The Deprogram guys are pretty great.
Yugopnik might be my spirit commie though.
He talks like he's a cousin who would call you an idiot but would undoubtly have your back in a scrap.
Yeah. I love big stompy robots anyway.
Maurader 2 looks sick
Sure. It's not a "problem" really. The issue that I have is that all of the houses and clans being detestible is based on bullshit we think is actually true in real life. Like they took the house that was "socialist" and basically slapped together ill the bullshit lies about real socialist states and then put a veneer of sci fi on it? Then the house that is the allegory for "America" is bad because they keep talking about freedom and all that bullshit but they're.... Smug about it. 😒
I dont know all the lore. And Im slowly getting into it. But most of the stuff im seeing so far is just lazy sci fi. Which is a big shame.
Battletech lore is the most nonsense sci fi I have sver heard
Like Warhammer lore is digestible because it's very self aware that it's ridiculous.
Battletech unfortunately is really self serious. The different houses of the Inner Sphere are basically a rough sketch of what a redditor thinks America, Europe, Russia, and China are and Japan.
Then you have the clans who are basically exiled nazis with a handful of quirky social progressive quirks.
This. Is a shame because Battletech and MechWarrior are really cool.
But the understanding of states of any stripe is basically what a redditor thinks if they were also from the 80s.
I think I would appreciate sci fi that werent blisteringly inaccurate and vulgar appropriations of real modern day states. God damn.
Orange Sorbet protein shake
Get your vanilla whey protein and mix it with 3/4 cup or 1 cup of orange juice. Blend the fuck out of it. It tastes amazing
Update on the whole lazy workout thing. one month in
To recap: Im a sanitation worker.
I work full time 40 hrs. A week.
I bike home for 3 miles from work every day.
Then I go into the gym and do ONE compound lift. 5 sets 4 reps. As heavy as I can manage or as much as the machines will give.
So a single night may look like:
3 mile bike ride then bench press.
Or 3 mile bike ride then pull ups or some lat pull down
Or 3 mile bike ride and ab wheel
Here is what I have to show for 1 month of this. Keep on mind, im not eating cleaner. Im just eating whatever.
Ive lost 3/4 of an inch off my waist. My chest is getting more toned. My core is looking tighter and even my intercostal muscles around my ribs are getting more pronounced.
I have lost it least 6 pounds and my biceps are looking a bit bigger and a bit more vascular.
One thing that has happened is that I leave the gym WANTING to do more. But I dont do that. I dont want to cause myself to potentially burn out. So that's a nice psychological trick that Ive encountered. Not doing more makes me want to do more the next day which keeps me going on the daily.
I would recommend doing this if you're dealing with depression and are slightly out of shape or skinny fat or could stand to slowly burn off 10 to 20 pounds.
If you're more experienced, them this likely aint gonna do shit for you or you are already doing WAY MORE than what Im doing now.
I dont want to spam the forum with this on the weekly. But now im starting month 2 and Ill check in with you guys at the end of December.
Yes. This. It's gone beyond PatSoc horse shit and Im seeing a very noticeable uptick of platforming backwards discussions by leftists calling it "platforming free speech" and "not being afraid to hear out your 'enemies'"
And it's fine. It's really jist okay that stochastic violence is happening to the LGBTQ community because I guess letting that slide will somehow pave peace between the East and west if we just have a global coordinated genocide of queer people? Because that's what it looks like.
Im over it. Im sick of free speech fetishists ignoring fighting words just because corporate will silence a virulent antisemite to protect their brand.
...I hate the west
Their obsession with free speech and how people thinks society went too far to ban Kanye from twitter after his PRO. NAZI. Media tour makes me SERIOUSLY resent western values.
Liberalism is white supremacy.
...If you are even SLIGHTLY marginalized... Get a means of self defense that puts bigots in the ground.
westerners arent going to stop until there's a ubi for conservative voices and leftist voices are put on notice for being devisive.
Death to this whole fascistic psycho world.
Also. I know what all this bullshit is about. It is all mass hysteria about trans people. It's transphobia top to bottom and side to side.
Here's some free speech for the west. The anticolonial and anti imperialist left trapped in the west who have a platform to be heard by many are transphobic by always lumping social progressivism into the democratic party platform AND... those same leftists low key hope that more stochastic terrorism kills more trans people. I said it and Im not wrong. How is that for free speech?
Any of you had much experience greasing the groove?
Thr idea of GTG is about not working your muscles to failure, but to practice your exercises consistently.
This might mean instead of doing 100 straight puships, you might do something like 10 or 15 reps, take a rest and do that again until you reach 100 but never really getting to a failure state.
My experience feels anecdotal, but doing so... I went from doing 4 pull ups per set with extreme effort in 2 weeks to something approaching 7 to 8 reps with extreme effort.
🤔 Ive done shit like this all the time, especially the one punch man challenge and it might take me all day to get it done or just an afternoon, but it was never killing me and I managed to trim up nicely during the summer.
Anyone else tried it?
This stuff right here is worth preserving. I love to cook. But I also only like to cook if it's for more than just me.
It's really just a very basic human love language. Damn near primordial. It says; I am aware of hunger and I am aware of the joys of a full belly. And since I have the power to prevent you from feeling hunger; I will do that.
To be THIS MAD over a woman wanting to feed her knuckle headed neighbors is stunning.
Where I work, we used to do unsanctioned pot lucks. Outside the mandates of management. Stuff like that builds solidarity. I have older women coworkers who straight up feed me and on return; I usually find myself making sure I do most the heavy lifting in my job specifically for them because they're older and I dont wanna see my coworkers risk hurting themselves.
It aint patriarchy for women to cook for men. It's patriarchy to MAKE women cook for men as a prescriptive expectation of gender roles.
Why be angry at women who WANT to be motherly?
It bothers me that Chinchillazilla looks familiar. I could swear we used to hang out in the same clubs.
Cant be fhe same person.
...What a conplete psycho.
When it comes to China:
Stop pleading white people to understand China.
Speak about China from the position of power to white people.
All you have to say to white liberals; Cope in the century of ascendant China or PLA bullets will put you in your place.
There is a shitload of audiobooks about colonialism and settler states if you look in the lemmygrad post about their position on PatSocs.
Settlers is okay so long as you devote attention to other anticolonial revolutionaries and thinkers. The book isnt an end all be all.
Im gonna plant a big gay flag into the skull of one of these clowns that has STFU emblazoned on it.
PatSocs are fucking traumatized by twitter and social media. Absolutely fucking traumatized that the internet enabled FOR ONCE in history the safety of anonymity for non whites to let whites know exactly what they think FOR ONCE.
Im so sick and tired of PatSocs crying that sassy trans folks are the reason the roads are turning to gravel and the fucking power is going out.
Just... Shut the fuck up. My god.
It's the disrespect of assuming the "wokies" have no idea what the concept of relationships to labor are. It would be a fucking MIRACLE if they stopped presuming that non whites just wanna be non white liberal elites or that they dont know any better because they simply have unique concerns.