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The "minizon" phenomenon is just such a strange, weird little gem.  It's something I never would have anticipated, and the results are so cute.

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I'm waiting on an upgrade that will allow me to have a little box indicating on the front page when people are in the chat room.

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Yeah, it's an air thing: boobs and bodies inflating like balloons.  The inflation people are touchy and often don't like actual growth fetishes intruding on their space.  Violet Beauregarde "blueberrying", not Jennifer Walters hulking out, would be their optimal fantasy.

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Karma is dead.  It consumed resources and the only thing it taught us is that everybody really likes David C. Matthews. 

Which I already knew.

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Holy mother of pearl, I can't hardly wait.  Two weeks!!

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"Site Hero" is just a designation for people who have posted a certain number of times.  It's the "Administrator" part that is in play here.

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I have a lot of issues with competitive bodybuilding.  I think the competitions are rigged and I think competitors are generally taken advantage of by the media companies, equipment manufacturers and the supplement companies.  They'll trot out a beautiful, god-like physique for a year or two to push product, until the owner starts to fall apart physically or emotionally, and then replace it with a new one.

Many competitors are motivated by the wrong reasons, more than a few become obsessed with increase in strength, muscle mass or improvements in appearance in a futile hope of overcoming personal issues with feelings of inadequacy.  But the nature of bodybuilding as therapy is that it tends to worsen rather than improve personality flaws – unlike a lot of other sports bodybuilding tends to encourage narcissism and self-absorption.  In bodybuilding, male and female, the most fragile egos are almost inevitably clad in the most outrageously muscular physiques – hugely muscled titans on the outside, puny 90 pound weaklings on the inside. 

The odds of serious injuries, health problems and premature mortality are high.  Bodymass beyond a certain level is a strain on the circulatory system.  High calorie and high protein diets accelerate cellular ascent to the Hayflick Limit, which usually accelerates aging and death.  Crash dieting and extremely low bodyfat do all sorts of bad things to men, and it's even more of a strain on women.  Also, everything authoritative I've ever read on lifting concludes that doing it more than three times a week is a recipe for serious repetitive stress injury, but competitors are expected to do at least that.

The whole thing is rigged top to bottom and the competitors, male and female, rarely come out ahead.  For every Monica Brant there are over a thousand women who suffer a financial net loss or a long-term injury.  But some do come out ahead. 

I love the look of a strong woman, but I regard competitive bodybuilders and other physique competitors as the moral equivalent of veal calves.

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They'll probably cover it up with the Earth 2 Superman pentagon emblem when Infinite Crisis is all over with, or at least alter the hole to make it the same shape as the shield. 

Darn.

The reason she's successful as a character is because she's sexy.  Part of that is because of her costume, which is why DC has consistently returned to the basic model of it – white unitard with a hole or a scoop, red cape, belt, gold medallion or medallions.  They might mess with the formula from time to time, but they'll always return to it, for as long as it works.

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Also, I'm currently making some changes to the configuration of the board, to reduce resource consumption.  I'm turning off features that few (or no) people use, and I'm turning off some of the database-driven services.  Some of you may notice some session irregularities, like the board asking you to log in more frequently than in the past.  If it reaches nuisance-level, let me know here.

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Probably not.

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