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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
The specified use is for drugs that benefit from being locally active, like in conditions of the eye such as glaucoma. But yeah... why eyes, when you can just butt-chug?
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ChanusHarbinger of the Spicy Rooster ApocalypseThe Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User, Moderatormod
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.
i guess if it were some sort of programmed, curated experience or something
plenty of things make you see cool shit without shoving them in your eyes
Allegedly a voice of reason.
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ChanusHarbinger of the Spicy Rooster ApocalypseThe Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User, Moderatormod
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
The specified use is for drugs that benefit from being locally active, like in conditions of the eye such as glaucoma. But yeah... why eyes, when you can just butt-chug?
why can't i just butt-chug my glaucoma medicine either
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
It’s really cool and dystopian in a cyberpunk setting, and then creepy and fae in a more fantasy setting
I mean if they’re drugs for your eye condition it makes sense
If they’re fun drugs I struggle to come up with a plausible justification ummmmm maybe they react with/are activated by a chemical in your acqueous humor/ maybe they cause an immune response in most mucous membranes but the eye’s local immune system is different
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ChanusHarbinger of the Spicy Rooster ApocalypseThe Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User, Moderatormod
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
It’s really cool and dystopian in a cyberpunk setting, and then creepy and fae in a more fantasy setting
I mean if they’re drugs for your eye condition it makes sense
If they’re fun drugs I struggle to come up with a plausible justification ummmmm maybe they react with/are activated by a chemical in your acqueous humor/ maybe they cause an immune response in most mucous membranes but the eye’s local immune system is different
i guess on the one hand drugs are fun and who cares how they work
I have a really poor understanding of systems biology and like how organs work or anything larger in scale than a single macromolecular complex
I wanna go to med school
But for free and without ever having to treat sick people
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
The specified use is for drugs that benefit from being locally active, like in conditions of the eye such as glaucoma. But yeah... why eyes, when you can just butt-chug?
why can't i just butt-chug my glaucoma medicine either
I have a really poor understanding of systems biology and like how organs work or anything larger in scale than a single macromolecular complex
I wanna go to med school
But for free and without ever having to treat sick people
my dad had a lot of medical books i used to just read through when i was a kid but it was so long ago who knows if any of it is even considered medicine now
@Evil Multifarious because you also don’t check the Destiny thread. Yesterday I hit the competitive rank required for the “pinnacle” pvp weapon (Luna’s Howl). Went on a 9-1 tear against top competition to finish it up, absolutely abusing fools with my sentinel kit. Look at my clips!
I have a really poor understanding of systems biology and like how organs work or anything larger in scale than a single macromolecular complex
I wanna go to med school
But for free and without ever having to treat sick people
my dad had a lot of medical books i used to just read through when i was a kid but it was so long ago who knows if any of it is even considered medicine now
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
It’s really cool and dystopian in a cyberpunk setting, and then creepy and fae in a more fantasy setting
I mean if they’re drugs for your eye condition it makes sense
If they’re fun drugs I struggle to come up with a plausible justification ummmmm maybe they react with/are activated by a chemical in your acqueous humor/ maybe they cause an immune response in most mucous membranes but the eye’s local immune system is different
i guess on the one hand drugs are fun and who cares how they work
It's all about the experience maaaan
Plus you can make all those nature viewers just be full of eye drugs!
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I have a really poor understanding of systems biology and like how organs work or anything larger in scale than a single macromolecular complex
I wanna go to med school
But for free and without ever having to treat sick people
my dad had a lot of medical books i used to just read through when i was a kid but it was so long ago who knows if any of it is even considered medicine now
"One must balance the humors through the application of leeches" has fallen by the wayside, yes.
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SummaryJudgmentGrab the hottest iron you can find, stride in the Tower’s front doorRegistered Userregular
I have a really poor understanding of systems biology and like how organs work or anything larger in scale than a single macromolecular complex
I wanna go to med school
But for free and without ever having to treat sick people
If you just want to learn that, I think you could get a degree in anatomy/physiology, which would cover all that without treating sick people. It wouldn't be free, of course. But you work for corporatelandia, so maybe you could work something out there.
While in labor camp, wrote and smuggled out 3 scientific papers and several human rights appeals, and co-authored with 5 fellow prisoners a document on the situation of prisoners and forced laborers in the USSR, all published in the West.
I have a really poor understanding of systems biology and like how organs work or anything larger in scale than a single macromolecular complex
I wanna go to med school
But for free and without ever having to treat sick people
If you just want to learn that, I think you could get a degree in anatomy/physiology, which would cover all that without treating sick people. It wouldn't be free, of course. But you work for corporatelandia, so maybe you could work something out there.
Let’s be clear, I don’t want it enough to do it. But also part of the appeal would be specifically doing med school and seeing if I could win at either grades or grades:effort ratio
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 don't think I've sunk more than 200 hours into any single title.
Disgaea, Fallout 3, Fallout 4, Breath of the Wild, and Prey are the games I think I've sunk the most time in, and each one is in the 100-200 hour range
I've played Disgaea three times on three different platforms (PS2, DS, and PC) so if you total all three up, that's maybe 400-500 hours divided into three separate periods of my life.
I can't imagine spending 1000 hours or more on any one game
every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
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Havelock3.0What are you?Some kind of half-assed astronaut?Registered Userregular
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You go in the cage, cage goes in the water, you go in the water. Shark's in the water, our shark.
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Havelock3.0What are you?Some kind of half-assed astronaut?Registered Userregular
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You go in the cage, cage goes in the water, you go in the water. Shark's in the water, our shark.
I have a really poor understanding of systems biology and like how organs work or anything larger in scale than a single macromolecular complex
I wanna go to med school
But for free and without ever having to treat sick people
If you just want to learn that, I think you could get a degree in anatomy/physiology, which would cover all that without treating sick people. It wouldn't be free, of course. But you work for corporatelandia, so maybe you could work something out there.
Let’s be clear, I don’t want it enough to do it. But also part of the appeal would be specifically doing med school and seeing if I could win at either grades or grades:effort ratio
Literally the only reason I ever wanted to go to med school was:
I wanted to work in reforming the dysfunctional bullshit in the healthcare industry
and
I don't think you can have any power in the healthcare industry without being either a CEO or having an MD
Then I realized that I don't have the emotional constitution for med school, because of that dysfunctional bullshit. It's like what the psychologist Bruce Levine has been saying: clinical education functions as a way to weed out people who have antiauthoritarian tendencies, so the people who succeed at getting clinical degrees are not internal threats to the system itself.
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every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
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DemonStaceyTTODewback's DaughterIn love with the TaySwayRegistered Userregular
I probably play more hours per week of vidya than a majority of chat. But I mostly play single player games and only play them once. Granted I do like long games so a few of those are over the 100 hour mark.
And then I've played a few MMOs which rack up many hours over the years of play but I don't do that any more because they aren't fun to play alone.
And then a few online PvP type of games like LoL that was spread out over so many years it had to be a decent amount of time.
But even the MMOs and PvP type games were never the ONLY game I was playing during all that time. So I doubt my play time was every anything too bonkers comparatively. I can't really picture playing just 1 game every day for years. But to each their own! If that's what makes someone happy go for it.
Jackbox Party Pack always makes my top 5 game lists when they release, in terms of most played and enjoyed. It's easy to overlook them over other games, but I've never seen any other game other than maybe Mario Party bring a room together like Jackbox.
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Oh my! Curling drama!
They measured the rocks 3 times, couldn't figure out which one was shot. So they called over Eagle Eye McKewan to measure a 4th time and he couldn't find which one was shot. Welp, guess it's time for the backup backup laser measurement to settle this once and for all.
...Laser measure can't determine which one is closer.
Official ruling: it's a tie! Nobody gets a second point!
Gaining acceptance into graduate school or medical school and achieving a PhD or MD and becoming a psychologist or psychiatrist means jumping through many hoops, all of which require much behavioral and attentional compliance to authorities, even to those authorities that one lacks respect for. The selection and socialization of mental health professionals tends to breed out many anti-authoritarians. Having steered the higher-education terrain for a decade of my life, I know that degrees and credentials are primarily badges of compliance. Those with extended schooling have lived for many years in a world where one routinely conforms to the demands of authorities. Thus for many MDs and PhDs, people different from them who reject this attentional and behavioral compliance appear to be from another world—a diagnosable one.
I have found that most psychologists, psychiatrists, and other mental health professionals are not only extraordinarily compliant with authorities but also unaware of the magnitude of their obedience. And it also has become clear to me that the anti-authoritarianism of their patients creates enormous anxiety for these professionals, and their anxiety fuels diagnoses and treatments.
In graduate school, I discovered that all it took to be labeled as having “issues with authority” was to not kiss up to a director of clinical training whose personality was a combination of Donald Trump, Newt Gingrich, and Howard Cosell. When I was told by some faculty that I had “issues with authority,” I had mixed feelings about being so labeled. On the one hand, I found it quite amusing, because among the working-class kids whom I had grown up with, I was considered relatively compliant with authorities. After all, I had done my homework, studied, and received good grades. However, while my new “issues with authority” label made me grin because I was now being seen as a “bad boy,” it also very much concerned me about just what kind of a profession that I had entered. Specifically, if somebody such as myself was being labeled with “issues with authority,” what were they calling the kids I grew up with who paid attention to many things that they cared about but didn’t care enough about school to comply there?
(I'm fond of Bruce Levine, despite his anti-pharma streak that I tend to disagree with.)
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every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
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i guess if it were some sort of programmed, curated experience or something
plenty of things make you see cool shit without shoving them in your eyes
why can't i just butt-chug my glaucoma medicine either
It’s really cool and dystopian in a cyberpunk setting, and then creepy and fae in a more fantasy setting
I mean if they’re drugs for your eye condition it makes sense
If they’re fun drugs I struggle to come up with a plausible justification ummmmm maybe they react with/are activated by a chemical in your acqueous humor/ maybe they cause an immune response in most mucous membranes but the eye’s local immune system is different
i guess on the one hand drugs are fun and who cares how they work
what a jerk
I wanna go to med school
But for free and without ever having to treat sick people
A lot of medications can't pass the blood-ocular barrier:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood–ocular_barrier
my dad had a lot of medical books i used to just read through when i was a kid but it was so long ago who knows if any of it is even considered medicine now
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Like blowing smoke up ones ass?
It's all about the experience maaaan
Plus you can make all those nature viewers just be full of eye drugs!
"One must balance the humors through the application of leeches" has fallen by the wayside, yes.
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is this a trap
@bowen is a buttmancer
Let’s be clear, I don’t want it enough to do it. But also part of the appeal would be specifically doing med school and seeing if I could win at either grades or grades:effort ratio
I don't think I've sunk more than 200 hours into any single title.
Disgaea, Fallout 3, Fallout 4, Breath of the Wild, and Prey are the games I think I've sunk the most time in, and each one is in the 100-200 hour range
I've played Disgaea three times on three different platforms (PS2, DS, and PC) so if you total all three up, that's maybe 400-500 hours divided into three separate periods of my life.
I can't imagine spending 1000 hours or more on any one game
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
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Literally the only reason I ever wanted to go to med school was:
I wanted to work in reforming the dysfunctional bullshit in the healthcare industry
and
I don't think you can have any power in the healthcare industry without being either a CEO or having an MD
Then I realized that I don't have the emotional constitution for med school, because of that dysfunctional bullshit. It's like what the psychologist Bruce Levine has been saying: clinical education functions as a way to weed out people who have antiauthoritarian tendencies, so the people who succeed at getting clinical degrees are not internal threats to the system itself.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
And then I've played a few MMOs which rack up many hours over the years of play but I don't do that any more because they aren't fun to play alone.
And then a few online PvP type of games like LoL that was spread out over so many years it had to be a decent amount of time.
But even the MMOs and PvP type games were never the ONLY game I was playing during all that time. So I doubt my play time was every anything too bonkers comparatively. I can't really picture playing just 1 game every day for years. But to each their own! If that's what makes someone happy go for it.
God of War
Spider-Man
Into the Breach
Hollow Knight
Red Dead Redemption 2
I didn't finish Hellblade or come close so I need to play that
Honourable mentions to Celeste, Monster Hunter World, Banner Saga 3, Wolfenstein 2, Frozen Synapse 2
Dishonorable mentions to Far Cry 5, Swords of Ditto, Moonlighter, and Dead Cells
What level is your Ryu
Is its stats as high as Elendil's Majin?
If you didn't make any numbers bigger, what do you have to show for it, really?
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Last year's GOTY: Breath of the Wild
This year's GOTY: Me playing Breath of the Wild again
why would people spend AAA money on a game with no content
Destiny 2, WoW, HotS, Overwatch
I am trying to think of a single player game I beat? Well I beat Pillars of Eternity 1+both expansions and was rather pleased with it.
Like I am seriously not sure how much vidya I have bought. That has gone to little plastic men it seems.
They measured the rocks 3 times, couldn't figure out which one was shot. So they called over Eagle Eye McKewan to measure a 4th time and he couldn't find which one was shot. Welp, guess it's time for the backup backup laser measurement to settle this once and for all.
...Laser measure can't determine which one is closer.
Official ruling: it's a tie! Nobody gets a second point!
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Characters
[5e] Dural Melairkyn - AC 18 | HP 40 | Melee +5/1d8+3 | Spell +4/DC 12
(I'm fond of Bruce Levine, despite his anti-pharma streak that I tend to disagree with.)
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Spider-Man
Dragon Quest 11
God of War
Yakuza 6
Pillars of Eternity 2
For me.