What exactly is this about?

I've this week off work... I'd be happy to try and help you get this out there

I run at least 3-4 days per week as my primary exercise, but I don't consider myself a "runner" (whatever that means). Like with everything these days, there's a lot of people trying to sell things that you don't need or could figure out yourself.

The one piece of advice I would give is get proper running shoes with cushioned soles. I ran for many years in whatever general purpose footwear I was using at the time (close toed sandals, hiking boots, later on indoor soccer shoes), and I believe that contributed to a knee injury I sustained about fifteen years ago that never really went away, and started become more noticeable in the last couple years. Just from switching to purpose built shoes I can feel less strain on my joints, and I think if I had been wearing them all along I never would have suffered the injury in the first place.

And remember that shoes are a consumable, if you wait until they are totally worn out to replace them you're putting yourself at risk! Swap them at regular intervals.

As for treadmill vs. running outside, I and almost everyone I know who runs prefers doing it outside. Treadmills are super tedious, after only five or ten minutes I want to get off one where I can run half an hour outdoors on any given day and not hit that mental wall. It sounds like you are literally in your first week of running, as you continue to train your body and add distance you'll find it keeps getting easier and much less physically uncomfortable. Eventually your body will actually look forward to the exercise.

Congrats on the sobriety!

For shoes, this is going to be a copout answer, but "find a running-focused store near you and get fitted" is really the best advice I can give. From what you're saying, you probably want a "do-it-all daily trainer" or something along those lines. Basically, a workhorse shoe that can do pretty much anything "good enough".

As for breathing, I'm just a fellow hobby jogger, not a coach or formally trained in anything. But I used this book to guide me on that front (FUN FACT I just learned now: "Running On Air" is apparently also the name of a Harry Potter/Draco Malfoy fanfic). Its thesis amounts to "breathe in an odd count", IE Breathe in 1-2-3 Breathe out 1-2 and repeat. The idea according to the book is that you place the most stress on your body when you step as you begin breathing out; breathing in an odd count thus more evenly distributes that stress since it means you're alternating which foot the out breath starts on with every breath. Is it true? I have no idea, but I will say I haven't injured myself running using the technique. Also, forcing myself to focus on the count as I'm running is a welcome distraction from basically everything else I tell myself on a run, which amounts to "It's too hot it's too cold it's too dry it's too humid can I stop I wanna stop I bet I've been going for hours let me check my watch 'two minutes elapsed' fuuuuuuuu-"

There's actually a surprising amount of stuff in running where people will swear by it and then acknowledge "Is it just placebo effect? Possibly, but the mental peace of mind from the routine is worth it regardless".

In any event, happy running!

As previously leaked, his final match was with modern era legend GUNTHER. It was a ridiculously dramatic bout, with an end that has left fans in tears.

this is a funny way to address the fact that the live crowd boo'd the everliving fuck out of the match and Triple H for booking it to end the way it did.

very divisive match with many, many dissapointed WWE fans.

personally, I'm not in the weeds on the Cena stuff. I watched very little of his retirement tour and largely don't care about the match or the ending. that said, the match was just... okay.

even if it wasn't John Cena and it didn't have the drama of it being his last ever match, it still would have been just an okay match with an oddly paced finish.

This may be a result of me not really having watched wrestling in many years but the sleeper didn't feel like it was sold well as inescapable

Dear god that was homoerotic

can't wait for him to unretire in few years for saudi mania

My favorite part is the broadcast being late to edit out all the "fuck Triple H" chants in time.

Or this reaction from Tyrese Haliburton

A.I. Potter

Mini side.. criticism? I guess. Is the fact leakers claim there will also be a HP themed point of interests added to the current map. Outside of the usual theres also some general distate towards the idea of slapping probably some big ass castle in the middle of a map thats very California / West Coast themed.

Honestly it's nothing new, last chapter's map was Japan themed and it got like 4 star wars themed POIs slapped in the corners for half the year. Though that was also criticized.

"Joanne we need you to come up with a character name for this Fortnite crossover"

"Uhhhh how about Ford Knight"

Holy shit

How do you fuck up such a simple design?🥲

For the record, that's not supposed to be the actual character Harry Potter. It's a generic Hogwarts student you can customize.

Why does this look like an American jock alternate universe version of the titular character. Holy fuck who signed off on this skin 😭

It's Harry Potter from the alternate universe where his parents never died and he got lasik. He's not the chosen one in this universe, he's just a regular jock.

Wait it’s not just clothes? Are we sure that’s supposed to be Mr Potter himself? 

I bet it’s something like the hogwarts house clothing being a different license from the glasses and lightning scar. Or perhaps they didn’t want Harry doing Fortnite things like using a gun (shame, the gifs would be hilarious). 

If I was still a fan of HP, I'd be aghast at how bad that skin is. Like, he looks like the knockoff action figure version of himself.

Eesh, I checked the image and that’s pretty bad. If they’d at least done the glasses, maybe. But as is, I certainly wouldn’t recognize it. I bet epic will update it though because they’re going to make TONS of money if they can get HP looking “right”

That's... that's not Harry Potter at all. That's Harold Panner at best. Why couldn't they use any of his features?

Edit: So that's not the boy who lived after all. Had to be.

Either way, i despite JK but I'm not surprised by this collab. I thought only a matter of time tbh, and what surprised me more about this collab was honestly that I thought he was already in the game. Haven't played Fortnite, but it really strikes me as a game that doesn't care about the integrity or meaning of the collabs, preferring brand recognition rather.

the OS you don't personally use but everything you do use relies on

Define "use"

Use at the lower level doing stuff through the CLI? yeah fair (though I personally do that on my mint based laptop and my jellybox all the time)

Use at the GUI level? Every android user would like a word.

Oh thank fuck

To add some background about why this is important: Traditional programming languages like C are "memory-unsafe". Programmers are responsible for asking for amounts of memory and making sure that they don't write more data than the memory they asked for, and don't read more than they put in. This is very easy to mess up and is the primary cause of security bugs in software, but historically programmers have just been told it's a skill issue and to stop making mistakes.

Modern programming languages like Rust are "memory-safe". If you try to write or read memory outside of the bounds of what was allocated, you get an error instead of clobbering some other important data. This makes entire classes of bugs impossible or at least much less likely, and since these bugs tend to be the most common and severe security issues this is a huge win. There's a movement to basically re-write all software in modern programming languages like Rust for safety and reliability improvements.

So to oversimplify, on one side you have boomer programmers who learned to do everything the hard way telling people they should just get good instead of using a programming language with training wheels. On the other side you have newer programmers who learned to do things in a way that seems to them to be obviously better and they resent the older programmers for wanting to stick to the old ways.

I personally use Linux!

Minor complaint, but one of the things that annoyed me about this year's recap was them highlighting the coquette/girlblogging trend. Absolutely none of my mutuals think it's a good thing, especially given the larger shift towards conservatism/tradwife culture.

It's also made a lot of media/hobby tags completely unusable. God help you if you're a Lana Del Rey, Black Swan or Virgin Suicides fan looking for actual discussion or fan content, and all you get are gauzy soft-focus aesthetic posts and thirst trap selfies that have nothing to do with the actual subject.

It's been something that users look forward to reflect on what blew up in previous year and what lost popularity over the years

It is? In my corner, everyone just ignored it the way we did all 'how do you do, fellow kids' posts from staff.

Oh my goodness. They made their own Year in Review BLAND. Wow...

There seems to be a weird trend of yearly recaps being ass, and I mean in general not just Tumblr. I remember Spotify's last year was panned, and this year's had the nonsensical listening age thing lol

Didn’t help it just seem to be just a cluttered mess Atleast on my iPad when trying to look though everything .

says something that most people I follow on my dashboard really didn’t talk about this year review and just talked about other things on the site .

It’s kind of you to be worrying over them, but in my own experience, random online strangers can be flaky. I stopped commissioning anyone outside of friends I’ve known and trusted for years after my third time getting ghosted for months to up to a year after payment. 

And even with friends, I’m now upfront with my requirements: I would like the piece to be done within three months, and if it can’t be done, I will expect a refund. 

Just to be clear--I assume you're looking for advice? My first instinct is that you ought to reach out to them, express your concerns. Let them decide how they want to seek (healthy) treatment and be supportive of them throughout the process.

It's far from the ease of which I'm making it sound, but yeah, just try and contact them if you can.

Daniel Benzali was the main actor in the TV show Murder One for the first season.

He was fired from the second season for refusing to leave his home before he completed his morning bowel movement and was perpetually late to the set.

Leon Kennedy of Resident Evil fame doesn't wash his hair and it sends me every time I remember it. He's explicitly described in his original design documents as having "mean eyes and unwashed hair". That luscious shine is all grease, baby.

In 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim, it's mentioned in passing that two characters - Ryoko Shinonome and Renya Gotou - used to date in middle school and that Ryoko was the one who abruptly ended the relationship. This doesn't really come up again in the game and isn't really plot relevant so it's not clear why you're detail is established, other than to suggest a history between the two characters and potentially ship tease them - 13SAR is unfortunately one of those games that Needs to have the entire cast in monogamous heterosexual relationships by the end. Ryoko and Gotou are the two characters whose relationship is left distinctly unromantic and ambiguous by the ending so this note about their prior dating almost just seems to be there to prod a player into assuming they're together again.

As it turns out, there is a WAY different reason this detail is established! In a developer interview that came out after the game was released, it turned out that this related to some backstory that was unfortunately cut from the gate. They revealed that Ryoko genuinely had zero feelings for Gotou and dated him on a whim to satisfy her controlling parents who disliked her childhood friend/surrogate younger brother Ei Sekigahara and we threatening to keep the two apart. Ryoko literally just picked Gotou at random because he didn't have a girlfriend and once she was satisfied she'd gotten her parents off her back just broke up with him without ever explaining herself.

It KILLS me that this detail isn't in the game and is thus barely known to the wider fandom. I think it adds a ton to Ryoko as a character and also is just. so funny. God I love her

Cynthia from Pokemon has a younger sister and I never see any form of media, offical or fan made, bring her up. The closest I've seen is someone saying they read a fanfic where Cynthia mentions her younger sister, and they presumed the sister has fan made. You see Cynthia's sister living with their grandparents in Celestic Town, and only their grandma gets outside appearances due to being the person who tells you about Dialga and Palkia.

It sounds like Tora Olafsdotter is a pretty direct inspiration for Frozen’s Elsa. Is this something you’ve seen discussed?

I added it to the wiki, so I consider it to count: Eighth Doctor companion Lucie Miller loves sleeping in on Sundays.

This is how Kanon Shibuya from Love Live Superstar managed to completely shock me with her Season 1 story ending even though I read about the second last episode and watched some clips beforehand. It was a controversial episode because her best friend Chisato decided that, to solve her stage fright problem, she would convince everyone else to say they were busy and could not come with her to sing at her old elementary school stage, the one where she collapsed at years ago, the failure that started her depression, anxiety, and cowardice. Many reviews and comments thought Chisato was being overly harsh by doing this. But they left out one crucial detail.

After she announced she was too busy, Chisato asked Kanon to call her if she needed support. Naturally, you know that phone is going to go off eventually. So there I was, all prepared for the nice feel-good anime ending where an unaware Kanon would call to say she's scared, Chisato would reassure her they are with her in spirit, she would get on stage and overcome her fear, and everyone would be happy. Except when Kanon finally called, she thanked Chisato, proceeded to explain the entire reason she put her in that situation, and admitted she was right and she had to face her fears for the sake of others. I was astonished at how she figured everything out, how maturely she handled the situation, how this girl who seemed to run away from everything all season had a choice to call out Chisato for lying to her, but instead went on stage alone out of her own choice. Honestly, I considered her an outright hero after this moment, she who defied the shy girly girl stereotype and revealed the confident, insightful girl she was all along.

It's fascinating that this moment was just subtle enough that so many people either missed it or didn't think it was important enough to comment on. Yet for me, it became one of the single most surprising things I ever saw in an anime or cartoon. I have to admire writers that are skilled enough in misdirection to pull a twist like this off.

• Marie Crystal is an orphan

• Scott Bernard's parents are Brian Bernard and Nina Lang. His birthday is November 3.

• Rook Bartley got her name because her mother was a chess champion

• Rand lies about his past if questioned. His full name might be Rand Sommerville, Randolph O'Keefe or Randy Barr. Or none of them.

• Annie LaBelle spent some time as a member of a street gang where she used her small size to break into places.

From the start of this year, I've made it my mission to catalog the equations referenced in Ruler Moriarty's first ascension Noble Phantasm. There's not a lot of documentation available online about it, with the sole Reddit post & its comments noting: his heart-shaped graph, e = mc², and e^πi =-1.

Since I started this project I've also discovered that there are references to Schrödinger's equation, maybe de Moivre's formula, and possibly those to Isaac Newton's law of gravitation and Dirac's equation.

I fucking love this stuck-up math nerd. When I'm finished, I'll post my compilation in the grandorder subreddit.

I guess you could say he's a...stray kid 😎

not a genuine smile in any single one of them

I think his face just does that.

I think publishers really need to learn the lesson that just throwing a lot of money at streamers/YouTubers to play your game is not enough to constitute a marketing push. I've seen plenty of indie games that seem to rely on streamer buzz to get any momentum, but still very rapidly lose players (Battlerite, Omega Strikers, Knockout City, Supervive, Wildgate, and so on). I get finding that "secret sauce" that makes a game blow up is difficult, but you'd think a company like fucking Amazon would be a little smarter about it.

Wait, I heard about this one flopping - it's a Mr Beast-affiliated game?? That's astonishing. That somewhat explains why they thought 100k was achievable given that he was promoting it to 450m people.

Whatever marketing strat they used, it obviously wasn't good enough.

I'd like to think I'm pretty in touch with upcoming games, as someone who looks through various game forums and follow various YouTubers who talk about up and coming games and also just in general looks through steam for new games even outside my comfort zone genres.

But I've never heard of this outside this post. I guess even as big or a fanbase and as various of a collab partners he has, even Mister Beastie here still has his own bubble that he failed to market outside of.

That or the game is genuinely shit. Like, look at the niche fan game that is Holocure (vampire survivor but Hololive vtubers) is managed to garner an audience outside of the Hololive fanbase by just being a good game

At this point I'm pretty sure Mr. Beast does things just so he can make a video saying he did.

I do want to say that influencer branded products and business ventures pretty much always go this way. The fact that he's seen even a tiny amount of success with Prime, Lunchly (despite the mold controversy), and his chocolate bars is pretty amazing.

First, I've never heard of it, and neither has most of the rest of the internet apparently. Their marketing budget was probably all spent on paying Mr Beast.

Second, it looks like a Roblox game, and I bet you can find a Roblox game that plays just like it completely for free.

Third, Mr Beast isn't pulling people old enough to buy the game for themselves. He's pulling middle and elementary schoolers. The devs know that, and the overall style appeals to that demographic too, at the cost of turning away other demographics.

Fourth, said demographic of under-16s is already playing Fortnite and (again) Roblox. You know, the completely free electronic crack so famous major businesses advertise on them and the average parent is able to name because of how much their kid asks for their respective premium currency. That's their competition. This isn't David vs Goliath. This is David vs a tank: they aren't winning unless their opponent catastrophically self-destructs by its own volition.

Common Amazon Games L

There was a whole host of "talento games" in the 1980s that tried to piggy back on celebrities, that didn't work out. Takeshi's Challenge is probably the most famous one but there were thousands of them in their peak. 

It seems to me like they just deeply, fundamentally fucked up the marketing campaign. I remember seeing the OG trailer and thinking it looked fun, it's basically a Fall Guys alternative with some basic combat mechanics and that's a fine enough concept for a game. Since seeing the trailer, I feel like I've seen or heard nothing about it until now, aside from very briefly, a couple streamers I saw had a short stream of it, but I assumed it was closed beta?

I genuinely did not know that it had already come out, much less that it came out two months ago. I'm pretty plugged into gaming news and watching streamers is like the primary "background noise" I have on in my apartment. The fact that I didn't know this even came out, selfishly, feels like they fucked up bad. Like if I haven't heard of it, then there's no chance general audiences will have heard of it.

Andy Serkis did some amazing, truly groundbreaking work with Gollum. His directorial work leaves a lot to be desired. As an aside, I'm genuinely baffled by the directors of the 60+ range being so enamored with CGI in its various iterations that their movies are imo completely lost behind the gimmick. Peter Jackson got way too into AI upscaling in the Beatles doc and the WWI doc, and he's the one that got Andy Serkis and Christian Rivers (Mortal Engines) the experience that eventually pulled them toward directing, so I blame him for them too. Robert Zemeckis is lost in the sauce of mocap and de-aging, James Cameron's movies are an outliar in that they earn billions but can we please leave the blue people alone and get back to something grounded in reality. please his real movies are so fucking good

When "humans are bastards" reaches its logical conclusion

Copying my comment from elsewhere:

I eagerly await the road movie Maus adaptation, starring Justin Timberlake as Art and Shakira as a girlboss camp head.

I watched this trailer expecting the worst, and somehow it was even worse than that.

This is one of those trailers that just feels like a 30 Rock bit.

They wanna be Chicken Run so bad.

Of all the people to work on this, they somehow chose only people that have never read the original book.

Watching this is genuinely painful.

dear god that trailer is a rough watch.

this youtube comment pretty much captures my own reaction:

>boxer gets sent to glue farm

>"erm..so THAT just happened!"

this reminds me of Barnyard (just with less accidental transmasc cow representation, so like, the one interesting thing I remember from Barnyard)

Man, no one who adapts Animal Farm understands the allegory of Animal Farm apparently.