Here’s a Roundhouse Kick That Would Delight Mr. Miyagi
Is this a Daniel LaRusso disciple getting sweet revenge on a bothersome lad, or is this another well-rehearsed YouTube performance? I’m actually not sure it even matters, but if this triumphant moment was staged, who in their right mind would volunteer for a Mortal Kombat kick to the face like that? This little dude’s Sensei plays for keeps.
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January 19th, 2012 at 10:52 AM
Mortal Kombat kick to the face like this?
Best MK character? Cliche, but you gotta go Sub-Zero. Though Sonya Blade helped me go through puberty.
January 19th, 2012 at 10:55 AM
Scorpion.
/Get over here!!
January 19th, 2012 at 10:57 AM
looks fake to me.
January 19th, 2012 at 10:57 AM
Even though he was in Street Fighter, Blanka is still the best Mortal Kombat character.
January 19th, 2012 at 10:57 AM
What’s with the slow day?
January 19th, 2012 at 10:58 AM
whoopsie!
January 19th, 2012 at 10:59 AM
SOPA protest still affecting the crew it seems.
January 19th, 2012 at 10:59 AM
Even though he was in Street Fighter, Blanka is still the best Mortal Kombat character.
I had a friend who would punch you into the corner then just electrify you for the entire round. He did the same thing with E Honda and his slap. Spinning Bird Kick!
January 19th, 2012 at 11:01 AM
Sonya was the easiest to beat the game with.
Best fighting game character period is Eddie Gordo.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:01 AM
/leg sweep
//leg sweep
///leg sweep
////leg sweep
January 19th, 2012 at 11:02 AM
Used to do this with Chun-Li in Street Fighter.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:02 AM
What was the game where you were dinosaurs and you fought other animals? Killer Instinct?
January 19th, 2012 at 11:03 AM
Anyone know of good emulators for Macs?
January 19th, 2012 at 11:04 AM
The irony of a squeaky voiced pubescent teenager calling someone a “fucking faggot” is never lost on me.
Maybe I’m not old enough yet, only 28, but why do people look back upon their teenage years with any sort of nostalgia. I couldn’t wait to be an adult and I’m happier now that I am one.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:04 AM
Primal Rage.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:04 AM
Went to a party at someone’s house about a year ago where a guy had the Mortal Kombat arcade game in his basement.
By the end of the night, there were about 8 or so people around the machine and money actively changing hands.
/Team Sonya
January 19th, 2012 at 11:04 AM
That didnt even look anything remotely close to real
January 19th, 2012 at 11:05 AM
So much of this. I would be a happy man if all evidence of my youth was destroyed.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:05 AM
Orchid.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:05 AM
totally embarrassed about my teenaged years.
/team raiden
January 19th, 2012 at 11:06 AM
I owned everyone with Shun Di in Virtua Fighter 2.
/Sega Saturn sucked though
January 19th, 2012 at 11:06 AM
Primal Rage.
Could possibly be the greatest wiki page ever — virtuous beasts???
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primal_Rage
January 19th, 2012 at 11:07 AM
I look back at college with nostalgia. Not so much high school (save for being good at sports back then…that was nice).
January 19th, 2012 at 11:07 AM
Very simple: Adult responsibilities (especially if you are married and have kids along with a career to maintain) become a giant pain in the ass.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:08 AM
i look back at 18 and 19 with nostalgia only because they were college years, 15-18 in high school sucked.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:09 AM
Street Fighter – Ken
Mortal Kombat – Johnny Cage
/could take down people in SF2 with Ken in 15-20 seconds
January 19th, 2012 at 11:09 AM
Johnny Cage Vs Scorpion in the Mortal Kombat movie has to be the top 10 fight scenes of all time.
/Welcome!
January 19th, 2012 at 11:09 AM
This is just my experience, but most of the people I know who didn’t have awkward teenage years still live near home and sit around in bars and talk about how great they were in high school. It’s sad, actually. Your experience with this may vary.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:10 AM
likewise.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:11 AM
I don’t care about roundhouse kicks… Spencer won the internet today with the Star Wars dog link he posted in the last thread.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:11 AM
I like this guy’s innovation.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:11 AM
I look back at college with nostalgia. Not so much high school (save for being good at sports back then…that was nice).
This is basically the case for me as well. I haven’t been back to my high school once since I left. I don’t keep up with anyone from there. I had fun in college and most of my friends now I met in college.
Very simple: Adult responsibilities (especially if you are married and have kids along with a career to maintain) become a giant pain in the ass.
I can understand this to an extent, especially since I don’t have kids yet, and as stressful as being an adult can be, I’d still take where I am now over where I was at age 17 any day.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:11 AM
the Mortal Kombat movie
Strangely entertaining and not really that bad.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:11 AM
I like to look back on my highschool years in astonishment that I am alive.
/did lots of dumb shit
January 19th, 2012 at 11:11 AM
i didnt have a horrible HS by any means, actually had a pretty good time overall…i just was a total immature awkward goofball.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:12 AM
Pssshhh. Gimme Ryu all day, every day.
/hayuken!!
January 19th, 2012 at 11:12 AM
The Soundtrack for the first Mortal Kombat movie was awesome. Used to blast that cassette back in the day.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:12 AM
I 100% agree with dewar. I’d give anything to be a kid again. Including all of your lives in sacrifice.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:12 AM
i had you in mind when i saw that, SG.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:12 AM
yeah, pretty similar. everyone who peaked stayed around, used facebook to hook up and get married to people they went to high school with, who also hung around b/c they peaked in high school.
oh well, small world for them, they were mostly assholes in high school anyway.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:13 AM
You could do a roll into a fart-in-face by one of the characters, great prre-movie arcade game.
Same. Friday nights in HS consisted of Nintendo 64 and pizza at friend’s houses. Still, was fun as shit.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:14 AM
Primal Fear fatalities
January 19th, 2012 at 11:14 AM
I might actually buy a volkswagon after seeing that. And it was only a preview!
January 19th, 2012 at 11:14 AM
oh well, small world for them, they were mostly assholes in high school anyway.
This reminds me of Jeremy Piven in Grosse Point Blank calling the reunion the “I’ve peaked and I’m kidding myself party”.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:15 AM
sounds like a good time to me.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:15 AM
/nods
January 19th, 2012 at 11:16 AM
I remember fondly 17-20 personally. Had a great time in high school and my first few years of school. Smoked a good amount, had a blast in college those few years and things just went well.
Middle school and the first half of 10th grade sucked (had braces, long hair, was prototypical nerd back then). Started in track, diversified my activities, got braces out, finally cut my hair, things turned around.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:17 AM
yeah, that’s a great movie.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:17 AM
Anyone play DC Comics version of Mortal Kombat on PS3? Joker’s pretty weak in there.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:18 AM
I hated HS. I was shy, and scrawny… I didn’t really fill out until my freshman year of college… dewar is right about a lot of those who were the popular/pretty people in HS sticking around town… I noticed the same patern… I haven’t been back to the town I went to HS in for about 6 years.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:18 AM
yeah, that’s a great movie.
Fantastic soundtrack as well.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:18 AM
This is from Summer Heights High.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:19 AM
Oh yeah.. braces… fuck. I had those until junior year of HS I think.. yeah I was just a fucking trainwreck with no self esteem for the most part.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:19 AM
that is me too the tee. I have one friend from HS that I still talk too. I have a buddy from college that is the exact opposite. he has about 2 friends from college and is still good friends with almost everyone from HS. he also has trouble keeping a job and has lived with his parents for the past 6 months. he’s 33. I don’t know if it is coincidence or not.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:19 AM
I like to look back on my college years in astonishment that I am alive.
/nods
I don’t look back so much and wonder how I’m still alive so much as “how did I never get arrested?”
/knocks on wood
January 19th, 2012 at 11:19 AM
Second that. But in a more serious tone. I’m very lucky to be alive. Had a couple close calls.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:19 AM
This sounds like shit unpopular kids say to make themselves feel better.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:20 AM
This sounds like shit unpopular kids say to make themselves feel better.
/contrarian’d
January 19th, 2012 at 11:21 AM
This sounds like shit unpopular kids say to make themselves feel better.
Probably. But then again, I didn’t stick around to live in some small town on the fringe of suburbia and socializing with my friends and their parents on Friday night reliving the ‘glory days.’
January 19th, 2012 at 11:21 AM
i was seriously chris farley from black sheep at the end of HS. it was a fun time.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:23 AM
was seriously chris farley from black sheep at the end of HS. it was a fun time.
Smoking, toking, snorting, drinking
January 19th, 2012 at 11:23 AM
i was seriously chris farley from black sheep at the end of HS. it was a fun time.
You were a fatty?
January 19th, 2012 at 11:23 AM
Psychopaths kill for no reason. I kill for *money*. It’s a *job*.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:23 AM
My class had 800 kids so there really wasn’t any sections of the “Beautiful” people and the “Nerds”. You just had your group of friends basically. Both HS and college was the shit.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:24 AM
I liked Black Sheep. A fine movie.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:24 AM
Ro-Ads
January 19th, 2012 at 11:24 AM
I wish I had stuck around where I grew up, it’s a great place to live and raise a family.
I wouldn’t talk to anybody I went to HS with, but the area is nice.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:25 AM
And short.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:25 AM
I love that line.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:25 AM
Psychopaths kill for no reason. I kill for *money*. It’s a *job*.
Pilots carpet bomb cities. Riot cops shoot protestors. That’s indiscriminate, I don’t do that!
January 19th, 2012 at 11:26 AM
Well it’s a growth industry.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:26 AM
Little to no responsibility, copious amounts of free time, experimentation with drugs and/or sex, home cooked meals and financial burdens limited to what you bought at Wendy’s and filling up the gas tank.
Sounds a lot better than the responsibilities most of us are saddled with now.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:26 AM
And have a tiny head.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:27 AM
The majority of my really good friends are still my friends from middle/high school though (my two best friends I’ve known since 7th grade – almost 20 years ago)…I don’t talk much with my college friends (had a lot of issues and a lot of them stayed around NYC whereas I went back to Philly).
January 19th, 2012 at 11:27 AM
High school was fun, but I don’t long for it. That is reserved for college. I don’t see how anyone could not have a good time in college. Even if you worked two jobs and double majored. College would still be awesome.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:28 AM
I killed the president of Paraguay with a fork. How’ve you been?
January 19th, 2012 at 11:28 AM
oh yea, but i carried it well*.
*no i didn’t
somehow, ive leveled out at 190-200 lbs even tho i eat like shit.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:28 AM
lmmt. lmmmmmmmt.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:29 AM
I’d disagree with that. I love my kids (even with the stress involved), I enjoy my job (again). Yeah going out on a regular basis was fun, but it got old after a while.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:29 AM
I find it hard to believe that you eat like shit, Spencer.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:29 AM
My closest friends are all high school buddies save for one who I met in college. The HS crew lived together all throughout college. Had a blast. Of course now they all moved to different parts of the country, so we’ve started a reunion kind of thing for a game in Athens (this year it’s Tennessee). I can’t wait. Renting a house for the weekend and having a blast.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:30 AM
maybe not “like shit” but i def don’t do the 6-8 meals with lean proteins and whole grains and healthy fats and stuff anymore.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:31 AM
Piven going to pieces over Jenny Slater was spot on….
January 19th, 2012 at 11:33 AM
somehow, ive leveled out at 190-200 lbs even tho i eat like shit.
Oh man, I remember when I weighed 190.
/225
//but I carry it well
///thanks God I’m 6’2″
January 19th, 2012 at 11:35 AM
A big part of the nostalgia was just having the experience with others.
Piling in the car and going on a road trip to the beach at a moments notice was an adventure…now it’s kind of a hassle.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:35 AM
Hey Jenny Slater. Hey Jenny Slater. Hey Jenny Slater. Hey Jenny Slater. It’s me, Paul. I did the minerals project for you senior year.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:35 AM
despite my adult responsibilities, i can’t imagine living the life of a teenager again. the Freedom of an adult is far greater than freedom of responsibilities as a child.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:36 AM
Am I the only person that had parents who paid attention to what I did, who I hung out with and enforced a curfew?
January 19th, 2012 at 11:37 AM
So true. We went up to Boone, NC to ski one MLK weekend. Drove back at 2:30 in the morning, piled 8 people in a single bed hotel room and shit like that. It was awesome back then, but it would suck ass today.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:37 AM
i had that, too. which, in retrospect, i’m glad i had b/c even with the parents that paid attention i almost killed myself and got into serious trouble a few times.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:38 AM
My parents paid attention, but I didn’t have a curfew as all of my friends did, so it wasn’t like I was going out at 16 by myself.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:38 AM
i remember having a party when my parents were out of town (only they came back early the next day, which i wasn’t expecting)…beer bottles everywhere, people sleeping all over the house and had a bunch of pot stuff around. my dad came up to my room and woke me up and just says “good time huh?”
then he probably smoked a joint and jammed out to some dead.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:39 AM
Can’t say I ever flirted with death in high school. Just smoked weed, went to movies and played a shit ton of soccer.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:40 AM
Am I the only person that had parents who paid attention to what I did, who I hung out with and enforced a curfew?
My mother was less strict with me than with my older brother. But I also didn’t push the boundaries too much in high school. I saved that for college.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:40 AM
We used to get high before school. It was fantastic until around 4th period when time stood still and all I wanted to do was take a nap. First 4 periods were awesome, though.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:41 AM
Spencer’s parents are hippies? It’s all starting to make sense now.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:41 AM
im glad i didn’t have many chemical restrictions as a youth…by the time i was 21, i was almost done drinking entirely.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:41 AM
Yet another difference. My parents never went out of town together. If they did it was never without me and my brother.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:42 AM
i flirted with death in my car, being an asshole driver. a couple accidents and some seriously near misses that would have been fatal. got it out of my system though. I hope my kids are smarter than me in that regard.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:42 AM
my dad’s a hippie, my mom’s a reformed hippie who’s now a cutthroat businesswoman.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:43 AM
I used to think I was never a big drinker in college. Then I think about how much I drink now and realize that one week from my sophomore year would put me out of commission for like a month now.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:44 AM
AND mom to an adorable kitten.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:44 AM
I was the oldest by 10 years, I hung out constantly with my older cousins, and my parents were occupied trying to raise a 5-7 year old. In addition, they knew my friends and I was pretty mature for my teen years (considering they sent me to France by myself to stay with the family I spent a month with), I was pretty tame.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:44 AM
Did SG just call spencer an adorable kitten?
January 19th, 2012 at 11:45 AM
when my sister was in town for the holidays she brought her kitten too…and my mom’s new cat might be a sweetheart, but she plays innocent. quite the instigator.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:46 AM
Oh spencer’s mom has a new kitten. Ok….I was starting to wonder if an Illinois-Ohio romance had sprouted up on here.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:46 AM
oh man…id probably die.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:46 AM
I used to be able to polish off a sixer of Rolling Rock in an hour and a half back in college and not even be buzzed. Or routinely drink a half a fifth of rum in an hour. I seriously don’t know how I survived college at times…
January 19th, 2012 at 11:46 AM
yeah, I was the same way. not surprisingly, most of my friends didn’t care that much for my folks.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:47 AM
My sister and brother were such deviant kids before me, that my parents gave me a lot more trust, plus I was like the roadrunner, never got caught.
/meep meep
January 19th, 2012 at 11:47 AM
no…we don’t want things to get awkward in the zombipocalypse fort.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:48 AM
she had to show your sister’s kitten that she’s the boss in that house.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:48 AM
I remember drinking all day Friday, Saturday and Sunday and being fine on Monday. There is no way I could, or would even want to do that now.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:49 AM
oh man, if they weren’t moving so fast, id have gotten some videos. they’d run around chasing each other for 5 mins and run out of gas. then my mother’s kitten would “walk away” and then turn around and pounce.
rinse, repeat. cute overdose.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:50 AM
that and drinking what i drank in college now would also turn me into an even pudgier, drunker version than what i am now. Back then it would just make me cool.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:50 AM
I used to have to drive to missourah on sundays in college to get beer, which was about a 35 minute trip one way. I could slam 3 beers on the way home and throw them out the window and get them to land in the back of the truck while going 75 on the interstate.
/Arkansas’d
January 19th, 2012 at 11:50 AM
My sister and brother were such deviant kids before me, that my parents gave me a lot more trust, plus I was like the roadrunner, never got caught.
Once, during my senior year in high school, I stayed at my girlfriend’s house until 6am. When I got home, I snuck onto the couch and pretended to fall asleep with the remote in my hand, as if I had fallen asleep watching TV hours before. I think my mom bought it.
Or she just decided to give me a free pass that time.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:51 AM
Cut back on the gay shit Spence or our consulting business is dead in the water.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:52 AM
Same. I ebt soused thinks we’re all pussies now btw.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:52 AM
just because i think cat’s are cute doesn’t mean im not willing to kill anything in our path. is this ‘dead in the water?’
/drowns cat with bear hands
//throws it at your feet
January 19th, 2012 at 11:54 AM
It’s a good start, but you’ve gotta defile the corpse, otherwise there’s a chance of reanimation.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:54 AM
Am I the only person that had parents who paid attention to what I did, who I hung out with and enforced a curfew?
My dad was a maniac and parents were always angry, so I tried to avoid getting a beating and keep my $100 car from dying. In college I went wild.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:55 AM
/starts up lawnmower
January 19th, 2012 at 11:56 AM
I had a dorm scholarship, so when I was 21 I had this parade of students place booze orders with gratuity, then each Friday I’d drive around the city completing orders. Completely subsidized myself for 2 years in school that way.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:57 AM
College drinking schedule my last semester of college:
Monday – day off
Tuesday – bowling league at 7, drink before going to bowling, drink a few pitchers at bowling, $1 big ones at the bar until 2am.
Wednesday – ladies night at bar, drank until 2am
Thursday – happy hour at 3, home by 6, drank at home until 11, went out drinking until 2
Friday – same as Thursday
Saturday – DAY DRINKING! pass out around 4, get up around 6 and drink more
Sunday – drank from 6-11 or 12
January 19th, 2012 at 11:58 AM
One semester I took 12 credit hours on TUE & THUR so I could party more.
Golf course had a $50 all you can golf pass. Good god I loved college.
January 19th, 2012 at 12:00 PM
There was drinking, and there was getting primed. You got primed before you left, then the actual “drinking” was at the party.
January 19th, 2012 at 12:01 PM
Monday – Classes & no drinking
Tuesday – $4 pitchers at night and drinking in newspaper office
Wednesday – Off – night class
Thursday – Off – Classes + RA Duty at night
Friday – Movie night in room with wine, Johnnie Black and rum
Saturday – bars in NYC
Sunday – off
January 19th, 2012 at 12:02 PM
this is something I still take part in. love a good day drunk.
January 19th, 2012 at 12:03 PM
I think I actually prefer day drinking now. Saves me from being hungover the entire next day.
January 19th, 2012 at 12:04 PM
Master’s schedule
Monday: Wake up, get high, play video games. Go drinking at three, class from six to nine, steady buzz going in, sobered up by the end. Go home, get high, watch cartoons.
Tuesday: Wake up, get high, play video games. Take a nap before night class, come home get high watch cartoons.
Wednesday: Wake up, go to meeting, go home, get high, go to afternoon class, get high, go play bar trivia, win, go get high and play FIFA with teammates afterward.
Thursday – Sunday: get high.
January 19th, 2012 at 12:07 PM
I’m really an old man now when it comes to drinking. I can still go out and hit several bars–which I did last Saturday–but I need a minimum three days of recovery afterward. And I’ve got other things to spend my money on now, like a mortgage.
Most nights though I have a scotch or three after dinner and that’s it for me.
But, I STILL would not trade where I am now to be a teenager again.
January 19th, 2012 at 12:12 PM
I usually have wine every day. Back in the day camping with my friends I would fill a 1.5 Liter bottle with Captain and coke and live off that all day, every day. We had nickel beer night, .75 cent drink specials, etc.. No way I could do that now.
January 19th, 2012 at 12:33 PM
I’m like Doc Holliday. I’ll tell you “I’m in my prime.”