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  1. Tuco

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    So back to me being a newbie: I did leg day yesterday, is it normal for my legs to feel like jelly after only my third set of squats? Or is that an indication of me being a pussy / doing them wrong / having a shit diet / whatever? Is it going to get easier even as I progress into higher weights...
  2. Tuco

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    I think this post is a pretty prime example of what I mean when I said narrow minded. The guy probably wants to look like some huge fat guy, so that's what he's going for and he's totally succeeded. It takes a lot of work to be a big fat guy who can do reps of 400lbs, and it's impressive whether...
  3. Tuco

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    He did full reps later.
  4. Tuco

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    I'd agree with you if a dude could get a 400lbs bench by just being fat. Is a 200lbs person benching 400lbs more impressive than a 300lbs person doing it? Of course. But if you take a fatty who never lifted a day in his life, they're a long way away from benching 400lbs.
  5. Tuco

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    after reading the bio of the characters of that youtube show, I think death from aneurysm is the least of his concerns, lol. Cast of characters of the Genovaverse
  6. Tuco

    Middle-earth: Shadow of War (Shadow of Mordor Sequel)

    I'm not really interested in convincing you of this, because you're much better as a pearl clutcher in the dark, but you'd have a point if you could p2w the equivalent of cement in Shadow of War.
  7. Tuco

    Middle-earth: Shadow of War (Shadow of Mordor Sequel)

    lol You know how fucking dumb you'd have to be to see cheat-forts and try to beat it via $$? It'd be like getting your sandcastle on the beach rekt by a bully, and then you decide to pay someone $10 to build another sandcastle for you. If they had the option to buy specific orc perks, I could...
  8. Tuco

    Middle-earth: Shadow of War (Shadow of Mordor Sequel)

    So you can set up your fort and other players can try to take it over in basically a skirmish fight. Who would've anticipated that people would start creating hacked forts?
  9. Tuco

    Middle-earth: Shadow of War (Shadow of Mordor Sequel)

    It doens't count unless you sperg out with a full paragraph with a bunch of faggoty elven names and a bunch of nonsense reasoning for why the LotR books are longer than "and the eagles dropshipped that sumbitch in the volcano and everyone lived, even Ned Stark.".
  10. Tuco

    Debate Roundabouts: Efficiency in Action or Vortex of Death

    Even as a roundabout fan, there's one set of round abouts near the intersection of I96 and I23 that looks like someone was playing Sim City and had a heart attack through a redesign of their road structure. Going through the double roundabout is madness. You pretty much pick a direction you...
  11. Tuco

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    Why isn't it impressive? Would it suddenly become impressive if that guy followed what I'm assuming is years of weight lifting with some number of months of cutting and repeated the move? Only valuing strength if it comes from someone beneath a certain body fat seems narrow-minded to me. To me...
  12. Tuco

    Debate Roundabouts: Efficiency in Action or Vortex of Death

    Southeast Michigan has been slowly replacing intersections with roundabouts. In virtually every case they've dramatically reduced the time it takes to cross an intersection. There's a few specific intersections I remember being a total shit-show for years that are now a breeze. The argument...
  13. Tuco

    Middle-earth: Shadow of War (Shadow of Mordor Sequel)

    This LotR nerd-talk makes me really disappointed that @Gavinmad didn't take my bait about the eagles.
  14. Tuco

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    Sure I get that, but his argument was about growth sensitivity, which is something I haven't seen mentioned a lot of in my limited researched. I mean, should someone tell Eddie Hall and the Mountain that they'll only hit new heights by going on a 6-8 week cut to resensitize their body to growth...
  15. Tuco

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    I enjoyed this article too: http://www.rntfitness.co.uk/the-myth-of-lean-gains-why-you-wont-build-maximum-muscle-if-you-stay-too-lean/ This part was pretty targeted at me though: I'm at 20-25% body fat, so above his threshold limiting a muscle-building diet. How is his statement on body...
  16. Tuco

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    Are you saying that your end-target caloric intake is higher than 2500, and you're just going to gradually increase it over time? Or that you're going to measure your progress / weight gain / lifts / gainz and increase calories as needed, and that 2500 represents a lower bound on what you think...
  17. Tuco

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    I thought you were doing a cut? Why not go higher on your bulk, dont' you think those sick gainz would be higher if you ate over 3k calories?
  18. Tuco

    Middle-earth: Shadow of War (Shadow of Mordor Sequel)

    I brought along @Utnayan (aka Uruknayan) and his brother with me to take a fort, here's a vid of our pre-battle meeting.
  19. Tuco

    Middle-earth: Shadow of War (Shadow of Mordor Sequel)

    TBH I don't even have a problem with this, if it just smoothes out the benefit curve of p2w. I don't know the specific context but if it's similar to Shadow of War where you buy a legendary orc and he immediately betrays you, you'd be super-pissed. I spent $32 on loot boxes last night to help...
  20. Tuco

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    Looking good, @Shonuff, @McQueen calling you manlet is churlish and laughable.
  21. Tuco

    Middle-earth: Shadow of War (Shadow of Mordor Sequel)

    The treatment of Tolkein's universe in Shadow of War where you dodge-roll-defeat Sauron is perfectly in line with both the Hobbit and LotR.
  22. Tuco

    Fight comps

    @Lanx's second vid reminds me of @2:47
  23. Tuco

    Middle-earth: Shadow of War (Shadow of Mordor Sequel)

    You guys are talking about a universe framed by a story where one of the wisest dudes sends the most powerful artifact of all time and the key to the Great Evil's power into the center of the Great Evil's base with two of the weakest characters on the team, one of which is already dying from...
  24. Tuco

    RIP Visceral Games

    I'd like to take this moment to say that the world needs a new Jedi Knight game that stays true to the originals.
  25. Tuco

    Middle-earth: Shadow of War (Shadow of Mordor Sequel)

    Let me introduce you to Az-Laar This mother fucker is my right hand man. My fire build lives off the inferno he produces with everything he does. As soon as he enters combat, he toots his horn and all hell breaks loose. He summons those sapper guys from the Sauron Strikes Back movie that blew...
  26. Tuco

    Middle-earth: Shadow of War (Shadow of Mordor Sequel)

    Betrayal mechanic:
  27. Tuco

    Middle-earth: Shadow of War (Shadow of Mordor Sequel)

    You're on the wrong forum if you think finding some optional ingame mechanic that allows you to semi-AFK level hurts the game's score. The pit fights are pretty cool, and I feel like watching them a few times every play session would probably improve my knowledge of the game, but they aren't...
  28. Tuco

    Middle-earth: Shadow of War (Shadow of Mordor Sequel)

    Thanks for proving that you can't just write compelling fan fiction from whatever gameplay.
  29. Tuco

    Middle-earth: Shadow of War (Shadow of Mordor Sequel)

    Game of the Year level graphics
  30. Tuco

    Middle-earth: Shadow of War (Shadow of Mordor Sequel)

    Neither, really. It's more of a batman build than anything. A competent fighter with an ability to sneak attack and a wide variety of tools/abilities. The game randomly generates a bunch of tough named captains with random strengths and weaknesses, and you have a variety of ways to exploit...
  31. Tuco

    Middle-earth: Shadow of War (Shadow of Mordor Sequel)

    Shadow of War has the most complex and story-driven random mobs in any game ever.
  32. Tuco

    Middle-earth: Shadow of War (Shadow of Mordor Sequel)

    Speaking of which, they announced on a live stream (I make it a priority to watch every one of them) that the first DLC will come with unlimited shadow wars. Turns out the #1 complaint about the game is that there's only so much emergent fort defense gameplay before Sauron gives up.
  33. Tuco

    Middle-earth: Shadow of War (Shadow of Mordor Sequel)

    Fuck this one particular orc | PC Gamer Search PC Gamer Club Fuck this one particular orc By Tim Clark 13 hours ago I am being bullied by Mozû the Blight in Shadow of War, and it feels bad. COMMENTS Mozû greets me again Let me begin by warning that for the rest of the piece I will be...
  34. Tuco

    Trailer Park Boys

  35. Tuco

    Trailer Park Boys

    PISSCOCK, this sucks. Lahey really carried this show from an acting standpoint. He's one of the four characters that just can't be replaced.
  36. Tuco

    Middle-earth: Shadow of War (Shadow of Mordor Sequel)

    So I got this ring: And spent a minimal amount of time coming up with a build/strat that utilizes it to the fullest. I didn't know what curse did to opponents until I played with it tonight, but as far as I can tell it just causes grunts to flee instantly. It applies on captains but I don't...
  37. Tuco

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    Sold, thanks.
  38. Tuco

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    What sous vide machine do you use / recommend? How long does it take to prepare a chicken breast, and how do you reheat it (if you do reheat it)? I've thought about getting a sous vide but not that seriously since they seem so expensive and I'm not sure if the difference between using it and an...
  39. Tuco

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    What do your meals look like at 240 / 40 / 40? I'm adjusting to a non-keto diet and having to cut back on fat. It's not hard persay, just a change that I'm adapting to. I'm really looking for better protein sources that have low fat without having to eat chicken breast / cod / egg whites all...
  40. Tuco

    Middle-earth: Shadow of War (Shadow of Mordor Sequel)

    So after investing $50 into Tolkien bux for Warmonger gear my apocalypse build is really coming along. Everything I touch ignites and blankets the ground in fire. Standard attacks, bow attacks, stealth attacks, everything. The fire itself heals me 14hp/sec, any enemy that dies around me gives...