Cereal Experiments Lame

@johannesmkx @tizimmer Basically visible six-pack, flat chest, clavicles, cannonball delts. If you don't have those, you're either too fat or don't have enough muscle. Correct?

@tizimmer You're confused to think there can't be an average around 13% that a large group of women found most attractive. Neither they nor the men need to know what exactly 13% is in order to still have the largest preference for it. I never understand this type of comment.

Women find men most attractive when they have around 13% body fat percentage. The actual average for men is 20-25%. Moreover, at 12-15% body fat, a man with average muscle is considered no less attractive than a man with extreme muscularity. Pictured below is that 13% Fight Club body. So, instead of going to the gym for mass muscle gains, men should just do more fasting to get lean. But don't drop body fat below 10%.

@SerBuckman @planefag At least Mafty Nevue Erin learned from his mistakes 🤷

@S12423234 @planefag Eh, in spirit he was right but I don't think the Axis Drop was ever going to truly do that (the Federation elite were already fleeing since they had advanced warning while the normal people on Earth would be left to suffer for it)

As someone who's been writing military science-fiction for years, and have many friends in or formerly in the military (some of which are authors themselves,) I have something to say about this: If all Yoshiyuki Tomino has to say with his art is that "war is bad," then he should stop making art, as he's only going to waste our time. Any fool with two brain cells to rub together knows that war is ugly, brutal and costly. That doesn't mean war is pointless and should never be fought no matter the circumstances. In fact, such a statement is worse than pointless, as lethal conflict is a common constant of human civilization - and, for that matter, a constant among the vast majority of life existing on Earth, even between bacteria. If all your story does is shout "this is bad!" it's a childish lament that leaves a tremendous amount of this constant of human existence unexamined. Who fights wars - the elites, like the ancient Greek Hoplites, or the knights of the middle ages, or the common men who volunteer, like in many modern nations? What do they fight for - for the ideals of their beloved nation, for honor and glory, or to save the women and children in the city that stands at their backs? What defines a good soldier? What defines a good leader? These questions are just as essential for us as they were for our forefathers, because the world is a tumultuous place full of evil people and great dangers and the time is coming, sooner than many may think, where wars between great powers will shake the foundations of the world and the lives of millions will hang in the balance. To explore questions like this, of such import to our souls, is one of the core reasons people tell stories to begin with. And our tools and machines have always been essential to the conduct of war and the defense of all we hold dear. Men have told stories of talking swords or "tsukumogami" for as long as swords have existed; long before we could even conceptualize a thinking machine might be made with science; we dreamt of them existing through magic or spirit. Tools are what first brought us out of the trees to stride the earth as its masters; in the tools we shape and wield with our own hands we make manifest our intent, our will, our spirit. In the modern age, the vastness of our creations sometimes makes it easy to forget, but the human element is still the entire point. I quote from page 71 of "Shattered Sword" by Johnathan Parshall and Anthony Tully: "The study of naval warfare (more than any other form of combat) holds the potential to completely subordinate the human element to the weapons themselves. Naval combat is conducted almost exclusively by means of machines – machines that are in many cases so huge and grand that they often seem to take on a life and personality of their own that transcend the tiny figures that inhabit them. Yet, in the final analysis, it is men who live in the ship, command and fight the ship, and often die in the ship. Their story, no matter how seemingly eclipsed by the great vessels they serve in, is still the fundamental story to be related.” Its only natural we should be entranced with the great machines of war that we build, as they're the final product of the genius and labors of an entire society; fashioned into an incredible tool that is nothing if not wielded by the hand of a skilled warrior devoted to his craft and his mission. I know of not a single mecha story that runs afoul of Parshall and Tully's warning as quoted above; everyone seems to understand the assignment. The ones that don't are the likes of Tomino, or his fellow anti-war traveler Miyazaki. I can't understand a man who thinks fighter planes are beautiful but has little more to say about war than "it's bad;" he refuses to see that the beautiful form of a fighter plane follows its function, and that there's a savage, primal beauty in that function, like the fury that animates a thunderstorm. Or the fury and purpose that animate its pilot, for that matter. Tomino seems to think that "nothing of substance is getting across." I disagree. I think the substance came across very well, and many in younger generations just think that substance is woefully lacking. There's a cutscene in the Knights of the Old Republic, between Carth Onasi and Canderous, where Carth expounds on the difference between "soldiers" and "warriors," defining warriors as those who fight for plunder and the glory of conquest, and soldiers as those who fight to protect their nation and peoples - usually from warriors. He made a great point, but Canderous wasn't entirely wrong. As any fighter pilot can tell you, you need more than noble motivations to sacrifice and serve to be truly excellent - to overcome your enemy in an aerial duel, you need that urge to "lean in" to the fight; that competitive drive - a part of you needs to love the fight. Many soldiers over the ages have spoken of this; as Robert E. Lee said "it's well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it." It's that primal urge drawn straight from our deepest instincts; that thirst to compete and win, that gives soldiers the fire and fury to do their utmost in combat, to win the challenge, to defeat those who would plunder their temples, raze their cities and enslave their women and children. That is the truth of war, every bit as much as the death and boredom and bloodshed and terror. And if you can only tell one half of that truth, because the other half doesn't align with your political or personal views, then I don't give a god damn what you have to say about it, or about the works of storytellers who do.

@Polygon Let the past die, kill it if you have to

Disney is betting big on Grogu — and the future of Star Wars depends on it polygon.com/grogu-looks-li…

@archaicf0ssil Funny how both Dax and Kira had 0 chemistry with their male love interests...

What makes Worf and Jadzia work despite being such an unexpected couple is that Worf sees the serious side in Jadzia and Jadzia gets to see the silly side in Worf. They're inverses of each other while also being more alike than they realize.

@IherGuime @BoronTheFloor I view it as synthesis, he's able to accept his past as Dick and reconcile it with the present. Though it comes with immense cost, he doesn't have to hide who he is anymore. He's even able to share it with his children after keeping them at arm's reach the whole show

@BoronTheFloor This scene is the saddest scene on the show for the don draper stans - its his demise, the death of the alter-ego. We loved the guy, and then he committed suicide. From here on, it'll be mostly dick whitman holdin the wheel, and you just know it right there.

this is such an insanely good scene for a million reasons but its so sick that this is the first time don is ever truthful in the room with a client and they all just hate it

@BoronTheFloor This should have been the series finale. S7 was such a waste of time. This and the Both Sides Now closer were such a perfect one-two punch.

@mariotomich I've gone two weeks with out directly tracking, just eating at maintenance based on routine and a mental tally. If I eat too much one day, I eat a bit less the next. My weight has fluctuated maybe a pound or two.

Dudes will track calories only when they're locked into a routine because it's easy to do. Funny enough, that's when tracking is the least useful. The times you actually need to track are the weekends, restaurant meals, alcohol, and when trying new foods. That's when it matters most to be accurate. In fact, you could skip tracking altogether for those meals you keep repeating and it wouldn't make any difference.

@n16ht_0w1 @Honeyisstarvng You didn't lose 5lbs of fat in a week, it was mostly water weight. You need to be at a sustained deficit for weeks and months before it starts getting really noticeable.

@Honeyisstarvng I literally just lost 5lbs the past week or so and the only thing that is skinnier are my big toes. My disgusting fucking thighs got even bigger. Fuck this fat distribution bullshit.

Okay but like where does it go though 😭 do I just piss it out

@a7las1984 In five years, everyone will be on a cocktail of peptides that make reta look like Tylenol

@GundamMoments Fun Fact: To this day, Tomino insists he's never seen Star Wars

Legally distinct Imperial March (1991)

@planefag This is why Char was right, btw. The only to break the cycle of violence is to disrupt the structural factors that drive the conflict between earth and space. Namely, the dichotomy between earthnoid/spacenoid. F91, Victory, and Turn A all validate his worldview.

@planefag Zeta, ZZ, and CCA are very specifically about how Newtype empathy isn't enough to end war because understanding someone doesn't negate political economic factors that drive conflict, bone-deep historical grievance, nor the fact that some people are just dicks

@sesamebirds @ValenceMoon That's just Cronicle Asher

@ValenceMoon paptimus scirocco version where they call him a feminist

Char Aznable was a kind hearted newtype who always strove to protect the Earth and save young vulnerable newtypes from being groomed and manipulated. but the evil villain Amuro Ray wanted newtypes to always fight and go to war forever, and interfered with Char's ideals for peace

@ValenceMoon Char? Grooming teens? He would never...

@denpanopticon It's Dune with mechs, its only flaw is that there's no Gavlet Gablae analogue

this movie fucking sucks btw and this singular action sequence is not worth it

@Dreamboum Mass Effect isn't about plot, it's about hanging with the boys. ME2 is like 5% plot and 95% hanging with the boys. Citadel, the best part of ME, is 99% hanging with the boys.

Crazy how quite literally almost all the problems that Mass Effect 3 had to deal with was because ME2 delivered almost nothing in terms of plot but also actively shit on its own lore to become a space theme park cover shooter blockbuster.

@311West_ @BigDadEnergyX I would kill to look like him

@BigDadEnergyX Nope he has a body which would be considered in the top 1% in the world. You don't have to look like a gorilla. I'd also wager this guy is much healthier than the juice pigs.

Dude has the body of a 12 year old

@StormsGalas I still think Suletta and Elan 4 were cuter than Suletta and Miorine

the worst of being a Gundam fan is, like a ship that I know almost everyone hates it "I LOVE AMURO X CHAN"