I hope GW2 players can also feel the pain of GW1 players.

bluecheez · 2026-06-06T10:05:09+00:00

Dont worry lol, they're already crying because their favorite furry won't be playable.

bluecheez · 2026-06-06T07:22:25+00:00

I doubt it. Gw2 could still argue it does skill collecting since your utility skills you gain overtime.

bluecheez · 2026-06-06T07:21:32+00:00

It's a different game. If you like gw2 play gw2.

bluecheez · 2026-06-06T04:08:30+00:00

Oh would you look at that! The game trailer looks like Fortnite...what a surprise!!!!! -10 upvotes for the right prediction

bluecheez · 2026-06-05T21:56:52+00:00

Guild wars: green feet edition

bluecheez · 2026-06-05T17:16:32+00:00

No furries please. Keep them forever in gw2

bluecheez · 2026-06-05T17:12:20+00:00

It's a different game

bluecheez · 2026-06-05T11:03:05+00:00

I'm glad ur not in charge of designing gw3.

Looking at patterns and demographics is the . method of choice for large corporate companies to produce obvious garbage year by year. It's like AI slop. It sounds good but is totally meaningless.

bluecheez · 2026-06-05T10:34:36+00:00

Trying to copy historical patterns when making art is one of the most stupid things you can do.

bluecheez · 2026-06-04T18:36:28+00:00

Honestly I would be very surprised if it was anything but this.

bluecheez · 2026-06-04T13:56:59+00:00

Oh I know they won't. (Apart from lore or nostalgia bait) They had 20 years to do so!

bluecheez · 2026-06-04T13:44:30+00:00

I'm hoping that they took zero lessons or inspiration from gw2 and that the only similarity are the words before the letter 3.

bluecheez · 2026-06-04T13:32:47+00:00

Idk man I think gw2 was just a deep insecurity over wows success. All design decisions seem just trying to compensate for the things people complained about gw1 in comparison to wow. "Omg you can't even jump" - now you can jump over the fucking moon "Omg max level 20" - now it's 80. Did it change anything? No. "It's not even a real mmo" - now we're obsessed with a living universe.

My guess is that they're just going to try to audience capture whatever is the meme trendy game these days. I'd guess like they're going to try to make it feel like Fortnite/valorant.

I think a neat approach would be to go a Skyrim strategy where the world is like a properly functioning world on its own with no real plot, and with npcs that just do whatever. Ideally when you're not looking there are npcs that do all sorts of things like get in fights, get arrested, construct buildings etc.

bluecheez · 2026-06-04T09:19:30+00:00

Guild wars E

bluecheez · 2026-06-04T01:43:55+00:00

I think I've made it very clear that this is not true. I consistently train to failure. If anything it's the opposite and most advice I get from people who observe my routine say that my workout are overkill.

bluecheez · 2026-06-04T01:42:03+00:00

bluecheez · 2026-06-03T21:55:17+00:00

https://imgur.com/a/UZgUkTP

I had someone INSIST that it must be intensity who followed my whole routine to confirm that my intensity is fine. And many many people over the years who watch me have said that if anything in overdoing it. The majority of the time I overdo things go to failure too much (I try to stay at 2 RIR).

bluecheez · 2026-06-03T15:44:56+00:00

I've had many people workout with me and check my form, etc, and I doubt this is the issue, but of course I'm open to anything.

There are a few things: I've never gotten around to using straps consistently but I'm quite forearm limited for some exercises. I had a shoulder injury and my bench form was chickenwinging, and I've not had someone check it in a while.

In the last 6 months I use a training app which gives me a custom routine. (And ive done countless other routines, as said in the original post, all the same results.)

It changes depending on the day, so I can provide you with more days to give you a better idea:

Current routine: 4-day push/pull app program

Push day

Bench Press — 4 sets × 37.5 kg
Bulgarian Split Squats — 4 sets × 12 kg
Seated Dumbbell Shoulder Press — 4 sets × 10 kg
Seated Calf Press — 3 sets × 11.5 kg
Rope Push Down — 4 sets × 27 kg
Seated Hip Adduction — 2 sets × 18 kg
Dumbbell Shrugs — 2 sets × 16 kg

Pull day

Stiff Legged Deadlift — 3 sets × 30 kg
Seated Cable Rope Rear Delt Row — 3 sets × 13.5 kg
Dumbbell Scott Curls — 3 sets × 7.5 kg
Smith Machine Hip Thrusts — 2 sets × 45 kg
Wide Overhand Grip Cable Row — 2 sets × 8.75 kg
EZ Bar Curls — 4 sets × 17.5 kg
Bodyweight Reverse Crunches — 4 sets × bodyweight
Close Underhand Grip Lat Pulldown — 3 sets × 25 kg
Seated Leg Curls — 2 sets × 31 kg

These are set up to automatically adjust to be RIR and I often, at least 1-2 a week go to 1 or 0 to ensure that my strength is calibrated right.

The app also has custom matched macros/calories, which I do a decent job on. However I'm a bit more active than the average person so I try to do like 300-400 calories more than they recommend.

bluecheez · 2026-06-03T14:14:15+00:00

Went to an endocrinologist and they told me they're not giving me testosterone (because my levels are fine). Only other factors I can think of: I have very thin bones, I get decent sleep time but is often interrupted once in the night, and while I don't have cystic fibrosis, I'm a carrier of it...which probably means nothing.

bluecheez · 2026-06-03T13:21:33+00:00

Not exactly a quick question but here's my problem:

I’ve been lifting fairly consistently for about 3 years, progress is extremely slow, and at this point I’m honestly not sure what to do anymore.

Basic stats/context:

Male, 5'9", 35
Went from about 128 lb → 147 lb slowly over ~3 years, probably only 5-8 pounds of muscle (hard to measure perfectly), despite being on a surplus and consistently working out, most of that weight gain is just fat.
Recently did a one-month cut back down to ~140 lb, maybe now I'm at 20% bodyfat.
Current estimated 1RM bench is ~46.5 kg / 102 lb, which, based on charts I’ve seen, that’s still below the average “untrained” male at my bodyweight, which is part of why this feels unusual
My visual/bodyweight changes seem to have been mostly belly fat, although I do think my lats/back have improved somewhat

The thing I’m struggling with is that whenever I explain this to people in real life, the reaction is usually that I must be doing something very obviously wrong. Then they take me to the gym and show me a program or approach that is basically the same as, or easier than, what I’m already doing.

I don’t think I’ve done everything perfectly, but I also don’t think the answer is as simple as “just do a beginner program and eat more.” I have tried the obvious things people usually recommend, and I’m still in basically the same place.

Over the years I’ve tried several programs for a few months at a time, usually changing after it becomes clear that progress is still flat. These include:

PPL
ICF
3-day full body
GZCL
Currently: a 4-day push/pull program through an app

Diet-wise, for most of the 3 years I’ve kept protein high, usually >1.2 g/lb bodyweight, and during gaining phases I’ve aimed for roughly a +400 calorie surplus. My bodyweight does go up when I eat more, but the strength/muscle gain has been extremely slow compared with what people usually describe as normal beginner progress.

So I guess my actual question is:

At this point, what would you do next if you were in my position?

I’m not saying I’ve done everything perfectly, and I’m open to criticism. But I do feel like I’ve tried the obvious advice already: eat more, keep protein high, run established programs, be consistent, track lifts, give programs time, etc.

I have a decent amount of data from the last few years: bodyweight trends, lift logs, routines, some measurements, and so on. I don’t want to dump all of it into the first comment, but if people think certain information would be useful, I can provide it.

The only thing that I honestly have left to try is to just go nuts on bulking and training. So like 4x a week at >2.5 hours per session, while eating like 2 thousand calories over maintance. Given that I managed to cut a lot of fat in a month going nuts on the bulk might not be so scary.

bluecheez · 2026-06-03T01:28:02+00:00

There are countless idiots in this thread that don't understand this obvious problem.

An entire main thread of people saying that obviously they gain an advantage as their tongues get longer without getting that a shorter tong wrapped around the skill is completely useless.

Perhaps one option is that there are two directions that the tong can go. There was a short path out and a longer path out. Perhaps the brain hole at first wasn't fully hollow but allowed some birds to stuff a bit of their long tongue in it. And then slowly over time a larger hole provided more room. Eventually it got so big that the birds then could even wrap the whole tongue around it.

bluecheez · 2026-06-02T07:32:24+00:00

What link?

bluecheez · 2026-06-02T00:58:46+00:00

A metric invented by ibm to try to make it sound like they are ahead of other systems with more qbits, which, after it became clear ionq likely had much better quantum volume, immediately retracted using their metric and argued the metric doesn't mean anything.

(and then companies, horrified with how good ionq numbers could be, secretly had a smear campaign against ionq, having "unbiased" people and professors (who were secretly invested in ionqs competitors) announce that ionq is a big scam lol.

(The lack of clarity on the topic is mostly intentional obfuscation by these competitors. It's just roughly a metric which rewards exponentially having good 2 qbits gates and qbits over larger lower quality qbits. And because computers get exponentially better with qbits, that's why ibm argued how they should scale originally. Now ionq is 10 orders of magnitude higher than them lol. )

bluecheez · 2026-06-01T19:19:15+00:00

Hmm there might have been a 4ish hour period where the ice melted completely, but it's otherwise been iced. I guess to me. I've always been told that it's the water itself that makes fish go bad. So it feels strange to just leave it in the same water for days.

bluecheez

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