TL;DR Starfield incoming.
Here's the opening frame from Bethesda's E3 announcement:
https://i.imgur.com/jTV2lDV.jpg
Notice on the graph there are three lines, one of them is 60 degrees (relative to the boundaries of the graph) and two of them are 45 degrees. I wondered if those had any significance (mind you, they probably don't but this was still fun), so I started searching around the internet. Eventually (after searching for geo-coordinates and sifting through trigonometry shit on Wikipedia pages I didn't understand), I came across this passage on pages 174 and 175 of a book entitled Time Travel In Einstein's Universe:
https://i.imgur.com/HtnnT3O.png
In short, M.C. Escher, who was this weirdo math-artist dude, made an irregular pattern (in this case with Angels and Devils) that, when left to repeat for infinity, form a circle. In other words: it forms that circle based on a repeating pattern that should not form a circle. Mathematically, the pattern represents a cross-section of negatively-curved space, or some kind of hyperbolic geometry. From the passage:
> "Each angel and devil in the diagram represents a triangle with angles of 60 degrees at the feet, 45 degrees at the left wingtip and 45 degrees at the right wingtip. (Six angels and devils come together at a point at their feet and a 360-degree circle around that point divided into 6 equal parts gives a 60-degree angle at each pair of feet. Similarly, 8 angels and devils meet at a point where their wingtip touch, giving a 45-degree angle for each wingtip - 360 degrees divided by 8.) Each triangle has 3 angles - 45, 45, and 60 degrees [emphasis mine] - which adds up to 150 degrees, less than the 180 degrees expected in Euclidean geometry, confirming that this is a negatively curved sphere."
Here is Escher's Angels & Devils pattern, which he entitled Circle Limit IV the caption of which reads: "This image shows a negatively curved, open universe:"
https://i.imgur.com/t1jxrqA.png
What's interesting in all this is that based on some kind of amalgam of cosmological theories, whether you're dealing with Hyperbolic space, the Poincaré disk model and the Poincaré conjecture and the shape of the universe, one of the leading theories about the shape
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Hi there!
I have posted here in the past & I know that some people have responded saying they've wanted to play and I haven't been able to get them onto a team. It's pretty overwhelming running soccer teams, so I took a season off. After a nice break, I have now started 2 teams and promise to get everyone who's interested onto a team!
This is coed, indoor, 6v6 soccer. No experience is necessary, though you should have some understanding that coed indoor soccer is somewhat a contact sport and you should have some desire to play soccer with teams that can get a little aggressive.
I am running 1 coed league at Foothills Fieldhouse (Highway 285 and Kipling) on Monday nights. Games will start February 26th and will be between 6 PM and 11 PM.
I am also running a league at Apex Fieldhouse (in Arvada at Kipling and 57th) on Sundays with games between 2 PM and 10 PM and games will start on March 18th.
The leagues will be between $50-$60 / person and will consist of 8-10 games.
If you're interested, please let me know in the comments or via PM and like I said, I promise to get you onto a team (again, I apologize if you haven't heard back from me in the past).
They train.
I live in a post-Soviet country. I am a diasporan male from the US, so I am culturally and ethnically the same as the general populace. There is a huge problem with the male population in this country. They are so incredibly, extremely hyper-macho. Machoism and manliness is viewed very positively among them.
Let me give you some examples: 85% of the men here smoke, most start from 14/15 years old. If you don't smoke then you are considered a bit soft.
Most guys here drink... a lot. Alcoholism is a huge problem. You aren't a man unless you can take a whole glass of homemade berry vodka (75% alc.) without cringing.
They fight a lot over some of the most retarded bullshit I have ever seen. A guy forgot to say hi to another one morning so in the afternoon they schedule a fight.
Domestic abuse is a problem. Men beat their wives.
Then comes sex. Ah yes. They have extramarital sex here, but there are some extremely backwards things they have about it. The guy is never submissive. HE should be the one fucking not getting FUCKED. That means doggy style only. They will never let the girl go on top. Ever. They don't ever care if the girl is satisfied at all. The go in dry and pump for 45 seconds like cavemen and cum and that is it. But the worst offender is pussy eating. Over here pussy eating is seen as the most unmanly of offenses. It's a cardinal sin. If word gets out that the guy eats pussy then he is shunned from his friends circle, most likely beaten. He is called a faggot and branded as an unmanly gay and everyone knows. Did I mention they are ultra homophobic?
Did you know in my country a goatee beard is seen as a "pussy eater" beard? You will NEVER see someone with a goatee. I once tried to have a goatee in high school here. I go to school and many of the guys are giving me the stink eye and girls are looking at me weird. I was well respected and known in my high school so it was weird for me to see that treatment. One of my more understanding friends took me aside and explained the whole shtick.
Now I love eating pussy. It is one of my favorite things to do, I enjoy how much pleasure I can give with just a few simple flicks of my tongue. But friends tell me to never do it with a native girl. All girls talk about sex and word will spread that "Hey this guy eats pussy!" and then my reputation is gone and over. But I can't fucking believe it. How can you have sex and not get your partner off? I truly think that any native girl that ever goes
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Despite whatever looks, athleticism , financial gains you happen to have?
So a few days ago, I was on Facebook when I got a message from an old high school friend. I'm 28 now and the last time we saw each other in person was when I was 18, since then we've only sparsely spoken online.
We go through the usual niceties like asking how we were and what we were doing, when he asked me if I knew a girl from when we were in high school, let's call her Charlotte (not her real name obviously). Now I was friends with her on Facebook as many years ago we used to go to the same youth club for disabled people (I'm autistic, I think she's bipolar and has depression, also I think my old friend is autistic too but that was never really spoken of).
Anyway, I say that I am friends with her on Facebook, but explain that we've never spoken at all on there. He goes on to say how they met at his work and became good friends on Facebook when she left the job. He tells me they used to talk every day but in August she suddenly blocked him for no apparent reason, and he now had no way of contacting her.
I saw where he was going to go, now he's saying he wants to hell her he's sorry if he did something to hurt her and that he wants to be friends again. I know he's going to ask me if I can send the message but I'm not sure I'm comfortable doing so. I don't know whether or not she had a reason to block him, and I'm also unsure if my old friend said something to her that he's not telling me. All I know is she blocked him and I feel it would be wrong for me to interfere when it's not my place, especially since I don't really talk to her in the first place. So Reddit, WIBTA if I refused to help?
The problem is people are needlessly stressing about their current weight, and how they want to achieve their goal weight. Shoot for a physique goal, like “bigger biceps”, or “visible abs”, or “more defined triceps”. If you work out, then you are definitely going to gain some muscle. Say you lose 10lbs of fat, but gain 15 lbs of muscle, your weight loss of 5lbs isn’t that impressive, it’s the physique change that is impressive.
Also shooting for a goal like a lifting PR or running PR is much easier to achieve than a goal weight. If you can only bench press 150 lbs, try for 170 lbs in 3 months. Then you have this tangible thing you can you can push yourself towards. Your weight is unpredictable, always fluctuating, and easily affected by many different factors like, how much food you eat and how hydrated you are. So I suggest not stressing over what that stupid, little scale says.
TL:DR Try to shoot for a physique improvement, and lifting/running PR as opposed to achieving a daunting weight goal. You’ll be less stressed, you’ll find that it’s easier, and feels as though your goals are actually in reach.
I'm looking for people's thoughts on my issue...
Let me just start off by saying I feel self-conscious about my insecurity but I figure I'm better off talking about it.
I've been telling myself that I'll get back to online dating only once I get in shape again so that I can enjoy the process more, feel better about myself, and also be better able to attract someone I'm attracted to. Sometimes I'm able to attract women I like as it stands, and I match with women I'm attracted to, but it doesn't happen as often as I would like, and I feel like my appearance is one area I can improve on. I'm happy with who I am as a person, I'm happy with my career/job, but I'm not happy with my appearance, and I have a hard time telling if someone is overlooking me because I'm not in great shape.
I'm 41/M, and I'm about 15 to 20lbs overweight. I wear my weight well, and I don't necessarily LOOK like a guy who's overweight, I would say my body type is average/slim kind of build, but I hate the way I look basically. I'm not fit. When I was younger, in my teens and 20s, I was complimented on my appearance a lot, and I've had relationships with women where I was really strongly sexually desired, and it felt great. I miss that feeling and I feel the need to step it up in the physique area to show my "best" self, so to speak. I don't want to be super muscular or anything, but I want to be fit in order to be more attractive and also feel better about my self.
I had an older woman who's opinion I respect tell me most women don't care about that. So I sometimes wonder if I'm procrastinating by telling myself that I should wait until I get in better shape to "get back out there." A part of me knows this is partly just an insecurity of mine, and so it's possible that I can find someone I'm attracted to who accepts me as is.
I've already decided I'm going to get in shape no matter what because I know it's better for me personally, but it's been a struggle during covid.
I guess what I'm asking is, what do you think about waiting to lose 15-20lbs before dating, versus dating WHILE trying (successfully or unsuccessfully) to lose the weight? How much do women on average value the physical looks department in men? Please don't spare my feelings, if I need to get in shape to make a difference, let me know!
