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Until you take a rest, ja?

When I watched the clip, it seemed that Miyazaki was talking about something that was a) creepy, and b) a CGI attempt to have a computer "draw like a human", and that he opined that the creepy part was fine, but the "making a machine that can draw pictures like humans do" was his issue. Is the...

It felt pretty good physically. The positioning of the hack squat and leg press at PF right in the middle of everything between the Smith machines and the dumbbell benches do make me feel slightly socially uncomfortable, surrounded. :LOL: I felt a little self conscious doing such low weight...

IIRC my first 4e character used that trick.

Last night the gym was mobbed so I did some less accustomed machines after a warmup on the elliptical. Machine chest press, machine rows, and my first go at hack squats. I usually do leg press for my main quad exercise and do sets at close to three times my body weight, but this was another...

James Marsden drives with CGI anthropomorphic animals, soon to be completed.

I'm impressed by the tech, but Miyazaki is the absolute last artist I'd like to see used like this. It seems really perverse. I did watch this all the way through, and despite enjoying Miyazaki's style, I didn't like this spin on Jackson's Fellowship at all. The tone and feel is substantially...

Original Jackass years ago, but I watch so little TV that I normally don't make enough time for all the good shows I want to see. OTOH I can put on and listen to YouTube while I commute, so THAT makes up my filler content. Movie and song reaction videos are definitely my main junk...

Same. I do get annoyed at Matt occasionally. Sometimes he's simply wrong (and can be confidently so), or comes off a little condescending or dismissive. That's been a really infrequent note, though, and IME it's almost only ever in a livestream, where he's speaking off the cuff and doesn't...

I can definitely understand how any "sales pitch" style voice could be unappealing. I had an old wargaming buddy who did corporate sales for many years. Wine 'em, dine 'em, shmooze 'em style. And his overall speaking mode maintained a constant ingratiating tone which struck me as excessively...

I don't know if Matt's speaking style predated it, but IMO it's note perfect for the original video from the Running the Game series. It's a high energy, enthusiastic sales pitch for becoming a DM. Talking about how fun it is and how easy it can be, reassuring and enthused and eager to help...

I agree that characters are supposed to start out heroic, and that the game is designed and balanced around point-buy, so there's no harm in min-maxing. But starting with a 20 definitely isn't necessary.

I failed to get back to the gym last week, but on the plus side my hip and back have been in less and less pain, and I was finally able to sleep on my back and left side again starting Thursday, so that's a definite point in favor of the rest. That's roughly two weeks off before I went back to...

1st doesn't really spell out using grids for combat, but uses them for exploration, so formations naturally arise from marching order in the latter. Remember also that in 1E that how many combatants you can squeeze into a given space isn't a fixed number like in later D&D with 5' squares or...

There's definitely a unique joy of discovery for newbies who've never played. For the classic troll fire trope I'm normally happy to either A) rule that it's fine for players to use that knowledge if they know it, that it's part of common folk lore in game, or B) Re-skin the troll so the...

That's one of the reasons I like the folks I like. They are realistic about gear and HRT, talk openly about them and their downsides. Talk about how most supplements apart from protein and creatine are junk and snake oil, talk about how genetics is a big component and most influencers have...

QFT. I was SO disappointed. So many good ingredients let down by such awful writing.

Huh. The only thing I think I've seen him be a little bit out there on is some techno-utopian kind of stuff about medical science and about AI. I've only seen a couple of clips of him with Attia and it was really straightforward nutrition and exercise stuff. His video on lifting at different...

Well, RuneQuest also has Strike Ranks, doesn't it? Which means longer weapons getting to hit first is baked into the core of the combat system? Whereas that's the rule in D&D only in 1E, and only in the single round when combatants close to melee. Combine that with lower HP and a hit location...