After I get my dogs spayed I'll look into a power tower. I didn't consider that in my thinking. I appreciate you mentioning it.

3 times a week is very doable. I'm disabled so I have tons of free time. I'll find some basic program online and stick to it for at least 6 months, then I can look back on my progress and decide if I want to change it up. When I started lifting I changed program so much I never knew what was what until one of the guys at the gym and I discussed it. He noticed I was changing it up too often. He kept to his plans for at least 3 months, usually 6 - he was doing German volume training at the time we had our discussion. That is some crazy volume.

Bing showed me a 6 month program on the first page, so I'm opening it in a browser. For weights, I know a lot of plans, but calisthenics I didn't pay attention to. Huh, it says I need a chin up bar - I'll hit home depot for the wood I need and get that all worked out. The dip bar I don't have, but someone told me basic benches for sitting/step up work aren't expensive. I believe you can do dips off them.

https://www.drworkout.fitness/calisthenics-workout-plan-for-beginners/

That's what I'm going to do. We'll see in 6 months how much I progress.

I also decided I'll work harder with the cardio. I got thinking what I'm doing might be me just doing what's comfortable.

I appreciate the help, good sir!

If you're interested in keeping players at least potentially in sync with each other, the way I came up with was to have one skill advance per session but you got to roll in your choice of order based on skills you meaningfully used (whether successfully or unsuccessfully) in game.   You kept rolling until you ran out or succeeding in upping a skill.   Any sessions where no roll was successful was "banked" for the next session(s) until it succeeded.  For example, if you failed two games in a row, you'd be able to roll potentially three increases on different skills if you got lucky after the third game.  It's not perfect as you'd still only increase an individual skill once in that third session (as opposed to potentially multiple times if repeatedly successful over multiple games) but at least the attempts we're lost completely and characters stayed roughly on par with each other.   This was a d20 system though so for percentile it may be better to have multiple successful rolls allowable per session due to the greater granularity there.

The outrage marketing thing is obviously not working any more if it ever worked.  These things are tanking.  Peter Pan & Wendy leaned heavily into the outrage marketing.  Peter Pan & Wendy fucking bombed.  It's the same strategy they used with The Little Mermaid remake and it fucking bombed too.  This strategy has been failing spectacularly since Ghostbusters (2016).  You might be able to get people talking about it on Youtube but that doesn't translate to people actually paying to see it. 

I think the "power tower" is around a couple hundred dollars and it allows deficit pushups, pullups, chin ups, dips and a few other calisthenics.  Even so, chin ups/pull ups bars are cheap and if you have a means to do dips (even if its balanced on the backs of chairs) are going to have an amazing bang for the buck in return on time and effort invested.
   I think having a full olympic set of weights at home is way down the road and probably not necessary at all for you to get waaaay stronger over the next couple of years.

  Worst case finding a natural place to do a pull up/chin up exist all over the place as well as the means to do dips (well built chairs allow full ROM dips).  Legs of course are harder without full resistance but air squats/rucking/sprinting go a long ways to building that strength to a very much improved degree. 

  For older people Strength should be their number one priority on any physical attribute until a baseline is reached.  Strength takes the longest to build and the longest to leave you.  It makes all other endeavors easier and more sustainable once a baseline is reached.  Point being hitting a few chins, air squats and dips 3 times a week and taking no more than 15-20 mins to get them in will be sustainable, build momentum and allow more dynamic/endurance based things (like running, rucking for distance, endurance activities) to be much easier to take on and sustain and build after a base of strength is developed.  ALL sport requires strength as a baseline component and the sport we are all in for the longest is Life.  Get the hard to develop attribute first and it builds momentum for all the other attributes that are easier to build (flexibility, endurance).  Pick something small and start sustainable.  The best time to start strength training was 5 years ago.  The second best time is today.

Quote from: Omega on April 25, 2024, 11:31:54 PMNo, it is not that at all. You could see that stuff without HD.

Aside from the cropping issue that has already been explained, a lot of older media was clearly never meant to be seen at 1080p.  Stuff that was visible if you were really looking closely is now plainly visible once something is upscaled.  It was common to tape pieces of black paper to the panels to block reflections in TNG.  It's not that noticeable in SD.  It's plainly visible in HD.  That wire attached to a prop that you couldn't really see on a VHS copy of a low budget movie shot on video is now plain as day when it's upscaled to HD.  You are seeing things that you were not meant to see.

The removal of motion blur by interpolation also causes issues.  A lot of older media was shot at 24 fps and was intended to be seen at 24 fps.  First, the images are spread out to up the frame rate to 30 fps.  Then those images are interlaced to get it to 60 fps to match the 60hz TVs common at the time.  Then you play it on your new 120hz or 240hz TV and the TV creates inbetween frames to increase the frame rate to match your TV.  So for a 120 hz TV, you now  have a frame rate that is 5x what the movie was intended to be seen at with more fake frames than real ones.  It's good for some thing like live sports but it makes movie not look like movies any more.

The show creators can fuck off. It's obviously not genuine and it doesn't undo what they did.

Fuck revelation. They should've continued the cgi cartoon instead. Fuck netflix.

I gave up on Castlevania, Picard, Invincible and a bunch of other shows because of the shitty writing and woke preaching. They can fuck right off to hell.

I'm glad they're going bankrupt. Hollywood and their shit streaming services can go to hell.

Quote from: Zalman on Today at 07:41:23 AMI watched this video because it has a person with a face in it. I have difficulty staying focused on the disembodied voice videos.

The notion that people regularly market games they haven't themselves played is a real head-scratcher to me. I agree this is a critical selling point!

Yeah, the number of RPGs being published where that isn't a central concern is crazy.

Quote from: BoxCrayonTales on April 25, 2024, 10:52:26 AMIf the woke hate white people and Europe, then write Afro Fantasy. It's really that simple. There's no shortage of African scholars who can explain it.

Writing something like that would be tip-toeing through a minefield now.  You couldn't get away with having one white guy write it.  That would be problematic appropriation.  You would need a black writer and at least one black diversity kommisar.  You would probably get anachronisms like Pan-Africanism or outright nonsense like Afrocentrism shoved in there.  It would probably have to revolve around current year talking points and how white people are bad.
 It would be implausibly utopian like Coyote & Crow because we can't put in anything that makes black people look bad even if it's a common human problem. You would certainly have to get rid of the slave trade in fantasy Africa.  You would be subject to intense scrutiny and probably accusations of racism no matter what you did.   

I watched this video because it has a person with a face in it. I have difficulty staying focused on the disembodied voice videos.

The notion that people regularly market games they haven't themselves played is a real head-scratcher to me. I agree this is a critical selling point!

That's a good amount of chin ups.

If I build a gym a chin up bar is first even if I suck at them. I was referring to weights for the cost - good olympic bar is what? $500? Then you need weight for it. But I might be over complicating matters.