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I don't understand, why the testers were there?

As cpbell said, they are probably sent by whoever is sponsoring the event.  Then again, I would assume that this testing is in their rules and that the bodybuilders should not have been surprised, so perhaps some other governing body decided to make a random visit.  From what the article says, they've been tested before.  Lots of details are missing, so all we can do is guess.

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Last time you told me that, I ate so much protein my appendix exploded.

Yeah, but look on the bright side– that can't happen twice.

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Are you able to update your journal entries while your account is suspended?

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When you mention NO2, do you mean a product brandname or the gas itself?

I think that NO2 was the brand name of the product, and that it was really NO, as AlexG said.  I just recall the claims they were making (about having perpetually 'pumped' muscles) and that "NO2" was emblazoned on a brochure in big letters.  It seemed designed more for show than for actual physical improvement.

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Those are all very good.  Daikon's art never fails to impress.

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Also, I've added a new journal entry discussing storytelling.  This is the second of what will be at least four, and it considers how changes to facial expressions can affect the story that the viewer's mind will tell when it sees the artwork in question.

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I love your drawings, Gettar.  I hope you can take care of whatever is keeping you busy soon and finish these.  Hang in there and good luck!  🙂

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Well then, hopefully the finished version will be to your liking!  Although I definitely skimped on finishing the background, or even providing all the detail I wanted.  But after drawing 600,000,000,000,000 bricks (just about that many, it feels like) I figured I'd better wrap it up and stick my hands in a bucket of ice for the rest of the night.

Drawing larger images with full backgrounds is going to slow my production considerably, but if I just keep doing simple portrait-type artwork without backgrounds I'm going to get bored at some point and just stop, which has happened in the past.  I'll still crank out those types of drawings, but I'll also be grinding out artwork like this.  The more I do it, the better I'll get at drawing backgrounds, and I need a lot of practice at doing that.

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WTF is nitrogen supposed to do? ???

I'm not sure if this is what he is referring to, but I recall that several years ago there was a pretty big push to promote some NO2 products because it had been found that it helped the muscles stay 'pumped' for hours, even when the person in question hadn't worked out.  But aside from a couple of pamphlets and advertisements, I do not recall reading anything else about it.

Here is something that I suppose is relevant to the PED discussion.  Funny in some ways, sad in others: Event canceled after competitors flee

BRUSSELS — The Belgian bodybuilding championship has been canceled after doping officials showed up and all the competitors fled.

A doping official says bodybuilders just grabbed their gear and ran off when he came into the room.

"I have never seen anything like it and hope never to see anything like it again," doping official Hans Cooman said Monday.

Twenty bodybuilders were entered in the weekend competition.

Cooman says the sport has a history of doping "and this incident didn't do its reputation any good."

During testing of bodybuilding events last year, doping authorities of northern Belgium's Flanders region found that three-quarters of the competitors tested positive.

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Thanks for the link! Haven't seen that video before. Annie has just amazing upper body with very clearly V-shaped torso.

And modest to a fault.  There's a part where she says "my training went pretty well this year," just before we see her flexing her upper legs, which are in incredible condition.  Enormous, shapely, beautifully defined… I'd say that 'pretty well' was an understatement.  😮

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