u/Relevant_Hamster_478

In the first picture, I'm 74 kg, waist at 95 cm (I'm 164 cm tall). In 3 and a half months, I lost 17 kg - waist dropped to 70 cm. I've been fat my whole life. Always dreamed of seeing my abs, and finally, at 31, I got what I wanted - only to ruin it in the next 2 months. Now I'm 76 kg. The trigger was alcohol. I drank a couple of days in a row, which turned into weeks of a bender, and with the booze came the junk food, obviously. I was eating 3000-4000 cal a day, and twice I hit around 5500 cal - and that was while I was still tracking my macros. Eventually I stopped tracking altogether. I can't drink - I personally can't drink in moderation, so I decided to quit completely, at least for a year. Now I know. Achieving something is one thing - keeping it is a whole different beast.

Edit: Some people in the comments are accusing me of using steroids, which surprises me - considering I'm only 57 kg in the middle picture. Honestly, it kind of appeals to me, because I never thought my form was impressive. I never took steroids. I lifted consistently from 2018 to 2022, then stopped. I was dirty bulking back then, but definitely gained a solid amount of muscle. This year I got back into the gym after all these years, and this time I took my diet seriously - around 1100-1300 calories with 130-150 g of protein. Thanks to muscle memory and the fact that I'm short, I looked like this after a 3.5-month cut being only 57 kg. The only thing I took was creatine.

I’d really appreciate it if someone could show me my mistakes by redrawing this.

I've loved drawing since I was a kid, but I never studied it or really tried to improve. I've often tried drawing from imagination because I've always wanted to create comic books. Recently, I decided to take it seriously. I'd really appreciate any feedback or advice on what I should study to turn pieces like these into professional looking comic book covers.

I discovered Dying Fetus about a year and a half ago, and I've been obsessed with them ever since. I've listened to their entire discography, and I love every album.

I've been exploring brutal death metal in general, but I still haven't found anything that makes me feel the way Dying Fetus does.

Suffocation is great, but they're not as fast, and their riffs don't feel as... masculine, for lack of a better word. Internal Bleeding and Devourment lean so heavily into slam that and often I can't even make out the riffs because everything is so distorted and heavy. Nile is too melodic and atmospheric, with almost no groove. Cryptopsy comes the closest structurally. Technical, fast, aggressive, and sometimes groovy, but something still feels off. Cryptopsy gives me the vibe of a tall, sinister vampire who wants to suck you dry, while Dying Fetus sounds like a massive, hulking brute with a machine gun who's about to beat the living shit out of you.

Is there anything else out there like Dying Fetus who combines hardcore "tough guy" riffs, evil sounding tremolos, earth crushing grooves, technical moments, and maybe even growls similar to John Gallagher's (although the vocals aren't a deal-breaker).

Создал я вот такой вот списочек чтения для себя. Руководствовался при его составлении своими крайне скудными познаниями и советами донат-философов. С недавних пор у меня появилось больше времени, я решил начать проходиться по этому списку, уже почти дочитал Размышления Декарта и хотелось бы, чтобы вы помогли мне составить лаконичный список, который поможет охватить перечисленные философские вопросы для глубокого их понимания. Желательно конечно чтобы рекомендуемые статьи/книги были на русском, но если это очень важные труды, которые нельзя пропускать и они не переведены, рекомендуйте их тоже.