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Sort of. For weapon/stone/upright spike traps it will generate a combat report, I 'm not sure about cage traps.

A friend gave me a standard bottle of homebrew cider uh... a couple weeks ago?  I finally got around to cracking it open.  It's been in the refrigerator the whole time, so it won't have gone bad from light, but a different friend suggested it might have gone bad anyway?  Not sure why that would be, just slightly worried I guess.

It didn't have much pressure in the bottle, almost flat.  I tasted a little and it's kinda sweet and apple-sour.  My sense of smell is unreliable at best so I can't test it that way.

Is it supposed to be a hard cider (alcoholic) or soft cider (apple juice)?

It being sweet, means that whatever fermentation process might have happen didn't go all the way.
Being flat could be, because either it didn't ferment long enough to build pressure or the bottle wasn't properly closed and the CO2 leaked out.
I'm not sure about ciders but (AFAIK) when an apple goes bad it will either have a stronger apple smell or a strong sourdough smell (if something fermented it as it was spoiling).

Did you notice any side effects after tasting it? Did it have any noticeable alcohol?

Pushup variations have more to do with the positioning of the hands narrower/wider than anything else.

Yep, I was very much amazed when I figured out how even small variations in hand position change which muscles get to take the brunt of lifting the body. It's also the reason why I like push ups, it's such a utilitarian exercise.

Here's my alternative to either knuckle or palm pushups: dumbbell pushups.

I have a set of adjustable dumbbells which I use, but bit concerned about how stable they would be because the disks are rounded. I guess I'll just give them a try and go from there.

and you're not mashing your knuckles into the ground either.

Honestly, with the hand wraps it doesn't really feel that bad. They provide enough padding that I could say holding my weight on my fists was always quite comfortable. The only exception was when I would mess the wrapping a bit, resulting in some twisting of the band which would then feel like it's biting into the skin but it's was very easy to feel when that happens (sometimes even before you start doing the exercise) and it's also easy to fix.

Forearms typically don't get the attention they deserve in either the strengthening or stretching side of things, and consistently working on your wrist mobility will get them used to taking stress and ultimately get stronger.

This. I 'm thinking that ultimately my wrist just aren't use to this kind of stress.

You need to figure out what your daily, non-activity calorie requirements are.

That's one of the benefits of going to a nutritionist. I have a BMR of about 1860 kcal which gives an actual rate of ~2390 kcal/day when you put the weight loss projections into the equation. So I'm running on a ~390kcal deficit which feels just right for me right now. Though it'll hopefully raise as I intesify my workouts.

Lastly, I applaud your desire to lift weights so your body doesn't get loose from the fat loss. But really, you should be lifting weights to GROW muscle. And here's why.....Anyways, good luck, keep soldiering on.

Thank you The goal now is indeed to really start growing my muscles.

So rather than try to work around the injury, I decided to just compound the last two weeks of no working out due to work trips with just a general hiatus from working out altogether. My reasoning is, if my body is working to heal an injury then it probably won't help to do all my other workouts and place my body under stress while it's also trying to heal an injury.

Seems like a good call if you ask me. Going too hard right now probably puts too much strain on the rest of your body as it tries to compesate for your right knee. I hope you'll have a quick recovery.

Could be the fact I'm retaining more water so I look "fuller." (Although generally water retention makes you look fluffier.)

You might know it already, but I'm not sure if it was mentioned before in the thread.  Most of the muscle mass is actually water, known as intracellular water (ICW) and keeping a high level of ICW would in turn make your muscle look bigger and probably more defined. In addition to ICW there is also the extarcellular water (ECW) which while while it serves a lot of important functions having too much of it would result in a more bloated look. Again, to avoid any confusion, ECW is important for the body, and one should keep it at a good level to keep one's self healthy.

It could be that by taking a break you just give your muscle the chance to retain the water levels they actually need/want to have and in turn they increase their size.

It's a known issue with TWBT. The only workaround (that I know of) is to disable*  it before you embark, embark, save your game, close DF, enable TWBT again and load your fort.

*In LNP's launcher under the graphics tab, find the "print options" and change it to something othar than TWBT.

Probably heard you were having an awesome pool party down by the magma forges. It would be quite impolite to refuse them, don't you think?

Some people like to travel in groups. It's more fun that way I guess.

My guys refuse to equip weapons, specifically halberds.
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Lower the [MINIMUM_SIZE:X] requirements of the weapons themselves, to your race's lowest average (or to a specific caste's average if you don't want all of them to be able to use them) in the raws. I'm not sure whether you can do this in an already existing world or it needs a new one.

• In Dwarf Fortress/raw/objects/creature_custom_race.txt (or some other similarily named txt in the raw folder) look for the appropriate [BODY_SIZE:X:Y:Z] line for the adult creatures. "Z" will be the creatures average size when reaching aulthood. More info on creature tokens here.
• Dwarf Fortress/raw/objects/items_weapons.txt is the general direction path. Changing this will affect only new world created after the change.
• Dwarf Fortress/data/save/regionX/raw/objects/items_weapons.txt is for the already existing worlds. The "X" in "regionX" will be a number (1,2,3,..) and each of the worlds you have generated will have it's own region folder.