I never have, but I might consider it if the game was actually great. The money to hours played ratio is off the chart for a lot of great games - I mean fuck, if Skyrim was charged proportionally to how much playtime I’ve gotten out of it I should’ve paid $600. The problem is that most games are shite moneygrabs.

Yes, essentially. They’ve tried to tie it to ‘narcoterrism’ (as I believe they did to justify capturing Noriega?), in regards to Venezuelan cocaine smuggling into the U.S.

The thing is, Venezuela’s cocaine production - especially that which reaches the US - is nothing at all compared to Colombian cocaine. Colombia however is a client state whose cartels have been often been C.I.A involved, so they’re exempt from rules.

In fact, during the 2020 election fiasco, Juan Guaido was spotted riding in a car with and posing for pictures alongside prominent members of the Rastrojos - the largest drug trafficking gang in Colombia. This was around the time Guaido and Lopez were looking to fund a private military to help out in a coup.

Funny, that.

could end up needing a transplant

they’re going to blow up the moon

they did the same in slashing the deep sea biology research funding

Cumtown -

Yes, I know, some clips are understandably of too poor taste for some people, but stuff like Liberal Elmo, or Montgomery Gentry (about new Country Music and anti woke people hating on Starbucks for some reason) really cut to the heart of our incredibly stupid and infantile political climate. You can find plenty of clips on YouTube.

Also, hearing them dumbly rip the piss out of Andrew Cuomo, Joe Biden, Ben Shapiro and so on, mercilessly and without taking them seriously at all - e.g doing an impression of Trump talking about Robert Deniro being gay while 9/11 is being reported - I know it’s ‘bad’, but it’s so absurd and irreverent that it feels very fitting for the times.

Diddler on the roof

Sort of, yes. I think there’s a lot more shitposting than posting about actual news (because the news is always the same at the moment…). I also wonder if the ‘old guard’ of posters have now simply gotten too old and busy with life to use this place as much. That’s the case for me.

I don’t have a good answer as I’m not vegan, but something to note of both tofu and seitan - seitan especially, it’s that it’s while it’s theoretical protein is high, it’s actual protein bioavailability is not that good unless it’s supplemented with foods that have the right amino acid profiles to help absorb/break it down properly (which is easy to do, it just requires some deliberation). Dr Mike Israetel has a good video about the protein quality index and how to get the most out of different proteins. Watch from about 5 minutes in:

https://youtu.be/coRih_UvFQQ

I know it could seem like broscience, or another fitness fad, but I generally find Dr Mike pretty realistic. People forget that he is just a jacked nerd, and nerd in the sense that he’s got a PHD in sports science, not that he plays vidya.

Nope, but it’s on the list now.

There’s a funny one called ‘Can Dialectics Break Bricks?’, a run of the mill Kung Fu movie given a french Maoist dub to change its meaning. Pretty funny.

Firstly, I would say there’s a couple of good options. The key thing is that you’re not looking to optimise and get jacked and so on, so most internet tips are going to be suboptimal for your specific goals.

The first thing I would say is that - and I’ve forgotten what it’s called but it’s out there - you can do 5 sets of an exercise split across 12 hours and still make significant progress. Sure, it’ll be slower, and no, Mr Olympia doesn’t train like it, but it’s totally viable.

The evidence out there does exist, but here’s my anecdote: I was a very lazy kid, but I had a pullup bar in my room. Throughout the day, when I walked past it, I’d sometimes jump on it and hit a few pull-ups. Eventually I could do about 13 good pull-ups in a row, and I’d do that maybe 2 times a day. It felt good to do, and was no commitment at all, so I just did it. I never thought much of it, until everyone else started hitting the gym, and in getting all macho someone would offer up an arm wrestle… I’d accept the offer and completely melt them. It became a bit of a circus trick, where I’d have one gymlad on each arm and pull them into each other, while everyone frustratedly said ‘how!!!’. Seriously, it works.

The other thing is that Push Pull Leg splits are probably a waste of time. If you’re not trying to isolate each one and push them to muscular failure each time, it’s just not necessary. In fact, you could even do ‘super sets’ (doing two different exercises one after another, then resting) of rows/pushups, or whatever oppositional movement. It would be completely fine, especially if you did that 3 times split across a whole day.

The other key is that without proper equipment, you’ll become too strong for a lot of exercises on the ground or off the side of a chair to do them in the 6-12 rep range (which is said to best for building size/strength), BUT, that doesn’t necessarily matter. You’re not looking for size, you’re looking for health. Right now, I’m strong as a bastard but unfit as a sloth. If I were actually healthy, I’d have a more balanced routine involving more endurance sized sets (12 to however many reps you want) or smaller breaks and supersets, to really burn the calories and get my heart rate up. But alas, I am chasing size by lifting heavy and taking long breaks.

For pushups, different progressions and elevation off a chair will keep you busy for a long time. Your dip bar will too. But if you could get the apparatus to have rings - now that’s where you hit the sweet spot. I can’t stand bar dips now that I’ve felt the freedom of movement on ring dips and ring rows. Sweet sweet range of movement.

Otherwise - walking. Chasing your kids around. Chasing your dog around (if you have one). Kick a ball with your kids but play as if you were a kid again leaving nothing in reserve. I used to play ‘donkey feet’ as a kid - where you kick or punch a foot (soccer) ball around high in the air, and whoever it bounces ONCE nearest to has to then hit it up in the air again. If you let it bounce twice, you get a letter added to your D - O - N - K - E - Y. Well, I played it with some friends again the other day. Holy shit, the day after I could barely even walk (in a good way, like every muscle had been stretched), yet in the moment it felt like nothing at all.

Feel free to ask questions or DM, I have spent about 7 years researching and perfecting the laziest and most efficient workout styles possible.

Rings are great, and you can indeed put them on a playground although it might look a bit odd. Rings are especially versatile because you could even loop them over a totally uneven thick tree branch, and then adjust each one separately so that they’re at the same height.

Realistically though, as someone who’s used them for years, it’s more annoying than you’d think to go about the place setting them up and carrying them around.

I still definitely recommend getting them, but just get them for home somewhere. They’re amazing for mobility, easy to start on, and for strengthening all the little stabiliser muscles that most lifts neglect (I’ve got proper meatheads to have a go on my rings, and some weren’t even able to do one ring dip.) Strong stabilisers mean you’re much less likely to get injured doing all sorts of activities.

no no no no

is that real

I refuse to check

I saw someone getting around it using a David Lynch funko pop

Yeah there’s defo been an explosion of it, and i suppose it’s better that the pornstars have more autonomy over their body/work than they would on porn sets of the past where the abuse is rampant, but at the same time it’s sad how easy it is to just start posting on it and how normalised it’s become.

I’ve known quite a few people to do it for some extra money - that they didn’t even necessarily need - because they figured they’re a sex positive person and don’t mind doing the minimum level of taking nude pictures for money - but soon enough they realised that it can be a very degrading process, and you get all sorts of weird people from your past suddenly watching your ‘content’ and it doesn’t feel good. And then it’s out there online, and someone’s got those pictures to do whatever they want with.

At the end of the day it’s also still exploitative in a literal labour sense because Onlyfans takes a big cut.

I think a huge problem is how it exists on social media in the most exploitative way possible, which has driven demand way up.

I literally cannot scroll Instagram without being shown onlyfans girls. The algorithm has sensed I am a young man, and as such I need BBL’s on my feed. It’s in short formats too, with optimised attention-catching editing/text/structure or whatever. It’s insane that it exists on an app which so many children use, and it’s insane that so much of it can be served up alongside normal content.

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not the ‘stylized waifu’ struggle session…

I think it’s fair to say lots of anime artists - and Japanese culture overall - favours neotenous features, which definitely can border ‘loli’ content. Does it make you a literal pedo? No, I guess not. Is it kind of weird? I would say yes.

You are answering every question with ‘no’ or ‘but’, and you’re clearly starting with those words before you’ve even thought about people’s answers properly. Either you can try your hardest to do something about it, or stay miserable forever.

You get one life. Sometimes you have to take the hard road. I live in a tiny flat with two 50 year old men, one evangelical and one drunk, because I moved to a new place and had to just take something - anything - to get me started. One day I’ll move into a better spot, but even now, I’m happier than I ever could be in my home town.