Old-Doomguy

If you don't, it's time to start. Why? I've been a gamer and guitar player all my life, and I did some sports when I was like 7-12. I was never a fat kid however, quite the contrary as I wasn't fed enough at home. My brother however managed to get really obese because he moved to our mom and he stayed in front of that computer for 20 years. He didn't leave it until February this year, and he told me that he's started to take walks and trying to eat less. Still spending most of his free time with the computer though! We live about 1200km from each other and we meet once every five years (because he never wanted to leave the computer). He was almost 200kg. I'm not an athlete myself but I've always ridden my bike to work which is sort of a workout and since 2014 I have kids which is a constant workout, lol. I noticed I wasn't able to do more than 2-3 pushups about a year ago. So I started doing them everyday and I did planks etc. I could plank for like 20 seconds. I started going to the gym 2-3 times a week and doing compound exercise for about 45 minutes per session. So a few hours a week. Pushups is like 5 minutes if you do several sets. I can now do over a 100 pushups per day and plank till I fall asleep of boredom. My resting heart rate is 58. I have gained 8kg muscle mass and I have unlimited power! That has made me enjoy life more and I have more energy for my kids and my sick wife, and I still have time to play games. I haven't played this often since I was 23! (I'm 34) I had my brother do the same compound exercise that I do, ie squats, barbell rows, lat pulldowns, deadlifts, military press and bench press. He does this. 6 different exercise, three per session. He has lost almost 60kg since February. 60kg! And he still has time to enjoy gaming - but he doesn't wanna spend 8 hours a day on games anymore. He doesn't even go to the gym, he does it at home. And you don't need a gym or tons of equipment. During covid I have barley visited the gym. And I have no room or money for equipment but I have two dumbells and a whole body. I use them. You can to and it will make you feel better about yourself and you will enjoy the game even more. Trust me on this. I didn't believe it myself until I got there. I just wished I'd start while I was still young.

I myself wasn't active here on this forum, but on the swedish Sweclockers is where I discussed Doom. I've always been discussion classic doom since 1994 but it didnät occur to me that I should join this forum until just recently. I've read this forum for years without registering though, even so back in the Doom3-era. I was very hyped for Doom 3, I even "played" that leaked alpha or whatever it was, lol, just go get a taste of it. The alpha fried my PSU at the time, because it wasn't really enough to fuel my Radeon 9800pro which I had then. When the game was released I did play it but I actually got bored by it. Because it was all fun and good looking for the first few hours, with cooler monster closets and tight spaces rather than less linear and more open maps. But since the entire game was pretty much more of the same rather than rich and varied, I grew tired. Eventually my computer got totally fried in which I had to resort to a pc with nvidia FX5200, which wasn't good for anything at all, I just stopped playing doom for a long time, but in 2008 I actually played it through on the original Xbox :D

Well you once rekd that dudes video about "The Doom unity remake" so he removed it, which was entertaining. You a good man.

GZDoom is "ok" for LANplay but if you wanna take it online you're better of with for example Zandronum.

The Vortex/Quantum project. Had some really great fun with this game back in mid-90s. There was also som strange game called The journeyman project. Both of these were some kind of FMV-games/Myst-like games. I also enjoyed Novastorm which was a good arcade shooter-like. Theres also Wetlands which is a cool storydriven onrails-game.

So moving forward, I've found that my squats aren't perfect, but tend to become a good-morning on the way up. So now I'm gonna work on that before progressing the weights. I'm gonna try some highbar squats for a few weeks and squat without shoes. Continuing on without good form is a recipe for injury.

I might buy it when it's cheap. I've really only played Demons souls and Bloodborne. Ironically, the Soul-game I've actually only felt compelled to complete was a souls-copy known as Lords of the fallen.

I tried this with my 2013 ROG Laptop with i7, 16gb RAM and 670mx. A few years back, dont think there was a low-spec version at that time. Anyway, it didn't work good at all on that machine but I've gotten a more powerful desktop form my brother, with Ryzen and 32gb of ram and a 980ti. Gonna give this a go on that PC.

I skipped this because I figured my old gaming-laptop wouldn't handle it the way it was meant to be played. But I got a more powerful desktop now so Im gonna make sure to try this Soon(tm)

You could always try LZDoom which is more lightweight.

I've only ever had input lag on consoles when I've forgot to activate game-mode on the tv. I've played Doom64 on the handheld switch, didnt notice any lag there. It actually feels smoother than on the PC - but these arent Unity, correct?

Here's me doing 55kg military press. I did 5x5 of these. Very close to failure, hopefully I can add some weight next week.

I cannot scale myself, lol, but I enjoy playing with GZDoom because it's easy and most all wads work - I have a very limited play-time so I don't wanna spend anymore time that what it takes to download the wad and then drag n drop it to gzdoom. I prefer limit removing but I generally avoid mouselook and jumping. I tend to not enjoy gameplay mods or TCs much though.

Are you playing UV? Did you try syncing a controller?

I'm at the gym three times per week, don't think I can manage to squeeze in any more days. Day 1: squats, bench, barbell rows - 5x5 on all Day 2: squats, deadlifts (1x5), military press Day 3: squats, bench, barbell rows I keep increasing 2.5-5kg every session but I stall and reset back to low weights in order to try again. I stall at 130kg squats, 80kg bench and 160kg deadlift for reps. So I reset back and try again, that's my usual approach. I've recently had the covid so I'm not stalled right at thus moment but will probably be stalled within 2 months or .

👍 Any tips for a good switch up when stalling on the squats, bench, deadlifts, military press with 5x5? What kind if variety could be beneficial in my case?

I am a Swede and I have a russian friend. Well he's been here in Sweden since he was a teenager so he's more Swedish than russian now. He does not approve of this, but he also warns about the propaganda and lies from ALL directions. Not only the Russian news may benefit from telling lies. Regarding Putin: Fuck that loser.

Whaddya mean, "nope"? He will not get strong by lifting heavy weights? If he's a novice everything will feel heavy and I'm sure he'll become stronger. I didn't go in to rep ranges at all but I myself prefer 5 reps. If I do 15 reps I risk the form even if it is lightweight.

Well it's never too late. You can begin tomorrow.

Most likely the soreness isn't a problem. To become strong you have to lift heavy and to gain muscle mass you have to eat and rest after said weight lifting.

I have a sedentary job, but when I was young I worked as a lumberjack and that made - and kept - me strong without working out.

OK I respect that, but lifting heavy-ass weights will NOT make you even more skinny, quite the contrary :)

OK, not sure I follow. You're skinny and because of that you dont need to lift?

" -turbo x Causes player movement to be x% as fast as normal. Valid values are 10–255, with 100 being normal. Values larger than 100 are considered cheating" Yes, adding this command line parameter will have it active before even starting the game. So you just gotta add -turbo X, where X is a number of your chosing. The difference being that console commands are used ingame on the get-go.

And tonight it's squats, press and deadlifts on the menu! I can't wait to get to the gym. It's gonna be 92.5kg squats and 130kg deadlifts. Im slowly progressing back to my previous lifts, which was 130kg squats and 170kg deadlifts. Im hoping to do 200kg deadlifts during 2022.