#exercise and solution

[not-gray-politics]

Trans women. I'm grabbing you by the shoulders and yelling. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE SKINNY TO BE FEMININE AND PRETTY AND CUTE. PLEASE STOP MAKING DIETS PART OF YOUR TRANSITION GOALS. WEIGHT LOSS IS A SCAM. I LOVE YOU. TAKE CARE OF YOURSELVES. YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL.

#I see so many transfems say they want to have “flat stomachs” or do diet and exercise regimes to try and get an “hourglass figure” #and it really worries me. girls you do not have to destroy yourselves to fit into unachievable beauty standards #the vast majority of cis women don't even fit those standards #and the same goes for you transmascs! I see you! I see you trying to get smaller chests and hurting yourselves with weight loss routines #and excessive workouts. it's not worth it. weight loss has OVER a 90% long-term failure rate and there's a reason for that #I assure you whatever diet you think you've found that “works for you” won't be working so well 5 years from now #and you're going to blame yourself for “slacking off”. but it's not you. it was never you. it was designed to fail. #these standards are made to hurt people and then sell them a false solution at the price of your health #I encourage you to transition if you'd like and live your best life I really do. but please please please do so SAFELY. #if weight loss is part of your transition goals please reevaluate WHY you believe thinness is necessary for achieving femininity #(or masculinity or androgyny but this stuff particularly affects women in the way it's marketed) #do research on fatphobia and the roots of weight loss culture. Learn where these ideas come from and why they're so prevalent. #It's extremely important #take care. stay safe. love you very much #trans #fat liberation #transgender #lgbt #trans rights #fat positivity #diet culture #fatphobia #transfem #trans positivity #transgirl #trans women #trans woman

[lucienarcheron]

I hate going to the doctor's office. I always end up feeling like shit afterward.

#I tell her I feel like my body is not right. It just doesn't feel it's best #like yes thank you I am not at the weight I want to be #'you need to exercise and eat good food' #thank you SO much as if I don't already know that and have been trying my fucken best doc #never a concrete solution. #This is the second doctor I've been to that gives me nothing. #why are women's symptoms always being dismissed!!!!!!! #gp

[wyrddogs]

This puppy is driving me nuts.

#six months old tomorrow so he is That Age #bro I am begging you to take your goddamn fucking nap #it is your normal naptime #you have been exercised #you have been trained #you are reaching the tired-wired stage and there is a super simple solution #and that solution is to go the FUCK to sleep #this is normal but I'm still fantasizing about leaving him on the highway #zaku terv

[eclipse-ofthe-sun]

*looks up new symptom**website says it can be caused by stress, mystery misc health condition, or habits i do not have**i cannot leave my current stress situation for another whole year minimum**all nhs waitlists are minimum six months, if you can get on one* guess ill die then

#been getting fast heartrate and the associated body not working. even when laying down. #i do not have the emotional bandwidth to go to the doctor again. making that call then walking there to look my wonderful doctor in the eye #tell them i have a new symptom and dont know how it fits in all my other ones #and just not have solutions #'i can prescribe you some vitamins again. temp fix' the ones i cant afford? that dont change any symptoms? #hes a great doctor but its the waitlists and the specialists and the 'exercise!' and the everything #vent #also im sick of stress likely being the cause of all my issues bec its the one thing i cannot solve #its just a downward spiral

[thegrayascendancy-if]

Sugarcube, flat stats and setter links

As I spent an unspecified time trying to figure it out, maybe it will spare someone the trouble or build towards intuition for how stats work. Or maybe this is bait to see if anyone knows a better solution 😏

First of all, flat stats vs fairmath stats. Fairmath stat accumulation is designed to represent stat gain as inversely relative: the higher your stat value, the smaller your absolute gain would be expressed by the same relative number. E.g. 10% gain at 90 is different from 10% at 15. A bonus (and very important) effect of this is that the stat value increased or decreased via fairmath will never fall below 0 or rise above 100, doing all the stat clamping for you.

Fairmath is easy to test and observe in ChoiceScript, where you can run thousands of tests automatically. You cannot do that in Twine. This is my primary motivation for going with flatmath for my SugarCube project. Which means that someone has to handle clamping, as a gain of 10 at stat value 95 will set the value above 100.

The frequent code for handling that is during change:

<<set $stat to Math.clamp($stat + 5, 0, 100)>>

which, in this example, increases variable $stat by 5 and makes sure the result is not smaller than 0 and not greater than 100: clamping.

My problem with it is how much code repetition is there and how incredibly copy paste error prone this is. You will no doubt be copy pasting this code all over your game files and will need to make sure you are replacing the variable name twice each time, lest one variable will end up with the value of another in an oversight that is way too easy to miss. Ideally we want to specify not only the name of the variable, but also our bounds (0 and 100 respectively) only once.

There are two answers to this problem: widgets and JavaScript. A widget for this is one and done, but it is more fuss to integrate it into code, I found. In the JS solution you would need to figure out a function that works for your variable storage schema.

Let's cover the widget solution first:

<<widget "modify">>     <<print '<<set ' + $args[0] + ' to Math.clamp(' + $args[0] + ' + ' + $args[1] + ', 0, 100)>>'>> <</widget>>

Not only will the above check that each resulting value is within the [0; 100] range, it accepts the variable name as a parameter, meaning it will work for any stat (though you would need to pass the variable name as a String) and for subtraction too:

<<modify "$stat" -18>>

Now to problems. For my links between passages in the format for Twine I use, SugarCube, I strongly prefer the structure of setters:

[[Link text|NextPassageName][stat modifications]]

Calling a widget is not possible inside a setter link though. You would either need to do that in the next passage, which is inconvenient if you do not need that passage for anything else, or to marry two syntaxes in this unholy matrimony:

<<link [[Link text|NextPassageName]]>>   <<set $otherstat to "wowza">>   <<modify "$stat" -18>>   <</link>>

And this is just one link/option.

Now, for the price of extra JS code you can avoid all this. Depending on how you store your game variables, flat or in objects, you can employ tricks to save you time and code lines.

window.modifyStatA = function(value) {     State.variables.StatA = Math.clamp(State.variables.StatA + value, 0, 100); }

This anywhere in your custom JS file for the game will allow to do the following:

[[Link text|NextPassageName][modifyStatA(-18), $otherstat to "wowza"]]

and will change the value of $StatA by subtracting 18 upon clicking that link/option.

You can also do the following:

window.modifyStat = function(statName, value) {     State.variables[statName] = Math.clamp(State.variables[statName] + value, 0, 100); }

which creates a more generic function:

[[Link text|NextPassageName][modifyStat("StatA", -18), $otherstat to "wowza"]]

As you can see, this is suitable for flat stat storage (which I personally do not do). I suppose for the nested stats you could specify the object names as inputs in their order of hierarchy and access them so for a generic function, but I am not sure yet how to do that for a variable number of levels, e.g. Parent.StatGroup.statA vs Parent.statB

I believe this is geared to the very specific way I personally structure my passages and links, so I am ready to be proven wrong 😅

Cheers!

#twine #sugarcube #twine tutorial #I realized the generic JS function solution as I was typing this so for this alone it was a very useful exercise lmao #I feel like there should be a way to modify the prototype of the JS object but everything I tried led to an error

[schizofujoshi]

the thing about "just do exercise" as a solution to disability is that, like, i do have to admit sometimes it's genuine, especially with mental health stuff i've found getting out of the house has been really good for me on that front and i can't deny that.

but on the flip side, it actively makes my physical disability worse on some days to exercise, the strain it puts on my leg leaves it in pain for the rest of the day or sometimes the day after and a lot of the time i'll get home completely exhausted even if i enjoyed the walk despite that. i've been getting out for casual strolls and longer hikes more as of this year and even if i've seen the mental benefits, the physical ones i have not seen, and only ended up suffering more for it.

so, i don't know. i have a very specific disability that gets one of those generic muscle disorder diagnoses so maybe this only applies to me, but i think if you give regular exercise at least a solid few weeks and it is just causing more pain and fatigue then its worth telling your doctor to shut the fuck up (if you can).

#and i want to be clear i do genuinely enjoy walks. theyre fun. theres a lot of nice things outside to look at and touch and smell #it is just a painful exercise with not a lot if at all health benefit some days and it upsets me as a one size fits all solution #i can do a million walks and a million pushups and it will not make my toe muscles magically work

[sailor-cerise]

Breaking news: insufficient breathing does not make you feel great

More news: breathing medication makes you breath better

#New to this asthma diagnosis thing still #Having an explanation and a solution for like...40% of my suddenly-feel-like-crap-itis is great #I still can believe I had undiagnosed asthma for at least 15 years #Moderate persistent asthma #No less #So like #I really don't breath so good #But no I was just lazy with my 4-6 hours of exercise a week #And when my stamina declined it was because I was getting more out of shape (despite exercising more) #Like it's not the only thing wrong with me but #breathing is fucking important it turns out

[the-nn-project]

Which do you prefer? Comment below with your choice! 👇

#fitnessjourney #fitness #gymlife #fitnessmotivation #workout #weightloss #training #bodybuilding #fitness solutions #upper body #lower body exercises

[karmaphone]

sometimes I think about restarting physical therapy but it never does anything + they just tell me to exercise more

#sorry I have trouble exercising. due to the joint pain. do you have any other solutions for my pain besides increasing it. #'oh do these specific exercises they shouldn't hurt :)' but THEY DO

[pallases]

my prof giving us an exam on content he can’t even do himself <3

#every time he does an example problem w this stuff he fucks it up somewhere and we never reach the correct answer and he’s #just like okay well. moving on! #like hello??? i still have barely any idea how to do this #also im sick of the hw in this class. it’s on a program where the prof can reveal the solutions after the deadline but not every exercise #actually has solutions to reveal and he keeps assigning problems like that so there’s no way to check our work. and when he himself grades #the stuff he does it purely on participation like he just looks to see if we did it and doesn’t tell us where we went wrong so again no way #to check or even know if we were incorrect. it’s so bad and this guy somehow has like a 4.5 on rate my professor which im pretty sure is #only bc he majorly curves exams but he wouldn’t need to curve them sm if he taught the material right to begin with 😐 anyway wish me luck #personal #the engineering chronicles #okay hold on while i was typing that a comma somehow found its way in there and i deleted it bc i didn’t want a comma there but now im #wondering how i got it in there to begin with ? like it didn’t start a new tag it was just a comma there that you could see plain and clear #what did i do to allow that… secret comma keyboard shortcut on mobile keypad??

[divinekangaroo]

This is the bullshit about starting work again, I come home and continue with rubbish like planning plot processes and prioritisation matrixes and production programs and the like, instead of, you know, writing.

#managing the production vs actually “being the producer” brain #its such a different way of thinking I haven't worked out my 'snap brain into that different kind of creative mode again' #The reason I can be satisfied at my job is that I approach all that stuff *as* creative exercises; I create the clarity that does not exist #People blab for 30mins about problems and I doodle on a whiteboard and then they slow down and realise I've drawn their solution map #I *could* have been a consulting business analyst for the requirements definition stuff but detest the software/technologies rigidity part #What I really need is some 15 minute major physical/mental/formic break between work and home to switch brain modes #I do have a 20min powerwalk in there but then I have to do the kid/house so the endorphin benefit towards creative enterprise wears off

[nervousloveheart]

Me *starts working out to keep my adhd in check*

My muscles almost immediately:

#adhd memes #adhd stuff #adhd brain #adhd feels #adhd problems #adhd mood #adhd struggles #adhd life #my adhd #neurodivergent #adhd things #adhd solutions #exercise #workout #fitness #ballet #pilates #swimming #stretching #training #at home workouts #at home #muscle #muscular ladies #growing muscles #running #cardio #mobility #seriously wasn't expecting my muscles to grow #I thought I was gonna be a string bean for the rest of my life

[trealamh]

I'm sorry if you've got these question before but I have to ask: what made Alisdair speak to Arthur in Glasgow Scale? Did Arthur and Dai have any other family? What life did Arthur leave behind in Kent, and was Alisdsir's life much changed afterwards?

I love how your short stories pack so much life into them, they can be unfolded ten times over and I still would want to know more

always ask anything you'd like! i love your questions. And aaaa thankyouthanyouthankyou for your kind words <3

hehe I have been wondering whether it would be too indulgent to write TGS from Alasdair's point of view, actually. It would be a longer piece and much more dialogue heavy, covering from the night they met to Arthur moving in.

(Here is where I confess that TGS was going to be a multi-chapter fic/ one of those 15k single-chapter fics until i got worried I would disappoint people by taking too long to update or missing scoteng week entirely orz sorry everyone)

But to answer your questions!

Alasdair, as i mentioned here had just been released from custody and made his way straight to the hospital (no time to rush home and hop in the shower when you're naw even sure your brother is still alive). He is still running high on adrenaline a when he goes to find a seat in the waiting room, having been dismissed by the nurses that won't let him into Sean's room. It may not show much on him, but emotionally he is all over the place; angry, furious, even, and worried. Exhausted and fed up with the proceedings of loss; the bureaucracy of pain. Having someone in hospital is one of the hardest things to go through; a lot of the time it is worse to be the one waiting outside than it is to be the one hooked onto an IV. Alasdair is burning for a smoke and out of filters but the truth is that the reason why he sits next to Arthur is that something in him recognises him as a younger brother-- Dai was older. Call it instinct. I don't believe he would rationalise it and I do think that at some point Arthur would ask him outright "Why did you choose to sit next to me that night? Why me?" Alasdair probably would not have the words o explain it beyond some vague sense that Arthur was the only person in that room that made sense to him in that moment.

Arthur and Dai only had each other, really. Maybe a distant relative here and there but no one close. I won't go into detail to spare anyone who might come across this without a cw but it is partly why Dai is almost meticulous with the instructions he leaves behind; he knows that Arthur won't have any support going forward so as much as he can he tries to make it easy.

(It is patently not. It could never be. Nothing about loss could ever be but losing someone under those circumstances especially is unmanageable.)

When Arthur calls Dai's workplace to try and let them know he is not coming in to work they seem a little baffled and tell him that Dai had put in his two weeks already. It makes Arthur nauseous; it almost brings him to his knees. It makes him realise how long Dai had been planning this for and that as much as the loss of him itself is worse than any nightmare.

Moving onto lighter things, what Arthur leaves behind in Kent is a slightly bemused flatmate and a few odd pieces of furniture. He only moves in with Alasdair after he finishes his degree! Dai and him grew up nestled deep in the Welsh borders (I needed them both to have a piece of their namesake countries with them! so the borders it was) lost their mother in their late teens, shortly after Arthur gets approved for his student loan. Some more deep lore for TGS: that the reason why Dai is studying in Edinburgh are the student fees. He is older than Arthur, as I mentioned, so went off to uni a year before he did with his mother's support. She was already sick when Arthur was finishing up school and gone before he got his A-levels back. That summer, Dai comes down from Scotland to help him back and move into his first-year accommodation in Kent and that is the last time they spend more than a couple of weeks together at a time. Everything they own between them and whatever their mum left is split even; they get a few boxes each and a couple of furnishings, and that's all they really need. Eventually, Arthur might start feeling that loss as well and he might feel nostalgic about his home town, the flat they shared with their mother, and he might return to seek out familiar sights. Dai never grows old enough for her loss to lose its sting. They have different fathers (both still living) but neither keep in touch; their wee family of three (and then two) was plenty enough for them.

(Alasdair, contrastingly, comes from a Big Family. They fold Arthur right in, don't ye worry.)

And last of all, Alasdair's life does change pretty significantly after the events in The Glasgow Scale. He stops smoking, for one, but he also starts drinking less. By the time we meet him in this AU he has already done a lot of the work to get a hold on his temper and it's partly why he is not one of the brawlers in the fight that puts Sean in a coma. But he still has a ways to go and Arthur helps with that, more than he knows. He learns to think about someone else's needs in a deeper way than he ever has before and starts to see his own actions through someone else's eyes. Alasdair post-TGS is guilt-ridden to a fault and being good to Arthur helps him get a grip of himself.

This is a bit of a spoiler but a few months after Dai's death, Arthur gets a call from one of his classmates. Dai left behind a few things (he was an artist, Dai was you see) and he offers to hold onto them until Arthur can travel back up to pick them up. Arthur mentions this to Alasdair, who he's kept in touch with (a little awkwardly at first ksks do not be fooled they are deeply emotionally constipated in this AU despite the way they latch onto each other in the midst of their respective trauma) and Alasdair offers to bring them down for him instead. He kinda just blurts it out actually haha and is afraid that it was too forward of him when Arthur takes too long to answer that aye, that would be good actually, if Alasdair is sure (he cannae afford a ticket up to Scotland is the truth).

This is a whole wee story in its own right but essentially they get to meet each other again, under better circumstances, and that lays a stronger foundation for their eventual relationship. It is also an incredibly awkward visit at first adgfjdhgj which oddly enough helps them get over a lot of personal hang-ups.

One thing about this fic though is that for as much as their lives are changed irrevocably by what they lose and earn that night, they are still very ordinary people hhh and that's what I love about them both.

#freagradh #i admit that alasdair being in his 'post anger management counselling' era is a tidbit i poached from and the love #he is trying his best but needs to work of his sense of self-worth #being good to arthur is not the solution to his self-esteem issues but it is a good exercise #in learning how to think first and act second #and also just very rewarding for him personally #arthur is deeply uncomfortable at first because he doesnae know how to let someone else take care of him but eventually he lets himself #be held just a bit. he learns to fall back on someone else #of all the fics i write this is probably the one where they have the healthiest relationship #trauma aside

[fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-liar]

Characters who are class clowns on the outside but use that humor as a coping mechanism to avoid dealing with all the fucked up shit they went through are the best characters pass it on

#i've always found them so strong but also so self destructive #i'm not talking about characters who manage to still be kind despite all the circumstances and shit (e.g. Anne Shirley)... #...but more the characters that tend to refuse to acknowledge they have a problem by using their humor as a shield #like the latter is clearly more harmful than the former #i guess what makes it so interesting is the contrast to me? #we all need to laugh and joke around. that's healthy. but in cases like these positivity is getting in the way of an actual solution #optimism and humor is part of the problem with these characters #idk i just love all the complexity these kinds of characters have to offer #i'm trying to write a character like that right now and it's not fully coming together but it's still a fun exercise trying to write it #character tropes #character types #writing

[nerice]

amazing how even in a stellar 20min brawl episode jjks narrator voice manages to completely ruin all momentum. please stop

#begging mappa to exercise 1 degree of abstraction in their adaptations and just cut out the dumb ass explanations #i promise we will get it. i promise we don't need to know how every minutia of techniques work even if gege is hard for it #it was annoying when characters halted all action to monologue but voice over IS NOT THE SOLUTION #i am so annoyeddddd #the only consolation is that we are confirmed beach episode & 殺戮人形 next week #tho i do realize that explanation will also be voice over and tick me off but WHATEVER the visuals count #elia txts #jjk blogging

[gezondenmooi-net]

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