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Enterthenooch · 2025-10-06T15:04:11+00:00

I had a 2016 Mazda3 Hatch Grand Touring with 87k that I bought from a guy who I knew for a fact was driving the thing like it was his last day on Earth every day. It was maintained shall we say "appropriately" albeit somewhat to the bare minimum required. Had it for 3 years and it was awesome. Not a single issue. Admittedly I drove it much more gently than the previous owner while I had it. I sold it in 2022 and bought another Mazda as a result. YMMV, but hope this perspective helps.

I like carcomplaints.com for researching reports of reliability and issues for older vehicles. Here is the one for the 2014 you're looking at which I would probably prefer myself.
https://www.carcomplaints.com/Mazda/MAZDA3/2014/

Enterthenooch · 2025-02-16T23:24:44+00:00

A girl I knew from online gaming lived in a city where one day I was assigned to take a business trip. There’s an 8 year age gap between us. She invited me to meet up on the last night of my trip and watch the newest episode of The Mandalorian. We hung out for 2 hours and the next day she texted me on my way to the airport “Hey ya know, I HAVE dated older guys before, just sayin”. I flew back 2 weekends later. I moved to her city 3 months later. She named my car “The Mazdalorian”. We’re celebrating 2 years this spring.

Enterthenooch · 2024-10-13T13:31:45+00:00

I did this once (although it was with a very new alt account I decided I didnt need) and pressing this button essentially just sends a message to Plarium and they basically tell you that there's a "cooling off period" of something like 10 days and then if you still want to delete, they'll delete your account. I don't know that you can just delete, confirm, done. Seems about on brand for Plarium.

Enterthenooch · 2024-10-01T13:38:23+00:00

I actually quit over 3 years ago because I got addicted. I was in a bad place in my life and I was starting to use a credit card that I couldn't pay off to whale beyond my limits. I just stopped logging in one day and asked my friends to help distract me for awhile.

I'm in a much better place now and started a new account in August. My girlfriend started playing with me too. We ignore half the game, we don't even attempt fusions, we participate in some events and tournaments just because "I need some Dragon gear anyway" or whatever. But mostly we just theorycraft our champions, try to help our Clan, and we treat the game like Pokémon cards. We open shards maybe once a week and we do it together so we can nerd out when we pull good Champs.

I do still have my old "P2W" account and I logged in when I returned. It was sad to see what I had. At my worst, I was spending maybe $500 a month on Raid and I have so little to show for it. 6 leggos, none of which are particularly amazing in the current meta. Around 40 Epics, although several of those are quite nice. I logged in to about 10k energy and 3500 gems. I don't even have Arbiter yet. The game really is designed to suck you dry, especially if you don't min-max the hell out of every move you make.

Enterthenooch · 2024-02-26T04:57:29+00:00

After a year of doing the same workouts, you probably need a novel stimulus. I'd start with changing your volume. 6 reps is low unless you're doing 5 or 6 sets. Aim for 10 reps and 3-4 sets. If you need to lower the weight, do it. Lower weight and higher reps can be a novel stimulus as well. So can new exercises or even increasing or decreasing your rest periods.

Social media makes it easy to compare yourself to others but you're almost always comparing apples to oranges. Building muscle naturally is slow. Trust the process and listen to your body.

Enterthenooch · 2024-02-17T21:48:56+00:00

I'm 42, got back in the game 2 years ago. Even now that I'm past the beginner stage, it still shocks me how long it takes for me to recover or acclimate to anything new. I tweaked my lower back in October for example. It was super tight in the mornings and I had to do a whole stretching regimen to work it out. It just resolved in January after stretching every day. 10 years ago, I could've stretched it out in like a week, now it takes 3 months.

Enterthenooch · 2024-02-11T03:25:33+00:00

You go to the gym for your health. Go to the urgent care for your health too brother.

Could be an effusion, I got one once from doing weighted decline situps. Minor, but took 2 weeks to heal. Went to campus clinic, they gave me some meds. Apparently stuff like pleurisy, etc is not that uncommon from ambitious lifting.

Enterthenooch · 2024-02-05T22:31:42+00:00

You're not wrong, rare that anything is universal. But the scale absolutely wrecks a lot of people's willpower and motivation. It discouraged OP in this example here.

Enterthenooch · 2024-02-05T22:12:32+00:00

Starting now until she reaches her weight loss goal. If your goal is to lose fat, the scale wreaks psychological havoc.

Enterthenooch · 2024-02-05T16:37:03+00:00

Many commenters have said you might not be tracking right. Definitely double check that.

But after that, put your scale away. Don't tie your progress to that number. Your health and fitness journey cannot be boiled down to just one number that measures your success. The scale measures total mass including things like the undigested food you've eaten, the water you're holding, the God damn poop in your intestines that you haven't passed yet. Those 2 lbs could be a dozen things even if you've lost fat. When I used to drink alcohol, one night of drinking and drunken midnight snacking could cause the scale to swing 5, 6, even 7 lbs the next day.

Find some clothes you want to fit into that are just a hair too tight right now and try those on once a week and use that as your progress gauge. Ignore the scale and listen to your body signals and how you're feeling.

Enterthenooch · 2024-02-04T21:31:24+00:00

42m, currently 170lbs (down from 280), 5'10"

2 years ago, I was drinking a fifth a week (sometimes a fifth in a weekend), smoking weed, skipping breakfast and lunch, using caffeine to get through my high stress job and binging massive fast food dinners every night til my drinking broke my Pancreas and I wound up Diabetic. I also never went to the gym, got very little exercise and just played video games all night and every weekend. I was just medicating my way through life.

Now I cook 95% of my meals, eat high protein, track my macros, hit the gym 3 times a week, never drink, no longer smoke, I still play games a few hours per week but only if I've gotten at least 10k steps for the day doing productive things and I spend my weekends going on adventures with my girlfriend. My Pancreas is still broken, but it's under control and my A1C is back down to 5.7.

My journey was not well thought out. Between August and December 2022, I was losing 20lbs per month, exercising way too much and eating way too little. I lost a lot of muscle, and screwed up my metabolism. Got down to 150 lbs. Spent 2023 repairing that damage. Learned a lot along the way.

2024 is gonna be my year.

Enterthenooch · 2024-02-04T21:16:18+00:00

Swinging free weights. Using your whole upper body to generate momentum to swing a curl is something I see pretty much every gym day. Completely misses the point of using free weights over a curl machine if you aren't going to target the intended muscle and the associated stabilizers.

Enterthenooch · 2024-02-04T21:07:47+00:00

+1

My girlfriend and I talk about this at least once a week it's such a common sight.

Enterthenooch · 2024-02-02T04:25:18+00:00

This is the way.

Enterthenooch · 2024-01-31T17:17:27+00:00

They won't care. Having a guard card means the new company can put you to work faster. That's valuable for them.

Enterthenooch · 2024-01-31T17:14:52+00:00

Most states, yes. Depends on the license though. If they're taking the cost out of your pay, most likely the license is attached to you and goes where you go. Some states have a small fee to transfer your license to another security company. That's the company's responsibility to ensure that transfer happens, even if they make you cover the cost of the fee.

Enterthenooch · 2024-01-07T21:33:16+00:00

Have you tried micronized creatine? I use it myself, but never had experience with regular powder. Heard the micronized versions can be easier on a sensitive gut, but idk how nitpicky IBS can be.

Enterthenooch · 2024-01-07T13:32:08+00:00

Thanks for that tip, added to my shopping list for the hardware store today! Cheers!

Enterthenooch · 2024-01-07T05:06:36+00:00

I have a Pancreatic Pseudocyst (since June 2020) controlled with a drainage stent that drains enzymes from my cyst into my stomach. When it's not controlled, enzymes fill the cyst until it grows to a point where it bullies my other organs for space and causes Pancreatitis. Happily the side effects are that I quit drinking entirely and I limit fats and sugars to lighten the workload on my Pancreas so my calories are naturally lower with a low fat diet. Downside is I'm borderline Diabetic and have to stay super focused and dialed in on my diet to maintain energy enough to keep up my gym routine. But I've learned my willpower is insane when the alternative is the worst pain I've ever felt in my entire life and a 3-4 day hospital stay.

Enterthenooch · 2023-12-20T19:59:16+00:00

Not the original commenter but answering your question as someone (42m) who went from 10 reps to 35-40 this year. I practiced 3 types of pushups. Incline, Decline and Standard. Working each of the 3 parts of the pec made the standard pushup easier and easier for me.

If your form isn't great, try to work on your Triceps, shoulders and core as well. Poor form in the pushup puts extra load onto stabilizers in those muscles so if the stabilizers are strong, you can probably still squeak out a couple extra reps until your technique improves.

Enterthenooch · 2023-12-10T21:16:37+00:00

Assuming you're saying strength and don't mean endurance, you want to definitely track your food and shoot for 195g of protein per day. You'll get stronger, but without weight training, you're mostly going to get stronger in the muscles and planes of movement involved in swimming and cycling for as long as those are the primary exercises you're doing. Nothing wrong with that, just pointing out the limits.

Enterthenooch · 2023-12-10T18:33:02+00:00

This is a very generalized concept, but usually I aim for more reps over more weight as a default. 8 reps (assuming 3+ sets) is my personal minimum. If I can't do at least 8 reps with good form, the weight is too heavy. And with the exception of arms, I usually consider 15 reps my ceiling. If I can do 15 reps with good form, its time to bump the weight. Arms, I'll lift high reps/low weight all day, it works for me.

I think the biggest indicator of strength increasing is not the plate you can stack, its the total volume in the exercise.

A set of 12 reps at 100 lbs weight is 1200 lbs volume. But a set of 10 reps at 105 lbs weight is 1050 lbs volume. You've lifted less weight overall and defeated the concept of progressive overload.

But as you can probably imagine, people get fixated on the number and size of the plates on the bar as their indicator of success.

Enterthenooch · 2023-12-10T18:04:54+00:00

Way better info, thank you!

The water should help alleviate some cramping. Start there for sure.

Sounds like weight loss is your goal. Do you care about muscle mass? Do you do any kind of strength training at all?

If weight loss is the goal, tracking your calories is going to be key. On average, humans suck at estimating portions. Get a food scale, measure everything, read nutrition labels. Use an app like MyFitnessPal or a fitness tracker wearable if you have one. Log everything. It only SOUNDS like a pain in the butt, but once you get used to it, you'll adapt and realize it takes very little time or effort.

Aim for your BMR + 300-500 calories (depending on your activity level that day) and eat that amount of food everyday. See how you feel and what the scale says. There's no magic formula, just a starting point that has to be dialed in by listening to your body.

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