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I have checked my form and altered it some. I think I was doing things wrong on multiple levels. Squats have gotten significantly more difficult now. I don't know if that's good or bad, but I want to make sure I'm consistent. 5x5 weight is supposed to be work weight. It's probably not approaching 1RM for people who are good and experienced lifters. You're doing the same weight for all 5 sets or starting low and building to your proper working weight. You're nearly double my deadlift, so I don't know that I'm in a position to advise you on how you SHOULD be lifting. You also have quite a bit more experience than I do. The program I'm following is EXPLICITLY a beginner program. I'll let Gabe Kapler, former professional baseball far-hitting man and current strong, muscley man attempt to explain. He also links here in his article. I know some people do a 3x5 or 5x3 or some variation of this lift program.

I agree. I mean, in the course of the story...

The studio you're looking for is Telltale.

All press conferences are bad and terrible and wonderful.

Nail Blatter's ass to the wall. One of the most corrupt world leaders of the 21st century.

I love it. Especially the smudges on the computer screen. Reminds me of myself, currently.

Two things. One is my aforementioned Alton Brown cult disciple aversion to buying a $15 piece of kitchen equipment that only mashes garlic when I have multiple tools that already do that. Two, this particular task is pretty easy to learn, and any time you use your knife you're going to develop better knife skills. It translates to cutting and chopping a bunch of stuff. I think that's worth it? If you only need a couple of cloves and not the whole head, the way to peel quickly is to put it on your cutting board, take a broad knife or a pan at its widest part, and give it a little smack with heel of your palm. It'll pre-squish your garlic for easier chopping and the skin comes right off. I really liked that video. Short, to the point, and he smiled at me. The coring a head of lettuce video was even shorter! Showing something in 30 seconds that takes 30 seconds to explain is internet magic!

How To Cook Everything was going to be my suggestion as well. http://www.howtocookeverything.com/products I have the Cooks Illustrated and Science of Good Cooking in hardcover. They are nice books and I'm very glad I own them, but I don't reference them too often. I also have Alton Brown's cookbook, which probably doesn't work for everyone because I am an unabashed Alton fanboy. e: DON'T BUY A DAMN GARLIC PRESS.

Well, Star Wars, for better or worse, is important culturally and is important personally to a lot of people. I know why it happens!

Can't believe I'm allowing myself to be drawn into Star Wars, but here we goooooo... It's much more about cohesion and a competent story than it is that half the movies are brilliant and half the movies are garbage. Empire is a legitimately good* (*insert plaudit here) movie. A New Hope is a classic form executed well. The first three movies were, for better or worse, very genre defining. The second three did not push that forward, build on the foundation of ~20 years of interim movie making, or frankly tell a fun or interesting story. I thought the 3rd one, The Assassination Of Mace Windu By The Coward Emperor Palpatine or whatever it's called, was a passable movie but by then its momentum was far too mired by the politics and general poor film making from the previous two to be anything of consequence. And then NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO But really it comes down to the fact that I like and enjoy the first trilogy, warts and all. The second one didn't have the heart of the first and did nothing for me. That's much easier to pick apart.

I really liked Enemy Unknown, but I never finished it. When one of my Top Mans died I got really sad and never loaded it back up.

Lotta Star Wars Cool Kids round here suddenly. So I'm looking for apartments, and suddenly it appears that I might be better off buying instead of renting. The afternoon has been spent receiving phone calls from realtors about condos. I don't know what the hell I'm doing but it sure is exciting!

I love this. I adore this. It's one of the little touches that make the world so real. I heartell that Roach might be a ladyhorse? I don't think that matters particularly, but I have come to think of Roach as her. I also like Geralt's explanation on the name.

I am basically doing quests with regards to my level. I'm the kind of person that wants to do all the side stuff before the main stuff, but because of how open the world is you can't really do that because you can go anywhere. Now I'm not censoring myself from the story just because it's the "main quest". At first I was concerned at how slowly I was progressing. Now when I was playing this weekend it was all quest-driven content for the most part (no random ? searching) and I'm beginning to out-level some quests. Part of me wants to make sure I wring experience out of them, but part of me also wants to experience content as at least somewhat challenging and on level. This is a game where I'm content to go multiple hours just talking with people. Sometimes there's a little combat interspersed, but it's not what I remember from the time playing. Something I did not know would be so enjoyable and add so much to info delivered as writing is the fact that the glossary is written from an in-game character's perspective and told as a story.

As far as I can tell "Master Item" refers to item rarity. The different item levels reflect the background. No background is common, master is blue, Witcher Item is green, Relic is brown/red/whatever. Potion and item recipes are sold by vendors and in chests and stuff. I weirdly have a bunch of "Enhanced X" recipes I can't make because I don't have X in the first place. ....Holy crap, Skellige is as big as Velen.

I fully agree with you, but in practice I feel like 99% of the time that would be cited on twitter it's because someone is trying too late to back away from some horrible screed they put up and are trying to use their veil of ignorance as currency because they don't fucking know how twitter works. Twitter is a public forum. Possibly the world's most public forum ever. I feel like the time when people want it to be otherwise is when they're being hideous racists. I share concerns of others here that the concept of internet != private is bad and being abused by many people, but at the same time by tweeting you are explicitly opting in to having your words available to everyone.

In a cup, please! Mug also acceptable. e: when I'm being my snobbiest, burr grinder, aero press, black. Black in general. I prefer medium bodied South and Central American coffees, I've found.

I was immediately impressed by the way he comported himself talking about his PhD, even though I have no idea who he is. It is my great shame to admit that I had trouble telling him and Jeff No Takebackula apart, probably the first time I have experienced that on a podcast.

To be clear I specifically mean Blacksmith, which the game separates from Armorsmith. Yes there's one in Linvale thank you! It was either covered up by other icons even when I zoomed in or not showing on the map at all. The one in Blackbough won't talk to me. Oh my god there is

I can't speak for someone else's words but I interpreted it the same as sclpls, which isn't that because games are in their culture infancy they can't provide an interesting or avant garde message, but rather because of how you must at some point actively interact with a game, if you make the themes difficult and also the verbs of the game difficult you may bar a potential audience from ever getting deep enough to explore the theme. It's that games have an added layer of muddling interaction, rather than cultural barriers specifically. Thank you for Witcher talk. I'm 25+ hours into the witcher, and I had a dream about the witcher, and all I want to hear about and play is the witcher. game is so good.

You're not going to be done with Velen for a long time. I was trying to finish up some quests, and there are question mark sites with ?? monsters sprinkled all over the place. Lots of quests wrap back around. Oh hey, random level 25 griffin! Question: IS THERE A DAMN BLACKSMITH? The only one marked on my map won't talk to me. I am using a level 1 silver sword. PLEASE SEND HELP

Yeah, this above is what I'm curious about, because And after I saw the fallout of my decision It prompted this.

That happened to me. Can I ask what decisions you made so we can compare?

Which one of these insects is most artisanal? Was the skybox rad?

HOLY CRAP the bloody baron storyline. Man.