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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*
I had a free-off-the-curb treadmill for a few years, never used it much because outside is more interesting. I had to cut it up with a reciprocating saw to get it out of the basement. (Maybe a treadmill wasn’t what I needed in the first place…)
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?”
I think it’s the other way around, in the movie it was his mother’s name, in the book the point is that he creates the names, he doesn’t need to copy another name.
I read the book just this year, and y’know what? I honestly can’t remember. xD All I remember is that a) it was loooooooong xD and b) the second half of the book was NOTHING like the sequel! ^^
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.
Ohhh, you got one of those 3d books. Like, softback or hardback binding? Yeah, that’s the problem; you should have reached for one of the 4d books from the shelf. (Kleinback binding is best) Sorry about that!
I have worries about all the stuff the void consumes, like Amber’s writings, or certain things I have heard about dealing with fur. It can’t be healthy for it.
So does rule34.xxx but it also has some weird shit with Amber, Sarah, and Joyce blowing up like balloons in the Macy’s Parade until they’re all boobs, butts, and thighs. I saw some stuff from Yoto, and some from Willis’ Tunblr, and some from artists I have never seen before.
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.
Actually, for a great deal of human history, nerds WERE buff, often unusually so.
The focus of technology for thousands of years was, as it is today, on weapons. And for most of that time, weapons were made of metals, so technology was focused on metallurgy. We still trace our history in terms of the dominate metal technology of the age, Bronze, Iron, Steel. And the ‘nerds’ of those ages, the ones with the most intimate and technical knowledge of working with those metals? BLACKSMITHS. Burly, muscular men all, because what they did for a living required it.
You think blacksmiths aren’t nerds? Look up “blacksmith puzzles”. Anyone who makes their own puzzles and games qualifies as a nerd.
Theoretically you can, but the wave functions are not completely solved and no one knows whether the two will interfere constructively or destructively. So either your personality disappears or the positive feedback loop consumes the universe.
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?
It might just be deeply-ingrained routine. Amber / AG has probably been working out and developing flexibility, skill, and strength since shortly after that long-ago convenience store robbery (with Amber, Ethan, and Sal). How many years is that?
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
What I remember more for changing into gym clothes was the worry about sweat and smell than anything regarding function. The only excercise class that I remember the teacher being picky on was self defense, as he didn’t want anyone accidentally having their pants pulled down during class. All pants required strings that you could tie tight.
In general, work jeans tend to be different than fashion jeans. For one thing, no one wants skin tight jeans that don’t breath or flex well when they are working. You also don’t want any synthetic fibers if you are dealing with sparks or flames, since they melt rather than burn. Work jeans don’t tend to breathe or evaporate well, so they tend to be undesirable for indoor workouts or hot weather where you don’t need the protection. I also wouldn’t wear them for doing gymnastics or splits.
On a side note, I think that if you had a loose enough pair of cargo pants, you could probably do anything in them. It might not have the sweat wicking or compression factor that modern althetic wear does, but it should be loose enough to breathe and not constrict movement. Also, my skin has never gotten along well with skin tight clothes in the first place. It has a disagreement with the hard water in a lot of areas, and can rebel in the form of very itchy pain or rashes. I do wish that there was a way to put a water softener only on the laundry machines, as drinking the sodium in softened water isn’t great.
yeah i guess ‘spray on deodorant’ wasn’t as much of a thing back then even if you bought normal deodorant (and idk if any ‘normal’ gym students actually used the showers versus ppl on the sports team but even then seems kinda awkward), tho other than getting a bad grade or detention surprised more ppl didn’t say they didn’t have shorts just to sit out (tho depending on the coach not like everyone worked out/properly built up a sweat, kinda a bs thing that gym was a ‘required’ credit for so long b/c not like anyone learned proper exercises or like yoga stretching/ways to stay in shape or so, but i guess closest thing a teen got to recess/break from studying other subjects [Tho i do remember that meme/stereotype of ‘that one girl with the cookie monster PJ pants, tho we were in the south so even if sweatpants did exist/track suits, ppl just wore shorts even if we didn’t go outside])
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.
I’m thinking that 20# is not a heavy lift, at all, for Amber. I’m seeing this as a light workout. I don’t see any sweat on her or sweatstains on her undershirt yet. She might have just started, or this might just be a light day.
I was thinking more of questions that might lead to them realizing she’s Amazi-Girl. Not so big a deal now that half the dorm knows and she’s doing roller derby anyway, but the habit would have started back in first semester.
Not someone just seeing a random girl working out, but it works to counter the “Amber couldn’t be AG. She just sits in her room playing on the computer all day” if any suspicions arise.
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
incidentally this is why people in Europe tend to be healthier on average than US folk in that regard — due to the steep price of car insurance over there, most people just opt for living near and walking to their place of work XD
I walk 3-4 miles a day, every day, and i use those walks as ‘reading time’ where i put on an audio book and listen to it during my walk. It’s mostly about building up a routine and sticking to it.
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.
It actually has, in the Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox animation his capsule landed in… I think New York and caused a lot of damage. US Government captured him and locked him up in a Red Sun light room and he is exactly as you described. You can find clips on Youtube.
The Supergirl tv series had some episodes of Kara (Supergirl) working out in a low-level red-starlight field. That way, she could improve her combat skills without breaking the building.
Don’t listen to Jeremiah. He’s making up pure fiction and should not be taken seriously. Certainly this isn’t related to how many people die on Mt. Everest.
I know comics are a visual medium so we want to see buff guys, but it would be neat to have a scrawny out of shape superstrong guy, who’s just like “I can’t exercise. Nothing is any physical effort for me.”
As a rule, men with super-strength need to have massive, bulging, He-Man muscles, or it’ll ruin suspension of disbelief. Women with super-strength, on the other hand, can and should be as skinny and waif-like as possible.
(that’s the tradition, anyway – there’ve been more and more exceptions to that over the last few decades, thank goodness!)
Bruce and Clark are workout buddies. Spotting each other. Bruce has a low-level redstar light-field they work out in. (Clark prefers it to the low-level kryptonite field…less itchy)
Nah, Dorothy is probably some type of liberal arts major. Pre-law, business, social studies, etc. She wanted to be President, so her studies are probably focused in those areas. She maybe knows just enough tech skills to follow Cory Doctorow and EFF’s bulletins.
Now I’ll wait for the strip where Joyce will read some Literature written by Amber about two characters clearly inspired by her and Dorothy. Because I think that will be Amber’s reaction to seeing that Joyce sends special photos to Dorothy.
Not that difficult to do, since Space Commander Julia Gray is Joyce’s barely-subconscious Dorothy/Joyce slash in the first place. All Amber has to do is write up the domtext for the subtext.
IIRC, Amber is trying to do something literally impossible on the original Super Mario Bros game. I assume if she does it on some other system, it doesn’t count.
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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*
I had a free-off-the-curb treadmill for a few years, never used it much because outside is more interesting. I had to cut it up with a reciprocating saw to get it out of the basement. (Maybe a treadmill wasn’t what I needed in the first place…)
Howdaheck did you get it in there in the first place?
Gravity and minor injury.
Ahh, yes.
*nods knowingly and with permanently-stiff neck
thankfully mine is just a single dumbbell
one of which I have misplaced and am unaware of it’s location
I have not outgrown it tho
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.
I think it’s the other way around, in the movie it was his mother’s name, in the book the point is that he creates the names, he doesn’t need to copy another name.
I read the book just this year, and y’know what? I honestly can’t remember. xD All I remember is that a) it was loooooooong xD and b) the second half of the book was NOTHING like the sequel! ^^
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.
Ohhh, you got one of those 3d books. Like, softback or hardback binding? Yeah, that’s the problem; you should have reached for one of the 4d books from the shelf. (Kleinback binding is best) Sorry about that!
i prefer the 1D Möbius scrolls myself.
Yeah, those are some cool old-school stuff!
Great, now I’m hearing Lambchop singing “The Song That Never Ends”.
Strange, I’m hearing the song “Neverending Story” in my head. xD
My favorite version of that is “the pit that never ends” for a boytomless pit in an old dnd comic.
Found Lionel Hutz’s alias.
**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.
Remember, kids, gaze into the abyss, and scream into the void. Don’t mix them up.
(The abyss doesn’t like getting screamed at; it’s triggering of their past trauma. And the void doesn’t like being gazed at; it’s just creepy, okay?)
No, Void’s got style, void can dance, void wears tearaway pants!
The void consumes all realities, which up to now includes seven billion Bellinis.
That’s a lot of peach cocktails.
I have worries about all the stuff the void consumes, like Amber’s writings, or certain things I have heard about dealing with fur. It can’t be healthy for it.
Woop. First time I’ve found Amber hot.
welcome to the club
The NSFW patreon has some hott AF amber content
So does rule34.xxx but it also has some weird shit with Amber, Sarah, and Joyce blowing up like balloons in the Macy’s Parade until they’re all boobs, butts, and thighs. I saw some stuff from Yoto, and some from Willis’ Tunblr, and some from artists I have never seen before.
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…
Willis first started writing them in the 1960s, right? Like, all that “Summer of ’69” stuff?
Hacker Amber is my favorite Amber.
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.
1. I have never seen that before! Thank you!
2. Now I very much want a copy of that poster! :O
Chessboxing.
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.
Combining a Jock and a Nerd can produce a Cyborg. And, voila, you are that! Congratulations on your progression!
reminds me of that line from the good place ‘chidi being surprisingly jacked’
Actually, for a great deal of human history, nerds WERE buff, often unusually so.
The focus of technology for thousands of years was, as it is today, on weapons. And for most of that time, weapons were made of metals, so technology was focused on metallurgy. We still trace our history in terms of the dominate metal technology of the age, Bronze, Iron, Steel. And the ‘nerds’ of those ages, the ones with the most intimate and technical knowledge of working with those metals? BLACKSMITHS. Burly, muscular men all, because what they did for a living required it.
You think blacksmiths aren’t nerds? Look up “blacksmith puzzles”. Anyone who makes their own puzzles and games qualifies as a nerd.
James Kirk was a buff and athletic nerd.
And Jean-Luc Picard was a smart and well-read jock.
Theoretically you can, but the wave functions are not completely solved and no one knows whether the two will interfere constructively or destructively. So either your personality disappears or the positive feedback loop consumes the universe.
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.
Exercise can be a way to inflict pain and/or punishment on oneself without resprting to something that would obviously be seen as self-harm.
+1!
It might just be deeply-ingrained routine. Amber / AG has probably been working out and developing flexibility, skill, and strength since shortly after that long-ago convenience store robbery (with Amber, Ethan, and Sal). How many years is that?
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
What I remember more for changing into gym clothes was the worry about sweat and smell than anything regarding function. The only excercise class that I remember the teacher being picky on was self defense, as he didn’t want anyone accidentally having their pants pulled down during class. All pants required strings that you could tie tight.
In general, work jeans tend to be different than fashion jeans. For one thing, no one wants skin tight jeans that don’t breath or flex well when they are working. You also don’t want any synthetic fibers if you are dealing with sparks or flames, since they melt rather than burn. Work jeans don’t tend to breathe or evaporate well, so they tend to be undesirable for indoor workouts or hot weather where you don’t need the protection. I also wouldn’t wear them for doing gymnastics or splits.
On a side note, I think that if you had a loose enough pair of cargo pants, you could probably do anything in them. It might not have the sweat wicking or compression factor that modern althetic wear does, but it should be loose enough to breathe and not constrict movement. Also, my skin has never gotten along well with skin tight clothes in the first place. It has a disagreement with the hard water in a lot of areas, and can rebel in the form of very itchy pain or rashes. I do wish that there was a way to put a water softener only on the laundry machines, as drinking the sodium in softened water isn’t great.
yeah i guess ‘spray on deodorant’ wasn’t as much of a thing back then even if you bought normal deodorant (and idk if any ‘normal’ gym students actually used the showers versus ppl on the sports team but even then seems kinda awkward), tho other than getting a bad grade or detention surprised more ppl didn’t say they didn’t have shorts just to sit out (tho depending on the coach not like everyone worked out/properly built up a sweat, kinda a bs thing that gym was a ‘required’ credit for so long b/c not like anyone learned proper exercises or like yoga stretching/ways to stay in shape or so, but i guess closest thing a teen got to recess/break from studying other subjects [Tho i do remember that meme/stereotype of ‘that one girl with the cookie monster PJ pants, tho we were in the south so even if sweatpants did exist/track suits, ppl just wore shorts even if we didn’t go outside])
Amber does.
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.
Maybe personal record?
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.
Oh I had no idea that was a thing, might explain why I hated going to the gym and trying to lift even smaller weights often made me cry
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.
I’m thinking that 20# is not a heavy lift, at all, for Amber. I’m seeing this as a light workout. I don’t see any sweat on her or sweatstains on her undershirt yet. She might have just started, or this might just be a light day.
And how much does the controller weigh?
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.
I was thinking more of questions that might lead to them realizing she’s Amazi-Girl. Not so big a deal now that half the dorm knows and she’s doing roller derby anyway, but the habit would have started back in first semester.
I don’t think anyone would think some random girl working out was amazi girl just because of that. Really think it’s just to avoid annoying questions.
Not someone just seeing a random girl working out, but it works to counter the “Amber couldn’t be AG. She just sits in her room playing on the computer all day” if any suspicions arise.
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.
Why’s she doing heroin?
I don’t know my brain was fried when I wrote that
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
Sounds you got it figured out. Thanks for the advice.
yee yee I’m glad ^^ <3
incidentally this is why people in Europe tend to be healthier on average than US folk in that regard — due to the steep price of car insurance over there, most people just opt for living near and walking to their place of work XD
I walk 3-4 miles a day, every day, and i use those walks as ‘reading time’ where i put on an audio book and listen to it during my walk. It’s mostly about building up a routine and sticking to it.
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.
The question she’s specifically trying to avoid people thinking of is, “Are you Amazi-girl?”
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.
Turns out he was slinging the large round 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.
It actually has, in the Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox animation his capsule landed in… I think New York and caused a lot of damage. US Government captured him and locked him up in a Red Sun light room and he is exactly as you described. You can find clips on Youtube.
In Miller’s Dark Knight Returns, Supes gets severely emaciated when plain old Earth nuclear energy replaces the solar energy in his cells.
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.
The Supergirl tv series had some episodes of Kara (Supergirl) working out in a low-level red-starlight field. That way, she could improve her combat skills without breaking the building.
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*
Don’t listen to Jeremiah. He’s making up pure fiction and should not be taken seriously. Certainly this isn’t related to how many people die on Mt. Everest.
*glares meaningfully at Jeremiah
Ehh, he gets plenty of resistance, he’s not God. I’m sure fighting Darkseid gave him pretty good DOMS for a few days.
I know comics are a visual medium so we want to see buff guys, but it would be neat to have a scrawny out of shape superstrong guy, who’s just like “I can’t exercise. Nothing is any physical effort for me.”
I like that! He should be balding and paunchy (but still skinny) with thick glasses and bad posture.
His secret identity would have to be one of those inflatable muscle suits so no one recognizes him when he fights crime.
To be clear, I mean he wears the muscle suit as his mild-mannered alt-ego, and takes it off when in costume.
Who here is old enough to remember the TV show Mr. Terriffic?
“…for only Stanley Beamish,
a weak and droopy daffodil,
can take the special Power Pill
that sends him soaring through the skies….”
As a rule, men with super-strength need to have massive, bulging, He-Man muscles, or it’ll ruin suspension of disbelief. Women with super-strength, on the other hand, can and should be as skinny and waif-like as possible.
(that’s the tradition, anyway – there’ve been more and more exceptions to that over the last few decades, thank goodness!)
Bruce and Clark are workout buddies. Spotting each other. Bruce has a low-level redstar light-field they work out in. (Clark prefers it to the low-level kryptonite field…less itchy)
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
Nah, Dorothy is probably some type of liberal arts major. Pre-law, business, social studies, etc. She wanted to be President, so her studies are probably focused in those areas. She maybe knows just enough tech skills to follow Cory Doctorow and EFF’s bulletins.
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
Well….really, it’s the mortals in leadership at Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Oracle, IBM, etc, who 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.
Rattling the bars of my enclosure rn
Now I’ll wait for the strip where Joyce will read some Literature written by Amber about two characters clearly inspired by her and Dorothy. Because I think that will be Amber’s reaction to seeing that Joyce sends special photos to Dorothy.
“Wait, is Amber writing Space Commander Julia Gray slash?”
Not that difficult to do, since Space Commander Julia Gray is Joyce’s barely-subconscious Dorothy/Joyce slash in the first place. All Amber has to do is write up the domtext for the subtext.
…a NES controller?
IIRC, Amber is trying to do something literally impossible on the original Super Mario Bros game. I assume if she does it on some other system, it doesn’t count.
just let it go, Dorothy
A: “Also, working out in the exercise room tends to get me gawked at.”
D: (*drooling a little) “I’m not gawking.”
(( might just be me projecting the gawking and drooling … ))
I was thinking that hand weight is too small for her but my head canon is that it’s a solid gold trophy from an old caper.