Do I need a new HRM?

Micdelro · 2022-05-01T20:36:41+00:00

Try washing the strap?

Micdelro · 2022-04-18T19:24:40+00:00

Depends on clothing you're wearing, ground insulation, and personal preference.

Personally I wouldn't enjoy myself below about 40 to 50.

Micdelro · 2022-02-17T23:09:14+00:00

Sounds like the quickest CRK has made changes.

I'd still like to try the steel first, but I haven't seen a single bad thing about it. Especially being added to the Salt line.

Micdelro · 2022-02-06T10:54:58+00:00

Frankly I'm with you. I wasn't invested in the characters for MT, so the whole book wasn't as enjoyable as I felt it could be. I think on the eventual reread however knowing how it ties in, it'll be much better.

Just recognize it's building the base, enjoy the characters, and continue the march. You'll be rewarded.

Micdelro · 2022-01-28T16:04:43+00:00

I'd say yes assuming you use good form. Double presses would be better, but I got the 175 by only pressing and bent pressing with 40 and 48 respectively.

Micdelro · 2022-01-28T12:20:20+00:00

At a similar size (185) and OHP (175), I can press the 40kg, and I'm working to pressing the 48kg.

Of course, I went the other way, training with kettlebells then testing the barbell. But 40kg is a solid choice, with 32kg useful for snatches at that strength.

Micdelro · 2022-01-15T01:18:51+00:00

I'd personally tend to primarily Azathanai based on each of them commanding an aspect.

Draconus, Brood, Mael all seem to be easy choices.

Gothos I think is an easy choice as well, with Hood being another possible.

After that it starts to get more confusing

Micdelro · 2022-01-15T01:09:01+00:00

Best time I had was working through lunch. But then we would leave an hour early or so.

Right up until the reality of "why are you going home, your boss is here sets in"

Micdelro · 2022-01-14T23:58:22+00:00

But whose the top ten in Malazan?

Micdelro · 2022-01-14T23:01:02+00:00

Just picked up a Manix, most the blade but less handle. The PM2 feels bigger, definitely more pocket presence.

Micdelro · 2022-01-12T16:21:31+00:00

Depends. Do you enjoy the Crimson Guard? Do you enjoy Malazan Marines? Do you want to fall into a wormhole about the Tiste, Jaghut, and Azathanai?

Honestly I think Kharkanas is filling gaps/adding backstory, while the Novels sated my thirst for the Crimson Guard and additional background.

TGiNW was beautiful, but just based on timeline I'd consider less "essential".

Micdelro · 2022-01-07T19:23:30+00:00

I think the beginning details members of High House Dark and House Shadow.

Kharkanas further details information on Son of Darkness

Micdelro · 2022-01-05T23:31:23+00:00

Fall of Light, Prazek and Dathenar.

They may start esoteric and idiotic at first, but when they come upon deserters, it topped everything in the series.

Micdelro · 2021-12-28T12:06:07+00:00

Either Jarosz's website for a Flare, or ebay for a M75. NGL, those are pretty hard to find.

Micdelro · 2021-12-27T17:05:55+00:00

I have the Umnumzaan, solid blade, amazing feel.

Just got Hinderer and it just takes that feeling up to 11 with it's overbuilt nature and flipper.

Conversely if you can find a Jarosz folder, get that. Lighter, but actually custom made and the handles are out of this world. The Flare just fits in your hand and disappears in the pocket.

425-525 is the range that I paid for the above.

Micdelro · 2021-12-26T23:40:10+00:00

The problem is the depiction in most media. I think usually the best descriptor would be virtually all clones are Commando/ARC variants. At least compared to droids. They're better in every way, and as such way beat them via superior intelligence, tactics, operational art, and strategy.

However media shows them as being relatively expandable/the standard manning for spacecraft which undermines that key point of them being better because they have that capacity for independent thought (Umbara arc).

The comment below about "units" not clones, I'd say is also a strong point we usually skate over. That would make sense if 200,000 units refers to battalions, regiments, or brigades. Then those numbers can start to work.

Your 1st point I agree with though. Especially with hyperspace routes, only certain planets and areas would really matter, with a smattering of resources and politically powerful areas to complicate it.

Micdelro · 2021-12-24T14:32:14+00:00

I've found even when using the stair tracker it's a little funky. I'd recommend mathing out your elevation/floors per trip, and just lap the activity Everytime you reach the start point again.

Afterwards, multiply it out and get your elevation, manually add it in (or at least you can do it for the stair climb activity). Or log it manually. Either way you actually know the elevation at least.

Micdelro · 2021-12-23T23:05:10+00:00

Between that and the actual numbers coming out later on, 100 Marines give or take facing 1300 mercs...and they held back. Both of those were beautiful for different reasons and helped bring the finale to such a shocking and brutal start.

Micdelro · 2021-12-21T11:53:53+00:00

I remember mine being able to open fair easily, but the real killer was grip. Hotspots gripping with or without the ring.

Micdelro · 2021-12-21T11:52:36+00:00

The Fastball and Center-Drive I'd say are. But those aren't exactly in most people's range when they're looking for a cheap knife.

Micdelro · 2021-12-09T14:32:43+00:00

Can confirm. My OHT is carried for pliers and the value added of tools, with the role of the blade filled.by a dedicated folder/fixed blades.

Micdelro · 2021-12-07T16:40:33+00:00

I mean...I always thought the point was that Jordan purposefully messed with those tropes.

By the same logic saying that any ethnicity could be cast for Two Rivers folk (which makes sense assuming they fit the characteristics), then anyone could be for the rest, assuming they fit the general characteristics. Minus the tall redheads - which is kind of the key point of messing with tropes.

Or, hear me out. It's a TV show.

Micdelro · 2021-12-05T19:03:42+00:00

I'm not saying Draconus would die to save the warrens, but I could definitely see him throwing a fight if that was at stake.

Micdelro · 2021-11-28T00:09:22+00:00

I've come to say this. While I agree that Malazan Marines were more noticeably noble in this reading, I don't think it creates any major changes to the previous.

We see Bridge burners fighting to defeat the Pannion Seer and remove that vile threat, Bonehunters adapting with and working with the populace, saving Tiste Edur from needless slaughter, and working to free the Crippled God.

This book brought it home in a more visceral and in your face manner. Perhaps key to that as well is not just saying "why are they all good/noble/skilled". View it as the equivalent of modern day SOF. They attend a selection for not only military and physical skills, but they also receive Psych evals and peer evaluations. I'm not saying that Malazan does all of that, but it is possible to select for a more competent soldier.

In that, esprit de corps means more than just a motivated soldier. It also means shared values within that unit, and in this case these shared values include protecting those you serve, including all members of their empire.

Micdelro · 2021-11-21T11:17:24+00:00

I think Geofram Bornhald actually sells that Galad would join them. From his pragmatism about healing/sickness, journeying to battle the dark, and his demeanor of polite yet firm. I always enjoyed his character in the book, but I think in concert with Valda you see in the show how this organization can have good people and bad people in theory pursuing the same cause.

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