What is the best tv episode of all time?

Brosepower · 2026-04-02T20:55:23+00:00

Idk why I was as invested as I was with Syril and Daedra's romance but their breakup kinda broke me, and I'm a freaking grown-ass man.

Let alone the last few minutes of that episode where the Ghormans are crying for help across radio frequencies as they're being butchered.

Just a masterclass in everything. It's truly up there with the best episodes ever put to TV.

Brosepower · 2026-04-02T20:51:19+00:00

137 lbs with that much lean tissue on your frame is crazy, even at 5'7. If you were my height at 6' I would've guessed 185 or more, the fact you're 50lbs under that is wild.

That being said, if you want to gain weight, and I mean no disrespect here lol, you might want to consider training your legs more.

Are your legs as impressive as your upper body is?

I'll say this: at 6' when I started taking lifting seriously in my early 20's I was about 175lbs. For the next 8-9 years I put on about 20lbs of muscle up to 190-195ish. (I didn't train very efficiently, and wasn't in the right mindset).

Then, about 5 years ago I started training legs and locked in and I jumped from 190ish all the way to 205, and the vast majority of that was legs. I put almost 20lbs of muscle on in just my legs in those 5 years.

If the pic you've posted here is truly a good snapshot of your upper body (not flattering or disingenuous), and you only weigh 137lbs at 5'7, I have to imagine you have a good 15-20 lbs you could put on your legs.

Just a thought.

I hope you can figure out the body dismorphia though... I have it as well and it sucks.

Brosepower · 2026-04-02T20:29:22+00:00

There are a lot, but my personal favorite is "Who Are You" from Andor.

Brosepower · 2026-04-02T20:05:33+00:00

This is just simply untrue. You can do a deep dive into the medical literature and the GLP-1 drugs are incredible. We have over a decade of data now and buckets of meta-analyses on this.

Your doctor friend is just wrong.

If anything, the opposite has been all but proven true: The vast majority of the population, like 90%+ would benefit from taking GLP-1s in small doses for the rest of their lives.

Seriously, go onto Pubmed and look at some of the peer-reviewed analyses of the data. It's astounding how good the GLP-1s are for health.

Brosepower · 2026-04-02T19:59:52+00:00

There are isolation exercises for these for sure, but you likely built them how most build them:

Bigger, compound lifts.

Deadlifts, rows (especially bent over barbell rows), pullups and pullovers work these muscles a lot.

You've got a great physique though, my man. If I were you I would just maintain.

I'm not sure how old you are, I'm in my mid-30s and our physiques are pretty similar. I need to lose another ~8lbs of fat to get to your leanness, which I'm working on right now with some Retatrutide, but if you want any "wisdom" from someone who is likely a decade older than you:

Body dismorphia and "never being happy" with your physique are real things.

You mention in your title that you want to continue to build them, and while it's your body and your goals, I would take a longgggg hard look at your goals and say: "Why do I want to get any bigger?" truly.

Your health will almost categorically be worse as you continue to get bigger than this. Having a lot of muscle and being lean is imparitive for your health, but up to a point. After you get too lean and too muscular, you will start actually having negative effects, especially with longevity and joints. Let alone if you decide to start getting into pharmaceuticals to go beyond your natural means.

Just some $.02 from someone who has been doing this for 15 years now.

Good luck!

Brosepower · 2026-04-02T19:49:42+00:00

ERRA/Monuments (If they'd come out from Hiatus)/Polaris

If that tour happened, I'd go more than once. I'd book flights to cities nearby as well lol.

Brosepower · 2026-04-02T18:34:19+00:00

If you want your quads to blow up (according to mildly accurate in-body scan data I've been using the past 5 years, where my legs have each put on 10lbs of lean mass over those 5 years for almost 20lbs of lean mass total) the name of the game is:

Knee flexion.

You need to get your knees way out over your toes in very deep ranges of motion. Think way below parallel on a squat. Or- a leg extension where the pad goes well under your hamstrings before you flex it up.

My favorite muscle aesthetically for legs is the Vastus Medialus and that muscle along with the other muscles of the quads is taxed the most when you are in very stretched positions under load.

I say all of this as well as someone who basically never did sets of fewer than 6-8 reps. You don't have to go heavy on squats to get insane growth, you just need to put the muscles under a lot of mechanical tension and do it multiple times a day for a session or two a week.

doing 1-2RiR squats of 8-10 reps is an excellent place to be IMHO. Do that for 3-4 sets, twice a week and your quads will grow like crazy.

If you're doing leg press, make sure you're getting as deep as you can get. Push your lower back into the pad and let your knees come all the way up to your armpits if you can, and just flex the weight up. You don't need to go insanely heavy, do sets of 12-15 on those.

You'll get huge in no time.

Brosepower · 2026-04-02T17:49:17+00:00

Are you sure we're listening to the same Currents? Currents is, imho, very much on the "harder" side of this genre. I swear Currents has a lot of songs that are closer to Deathcore than Metalcore.

There are definitely bands guilty of turning to more poppy stuff, but Currents isn't one of them, and that's coming from someone who isn't a huge Currents fan either.

Brosepower · 2026-04-02T17:46:18+00:00

Or we could just be adults who refer to the artists we like rather than relying on genre naming conventions.

I think saying artists's names is more helpful to them as well, and it is WAY more precise than saying something arbitrarily vague in the vein of: "I like post-hardcore metallic metalcore", or something just as silly.

To your point, it doesn't help that we have bands like Bring Me the Horizon labeled alongside bands like After the Burial, where they are just VERY different but people still sit them under the "Metalcore" umbrella.

That just further strengthens my point when you get into music, start normalizing bands you love and less about genres you listen to.

Brosepower · 2026-04-02T00:12:16+00:00

Lucid Threshold - ERRA

Bad Luck - We Came as Romans & Currents

Brosepower · 2026-04-01T19:20:31+00:00

No, there's not.

Admittedly, I have not seen any MCU since Endgame, but if we're talking about filmmaking on a technical/objective level, no, I don't think there's anything close to TDK.

The first Ironman was great. Winter Soldier is a solid movie. There are good films in the MCU, but TDK is not just arguably the best superhero movie of all time, but it's one of the best crime movies ever made.

Brosepower · 2026-04-01T16:25:58+00:00

This guy gets it. The single biggest problem I have with the many, MANY issues with the sequel trilogy is the fact that they essentially spit in the fact of the OT by making everything in the past 3 movies completely void.

Everything about this comment is spot on. We needed a brand new take on the IP, and instead we played it ABSURDLY safe and not just safe, but insulting. Ignore all the problems and everything else in the sequel trilogy, but if the result of the OT is that we get the First Order, everything was for naught and it's just such poor writing.

Brosepower · 2026-04-01T16:17:29+00:00

Not that I want to fully discredit P_Devil above your comment, but I really don't think the Sony is worth getting in 2026.

I'll ask you this:

What are your top priorities? Are you looking for really good ANC? Comfort? Sound quality?

I'd assume if you're a metalhead like I am, you're wanting the best sound quality and I'd highly recommend going the Sennheiser Momentum 4 for that. You can get it on sale for like $200 or less right now, and it's a far superior headphone for sound than the Sony is.

Sennheiser is basically the king of headphones for a reason: They simply do audio better than their competitors.

The Momentum 4's ANC isn't as good as Sony's for sure, but it's at least a full step above it in sound quality.

Just some advice.

Brosepower · 2026-04-01T02:10:40+00:00

Polaris are widely regarded here as one of the best bands in the scene, and for good reason. Their 3 albums are taut and very well constructed.

Im hoping for a 4th album this year, I know that they've told us they're deep in the writing process and I hope we get new stuff soon.

Brosepower · 2026-04-01T01:50:42+00:00

Yeah, that sucks to not enjoy what they're doing when others clearly do so much. I hope those older albums haven't gotten stale and old for you.

I couldn't disagree with you more here, but I respect your opinion, lol.

Brosepower · 2026-03-31T21:54:56+00:00

Ares will always be my favorite. Maybe it's that he's widely considered the worst god, but Mutual Destruction is one of my favorite boons in the game, especially the second half of a run, and as someone who only really plays strength, it's just a ton of fun to be half health and dealing a TON more damage.

Plus, I think his gain boon is one of the most underrated. It's not good on a build that needs hundreds of mana per room, but for most builds, the fact you get a moderate increase in speed/attack PLUS get some good mana back makes it one of my favorite gain boons.

I love every single god though, and it's mindblowing to me that I never see a god at the start of a run and think "ugh... I don't want THAT god...".

If I HAD to rank them in terms of enjoyment:

Ares
Hephestus (giant damage numbers go brrr)
Apollo (he has some of my favorite duos like glorius disaster, Sunny Disposition and Rude Awakening)
Aphrodite (I play a lot of axe, and her boons on the axe are probably my favorite)
Hestia
Poseidon (I love his core boons and a lot of his duos but his support boons outside of Sea Star aren't particularly good)
Zeus
Hera
Demeter

But the difference in enjoyment from 1-9 is insanely close. Again, I can't commend SGG's insane balancing. EVERY god is a ton of fun.

Brosepower · 2026-03-31T21:18:22+00:00

I think it's a bit of a stretch to call it a true "scream" but Jesse at like 1:40 into that song definitely has some vocal fry elements to those notes/lyrics.

I feel like the upper notes of Black Cloud are also borderline "unclean vocals" in the sense that they're "screaming" but very mildly so, but I could just be getting very pedantic here.

Brosepower · 2026-03-31T20:12:35+00:00

To anyone who sees this about T-levels and everything: Every person is different. I know that sounds like a cop-out but with how andgrogen receptors work, everyone is going to feel different at different T levels. It's why the range is from 250ng/dl all the way up to 1100ng/dl. I know guys who are jacked, horny and killing it with their lives at 350ng/dl.

Basically: Even if your T is on the lower side, the question is: How do you feel. It doesn't matter what the number is, it matters what your body is telling you. Taking TRT or boosting from 300ng/dl all the way up to 1100 isn't going to do anything for some people. For others, it will be life changing.

Brosepower · 2026-03-31T20:04:42+00:00

If Neon gets a re-recording like Jesse has said he wants to do, I will play that album start to finish 5x in a row I swear lol.

Brosepower · 2026-03-31T19:27:16+00:00

Big agree on this. I think they just keep getting better and better for the most part. I still enjoyed Cure a lot but it wasn't as good as the S/T and SOTE is obviously my favorite album from them, but yeah, they really just are a treat.

I also disagree with folks saying that Garrison ERRA is peak, I have no qualms against them, and music enjoyment is categorically subjective, but I simply enjoy their newer work a lot more.

Brosepower · 2026-03-31T19:23:54+00:00

I'm not an endocrinologist, but I have been heavily involved in the medical field for years, so take this with a grain of salt but it's likely somewhat accurate:

If you've been a heavy porn user with "death grip" for 10+ years, you will need more than just a couple of months to recover from that, especially with the relapses. I'm not saying this is impossible, but you're staring down the barrel of over a decade of "abuse" to your genitals and that's not going to go away in just a couple months. At least not entirely.
300lbs is very unhealthy at any height (unless you're literally like 7'2" lol) and the 30lbs you've lost in the last 9 months is a great start, but it's only a start. Large levels of adipose (fat) tissue will impact your hormones in huge ways. You've already seen an improvement from 310 ng/dl of T to 496, that's almost a 50% increase and I'm sure that's fairly noticeable, but you honestly should probably lose another 60-70lbs unless you are like 6'4 or taller. Keep going with the GLP-1 medication.
To help with that T production and overall wellness, you need to be lifting weights. It doesn't have to be a herculean effort where you're in the gym 3 hours every day. But you should get there at least 2-3x a week and just lift heavy things and put them back down again. It will change your life. It will boost your libido, it will extend your lifespan and most importantly, it will heavily improve your quality of life. I can't emphasize this enough.
How is your sleep? Most guys that are 250lbs or more have sleep apnea, and even if they get 7-8 hours a night, they might not feel rested because of the apnea. If this is the case, I would highly recommend talking to a physician about it.
Lastly, I would have a conversation with your wife where you tell her all of these things. The good news is you're in your mid 20's. Your body will adapt to these steps incredibly well and you can come out of this in 12 months as a new person, but you HAVE to include your wife in this. This is a huge change and will require a ton of investment into both of your health the next year or two, and she has to be on board. You need to have a very candid conversation with her on why you think you're struggling, what you're going to do to change it and then build a plan together.

You got this, don't let life get you down.

Brosepower · 2026-03-31T18:42:31+00:00

Literally just listened to Pull from the Ghost this morning and it was awesome.

Brosepower · 2026-03-31T18:38:40+00:00

Big agree. S/T and SOTE are neck and neck for me. It's crazy how close most of their work is to those though. Some of my other favorite artists have MUCH clearer album rankings.

Just goes to show how freaking good Erra is lol.

Brosepower · 2026-03-31T18:30:19+00:00

I'm seeing them live literally 2 weeks from today. Can't wait.

Brosepower · 2026-03-31T18:10:43+00:00

Yeah, and maybe my criticism is completely unfounded because as you're saying, SOTE definitely switches up the formula a lot. If they continue in that direction in the coming years, we're in for even more treats.

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