triple twists and triple axels

gymnastics | figure skating | I don't really exist here anymore | she/her

[shithowdy]

i thought my laptop was on its last leg because it was running at six billion degrees and using 100% disk space at all times and then i turned off shadows and some other windows effects and it was immediately cured. i just did the same to my roommate's computer and its performance issues were also immediately cured. okay. i guess.

so i guess if you have creaky freezy windows 10/11 try searching "advanced system settings", go to performance settings, and uncheck "show shadows under windows" and anything else you don't want. hope that helps someone else.

[shithowdy]

hey this is apparently helping a lot of people! adding that on top of this you can also go to settings > personalization > colors and turn off transparency to also boost performance. this wasn't the Big Fix for me but might as well do that too if you're trying to optimize.

[shithowdy]

past a certain note threshold on tumblr posts you unlock a bloodborne-esque insight and the strange lives of this site's users become visible to you

[flipocrite]

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[theothin]

we fucking found them?

[prof-grace-aspen]

Ok I know we joke about this but I just went to the settings and first clicked "adjust for best performance" and then re-checked only 1 box:

"Smooth edges of screen fonts"

My computer was running hot before I turned everything off; the office I'm in is very warm, I could feel the heat of my CPU through the keyboard. The fans were going, not as loud as they usually get, but they were still blasting.

Y'all.

I can barely feel the warmth through the keyboard now. It's been like 2 minutes. The fan is nearly silent.

Click the Windows key and start typing "System settings", and "View Advanced system settings" will pop up. Then click "Settings" under Performance:

Then you'll see this:

TURN IT ALL OFF.

I turned "Show window contents while dragging" and then turned that off again. It's up to you.

[bitchwhoyoukiddin]

FUCKING THANK YOU.

[somenewdark]

The new court themes for Morgan and Emma are SO GOOD I'm obsessed with them both

[mockva]

[telomeke]

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[funerals]

time to online shop

[funerals]

sure hope my bank account won’t get charged like last time

[funerals]

by talos this can’t be happening

[evilspice]

[leahthedreamer]

Claire Seo STSQ Women’s SP- Rain in your Black Eyes || Junior Grand Prix Courchevel 2021

[illyria-and-her-pet]

Yeo Seojeong and Yeo Hongchul’s Rudi vaults 25 years apart ❤️

[decemberelegy]

[huidanspikejaeger]

Oh my god. Yourkayla is gonna milking this ‘winning medal despite all the odd against her’ to the moon and back and we’re never gonna stop hearing about it. Lord help us

[huidanspikejaeger]

Back when she was irrelevant alternates/non-team individual who got 2pc, she kept showing up in the media unnecessarily. And now she actually has a medal as proof, she’ll be more insufferable 😩

[like-dudnik-in-1989]

komova and mustafina disliked each other??

well, maybe the word dislike was too excessive, but they definitely weren't close and mustafina, let's say, didn't hold komova in great esteem for a big period of time - or that's what an ex-friend of Mustafina told here. This is 1st grade of Russian Stan Studies.

Paseka-Komova vs. Mustafina-Nabieva. FIGHT! lol

[big-bad-bhardwaj]

Omg I would kill for someone to spill the tea

[like-dudnik-in-1989]

None remembers Olya (olly-z I think was her url)??? She would always give the inside info. I wish she could come back. 

[like-dudnik-in-1989]

lmaooo first grade of russia stan studies! lemme enroll cause im wayyy more knowledgeable on russian drama in figure skating than gymnastics

Russian gym drama is nothing in comparison with FS russian drama, so there is nothing much to say xD

Back in 2012-2013 there was a big coaching fight because the head coach Alexandrov back then and the NT coordinator Rodionenko were enemies since the 80’s, and some gymnasts (Dementyeva, Grishina) were direct victims of it. Also the girls of the 2012 quad were a little bit “rebellious” and there was the suspicion Dementyeva was bullied by the older ones because she was the favourite of Alexandrov and he was all about older gymnasts retiring. Also seems Pavlova clashed with the whole coaching staff and the Beijing team too because she blamed them for not medalling or something like that. Then at 2015 Mustafina fell out with the Rodionenkos and left Round Lake just before Worlds. That was DRAMATIC, because none knew back then if she would come back. Then there is the wedding-pregnancies chapter which is also interesting lol

I don’t have time right now, but honestly, one month of FS drama is like years of gymnastics drama lol. Nothing really scandalous tbh. Like a NBC fluff would say, they are all like a big family <3

[like-dudnik-in-1989]

Oh, and how could I forget my favourite rumor: Nabs getting obsessed with a German MAG gymnast at 2010 Worlds and misperforming at finals because he wouldn’t pay attention to her and she was devastated. Our own Anna Karenina, but instead of throwing herself to a train she jumped into a vaulting table. 

[mustafinaandhergirls]

Taking a moment to be really sad for Elena Eremina who remains one of my favourite bar workers of the quad and if the Universe was fair, would have had her Olympic moment too 🥺

[rebecaandrade]

i’m convinced that her iconic nabieva + pak + chow 1/2 was singlehandedly responsible for everyone and their mother training a nabieva this quad

[russianglitter]

#IT WAS#i'll still remember seeing her do that connection the first time and everyone losing their shit

[viktoriakomova]

Wait why do people hate Andrea Joyce?

i cant speak for anybody else but i dont like her because basically her whole job is to do stupid little vignettes of athletes and interview them on the floor immediately after they compete. theres no journalistic value to anything she's doing, its just to ~flesh out~ the ~characters~ for the viewers, ostensibly the viewers who otherwise aren't very invested in the competition and/or don't know much about the sport itself (the locals or the normies, as we i would say).

its not just gymnastics either, she works for nbc so she does a bunch of other sports. similar to how al trautwig would commentate other sports besides gymnastics for nbc broadcasts except for the other sports he actually bothered to be knowledgeable and have something valuable to say other than what he did for gymnastics which was being intentionally obtuse so that tim and elfi/nastia could correct him in an attempt to teach the audience something about the sport they're watching

and in some ways i feel bad for her bc thats like her "role" on the broadcasts and idk if she's purposefully being annoying or if that's nbc sports producers pushing her to do those featurettes and ask those questions. but yeah they trot her out to do asinine little micro-reports on every major mainstream broadcast (nationals in the olympic year or the year before the olympics, olympic trials, and of course the actual olympic games) or tell an anecdotal story about a gymnast while they're warming up between rotations to fill the time. a great example of this is the ragan smith bead story in 2016 lmaoooo. she did somehting else with bailie key's stickers in 2015 (but i put a lot of the blame for that on kim zmeskal (the coach of both girls) bc shes the one who 1) did something that childish with her teenage gymnasts in the first place and 2) told the press about it) i posted something about that i'll find it and reblog it if i can lol

where i have a major problem with her, objectively, is when she doesnt give the athletes space to decompress after they compete (again this could very well be the fault of the producers but i think at this point shes been doing it for over a decade now and she probably has the social capital with nbc to tell them no and/or refuse to do it...). for example she (they) MADE jordyn wieber talk to her for a minute or two ON CAMERA after QF in london when she was still ACTIVELY SOBBING because she got bumped from the AA final. she was the reigning world AA champion from 2011 and was being hyped by nbc throughout the pre-olympic season as THE usa gymnastics it-girl, all for her lifelong dream to come crashing down on the first day she competed :/ its obviously cruel to do that to a 17 year old girl whose dreams unceremoniously ended just minutes prior BUT ITS JUICY TELEVISION AND A GREAT STORY LINE SO LEMME SHOVE A MICROPHONE RIGHT IN YOUR FACE :) BECAUSE RATINGS :)

and like i said, she doesnt just do gymnastics (which imho makes it worse because when you know that, its obvious that she isn't hired to do this job because she knows the sport. although lowkey that's obvious based on the fluff questions she asks the athletes, it's got nothing to do with the sport it's just to build a kind of familiarity or affection with the athletes than nbc is pushing as the headlining stars of the olympics). she does figure skating too and the interviews/reporting she does there are just as empty and trivial as what she does for gymnastics. although the interviews she did with adam rippon are fucking hilarious (mostly because she has no idea how to react) and i highly recommend

she also did swimming stuff in 2012 iirc (she probably does several sports but i only really watch gymnastics and figure skating) and she would be asking swimmers questions WHILE THEY WERE STILL SOAKING WET AND OUT OF BREATH. LITERALLY RIGHT AFTER THEY FINISHED THE RACE. LIKE 30 SECONDS AFTER THEY CLIMBED OUT OF THE POOL.

tl;dr :

she just kind of embodies everything wrong with nbc's coverage of the olympics and treatment of the athletes whose combined decades of hard labor make the media feeding frenzy every 4 years (every 2 years if we're counting the winter games too) possible. its dehumanizing and reductive and serves no meaningful purpose to anybody's appreciation or enjoyment of the sports they're watching. its a totally superfluous job and nobody would miss it or even notice it was gone if it were eliminated overnight

[viktoriakomova]

mainstream media referring to gymnasts' "moves" drives me nuts, i dont even know why lmao

[illyria-and-her-pet]

Tbh I thought Nina UB was one of the fairly scored ones that rotation lmao. Smart composition and her toe full handstand position was good. Now her vault and floor scores different story.

[tripletwistsandtripleaxels]

tbh her bars scores are usually approximately fine even with her consistently bad foot form. it's just that the current code is bad for bars construction so routines like That are rewarded highly. and not to mention her form on floor and vault is Not all that and she shouldn't be getting big scores there because her form isn't good

[illyria-and-her-pet]

NBC angles were much more kind to Suni UB and judges do see from side and the Maloney form and crooked connection wasn't nearly as visible there so I see more why she scored so high.

[brasildaily]

“We used to hear that black people don't belong in sports like this, now we have the first olympic medalist in our country, a black woman. She came from a tough reality, raised by a single mother, she has been through a lot and she's here today, the second best in the world. A Brazilian girl." 2003 World Gymnastics Champion Daiane dos Santos on 2020 Olympic Medalist Rebeca Andrade.