Pookleblinky @Pookleblinky@octodon.social

For a beginner, going the laziest, slowest, lightest way can add 13 to their max estimate in a matter of days.

Later on, that 5 or extra rep may take months to accomplish. They'll need periodization, deloads, two steps back for 3 forward, etc. They will still be 13 stronger after that last rep, doing things the laziest, lightest, and slowest way possible. They will progress by doing things even slower and lighter than a beginner would ever consider.

Suppose you walk in with the goal of 205x4 and hit 205x5. Now your epley estimate is 239.

To match or beat:
205x6: 246
210x5: 245
215x4: 244
220x3: 242
225x2: 240
235x1: 243

The laziest, slowest way to progress now is to add 5lbs and match reps with last time. Last time it was adding a rep, this time it's adding weight.

After your last rep, you will have gone from 232 to 245. You're 13 stronger.

For a beginner, this can literally happen workout to workout.

Suppose you lift 210 x 3. That's an epley estimate of 232.

Now, there's a number of ways to match or beat this:

205x4: 232
210x4: 238
215x3: 236
220x2: 235
225x1: 232.

The real question is which goal to select for next time. Any of these is progress.

My preference is to do things the laziest possible way, lower and slower than you'd like even if you go low and slow. Aiming for 205amrap is the laziest way to progress.

Began writing a creepypasta, I am now about a thousand words into it and it involves an orgy of spocks.

"Orgy of spocks" is the appropriate collective noun.

For each trope to avoid (it's quite a long list), I am planning on writing one creepypasta which avoids that trope

Started a creepypasta.org file. Nothing yet, just compiling Tropes to Avoid

Almost at the end of this 74+ hour creepypasta playlist. Sturgeon's law has become a power law.

Seems random. A few seconds later the toot goes through, or one toot'll go through and another one just will not post.

Octodon.social is giving me more frequent 500 errors when trying to post to it.

Waiting for the sun to move in the sky enough to go out and bench without being blinded while holding heavy iron right above my throat

There's probably a reason the eyes were the first to vanish in this rush to cookie-cutter a generation of trendy faceless monsters

Why facelessness, and not, say, dead matte eyes, dried and scratched corneas in an otherwise normal face

Recently, even the mouths have disappeared. Every other monster wants to fit in with the fad for facelessness. Why *this* trend, and not, say, a trend toward monsters whose teeth are writhing wormy tendrils?

Around 2015 or so, those mouths began to be accompanied by lack of eyes. Faces blank from the nose up. Over time, the noses vanished too. By 2016, most monsters had nothing but mouths for faces.

Before around 2014, a big aspect of creepypasta was exaggeratedly large mouths. Tons upon tons of toothy mouths stretching uninterestingly from ear to boring ear.

But, *why* does facelessness seem to strike a chord in these communities? Why does facelessness scare them?

It'd be interesting to study the usage of this trope over time. Obviously it spiked as boring redditors began piggybacking off of slenderman.

A trope in creepypasta that is way, way too heavily used is the Absence of Facial Features. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheBlank

Fun meme: send Adam Savage pictures of horrible DIY projects that's just shit duct-taped together https://octodon.social/media/bNg2iwGsjGB5XmoRPak https://octodon.social/media/bE61ctlY4r9v0s7ede0 https://octodon.social/media/UbOIVuTPBqm35PzKrnU

Each workout is generally in the form of a giant set, with main/secondary/assistance sets in a row followed by rest, except where that'd be annoying to do (deadlift slash front squat, etc). In that case, I split the two into their own giant sets with assistances.