronchitis and apparently the early stages of pneumonia when I got there and almost passed out the first few days we were there. The troop clinic doctor, a female Colonel from the 101st AB (we were there to support them with a platoon of tanks), said she couldn't believe any chain of command would send someone who was as sick as I was.
I looked her dead in the eye and said, "Seriously, Ma'am, you must have run across that mindset lots of times," to which she stared off into space, winced, and said, "Yeah, LT, I wish I could tell you I disagreed..."
She removed me from my chain of command, put me in medical hold for the duration of the exercise and told me to lot let anyone but her or her staff tell me otherwise.
Sure enough, the armor unit brought their XO, a Major, who lied to my face that the 101st had released me and said that I wasn't go ask to confirm that. I told him a Colonel said otherwise and I considered that was that. What he said next isn't relatable here. Let's just say I stood there looking for something to beat the [poop] out of him with in the room. Seriously, I considered doing that. I even thought of the punishment for that, and that I decided if I was gonna hit him once, I was going all the way because I would be court martialed either way. To this day, he has no idea how close he came to being crippled or much worse.
That was one of three factors that led me to decide to leave the Army. The final straw was something much worse happened to one of my soldiers a few months later and the chain of command only cared about covering their backsides and not looking after their people.
That year, I realized nobody was going to have your back.
Frankly, I wouldn't easily accept that things have changed much since then.
Just incredible! O.O No wonder no one wants to enlist anymore!
Thank you for posting this... it certainly explains a lot! I'm also glad you got out of the military, as with the sound of it, you could have dropped dead and your immediate superior would have put you on report for "insubordination"!!!
p51
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Riceball
Master Member
Sadly, the peacetime (US) military is very risk-averse as well as very intolerant of any kind of mistake or wrongdoing. Not that this necessarily excuses the brass, but their actions don't come from malice and/or indifference so much as fear of doing something wrong and derailing their career(s) as a result. Back in the '80s and '90s, and probably still to this day, something that you did wrong as a junior officer or enlisted can haunt you the rest of your career and prevent you from ever making it very far. And as a more senior officer or NCO, it can get you fired from your current billet as well as halt any further advancement.
Sadly, even when you do things right and the way you're supposed to, you can still wind up killing your military career. The US Nacy is probably the worst/most notorious for this. The Navy brass has a bad habit of always trying to push the blame for anything bad that happens as far down the chain of command as possible, even when the incident happened as a direct result of policies and directives set by the brass.
Riceball
Master Member
I'd argue that it's more a result of a change in culture these days, particularly as we are now 22 years removed from 9/11. The patriotic fervor that 9/11 had stirred has now long since worn off and we're experiencing something of another counter culture revolution where the military is perceived as something of an evil institution. And it's economics too, when the economy is doing well, or at least fairly well, many see the military as a good opportunity, You're being paid, get 3 square meals a day, and a roof over your head. It may not be all sunshine and rainbows, but, for many, it certainly beats being unemployed.
Bag of holding. I am sick to death of the abuse of nanotech as an excuse for a magical bag of holding or other interdimensional portal for storage. I am officially done with movies that act like nano tech robots can not only create stuff out of thin air.... ironman... starlord... but can also infinitely provide energy and matter without end, streaming water or acid cannons, fire cannons with no source tank, armor, helmets, weapon ammo (kinetic). Regardless of the obviously high exchange rate present in e=mc2 it still doesn't let you convert it into matter that contains more than you started with. Sure, a little tiny nuclear pellet gives me a lot of energy bursts from my ray cannon but it doesn't allow you to store an entire suit of armor in your pocket. Until they start showing me the "galaxy on Orion's belt" tech, it is absurd.
Oh wait not done... how about how all nano tech weighs nothing at all??? Really, I can store this entire suit if armor in my wrist watch but it weighs the same as the watch did?
At 305 pages, I excuse myself for not noting any repetition in my vent.
At 305 pages, I excuse myself for not noting any repetition in my vent.
Riceball
Master Member
How about people picking up guns, particularly rifles with scopes, or even just iron sights, and just picking them and hitting bulls eyes with no problem? Or picking up some rifle without bothering to zero it before they go into action. And to add to this, every scoped rifle always being zeroed to the exact range that the shooter's target happens to be?
For those not too familiar with firearms, zeroing your sights means that you adjust your sights, or scope, so that when you put your sights or scope on your target at a given range you will (in theory) hit where you're aiming. But this only works for the distance that you've zeroed your weapon at. Soi if you've zeroed your weapon at, say, 100 yards, if you're shooting at something closer or farther than that but have centered your sights on your target, you're not going to hit where you're aiming, your shot will go either high or low, or even off to a side if there's wind. So to hit a target that's closer or further than 100 yards you'll have to aim higher or lower. Yet you almost never see this in movies and TV, with a scope you always see the target lined up directly in the center of the crosshairs, it's even worse when they show fanciers scopes with more than a simple crosshair since those lines are there to help you adjust your point of aim when you're shooting at something at a different range from your zero.
For those not too familiar with firearms, zeroing your sights means that you adjust your sights, or scope, so that when you put your sights or scope on your target at a given range you will (in theory) hit where you're aiming. But this only works for the distance that you've zeroed your weapon at. Soi if you've zeroed your weapon at, say, 100 yards, if you're shooting at something closer or farther than that but have centered your sights on your target, you're not going to hit where you're aiming, your shot will go either high or low, or even off to a side if there's wind. So to hit a target that's closer or further than 100 yards you'll have to aim higher or lower. Yet you almost never see this in movies and TV, with a scope you always see the target lined up directly in the center of the crosshairs, it's even worse when they show fanciers scopes with more than a simple crosshair since those lines are there to help you adjust your point of aim when you're shooting at something at a different range from your zero.
All of me, from all times and places, agree with all of yous. Let the multiverse die... please. It is starting to feel like listening to sales people talk about "the Cloud".
Right? Enough of this "path not taken" crud. It's like they're trying to "have their cake and eat it too"; especially when a character dies but it means nothing because there's 5,290,593,67865 and 1/2 of them in "another universe".
I noticed that the multi had a short run of some unique stories but very very quickly started along the path of 70s and 80s films about spiritualism, especially that of possession. Maybe an odd bent but notice how multi has some stories where the "other" me is good, better, same, worse, or completely dif than me? Like vomit all possibilities in the mix but that is exactly the same course that horror, possession and spiritualistic coming back from the dead stories did almost in the exact same sequence. Heck, the same can be said for mind altering drug, mind altering therapy, amnesia comeback stories. Multi is just an excuse to what if the same story lines all over again. Pet cemetary meets Regarding Henry meets The lake house meets bizzaro Superman.Right? Enough of this "path not taken" crud. It's like they're trying to "have their cake and eat it too"; especially when a character dies but it means nothing because there's 5,290,593,67865 and 1/2 of them in "another universe".
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About the only good "multiverse" story I ever saw was the TOS Trek episode The Alternative Factor (S1 E20). While it focused on a good/ evil version of one person, it resolved it in a way that is pretty haunting and sad when you think about it.
Nevermind the fact that temperature, wind, the Coriolis Effect (bullet flight path will bend left/ right in relation to rotation of the Earth, dependent upon which hemisphere you happen to be in when shooting) and the Magnus Effect (bullet will veer from flight path due to "spin" put on it from the rifling inside the barrel of the firearm, prominent in rifles) will all affect where the bullet strikes. This is especially true with sniping/ long range shooting.
On that note: snipers going it "alone". Usually, sniping is a two-man job, with them trading off between sniper and spotter.
Master Boda
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While I do agree with you IIRC there was a documentary years ago that the NFL knew of “head trauma” and dumped a lot of money into helmet design.To play the devils advocate,the sport will always be full contact as it generates to much money.Some know the risk but the lust for greed and fame is worth the price of their one and only body.
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