Dark One

I do agree with some of his points. Take DOA4 for example. What actual storyline is there? There's some incomprehenisble quick cutscenes between a few of the fights, but it basically amounts to nothing more than win <x> amount of times. If you don't win, hit Continue till you do. Though one even more incomprehensible is BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger. My word, I don't think I've ever encountered a game with a more incomprehensible storyline.

PvP fights basically fall into spamming the same move or the same character over and over. I tried Naruto: Rise of Ninja PvP and that was singularly unfun. Knock someone down, perform a jutsu.

However, the players who are truly skilled are just that, skilled. One can imitate skill by move spamming and twink-dom.

I do believe that at one point WAAAAAAYYYY back in time, that the full damage counted. If you got hit for 180k pts, you'd get 180k pts progress. This was back when the buildings first came out.

May be mistaken of course.

Put 'em in a dehydrator and make prunes out of 'em? You could always see if a local retirement home has need of fresh fruit for its residents and donate them.

How about a back brace or a lifter's belt as an added method of support when walking?

And I hate to bring it up, but maybe consider a cane or a walker or a walking stick. Yes, it might just be embarassing as hell, but if it helps, it helps.

A big thing about losing weight is the psychological battle. Yes, set your long-term goal at losing 200lbs.

HOWEVER, you need to set short-term goals so that you can see progress. If all you have is the long-term, you will, most likely, get disgusted part way through and quit. But if you can meet goals regularly, then you have a much better chance of finishing the plan.

Long-term: Lose 200 lbs.
Six month plan: Be able to walk five miles, regardless of the time it takes
One month plan: Lose 4 pounds
One week plan: Learn how to cook one meal decently and have leftovers
One day plan: Ditch the foods that you know are problematic

Stuff like that. I'm not saying do what I listed, but break it down into steps that are more easily accomplished than your long term goal.

Try an exercise bike or an elliptical walking/running machine. You might also consider seeing a chiropractor if your back is too out of whack. And yes, it will take a while for breathing/heartbeat to return to normal. Your body is not used to the exercise.

1) Learn to leave leftovers. Put them in the fridge for the next meal. The problem with cleaning your plate anymore is that the portion sizes are too stupidly big.

2) Learn to like cooking. Make a game out of it. Watch Good Eats on Food Network. That show turns the act of cooking into science. If you learn more about WHY something does what it does, you may be more apt to learn more.

3) That's one of your biggest problems. You need to take time and think about what you are eating. If you have the choice between an apple (provided you aren't allegeric) and a serving of cookies, which do you think is the better option?

4) Slow down. Like A LOT. No one is going to come up and take your food. And unless you are in the military, no one is going to make you go out on patrol or PT. The reason competitive eaters can eat so much is that they do it quick. It takes about 20 minutes or so, iirc, for your stomach to tell your brain that you are full and should quit eating. If you are eating quick, you aren't really tasting the food.

Eating only one meal a day will slow your metabolism to a crawl. Might as well have popsicles before bed.

Smaller meals at regular intervals is a better, IMO, way to go.

No offense, but honestly, your biggest problem is seemingly you. Saying you want to lose weight, an admirable goal, but not doing the things that you need to be doing isn't going to help you. No one starts off being able to run or walk 10 miles at a sitting. Start small and work your way up. This isn't going to be something that'll be done in a month. This will most likely take you years to accomplish.

Also, one of the biggest things you can do to start is to cut out any and all regular soda. No ifs, ands, or buts about it. Empty sugar calories with no redeeming nutrients. This also includes "energy drinks". I lost a pretty quick 20lbs just from switching from regular Mt. Dew to diet (and don't give me that "metabolic syndrome" nonsense about the diet stuff). If the caffeine is what you need, switch to tea. I have about 15 more lbs to go (to get to about 165) before I'll finally feel comfortable with myself. I did manage to finally be able to wear L-size shirts as opposed to XL (just a couple weeks ago), and that was one of the best feelings I've had in a long time.

Tried it again today with two different methods. The first was defeating Nerva Spectrals along the beach around Thorn Isle.

No luck.

Second attempt was defeating them up on the actual grass bits.

Again no luck.

Flew around constantly hitting the bind key for Caleb and didn't see a bloody thing. Went up to the ceiling, went to the War Walls, went through the forest on the adjacent island a bit. Not a sign of the bugger.

I'm fresh out of ideas and patience to deal with this.

I just tried it solo. In one sunup-sundown cycle, I accounted for, going by the combat spam, around 250+ Nerva Spectral kills. With no Event Message of the spawning of Caleb.

I wonder if he's borked in that he'll only spawn after a server reset/reboot.

So...which is it? Event message or no event message? Because that makes a MASSIVE difference to the hunt. And yes, I have villain zone event messages turned on.

Did that a couple times. A full team defeating them. Not getting 100 would be more of a shock.

Tried spawning him tonight and I have no idea how many Nervas my team defeated. But it was a lot. Heard a report from a member that had tried previously with zero success of spawning him.

Is he broken or have they changed the method?

Sounds kinda like a variant beef bowl recipe.

I've got it set at the 1366x768, with the Contrast and Brightness turned down to about 25 and the Focus turned down slightly. It's quite crisp, in terms of text, but the colors seem a bit washed out.

Still getting slight eye strain/headache, but I'm wondering if I've got it set too far back, or possibly too close.

Edit - As for price...*shrug*. There's only one place nearby where I can purchase a monitor and I had the choice of a $129, $149, $169, or $219. Failing that, I could drag out an even older CRT-type, but...eh.