So my favorite way to get my cardio in when it’s cold, icy, and shitty out like it’s been the last few days is to fire up the ol’ video games, put on my chainmail (it’s like a weight vest but cooler) and get on my mini-stepper-elliptical-thing. You know, they look like this.
And then work out while playing.
I did this yesterday with Horizon Zero Dawn.
Now, normally I do about 45-50 minutes. Yesterday, however, I was so into the game that I lost sense of time and ended up doing an hour and a half before I realized it.
So, I can officially rate Horizon Zero Dawn 2 sore legs out of 2.
Back before I got sick: I got a cheap stationary exercise bike (thrift stores often have old ones with busted electronics but the pedals work, dude) and rigged a desk on top of the handlebars with a piece of plywood covered in soft foam and edged so the mouse and keyboard can’t slide off and my arms have soft stuff to rest on… and so I could pedal away while playing games. It works, too.
…that’s brilliant. I’m not an exercise bike person…I’m a jogging or elliptical person, just personal preference…but I’m going to bring this up to our one friend who’s been trying to find a way to motivate himself to get through his stationary bike workouts.
Is there a mini-stepper brand/model you recommend? This could work really well for me.
I just got the Gold’s Gym brand from walmart, on the basis of ‘that’s what they had’.
It works just fine. No complaints.
Sweet; thanks! Any general notes on using it properly?
Not many, it’s pretty self explanatory. It will seem a bit stiff to use at first, but once you get going and it warms up it’ll go a lot smoother.
remember that when picking a DOOR lock, you have to apply a little bit of pressure to your tension wrench (the thing that you use to turn the knob). too little or too much and you wont be able to pick the door open. you can use anything for the tension wrench. a bobby pin. bits of wire. a paper clip. etc.
its best to be completely silent when youre picking locks bc theres this small ‘click’ when youre picking that you might miss if youre using headphones or listening to music.
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if youre picking one of these
you jam something thin and long above one of the rotation dials and you push up on the shackle.
. if its one of these
you get yourself some shims. (or make one. you can make shims out of fucking soda cans), you wiggle them in the tiny space between the shackle and the body of the lock, and you pop these suckers open.
. for a chain deadbolt,
you get something flexible but sturdy and you just push this fucker down
. for one of these rotating combination locks
you can also shim this motherfucker open. jam your shims between the shackle and the body and pry it unlocked. if, for some reason, you dont wanna shim it open, maybe you dont have a shim or you just like a challenge, this bitch can be decoded ridiculously easy. heres what you do:
spin this bitch to the right about two or three times to “reset” it. then you pull up on the shackle a bit, and turn it right slowly until you hear a click. your number is two spaces further. then you turn left 360 degrees until you land on the right number again, and start turning this motherfucker left until it stops. when it stops, turn right. if its loose, its the wrong number, keep going left. if its not loose, you have the right number, and you turn right all the way until this bitch pops
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now you know how to pick several common locks!!!!! congratulations!!!!
“The pair built two prototypes, a “Happy Time” loom built from a rotary telephone and a Speak & Spell style baby’s toy, and an “Apocaloom.” Hyyppä documented the construction and use of the “Happy Time” loom on her personal website. “Although looms have become hi-tech through industrialisation and accelerating mass production, the basic design of these useful machines that also inspired programming have remained largely the same,” she wrote. “Our aim was to explore these principles in the context of electro-waste by building loom prototypes.”
The functional little “Happy Time” loom plays a children’s song when the receiver is lifted, a common action during weaving. It’s a tiny loom, just a prototype, and Hyyppä uses it to weave a piece of discarded plastic into scarf. For the project, all the weaving materials was discarded plastic and other bits of garbage.”
This project is describe throughout the piece as post-apocalyptic, but it seems pretty solarpunk to me. Reduce, reuse, recycle!
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