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Hello! Born and raised in New York for 25 years before moving out of the state. Key takeaways: Chicago Pizza is a casserole, it's not pizza. Minnesota pizza is all thin like a cracker, cut into small 1-2 inch squares and is made with sadness. Texas has great pizza, as SATX and Dallas have tons of NY transplants, there's specifically one place in Irving ran by two dudes from Jersey and it's amazing. The Northeast is undefeated with pizza. As much as I like to bust balls about pizza, I truly love all pizza (from dominoes, to real pizza) We will get along just fine. 😄

They hobbled their own console and I still can't wrap my head around it. If Microsoft pulled that shit everyone would be up in arms, so I'd love to know Sony's secret. That kind of loyalty is gold dust.

Better than expected time for shit to open up.

4/11/2021 Workout MMA Training Thoughts: I've been on/off on defense training since I was 19. My 1 year in the Philippines was my most intensive training, and it is something I lean on a lot. Being back in the US, I was told to just keep up by boxing because finding a proper trainer would be near impossible. And, it has been. The only really good trainers for my art are like in Las Vegas and California. I do not live there, so boxing is what it has been ever since I came back to the US. I've never really progressed much. Sure, I can throw some hard hitting combos, but boxing isn't street fighting. And, I can easily catch a jab or a hook and turn it around by elbowing someone to their face or bringing them to my knee. Now, I'm with Coach Jonesly. He is practical. He is quick. He got into martial arts almost the same reason I did. Because getting into fights when you grow up in rough areas means you need to defend yourself. We went through basics today. Tweaking what boxing moves were into practical street moves. Combining what we both know from martial arts and boxing into something that works. Addressing all my issues I have with boxing and showing how to counter and take advantage of all the openings a typical boxer has. I found it super interesting when we focused on uppercuts. Because when I came back to the US, I had to "re-learn" uppercuts and hooks. How I learned them in Filipino Martial Arts (FMA) was slightly different than in boxing. In FMA, we are always concerned about having any openings, especially in the legs. In boxing, there's no concern for how when you twist your body for power that you are essentially leaving open your whole sciatic nerve in your thigh. So, you know what I had to do today? Re-learn how to do uppercuts and hooks like how I was originally taught. And, this... this is where it got fun. Every move you do should be setting up your next move. Each punch into the next, then possibly into a kick. Using my whole body for a fight. That... that was fun. Jab, cross, hook, uppercut, forward kick, uppercut, low kick... we finished it with 2 jabs. Realistically, it would be on the ground next. My shins are bruised. I have not done MMA style kicks in 10 years. I have to build up my shins again. At least I think this time there will be no repeated bare skin kicks to canvas bags then to wood poles. There will be no shin pads still, but we will be at least using pads lol. Jonesly has set goals for the end of our 10 sessions. Goals that I have never really considered ever meeting until now. This means I have work to do aside from everything else. By June 13th, I am to do (currently, I'm sure he's going to add a bunch of other things) 50 strict non-scaled push-ups 20 Non-Scaled Raised Bent Knee Sit-ups This.. this will be interesting.

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I don't understand why they did it. Surely it would make more sense to unlock it and have the SSD available at launch?

Sony have said they're going to release a firmware update in the future that will unlock the second hard drive slot. That's the last I heard about it.

4/10/2021 Workout Squat Clean Workshop Thoughts: Work on your weaknesses, they say. In the almost 9 years I have dabbled in weightlifting, no one has been able to fix my cleans. Granted, no one has actually focused on trying. So, we do this workshop. Getting to proper extension on the shrug before dipping below the bar has always been something I had issues with. Now, we add on the fact that I can't catch the bar with an open grip either. This was never an issue for me until this round of working out. All I can say is that I'm still glad I was not the one with the lowest 1 rep max. Now, if I could just stop mostly muscling the clean part and open my grip, there should be a huge improvement in that number lol.

I kid I kid really this dude, Marc is a beast.