What? I like multiple topics, even if they don't relate to one another at all. It's what makes this place such a varied and exciting blog, right? Damn straight pretend-audience. (Hi Josh! Why don't you go link this to some one God-dammit?)
Anywho, I'll start with video news. Our more clever viewers may have noticed we don't really have any and no one is watching the ones we do. I'm fairly certain this is because we have literally no focus as a group. We don't produce work on a regular basis and what we do make tends to vary wildly in content. This isn't exactly the best way to draw in a multitude of viewers. Even my hope that I'd continue to make videos died when I realized I really had nothing worth showing, or at least what I did have to show fell prey to the same flaws we have as an over all group. With this in mind I suppose we can say videos are on a hold, and given none have been made for about three weeks this shouldn't be too much of a surprise. I still have ideas for the future, but there doesn't look to be much point in pretending we can create an audience as we stand right now.
The best future plan I have is to start up a series around Star War The Old Republic when it comes out, just some basic coverage about what the game is and tutorials about how it's played. I anticipate being one of the first people to get his hands on the game in the open beta so I hope most of what I post will actually be new news, and since it's an MMO this is a series with potential to go on for quite some time. Many a youtuber has gotten his start following game news about a new big hit. We'll see how that goes when the time comes.
Now for a dramatic topic shift; it's magic time. I didn't exactly unlock the secrets to life and death but I did find a few new interesting tid-bits when working out last night. To give some context, I'm in Kung Fu and one of the handy tricks they have to build leg strength is to adopt a sort of half squat and hold the position for as long as you can. If you haven't ever trained in it before this can be surprisingly difficult and painful, with most people out of shape having problems holding it for more than a minute or two their first few times. Of course since this is holding a static position it means your legs start to burn horribly until they give out, and the point is to keep doing it to strengthen the thigh muscles which are incredibly important in many martial arts. What I discovered was the ability to move pain, and seemingly draw energy from the stress of the situation into creating a magnified version of my previous tests.
To clarify, I was practicing the Horse Stance (as the half-squat is called) on and off a couple weeks back and found distracting myself while doing it is a convenient way to up the amount of time I can hold it. I was using this trick to rebuild the time I could hold it quicker, as I renewed my training two days ago. Mind over matter and whatnot; if you're too distracted to give yourself an excuse to give up, you won't. For reference, I don't do this exercise more than once a day. In an odd moment of pain induced insanity twelve or so minutes into it I thought "hey! Why not make psiballs! That'll be fun!", and promptly did so. The results were startling.
When previously trying to intentionally increase the warmth of the psiballs I was making I had managed a heat level of perhaps warm laundry, for an easy analogy. However it took considerable concentration to do so each of the few times I managed such. In that particular exercise I managed a level two or three times the magnitude of even the best previous attempts. What's more, I could feel the heat build in both my chest and head, then flow down the shoulders and to the hands each time I poured more will into the experiment. I was intentionally visualizing pulling the 'energy' from my tired and aching legs when I did this and noted a significant drop in the pain and stress I was feeling in them. I continued my exercise until 16 minutes on the dot, a personal best, which I only stopped at because I was sweating horribly and thought I should probably work on something else before I broke myself.
In the wake of this experience I find myself with a number of bizarre conclusions to mull over. I've possibly attained a level of self delusion so significant I can utilize it to consciously push myself to new extremes in a physical sense. I've potentially found a way to use a combination nerve endings and unintentional control over how my body regulates blood to enhance my ability to resist pain and move excess heat, going on Trevor's theory that this is all manipulation of blood vessels. I also might be psychic and capable of using energy to make myself stronger. For some reason I have doubts about the last one, but in a realization of my utter lack of knowledge about biology I can't even begin to confirm or deny the other theories. At best it seems very peculiar that I can regulate heat inside of my body with that much speed, so the blood vessel idea seems out of place. It's worth noting the process of moving heat into the 'psiball' was one that lasted under a two seconds, as best as I can recall. The situation was, as you'd imagine, somewhat stressful.
I intend to make another attempt at it tonight, though I'm not entirely certain about what I can do differently to test any of these theories. I simply don't know enough to make any real conclusions here. Nonetheless, I'll post my findings.
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