Badfinger

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  1. Life

    GOOD LUCK! GOOD LUCK!!
  2. Life

    Help how do I simultaneously attempt to search for a rental and roommates at the same time. :[
  3. I Had A Random Thought...

    I love the taste/texture of dried pasta and cereals without milk. I'll eat a handful (box) of cheerios or life cereal as a snack. I have cut almost all cereal out of my diet, so the thought of just eating a bowl of kix or something is a strange treat.
  4. I Had A Random Thought...

    I also have no compunction not to give someone shit for ordering beef well done. It is a personal affront to ruin food like that. (I am mostly joking but I am still gonna tease you) Food preferences are weird.
  5. I Had A Random Thought...

    I had a roommate whose girlfriend's palate was so narrow it basically boiled down to hamburgers/cheeseburgers, ketchup as the only condiment, and plain and pepperoni pizza. If she ate other things in private at her home I have no idea. We were invited to a Mardi Gras house party with New Orleans style cooking, I remember it being amazing food, and we literally had to stop at a fast food restaurant on the way there so she could get food before we went to dinner. That is what I think of when I think of picky eaters, someone whose view of food was is so narrow that it could potentially not be supported by basic American-style restaurants because they didn't serve the right kind of plain hamburger. I was an incredibly picky eater when I was young. I hated... sauce. Like, all sauce. You know how some kids will get buttered noodles instead of a proper pasta sauce? Nope, dry. Plain cooked pasta on my plate. Chinese food was a nightmare for which I have apologized to my parents profusely. No dressings on salad (I still do not care for a lot of salad dressings and sandwich dressings). And it was such a shame, because my mother was an amazing cook whose food I whined about and squandered on so many occasions. At some point when I was a teenager I decided that hey maybe I should eat food and broke out of it. There's still a bunch of shit I don't like but I'm never somewhere I won't find something interesting.
  6. Idle Food - Cooking!

    Still no regrets from buying one.
  7. I Had A Random Thought...

    I would suggest this is thoroughly debatable. You're buying a crock pot and a blender. I'm willing to bet with even the tiniest output of effort and willingness to accept suggestions you could find things that are healthy that also taste good. Taste good to you, specifically!
  8. The Witcher 3: What Geralt Wants

    I think it auto-locks you for "boss" fights. Another combat tip- if there is room to do so and you're facing a lot of enemies (best against humanoids), go at them with your horse. You seemingly do more damage, and they have a much lower chance to block. I have not touched Gwent, because I'm already in a really deep "playing the witcher" hole as it is.
  9. I Had A Random Thought...

    Oh, that's easy. It's because it's simple, people are ignorant about nutrition, and they're gullible as fuck. Have you ever heard of bone broth? Bone broth, the hottest new food trend that will make you healthy. Discovered recently, in the 2010s! IT'S FUCKIN SOUP. People are selling a tiny amount of stock, a thing people made to wring all the extra nutrition out of food they weren't serving on the table, for like $9 a cup and calling it a revolution. People will buy anything they think will be a shortcut to health. It's your choice not to look for advice, but I answered some of your questions right there. It doesn't need to be a published medical journal document to show that eating food is good for you. Food that's good for you doesn't have to taste bad.
  10. I Had A Random Thought...

    If you'd like I can ask for some research or info for you, Twig. As for where my info comes from re: don't use supplements and eat food for food, it's my sister who is a doctor with an undergrad in nutrition and before she passed away my mother who was a dietitian. I was drinking a protein shake after working out and I got a verbal wrist slap. This is a pretty good general nutrition guideline. If you want to lose weight, tl;dr - multiply your weight by 10. Maintaining weight multiply by 14, gain multiply by 16. Eat those calories. Shoot for 1g protein per pound, .25-.3g fat per pound, 100g minimum carbs per day, eat every vegetable you want but if you put stuff on them you better know what you're eating. If a person is really overweight (over 250 and you are not a football man, or 200 and a football lady) target 2500 and 2000 calories respectively. Guess what? Peas rule. Eat some damn peas, they have good fiber and a surprisingly decent amount of protein. Complex carbohydrates are basically things that are not refined sugar. Whole grain bread, pasta, starchy root veggies (potatoes, sweet potatoes, turnips), legumes like lentils and beans, rice. Lean protein is like, a piece of chicken or fish or beef. Lean or whole is just me saying you're targeting the protein specifically. That doesn't mean you can't eat a chicken sandwich, it means the chicken on the sandwich is your whole protein and the rest of the sandwich is something else and should be counted accordingly including the breading if it's breaded. http://www.caloriecount.com/ is a resource I really like. If you don't want to weigh and measure shit, just find your calorie goal and make sure to track packages so you're eating the right amount and you'll lose, maintain, or gain weight based on what you want to do.
  11. Idle Workouts

    I do a similar set of exercises with a different type of program. I'm doing Stronglifts 5x5, which is squats, deadlift, bench, overhead press, and rows. If I had time I would add in dips and chin/pull ups. It starts you at a beginner level, adds weight every week, and you do 5 sets of 5 reps per exercise except deadlift, which is a 1x5. It and things like Starting Strength are beginner programs that can start you from a completely empty bar. I had done it some last summer, but decided to deload and start from a much lower weight. On January 27th I did a 105lb deadlift, and adding weight much more conservatively than the program wants because of time restrictions, on April 27th I did my bodyweight at 225. Highly recommended if you have access to a weight rack. Compound, full body exercises are amazing for you. I've also figured out my squat form is TERRIBLE and I don't really know the best way to fix it. Butt wink for days. :/
  12. The Witcher 3: What Geralt Wants

    Btw Geralt is Sword Batman. It is cool to get two Batman games in one year. e: if anyone is having trouble with combat, try not locking on. You still have a "combat" state where you sort of auto-face combatants, and instead of making you dive through 7 dudes because it swapped the lock to the furthest away person and now you're reloading from your last save point, attacks will go after the closest opponent.
  13. Life

    Hi Grayson! I'm so glad you're finding some happiness. You can always reach out around here, but just cause you're not posting doesn't mean you're not part.
  14. I Had A Random Thought...

    It is weird to think this needs to be said in 2015 (at large, not here necessarily), but something that is actually very efficient and healthy for delivering nutrition to humans is food. Basically everything else is bad at it and you shouldn't use those things. Centrum is doing fuck all for your phosphorus intake. Don't take supplements! I suggest eating food to supplement your food intake. "help how do i get all my vitamins and minerals?!" Fruits, vegetables, complex carbohydrates and whole proteins.
  15. The Witcher 3: What Geralt Wants

    This game... goes on forever. I am level 9. I have quests and recipes for level 30+. I am twenty hours into the game. Granted, some of it is from reloading after dying over... and over, and I haven't skipped any dialogue. But there's so much video game here. HOLY SHIT.
  16. I Had A Random Thought...

  17. Meow.

    Also me, when contemplating Nabokov.
  18. I can't imagine the nightmare of having someone on a personality driven video games site starting their job two (three?) weeks before E3.
  19. From the outside of the industry looking in, it honestly feels like the hilariously overwrought secrecy surrounding game announcements and development is driven in it's largest part because it's What We've Always Done. In the age of kickstarter, by attempting to fund a game you are announcing it. We are past the point where people who follow games wouldn't grasp 2+ years of development. I understand not wanting a leak before you know for sure production on a game is happening, but hiding it for months or years is just silly. It also seems like it could be incredibly hard on all the people who want to talk about the awesome thing they're doing but can't. In the past I might have understood because certain companies could have hidden a game's existence to try to protect some sort of proprietary development technique, but that thought today is absurd. I don't have the data that shows me hiding a thing and making a big announcement generates more interest than long term development. I'll grant it's possible that for small projects you have to make a big splash or it's gone, but arguments exist both ways (Firewatch dev blog, Gunpoint full development cycle, etc). For the big game publishers it truly feels like kids trying to hide something to feel special. Fallout 4 exists you guys, we know it exists. Doom 4 has been announced for literally 7 years now but we all still want to know what it is. With that said, massive levels of hypocrisy incoming. When companies pull off the Announce Game -> Release Date in 1 month trick it is a nuclear explosion of excitement. The thing is that no one's doing that, they're just exposing the last 18 months of production instead of all 36 months.
  20. Life

    Ew, don't not go to movies because people are assholes. Go or don't on your own merit. Someone who gets upset at stifled coughs is going to find a way to be a furious jerkoff no matter what.
  21. I Had A Random Thought...

    When I'm really sticking to my diet, I can eat extremely healthy for about $5 a day. The biggest hitters in that cost are yogurt for breakfast and cheese. If you buy carbs (bread) that's also more expensive than potatoes or rice.
  22. Idle Workouts

    I disagree to a pretty high degree about that. Yoga can be incredibly intense. If you want to really invest yourself, just yoga can go a long way to fitness. Not free, but I was recommened an app called Yoga Studio, and I have really enjoyed using it the few times I've done so. I don't know if it's available for non-apple platforms, but I like it. If you want to supplement yoga, agreed that running and bodyweight exercise are both beneficial and can take you a long way too. Bodyweight is stuff like pushups, sit ups, burpees, squats, etc. I might go so far as to say the biggest factor in getting fit is commitment rather than what you're committing to doing (as long as you're being safe and doing something with actual health benefits).
  23. I feel like I've become That Gamer. In recent months, I have played League of Legends to the exclusion of other games. I will load up a podcast (I'm going to start an Idle Thumbs Relisten podcast soon) and play Spelunky or Necrodancer or Nuclear Throne. I listen to the baseball game while I play Elite. I realize that's not a single game, but just due to the immense weight of games crushing down on me from my Steam Library I have all of those at my disposal. If I didn't, I could easily make due with just one or two of them. I have Witcher 3 waiting for me when I get home, but the low impact of booting up Elite and flying space ships instead of learning a whole new game is so alluring.
  24. Oh man I have years and years of old Computer Games Strategy Plus that I know the exact location of. I wonder what kind of gross garbage is in there.