Posts made by mietze

Same as Gany.

@thenomain I thought maybe Scientology could be my next main researching squeeze. I’ve done the people’s temple, and I love love love Mormon history. But Scientology thus far is kind of meh. LRH isn’t even as interesting as Jim Jones or any of the LDS church fathers or branch offs.

Scientology is much more boring than I thought it’d be.

I found a good personal trainer to be very helpful. Honestly, I would go with someone certified. It doesn't necessarily mean that you are immune from someone who gets you injured or otherwise harmed because they're incompetent, but it reduces the likelihood. I agree with Gany that if you already belong to a gym, start there! Many times you can also do small group personal training to see if you like it. I've done both with the same trainer once I found someone who was an awesome fit for me, and to be honest I preferred the small group and not just because of the much lower cost.

I do think you should examine your goals for getting a trainer. Why do you want one?

*Do you want different accountability than what you've been trying?
*Do you need extra help with your particular circumstance (once I'd lost 80 lbs but still had around 40 to go, I wanted to find someone who'd been on a similar journey that I could bounce ideas and motivation off of. I found a great trainer who was a little older than me--I was in my mid-30s at that time--but who had started her weight loss in her 30s and had kept it off for 10+ years without using a product. She'd also done her weight loss post abdominal surgery and childbirth. And we really clicked personally, she's been in my corner since even though my health is a flaming dumpster fire right now.)
*Do you need to have things changed up but you don't want to/get confused with the resources out there so you want someone else to put together a program for you?
*Do you have special health concerns that you might need some extra support with if you are new to your exercise program? (I have hypermobile joints. I needed someone to teach me what normal range of motion was, and to spot me and help me come up with ways to be able to perceive where I should stop, because my joints would keep going and I could seriously injure myself otherwise).

Those are all pretty solid reasons to get a trainer (one on one or small group). Some trainers will also have additional certifications (or maybe the other way around); my registered dietician that helped me was also a certified personal trainer, but I didn't use those services with her, just the nutrition/eating program services.

So it really depends on what you want.

I didn't look for a trainer until I was frustrated with my triathlon time training, I was hitting a motivational plateau, and I wanted someone who could help me think outside the box.

I just think that my primary yum is narrative. I love writing stuff up and reflecting, and preferably having the mediator dictate what rolls are made. Or to write a narrative for off screen actions in addition to using coded stuff. But that is super labor intensive staff side, and again I’d rather see happy staff than me being able to play to my strengths as a player. I have see so many people genuinely enjoy crafted ascii objects and the like, and it’s not something that speaks to me at all, other than supporting someone who obviously loves what they do (Which I’m always happy to be a part of!). I wouldn’t want there not to be that stuff just because I-player prefer desc- or narrative-only artists /when I play them/. I can do that most places, but there are very few code intense games out there, and they shouldn’t be dumbed down for players like me, if that makes sense.

@surreality i think for some people the coded stuff /does/ enhance their RP and creativity though. I wouldn’t want to say that someone who enjoys it isn’t being just as creative. I know some of the crisis stuff of RfK drove people nuts but I liked the narrative aspect (it described something of concern/going wrong in your monitored territories), because it allowed me to be super creative in how I narrated back how I would attempt to solve in conjunction with the roll.). Other people would have found it stifling or busywork though.

I admire strongly coded systems but honestly it’s very intimidating and stressful for me as a player. I could lie and say it’s bevause I’m old and tired and the learning curve is steep but even in my young pup days I couldn’t get into firan either.

I don’t know why this barrier exists for me. I love faraday’s system because it is very simple. It takes away all ooc stress for me in combat, etc. that kind of code I love. But all the moving off screen parts (except for narratives, like rfk’s beats, which I don’t think I’d consider “coded” to be honest) tend to fluster me and make me feel even more useless because I know it will take me so long to “get” without having to ask every single time, which is stressful for me.

I recently tried/am trying Arx again which is not even that heavily coded, and it’s a huge mental barrier. I think I would be struggling even without my time crunch and fucking annoying constant illness issues, but that plus knowing I need to learn more stuff that’s not intuitively documented (for me) is just...intimidating.

This isn’t the fault of this game (nor was my huge intimidating factor at Firan Firan’s fault.). Most people can learn this stuff better than me, and I can see how and why people like it. I just wish it did not have the effect of massive performance anxiety/stress on me personally that it does.

I don’t think there is a wrong or right level of code for a game! I think game runners should pick stuff that enhances their organization/management styles or that they enjoy. There will be plenty of people who can learn, and happy less stressed staff is worth it, IMO, for everyone’s health.

Youngest child in preschool for the first time and all 3 olders being in high school for the first time = never ending sickness due to two new cauldrons of pestilence. We’ve had two rounds of confirmed influenza, some weird headache/body ache thing, URI that jumps into the lungs, today is the first day in a long while I’ve not had to take some kind of pain med for joint and muscle pain...and now two of us have scratchy throats!!!

Holy crap y’all!! Poo-pourri actually works! (I have heard mixed things about knockoffs).

It even works in the bathroom shared by my three teen guys!!!!!

This is the business venture of two local friends of mine (though they ship all over). If you don’t want to go to an escape room, they can bring it to you! :). I test piloted a few things early on, they are top notch, and would be a super fun way to mix up a game night if you wanted someone else to do the prep work!

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Also! Women gamer geek owned and operated!

@arkandel yeah that makes me cringe too. I mean hell, just do some jogging in place or jumping jacks or just walking around the field at a leisurely pace a few times, anything. Or people just diving into full huge stretches when you are pretty sure they literally just put their athletic clothing on. Or watching impacts at sporting events.

Or people finishing up a long running event like a tri or half marathon and then...like not doing anything. I know they’re going to hurt like a mofo the 2nd and 3rd day! Ice it down folks!! Owwww!

You actually should be careful about stretching muscles that aren’t warmed up. In terms of helping prevent DOMA ice/cold packs and post-exertion stretching is much more important and less likely to cause injury.

When my practice included a lot of athletes I met quite a few who caused injury over time by trying to force stretches prior to workouts and where the muscle wasn’t warmed up.

If you look for beginner runners stretches online those are good places to start as long as you’re not hypermobile. I highly recommend the active isolated stretching technique for both warm up stretching (but again you need to expect to go easier pre-workout than post-) and for post exertion or to increase mobility (that and time was the only thing that helped me resolve frozen shoulder and has helped many of my former clients as well, it was always part of what I taught therapeutic clients when they needed homework). There are tons of great you tube videos if you search on it—IME even as someone with formal instruction in it reading a book about stretching vs seeing it in action was always hard to understand.

No darling, we’re not a stable training horses for that kind of Big Lick, those rings in the ceiling there are for the Big Dick.

There’s always ears or just squishing them against the barn door or fence.

In the case of inter species intercourses, I mean obviously it can be done (here’s looking at you anal/intestinal perforation dude that led to bestiality finally becomeing a felony in WA!) but there are often complications. Most pictures I’ve seen don’t have a male centaur’s beefdart swinging around like a human’s so I can only assume it’s closer to horse physiology. Which means Stallion Stan is a minute man as well as having poor aim.

That could be outrageously fun to ruin someone’s hot fantasy sex scene for them.

What’s hair for if not a handle during the sexxors.

And no, domestic animals commonly have very comical problems because of other characteristics we breed into them. You can have a mare tied and hobbled and a stallion will often fall off more than a few times before he gets it right.

Though frankly evolution hasn’t done other wild species much better either, in some cases.

I guess it depends on who they’re fucking (can you tell I mostly play WoD). If it’s not another centaur then they probably need to hold the sling that helps the more human person stick in the correct place without anyone throwing out their back (can you tell I’m old). If it’s another centaur then you need them for balance so that they don’t have even more of the falling off/imbalance problem that a lot of horses have, which I would assume would be even worse with a creature super awkwardly top heavy (yay Animal Science major. I’ve seen more animal species fuck and jerked off more different kinds of animals for the purpose of semen collection than most people want to know. Large quadrupeds like horses, cattle, and hogs falling off of things because they’re super awkward is totally a thing.)

I used my awesome cleaver to cut it in two, but trying to peel around the bulby thing was ducking annoying.

In case you were wondering, peeling a raw fucking butternut squash is just as annoying as you might suspect.

@sunny truly autocorrect knows my intent more than I know myself.