Tom Toth

@DumbMoneyCapitl @hjluks You probably had an overtight piriformis, not gluteal tendinopathy

@hjluks happened to me Placing one leg 90 degrees on the other and stretching the hip fixed it completely need to do before/after every run, but it solved it

Pain on the outside of your hip is one of the most common problems I see in my practice. Walkers get it. Runners get it. People who've never been to a gym get it. For decades, we called it bursitis and injected it. We were treating the wrong thing.

@tyler_bryant @humantransit First thing that I thought of. Malazan is another scale entirely for complexity. Favourite series by far

@humantransit Have you read Malazan Book of the Fallen? Utterly ridiculous number of characters and lore

The worst thing about Ada Palmer’s Terra Ignota series is the number of characters you have to keep track of. But that’s true of George RR Martin’s “Game of Thrones”, too, and the payoffs of Palmer are orders of magnitude greater. Start with “Too Like the Lightning”. 1/

@VasCityEstates @jumpingleaves1 Model S? That sounds like horrible design. Tesla sacrificed everything for interior design, and it did not work out.

@jumpingleaves1 @TomTothIron I have to press buttons on the steering wheel, which isn't intuitive at all. Because the steering is a yoke, if it's at an angle or turned good luck figuring out what button to press and what direction it signals in. or just don't signal

I don't drive a microwave (EV) because i want to, in fact i don't want to, but it's the right tool for my line of work and I am at a disadvantage if I don't. Seeing current gas prices makes the pain of EV driving a little more tolerable lol

@VasCityEstates @jumpingleaves1 So what's "the pain"? Sounds awesome. I love driving my wife's EV. Warms up way faster than my truck

@jumpingleaves1 Full Self Driving is the big one. Grok AI integrated in car - amazing to talk to for prep on my way to meetings Doubles up as a climate controlled mobile office Costs 1/10th to drive 1km compared to what my BMW X5 cost. No real maintenance required

@WxOntario1 NOOO! GODDAMNIT. I'm so sick of this shit

Update on the Juicy Clipper for tomorrow 👇 If you've had enough of winter and don't want anymore snow, keep on scrolling Latest data is coming in further South and a lot more juicy Widespread 10-25+cm possible across most of the region (excluding Deep SW Ont) Wind gusts of 50-70+km/hr will lead to significant blowing/ drifting snow across rural areas of SW Ont School bus cancelations are likely Will update later today #OnWX #ONStorm

@StevickDavid @ParikPatelCFA You're talking to a comedy account

@ParikPatelCFA So you have ~$137k gross value...how much do you spend every year to insure yourself against a leak? How much does it cost to load it all, to ship it all, how much does the broker keep?

In 2020, when oil went to -37.63 a barrel, I took physical delivery of 1,000 barrels of oil and everyone laughed at me. They have been sitting in my backyard for 6 years. Now, a barrel of oil is worth more than $100. They’re not laughing now.

@dostoevesque Erikson will likely forever be the greatest fantasy writer of all time. I just can't see anyone recreating that insane level of detail he has come up in his world building.

No disrespect to George RR Martin, but if we're talking about the greatest fantasy authors right now, it has to be Steven Erikson and Robin Hobb. Not only are both exceptionally talented writers, but they also had the vision to plan their epic sagas and the discipline to see them through to completion. One crafted a history, magic system, and pantheon of gods with incredible depth, while the other built her legacy on an intense focus on a single, deeply flawed, and achingly real character. Malazan and Realm of the Elderlings are two epic series one can confidently invest their time in because they have a conclusion.

@mattgurney I've been able to synthesize an entire nutritional program for myself, including complete nutrient (and anti-nutrient) breakdown, substitutions, comparisons etc etc in about 5 hours of total work this weekend. This would have taken me most of a week pre-AI

This is a space I'm interested in and talk with experts and one of the only throughlines through all those chats is that even the experts are having a hard time believing how fast things are going. The "maybe in five years" stuff is now. The ten years stuff is in six months.

@mattgurney This is what current "best practices" writing looks like... It's ridiculous. Assuming it's due to shortened attention spans or something like that. I stopped using all editing suggestions in my writing because apparently 9 words in a sentence is too long for the average reader

ChatGPT latest models have really improved. But. They have an annoying quick. Every sentence is its own paragraph. It's like a William Shatner impression. The info is useful and helpful and the model is ever-more human-like. But reading it is like reading direct mail ads.

@exQUIZitely Realms of Arkania trilogy was amazing early RPG. one of my favourites. It was based on Die Schwarze Auge boardgame, I believe

Is this the most popular game (franchise) ever created by a German game studio? I know that "Die Siedler" (The Settlers, or Serf City: Life is Feudal) was a huge hit in Germany in 1993, but whether the game and franchise did well in the rest of the world, I don't know. Thinking of some other popular German games, but can't come up with one that was potentially better known than The Settlers. You build your little empire, connect buildings with roads, gather timber, mine ore and stone, and fight the occasional battle - all in adorable pixel style. It wasn't a particularly fast game, watching your cute little people waddle along the roads, and the occasional knights hacking away at each other. If you know another German-made game that had a bigger international impact, let me know.

@oldyzach Pirates: Gold was where it was at.

Corsairs: Conquest at Sea from 1999 is not an outstanding game. For many, it is average at best. And yet I spent a lot of time playing it 🤔

@mattgurney I don't believe you. I drove by two packed trains by Leslie/Eg today and I still don't believe it's open.

I rode on Line 5, the Eglinton Crosstown.

@ZX48kSpectrum HOLY SHIT! YOU ARE A GAME KING! This was literally the first game I ever played on my ZXS when I got it back in like 1989 in the old country. Then it broke and I was sad beyond measure

“You can't kill me Matrix! You need me to find your daughter!” “Where is she?” “Cooke knows, I'll take you to where I'm supposed to meet him!” “But you won't.” “Why not?” “Because I already know. Remember, Sully, when I promised to kill you last?” Commando (1985) #ZXSpectrum

@exQUIZitely Holy shit, dude! I literally thought I was the only person who ever played this game. So good. I'd love a simple graphical update.

How such a great game as Battle Isle II (Blue Byte, 1994) still had so little commercial success boggles my mind to this day. Maybe it was the limited market - developed by a German studio primarily known in Germany - or the lack of marketing power, who knows. It certainly wasn’t the gameplay, which was simply excellent for a turn-based strategy game. It even innovated some features, such as being the first CD-ROM strategy game to feature 3D combat animations and unit displays using raytracing and vector graphics. Granted, that was “just” eye candy, but it set the game apart from others in the genre that could sometimes feel a bit dry to non-experts. It also offered a huge variety of units for air, sea, and ground combat, including 12 experience levels for each unit (greatly affecting battle outcomes). Controls were easy enough for new players to learn quickly, maps varied greatly in size and terrain (requiring different strategies), and the pixel-style in-game cutscenes were a nice touch. I couldn’t get enough of the Battle Isle series (1, 2 and 3 were all great, plus Incubation, which was a later spin-off). This series is gravely underrated and overlooked, one of my all-time favourites, and yet I wonder if many non-German players have ever even heard of it.

@CanadaRod @Sflecce this is the worst take i have read on this godforsaken app today, and that is saying something. You sir, are wrong on so many things with that post that it is difficult to comprehend

@Sflecce For $12.9 Billion we could have installed about 8600 wind turbines on the Great Lakes or in Hudson’s Bay. If they were 5 megawatts each we’d produce 43 gigawatts of power & not made nuclear waste nor cause people in a 30km radius of your nuclear plant to develop thyroid cancer.

Another Made-In-Canada nuclear success story: 🇨🇦 Ahead of schedule 🇨🇦 Well under budget 🇨🇦 96% spent in Ontario Ontario stands alone, having delivered the world's largest completed refurbishment on-time and on-budget. cp24.com/news/canada/20…

@2xSpencer @SokobanHero @minordissent Weird that a deadlift has a higher multiple. Most people, including me, can squat more than they can pull. At my youthful max I squatted 440 and never pulled over 4 plates (no gear, physical or otherwise). That's a fairly general pattern.

@SokobanHero @minordissent 1xBW bench, 1.5xBW squat, 2xBW deadlift.

I still cannot believe that hitting intermediate lifts puts you in the top 5% of strength levels across all men. It is truly insane how physically weak men are today.

@exQUIZitely The answer is Total Annihilation

I am always torn when I think about what the best RTS series was back in the day. Not a single game, but a series. The two big ones I can think of are the Age of Empires series and the Command & Conquer series, both brilliant and in a way genre defining. Pretty hard to decide between those two juggernauts of RTS history. I will give the slighest of edges to Command & Conquer. Feel free to disagree, I know that personal taste is obviously very subjective. Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, by Westwood Studios, was released in 2000. You can pick the Allied or Soviet side, and the story continues where the sequel (Red Alert) ended, with the defeat of the former USSR. Some people will argue that Yuri's Revenge was even better, but for some reason I have a soft spot for Red Alert 2. Maybe also because of the funky/goofy cutscenes...

@DavidJ_Cole @DougSaunders All my conservative acquaintances would be considered centre left in the USA

@DougSaunders Our conservatives, at least the majority of them, aren’t reaching the level of kooky of American conservatism.

I realize that this is only semi-serious, but it’s worth noting that in surveys of fundamental political values (ie “must a man be the head of the household”), Canada’s most conservative province, Alberta, is more liberal than USA’s most liberal state, Vermont

@TheStaughton @AJA_Cortes He did. He is a very humble, hard working guy who is learning Japanese. Can't not like him.

21 year old Blue eyed Ukrainian Aonishiki is one tournament away from becoming first European Yokozuna He has been dominating nearly everyone for a year on a legendary run

@TheStevenNelson @TheShreddington @AJA_Cortes That explains it. I've watched the tournament up to day 11 and he still has his old one. I was very confused watching that video, lol

@TheShreddington @AJA_Cortes Yes. It's the mawashi his master (sensei? not sure the term) used to wear back in the day. Was gifted to him in the middle of this January tournament. Made the switch around day 12.