Official Off-Topic Thread

[.TakaM]

metal slug 7 (DS) has a ton of slow down and sprite/background resizing 
and touch screen is fuckin stupid, since when does metal slug need a map?

wayforward should've made it..

[skw]

Sadly, all my great ideas and images in my head come to me as I'm lying down for bed. It'll keep me up for hours, and if I do get up to actually put them down into pixels/paper, I'm too tired to do it correctly :/

I guess it's common among artists... huge flood of images just pop out of nowhere when i hit the sack.

true.  paradoxically, things happen to become brighter at night.  I always try to write down everything I think of while turning in, you know, to get it done the other day, but in the morning it all seems devoid of the magic it had before.

[Atnas]

Since everyone else in my family is Catholic, I'll say the rosary with them every day. I get the same rush of images and great ideas while I'm doing nothing other than speaking the same words over and over that I do when I'm trying to go to sleep, most often even more vivid than the latter. I think it has something to do with the calming effects that prayer and meditation bring?

It might have something to do with your inability at the moment to actually put it to paper  , as I'll never be motivated with a great idea when I want to be. I just wish it wouldn't happen when I'm doing something else or at 3am when it's pitch black and everyone is asleep. Damn!

[Ben2theEdge]

I'm on week 2 of my new diet - I replaced 4 greasy lunches every week with salad. It seems to be working... my jeans are already starting to feel loose and last night I could actually feel my tummy muscles under my skin (I didn't know I had any!).

[skw]

any ideas on how to put *on* weight?

I think it has something to do with the calming effects that prayer and meditation bring?

heheh, not sure.  after doing two beers or a quarter gram I get the same effect.

[Dusty]

any ideas on how to put *on* weight?

I've weighed 127lbs exactly for the last 7 years or so. I can't gain weight at all. Then again, I don't eat lots of fastfood, but I happen to eat a lot during the course of a day.

[big brother]

To gain weight, try eating a small meal every 2-3 hours and consciously limit your daily activity. Try to stick to simple foods like oatmeal, brown rice, cooked chicken, or lean ground beef (drained).

People tend to get fat not because they eat insane amounts, but because they eat empty calories (pop tarts, soft drinks, beer, most microwavable food). When your body isn't getting the nutrients it needs, it assumes that it's starving, so it starts storing up fat.

[Helm]

I gained like 10 pounds/ 5 kilos inexplicably. I was 67 kilos for the last 5 years or something and now I am 72 or so. I don't know what happened. WILL I GET FAT 

[skw]

@bb: I'm not too selective when it comes to food, not in the least; but doesn't it get even more unhealthy, then?

seems you're just getting old, Helm!  face it!  are there any veiled pleasures you'd want to bite before passing away?

your future lies between Horgh and Vrangsinn of Carpathian Forest.

[Helm]

surely a fate worse than death.

I indulge in all my private passions, privately. I do not seem to have any unrequited stuff of this type.