I?m not a big sport gamer either, but if I was I guess being able to play as your favorite pro/college teams from the comfort of home could surpass the enjoyment to be had by trivial neighborhood pick up games.ObsidianJones said:
Share Your Shower Thoughts
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You have a fantastic thought, and I recognize it. But the 15 year old me is whining in my head "But watching sports is boooooorrrriiiiinnngggggg..."hanselthecaretaker said:
I only like playing sports because I'm semi better than the people I hung out with and trash talking is the only reason Sweet Zombie Jesus invented the idea of friendship.
But I guess you can do that in a sports game... However, that leads me back to my original thought.
"How did they come up with soap? Like, did they discover it by accident, or did some dude on a quest for cleanliness rub all kinds of stuff on himself to see if he got cleaner after rinsing? Also, why call it soap? What about the word 'soap' evokes ... soapness?"
Naturally, this train of thought ended with me questioning why every word I was thinking of is.
Naturally, this train of thought ended with me questioning why every word I was thinking of is.
Know whats really fucked up? Soap is made from rendered fat (oil) and lye. If you have too much fat then it wouldn't work as soap and you would probably break out in pimples. It barely holds together and is just kind of a smelly mess. If you have too little fat then the lye doesnt fully integrate, and you could badly burn yourself trying to use it.Chimpzy said:
So not only did someone go around rubbing stuff on themselves in a quest for cleanlyness, but on the way here they likely caused themself significant pain and potentially permanent bodily harm using an incomplete version of soap, which they then apparently doubled down on to each the final product.
Personally the first round of genital burns would be enough to scare me off this track but one brave individual stuck to their guns and sally'd forth. And now you can buy 8 ivory bars for like 2 dollars.
Ah, see, but as Mjolnir would never move, they?d only strain their muscles, no reps achieved. Good thought, though!hanselthecaretaker said:
Yep, that?s my ?shower thought? face. Thanks!Anyways on topic, my shower thoughts are usually too preoccupied with stupid song lyrics or details of whatever video game I?m playing to wax philosophical, but I do have this nifty thread mascot for thematic relevance if that helps -
What?s not to understand? It?s all about the fantasy, the interactive escapism most video games allow. Sure, you can go outside and play actual football with a few friends, but that?s a far cry from playing ?as? the 53-man roster of your favorite NFL team. Hell, I can?t play golf in real life for shit, but in my PGA career throughout the Tiger Woods franchise, I became #1 ranked golfer in the world!ObsidianJones said:
As an ex-personal trainer, I'm going to suggest this to you: The innate Isometrics of holding yourself back.Xprimentyl said:
All of us, think about to the first time we held a baby as an adult. It's one thing of holding a baby when you're smaller, you need all the strength you can to hold something that might weigh a fifth of your weight. But if you had some mass to your frame and are able to lift somewhat heavy things with ease... How did you hold that baby? Were you holding yourself back and making sure not to put that much pressure so you don't hurt the baby? And if you never knew how to hold a baby, times this idea by fifty.
How did your arms and core feel afterwards? Like you ran a marathon or did a few dozen sets? Yeah.
Constantly fighting against your muscles to do tasks is actually very strenuous. One is constantly engaging muscles to keep one from doing any damage. Think about it, If you could shove a tank 500 feet with the same amount of internal effort it takes you now to push open a door... how much are you going to engage your muscles to make sure you're not going to break a person just by tapping them on the shoulder?
In Other Words... [https://youtu.be/sT4jOwNUDxo?t=3]
And to your sports thing... yeah, I guess if I valued teams and stuff, the appeal of playing with or against them would make sense. But I do not. It's like if I had a sorting hat put on me and told I was Gryffindor. That's great and all, but I'm a Jedi, like my Father Before Me.
Lol, I forgot you mentioned you were a gym nut.ObsidianJones said:
I get what you?re saying, but to actually BUILD muscle, you need resistance, right? I don?t work out and you do; your muscles are likely defined whereas mine are only defined in the dictionary. To sculpt your muscles, you had to push them to their limits, forcing them to tear and repair into their bigger and better selves. So back to my question, if a hero can lift TONS effortlessly, wouldn?t they have to lift significantly more, and do so often, to sculpt the Greek god-like physique? Superman holds back 99% of the time, his muscles should have atrophied by now!
Gym Obsessive, Thank YouXprimentyl said:
Go to a door, constantly tense your muscles in terms of limiting the force your exert, and slowly open a door five times. Tell me how your muscle feels.
For hypertrophy in humans and animals, you need to have your muscles be broken down and repaired. Superman is actually not only powered by, but also healed from the sun. He's built in a way that conventional reality can't comprehend.
In the movie 'Honey We Shrunk Ourselves' Szalinski is talking to his son about how his shrink ray is going into the Smithsonian next to the gramophone. This conversation occurs...
"What's a gramophone?"
"It's like an old record player."
"What's a record player?"
"It's like an old CD player."
We are fast approaching a time where "What's a CD player" would be the final line to this joke.
Feel old.
"What's a gramophone?"
"It's like an old record player."
"What's a record player?"
"It's like an old CD player."
We are fast approaching a time where "What's a CD player" would be the final line to this joke.
Feel old.
I think I'd watch football if they trained QBs in Movie Aikido [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bxs5rWmA2U].
I've made a theory that it could very well be that many legendary creatures used to actually exist like sea serpents and thunder birds but that the influence of man has caused them to die out before we could properly record anything about them. Think of how much fishing is done in the sea and what the loss of those fish could mean to animals or how delicate the mating behaviors or populations are (Think things like panda's for the former and the passenger pigeon for the latter) and how we may have very well destroyed some kind of important thing in these animals lives to the point that we lost our chance to see them.Baffle2 said:
Reptiles look closer to what reptile skeletons look like. Its something that comes up in the Shrink Wrapped Dinosaur Theory; you look at something like a cat skeleton, looks pretty much nothing like a cat. Yet we just slap a bunch of skin on muscle on dinosaur skeletons to get an assumption of what they look like. And its because something like a crocodile skeleton looks fairly close to a crocodile. A snake skeleton looks pretty much like a snake. You find bits of big reptiles they're just much easier to identify as reptiles even if they are huge. For example, its been theorised that the cyclops may have come about in myths because people saw elephant skulls [https://static.turbosquid.com/Preview/001212/518/CF/3D-african-elephant-skull_D.jpg] and didn't know what the hell they were, assuming the nasal cavity was a central eye on some giant humanoid.Baffle2 said:
Incidentally, this line of thinking isn't unique to prehistory. There is a creature known as a Basilosaurus, a name which means "King Lizard" due to people thinking its skeleton (especially its toothy maw) was that of an enormous sea serpent. Turns out its a whale. Not a lizard at all, or even lizard-adjacent. But the name can't be changed because thats how the weird rules of palaeontology work
Strictly in terms of having a quality to entice a partner, looks is almost meaningless for a guy like me.
I'm supposedly attractive (I just look younger than most people I associate with) and it does nothing to attract women to you. It sparks interest but no one ever comes up and tries to talk to you. A good looking guy still have to go up, strike up the conversation, and not be a total geek to keep the interest going.
I talk regular in a video game community. I AM a total geek. My frame of reference of great conversations is the permeable nature of the Ethics of Silent Hill (if such a thing even exists) or why the best fighting game ever made is Street Fighter 3 Third Strike (At me, all you haters). My looks, if they actually are decent, at that point will matter for nothing. Unless I get super lucky and she's a gamer as well.
I think what I'm trying to say is... I suck at talking to women. Always have, always will.
I'm supposedly attractive (I just look younger than most people I associate with) and it does nothing to attract women to you. It sparks interest but no one ever comes up and tries to talk to you. A good looking guy still have to go up, strike up the conversation, and not be a total geek to keep the interest going.
I talk regular in a video game community. I AM a total geek. My frame of reference of great conversations is the permeable nature of the Ethics of Silent Hill (if such a thing even exists) or why the best fighting game ever made is Street Fighter 3 Third Strike (At me, all you haters). My looks, if they actually are decent, at that point will matter for nothing. Unless I get super lucky and she's a gamer as well.
I think what I'm trying to say is... I suck at talking to women. Always have, always will.