Working out using VR. Jesus Christ. You finish and think: how can something so much fun be good for you?
I think what I'm experiencing now is what sporty people always kept talking about. Actual enjoyment through exertion. You just needed to turn it into a nerd thing and I could finally get into it
When this shit takes off there's suddenly going to be a lot of fucking RIPPED nerds out there, bulking up because it's the only way to get to the next level. The world will never be the same.
For those asking I use Quest 2. I think you have to for this because you need to not have any cords - be free to move around the room.
I'm doing about half an hour of Thrill of the Fight, which is simultaneously terrifying and insanely demanding. Then about half an hour on Beat Saber on expert, which is less demanding but keeps you sweating.
You really need to get onto expert for it to be proper exercise I think, so you need to put in the time. Fortunately I find it almost impossible to stop playing, so that helps.
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Most of those claiming to be liberal critics of lockdown clearly have no idea what liberalism is.
Not all, of course. There are plenty who have raised issues with elements of the powers - the slovenly way they were written, the late publication, the heavy handedness approach to protests etc. But it is a minority.
Liberalism is not Aleister Crowley. Do what thou wilt is not the full extent of the law. It's a project for expanding the freedom of the individual which recognises the notion of competing rights.
Experts have been pointing this out for months now, utterly flabbergasted. Other countries did this even though they were landlocked and the border went through towns. We have the advantage of geography and still failed.
Maybe we'll be ok. And maybe we fucking won't. But with the vaccine roll out we had the opportunity to at least guarantee we'd be free inside the country. Instead we left our fate up to chance.
I've started watching all the (decent) Spielberg films. Began last night with Duel, which is fucking mad. Jaws with a truck. It's some taut, stripped down, no-nonsense, white knuckle shit.
It starts and you think: he can't possibly sustain this over the course of a whole film can he? But he can. He so can.
Jaws. It is perfect. Flawless. Not one thing about it could be changed@ not one sound, one line, one shot, one tiny element of the performances. Nothing. There is, quite literally, nothing wrong with it.
Scenes in Bristol very depressing. You shouldn't attack cops. You shouldn't attack anyone, ever, for any reason.
And now, as sure as rain, Patel will say that scenes like these are why they need to give the police new powers. Even though the powers are nothing to do with events like today, and everything you do with silencing peaceful protest.
It'll be a completely fake argument, but for many people watching on TV, who won't have read the bill and only have a vague understanding of what's in it, it'll ring true.
Alexi McCammond loses her job at Teen Vogue because of tweets she sent when she was 17. BBC Breakfast presenters told to apologise for failing to show sufficient respect for the flag. Censorship is demonstrably out of control on right and left politics.co.uk/comment/2021/0…
The usual kickback against this is that it's both-sides-ism. But sometimes both sides of political disputes do have similar problems and that does not become irrelevant because Trump happened to shat out his mouth that one time.
We're trapped in a situation where parts of left insist their censorship does not exist, or should be redefined as harmless, while parts of the right can only conceive of censorship as something the left do.
Jesus Christ are people actually saying I should watch the Snyder Cut?
I would like to be wrong. There really is no film I would rather watch than a decent Justice League. But my idea of what is decent does not involve them saying fuck and snapping people's necks.
Fuck it, I'm clearly going to give it a go. I can tell I've already decided and am merely pretending otherwise to myself.