I am pretty old, and i feel like the news cycle when i was a very young kid (this was during the iran hostage crisis in the early 80s) always pronounced it “eye ran”. I feel like that continued through the iran contra scandal, but by then some were pronouncing it “ee-ron”.

I try to get it right now, but its hard to erase that old programming. I also think anyone who “roasted the shit out of you” for it is a doucher. I think giving someone passive shit for that faux pas would be acceptable, but roasting the shit out of someone? Cmon… I don’t feel like it’s that big of a deal.

When in public:

Push door open (usually with elbow) Do business Extract paper towel, but do not grab them… Wash hands Get paper towel that has been dangling and begin to dry hands Use paper towel to get more paper towels (not touching the paper towel dispenser mechanism with skin, using the used ppr towel) Use new paper towel to secure the soiled one, and complete doing my hands, and turn off the water… Use paper towel once more to open the door out of the bathroom

There is literally a new cape fear movie coming out, with Javier Bardem as Max.

It seems to me that Turtle Wow was a great idea… BUT their decision to start advertising their presence across MULTIPLE platforms indicates to me that they were trying to cash in, by existing their donation base, before the inevitable end. I can’t accept that they are as culpable in their closure as Blizzard was. They could have kept their heads down and did their thing, but announcing an unreal release, and having an ad campaign… Huh? They did nothing but expedite their end. So while they may have been better then Blizzard (not a hard thing to do) it feels empty to trumpet them like they saviors. Imo, they took advantage of their players.

No, ive always thought this was a strangely tribal concept, and dl judge people who make their car that much of a part of their identity. Next they will be wearing red hats and rationalizing why Epstein wasn’t that bad.

You will get varying degrees of people crapping on A Song of Ice and Fire, because it is incomplete… But the tale telling in his books are imo, unparalleled. Ive read and reread the series several times, and it always pays off, especially if you get into the deeper storytelling that you miss on the first read. Ive finally reached a peace with the author, after hating in him like everyone else… That is because i realized that id rather live in a world with the story he started, than live in a world where i never experienced the story at all.

Last week i finished the first book of a trilogy i had never heard of, and its a damn shame it doesn’t have more fans. I urge anyone who sees this to add at least the first book to their reading list. That would be Bernard Cornwell’s “The Winter King”. It is a retelling of the King Arthur tale, from a new angle, and i LOVED it. The first book is pretty amazing on its own, and it stands alone. I have started the 2nd book, but not gotten too far into it.

Id also like to recommend The Black Company books by Glenn Cook. These are a different slant on fantasy, and really good.

I love a lot of his work, but he is insufferable. Its like he never got all of his edge lordiness out of his system when he was a teen, and now he is doubling down.

Stay awhile… Stayyyyy FOREVER!

Heres to your fuck, Ben!

Nebula is great, but they dont seem to be adding many creators, which is a real shame, and not taking any suggestions for new channels, means its alway going to be pretty limited in its offering. Which is why i cant REGULARLY sub to it. The content is just super limited.

I did read the article, and that one example is terrible. But this isnt an epidemic. Its not a dumb article because of the severity of any of the cases. Its a dumb article because it paints a picture of lost and starving women on trails everywhere. Its a handful of assholes being assholes.

This is such a dumb article. A handful of women go on day hikes that sucked.

Top tier sir

I enjoyed the game quite a bit. It told a weird story that i enjoyed, in a small game world that i enjoyed being in. It could have been better in many ways, but id go so far as to say i loved it. As a game to just chill and play, without needing to be on your guard all the time, it was relaxing and entertaining. It was like reading a good book, you wanted to see what happened next.

Im not sure that id want for this style of gaming to be the next big thing, but I would have liked to have seen that style built on. Its a shame Campo Santo disappeared into Valve… I had hoped that Valley of the Gods would still see the light of day, but he says thats unlikely. Its a shame that Valve devours great game makers, then they never make games.

100% metric

I really wish nebula polled the community ornhad some way to offer feedback on including some other streamers. There are a handful of varied channels i would love to watch away from yt.

Thanks, it maybe, I just didnt like the way i looked at that weight. When I said I had a large frame, I wasnt referring to my fat. I was referring, I guess, my bone structure. When I was at 245, my face looked sunken, and i just didnt like it. When I was down to 280 and doing a LOT of heavier exercises, I was on a good path, and had a very solid muscle structure. I am pretty certain I wold have continued to slim down as I built muscle, however I did something to (I assume) my rhomboid while doing a new kettle bell exercise. It put me well out of commission in regards to exercise for months… without the gym, my diet went to absolute shit, and I never got back on it, and just turned back into a sedentary eating machine.

Again, appreciate your input!

Thanks for your response. I appreciate the advice. I realize that you and others might see a goal weight if 280 as insane… and it is frustrating to try to make people realize i know its not ideal, and if i reach that weight i may very well carry on. But it is a goal, and if i ever manage to reach it, I will frankly be amazed, AND it will represent a huge chunk of weight. When i went to the doc in December, i was 370. So 280 might seem crazy, but that is my current long-term goal, and one I would expect is over a year off.

Thanks, i agree, I felt like it was premature as well, however i wasnt sure if at my age my body would benefit from taking some. I also agree with the free weights for those particular exercises… So I will likely try to move to those as i build a better base to work from. The only one that concerns me is squats… Which funny enough is the primary free weight exercise I want to do, sinply because loading and unloading the isolated squat machine with hundred of pounds of weight is a pain in the ass. Lol

Youre debating something that im not.

I realize its the glp1, thats why i said “this drug has given me control…” i fully recognize its the drug. And in my first post I said that i had lost massive amounts of weight twice before, without it… And understand what it takes to do it, and it hasnt been from lack of trying. Im not sure if its age, or a combo of that and the endless wall of shit being thrown at me every day from the political atmosphere in the us… But i cannot do it anymore. Im at wits end with this. You can look at it as a weakness. I probably would have 15 years ago… Hell i pretty much looked at it like that 6 months ago… So be it.

Im losing weight with the drug. Im going to the gym with the drug to try to help build myself up for if/when inever do go off of it. Im trying to eat healthier with it in an effort to lay down tracks for when/if that day comes. But tbh, im not doing this to try to stretch my life out another 35 years. Im just doing it so maybe my knee hurts less, and i can do more shit right now. Inam probably not as worried about a massive heart attack as you might think. Hell, thats the lotto ticket. Cancer is more likely to hit me before coronary failure does. My arteries are clean according to my sonographer, and my heart is in good condition according to my cardiologist. Im not sure how, but it is… Maybe from a very active lifestyle when. I was younger… Who knows.

My goal isnt to be classified as not obese, its to be classified as “i just cut the grass on the back hill and didnt have to collapse on the garage floor for 20 minutes afterwards to regain the energy to take a shower.”