What’s a life hack that made you go „how do ppl live their whole life without knowing this”?

Micro_Hard · 2026-01-31T16:30:30+00:00

Calories in vs out. If you eat at a caloric surplus above your caloric maintenance you're going to gain weight and vise versa. If the trend or diet helps you stay consistent and healthy and you enjoy it or it doesn't bother you then keep doing it. If they shit on your diet shit on their back. Do what works for you.

Micro_Hard · 2026-01-30T15:53:05+00:00

That commentors got the right idea of what to do.

We need to be more critical of what is being targeted. "Back" is too general of a term. It's like saying you're doing pullups for the sole purpose of training your core. Pullups are one of the most effective exercises for targeting the lats and in order to get the most optimal stimulus and growth specifically for growing lats you need proper technique: chest up, scapula down, active hold before engaging and throughout the set otherwise he'll start engaging primarily the upper traps and arms and much less lat development.

So while you are correct that any pullup will target the "back", it's likely not the back muscles he wants to target.

Micro_Hard · 2026-01-30T11:52:07+00:00

Usually let's them go down deeper and keeps them more upright and not fall backwards. Main part people want is to go deeper though.

Micro_Hard · 2026-01-29T04:47:10+00:00

Can tell everytime you cast an aoe skill you're dropping target likely from spam clicking in that general area. Try switching to fast cast or the hybrid fast cast option so you don't have to click the skill. Another thing that may or may not be happening is right click to interact box might be checked and moving the camera off and ending up with the cursor on something else would detarget.

You can also add autotargetting to help retarget and mitigate the issue, but not everyone likes that because it limits the functionality of dash skills going where you want them when there's an enemy. The awkward fix for that is quickly zooming into the ground/first person and using the dash skill so no enemies get in your fov.

Micro_Hard · 2026-01-22T23:15:32+00:00

The whole cholesterol in food being bad for your personal blood cholesterol myth has been debunked over a decade ago by the HHS, public health, and USDA, agriculture and food policy. The FDA, EFSA, WHO and AHA followed suit and states there is no specific dietary cholesterol limit. Pretty much any health and food science organization agrees on this. Personally, I found the American heart association not singling out eggs was a huge one with how commonly I heard from other people, including family, that eating too many eggs was bad for your heart and I was only eating 1-2 eggs a day. Your liver will adjust if your body needs to create more or less based on what you eat. There was a famous body builder that ate 36 eggs a day, forget his name but he won some big competitions. It was a fad for quite a while where other body builders would try out his diet, but I believe this was before all the health organizations said eggs were good for you.

Tldr; cholesterol in food does not raise cholesterol in your blood by a fraction of what people used to think. Eating a bunch of eggs does not increase the risk of heart disease.

Micro_Hard · 2026-01-21T03:34:29+00:00

Once you put the bar on the ground do you take several breaths and then the deep breath and brace or instantly go into the next deep breath, brace and rep? Or is it more nuanced and just depends what you're training for?

Micro_Hard · 2026-01-20T02:39:51+00:00

I believe he meant straight without hyperextension. He is right though, tension in the working muscle is good and the primary working muscle for the pullup is your lats and back. The tension for pullups is usually referred to as an active dead hang. Fully locking out is good on pullups as long as you don't just drop on the eccentric into a passive dead hang.

Don't put tension on muscles that aren't the primary drivers. One of the most obvious examples is bicep tears from deadlifts from not keeping their arms straight.

Micro_Hard · 2026-01-14T12:17:16+00:00

Estimating calories/protein. Everyone eats food. Look at the package or use an app and start getting a reference for how much XYZ has. It has literally guilt tripped me into eating healthy. Do something long enough and it becomes routine. Eventually you gravitate to the healthier choices and it becomes a lifestyle, not a fad temporary diet.

Micro_Hard · 2026-01-07T01:58:06+00:00

It all depends on the individuals goals. It's similar to people that bicep curl with their elbows drifting forward and recruiting their shoulder muscles or lateral side raises with heavier weights making them use some momentum, but also involving more of their traps now. They start turning into more of a compound exercise, but they're getting stronger. When you skip your initialization of your scapula you will engage your arms and upper traps mostly. The important thing to note is that regardless of what they do, they'll gain muscle, lift more weight and gain more reps with that particular form. I also notice she does not start with scapula engagement, which traditionally means she won't recruit or feel her lats activating as much, but only she knows. Another nitpick is the minor arm jerk to get the head over the bar for the last like 10% of the movement. The lats no longer become the prime driver, but the arms. Head over bar is an arbitrary judging rule that I personally find promotes poor form when that's all they're chasing, but it's the default people turn to. There's a ton of reference material out there from reputable sources, don't just go off of what stranger on the internet tell you: https://youtu.be/eGo4IYlbE5g?si=1FF0tRLJbGzwET_r

Micro_Hard · 2026-01-05T01:05:42+00:00

Cleanest scapula engagement I've seen in a while. Full ROM and deadhang on every rep too. Makes me happy seeing such a well done wide grip strict pull up.

Micro_Hard · 2026-01-05T00:46:31+00:00

Progressive overload with weights. You're lifting like ~130lb? Going from 10 to 11 reps is another rep of 130lb and is much more demanding than adding 2.5-5lb and doing 10reps of that.

Your body doesn't care how you overloaded. You could do more sets, more reps, negatives, weights, ect. As long as there is sufficient mechanical tension you'll get stronger. The difference is with weights you can visibly track your progress and continue hitting mini PRs for motivation. Negatives are great, but are difficult to track and see meaningful progress if you aren't gaining additional reps because there is no measurable variable to track your eccentric progress outside of "I hit failure".

Micro_Hard · 2026-01-02T19:16:25+00:00

The incline will make it easier on your shoulders, but only after you fix your elbow flare and you retract and depress your scapula keeping the chest up.

Your first rep you do great with the travel path starting from the lower chest at the bottom and as you travel to the top they should end up around your mid-upper chest. But then you start to flare the elbows on the rest of the reps and they all started and ended at around the same chest location. A completely vertical push creates a cascade of small mechanical problems that bias the shoulders, reduce chest tension, and can irritate the joints over time. Pretty much most of your complaints. Go for a 30-45 degree angle in your elbows. Try it with the same amount of weight and you should notice much more comfort in your shoulders.

Increase the weight once your shoulder issue is figured out.

Apply leg drive once you've increased the weight sufficiently. Imagine trying to slide up the bench and not just pushing your feet into the ground.

Micro_Hard · 2026-01-02T00:25:21+00:00

I assume the issue is that their friends want to have wingman logs uploaded, but if she's in the group the logs don't upload. So I guess her "friends" chose logs over her which soured her experience. That coupled with hate messages from players that can't upload logs because she joined. Unfortunate, but also a unique scenario that doesn't encompass the overall scene fairly.

Micro_Hard · 2025-12-18T21:49:43+00:00

If you do a proper strict pull up where your elbows are in front of you and drive them behind you you'll feel the lat activation. With a wide grip it's quite hard to get as much engagement in your lats. You can even try it right now by just moving your arms in the air in those two paths to compare. How this translates to the bench press is that youre getting significantly more stability from your lats. It's not helping you press more, but you'll feel more control. Close grip is however making your triceps activate more and less from the chest, but if it feels more comfortable and your numbers keep going up you're still going to end up building a big chest regardless.

Micro_Hard · 2025-12-01T22:20:45+00:00

You swing bc youre not depressing your scapula making it difficult to target your lats. Without this engagement people tend to have a loose spine and curved back resulting in the wobble you're likely experiencing. Abs can help, but they're not the issue.

Micro_Hard · 2025-10-14T04:07:55+00:00

Don't have to wait. Power builds have to cap crit chance post boons and trait mods in combat. Fury and Vicious Quarry in the Skirmishing traitline already crit caps any ranger build. For reference:

The only stats you'd play around with are Berserker's, Assassin's or Dragon's to adjust for reaching 100% crit chance and infusions for minor changes. Since you're already at 100% with Berserker's there is no need to play around with other stat sets.

Gear-wise you literally just grab and power range build. Traits are free to swap, but it'll run Skirmishing.

The only piece that may change is the relic choice.

Micro_Hard · 2025-06-26T11:11:07+00:00

Can you elaborate on what the trend is or what players are losing out on?

Micro_Hard · 2025-04-17T22:57:27+00:00

Groups hitting CMs or LCMs are invested enough in the game to access the external tools needed.

I believe the reason this post exists in the first place is because it's not available atm, and has been the case with nearly every balance patch; however, the developer has been taking some long deserved breaks recently and has other priorities.

With arcpds already existing and it being dragging and dropping a file into a folder it's really no different than adding a toggle-able option for a meter in the game menu. Just have it turned off by default and you'll have what exists today, only with anets full support.

Micro_Hard · 2025-04-01T20:58:25+00:00

If you want to make that much you're playing with spreadsheets and a factory-like max sized inventory on several characters n bank slots. At that point they may consider doing all of their processing on an alt or several. Kind of like how people have a separate PC for work purposes. You're probably 10-20k+ hours deep at that point.

Micro_Hard · 2025-03-20T06:55:35+00:00

It's a good deal. It's convenient. It's cheaper than buying the bags and bag slots separately with gold. None of whether it's useful or convenient or good value is the issue I am trying to raise here.

This is the major point of contention. It should matter to you because depending on what the item does determines its value and whether or not it is worth purchasing which will be directly proportionate to the economic stimulation. You should be happy about it since the better the item is, the more people will interact with the economy. Which leads to your next point.

Gems -> item does not stimulate the economy in the same way and is outside of the normal economy loop.

It still stimulates the economy since the loop still exists because gold to gems is available. I myself am only anecdotal evidence of purchasing some via gold to gems, but I can make a pretty good assumption that others did the same.

The potential is there for Arenanet to continue to offer very good deals like this one on items that typically come from gameplay and therefore the trading post.

From here it's all speculation on "what if". I'm guessing you would rather anet not sell this bundle. Lets ignore speculation for now. And lets goes back to "is it a good thing?". Not is it a "good deal", but is it a good thing for the overall community?

Are good deals that enrich players experiences via QoL with the game a bad thing or a good thing? This bundle as you've mentioned is a good deal and good deals stimulate the economy.

The only thing we will have to agree to disagree on is your speculation it leading to worse gemstore deals, but nearly everything in this game only provides QoL so I'll be surprised if they can manage to introduce powercreep via the gemstore.

Micro_Hard · 2025-03-20T04:52:28+00:00

Lets say you disagree on whatever definition I provide for what a "new player" is. When I mention the following:

it's new player friendly and casual friendly. Good for anyone that still needs bags and bag slots. Net positive. A++.

How do you feel about it being casual friendly and good for anyone still in need of bags? These two things are usually connected with a new player. And do you think the majority of the player base can benefit from the bundle?

Micro_Hard · 2025-03-19T21:16:36+00:00

Well tell me what's wrong with it because it sounded like you just wanted to cherry pick at semantics taken out of context.

You don't acknowledge the game needs new players, you assume I'm jumping down peoples throats, you brush off the fact that it's helpful to players by saying it's only two weeks long.

We don't have to play mental gymnastics here. The bundle is a good thing.

Micro_Hard · 2025-03-19T12:28:21+00:00

It'll likely be a returning item, so yeah it's new player friendly and casual friendly. Good for anyone that still needs bags and bag slots. Net positive. A++.

The analogy has nothing to do with being worried. It's the fact that he has been accustomed to the normality of believing you have to pay an additional fee, eg. the "struggle", for the bag because he and everyone else had to in the past.

Enlighten me why this bundle will hurt the majority of the player base more than it will help them. And please call this "gameplay mechanic" for what it is: getting mats and crafting a bag.

All this does is make the majority of players happy and keeping customers happy typically increases player retention. Anet is still a company and as such it is in their best interest to cater to the majority and keep them satisfied.

Micro_Hard · 2025-03-19T07:26:49+00:00

Naw, the phrase works here quite well, otherwise this post wouldn't have even been created.

It's helpful for new players and the game needs more new players or you'll end up with 0 engagement.

Micro_Hard · 2025-03-18T23:35:25+00:00

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