lancer75

Alright, here's my advice to you:
 
Your first thoughts about this situation and this girl will always be emotional, you need to fight past that emotion and think logically, mechanically.  If you think logically then you'll be able to solve this crisis through reasoning and every decision you make will be better.  Talk to her in person, online conversations are severely flawed.  Don't talk to the guys, it won't help anyone in this situation.  Personally, I wouldn't talk to Veronica online until I sorted everything else out with her in person.  In my opinion, love isn't just wanting to fuck her and be her boyfriend and have her be yours, love is less selfish.  If you love her, then you'll man the fuck up, throw aside your lust for her emotions and her body, and you'll tell her that you're her friend and that as long as she's your friend, you'll be there for her.  Learn from all of this, don't just stare at every part of yourself that's been broken and cry, build something better so you can see the old you as being inferior and weak compared to the current you.  Good luck dude.

I guess I'm the only one in this community that is genuinely excited about the PSP2.  PSP was pretty great for a first entry into the portable games market, and all things considered, it was pretty damn successful.  I'm all for any new avenues for gaming, new input methods (rear touch pad), and new opportunities for developers.  I'm also excited for the 3DS.  The next generation of portable consoles will be pretty awesome I think.  The PSP occupies a much different, albeit smaller market segment than the DS, so the sales probably will never be comparable.  I'm sick of all the depressing, cynical and jaded gaming communities.  Reading everything you guys have said, I would assume that Sony killed your fathers and raped your mothers.  I'm a fan of certain developers, certain kinds of games and certain series.  However, I can't for the life of me understand hardware developer allegiances.  The hardware is a very insignificant factor in a valuation of gaming, at least in relation to the creativity, complexity and quality of the individual products made by a software developer.

I think that this kind of stuff is exactly what makes some writers simply bad writers.  They exaggerate to the point where the effect they're trying to create is nullified by their constant pounding down the throat of praise and extravagance.  The emotion becomes less real and the opinions become less impactful.  This same style of communication (written or verbal) is why people don't really take Bill Walton (and more recently Charles Barkley) seriously.  These guys constantly exaggerate about players and teams, to the point where the extremity of whatever they say is completely ignored   A better speaker/writer would rarely hyperbolize because he would want his opinions to carry weight and be significant.  For example, Adam Sessler called Uncharted 2 one of the best single-player experiences of all time, and most people took this to heart and didn't see it as him speaking out of his ass.  This is what someone wants to be able to do, and hyperbolizing is like using a drug, the returns are diminishing and sooner or later no amount of hyperbole will affect the audience in the slightest.  These writers better either chill the fuck out, or leave the business.  If they continue screaming out their crazed illusions of grandeur, they'll become hoarse and no one will know or care what they're trying to say anymore.
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@ethan:
MMA events are insane, just make sure you get there before the undercard fights start, because you never know who's going to put on an exciting fight.  With Sam Stout, Patrick Cote, Dongi Yang (9-0, 9 finishes), and Gilbert Yvel fighting a 6-0 guy, the fights are likely to be really good.

@hitmanagent47: okay dude, chill.  My comment wasn't made to make you feel inferior, I was just trying to give you advice.  You don't seem to be the type that's very receptive to critique.  You have a huge ego, you even compared yourself to Jason Bourne.  While I understand the analogy, there's no need to be so big-headed about it.  No one can do a technique perfectly, there's always room for improvement, I'm just saying that the technique could be further refined, not that it would never work ever in the history of the universe.  Also, you don't believe in motor skills yet  your body implements the techniques that you know without you having to think?  That's exactly how I'd define fine motor skills.  You're young, you don't know everything, respect others that are respectful towards you.  I'm not going to argue technique in a video game forum on the internet, it's stupid, so I'm sorry if anything I've said offends you in anyway, I do not mean to do so.  If anything I've said upsets you, know that these are all just words, it's hard to judge intent when reading words on the internet.  I don't mean to attack you in anyway, I'm just trying to help, sometimes I can be slightly overbearing, and if you felt like I was this way previously, then for that I also apologize.  This is the end of my part of this conversation with you, I will not reply to anything further.

@hitmanagent47
 
Actually, the no-gi technique is quite effective if it's used in the right scenario.  BJJ is a game of cat and mouse, you bait something and then switch to something else.  For example, say you're on top in mount, you apply the no-gi Ezekiel, which to defend the opponent needs to bring a hand in to prevent the choke.  When this is done, you can then proceed to either trap that arm and attempt the armlock, or you can try to push the elbow up and transition to S-mount.  BJJ is also about attacking to create openings to bring yourself closer to finishing the fight.
 
The arm triangle is a great technique.  It can be used from guard bottom when the opponent pushes on the neck, to create a sweep and if the choke is still applied, to transition to side control and finish the submission.  I have to say though, you're not at the point yet where you can technically describe a technique, you should probably avoid describing techniques until you can apply them perfectly.  The arm triangle that you detail would be easy to defend and wouldn't be as powerful as a better implemented arm triangle.  You might be able to finish some people with the power of the choke, but the leverage isn't there and the technique is inefficient compared to a better applied choke.  Do you train at a school where it's okay to ask questions when the instructor is free around the end of class?  If you do, I suggest you start to study your favorite techniques (always one at a time) until you can ask an instructor about them and have your technique refined.
 
@EvilDingo
 
I'd hate to keep answering questions directed to other people, I'll try to make this the last one, I can't help myself :|.  A jiu jitsu match is similar to a judo match, but unlike judo, the fight isn't over until the time is up or until there is a submission (sometime there's a mercy rule though that ends a fight when the point difference becomes substantial), jiu jitsu is also more about ground positioning and techniques, as a perfect throw doesn't end the fight and takedowns are valued less.  Basically it's a submission match (with different submissions being allowed at different levels) that can also end when the time alloted for the match is up and the fight is then scored on a point system.

@hitmanagent47
You can also do a modified version by grabbing the lower bicep instead of the sleeve.  It's not as effective, but the sheer rarity of the technique makes it somewhat effective, even just to pass the half guard, or get the opponent to extend the arm and leave himself open to an armbar.

@ethan:
I'm sure that there's a tonne of people that do martial arts but simply do not talk about them on this forum, so there should be plenty of videos available.
 
Also, I hate you for getting to see a UFC event ringside, the only MMA events I've been to have been the shitty ones on the reserve that were held before MMA was legalized here.  Those were cool though because fighters that I trained with fought there, so the whole group I was with was pretty invested in the fights.  For UFC events though, it's good to have friends with you as there are plenty of drunk asshats that will be there.  Also, cage-side seats can kind of suck because the fighters are obstructed by the cage itself.  I find it better to have a seat a few rows up so that you can see into the cage and not through it.  It should be fucking intense though, so you're lucky.

@Coombs
blame the 10-point must system, the increasingly balanced skill levels, and the dominance of certain wrestlers for that.  The 10-point must system rewards the boring, point-fighting mentality over working to finish a fight.  In that system (which is the one the UFC uses), a fighter can lay-n-pray for 2 rounds, inflicting almost no damage in those rounds, and then get beat badly in the third round, have more damage inflicted upon him, and he'd still win the fight because of the fact that he JUST won the first 2 rounds doing basically fuck-all.  This system allows the boring-as-shit wrestlers to be successful.  Personally, I have an old-school mentality.  I wish that fights would last until the finish, as then the fighters wouldn't sometimes pussy-foot around for 3 to 5 rounds and we'd see more exciting fights.  That's never going to happen though, due to the bureaucracies governing MMA.
 
 @hitmanagent47
The boxcutter choke (also known as the Ezekiel choke) is done by following these steps: 
 
0. Be sure to stay close to his body at first, so that the choke can be applied discretely and with a solid base
1. place both arms under the head,
2. grab the inside sleeve of arm 2 as deep as possible with the index and middle fingers, leaving arm 1 behind the head.   
3.  then circle arm 2 around the side of the head 
4. place the fist of arm 2 (or an opened, straight hand.  I like to use a fist instead of an open hand, as I feel it's stronger) in front of the neck as close to arm 1 as possible
5.  then you cut the fist towards the fist of arm 1.  
(optional: (during step 5) You can extend arm 1 and posture up somewhat while doing this, but that can sometimes cause you to lose dominant positioning as it creates a weaker base.  It does create a stronger choke though and can sometimes be the only way to finish it.)
 
Again, it's hard to demonstrate a technique through text.  My description of it could be convoluted, I could have forgotten something, or he could have been taught it differently.  This isn't meant to teach you how to apply the technique instantly, it's only supposed to help you understand it better so that you could recognize it when you see it, or so you could ask about it in training to be sure of your technique.  I wouldn't blindly practice this without talking to an instructor personally about it.