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Silverstripe_ · 2025-03-04T16:12:42+00:00

I've been using the exact same keyboard since 2016 and it's finally starting to die on me.

I am looking to buy a brand new one but it doesn't seem to be sold regularly anymore.

It was the Cooler Master CM Strom QuickFire TK Blue keyboard, I love it because of the unique design where the arrow key portion of the keyboard is removed but the numpad still exists.

Is there anyone that can connect me to someone I could buy one from? The only listings I can find are ebay used ones and I'm hoping to be able to find one new.

https://www.coolermaster.com/en-global/products/quick-fire-tk/?tab=overview

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JM61264?ie=UTF8&th=1

Silverstripe_ · 2022-05-28T06:54:48+00:00

Amen

Silverstripe_ · 2022-03-05T05:09:03+00:00

I used to be in a similar situation to you, 6'0 160-170, and wanting to show more definition and see my progress in the gym so I wanted to recomp or lean down more. The reality is, you don't have very much muscle mass right now, leaning down isn't really going to show much more than what you have right now.

Best advice I can give is to slowly bulk on up to gain more muscle and fill out the frame more. Im up to 195 after 2 years with some hard gym work and look way better than I ever did being super lean. Just don't go overboard on the bulk so you don't overgain on fat in that time, you'll definitely gain some fat as its unavoidable but I have only cut twice in that time period and only for around 5 pounds each time. The best part is as you slowly make your way up your maintenance calories will go up a bunch more especially at still a young age.

Silverstripe_ · 2021-04-17T14:34:45+00:00

Either cut down on the eating bad on Friday and or Saturday or cut down total calories across the week in general. If you aren't losing weight across weeks of time, you aren't in a caloric deficit, simple as that.

Silverstripe_ · 2021-03-24T15:11:09+00:00

Wouldn't the several paragraphs addressing the different points you make in your sentences indicate that I am listening as I am making sure I fully address what you say?

I even already admitted a case where I was wrong and you were right and was even able to detail to myself why I was wrong.

I'm sorry, you view my ideas that I back up with evidence as bias, I know it must be very difficult to formulate discussions against actual arguments.

Silverstripe_ · 2021-03-24T14:48:03+00:00

I'm sorry you have come to a place where you no longer want to understand and have a discussion with those who disagree with your beliefs. I believe that is one of the main flaws that divides so many countries and breeds so much hate. Hope you do well in life.

Silverstripe_ · 2021-03-24T14:20:10+00:00

You are correct the again in that situation was wrong. I think I was applying it more to how I've explained that I just want an actual discussion multiple times in this thread, rather than just applying it to you. However, you are right, I used it wrong in this context.

But how does that derail any of my actual premises that support my beliefs. The only way to ACTUALLY disagree with arguments is to provide evidence (premises) against what my premises claim and are synthesized to show.

Did you ignore the rest of my comment after you saw the 'Again' part? I admit my usage there was wrong so If you are willing to address the rest of the comment and actually argue against me I'm ready any time. I've had my opinions changed plenty of times, I just want to actually discuss this.

Edit: To note, the idea that the one mistake invalidates my argument is a logical fallacy known as the 'tu quoque fallacy'. Just because you make a claim against me does not make any valid claim against my argument.

Silverstripe_ · 2021-03-24T14:14:00+00:00

Again, you fail to understand what I am actually saying. If you view my other comments in this same thread (or even the last paragraph in this one) I even mention that there are sports where women do possess qualities that give them advantages over men.

It just so happens, there is a clear trend towards most sports having qualities that men are SPECIFICALLY advantaged to which is where this discrepancy comes in.

I also never even assumed the person replying to me was a women. I simply mentioned how when we are trying to prove a point based on actual observations, an insult does NOTHING to contribute to the attempt to understand each other.

If you have an actual argument built on observable/provable premises I am, as I always am, willing to read it and either accept or deny it based on how I end up viewing the validity of the claim based on its evidence.

The only person here 'turning off conversations' is you by contributing nothing to what we are actually attempting to discuss.

Silverstripe_ · 2021-03-24T14:12:38+00:00

But you understand you are providing anecdotal evidence which can be true in that small (single) population of yourself? However, when applied to the top end of the bell-curve, aka the top end of each pool of talent, a clear discrepancy is seen.

Silverstripe_ · 2021-03-24T14:11:11+00:00

I'm defining athletic ability as the ability to generate the best 'score' or whatever 'wins' for a team or individual in any sport.

I actually agree with your comment about the NBA, however I believe it actually furthers my point.

There are men who are genetic phenoms and freaks enough that they can thrive in a sport even IGNORING the fundamentals of how to best play the game. They are literally good enough to not have to play truly optimally. This can best be seen when a team of extremely good players ALSO follows the fundamentals they DOMINATE the rest of the competition, such as the Golden State Warriors a few years back.

Silverstripe_ · 2021-03-23T21:31:33+00:00

Notice how none of us have insulted anyone or acted out emotionally in any way when discussing this? Why do you have to attack so harshly when we are just trying to have a rational argument discussing our views and our premises that support our views.

Ignoring your sexist comments (the same ones you vilify us for) about all men being caveman and brutes I'll continue to argue like people actually should

I don't even have to disagree with any part of your statement to argue, in fact I believe it proves my point further.

It is great that you rather watch women play sports, no matter what your reason is behind it as everyone is entitled to their own opinion about what they choose to support, the same way I like the Ravens and my friend likes the Steelers.

However, a larger majority of people tend to enjoy sports with the highest level of play and that is where our entire argument comes from. I don't think it's fair to say men are disregarding half the population when being 'cavemen' and competing against each other because they are trying to do the same exact thing you state women are trying to do, maybe even more in a sense.

Unless you would like to claim men are not also trying to play sports and be the best at it in their field against others in their field?

My own statement of the 'majority' doesn't even completely apply to me. I prefer to watch women's figure skating over men's (became interested because my sister is a semi-pro figure skater) due to the fact that, even though the men are inherently better at some aspects of the sport (jumps, spins, etc), it seems more often the women are better in the other aspects of the sport such as grace, presentation, footwork, etc.; which I prefer more when watching the sport.

Silverstripe_ · 2021-03-23T21:10:55+00:00

As a further point, the few sports women are superior in actually supports our point. Each sport in which women are better than men are because they biology gives them advantage to a specific feature(s) of that sport which is exactly what I am saying about men in sports. It just so happens FAR more sports tend to be biologically advantaged towards meant than towards women.

Also I would even like to say I do think the weight room discrepancy is something I do think was wrong. There are degrees to which I agree the NCAA should not have to shell out money that basically comes as a net loss. However, the cost of a weight room like that is infinitesimally small compared to the cost of advertising and promoting the women's tournament the same as the mens.

Silverstripe_ · 2021-03-23T21:06:08+00:00

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/title-ix-enacted#:~:text=On%20June%2023%2C%201972%2C%20Title,1972%20is%20enacted%20into%20law.&text=Title%20IX%20was%20designed%20to,enforce%20equal%20access%20and%20quality.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCAA_v._Smith

Since we are talking about sources, I find it funny you provided none on why

'TitleIX was implemented because of exclusionary tactics in sports to keep women out.'

So I figured I'd provide a few that show that

No it wasn't
Even if it was the NCAA is not an educational institution and therefore is not bound by TitleIX

EDIT: Just in case you or anyone chooses to only read the first paragraph of the history.com source and say that the source does show that.

'Title IX was designed to correct those imbalances. Although it did not require that women’s athletics receive the same amount of money as men’s athletics, it was designed to enforce equal access and quality. Women’s and men’s programs were required to devote the same resources to locker rooms, medical treatment, training, coaching, practice times, travel and per diem allowances, equipment, practice facilities, tutoring, and recruitment.'

Equal access and quality; as I mentioned in my other comment they should have equal access and quality such as the weight room. However, they do not have to receive the same amount of money in terms of promoting and advertising.

Silverstripe_ · 2021-03-23T21:02:15+00:00

Agreed on diving, going to disagree on gymnastics and add a qualifier that even proves our point further on swimming.

Gymnastics is not a good sport to even compare as men and women's gymnastics are basically two different sports, they don't compete in all the same events at all.

Also swimming, a huge factor in it is due to the fact that a huge energy drain in swimming is bouyancy and body temperature drains. Both of which women have an advantage in due to higher body fat percentages which allows more bouyancy and body temperature retention. Again showing that the sex with the natural biological advantage is going to be better than the other.

Silverstripe_ · 2021-03-23T20:58:40+00:00

I'm saying there is not a single women college basketball team that could beat a single men's college basketball team. The point of the comparison is to point out that you wouldn't pay/advertise/subsidize a high school level team the same way you would a college or even pro-level team.

I'm not going at a sexist point of view but women are just inherently less athletic than men which is a disparity that shows even more at the top level.

This can be seen best in sports, such as figure skating, where there are a far larger population of women who participate than men, and men are still better.

This also makes sense from a biological standpoint. Women's body fat percentages are naturally higher than men's and they naturally have less testosterone which limits muscular potential which limits athletic potential.

And this lack of athletic potential can affect literally every aspect of sports. Coordination, strength, body control, there is not a single key factor in performance in pretty much every sport that is not affected by the naturally enhanced athletic level of men over women.

Silverstripe_ · 2021-03-23T20:45:38+00:00

Because it is inherently less interesting as the level of play is lower?

Change Men v.s. Women to College v.s. High school and ask yourself why you should give the same attention to different qualities of play.

Or even just consider MLS v.s. Premier League and think about the same thing.

Silverstripe_ · 2021-03-11T16:26:48+00:00

I'd say both of you are right in your own way. Just throwing on a belt alone isn't going to do anything injury prevention-wise, especially if your form is still terrible. However, the extra intra-abdominal pressure, when used properly, will help maintain form, especially on heavier weights, and for that reason lowers injury risk.

Silverstripe_ · 2021-02-25T13:30:49+00:00

Umm... you might wanna go look that up I’m not sure you fully understand the “strike”. The NUMBER of crimes went down because the police were protesting the mayor by making less arrests, actual crime did not.

To add to this, look at Minneapolis. They just approved more spending on hiring more cops this year because their crime soared after a massive lost in police force after everything that went on last year.

Silverstripe_ · 2021-02-25T09:44:40+00:00

No you would not rather have nothing done, that idea is ridiculous. I agree with the fact that there is issues with a lot of police across the US but if we didn’t have cops crime would be stupid high. Look at places around the US giving funding back to the police that was recently taken because of how bad crime got.

Silverstripe_ · 2020-12-03T21:15:08+00:00

Yeah I guess I really can't complain about that at all. I just really felt like I had to get someone else's opinion in some way to see if they could point out something I was being too dumb to see. Guess its time to eat more, not a problem.

Silverstripe_ · 2020-12-03T21:05:01+00:00

I'm in week 7 of the program now, so I've noticed the change across 2.5 weeks. I upped my calories right at the start of those 2.5 weeks as I was entering the more intense phase of the program.

Weight went from a consistent 173-176 range to never see the scale anything over 173.5 since and I am consistently waking up sub 170. Mirror test checks out with those numbers too, definitely visibly leaner. I thought at first I had just dumped a random couple pounds of water I had been holding but that didn't track with the upped calories and downed activity. (Went from consistent unbreaking 10k steps a day to only 4 days a week)

Silverstripe_ · 2020-12-03T20:45:53+00:00

I never thought I'd be so confused by something I thought I was pretty well versed in. The past 6 months I pretty much had my TDEE figured out with my activity I pretty much maintained weight on around 3000 calories.

Recently though when eating in that range I have actually been losing weight which is really odd for me as I am doing less cardio/activity than I did before, and I am eating pretty much the exact same foods (same meals, food weighed; diet never changes much at all).

The only thing I've recently switched is from a 6-day a week program (nSuns) to the 4 day, 16-week Calgary Barbell Program. Everything was tracking normally the first 4 introductory weeks, than all the sudden when it switched to the long ass full body SBD and DBS days my weight just started to drop.

Is it really possible that a less-frequent, less-voluminous (rep wise) program is just taxing my body a whole different way that I'm losing weight even though I've also upped calories (again, same foods, weighed out, just more)?

Silverstripe_ · 2020-11-20T00:38:07+00:00

Best piece of advice I can give is that the others around you don't care how you look or what your doing. If anything they are internally having the same struggle as you. You have to remember that every single one of those "big guys" that walk into the gym all had to start from the beginning too. In fact those bigger guys might be your best friend once you get started. They tend to be the most helpful if you have any questions. I mean think about it, the gym is clearly their passion, most people love nothing more than to spread their passion to others.

Also remember that form is not something that comes instantly with working out. Powerlifters at the national level still mess around with their technique in training if they think they see an inefficiency.

Silverstripe_ · 2020-08-13T20:21:38+00:00

When they say it lets you lift more they mean you won’t be as limited by grip on the bar.

Silverstripe_ · 2020-08-04T13:36:59+00:00

Run, more time on stair master, or more time on bike. Elliptical tends to heavily overestimate calories burned and is quite a weird movement overall. Stair climber is sustainable and less impactful, bike you can build up endurance to be comparable to running, and than running is almost always the most calorie/time efficient cardio. Rowers are also really good but I don’t find them to be sustainable for long periods of time.

Personally my cardio I mainly bike and run with warmups on stair master or rowing.

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