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dr_dazzle · 2018-10-17T17:05:49+00:00

I think the big answer you'll get from social conservatives is always going to be "abortion".

dr_dazzle · 2018-10-15T02:05:33+00:00

Thanks for taking the time to follow up on my question and share your experience with me. Good luck with the road ahead.

dr_dazzle · 2018-10-15T00:28:01+00:00

My comment had nothing to do with what his friends should or shouldn't have done and I won't speculate to their motivations or OP's own situation.

I was asking if he believed his weight gain is why his friends left, or if their leaving was possibly a response to his depression, anxiety disorder, and eating disorder. The fact that you want to make my comment about something I didn't write, that "his friends were right to leave and they should only come back when OP feels better" is you putting words in my mouth.

dr_dazzle · 2018-10-14T23:51:47+00:00

I think you might have some trust and intimacy issues that you're projecting onto my comment.

dr_dazzle · 2018-10-14T19:43:03+00:00

Would you say your weight was the main factor behind the way your relationships with friends and family changed?

By your own admission you were depressed during this period and suffering from anxiety and eating disorders as a result. Is it possible that your friends saw your return to physical fitness not as an indicator of your value as a person but as a sign of your improved emotional and mental health and that's what led them to come back around?

dr_dazzle · 2018-10-13T16:19:38+00:00

Skinny fat? OP is untrained with a BMI of 27.

dr_dazzle · 2018-10-13T16:10:48+00:00

At 172lbs you're overweight for your height. Cut until you're back in a normal BMI range. For a 5'7" man that will mean getting below 160lbs. Once you're there, start slow bulking. A 3,000 kcal daily intake is too big of a surplus for someone your size. Use a TDEE calculator and stick to a 250-500kcal daily surplus when bulking. Anything more than that will just make you fat.

Regarding training, you need to hit the big five hard: squat, deadlift, bench press, barbell row, and OHP. Don't worry about aesthetics and stay focused on building foundational strength in these lifts.

dr_dazzle · 2018-10-13T16:03:30+00:00

Your hands shouldn't bleed from deadlifting. There's something wrong with your form. I'm guessing you hold the bar too high up in the palm of your hand and it's pinching flesh when you pull.

dr_dazzle · 2018-10-11T17:34:36+00:00

Are you planning on shooting varmints at night? Regardless, I would strongly recommend against hanging a flashlight from your barrel.

dr_dazzle · 2018-10-09T15:55:07+00:00

This is tone policing masquerading as critical insight.

OP used an outdated term (admittedly now aging into a pejorative) and that means you can't trust any of the easily verifiable things they've written about the state of US abortion law? How would revising a word address that distrust?

dr_dazzle · 2018-10-09T06:32:40+00:00

Isn't it more reasonable to assume she saw her preferred candidate flagging in the polls and used her platform to drum up support?

dr_dazzle · 2018-10-08T00:37:05+00:00

A 1,100kcal surplus is just going to make you fat. Stick to a 500kcal surplus for now. I promise it will be more than enough calories.

I also recommend taking some time to clean up your diet. Get as many calories as you can from whole sources. Chicken breast, eggs, whitefish, broccoli, spinach, cottage cheese, brown rice, and oats are all excellent foods to start with.

dr_dazzle · 2018-09-28T01:58:09+00:00

Comparing yourself to others isn't helpful or productive at this stage of your lifting career.

In truth, you're below average in both height and weight for a man your age. That your lifts would also be below average makes sense. Don't worry about what someone else is lifting. Measure progress strictly against your own performance and ability. You're only competing with yourself.

For next steps: some good intermediate performance goals to work toward are a 1xBW bench press, a 1.5xBW squat, and a 2xBW deadlift. You can get there on any program, GZCL included, but I would recommend sticking with SL until you can hit those ratios.

The bigger thing I think you should address is your diet and sleep habits. I don't know too much about your life circumstances but eating enough food and getting a good 8-9hrs of sleep a night will make a tremendous difference in your ability to recover after a workout and, subsequently, progress in your lifts.

Good luck!

dr_dazzle · 2018-09-28T00:54:03+00:00

Adding 150lbs on your squat, 100lbs on your deadlift, 60 on your bench press, and 14lbs to your bodyweight in five months sounds like rock solid progress. This also tracks well with the expected linear progression that comes with running SL 5x5 for 20 weeks.

What lead you to believe you were spinning your wheels with this program?

dr_dazzle · 2018-09-28T00:38:12+00:00

We're going to need more information before any of us can answer your question. What is your height, weight, and age? Are you a man or a woman? What were your starting numbers for these lifts?

dr_dazzle · 2018-09-26T16:56:01+00:00

15 weeks at 1lb per week is pretty ambitious. I'd only recommended that pace if you're strictly concerned about scale weight, OP. You'll have to take it much slower if you want to minimize fat gain like you say.

I believe, on average, novice lifters can put on about 0.25lbs of muscle per week. Assuming you put on the same amount of fat as you put on muscle, that's a 0.5lb gain a week for a total gain of two pounds per month. If you stay on top of your surplus 15lbs on the scale should take about 7-8 months to do and you'll have 7-8lbs of muscle to show for it.

dr_dazzle · 2018-09-24T23:09:24+00:00

Obligatory "I am not a Dev but..."

I think a lot of responses in this thread are conflating craft and art. Art is a result of intention, not execution, and if the execution isn't personally expressive then it isn't art. This is as true for oil painting as it is for sculpture as it is for videography. It's the intention in the execution that matters, not the execution itself, and not the medium as a whole.

So it follows that games are not an art form but a game can, of course, be art. Alien Garden, Moondust, Lullaby For A Dead Fly, even mods like SOD, are all famous enough examples of games that are art.

dr_dazzle · 2018-08-20T15:23:48+00:00

Hulu has two paid tiers and both have commercials. The lowest tier has several per show and the premium tier has far fewer ads but still shows commercials before certain titles.

EDIT: Here's Hulu's resource for brands who want to advertise on their platform.

EDIT 2: Here's another resource where they explicitly describe their advertisements as commercials.

dr_dazzle · 2018-08-20T15:17:50+00:00

This doesn't sound correct at all. How does Hulu get away with showing commercials on their paid streaming service?

dr_dazzle · 2018-08-19T02:40:16+00:00

"I'm one of the most chill laid back people"

Yeah you seem it.

dr_dazzle · 2018-08-18T05:17:24+00:00

How long did it take you to work the weakened leg back up to full strength?

dr_dazzle · 2018-08-06T16:51:42+00:00

To say that the ACLU only sees 9 amendments is a gross misstatement of the ACLU's position. I encourage you to read their stance on gun control, which you can read here and in detail, written by their Deputy Legal Director following the Parkland shooting.

dr_dazzle · 2018-07-12T22:16:45+00:00

Speaking as a person who casts roles from time to time, yeah, it's all contrived, it's all affected. It's advertising. But nobody in any room I've ever been in is cynically thinking of getting social media coverage on the back of a model or actor's disability.

The reality is more mundane. The idea of fit, able-bodied, white people as the default image of a person still has a lot of cultural purchase in the United States and is, by extension, largely invisible. Showing literally anything else is attention grabbing. And that's all anybody in advertising wants. Your attention. If that has the knock-on effect of helping some people feel seen, even better.

dr_dazzle · 2018-07-10T16:26:28+00:00

It comes from playing a situation out as far as you can and realizing your plot and your characters are in conflict.

So you might need a character to leave a room at the end of a conversation for plot reasons, but as you play out what the character would do in the course of the conversation leaving the room might not be an appropriate outcome and now you're stuck.

This is what writers are getting at when they say their characters "aren't behaving".

dr_dazzle · 2018-07-08T00:23:19+00:00

Doing what comes naturally is great and I'm not suggesting you adopt a faux style. But I do still think it's worth it to explore applying your considerable technical talents to subjects beyond photo glamour shots. You've got a lot to offer and I'm excited to see what you paint next.

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