DarK_RaideR: Sanity is over-rated

[DarK_RaideR]

After graduating into a Permabeast last challenge, it’s time to move onto something even bigger. For starters, that means expanding this challenge to 8 weeks. This summer has been insane, both on a personal level as well as with all the political developments, so I’m willing to go with the flow and ride the wave of madness. Also, the end of this challenge coincides with my first ever Obstacle Course Race, the Athens Legion Run. Or at least it used to, before the 2 week break was cut down to one week. Like I said, madness and unpredictability. Either way, I'm stretching things a bit, starting from today, July 20th until a week after the official end of the challenge and day of the race. With all that said, the checklist for this challenge theme says I need a role model that’s

• Strong

• Agile

• Unstoppable

• Looking badass without a shirt on

• Completely insane

We also share the exact same level of social skills around attractive females. Especially those with hair dyed in unusual, vivid colours

 

Abandon any pretense of sanity and let’s head out to the BADASS CRATER OF BADASSITUDE!

Come to think of it, I could have gone with Torgue instead, but he is partly sane and not into fighting. Unless we’re talking about suplexing sharks, but that’s another story.

 

Goals are pass/fail mostly, some just require to keep track of certain things. What was that other thing they needed to be…Oh yeah, SMART

 

NEVER STOP THE KILLING! NEVER!

Simply put, keep doing what I’ve been doing as far as Nutrition, 3 Crossfit Workouts/week and Rest are concerned. This is a habit by now, so I’m allowing myself to wrap it up into one goal and allow for some special exceptions due to August holidays that might get in the way. Providing the Rangers’ Guild Mini Challenge is also gonna be a thing and I expect the mini’s theme to work nicely with my challenge theme. Finally, I’m gonna keep a daily count of spam accounts destroyed, just because I get a kick doing it while bored at work. FROM THE DEPTHS OF HELL, I STAB AT THEE, SPAMBOT!

 

SALT THE WOUND!

Do pushups and plank every day, preferably every morning. The trick here is that every day, I have to do at least 1 extra pushup and 1 second more than the previous, so it’s a ladder thing.

 

YOU WOKE THE WRONG DOG!

Cold shower every morning, first thing in the morning. Unless I start with the workout, in which case the shower goes right after. Been feeling lethargic for a while, tried it during the last week of my previous challenge and it did wonders to start my day full of energy. I’ve also tried shouting Krieg quotes to get me out of the occasional haze (surprisingly enough, it worked) which leads us to our next goal...

 

BUZZ AXE RAMPAGE

Krieg’s special ability is to go bezerk and do insane amounts of melee damage with his custom made “buzz axe”. He can also throw it, but who bothers with that. Oh yeah, I sometimes do that while charging closer for the melee kill. Also useful in taking out aeroplanes. YES, I THROW A SAWBLADE AXE TO THOSE FLYING BUZZARD THINGIES AND THEY EXPLODE AND DIE BECAUSE BORDERLANDS! In similar fashion, my goal is to summon my 20 seconds of berzerker mode at least once a week. Shouting Krieg quotes before, during or after is optional.

 

Turns out other people do that as well

 

LOOK AT ALL THE DEATH TRINKETS!

Make a list of all the necessary gear for the Legion Run, then acquire and prepare it for the actual race.

 

NO BRAKES ON THE POOP TRAIN!

First time I played Borderlands 2, I stopped a little before the end. Actually, moments before meeting Angel in person. I’ve been re-playing lately and made it back up to the point where Sanctuary took off. My least stressful goal in this challenge is to finally complete the game. If that’s done before the end of the challenge, that means more time for extra DLC content. EXPLOSIONS? Looking forward to playing Mr. Torgue’s Campaign of Carnage and Tiny Tina’s Assault on Dragon Keep.

 

Pffft… Math… Hope we don’t pop a blood vessel

 

Might add various quests presented as guest appearances by various BL2 characters, just to keep things interesting and myself excited. Disclaimer: Don’t expect me to make any sense this challenge round. Cautious, educated Beast was last challenge, this one I’m cutting loose.

 

"Before you can enter the tournament, you must digitally sign our legal waiver."

BY REGISTERING IN THE BADASS TOURNAMENT, YOU LEGALLY FORFEIT YOUR RIGHT TO CRY, EAT TOFU, OR WATCH MOVIES WHERE PEOPLE KISS IN THE RAIN AND SH*T!

 

TL;DR breakdown

• Keep batch cooking and eating according to the plan laid last challenge

• 3 Crossfit workouts per week

• Get enough sleep every night

• Do my NF part (Write up Guild mini and slay spambots)

• Increase pushups and plank time every day

• Cold shower every day

• Berzerker mode at least once a week

• Prepare my gear for the OCR

• Finish Borderlands 2

• Go insane

[deftona]

I love the challenge theme on this one, it's all kinds of awesome. And this bit is the best thing ever: 

 

 I’ve also tried shouting Krieg quotes to get me out of the occasional haze (surprisingly enough, it worked) which leads us to our next goal...

 

 

In for the batcrap insanity. 

[SomeGuyFromScotland]

Following for the Poop Train.

[DarK_RaideR]

Following for the Poop Train.

ALL ABOARD!

[RES]

 

• Looking badass without a shirt on

 

I saw your pics last challenge...you've already got this covered...

 

 

just because I get a kick doing it while bored at work. FROM THE DEPTHS OF HELL, I STAB AT THEE, SPAMBOT!

Did anyone else get the reference to work=hell here?

 

Stalking you because...you're you

[DarK_RaideR]

I saw your pics last challenge...you've already got this covered...

 

Did anyone else get the reference to work=hell here?

 

 

Hugs and love to you... because you're you

[RoxyFreefall]

Following along even though I know nothing of Borderlands.

[Endor]

I have borderlands for PS3 in cellophane in my drawer where it's been for 5 years, maybe I should finally open it...

 

I'll be following along for the ride, not sure about a poop train though :S

[DarK_RaideR]

Following along even though I know nothing of Borderlands.

I have borderlands for PS3 in cellophane in my drawer where it's been for 5 years, maybe I should finally open it...

 

I'll be following along for the ride, not sure about a poop train though :S

 

Welcome aboard! Let us all dance to the WUB WUB

[deftona]

 

Lets not forget the man, the legend - Face McShooty. 

[DarK_RaideR]

Lets not forget the man, the legend - Face McShooty. 

First time I ran into him I spent over 5 minutes of "WTF" time. Then I thought it was a trick and tried to think of the catch. Turns out he's quite the trolling encounter. Here's the deal, for those unfamiliar

 

Fun fact: The character was inspired by this article of The Onion, parodying both the media fear campaign on shooter games as well as the genre's tendency to become oversimplified and mindless as it (de)evolves.

 

Totally NSFW song devoted to the great Face McShooty

[shaar]

CATCH A RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDE

 

 

Subbed for the crazy.

[DarK_RaideR]

CATCH A RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDE

 

 

Subbed for the crazy.

 

You're a Vault Hunter... That's like a Unicorn...

[Everstorm]

Muahahaha! Another Ranger coming to the OCR dark side! Can't wait to read all about it!

[darkfoxx]

Lols. Subbing for the batcrap craziness, despite autocorrect's repeated attempts to change batcrap to buttercup.  

[Terra]

Subbing for this crazy energy!!!  Hope is rubs off, but not at the "batcrap craziness" levels... yet!  

[Wild Wolf]

Awesome stuff dude- consider me subbed! Our goals are wicked similar and I love the cold shower deal. I've started doing cold showers for the last couple months and it's seemed to help out a lot especially with my intense training.

We ALL gotta look badass without a shirt on brotha [emoji106]ðŸ»[emoji123]ðŸ»

Wolf

"Let the Boomstick do the talking."

[DarK_RaideR]

 

Muahahaha! Another Ranger coming to the OCR dark side! Can't wait to read all about it!

Oh I've been wanting to come over the OCR dark side for a while now, the problem is that there aren't any OCRs round these parts! Legion Run is the only one organized in Greece and it only started last year, when I missed it for just this little bit. This time tho, I'm planning to KILL IT!

 

Lols. Subbing for the batcrap craziness, despite autocorrect's repeated attempts to change batcrap to buttercup. 

Buttercrap, perhaps?

 

 

Subbing for this crazy energy!!!  Hope is rubs off, but not at the "batcrap craziness" levels... yet!  

Speaking of bats and their flying equivalent in Pandora, the creatures called "Rakk"...

 

...this one's for rowannnnnnnnANANANANANANA

RAKKMAAAAAAAAN!

[DarK_RaideR]

Awesome stuff dude- consider me subbed! Our goals are wicked similar and I love the cold shower deal. I've started doing cold showers for the last couple months and it's seemed to help out a lot especially with my intense training.

We ALL gotta look badass without a shirt on brotha [emoji106][emoji123]

Glad to have you along, Wolf. I'll be keeping an eye out for you this round, whether you stick with the Assassins or decide to swing over our guild

Literally "an" eye out. The other one's covered by  the mask's eyepatch

[Rurik Harrgath]

I need a role model that’s

• Strong

• Agile

• Unstoppable

• Looking badass without a shirt on

• Completely insane

We also share the exact same level of social skills around attractive females. Especially those with hair dyed in unusual, vivid colours

 

That video was awesome.  This theme is awesome.

 

You're my role model for this challenge because we have freakishly similar goals... and lives... but you've made your challenge far more legendary than mine is going to be!

 

In for the follow because D_R is my NF doppelganger.

[DarK_RaideR]

That video was awesome.  This theme is awesome.

 

You're my role model for this challenge because we have freakishly similar goals... and lives... but you've made your challenge far more legendary than mine is going to be!

 

In for the follow because D_R is my NF doppelganger.

 

 

Kinda sounds like the mentality of someone doing an OCR, right?

[Rurik Harrgath]

 

Kinda sounds like the mentality of someone doing an OCR, right?

 

That sounds exactly like my thought process during the Spartan.  Like seriously bang-on.

 

Holidays started today.  I'm picking up Borderlands because of you.  Here's to another excellent challenge, brother!

[Tanktimus the Encourager]

It's nice to know when I call upon the banhammer to destroy the spam bots someone is taking it seriously. Good luck being axe crazy this challenge

[DarK_RaideR]

That sounds exactly like my thought process during the Spartan.  Like seriously bang-on.

 

Holidays started today.  I'm picking up Borderlands because of you.  Here's to another excellent challenge, brother!

I've finished the first Borderlands game and most of its DLC as the Soldier. Let me tell you, playing BL2 as Krieg is a whole different world than any of the BL games with any other character. By the way, if you picked up BL2, my steam name is also DarK_RaideR. If time zone difference doesn't kill us (I know it will kill me, as I plan to watch the CF Games) I'd love to run a co-op game sometime.

 

It's nice to know when I call upon the banhammer to destroy the spam bots someone is taking it seriously. Good luck being axe crazy this challenge

I've been doing it for a while now anyway, helps that I'm in a timezone that combines low forum traffic, high spambot activity and me at work without much else to do. I just keep track for funsies, although today I was slightly surprised by the numbers.

 

Will return soon with an update, gotta get stuff done and get enough sleep too

[DarK_RaideR]

Let me walk you through the insanity that was my day today...

 

Woke up on my own at 6 a.m. Debated getting up, but thought an extra hour of (forced) sleep would make a huge difference eventually. Got up again moments before the alarm went off at 7:30. 10 Pushups were done, along with 30 seconds of planking. That will be my benchmark. Next up, ice cold shower. Seemed like a joke this time, I blame the recent experience of swimming in freshly molten snow. Posted the hike and challenge wrap-up on NF before I realized that my calves were killing me, so I decided this would be a rest day. Had my breakfast on the fly, consisting of 2 hard boiled eggs, 3 bacon strips, half a liter of full fat milk and a peach. On workout days, bacon strips are replaced by a cup of light yoghurt, so I plan to combine it with the peach and milk into a smoothie. Packed my bags, shaved the mountain stubble and got dressed, leaving home at 8:30. What the heck have I been doing all the previous time, which led me to leave home at 9, or 9:30, if not later?

 

Burst into the office ready to take on the killer week ahead... and nothing happened. Even after my colleague arrived, he told me we'd have to wait for the upcoming law proposal to be delivered to us, whenever that would happen. Took the chance to post this challenge and the Guild threads on the new boards, check out some people and slay a grand total of 17 spam bots (granted, I dug a little deeper than usual to clean up extra stuff that snuck through during my absence in the weekend). Eventually, the law proposal arrived... and again nothing happened. My colleague got to work on the draft along with some lady from our office while I was on the sidelines. At least we had a visitor, another co-worker who publicly mentioned that the people from the nuclear commission were excited about our meeting last week and especially noted what a great legal team we put up. I should mention that I was the only legal guy on our side, the rest were scientific and administrative experts. All the XP, all the recognition, all the bragging rights. By the way, I set the message notification on my phone to be Mr. Torgue's "EXPLOSIONS?" sound and it came up during the day, without evoking any reactions. I take it as a sign that it's ok for me to quote Krieg from the top of my lungs while at work. Made a list of stuff I'll be needing for the OCR, get me started on that goal too. Destroyed my lunch of spicy grilled chicken and raw carrots, even my banana snack later on and... eventually, something did happen; I was handed a third of the proposal that had been drafted by that point and told that the other two thirds will be finished and handed to me on Tuesday noon and evening. I'm supposed to do what I gotta do, because we have to send out the finished product by Wednesday morning. Cherry on top, my colleague won't bother checking my documents, they're going straight to the Parliament and no mistakes are allowed.

 

You could say I've got my... *puts on sunglasses* ...work cut out for me

 

Couldn't really focus at work anymore, so I left around 6 to come back home. Gotta admit, I had some leftover Peanutbutter/quinoa flour/cocoa/raisin energy bars which I ate, so not a flawless nutrition plan. Whatever, rest days are tough nutritionally and I didn't go wild overboard. My laundry from the hike was dry and I was lucky to wash some more stuff before the water went out. I suppose they were doing maintenance work or something like that nearby. 3 or 4 hours later, I was done with work and enjoyed my spaghetti and tuna/tomato sauce dinner while skyping with the family. Dishes are dry and ready to be used again tomorrow, I wish I was able to iron some shirts too but if I do, I'll miss out on a lot of sleep by now. It's already half past midnight as I type this and I need to rest my calves if I'm going to be blazing through work and making it to the box tomorrow. Gonna need a clear head and a decent physical condition.