MentalEdge

@MentalEdge@ani.social

Eskating cyclist, gamer and enjoyer of anime. Probably an artist. Also I code sometimes, pretty much just to mod titanfall 2 tho.

Introverted, yet I enjoy discussion to a fault.

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MentalEdge,

TFW no animatronic paper waifu

MentalEdge,

Yes

MentalEdge, (edited )

I really don’t like the trend of looking at peoples bodies and using that alone to determine whether the amount they are currently eating is insufficient or excessive. The way someone looks just doesn’t tell you that except for at the really extreme ends of obesity and starvation.

We don’t know enough. Only she does, and whether she is acting upon what she knows in a way that’s healthy, isn’t something the commenters can know, either.

That does not look like 35kg to me, unless she is tiny af. Which she might be. The self harm scars in other posts obviously mean she’s been not ok at some point, but may not necessarily mean she’s still struggling now.

While I’m all for encouraging healthy living for everyone, that does not look like catabolysis, or like so much definition to be cause for worry due to a fat percentage approaching nothing.

People can look very skinny, or quite thick, without reaching a point that comes with significantly increased health risks. If nutritional needs are being met, muscle and fat mass can vary a lot without being unhealthy.

That’s not to say you can go as low as you like as long as you eat right and avoid catabolysis, low body fat has some drawbacks of it’s own, but they only kick in when approaching very low percentages. Fatty tissue serves many biological purposes and as such eliminating it entirely or pushing towards a very small number, has adverse metabolic, pulmonary and immunological affects. Above all, the nervous system is absolutely reliant of fatty tissue.

MentalEdge, (edited )

That’s lipolysis.

The difference is that under normal circumstances the body does not consume muscle, nor all its different kinds of fat stores. Not all fat in the body serves as mere energy storage. (The brain is about 60% fat, lipids are a crucial molecule in the way neural cells function)

Lipolysis is also a more short-term process (hours), while catabolysis occurs long-term to facilitate continued functioning during prolonged starvation (days-weeks).

Basically, your body has started consuming parts of itself that it will not survive without in the long term. The final stages consume the proteins that process proteins, meaning eating again at that point won’t save you, because your body is no longer capable of metabolising food.

MentalEdge,

Not at all.

I’m no medical expert either, I’ve just looked into this in my endeavour to take care of myself.

I’ve talked to both doctors and nutritionists about my body composition, and what to look out for if I want to alter it in some direction.

I really don’t like the way my face rounds out when my body fat gets to the 13-15% range, so most of my life I’ve maintained a mere 8-12% by altering my diet whenever things go in a direction I don’t want.

That’s easier as a man, but as a tall dude with disproportionately long limbs, who doesn’t get bulky even when I strength train, it does mean the rest of me ends up looking skinny to the point I start getting comments about “starving myself”, even though the numbers aren’t even close to unusual.

I do have muscle, I just have to flex them for it to really show, and because my limbs are long, and my fat genetically tends towards intravascular, people looking at me come to complete nonsense conclusions.

That I have personal experience with people trying to feed me more than I want to or actually need to eat, makes it especially irksome seeing it done to others.

Sure, if you have full overview of someone’s diet, exercise, and body composition, as well as a graph showing the changes in those things over time, then you could start making conclusions about what kind of changes may be warranted.

But someone’s weight and torso from a single point in time, tells you literally nothing unless they are visibly in the process of wasting, or morbidly obese.

MentalEdge,

An increase from Dungeon Meshi. Izu is here, things will only go up from now on.

The next three episodes are gonna be nearly ALL killer, no filler. It’s time to get back to the meat of the plot (though the dungeon meshi plot veggies are very good and important, too).

MentalEdge,

This was maybe the best joke once the series got started.

The manga shifts to a much more serious and emotional tone with the occasional gag once Helck and “Anne” get portaled off the mainland.

The anime didn’t quite pull off the execution of that I think.

MentalEdge,

Netflix or the high seas.

MentalEdge,

Sure am!

Gonna put in some work on Thunder, wait for my pizza dough to rise, cook that up, and then sit down to watch the new episode.

Can’t wait!

MentalEdge,

This is a chapter cover from the manga. The mangaka is Ryoko Kui.

MentalEdge,

I love the self-improvement club bros. They are such bros.

MentalEdge,

This fanart is a cross-over between Frieren, and Dungeon Meshi, and this is the community of the latter. Both series center on a party of characters featuring an elven mage in a fantasy setting that has dungeons and mimics.

Both series are very good. If you like Sousou no Frieren, chances are you’ll like this one, too.

Marcille, the other elf, is a very different character. Unlike Frieren, she is very affectionate, and forms close relationships effortlessly. Though it’s only barely become relevant in the anime, the fact that she will outlive the shorter-lived people she loves, eventually also becomes a central element of the plot (having read the manga).

The latest episode featured a nightmare sequence that revealed she carries a deep trauma, because as a child, she watched someone very important to her age to death before she even began puberty. Unlike most elves, it turns out she didn’t grow up among other elves.

https://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/9f4e7877-bd2f-4f6f-9a41-cc7cb3fe6d85.webp

MentalEdge,

It is Netflix exclusive. Episodes are coming out each thursday, we are up to 19 out of 24.

The 24 episodes will get the anime to roughly halfway, at the current rate that the anime is adapting chapters. The manga is complete, and though it is not announced, everything points to a second season finishing up the adaptation in the future.

MentalEdge,

Or you could read the manga.

Personally I think this one story is worth jumping through every hoop one might imagine.

I hold it above all other manga, and with how stellar the adaptation has been, I can’t imagine it won’t soon be true for the anime as well.

MentalEdge,

Either way, keep an ear to the ground on this one. It’s a masterpiece that I think as many people as possible should get to enjoy 👍

World Guide Ch.8 - Iyo/Maizuru (ani.social)

It’s unclear whether the spell Maizuru put on Izutsumi is actually lethal. This World Guide chapter reveals that the spell is called “Ninpo: Babysitter” which suggests a much less ghoulish purpose, and that she in fact developed the spell for keeping track of Shuro when he was a child....

MentalEdge,

This one page comic is one of the few depictions of Shuro’s father that exist (who was/is in a relationship with Maizuru, effectively one of his slaves) and it has always creeped me the f out. He is never portrayed in the main story.

https://ani.social/pictrs/image/fd543692-80d2-4389-a0a5-567706506240.webphttps://ani.social/pictrs/image/3f44bafe-2405-45bb-9a54-a4723676f8f3.webp

Doing some math (Maizuru is presently 41, and Izu is only 17) she can’t be much younger than 30 in this comic if she was “gifted” Izu at the time. Her relationship with Shuro’s father isn’t described negatively, but Maizuru only has bad things to say in the world guide comics. And connecting the dots on a drunkard slave-owner with a romantic obsession with one of them, doesn’t make for a pretty picture.

MentalEdge,

@kaboom36

I’ll just quickly confirm two things explained in the world guide.

The spell Maizuru used to keep track of Izu may not actually be lethal. She used to use the exact same spell to keep Shuro from running off as a child, so it might be that all it does is scare the subject.

Second, Izu wants her curse broken, but it wasn’t placed on her by the Nakamotos. She was already a beast-man when they bought her from a freak show.

MentalEdge,

Not sure. The world guide explicitly mentions it’s a spell that causes a monster to chase you, with a knife. The intended effect is obviously to cause fear of death, but it’s unclear whether it will actually proceed to kill the subject given the chance.

https://ani.social/pictrs/image/69544a47-a2ff-430f-bb55-063f35423bd1.webp

MentalEdge,

Eventually I’ll need to appoint others, but right now most posts getting reported are mine lol.

For now the real job is keeping things active. That was hard at first, but over time I’ve automated away most of the tedium.

Some others expressed interest so I published it.

MentalEdge,

The latency limit is caused by the activity queue that was introduced in v19.

Servers can only talk as fast as round time allows, because Lemmy instances now keep track that each event actually does get federated, and in the right order.

That last point means each event only gets sent once acknowledgement of the last one is received, creating a hard limit for how many events can be communicated, depending on ping. A mere two per second with a latency of 500ms.

This serial process will obviously need to be parallelized. But that’s difficult.

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