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I didn't squat anything heavy (i.e. > body weight x2) since early November, and I'm only doing squats once every 2 weeks on my current program. They were plateauing around the 105kg mark, back on 5/3/1, and Madcow 5x5, which I did for about 2 months earlier this year, had them in *every* workout - I believe I was overdoing them.
Anyway, pleasantly surprised with my squatting this morning: finished a set of 8x90 kg, followed by the "widowmaker" set of 20x62,5 kg. I could have pushed it for 9x90, probably, but I didn't want to get greedy and compromise on my form.
Hardly anything brag-worthy, by all means, but satisfied with my progress.
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#starfield update. Haven't progressed much in the main story, but finished the Ryujin questline.
Spent most of my time - and credits 😅 - building a C class battleship from a salvaged spacer B class. My own variant of, but very much inspired by a build I saw on reddit.
It's still a WIP, mostly due to cash limitations and level locked ship parts - needs more engines, a different cockpit, a more powerful reactor, and better shields, eventually, BUT the WIP state is really impressive already.
It also tears through everything the game throws at me around level 30, which is how it earned it's name: Reaper.
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Done tinkering with the Razorleaf in #starfield, got her close to maximum flex, considering what's available to me at level 17, inspired by Deimos' dropship model aesthetics. Armed to the teeth, up to 6 crew, and more than enough cargo space for a while.
Spacers, pirates, and whatever else stands in her way will remember that her silhouette means death, by missile salvo, or when getting boarded 😈
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Space is the place for the human race...
Absolutely loving #starfield so far, the "elder scrolls on space" formula is addictive as hell.
TBH, I'm enjoying this so much, that it almost makes me forget how passionately I hated all their Fallout stuff after New Vegas 😅
Also: offline singleplayer, fuck yeah.
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Really happy with my decision to get #annopaxromana. Already finished the "campaign" (i.e. tutorial), now in the game proper.
The game looks absolutely gorgeous, gameplay mechanics make sense, and controls feel natural (on #ps5 ). The duality of Romans and Celts is also really cool. -
Got myself that Anno #paxromana game. Escapism in a truly polished shell. I'll check back in with reality next year, I guess.
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Doggcrapp.
Weirdest name of any training program, probably, but I'm sore again after every workout.
Also, leaving the barbell comfort zone, and using machines more, makes pushing the rest-pause sets to failure a little more varied.
Curious what I'll think about it in 3 months or so, and even more curious about how my body will process this program.
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Closw friend's 50th birthday party tonight. Met some old friends and acquaintances, good times.
One friend told me a great story: Death played in Vienna in the 90s. He was chatting with Gene Hoglan, begging him to play Zombie Ritual. Not on the setlist, he was told. But what can he offer? 4 tequilas, he said. Death played their show, the set ended. No Zombie Ritual. Gene gets up, tells Chuck they must play Zombie Ritual for the guy in the front row. Death plays Zombie Ritual, fuck yeah.
Turns out, 4 tequilas for Hoglan buys you 1 rendition of Zombie Ritual, fucking amazing.
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Just looked out into my garden, and a random #badger came by, and ran into a neighboring garden. Cool little fellow 🦝
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Finished 40k Rogue Trader yesterday. A truly outstanding game, full of decisions, consequences, death, fire, and heresy.
My playthrough was naively iconoclastic (not dogmatic, not heretical) at first, but the events that transpired about half way through the game definitely changed how my character handled things.
Reaching the end of the gane took a while, but I was satisfied with the "good" (but grimdark...) ending I got.
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Watched this #documentary last night. Highly recommended if you're interested in the history of the electric #guitar, and specifically what - and how - #prs did to get they are now.
Watching it will also make a dead old man very happy 😎
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MGDf5RxEhPk&pp=ygUYcHJzIG1jY2FydGh5IGRvY3VtZW50YXJ5
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Remember I bought that #prs #guitar a couple of weeks ago?
I put on fresh strings the day I took it home, but all I had available then was a set of 9 gauge strings. I switched to a set DR Pure Blues (PHR-10, 10 to 46) this week, and the guitar is another level now. It felt great already, but it's even better now, with lower action and zero string buzz anywhere (never had a guitar that was set up so clean, and I owned many...).
The 9s played well, no doubt, but they were sounding a bit weak and sometimes shrill in high frequency ranges, muddy in low ones.
And I only did that, 'cause I stumbled over the factory specs on the PRS site - very helpful, lucky me, haha.
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I remember being curious about these back in the day - David's drawings of his experiments on Dr. Shaw, from Alien: Covenant.
Crazy stuff...
https://www.alien-covenant.com/news/davids-drawings-shaw-his-experiments-now-online
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For some reason, there was a 0€ game in the the PS Store a couple of days ago - CarX Street, an open world arcade racer. I'm a sucker for racing games, so I gave it a try.
After about 4h, I'm positively surprised: the game's right down the #NFSU alley, and captures that nostalgic feel really well. It's full of JDM classics, tons of tuning options, and, most importantly, stupidly fun racing (so far).
It's far from a sim (like #gt7 for example), the open world is mostly just a nice backdrop (but all open world racing games I ever played were like that), and the cars aren't licensed - none of that makes it any less fun to race for money, and to build up your basic street car into a turbocharged destroyer of "yolo tires" 😄
Also, no cops/chases - they've happily invited everyone to participate in no-longer-illegal street racing in their city, for some bizarre reason 🤣
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NISMO R34 GT-R Z-tune - an absolute monster. Stunning like few other cars, iconic doesn't even come close 🥹
Also, amazing work that keeps going into #gt7 all these years later, without any additional cost.
https://www.gran-turismo.com/gb/gt7/carlist/id/car3569
PS: ray traced renders are 🧨
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Seems like M$ is determined to ruin VSCode with all that copilot crap. I've moved to Codium on my work machine today. I wouldn't be surprised if 2025 turned out to be the year I finally quit GUI editors for good and moved to NeoVim.
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@rauschma it's been a while since I wrote about it, but I've used buildless #preact for quite a bunch of cool things over the years (and still do) 😎
Feel free to have a look at https://ttntm.me/blog/buildless-preact-starter/ and https://ttntm.me/blog/building-a-data-viewer-with-preact/ if you're curious
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@davidshq I've built many such applications over the years. The ones built with #vue are still quite easy to maintain, even 5+ years later - Vue 3 + #typescipt + #vite is a great stack to work with.
If you must JSX, then use #preact. It's not a bad choice either, but maintaining the hook soup isn't fun in the long run.
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Week 1 of being back at the gym: +1,2kg of bodyweight, of which 500g is muscle mass, according to my scale.
3 workouts, on Madcow 5x5, and a deliberate excess of calories. A new mass gainer (~1300 calories/serving), instead of the usual protein shake, definitely helped. Weakness is most noticeable on squats, but I believe that I've also been overtraining them on 531 during the 6 months I did that program.
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Just went live: an Austrian NGO's campaign website to stop surveillance measures: https://bundestrojaner.at
Designed by my wife in, built by me using @eleventy.
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Having listened to the first 3 #cannibalcorpse albums this fine morning, I'm curious about your opinion: which one's your #1 pick out of the 3?
Killer workout soundtrack btw, energizing as all fark, which leads to the conclusion, that #deathmetal + #strengthtraining = 💥
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Re-launch day for my wife's website: https://sahar.design
Now built with #astro and #contentful, a _very_ nice set of tools to work with. Contentful rich text gets coverted to portable text, and a couple of Astro components take care of the rendering, making good use of recursion.
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Working on a couple of sites built with #astro and #contentful these days. Quite a powerful combination, even in what I’d call „hybrid“ mode (not all content/blocks of the site are pulled from the CMS).
Also got some interactive stuff in there that #vue is used for. Everything’s type safe too which is pretty helpful.
Overall a pretty great set of tools to work with so far :blobcat:
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A sudden urge during today's morning workout: listening to old school #CannibalCoprse. Now, their first 3 albums are back on my phone, for some gory fun on Monday.
I cherish my 25+ year old #mp3 collection, otherwise I'd have to bring a #discman to the gym, haha.💿
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For the longest time, I considered Freelancer to be the best space sim/RPG hybrid I ever played.
Not sure yet if that's ever going to change, but #everspace2 comes pretty close so far. I'm only at level 13, but the game feels great, the ship classes/types/tiers seem pretty decent, combat is fast and snappy, and it's really fun as a whole so far.
Considering I snatched this game for <20€, I'm impressed, and I'll probably get the DLC as well.
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How did I only discover #kinggizzardandthelizardwizard now?
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Apparently, there a new #teitanblood album came out last year, and I missed it. One of the most important bands to younger me, so that's quite a surprise.
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It's an absolute beast, and without a doubt my #aoty2025 (posthumously).
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I felt particularly nope'y today, but motivated enough added this page to my website:
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I should be doing other things (work, etc.), but somehow, I ended up with a round-cornered floating panel instead 😊
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Just finished the #iommi autobiography.
A really interesting book that spans more than half a century, full of stories and anecdotes you wouldn't even imagine.
Can recommend reading it, if you're even remotely into heavy music.
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Did day 1 today.
The additional volume is manageable - 5/3/1 reps + 5 additional 5-rep sets at the first set's load - and makes for a total of 40+ reps per compound lift in each cycle's week 1 (2 per program day). That's more than double the volume of #gzclp 's T1s, and about 20% more than its T2s.
The weight will go up, and the volume will go down slightly in week 2 and 3 of the program's repeating cycle, but should overall still be significantly higher that what I did for the last 10 months - good!
The 3 assistance exercises I picked from the pull/push/core categories are still focusing on arms. I feel noticeably stronger after the past month of arm specialization, but the size isn't even close to where I'd like it to be. It's hard for tall people with super long arms, I guess, but I'm sure they'll get there at some point.
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#squat day today: the plan was 6x2@105kg, but I only managed 1 proper set - had to bail out of the 2nd set (thank you, power rack safety bars!), deload, and continue with 100kg.
1 week left on cycle 2 of #gzclp, then doing a month of arm specialization, while keeping the big lifts on maintenance mode and deciding what long term program to tackle next.
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The #blackmetal nostalgia hits hard this week, should probably not have watched that cringy "Lords of Chaos" movie last Friday...
Writing #sql atm and listening to early #Gorgoroth.
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I started #warhammer40000roguetrader in the middle of a move. A freaking BAD idea 🤣
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Gave this month's PS Plus games a try today:
#CallistoProtocol: not bad, kinda like the "resident evil in space" vibe. But nothing to relax with on the other hand, adrenaline's pumping. Also some really weird looking graphic effects (i.e. fire) which seems weird for a '22 game.
#weirdwest: pretty cool, reminds me of #deadlands, quite enjoyable after the first hour. Guess I'll stick with this one for now.