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Just did 5x5 155, barely. It was brutal. The first set was hard and every set afterwards felt like I was going to fail after the 3rd or 4th rep. Forced myself to keep going though. Whew! On to 160 on Wednesday!

If I were in your shoes I'd do the same thing and feel like it was success as well; that being said, I can't help but feel that continuing things with a girl that said "let's just be friends" a day earlier won't end well. Women constantly change their minds over everything. That's just it though. A woman constantly changing her mind on whether or not she wants to be in a relationship with you just sounds terrible. Although as I said, if I were in your shoes I'd do the same thing, so just try and learn from it I guess. That's one of the reasons why I think monogamy is a bad idea :P

If I were in your shoes I'd do the same thing and feel like it was success as well; that being said, I can't help but feel that continuing things with a girl that said "let's just be friends" a day earlier won't end well. Women constantly change their minds over everything.

It's your job to move things forward if she comes over. If she isn't interested in moving forward, then you need to move on

Read Mod Lee's post in the sticky. He sounded kind of unprofessional in that message >_>

Just got back from a date at a small hookah place that I'd never been to before. Thought I'd do something new for a change :P There was a nice comfy couch for us to sit next to on while we smoked. Made it easy for me to put my arm around her and rub her back through most of the date. Was on my A-game and pretty much did everything by the book so hopefully she's down for a day2. We'll see. I'd love to have more dates at that place but the date cost me $20 which is unacceptable lol

Keep up the good work Kalphite I'm proud of you :D

I usually arrive to the date spot about 5 minutes early and either wait in my car or go walk around the area until she texts me that she's there. Then I walk in. By the time I've walked in she's already paid for her own drink so I either get my own drink if I feel like it, or I just sit down with her and don't buy anything which means my date is free. In the past I'd go to bars where you don't pay the tab until the date is over, and in which case I'd pay for our drinks unless she insisted otherwise. But almost all of my dates are at Starbucks these days so I haven't paid for a girl's drink in a while.

That's partially correct, but most guys don't simply take girls out for drinks or coffee. Instead they treat the first date like it's a huge deal and end up wasting lots of time and money on a first date. And at the same time, they don't even try moving things forward with girls; they play it safe and hope that by having a "special" first date, that alone will make her interested in him. But that's not how life works. If you want to stand out from all the other guys, the only thing you need to do is touch her and show that you're a confident and laid back guy. Don't. Make. This. Complicated. If the thought of touching your date scares the shit out of you (just like it used to scare me), then you know why it's so successful: because the average guy is a [kitty] and would rather play it safe than risk being creepy by touching her! And that's why the average guy's dating life is largely out of his control. Just order tea or dessert at Starbucks instead of coffee. :thumbup:

Just stick with coffee or drinks. Don't make this any more complicated than it needs to be lol

I was gonna post the pic there originally since there was a recent discussion about people like her ITT, but I thought it would be funnier to post it here... And doing so made me smile :lol:

haha I just bit my tongue since I noticed that every post that wasn't telling her something along the lines of "you go girl!" was deleted

Unless she's in your social circle and/or unavoidable, I'm saying you should just cut off all contact with her and start seeing other girls. Don't respond to any texts or phone calls from her. If you want, you can tell her you're cutting off contact with her. As Riku pointed out, she made it pretty clear that she has no interest in moving forward with you. You can reinitiate contact with her after ~3 months of radio silence and absolutely zero communication to her if you want.

Holy shit my friends are insane. [hide=language] [/hide]

Next!

Doubt it

I can understand not wanting to bang her just for ethical reasons... but other than that, if she has no STDs and you're attracted to her then it's kind of insane not to move forward with her.

I'll instantly get monogamous if I ever date a girl named Elvira

Quit hanging out with her if you aren't planning on pursuing a sexual relationship with her

You did something wrong then

Sheeeeeeiiit.

probably, but I don't really like "actively" making money in RS when I can earn 10M+ every few months just by logging in for 2 minutes a day :D

Back to focusing on my original long-term fitness goal: double bodyweight bench press. It was really hard getting back into things to start out, since I felt like shit for being so weak compared to when I was in my prime in college. I've just been doing 5 sets of 5 on bench every 4 days and that's all I do. Easier to remain focused and maintain willpower/motivation that way. Once I get my strength back up to where I want it to be, I'll start focusing on squats or deads while I just maintain my bench strength. I think part of the reason why I plateaued and lost my drive last summer when I tried to get back into it was because I was focusing on too many fitness goals at once. Better to just focus on one thing at a time. Anyways I got back into it about 6 weeks ago and could only do 5x5 with 115 lbs. I was doing 5x5 with ~170 back in the day so that's my mid-term goal right now. What's really nice though is that I haven't plateaued or failed to complete a 5x5 yet. Every 4 days I add 5 lbs to my 5x5 and I complete it without failure. Just finished doing 5x5 with 145 today. At this pace I'll be back to 170 (which is ~200lbs 1 rep max) pretty soon. Then I imagine it'll take at least half a year just to go from a 200 lb 1 rep max to a 250 lb double bodyweight 1 rep max. As far as the psychology of motivation/willpower goes, I've basically just been forcing myself to remember why I got into lifting in the first place, every time I'm about to go to the gym, every time I'm about to start my set, and every time I feel like I might not be able to finish my rep. Pretty much any time I start questioning my strength or drive, I immediately just force myself to snap out of it and get back to focusing on making progress. Unlike in the past, though, I've also been lifting by myself instead of w/ my gym buddy. I don't let anybody spot me either. The fear of not being able to finish my rep and having to roll a heavy-ass barbell off my chest gives me a little extra strength when I'm struggling to finish a set. In other words, I have no safety net to fall back on. Kind of like Batman in The Dark Knight Rises when he jumps out of the prison without the rope :lol:

That's weird I tried doing that a while ago but Tinder wouldn't let me use those pics

if you plan on using them save them, looks like the ammunition poll is passing, atm you lose 100% of the darts you use but once that gets updated in 1-2 weeks those 5k rune darts will last you a lot longer I ended up just selling them for 3M profit since I figured if I'm going to be doing PvM or PvP with the blowpipe, I'll be using dragon darts instead. And I'll be using black chins for training ranged instead of the blowpipe once I'm done collecting all of my herb boxes and Miscellania in a few mo. Plus once the ava's update goes live, I imagine darts won't be getting any more expensive so it's better to make a guaranteed large profit now by selling them since I don't really have any personal use for them.