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Penny Arcade - Comic - Essentially
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Penny Arcade - Comic - Essentially
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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Essential oils is an amway style scam of getting people to think they can make money by selling almost literal snake oil to their facebook friends.
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As dumb as it sounds, I'd love a BR game I could play by myself. Like, I'd still be playing Fortnite right now if I could load up a game vs 99 AI opponents instead of these coked up kids that can build some giant skyscraper in 0.28 seconds...
Sounds much like the 3v40 AI terrorist hunts my buddies and I used to do in Rainbow Six. Single shot kill ruleset and you are good to go.
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I thought that was more a unique or however they spell it make up amway scam.
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Makes sense to me. What's weird is my desire to play 4X games in single-player with no human or AI opponents at all so that I can just explore and build stuff.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
Let's be fair here. Essential oils are a product. There's nothing scammy about essential oils themselves. They're used for flavorings and scents and sometimes therapeutic stuff. They are not snake oil; the most well-reviewed and extremely highly rated eczema/ psoriasis relief cream on amazon actually owes its efficacy to essential oils. And it's not even marketed that way, it's just that if you flip the label over, and read the ingredients, it's the only thing that really distinguishes it from any other skin lotion. There's a whole bunch of people on there going, "Well, shit, this stuff cleared up that thing that nothing else has even helped with." I'm now one of those people, having suffered mild psoriasis since I was a teenager, and now there's no patches anywhere other than my scalp. And I'm 37, so I've been through probably a metric ton of lotions. I didn't buy this stuff because I'm a hippie dippy moron who wants peppermint, lavender, and rosemary oil instead of topical steroids (tried that, didn't really work) because green the earth bawww chemicaaals, and herpa derp derp. I bought it because like a five thousand people were wowed enough to leave reviews and horrifying side-by-side images that made my psoriasis look like a JOKE. My curiosity about what made this product better than all the other lotions I've bought lead me into the essential oil rabbit hole, and plenty of them have been studied more than adequately to make a convincing case for therapeutic use. In short, saying essential oils are a scam because they're involved in some dirtbag's MLM marketing garbage is like saying laundry detergent is a scam because Amway sells it.
...I usually don't like to toss my hat into controversial things, but being flippant about what we're attacking here might cause someone to write off a thing that may help them. Something that helped me, albeit in the form of a cosmetic that was formulated by someone who probably knows more about the proper therapeutic concentrations than me, or any soccer mom selling the raw ingredients. But I still have to pipe up, because if we make essential oils the joke, someone might take a pass on something that could help them. I can't stand for that.
The joke is selling essential oils, because some douche decided they'd be good for multi-level marketing, not the oils themselves.
Still pretty well received so far, surprisingly.
While I think what you said in the previous part of your post is great, I think this summation is what the other posters were really saying. Just because something is a good thing in one context doesn't mean it's not snake oil in another context. One-a-day vitamins are basically snake oil for most normal people. I, on the other hand, have a condition that depletes my Vitamin D stores. For me, taking Vitamin D is a necessity.
As a psoriasis sufferer, mind telling me what product you are talking about?
The snake oil stuff comes in when the #bossbabes start talking about things that essential oils can't cure. They're also, unfortunately, a favorite of anti-vaxxers. ("don't take a flu shot, just use doTerra On Guard!" or whatever). So yeah they may not be a problem in themselves, but MLMs are scams and the people who are drawn into those scams are made to believe a lot of rubbish in the name of sales.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
I don't know if I can link things here in such a manner, but it's first result if you search "mother of all creams" on there. I know what it's like having to root around buying a million things until you find that thing that works, so I hope that's helpful.
I'm totally aware of that, but that's why I feel it's important to bring it up. Because when people start doing things like that, others can start writing the products off entirely due to that association. There's nothing wrong with using peppermint oil when you have a cold, though, if you prefer the smell of it to straight menthol. (And who doesn't?) But yeah, everyone should def. get a flu shot if they can, and not think sticking tea tree oil up their nostrils or whatever is gonna keep them safe.