• KuroiKaze@lemmy.world
    14·
    8 个月前

    I really feel an as a lifelong martial artist and MMA practitioner that Bruce Lee’s fans have made him so insanely uncool that I don’t ever want to hear about him ever again. I am so tired of being told that all of the best fighters in the world would absolutely lose to him one-on-one and he had all these magic powers despite never fighting professionally on camera. He’s an actor first and foremost and he knew he wouldn’t do super well in professional fighting and hence never entered that arena.

    • otacon239@lemmy.world
      9·
      8 个月前

      I don’t think Bruce Lee being cool is dependent on whether or not he was a “real” martial artist. He can just be cool as an actor.

      I don’t think the comic is implying anything beyond this.

    • phdepressed@sh.itjust.works
      0·
      8 个月前

      I mean the dude basically developed protein shakes and Jeet-kun do which is considered the precursor to modern MMA and jkd students have historically done well in professional fighting. He won a boxing tournament in Hong Kong before his US emigration. Obviously we don’t know how he’d fare in further professional fighting, but I think it is a reach to say he didn’t do it because he wouldn’t do well. He simply wanted to be an actor not a professional fighter.

      Yeah, he’s overhyped but he was still a cool dude.

    • chaogomu@lemmy.world
      1·
      8 个月前

      Maybe. We don’t actually know, because most of our information about the skeptics and stoics come from their detractors. Very little of their actual beliefs made it into writing that survived the years.

  • arotrios@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    8 个月前

    If you didn’t care, you wouldn’t have posted this comic.

    Don’t fuck with the professional skeptics, kid. There is no limit to raw existential skepticism. All of your intentions are suspect…

    Or are they? And what is suspected?

    And am I talking to you or the audience? Why would I be talking to you when I don’t even know if you’re a real person or a bot? Is the audience listening? Am I listening? Am I real person? I think, therefore I am, but what happens when I’m not thinking?

  • Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    0·
    8 个月前

    Holy shit, in the last panel Pyrrho outed himself as not only a potential racist for racial profiling, but also having a monotheistic belief system! In Greece? Insanity! Which god does he pick! Is it even Greek?!