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A mug depicting KC Green's This Is Fine dog comic, but tragically faded

I've had my This Is Fine mug so long that the dog has become a ghost and all that remain are flames

A mug depicting KC Green's This Is Fine dog comic, but tragically faded

I've had my This Is Fine mug so long that the dog has become a ghost and all that remain are flames

Lying leg raises or dead bugs are a good plank alternative!

I don't usually talk about politics online because I am afraid of future political persecution. Jesus Christ, though

I listened to this album based on this recommendation and it's probably my favorite thing I've heard so far this year

A woman with a snake tattoo in underwear on a bed, looking bored

Hiii

That's basically exactly what you look like already????

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can i do it with milk

a woman with a muscular back, flexing for the camera. She's not wearing shirt but her chest is NOT visible (bluesky labeling service, I'm looking at you)

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Every couple weeks I get up and see some news that causes my self-preservation alarms to go off like YOU MUST PREPARE TO FLEE AMERICA IF YOU VALUE YOUR LIFE and I just kind of hit snooze and go to work

Thanks! I've been working on it

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Hiii

It's good tho

guys i just found out why the humerus is called the funny bone and i'm so mad

Furthermore shout out to Breakfast 2 for laying the groundwork for 24oz Quad Shot Mocha 3: The One That Blows Your Whole Shit Up Bathroom Style

Shout out to Breakfast, the small healthy meal that gave me the strength I needed to make Breakfast 2: Eggs and Bacon Edition

I got injured a couple years ago right after maxing out at 305, so it's been a looonnnggg journey, but I'm gonna finally get there soon

when i squat 225 during a warmup i feel like i could lift god and become certain that i'm definitely hitting 315 today. this optimism lasts exactly as long as it takes to load & unrack at 285, at which point my bones sing to me of my hubris and i know that no such weight was meant to be borne by man

nonbinary in the sense that i'm a woman but also, crucially, a wife guy

One of my favorite "hidden bar" mechanics is how enemies have a little more health than their bar shows, so there's a small range of health which will display as 1px of remaining health - that's why it so often feels like you were soooo close to finishing them with a blow

As far as the stamina buffer: yeah, that's what it feels like! I don't know how it works, but it feels like there's a hidden bar segment, where sometimes you just get staggered vs taking the full hit as though you weren't shielding. DS uses a lot of "hidden bar" mechanics, so it wouldn't surprise

In that case it hits your stamina and then the shield absorbs some % of the damage, e.g. 95% for the shield I'm using rn - I think you can just read this % off the stats for the shield when examining it. But the deflection vs reduction explains why some attacks do none vs others doing some

I think deflection is hidden, most shields have light deflection. Deflection determines which attacks just bounce off, doing no damage and staggering the enemy - if you see someone hit your shield and recoil, it was deflected. If an attack goes through deflection it goes into damage reduction.

I really want to fully understand the damage model because it seems so interesting. But I can talk about what I know. So, for the first point, there are a couple factors that affect how much damage goes through a shield. Shields have a damage reduction % stat, and a deflection stat.

as a regular powerlifter, the slomo olympic videos sometimes freak me out because for the first part of them they seem a lot like a regular deadlift with a reasonable weight for that, which then seems to start going horribly wrong for a second before I realize how much stronger than me they are

Yeah, if your stamina can't tank the hit, damage goes through. It also feels like with Havel, if you're up against a wall, the attacks go through more, like you're being crushed against it even if you tank the hit. I ended up circling him staying away from the walls to finally win

I just restarted DS1 also, after a long break from video games in general. It's very strange, I expected to be bad because I lost all my muscle memory but I'm actually finding the game much easier for the same reason

Pillion is a movie about how cis men aren't emotionally mature enough to be allowed to become doms