I actually am super annoyed with MY “home gym” bc I’ve outgrown it all so it’s just a big tripping hazard at this point *under-desk exercise bike, free weights p much exactly like Ambers*
Dorothy: “By the way, the hallway is just an eerie black void, I fear the entire campus may have been consumed by The Nothing. You wouldn’t happen to have any good ideas for what to name an Empress, would you?”
The book runs out of pages, but the story doesn’t actually end, if I remember correctly—it explicitly still has all those “but that is another story, and will be told another time” loose ends.
I was both. I was an English TA and AI at UT in the 90s, teaching composition and Brit Lit in the computer lab. Grad school was demanding, but I would have lost my mind if it hadn’t been for my hours at the gym (weights every other day and a mile swim five mornings per week—breaststroke). After a while, I started getting students’ comments in their reviews as the buff English AI. After I got my PhD, I worked for IBM, writing XSL scrips to streamline documentation production. I miss the teaching. Not so much the IBM crap. Now, I’m retired and have a mostly metal spine, so my jock days are behind me.
I wasn’t sure at first who was in charge right now: Amber or Amazi-girl. Surprisingly it is Amber; which is not whtat I expected when I saw her lifting a weight.
If Amber doesn’t care about anything these days; why is she exercising? Shouldn’t AG be the one working out?
Probably depends on the type of workout. Her arms look pretty free from clothing, so lifting weights with them is probably fine. Also, whilr they might not be working out, people that do physical outdoor jobs have a tendency to wear denim.
well there are probably comfy rompers /jumper ‘dresses’ but there could be some non denim overalls that you can still move around in altho i guess lifting weights is diff than going on a brisk walk (tho one strap being ”undone’ does make it seem like it’s in the way) but other than something super high intensity i don’t think she needs to go outta her way to put on a workout outfit versus just like being in just a sports or normal bra in her own room
plus if the large front pocket was real and not for show, having a cloth to wipe your face or snacks would be good/practical if not some fanny pack/water bottle attachement (searching for it you can find an article about a 91 year old man who goes to the gym in overalls)
lol tho it does make me remembering how everyone wearing jeans in high school having to change into shorts for gym class although while it would’ve been uncomfortable i’m sure some ppl probably could’ve still participated tho after a certain point the coaches didn’t care b/c they got double salary from also teaching social studies and you just get a pass for showing up
but yeah other than it getting stuffy/sweaty i imagine it’s a decent fit or slightly loose as opposed to her wearing anything tight
i never got into ddr but ppl said that was fun/a good workout. surprised something like ‘just dance ‘ wouldn’t also be made more popular or so tho outside of the wii idk if there are other things similar tho there was that switch ‘fit boxer’ but idk if ppl could get a ‘proper’ workout versus itj ust being fun and ‘slightly active’ for kids or so
So how much we think Amber’s curling here? What’s her PR, or her 1RM? I’m just gonna be conservative to get the ball rolling and say that could easily be 20lbs. That’s actually fairly heavy for a beginner which Amber obviously isn’t I’m just going off visual guesstimation.
Weight training uses repetitions or “reps”. At a guess 1RM is “single repetition maximum” which would be the most you could do once with proper form. “PR” I’ve no idea on but would guess it’s the weight for being able to do a usual collection of reps, or a “set”. I think that’s 7-12 reps, but varies pretty broadly.
[citation needed] I am not an authority on this at all.
1RM – one rep max. It’s the highest weight you can do a rep without hurting yourself, but also unable to make a second one without resting in between. It’s useful to figure out how much weight and how many reps you should do of a set to be as effective as possible.
Yeah, looking at the weight relative to her hand it actually looks like a 10-15lb bell, which should be way below Amber’s capacity given that she can likely easily lift her own bodyweight (even if she’s a tiny, but chubby college student that’s around 50lb per arm on the inside, and more like 75lb). Which doesn’t mean she’d curl those numbers, but not having giant weights still seems pretty odd unless they’re made out of unobtanium.
Girl, just use the example of pro gamers. Sure, they’re not going to win any track meets or anything, but they do a good job staying in shape because, it turns out, maintaining the focus and quick reaction times needed for high level video game play is a whole lot easier if you’re healthy and in shape.
Hell, just the heart aspect of it. A healthy heart makes for a steadier mouse hand. If anything, you’d not only create the excuse needed to use the exercise room, you could also boost your nerd cred by name dropping a few pro gamers you’re emulating.
I don’t even bother with exercise equipment, for me it takes the form of going on 3+ hour hikes on an abandoned golf course. Not only does it keep my heart healthy but I get the pleasure of seeing wildlife like ground squirrels, turkeys, hawks, geese and stray cats. ^^
How the heck do you find the time to do that regularity? Teach me your secrets oh wise one. (Seriously I have terrible time management and it is a real problem. I used to be really good at, but ever sense I lost a lot of the things on my regular schedule, it has been procrastination city.)
I do hikes like that about twice a week, 3 or more if I feeling pissed and need a way to unwind
the key is to do an exercise which you can actually commit to, it helps if you have reasons that go beyond the need itself
ever since I was a young autista I enjoyed nature for it’s own sake, I was the kid who’d spend every recess watching bees pollinate rosemary flowers, insects like butterflies and ants and ecosystems and stuff were one of my earliest special interests, going by myself on a hike is something i love
it also just so happens that exercise increases the effectiveness of cannabis and other painkillers, so that’s also a rather pleasant bonus in my case
oh! not to mention, I don’t own a car and can’t afford delivery all the time, so the vast majority of the time I need groceries or quick food I literally just walk to the store; as of now it takes me about 20 minutes to get to the nearest Target and but 7 to get to the nearest 7-11,
I swear there’s no feeling like walking there in the light of the full moon to get a hotdog and a strawberry shortcake ice cream bar ^-^ <3
Or, alternatively, hear me out here… She doesn’t owe answers of any sort to random people intruding into her life about why she’s somewhere she has every right to be.
I also just felt that the subject of how pro gamers tend to be in good physical shape and actively work to maintain it for professional reasons to be an interesting subject to talk about.
well she was bothered by that ‘creepy mouth breather’ in her one programming class so i imagine she wouldn’t want to be in the college’s exercise unless she invited joyce or other girls too tho i imagine they arent gender separated like the shower rooms are (versus wearing like ,comically large headphones or so or some t shirt with an aggressive message for ppl to keep their distance)
While it’s nice of Dorothy to try to handle the Joyce pics quietly without embarrassing Joyce maybe she should tell Joyce so it’s less likely to happen in the future
Unless of course she wants it to happen in the future
Its kind of weird that Superman is buff, right? I mean if you can lift whole cities no problem, what the heck are you benching? His two choices seem to be to either cause an economic disaster by ripping a mountain range out of the ground so he can do squats or for him fly off into space to smash meteors in leu of a punching bag and leave Earth vulnerable to whatever Lex Luther is up to.
This question is actually debated quite a bit. The answers range from Superman didn’t develop his powers right away so he naturally built muscle as he aged, to Kryptonian physiology means he doesn’t have to play by our silly human rules. The sun makes him buff. Or maybe he is out there punching asteroids for those gains.
I think it’s also partially in the “we have no idea whether or not/how much Superman would be stronger, if he actually worked out” space. I know there’s at least one comic series that tried to explore that, and the writers’ take was “yeah man you’re pretty much bench pressing a sun right now, as far as we can tell, you could keep getting exponentially stronger almost forever under these conditions.” But I’m real far from a comics expert, so I don’t recall the details well.
My personal HC is that Superman’s muscles just naturally get bigger as he absorbs solar energy; the cells just kind of swell/multiply the more energy they store. In theory if Superman were trapped somewhere without sunlight he would rapidly emaciate as his energy was depleted, but I’m not sure if this has ever happened in his long years of comics.
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“‘lewd’ photos”
“yeah, they tend to be”
I actually am super annoyed with MY “home gym” bc I’ve outgrown it all so it’s just a big tripping hazard at this point *under-desk exercise bike, free weights p much exactly like Ambers*
pretty sure it’s the pictures Joyce took of under her shirt and pants, and maybe others, who knows how many she took. ~<3
Dorothy: “By the way, the hallway is just an eerie black void, I fear the entire campus may have been consumed by The Nothing. You wouldn’t happen to have any good ideas for what to name an Empress, would you?”
They don’t even need to clear that high a bar with the naming, it’d be hard to do worse than “Moon Child”
Eh, Empress Moonchild is on-the-nose, but it’s at least semi-respectable.
Considering it was made up by an elementary schooler, it’s up there.
I think it’s pretty impressive for an elementary schooler to reference an obscure novel by infamous occultist Aleister Crowley myself, but hey…
Well in the book, “Moon Child” was apparently Bastian’s mother’s nickname, I think possibly from her hippie days. 🙂
Name an Empress? Is this a reference to something?
The Neverending Story.
False advertising. It ended.
The bookstore wouldn’t give me my money back.
The book runs out of pages, but the story doesn’t actually end, if I remember correctly—it explicitly still has all those “but that is another story, and will be told another time” loose ends.
**I understood that reference.jpg**
Dorothy: “Also, I keep finding pieces of blue wood and roman centurion armor in the void for some reason. Weird.”
(I’ve been rewatching Season 5 of late).
I’m pretty sure that black void is just their shared half-bath with the lights off.
Woop. First time I’ve found Amber hot.
welcome to the club
The NSFW patreon has some hott AF amber content
to be fair, I find none of the characters hot, largely because I’d feel creepy seeing as they’re all half my age. ~<3
You can find someone objectively hot without having or wanting a personal involvement.
Ah, but they were 2/3 your age when DoA debuted, and possibly older than you when Willis first wrote them…
You can’t be buff and a nerd. That’s two things and all humans are only allowed to be one thing and make that their whole identity!
The union between nerd and jock AKA nock. Or jerd if you prefer.
As clearly explained by Vincent Price.
I was both. I was an English TA and AI at UT in the 90s, teaching composition and Brit Lit in the computer lab. Grad school was demanding, but I would have lost my mind if it hadn’t been for my hours at the gym (weights every other day and a mile swim five mornings per week—breaststroke). After a while, I started getting students’ comments in their reviews as the buff English AI. After I got my PhD, I worked for IBM, writing XSL scrips to streamline documentation production. I miss the teaching. Not so much the IBM crap. Now, I’m retired and have a mostly metal spine, so my jock days are behind me.
reminds me of that line from the good place ‘chidi being surprisingly jacked’
how is she multitasking with one hand?
She is build different.
I wasn’t sure at first who was in charge right now: Amber or Amazi-girl. Surprisingly it is Amber; which is not whtat I expected when I saw her lifting a weight.
If Amber doesn’t care about anything these days; why is she exercising? Shouldn’t AG be the one working out?
She can not care and still want to be able to beat up an asshole if needed.
It’s called “going through the motions”, and she makes it look good.
Okay but who works out in denim overalls, tho?
Hot people that’s who.
Probably depends on the type of workout. Her arms look pretty free from clothing, so lifting weights with them is probably fine. Also, whilr they might not be working out, people that do physical outdoor jobs have a tendency to wear denim.
well there are probably comfy rompers /jumper ‘dresses’ but there could be some non denim overalls that you can still move around in altho i guess lifting weights is diff than going on a brisk walk (tho one strap being ”undone’ does make it seem like it’s in the way) but other than something super high intensity i don’t think she needs to go outta her way to put on a workout outfit versus just like being in just a sports or normal bra in her own room
plus if the large front pocket was real and not for show, having a cloth to wipe your face or snacks would be good/practical if not some fanny pack/water bottle attachement (searching for it you can find an article about a 91 year old man who goes to the gym in overalls)
lol tho it does make me remembering how everyone wearing jeans in high school having to change into shorts for gym class although while it would’ve been uncomfortable i’m sure some ppl probably could’ve still participated tho after a certain point the coaches didn’t care b/c they got double salary from also teaching social studies and you just get a pass for showing up
but yeah other than it getting stuffy/sweaty i imagine it’s a decent fit or slightly loose as opposed to her wearing anything tight
I still envy her master level to multi-task.
i never got into ddr but ppl said that was fun/a good workout. surprised something like ‘just dance ‘ wouldn’t also be made more popular or so tho outside of the wii idk if there are other things similar tho there was that switch ‘fit boxer’ but idk if ppl could get a ‘proper’ workout versus itj ust being fun and ‘slightly active’ for kids or so
So how much we think Amber’s curling here? What’s her PR, or her 1RM? I’m just gonna be conservative to get the ball rolling and say that could easily be 20lbs. That’s actually fairly heavy for a beginner which Amber obviously isn’t I’m just going off visual guesstimation.
Those were certainly some letters that surely mean something to someone
Weight training uses repetitions or “reps”. At a guess 1RM is “single repetition maximum” which would be the most you could do once with proper form. “PR” I’ve no idea on but would guess it’s the weight for being able to do a usual collection of reps, or a “set”. I think that’s 7-12 reps, but varies pretty broadly.
[citation needed] I am not an authority on this at all.
1RM – one rep max. It’s the highest weight you can do a rep without hurting yourself, but also unable to make a second one without resting in between. It’s useful to figure out how much weight and how many reps you should do of a set to be as effective as possible.
Considering what she’s capable of, Amber’s 1rm on curls is probably gonna be a lot higher than 20.
Yeah, looking at the weight relative to her hand it actually looks like a 10-15lb bell, which should be way below Amber’s capacity given that she can likely easily lift her own bodyweight (even if she’s a tiny, but chubby college student that’s around 50lb per arm on the inside, and more like 75lb). Which doesn’t mean she’d curl those numbers, but not having giant weights still seems pretty odd unless they’re made out of unobtanium.
Ooof, yeah, I can imagine people being shitty to her at the gym.
It turns out Joe and Jacob are actually really obnoxious in the gym. You think you know people.
That’s polite of Amber and considerate of AG’s needs.
Hey it’s also for her benefit, she also gets to do parkour and smack. Cool if needed.
Girl, just use the example of pro gamers. Sure, they’re not going to win any track meets or anything, but they do a good job staying in shape because, it turns out, maintaining the focus and quick reaction times needed for high level video game play is a whole lot easier if you’re healthy and in shape.
Hell, just the heart aspect of it. A healthy heart makes for a steadier mouse hand. If anything, you’d not only create the excuse needed to use the exercise room, you could also boost your nerd cred by name dropping a few pro gamers you’re emulating.
I don’t even bother with exercise equipment, for me it takes the form of going on 3+ hour hikes on an abandoned golf course. Not only does it keep my heart healthy but I get the pleasure of seeing wildlife like ground squirrels, turkeys, hawks, geese and stray cats. ^^
whatever works!
How the heck do you find the time to do that regularity? Teach me your secrets oh wise one. (Seriously I have terrible time management and it is a real problem. I used to be really good at, but ever sense I lost a lot of the things on my regular schedule, it has been procrastination city.)
I mean define “regularly”
I do hikes like that about twice a week, 3 or more if I feeling pissed and need a way to unwind
the key is to do an exercise which you can actually commit to, it helps if you have reasons that go beyond the need itself
ever since I was a young autista I enjoyed nature for it’s own sake, I was the kid who’d spend every recess watching bees pollinate rosemary flowers, insects like butterflies and ants and ecosystems and stuff were one of my earliest special interests, going by myself on a hike is something i love
it also just so happens that exercise increases the effectiveness of cannabis and other painkillers, so that’s also a rather pleasant bonus in my case
oh! not to mention, I don’t own a car and can’t afford delivery all the time, so the vast majority of the time I need groceries or quick food I literally just walk to the store; as of now it takes me about 20 minutes to get to the nearest Target and but 7 to get to the nearest 7-11,
I swear there’s no feeling like walking there in the light of the full moon to get a hotdog and a strawberry shortcake ice cream bar ^-^ <3
I think she specifically don’t want people to bother her. Like in general, but specially about being a computer science nerd who lift weights.
That’s also a problem that talking breathlessly about your favorite pro-gamer can solve! 😀
How?/gen She doesn’t think that people who go to exercise rooms would be the kind to be entirely cool about geeky interest.
That’s what I mean, she’d scare the jocks off with double-barrel nerdness! 😀
Or, alternatively, hear me out here… She doesn’t owe answers of any sort to random people intruding into her life about why she’s somewhere she has every right to be.
And it is also fully in her right to not want to deal with all that and just excessive in her room if it works for her.
Absolutely.
I also just felt that the subject of how pro gamers tend to be in good physical shape and actively work to maintain it for professional reasons to be an interesting subject to talk about.
well she was bothered by that ‘creepy mouth breather’ in her one programming class so i imagine she wouldn’t want to be in the college’s exercise unless she invited joyce or other girls too tho i imagine they arent gender separated like the shower rooms are (versus wearing like ,comically large headphones or so or some t shirt with an aggressive message for ppl to keep their distance)
While it’s nice of Dorothy to try to handle the Joyce pics quietly without embarrassing Joyce maybe she should tell Joyce so it’s less likely to happen in the future
Unless of course she wants it to happen in the future
“Also can you make pictures from this contact whom I’ve mysteriously renamed not auto-cloud in case they send more in future?”
“You know that after all the trouble that happens around her I recognize Joyce’s phone number right?”
“Well at least you don’t recognize her tits.”
“I’m sorry to let you down like this, but…”
Its kind of weird that Superman is buff, right? I mean if you can lift whole cities no problem, what the heck are you benching? His two choices seem to be to either cause an economic disaster by ripping a mountain range out of the ground so he can do squats or for him fly off into space to smash meteors in leu of a punching bag and leave Earth vulnerable to whatever Lex Luther is up to.
This question is actually debated quite a bit. The answers range from Superman didn’t develop his powers right away so he naturally built muscle as he aged, to Kryptonian physiology means he doesn’t have to play by our silly human rules. The sun makes him buff. Or maybe he is out there punching asteroids for those gains.
Other hand, it’d be fine if someone saw Clark lfting heavy things – he grew up on a Kansas farm, he used to sling hay bales.
I think it’s also partially in the “we have no idea whether or not/how much Superman would be stronger, if he actually worked out” space. I know there’s at least one comic series that tried to explore that, and the writers’ take was “yeah man you’re pretty much bench pressing a sun right now, as far as we can tell, you could keep getting exponentially stronger almost forever under these conditions.” But I’m real far from a comics expert, so I don’t recall the details well.
You could argue that since Superman’s strength depends on solar power absorption, it makes no sense that working out would make him stronger.
My personal HC is that Superman’s muscles just naturally get bigger as he absorbs solar energy; the cells just kind of swell/multiply the more energy they store. In theory if Superman were trapped somewhere without sunlight he would rapidly emaciate as his energy was depleted, but I’m not sure if this has ever happened in his long years of comics.
I’d be shocked if in that list wasn’t “he exercises under a red sun lamp”. That just seems like the easiest (if not altogether satisfying) answer.
Now I’m interested in how ripping up mountains affects the economy.
You see, the world economy is secretly controlled by a secret society of climbing instructors that- *Gunshot*
Ehh, he gets plenty of resistance, he’s not God. I’m sure fighting Darkseid gave him pretty good DOMS for a few days.
Is one of the questions “Holy fuck, will you crush my head with those biceps?”
lol pretty sure asking that in a gym would get you pepper sprayed
I’m a programmer, and I can confirm that this happens. Don’t even need to be at the gym.
I’m just more surprised dorothy wouldn’t already know how to do that unless all her studying wasn’t too tech heavy
other than the setup being a pain, being able to hookup an ‘exercise bike’ to the internet/electricity would be great lol
The Cloud decides what will stay and what will go, none of us mere mortals are allowed to decide
How the hell do you single hand palm an NES controller well enough to play?
who said she playing Mario? 😛
it may very well be a two button NES game like Gyromite
I think the Tetris champs rest it on their thigh. Amber of course, has both plot armour type abilities, and gadgets. Maybe she’s get it strapped on.