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>>46999
Lifting is superior to calisthenics and cardio yes, there's a reason people lift.

How do I go from skinny-fat to fit-but-thin? I don't wanna get swole

>>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

>>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.

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.

>>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.

>>46727
Only in the first game when the US existed.

>>46726
every niche fiction community has someone that makes most of the daily contributions so you should just ask this question in wildbow's discord server

is he dead?

>>47933
Who? Wildbow?

>>48109
yeah

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.

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

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

>>46900
IRDBLT

not an av guy sorry but how do you get into it

Worf is a really interesting character. He's a Klingon that knows nothing about Klingons except what he learns through the lens of the federation. So on the one hand, he learns all the rules to being a klingon, but none of the exceptions to the rules, and he ends up becoming the most Klingon Klingon.

What I mean is his main narrative arc in TNG involves him colliding head on with the contradictions of Klingon society. He's internalized a rigid, highly inflexible code of honor that other Klingons kind of respect but also find pretty bewildering. He's willing to take discommendation in service of the empire when it's strongly implied that no other Klingon would be willing to. At the same thing, it's recognized that this honorable act is in service of covering up another house's dishonor. Eventually it all leads to a civil war, which instead of purifying the empire only solidifies these contradictions, which Worf also finds incomprehensible, as highlighted by the scene when he's in a bar with his brother Kern, whose busy drinking with warriors from the enemy faction.

It's also pretty interesting how Worf ends up becoming what is probably the most important Klingon of the century. He participates and ends up deciding two separate succession crises by killing corrupt chancellors and even restores the office of the emperor, before putting his own adoptive house in the position of the chancellorship.

It's a shame that none of this was really followed up on post ds9. Worf single handedly positioned himself to rejuvenate the dying Klingon empire, and all that was killed in its crib by the tng movies and abramslop.

>>48033
Jj abrams doesn't get enough hate

The fat men are back to talk about TOS.

So what's going on lately in the world of marvel and dc

>>47110
Marvel - Hiterlite cringe stuff in cap book as usual

Spider-man #1000 coming up, MJ is Venom

Thor is a mortal again with amensia and uses a sling and hammer as his weapons (Peak by Ewing)

X-Men, same old same old

DC is killing it with Absolute line
Marvel's Ultimate line is coming to an end, other than Ultimates, nothing has been consistently good

>>47110
Absolute is okay-to-good, everything else is crap.
Begging people to read non-Big 2 stuff, the medium needs to be set free.

>>33534
I'm only three years late to this post so allow me to shed some timely light because I thought this was an interesting question that I'm somewhat prepared to give an answer to. The more complex answer than just "psychedelics" is that 50s-70s comics artists were part of a much broader cultural shift that involved modernist art trends seeping into popular culture. Artists who reached their artistic maturation in this period were studying art in a world where cubism, futurism, abstractionism, etc. were no longer controversial new waves but well-established languages, and the new guys weren't just going on to become gallery painters but a lot of them became designers, commercial illustrators, etc. And then pop art did a lot to accelerate this shift. Those guys weren't necessarily the ones who became comic artists, but they helped diffuse these ideas into the mainstream. And this was also happening at a time where nuclear physics, computers, SETI, the space race, etc. created a real "wonders of science" zeitgeist that also begged for new ways to visualize it in a way that properly conveyed its power, strangeness and excitement. I think this is what makes Kirby a truly epochal artist: he more than the writers he worked with turned superhero comics into a reflection of this zeitgeist.
I'll also note that comic artists have always been on the lookout for formal ways to communicate movement and power on the page instead of just drawing things as they would "seem". For a long time this was the influence of cinema, and before that it was Art Nouveau. So the necessary pull towards "weird" non-literal visually challenging art was always part of the medium.
All of this harmonizes very well with psychedelic culture and in Ditko's case there's the explicit influence of mysticism and such as well, but it's more of a shared heritage that was affecting everything, rather than direct influence of LSD. This is why the intuition that something must have been "in the water" was partly correct and the answers saying "they just imagined it duh" are kind of misleading. But I don't think any of the important 60s Marvel artists took psychedelics or cared about counterculture. Stan did later make an infamous attempt to cash in on underground comix, and the people who came after were a lot more hip to new trends and probably brought in some deliberate influence from psyPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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

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