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Also dont patch the game until you get to chapter three. And dont forget me.
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Donny: Are they gonna hurt us, Walter?
Walter: No, Donny. These men are cowards.

1 is maybe a top 5 game for me. I started playing 2 and for a while I wasnt sure I wanted to keep playing but I ended up over 200 hours played. There are some bad systems that end up competing with other bad systems (field skills and merc missions) and Id say most character introductions are a bit cringe worthy. Also no one wears pants for whatever reason.
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Donny: Are they gonna hurt us, Walter?
Walter: No, Donny. These men are cowards.

heroicmario posted...

Hmm!

Anything to be prepared and/or wary about heading in?

Did you play 1?
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Donny: Are they gonna hurt us, Walter?
Walter: No, Donny. These men are cowards.

tips...

1. Don't have snack foods in your pantry. Only keep healthy foods around. If you get munchies... having some melon or broccoli is way better than demolishing a bunch of potato chips.

2. Get used to the taste of things without salt, butter, etc. Food tastes pretty good without unhealthy embellishments. You might be used to things being a vessel for ranch dressing or salt, I know I was. A little salt on chicken can help but try to have unsalted nuts and salads without fatty dressings and broccoli plain or steam without butter, etc.

3. Try to avoid artificial foods and ingredients. God knows what that stuff does to you. Check out the packaging of your foods and look up things you don't understand and try to figure out how foods were processed.

4. When you go out to eat, cut your meal in half. Eat one half there and take the rest home. There are very few restaurant entrees that you need to eat anymore than half of.

5. If you eat something for the sake of taste, just enjoy a small amount. If you want ice cream, having a few bites will satisfy your taste buds roughly as much as eating a giant ass ice cream cone of it.

6. Realize what leads to unconscious eating. Like what Bartz was saying. If you bring a bag of chips over to the table, do you even think about how much you are eating? First few bites are good but then you kinda "get in the zone" with eating, right? If you instead had 5 chips and made sure to savor them, you'd probably enjoy them even more.

7. Drink water.

8. weigh yourself every morning first thing - at least weigh yourself at the same time every day. Don't worry over minor fluctuations.

9. Vegetable snacks - if processing vegetables is a lot of work, then start off buying pre-sliced fuits/veggies. It's obviously better to process it yourself but it's better to spend $5 on two servings of
sliced peppers than it is to buy a whole bag of potato chips for $3.

10. It's fairly true that you feel full about 20 minutes after you're actually full. I would think of food not so much as "small portions" or "smaller portions", but instead "correct portions".

11. If you have insurance I imagine you can get referred to a nutritionist. I could say "eat lots of spinach" but it sounds like that might be bad for you.

There's a lot to learn and what works for some people might not work for you. There's a lot to take in here and I still think your first step, whether you do what I say or do what boko says or whatever is to learn macros. You should know roughly what a good diet looks like and be able to quickly break down your food choices into that diet. After a quick look at macros you will never look at food the same way. You don't even need to follow macros or obsess about them, it'll just help you understand dietary needs and sources.
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Donny: Are they gonna hurt us, Walter?
Walter: No, Donny. These men are cowards.

I tend to disagree with focusing on cheat days. To me it feels like, you're a poor eater that needs to eat poorly as a reward for denying yourself. I could be off-base and different strokes for different folks, etc.

Now, if you eat well and every once in a while you have a treat, that won't be a problem because you eat well all the time. Your body will be well-configured for proper foods... and the piece of cake every few weeks won't be a big deal. I think a couple of decades ago when macros became a big deal, cheat day was supposed to be the one day per week that you don't need to worry about where your calories come from. And if you do a good job, you'll stop craving that stuff, or you'll have a very strong desire/need to consume very little of it.

anyway maybe I'm offbase about this. I agree that you won't need to cut out certain foods entirely but I think it's important to understand that you aren't trying to obey/deny cravings. but certainly not everyone is the same!
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Donny: Are they gonna hurt us, Walter?
Walter: No, Donny. These men are cowards.

If you can decouple eating and beverages, then maybe diet soda is OK for you. I'd probably lean towards "unhealthy" because god knows what all those chemicals do to people but at the same time, eh. I would be mindful of the food choices you might make because of associations with soda that you might not be aware of. I feel like I eat a ton of pretzels when I drink diet soda and I don't have a great explanation for it. "Fuck man I need some pretzels". Or I think about 'coke with a straw' and I gotta get some McDonalds. So, just be aware of what you're doing and what happens - maybe I am echoing Bartz.

I guess I think I see a lot of diets as being "a person who eats poorly is temporarily eating well". And the help I'd like to offer is to make sure you understand in full detail what type of eater you are and reconfigure that.
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Donny: Are they gonna hurt us, Walter?
Walter: No, Donny. These men are cowards.

XIII_rocks posted...

But throwback Thursday is tomorrow

today is Whip It Out Wednesday
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Donny: Are they gonna hurt us, Walter?
Walter: No, Donny. These men are cowards.

Lebron

Durant
Curry

Westbrook
Harden

Chris Paul
Kyrie

Giannis
Embiid

Davis
Cousins
Kawhi

I think that's how I'd structure the list.
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Donny: Are they gonna hurt us, Walter?
Walter: No, Donny. These men are cowards.

IT4 doesn't deal with complications well and he's not healthy and he never will be. He has this weird toxicity to him. What a fall. He went from KING IN THE FOURTH to a guy that killed a locker room and a lost bench player in LA, and that's not necessarily touching on his hip or his sister.

what kind of contract does Thomas get this offseason? what team would even want to sign him?
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Donny: Are they gonna hurt us, Walter?
Walter: No, Donny. These men are cowards.

I guess aside from making sure you are armed with knowledge/understanding of diet and exercise, you'll want to think about time. If you're overweight and out of shape, it's gonna take a while to get back into shape. If you continue exercising and eating right, then you're a healthy person and it'll just take time to shed the pounds. Think about it like... if you starting doing this a year or two ago, you'd be doing really well. So think about next year - you will be glad you started exercising and eating right. You may hit a wall at some point - just keeping making good decisions.

Lastly... not everything works the same for everyone. It's important that you're able to understand things. If something isn't working for you, it's OK, keep making good decisions, try something new.
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Donny: Are they gonna hurt us, Walter?
Walter: No, Donny. These men are cowards.

Next is exercise. If you can build some muscle first, it will make your cardio way more effective. I'm not suggesting that you need to become a body builder or anything. But you need a little muscle. How you do this is up to you. You can get a gym membership. You can get weights for your house. You can get strength training bands. You can try to do free exercises. I can tell you what worked for me, I can tell you what might work for you... but really you need to understand that you need to build muscle.

Building muscle will help you feel better. You remember that feeling and when you regain it, you'll feel fucking awesome. You'll feel powerful, you'll feel healthier, you'll feel sexier. You will look better in your clothes. You'll burn fat in your sleep. And I repeat, it'll make your cardio way more effective. And your kids will think of you as being strong instead of being fat.

Cardio is important. Running or biking or recumbent biking. Or whatever works for you. Just make sure you add that in and preferably it's something you enjoy well enough.
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Donny: Are they gonna hurt us, Walter?
Walter: No, Donny. These men are cowards.

I guess the first step here is macros:
https://www.bodybuilding.com/content/from-here-to-macros-4-steps-to-better-nutrition.html

From there, start to really understand everything that goes into the food that you eat. What is it made of, what is the nutritional composition, how is it made, etc. If these is some snack chip that should just be "potatos and salt" but it has half a dozen chemicals, be assured that those chemicals are meant to increase your desire to not only eat the product, but to overeat it as well.

This isn't going to solve your problems. It's just an important tool and an important first step. You need to know what you are asking your body to deal with. And this will help inform you on your decisions at the dinner table and the grocery store.
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Donny: Are they gonna hurt us, Walter?
Walter: No, Donny. These men are cowards.

Buckethead - Whitewash


Opeth - Windowpane


Lake of Tears - To Blossom Blue


White Zombie - Blood Milk And Sky


Alice in Chains - Nutshell


I have a bunch of playlists of this stuff this is just what I'm feeling right now
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Donny: Are they gonna hurt us, Walter?
Walter: No, Donny. These men are cowards.

Youre a good guy Baku
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Donny: Are they gonna hurt us, Walter?
Walter: No, Donny. These men are cowards.

Always be aware of what you are putting in your mouth. Every snack, know how many calories and sugars and chemicals and what they do to you and how your body tries to break them down. And I mean every thing you eat. Good fruits, lean proteins, nuts, chips, etc. I got more to say but I have to post depressing music in another topic. But inform yourself about this stuff and stay hyper aware of it.
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Donny: Are they gonna hurt us, Walter?
Walter: No, Donny. These men are cowards.

AquaArcane posted...

May I switch it up and request that you peeps post your favorite sad songs, or somber or haunting or however you wanna say it.

Anywhere in that range of emotion is what I'm looking for, please my friends

Will do this soon
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Donny: Are they gonna hurt us, Walter?
Walter: No, Donny. These men are cowards.

The best a man can get
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Donny: Are they gonna hurt us, Walter?
Walter: No, Donny. These men are cowards.

yeah once, right in front of the MAPFRE van so it wasn't too bad at all
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Donny: Are they gonna hurt us, Walter?
Walter: No, Donny. These men are cowards.

The American
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Donny: Are they gonna hurt us, Walter?
Walter: No, Donny. These men are cowards.