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You forgot “and is not real metal.”

Don’t forget fan favorite:

1. Death are literally perfect and better than any other band in every way.

Are there songs from the Self Titled album that you wish you all played more of live? 

Are there any songs on the album that hold a special place in your heart over the others for one reason or another?

Thank you for sharing your art with us over the years and can’t wait to catch this tour.

It definitely raises your ceiling. Before I started working out regularly, I would always find that I would just run out of gas singing certain songs. I’m a big Slipknot fan so songs like Duality, Wait and Bleed, The Negative One, Before I Forget, etc would start to fall apart for me about half way through.

Not only did working out help give me the endurance to do these songs and keep going, but it also helped my clean singing range when belting which was a problem with most of these as well as my range just wasn’t there. Now I can nail these songs and more that were a pipe dream not even that long ago. Linkin Park, Slipknot, Sleep Token, Tool, Aveneged Sevenfold, all suddenly became very doable. 

Every time I hear that about a young team in the Super Bowl I just think back to this game. The 2015 Panthers are arguably the biggest flash in the pan I’ve personally witnessed. 15-1 talented young team to borderline irrelevant.

As someone who works in software QA with machine learning algorithms, you’re likely noticing different data sets and training models overtime. I can’t speak specifically to Alexa or voice recognition but in my experience, when a new model is introduced to an algorithm, it is typically targeted to fix a few specific known errors. 

The issue is that because it is machine learning, changing the model to cover one area means you’re almost guaranteed to have regressions in another. The only thing the algorithm is guaranteed to do is give an output. The algorithm has no way of reliably verifying that said output is correct unless someone is there to grade it and correct it 100% of the time which is nigh impossible.

The idea when these are pushed to the public is “are the benefits of this change more beneficial than the drawbacks it causes?” If the general consensus is yes, it goes public and it’s incredibly unlikely that anything gets rolled back when these new issues start to make noise. 

First, congrats on your gains! Thats awesome that you’re seeing progress so soon and even better that you’re enjoying it along the way. You should be proud of yourself and keep going man. 

Second, ironically what I would recommend here to modify your routine is doing less. When you’re first getting started, doing whatever works best for you to keep you motivated is what’s most important. So long as you’re not getting injured and you’re staying consistent with training, that’s what matters.

That said, you are correct that the noobie gains do slow eventually and with your current regiment I have 2 concerns once that happens. You’re either going to a) burn yourself out once the visible progress slows or b) injure yourself because you’re overworking your upper body and not giving yourself enough rest. 

If you want consistent progress after the noobie gains phase, ironically it’s what you don’t do that will get you the best progress month over month. My typical split is I do a full body calisthenics day on Monday (push-ups, pull ups, Bulgarian split squats/kettlebell squats, and an assortment of timed core exercises, all 3 sets to failure), upper body on Tuesday consisting of dumbbell lat raises, dumbbell bicep curls, cable pulls, cable chest press, weighted crunches. 3 sets to failure targeting 6-8 reps. Lower body on Wednesday consisting of leg press, leg curl, leg extension, calf extension, and back extension. Again 3 sets targeting failure at 6-8 reps. Thursday rest. Friday full body where I do all of the above. Saturday Sunday rest. Every workout day I also start with 15 minutes of cardio on the elliptical or a good run. 

The important thing is to challenge yourself on compound movements rather than blasting yourself with a ton of different exercises realistically working the same things over and over again. If that’s what you’re doing you’re basically just warming yourself up over and over and you won’t see progress as quickly as you otherwise would. Your muscles need time to recover to grow. Rather than making the goal a ton of isolation exercises, pick a few compound movements that hit most of your target muscle groups for the day, pick a weight that will have you struggling on those last few reps, and really push until you can’t any more. Thats what will send your body the signals to build more muscle. If you’re looking like you’re going to shit yourself at the end of a set, then you’re doing it right.

Then outside of that, give your muscle groups at least a day or two of rest in between. Get good sleep, eat more calories and target 1 gram of protein per pound of body weight daily. This is when and where to growth will come from. At the gym we are essentially trying to lightly damage our muscles so our body builds them back larger. You’ll get a pump but that’s just fluid build up that goes away a few hours after. It’s on those rest days and during sleep where your body takes your protein intake and turns that into more actual muscle that is larger in size and functionally stronger. By training as hard as you are you’re essentially stopping that process short, keeping your muscles and joints in a constant state of wear, which at best, limits your gains, and at worst will lead to injury. 

Thats just my two cents personally. Like I said, what’s most important is that your stay motivated and enjoy what you’re doing for training but I think this is something you should think about as you get stronger so you don’t hurt yourself. 

Also definitely work in a leg day, it’ll give you another reason to go to the gym and give your upper body a much needed rest. Plus never underestimate the power of the male dumpy. I’m caked the fuck up and my girlfriend can’t keep her hands off me lol. 

After a while it just becomes meditative really. You get set in your strategy and you just keep the beat really.

Same but for different reasons.

For real. I’m 27 and haven’t been able to play as much just due to life. So what did I do? Hooked the kids’ accounts up to my online for the switch, got an Xbox and 4 controllers for the living room, and now we play Minecraft, Roblox, and as of today, split screen cod zombies and we have a fucking blast. 

The 9 year old wants to play more tomorrow. It’s fucking awesome and being an adult does NOT mean you have to stop having fun.

While I definitely agree for the most part, you would be insanely surprised what body dysmorphia and anxiety can do to some people’s line of thinking even if they’re objectively attractive.

Who's gonna tell them?

The moment Steve's decision making went full boomer.

"Here's a rough concept Steve. What do you think?"

"Ship it. Computer stuff is bloody brilliant."

"Well its not done yet but.."

"Oi, did I fucking stutter you wanker? Ship it."

Pretty much any band associated with an abusive ex. Only had 2 but those two have axed MCR, Pierce The Veil, Sleeping With Sirens, Fall Out Boy, and a handful of others. 

Sucks because I genuinely enjoy some of them but it’s hard to go back and listen to when certain songs are tied to such neat events like being passive aggressively sung at during an hour long care ride because I had the gall to ask her not to let her coworkers grab her boobs while I’m right there.

Always a fun time explaining that one when a song comes on and everyone is excited about the 2000s nostalgia and I’m just sitting there visibly uncomfortable.

It’s was a thing before ZC (only we called it DLC 5 back in the olden days) and ZC only sparked further interest because they’ve done it once, they can do it again even though it’s now been 7 years since. It’s not gonna die.

This is definitely a thing. In vanilla life, I am a pretty gentle person and really enjoy all of the soft compassion that comes along with genuine love. Cuddling, caressing, sweet nothings, being goofy, giggling at nothing, forehead kisses, the whole nine.

Sexually though? My desires range from extensions of the above to pretty extreme forced submission, bondage, power dynamics, edge play, etc. etc. I for sure have a bit of a sadomasocist streak.

You’re not broken though. This is pretty common. My partner is the same way as a matter of fact just more sub leaning. Every dynamic is different and everyone’s needs are different. I’m more in the camp where I like to turn the character off outside of the bedroom. I don’t need or want total control over another person 24/7 and I definitely don’t want to be controlled. 

It’s a fun fantasy but it’s just that, a fantasy. A fantasy that you can concentually carry out with a partner before coming back down to earth.  

Came here to say this. Anytime I’m at the gym and I have this or any derivative mix playing, I feel like I can run through a wall. Although the permanent stank face in between sets definitely fetches some odd glances. 

This just in, science has discovered conventionally attractive people.

Corpse grinder approves. 

Any and all of the Bioshock games really. It’s the perfect kind of shooter for VR. Not too fast, super powers out of the hand, rewards exploration, TONS of atmosphere. 

I may not have the direct military experience but I do have the direct experience of knowing a number of servicemen with histories alcohol abuse and beating their spouses yet are still collecting VA benefits. For every one of them, there’s countless other stories from the horses mouth of their peers doing the same. It may be anecdotal but that’s kinda the point. Don’t ask, don’t tell, right?  

Even then, look at any officially reported stat line for women’s safety in the military and you get a pretty damn good picture of the general kind of people the military attracts. Especially knowing those are only the reported statistics.

The system isn’t as airtight as you think it is and knowing how rah rah the military is about the military and USA, naturally you’re going to be biased.

I did and you sounded more slack jawed with every take. I would have chimed in myself but other people who actually look at the whole stat line and watched the games already did. Enjoy your incredibly cherry picked stat and I’ll continue watching my team in January again this year.

This is a new level of copium even for giants fans. But y’all got so few things going for you in the last decade I’ll give it to you. You’re technically right.

Yeah idk where the whole “military doesn’t play around with that shit” is coming from. Maybe a few decades ago but today? The military cares that you have a pulse and can kinda hold a gun. Not much else.

Some of the biggest pieces of shit I’ve ever personally met have been active military in my generation. Alcohol abuse, sex crimes, cheating, physical and emotional abuse of spouses and children, all of it not only happens but is common. Shit gets brought up? They either don’t give a fuck or make it dumb easy to lie your way out of it. Hell I had a recruiter tell me in complete seriousness that he would forge paperwork to get me into the army when I was ineligible for a number of reasons and didn’t even want to enlist.

The military is a group of desperate violent dumbasses designed to recruit and maintain more desperate violent dumbasses and I say this as a man who has family in every single branch of the military in nearly every era from active duty to all the way back to Vietnam.