#climbing reviews

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The Top Climbing Shoes 2024

When it comes to climbing, having the right shoes can make all the difference. In 2024, the market has introduced some exceptional climbing shoes designed to enhance performance, comfort, and durability. With insights from our resident TDP climber, Quinn Skinner, here are the top climbing shoes of 2024, featuring the latest advancements in climbing footwear technology. 1. La Sportiva Solution…

[br1ghtestlight]

also LOVED this animation of gene climbing down from louise's bed something about it is so satisfying to me?? love these background animations that aren't the focus of the scene but they put so much effort into

[imflyingfish]

mm I just tried Genshin impact for the first time and like. I think its fine its just not really for me tbh. I didnt know anything about it before hand. like the thing that i liked most about Genshin was running around collecting food and shit... but other than that I just found it kind of boring and like I was being talked down on. I was going to play it on stream (and maybe one day I still will) but i'm not fully sure if its the game that I want to play.

Like the characters I found... mostly uninteresting, ive never been too into elemental gameplay systems and I think that the majority of combat is... really dull and repetative. theres no sneak button either! I was really looking forwards to the cooking mechanic (for.. some reason. I think i just like gathering the materials for it) But the actual crafting mechanic is also really boring with zero surprise in what you might make.

While and after playing I felt like everything around me was overly smooth and baby-like. I got the urge to watch a thriller movie just to find some stakes in whatever after. (I don't usually watch those ever). I felt like my own actions had no imapct on anything, I wasnt really 'discovering' anything like new weapons or recipes since when you open the cooking menu, everythings already there with the masterials you have, and the "minigame" is useless and just a 1 click timing. It didnt really feel like anything I did had any consequence on anything (Although this may have just been a tutorial stage thing) The characters were like. fine. Theyre pretty but that also makes them dull. It feels like the game is trying to force me to love them and get more and more and I just. dont care tbh

Anyway, none of these are actual drags on the game itself. I still think its like a fine game and its certainly very pretty, so it could work as a de-stressor or whatever for me. I just think I own other games that I enjoy a bit more

[unluckyhotel101]

Much to be said about this novel. It almost had a good ending, but like many horror movies of today, Ararat lost its cool at the end.

The book details the discovery of a ship in an impossible place. Narrative follows a large team of researchers, archaeologists, professors, and a documentary team all working together in the hopes of unwrapping the mystery of the ship.

Unfortunately, the characters feel very one dimensional and take their sweet time becoming likable. Not to mention with such a large swath of characters, it can get confusing. Some characters use last names and some use the first, and they are all interchangeable. I felt like I had to write it all down just to understand dialogue.

The book did have its positives, however! The scares cooked and simmered, and when things finally set off, I found myself voraciously devouring the story. There were elements of body horror and demonology and religious themes.

All in all, I would recommend this book if you see it at a library and are looking to expand your vocabulary. There were many fancy words that gave me joy to read and find context clues. The best place to read this is at home, in the cold and wet month of October.

[doublesama]

Encouragement of Climb Season 2 introduces a new character who likes to take scenic photographs while hiking: Honoka Kurosaki.

READ: https://doublesama.com/encouragement-of-climb-season-2/

[anime-of-the-day]

Anime of the Day Olympic Sports Edition: Climbing

Iwa Kakeru! Sport Climbing Girls

[fuckwhoeverpickedallthefunnyurls]

"Oh you lift? How much?"

"Yeah uuuh let me just check" *steps onto scale*

[lotsobagels]

I feel a lot of feelings at the end of the year. Fortunately I've been busy enough lately not to stew too hard, but sometimes they sneak up on me when I'm not expecting it and it really hurts.

I'm going to do my best to be kind to myself and be proud of making it through this year no matter how much I've accomplished. 💜

[electrafart]

Heisenberg??????????????

[phagodyke]

hmmm debating whether to soften these shoes with the shower method + void my ability to return them. or exchange them for a half size up

[books-in-a-storm]

Snowflake Book Review’s

Title: Dogwoods Treasure #3 Raven's Climb

Author: Tiffany Casper

Pages: 158

Snowflake Rating:❄❄❄❄(4/5)

Synopsis:

I wasn’t one of those girls that just rolled over and got over something. No, I could hold a mean grudge, and that was what I had been doing for going on seven years. And I didn’t see that stopping any time soon.

Why oh why in all of the hospitals in all of the United States, had this job been the only one available for me to take?

Seven years ago something vile and despicable had ruined me. I was never the same woman after that night. And now, here I was, seven years later back in the town that I hated. I hated the people that lived here. Well, that wasn’t the truth, no I just hated one person that lived here and if I could continue to never see his face again, that would be perfect for me.

However, things we want don’t always happen.

No, sometimes things go to hell and a handbasket within the span of thirty seconds.

Only that wasn’t the case. No, it was far from it.

Seven years ago, Cam had made a decision to trust a lying cheating whore. That was his mistake. Not mine. My only mistake in life was running away and not paying attention to my surroundings.

However, I can’t say that I had made a mistake because what I was left within that aftermath was my greatest treasure. My divine gift.

Would Cam try his hardest to get me to forgive him? Or would he simply give up and walk away again?

[maysshortmoviereviews]

Fall (2022)

For best friends Becky and Hunter, life is all about conquering fears and pushing limits. However, after they climb 2,000 feet to the top of a remote, abandoned radio tower, they find themselves stranded with no way down. Now, their expert climbing skills are put to the ultimate test as they desperately fight to survive the elements, a lack of supplies, and vertigo-inducing heights.

📝Woah! This is a really tense and fresh take on the "on the edge of your seat" type of film. I don't suffer from vertigo, but it also made me feel very tense!! It's a great story. They start with a little bit of backstory but then it's straight into the action. It builds well. The two leads are excellent. Also Virginia Gardener is a doppelganger of Reese Witherspoon! I had to Google her because I thought she was her daughter! She looks exactly like her and especially circa Cruel Intentions. 

I loved this film because I was looking for something like this, a tense thriller and it delivered. Kudos to the team behind it. Also I think I will stick to climbing at my local gym :-) Check it out for that thrilling experience!

[emeto-film-critic]

Fall - 2022

NOT SAFE - A,V•

Approx. 1:23:55 - 1:24:02 •A,V• Becky climbs to charge the drone. When she climbs back down, she says "why didn't you catch the bag" and then she v*. Audio and body language only. You do see her face but see nothing come out due to the camera angle.

*** Blood can be seen on and around mouth throughout movie.***

[drdemonprince]

The data does not support the assumption that all burned out people can “recover.” And when we fully appreciate what burnout signals in the body, and where it comes from on a social, economic, and psychological level, it should become clear to us that there’s nothing beneficial in returning to an unsustainable status quo. 

The term “burned out” is sometimes used to simply mean “stressed” or “tired,” and many organizations benefit from framing the condition in such light terms. Short-term, casual burnout (like you might get after one particularly stressful work deadline, or following final exams) has a positive prognosis: within three months of enjoying a reduced workload and increased time for rest and leisure, 80% of mildly burned-out workers are able to make a full return to their jobs. 

But there’s a lot of unanswered questions lurking behind this happy statistic. For instance, how many workers in this economy actually have the ability to take three months off work to focus on burnout recovery? What happens if a mildly burnt-out person does not get that rest, and has to keep toiling away as more deadlines pile up? And what is the point of returning to work if the job is going to remain as grueling and uncontrollable as it was when it first burned the worker out? 

Burnout that is not treated swiftly can become far more severe. Clinical psychologist and burnout expert Arno van Dam writes that when left unattended (or forcibly pushed through), mild burnout can metastasize into clinical burnout, which the International Classification of Diseases defines as feelings of energy depletion, increased mental distance, and a reduced sense of personal agency. Clinically burned-out people are not only tired, they also feel detached from other people and no longer in control of their lives, in other words.

Unfortunately, clinical burnout has quite a dismal trajectory. Multiple studies by van Dam and others have found that clinical burnout sufferers may require a year or more of rest following treatment before they can feel better, and that some of burnout’s lingering effects don’t go away easily, if at all. 

In one study conducted by Anita Eskildsen, for example, burnout sufferers continued to show memory and processing speed declines one year after burnout. Their cognitive processing skills improved slightly since seeking treatment, but the experience of having been burnt out had still left them operating significantly below their non-burned-out peers or their prior self, with no signs of bouncing back. 

It took two years for subjects in one of van Dam’s studies to return to “normal” levels of involvement and competence at work. following an incident of clinical burnout. However, even after a multi-year recovery period they still performed worse than the non-burned-out control group on a cognitive task designed to test their planning and preparation abilities. Though they no longer qualified as clinically burned out, former burnout sufferers still reported greater exhaustion, fatigue, depression, and distress than controls.

In his review of the scientific literature, van Dam reports that anywhere from 25% to 50% of clinical burnout sufferers do not make a full recovery even four years after their illness. Studies generally find that burnout sufferers make most of their mental and physical health gains in the first year after treatment, but continue to underperform on neuropsychological tests for many years afterward, compared to control subjects who were never burned out. 

People who have experienced burnout report worse memories, slower reaction times, less attentiveness, lower motivation, greater exhaustion, reduced work capability, and more negative health symptoms, long after their period of overwork has stopped. It’s as if burnout sufferers have fallen off their previous life trajectory, and cannot ever climb fully back up. 

And that’s just among the people who receive some kind of treatment for their burnout and have the opportunity to rest. I found one study that followed burned-out teachers for seven years and reported over 14% of them remained highly burnt-out the entire time. These teachers continued feeling depersonalized, emotionally drained, ineffective, dizzy, sick to their stomachs, and desperate to leave their jobs for the better part of a decade. But they kept working in spite of it (or more likely, from a lack of other options), lowering their odds of ever healing all the while. 

Van Dam observes that clinical burnout patients tend to suffer from an excess of perseverance, rather than the opposite: “Patients with clinical burnout…report that they ignored stress symptoms for several years,” he writes. “Living a stressful life was a normal condition for them. Some were not even aware of the stressfulness of their lives, until they collapsed.”

Instead of seeking help for workplace problems or reducing their workload, as most people do, clinical burnout sufferers typically push themselves through unpleasant circumstances and avoid asking for help. They’re also less likely to give up when placed under frustrating circumstances, instead throttling the gas in hopes that their problems can be fixed with extra effort. They become hyperactive, unable to rest or enjoy holidays, their bodies wired to treat work as the solution to every problem. It is only after living at this unrelenting pace for years that they tumble into severe burnout. 

Among both masked Autistics and overworked employees, the people most likely to reach catastrophic, body-breaking levels of burnout are the people most primed to ignore their own physical boundaries for as long as possible. Clinical burnout sufferers work far past the point that virtually anyone else would ask for help, take a break, or stop caring about their work.

And when viewed from this perspective, we can see burnout as the saving grace of the compulsive workaholic — and the path to liberation for the masked disabled person who has nearly killed themselves trying to pass as a diligent worker bee. 

I wrote about the latest data on burnout "recovery," and the similarities and differences between Autistic burnout and conventional clinical burnout. The full piece is free to read or have narrated to you in the Substack app at drdevonprice.substack.com

[blumoonfiction-blog]

#ShowsWeLove: The Gilded Age

If you love period dramas steeped in grandeur, scandal, and societal intrigue, HBO’s The Gilded Age is a must-watch. Set in 1880s New York during a time of rapid economic growth and cultural change, the show is a lavish exploration of the tensions between old money and new wealth in America’s most opulent era. Created by Julian Fellowes (Downton Abbey), The Gilded Age is rich in historical…

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Review of BLACK DIAMOND Momentum Climbing Shoes

Have you ever found yourself standing at the base of a climbing wall, looking up and wondering if you’re equipped with the right gear? The BLACK DIAMOND Equipment Momentum Climbing Shoes for Women might just be the companion you need to conquer both craggy cliffs and the sometimes more intimidating heights of an indoor gym. Let’s talk about how these climbing shoes could transform your climbing…