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Currently playing and enjoying it, especially the aesthetics. I suck at parrying in every game that has it but with the difficulty on easy and with the right passive abilities I can mostly ignore that.
The dreamy beauty of the overworld (especially with that music) is a particular high point.
functor
8hr ago
Bars aren't that much better, often lower quality women and more women than men. Starting a hobby to meet women is not efficient at all. Signing up for tennis/pottery or language classes just to meet women is a massive commitment of time to say high to maybe one or two single women in your age group.
erwgv3g34
8hr ago
He means get her contact information, not steal her contact lenses. What PUAs call a number close (distinct from the k-close, which involves kissing, and the f-close, which involves fucking).
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
8hr ago
Clueless discourse and blathering is it. Well. I am trying to find your point, which seems to be, give up? Anyway all this talk makes me want to throw myself into a profile just to see what would happen, though I'm well out of the game.
hydroacetylene
8hr ago
It is not ‘always the man’s fault’ to believe that, in these two specific cases, it’s the fault of the man. Indeed, the rule of thumb most people would use to blame Jeff and Bill is that adultery is a major fault committed by the party who engages in it.
Life isn’t entirely fair, but ‘Jeff Bezos having to pay out to his early business partner because he couldn’t keep his pants on’ is not a great example. We live in a world where early google employees got it made even if they were cooks, ‘successful startups give huge payouts to early employees, even if they’re not worth it’ is just how our society works, and this is a delayed example because marriage necessarily changes property arrangements.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
8hr ago
How did they do Deepseek so quickly, if they're at such a disadvantage?
aqouta
8hr ago
Didn't we have some china bulls in here just a few weeks ago talking about how good Huawei AI chips are? I personally don't buy it but we also have AMD and intel maybe a generation or so behind Nvidia, but nobody wants to use them because it's just more work and could run into unexpected hiccups.
Huawei chips are significantly worse than nvdia chips at a higher cost and lower yield. They're stuck on 7nms that actually compare to how tsmc's 3nm chips are made and some cope 5nms that use a layering technique that isn't worth the yield hit to use. America definitely has a big compute edge on china.
If you're at all serious about AI being a big deal in the next decade then maintaining this edge over our main geopolitical rival is actually really really important.
Currently China is gobbling up nerfed chips because qualitatively they're not that different from the latest and greatest. They'll be more power hungry and less cost efficient, but they are still capable of training a gpt-5 level model if needed.
Takingthe advantage to taking months VS years to train a model at this kind of cutting edge iterative process is difficult to over state.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
8hr ago
If conservatism is when you refuse to address entitlements, blow up the budget deficit
Every post-war conservative seems to think it is.
What is Trump conserving exactly?
The population composition of the country, the definition of "woman" and "racial discrimination", children's genitals, classical architecture...
HereAndGone
8hr ago
Oh yeah. I've always been a social conservative, but the rank of feminists lining up to joke about how they'd strap on the kneepads for the Presidential blowjob so long as Bill kept abortion legal, and throwing Monica under the bus, after the protests about patriarchy, sexual harassment, imbalance in power dynamics, inappropriate boss-employee relationships and the rest of it?
So after that shining example of what really mattered, why should I believe them when they screamed about Kavanaugh and rape, or any of the fifty other offences? Trump allegedly assaulted E. Jean Carroll in a department store? You lot defended a guy old enough to be her father using his position to have an affair with a young woman in the Oval Office and who then tried logic-chopping his way out of it by "it depends what 'is' is" when under oath about "did you have sex with her?"
MollieTheMare
8hr ago
Based on a vague recollection of your training history, you should be able to at least temporarily recomp effectively.
One of the nice things about strength vs muscular mass is it's much easier to measure benchmarks , especially with respect to proficiency. For someone with no training history they should be able to go from untrained to somewhere in the novice/intermediate range while maintaining or even losing weight. My recollection is you had taken training "some what seriously" before, which probably brought you to mid-intermediate. In that case it should take 50-75% of the time it took the first time to reach the same place. All doable while in a 0.25-0.5% BW per week lost deficit. So if you went from a 65kg to a 100 kg bench in 9 months before, myonuclei retention might get you there in in 4-6 months. There is a bit of a compounding effect where if you stop and restart repeatedly strength and size seem to come back even faster. Longer if it's been more than 4 years. Beyond the proficient level and outside of a retraining effect recomping is a slow and painful process.
Protein recommendations I would still shoot for the tried and true 1 g/lb body weight. 2 g/kg bw for round metric numbers is probably fine. There had been some (pretty sus) analysis that got cemented as lore for lower recommendations. The newer stuff seems to have rediscovered the tried and true. Why would you expect a hard threshold in the first palce? If you are not that lean 1 g/cm height works surprisingly well as a benchmark. The easiest way to drastically increase protein uptake is to have a pre and post workout whey shake. Whey is very fast digesting so should not decrease appetite much for your "normal" meals. If you don't want to do dairy for some reason brown rice/pea combo, or soy protein is probably fine. If you are worried about phytoestrogens from soy, corner an endocrinologist in a dark corner of the hospital and wring the truth out of them. Report back what exactly the deal is with phytoestrogens is, I'm interested in knowing.
HereAndGone
8hr ago
Impeachment and removal. Vance too if he won't behave himself.
And then what? Install Kamala as the Real President?
aqouta
9hr ago
If conservatism is when you refuse to address entitlements, blow up the budget deficit, tarrif our allies because you don't understand trade policy, behave like a petulant child in every possible situation and fall for lowest common denominator X slop posts then what even remains of conservatism? What is Trump conserving exactly?
HereAndGone
9hr ago
The other side remembered the proscriptions and chaos caused by people pushing through their reforms and will too far. People lost friends and colleagues and people like Pompey and Crassus were prime beneficiaries.
They weren't scared of just losing a political battle. They were scared of getting liquidated this time around if they let anyone claim enough political clout by pushing certain things through.
Very different from the initial backlash to Trump. The moment of realization that history hadn't ended and there wasn't going to be a coronation by the emerging democratic majority may have felt existential but hard to argue it's the same.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
9hr ago
Average guy on here, if you had fifty women throwing themselves at you, would you pick the top ten most attractive ones or would you sleep with all fifty?
I can tell you what I hope and pray I'd do, but I don't know if asking a bunch of wallflowers a question about getting attention like this will yield a realistic answer.
AlexanderTurok
Alt-MSNBC
9hr ago
If a young woman can be alienated by being told she should not kill her child then that reflects a problem with her own character. No compromise on this is necessary or acceptable.
What about the young men struggling to find wives? Do they matter?
HereAndGone
9hr ago
Here's a genuine question, because I do think men and women have different attitudes to sex, relationships, love, the whole package (e.g. the stereotypical excuse of the cheating husband when caught "it was only sex, I really love you, honey!")
Average guy on here, if you had fifty women throwing themselves at you, would you pick the top ten most attractive ones or would you sleep with all fifty?
I'm asking because I see a certain amount of resentment in comments (not necessarily on here) about women being too picky and they get loads of matches on dating apps and they only reply to the most desirable ones. Well, if you had a selection of possible sexual/romantic partners vying for your attention, would you reply to Number Fifty on the list as well as Number One, or would you just select out Numbers One Through Ten of the ones you personally find hottest and ignore the rest?
I'm not trying to gotcha anyone or point fingers, I'm honestly curious.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
9hr ago
You're talking to an Indian living in Europe, trying to dodge a marriage arranged by his auntie. If there's anyone here playing on hard mode, it's him... Well, on the other hand he is a doctor... Ok, so I don't know exactly what all that calculus comes down to, but if he's able to maintain some optimism, I think he's worth hearing out.
Lizzardspawn
9hr ago
And this is why only clueless people use pure online dating. Meet girls IRL. Chat with her a bit. Take her contacts. Is it THAT hard?
atelier
Jimmys: unrustled
9hr ago
The problem is tons of women are happy to believe they should be able to marry someone like the pool of guys they've slept with throughout their most attractive dating years.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
9hr ago
Trump spends more time with Elon
He had a debt to pay off to Elon, I doubt that Trump will be in any hurry to work with Musk again. If nothing else, two people with such massive egos don't tend work well with each other.
self_made_human
Kai su, teknon?
10hr ago
True to my word, I recently acquired oral semaglutide. I've been aware of the drug since initial weight loss trials, and the moment it was available, I got my diabetic and overweight mom to begin it. She had a rough start, the nausea and GI upset was unpleasant to say the least, but it settled down and she's fine now, probably lost 5kg. My current goal is to convince her to increase her dose from 7mg to the next step up, which is long overdue.
I gained about 5-6 kilos over about 4 months, both because of starting an antidepressant that increases appetite, and because a change in workplace made me far more sedentary.
This, alongside a recent breakup, jogged me into gear. I've begun working out, aiming for muscular hypertrophy rather than strength. No point being able to lift a boulder if you don't look it. However, the semaglutide works, and has drastically slashed my appetite. My body only wants about half what I'd normally eat, and I have to force myself to eat more despite feeling full.
My question is, to what extent can I achieve both significant weight loss as well as some muscle gain? Due to recent weight gain, I believe I could manage a mild to moderate caloric deficit (~10%) without overly compromising my gains, as long as I consume enough protein. To the more experienced gym goers here, does that sound correct? Any tips or tricks?
(I'll buy some creatine soon enough, stuff works)
I'm still working my way through the game and enjoying it a lot.
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