XPRTNovice
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Check out www.bodeefit.com
It's like Crossfit but less impact and less equipment required. At least, as far as I can tell. More bodyweight manipulation. I did today's WOT and it was pretty rough.
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Made it! You should have 2 originals from me.
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I really wanted to do something totally bizarre to What?! but I ran out of time. Oh well.
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the price is only gonna go up, if i were you i'd bite the bullet and pay the 120 for it now rather than 300 later
Yeah, you might be right. I just can't justify that...I'm going to have to mug someone at a con or something.
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Well yeah, don't you remember the incredibly high amount of hype this game got? Combine that with Gamestop being the only place to get it conventionally and one wonders why you didn't get it when you had the chance.
As much of a geek as I am, I don't follow the pulse of the video game market to really have understood what was going on, unfortunately. I'll get it eventually.
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I can't find this game aaannnnyyywwwaarrree without paying stupid money for it. Every time I ask at Gamestop they laugh at me.
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I'll be polishing mine and subbing in an 11th-hour fashion later today...deadline is midnight, right?
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Very nice.
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Nerd nerd nerd, T-cells, nerd
Yeah, that's an interesting perspective that makes sense to me biologically. I'm also doing immunotherapy weekly, so my immune system is getting a challenge on a gradient.
I'll tell you what - you call my wife and explain to her why I smell and why I'm not doing dishes properly, and we'll give this a go
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What exactly was your diet like prior to trying out Whole 30?
My wife is Paleo by necessity, as I've explained before, and she made my meals. So, I was probably 70% paleo, but if/when I wanted something with gluten or sugar, I would eat it. A typical day might be a protein shake for breakfast, yogurt with fruit and nuts for a snack, a salad with some meat in it for lunch, a banana with some almond butter in the afternoon, and then whatever my wife made for dinner that day. In the evenings I might have something like a cookie or a brownie or something, but not always. Beer and wine were regular, and pasta was maybe once every 10 days. Going out to eat I ate whatever the hell I wanted. Sometimes I'd have bread or rice or white potato with dinner or some beans.
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Lastly - VFF Bilkakalalal or whatever are available on Woot for $27 today.
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Keep in mind that Marks "Primal Blueprint" is INTENDED for fat loss, not for bulking or for strength-training. So yeah, depending upon what your goals are, that could be the perfect plan for you, or it could be a little off-base.
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I know Mark Sisson himself actually plays Ultimate Frisbee in VFFs (or barefoot). I wonder which model he uses? Which do you use? I think I have KSOs, can't remember off-hand.
Never answered these, sorry. First, I'm pretty happy with where I am weight wise, though I could stand to gain another 5-10 pounds max. I have about 8% body fat. My chest looks a little 11-year-old-girl ish, but I can live with that. So my real goal is to be PRAGMATICALLY FIT by wasting MINIMAL AMOUNTS OF MY FREE TIME. Very primal mentality, so Mark works for me.
Regarding the VFF; I have the Bilkilallalal or whatever. Wife got them for me for $30 on a sale. I'm still happy with the running aspect of them - sprinting in them makes me feel like I'm on a speeding train - but they keep doing weird things when I try to do anything non mainstream like parkour. I feel like they have the POTENTIAL to be awesome, but maybe I don't have the right model. If I got ones that laced up on top, I think that would eliminate the slippage problem. Too bad VFF names all their shoes stupid cool-guy names like See Ya and Kso (Japanese for 'shit'?) instead of describing what they're good for
I don't want to spend 30 minutes trying to figure out which one works. -
So, I am now officially 2 weeks into Whole 30.
Honestly, I feel no different at all, and I'm not sure I experienced any adjustment period (flu-like symptoms from die-off, etc). Maybe that's because I ate relatively healthy prior to switching, but I'm not bristling with energy or feeling like I could move mountains or anything. My allergies are still persistent as well (though I know 2 weeks aren't going to do much but it was the only reason I wanted to try this diet).
It's mostly annoying. My parents came into town to visit their new granddaughter and my dad brought a 12 pack of beer and pizza. It was a major, major bummer, since most of the good times I've had with my family revolve around awesome food that isn't necessarily good for you. The diet, so far, has done nothing except put a damper on social gatherings and make eating out the most annoying thing I've ever done in my life. [/bitterness]
And I really want to smoke my f@%#@g hookah while I'm composing.
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Paranoia Agent was awesome, though. It's literally about how moe is rotting Japanese culture from within. (Okay, it's more like how moe is a symptom of that, not a cause, but still.) It's trippy as balls, but there is actual meaning behind the craziness, unlike a lot of trippy-for-trippiness's-sake anime.
See, yeah, I'm not in touch enough with Japanese culture to even know what Moe was, except that I have an uncle named Moe and I was pretty certain he wasn't ruining Japan. I think he has the potential to ruin Japan, but right now he lives too far away. I had to look it up.
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Gantz was one of the most effed up ones I ever saw. I actually thought it had the potential to get really good but I remember hearing that the anime got cancelled before it could tell the full manga story, so the ending was awful.
Also Paranoia Agent was really strange, too. Shooooonen Baaatuna!
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Just out of curiosity, have you made the deal potable yet? I.e. are you paying people or doing anything from your end to make it worth it for an artist? So far I've seen lots of "we're committed" but not "it'll be worth it for you."
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even before i learned japanese i preferred subs because the intonation was infinitely more believable, even though i couldn't understand the words. saying 'i don't get it' is a lame coverup for 'i have no interest in trying to pay attention'
real talk
Flex those forum muscles! Sorry for being so lame, and thanks for judging.
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There's a bunch on VOTL that would fit the bill. Adrenaline Kick (though I think the spelling is off) is a good one for that.
Oh, and you should listen to Shinra Shuffle. That's kind of a bebop FF7 tune. We're also in the middle of an OCR Big Band project, if that ever gets off the ground.
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Great article, thanks for posting.
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I'll watch dubs 99% of the time. I cannot name an anime where I'd rather watch it subbed than dubbed. (Actually, I take that back -- I need to rewatch Gundam Wing subbed instead of dubbed, because I hear Heero doesn't use emotionless monotone in Japanese. But that was a deliberate choice, which means it was a bad directorial decision, not bad acting.)
I generally don't give a shit whether you like dubs or subs as long as you aren't all "zomg dubs are teh suck, watch animu like it was MEANT to be seen!", but seriously? Calling Cowboy Bebop, Ghost in the Shell, or Gurren Lagaan poorly dubbed?
Madness.
Agree. Here's my argument as to why I don't like subbed: I don't understand the Japanese language. Therefore, I don't understand subtleties in intonation, inflection, etc. Therefore, I am missing out on a significant portion of the real meaning of the dialog and the emotion behind it if I listen to Japanese people doing it. Of course, that means that you need a translation that incorporates the appropriate feeling into English intonation, which doesn't always happen. That, and, in general, Japanese voice actors annoy the piss out of me.
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I'm not 100% about the game engine. After reading this, I'm going to have to get some more information about the project and get back to you. In the meantime, thanks for the advice and help. I might be taking you up on those sample things. Artistically, I have almost no interest in doing chiptune stuff, but it might be a good skill for me to have.
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I find this particularly frustrating because trackers are overly difficult pieces of crap whose influence is buoyed primarily by elitist cockgobblers unable to process that anything other the most hardcore method of making that music is worth even the slightest acknowledgement.
I kind of got this impression as I was searching the web for how to do chiptunes. I get the nostalgia thing about using antiquated methods to create antiquated music, but I don't use an abacus to solve old math problems.
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So I've seen some threads on here that sort of skirt this issue, but I'm looking to make a chiptune based on one of my own arrangements so that it can be included in an 8-bit video game of sorts.
I read all these things about trackers, etc - is that really even necessary? Can I just use samples and program it into a DAW like normal music (in which case, is there a good repository of chiptunelike samples)? I would like to experiment, but I don't really feel like learning a whole new area of production with trackers and other programs with which I am not familiar, particularly when I'm still a neophyte in the non-chiptune realm.
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. It may be that we were working on our relationship without knowing it simply by evolving together as people, but we've never had to think or talk about any huge issues in terms of compromise or "we need to solve this in order to stay together".
I think this is more of it. If you get to the point where you're saying to each other "we need to solve this in order to stay together" then you've already gone waaaay too long without putting effort into your relatonship. Work doesn't mean concentration camp - it means solid effort into being compassionate, honest, and good communication. It sounds like your situation allows you to do that very easily. Many people aren't lucky enough to have that situation.
Orchestral templates
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I almost never use the same orchestration twice, and I've been continually upgrading and changing my samples, so a template doesn't make sense for me just yet. I've definitely thought of it though.