How to increase your stamina with terrible video game tactics | Unraveled

resistance that mysterious green juice that enhances our muscles in

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s that allows characters to split dragons climb volcanoes and jog lightly across a meadow. I look at these heroic tasks and think about what they look like. I normally have a lot of energy, but the fact is that I've been stuck at home for the past two months and have cultivated the

stamina

of a cartoon basset hound. I used to be so much more productive and my energy has completely vanished, is it because I've been having problems? Am I adjusting to this new lifestyle of working from home or is it because my constitution is rubbish.

Today I say goodbye to that boring, languid Brian and I'm going to use the things I've learned from

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s to maximize my

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. I have to go. I'm on these charts because I no longer have a studio. There are two main ways stamina is represented in video games: stamina bars that automatically replenish and stamina bars that don't, and these different representations lead to different techniques for increasing that. stamina my hypothesis is that if I use these same techniques in real life then I will finally have the energy to tackle the washing machine there are four methods to

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stamina and video games let's start with the easiest to understand one refills items you spend some energy eats something to replenish that energy is basic biology the Krebs cycle or something like that I'm not interested in getting that shit out of here the problem is that video games are usually more fantastic than real life many times what you need to consume is an elixir made of arcane magic extracted from the same lifeblood that sustains or if you have an Okajima it is monstrous energy God bless you death stranded for having a magic canteen that effortlessly becomes dangerous time falls into a brand name energy drink that you know for a video game That's what love giving you a 40 minute long scene explaining why some asshole is called Hot Wet Man or whatever.

This piece of world-building has a much simpler explanation: money, and thanks to this blatant product placement, I have a concrete way to determine how to reload. stamina, judging from Sam's experience, it takes around 600 milliliters of monstrous energy to completely fill

your

bar and given the fact that this logic exists in a world where everyone is trapped in isolated homes and delivery drivers are among the most important essential workers, I think it's safe to say that conditions couldn't be better for this experiment. The biggest difference between Sam Bridges and me is that I don't get paid with monster energy, so I don't have to pretend to like him.

Technique to slow down exhaustion, unlike item recharges. This one asks you to do a bit of planning, you only consume one of these items before having to perform a huge task, so it's usually shown in games where preparation is key, like when you have to fight a 40 ton pickle . Monster Hunter has battles that can last over an hour, which can make preparation so important, and while the fight itself is something like eating a full baked pasta before the big track meet, there are plenty of ways to slow it down. stamina depletion in Monster Hunter, but sometimes the simplest option is the best and in this case the simplest option is the state steak, which is made with raw meat in Monster Hunter and also in the real world, and eating it

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s your maximum stamina, but the effects change depending on how you cook a dish rare.

Steak refills your stamina bar and makes it longer, but a well-done steak does all that and slows down the max depletion of your stamina. The steak snobs among you may balk at the claim that a well-done steak is better than a juicy, moist one. It's weird, but I ask you this question: which one would you rather have in your leather bag? So I will cook these meats until they are completely gray. Technique 3: stamina regeneration. With this technique, every time you use stamina, recover it faster and there is no game that makes you say come on reload come on come on reform more than dark souls in dark souls you consume stamina every time you attack block run stop retreat step back stab repost jump shoot Arrows are calling for your mama and if you're in the middle of a boss fight and you've run out of stamina to dodge the spin or swing your big sword, well, those are the breaks, boy, luckily There are some accessories that speed up stamina regeneration. and even more fortunately you can buy legitimate versions of these items for around $300.

No, thanks. I can do it at home and even if I had the means to purchase these official accessories, there is still one big problem: the in-game items are imbued. with abyssal dark magics that I simply don't have the art for, fortunately I have a small piece of magic that I can use. It's called the placebo effect. There are many psychological studies that show that clothing choice can have an effect on your mood and confidence. and there are even more studies showing that placebos can have legitimate beneficial effects, so why wouldn't putting on the kid's mask help me deal with the wash chair and eventually the technique or permanent augmentations?

This is by far the best way to maximize your stamina when you have all the stamina in the world, even the heaviest tasks won't faze you. There are a lot of realistic games that use this technique, like Red Dead Redemption, where the only way to increase your maximum stamina is to do a lot of heavy duty stamina like running, but the thing about this technique is that it sucks. I'm sorry that you're telling me that to have more energy I have to use all the little energy I have. That's recursive logic. I do not do it.

For starters, you've got some energy and you want it to run a mile, so since Rockstar doesn't really care about realism, let's talk about a more grounded game. This game link can be exchanged for spirit orbs to increase your hearts or stamina but I want to focus on this little one the horned statue here you can make a different type of exchange a deal with the devil you can increase your maximum stamina the only problem is that I can't understand how you would gain more stamina by doing something physically harmful like using a sulfate shampoo. I would never do it now.

I will focus on the first three techniques. This is how the experiment works. I will spend a day on each technique grading my resistance level every hour. day, if I'm at zero then I'm either asleep or dead, so most of my stamina levels will be between one and ten, with one being the stamina level of a hot box sloth and ten being the energy of a six. one year old boy at a laser tag party who just finished his first can of soft yellow. My goal is to be at level 10 at all times. I will also take advantage of the power-ups based on 3 criteria: increase speed, increase stamina and increase quality, but first we have to do a control test which is just a normal day, just after 7 o'clock on a Monday.

I would save my power level. I continued with my day as I normally do, which is to say, boring if you look at it. On the graph you'll see that there were two small peaks, the first occurring after I had my morning coffee and the second after I hit a very low point right after lunch. I have no idea if I'm pointing out the right places. At half past one I decided to be productive at least leave my house and go buy a liter of monster, you can't tell because I'm wearing a mask but I'm grimacing down here, this is obviously just a control test, but it's emblematic of the lethargy I've been feeling for the past few weeks.

I never got above an 8 and in fact my average for the entire day was a little higher than I felt right after I woke up, that's pretty bad but it means there's nowhere to go but up and now I'm going to go up with the first technique test feeling like a 5 not very tired nor very energetic but instead of making coffee I will go and have a drink from my canteen that I have filled Three different monster energy drinks up to the liter market. If I'm at half strength right now I shouldn't be drinking 300 milliliters, let's see if this works and the effects of Sam Bridges' favorite concoction really took effect. watch, we're going well, obviously the energy drink has affected me and I put the statistics so that I can move.

I can still have more resistance. Yes, I feel like I'm at an 8 right now. You know, normally I'd say okay. Trying to be at peak performance level, another 120 milliliters down the hatch, let's work a little baby, we steal and find probably a nine or maybe not and a half maybe a ten pride at the nine and a half we can get fries without filming, come on As I wrote more scripts, things were going great for me in the stamina department until they stopped being blue, the accident, and then right after lunch it all came down to three, now that I've seen the monster give me a super high and then immediately crashes me.

I'm going to do the only thing a sane person would do and expend more monstrous energy, let's go to work and even though I went for that magnificent feeling of total stamina that I fleetingly experienced that morning, I still averaged less. than the control test for the rest of the afternoon I drank three cans full of monster energy if I didn't have the monster energy I would have been dead right now. I don't understand that there was only a small spike that occurred after I had gone out to resume betting for the next day's tests and, although the energy drinks didn't keep me up all night, there were some other side effects that ultimately led to a bad review of this technique.

My body is tired, but my anxiety and I also feel that physically I am not very well, I still had high hopes for test two since the previous two tests had a downward trend. I was hoping that lessening the exhaustion would help unfortunately because of the tests the day before I was operating at a deficit, I went to bed fine and then woke up about two hours after that and then kept waking up every thirty minutes. I'll tell you, more than anything in the world, what I'd love to do is go ahead and make myself a cup of coffee, but you know, that's me.

I'll make you a super cheap beef better, a round steak, go ahead, grill one of these puppies to a healthy 160 degrees Fahrenheit, make breakfast. I did my best to live this experience impartially and honestly the first steak of the day was It's not that bad, I feel more powerful and although it didn't give me the same boost as the monster energy, my stamina levels they increased and stayed level all morning, I feel like I'm holding them up much better, maybe I really am. well, not to degrade my stamina, it's almost lunch time, maybe I'll eat overcooked steak medallions, that's exactly what I did, unfortunately the second meats of the day were not so wonderful and this is where the real challenge came in of this technique.

I really wish I was eating something else than this, the problem is I'm still very hungry and I also don't want to eat any more well done steaks with my stomach rumbling and my stamina waning, I decided to give it a try. I distracted myself from that by working on the accessories for the next day's test and this gave me a small increase in stamina and that stamina remained, but other things weren't going as well. The big resistance is going well, but I'm very hungry and also. I'm very upset at the thought of having to eat more of these well-cooked meat discs, but now I'm going to make the last two.

Many of you may wonder if it doesn't get easier over time and the answer is obviously no. At the end of the day, it's easy to see that although my stamina didn't increase as much, it lasted longer, so there might be some truth to this slow degradation technique, but unlike the monster's energy test, this one was literal and metaphorically harder to overcome. swallow, there's a reason energy drinks aren't chewy, luckily our final test didn't have me consuming any. I slept a little better last night at Lisa's, so I'd say I have about four, but the good news is that I know. just what to do, let me go put on Mike's.

I already feel energized, okay, full disclosure, as much as I believe in video game logic. I just taped some aluminum foil onto some cardboard. I wasn't expecting much from this test, but the results speak for themselves. Because? Don't I carry a shield more often? This makes me feel so powerful. I received a morning boost that rivaled item refills. Sure, working with the whole outfit was a little annoying, but that didn't stop me from being an active participant in my virtual. meetings, yes I can, I can help with that, Jenna, if you need additional help with that, yes, Brian, I guess so, but around 11:00 the mask and the shield were affecting me, so I started to alter which of the accessories I was using. there is no set bonus,so as long as I had an item equipped, my stamina regeneration should be a little faster than normal for the last hour.

I took off my mask and have been living off chlorine. more tired I'm going to reconsider the mask at 1:30 I had to do a broadcast and I did it with the mask. I'm sure my stamina increased after that experience, in fact for most of the day the props helped me finish. It didn't make my stomach hurt, but there were other costs. I don't like wearing this mask. I feel like my stamina has increased, but there seems to be an obvious trade-off here because it's not comfortable to use. I can see like I've been crushing my nose.

I'm deciding whether or not I want to have higher energy levels or if I want to feel comfortable is really what's happening right now. Take a look there. I imagine the Wright brothers had a similar expression. the day they went to Kitty Hawk because that's the face of a man who's ready to fly, remember how I said I couldn't figure out how to trade health for stamina, well judging by these previous tests, every one of them was physically harmful . specific and wonderful way i feel physically weird maybe i could trade my health for more endurance doing the technique right away welcome to the final test realizing what i was going to have to do today really just made me not want to get out of bed.

I'm about to do all three endurance things at once. I don't expect to feel great, but I do expect an increase in productivity like no one has ever seen, so after putting on my clothes and grilling a well-done steak, I sat down. for breakfast God, I hate this state and at 9 o'clock I felt the effects. I think maybe God didn't intend for us to wake up and drink an energy drink and eat a well-done steak and then where's the oil mask. I'm out of five, so the boost didn't come right away, but let's remember that some of these boosts take a little while to warm up and since I'm increasing my maximum resistance, I should hit a ten, maybe an 11 or 12. mid-morning, except things haven't changed, it's 10 o'clock and I'm still at 5, what the hell?

I'm going to cook all the steaks. I'm going to drink all the energy drink. Put this on while I do it. I'm going to do it all now. I'm tired of this, I'm also physically tired. I ate four steaks. I drank all the rest of my energy drink. I was going to increase my maximum endurance. I'm ready to face the day. It turns out that doing all the resistance-building techniques at once fills the bar stem to such a point that the bar explodes. I felt physically ill and had to lie down for several hours. I can't even.

I reviewed this boost technique because it just knocked me out, but I will say I recovered later that day so I left my house and came here for a little walk and proper social distancing. I feel like I feel much better. "I don't know, but I'm smiling underneath this and this made me rethink some of my tests, most of my afternoon increases words, they're too clever and ingestible, they were because I took a little walk or did a fun craft or talked with my friends online I was doing these techniques for nothing it's the wrong video game logic no I just didn't understand what the video games were teaching me Being good at Dark Souls or Monster Hunter is about knowing how many swings of your great sword you can. do before you need to.

Taking a break only becomes a major problem if you completely run out and have to spend a few seconds staggering around or spend a few hours lying in bed. Maybe the real resilience technique I need to learn is to recognize that right now I may not be. I can do all I want, but if I focus on the small victories I can manage my stamina and I can manage my expectations for my stamina, so even if I'm still where the chlorine fee sounds, it will be just for fashion and today. I'm going to take care of the laundry chair.

Tell me when the camera stops rolling so I can stop bending you.