Also, Google is a (the?) major source of funding for Mozilla, so they have a lot of clout with them.

Squish the hamster

Ah, that’s fair. I’m a pretty casual player and didn’t really go deep beyond the medium skill levels, so I didn’t really appreciate the cut-corners beyond that. I hardly even played much multiplayer TBH, I played and loved the single-player campaigns, which is what I tend to do on most games :D

Oh wow, that sounds awful. What does that look like? I hate the feeling of regret I get after I do things impulsively.

I saw that announcement video when it first came out and was super hyped for The Division. I didn’t end up playing it until around 2019 and I was really impressed with how close to the trailer the actual gameplay was. I know it had some controversy, but I guess I’m easy to impress lol

because I also host an instance

Ah! That rules out filtering. I don’t envy what you have to trawl through all the garbage to keep the rest of us safe!

I totally get what you’re saying, and those things drive me up the wall too.

I’ve ended up curating my feed heavily, blocking and filtering words, users and communities that don’t interest me. Since then, I rarely see any of the whining. If your client supports filtering by keyword, it might dramatically improve your Lemmy experience :)

Him and Stamets

OMG, LilDumpy left another comment! 📸

LOUD NOISES!

He’s showing us the snoot, the whole snoot, and nothing but the snoot. So help him God.

Looks yummy! There’s something very aesthetically pleasing about the labelled before photo.

What environment are you referring to? Netflix certainly doesn’t control Lemmy or the broader Internet.

Surprised nobody’s said The Division yet. The first one is incredible fun IMO, and the second one is good, but not as much fun.

I see no problem here

I’m only an beginner-intermediate lifter, so take all of what I’m saying with a grain of salt.

Ultimately your gains will depend on Time under tension, assuming you’re getting enough rest and nutrition, especially protein. You don’t necessarily have to keep adding weights since there’s other variables you can adjust like rest time, reps, speed (slower), etc. I can’t stress rest and nutrition enough, any time I plateau it’s usually because I’m not getting enough protein. Also make sure not to overwork your muscles, they need rest to recover and grow.

If you’re focusing on strength (and not hypertrophy or endurance), then you could add other exercises which work your biceps. For instance, deadlifts put a lot of load on your biceps and will shoot up your strength much more when used alongside your curls. To put it bluntly, with an example you’re often going to get more bicep gains from a 200lb deadlift than a 30lb curl (MASSIVELY oversimplifying here!). Of course, this only applies if you have already trained extensively on these lifts, they can lead to injury otherwise.

Additionally, there are often bottlenecks to a particular muscle’s growth if its supporting muscles, tendons, etc. aren’t strong enough. Focusing on the supporting muscles around your biceps should help unlock some gains too.

Another thing to consider is the principle of progressive adaptation. If you’re consistently going to the gym and focusing on perfect form, you should always progressively increase your load to prevent your muscles from hitting a wall. This does not mean you have to keep increasing weights, rather adding different movements, playing with rest time in between sets, etc. If you hit a hard wall, don’t shy away from reducing your weights and starting a ramp up again, this lets your overworked tendons rest, any weak spots to catch up and builds momentum.

Hope this helps!

Now that you mention it!

Well then, how will they gloat and laugh in the participant’s face like in the comic?

Sure, but that’s just the placebo effect? I thought the double-blind process referred to something else in particular (hence the “double” part of the blind):

A double-blind study blinds both the subjects as well as the researchers to the treatment allocation [1]

In any case, I was mostly just curious, don’t intend to nit-pick the title :)

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK546641/

Wait, if it’s double-blind, wouldn’t the scientists be unaware of whether he got a placebo or the real drug? Although I suppose this could be after the study has concluded. I would bet that in real studies they record the side effects reported before checking to see if it was the placebo or not!