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Walk your skinny little legs over to caloriecounter.com or whatever... look up different cuts of meat, and add + where appropriate. I am not doing it for you.

I bet he lives off illegally imported whale meat. That stuff is super lean (you need to cook it in like a kilo of butter). I promise I won't rat him out to the feds.

I... shouldn't even comment... You probably just asked for about the easiest diet in the world to design... just eat animal meat/organs and super fibrous veggies. That gets you a solid amount of protein and a ton of fat. Fat is way easier to come by, cheaper, and can be found in far more...

Right, but you don't get to change what things mean when speaking to other people because that just confuses everyone. Low-carb doesn't refer to the molecule your body biochemically uses for energy, it refers to what you eat.Ketosisspecifically refers to the biochemical nature of there that...

Did you read your own link or just the headline? The very first two sentences are: Seriously... Beyond that you are playing meaningless semantical games, a low-carb diet is not defined by your body's biochemistry, it is defined by what you put in your mouth. Unless you for some reason just...

You are confused, mixing ketogenic with low-carb diets. All ketogenic diets are low-carb diets but not all low-carb diets are ketogenic diets, I'd draw you a Venn diagram if I wasn't feeling lazy. The benefits of a low-carb diet go beyond just being in ketosis and include things like increased...

Caveat, I think everyone should "exercise", it is really good for you and we all should do it. The thing is though, exercise doesn't really help you lose weight, at least not directly and its overall impact is minimal compared to your diet. Most of your Calorie expenditure comes from your...

Nonsense. Unless you have some sort of existing medical condition that affects your liver or kidneys there is absolutely no risk to them with eating any amount of protein, let alone a "serious" one. And a "low carb" diet is just that... a carbs make up a "smaller" (exact amounts differ) % of...

Really? I mean, taste is subjective and all... but that looked incredibly boring and tedious to me. What did you like about it?

Sorry, I should have been more clear. I meant sweets you make yourself. So homemade pizza from base ingredients (including dough), but not including like a cake make the same way. But what the hell, throw sweets in there, you're probablystillbe better off in my opinion. Cooking yourself...

As to your co-worker, I totally agree she eats too much. But they question is why does she eat too much? I'd contend that what she is eating is the root cause of the overeating behavior. It really is hard to overeat enough to become obese on non-junk food. I don't even mean on carbohydrates...

Fair enough, although I am in the sugar is really bad camp. Although that camp involves the "fiber is a critical nutrient" camp and it is really hard to tease the two apart since they are pretty must inversely proportional in every food.

I hate this thread, but somehow can't stay away. It's like a grisly train wreck where after a few moments of looking away you glance back again only to be horrified anew. "Eat less, exercise more, calories in vs calories out" is terrible, horrible, awful advice. It is the Abstinence Only...

Maybe? That sounds extra doubly speculative to me. Not only do you have faith that whomever you are giving money to won't squander it but you are also betting it on the whims of publishers... all this based on a "game concept" which, unlike actual physical product concepts, are completely...

The only one that has cobbled together enough money solely through crowd-funding to fund a "traditional" PvE MMORPG I can think of is Chris Roberts for Star Citizen. The funding required for even small, niche, High-Fantasy MMORPG outstrips what you see on Kickstarter.

Does the smith machine use plates? If it does, you are probably better off just loading the plates onto a handle and doing sumo deadlifts.

Antarius generally has the right of it. The reason no one is making good "MMORPGs" anymore is because most the elements that made them awesome and special, and a genre of their own, have been integrated into other genres of games. They brought many things to the forefront of gaming...

It is because it is a failed experiment in a standard 3rd person MMORPG setting. It just didn't work and in retrospect is is a slightly obvious why it didn't. However, in a slightly different type of game where you have much more battlefield awareness itcouldwork. So maybe something like a...

I watched the video and got the exact opposite from it, it is a classic (and excellent) Firaxis expansion along the same lines as the ones available for Civ5 which have always been well worth the money. There is tons of new content, and I don't know what video you watched but TB himself during...

Well it isn't just a technical issue, I've come to think of it as a design issue. An individual player's impact is diluted the more people there are, and if there is say a giant battle with say 200 vs 200 people your contribution as an individual is 1/400th as opposed to say an awesome 10v10...

I am glad everyone else sees it as well, theideaof large scale PvP battles is awesome but the reality isn't anywhere close. And the player behavior behind it makes perfect sense. Force concentration & local superiority are basic military concepts that are simple but incredibly effective. If...

The trick is to design a system that is economically feasible but still offers a good PvP experience. Ultimately there are ways to design around it, but you sacrifice some things. For example, I think they should have ditched the idea of Cyrodil being 1 large, instanced, zone. Instead break...

That is not what happened at all, at least not in the time period I was there (before the first beta through the parking lot time). Not to mention nearly everything you mentioned in the first paragraph was there at launch. The game, as it was delivered in the very first Beta, was a complete...

I always thought this claim is funny, you deny in LoL as well except you do it by harassment/zoning. I always found it much more challenging and interesting to deny and creep at the same time in LoL as you are doing multiple different things simultaneously. Not to mention playing a denial game...

That sounds uncannily like a message from someone on Age of Conan circa 2007/2008

Elidroth is a friend of Brad's and has been even before he was in the industry. It makes sense that they would chat.

Plus it wasn't a labor cost estimation, it was a total cost estimation. It's just a ballpark estimate, one that is very commonly used in the industry by publishers, to get a general sense of what a project will cost. You use per person because bigger projects cost more and for software...

They probably did have that many, it is just that many of the variations were so minor they felt like the same map. Off the top of my head I can think of ~15 different map types, and 7 or 8 variations of each sounds reasonable. I think the problem is that the maps still repeated early on...

I am pretty sure that is just the groups of aliens patrolling, not the teleport bug. Although I never saw the teleport issue, my understanding is it had to do with aliens teleporting into or behind your troops on-screen.

Believe it or not I actually looked for the loan terms online to see how much the state was actually on the hook for. I could find neither an amortization schedule nor whether the terms allowed for the state to pay down the principle in a lump sum. So yea, take that part with a grain of salt...

So, in the interest of honesty and practicing what I preach I had a chat with the guy that handles server stuff about what it would cost to host a WoW clone. Quaid was actually quite a bit closer than I was. In the past 4-5 years or so the cost of hosting games has dropped by a ludicrous...

True. I was using a sub based monetization scheme with good subscriber numbers to give 38 the benefit of the doubt. Believe it or not if you can sustain 100k+ subscribers you would probably make more money than a free to play model on an expensive AAA MMORPG. It is also easier to make...

Well yes, that is my point. Even ignoring that KoA lost money (which I think was mostly EA's anyway), there is no way to make the numbers for the MMORPG work out. That extra 25 million over the already spent 50 million wouldn't have helped much and that money is better spent elsewhere. Either...

Umm... people cost more than you pay them... you know that right? I mean, their pay is most of what they cost but there are other things that cost money like... payroll taxes, health insurance, electricity, rent, computers, software, desks, chairs, free soda and so on. The average cost, per...

Blizzard has massive scale advantages and cost savings for doing most of the work themselves. 38 would have to pay for all of that managed hosting and up-time guarantees out of pocket for a much smaller pool of people. It is significantly more expensive.

I didn't ignore box sales, I included that in the post you apparently didn't read. Box sales would bring in about $30M net revenue which is a little more than the $25M extra money the state would have to pay, so that is essentially even. The sub and churn estimates I used to generate my...

What was incorrect exactly? Honestly, if we work together we can revise the numbers, improve the estimates, and more accurately prove you wrong.

I think the schadenfreude for this situation in particular comes from Curt's massive hypocrisy. One thing that really seems to go up people's gourds is someone not practicing what they preach. For others it is also a little more personal, since it was public money taxpayers feel cheated out of...

What probably happened is that someone told him the number of copies KoA:R needed to sell in order to make money for 38 and that number was 2x-3x higher than it did sell. From a purely practical standpoint thatisa flop. To Chafee that sounds like a failure, which makes sense as if someone told...