Cliff Hanger
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Just had my first real visit to the weight room (dipped my toe in Saturday but wasn't sure how a couple of things worked, went with very low weight, etc.) My exercise regime for today: 5m warm up on the eliptical, just pressed "quick start" with no program or extra resistance or anything Weights (all were 2 sets of 8): Chest fly 40lb Leg lift 40lb Leg press 50lb Chest press/horizontal bench press/whatever 30lb Pull downs 40lb Per a recommendation from my brother the gym junkie I also did two sets of eight on the pull down machine with my grip reversed to work different muscles (also 40lb) 30 min on the climber Next weight workout will be Saturday or Sunday. Since Monday and Friday are "workout if I have time" days and Wednesday is always a skip, and the beginners' guide I saw said not to do weights two days in a row, I figure Tue/Thu/one weekend day is the best schedule to start with so I'm not skipping and screwing with a weight day if I miss an 'extra' (as I will assuredly be doing tomorrow). I also need to find a way to work on my abs; I know spot fat reduction is a myth, but that's not really a problem right now. I just want to have something to fill up the loose skin I'm about to start having as my belly keeps shrinking.
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I have tried like five times to get further into the book than v4, but never do. At this point I've pretty much determined that it is not to be.
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This is super self-indulgent and childish, compared to all the heavy shit in the world, but still. I got into a 'discussion' yesterday with an acquaintance when I mentioned the continued research on self-driving cars (I've been binging on Freakonomics Radio, and they had a little five-minute segment on GM/Carnegie Mellon's project, which sounds like it'll have advantages over the Googleprius.) This person was upset enough to shout when I said I was looking forward to their being street-legal and readily available, because it isn't fair to potentially put cab drivers, OTR truckers, etc. out of business. This guy seemed to feel that my continued inability to achieve the basic self-determination that she takes for granted was an acceptable loss to prevent automation of those industries. Of course, the idea that we should just outlaw private ownership of vehicles for personal use and force everyone onto mass transit and cabs was "insane" and "fascist." So fuck you to him, fuck you to Jaron Lanier (who recently railed against the concept in his Who Owns the Future?) and every other Goddamned Luddite who would discriminate against those incapable of driving themselves, rather than trust in humanity to adapt and either (1) find ways to provide a human-driver service that offers something an autonomous car can't or (2) make their way another way. If what's good enough for you is too dangerous for me, then just go kill yourself and make the world a better place.
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Is that the plot, the comicor both?One specific Huge Plot Consequence
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Infinity #1:
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I desperately want to see Robot Chicken or somebody do a PSA or industrial film on minecart safety, starring Donkey Kong, Crash Bandicoot, Scrooge McDuck and other early 90s game characters who had to deal with that scourge of jump timing.
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Played a little bit of Ducktales. Never played the NES version. Having fun, not very good at it. Hopefully Virt will be allowed to release the soundtrack as he was for Double Dragon.
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Honestly, as long as they keep doing the $15 DLC upgrade packs, I am totally okay with a new iteration every two years. I just wish theyd bring back Challenge Mode from SFIV Vanilla, because I love that type of thing when it's "win a match under condition X" and not the "do this combo" bullshit that was all we got in Super and AE. K, seriously? FUCK Capcom. How many god damn version of the SAME DAMN GAME are they going to try and get me to buy? It's bad enough I had to buy this twice already, and buy two different versions of MvsC3.
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Had my first game of Cards Against Humanity over the weekend, ordered my own set today. Was fortunate enough to be able to put together "Vladimir Putin's favorite delicacy is KIDS WITH ASS CANCER stuffed with THE GAYS." Man, I really want to try Khet. As for two-player-only games go, Stratego will probably always be my favorite, even though I've won a half dozen games in my entire life. I would really like to see a digital version that uses the modified rules from Electronic Stratego (where you don't show your pieces during a challenge, because the computer can tell which piece is which by the bottom of it, and mines don't take up squares) but I think that iteration is obscure enough, to say nothing of 30 years out of production, that it'll never happen.
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So this is like some iteration of the Virtumonde/Vundo type browser hijacker? I picked that up once, I'd almost rather have a "dangerous" virus. *shudders*
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Rented Flashpoint this morning, and I'm pretty ambivalent. It's better than the comic it was based on, but I can't really call it 'good.' Some of those designs, though...Jesus, what the hell was wrong with Aquaman's face? The mix of cheekbones and neck muscles made him look like he was melting. The bullet hole shot was pretty horrifying.
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FACT! SHUT YOUR TONGUE!
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So Invincible Universe has been fun, but even so I hope we can get some longer stories or at least continuing subplots. "Done in one" doesn't have to mean "isolated", which is how most of this series feels; they grab a plot point from Invincible or one of its other former spin-offs, follow up on it in a cursory fashion and move on to something else. Picked up the $30 Valiant bundle on Comixology, haven't started it yet but I'm looking forward to it. I need to catch up on Transformers: RID before the crossover starts in the fall. I had kept up with More Than... but dropped RID after #15 because of IDW cutting the back-issue discount. (Yeah, I know, I'm part of the problem for non-big-two publishers.) I wish they hadn't announced that the Christmas wave of toys would have comics from that crossover, since it kind of spoils some of who survives the current arcs and who hasn't been IN series but will be getting prominent.
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Maguire's later tweet makes it sound like it wasn't anything of that sort, more editorial wanting a different general tone.
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DVDVRSBE: Sex and Punishment by Eric Berkowitz
Cliff Hanger replied to jaedmc's topic in READING & WRITING
Yeah, my apologies on the cover. Since I'm a digital only reader, I can honestly say that I had never seen the cover. Really glad you were as absorbed as I was; I qlmost apologized for the selection after realizing how much drier and more scholarly it was than the other nonfiction titles in the draw. The scariest thing in there is the theory that the Abrahamic mad on for homosexuality boils directly down to "We need to reinforce the need to be different from the Egyptians. Those guys are dicks. Wht do they like that we can make a capital crime?" -
And apparently Pietro, at least, has turned up again. Avengers AI reads much better than the first issue. I will definitely be sticking with it, though the art still isn't to my taste.
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First season of Spawn is all the proof you need that the character was a great concept that had tge misfortune to be created by an incompetent writer/artist.
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Speaking of things GRRM worked on, I'd really like to see 80s Twilight Zone again. I know it isn't well-regarded by longtime fans, but I loved it when I was a kid. (Also speaking of not-on-Netflix 80s revivals of 60s series that are on Netflix, I'd like even more to see 80s Mission Impossible again.)
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Characters I wish were appearing somewhere (and aren't, as far as I can tell from google): Quicksilver Finesse Quasar Any of the Starlin/Batista Spaceknights The Captain (with pajamas)
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This is my own personal agenda speaking, but I think I would go more "80s inspired" than "actual 80s." There are two reasons for this 1) It would cost probably ten percent as much 2) Anything that exposes more people to acts like Mesh and Iris is an inherently good thing.
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I find myself playing Shitty Marvel Diablo while simultaneously knowing how bad I need to finish actual good games like Blood Dragon And Metal Gear Rising.
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outside there's a box car waiting outside the family stew out by the fire breathing outside we wait 'til face turns blue i know the nervous walking i know the dirty beard hangs out by the box car waiting take me away to nowhere plains there is a wait so long here comes your man big shake on the box car moving big shake to the land that's falling down is a wind makes a palm stop blowing a big, big stone fall and break my crown there is a wait so long you'll never wait so long here comes your man there is a wait so long you'll never wait so long here comes your man
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When I hear 'Toyota Yaris' all I can think of is the bizarre ads they ran in Marvel comic books when the model debuted, claiming it was big enough for four passengers or one MODOK. And of course I'm just kind of scoffing at the 'never owned a car/got my license at 2X' bit since I can't even pass the eye test. If I ever spawn, the poor kid and mother are going to hate life pretty quickly.
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It's worth noting that Comixology has the first TPB worth of XO, Harbinger, A&! Bloodshot and Shadowman for $22 total if you're okay with digital. I think you have to buy from the web store, not the apps.
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If you're ever at a con where Rob is signing, do yourself a favor and go say hey. He's maybe the kindest and most friendly celeb I've met at one, his auto fees go entirely to charity and if there isn't a line he'll talk to you a good fifteen to twenty min.