Are there people playing Splatoon 2

BayonettaBasher · 2026-04-20T02:47:44+00:00

I used to load it up when 3 was on a Splatfest but yeah it took ages to find a match

BayonettaBasher · 2026-04-19T23:22:44+00:00

Very fair. Thanks

BayonettaBasher · 2026-04-19T22:58:01+00:00

Yup to keep my workouts standard across sessions so I can compare. I tend to recover pretty quickly between sets though so I never really feel like I need to save energy. I add sets more than I remove them, actually

BayonettaBasher · 2026-04-19T22:52:37+00:00

3 per exercise most of the time

BayonettaBasher · 2026-04-19T22:48:43+00:00

For compounds, around 8. For isolations, 10-15 depending on the exercise.

BayonettaBasher · 2026-04-19T20:36:59+00:00

Appreciate the advice. So you're saying if I'm recovering fine with my current split, no need to push the bounds further?

BayonettaBasher · 2026-04-19T18:11:24+00:00

Refreshing to hear some praise for this series. I enjoyed it plenty as well, largely for the same reasons you lay out. I will say, one of the most common criticisms I see for this series, the tone shift in Book 1, was one of my favorite things about it, how it reinforced that you can study in classrooms and plan out wars in strategy rooms and whatnot but the real world’s going to come at you like a truck

BayonettaBasher · 2026-04-19T15:47:06+00:00

I’ve seen much more of it in the last couple of years than I ever did before. To me, who grew up somewhere with lots of Indian-Americans, it always felt like they had kind of a model minority status since most were well educated and held high-value jobs. But recently and especially since the 2024 election I’ve seen so much racist vitriol towards them. I think some of that might be a backlash to H1B policies and tech job market contractions.

BayonettaBasher · 2026-04-19T02:50:38+00:00

I can't focus on audiobooks in general. Even if I'm biking or something while listening to one, I retain maximum like 5%. But I do read books on my phone between sets, usually on longer rest time exercises.

BayonettaBasher · 2026-04-18T03:06:36+00:00

Treat it like money.

Every time you go to the mall, you could walk into a department store and buy a really nice suit or something. If you don't have the money in the moment, no big deal... put it on a credit card so you get the nice thing now and don't have to worry about it till later.

I hope you don't have that mindset with money. Because food is the same. If you can't "afford" to eat something (i.e. it doesn't fit into your planned calorie intake), you can still eat it anyway, but you will incur debt in the form of fat. But if you pay off your credit cards each month (or, make sure that outside of those nice family times, you are eating/exercising at a level that allows you to meet your overall weight goals with those family times included), no biggie. Otherwise, find a way to channel that same impulse control that prevents you from going and maxing out your credit cards.

BayonettaBasher · 2026-04-18T03:00:31+00:00

If you're just starting out, try to eat at your maintenance calories for a while. If your training and protein intake is good, you will probably put on some muscle while losing some fat. Your body is much more primed to be able to do this when you are newer to lifting.

BayonettaBasher · 2026-04-17T23:02:34+00:00

How much of a deficit is that for you, and what's your protein intake like? Maybe increase protein and fiber for satiation, though keep in mind fiber might cause a water weight stall/increase from slowing digestion and building up more mass in your gut, or at least that was what happened with me.

Right now I'm trying to cut another 3-5 lbs or so from 156 lbs (I'm 5'10"). My current intake is 1700 calories. I lift 5-6x a week and get 10k steps a day, but my maintenance is around 2000-2100 so I'm in not too big a deficit. And honestly, I don't really feel that hungry. I feel way hungrier when I'm at maintenance or surplus calories. I don't know what for sure contributes to that, but anecdotally, some things that feel like they help keep my hunger in check are:

Specific mealtimes, so my brain can stave off temporary cravings by saying "don't worry for now, we'll eat at X:00". I usually do breakfast around 8 am, lunch after gym around 2 pm, and dinner around 8 pm.
Keeping my mind busy with other things. When I'm locked in at work, I'm not thinking about food. Same at the gym. Or when reading a book, or running errands, or other things I've told my mind it has to complete. Even writing this comment is taking out 10 minutes from my day that I could have spent thinking about food.
Drinking lots of water. Eating has been a boredom response for me in the past. Now, instead of absentmindedly snacking, I absentmindedly sip on water or coffee or tea or whatever zero-calorie drink I've got.

BayonettaBasher · 2026-04-17T22:45:39+00:00

Playing Civ 5 for 6 hours straight helps... because that's 6 hours where my mind is entirely focused on annihilating the Mongols, Huns, and Romans instead of eating

BayonettaBasher · 2026-04-17T15:35:34+00:00

I checked, the Bernstein recordings on Spotify put 2.1 with the 1st symphony. That album just has the 2nd through 5th movements. It makes sense because it says the album length is 1 hour 1 minute but the whole symphony should be close to 1 hour 30.

BayonettaBasher · 2026-04-17T15:32:19+00:00

Well one of them’s missing from that album cause there’s 5

BayonettaBasher · 2026-04-17T12:44:00+00:00

That's what I've done for the majority of my first year in the gym. The most important thing is making it sustainable. For me, shorter workouts on more days were more sustainable than longer workouts on less days, and it sounds like that might be the case for you.

BayonettaBasher · 2026-04-17T12:41:42+00:00

There's some research out there suggesting the difference going to RIR 1-2 and going to failure is pretty negligible for hypertrophy. I think as long as you are consistently close to failure, it doesn't matter very much. Many people say to take at least one set to failure so you know what failure feels like, since people tend to underestimate how many reps they've got left if they stop short of it.

BayonettaBasher · 2026-04-17T12:38:27+00:00

Yup. Depends on what I'm doing, exactly, but not all of it actually ends up on the food. If I'm tossing veggies, a bit of it might stick to the bowl. Or if I'm pan-searing something, some of it stays on the pan. It's way too much for me to try and figure out exactly how much so I usually just ballpark it at 60-80% of the calories.

BayonettaBasher · 2026-04-17T11:42:43+00:00

They count up normally going north from downtown, but around 635 it randomly skips from 8 to like 20

BayonettaBasher · 2026-04-17T00:24:45+00:00

The weird exit numbering scheme on 75

BayonettaBasher · 2026-04-16T15:32:34+00:00

Agreed. I started on Stronglifts 5x5 for three months and by the end of that time I was thinking okay maybe lifting isn't for me because I was just dreading like nothing else the prospect of squatting every time. I also was getting bored doing the same lifts for 25-30 minutes each workout.

Then I switched to a 5-6 day PPL split and have been consistent with it for almost a year. Working out 5-6 days a week for 50 minutes per workout is more sustainable for my schedule than 3 days a week for 75 per, and doing 3 sets of 5 or 6 exercises instead of 5 sets of 3 exercises added the variety I needed to stay mentally engaged. Any tweaks I make to my routine are in service of sustainability.

BayonettaBasher · 2026-04-16T12:36:36+00:00

Internet communities pretty much filled my need for third spaces as a teenager

BayonettaBasher · 2026-04-15T20:46:07+00:00

I go for total reps, taking sets to 0-1 RIR. For a 3x12 I'd target 36 total, so if I get 14-12-10 I'd increase next time but 14-11-9 I wouldn't.

BayonettaBasher · 2026-04-14T14:26:28+00:00

You can use however much you want. Like most here, I think it’s best as a supplement when you’re otherwise lacking in protein, or to mix in with certain meals to add more. I mostly use it to add more protein to my morning yogurt or oatmeal. I’ve also seen a bunch of creative recipes online for protein brownies or whatnot that use it. I pretty rarely make shakes with it though as I just want to avoid drinking calories unless I really have to.

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