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Ahhhh it's good to be lesbian

My wife is Ethiopian and their skin is so perfect. I have basically Irish and Chinese skin, so I mostly just burn.

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C6 Noelle is utterly bonkers

She literally cannot die. Like, literally.

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Meanwhile in Ys IX



Moar gray city

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Jshipp24 posted...

I'd argue Qiqi isn't that great outside of her healing. She produces too little energy and other healers like Diona/Noelle and Bennet offer more utility over just extreme healing. Most scenarios Qiqis healing is overkill. Her CD are also a issue and she applies a very slow amount of cryo so she's not great from a melt combo perspective. Her constellations are also trash so getting dupes feels bad. Overall I still got her to freindship 10 and she is still very much usuable, I just don't consider her the best healer in the game.

I prefer Noelle. Tiers be damned.

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OffTempo posted...

First 5 star pull.... and its Qiqi. Kinda disappointed it wasnt Keq but hey a 5 star is a 5 star and this is pretty hype!

Qiqi is the best healer in the game by a mile, so that's no bad feat.

Plus, good Cryo types are pretty rare.

My first 5* was Mona. Followed by Klee during the Klee event, and then I got Qiqi and Keqing in the past week. Getting Keqing twice was crazy.

Honestly, to me the luckiest thing I've ever "pulled" was a week where I literally pulled four completely random Noelles. I actually fully completed her Constellation this week, and she's legit amazing when maxed out.


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Just pulled a second Keqing, but from the Wanderlust Ivocation.

Why can't my luck be that good normally T_T

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It's really crazy how much you grow attached to rats. I never felt all that attached to any other small pet.

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No_U_L7 posted...

this is why you should read the full topic before posting...

is he gonna be ok a full month alone? i assume that is why you sped up the introduction process

I'm keeping him out of his cage and holding him as much as I can, hopefully that helps.

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Ratney is very depressed today. They definitely have good understanding of what's going on

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Flamer_Blue posted...

Yes, and it is getting the hd "remaster" treatment for the full price of admission.
Isn't this nice?

I would argue that Wind Waker HD was worth full price

But let's be honest here, what Nintendo should do is re-release the previous HD remakes as part of a collection package. But they won't.

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I remember I had a psychology professor who said that there are two kinds of sociopaths - the good guys and the bad guys. And that they run equally extreme - good sociopaths are the best people to have around, while bad sociopaths are the worst.

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Tyranthraxus posted...

Empathy =/= compassion and can actually deprive someone of compassion depending on what they're empathizing with. Empathy isn't always a good thing and it often leads us to sacrifice others to favor the target of our empathy.

I agree, and it's a shame it took me 30+ years to finally come to this conclusion. I remember as a teenager I was so upset that I didn't cry when my grandmother passed away, but in retrospect I loved her a lot, and I grieved in my own way. I know I'm still a good person, and that's all that matters, whether or not I feel strong emotions.


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Questionmarktarius posted...

Have you considered a cabybara? They're good for a couple decades or so.

I have actually heard they are the chillest pets ever

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Skyward sword was a game limited as much by the system it was made for as it was design choices. It makes me wonder what a remake could potentially bring to the table.

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This is one of those times where I'm glad I have compassion, but I'm not fundamentally very empathetic. I do legitimately feel bad for that rat, but it's something from which I can move on. I used to think my lack of empathy was a curse, but now I really believe it's a gift that helps me stay level-headed when things like this happen, so I can potentially fix it.

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Questionmarktarius posted...

I know you're a doctor or something, and I'm not, but this seems like it may have been an embolism or something.

My guess is arrhythmia caused by hypoxemia. It looked like agonal breathing, which is usually something that happens during the dying process. Probably had an unsustainable heart rhythm due to low oxygen.

I mean, I'm not a veterinarian, but there is a remarkable amount of overlap in biology, especially with mammals.

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RedJackson posted...

sorry :/

Sorta brave really to try and hold them through it, maybe a bad cold - Im not sure and just hope yer feeling better man

I'm okay, really. This sort of thing is a part of my job already, so fortunately I have built up some resilience.

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Questionmarktarius posted...

Holyshit what the fuck?

Is rat covid a thing?

It's definitely some kind of zoonotic virus like Coronavirus. I just can't get over how quickly it affected the young rat. Ratney took a day or two, and Brownie was a little faster but still over a day.

My best guess at this point is that I should not expose any other rats to Ratney for at least a few weeks if not a month. Honestly, based on what I saw, it's extremely lucky that Ratney survived.

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By the way, I'm okay. It's just hard to believe that's how he died. Normally respiratory arrest happens slowly after someone passes out from hypercapnia.

Ratney made a full recovery, which apparently is actually rare even in its own right as usually rats have permanent lung damage if they survive. The survival rate is less than 20%.

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So I'm devastated, Smokey developed tachypnea yesterday afternoon and with a few hours progressed extremely fast. I could tell he wasn't going to make it through the night, and he was clearly very scared. Only a few months old.

So I literally stayed up all night, holding him to keep him warm and comfortable. But then he started gasping for air through his mouth, which to me looked a lot like agonal breathing (the final stages of respiratory collapse and sometimes cardiac arrest).

He completely went ballistic, fell out of my hands, started crawling around on the floor with his eyes bulging, and then curled up and stopped moving. It was absolutely horrifying to watch.

I don't know what virus this was, but only Ratney survived.

If I wasn't already used to seeing this sort of thing in the hospital, I would have been legitimately traumatized.

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You will get nothing

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Uncharacteristically for Nintendo, they actually patched in true GameCube controller support and fixed Sunshine's emulation glitches.

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The one saving grace of the Xbox One X having so many native 4K games with bad frame rates is that the Series X basically makes them current gen titles

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They look and run incredible on Series X with the 4K patch installed

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They're anime and they use swords

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Baba yetu

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BL3 has awful writing, but the actual shooting mechanics are a massive step up from Borderlands 2.

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It's legit weird how much they narrowed down the scope in Ys IX

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I have simultaneously heard it's the best and worst Borderlands game. Any consensus?

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Well Ratney is now 100% better. Thank goodness

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Super Waluigi World

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It's Waluigi time

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legendary_zell posted...

It's amazing to see the propaganda efforts take hold in real time. They managed to channel culture war anti-green energy sentiments into a smokescreen for the wholesale failure of conservative infrastructure management and the oil and gas industry.

It's impressively evil.

The fact that the same people who fell for QAnon and Trump's perpetual gaslighting are still willing to fall for this is... Well, consistent.

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After what conservative media did in the past 4 years, I'm heavily skeptical of how any story like this is reported by places like New York Post

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sktgamer_13dude posted...

Apparently its autoimmune encephalitis. I dont know much about it besides its something thats relatively new and its when the body starts attacking healthy cells in the brain/spinal cord.

Anyone else know anything about it?

@DarkRoast

I know youre a doctor and I know all doctors dont know everything about every disease, but just wondering if you know anything about it.

Pretty sure it's extremely rare. I've never seen it.

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For the 3080

There are 80W Max Q, 90W Max Q and 150W "Full mobile" variants all with significant differences in performance (the full mobile is almost double the performance of the 80W MQ)

There's also 8 GB and 16 GB VRAM variants

But here's the kicker - there's literally no way to tell which version you're getting unless you literally look up the specs online


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I buried Brownie with Ratney's favorite blanket. He deserved it.

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I actually got every platinum in the game

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Time to get movin'!

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It was a really fantastic system let down by Sony not caring

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Tyranthraxus posted...

I mean it might feel that way but in just square feet there's way more content in 3DW than any other 3D Mario except for maybe Odyssey.

Fair enough, that's true. and I'll admit that preferring a huge open world like Mario 64 and Odyssey is pure personal preference.

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Sonic CD level design literally feels like somebody turned on debug mode in Sonic 1 and just started pasting things randomly

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dave_is_slick posted...

In what ways???

I think the best example is to compare it to Mario Odyssey or Mario Galaxy, which have clear narratives and artistic direction.

3D World was kind of like a 2d Mario game but in 3d. I appreciate what they tried to do but it wound up making the game feel less than the big, major 3D Mario games, Sunshine included.

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Sonic CD had the worst level design of any 2D Sonic game. And yes, that even includes the awful Sonic 4.

It was still an awesome game because of the music, art, etc. But the level design was just terrible.

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Wii U left an extremely bad first impression when I got it at launch. The menus were so slow it was almost comical. Imagine a brand new, out of the box system, running worse than anything you've ever used.

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EndOfDiscOne posted...

I 100% completed it for the first time a few months ago. For the first few hours I definitely thought it aged badly. It was such a pain to fall off a ledge and then have to backtrack. But once I got used to the controls again it became so satisfying to move around. There are definitely some objectively bad design choices in the game, but looking past those, the game is a ton of fun.

I see what you're saying. I think, for me, it's a bit jarring that it's the only 3D Mario that feels sort of unpolished.


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FortuneCookie posted...

That's adorable.

"Nice to meet you, new pillow."

It's Rat Daoism now

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No_U_L7 posted...

How could you tell the white one was depressed? Did he know his friend died

Rats are extremely intelligent and very social. Sickness and death bother them like it bothers us.

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