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Never really gotten on with a GTA game. Tried 4 cause the story was supposed to be good but it felt very sterile and boring in terms of gameplay. Wonder if anything's changed between that and 6.

Ah I'm glad you're happy with it! looks great.

Often doing some low intensity steady state cardio (best example, a 10 minute walk) soon after eating helps with digestion and stops you feeling too full, allowing you to pack in more food.

Also OHP is hard, especially if you've got long arms.

As sumo said, the intermediary colour on the edges can do a lot, but, I would say for an army painting perspective this level of sponge chipping is pretty fine though! If this model was on the table around 50 others done in the same way, it would look cool, and from a distance, would be a convincing effect, all depends on the levels you want to take it to.

A quick way to improve sponge chipping is it go in with a brush and put silver inside a couple of the bigger chips done with a sponge, to look like they've gouged deeper. Doing it just a couple of times on the model will sell the chipping a bit more.

Eating similarly every day is a good way to maintain a diet imo. I eat similarly most days at the moment. Often prep multiple variants of meals that amount to similar macros and switch them in and out.

FWIW your diet looks very low carb (unless you're just not mentioning them). Unless you're low enough carb to go into ketosis, carbs are very important for feeling fuelled for your workouts.

These look great!

And thanks. I had Orcs + Golbins in WHFB as a kid. I have an unpainted copy of WHFB 6th ed starter set with the orcs and empire, need to paint it up at some point.

Corpse paint ork for my new AoS army. Theoretically quite quick but we'll see how it fairs across the whole army.

It's not the maths way, but if it was really important to know I'd use luggage scales to see weight at different points.

But I'd just treat it like a machine. Ignore leverage, just put weight on til feel right. grunt. lift weight.

What is everyone's goal atm?

Short term 200kg * 5 deadlift, 180kg * 1 safety squat bar squat.

Longer term - Shed 10-20kg bodyweight, get back to 8 BW pullups, 100kg * 5 bench, 80kg * 1 OHP.

I'd say try to just find what works for you. Try squatting in flat shoes (converse / vans / plimsoles / similar) and see how it feels. If you don't feel the need to get WL shoes then there isn't one.

Some people will use a separate water pot + brushes for metallics, and I think it's predominantly to stop from getting any of the metallic flake in your non metallic paint. No idea about metallics being bad for brushes though.

Interesting, will give a try when I buy another brush. Cheers.

Mark Rippetoe is a bit of a cultish personality. There is some very good stuff in starting strength but do not treat it as gospel.

Sets of fahve / hip drahve etc.

Artis opus brushes are very good in my limited experience of them. And good brushes are definitely a take care of them and they will last a very long time. So even though they're a bit more to start with, it's worth it over time.

I have 1 nice brush that I use for highlights, but do all of my basecoating with bulk acrylic brushes.

Yeah I'd love that. Adored all the games up to THAW. After that I started playing EA Skate.

I haven't even thought about running fightcade on my steamdeck. If I get an adapter for my stick I can play super turbo online in a fucking costa.

According to this, no: https://www.ign.com/articles/tony-hawk-confirms-plans-for-pro-skater-3-4-remake-were-abandoned-after-blizzard-merger

But I still have hope.

Playing tony hawks pro skater remaster on steam deck feels glorious and right.

What games have you tried on it? Does metal slug X not work? Just cause it's listed as verified for steam deck in the store.

Thanks. Generally going well, can lift statically as normal, but just can't do anything dynamic or single leg / unbalanced at the moment. So just back on a more normal squat/press/deadlift program with no strongman events.

I love Steep / Riders Republic for that kind of repeat until perfect switch your brain off thing.

Sprained my MCL earlier this year (skateboarding isn't the best compliment to strongman...), meaning I had to drop out of the strongman comp I had booked. After stopping feeling sorry for myself and a holiday I am back to training properly.

Going to properly shed the timber I've built up a mix of intentionally and unintentionally over the past 3 years.

Shorter workouts, and more walking is nice. The 3hr workouts in strongman prep were very draining.

The app boostcamp has the gzclp program in it for free, if you're interested.

If you can't squat 3 times a week, just don't do stronglifts. Try GZCLP or check out liftvault and look for a program that fits your needs.

I personally think stronglifts isn't a particularly good beginner program in the first place, but it's very much based around squatting every workout, so if you can't do that you need to choose a different program.

Do you film your sets?

At least if you're struggling with bench I would suggest it. You may notice what you're doing wrong. Alongside this, I'd suggest posting a form check with the video.

Make sure you're retracting and depressing your shoulders properly and creating a really stable base for the bench press.

I would personally advise against benching on a smith machine. The bench is the only lift of the main 5 you're doing where the bar should not move in a vertical line, it should move in a slight diagonal path. The smith machine will force you into a vertical bar path, this will not help you. It will also take pressure OFF of your stabiliser muscles, which are the exact muscles you need to improve if you're shaking / wobbling.