Friday, January 15, 2021

Demon's Souls Remake: Attractive Female Sliders

Happy New Year! I've fallen in love with Demon's Souls all over again, and excited about the much improved character customization sliders. I fell upon this YouTube video (YouTuber JeeNiNeMedia) as a base, to come up with the character sliders. Sadly, I couldn't find attractive male sliders.

This is how she will look like in the character creation menu, using the below sliders:


This is how she looks in game:

I was quite surprised that she looks better in-game than in the character menu! I agree with the YouTuber, JeeNiNeMedia, that the ponytail looks the best in-game. If you want to create her looks these are the sliders:

Skin

Base Tone 3rd diamond (using R1 to scroll over), first box

Age 20

Weight 0

Face

Top face is 5

Bottom face is 2

Width 0.1

Height 1.00

Depth –0.10

Brow

13

Your choice of color (I chose default)

Ridge 0.10

Height –1.00

Eyes

10 then First choice

Main Color is your choice (I chose dark blue) and Secondary Color (I chose Burgundy)

Glow 0.10

Spacing 0.60

Height 1.00

Depth 0.60

Ears

11

Angle –0.10

Height –0.40

Depth 0.90

Nose

8

Width 0.50

Height –0.80

Depth 1.00

Bridge 0.10

Mouth

16

Width –0.5

Height 0.20

Depth 0.70

Teeth 1

Jaw

Cleft Chin 0.00

Width –0.90

Height –0.50

Depth –0.20

Cheekbones –0.40

Hair

21

Your choice of color (I chose default)

Facial hair default (first boxes x 3)

Decals

Paint & Tattoo 16

Scars & Blemishes 15

You can save this to your profile. If you don't like the looks of your character, you can go to the Nexus statue (main floor all the way to the other end of Stockpile Thomas) for 25,000 souls to open up various options, including Fractured World mode. I believe the first choice is free (?) and then 18,000 to change your appearance thereafter.

Review of The How of Happiness

Moving With Ease And Without Pain, Part 2 of 3


The Bullet Proof Project discussed here (Part 1) improved my pain and ease of movement by 80%. (Part 3 is forthcoming.)

Therefore, I then fell upon Your Body's Brilliant Design (YBBD) by Karen M. Gabler, which is about fascial release. 

I'm not sure if it's really releasing fascia (i.e. connective tissue can be very hard and can only be "released" surgically), but the point is, doing these exercises does something to your body that prevents and reduces pain. Who cares what the theory and mechanisms are, this program simply works.

These exercises are not only "easy" (i.e. no cardio straining), but they feel so good, especially the one where you let your body fall to roll toward one side, that I had no pain (just some tightness) after 2 hours of walking. The great thing about this book is you can do this on the floor, and she even recommends spending 6 weeks on the floor before you progress to the rollers.

Even though the author mentions you should spend six weeks with floor work, it got boring for me, and so I jumped to the half-foam roller, and that was challenging! I stuck with it, because challenges are more fun and interesting. Therefore, if you can do these exercises in good form well before 6 weeks, then progress immediately to the half-foam roller, and then to the full roller.

Fortunately, she tells you what brand foam rollers work the best, and they're cost-effective.

Just doing the YBBD floor work, my pain has improved immensely, and I look forward to doing these exercises because they feel so good. The previous book I looked into, Dynamic Aging exercises by Katy Bowman, can be helpful, but it's just not as fun nor feel as good as YBBD. Because I'm consistent with YBBD, it appears to be a better choice for me.

I actually look forward to YBBD because that falling to your side, and the hip and arm fan exercises feel so good, especially on the half-foam roller.

In conclusion, if you suffer from pain due to poor posture and sedentary lifestyle, and you're sick and tired of feeling weak, I feel that these two books can relieve a lot of your pain and give you functional strength, if you're consistent.

Review of Neff's Self-Compassion

Wooden Jigsaw Puzzles: A Comparison (Monday Musings 80)

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