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I think yesterday's episode was really enjoyable and had some great laughs.

Oh, didn't know about the comic. Looks interesting but it's a tad expensive for something that is read in 10 minutes. How many issues will be published?

That was a nice video. Makes me want the game but I think I'll just wait for it to drop in price as I didn't really like the first videos. It looks like it will have some kind of story mode.

Whew, just got back after the first training session in the experiment. We were tested today so it took 3.5 hours! We had tests in sprinting, jumping (vertical and horizontal), weights, KB-swings, shuttle run, and L-sprint. Did a PB 1RM in back squat (110 kg) and clean (80 kg) whereas I deadlifted 130 kg which is a little below my old record (134 kg I think). Also managed to jump 249 cm horizontal from a standing position. That's rather good.

It'll take longer to build muscles (and thereby lose weight) using only bodyweight exercising but it's doable. You should tire your muscles completely for it to be most efficient without weights.

Got it! It's really nice quality and the book is beautiful! Can't wait to start reading it. I won't be reading everything, though, only the essentials.

I also squat as low as possible but when having 100 kg on your back, I can't go much deeper than parallel so that's just slightly below. I've also suffered from a knee injury and I've found low squats to be soothing on the knees. Your squat depth depends heavily on how flexible you are in your hip and ankles. Edit: Just got home from a testing day. Did a Wingate test with an average of 522 watt, I think, and placed second best on a yo-yo-test out of 21 persons so that's fine. I also got my body fat percentage measured and I'm pleased: 8.5 % of 65.7 kg is fat. That's rather good.

Just got a Kinect the other day (I'm soon moving to something bigger and got it for a good price) with Adventures and Fruit Ninja. Which games should I be getting? I'll get Sports season 2 (as I can get that cheap from a friend) so apart from that?

Oh, got the mail today so I have it in a week after all.

Mine hasn't been send and it says "Usually dispatched within 1 to 4 weeks." so I guess I won't get it just yet. Oh well. No haste.

I think it makes sense to pay for those GamePad-features. Sure, free of charge would be prefered but if you've installed the games already from Wii, you only have to pay $1 to get the new features for NES games and $1.5 for SNES. So at least it's much cheaper (4-5 vs. 5-7 if I recall correctly).

I've signed up for some experiments regarding training for use in some master thesis. It'll run over 8 weeks where I'll have to attend this special training two times a week in a very well-known crossfit centre, Butcher's Garage. It'll either be 8 weeks of weightlifting with squats, deadlifts and cleans at 1RM most of the time, or it'll be 8 weeks of hard leg-based crossfit training. They want to know wether traditional strength training or hard crossfit training would help athletes perform better. I'm really excited about it, it sounds really good so far. Before and after the 8 weeks we'll go through a lot of physical tests which sound interesting to at least get the results from. And furthermore, I get a small amount of money for it! What's not to like? Oh, the downside. Yeah. The training is on Wednesdays at 9 PM and on Fridays at 7 PM. I suspect that the Wednesday one is going to interfere with my sleep but as I only have to write my master thesis now for the next six months it's not really that much of a deal. Regarding grip, I don't really think it's my grip that holds my deadlift at 125 kg. I think lots of pull-ups, rowing and lots of deadlifting has really improved my grip strength.

Mine hasn't been cancelled as far as I can see. But I don't think I got the Collector's Edition, just the hardback one.

It's easier to just show it: I'm not converting my DVD collection to blu-ray, I just buy new movies on blu-ray if I want them.

I like having my movies digitally. That means I don't have to get up and take the blu-ray out of the player. And if the quality is the same, I don't see a reason to own the blu-ray. (I never watch the extra materials on DVDs/blu-rays.) If I find the blu-ray cheap enough, I'll buy it if it's a movie I really like but other than that, streaming is fine with me.

Just finished watching it. It was way more awesome than I had thought it would be. It was perfect for a day like today. Glad I watched it, might actually do it again if someone asks me to.

Had squat day today apparently. First as many reps as possible in 3 minutes of goblet squat with a 16 kg KB. Did 104 and was a bit tired. Then we had to do 10*10 reps of back squats with 30 kg. Would have done 40 kg but my partner couldn't take it. But in retrospect I am glad I only did 30 kg as the next part of the workout was: 3*5 minutes of AMRAP (as many rounds as possible) where the rounds in each of the 5 minutes periods consisted of 10 back squat (25 kg) and 5 burpees, (did 6 full rounds) 10 front squat (25 kg) and 10 sit-ups, (again, 6 rounds) 10 overhead squats (only did 15 kg here) and 15 mountain climbers (once more, 6 rounds). That brings me up to a total of 384 squats within an hour. My legs and lower back are killing me!

Gay as in happy? I hate running in non-tights so tights make me happy / gay. :P Well, I'll be damned. In the gym, not many men wear tights, though, just loose shorts, but every girl does (which is nice as they are usually a bit transparent when stretched...) but if you look out on the streets at the people jogging, most of them wear tight leggings. It's funny that the culture is so different but I suspect that we're perhaps more concerned with exercise here in Denmark. When I was in Dublin, I hardly saw anyone jogging but a day in Copenhagen will easily amount to 50 joggers if you count them.

Now I finally completed Dust: An Elysian Tail. Good game, although a bit chaotic at times so it depends on a bit of luck and quick button mashing. Some enemies are frustrating as they one-shot you when you aren't aware of their being there. The stats are also ridiculously high (I ended up with an attack stat of 1800 and assistant attack of over 4000). Apart from these minor things, though, it was an enjoyable game. It took me about 20 hours of gaming to complete 100 %, or just below 16 hours of game progression (meaning that I spent about 4 hours of trying to get back to a point where I died and then beyond that to a save point...).

What? Here in Denmark EVERYONE running would wear tights. Is that really not the case?

Have you seen this? It looks really cool from a technologically viewpoint but I don't think I would use it personally. Also, I would probably prefer to have my TV surrounded by nothing but white wall if I were to use this. I wonder what projects the image? It almost has to be some sort of projector behind the player.

I completed The Amazing Spider-Man today but not 100 % - I still need 105 G but I refuse to get them as they require me to go through the game again in some sense. The game has A TON of collectibles and most of them are no fun to get at all and you don't get much from getting everything so I stopped at 500 Comic Book Pages so I had all digital comic books. I intend to read them at some point. As for the game itself, it was enjoyable. I have only played Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions before this and this was miles better. It still had some faults, mainly being very repetitive while the combat system is flawed and limited, but the story was somewhat good and the basic mechanics worked. Now I have to decide which game to start on next: Sonic Generations, Dishonored, Dust: An Elysian Tail, The Walking Dead, or Alice: Madness Returns (along with the original Alice). Tough decisions!

I would expect that they are perfectly getable on your first go but some of them are hard, yes. I did most of them on my first go and then did whichever I hadn't done on my NG+ go. In that mode, some of them were extra hard so I would advice you to go for them on the first go.

Well, apart from the standard "you get to keep your equipment", the New Game Plus offers smarter enemies and you can see less of the level (in particular you can't see what's behind you). On top of this, you cannot see how much noise you make by running and such (which is shown by circles in the ordinary game mode). I think that's it.

Got 100 % on Mark of the Ninja yesterday. It was indeed a very good game with solid game mechanics, nice atmosphere, and challenging gameplay. Sometimes it was a bit frustrating to die at the same place many times but the game was quite forgiving in terms of checkpoints. One thing, though, when I died I sometimes spawned at an unfortunate place where I was discovered immediately meaning that I had to restart the level. This was only a problem on New Game Plus, though. Also not a hard game to get 100 % on but it took me about 15 hours to complete it twice and get every seal.