Michael569

Forget about AAA, it is a mass market. In your situation (forgive me if this sounds rude) you have neither the time nor the resources to compete on AAA market. This market is full. Instead, think about smallest viable market you can serve. Create a concept of game that does not require 1,200$ PC to run but that actually carries a message and grabs the user with the content and the story rather than graphics, gore and ultra-realistic ragdoll. Never try to serve everyone because you'll end up serving no one and your game will be pissed & shat over by likes of Besthesda, Ubisoft and EA. Who is your "ideal player"? What are they looking for in game? Why are they disgusted with the current gaming industry? Can you serve them something simple but beautiful, creative and with a story worth an oscar? You don't need to spend 20 millions to create that sort of game. Consider reading Seth Godin's - This is Marketing to understand what the smallest viable market is and how to get there.

@Superfluo to a degree Supplemental phytochemicals are mostly just big ass doses of synthetic antioxidants and their main use is what he said. What I'd add is that natural phytochemicals and polyphenols have so many effects that we don't even know how to observe most of them yet. For me personally the immunomodulatory effects of polyphenols on the level of gut microbiome is absolutely fascinating.

@KaRzual awesome! btw about that itching, let me just changewhat I said and tell you to go see your doc. Just to be sure that pancreas is not inflamed or anything like that. Better be safe than sorry

Definitely cut down on protein and fats, especially those of animal origin in favour of some good sources of carbs: like brown rice, quinoa, buckwheat amaranth, beans, lentils, sweet potatoes. More vegetables (half of every plate) and more fruits (at least 4 per day + some berries ) and the constipation will sort itself out, I can pretty much guarantee that. The bowels need a lot of fibre to move the stuff through. Lot of hydration as well. In terms of itching, it is fairly unspecific symptom but liver could be involved, I would say it is related to the gut but it may fix itself once you start getting more plants in At the same time no harm in getting some blood work including liver enzymes, kidney filtration etc. Your doc will know. All the best"

Mostly safe although sometimes there is the risk of heat bubbles forming and as you mix the stuff up a boiling sauce can splash into your face. A the same time I wouldn't put my testis near the thing when it is on.

good stuff!

That's over 350g of protein if my calculation is right provided that 1g of protein has around 4kcal. That's a LOT! You are asking for some serious trouble with that amount of aminos pooling down your gut and kidneys and no fibre to help move them through. Without any fibre you are at massive risk of protein putrefaction in the distal part of colon and potential formation of polyps even worse in the future, some serious consequences could come out of that. Definitely up your fibre as @mandyjw suggested if you want to see your children grow up. No jokes here

B-Vitamins mostly aren't dangerous as they are water-soluble and you'll pee any excess out. Niacin (B3) can make you a bit flushy in the face and turn your pee into golden rain (literally) but otherwise they are safe although I don't know about long-term. Not sure if we have data on such gigantic doses of Bs taken over years. What is Mark's reasoning for you requiring these doses? Is he recommending you buy something of his brand?

all the best!!

Practice it is, that need you more young Padawan.

@neutralempty yes, failed psychiatric therapy will often create a walking gummy bear, a hollow existence looking like a human being but not really being one anymore

lot of homeless people are ex mental institute patients, ex drug addicts or HIV patients who had their brain chemistry and prefrontal cortex completely fucked up. They live a vegetative existence when their brains have completely been hardwired for pure survival, stage beige. What do you expect seriously? Just ignore this person, it is possible he doesn't even know who he is anymore.

My condolences. Is it possible that you haven't allowed yourself to process the grief yet which is spiking your stress hormones and that will prevent you sleep. Perhaps it would be helpful to experiment more with this, opening yourself up to it for 20 minutes every single day and processing the emotion. May help your body adjust, reduce the stress and improve sleep. Otherwise, I've recently been working on pushing my sleep a bit earlier and going from 12pm to 10pm and you literally have to go to bed at the time you want and just lie there and let your body get into this sleeping mode. Cut out all electronics stimulants and anything that disturbs you. Have a audiobook with a nice story, something to help you relax and unwind. Mieditation is also helpful or a short session of easy hatha yoga. After some time, body will adjust, and the circadian clock will set right. Make sure to get some exercise in there and avoid eating 90 minutes before going to bed. Remove all clock from your room, switch wifi off, keep the room dark and slightly cool. For some extra help: levander, chamomile, valerian or passiflora may be helpful in a form of tea. If you feel very stressed something with Ashwagandha may help. Bachflower remedies for emotional processing and dealing with grief. Australian Buushflower remedies are pretty good, perhaps the one called "transition" could help. Good luck !!

@aurum hey dude welcome back!

Are you clear on your ultimate vision? What is your greatest contribution to humanity? Are you clear on your values?

I don't have a short response to that question but it would go along the lines of more whole foods, more plants and more natural ingredients. If the food was made in factory and requires chemicals, oils and thickeners to prevent it tasting like cardboard it is bad for you in 99.99% cases. Something like tofu would be an exception.

older topic, reopened by spammer (banned & hidden) so I'm closing this @The Don pm me if you want to reopen it.

man this is awesome! Would love to try gameplay if you ever publish a game online.

Carefully engineered to do that exactly

nah man, treat yourself occasionally I did not mean to demonise them completely just save them for your Friday night movie or that Saturday Netflix marathon you know

Technically you can make gains in the gym even by eating only mars bars but I can't imagine what the long-term consequences of that would be. It is easy to see 900 kcal from potato chips equal to for example 900kcal from a plate containing beans, vegetables and fish or chicken. Calories are calories, yes but you also get a lot of other nutrients in the second dish where potato chips are literally only sugar, nothing else. Well that and a bit of fried olive oil. It is not always just about calories. You have to look at where are the calories packed and how are they distributed. 900kcal in 150kcal is extreme amount and it would take probably 2 jars of beans or 4 chicken steaks or 10 kilos of broccoli to get the same amount of calories. It is rare that so much calories would be packed in such a small package in nature. Not even honey. Also potato chips have no nutritional value besides bunch of super fast absorbing sugar so it is very similar if you ate 150g of white bread with olive oil. You will get extreme insulin spike and extreme sugar spike which will leave you with extreme hypoglycemia. Going a bit deeper, we know that potato chips are roasted on very high temperatures. When you heat simple carbs (like chips or potatoes) on very high temperatures or in oils you create something called acrylamides, known neurotoxins and suspected carcinogens. Acrylamides create a lot of mess in the blood, they bind to other molecules and form something we called AGEs, highly toxic particles especially for your vascular system. On the other hand olive oil has the a lot of antioxidants that will protect it fairly well from oxidised particles but I would say they use the same batch of oil to roast many batches of chips..do you know what I mean? Like using 100l of olive oil to produce 20 times more chips than is healthy. This saves costs and saves from the necessity to clean deep friers all the time. The first batch may be somewhat ok but the second , the third and the tenth may already contain a lot of bad stuff (free radicals and lipid peroxides that are toxic to your DNA) Also there is a lot of salt which doesn't help, chips are scratchy and can irritate stomach. They have very little fibre either. If you are looking to make muscle gains, look for foods that are also high in other nutrients and don't just focus on calories. Think about mixing up plates of vegetables, carbohydrates, fats and proteins. If you want more healthy calories add nuts, nutt butters, avocados, hummus and things like that. Animsl foods are also higher in calories if you eat those. Soz for long email but though it was helpful to explain why calories are not equal to calories in the bigger picture. Also I might be wrong and maybe they indeed change the oil a lot and avoid large temperatures which would be better but I'd still save these chips as a special treat and get 99% of your calories from better foods

You need animal tissue especially fat tissue to store heavy metals. Algae are primitive unicellular plants, they are just not complex enough to store pools of heavy metals. In terms of filtration and purity claims, I don't know how trustworthy they are which is why I've always been sceptical of fish oils, it is basically an extract of fish adipose tissue, the greatest storage of mercury. This is a large grey area at the moment. At the same time in men, excessive supplementation of PUFAs can increase your chance of prostate growth later in life so there is such a thing as too much of a good thing. It is probably better to get most of your Omegas from plants like flax and chia and add occasional cycle of 1g flax oil + 300-400mg of algal oil. I do 2-3 cycles per year like this. The concern is that you need to convert a top of the chain Alpha-linolenic Acid (ALA) all the way to EPA & DHA which requires several levels of elongation and desaturation (see picture). In men this conversion is poor. Somewhere about 4-8% of ALA makes it all the way to DHA If you are stressed, nutritionally deprived, alcoholic, eat a lot of sugar it is even worse. Genetic snips also apply. Flax Seeds only give you ALA. You can probably jack up ALA by eating more flax and thus convert more down the line but I believe there's a bottleneck as you only have a limited amount of dealt 5 and delta 6 desaturase enzymes capacities per unit of time (see picture) the argument for fish & fish oil is they are great source of EPA & DHA but you have to balance the risk of heavy metal contamination which is where ALgal oil (DHA rich) comes as a new alternative. It is also more ethical & ecological (but could be that algal overharvesting will also have a lot of unforeseen consequences). Btw when you up your Omega 3s sometimes it is possible to go overboard and cause a mild immunosuppression because you overflow your cells with Omega 3s and Your Omega 6s will drop. This can be an issue in Vegans supplementing large amounts of Omegas and avoiding other fats like nut butters and seeds. This is an incredibly complex topic and I feel we don't know most of it just yet

Gotta be the cringiest cover I've seen in a while. This is a sort of Wolf of Wallstreet type of book "get rich bro" "never back down bro" get rich or die trying and how to get all the pussy you want

There is another concern with this. Very often these things are boiled in the can along with the sauce. Tomato sauce gets so acidic that it starts breaking down the tin from the inside and effectively your main concern is no longer only mercury but aluminium as well. For example Heinz beans in Europe are made this way so essentially what you eat is a lovely aluminium soup with bunch of sugar and few beans. That being said mackerel is generally fairly safe to consume comparing to likes of tuna. The bigger the fish the bigger the problem. Sardines are generally safe as they have short lifespan and don't eat other fish. Wild-caught Alaskan Salmon with dark-red meat is also fine but you will pay for it 3 times as much. If Omega 3s is your reason for eating fish, you can also go for combination of Algae Oil and Flax oil and you'l be fine.

agreed Superfoods are highly overrated especially with the number of nutrients marketers claim they contain. Different countries would have different staple foods and there is this trend that if it comes from the amazon forest or mountains, it has to be exceptional. Where Europe has blueberries, South America has Acaii. Where Europe has buckwheat, Asia has brown rice and South America has quinoa. Where Europe has beetroot, Peru has Maca. Different people have different foods that have historically ensured a decent proportion of their calories. But now with the endless exploitation of our western countries we have turned these into "super foods" and are selling them for excessive prices. Most of those foods are not worth the carbon footprint and can easily be replaced by local foods. So many people even on this forum are afraid of legumes for example where they easily beat any powders out there. You don't have to eat chia, walnuts grow all over the place and flax is as cheap to grow as sunflowers.