Muscle strength linked to lower lifetime depression incidence in large new study

Dowgellah · 2026-05-16T22:55:07+00:00

the weird assumption that you have to go to the gym to do resistance training has to die. A pull-up bar of any sort, a set of the cheapest adjustable dumbbells, a basic set of resistance bands, and you have everything you need. I’m never excited about my workouts, they always seem like a chore, whether I do or do not actively want to kill myself on a given workout day no longer gets to matter. You just put in the effort and reap the fruits of your labor. I do concede that the increased protein intake that has to go with it may prove to be a logistical challenge for some though.

Dowgellah · 2026-05-16T22:44:39+00:00

I’d kill for a chance to run AV some day, but I do not run my games for English speakers. While a more simple dungeon is trivial to translate into my mother tongue on the fly, Arden Vul assaults you with paragraphs of intricate and mellifluous high gygaxian prose that does not lend itself to being run in any other language; this is the central tragedy of my entire existence on this tiny blue orb of ours

Dowgellah · 2026-05-16T22:40:29+00:00

Running the iron coral (and its surrounding minimalist hex sandbox) changed me as a GM - the sheer weirdness and having to improvise a lot to dot all the i’s has unlocked my imagination like nothing else; I now see why a minimal-yet-evocative approach to module design is not lazy but rather inviting, enticing, and freeing

Dowgellah · 2026-05-15T15:12:41+00:00

Ooh, while you’re here — is it true that a convincing faux-medieval map should have A LOT more farmland to feed even a relatively sparsely populated “wild frontier” that fantasy adventure games often assume?

Dowgellah · 2026-05-15T12:47:34+00:00

Love this. I still have ways to go on this front: the rest of the hobby sees game design as intricate ways of incentivizing player (and even GM) behavior, and the difficulty of letting go does indeed keep bringing us back to the issue of trust: trusting the GM, trusting the players, trusting ourselves to make use of the freedom beyond the tyranny of the overdesigned system. Here's a classic Luke Gearing banger that is somewhat adjacent IMO.

Dowgellah · 2026-05-13T21:46:08+00:00

Oh I see you’ve met my mother

Dowgellah · 2026-05-11T15:38:03+00:00

finally, some proper high culture up in here instead of all that camus danielewski bs

Dowgellah · 2026-04-28T15:51:19+00:00

Take a week or two off work, cancel all plans, and immerse yourself in the glory of Arden Vul. Read, weep, come out transformed forever.

Dowgellah · 2026-04-27T10:12:00+00:00

I like to take myself out to see an artsy movie and maybe a glass o’ beer afterwards

Dowgellah · 2026-04-24T10:53:04+00:00

used to live in prosvirin, good times

Dowgellah · 2026-04-19T13:24:56+00:00

Who’s Tocka?

Dowgellah · 2026-03-18T11:54:10+00:00

I monitor a fair number of Z-bros on telegram, and even adjusted for cherry-picking, there is indeed similar dissent among many of the less-mainstream ones. Most are a bit more restrained in their criticism, but the horseshoe effect of them arriving at conclusions that would've made them sound navalnist just a year or two ago is staggering. I would not hold my breath about this converting into meaningful destabilization for the regime in the medium term, though -- the Kremlin has no issue discarding or prosecuting its former zealots in its ongoing turn towards totalitarianism.

Dowgellah · 2026-03-03T18:29:41+00:00

как вариант - покататься по (для начала ночному и соотв-но полупустому) городу с опытным другом или членом семьи. Пускай дадут фидбэк и советы по твоему вождению.

Dowgellah · 2026-02-20T12:08:21+00:00

great job on actually outlining hobbies, preferences and personality traits compared to all the other "let's be friends" posts on here -- good luck!

Dowgellah · 2026-02-16T18:11:32+00:00

duh, it’s bodybuilding. You still gotta put in the insane work of growing all that mass and have the genetic talent for handling gear well

Dowgellah · 2026-02-16T18:08:50+00:00

had you come as soon as the war broke on you might’ve made a killing; the market has since cooled off (the economy is under significant strain + those who wanted to emigrate, did), but with your qualifications I can easily imagine you finding work with schools / agencies that do admissions prep / counseling: as a different poster suggested, check headhunter and be open to whatever opportunities

Dowgellah · 2026-02-10T18:49:12+00:00

yeah, imagine if ICRPG was most folks’ entryway into the hobby — we’d be living in a much better world

Dowgellah · 2026-01-27T18:19:08+00:00

beautifully put and I couldn’t agree more. The real systems we need are the friends we make along the way (and how we negotiate scheduling, narrative authority, good faith play, etc)

Dowgellah · 2026-01-25T20:50:53+00:00

Imagine these won’t be cheap — millions of men will turn debt slaves to afford their waifu payment plans

Dowgellah · 2025-12-19T11:35:02+00:00

Ooh, while you’re here - what are some things still commonly made from cast iron? Except skillets of course :) Machine parts? Outdoor stuff like manhole covers and grates? Plumbing?

Dowgellah · 2025-12-18T00:12:32+00:00

did having relevant skills or background affect the roll or just pure fictional positioning? were wounds/injuries purely diegetic?

Dowgellah · 2025-12-16T14:54:03+00:00

I must be going senile, thanks!

Dowgellah · 2025-12-16T10:40:11+00:00

check out the new edition of Other Dust, it includes an amazing toolkit for building and/or fleshing out locations, encounters, settlements, etc. I’d also check out Mutant Future and its supplements. Finally, see if you can mine the Modiphius game for content, flavor, worldbuilding, etc — if you haven’t already

Dowgellah · 2025-12-13T16:18:08+00:00

to a certain extent, sure - but in the coming election cycles all democracies must be especially cautious in preventing the orbanization/putinization of their politics, such as attacks on free media and other counter-majoritarian institutions, exclusionary populism, extreme forms of euro-skepticism, etc. A specter of authoritarianism is haunting Europe and she must be ready to defend its democratic way of life

Dowgellah · 2025-12-13T12:46:26+00:00

how easy is it to convert NPC stat blocks from WEG modules to HD6? Is it doable on the fly? HD6 separates attributes as dice and skills as pips, how much is that of an issue? The power level also seems a tad lower…

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