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  1. Eidal

    The Sci-Fi Book Thread

    Hard for me to trust a man using "deconstruct" multiple times in a post. https://xkcd.com/451/
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    Weight Loss Thread

    Ehh I only have a vague idea of the mechanisms in question but my newb understanding is that A) the body really doesn't want to eat its own muscle because the process is hugely inefficient, but it will if it has to, and B) you can only "tap" up to a certain amount of calories in a time period...
  3. Eidal

    Overwatch

    Pretty sure CS:GO would give extra "points" if the outnumbered team won rounds. OW should do the same thing, but pro-rate it. No way should someone leaving near the end of a map take a sizable amount of glory from the victor. I hope that and supports getting the shaft on elo get changed soon.
  4. Eidal

    Overwatch

    As others have already pointed out, every "wahh elo hell" scrub will turn that shit on since their team is the only thing holding them back from great glory. Everyone who has a single bad game with someone lower ranked than them will turn it on. Everyone who gets womped by someone on the other...
  5. Eidal

    Weight Loss Thread

    That's unlikely to happen until you're substantially more lean. Once you're sub 15% you probably don't want to be cutting fast (over 1lb/week) any longer.
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    Overwatch

    This is partially a function of the season being new. All ladders are pretty jacked up the first week or two when they launch. LoL was even a few seasons deep when the matchmakers somewhat knew where people belong -- it still takes a while to "sift" everyone to their roughly correct spots...
  7. Eidal

    Overwatch

    Fine. Your opinion is bad because it's a stupid QQ that would drastically increase matchmaker times for everyone. The quite large demographic of people who blame everything but themselves for their ranking would put a shitton of restrictions on, complain about long queue times, then complain...
  8. Eidal

    Overwatch

    You know those games where your team just stomps the opposing team and its over in minutes? Sometimes that's because you're playing great, other times its because the enemy team has the 100 percent Torb player and they're spending half the gametime raging on him instead of trying to adapt.
  9. Eidal

    Overwatch

    Yea I know, I couldn't resist though. The downside to hidden matchmaker shenanigans with these games is you never really notice getting better until you queue up with friends worse than you. Or, you spend a few months improving in QP and go back to competitive.
  10. Eidal

    Overwatch

    Only plays Genjiandcomplains about elo hell? Solid as fuck.
  11. Eidal

    Step Son Joining Air Force, Advice?

    ^ I've noticed a common perception among civilians that it's easy to join the military. That may have been true a decade ago, but these days, the military has more people interested than they actually need. And the officer corps is probably more competitive than it's ever been.
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    Overwatch

    I don't really believe that. Especially if you're playing with buddies who know you're substantially better than them; they'll be more likely to listen to you than a random pubbie. Just making calls for ultimate wombo combos, re positioning, or encouraging people to adapt (properly) to the...
  13. Eidal

    Bootstrappers guide to being successful.

    People like Mist are like League of Legends players that bitch about ELO hell. There really isn't any point to discussing it with them, they need their false belief because otherwise they're responsible for their own consequences and that's just not palatable.
  14. Eidal

    Overwatch

    Blows my mind how otherwise intelligent adults just cannot grasp how a ladder works and how they aren't as good at games as they thought they were. I look forward to an endless litany of complaints about teammates from people who never make mistakes or have a bad game.
  15. Eidal

    Overwatch

    Bad players have been saying that for years in all games with ladders. You're wrong, but, y'know... if it makes you feel better believe whatever you want.
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    Overwatch

    You're not getting any better (or worse) so your rank doesn't move. This isn't an MMO, you aren't grinding out exp and leveling up.
  17. Eidal

    Overwatch

    God damn, your rig must be like 10 years old to suffer on a Bliz game.
  18. Eidal

    Weight Loss Thread

    People don't suggest to smokers to just "not smoke." Theeasynessandfunnessof a task influences success rate. Because the health benefits associated with cardio also come from weight training. Because fatties aren't running that far; fat people don't regularly drop 1k calories on the...
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    Camelot Unchained MMO

    That's not a function of FFA; that's a function of the larger group having the advantage in practically every open-world PVP scenario in every MMO game. Because of combat and logistic mechanics. Thought experiment: the great generals of the past would have brought how many men to battle...
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    Step Son Joining Air Force, Advice?

    99 percentile ASVAB here. The military was hugely beneficial for me. Similar to Famm's stepson, I had access to college as well as the means to pay for it but not the discipline. 4-5 years invested in the military can be construed as a "waste of time" from a min-max perspective which assumes...
  21. Eidal

    Step Son Joining Air Force, Advice?

    Nuke schooling is notoriously hard and grueling. Also, has above-average suicide rate I believe. Not necessarily saying no, but I very much encourage him and you to read about what that entails and then investigate how actually transferable those skills are. Not my forte. He needs to be a...
  22. Eidal

    Weight Loss Thread

    Or... just eat less food?
  23. Eidal

    Weight Loss Thread

    Yup. No weight loss over 30 days with 1k calorie intake and 140min cardio a week? Definitely eating far more than 1k calories daily. Either log your intake better, Lindz, or just keep dropping your target intake level until the scale agrees with you. Note: this advice is assuming you're...
  24. Eidal

    Weight Loss Thread

    "I can not cook" is functionally the same as saying "I'm too lazy to google and follow 4 steps that most children could follow."
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    Weight Loss Thread

    Yea no shit broccoli and water aren't going to taste good to a man trying to dig himself out of the hole he dug over 3 decades. I'd always rather eat some gutbomb fast food than vegetables. The idea is: "well this is good for me and it might stave off hunger pains since my totally complete and...
  26. Eidal

    Camelot Unchained MMO

    ^ Lol what? Who bitch this is?
  27. Eidal

    Weight Loss Thread

    No vegetables? Drink two cups of water and eat a few servings of broccoli and you won't feel hungry. You'll still crave disgusting food but maybe your issue is you're accustomed to eating a large volume of food.
  28. Eidal

    Weight Loss Thread

    Yea, as others have said, Brahma needs a scale. And 5 drumsticks and ice cream... calorie count could vary so much. Were they prepared with salt and pepper? Or delicious, sugary/salty sauces?
  29. Eidal

    Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

    +1. Too bad the demographic that they prey off of can easily afford a few hundo to purchase hopium. The whale community will never change.
  30. Eidal

    WoW Vanilla Emu - Emerald Dream

    The problem is the MMO playerbase is, overall, much more skilled than they were in the days of pre-voice chat. Both by practice and by extraneous help (multiple monitors, macros, etc etc). Any progression content challenging to a group with voice chat is going to be unbearable for a group...
  31. Eidal

    Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

    Knew he was going to say that. That's exactly how SCO fanboys dismiss the completely valid issues people point out: by saying ("Well Derek Smart raised those points so they must be false!")
  32. Eidal

    Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

    Okay, well, at the very least, he's shelling out cash for a-list actors to do voice-overs. I wonder what other dumb shit he's purchasing.
  33. Eidal

    Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

    Too lazy to go dig up sources but didn't Roberts spend a sizable sum on some film production distraction?
  34. Eidal

    Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

    He's spent over 7k for his dream -- unbiased objective observers of SCO and its progress made so far do not spend 7k. I don't mean it as an insult, really -- people spend thousands of dollars on things that don't pan out... but Variise represents an ultra-niche demographic. Unless he makes...
  35. Eidal

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    My fear about steroids is that, intuitively, I'd expect to hear far more success stories than failure stories. How many men, comparatively, are stepping forward and saying ("Yea my kidneys are shot and my liver is failing in exchange for a six-pack over a few summers.") -- I'd assume the damage...
  36. Eidal

    Weight Loss Thread

    Yes, it's typically harder to eat 1000 calories of fat/protein than 1000 calories of donuts.
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    Weight Loss Thread

    Much harder to do with a carb-restrictive diet. Eating a pound of bacon sounds fun until you eat a pound of bacon. Juice is pretty bad but you already knew that, but no way in hell would juice be allowed in a keto diet anyway. What does your doctor think?
  38. Eidal

    Butthurt white guys, an Asian virgin and an angry lesbian walk into a bar...

    Yup, that is a good ;tldr. I usually agree with Quaid on most things. This whole tangent has caught me off guard.
  39. Eidal

    I do not believe in equality

    I think A) our society could really do a much better job signaling what military service actually entails, and B) explore some middle-ground possibilities between civilian life and military service. I think one issue is that, for some reason, civilians are convinced that service-members are...
  40. Eidal

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    Losing 1-1.5lbs a week at 14% body fat would feel like a living nightmare.