OT: HFPens Community Lounge: Or Ogrezilla and LOGiK's Nerd Thread ;)
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Ogrezilla
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welcome to the nerd talk! Sadly, those games are both also on MY hefty Steam backlog, so I can't really help
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I've completed 36% of RDR2 the year it came out in the first month I had it.
I am currently at 36% completion of RDR2....
I am currently at 36% completion of RDR2....
Lol, I actually played it to about 36% completion back when it came out and just only picked it up again recently. The story really picks up around the 50% mark, but it was definitely a slog for me in the beginning.
Bought a bunch of games during the Steam winter sale to add to my massive backlog because logic goes out the window when I see a game that is 50% off. Picked up Hollow Knight, Elden Ring, RE2 remake and a few others.
On another note, all of the beer leagues that I play in do not resume play until next week, so I have been hitting the gym hard to take advantage of the extra free time. I've managed to build my low bar squat up to 255lbs 3x5 at 145lbs bodyweight. Feels like I've plateaued so looking to change things up. Any suggestions? Maybe switch to Bulgarian split squats? The goal for me is to improve / maintain my skating explosiveness as I am now getting older
On another note, all of the beer leagues that I play in do not resume play until next week, so I have been hitting the gym hard to take advantage of the extra free time. I've managed to build my low bar squat up to 255lbs 3x5 at 145lbs bodyweight. Feels like I've plateaued so looking to change things up. Any suggestions? Maybe switch to Bulgarian split squats? The goal for me is to improve / maintain my skating explosiveness as I am now getting older
Ogrezilla
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now to be clear I'm not a gym guy, but a tip I had from a friend who was is when he plateaus on squats he will actually drop 10 lbs and up his reps instead. Then when he can get back to his original weight max with a few extra reps he will go back to 3x5 with a higher weight.
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Mate I have tried and it's like shit, do I just start over and redo to the story up to that point? Or just try to wander around and figure out wtf the next story mission is? I log in, get annoyed and log out then just own people in Forza Motorsport until they start purposely smashing into me and that's my cue to quit.
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This is where I'm glad I have game pass. If I don't end up finishing the game, they'll just remove it eventually and it's like ah ok, meh time to download another game I'll play for 30mins lol.
Switch up from traditional to Zercher and also seated to work on other parts of your quads perhaps? Some other squat centric drop sets as well. Do the heavy, between sets do lighter and go as deep as possible and be super controlled.
When I plateau for bench, I switch from dB to bar and work on certain movements to be as fluid as possible. Like a half way start to just push up for explosiveness with a good weight. For hockey it's a good one to build that box out strength for your arms or that one stiff cross check that says you wanna f*** around and find out?
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Ogrezilla
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I think that’s about how far I got into that show. Maybe 4 or 5. It was fine but it didn’t really grab me and I moved to something else and never went back.
Yeah, I did something like that for my overhead press and was able to push through a plateau. Maybe I'll try that with my squats.
Yeah Gamepass probably would have been the way to go, but now I've built out my games library so much that I feel like there is no use to subscribing.
My bench has also plateaued. Seems like my body is signaling to me that I need to switch up my routine to something for more advanced lifters
It's definitely a slow burn. I just picked up where I left off. The story is not too complicated so even if you don't remember certain details about the story, you will still be able to follow along. However, if you value gameplay over story, then it might not ever click for you. The gameplay is definitely cumbersome.
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Finally got my 34 inch ultrawide 1000R curve in the mail, this is so cool.
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Imagine all of the cool new curve angles you can watch Petrovic in now!
The game play was always cumbersome in these types of games, the story is what makes you forget about it and the stories for all 3 have been great, imo. Although I would say RDRevolver probably had the best balance of Gameplay + Story. Well RDR was also great, I guess if anything RDR2 didn't really improve on RDR enough but they always nail the story.
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Ogrezilla
Nerf Herder
Madden and NHL etc? Where is that? I see them all at $70. 100 for the deluxe edition or whatnot though.
edit: oh you're in canada, they are like 90 and 130 there respectively. Yikes.
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Also what is Starfield. I downloaded and got 15mins in before I got super bored. Like wtf am I a damn miner or do I get to live out some Expanse type space fantasy? I read it has some mixed reviews and didn't live up to its potential.
Then again neither did Cyberjunk and they finally fixed it a couple of years later.
Then again neither did Cyberjunk and they finally fixed it a couple of years later.
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So Jonathan Majors huh, what an absolute twat of a human being. This bloke went on an interview, which is bizarre given his situation, then on record goes he'd never abuse a woman and essentially sounded like a bloke that is blaming the victim and seems to forget there's literally texts of him emotionally abusing his ex and about a physical altercation where he asks her not seek medical help because of perception. Then claims he wants partner like a Coretta King - which has MLKJr's daughter say yeah no thanks.
To be this dumb, I was a fan of his and felt he was really coming up big especially after the Lovecraft show, then his true colors come out. I guess we will have to stick with hyping Mahershala Ali.
Also I resent Majors bs about essentially needing a black partner. My mum is white and dad is black. Majors has a kid with a white woman. He definitely had a type until he hit one that didn't like it. Making us look bad and making women like my mum look bad because according to Majors that's how problems start with dating out of your race, so f*** you Majors. I hope he gets jail time.
To be this dumb, I was a fan of his and felt he was really coming up big especially after the Lovecraft show, then his true colors come out. I guess we will have to stick with hyping Mahershala Ali.
Also I resent Majors bs about essentially needing a black partner. My mum is white and dad is black. Majors has a kid with a white woman. He definitely had a type until he hit one that didn't like it. Making us look bad and making women like my mum look bad because according to Majors that's how problems start with dating out of your race, so f*** you Majors. I hope he gets jail time.
Ogrezilla
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Dude was killing it. On his way to being a full-on A-list star imo and just couldn't be a halfway decent human being to keep it going. He sucks. Also it sucks knowing that there are so many other folks getting away with that kind of shit.
Whatll really suck is when he does 6 months, lays low another 6, does some daytime talk show apology tour, then gets right back to it.
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I bet Greta Gerwig would do a movie about my little pony and claim it's a commentary on feminism and the patriarchy.
Apparently that's her go to description for everything she does. Like shit, it ain't that deep what you're making movies of. Now I wonder wtf she's going to do with Narnia.
Apparently that's her go to description for everything she does. Like shit, it ain't that deep what you're making movies of. Now I wonder wtf she's going to do with Narnia.
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It's bizarre to me how so many A listers flew to Europe to work with a rapist like Roman Polanski and seemed happy to do it. Or that Brad Pitt at 26 dated a teenaged 16yr old Juliette Lewis and also knew about Harvey Weinstein from Paltrow and even Jolie and still said he wanted to work with him and specifically sought him out to produce Killing Them Softly. Then he went on and produced a movie about Harvey with Apple.
The weirdest take was how so many were mad about Majors and felt he was being screwed. Apparently facts proving what he did wasn't enough. Then marvel fans turned on their own heroes with how RDJ didn't get the same treatment or Brolin (Brolin I can see, he literally admits to beating his wife, but RDJ? He abused drugs and himself not others).
BTW what Polley did with Women Talking, is what Gerwig thinks she did with Barbie. One is an incredible movie, the other thinks hers is because of what she thinks a doll represents to all women.
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Ogrezilla
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I liked Barbie quite a bit, I thought it was very funny. It is sort of ironic that Ken was the best part though 
. I also liked Lady Bird and Frances Ha. Narnia is a weird change up for her.
Also, Barbie for sure is a commentary on the patriarchy and feminism; just not a particularly deep one. I think it works as basically a skin deep fun comedy level of commentary though.
. I also liked Lady Bird and Frances Ha. Narnia is a weird change up for her. Also, Barbie for sure is a commentary on the patriarchy and feminism; just not a particularly deep one. I think it works as basically a skin deep fun comedy level of commentary though.
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