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As someone who was slightly over weight for about 10 years and lost about 25 pounds last year I have some slightly bad news for your plan. 80-90% of your results are going to be food intake related both in terms of the types of food you eat and the quantity of them. Until integrating nutrition in to my attempt at weight loss I did a good intensity workout with 3 days of lifting and a day of cardio for a year and didn't budge on the scale. Arguably I probably exchange some fat for some new muscle, but I was still overweight. Sure enough I decided to get my shit together once and for all and signed up for an 8 week program at my gym. Three days of lifting 2 days of cardio and most importantly a nutrition plan. I dropped 22 lbs in those 8 weeks.

The good news is the nutrition wasn't nearly as hard as I thought it would be. Sometimes it felt like I was eating more food than before, just different food and still yummy. Cutting out evening snacking and candy was difficult a few times, but in general the overall feeling of lots of energy, the knowledge that I was eating healthy, and the noticeable changes made it easy to stick with. So not to discourage any for of physical exercise, I like your plan, but head to a fitness site or fitness thread on a forum get a plan and have you and your wife keep you honest (no cheating!). Cut out bread, pasta, anything sugar related. Eat lots of veggies and meat. You'll be glad you did.

Good luck!

I like it, other than the laugh track. I can see how others find it annoying though. It is the only light comedy of its kind that I can watch. Usually sitcoms, especially family situation ones like everyone loves raymond, make me homicidal.

Although I'm against SOPA/PIPA and think it's lame (but slightly understandable) that the big companies are behind it, I think its a lot to ask of GB to skip E3. It's the biggest news week of the year for gaming and it probably drives a lot of new people to the site. It's sort unfair to the GB crew to ask them to suffer by giving up new members and driving their normal members to other sites that will cover the show anyway. Why should this relatively small sight suffer for other peoples support for bad legislation...

Far more important: if a company has shown support for SOPA/PIPA and you hate that, stop buying their games and write them an email.

I hope they don't try to make a modern Doom 4. It was the whole reason Doom 3 sucked. I don't need characters, a story, plausable locations. I need lots of enemies and a really fast pace.

Anyone out there use a kneeling style chair for gaming?

I have an OK leather chair for my PC (gaming and work) and although I couch it sometimes I really prefer my Ikea "Poang" chair for medium to long sessions in front of the TV... Although I thankfully have no back issues, sitting seems to be the new smoking in terms of health and I'm tempted to try a kneeling chair. Although I already make sure to get up and take breaks, from what I understand these kneeling chairs are more like standing in terms of your back/insides...

Anyone here have experience? Recommend a good one?

Sunset riders, Perhaps a CPS2 game (Darkstalkers / Xmen / SSF2T) or 3-4 vrtuaRacing / sega rally cabinets

@Grimluck343 said:

If PC is an option, XNA is another great alternative.

I didn't mention this, but its totally true. I'm a programmer by trade so I am pretty biased with lots of experience in C++ and C#, but I was amazed at how quickly I got things working in XNA. They also have great starter kits where you can take an already working game and then start swapping in your own art and logic.

If you are an absolute beginner in some ways whats most important is that they engine you choose has good video tutorials and/or a book you can buy to help you learn the ropes

UDK is could be a great middle ground. The programming of game logic really isn't hard, nor is level creation.... making art may be.

EDIT: I totally forgot about PyGame!

Count me in! The Witcher, Renegade Ops, Fallout: NV and Bastion all sound great to me...

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• The planetary screen for the Normandy in Mass Effect and ME2 (so much Tangerine Dream goodness)
• The sunken ship level in Mario 64
• Donkey Kong Underwater Level
• Almost all of 'The Dig'
• Roaming music in Oblivion and Skyrim