A new young artist has some art in a local gallery show. At the opening, an art critic approaches the artist and asks if he'd like a critique of his art.
Artist: Sure, I would like to hear that.
Critic: It is worthless.
Artist: I know, but I would like to hear it anyway.
@nprofile1q... I was the same most of my life as well, and if I went back in time to talk to my older self I am sure they would be surprised to see me now as a gym rat.
What helped me to start my fitness journey was to turn my workouts into a game of sorts. For example I would build a music playlist with a specific BPM of 145-150 and run the treadmill to the rhythm of the song that was playing, timing it so that my foot lands to the beat of the music.
@nprofile1q... Later I would move on from treadmill for cardio and started pursuing boxing for both cardio + resistance training, but I still transferred the rhythm game concept to it by striking the punching bag to the beat.
After having done this routinely for so many years, I no longer make use of this method because my workouts have become so habit forming without any need to make it a game
I don’t know if you go by another name on baraag or if you are elsewhere on the fediverse, but if you see this post, thank you metalcrow from the bottom of my heart for the generous support of this community.
@nprofile1q...@nprofile1q... I simply asked for an explanation to resolve reports against them. At no point did I take moderating action before getting clarification.
@nprofile1q...@nprofile1q... I stand by my decision because I needed the reports to be addressed so that new ones would cease, effectively ending the witch hunt.
It is also worth mentioning that dorkboydrake just admitted to previously using AI assistance for backgrounds without disclosing it until I asked him to.
@nprofile1q...@nprofile1q... thank you for being honest about using AI to generate the background for this. However, per the rules I need you to use the edit function to add the #AI tag to this post to disclose AI assistance
@nprofile1q... I am able to see when users last logged in to know if they would respond based on their recent activity. I wanted to put an end to the rumors and suspicions bogging up the report queue, and so I confronted @nprofile1q... to publicly address it.
@nprofile1q... I am hardly public facing. Personal posts that are not technical PSAs about the baraag site itself or boosted reblogs of other users are few and far in between on my account here.
The fact of the matter is that I kept repeatedly getting reports on you using AI. I needed you to address this publicly to put an end to it.