u/Ian_Campbell

“Forgot your toothbrush or just need a snack? Home2 MKT® has you covered.”

I forgot to bring food back, staying with family all day, took my sleeping medicine mirtazapine and I'm starving. Can't drive, and everywhere is closed. Figure I can top off with some snacks at the advertised market and that Hiltons are good it'll be a bit of a markup but fine.

I asked how much the small microwave pizza was, maybe worth $3 max at a grocery store, and it was $11.60! They had no shelf stable real food options which never could have justified such a price anyway. A snickers bar is $6. I ended up buying a single (broken) packet of pop tarts which was listed at $2.50 but they charged me $3 somehow which goes above the 7% local sales tax.

Nothing about this is honest to have amenities deceptively advertised only to be an actual scam that would make San Francisco airport vending machines blush. As a "guest" of any hospitality industry I'm insulted after I was already prepared to accept a 100% markup without trouble. To be put in this situation is deeper than just an insult, it is humiliating by the very principle of the matter because to accept such a degrading insult would be even worse than to be kept up at night by hunger.

If this is how the company blatantly violates my trust when I'm in a pinch of this nature, how am I supposed to trust what they do with my data? I don't. I'm 34 years old and would not want to do any future business with an unethical company that allows any such unscrupulous practice to go on openly as official policies in any of their branded locations, not just some employee misconduct but actual policy.

I don't even want to be bribed out of this. A company could only clean its reputation from such bad practices being exposed by thoroughly purging the practices, reprimanding them, reforming them, reaccounting for what goes on at all of their locations so something like this could never slip by again, and successfully maintaining the repair.

I wouldn't have been mad if they specifically said they had no food at all, but to offer this extortion is dishonest by falsely representing a supposed amenity that in fact doesn't actually exist by any reasonable standard. And if you're lied to like this, not only by the amenity itself but also the checkout price discrepancy, there is no trust in the relationship as a customer.

I haven't really trained since 2023. In my history I had the lifting bug in college and then on and off after I would have phases of more and less passion. I peaked in 2021 squatting 585 with speed, sumo dl 675, strict ohp 285 at a bodyweight around 270 at 5'10". Late 2021 my pec repair surgery was devastating, it was from an old 2018 injury and the recovery from the surgery had done more damage than recovering from the original injury. I made a comeback in 2022 but money becoming so tight and having focuses in music the stress just knocked me back out of the gym and I didn't feel right so after another brief comeback in 2023 where maybe I squatted 545x2 or something, I was done.

3 days ago I came in and worked up to a 455 back squat single beltless I was decently happy with because I had 500 in me, about the max I would have after these hiatuses, only limited by external rotation flexibility being able to hold the bar without growing discomfort. I have like 2 more months until I move, and I'm just looking to explode with muscle memory but getting the most I can out of it. It is my suspicion that something like Rippetoe SS will actually be ideal for this, but I may want to go EVEN LOWER in volume at first in order to allow the weights I perform to keep increasing longer without fatigue accumulating.

Is this a sound approach? Something like working up to an RPE 8-9 squat set of 5 reps and then adding some trivial backoff bloodflow assistance work like high rep belt squats or quad extensions, not too much so I can do high frequency? My idea was to settle in slowing the rate of weight increases and adding more sets with slightly lower intensity when I feel it plateauing, then to maybe reduce volume a bit again and go for weight increases to test my maxes before I move?

I will do all manner of normal lat training and upper body pump work at higher volumes but I'm most concerned with my back squat and standing strict press. If you have protips on regaining grip strength, I appreciate that advice too.

If you had a "king of the hill" zone in center stage while the further one goes outside it, the faster they will begin to passively accrue percent after a certain short but decent amount of free time that resets upon entering the center zone. It would basically be between the middle of the side plats, and not go as high as the top plat. I think this would be a fun online competitive mode because the incentives would begin to line up a bit more with the interaction that makes people like melee. Rather than allowing campy players to burn out someone's patience and abuse the good will of their opponent, a penalty would be introduced for the bad strategy. This problem seems to be worse online because there are no social incentives that penalize campy play, and the field of lower levels of play has people playing for fun rather than money and with fewer skill tools to deal with camping, so it's a shit sandwich when people are camped the whole time and out of their own greater sportsmanship they approach and reward the bad strategy.

If we make a parallel to FPS games, Call of Duty's team deathmatch totally stopped being any fun with skill based matchmaking not only because maps lost natural structure that funneled people into the action, but because camping became structurally encouraged in a skill based matchmaking environment that challenged people. All of the modes that would become competitively viable, required interaction.

Regardless of the modding idea, could be a decent idea for melee inspired games. This is just a passing idea to bounce around for fun and see what people think, not a "melee needs this" kind of thing. However, because melee has grown, having more side events and an entire competitive ecosystem could be cool to grow over time.

I'm curious what people, particularly residents, think of the pros and cons of life in this area compared to other locations in Bali for quiet, practical, creative remote work living for an indefinite duration, 1 year lease. Having seen people discuss the practicalities of living in Sanur, and other people recommending like essentially oversaturated expat enclaves of various types, I'm wondering if I just want something different from other people, or if there are hidden advantages of those more expensive areas and downsides for the area I have found. Most of what I want to do is just work, compose, take quiet walks, lift weights, and eat. I'm used to eating very cheaply/poorly in the US due to the cost of living. I hope that finding myself a part of a relaxed environment will help my contemplation, routine, health, etc.

Here are the very compelling aspects of it that I found. 1) Aside from a few roosters, the street the place is on has zero through traffic so it's very quiet and "homey" to me. The price and space are also excellent and I believe these factors will all help contribute toward feeling more at ease. 2) In addition to the proximity to local warungs and shops, it also has a large supermarket nearby. 3) There is a gym within 1.2 km, the gym has a squat rack, and I see actual Indonesians there in the pics so they can't be charging crazy influencer prices. Obviously the place has AC, high speed internet is available, and it's a ways inland with maybe a bit of elevation so I don't think it's a flooding zone. It's not a scam or anything as I checked out the place myself and the owner's ID and tax records were legit. 4) Finally, being directly Northeast of Denpasar, it appears catching a ride into Sanur for a beach walk, dinner, what have you is extremely reasonable.

When compared to Sanur itself, the price was an enormous advantage. And it's even significantly cheaper than the places we looked at in Renon too. This just makes it seem like a total win/win for daily life because I don't necessarily prefer things feeling crowded right out of the little street you're on.

The individual place is so beautiful, and previous tenants were apparently a Dutch family. So I'm wondering, do the people who find this type of lifestyle just happen to talk about it way less? Do people usually look to stay among more people like themselves? Maybe since I'm an American and used to feeling alone in my hometown this doesn't bother me. I'm just curious why such an apparent goldilocks zone with so much practical location access, is basically not discussed when it comes to places for actually living for a year or more. Apologies if I'm ruining a secret or something.

This source is discussed constantly so I wanted to share the new Early Music Sources video entirely about it. It should provide great historical context to anyone looking to make use of these exercises because their scholarship and production value is top quality.