New Game is Ready; Next to Hookup: Continue

The Front

Today was a pretty slow day to get started. But once I got rolling it felt like a lot of things were coming together. Each new game that I start is saved in a separate slot. I've somewhat arbitrarily only given you 10,000 to work with. This may eventually change to just be however many your PC can manage. Just keep in mind that the UI I'll be designing might not be the most convenient when you've got far too many games running. Realistically I would think most people will only have one given all the collectibles and progress folks will have access to.

I've also updated the artifact system so that my serialization updates from yesterday...or two days ago...is even more efficient and convenient to use. This is good because a system really needs to be convenient or I'm likely to nuke it. A system that is both convenient AND good is always a nice surprise.

So this means that the next step we need to take is having continue work. Once I can click on any of my prior saves and load into them I'll know that I'm in a pretty good place. Obviously things like loading from Save A to Save D while actively in game might be a little messy. What we may end up doing is unloading the game scene, taking the player to some kind of loading scene, and then have it load up the same way each time.

I'm sure I'll miss something leading to data persisting between them, but if it isn't super bad that'll be fine. Those kind of goofs are fun for speed runs or challenge runs.

The Back

I'm a few days removed from my last work out but it was a real beast!

Stair Calves - Two Sets - Body Weight @ 31 Reps

Barbell Squat - Two Sets - 150 lbs @ 7 Reps

Seated Cable Row - Three Sets - 100 lbs @ 13 Reps

Bench Press - Three Sets - 105lbs @ 6 Reps

Barbell Curl - Two Sets - 55lbs @ 17 and 14 Reps Respectively.

Cable Triceps Pushdown (Rope) - 50lbs @ 11 Reps, and 40lbs @ 7 Reps respectively.

My biggest mistake here was those Cable Triceps, the list of exercises above IS the ideal order but I didn't do it in order. I misread my sheet and did 50 lb pushdowns which, as you might guess, is quite hard! It completely gassed my arms and when I double checked I realized my mistake. But at that point I still had curls and press to go. Talk about a grind. I managed it but only with a lot of grunting and perhaps a bit of praying to the iron gods.

I'm pretty happy overall with my performance and I really enjoy working out. I'll see if I can manage some more Phitness & Philosophy videos this year. If I can plan them properly they might not be the worst amount of effort. Perhaps I should just do more unedited long form videos. Its not like I'm trying to become the next big thing on YT. So the success, or lack thereof, really shouldn't be a limiting factor in what I want to do.

Just a matter of keeping a positive mindset and approaching things in a healthy way. Lets see if I can muster that.