ryepunk

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Working out inevitably leads to pulling something, a month or two of recovery where all gains disappear and I feel worse. I'm going super slow this time, but I regularly do alot of exercise at work so I'm just as likely to pull out my back or shoulders there, and I'm really just starting to fall apart it feels like. Bad knees, ankles hurt, shoulders ache, back is sore, hands ache if I grip too much. I feel like I need months off just to not hurt.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

If your definition of immunity is "doesn't kill you", sure it doesn't kill you. Usually.

But if you take the typical idea of immunity as "immune to this disease once you've had it" then catching covid does not make you immune at all. With some people catching it within 3 months or less of a previous infection. And given the rising evidence we've seen of how long covid occurs at startlingly higher rates from subsequent reinfections, it's laughable that you would even consider the notion of immunity to covid at all. It has proven to move faster than we can adapt to it naturally or with science.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 days ago

Is this bait?

Do you know where you are?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

I played original dota just within warcraft 3 TFT, so it was without skill based matchmaking. And it was mostly about the same I'd say. Sometimes you get people absurdly good, and sometimes you get people horrendously bad. I never played Dota 2 ranked matchmaking. Always just unranked, usually all random. It was intensely try hard and usually made me more upset than full of joy. So I quit when they broke all random years and years ago (2017 maybe?), also my wrists can't handle that much mouse clicking anymore so it was for the best, physically and mentally.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Sunbreak is extremely good, the ability to have two switch skill loadouts and switch between then in a second is game changing for some weapons. I don't play long sword so I can't comment on what it does for that weapon though.

The new monsters are super fun fight and it requires you to eventually get very good at knowing your op counter bullshit to win the final monsters they added a year after release. Maybe some people don't like that but I had a blast with dual blades.

Replaying on ps5 now trying to learn charge blade.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

I think Ubisoft makes amazing games that are really excellent value once they're on sale for like twenty or thirty bucks. And by amazing games I mean turn your brain off slop that does one thing well, a couple things okay, and tries maybe 3 more things poorly. I usually play one from a few years back every couple years to scratch the itch of Ubisoft explore-a-thon, and then that leaves me burned out on their style for at least a year or 4.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

There's a video of some streamer playing the game saying "and overall I think it's a pretty fun enjoyable title" as the speeder bike falls through the level into the infinity and crashes the game. chefs-kiss

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I finished the resident evil 4 remake. Which is a pretty solid remake, does a good job with the plot, making things make a little more sense. Has a combat system that is more or less the same as the original but I'd say probably quite a bit harder since they do expect you to parry everything (which I never did except in krauser fights). And cuts some bits for reasons, I'd guess pacing maybe? But it still feels like the final chapter is too long despite being noticeably shorter.

My main grief with it is the game feels like it was ashamed the old game was campy and didn't take itself seriously and tries to be more serious (it's still goofy but less) and overall part of the originals charm is how it doesn't take itself seriously. For me anyways. Also the weapon exclusive upgrades feel bad now, and show up very late. And knife durability is like a kick in the teeth to original game players who just want to shoot once and knife 4 times. Oh and the aiming system feels horrendous, I missed so many close shots because the game has a bullshit random spread if you move your target reticle too fast.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I refuse to believe any proposed policies from a democrat. They can offer anything they want and know they won't pass it because a parliamentarian will find the blue suit rule in effect on the day it's proposed (oops the tax code can't be amended if there is someone wearing a blue suit in Congress on that day, sorry hands are tied everyone, we do want progress though).

All they're going to do is tax cuts and wonder why they can't fund anything. Also bump that military spending up another 500 billion or so gotta make sure we're extra lethal and threatening to everyone.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago

dean-frown

Canadians cannot be trusted, they'll apologize just because it gets them off.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

I'm cursed and need to see the bad takes.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago

Do they still have guillotines around there? Could be fun to bring it back just as a treat for the people.

 

So you might have heard that Calgary is currently under heavy water restrictions due to a feeder water main suffering a catastrophic leak that flooded parts of the city, a 2m wide pipe. They initially told us to expect at least a week for repairs to be finished. But as of yesterday we learned the damage is more severe and expect another 3-5 weeks of water restrictions.

It has sucked, and the only thing that was bearable was maybe we could all better understand how to limit our use of essential resources. Well except that significant portions have refused to believe it and increased water usage. So we've been running on a thin line to barely not exceed water reserves for the city.

And the main thought going through my mind is the inability of our government to handle it because there are certain assumptions that have been made. Chiefly that we cannot allow this to impact the economy, or local businesses. So theyre exempt from the water restrictions, although several did take steps to help. Notably my employer, the largest grocery store in Canada, has been completely silent and hasn't even bothered to donate water bottles or something to help offset the water limits on people.

Any attempt to ask for the city to have businesses shut off to prevent the loss of our water has been met with a cry of liberal piggies explaining how they could not possibly survive without their paycheques... Like there is no thoughts that maybe we could just pay people to not work and they could preserve the precarious water situation by giving people an easier time? I also fully expect most of them refuse to go without brunch or fancy dinners out on the town. Treats before anything else!

Basically there is no vision for better solutions because everyone needs to work to get paid and any attempt around it is shouted down as impossible. It is further hindered of course by the Alberta provincial government being so far right wing that the very idea of even asking them for assistance is a fools errand when our premier is highly likely to promote conspiracy theories about the water main break.

This also is further proof of the failure of western powers to bother with maintaining basic infrastructure to ensure this shit doesn't happen. Supposedly the pipe was checked in April, but this is literally a pipe installed in the 1970s and so considering all the issues they're discovering (but not disclosing, which just feeds the conspiracy narrative), the maintenance has been far below sufficient to say the least. But because it is underground it is out of sight out of mind.

Sorry for the rant but nobody in my home or work wants to listen to me. And I've needed to get this off my chest and my work has conveniently given me far more hours than I can comfortably handle in the next 3 weeks so I'm not in a great state of mind.

Death to Canada.

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