I find "pencil thin" to be gross, but then I'm gay, so my opinion generally doesn't count on this front...hah.

I can't disagree with you here. He should be happy he's in that great of shape.

"Binge and starve" is a bit of an overreaction. It's more like going from "overeating," which you need to do to build muscle (maintenance calories + extra to build new muscle), to "eating normally," as having all those muscles generally requires more calories to maintain than those who never had them in the first…

It does require a good amount of cardio and a reduced caloric intake to get that, yes. It is possible to do it healthy too, but you would be correct in that a lot of people are looking for shortcuts and do it using very unhealthy means. It's generally about striking a balance, though; if you cut your caloric intake…

You're right; it's hard to convey nuance in an internet forum. And I don't mean to be an asshole.

You don't build muscle starving yourself, so if you do that, it's counter-productive, as the first thing your body goes after in starvation mode is muscle, not fat!

Okay, just to be the devil's advocate here, the female ideal of "perfection" involves being "pencil thin" and the only way to achieve that is by starving yourself, which is patently unhealthy and not good.

Oh yes...what a great film!

Literature is a dime a dozen nowadays. If you want it to stick out, you have to market it—and since when is anything out-of-bounds in marketing?

I feel like "Versus XIII" might be addressing your concern here about game mechanics (if it would ever get released, of course). And this tech demo feels very much like a step in the right direction in terms of refreshing what I feel has been rehashing the same kinds of stories and character types since FFVIII.

I'm not sure how they would currently dispose of blood after embalming, but there's probably an already-existing medical waste disposal system that could be utilized. And, sure it would be more work—but also more money that they could charge to make up for that inconvenience.

Perhaps "post-mortem liposuction" could be an option, instead of chopping up bodies. After all, if people are okay with draining blood, I can't imagine sucking out fat would cause too much of an objection.

I dunno...it seems to be about as "futuristic" as trying to send Morse code through your cell phone. Tactile buttons are about as archaic at this point, let alone in 2043.

"The Xbox Becomes a Serious Media Center for Americans"

Cities do indeed decay and die, but the entire basis of a capitalist economy is boundless growth: more sales, more products, more profits, higher tax revenues, a larger and larger population to maintain the growth of all this stuff, including funding the basic entitlements that make up the welfare state with fewer…

Hitler is very much a pre-modern reactionary tyrant who probably wouldn't have been all that unique in the centuries that preceded him just because the past could be just so goddamn violent and cruel. It's just that he had modern toys that made his reign of terror all the much worse; plus unlike, say, Napoleon or…

"If time travelers are constantly changing the past, they are not very good at it. Why did they not avoid two disastrous and pointless world wars in the past century?"

And WWI is basically the culmination of 1500 years of tensions and conflict in the aftermath of the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the subsequent political reorganization of Europe. In other words, there's no escaping the consequences of history.

Well, they could either rotate around each other or merge; and if the latter is the case, it would probably release huge gravitational waves that would be of interest to scientists, but probably not mean very much for anyone/anything else (if I'm understanding this correctly).

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