Ralp posted:

It's that way for lots of the forums. Like, there's been a Game of Thrones discussion thread in GBS and TV/IV and Book Barn and GiP and FYAD and probably YOSPOS and BYOB and PYF.

Actually let me reframe it in terms of a forum instead: I'm going to pick on YOSPOS for example because the mods there have done a good job in improving this. When the funny computer forum has megathreads for Game of Thrones, working out, favorite music, Diablo 3, bitcoin, politics, general chat, and loving cat picture spam, well then it's not a focused subforum anymore, it's a general forum that happens to have a few more computer threads than other general forums. Why do we even have subforums if that's what they're going to be?

This isn't necessarily bad (from a user's perspective it's fine), but it makes things a lot harder to organize, administrate, and moderate. Each subforum acts like an offsite that happens to be hosted onsite, and I don't want to administrate a dozen slightly different general forums, I want to administrate one forum: Something Awful. When you pay $10 for an account, it shouldn't be admission to one subforum of your choice where you camp out forever and never leave (unless you really are only interested in posting about that specific topic, that's fine too). Instead, your account grants you access to all of the SA Forums. Use them!

And of course there's some overlap; I'm not demanding that every topic be strictly categorized and indexed. Rather, I'm asking, on a case by case basis (and this thread happens to be such a case): "Does it make sense for this topic to be duplicated in another forum, in this case GBS? Or does it belong in the dedicated subforum, in this case YLLS?" There's no hard and fast criterion for making that decision, but that's what I'm asking about. Hope that helps explain where I'm coming from.

Chinatown posted:

on a scale of Normal to Extremely Gay what you you think about elliptical machines (not using the hand bars obviously that's extremely gay)

Chinatown posted:

Chinatown posted:

i usually do 20 mins of cardio to start then stretch then lift

i also watch the hot weather girl on the news during that time

Chinatown posted:

In San Diego the weather is like this..."uh..well its gonna be about 70-75 on the coast, 80s inland, 70s in the mountains..and east in the desert it will be ONE HUNDRED DEGREES OH BOY THATS HOT!!!"

Then the 7-day forcast is sun, clouds at night, sun, clouds at night, sun, clouds at night, sun, clouds at night, sun, clouds at night, ad infinitum

notZaar posted:

It's it better to lift very heavy weights for lots of reps or very heavy weights for less reps?

Lunixnerd posted:

Do they have weights at planet fitness? I thought its just wall to wall cardio machines for people to sit on and enjoy their free pizza and bagels.

Lunixnerd posted:

The lunk alarm is useful if you are about to do a PR deadlift or something and you want the whole gym to witness your greatness. Just drop a dumbell, grunt loudly and be safe in the knowledge that all eyes are now on you as you approach the bar with your chalked up hands (chalk also not allowed)

roymorrison posted:

I feel like less people would drink soda if they understood that sugar is a drug. Like people who drink 3 or 4 sodas a day literally go through withdrawal when they "quit"

lodewijk posted:

There's talk about a gym opening up right next door to my work place ... That be loving awesome! If so, I just hope it isn't one of those cardio shite places. Fingers crossed, swole goons!