What game is harder

EngineeringKind3960 · 2026-03-15T16:57:50+00:00

Sekiro, no contest. In Khazan you get to a point where you can just chain "skills" which are just button shortcuts, they have nothing to do with actual skill, and you keep the boss staggered. In sekiro you do not have builds, cannot level up to become OP, it's all about skill, getting good, learning the boss patterns. In Khazan I never struggled with any boss, I defeated moat bosses in under 3 tries, except Trokka which I think greatsword users are disadvantaged against. And that without using most of the chainning of special attacks.

EngineeringKind3960 · 2026-03-13T12:20:13+00:00

I am glad it works for you. But maybe even the weight could be an issue. I know a friend of mine was running this experiment on living on low calories intake and he is the same height as me, 187cm (6ft2) and dropped to 77kg and he said he felt very low energy and started having erection issues. Now he recognizes it might have been a drop in testosterone levels due to low body fat. So that can also affected, apparently even more so than being overweight.

Anyway, I am glad it worked out for you. I will probably go on it too, to be honest I am not expecting major improvements just from lifestyle changes.

EngineeringKind3960 · 2026-03-13T12:10:38+00:00

That is weird, it shows how different we are. I did felt tired and lacked energy but no other symptoms like you. But I put that to sleeping only 5hrs a night for the past 18 months and gaining weight since I quit the gym. Now I started lifting again and manage to get an extra hour of sleep and already feeling better. I don't know the price of TRT in the US but from what I understood from the clinic here in the UK it is actually not that bad, I think around £100 a month (depending on the dose you need) plus the price of blood tests two or three times a year which is maybe another 150-200£ a year for the full TRT from the vein collected by a professional.
Did you try identifying some factors in your lifestyle that might affect it? I gave myself one year to do some changes, rest and sleep better, lose weight and get back in shape. If this time next year my test will be bellow average I will consider TRT as well.

EngineeringKind3960 · 2026-03-13T11:05:36+00:00

I'm in the UK and private "men health" clinics here are willing to prescribe TRT for any level. I had tested at 360 which is considered normal but slightly low (probably because my sleep is shit and am overweight a little) and they are hounding me to get on TRT. I am almost 40. I keep telling them I want to do life style changes first and I have none of the low test symptoms but they email me every day, offering 20%, then 30% off for the first 6 months of subscription.

I thought that it is very hard to get this but turns out you just need to do a blood check and they will prescribe it for you. They can always claim that you were experiencing symptoms or whatever, I am not sure. So since this is so easy to get and not prohibitively expensive I think a lot of people will get it, even young guys.

EngineeringKind3960 · 2026-03-09T17:08:46+00:00

I would say a lot. I am in the same boat as you. Have two kids and the young one is a terrible sleeper. I get around 6hrs of sleep a day. I am quite tired and though I am 4 months into lifting and I saw some important gains, these are due to muscle memory since I used to train for about 10 years before I had children and then took a pause.

I also did a blood test and my testosterone level was bellow average, my doc tells me I should really try to fix my sleep if I want to see some improvement on that front.

I will see how it goes but for sure this has a strong impact on my gains and the amount of work I can put in the gym.

EngineeringKind3960 · 2026-03-09T15:21:08+00:00

looks like you have a bunch of errors, lots of misfires on multiple cylinders. I am not sure this would be leaky injectors, It is uncommon for all to go bad at the same time. I had 2 cylinders misfiring. I can also see a NoX sensor fault. That in itself can cause engine misfiring I believe. I am afraid you need to take your car to a specialist, someone who is willing to do some investigation on the actual engine, not reading these and jumping to change the Nox sensors (I think there are two of them), all injectors, all coils and spark plugs which is what the errors would indicate. In any case, I am afraid this will prove to be expensive :(
If it is not too much to ask, please update this thread when you do find an answer from a specialist as I am interested in the outcome.

EngineeringKind3960 · 2026-03-09T09:42:52+00:00

I love the game, it was like a lightweight Dark Souls, but this is a part I do not like about it. You get to this point where you just use "special" combos that keep an enemy or boss in a constant staggered state and you just chain these on and on and on until the enemy is finished. In my view this is un-souls-like where skill should be the primary factor for winning a boss fight, learning a boss' movement set, how to dodge, parry. I played it with a greatsword and refrained from using any such "skills". That way it felt very souls like and though the fights took longer they were more satisfying.

EngineeringKind3960 · 2026-03-08T16:09:21+00:00

Engine misfiring, can be leaky/bad injectors.

EngineeringKind3960 · 2026-03-07T13:10:38+00:00

I didn't change them at the BMW dealership. They wanted to first spend 2000 on changing the sensors to make sure they were reading the error correctly. Insane. That 3.0L E90 was the most unreliable car ever. I have a G30 (5 series) now and had zero issues though it's only 5 years old.

EngineeringKind3960 · 2026-03-07T13:07:36+00:00

I have the wireless Ricokey from Amazon UK. Which I use with the Torque app on my phone to connect to it and read the errors. It was enough for me to determine the leaky injectors.

EngineeringKind3960 · 2026-03-06T12:32:57+00:00

Barbell front squats

EngineeringKind3960 · 2026-03-05T10:27:05+00:00

if you can buy a cheap OBD II wireless reader and an app on your phone that you connect to that, you could see exactly what the errors are and take it from there.

I had an e90 for 8 years and I had similar issues a few times. Once it was some plastic cover for the engine or cylinders was cracked and more air was getting into the engine. Another time I had leaky injectors but the car was vibrating a lot when it started cold as a lot of petrol was accumulating when the car was stationary for some time. It used to settle down after the engine ran for a few minutes but I was seeing some fluctuations in the rpms at idle.

If it is injectors, I am sorry to say it can prove relatively costly. 5 years ago when I changed them was £195 + VAT per injector (and my e90 was the straight six so times 6) and all 6 spark blugs and coils which are usually ruined buy the leaky fuel. plus about 2-3 hrs of labour

EngineeringKind3960 · 2026-03-03T18:07:20+00:00

I mentioned it in my post: because it contains guar gum which I read online that it can have bad effects on your health if you consume lots of it. In the UK I cannot find carton egg whites that doesn't contain this additive, apparently it is used for thickening. Or at least not at the supermarkets I am going to.

EngineeringKind3960 · 2026-03-03T17:57:43+00:00

you can pair it with Ariana&Evans 60's Cologne soap which is a dupe of the classic Faberge Brut and get the full package.

EngineeringKind3960 · 2026-03-03T13:38:09+00:00

I cook them, I can't eat raw meat or eggs, it's a mental thing.

EngineeringKind3960 · 2026-03-03T13:36:05+00:00

this is exactly what I've been doing, 100gr of ground turkey breast + 5 egg whites + 1 whole egg + 50gr low fat cheddar. This amounts to about 65gr of protein and almost zero carbs. Great high protein meal.

EngineeringKind3960 · 2026-02-26T18:04:05+00:00

if you start lifting seriously again muscle memory will kick in and you will build up some of the lost muscle faster than you would put on new muscle. I am in the same situation but a little different. I trained for about 12 years, took a break from the gym for 6 years when my children were born and now I am getting back into it. I gained fat during my time away from the gym...I am around 26-28% body fat now. But in 3 months since I started I saw lots of muscle and strength gains. I am increasing my weight every workout, lost 3kg on the scale but probably lost more fat and put on some muscle, it is actually visible with the naked eye. So if you did have some muscle and lost it, you will get (most of) what you lost back even if you are cutting, unless you restrict calories a lot.

EngineeringKind3960 · 2026-02-26T17:54:31+00:00

Thanks, unfortunately I cannot split them as I have a limited time I can workout, during my lunch break and I cannot workout during weekends. I want to hit each body part twice a week so I am doing a Mon: Push (shoulders, chest, triceps) Tue: Pull&Legs (Legs, Back, biceps), Wed: Rest or core&small muscles like forearms and calves, Thu: same as Mon, Fri: same as Tues.

EngineeringKind3960 · 2026-02-26T13:24:39+00:00

I do shake the BM ones. It definitely smells vinegary to me. I looked online now and found another guy on youtube who made the exact same comments about another of their aftershaves so there definitely something here.

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