Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.
Orson Scott

Comment preview: It's not Thresh's hook guys. Every move in the game has a hitbox, and hit boxes are usually circles or rectangles. It's impossible to perfectly fit those shapes to something like a hook, so sometimes it seems like it barely missed you, but still hit you. T ....


Comment preview: Nobody in the world thinks Bradley won except for those two judges. Saw this on a boxing forum: Dana White, UFC President "Nevada state athletic commission at its finest!!! Youve for to be (expletive) kidding me!! that is disgusting Nevada state athletic c ....


Comment preview: Some background on the boxer, [Sarita Devi](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laishram_Sarita_Devi) >Laishram Sarita Devi (born 1 March 1985) is an Indian boxer from [Manipur](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manipur). She is a national champion and a former wor ....


Comment preview: A long time ago in Montana, an angry cowboy was being a bully in a small town saloon. He was drinking, being a jerk, and shooting at the clock in the saloon with his pistols. A city slicker in a short rimmed hat and spectacles walked into the bar, and the ....


Comment preview: >Manny Pacquiao may disagree with President Obama's views on same-sex marriage but the Filipino boxing champion says he does not believe that gay people should be "put to death," as had been reported this week by several media outlets. >The recent co ....


Comment preview: It is most certainly a thing. How it works: Since the very first international match (England vs Scotland) the winner became the UFWC holders and kept hold of the title until they then got beat by another international team, basically it works like boxing, ....


Comment preview: > LAS VEGAS -- A judge agreed Friday to postpone a jail sentence against Floyd Mayweather Jr. in a Las Vegas domestic violence case, allowing the undefeated boxer to make a Cinco de Mayo fight against an as-yet unnamed opponent. > The ruling by Justi ....


Comment preview: #####	 ######	 ####	 [**Chess boxing**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess%20boxing): --- > >**Chess boxing** is a [hybrid sport](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_sport) that combines [chess](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki ....


Comment preview: Let's see: The lightest person in world ever weighed about 2kg (the current one weighs about 5.5kg). source: mostextreme.org/lightest_person.php "Strongest person on earth" is a bit harder to define, so let's go with Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the Worl ....


Comment preview: These are the exact same words someone used towards my father when we were visiting Florida. We are of Indian descent but my family had been in this country for at least twenty years when this happened. My father accidentally stepped in front of another p ....


Comment preview: See [Don King \(boxing promoter\): Controversies](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_King_\(boxing_promoter\)#Controversies), which includes the following: >Don King has been investigated for possible connections with organized crime. During a 1992 Senate ....


Comment preview: I once attended a guest seminar from LT Eric Greitens. This man among men is a Navy SEAL, Rhodes and Truman Scholar, amateur boxing champion, Presidential commendation recipient, and has been awarded numerous other awards. It was absolutely amazing to hear ....


Comment preview: There is a lot of bad information floating about this thread. Gloves were added not particularly to increase the number of knockouts but rather to reduce the amount of visible damage. An amateur sporting culture had arisen in the upper crust that prized th ....


Comment preview: *Here's the Urban Dictionary definition of* [***Tyson Zone***](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tyson%20zone) : --- >The point at which a celebrity's behavior becomes so insane, that there is literally nothing they could do that would any ....


Comment preview: * He taunts players, and is in general, an asshole to pretty much every player of opposing teams. He routinely does this and attributes it to his alter ego, "Tony Plush". See: [Twitter rant](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/08/nyjer-morgan-albert-pj ....


Comment preview: Yeah that's one good point. There's also another fairly glaring issue, it is to my discredit I was too busy rolling my eyes at the free market fairy in the general sense to pay attention to the specifics, which is that the particular field we're suggestin ....


Comment preview: Thanks to the German Army, the U.S. Marine Corps has an unofficial mascot. During World War I many German reports had called the attacking Marines "teufel-hunden," meaning Devil-Dogs. Teufel-hunden were the vicious, wild, and ferocious mountain dogs of ....


Comment preview: If the Snowden revelations *actually changed* the government's position they would have arrested and charged someone by now. No need to do that--most Americans are fine with the fake hearings they held in DC. If you think writing another law is going to so ....


Comment preview: If anyone is interested here is a list of other videos from the show Kasou Taishou which I made for /r/JapaneseGameShows [Falling from the Sky](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nD3RY-oDcg) [Ninja Knife Throwing](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRFFnEXlyVI) [ ....


Comment preview: 1. In 2004, there was the Orange Revolution which brought the "All-Ukrainian Union (Fatherland)" party into power. The party is center-nationalist. There is a brief spurt of economic prosperity after this. 2. In 2008, the US economic crisis spread to man ....