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Since nobody has made a new one and people keep asking for it I made the next one.
Beginner's Health and Fitness Guide, aka "the /fit/ sticky" - http://liamrosen.com/fitness.html

Swole-Soldiers Edition

Previous threads on >>>/alt_archive/
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>>46852
>you should spread put your meals over the course of day to maximalise musle growth?
That's a thing for pro body builders. Past a certain point of swoleness your muscles will start to break down if you go for a few hours without food. This isn't even really an issue if you are still mega swole but not extremely low body fat. For anybody but pro BB this isn't really that useful for retaining/building mass though *technically* I think spreading meals out more is generally good for you (but so is intermittent fasting). For the average person trying to maximize gains you probably get better results by eating (more) around the time you train.

>>46999
Lifting is better for muscle growth than calisthenics because you can train with higher weight, but calisthenics are fine if your goal is to do cardio/endurance strength. As for pulling vs pushing and losing weight you probably notice a tighter chest because of less body fat. Pulling won't make your pecs bigger, but you will have more of your chest shaped by pecs if you lose body fat there.

>>47000
>Lifting is superior to calisthenics and cardio yes
None is superior to the others in general, they all do different things and ideally people would combine them all. Lifting weight maximizes your ability to gain muscle and raw strength. Calisthenics is good for mobility, stability, and some light cardio and supporting strength. Cardio is cardio - it's good for your cardiovascular system and is often neglected because the results aren't visible.

>>47302
Nobody ever accidentally put on "too much" muscle mass. Just do some kind of training regularly, whatever you find appealing enough to do consistently. The only things you need to avoid are caloric surplus and progressive overload. Weight loss is more a diet thing than a training one.

Hey swoletariats, I'm trying to lose weight again after like 3 years of gaining shitton of weight. Back then I used to rely a whole lot on soylent to curb cravings between meals, 300 cal gave me roughly 3 or 4 hours of being hungerfree, which was a good tradeoff, but apparently the soy memes and seed oil obsession killed that brand dead, so I'm wondering if you know of a good meal replacement to make up for it? I need something that is 300cal or less per portion, dairy-ish flavor profile to curve sweet tooth, and something that is not just a protein drink because they make me feel icky if i have too many of them. not oatmeal because i already eat too much and more of it will give me the runs, and something that is dairy free, but bonus points if it's able to thicken like soylent. should i just bite the bullet and get slimfast

>>48150
With the number of requirements you have. I’d think you’d be the best judge of it. Costco protein bars are great. Gold standard chocolate whey protein is the all time standard. Or just do OMAD after a 3 day fast and come to terms with your addiction.

>>46999
You can definitely get jacked doing calisthenics, you probably had poor form.


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The HOTD thread is dead so I'm starting a new one for leftist discussion of the A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones universe including books, shows, plays, etc.
Imma start by asking who’s the most Historically Progressive force in Westeros as of the latest book:

>King Stannis for being a developmentalist monarch trying to unify the Seven Kingdoms against the threat beyond the Wall?

>Daenerys Targaryen for trying to abolish the slavery mode of production in Essos, rebirthing magic in the world and holding the power of dragons against the Others?

>The Brotherhood Without Banners for engaging in Protracted Smallfolk War against the tyranny and brutal violence of Houses LARPister and Frey?

>The City of Bravos and the Iron Bank for being a blooming bourgeois republic in a world that's been stuck under slavery and feudalism for thousands of years?

>Yi Ti, who much like IRL China, is a very technologically advanced superpower who does nothing and still wins?

None of those forces are historically progressive, but the setting itself is possessed by the Spirit of Historical Progress which is acting through them.

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The maesters. They orchestrated both the Dance and Robert's Rebellion. Wake up sheeple!

the others are the historically progressive force (kind of)

i think that similar to how the black death weakened feudal relations in europe and brought about township charters and strengthened the right of the burgesses, the long night will destabilise westeros in a way that weakens feudal social relations and brings about further primitive accumulation of capital. ideally we would see a rise of a more progressive, non-incel baelish-like figure in the ruins

>>48085
t. Lady Dustin

Rereading dance with dragons and it was kind of fun seeing xaro give dany a materialistic explanation of why her situation was so fucked up


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Even though the fandom is pretty dead. I wanted to see what a brony thread on here would look like since I’m a newbie

What does /leftypol/ think about this franchise and the online subculture it spawned? I feel like now that the little girls who made up the target audience are young adults I’ve been seeing more zoomers tell stories about how they were “traumatized” by the adult fandom and it’s becoming more in vogue to decry the whole “brony” phenomenon as “problematic”.

On the other hand though what’s the sociological explanation for millions of grown men becoming obsessed with a little girls cartoon in spite of hegemonic Western gender norms? I’ve read a lot of conflicting theories from academics and culture critics regarding this. Is it autism? Post-Irony? Or is there something about it that just makes it genuinely appealing?
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I kind of feel embarrassed that I got into this in my 30s but I wish I had watched it sooner.

>>47991
i'm pretty sure you're just watching it by yourself with headphones
just watch I guess

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>>47346
>You are all freaks
Yes.
>>47991
Don't worry. There's still fun to be had.

I am Stalliongrad's greatest soldier.


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Its about time we talk about the connection between Harry Potter, Liberalism, and idpol.

and also how JK Rowling is the biggest blair simp
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>>47984
>>48130
The thing is, I did not care for the politics surrounding the game in the slightest. In fact when I first heard they are making Hogwards Legacy I was excited for it. Even though I am not a fan of Harry Potter franchise, open world RPG set in wizard school sounds like a really cool concept that I would like to play. And then the gameplay footage came out and it was the worst piece of shit I ever saw. The game is about wizard fights, and they composed the combat out of overplayed soulslike mechanics and colour matching. It is the most generic, uninspired, braindead thing they could do. That is why I would describe it not merely as bad, but offensive. There is no artistry or vision to any of it, it is the purest distillation of video games as a consumer product.

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>ctrl+f "malfoid"
>0 results
Post her.

>>48163
I mean if someone doesn't buy something that they otherwise would have, that does have some effect at least in terms of dollars, does anyone really expect most boycotts to instantly lead to 0 sales of the product

>>48166
>that does have some effect at least in terms of dollars
it's a minuscule effect, completely insignificant. fucking governments have a hard time influencing consumer behavior. and they literally have every tool in the shed to do so, massive ad campaigns, heavy taxation and virtually unlimited budget. you have, what, a hashtag on xitter, and a few angry SJWs? you need to be delusional or stupid if you think you can meaningfully boycott an international media conglomerate.

>>48164
> And then the gameplay footage came out and it was the worst piece of shit I ever saw.
It looked pretty subpar to me too, I never played it either so I wouldn't know, but like I said, normies that have never played a game beyond tetris or mario jumped right in because the experience of roleplaying inside hogwarts is too irresistible for a certain kind of normie.


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Elf edition.

Since a bunch of the old threads were basically nuked with the server transfer, I wanted to revive some of them.

General discussion of the fantasy genre.
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>>48154
>I first became aware of Yoshitaka Amano's work in the early 1980s when he was illustrating and painting the covers for my own Elric books and the Japanese version of Behold the Man. I loved his work, and thought that he, of all artists, had managed to capture the essential spirit of my characters. Many other fine artists, such as James Cawthorn, Michael Whelan, and Robert Gould had depicted them, and I certainly should not wish to minimise their work, but for me Amano captured something no other artist had seen.

>I began to buy books of his work, and was astonished at their variety and beauty. When a company produced a model kit based on one of his Elric paintings, it was the only representation of this character of mine I felt worthy to keep amongst my collection of original Art Nouveau and Art Deco figurines. My only hope is that one day some artist feels an urge to make it in ivory, silver, and brass. It deserves that kind of permanence.
You may not like it, but this is what canon Elric looks like.

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>>48155
Also, I kind of get why Moorcock would have had a particular liking for Amano's Elric because I think he's the only original Elric artist that had any respect for the fact that Elric is supposed to be kind of small and thin. His strength comes almost entirely from magic. His natural body is so weak and sickly that his heart can't even continue pumping under its own power if he doesn't get his magical drugs (or a fresh soul from Stormbringer.) The Western artists all made Elric fucking yolked and sometimes Liftric just straight up looked like Conan's albino cousin.

>>48155
>>48156
Yeah, I gotta agree. Amano's Elric is superior.

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>>44036
>Elf edition

>>47195
Because you live in a world of profits and late stage capitalism and internet ADD.


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This board needs a literature thread i think. So itt write about books you are currently reading. Feel free to post opinions, pictures and discussions about books.
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>>47438
I was going to say "what a coincidence, I'm also reading it" but then I realized your post is four months old, so not that much of a coincidence.
Anyway, I'm not that deep into it yet but I'm actually enjoying it immensely. But I tend to like plotless books. I actually find it refreshing how much of the book is just dedicated to drawing out the protagonist's deranged aestheticism. But I can also see why that would put people to sleep.

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I thought getting into the classics was just a matter of picking up the books as cheap as possible and reading them at your leisure but apparently you also have to be extra careful that you don't get a shitty translation or low quality edition. Like I found out that the copies of The Count of Monte Cristo and Crime and Punishment I read at my school library were made by some sketchy Mexican publisher that although it sells literature classics at very low prices it also cuts several pages of both books, had several typos and outright censored lots of shit because the translation they got was made during Franco era Spain.
It fucking sucks how people have to pay more to get the REAL book from a proper publisher like if it was some special edition of a video game, completely anti-art.

>>47927
If its classics you want, cant you find them at libraries?

>>47930
The last time I was in my local library they'd gotten rid of half their damn books.

currently reading the glass bead game.

wow… the glass bead game… it's all computer…


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>get reccommended a video essay on a show you liked
>put it on in the background
>halfway in start to realize this guy keeps repeating himself
>takes a long time to make a point that isnt really a point
>clips have nothing to do with whats being said
>realize you just fell for ai slop
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>>48136
I wonder how responsible the history channel is for the alt right and wehraboos.

Ya gotta treat video essays as audiobooks. If you're only partially paying attention, bookmark it and listen to music instead until you have the time to listen actively.

Even if I'm listening to a vtuber while playing a game, if I zone out I tab in to pause and rewind.

>>48093
Allistics just sound like that though.

>>48143
If you had your full attention, why would you listen to an audio book?

>>48147
I guess that's a fair point. I listen to them while doing chores for multi-tasking, but that is very clearly splitting my attention, isn't it?
I did check out House of Leaves from my local library recently, which I doubt is possible to faithfully audiobook, so it'll be a good test of how well I can give a text my direct attention.


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How do you feel about it (and its creator)?
also please spam Charlie pics
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I just want it on record that I hated Lesbian Space Princess before it was cool

>>47883
I thought this show was about demons killing people for money

>>48028
You'd think that but it's actually about a gay imp fucking an owl

>>47883
>shorts
>~10 minutes
Well that's pretty much a full episode. Like I get they mean it's side-content, but still.

Also it's neat how they differ the scribbles of the stuff added by Stolas and the stuff added by Moxie, like one has cleaner handwriting than the other.

>>48046
It's actually about homestucks finding something else.


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🎭📽🎬📼📺
>Argue about dvd commentaries, Post your thesis on King of the Hill, Reminisce about a tv show you used to watch but don't quite remember it's title. Just about anything related to shows. Post your highscore on those Ben 10 CN flash games. Anything goes.



OLD THREAD
>>3012
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>>47846
this is just a regular film with a greyscale filter slapped on it instead of a film actually working around the limitations of not having color

Currently watching Person of Interest tv-series. First two seasons are kinda meh but it gets better in season 3 when a competing AI comes online.

>>47847
It's a series (this is the TV thread lol), and they shot it in black and white then did a color conversion. They used old school hard lighting and actual lenses vintage lenses.

I'm watching the three body problem (chinese) and it's kind of funny that the question that is making all these people lose their minds is basically "but what if science… wasn't real?"

>>48106
It kind of feels like if you walked into a religious conference and said "but what if god… wasn't real???" and everyone started going "woooooah no way! No way!!!" And started killing themselves.


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Any puroresu fans here?
Puroresu is Japanese pro-wrestling. I realize there's a /wooo/ thread but puroresu is quite different than WWE or pro-wrestling you might encounter here in the US. It strives for a more sports-like feel and tells stories in the ring rather than people talking at each other or doing stupid antics. It's still fake (and people watching know it's fake), but it tends to be faster and harder hitting. It's also a lot less commercialized - you pay to watch online and there aren't any commercials.
The top two puroresu companies in Japan right now are New Japan Pro-Wrestling and its sister company STARDOM (which is women's wrestling). For my money, STARDOM is actually the best pro-wrestling company in the world to watch right now, as it tells the best stories, has the most compelling talents, and puts on consistently entertaining shows.
The main picrel is Zack Sabre Jr., who is the World Heavyweight Champion of New Japan. He's British. I chose him because he's also an outspoken socialist. The other picrel is Saya Kamitani, the World of Stardom Champion and *the* best person in all of pro-wrestling to watch at the moment.

Zack Sabre Jr. vs Bryan Danielson
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9gktyw

Saya Kamitani vs Tam Nakano
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9im4so

A few other favorite (modern) matches of mine:
Utami Hayashishita vs Syuri
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CvvdjXWPvY

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Grovit, anyone?

Coach in the video was involved in a Japanese promotion called "Bushido " in the early 90's. Just about the realist fake wrestling ever, if that makes sense. I remember watching it on cable via a top box on my telly.
Carl Beijer has written a load of stuff about pro-wrestling. I'll look for a link and see if there's any that isn't paywalled.

>>46491 (me)
Hulk Hogan Was a Very Bad Man https://share.google/I7Oe18lRPP56bU3Io

>>46491
>Coach in the video was involved in a Japanese promotion called "Bushido " in the early 90's. Just about the realist fake wrestling ever, if that makes sense.
90's Japanese pro-wrestling was where it was at, really. Hard hitting and not nearly as "fake" as it is now.
Of course, there was a lot of scumminess too.
>>46492
>Hulk Hogan Was a Very Bad Man https://share.google/I7Oe18lRPP56bU3Io
No argument there.
He showed up for one last show earlier this year, right before the LA fires.
He was booed, hard. And he was booed because most pro-wrestling fans hate the guy for who he is because he reflects a view of the world many wrestling fans do not embrace.
https://www.wrestlezone.com/news/1572477-jimmy-hart-hulk-hogan-was-devastated-over-being-booed-at-wwe-raw

I love that for him.

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>Hulk Hogan Was a Very Bad Man
Now he's a very dead man

>AAAAAAAAHHHH!!! IT'S NOT COLD!!!

>>46900
IRDBLT


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