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  1. Vaclav

    Weight Loss Thread

    Heh, I am 5'2" and very light boned, my "maintenance level" is probably the bare minimum that an adult man can be without being a midget. There's 5th graders bigger than me. [Hell, I think my niece was taller than me around then - but she's on track to be a 6' tall woman or damn near] But also...
  2. Vaclav

    Weight Loss Thread

    Varies a little bit since it's through PT and whatever they've got me scheduled for explicitly - but most of the time since the move, this PT has had my schedule with stretches in sets of 10-20, leg work on what I believe is a pilates machine (they usually set me up to go for 15 min on that I...
  3. Vaclav

    Weight Loss Thread

    With an actual plan targeted at it? I go to the gym to do basic movement exercises and strength - it's not cardio or anything designed for weightloss. It's strength/flexibility stuff, if normal people did them, I believe. [hard to explain neurologic stuff - it stops my limbs from randomly going...
  4. Vaclav

    Weight Loss Thread

    Heh, I'd love to - but my miserliness can't justify spending $500 in payments or so for the same appointments that will run me $40 in copays in just a few weeks. I'm always of that mindset - but only thing I can think of a "today" thing I could justify is to buy a kayak to get some extra...
  5. Vaclav

    Weight Loss Thread

    I've been doing a gym w/o any training for the past three years - clearly it's more than just that - and I'm eating "less bullshit" than I used to when I maintained my weight. It's clearly "not that simple". Shit man, in my 20's I'd literally eat like two packages of Oreo's + a gallon of milk in...
  6. Vaclav

    Weight Loss Thread

    Meh, might need to start catching up and frequenting here soon - I'm a short guy that was underweight for a long, long time - 5'2"/100-110 for most of my life. But in the last year, my weight has gone up about 50% - gaining about 5 lbs a month or so it seems. 120-130 is considered an "ideal"...
  7. Vaclav

    Fallout 4

    The "Named" people if you assign them to the store seem to do that - unnamed people seem more reliable for showing behind the counter - now that said, if you track down where the hell they're at, even when they're not behind the counter they'll still sell (most of the time - I've had them bug...
  8. Vaclav

    So, I'm dying...

    Never got to know you to well, our only shared haunt really seemed to be the Food Threads which you've slowed on since I joined (likely makes sense why in light of the news) - but you always seemed like one of the good ones around here. As someone starting to develop heart issues myself...
  9. Vaclav

    Star Control RETURNS?!

    Didn't care to answer it last night because I was tired, but that's overly simplistic. SC definitely influenced ME1 (and 2/3 to a lesser degree) in many good ways, but there was alot of key things missing that really made SC as amazing as it was, ME was really damn good - I'd put it CLOSE to...
  10. Vaclav

    Star Control RETURNS?!

    I'd known it was coming (although I didn't realize it was Stardock) - but amped regardless.
  11. Vaclav

    Star Control RETURNS?!

    Uhm... don't suck don't suck don't suck don't suck...
  12. Vaclav

    New Progression Server confirmed

    I won't disagree that they might have been a strong part - personally, I managed to avoid them for the mostpart - and many of my friends I keep in touch with either dodge them or have a 4-6 man box crew of their own, so not something I have much confidence speaking of. For every friend of mine...
  13. Vaclav

    New Progression Server confirmed

    I'm still in touch with people a few times weekly (PS - Corvid, it's been a bit since we've talked/talked indirectly through Laura) - but yes, that was my DIRECT experience, sure. And it has been BETTER recently, it's starting to get close to something resembling a real server. (In part due to...
  14. Vaclav

    New Progression Server confirmed

    Yep, only sold multiple $2k+ value characters back in the day, because I'm a "nobody". Someone that enjoyed racing back in the day, and beat the shit out of basically everyone along the way. There's a world difference between normal civilized racing that happened on the half a dozen servers I...
  15. Vaclav

    New Progression Server confirmed

    I enjoyed the buff personally - but I'll be really annoyed when they stop it after Velious or whatever and then the next xpac opens and it's literally hitting for half as much and is a complete joke in comparison... will remove the sense of progression to the progression server. Funny, it's...
  16. Vaclav

    Fallout 4

    Yea, that one Vorph - think there's another for "downtown" as well, but that covers most of the world to give him a general idea. And I've not had much luck with the lower tier yet - only started my reroll w/ STR >1 recently so not gotten the higher tier yet to have any experience with it.
  17. Vaclav

    Fallout 4

    Also if someone has a color scanner (mine is B/W so it would be worthless to do it and photo with my phone would be shitty) and the guide there's the "hot/cold" map that's been relatively helpful about where to go if someone wants to link that spoilered for people like Noodle that need a little...
  18. Vaclav

    Fallout 4

    Yes, that's the one - since the answers have been somewhat unclear.
  19. Vaclav

    New Progression Server confirmed

    I imagine if they do give DZs like the "Holidayish 2015 TLP" is going to have to RF/LJ they're going to remove the buff as well - having two modified variants of the same thing has caused issues before. [the instanced Nagafen thing was busted on Live for a bit and wouldn't work at all when...
  20. Vaclav

    New Progression Server confirmed

    Or you know, you could just get a solid crew in the first place and try to make sure things are in place to keep attrition low.... Seems so odd to dislike attrition so much, but then be so terrified and dismissive of changes to reduce attrition. I'll agree purity is a good thing when it can...
  21. Vaclav

    The Last of Us

    Heh, the wife still hasn't done a full playthrough inspired me to nudge her that she needs to get over her stealth phobia and try it again.
  22. Vaclav

    New Progression Server confirmed

    All resists are effected by level - not sure what their levels are offhand - but assuming Ragefire is say L60 and Talendor is L70 Ragefire would be like a -150 resist check, and Talendor would be more akin to a -250 resist check (I think? It's been a while but -10 per level seems to be what I'm...
  23. Vaclav

    Adventure Time

    Still not used to hearing her being "Bonnie" yet though.
  24. Vaclav

    Amazon Echo - no thread yet?

    To be fair, the Alexa speaker isn't THAT tinny for what you'd expect in something so small - to be frank, it's better than my (circa 2000ish) speaker setup in the bedroom besides pure volume, but those ones get so distorted once they're that loud anyhow - and the Echo on 10 is maybe equivalent...
  25. Vaclav

    Amazon Echo - no thread yet?

    For that why wouldn't you just use your cell phone to do that? Echo is a smidge more consistent for starting it with just voice commands vs. Google (no experience with Siri) - but pressing three buttons on the phone or so for 10-15 sec accomplishes about the same without any weird work around to...
  26. Vaclav

    Amazon Echo - no thread yet?

    To broadcast or receive from it? Broadcast: I don't think it can broadcast at all... not tried however. Receiving: As long as the "legit stereo system" has bluetooth, it should work as an extension to the system or whatever - not sure on the range on using it as a receiver though - furthest...
  27. Vaclav

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Eh, the one I got was a cheapie and works - I'll see if Amazon still has the listing for it... still do -Amazon.com: eForCity 3 PORT HDMI SWITCHER SPLITTER SWITCH FOR HDTV 1080P High Speed HDMI Specification: Electronics It's just that you apparently need to be selective on cables and such...
  28. Vaclav

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    PS4 is very picky about the HDMI cables that you use with it in my experience. I've had no switch problems but only used one brand - but being that switches have a length of HDMI to them, I'd expect the finickiness to effect them too.
  29. Vaclav

    Adventure Time

    Watched the first 3 last night (got too tired to finish #4) - superb thusfar.
  30. Vaclav

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    P3P is the one I was thinking of (and not on sale ATM - debating it at $20 for her, but probably wait for a sale since it's not on ATM) - but P4G was another she wanted - if they sounded like I was talking about one game, I wasn't.
  31. Vaclav

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Heh, cool wife has been wanting to replace it (and P3E or whatever the Vita version is called) and just got my $15 credit from last month... seems like kismet, thanks for the heads up. We'd had P4 as a physical copy we traded in and P3 is on her PS3 account while the Vita is tied to my PS4...
  32. Vaclav

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Heh, cool wife has been wanting to replace it (and P3E or whatever the Vita version is called) and just got my $15 credit from last month... seems like kismet, thanks for the heads up. We'd had P4 as a physical copy we traded in and P3 is on her PS3 account while the Vita is tied to my PS4...
  33. Vaclav

    Amazon Echo - no thread yet?

    Yea, in the long run it's just becoming a bluetooth speaker that I can search up a song occasionally - great at $99 - not sure if I'd suggest it without the coupon price though. The bonuses are just "toy" level to me in the long run.
  34. Vaclav

    Rise of the Tomb Raider

    That looks like ass to me! (Still have my copy sitting here [digitally - since I got the TR bundle] unplayed thusfar - sounds so good but want to be 'done' with FO4 for a bit before I dive in)
  35. Vaclav

    Fallout 4

    It's not JUST that - they do drop alot too - I was just practicing on FO3 just before FO4, and the tolerance on breaking pins did finally get adjusted in line with people being more used to the mechanic - I swear they break 2-3x faster now without directly running them side by side to check...
  36. Vaclav

    Galavant

    Awful, what? It was wonderfully absurd.
  37. Vaclav

    The Fast Food Thread

    Eh? Theirs tend to be heavily breaded in my experience for the TENDERS - the nuggets I'd agree though.
  38. Vaclav

    Fallout 4

    Wait, I thought you were saying earlier you were disappointed and planning to uninstall as soon as you were finished? Change of heart or am I confusing you with someone else?
  39. Vaclav

    Ex Machina

    Just noticed earlier today this apparently got added to Prime Instant Video already, seems like it was a good movie from all this though... weird to see it on there so quick. (Not seen it yet, did flag it to watch later once we've got less of a TV backlog though)
  40. Vaclav

    Fallout 4

    Eh, I just throw my trashy ones on NPCs.