System Wars Lounge v77 -- The Verbtex is Pretty Retired Editon!

I'm trying to use it on a water fast where your metabolism slows down. Friday being an eat day, the other 6 purely water through coffee/tea.

Thus far coffee has been especially useful.

Eat day, add spice to purely meat but not so much that it goes over 50g carbs.

@uninspiredcup: How is the water fast going? How're you feeling? Are you trying it out of curiosity or weight loss or health reasons? I never attempted it because it seems crazy to me!

I don't remember the exact numbers but in my exercise physiology class we went over a few studies that showed dramatic TDEE drops in just 1-2 weeks from eating 500kcals/day! Can't imagine what a water fast would do.

It's not really hunger that's difficult, more habit. You get that use to eating at certain times everyday, seeing garbage food on tv and people around you eating garbage that changing your behaviour is the hump.

Once you practice for a few days (e.g. 2 days at a time, 3-4 times) and get use to it, you can easily go about you're daily business. In some cases people have more energy and better concentration, you'll get shit days, but by and large it's doable with practice.

https://www.diabetes.co.uk/news/2017/dec/fasting-changes-brain-chemistry-to-improve-memory-and-learning,-research-suggests-98808369.html

https://medium.com/@drbradysalcido/6-surprising-brain-power-benefits-of-intermittent-fasting-49ad1bc39e04

https://www.nia.nih.gov/news/longer-daily-fasting-times-improve-health-and-longevity-mice

Basically, unless you have a medical condition, medication, almost everything suggests fasting is one of the best things you can do for yourself.

In terms of weight loss, you don't really need to do excerise, just need to be very careful coming off the fast with bone broth and common sense. If you start eating shit, all that work goes bye bye.

I've only done 14 days on and off, noticed some stretch marks on the belly but nothing drastic. I'm hoping to work up to full water fast and do at least 20.

Stuff like black coffee and green-tea helps breaks up monotony.

@uninspiredcup: I felt like crap for the first two weeks of keto. Added in herrings in oil and vinegar as well as sour cabbage fried with a bit of red pepper and started feeling much better without significantly raising carbs. Maybe it was an electrolyte thing or some mineral deficiency, IDK, but it did the trick.

@sancho_panzer: Read pink himalayan salt is a good way to help with electrolytes. Got some on hand in case what happend to you happens here. Aside from the ketosis flu as you change over and a really, weird buzzing noise ( did you get it?) mostly plain sailing.

@uninspiredcup: Yeah I've researched into the whole intermittent fasting craze. What's limiting me from getting into it is the lack of randomly controlled human trials, especially long term ones. Most of the data I've found was done on mice which is promising but not something I'd count as sufficient enough to try. The little human trials I've found have been brief and still leave much to be answered.

You don't like to exercise? It's linked to a ridiculous amount of positive short term and long term changes (even irrespective of weight loss).

Good luck with the water fast though! I hope you meet your goals :).

@uninspiredcup: Cheers for the tip - will look into it.

I didn't get buzzing noises, but I'd suddenly feel exhausted and have a weird metallic taste in my mouth. That went too in the end as I kept adapting my diet. Getting enough micro-nutrients without eating fruit while staying within carb limits was the worst part. I'm not so strict with it anymore - couple of weeks on, then a few days off. I lost too much weight, tbh. It's a really effective diet.

I'm sooooo sick of these scam phone calls I'm getting. And if you block the number they just call you with a different number.

Some of them are really, really dumb.

@uninspiredcup: Damn haha. I wanna know what happened to dude's computer.

S+ Claire's first run with 20 minutes to spare. Unlocked the minigun aannnnd I'm bored. Time to play something else.

@Chutebox: Hey Chutebox, take a look

@FireEmblem_Man: yup. Unless Baker is a bust, they're coming up.

Then just give me...oh I mean them your bank details and we...oh I mean they will leave you alone :P

Baker, Baker, the touchdown maker just got more help.......

Already ordered my Super Bowl tickets. lolololol :P

@SecretPolice: You're a Browns fan? Figures !

You're not? Figures !

God I hate bin-men, any excuse not to do it.

Took a day off work yesterday for some personal stuff and had time at home to play a number of games.

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 - back in this and just reached Chapter 4. It's good. I like the music and the world and the story that's unfolding, just wish I enjoyed combat more (and I like games with similar combat.)

Devil May Cry 2 - pushing through this because a friend and I are playing through the franchise and he insists on playing it. The movement is better than 1 but that's about as much praise I can give it. Luckily, it's easy. Already on mission 6 of 18 and played for barely an hour yesterday.

Shadow of the Tomb Raider - really liked the first two games, and I'm enjoying my time with this one but something does feel off about it. Can't quite put my finger on what that is. Glad I'm playing through Game Pass instead of purchasing.

I'm gonna be playing through them again soon. Grabbed DMC5 and it's just Godly... I think the only complaint I have is that the camera can be very finicky in fast-paced movement.

You may have just gotten me to skip 2, but we'll see. At least you have 3 and 4 coming up.

So unbelievably mad, as i've decided to step-down from buying a 65-inch Sammy to a 55-inch, and instead upgrading the model to a Q8FN which is $2000... BB has a sale until tomorrow with $200 off, but my money doesn't come in until Tuesday. Agggghhh!

@lundy86_4: Put it on a credit card then pay off the credit card once you get paid?

Amazon.ca has it on sale as well for the same price, no idea when

@MonsieurX: I paid off all my credit cards and chucked them lol. Well, I only had two. They became too much of a crutch. Unfortunately, all the money i've been earning is going toward my condo as it's Winter, so income is lower for me. It sucks it's $200, but it's not the end of the world. I'm still buying Tuesday lol.

@lundy86_4: Do some corners, 20$ is 20$

So happy he's not going to the Cowboys.

@MonsieurX: I'm more expensive than $20, bitch! lol.

Maybe $25.

@lundy86_4: You can charge extra since you're exotic

@MonsieurX: I can do a British sultry dance... Just be pissed off my head and dance around a lamp pole.

You'll hear a lot of people say skip it. I'm only playing it because of the friend. My impressions:

Movement is better than expected, but everything from the weight of your attacks and the weight of your hits’ impacts, to the level design and the story context and the monster design--It’s all garbage.

@zassimick: It's been so long since I played it, that I can't remember. I just remember the brooding Dante lol.

Surprised Gamespot didn't review Shining Resonance.

Another Sega franchise chucked into obscurity.

Troy Baker and Nolan North playing the best Star Wars game on N64.

Urge to buy the division 2 rising.

I started After Life on Netflix and I usually don't like much of what Ricky Gervais does, but this is pretty damn good. It's very somber, but it also has Joe Richardson, and i've loved him on 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown.

I only just discovered 8 of 10 cats last year via YouTube even though I love Jimmy Carr's style of comedy, and the show is really funny. Rachel Riley is hot, Bill Bailey should get on that right away lol.

Check out Peep Show, it's secretly the best sitcom of modern times.

Not even sure that got sown in America. so sad.

Probably my favorite sitcom. Wonder if everything is still on Youtube, although I feasted on this Super Hans montage 2 weeks ago.

@i_p_daily: Oh God, Rachel Riley is a smoke show. I really do like the Countdown version.

Accidentally ordered from a takeaway I detest. If he tries to palm off 3 cans of irn-bru for £2.50 again he'll be getting told to fuckoff. Checking Justeat, they do this repeatedly I suspect deliberately.

Edit - The delivery person was a lovely attractive Polish lady, couldn't be mad at her.

Never heard the term smoke show so I have no idea if that's good or bad lol.

Unfortunately in Australia we get a lot of American shit shows (no offense to Americans) and they all seem to be the same. I have found a few British shows that I like on YouTube.

@i_p_daily: It means she's hot lol.

You're telling me. I moved from the UK to Canada, and it's all American now, which isn't too bad for the major broadcasting shows. At least in Canada you can kinda find the British shows... Might have to download, or use a VPN.

I ordered Takoyaki for the first time, and I was not disappointed! It was truly divine

I actually should have known what you were talking about as we use a similar term in smoking hot lol.

I will just stick to YouTube as its free and easy enough to find just about anything.

As for British shows on Aussie television, well i'm sure there is I just can't think of any.

I was wondering... I know you Aussie's have your own slang, which as indecipherable as us Brits, but I thought it was close lol.

I actually do Youtube as well. I'm watching "Was it Something I Said?" at the moment, and it's decent. Same kinda riff with a comedy panel, but they try to attribute famous quotes to people.

@freedomfreak: They should keep it going, have them living together at 50, Jez still jobless and playing the electric keyboard.

@uninspiredcup: One of the many things I liked about the show. Every season always grows toward jez and mark finally leaving eachother because of work, girlfriends, cults, but they always end up staying together.

@realtomedammit