I actually am super annoyed with MY “home gym” bc I’ve outgrown it all so it’s just a big tripping hazard at this point *under-desk exercise bike, free weights p much exactly like Ambers*
I had a free-off-the-curb treadmill for a few years, never used it much because outside is more interesting. I had to cut it up with a reciprocating saw to get it out of the basement. (Maybe a treadmill wasn’t what I needed in the first place…)
Michael Steamweed
Howdaheck did you get it in there in the first place?
Dorothy: “By the way, the hallway is just an eerie black void, I fear the entire campus may have been consumed by The Nothing. You wouldn’t happen to have any good ideas for what to name an Empress, would you?”
I think it’s pretty impressive for an elementary schooler to reference an obscure novel by infamous occultist Aleister Crowley myself, but hey…
Yet_One_More_Idiot
Well in the book, “Moon Child” was apparently Bastian’s mother’s nickname, I think possibly from her hippie days. 🙂
aelfwine
I think it’s the other way around, in the movie it was his mother’s name, in the book the point is that he creates the names, he doesn’t need to copy another name.
Yet_One_More_Idiot
I read the book just this year, and y’know what? I honestly can’t remember. xD All I remember is that a) it was loooooooong xD and b) the second half of the book was NOTHING like the sequel! ^^
The book runs out of pages, but the story doesn’t actually end, if I remember correctly—it explicitly still has all those “but that is another story, and will be told another time” loose ends.
Michael Steamweed
Ohhh, you got one of those 3d books. Like, softback or hardback binding? Yeah, that’s the problem; you should have reached for one of the 4d books from the shelf. (Kleinback binding is best) Sorry about that!
Casi
i prefer the 1D Möbius scrolls myself.
Michael Steamweed
Yeah, those are some cool old-school stuff!
Mark
Great, now I’m hearing Lambchop singing “The Song That Never Ends”.
Yet_One_More_Idiot
Strange, I’m hearing the song “Neverending Story” in my head. xD
Kimi
My favorite version of that is “the pit that never ends” for a boytomless pit in an old dnd comic.
No, Void’s got style, void can dance, void wears tearaway pants!
The void consumes all realities, which up to now includes seven billion Bellinis.
StClair
That’s a lot of peach cocktails.
Kimi
I have worries about all the stuff the void consumes, like Amber’s writings, or certain things I have heard about dealing with fur. It can’t be healthy for it.
So does rule34.xxx but it also has some weird shit with Amber, Sarah, and Joyce blowing up like balloons in the Macy’s Parade until they’re all boobs, butts, and thighs. I saw some stuff from Yoto, and some from Willis’ Tunblr, and some from artists I have never seen before.
I was both. I was an English TA and AI at UT in the 90s, teaching composition and Brit Lit in the computer lab. Grad school was demanding, but I would have lost my mind if it hadn’t been for my hours at the gym (weights every other day and a mile swim five mornings per week—breaststroke). After a while, I started getting students’ comments in their reviews as the buff English AI. After I got my PhD, I worked for IBM, writing XSL scrips to streamline documentation production. I miss the teaching. Not so much the IBM crap. Now, I’m retired and have a mostly metal spine, so my jock days are behind me.
Actually, for a great deal of human history, nerds WERE buff, often unusually so.
The focus of technology for thousands of years was, as it is today, on weapons. And for most of that time, weapons were made of metals, so technology was focused on metallurgy. We still trace our history in terms of the dominate metal technology of the age, Bronze, Iron, Steel. And the ‘nerds’ of those ages, the ones with the most intimate and technical knowledge of working with those metals? BLACKSMITHS. Burly, muscular men all, because what they did for a living required it.
You think blacksmiths aren’t nerds? Look up “blacksmith puzzles”. Anyone who makes their own puzzles and games qualifies as a nerd.
Theoretically you can, but the wave functions are not completely solved and no one knows whether the two will interfere constructively or destructively. So either your personality disappears or the positive feedback loop consumes the universe.
I wasn’t sure at first who was in charge right now: Amber or Amazi-girl. Surprisingly it is Amber; which is not whtat I expected when I saw her lifting a weight.
If Amber doesn’t care about anything these days; why is she exercising? Shouldn’t AG be the one working out?
It might just be deeply-ingrained routine. Amber / AG has probably been working out and developing flexibility, skill, and strength since shortly after that long-ago convenience store robbery (with Amber, Ethan, and Sal). How many years is that?
Probably depends on the type of workout. Her arms look pretty free from clothing, so lifting weights with them is probably fine. Also, whilr they might not be working out, people that do physical outdoor jobs have a tendency to wear denim.
well there are probably comfy rompers /jumper ‘dresses’ but there could be some non denim overalls that you can still move around in altho i guess lifting weights is diff than going on a brisk walk (tho one strap being ”undone’ does make it seem like it’s in the way) but other than something super high intensity i don’t think she needs to go outta her way to put on a workout outfit versus just like being in just a sports or normal bra in her own room
plus if the large front pocket was real and not for show, having a cloth to wipe your face or snacks would be good/practical if not some fanny pack/water bottle attachement (searching for it you can find an article about a 91 year old man who goes to the gym in overalls)
lol tho it does make me remembering how everyone wearing jeans in high school having to change into shorts for gym class although while it would’ve been uncomfortable i’m sure some ppl probably could’ve still participated tho after a certain point the coaches didn’t care b/c they got double salary from also teaching social studies and you just get a pass for showing up
but yeah other than it getting stuffy/sweaty i imagine it’s a decent fit or slightly loose as opposed to her wearing anything tight
What I remember more for changing into gym clothes was the worry about sweat and smell than anything regarding function. The only excercise class that I remember the teacher being picky on was self defense, as he didn’t want anyone accidentally having their pants pulled down during class. All pants required strings that you could tie tight.
In general, work jeans tend to be different than fashion jeans. For one thing, no one wants skin tight jeans that don’t breath or flex well when they are working. You also don’t want any synthetic fibers if you are dealing with sparks or flames, since they melt rather than burn. Work jeans don’t tend to breathe or evaporate well, so they tend to be undesirable for indoor workouts or hot weather where you don’t need the protection. I also wouldn’t wear them for doing gymnastics or splits.
On a side note, I think that if you had a loose enough pair of cargo pants, you could probably do anything in them. It might not have the sweat wicking or compression factor that modern althetic wear does, but it should be loose enough to breathe and not constrict movement. Also, my skin has never gotten along well with skin tight clothes in the first place. It has a disagreement with the hard water in a lot of areas, and can rebel in the form of very itchy pain or rashes. I do wish that there was a way to put a water softener only on the laundry machines, as drinking the sodium in softened water isn’t great.
anon
yeah i guess ‘spray on deodorant’ wasn’t as much of a thing back then even if you bought normal deodorant (and idk if any ‘normal’ gym students actually used the showers versus ppl on the sports team but even then seems kinda awkward), tho other than getting a bad grade or detention surprised more ppl didn’t say they didn’t have shorts just to sit out (tho depending on the coach not like everyone worked out/properly built up a sweat, kinda a bs thing that gym was a ‘required’ credit for so long b/c not like anyone learned proper exercises or like yoga stretching/ways to stay in shape or so, but i guess closest thing a teen got to recess/break from studying other subjects [Tho i do remember that meme/stereotype of ‘that one girl with the cookie monster PJ pants, tho we were in the south so even if sweatpants did exist/track suits, ppl just wore shorts even if we didn’t go outside])
i never got into ddr but ppl said that was fun/a good workout. surprised something like ‘just dance ‘ wouldn’t also be made more popular or so tho outside of the wii idk if there are other things similar tho there was that switch ‘fit boxer’ but idk if ppl could get a ‘proper’ workout versus itj ust being fun and ‘slightly active’ for kids or so
So how much we think Amber’s curling here? What’s her PR, or her 1RM? I’m just gonna be conservative to get the ball rolling and say that could easily be 20lbs. That’s actually fairly heavy for a beginner which Amber obviously isn’t I’m just going off visual guesstimation.
150 thoughts on “Weights”
Ana Chronistic
“‘lewd’ photos”
“yeah, they tend to be”
Ana Chronistic
I actually am super annoyed with MY “home gym” bc I’ve outgrown it all so it’s just a big tripping hazard at this point *under-desk exercise bike, free weights p much exactly like Ambers*
Needfuldoer
I had a free-off-the-curb treadmill for a few years, never used it much because outside is more interesting. I had to cut it up with a reciprocating saw to get it out of the basement. (Maybe a treadmill wasn’t what I needed in the first place…)
Michael Steamweed
Howdaheck did you get it in there in the first place?
Needfuldoer
Gravity and minor injury.
Michael Steamweed
Ahh, yes.
*nods knowingly and with permanently-stiff neck
Kazuma Taichi
thankfully mine is just a single dumbbell
one of which I have misplaced and am unaware of it’s location
I have not outgrown it tho
DJTsurugi
pretty sure it’s the pictures Joyce took of under her shirt and pants, and maybe others, who knows how many she took. ~<3
Doctor_Who
Dorothy: “By the way, the hallway is just an eerie black void, I fear the entire campus may have been consumed by The Nothing. You wouldn’t happen to have any good ideas for what to name an Empress, would you?”
Cass
They don’t even need to clear that high a bar with the naming, it’d be hard to do worse than “Moon Child”
Thag Simmons
Eh, Empress Moonchild is on-the-nose, but it’s at least semi-respectable.
Council
Considering it was made up by an elementary schooler, it’s up there.
ThomasQuinn
I think it’s pretty impressive for an elementary schooler to reference an obscure novel by infamous occultist Aleister Crowley myself, but hey…
Yet_One_More_Idiot
Well in the book, “Moon Child” was apparently Bastian’s mother’s nickname, I think possibly from her hippie days. 🙂
aelfwine
I think it’s the other way around, in the movie it was his mother’s name, in the book the point is that he creates the names, he doesn’t need to copy another name.
Yet_One_More_Idiot
I read the book just this year, and y’know what? I honestly can’t remember. xD All I remember is that a) it was loooooooong xD and b) the second half of the book was NOTHING like the sequel! ^^
Kimi
Name an Empress? Is this a reference to something?
Doctor_Who
The Neverending Story.
Clif
False advertising. It ended.
The bookstore wouldn’t give me my money back.
AbacusWizard
The book runs out of pages, but the story doesn’t actually end, if I remember correctly—it explicitly still has all those “but that is another story, and will be told another time” loose ends.
Michael Steamweed
Ohhh, you got one of those 3d books. Like, softback or hardback binding? Yeah, that’s the problem; you should have reached for one of the 4d books from the shelf. (Kleinback binding is best) Sorry about that!
Casi
i prefer the 1D Möbius scrolls myself.
Michael Steamweed
Yeah, those are some cool old-school stuff!
Mark
Great, now I’m hearing Lambchop singing “The Song That Never Ends”.
Yet_One_More_Idiot
Strange, I’m hearing the song “Neverending Story” in my head. xD
Kimi
My favorite version of that is “the pit that never ends” for a boytomless pit in an old dnd comic.
foamy
Found Lionel Hutz’s alias.
Rose by Any other Name
**I understood that reference.jpg**
Dorothy: “Also, I keep finding pieces of blue wood and roman centurion armor in the void for some reason. Weird.”
(I’ve been rewatching Season 5 of late).
Envy
I’m pretty sure that black void is just their shared half-bath with the lights off.
Michael Steamweed
Remember, kids, gaze into the abyss, and scream into the void. Don’t mix them up.
(The abyss doesn’t like getting screamed at; it’s triggering of their past trauma. And the void doesn’t like being gazed at; it’s just creepy, okay?)
Joanna Cole
No, Void’s got style, void can dance, void wears tearaway pants!
The void consumes all realities, which up to now includes seven billion Bellinis.
StClair
That’s a lot of peach cocktails.
Kimi
I have worries about all the stuff the void consumes, like Amber’s writings, or certain things I have heard about dealing with fur. It can’t be healthy for it.
Acebender
Woop. First time I’ve found Amber hot.
EpochFlame
welcome to the club
Jo_cubstar
The NSFW patreon has some hott AF amber content
Opus the Poet
So does rule34.xxx but it also has some weird shit with Amber, Sarah, and Joyce blowing up like balloons in the Macy’s Parade until they’re all boobs, butts, and thighs. I saw some stuff from Yoto, and some from Willis’ Tunblr, and some from artists I have never seen before.
DJTsurugi
to be fair, I find none of the characters hot, largely because I’d feel creepy seeing as they’re all half my age. ~<3
Clif
You can find someone objectively hot without having or wanting a personal involvement.
Decidedly Orthogonal
Ah, but they were 2/3 your age when DoA debuted, and possibly older than you when Willis first wrote them…
Michael Steamweed
Willis first started writing them in the 1960s, right? Like, all that “Summer of ’69” stuff?
Pergola
Hacker Amber is my favorite Amber.
Sirksome
You can’t be buff and a nerd. That’s two things and all humans are only allowed to be one thing and make that their whole identity!
Jeremiah
The union between nerd and jock AKA nock. Or jerd if you prefer.
Doctor_Who
As clearly explained by Vincent Price.
Michael Steamweed
1. I have never seen that before! Thank you!
2. Now I very much want a copy of that poster! :O
eh, whatever
Chessboxing.
Chaucer59
I was both. I was an English TA and AI at UT in the 90s, teaching composition and Brit Lit in the computer lab. Grad school was demanding, but I would have lost my mind if it hadn’t been for my hours at the gym (weights every other day and a mile swim five mornings per week—breaststroke). After a while, I started getting students’ comments in their reviews as the buff English AI. After I got my PhD, I worked for IBM, writing XSL scrips to streamline documentation production. I miss the teaching. Not so much the IBM crap. Now, I’m retired and have a mostly metal spine, so my jock days are behind me.
Michael Steamweed
Combining a Jock and a Nerd can produce a Cyborg. And, voila, you are that! Congratulations on your progression!
anon
reminds me of that line from the good place ‘chidi being surprisingly jacked’
Deanatay
Actually, for a great deal of human history, nerds WERE buff, often unusually so.
The focus of technology for thousands of years was, as it is today, on weapons. And for most of that time, weapons were made of metals, so technology was focused on metallurgy. We still trace our history in terms of the dominate metal technology of the age, Bronze, Iron, Steel. And the ‘nerds’ of those ages, the ones with the most intimate and technical knowledge of working with those metals? BLACKSMITHS. Burly, muscular men all, because what they did for a living required it.
You think blacksmiths aren’t nerds? Look up “blacksmith puzzles”. Anyone who makes their own puzzles and games qualifies as a nerd.
Cybersnark
James Kirk was a buff and athletic nerd.
And Jean-Luc Picard was a smart and well-read jock.
Mark
Theoretically you can, but the wave functions are not completely solved and no one knows whether the two will interfere constructively or destructively. So either your personality disappears or the positive feedback loop consumes the universe.
EpochFlame
how is she multitasking with one hand?
Jeremiah
She is build different.
Kyrik Michalowski
I wasn’t sure at first who was in charge right now: Amber or Amazi-girl. Surprisingly it is Amber; which is not whtat I expected when I saw her lifting a weight.
If Amber doesn’t care about anything these days; why is she exercising? Shouldn’t AG be the one working out?
Jeremiah
She can not care and still want to be able to beat up an asshole if needed.
Taffy
It’s called “going through the motions”, and she makes it look good.
Gigafreak
Exercise can be a way to inflict pain and/or punishment on oneself without resprting to something that would obviously be seen as self-harm.
Opus the Poet
+1!
Michael Steamweed
It might just be deeply-ingrained routine. Amber / AG has probably been working out and developing flexibility, skill, and strength since shortly after that long-ago convenience store robbery (with Amber, Ethan, and Sal). How many years is that?
Jo_cubstar
Okay but who works out in denim overalls, tho?
Jeremiah
Hot people that’s who.
Kimi
Probably depends on the type of workout. Her arms look pretty free from clothing, so lifting weights with them is probably fine. Also, whilr they might not be working out, people that do physical outdoor jobs have a tendency to wear denim.
anon
well there are probably comfy rompers /jumper ‘dresses’ but there could be some non denim overalls that you can still move around in altho i guess lifting weights is diff than going on a brisk walk (tho one strap being ”undone’ does make it seem like it’s in the way) but other than something super high intensity i don’t think she needs to go outta her way to put on a workout outfit versus just like being in just a sports or normal bra in her own room
plus if the large front pocket was real and not for show, having a cloth to wipe your face or snacks would be good/practical if not some fanny pack/water bottle attachement (searching for it you can find an article about a 91 year old man who goes to the gym in overalls)
lol tho it does make me remembering how everyone wearing jeans in high school having to change into shorts for gym class although while it would’ve been uncomfortable i’m sure some ppl probably could’ve still participated tho after a certain point the coaches didn’t care b/c they got double salary from also teaching social studies and you just get a pass for showing up
but yeah other than it getting stuffy/sweaty i imagine it’s a decent fit or slightly loose as opposed to her wearing anything tight
Kimi
What I remember more for changing into gym clothes was the worry about sweat and smell than anything regarding function. The only excercise class that I remember the teacher being picky on was self defense, as he didn’t want anyone accidentally having their pants pulled down during class. All pants required strings that you could tie tight.
In general, work jeans tend to be different than fashion jeans. For one thing, no one wants skin tight jeans that don’t breath or flex well when they are working. You also don’t want any synthetic fibers if you are dealing with sparks or flames, since they melt rather than burn. Work jeans don’t tend to breathe or evaporate well, so they tend to be undesirable for indoor workouts or hot weather where you don’t need the protection. I also wouldn’t wear them for doing gymnastics or splits.
On a side note, I think that if you had a loose enough pair of cargo pants, you could probably do anything in them. It might not have the sweat wicking or compression factor that modern althetic wear does, but it should be loose enough to breathe and not constrict movement. Also, my skin has never gotten along well with skin tight clothes in the first place. It has a disagreement with the hard water in a lot of areas, and can rebel in the form of very itchy pain or rashes. I do wish that there was a way to put a water softener only on the laundry machines, as drinking the sodium in softened water isn’t great.
anon
yeah i guess ‘spray on deodorant’ wasn’t as much of a thing back then even if you bought normal deodorant (and idk if any ‘normal’ gym students actually used the showers versus ppl on the sports team but even then seems kinda awkward), tho other than getting a bad grade or detention surprised more ppl didn’t say they didn’t have shorts just to sit out (tho depending on the coach not like everyone worked out/properly built up a sweat, kinda a bs thing that gym was a ‘required’ credit for so long b/c not like anyone learned proper exercises or like yoga stretching/ways to stay in shape or so, but i guess closest thing a teen got to recess/break from studying other subjects [Tho i do remember that meme/stereotype of ‘that one girl with the cookie monster PJ pants, tho we were in the south so even if sweatpants did exist/track suits, ppl just wore shorts even if we didn’t go outside])
Needfuldoer
Amber does.
Newlland(Henryvolt)
I still envy her master level to multi-task.
anon
i never got into ddr but ppl said that was fun/a good workout. surprised something like ‘just dance ‘ wouldn’t also be made more popular or so tho outside of the wii idk if there are other things similar tho there was that switch ‘fit boxer’ but idk if ppl could get a ‘proper’ workout versus itj ust being fun and ‘slightly active’ for kids or so
Sirksome
So how much we think Amber’s curling here? What’s her PR, or her 1RM? I’m just gonna be conservative to get the ball rolling and say that could easily be 20lbs. That’s actually fairly heavy for a beginner which Amber obviously isn’t I’m just going off visual guesstimation.