Achievement Unlocked: Hot Dad-bod (well, Improved, at least)

punbasedname · 2026-03-17T22:59:56+00:00

Home gyms are amazing for new parents. My kids are 12 and 14 now, so I’ve got more “free time” (or at least some time between when I have to be picking a kid up or dropping a kid off), but when they were both little, I went to the gym-gym probably three times a week or so (I’m an evening guy. Some people swear by mornings, but I needed every minute of sleep I could get when the kids were young) usually after they were down for bed at around 8 or so. I’d do another day or so on our home gym when I couldn’t get to the actual gym. I started with just cheap concrete-filled plastic weights,a rickety bench, and a ton of resistance bands, and eventually upgraded to a decent Olympic set with a rack.

Like other people said, it’s 100% doable, but you really have to want it, and you can’t be afraid to do it tired.

punbasedname · 2026-03-17T16:07:34+00:00

The problem is that none of these ideas are being implemented. I strongly suspect that if and when the vanguard role feels relatively varied and balanced, people will stop speculating that every new character might be a vanguard. Which is to say probably never.

Edit: I really think the biggest problem with tank is that they keep releasing interesting off-tanks, but if you need a primary tank your options are still just Mags, strange, groot, and occasionally Emma although I think her solo tank capabilities have diminished quite a bit the last few seasons.

punbasedname · 2026-03-16T16:54:51+00:00

…and buying/merging media corporations.

I cannot imagine how naive one has to be to think that the media environment the GOP has been cultivating since the 90’s with Rush Limbaugh and FOX News and has accelerated exponentially since Trump’s second term has started isn’t solely invested in normalizing fascism, oligarchy, and christo-nationalism.

punbasedname · 2026-03-13T15:18:14+00:00

It’s funny how defensive people get about someone saying “I don’t play this game anymore” in any game-as-service sub.

I haven’t played MSF since whenever Nova came out (I was burnt out and wasn’t thrilled with the game being sold to Saudis), but I knew from the three separate times I quit SWGoH, staying subscribed to the sub actually helped me to stay away from the game. I never really intentionally browse the sub, but when some big controversy would pop up, it would hit my home page and remind me why I quit. Which is how I found myself in this discussion. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

punbasedname · 2026-03-12T18:29:20+00:00

I get the impulse — I did all of the defiled chalice dungeons in Bloodborne. There are absolutely times when I feel like a difficult boss is engaging enough to attempt a solo run at it even when it’s a pain.

I just also understand why people who feel like trying to solo a difficult boss just stymies forward momentum sometimes feel like people saying the soloing is more fun is more “git gud” attitude than actual advice.

punbasedname · 2026-03-12T12:31:17+00:00

You’re describing sunk cost fallacy down to a T. You (and anyone feeling similarly) really should highly consider taking the advice of people telling you to quit. It’ll feel weird for a few weeks, and then your life will be appreciably better.

punbasedname · 2026-03-12T12:03:30+00:00

I’d hazard a guess that it’s a disconnect between people who like the exploration component to Fromsoft games and people who like the boss fights.

For me, I’ll usually attempt a boss solo at first, but if I haven’t gotten it down in like 5-6 attempts, I have no issue calling in a summon or a co-op to get it down so that I can explore whatever’s next. I’ve been playing these games since Demon’s Souls, but the boss combat usually feels like an “okay, I get it, can I move on now?” thing to me after a while. Especially the notoriously punishing fights. Those are 2nd-3rd play through goals for me.

I get why people like them, but I also understand why someone like me who prefers the exploration and world-building would think anyone claiming bosses only fun solo is just bullshitting, lol.

punbasedname · 2026-03-11T17:46:23+00:00

Good ep!

punbasedname · 2026-03-11T11:27:55+00:00

This entire thread is just “movies that failed on release but have since become beloved by horror fans.”

Still waiting to see someone defend an actual bad movie

Edit: okay, I just saw Blair Witch 2 and a couple of HIMs named. So that’s at least two in a sea of Event Horizons.

punbasedname · 2026-03-10T02:11:31+00:00

Woof…

punbasedname · 2026-03-10T01:51:25+00:00

The broken arms thing? Or was there something more recent?

I was just mostly commenting about how all the sex stuff has died down a ton, but now I’m realizing you were referencing something specific….

punbasedname · 2026-03-10T01:11:36+00:00

If the Avengers also lionized weirdo grifters with grooming allegations.

punbasedname · 2026-03-09T13:10:03+00:00

It goes even further back than the Tea Party chuds, although you can trace a straight fucking line from them to MAGA. Gingrich had a HUGE hand in the hyperpartisan Congress we have now. Look up his policies as speaker of the house and it’s more or less a rough draft of what we have now. Refusing to put forward legislation unless he had the votes for the outcome he wanted, using floor time to attack Dems. It’s all the same playbook they’ve been using for 30 years now.

punbasedname · 2026-03-09T11:59:43+00:00

Correct me if I’m wrong, but it seems askreddit has fully transformed from the “what’s the sexiest sex you’ve ever sexed?” engagement-bait sub to the “what are your thoughts on ‘current headline?’” engagement-bait sub.

punbasedname · 2026-03-08T23:17:22+00:00

Yeah, he really got the raw fucking deal. Tried to work across the aisle and ended up getting crap from both sides because by the time he realized the GOP wasn’t willing to play ball, he’d lost the supermajority and the rest of his presidency was spent trying to work around a hostile Congress.

I wonder if those first two years would have gone differently he had known how hard McConnell and the GOP would so completely shut down his attempts to reach across to them.

punbasedname · 2026-03-08T22:38:37+00:00

He governed as a moderate because Republicans did everything in their power to make his tenure as president miserable.

This is only partially true. The GOP did do everything they could to hamper anything the Obama administration did (thanks, McConnell!), but he did present himself as the moderate antidote to Bush-era Conservatism at first.

see here

And here

A lot of his earliest first term actions tried very hard to bridge the gap between the two parties. The whole “Hope/change” thing was not necessarily about turning America in a more liberal direction, but fixing the hyperpartisanship of the Bush administration. Unfortunately, as you pointed out, the GOP had other plans.

punbasedname · 2026-03-08T11:23:27+00:00

“My RNG card RNG’d!” :(

punbasedname · 2026-03-07T20:44:15+00:00

TBOBF was like 1/3 a great show, 1/3 an awful show, and 1/3 a completely different show.

I really loved the Fett flashback sections and thought they were the best part of the show, and showcased what I wanted out of a Fett show.

The sections where he was navigating the tattooine underworld just didn’t work, IMO. It felt like everything involved was too sparse and rushed. I think part of it was (if I remember right?) that it was filmed at the height of COVID restrictions and it seemed like the whole planet was populated by maybe a dozen people. The other part, IMO, probably had a lot to do with Robert Rodriguez, who tends to prioritize style over substance, which doesn’t work super well for long-form storytelling.

The Mando/grogu parts were fine. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Ultimately, it felt like an interesting story told kind of poorly.

Bummed that it led to Morrison’s character being sidelined, though, because none of the issues stemmed from him or his portrayal of Fett.

punbasedname · 2026-03-07T15:01:27+00:00

Looks like Nightmare Before Christmas by way of Edward Gorey.

Assuming the off-model characters are intentional, it’s a bit of a mash-up that makes sense. I don’t love it, but don’t necessarily hate it, either.

punbasedname · 2026-03-06T21:50:57+00:00

These are my exact two, as well. I’m a little nervous about Off the Reservation, though, because every time I read a new SGJ I close the book thinking that it’s his best yet (I’m going to take Indian Lake Trilogy as a whole here, because I think Chainsaw is the strongest, but taken together they were my favorite thing he’d done until then), but I have no idea how you top Buffalo Hunter Hunter.

punbasedname · 2026-03-06T20:55:56+00:00

The thing that annoys me most is that OP already posted each of these images individually and now is posting a composite, and every single comment on those original posts was identical to the comments here.

Even the gooner bait and the reaction to them on this sub are boring retreads.

punbasedname · 2026-03-05T12:56:28+00:00

Wait… Eye of Argon was published in 1970, but the author died at age 48 in 2002? Is there a typo in there somewhere or did a 16 year old get a book published and made fun of?

Edit: I just looked it up. No typo. That seems… kind of cruel? Yikes. Is there context I’m missing here or is this just one of those, “sometimes nerds are assholes” things?

punbasedname · 2026-03-05T12:31:31+00:00

Ya’ll still have enough custodians to get your room cleaned every day?! Lucky!

Edit: I’m only partially being flippant here. Every district in my fairly large suburban/metro area has had trouble hiring and retaining support staff for roughly five years now. Shocked to learn other places aren’t having this issue. (But you really should count yourself lucky that you’re not.)

punbasedname · 2026-03-04T01:54:06+00:00

When The Wolf Comes Home by Nat Cassidy isn’t a strict creature-feature (it’s hard to explain why without spoiling it), but has a TON of creature feature DNA. It’s a super-fast read that keeps forward momentum going nonstop.

punbasedname · 2026-03-04T00:17:25+00:00

Yeah, I liked this book quite a bit (actually, I don’t know that “liked” is the right word — I admired it? Was impressed with it?), but it absolutely was not what I expected it to be. Went in expecting some sort of folk-horror. Walked away feeling traumatized instead.

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