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  1. 4 hours ago, El Diablo said:

    Just wondering why any diet would require special considerations. I never experienced dehydration or lack of salt when eating what would be considered a "normal" diet. Kinda weird.

    For every 1g of carbs you eat your body holds onto like 3+g of water.  When you go off the carbs, your body starts letting go of a lot of water.  Electrolytes go with the water.

    Get a lot of salt.  Make sure to get a good amount of potassium.  Take a magnesium supplement, especially for cramps.  You'll be good to go.

     

  2. That was a quick hearing. The Nevada State Athletic Commission and Canelo Alvarez's team reached an adjudication agreement before Wednesday's hearing and it was adopted unanimously (5-0) by the commission: Canelo gets a one-year suspension, but because he has cooperated it is suspended to six months, as per the commission rules allow. He will eligible to fight Aug. 17, six months from the date of his first positive test. This means he can fight a rematch with middleweight world champion Gennady Golovkin in September assuming GGG defeats substitute opponent Vanes Martirosyan on May 5.

     
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  3. Just finished a 3-day fast.  Feel fucking phenomenal.  I normally walk 3 miles a day, but I had so much energy during the fast I upped it to 6 miles. 

    And to break the fast?  Yeah, Whataburger Triple Meat Triple Cheese w/ bacon, jalapenos, avocado, and no bun.  Then I crushed a bag of pork rinds.  Felt like I could take on the entire Empire by myself.

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  4. 51 minutes ago, Moby Ric said:

    Just can't figure it out.  Been doing the same routine for 11 weeks and every week I have lost weight.  This week I gain it.

    Stalls happen no matter what kind of workouts/diet you are doing.

    I'm doing keto, only eating one meal a day, every other week or so throwing in a 2 day fast, and walking 3+ miles a day.  All while eating less than 2k cals a day because I'm never fucking hungry.  Literally have to force myself to eat.  You know what my weight does?  Up a bit one day.  Static the next.  Static the next.  I start getting pissed off.  Then, wham, I'll lose three pounds. 

    The fat you burn will get replaced with water.  You'll carry that water around with you for days or a week or more until your body decides to dump it.  I would only get concerned about a stall if it went on for more than 2 weeks.  If that happened, then I'd consider adjusting my macros, calorie intake, workouts, etc.  Most likely if you stick to what you're doing you're going to see a bigger loss next week.

    Just my 2 cents. 

  5. 5 minutes ago, PittsburghTiger said:

    I was talking to The Germans, as we call them in our family, and Mickey said their announcers said no foul. Of course, they hate Spain and all things Spanish, except for the beaches. I think our announcers were pretty spot on with a foul in the back. I would not have called it for what happened in front. I think he did push him.

    As for Buffon I think he deserved the Red. He was pushing at the ref's back and screaming in his head. You just can't go crazy like that. 

    I am rooting for Bayern. But they have to play a lot better than they did against Seville.

    What a crazy game.

    The penalty was justified.  He pushed him in the back, kicked him in the chest, and never touched the ball.

    Ronaldo's penalty was a beauty.  Keeper had zero chance even if he knew where Ronaldo was going to put it.

    Poor Gigi.  Pulling a Zidane at the end of his career.

  6. 11 hours ago, Rimbo said:

    When I'm taking about facts, I'm taking about the things that actually happened in the movie and what comprises good movie making.

    Look, it's okay not to like the movie. Just don't try to claim that, because you didn't like it, that it's because it is a badly made movie. That's like saying that Rush are poor musicians because you don't like their music. Or that Igor Stravinsky was a terrible composer because you hated Rite of Spring..

    Except it is a poorly made movie.

    I just fucking explained how shitty the opening sequence was from a movie making perspective.  Past that, there are numerous other portions of the film that are just outright poorly done.  The entire Casino Planet subplot doesn't fit.  Almost everyone agrees that it looked like something out of the Prequels.  It should have never been in there.  The overly stupid "Holdo has a secret plan (which gets almost everyone killed anyway) and won't tell Poe because reasons" is also just bad movie making.  It's one of the worst TV tropes there is.

    Idiot Plot

    I've liked all of Johnson's other work.  I was really excited for this movie because he was at the helm.  But he blew it.  Whether that was because of Disney interference or because he couldn't handle a project this big, I don't know.  He clearly wanted to break the mold of Star Wars, which is cool and all, but he just did a poor job.  From the tone, the awful humor, the basic structure of the film, the nonsensical plot, all the way down to how he handled the characters. 

    Be honest with yourself, man.  In 20 years are people going to remember jack shit about this film?  Other than it was where Luke noped the fuck out and became a Force Ghost?  No.  This movie is going to be an afterthought that only gets mentioned when people rank all the Star Wars films and put it right above the Prequels.  I think the only thing people are going to really remember from this film is the green titty milk.  It'll be a joke where people go "Remember that time Luke drank green milk out of an alien's tit?  Yeah, I can't believe they fuckin' did that silly shit."

     

     

  7. 23 minutes ago, Rimbo said:

    OK, let's get this one out of the way right: Critics hated the prequels when they came out. And assuming this is some kind of Disney Conspiracy is a flawless example of having stupid objections that do not fit the facts.

    Without quoting your whole mess:

    First off, this is an extremely heavy movie. It needed humor as often as possible.

    Second, Hux is not now, and has not ever been, The Villain, nor was he ever, nor meant to be, "intimidating." He was a character abused and ridiculed in VII, and he continues that role here. He is yet another in a long line of Bureaucrat leaders that the REAL leaders, guys with names like Darth and Emperor, force-choke and abuse at will. Sure, he gave a "speech" in Episode VII -- where he sounded like a lunatic child in over his head... an outright buffoon. He wasn't intimidating at all. He looked like someone having an orgasm over having The Galaxy's Biggest Laser. He's playing power games with Kylo Ren and Phasma, as if he's not old enough to handle the power.

    And there it is again, as I said before: The "it's just a bad film" rhetoric, which cannot possibly stand scrutiny against facts and often even a mere second viewing of the film.

    If you were somehow hoping by your response to demonstrate the Error Of My Ways, you could have at least avoided two things I explicitly called out previously when I mocked your foolish point of view.

    For Christ's sake, guys. The kind of post I made above should be a softball for Internet Arguing, easily teed off upon. The last thing you should end up doing is actually fulfilling my caricature.

    No reason to be a cunt.  Especially over a silly, corporatized, test marketed, mass appeal movie.

    Also, you sound like a political zealot refusing to listen to anyone who dares give an opposing viewpoint which matter shatter your ideology.

    And like most political zealots you misrepresent your opponent's argument to try and score points.  Never did I say Hux was "THE VILLAIN."  I said he was A villain and supposed to be intimidating.  An over-the-top villain, yes, but a villain none-the-less. 

    Remind me, Rimbo, since you're clearly such a Star Wars expert.  Were any of the bureaucrats in the OT the butt of ridiculous jokes?  How about the guy who held ultimate power for the regular ol' humans in the Empire just like Hux in the new films, Grand Moff Tarkin?  Disposable?  Sure.  Playthings to make Vader look more badass?  Sure.  Never just used for comic relief, though.  Besides, Hux clearly isn't just another bureaucrat like those dudes from the OT.  Those guys had all of like two minutes screen time.  Hux is clearly a main character that the films invest serious time in.

    And there it is again, as I said before: The "it's just a bad film" rhetoric, which cannot possibly stand scrutiny against facts and often even a mere second viewing of the film.

    Are you even listening to yourself?  Or am I getting trolled and I just don't know it?  Facts?  In regards to a fucking movie.  A piece of art which can only be judged subjectively. 

    And just to cap this off, here's the opinion of the greatest movie critic of all time on the worst Star Wars movie of all time:

    Ebert fucking LOVED Phantom Menace

     

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  8. 46 minutes ago, Rimbo said:

    We'll just have to agree to disagree.

    There's a reason -- a bunch of reasons, really -- why the critics gave it such an overwhelmingly high rating (91% on the Tomatometer, and 96% among Top Critics).

    I mean, if this thread is going to be an echo-chamber of people going:

    Dumbfuck A: Oh God, that movie was SO STUPID.
    Dumbfuck B: I know, right? It was JUST DUMB. And I hated that Korean chick, she was fat.
    Dumbfuck C: Movie was THE WORST.
    Someone Else: I really enjoyed how they set up the theme of failure and growth with all of the principals, how each was the person they needed to become at the end, and showing exactly how they had to learn from...
    Dumbfuck A: NO IT'S STUPID AND YOU ARE STUPID. Also I hate Fat Korean Chick.
    Dumbfuck D: Why couldn't this movie have been GOOD?

    Yeah, not really interested in participating in that kind of discussion.

    If the movie's so stupid, why is it that the people who hate it can't really intelligently explain what they dislike about it? Y'all keep mentioning "plot holes," and yet no one ever mentions what those plot holes supposedly are, usually because as soon as someone does, someone with an actual brain shows where if you actually paid attention to the movie, there was no plot hole there.

    Critics gave it a high rating because it's Disney and Star Wars.  Disney owns most of the critics and you don't badmouth Star Wars as a critic unless you want to start getting death threats and/or be out of a job.  All of the Prequel films had awesome reviews from the critics when they came out.  So critic ratings mean exactly jack fucking shit in regards to Star Wars.

    And plenty of us have intelligently explained why the movie was trash.  It's just over on Shaggy instead of here because this film came out months ago.

    But to be fair I'll just reiterate one valid complaint I had that occurs right at the start of the film.

    We start the movie off with General Hux (a psychotic Space Nazi who is supposed to be intimidating) about to annihilate some Rebels on Random Planet X.  They have a fancy Dreadnought ship that is going to fry all these fine folks we're supposed to be rooting for.  Then, our hero, Poe Dameron shows up and we're excited because he's going to save the day.  We have stakes, tension, and a great start to the movie.  Except then Poe literally crank calls Hux.  He then makes a "Your Mama" joke at Hux's expense.  Hux goes from confused to petulant child.  This is all played for laughs.  Then, immediately after Poe is single-handedly taking on the Dreadnought and Fat Korean Chick's sister and the Rebel's entire bomber fleet is getting massacred.  Culminating with Fat Korean Chick's sister having to martyr herself to drop the bombs and save the people on the planet.

    So, there are so many things wrong here.  Some from a standpoint of the Star Wars universe, but many from just a basic film making perspective.

    First, you don't emasculate your villains at the start of a movie.  General Hux is the guy who gave a Hitler-like speech in the previous film and gave the order to annihilate the entire Republic.  He's a bad dude who runs an army of brainwashed killers.  We're supposed to see him as a bad guy.  He's supposed to be at least somewhat intimidating.  But here he's made to look like a complete bumbling idiot.  He has now lost all the menace he'd gained from the first film.  Johnson cut the legs out from under this character in the first five minutes.

    Second, a crank call?  Really?  Star Wars has always used humor.  That's fine.  But it was contained to snark, comebacks, and one-liners.  To really get a grip on how awful this whole joke sequence was, imagine if Lucas had decided that Luke or Han or someone needed to crank call Grand Moff Tarkin before he blew up Alderaan or was about to blow up Yavin and we had Tarkin screaming and yelling like a child during the entire thing after seeing him cool, calm, and collected earlier on.

    Third, the tone is just all over the damn place.  First we're worried about the Rebels on the planet.  Then we're supposed to be laughing hysterically at Poe pulling Hux's pants down.  Then we immediately jump into heavy drama shit with the Rebel bombers getting wrecked and Fat Korean Chick's sister having to martyr herself.  So am I supposed to be laughing, or concerned for the well-being of the Rebels, or what?  Am I supposed to be taking this seriously or is it all just a joke? 

    And this all happens at the very beginning of the movie.  It only gets worse from there.  I didn't have a problem with Johnson trying to do something different.  Problem is, he just made a bad movie.  I don't agree with the decisions he made in regards to where he took the characters/story, but it would have worked if he'd actually made a good film.  Instead this ended up looking like it was directed by some dude right out of film school who couldn't handle the pressure and who needed a more experienced hand backing him up. 

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  9. 1 minute ago, ajax said:

    Holdo was being trained as a Jedi by Leia. Just wait, in the next movie after Rey triumphs over the First Order she will be standing aside the Force ghosts of Leia, Holdo, and maybe Potato Tico.

     

     

    Laura Dern was literally the worst thing about TLJ.  And that's saying something considering we had awful jokes and forced humor, nonsensical plotting, the complete betrayal and destruction of one of the most iconic characters in film, that annoying asian gal, and green titty milk.

     

     

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  10. On 3/27/2018 at 9:19 AM, Captainant said:

    I really REALLY hope that piranha games doesn't fuck up MW5. I used to play the shit out of MWO until they failed to deliver any features besides more paid mechs and monetizations.

    Although they also had some real issues with weapon balance as you are effectively able to put all of your shots on the exact same pixel every time easy peasy. And since they're using tabletop as the basis for weapon damage... it gets out of hand real fast and people were building some monstrosities in the mechlab that were absolutely OP. I haven't followed the game much in the last couple years but I really hope they did away with ghost heat and all of the fuckery they resorted to in attempting to balance their multiplayer

    Since I'm a masochist (and because I love Mechwarrior) I'm still playing MWO.

    Basically the game is just "Hey, here's a new mech" every month.  Skill tree last summer was abysmal.  Faction warfare is a joke. 

    They're about to release Solaris and I'm hoping that pans out, but I'm not going to hold my breath.  They're pretty much just milking the whales in MWO until they get MW5 finished.

    The very first PC game I ever played was MW2.  My parents got me my own PC and there was a binder of games that came with the computer.  I saw the Timby on the front with all the flames and thought it looked cool.  A few cutscenes later and I was hooked.  Not gonna lie.  I still listen to the soundtrack from that game. 

  11. On 4/6/2018 at 4:56 PM, longhornmatt said:

    Also, this esteemed debate is a worthy successor to Jefferson-Hamilton, Lincoln-Douglas, James Baldwin vs. William F. Buckley, and every other fabled match between masters of thought and rhetoric in our great history.  I’m so proud to live to see Hannity vs. Kimmel take center stage in our politics.

    It's a shame dueling with pistols isn't a thing anymore.  If we were lucky, they'd kill each other and we'd all be better off.

  12. I just love how after 9/11 we let the government basically do w/e the fuck it wanted.  So we got the Patriot Act, trillions spent on unending wars, and we invented a new Department out of thin air that seems redundant as all fuck. 

    Department of Homeland Security?  Isn't that what the military does already?  Protect the homeland.  Or ya know, the FBI who are supposed to investigate shit inside America and catch the bad guys.  Nah, we need a whole other Department which just sucks down taxpayer dollars like a black hole and which does, what exactly?

    Oh, I guess it's the beta version of what will eventually become the Ministry of Love.  Nice. 

  13. On 4/3/2018 at 2:07 PM, bwub60 said:

    Malazan book of the fallen by Steve Erickson. Would have to be a series 

    I second the Dark Elf Trilogy. The underdark is the best part of all the Drizzt books.

    Talking about unfilmable shows.  BotF would be amazing, but how would you ever put that on the screen? 

    Maybe one day when AI takes over all this will be possible on the cheap.

  14. People have to remember that NFL GMs are idiots and that the Draft ain't fair.

    Jamaal Charles went in the 3rd round after like 6 mediocre as fuck RBs.  He's the all-time leader in YPC. 

    There's always some guys that go in the 6th and 7th rounds that end up being franchise, All-Pro talents. 

    Poona is gonna be fine.  Dude is a monster.  We're going to be seeing a lot of him on Sundays for a long time.

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