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  • zepherinzepherin Russian warship, go fuck yourself Registered User regular
    My step dad gets periodic needles into his eye.

  • Hahnsoo1Hahnsoo1 Make Ready. We Hunt.Registered User, Moderator, Administrator admin
    edited November 2018
    Evil Multifarious wrote: »
    Let's say you're awake 16 hours a day. 406 days is about 6500 waking hours.

    406 days where you get up, play nonstop for 16 hours and then go to sleep. Over a year where that's all you do.

    But let's say they have a full time job that takes up 8 hours, 5 days a week. So you have 40 hours during the week and 32 on the weekend, for 72 hours per week.

    That's about 90 weeks, almost two straight years, where a person would come home from work, play this single video game non-stop, and then sleep. On weekends, they'd play from the moment they wake up to the moment they go to bed.

    Two years of this.
    “I cannot stay,” Inigo told him. “I’m only here to ask you one question. As you know, I have spent the last ten years learning. Now I have come for you to tell me if I’m ready.”

    “Ready? For what? What in the world have you been learning?”

    “The sword.”

    “Madness,” said Yeste. “You have spent ten entire years just learning to fence?”

    “No, not just learning to fence,” Inigo answered. “I did many other things as well.”

    “Tell me.”

    “Well,” Inigo began, “ten years is what? About thirty-six hundred days. And that’s about—I figured this out once, so I remember pretty well—about eighty-six thousand hours. Well, I always made it a point to get four hours sleep per night. That’s fourteen thousand hours right there, leaving me perhaps seventy-two thousand hours to account for.”

    “You slept. I’m with you. What else?”

    “Well, I squeezed rocks.”

    “I’m sorry, my hearing sometimes fails me; it sounded like you said you squeezed rocks.”

    “To make my wrists strong. So I could control the sword. Rocks like apples. That size. I would squeeze them in each hand for perhaps two hours a day. And I would spend another two hours a day in skipping and dodging and moving quickly, so that my feet would be able to get me into position to deliver properly the thrust of the sword. That’s another fourteen thousand hours. I’m down to fifty eight thousand now. Well, I always sprinted two hours each day as fast as I could, so my legs, as well as being quick, would also be strong. And that gets me down to about fifty thousand hours.”

    Yeste examined the young man before him. Blade thin, six feet in height, straight as a sapling, bright eyed, taut; even motionless he seemed whippet quick. “And these last fifty thousand hours? These have been spent studying the sword?”

    Inigo nodded.
    -The Princess Bride

    Hahnsoo1 on
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  • wanderingwandering Russia state-affiliated media Registered User regular
    Well much as I love you all I think the forums probably hurt my productivity at work and, outside of work, eat time I could be using for hobbies or art or socializing etc. But if I cut them out I’d probably just find some other way to be unproductive!

    A survivor's story.
  • Evil MultifariousEvil Multifarious Registered User regular
    Warframe was released about 5 and a half years ago.

    If we stretch two years of every available waking hour over a 5.5-year period, that's over a third of this person's waking life over the last 5 and a half years dedicated to this single game.

  • RedTideRedTide Registered User regular
    Krathoon wrote: »
    I wonder if there is a recording of a Chuckie Cheese show on YouTube.

    I'd be more impressed by a Raz ma Taz

    RedTide#1907 on Battle.net
    Come Overwatch with meeeee
  • zepherinzepherin Russian warship, go fuck yourself Registered User regular
    Hahnsoo1 wrote: »
    Evil Multifarious wrote: »
    Let's say you're awake 16 hours a day. 406 days is about 6500 waking hours.

    406 days where you get up, play nonstop for 16 hours and then go to sleep. Over a year where that's all you do.

    But let's say they have a full time job that takes up 8 hours, 5 days a week. So you have 40 hours during the week and 32 on the weekend, for 72 hours per week.

    That's about 90 weeks, almost two straight years, where a person would come home from work, play this single video game non-stop, and then sleep. On weekends, they'd play from the moment they wake up to the moment they go to bed.

    Two years of this.
    “I cannot stay,” Inigo told him. “I’m only here to ask you one question. As you know, I have spent the last ten years learning. Now I have come for you to tell me if I’m ready.”

    “Ready? For what? What in the world have you been learning?”

    “The sword.”

    “Madness,” said Yeste. “You have spent ten entire years just learning to fence?”

    “No, not just learning to fence,” Inigo answered. “I did many other things as well.”

    “Tell me.”

    “Well,” Inigo began, “ten years is what? About thirty-six hundred days. And that’s about—I figured this out once, so I remember pretty well—about eighty-six thousand hours. Well, I always made it a point to get four hours sleep per night. That’s fourteen thousand hours right there, leaving me perhaps seventy-two thousand hours to account for.”

    “You slept. I’m with you. What else?”

    “Well, I squeezed rocks.”

    “I’m sorry, my hearing sometimes fails me; it sounded like you said you squeezed rocks.”

    “To make my wrists strong. So I could control the sword. Rocks like apples. That size. I would squeeze them in each hand for perhaps two hours a day. And I would spend another two hours a day in skipping and dodging and moving quickly, so that my feet would be able to get me into position to deliver properly the thrust of the sword. That’s another fourteen thousand hours. I’m down to fifty eight thousand now. Well, I always sprinted two hours each day as fast as I could, so my legs, as well as being quick, would also be strong. And that gets me down to about fifty thousand hours.”

    Yeste examined the young man before him. Blade thin, six feet in height, straight as a sapling, bright eyed, taut; even motionless he seemed whippet quick. “And these last fifty thousand hours? These have been spent studying the sword?”

    Inigo nodded.
    -The Princess Bride

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  • ElldrenElldren Is a woman dammit ceterum censeoRegistered User regular
    i don't understand what the blockchain has to do with anything

    not just in this specific context, but in the vast majority of contexts

    fuck gendered marketing
  • Hahnsoo1Hahnsoo1 Make Ready. We Hunt.Registered User, Moderator, Administrator admin
    zepherin wrote: »
    My step dad gets periodic needles into his eye.
    I've had procedures done where lasers are pointed at the back of my retina to seal off blood vessels by burning the area around them. It's not a pleasant experience, and I was conscious throughout the whole process. I've had to do this three times.

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  • ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User, Moderator mod
    p4wzq1zm9nuo.png

    Allegedly a voice of reason.
  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    man you guys we're not supposed to post Irond Will fan fiction anymore.

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

    pleasepaypreacher.net
  • navgoosenavgoose Registered User regular
    My weeb-o-meter spiked what's up?

    Oh chat...

  • Evil MultifariousEvil Multifarious Registered User regular
    Elldren wrote: »
    i don't understand what the blockchain has to do with anything

    not just in this specific context, but in the vast majority of contexts

    It's very challenging to block an attack from a chained weapon with a sword, so you have to practice it a lot

  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    Hahnsoo1 wrote: »
    In cyberpunk/mad scientist news today:
    https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/11/dissolving-microneedles-could-replace-injections-for-chronic-eye-disease/
    Delivering drugs directly to the eye using microneedles that dissolve
    The patch goes on like a contact lens and leaves behind dissolving microneedles.

    I swear to you, this isn't The Onion.

    patch-photo.png

    Ahhhhhh!

    Can I put fun drugs into this?

  • ElldrenElldren Is a woman dammit ceterum censeoRegistered User regular
    SniperGuy wrote: »
    Hahnsoo1 wrote: »
    In cyberpunk/mad scientist news today:
    https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/11/dissolving-microneedles-could-replace-injections-for-chronic-eye-disease/
    Delivering drugs directly to the eye using microneedles that dissolve
    The patch goes on like a contact lens and leaves behind dissolving microneedles.

    I swear to you, this isn't The Onion.
    patch-photo.png

    Ahhhhhh!

    Can I put fun drugs into this?

    how about a drug that makes it so you can never have anything stuck in your eye ever again?

    fuck gendered marketing
  • Hahnsoo1Hahnsoo1 Make Ready. We Hunt.Registered User, Moderator, Administrator admin
    SniperGuy wrote: »
    Hahnsoo1 wrote: »
    In cyberpunk/mad scientist news today:
    https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/11/dissolving-microneedles-could-replace-injections-for-chronic-eye-disease/
    Delivering drugs directly to the eye using microneedles that dissolve
    The patch goes on like a contact lens and leaves behind dissolving microneedles.

    I swear to you, this isn't The Onion.

    patch-photo.png

    Ahhhhhh!

    Can I put fun drugs into this?
    Ice-T-SVU-quote.jpg

    8i1dt37buh2m.png
  • zepherinzepherin Russian warship, go fuck yourself Registered User regular
    SniperGuy wrote: »
    Hahnsoo1 wrote: »
    In cyberpunk/mad scientist news today:
    https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/11/dissolving-microneedles-could-replace-injections-for-chronic-eye-disease/
    Delivering drugs directly to the eye using microneedles that dissolve
    The patch goes on like a contact lens and leaves behind dissolving microneedles.

    I swear to you, this isn't The Onion.

    patch-photo.png

    Ahhhhhh!

    Can I put fun drugs into this?
    I mean, I guess,

    or you could put fun drugs in a pipe or pill instead.

  • Hahnsoo1Hahnsoo1 Make Ready. We Hunt.Registered User, Moderator, Administrator admin
    Elldren wrote: »
    SniperGuy wrote: »
    Hahnsoo1 wrote: »
    In cyberpunk/mad scientist news today:
    https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/11/dissolving-microneedles-could-replace-injections-for-chronic-eye-disease/
    Delivering drugs directly to the eye using microneedles that dissolve
    The patch goes on like a contact lens and leaves behind dissolving microneedles.

    I swear to you, this isn't The Onion.
    patch-photo.png

    Ahhhhhh!

    Can I put fun drugs into this?

    how about a drug that makes it so you can never have anything stuck in your eye ever again?

    j9gpild8rv3w.jpg


    (Good thing, too, given the tiny size of this meme)

    8i1dt37buh2m.png
  • SummaryJudgmentSummaryJudgment Grab the hottest iron you can find, stride in the Tower’s front door Registered User regular
    Do you guys know if PCpartpicker will still scrape Microcenter? Is there a better way other than pricing out a few options longhand?

  • SealSeal Registered User regular
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9crCGMh4j9g

  • DemonStaceyDemonStacey TTODewback's Daughter In love with the TaySwayRegistered User regular
    edited November 2018
    I would stick little needle patches in my eyes once if it made my vision 20/20 again.

    Although this means I'd probably end up needing to buy a new TV. So maybe I'm not 100% sold yet..

    DemonStacey on
  • credeikicredeiki Registered User regular
    SniperGuy wrote: »
    Hahnsoo1 wrote: »
    In cyberpunk/mad scientist news today:
    https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/11/dissolving-microneedles-could-replace-injections-for-chronic-eye-disease/
    Delivering drugs directly to the eye using microneedles that dissolve
    The patch goes on like a contact lens and leaves behind dissolving microneedles.

    I swear to you, this isn't The Onion.

    patch-photo.png

    Ahhhhhh!

    Can I put fun drugs into this?

    Ooh eye drugs let’s go

    I feel like eye-injected fun drugs are always making an appearance in sci-fi or fantasy settings and it’s great. I’m certain we had them in the changeling campaign I played in

    Steam, LoL: credeiki
  • navgoosenavgoose Registered User regular
    SummaryJudgment wrote: »
    Do you guys know if PCpartpicker will still scrape Microcenter? Is there a better way other than pricing out a few options longhand?

    I dunno but everything it pointed me at was Amazon, Newegg, or Frys.

    I ignored it for two items I used employee discounts on though.

  • credeikicredeiki Registered User regular
    I used to wear contacts and if you put them in an election microscope or w/e they’d have a rough-looking surface, so ‘microneedles’ feel quite similar and not troubling to me
    Just call them something different to make people less grossed out, like ‘surface delivery platform’ or something

    Steam, LoL: credeiki
  • Hahnsoo1Hahnsoo1 Make Ready. We Hunt.Registered User, Moderator, Administrator admin
    Seal wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9crCGMh4j9g

    https://youtu.be/cKdneOpmeQQ

    8i1dt37buh2m.png
  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    How many eye horror VR games are there?

  • Hahnsoo1Hahnsoo1 Make Ready. We Hunt.Registered User, Moderator, Administrator admin
    edited November 2018
    credeiki wrote: »
    I used to wear contacts and if you put them in an election microscope or w/e they’d have a rough-looking surface, so ‘microneedles’ feel quite similar and not troubling to me
    Just call them something different to make people less grossed out, like ‘surface delivery platform’ or something
    TotallyNotSandpaperStopBeingABaby (TM)

    EDIT: [chat], a bunch of babyeyes.

    Hahnsoo1 on
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  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator, Administrator admin
    SanderJK wrote: »
    c) buy weapons or frames without farming drops (For instance, you need to do a certain 10 minute mission for a 16% of 1/4th of a warframe. The bosses that drop this often have invuln phases that make very fast farming impossible)

    Bosses 100% drop a warframe part nowadays.

    Then some bosses need you to farm stuff to actually fight them.

  • EddyEddy Gengar the Bittersweet Registered User regular
    edited November 2018
    I just watched this bloodborne video about how there are parasites in the blood and in the moonlight that enter through our eyes and grow new eyes on our brain as some kind of host-parasite behavioral enslavement protocol so this eye talk all seems very sensible to me

    Eddy on
    "and the morning stars I have seen
    and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
  • AuralynxAuralynx Darkness is a perspective Watching the ego workRegistered User regular
    Echo wrote: »
    SanderJK wrote: »
    c) buy weapons or frames without farming drops (For instance, you need to do a certain 10 minute mission for a 16% of 1/4th of a warframe. The bosses that drop this often have invuln phases that make very fast farming impossible)

    Bosses 100% drop a warframe part nowadays.

    Then some bosses need you to farm stuff to actually fight them.

    True, but not all warframes come from bosses nowadays, either.

  • skippydumptruckskippydumptruck Registered User regular
    credeiki wrote: »
    SniperGuy wrote: »
    Can I put fun drugs into this?

    Ooh eye drugs let’s go

    I feel like eye-injected fun drugs are always making an appearance in sci-fi or fantasy settings and it’s great. I’m certain we had them in the changeling campaign I played in

    yes, right

    I want to spritz a neon orange gas into my eye and then immediately go to an underground rave in search of a missing cyborg

  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    Eddy wrote: »
    I just watched this bloodborne video about how there are parasites in the blood and in the moonlight that enter through our eyes and grow new eyes on our brain as some kind of host-parasite behavioral enslavement protocol so this eye talk all seems very sensible to me

    Beware the old blood! And the eye needles!

  • JacobkoshJacobkosh Gamble a stamp. I can show you how to be a real man!Moderator mod
    Evil Multifarious wrote: »
    Warframe was released about 5 and a half years ago.

    If we stretch two years of every available waking hour over a 5.5-year period, that's over a third of this person's waking life over the last 5 and a half years dedicated to this single game.

    I am glad that for once I could flip the script and be your vessel for existential horror

  • ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User, Moderator mod
    i guess i'm not really sure why you would need to shoot drugs into your eyes when there are plenty of mucous membranes and such right nearby with comparable delivery speeds

    Allegedly a voice of reason.
  • SurfpossumSurfpossum A nonentity trying to preserve the anonymity he so richly deserves.Registered User regular
    edited November 2018
    Wiring is proving to be about as difficult as I expected.

    It actually doesn't help that I think this is starting to look pretty cool and I don't want to wreck it.

    qwe7v5if4rxb.png

    Surfpossum on
    have i told you about Malifaux
  • ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User, Moderator mod
    Surfpossum wrote: »
    Wiring is proving to be about as difficult as I expected.

    It actually doesn't help that I think this starting to look pretty cool and I don't want to wreck it.

    https://us.v-cdn.net/5018289/uploads/editor/vm/qwe7v5if4rxb.png

    do you want me to yell at you all day every day until you get gud

    Allegedly a voice of reason.
  • skippydumptruckskippydumptruck Registered User regular
    Chanus wrote: »
    i guess i'm not really sure why you would need to shoot drugs into your eyes when there are plenty of mucous membranes and such right nearby with comparable delivery speeds

    why do you hate the future, chanus

  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    Chanus wrote: »
    i guess i'm not really sure why you would need to shoot drugs into your eyes when there are plenty of mucous membranes and such right nearby with comparable delivery speeds

    Drugs that make you see cool stuff just bam direct into the visual cortex. Little nanobots that actually make you see weird shit.

    In the future, VR is eye drugs.

  • navgoosenavgoose Registered User regular
    One could probably write a thesis about Warframe's designed grindfest.

    You grind levels on your frame, your character, your map, your weapons, your pets, your mods, your weapons or pets mods...etc.

  • DemonStaceyDemonStacey TTODewback's Daughter In love with the TaySwayRegistered User regular
    Oh shit.

    I'm seeing Galantis tomorrow night!

    I had forgotten.

    GET HYPE!!

  • ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User, Moderator mod
    skippydumptruck wrote: »
    Chanus wrote: »
    i guess i'm not really sure why you would need to shoot drugs into your eyes when there are plenty of mucous membranes and such right nearby with comparable delivery speeds

    why do you hate the future, chanus

    i hate lots of stuff

    Allegedly a voice of reason.
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