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.

You don't need much of a home gym to get decently strong. I just have a chin-up bar and a pair of 7 kg dumbells and am in good enough shape to do five sets of twenty chin-ups. Not bad for being 43. Mostly focus on running though...

This is similar to how Call of Cthulhu does it.  It works but there are some problems.

It encourages players to roll as many checks for as many skills as possible hoping to get a success.  Characters will do things just to get rolls so they can maybe advance. 

Certain skills will go up much faster than others.  It will be whatever skills the GM calls for the most rolls with.  In CoC this is usually spot hidden, listen and library use.  Skills that rarely come into play will rarely if ever advance.   

Quote from: yosemitemike on Today at 01:07:32 AMI have had to quit every 40k group I am in on Facebook.  Discussion has been entirely consumed by people talking about female Custodes and another push by the woke types for female Space Marines.  That's the actual end goal here.  Custodes aren't prominent enough.  They weren't even an army you could play until 2018.  They want to make GW and the fandom accept female Space Marines when all of the existing lore says they can't exist.  They don't actually care about female Space Marines or anything else in 40k.  They care about making people comply.

Of course. The rubes belive it's about diversity and inclusion and making women feel "welcome", while the activists want to twist 40k so it fits their agenda to chog the thing up with horrible girlboss characters who fight the patriarchy. And fuck the people, men and women who actually like 40k for what it is.